Chapter 37: Parvati's Castle Night Tour
The two of them were puzzled and tried to tear the piece of paper off the board, and they were cautious at first, for fear of tearing the piece of paper, which looked like paper from any other way, but it didn't take long for them to find out. This thing is either not paper, or it has been attached to some mysterious spell, and it is as tough as calfskin, so there is no need to worry about any strength at all.
So they simply ripped it off and brought it to the side of the candlestick, their eyes fixed on the thing on it.
The note is about the size of a palm, and a seven-pointed star is drawn with blood-red paint in the middle, but only the first corner of the entire star array has a few strange symbols drawn on it, the symbol is silver-white, I don't know if it's a light problem, I always feel that the silver white is like a liquid in the flow, not that it will reflect a ray of silver light.
The rest of the blank space is a jumble of lines of varying thicknesses, all of which are in different directions, and some of them occasionally intertwine. But most of them are just individual segments. If you change it, you can't see a name......
If it weren't for the fact that this thing was so tightly hidden, Brandi would probably think that this thing was just the work of a child who was in the late middle and second years of illness thousands of years ago.
"This is what Wright is looking for in this classroom?" Hermione was equally puzzled. "A seven-pointed star that cost half of it?"
"God knows...... But there's only a few places left to hide things in this classroom. I don't think any student would be idle enough to secretly stick a magic circle that he hadn't finished drawing on the lining of the podium...... And didn't Wright say it? Here is just one of them. I think there are probably six more of them...... Once you've collected it, you might be able to... Summoning a dragon? Ha~"
Brandi was immersed in his own mind.
"Don't talk nonsense, you've read too many comics?" Hermione took the note in her hand and tapped it with her wand, and nothing happened as expected. She thought for a moment and summoned a flame, but even when it was roasted on the fire, the piece of paper was still unharmed.
"Okay...... It's a magical item, at least for sure. Not paying attention to Brandy, who was startled when the flames were summoned, Hermione calmly completed a series of violence tests, and finally muttered to herself.
"Oh my God, aren't you afraid that this thing will really be set on fire?"
"Well, I'd feel a little more relaxed, at least to prove that Lightmanson was just playing a naïve adventure game more than forty years ago. But now...... It's really getting a little bit of an interest to me. ”
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Guarding the note, the two of them inked in the classroom for a while, after Hermione had satisfied her desire to explore and confirmed that there were no other mysterious objects in the classroom. They came out of the classroom noisily and began to walk upstairs, so excited that they didn't even pay attention to deliberately lowering their voices.
"If Lightmanson's message is serious, then they must have found a secret room that has been hidden in Hogwarts for more than a thousand years. He said that the gate was already open, and the gate that needed to be opened with the seven-pointed star array? Oh, that's exciting......"
"It's not that you wait... Why do you say that. Too exciting? Brandi walked behind Hermione, and when he heard Hermione's words, he stopped.
“… Huh... It's tiring to talk to people like you who don't usually know how to read more books! Hermione glared back at Brandy angrily, "There are at least thirty books in the library that mention the seven-pointed star array, and the most detailed one is probably the "Volander Elementary Magic Array Theory", which is specially noted that the seven-pointed star array cannot be used and developed at the current level of the magic world, and the use of the seven-pointed star array is extremely dangerous, and wizards who specialize in spiritual mystics even think that the seven-pointed star is not one of the magic arrays that humans can control......"
"Extremely dangerous?"
"Yes, the wizards who have tried to study and activate the seven-pointed star array in history have basically had all kinds of accidents, and it seems that most of them have gone crazy or died......" Hermione said nonchalantly, as if she wouldn't have used it. If the door to that room needed to be opened with something so powerful and dangerous, it only meant that the person who built it at Hogwarts was an incomparably powerful ancient wizard! It could even be the Big Four! What can make the Big Four hide in Hogwarts ~ is a treasure! It must be a treasure, right? ”
As she said this, Hermione's eyes sparkled in such a way that Brandi didn't dare look at her. Well, it seems that it was not for nothing that Hermione would come to Gryffindor instead of going to Ravenclaw.
The two laughed and walked up the stairs to the seventh floor...... They talked so much that they didn't pay attention to their feet at all. Hermione only felt her foot go up and step on something soft, like a... Uh, water pipes?
Immediately after, the two heard a sound that would stop their hearts beating———— "Meow!!!! ”
"No, it's Lady Loris!" Hermione jumped backwards in horror and slammed into Brandy's body behind her, causing them to fall to the ground together. Mrs. Loris took the opportunity to pull out her tail, and it ran out like crazy, screaming all the way, and even crashing into the wall in a panic, and it seemed that Hermione's kick hurt it a lot.
"It must have gone to report the news! Merlin was on top, if Filch had seen Lady Loris's tail scrawled...... He's going to go crazy! ”
The two scrambled to get up from the ground, glanced at each other, and shouted almost simultaneously. "Run!"
