29, Midnight Phantom

In the dark, slippery tunnels, water droplets fall from time to time. There is a ticking sound, and the bricks and stones of unknown age are cracked, and there are occasional filamentous fluorescent fungi growing in them.

Faint gasps came from far and near, and some spider-like reptiles in the darkness quickly dodged after hearing the sound.

A fairy helps a boy out of a dark passage, and it is none other than Indor and Hoffa.

A piece of fluorescent mushroom was trampled by Indor. He told Hoffa to stop for a moment, then continued to pick him up and move forward.

It took an hour for Hoffa to come, and when he returned, he was weak and weak. Hoffa walked for nearly two hours straight, stopping to rest from time to time.

Finally, after returning to the humpbacked witch statue at Hogwarts, Hoffa sat down, panting with his back to the back, and he limply ripped off the mask from his face.

At this time, he felt a little more secure. No matter how powerful those German wizards were, they couldn't have followed Hogwarts. Even if you follow, it is estimated that it will not end well.

The adventure is thrilling, but he prefers this down-to-earth feeling.

Indor, leaning against the wall of the secret passage, slumped across from Hoffa and gasped.

"Back...... Is it Hogwarts?"

"Or else?"

"I've never been in before, and the three academies are the most protected places in Europe. ”

Hoffa didn't answer, he sat down on the ground, and after gasping for a while, he said coldly: "I'll take you back to school, now you can go, go to whoever you want." ”

After saying that, Hoffa ignored Indor's resentful little eyes, he crossed his knees and closed his eyes, and began to use meditation methods to restore his magic. Entering the school is still by stealth, and he is not really safe until he returns to the dormitory.

He must put an end to any possibility of expulsion.

While meditating, Hoffa summed up the valuable experience gained from this battle.

This time, he was an eye-opener, a Nazi dark wizard who controlled magical beasts. The coordination of various spells, and the use of Transfiguration in combat.

These are all things he didn't know in his previous life, and this world is bigger than he imagined, and it is also more dangerous than he imagined.

There is no doubt that they are no match for them.

If you don't have a system, you're only 11 years old. Surely those who are already dead cannot die anymore.

Relying solely on the information of the original book, he can't get along in this treacherous and changeable world.

After sorting out the results of the battle, Hoffa's mind sank. The world is wonderful, and he has a desire to explore.

But today, Hoffa also recognizes his shortcomings.

Fatal shortcomings.

Lack of mana.

He had heard that the amount of water a barrel could hold was only as good as its shortest board. Now it seems that he has shortcomings all over his body. Except for the fact that the mental power is higher than that of normal wizards, the rest of the place is really similar to Muggles.

Hoffa's magical talent has never been strong, and the only thing that stands out about him is that his spirit is higher than that of ordinary people. He basically learned ordinary spells as soon as he learned them, and he could control even magic like Transfiguration.

But now Hoffa has found that he has no problem with his magic for school exams. It can be used for battle, and it is a bit stretched.

No wonder there are so few people who can become Aurors or Dark Wizards, and the magic cost of battle and the magic cost of life are not an order of magnitude at all.

People like Voldemort and Dumbledore have a constant supply of magic, and they can't spend it all.

Including Harry in later generations, he can release magic as he pleases. There has never been a lack of mana.

It's not like myself, and I'm out of breath when I put a few spells.

Hoffa now has two invisibility abilities, the normal Transfiguration Charm, and the high-level Ghost Walk.

The ordinary illusion spell is just invisibility, and its own magic power can support it for more than half an hour.

The high-level ghost walk, although extremely effective, can completely eliminate the entity in this world, thus avoiding any damage.

But the speed at which it consumes mana is terrifying.

Even in his full state of mana, the ghost walk would only last less than half a minute, and probably only last for about 20 seconds.

In just half a day, he meditated twice.

He didn't dare to imagine the consequences of restoring his magic without meditation. Maybe it's a corpse under the staff of a dark wizard now.

Magic is the foundation of everything, and without magic, no matter how powerful the skill is, it will only be in vain.

If you have an endless stream of magic, you can unleash the ghost walk at will, and with some combat spells, it is simply terrifying.

The magic shortcoming must be addressed.

After meditating for nearly three hours, as the mana gradually filled his depleted body, Hoffa slowly woke up, and his state had recovered a lot, at least not as depressed as when he had just finished the battle.

He was going to go back to the dormitory to rest in stealth, but when he got around, he saw that the goblin was leaning against the wall of the secret passage and was already asleep. He hung his head and looked very tired.

Hofa was shocked, and he shook Indor's shoulder vigorously, "Hey, why are you still here?"

Indor opened her sleepy eyes.

"What......?"

"Didn't you say you're going to Principal Dupett?"

"It's so late...... It's early in the morning. Can you let me go tomorrow...... how do you let me find this black rumbling dong? Indor muttered.

Hofa's eyes widened, he felt that Indor's words made sense, but he also felt that the liar goblin was scheming somewhere.

"Then you go tomorrow, I'll go back. Hoffa said coldly.

As a result, he had only taken two steps when his trouser leg was bitten.

As soon as Hoffa turned his head, Indor had turned into a badger, and was pitifully biting his trouser leg.

Hoffa gritted his teeth: "What are you doing?"

