Chapter 74: The Truth That Surfaced (2)
With the flick of the wand, the soft light of the candlestick rekindled, and the room lit up, and the lingering coldness and dullness that had lingered in the room gradually dissipated with the beating of the firelight. The surrounding scenery becomes clear.
The two men hurriedly searched around Parvati's hospital bed.
After all, it was a hasty judgment made at a critical moment, and it was unlikely that they would have time to find a hidden place to leave the clues they found, and according to the scene at the scene, the message should have been left by Parvati, so the location was naturally not far away - after a while, with Ron's whisper, they found the clue on the bedside table next to Parvati.
Leaning against the plank on Parvati's side, using Transfiguration to highlight a few small, scribbled letters that you can't see at all without carefully searching for them, this tiny detail of Transfiguration was obviously more of a test of control over magic than the other Transfigurations Harry had learned in class - so there was no doubt that it was a Transfiguration technique from Parvati.
Ron moved the bedside table to a more well-lit position, his eyes narrowed, trying to make out the words on it,
“Eyes?” He blinked in confusion. "What does that mean, Harry?"
Harry looked similarly at a loss...... And they don't have time to think or look for new clues. Just as Ron had put the cabinet back in place, Professor McGonagall's voice rang out from outside—it sounded particularly alarmed.
"Potter, you must leave!"
They thought they had been inside for more than ten minutes, so they had to retreat in a huff, but to their surprise, Professor McGonagall didn't seem to call them out because of the timing. As the two men pondered and returned to the gates of the hospital, they were surprised to find that Professor Flitwick was actually next to Professor McGonagall.
The two men looked at each other in amazement, and Professor McGonagall's face was very ugly.
"I'm so sorry, I had to break my promise." "But now it's more complicated, and I've just told me that there's one less schoolgirl in the Ravenclaw common room," she said. And she's got a lot of things to do with one of the victims of the Secret Room incident - I think you can guess who. ”
It seems that Padma has taken the lead in the East Window incident......
"The situation is urgent, I can't afford to waste time here, and it is likely that Miss Pettier has decided to go alone to find clues to the secret room. We must now organize the manpower to get her back. So—" Her eyes widened, and with a wave of her wand, the two pairs of armor at the entrance of the school hospital suddenly moved. "They'll protect you back to the Fat Lady, I'm repeating! These are extraordinary times, and we must not run out to make trouble for us again! ”
Harry and Ron looked at Professor McGonagall in horror as they were furious, and nodded like chickens pecking rice.
Professor McGonagall and Flitwick had left in a hurry, and the Armor was doing their duty very competently, sandwiching Harry and Ron between them one after the other, and slowly making their way upstairs.
Armor wasn't human, though, and it had the advantage that Harry and Ron could discuss their follow-up without any fear, as Armor wouldn't have the heart to listen to them. Naturally, the two of them couldn't really go back to the common room...... The Fat Lady had been ordered by Professor McGonagall not to open the door to them once they were inside, so that they would not be able to join up with Brandy Padma.
"We must not go in." Harry whispered, "Brandy, they made an appointment to meet us at the hospital hospital, but they obviously didn't know that there was a net set up by Professor McGonagall, and we had to stop them on the fourth floor. ”
"But these two iron bumps are probably not vegetarians either." Ron was a little worried.
"It's not a big deal, Professor Flitwick had talked about how this magical construct works in Charms class. They are really just mechanically carrying out orders...... Do you remember what Professor McGonagall ordered? ”
"Protect us back to the Fat Lady? Hey! You're saying we don't have to run away at all? ”
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Brandi couldn't be more nervous right now.
Naturally, he wouldn't listen to Padma and use a flying broom to deliver spiders to the castle, and he himself would go on a crooked rampage in the sky, where would he dare to bring such a big man again.
So he had to use the stupidest way
I don't know what happened inside the castle, and the current security force has suddenly increased dramatically. Snape, who had been patrolling the first floor, had strangely vanished, replaced by ghosts wandering from wall to wall and armor roaming around. This made Brandy's infiltration more than a level more difficult - he used the Levitation Charm to control the Eight-Eyed Spider to float high in the dark corner of the ceiling, and then slowly moved, narrowly avoiding the patrols of the ghosts directly below him several times. After all, no one would have thought that just above their heads, there would be a huge eight-legged monster levitating.
At the same time, he himself must carefully find the patrol patterns of the armor, and find the right time to penetrate into the corridor. To be reasonable, the difficulty of this double-line operation is really not small, and in just a few tens of meters, he actually walked for almost ten minutes - but fortunately, it is basically the same here. He didn't need to go any further with such a big burden......
