61. Hogwarts 07
Hogwarts first floor hall
It's breakfast time, and the Ravenclaw students don't come in a hurry, some of them grab their food and leave, after all, for a Ravenclaw who has a counter-clock, he doesn't have enough time to study, sometimes he has to race against time.
Gryffindor is as lively as ever, in stark contrast to Slytherin, and the Hufflepuff critters, worrying about their classwork and admiring the delicious food.
But the Gryffindor buzz doesn't include the Raiders Foursome, they're like frost-beaten eggplants, no, staring at the new couple at the Ravenclaw table.
But even if James Porter stared out of the window, they just didn't feel the "death ray" he cast.
"Jamesβ" Lupin couldn't stand it anymore and called out to him, and Potter immediately said angrily, "Why are you trying to persuade me to give up?" I sue you that this is not over! β
"But we have already been deducted 80 points from the academy, and we still have a month of labor service." Lupin reluctantly explained, and Sirius answered: "Now that the Living Point map has been taken away by Feige, I still haven't figured out how they did it." β
"What can there be, it must be to buy Hagrid, as for Ravenclaw, they don't want to be deducted points, and they will definitely choose to cover them!" Potter gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence, Peter Pettigrew, who was nervous because of the loss of the academy, couldn't help but interject: "But-" Before he finished speaking, he saw the owl with the package fly into the lobby, Potter saw his owl and immediately cheered up, and Sirius, who had the best relationship with him and knew the Potter family best, also cheered up: "Hey, brother, you won't be - good!" β
Potter took the package in his hand and became proud, and threw a "let's continue to walk" look at Ravenclaw, but the detective had already seen through what was in the package, but it was not the Potters' invisibility cloak. Not only that, but Sherlock also raised his chin towards his girlfriend, "Aren't you interested in the Potter family's invisibility cloak?" Hum! Looking at your expression, I know that you don't remember, it seems that it is urgent to teach you to build a thinking palace. β
Erin said with her most sincere expression, "I can't thank you enough for that. β
Sherlock snorted softly.
What's going on here? Let's start with last night's tour of the Forbidden Forest, with Erin in charge, the eight-eyed spiders didn't dare to come close and not say anything, and they obediently took them to the "place of the incident", and the rest was Sherlock's stage.
"Oh, look at our murderer, he's not short." Sherlock was always uninhibited at the scene of the crime, and even in the wizarding world, he bobbed through the grass, sniffed here, and studied with a magnifying glass there.
"What is he doing? And who is the murderer he is talking about? Aragog rubbed against its crow and made an annoying sound.
"Quiet!" Erin injected spiritual power into her voice, and the deterrent effect was obvious, and the eight-eyed giant spiders in a circle did not dare to speak.
After a while, Sherlock came back with a small piece of scale, "At least fifty feet long, I don't think there's any other suspicious creature besides the basilisk!" Oh, your missing brothers and sisters can now be defined as dead, they have gone into the belly of the basilisk. Oh, maybe I should say I'm sorry. Sherlock said indifferently, and fell back into a state of thought.
Erin took the scales that her boyfriend had picked up and put them up, well, this was evidence, and said to Hagrid, who was still in a state of blindfolding, "Don't worry, according to what you said, the basilisk has returned to Hogwarts after eating and drinking, so before the basilisk is hungry again - because there is no way to judge the cycle due to insufficient information - the eight-eyed spiders in the Forbidden Forest are safe." β
Just then a kingfisher flew over and stopped on Erin's shoulder.
Hearing the message from the kingfisher, Erin raised her eyebrows, Gryffindor's raider quartet was really persevering, "Sherlock, our trip to the Forbidden Forest has been suspended. β
Sherlock wasn't happy.