They rushed up the stairs and sped towards the Gryffindor lounge. They raced down the hallway, through an archway, until they came across a portrait of the fat woman. It finally stopped. The two of them had been nervously listening to the movements around them, but they were surprised to find that eh? Why was Filch so slow to react this time?
What's going on...... That stupid cat finally knocked himself to death?
A few minutes later, the fat woman told them the answer.
Anyway, it's really safe to go back to the lounge first, so Brandi settled down and said to the portrait of the fat lady. "Password—Sundial."
Who knew that this time the fat lady didn't open the door for the first time, she looked very dissatisfied, and seemed to have something to say!?
"Mr. Barton, I can understand how often you run away, Gryffindors often have nowhere to squander their energy. But what you've done today is so disappointing to me......"
"Huh? What are you talking about, ma'am? Brandi rubbed his head, confused.
"It's so irresponsible, I didn't know that Gryffindor still had the flowery attribute of the sunset! And also left another beautiful girl alone in the castle! Unforgivable! ”
Forehead...... Ha?
"Another?" Brandy's face was full of confusion, pointing at herself and Hermione, who was just as puzzled. "There were only two Hermione with me when I came out?"
"Huh? That's weird. "The fat lady had a strange look on her face, "and you had not been gone long before Miss Pettier came out of it in a hurry, and she asked me where you were going, and said that she had made an appointment with you to go out on an adventure in the evening." ”
…… Not.
"Oh! This silly girl—" Hermione let out a muffled snort, and Brandi covered her forehead with black lines... They finally knew why Filch didn't have the time to take care of himself.
It turns out that Parvati also slipped out and she is still inside the castle!
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Parvati was scurrying around the seventh-floor hallway like a headless fly, and she felt unlucky now.
When she saw Hermione and Brandy's eye contact in the evening, she knew that there was some little secret between these two people, maybe they wanted to hang out together in the middle of the night! And Hermione's reaction in the bedroom later also confirmed her guess, if usually, Hermione would either lie quietly on the bed and read, or wash up and go to bed early, if she drilled into Hermione's bed, she would definitely be dragged out and hanged...... How could he be so tolerant as tonight, and he was willing to whisper to himself, just to urge himself to go to bed early.
Hum! Miss Ben Bingxue is smart, how could she be fooled so easily~
Sure enough, not long after she pretended to be asleep, she couldn't wait to show her fox tail~ Hey, she actually had to change into civilian clothes when she went out. Let's go out and play! It must be hanging out with Brandi!
This is a violation! The principal has expressly forbade it, and if you catch it in the castle at night, you will be deducted points, and if it is serious, you will be confined! Such a violation of law and discipline, you guys!
No! Bring! Above! I!
Parvati thought so hard at the time, she excitedly leaned sideways to listen through the crack in the door, and when Brandi and Hermione's footsteps disappeared outside the common room, she quickly put on her robes and sneakily followed. In order not to make the fat lady suspicious, she also made up an ambiguous excuse of 'it was Brandi who asked me to go out to play~'.
Hee-hee, you can't get rid of me so easily~
Who knows! How could this happen!
Parvati listened to the faint sound of footsteps behind him, and ran forward with all his might, pulling at his black hair in despair. She hadn't expected Brandi and the others to walk so fast, and after walking one floor with them, Parvati was depressed to find that she had lost the man.
Get...... The great adventure is gone! Parvati was so angry that he stamped his feet in place.
Let's go! If you don't take me, I'll go shopping by myself!
She just pouted to herself and wandered aimlessly on the seventh floor, until she turned a corner and couldn't look at the road, and she kicked at the vase shelf by the wall......
This crisp and pleasant impact Parvati swore she didn't want to hear it a second time......
Not far away, she faintly heard the disgusting voice nearby.
"Honey, you're waiting at the top of the stairs...... We're sure we'll catch him this time! I'm going to have to skin him! For the sake of this damn Barton, it's been a long time since we've slept soundly! ”
Parvati, who was running, wanted to cry without tears. Why did he somehow help Brandi carry a cauldron!
Since Mrs. Loris must be watching at the staircase, she didn't dare to go up and down the stairs directly, so she could only simply run around on the seventh floor, but fortunately, the seventh floor was very large, and there were empty classrooms and forks in the road everywhere, and she would not be immediately caught up after a while. It's just that she ran and ran along an uphill road...... Until she heard the screaming of a cat in the distance, she suddenly woke up from her panic, and she looked up.
Hey? Why is this place so familiar......
She looked with some surprise at the familiar foyer, where she seemed to have met her sister, and had taken a few spare books from the Ravenclaw library to read......
She stared at the eagle-shaped bronze knocker in the foyer, confirming her suspicions.
How did you get here...... Isn't this a Ravenclaw tower?