Chapter 40: The Writing on the Wall
I don't know if Pomfrey also wants to make the patients feel a little happy, and the inside of the ward looks carefully decorated. The white walls were improvised with stars, a silver moon, and a castle, and a witch was flying around the castle on a broomstick. In one corner of the hospital room was a stack of jack-o-lanterns, changing their expressions according to the light of the candles inside, and several golden bats flew around next to Brandi and Salph. They fly so slowly that they don't look like bats at all......
It wasn't until one of them curiously flew to Sharf's shoulder to ask for candy that they were pleasantly surprised to find that they were all dressed up as pretty fairies, who were unusually not making a big noise, but were tied with golden fluff and flapping their wings in mid-air.
As Brandi expected, when they entered Luna's hospital room, she wasn't honestly lying on the bed.
"Happy holidays, Brandi, and Sharf."
The people by the window greeted very naturally. Luna was wearing a thin hospital gown, holding her legs and staring at the starry sky outside the window without blinking. There was a crack in the window, and the damp and cold air seeped in little by little from the outside, and even a dozen steps away, you could feel the faint chill.
Brandi shook his head helplessly, and walked up quickly to close the window. Watch as Salph snaps up and wraps her arms around Luna, warming her in the clumsy way of a human stove.
"Don't be like this, Luna, you haven't got a cold yet."
Luna rubbed Salph's face in satisfaction, and Brandi realized that she was still sitting barefoot on the floor.
"But this is the only place in the room that brings me closer to the real thing, and of course, you are still there."
"Ah, what?"
Brandi looked around suspiciously, and then suddenly realized that Luna might just not like the festive outfits in the room. He couldn't help but feel a little helpless, this was probably the first guy he had ever seen who couldn't get excited about such magical things as school.
Maybe it was because of their visit, she followed Brandi's advice and went back to bed. Brandi helped her tuck the quilt and found a chair to sit next to her. began to tell you and me about the interesting things around them.
Luna listened in a trance, her pale eyes looking curiously at the two of them, as if they had something terrible on their faces.
"By the way, we brought you something to eat, you shouldn't have eaten yet." After chatting for a while, Sharf was shocked to find that everyone's stomachs didn't seem to be filled yet, so she hurriedly sat down next to Luna and began to take out everyone's gifts for Luna little by little from the packages they brought:
Hermione sent a decent greeting card, after all, they didn't know each other very well; Parvati is said to have made her own sweet and greasy cookies - what seemed to be the last bit of sweetness she had brought back from India, a large portion of chocolate from Ron and Harry, and a small packet of fudge from Hagrid.
Brandi himself asked the Weasley brothers to get some high-end goods. They always get their hands on all sorts of fun snacks, such as sherbet drinks that float for a few minutes. Naturally, the price was relatively high - the last bit of private money Brandi saved became a small pile of high-sugar and high-calorie things in front of him.
As for Sharf, she took a small packet of chicken thighs and fries from the noon cafeteria very plainly, and it looked like she was going to eat chicken with Luna tonight......
It's really a simple child, obviously Shirley's mother gave her more pocket money than three times her own, but it seems that she hasn't spent it at all until now.
Suddenly, a heap of gifts filled Luna's otherwise empty bedside, giving it a place where some of the patients to be seen should be.
But speaking of which......
Brandi couldn't help but sigh.
Although I had expected it for a long time, with Luna's straightforward and chatty personality, it might be difficult to make friends in a short period of time. But when Brandi looked at Luna's empty bedside, he still felt his chest choke.
"Alright, alright...... Salph. Brandi couldn't help but interrupt her attempt to dig out the lunch she had hidden at noon, and he pouted and motioned for her to look at the small table beside Luna's bed, where a large tray of steaming pumpkin juice and sandwiches had been placed at some point. This is Hogwarts, how could the kitchen forget about the patients in the school hospital?
"Let's let her eat something warm."
"En......" Salph blinked, and put down her hand in some frustration. However, the bag in her hand was snatched by Luna-
Under the surprised gaze of the two, Luna took out a cold chicken leg from it, bit it hard, and narrowed her eyes in enjoyment. At this moment, the hazy sense of distance that had always existed in her eyes was completely gone.
"I love this, it's the best I've had since school started. So, aren't you going to be together? ”
Brandi was about to say something, but Sharf had already cheered, leaned over like a puppy, and took a chicken wing in Luna's mouth. He shrugged his shoulders amusefully and joined them in the food grab.
