Chapter 40: An Unowned Wizarding Tower
The bright moonlight shone through the window onto Tom's face.
Theo poked his face with his hand, but Tom didn't react at all.
"Toby added a drop of Draught of Living Death to Tom's supper as Young Master Theo instructed. He won't wake up until dawn."
Toby's sharp voice came softly from behind.
The Draught of Living Death is an extremely potent sleeping potion, also known as the Water of Death. Just a single drop can put a wizard into a deep sleep.
Theo turned Tom's eyelids again to check his pupils, and nodded in satisfaction after confirming that he had fallen into a deep sleep.
"Very good, that's the effect I want. Now... we can talk about some secrets that only the two of us know." Theo's expression became serious.
Toby swallowed nervously, "What does Young Master Theo want to ask Toby?"
"Toby, can you tell me about the family you served before?" Theo asked.
Toby was slightly stunned when he heard this question.
"Toby... Toby's former master's family was the Somnolent family. The last heir of the Somnolent family, Master Sophick... who was Toby's former master, died in a duel not long ago..."
Theo frowned.
Somnolent... a very unfamiliar surname.
He had never heard of this family before.
Theo couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. A family he had never heard of, and whose bloodline had been completely cut off, meant that this family was likely not very profound.
He was originally thinking that since Toby's former master was a dark wizard, and the whole family was gone, he might be able to investigate.
To see if he could find some books or notes that Dumbledore wouldn't let him see...
However, nothing is absolute. Logically speaking, a family served by a house-elf should have a deep foundation.
"Toby, did your former master leave anything behind?" Theo asked immediately.
"When Toby's former master was alive, the family had already fallen, and all the valuable things were sold. Except for an old house, nothing else was left..." Toby said sadly.
In fact, Toby, who had lost his master, should have stayed in the old house and died quietly. He would never have run out to find a second master.
But he didn't know what was going on. That day, he just wanted to go out for a walk, walk far away, and then recall the good times he had with his master.
Then, because he was too engrossed in the memory, he was accidentally hit by a carriage speeding by in the middle of the night.
After being hit, he was also very unlucky to fall on the sharp fence next to him, and he had several puncture wounds on his body.
Finally, he struggled to crawl into an alley, preparing to meet the end of his life.
After all, his master was dead, and there was no point in him living.
As a result, when he opened his eyes again, he saw Theo, and for some reason, the desire to make him his master was extremely strong in his heart...
After that, Theo became his current master.
...
Theo's eyes lit up when he heard that the Somnolent family had an old house left behind.
"Who inherited your former master's old house?"
"No one inherited... Master Sophick was the last bloodline of the Somnolent family, and there were no distant relatives." Toby sobbed again sadly.
"That is to say, that old house is already unowned?"
"Yes... Since Master Sophick died in battle, the poor old house, like poor Toby, has lost its master... Now Toby has a new master, so he can't go back to take care of the old house. The poor old house can only be abandoned..."
Toby couldn't help but feel sad again when he thought of the place where he used to live, which would become more and more desolate.
Theo waved his hand to stop Toby's tears and asked very seriously, "Can I become the new owner of this house?"
Toby widened his eyes in surprise, "Young Master Theo... you... you are willing to take over that old house? Of course you can become the new owner of that house!"
"You seem very happy that I accepted that house?" Theo looked at Toby in surprise.
"Yes... Toby's former master has passed away, and that old house still has Toby's best memories of the past. Toby really doesn't want to see it become desolate day by day. If Young Master Theo is willing to take over... Toby can take care of that old house again!"
"I see..."
Although Toby was a house-elf that Theo bought from the system, he was an independent life form.
He had his own past and his own beautiful memories, and that beautiful memory was in that old house.
Only if Theo took over that old house could Toby, who had a new master, have the right to return to that old house.
However, this was a good thing for Theo, who had gotten rid of the shackles of his guardian.
He originally planned to find a secret base to carry out the small experiments he had planned.
Now this old house can only be said to have come at the right time.
"Can you take me to see it now?" Theo couldn't wait to see it.
"Of course! Of course! However, some protective magic is set up outside the old house. Young Master Theo has to be careful..."
After Toby told Theo how to enter the old house, he stretched out his hand.
"Please grab Toby's hand, Toby will take Young Master Theo to the old house now!"
...
Looking at the familiar castle in the distance, Theo was a little emotional.
This old house was actually in the Scottish Highlands.
He could even see Hogwarts in the distance...
Judging from this distance and direction, this old house seemed to be built on a highland deep in the Forbidden Forest.
It's just that this highland was covered with various protective magic, so that it was impossible to detect that there was a highland here, and there was an old house on the highland.
Theo turned his head and looked at the building covered with green vines in front of him...
In fact, the old house in Toby's mouth in front of him should be called a tower.
This was a tower, which seemed to have five floors.
"Creak! Creak!"
At this time, Toby had already opened the gate of the tower with excitement on his face.
"Young Master Theo, please come in!"
Most of the protective magic of this tower was outside.
Inside the tower, there was no protective magic.
As soon as Theo walked in, he found that the space inside the tower was much larger than it looked from the outside. It must have been cast with extension magic such as the Undetectable Extension Charm.
However, although the first floor was large enough, it was empty.
Only a dirty long table was placed in the middle, and the table was full of messy empty bottles.
And the shelves around it, which should have contained various experimental materials, had nothing but dust.
Theo could see from the traces on the ground around him that many instruments of unknown use should have been placed here.
But now they were all gone.
...
"The first floor is the laboratory, the second floor is the bedroom and dining room, the third to fourth floors are the library, and the fifth floor is for stargazing... Because the family has fallen, Master Sophick sold everything that could be sold in the years after he inherited the old house, and didn't leave anything valuable... And at that time, Toby was too sad and didn't have the mood to clean the house, so it looks so messy..."
As soon as Toby entered the door, he began to introduce the old house in his mouth.
But Theo immediately heard the key point in this sentence.
"Wait, you just said that the third and fourth floors are the library? Were those books... also sold?"
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