"Statues?!" Marcus also seemed surprised, as if he had just noticed those statues because of Ivan's reminder.
He looked at the monster statue in the garden suspiciously, lost in thought.
Ivan frowned and observed the expression on his face, feeling strange.
Marcus seems to have noticed the statue just now. It was just like this when Ivan mentioned the black magic that the black witch was casting. This ghost did not see the green magic light rising into the sky. It is strange to notice such obvious things next time.
This feeling
It was as if there was something, some kind of magic, blocking Marcus's vision, making him blind to what was in front of him and what was happening. The scene he saw was different from what Ivan saw. When Ivan After reminding him, the magic was immediately lifted, and he saw what Ivan said.
Considering that the existence of Marcus itself is also a kind of magic, this possibility is very high. What he saw was the scene left by the caster at that time. Or Marcus was pretending not to see it, so that Ivan would not notice these things, but it was like this just now, and it is like this now, whether it is the traces of the black witch's spellcasting or the statues in the garden below are obvious things , If Marcus hoped that Ivan hadn't seen them, it would be too unreasonable to ignore them.
"Those statues," Marcus said dryly, without the pride in his voice, "those statues have always been there."
"But you didn't seem to see them just now?"
"I didn't pay attention, Master." Marcus said, "I didn't expect you to be interested in them. These scary statues have been there for a long time, so long that others can easily ignore them. In fact, I can't remember exactly when they were there, but it must have been done by the man who likes to play with strange things and surprise people when everyone is not looking. The old master was always very special about his eccentric behavior. Tolerance, it must be he who put the statue"
"Wait, Marcus, who are you talking about?" Ivan asked.
"That person..." The expression on Marcus's face became dull again, and he seemed to have fallen into a long memory again, and he said after a long time, "It's Master Dalyan, master, please forgive me for not remembering for a while His name, Master Darien, is the youngest son of the old master, a eccentric fellow with little presence. As you can see, he always does some nasty pranks, as if he thinks it is funny, but in fact it makes Everyone has a headache. No one in the castle likes him, and Master Dalyan is not as talented as his siblings, nor does he inherit the gifts of the Ravenclaw house. In fact, he has nothing, he is a Squib."
"A squib?" Ivan said, thinking of Filch, the Hogwarts janitor, who was a squib.
A Squib is a person born into a wizarding family but unable to use magic, that is, a wizard-born Muggle.
Generally speaking, Squibs and Squibs are looked down upon by some wizards as second-class citizens of the wizarding world.
Especially in those pure-blood wizard families who believe in bloodism, this kind of discrimination will become particularly obvious. Many pure-blood wizards will think that the presence of squibs in the family is a shame, and they will remove the squib members from the family tree. Like the Malfoys or the Blacks have done it.
Even a wizarding family like the Weasleys who are friendly to Muggles and do not believe in the supremacy of pure blood can hardly accept the squibs in their own family. As far as Ivan knows, Ron has an uncle who is a Muggle accountant, but his existence is almost a taboo topic in the Weasley family, and it is basically not talked about.
Thousands of years ago, the status and situation of Squibs was much worse than it is now.
They are existences that are not easily talked about in the wizard family, and they are the forgotten ones.
A very few pure-blood wizard families who value blood above all else will even directly kill the Squibs within the family, so as not to be known by others.
"That's right, Master Dalyan is a squib. He has never shown any spellcasting ability since he was a child." Marcus paused for a while before continuing, "He is a disgrace to the Ravenclaw family, people Basically he is rarely talked about, usually pretending that he does not exist. The old master was too kind to expel him from the family. But it is strange, it must have been too long, the memory of Master Dalyan in my head Always intermittent, seems to have forgotten a lot of things, but it's nothing, isn't it? You can completely ignore him, master, except for doing some strange things to destroy the castle, Master Dalyan hasn't done anything."
How could it be ignored, this Dalyan is too suspicious.
Was it really just a coincidence that he was able to carve these statues that looked like creations of evil gods
And Marcus, is it also a coincidence that the old ghost's strange reaction and that he's forgotten a lot about Dalyan? !
"Are the statues below carved by Dalyan himself?" Ivan asked softly.
"probably."
"Then he came up with the images of these monsters himself?"
"Yes, he must have intended to scare everyone, so he carved these scary things on purpose." Marcus said, "There is no such monster in the world, these are all his own imagination, even if he followed other people Say, these monsters are roaming around the castle"
"Wait, Dalyan said those monsters in the statue below are roaming around the castle?"
"It's a prank, master, no one but him has seen these monsters, they don't exist." Marcus continued, "It's no surprise that he can say that, Master Dalyan always does that Some nasty pranks, such as drawing something on the wall of the castle that no one can understand, or a person whispering there, pretending to have someone by his side, etc. He probably wanted to arouse in this way Others noticed, but it just made them hate him even more."
"Okay!" Ivan asked after thinking for a while, "What happened to this Dalyan?"
"When the god of death came, everyone on this land died, and I think he was no exception." Marcus replied, "But he was not qualified to go to the gate of death to witness the opening ceremony, so he Should still be in the castle, but I haven't seen him, his soul may have dissipated, after all he's just a Squib with no magic power"