Chapter 12: Cockroach Heaps

"Miss Zhang, I think you should follow Percy back to the dormitory now."

"Professor McGonagall, Hermione doesn't seem to be there, she's probably in the bathroom, I'm worried she's going to run into a troll, she doesn't know..." Yugaye's watery eyes looked at McGonagall, as if he had seen the troll swing a huge stick at Hermione, who was hiding under the sink.

Professor McGonagall took a deep breath when she heard this: "Don't worry, I'll find her, Miss Zhang, you can go back to the dormitory first." ”

Yugaya looked back worriedly, wondering if he should talk to Harry, and then looked back to see Professor Snape with a solemn expression.

"Professor Snape." Yugaye looked at Snape carefully and handed over an amulet, "I think you might need one. ”

"Miss Zhang, I don't think it's the time to joke, I'll go to the dormitory. Immediately! Right away! ”

"Okay." Yugaya quickly withdrew his amulet and looked well-behaved, "Teach you to be careful. ”

On Christmas Eve this year, everyone was eating and drinking in the common room, and Hermione and Harry Ron came back together, and it seemed that they had a lot of good relationship.

Yugaya was then informed that Professor Dumbledore had summoned her to the Headmaster's office.

Turning the corner, Yugaya stopped in front of a large, ugly monster head.

Well, the traditional wizard aesthetic, but Yugaya doesn't get these monster aesthetics at all.

"Cockroach pile." Yugaya reported the code word - it was said to be a sweet, but Yugaya could not imagine how a dessert could be combined with cockroaches.

The monster stone in the doorway suddenly jumped away.

Yugaya was surprised to find a spiral staircase behind the cracked wall.

Yugaya walked up the stairs higher and higher to a glimmering oak door with a brass half-eagle, half-lion clasp.

Yugaya slammed the door, and it opened silently, and she walked over.

Yugaya looked around.

It's a big, nice square room, and it's made some funny little noises from time to time. Strangely shaped silver utensils sat on tables with hammer-shaped legs, swirling and emitting wisps of light smoke. The walls are full of portraits of former principals, both men and women, and everyone looks elegant.

Behind a large, claw-shaped table with claw-shaped legs shelfs a worn-out sorting hat. There was an old phoenix standing on the birdshelf behind the door, its feathers were solemn and bright red and yellow, and it looked very woody and not very tasty.

The phoenix called out twice to Yugaya, and when he saw Yugaya approaching, he tried to rub Yugaya's face with his bird's face.

Before Yugaya could refuse it, Jin, who had not appeared in the camera for a long time, poked his head out and spat out the phoenix with his body on the back.

Yugaya hurriedly calmed Jin who was trying to take a bite of the phoenix and stayed away from the bird's frame.

On the other side of the room is a window overlooking the dark Forbidden Forest at night.

The occasional flying black shadow, the shadowy forest, and the tall castle in the moonlight have a beautiful dark fairy tale style.

"What do you see, child?" An old and deep voice rang out, and Dumbledore placed it on the table with a cup full of restless cockroaches.

The lively candy cockroach exudes a sweet and greasy taste, jumping up and down on its tiny legs around the cup.

"Saw two dead unicorns, Professor."

Yugaya looked at the pile of cockroaches in Dumbledore's hands, and felt as if his dense phobia and cleanliness were about to attack at the same time.

Seeing Yugaya's gaze fall on his snacks, Dumbledore asked very generously, "Would you like a little cockroach pile?" It's made of chocolate, and it tastes very good. ”

At this moment, Yugaya felt a deep malice from the dessert house.

"Before I do that, can I ask you a question? Professor. Yugaya looked away from the cockroach pile.

"Of course, kid." Dumbledore looked at her with a smile, his deep, clear eyes like two bays of moonlight.

"How can you tell if you're eating chocolate-flavored cockroaches or cockroach-flavored chocolate?"

Dumbledore froze for a moment, and suddenly felt that the cockroach pile in his hand was not so fragrant.

"It's chocolate-flavored chocolate, kid. When you reach a certain level of magical attainment, I think you can easily see through the essence of things. ”

"Who knows?" Yugaya muttered quietly.

"Maybe we can talk about your amulet." Dumbledore's gentle, clear eyes looked at Yugaya, and one couldn't help but want to tell the wise old man what was on his mind.

"What you gave to Mr. Longbottom, and what you want to give to Professor Snape." With a wave of his wand, Dumbledore flew up to the two of them in a small pile of gray-black powder, spun around, and landed on the table.

This is the ash after the amulet burns.

Yugaya tilted his head: "Well, the amulet, it is used to ward off disasters, do you also need one, Professor?" ”

The amulet was learned from the collection of books at home, and the "Grinding Talisman" introduced a variety of types of amulets and their principles, and Yugaya learned a few, and found that she currently uses the Zhang family's ancestral super invincible second adaptability improved amulet The advanced version is the best to use.

It can be said to be a necessary prop for home travel and visiting friends, that is, to produce high-quality talismans, and to test the experience, skills, magic reserves and character of the talisman painter.

As for why it was given to Neville and Professor Snape, it was obvious that Yugaya foresaw their injuries.

Dumbledore looked at her with a smile, "Does Miss Zhang think I need it?" ”

Yugaya stared at him for a long time before he said slowly, "Maybe it will be needed in a few years, but I don't think my amulet will help much." ”

"Oh, is that so?"

It was late, Dumbledore didn't ask Yugaya anything else about her, and Yugaye didn't stay long, leaving the Headmaster's office and heading to the dormitory.

Hogwarts was silent at this point, and the faint moonlight reflected in the empty castle was quite scary.

Yugaya walked past a tapestry and suddenly stopped, and a hazy future unfolded in front of Yugaya.

Yugaya looked up, and on the tapestry was a magical portrait of a troll beating the fool Barnabas, dressed in a ballet rather comical.

Yugaya walked up and down the corridor three times, silently thinking in his heart that he wanted a room to enter.

Just as Yugaya walked past the empty wall for the third time, lines began to emerge on the wall opposite the tapestry, and a large door appeared on the wall.

Yugaya stretched out his hand, pushed the door open, and walked in.

On the other side of the door was a large hall like an auditorium, and the windows above the room cast sunlight on a hill of discarded furniture that had been used by Hogwarts students and professors over the years.

Yugaya looked around, and there was a lot of stuff here.

She walked slowly down the narrow space into the depths of the room, and along the way, she was amazed by the sight of dark magic books and everything, all kinds of nasty toys everywhere, and the aesthetically aesthetically curious image of an ugly wizard wearing a beautiful sapphire crown.

"Smack." Yugaya stomped on a piece of yellowed bone with a crunching sound.

Immediately after, a figure spun out from behind the hill in front of Yugaya.