The Evil God of Hogwarts - Chapter 382

c372 hawkins family

A police officer’s ID card made it easy for Ellie to get everything she wanted. It must be said that with this pass, she saved a lot of magic. Even without spells, Muggles can do things willingly.

Frank had not been to the University of Liverpool. It was the lady who drove the luxury sports car. In the book registered by the guard, Ellie found the name-Julia. And the sports car was parked in Area C of the University of Liverpool.

No surname, just a name. This did not help to find out the identity of the woman. It was just to know the name of this poor woman.

The two first visited the history professor, who was a tall man with dark skin, about fifty years old, with a white beard.

He introduced himself as Chivat, who taught at Oxford University before and was transferred to Liverpool University for academic research.

“What are your research about?” Ellie asked the professor, because according to what she knew, Oxford University is the best university in the UK, and it is not something that ordinary people can do to teach there, let alone a black person.

“The history of the African slave trade.” Chivat stood by the window of his office, looking out of the window, just in time to see the estuary, “Liverpool is a bloody city, every brick and every inch of land here flows with the blood of those slaves.”

“Very interesting, but we are not here for this today.” The eldest lady interrupted the teacher in time, “I want to know, on July 18th, a woman named Julia visited you. Do you remember?”

Chivat retracted his thoughts, he lowered his head and thought for a while and replied: “Well, it was some time ago. I I’m afraid… well… if you can describe that lady to me, I might be able to remember it. ”

Ellie recalled the corpse she had examined at St. Mungo’s before, and tried hard to remember what Julia looked like. After thinking for a while, she said: “Medium height, very tasteful, and probably wearing some expensive jewelry. A typical rich person”

When Chiwete heard “gorgeously dressed”, he had a clue, and he immediately replied: “Oh, I remember, that woman, I remember.”

“What did she want to know from you?” Scott, who was sitting impatiently on the side, interrupted and asked.

“Let me think about it. I remember it was about Liverpool’s underground sewers. Yes, that’s it.” The professor said, “Few people would come to ask questions about this. But the lady obviously did some research before coming here.”

“Investigation?”

Chewate looked at the eldest lady and said, “Yes, she asked very detailed questions. She asked me some questions about the slave transportation channel in the past.”

Looking at the puzzled look on the faces of the two visitors, Chewate continued to explain, “As I said just now, in 1565, Liverpool was just a small fishing village with only 138 households. But after operating the slave trade, it quickly developed into the second largest commercial port in the UK. At its peak, the number of slaves trafficked in Liverpool accounted for 5/8 of the total number of slaves trafficked in the UK and 2/7 of the total number of slaves trafficked in Europe.

“Do you know what these numbers mean? It means that after the UK banned the slave trade in 1807, the high profits still allowed many merchants to secretly operate this business. Those merchants took advantage of Liverpool’s intricate sewer system.

“They hired architects and workers to open up various waterways. And they extended many channels for slave transportation at the docks. And the lady asked me about one of the channels for transporting slaves.”

At this point, Chivat stopped talking so that the visitor would have enough time to digest what he had just heard.

“Is the channel she asked about at 78 Hurst Street, Mosseyside, the Gothic-style luxurious house?” The eldest lady seemed to understand something and asked out loud.

Chivat did not answer immediately. He opened his notebook and searched for a while. After confirming it, he replied: “Yes, that’s the place. The old house belongs to the Hawkins family. Liverpool’s largest and earliest slave trader.”

Hearing this, Ellie understood some things, but the clues were still missing some key points. The person Frank was looking for was named Kimball, and it seemed that he had no connection with the Hawkins family, but things in this world are sometimes so coincidental.

“Do you know the Hawkins family?”

Hearing Ellie’s question, Chiwart laughed and asked curiously, “I thought you were here to investigate that lady?”

“I need to know all her itineraries.” Ellie said, “The more detailed the better. If she asked you to come here to learn about the Hawkins family, then she might go back to visit later. So I want to ask, where is this family in Liverpool?”

Chiwart did not question this explanation. He sighed and replied, “I’m afraid you don’t have a chance.”

“What do you mean?” Scott’s pen stopped recording. He raised his head with a puzzled look, but he soon realized, “Oh, you mean this family no longer exists, right?”

“No, it still exists.”

“Professor.” Ellie emphasized, “We don’t have time to play word games. If you have any information, please explain it directly.”

“The black slaves who died here didn’t have much time either.” Chiwart also responded with dissatisfaction, “The Hawkins family no longer exists in the UK, but they still have collateral bloodlines in the United States. If you want to trace this family, I suggest you go to the United States.”

The key button is in hand. Ellie thought, if that’s the case, the American should be a collateral line of the Hawkins family. But what is his purpose here?

The professor continued to explain: “The Hawkins family’s business in the UK has all gone bankrupt, and the family records stopped in 1945. The last member of the Hawkins family, Mary, died in that year. However, according to my understanding, Mary Hawkins married to the United States in her early years, and her husband’s surname was Vincecott. It’s the collateral family I just told you about.

“In addition, there are countless rumors surrounding this family. Since Elijah, the ancestor of the Hawkins family, earned a lot of money and status through the slave trade, this family has become a celebrity in Liverpool. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, because the slave trade was banned, and the entire family soon began to die out.

“Although the family had a certain improvement in the early 19th century through transformation, it soon fell into decline again. There are rumors that they did too much evil and were cursed by the dead slaves. There are also rumors that the Hawkins family has been secretly running the business of smuggling slaves, but was reported by their peers.

“There are even more rumors that the Hawkins family awakened the sleeping demons when digging the smuggling tunnels, and those demons cast the most terrible curse on the family, and this curse has always accompanied the family until it is completely destroyed…”

When Ellie heard the third rumor, she figured out the whole thing. She looked at Scott meaningfully, and the latter gave her a knowing look. They may have found the reason for the decline of the Hawkins family.