A note writhed in the air and scurried forward, followed by three Gryffindor cubs, a scene that at first glance may seem comical, but it wasn't a rarity in this magical castle. The students on either side just glanced at them curiously, and then turned their gaze to where they had been—everyone was just a levitation charm or some other magic trick used to play a prank, and that's it.

The only advantage of choosing the first floor of the castle was that they could take the note with them to completely retrace the route that Brandi had taken in the middle of the night. At first, they thought Brandi would make a beeline for the library, but the note seemed to fly in a different direction.

They were taken to a staircase on the east side of the castle, where the note floated still. An older Hufflepuff girl cautiously passed by it, giving a startled look at the note.

"What does this mean, is the duration of the spell up and you need to recast it?" Ron stared at the note in mid-air and said suspiciously.

"That's obviously impossible, even if I use this spell, it won't last for three or four minutes!" Hermione recounted her spell casting again. "That's right, I'm sure I'm okay with my spell casting."

"So Brandi stayed here for a while before?" Harry looked up in confusion, and it was a very ordinary, empty staircase. He naturally took a few steps upwards. "What did he come across in this place?"

"Don't move, Harry!" At this point, Hermione seemed to have something in mind, and she stopped Harry from trying to go back. "You wait."

"Huh?" Harry turned his head and snorted in confusion.

"You go down, slow down." Hermione said.

Her eyes widened as she watched Harry step by step backwards. "Oh! It's this. ”

"What is it?"

"That staircase you skipped...... Harry. Hermione said, "Brandy must have stepped on that staircase. ”

"Huh? No kidding, there's a trap on this staircase, and who in Hogwarts doesn't know about it? Now anyone who goes upstairs will instinctively step over, how could Brandi be so fooled. ”

"Maybe it's because he had a reason to step on it, and that's how we found the treasure trove last year." Hermione said bitterly, "I packed the ticket, and someone left a message for him in this way!" You step on it now and don't move. ”

Harry rolled his eyes, and he lifted his foot and tread lightly on the prankster staircase in question, as he had been prepared, but he hadn't lost his center of gravity - it felt like stepping on a ball of fluttering cotton, and the boot was sinking deep in. He looked behind him with his upper body and saw Hermione and Ron hurrying closer, standing very close to him.

"Huh! That's pretty cool. Ron let out an exclamation as if he had seen something at Hermione's prompt. There was literally lettering on the side of the stairs. Not......? ”

"What did you say above?" Harry hadn't noticed Ron's inexplicably long tone at the end, and he became excited. "Is it new information related to the treasury? I knew Brandi didn't do anything good when he came out at night. ”

But he didn't wait for the response of the two behind him.

He looked down and saw that it wasn't just Hermione, but even Ron looked shocked. After a while, Ron looked at Harry with a strange expression. "No, it doesn't really have anything to do with the Treasury this time, but I think we know what Brandy's personal affair has to do with it, Harry."

"The text on this was written by Padma."

………………

Since Ron successfully hooked up with Padma with the help of the silly girl, he has been learning from Padma's homework with her for a long time (among which the silly girl's blowing in the ear is naturally indispensable), don't look at Padma's usual fierce attitude towards the silly girl and often domestic violence if she disagrees, but in fact, as long as the silly girl speaks softly, she can't wait to move the whole world to her, let alone just a homework assignment.

This made Ron so familiar with Padma's handwriting that he realized what the phrase meant before Hermione - Padma had left a message for Brandy before taking a leave of absence. Could Brandy's so-called private affairs now have something to do with the strange situation in which the Pettier sisters are unable to communicate now?

By the way, Hermione seems to know something about Sister Petyer's house.

"Hermione ......"

Ron looked up and called out to her, seeing that her face was a little gloomy.

"I don't know...... We'll follow the note and finish the whole route," Hermione said, holding up her wand and whispering a few words, and the note moved again and began to fly upstairs. On the way, she began to tell Harry Ron about some of the things she had learned from Parvati.

"Well, I just know that the Petyr family is a very noble and famous family in India. Their family has been Brahmin for generations. ”

"Brahmins?" Ron said.