In front of him at this moment was the faculty lounge with the door open...... It was empty.
Room 13 has arrived.
Hurriedly throwing the eight-eyed giant spider into the open space of classroom thirteen, and confirming that the effect of the full-body binding spell on his body would not disappear so quickly, he slipped out of the exit on the sixth floor and rushed to the school hospital. Brandi, unburdened, was noticeably faster, and due to the Night Vision Charm, he didn't need lighting to walk in the dark corridors, where he was barely detectable. He walked down the stairs, and as soon as he got down to the fourth floor, his pale green vision suddenly froze.
He rubbed his eyes and looked wonderingly at where he had just looked.
What was that just now?
"Strange? Why do you just seem to see something rushing out of your feet? Brandi rubbed his forehead and sighed. Maybe it was a small pet that the student accidentally released. This should not be uncommon, as is the case with Neville's toad, which bounces around the castle all year round, forcing Neville to post clam hunting notices on the bulletin board frequently.
So he didn't take it seriously, and walked towards the school hospital - just after turning a corner, he was inexplicably hit by the air.
"Ouch! Damn," he covered his nose in pain and took two steps back. "You hit me in the back of the head, Ron!"
"Shh......h Whisper. How did you come from upstairs! We kept looking to the other side to see where we could notice. "Ron's voice came from the void." What about Padma? We can't go any further, the school hospital is locked down, we used to be caught. ”
"Blockade?" Brandi was stunned for a moment, "Padma said she was going to the Ravenclaw library to check something up. I guess I'm already going this way......"
Harry and Ron exclaimed from the side, and Ron ripped off the cloak, blushing with excitement.
"She went back to the Ravenclaw common room? Broken! Then she's going to get caught! Flitwick went to the Ravenclaw common room more than an hour ago to check on people and found her gone, and now Professor McGonagall is looking for someone all over the castle with a large number of professors! ”
At this moment, there was a sudden noise of noisy footsteps from far and near behind them, and it seemed that many people were walking in the direction of the fourth floor. The three of them hurriedly tried to find a hidden place like headless flies, but this corridor was bare, and there was nothing where to hide. Harry had to cover the three of them together with an invisibility cloak, which of course couldn't be completely invisible, and Brandi was so tall that their three pairs of shoes and trouser legs were visible at the surface. But this is better than revealing the whole person - they sweated profusely and tried to hide themselves into the shadows, and before they could hide well, a large group of professors came down from above, and Padma was pulled by Professor Sinista at the back...... In a blank, soft attitude.
"Another attack?" One of the professors asked worriedly.
"It's not the same, Celtic Burn." Flitwick said, "It's as if someone had recited the Dementor and searched for the memory, and then made up an amnesia charm." We heard movement in the hallway, but by the time we ran over, Miss Pettier had already fallen there—strangely we couldn't find a second man, who disappeared quickly. ”
"Then she must have seen something." Professor Sinista said worriedly, "Filius, the Oblivion Curse can be broken, and Miss Pettier may be able to tell us who the Slytherin heir is." ”
"I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed...... Professor Flitwick sighed, "The attackers are very strong, and the Oblivian Charm that is used with all their might would hurt Miss Petyle's brain, and we have no right to do that." ”
With worried and unwilling expressions on their faces, they walked over to Brandy. The three Brandi hurriedly clung to the wall, sadly watching the professors walk past one after another—as Padma walked past them, her eyes inadvertently swept over the three pairs of boots in the corner, and her dilated pupils suddenly moved.
Brandi and the others were shocked in unison, and they didn't dare to take a breath.
"Eight-Eyed Spider ......"
"Miss Petill? What are you talking about? Sinista pulled her over and looked at her worriedly. What eight-eyed giant spider? ”
"The sworn enemy of the eight-eyed giant spider is the snake." She replied mechanically, utterly nonsense in the eyes of Professor Sinista. "The Natural Enemy of Monsters, page 73, the sworn enemy of the eight-eyed giant spider, is a kind of snake...... "Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures" reptiles, snake eyes ......"
"Merlin is on top, poor boy, probably even out of consciousness." Professor Sinista sniffled, choked and held Padma tightly in her arms. "heir, how many more people will he hurt before he will give up!"
The voices gradually moved away to the school hospital. Harry silently lifted the Cloak of Invisibility, their eyes red and their faces mixed with anger and sadness. Padma, who had lost consciousness and had even her memory destroyed, had always kept in mind the part of knowledge they needed most...... She didn't finish her revenge, but she helped them put together the final piece of the puzzle with her own hands.
So, do they have a choice?
"Let's go...... Go to the library. He said, "When I defeat that bullshit heir and get Neville out - I'm going to beat him up!" ”