Ai Wen carefully identified the writing on the stone slab. There are three kinds of writing on it, which are Parseltongue, Ancient Rune, and Old English.
The content expressed in the three languages is the same, and the above content is obviously very important when so many languages are used to record together.
"It's like a title deed," Hermione said, frowning.
"That's right, and it's an officially recognized title deed." Ivan said, pointing to Harry, Hermione, and Elaine at the last string of signs on the slate, "Look here, this is the sign of the Presbyterian Church, this organization It is the predecessor of the National Wizarding Union. Its status in the Middle Ages thousands of years ago was equivalent to the current Ministry of Magic. There is also this emblem, which is undoubtedly the family emblem of the Slytherin family. As for the latter, if I remember correctly It should be the emblems of several pure-blood magic families and Muggle nobles. The Presbyterian Church and these families and Muggle lords jointly recognize that the Slytherin family owns the land in these areas."
"So, this is a land deed? Slytherin gave me a land deed?" Elaine raised her eyebrows and asked, "What's the point of this thing?"
"It is of great significance, Elaine. It is stated in this title deed that the heirs of the Slytherin family who own it will automatically obtain the ownership of the land recorded above. As recognized by the Muggle noble lords, according to the law, these rights should now be recognized and protected by the International Federation of Wizards and the Ministry of Magic of each country." Aiwen said, "That is to say, these lands recorded on the stone tablets are now owned You have it all."
"Sounds like a great deal!"
"It's quite powerful. As far as I know, there is no wizard who owns so much land. Let's see what areas are there." Ivan said, "Well, this paragraph should describe Hogwarts Castle, the Forbidden Forest and The surrounding mountains, rivers and swamps, that land was once the territory of the Slytherin family."
Although Salazar Slytherin agreed to set up a magic school in Hogwarts, his family's castle, thousands of years ago, the ownership of the land still belongs to the Slytherin family, and he and the Slytherin family have never given up on this idea. rights. To this day, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is nominally owned and managed by the school's board of directors, and is still privatized, but the school board does not own the land, but no one has mentioned this matter for thousands of years.
It may have been just a joke to say that Elaine owns Hogwarts ownership, but now the appearance of this title deed has made this joke a reality. If Elaine takes this title deed to the Ministry of Magic and the board of directors, then the school The director will have to pay her a large rent for the land.
Moreover, whether Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry can stay there and continue to operate is entirely up to Elaine himself to decide.
Of course, these are all legal and procedural terms.
After all, this title deed is something from thousands of years ago, and there must be many people who don't recognize it now. The change of regime, coupled with the fact that many wizarding families and Muggle noble families recorded on the land deed have long since disappeared, their promises have become meaningless, but at least the International Federation of Wizards and the Ministry of Magic should recognize the legality of this land deed sex.
Ai Wen estimated that if Elaine really took this to the school board, then they should let her join.
"The island above the North Sea should be Azkaban." Hermione pointed to another section of the slate and said, "Well, there are a few more islands here."
It has also been confirmed that Azkaban was once the domain of the Slytherin family.
"And this, it's about the land of Diagon Alley, um, it should be talking about the area where Gringotts is located." Ai Wen said.
Gringotts is the largest building in Diagon Alley, and it has always been owned by goblins, but the ownership of this piece of land actually belongs to the Slytherin family
In other words, the area where Gringotts is located should now also belong to Elaine.
It may be difficult to return to the land where Hogwarts and Azkaban are located, but it will be much less difficult for Gringotts. After all, wizards have always had many restrictions on goblins, and it is impossible to support them. It is estimated that At this time, Gringotts may have to pay Elaine a large sum of Galleons to rent this land.
Thinking about the value represented by these lands, with this title deed, Elaine may become the richest person in the entire magic world.
From a poor vampire who has nothing and needs to be supported by Alvin, she has become the richest witch in the magic world.
The process in the middle is not complicated, all it takes is a drop of blood and a wealthy ancestor.
In addition to Hogwarts, Azkaban, and Gringotts, this title deed also records some land in the southern part of England. Those places are not wizarding areas, and should now be owned by Muggles, Slater The land owned by the Lin family is not limited to the United Kingdom, but also several pieces of land in other countries.
For example, the vampire castle located in Norway is marked on the title deed.
Owning foreign land was not uncommon at the time. At that time, the Wizarding Secrecy Act had not yet been promulgated. Muggles with relatively underdeveloped technology were still in awe of magic and believed in the existence of wizards. It gave the Muggle lords the possibility to call wizards to fight for them, and rewarding wizards with land is also a common thing. Many ancient pure-blood wizard families have territories all over Europe, and a large part of them are still owned by wizards.
For example, the Malfoy family, they have a special territory in Romania.
That place is now a manor dedicated to raising dragons, and Malfoy brags about it a lot in school.
Therefore, as long as Elaine is willing, he can take this title deed to recover the land that is nominally hers one by one.
And Elaine is not alone, her uncle and the entire clan of Slytherin vampires will support him.
What the vampires lack most now is a legal territory. Once they know that Elaine owns the land in the most prosperous area of these wizards or Muggles
Ivan didn't really care about these things, but Hermione was there telling Elaine and Harry the great value these lands represented, and he quickly browsed down to find out if there was any valuable information until it was found in the land deed. Below, he saw the same map pattern as the one he had obtained from the evil god's eye.
This area in ancient Greece used to be the lair of the despicable Herbo. It is a very important place, related to the key to the secret treasure of Slytherin. Since getting that map, Ivan and Hermione have searched a lot I didn't find any clues in the information, and I don't know where this place is.
In the end, the two of them came to the conclusion that this area had been taken to another dimension by the despicable Helbo, which is where Dumbledore went.
Dumbledore didn't elaborate, Ivan didn't know how to get past, he had been worrying about it.
Now, he saw this map again, and it was the corresponding place in reality