Chapter 171: I just wanted to go into the women's restroom and have a look
Harry had never realized that there were so many predecessors.
Under everyone's advice, he kept mechanically stuffing things into his mouth, and he didn't even know what he was eating. In the end, whether he really has no appetite or has eaten enough, in short, he is sure that he really can't eat anymore. Harry numbly dragged his legs along the long dining table towards the outside of the castle.
And since he was a first-year student, this meant that most of the people at the Gryffindor table had patted him on the shoulder as seniors and said nonsense such as 'don't stress too much', 'I'm optimistic about you', 'just do your best', and encouraged the boy who was fighting for the first time in a completely cookie-cutter way.
But it worked surprisingly well - by the time Harry had finally walked over, there was a sense of relief at last, and the apparent upcoming Quidditch match wasn't so scary compared to that.
By eleven o'clock, it seemed that all the teachers and students had arrived in the stands around the Quidditch pitch. Many students also brought binoculars. The seats were literally lifted into the air, but it was still difficult to see the game at times.
Ron and Hermione made it to the top row, joining Neville, Seamus and West Ham fans Dean. To surprise Harry, they drew a huge banner out of a sheet stained with small rats, which read Potter must win, Dean who is good at drawing, and a large Gryffindor lion underneath.
Then, Hermione also cast a clever spell to make the paint on the banner shimmer with different colors.
Harry, meanwhile, was still in the dressing room and was about to play. I just hope that when he walks to the cheering court, his knees don't go limp.
Pei Chen hung the corner of his eyes and looked at the entire Quidditch pitch, and was suddenly disappointed. Maybe in the eyes of these people, this is the so-called large-scale assembly, and even at the beginning, Pei Chen was deceived by the atmosphere deliberately created by the school. He didn't want to think that there were more than 800 students in the entire Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and the number of professors was only twelve, even if all of them came to the stadium......
It's still 108,000 miles away from the word crowd!
"The hourly flow of people in any bus station is more than the number of people in the entire school......" Pei Chen's face was full of despair, "not only is there no atmosphere at all...... And most importantly - just such a few people, no matter who is missing in the middle, will be discovered, right? At this point, Pei Chen's plan to escape after showing his face and brushing his presence can be regarded as a complete declaration.
This meant that he had to sit here and act like a teacher until the end of a full Quidditch match...... But who knows how long a Quidditch match will last?
Seven hundred foul rules are just a basic introductory to the fact that wizards ride broomsticks in the air team against the sport's various rules.
Most importantly, there is no time limit for this ball game, and a Quidditch match can only be concluded if the Golden Snitch is caught, and only by the Seeker.
Pei Chen felt that the skill of [Basic Quidditch Skill Mastering LV1] was not only very strange, but also seemed to be unlikely to be of any use no matter when or where it was placed, so he had never paid attention to the collation of Quidditch data. He only occasionally paid attention to this information and knew something.
As far as he knew, there was once an international Quidditch team called the Ethill Tornadoes, which set a record for the fastest finish of a match. Just three and a half seconds into the opening period, the team's Seeker, Rodri Plimpton, caught the Golden Snitch and the match was over.
On the other hand, because there is no time limit for the end of a Quidditch match, the longest Quidditch match in history lasted more than three months...... Not only the players, the referees, but also the spectators.
Although Hogwarts is a school, and there is an academic arrangement, it is impossible for such a situation to occur, but if it only lasts for more than a week, it is not uncommon. Even professors take this situation for granted and forgivable, and it's not worth it to delay some class hours......
But Pei Chen really didn't have that patience, he made up his mind, if the game was not over in an hour, he would leave decisively and not waste his life here.
Harry stepped on his light wheel 2000.
Madame Hodge blew her silver whistle vigorously.
Fifteen broomsticks rose from the ground and rose high into the sky. The race is on.
At the same time, a loud voice resounded throughout the audience, overshadowing the cheers, roars, and screams of the students! For a moment, Pei Chen thought that Hogwarts was finally going to keep pace with the times and introduce a tweeter and a series of supporting audio equipment! As a result, he looked around, only to find that it was just a Gryffindor student, with the help of Professor McGonagall, using amplification magic to act as a narrator.
While Pei Chen was distracted by the commentator, the Gryffindors seemed to have already started scoring, and the cheers of the Gryffindors echoed in the cold sky, mixed with the roars and moans of the Slytherins.
"It's really terrible......" In such a noisy environment, Pei Chen sighed in despair. After hesitating for a long time, he found that even the professors next to him were immersed in the joy of the game, and no one paid attention to him at all, so he finally made up his mind to get up and walk directly towards the exit of the stands.