Comrade Xiao Ai, whose girlfriend Li Max, thought about it and laughed slyly: "I have a good idea." β
After observing Sherlock and Erin entering the Forbidden Forest, he "sharpened his knives" and tried to catch their current Gryffindor Quartet at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and when the point on the map that marked the two of them came out with Hagrid, Potter jumped out triumphantly: "Ha, let me catch it - it's impossible, what about Holmes and his girlfriend?" β
Hagrid was grieving over the death of the hairy balls, and had stopped crying, but when he saw Potter and them, his slender nerves flare up again, and he snorted and cried again, as loud as thunder in the quiet of the night.
Of course, Sherlock and Erin weren't caught, but the Gryffindor quartet who had wandered to the edge of the Forbidden Forest at night was caught by Feige. Potter and Sirius were not convinced, and the map of the living spots they made showed that Erin and Sherlock were clearly here, and the Gryffindor, who was brave enough to go forward, cough, or "don't hit the south wall and don't look back", summoned Professor McGonagall, who was in charge of the parade tonight.
Professor McGonagall was impartial, and in order to convince her of her troublesome and overly clever students that she had made a mistake, she took them to the Ravenclaw Tower, and halfway through the map of the living point was changed, showing Sherlock and Irene in the Ravenclaw common room, but also showing them in Hagrid's hut at the edge of the Forbidden Forest.
"It can't be!"
Not only that, but the eagle-shaped bronze knocker in front of the Ravenclaw Tower also confirmed that no students had come in or out in the past hour.
The eagle-shaped bronze knocker doesn't lie, so the Potter Four's 20 points each of them are deducted for their night outings and slandering their classmates, plus a month's labor service - cleaning without magic - Feige will keep an eye on them, and the seemingly malfunctioning map of the living point is confiscated by Feige.
Comrade Xiao Ai, who had cheated the Raiders Foursome with a bit of a trick, browled his eyebrows and winked at Sherlock, who was sitting on the leather armchair - the same couch he used to sit on at 221B Baker Street, thanks to Transfiguration - Sherlock moved his lips and spat out a word: "Childish." β
"I don't think I've heard that word, especially from your mouth." When Erin finished speaking, she saw Sherlock raise her eyebrows, and she smiled even brighter: "Obviously, I'm making it clear that you're not qualified to call me naΓ―ve, dear Charlie. β
Sherlock: "...... If the fifty-foot-long basilisk was really the basilisk in the Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets, which it clearly was, there must be more than a female bathroom in disrepair. No, no, it's not right. β
"Huh?" Erin put down the map of Hogwarts that she had been drawing, she had now drawn the Forbidden Forest, thought for a moment and said, "Are you saying that the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets actually escaped into the Forbidden Forest from another passageway?" This is really wrong, but considering the basilisk needs food, the Forbidden Forest is clearly an ideal hunting ground. Speaking of which, according to the record, the basilisk survived at least nine hundredβ" Before she could finish her sentence, she jumped off the armtop like a big cat, and leaned over to make her involuntarily lean back with the movement of Sherlock, who was encircled between him and the back of the chair.
"I don't mean that when I'm wrong, I mean you." Sherlock stared intently at his girlfriend, and all of them were reflected in Erin's beautiful pupils.
Fortunately, there are only the two of them left in the common room now, and the other students' routines are still very normal.
Erin seemed to draw attention to the stars dotted with the dome of the common room, if to rule out the flush creeping up her cheeks. Sherlock "intensified", he reached out and grabbed his girlfriend's cheek, so that she had to face him: "You're not excited at all, why?" β
Erin looked into Sherlock's eyes, and she reacted slowly, "Are you saying I'm not surprised that you've figured out the entrance to the secret room?" Does this make you feel that something is wrong? Well, I'm just a little slow to react. She blinked, feigning surprise, and was glared at by Sherlock, and Comrade Ai Xiao Ai told the truth, "You can't expect me to do anything else about what I know that I haven't heard of, I mean-" She made a "Harry Potter" mouth gesture at Sherlock, which gave Sherlock a key word to his memory, and he suddenly realized: "Boring! That's why you choose to be a bystander. β
Sherlock sat back down on his couch, wrapped in his wizarding robe ninety degrees, and said in a strange way, "Watching me jump up and down on Hogwarts alone and solve puzzles, are you happy?" β
Erin used the back of her hand to cool down her cheeks, which had just warmed up, and sat down on the couch where Sherlock was sitting, "Are you angry?" β
Sherlock ignored it.