"Don't interrupt, it's probably similar to the elite aristocrats of our country, I only heard it when I was gossiping with Parvati before bedtime. You can just understand it...... Parvati told me that the rules in their house were very strict and the atmosphere was very bad. As if because of her mother's problems, Parvati and Padma had been criticized since birth - Parvati told me that they were often bullied by their peers in the Hui family when they were younger, and it was only after they both showed their magical talents that they got better for a while. ”

Hermione said briskly as she walked. But their grandfather seems to have made up his mind to choose at most the more gifted of the two of them to add to the family tree of the Petyr family, and to raise him as a granddaughter...... Padma quickly showed a lot of talent when she arrived at Hogwarts, and the silly girl was a little inferior in comparison—so I think she must have suffered a lot at home. ”

"That's all I know."

"Huh!?" After hearing Hermione's words, Harry and Ron stopped. "How can her grandfather be like this, the palms of his hands and the backs of his hands are full of meat, and he actually has to separate the two twin sisters! That's too much, isn't it? Harry said. And now that Parvati and the others have drunk the awakening potion, their magic level is not bad, why are they still being guarded even more? ”

Hermione shook her head in confusion, "I don't know...... But I think we'll know when we're done with it. ”

Following the note, it took them nearly half an hour to climb back and forth from the first floor to the seventh floor of the school twice. Unlike the information in the previous treasure trove, Padma's messages don't require a special time period to see, but they are not in order from bottom to top. Harry speculated that it was to prevent the person who stumbled upon the information from piecing together the message she wanted to convey by searching the entire castle. Hermione and Ron were convinced......

"Now, there should be no more...... "When they seemed to finally put together a complete message, the three of them were so tired that they couldn't breathe." I see the full stop... Hermione. ”

Ron held on to the handrail of the stairs, his chest heaving rapidly.

"I know...'Everything has been written, go answer her questions, and Hawkeye will tell you everything.' Hermione finished Padma's message and said the whole thing. Well, Brandi should be going to the Ravenclaw common room next down - well, that's how the note moves. ”

The next step, even if they don't use tracking, they know exactly where the message is pointing to. They quickly arrived in front of the Ravenclaw Lounge, there were only ten minutes left before curfew, and there was no one on the alley - when the three of them got there, the eagle's head knocker had just put a Ravenclaw boy inside. Seeing the three uninvited guests, the bronze eagle eyes looked at them curiously.

"Little Lions, your lounge should be on the other side." She said kindly,

"Oh, yes, Ms. Knockers. Someone asked us to come and answer your question-" Hermione gave a very hypocritical smirk, looking at Harry and Ron a little hairy. "Miss Padma Pettier asked us to come."

The knocker was obviously a little caught off guard, and she was stunned for a moment, until she saw the note floating in the air, and then it dawned on her. "I see," said the knocker, "a nice humanoid tracking charm, it's not a cheap spell to use. Which of the three of you cast the spell? ”

After a moment of silence, Hermione raised her hand in some embarrassment.

"Tsk, it's a shame, how nice it would have been if you had been sorted into Ravenclaw in the first place, you would have been a student as brilliant as Petille."

"I think Gryffindor isn't bad right now~" She winked a little shyly at the knocker. "Well, Miss Knocker, it's a bit rude, but can you tell us what happened to Padma? We're really worried right now—"

"About this."

The knocker interrupted Hermione just in time. The voice was still gentle, but unequivocally firm.

"Unfortunately, although I want to help Miss Pettier through this difficult time as much as possible, I must keep my agreement with her. I'm going to tell Mr. Barton about this alone......"

Hermione bowed her head in frustration.

"But ......" But at this moment, the eyes of the knocker seemed to turn slyly. If it's something that isn't outside of the agreement, I think I should still have that right. ”

The sudden counter-transfer they jumped for joy.

"Is there anything you want to say to us, Ms. Knocker?" Harry asked impatiently.

"Let me think... That's right. There is a book in the library called "Brahmins in the Night", which I personally think is quite interesting. If you want to learn more about the magical society in India, you can borrow it and read it, but I want to warn you of one thing beforehand. ”

Its voice grew more serious. "Remember, think carefully before making your decision—you're going to be challenging more than just one or two adult wizards."

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