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"Borrow light, borrow light, let one."
"Hagrid!"
Ron and Hermione moved out of the way, making room in the middle for Hagrid to sit in. The stands, which were relatively sparse, instantly became crowded, and the surrounding students dared not speak out.
"I just watched it in my cabin," Hagrid said, patting the big binoculars he hung around his neck, "but it wasn't the same as watching the game in the crowd." The Snitch is nowhere to be seen, is it? β
"No," Ron said, "there's not much for Harry to do. β
"As long as you don't get in trouble, you're lucky." Hagrid said, holding up his binoculars and struggling to look at a small spot in the skyβit was Harry.
Hermione opened her mouth and was about to speak, but suddenly saw a very prominent cyan figure in the stands opposite, walking towards the exit. Suddenly, she became puzzled, looking at the atmosphere of the game in the field, it was in full swing, what was he doing when he left the field at this time? And it's been less than a minute since the game started, right?
She didn't understand that for some people, the game was just beginning, but for others, it didn't matter at all whether it started or not. If they could, those would rather the game had never been in this world.
Hermione frowned and shook her head, and suddenly hurried out of the table.
When she got out of the stands, she found that the figure she was chasing was gone, so she couldn't help but grit her teeth, think for a while, and then walked in the direction of the castle without hesitation. If she hadn't seen Lyle, she would have gone to the library to read a book, and she couldn't understand what Quidditch's charm was.
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The stadium seemed to have been spelled, and as soon as he walked out of the exit, Pei Chen felt that the boiling sound behind him was instantly far away, as if the venue was three or four hundred meters away from him, but in fact, it was a step away, and the sound was separated.
He took advantage of the fact that there was no one around him and left the scene quickly.
"Oh, I never thought I knew all the Hogwarts secrets......" - Albus Dumbledore.
As Headmaster Whitebeard said, apart from the ghosts that have been around for more than 500 years, perhaps even the founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry will not know all the secrets about the school, such as the secret passages.
As far as Pei Chen himself explored and discovered, there were already as many as thirteen entrances to the secret passages, and since he didn't have time, he hadn't explored most of the secret passages yet, and he didn't know where they led to. However, today may be a good opportunity, and Pei Chen feels that he should seize this opportunity, after all, there are not many matches in the entire Quidditch season.
And because of such a good opportunity, most of the professors were not in the castle, Pei Chen naturally wanted to take advantage of such a rare opportunity to take the first place to take down the most troublesome secret passages - so he came to the door of a bathroom on the third floor and began to ponder.
This washroom is a girls' washroom, also known as the myrtle's washroom. The name comes from the fact that a girl named Myrtle died here fifty years ago, and her ghost has been here for a long time. She was so annoying and stubborn that even the girls didn't want to come to the bathroom.
And why are these the most troublesome passages? That's because it's so close to Professor McGonagall's office, and Pei Chen can't guarantee that when he stands outside the door of the girls' bathroom and prepares to enter, he won't be directly seen by Professor McGonagall, and then he will really jump into the Yellow River and can't wash it.
And after Pei Chen accidentally discovered a secret passage here, he had no way to open its entrance, until he consulted "Hogwarts, a school history", understood the tragedy of Myrtle, and combined with his own discoveries and inferences, he finally understood some things, and he had a certain degree of certainty to open the entrance to that secret passage.
So, why hesitate? It's not like I haven't entered the women's bathroom, and there's no one around. Besides, Professor McGonagall is still on the commentary stand on the pitch, and she can't be here. Most of the professors had already gone to the game and were not in the castle.
Dumbledore didn't go out, but Professor Quirrell hung up early because of his interference, and Voldemort was also scared away, and the original arrangement for Voldemort lost its due effect. Now he must be having a headache about hiring a new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor and what to do with the Philosopher's Stone, and he is unlikely to be distracted by his actions.
After thinking about it and weighing the pros and cons, Pei Chen finally made up his mind, reached out and pushed open the old wooden door of the bathroom, and just took one step -
"Lyle, what are you doing?" The little girl's surprised voice.
Pei Chen, who was still distracted, replied casually: "Oh, I want to go into the women's toilet to see ......" As he spoke, he followed his previous action instructions, took a few steps forward, and walked directly into the bathroom.
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Pei Chen, who suddenly realized that something was wrong, came to his senses, and rushed out of the door at once, and then saw Hermione's sneering expression, and glanced at himself as if he had seen something very dirty.
"Trust me, Hermione, this is a beautiful misunderstanding......" Pei Chen defended with some weakness.