Comrade Xiao Ai is well versed in the strategy of giving her boyfriend a haircut, and she said as if talking to herself: "Sherlock, you have to know that not everyone can have a brain as different as yours, and besides, this is the new world you have been looking forward to for a long time, how can I bear to spoil your interest." Of course, she also enjoys this world, fifteen-year-old Sherlock, and enjoying such a turbulent green campus life, of course, this is not to say to Sherlock, otherwise he will definitely blow up again.
Sherlock turned around and stared at Erin for a few seconds, "I can't take your little head that can't properly handle useful and useless information, I can't take it anymore." β
Erin made a "yes" in her heart: "So? β
"So?" Sherlock raised an eyebrow before continuing, "Thinking Palace, I'll teach you how to build your Thinking Palace, and I hope you're not too stupid to keep me from teaching." β
So now it's back to the palace of thinking.
Although Sherlock said that he was teaching Erin to build a palace of thought, and brought the impatience of "teaching goldfish to learn to climb mountains is just laughing" when he said that he wanted to teach her how to deduct, he still did his best, and he also taught his girlfriend with rare patience, and even slowed down the pace of exploring Hogwarts.
Of course, when it comes to slowing down, that's relative.
Before Christmas, they had already explored the women's bathroom on the second floor, twisted a bronze dragon head engraved with the mark of a small snake, entered the mysterious secret room, and had a few pleasant conversations with the basilisk;
Having been to the Forbidden Forest a few times, with Erin there, it was clear that the Forbidden Forest was like walking on the ground for them, with potions and magical creatures (including unicorns, centaurs, werewolves, etc.) that they had seen and even received venom from the Eight-Eyed Spiders - the Eight-Eyed Spiders were of course "voluntary", and there were also unicorn fur sent by the Unicorns voluntarily - thanks to Sherlock for completing their commission.
It is also worth mentioning that after Sherlock made a name for himself in the Forbidden Forest, he didn't need his girlfriend to escort him, and no magical creature with a little intelligence in the Forbidden Forest would dare to provoke him.
In addition, the invisibility cloak, one of the Three Hallows, was also "taken" by Potter to study. Frustrated, Potter borrowed the Cloak of Invisibility from home, and was given a brief strap-on by Erin to keep her up for a while to study, and then returned it. Luckily, Potter didn't notice that the ancestral cloak of invisibility had been dropped.
It's also worth mentioning here, in the robbery foursome found that they would be unlucky against Sherlock and Erin, and they would be deducted house points, locked up, fined for labor activities, etc., and after a few times, they finally automatically and spontaneously became honest, and turned to "fear of hard and soft" to deal with Slytherin's Snape, and Snape has accumulated quite a lot of experience in the "tongue war" with Sherlock in Potions class, and the venom sprayed is enough for Potter to jump into the black lake in shame, that's really ...... I'm glad to hear it.
As for the rest, Sherlock still skipped classes from time to time, mainly divination, protection of magical beasts (he didn't need to take classes anymore), and Muggle studies was not chosen in the first place. As for the astronomy class, he went to it once with his girlfriend, and he liked the useless class. Well, the fifteen-year-old consulting detective seems to have improved in terms of emotional intelligence, after all, observing the positions and movements of planets and stars together is still a little romantic.
As a good student, Erin didn't skip classes anymore and spent a lot of energy on her studies, especially in the ancient magic language class, which included the translation of ancient texts, and the decipherment of Norse scripts, as well as the direct use of ancient magic and spiritual power. In Erin's opinion, this is a profound subject, even though it is only an elective.
In the midst of such a fulfilling campus life, Christmas is coming.
Sherlock and Erin are in the wizarding world, no, strictly speaking in this parallel universe, their families are each other, so like most students, they applied to leave school and embarked on an off-campus adventure, and the destination was Little Hangleton.