For some reason, it was just a leftover lunch at noon, but they ate it very sweetly.
After the three of them celebrate Halloween and complete the candy swapping ceremony, Brandi and the others must leave. Luna was blown by the cold wind, and her food was not healthy, and now she had a fever, so they had to rush to Pomfrey's office and ring the pink bell inside. Sure enough, when Madam Pomfrey hurried up from the Great Hall, the two of them were immediately kicked out.
"Let's hurry back, Madam Pomfrey just said that if we're lucky, we might be able to catch the last song of the Skull Dance Troupe. I really don't know what kind of painting style skeletons are dancing with. ”
After coming out of the school hospital, he said to Self full of hope. Take the lead towards the staircase that leads downstairs. Sharf followed him slowly, her pockets full of the pepper boys that Luna had shoved into her arms.
When they went down to the third floor, Brandi was almost already on the stairs going down, but when he turned around to call for Sylph to follow, he suddenly noticed that something was not quite right with her expression.
"Sharf, what's wrong with you?"
Salph didn't speak, she stared blankly at the dark hallway in the distance, not knowing what she was thinking. Brandi turned back to her, looking curiously in the direction that Sorph was staring at—the hallway was black and rumbling, with only a torch illuminating the corner where no one was looking.
There was clearly nothing there.
Salph's face was crawling with confusion - she made a strange gesture as she pulled out her wand. It was the first time Brandi had seen Salph's wand, brown and yellow, a little curved, with no decorative patterns on it. If others didn't know, they would probably think it was just an ordinary little wooden stick.
Was she going to chant a mantra? Do you think the light is too dim over there, and you plan to read the fluorescent flicker?
Sharf raised her wand and began to mumble something in her mouth. Brandy could faintly hear some faint syllables, but he was surprised that the fragmented sound was very different from the fluorescent spell in his memory, and not to mention the fluorescent spell, even the first-year spell should not have that weird sound.
Where did she learn some of the more off-the-beaten-path spells?
However, it was not, and Salf didn't know if the spell had failed, or if it wasn't a spell at all, and until the large section was finished, Brandi didn't notice any change in her wand. Instead, Sharf's own face changed, and she began to look a little anxious.
"There." She shouted, then took up her short legs and ran as fast as she could, Brandy following closely behind her.
"Sharf, wait a minute, what's going on?"
They raced, almost all the way around the third floor, and Salph didn't seem to have a definite target, she seemed to be running purely attracted by something. They moved away from Lockhart's office, ran past a suit of armor with pumpkin heads, and after turning a corner, they came to the last empty hallway.
"Sharph, Sharph??"
He grabbed her wrist quickly, and now Salph looked like she had been stricken, her eyes staring at the other side of the corridor without blinking.
"Something," she said in a trance, "something just happened here... I feel it..."
"What's going to be here......" Brandi pulled out his wand and lit up the other side of the hallway. You see, there's no one here—"
Suddenly, he couldn't speak, and the fluorescent light shone directly on the opposite side of the hallway, and between the two windows, on the wall a foot above the ground, there was some handwriting, and it shimmered in the dim light of the torches on both sides. He stepped forward, and with the help of the fluorescent spell, he saw the handwriting on it, and something else.
"Oh my God......" He gasped and subconsciously took two steps back.
The Chamber of Secrets was opened.
Those who are enemies of the successor, be vigilant.
Next to this passage is Lady Loris, Filch's cat.
Its tail hung from the stand of a torch, its body stiff like a plank, and its blank eyes stared straight in Brandy's direction. He just felt creepy. He was just about to beckon Self out of the ...... But I heard a messy footstep behind me, followed by a scream of horror—
"What are you doing! Blondie! Neville's voice trembled, and there was not a trace of blood on his face. Harry and the four of them stood behind Neville, all of them looking like they had seen a ghost.
"It's ...... What's going on? ”
Then, from both ends of the corridor from which they had come out, the sound of hundreds of feet climbing the stairs, and the cheerful laughter of people after their full meals. Then, the students bustled into the aisle from both ends – they saw the upside-down cat. The noise immediately died down, and the students rushed forward to watch the horrific scene.
"You're next, Mudblood!"
In the silence, a voice sounded abruptly. Malfoy stepped out of the crowd with a grim grin.