Indor: "I don't have a place to sleep, you can't let me sleep in the tunnel." ”

"you, you didn't sleep well just now?"

"You're still there, and it's dark here when you're gone...... It's scary. The badger shuddered as he spoke.

Hoffa gritted his teeth, this goblin must be pretending to be pitiful, and it can already be seen from fighting with the dark wizard that his strength is definitely stronger than his own.

Hoffa insisted, "No. ”

With that, he turned around and left.

The goblin turned in front of Hoffa, blocking his way.

"Just one night, one night I'll be gone, and I promise you'll be gone tomorrow morning when you wake up. ”

Hoffa didn't listen, and walked around it, but the silver badger spread its two little paws and hugged Hoffa's thighs.

"It's really just one night, please. ”

Huo Fa, who was blocked from going to the road, turned his forehead around twice in place, and secretly cursed himself for being unlucky.

"You fucking promise?"

"I promise. ”

"Damn, if you don't leave tomorrow, I'll throw you off the top of the Ravenclaw Tower!"

With that, he picked up Intor and placed it on his shoulder.

......

After opening the statue of the Hunchback Witch, Hoffa enters a normal phantom state.

It's midnight at Hogwarts right now.

If he is caught loitering in the middle of the night, he will be placed on probation in accordance with Principal Dupet's punishment. If he reoffends, he will be expelled.

Hoffa didn't want to defy the law.

The school was pitch black at night.

The wind outside blew through the corridors of the castle, letting out a low whimper, mixed with the faint sound of midnight bells in the distance, but it was more quiet.

The only source of light around was moonlight, which spilled down from the high windows and lay across the ground.

The shadows cast on the ground by the stone carvings on the high places appear inexplicably distorted, giving people a very grotesque feeling.

This and daytime Hogwarts are two worlds entirely.

Although Hoffa walks very lightly, people still wake up from time to time in the oil painting next to him.

"Who's there?" asked the man in the painting.

Not only that, but the armor that stood on either side of the corridor seemed to have a sense of its own, whenever Hoffa passed. Their heads will turn, looking at them through the black, empty cracks in their iron armor. It was as if there was a soul living in every armor.

The only good thing for him was that Filch hadn't been born yet, and he didn't have to worry about that annoying squib showing up with the cat.

Click.

Suddenly, there was a slight noise behind him.

It seems that someone has touched the armor.

Huo Ran immediately turned around.

In the haze, he seemed to see an illusory figure in the corridor running by in the moonlight.

Hoffa was taken aback.

The fairy whispered, "How do I feel like there's someone else here?" ”

Hoffa frowned and looked behind him, and it took him a long time before he whispered to Indor, "This is a magic school, we don't care about anything." ”

Through the hallway, Hoffa came to the Ravenclaw Tower.

The towers of Ravenclaw were towering, and Hoffa climbed the towers little by little, holding on to the handrails of the castle staircase.

The castle stairs seemed to be asleep in the middle of the night, and they didn't help Hoffa to get up. As a result, Hoffa had to stop and rest for each section of the climb.

After crawling for more than ten minutes, Indor, who was on his shoulder, asked softly, "Where is your rest room?" ”

Hoffa panted: "Shhh ”

Indor shut up.

Finally, Hoffa stood at the top of the tower, in front of a huge portrait of a knight. To enter the break room, Hoffa also faces one final hurdle.

Hoffa lifted his illusion spell, and the knight tilted his head and fell to one knee in silence.

The metal eagle on the side slowly spread its wings.

Asked: "Look at me, I look at you. You have eyes, I don't. You can say it, I can say it. You have a voice, I am silent. 】

After saying that, the eagle did not move, quietly waiting for Hoffa's answer.

shoulder, the badger that Duo turned into gasped. He had never seen such a strange question.

"What the hell is ...... school"

Hoffa knocked the Indorbadger on the head, quieting him down.

[I look at you, you look at me. You have eyes, I don't. You can say it, I can say it. You have a voice, I am silent. 】

Are the questions at night harder than those during the day?

Hoffa spun around twice before he frowned and looked up.

"Mirrors. ”

The eagle slowly folded its wings and hugged its chest.

The knight in the portrait stood up, and a passage leading to the Ravenclaw common room appeared.

Hoffa breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly crawled inside.

Back in the lounge, the crazy day is finally over.

Indor muttered in his ear, "Do you have to be questioned by it every time you return?"

"That's right....." Hoffa whispered, "Didn't I tell you to stop talking? ”

The silver-black badger shut up.

Hoffa walked through the dimly lit common room and brought Indor back to the dormitory, and whatever he was going to do, he had to do it tomorrow.

The room was dark and rumbling.

Several of the roommates were already asleep, making even breathing sounds.

Hoffa breathed a sigh of relief, exhausted to the extreme, and locked Schmidt's thick wand in his closet.

Then, before he could say goodnight to the goblin, he fell asleep on the pillow.

That night, Hoffa had a very strange dream. He dreamed of a black figure carrying him, walking through a crooked and dark passage, never finding an exit.

There is no light, no hope.

Cold, oppressive, unable to breathe. It's like being in the depths of the ocean.

The figure hung from a distance away. He seemed to be facing Hoffa, but he couldn't see his face at all, and he wanted to chase after him to see who the man was, but when he got closer, he found that the man's face seemed to be cracked. I'm laughing and crying.