Chapter 226: The Key to Gryffindor Castle

After Hermione's bungee jumping was over, Rolf flew into the air and searched for her.

The boy shouted, "Hermione, where are you?" ”

A moment later, a muffled voice rang out.

"Am I here...... Ralph...... I'm stuck...... Come and save me...... Ralph. ”

Rove searched for the voice, and soon found Hermione, almost laughing out loud when he saw her posture.

Hermione's whole body was stuck in the canopy of the tree in an upside-down position, and her upper body was stuck in the branches, leaving only half of her body exposed, and she couldn't pull it out.

Hey, this pose is so familiar, which movie does Rove seem to have seen before?

Hermione shook her legs and urged, "Off, what are you doing?" Hurry up and save me! ”

Rove let out a sigh and quickly bent down, grabbed Hermione's legs, and pulled her out like a carrot.

Hermione sat down on the canopy, scratching at her fluffy hair in horror and asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Rove blinked, and muttered in his heart:

If Hermione had known that he had asked Beater Willow to drag her over, she might have killed him.

He thought for a moment and pretended to be stupid: "I don't know what happened...... Let's hurry down. ”

Hermione nodded, she struggled to get up, sat down again, and said with a sad face, "Rove, my legs are weak and I can't get up!" ”

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Feeling guilty, Rove picked Hermione up sideways and flew towards the ground, then placed her under the tree and let her lean against the trunk.

Shirley took a tranquilizer from the box and handed it to Hermione, who had calmed down a lot after a few sips of the potion.

Helena walked around the beating willow, and she also saw the human face on the trunk of the tree, and after observing it for a while, she floated to Rove's side, and said with a suspicious face:

"It's strange that I've never seen this tree when I came to Professor Gryffindor's house before."

"Maybe Gryffindor planted it later." Shirley guessed.

"Then why is Rove's face on the trunk?" Helena asked.

"Rove, you can't have planted this tree, right?"

She remembered Rove telling her about using a time turner to travel back a thousand years.

And this beating willow is so tall that it can't grow in just a dozen or a few decades, it will take at least a few hundred years.

"Not me." Rove shook his head: "I've never been here before. ”

"That's weird." Helena muttered.

In fact, Rove was also curious about why his face was on the willow when he hit someone, could it be that Gryffindor did it?

But when Rove went back a thousand years and hadn't spent much time with Gryffindor, why would he do such a thing?

"Forget it, let's leave this tree alone, let's go to the castle and have a look."

A group of people walked towards the castle, and Rove looked up at the magnificent building in front of him:

It is a majestic stone fortress with conveging, rugged stone walls that give this castle a sense of majesty.

The towers are 100 feet high, with impressive domes that reach into the sky, and thick Doric columns that support the tall vaults, adding to its awe-inspiring presence.

They stepped up the stairs and were faced by a pair of twelve-foot-tall twin stone doors with a golden lion carved in between.

Rove pushed the stone door hard, and as expected, the door couldn't be pushed at all.

He looked at the bronze knockers on the door again, they were not the usual griffin-headed eagle knockers, but the majestic three-headed lions.

This pair of magic knockers also apparently has the effect of guarding the castle, and if anyone tries to break down the door, they will turn into three lions to attack the invaders.

"I just tried to go through the wall, but I failed." Helena, a ghost, said, "There's defensive magic left on this wall. ”

"So we can't get in?" Hermione said with some disappointment.

This is Godric Gryffindor's castle, and it's a shame that they're all stopped at the door, right?

"I guess I can't get in." Helena sighed softly, "If only we knew where the castle key was." ”

"Keys?"

"yes." Helena pointed to the keyhole on the door and said:

"This door has a key, Professor Gryffindor showed me once before, and he said that the only way to enter the castle is to use that key."

"But I don't know where the key is, it's always been in Professor Gryffindor's personal custody, and there's no backup key."

Helena paused, and continued, "I asked the Sorting Hat after Gryffindor went missing, and it said that the key was taken by Gryffindor. ”

A few people sighed, this is back to square one, after all, no one knows where Gryffindor is.

Hermione tried the Alajo Cave Spell and other lockpicking spells, but to no avail.

Rove leaned over the keyhole to observe, he thought for a moment and said, "Maybe the Muggle method can open the lock." ”

"What is the Muggle lockpicking method?" Hermione wondered.

Rove smiled and pulled one out of his pocket...... Wire.

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"Wizards may have been on guard against all kinds of magic, but they didn't think about Muggles." "Sometimes you don't need a flashy way to pick a lock, and it's the easiest way to do it," said Rove.

You see! ”

Hearing Rove say this, all three girls looked at him expectantly.

Rove put the wire into the keyhole and stirred it for a long time, only to hear a chirp, and the wire broke inside.

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Rove smiled awkwardly and quickly took control of the wire and got it out.

"Let's go around the castle and see if there's any place to collapse." Shirley suggested.

Rove glanced at the girl, and suddenly his heart moved, and asked, "Helena, what do you say that key looks like?" ”

"What do you look like...... Helena muttered, frowning as she recalled:

"I remember it was silver...... Much like a Muggle cross, but it's an equiarmic crossβ€”two lines that cross as long......"

Helena suddenly frowned and said, "Rove, don't tell me, you have the key?" ”

Rove smiled, he shook his head and said, "I didn't." ”

Helena breathed a sigh of relief, there were too many frightens today, she didn't want to be stimulated anymore, but then the teenager's words made her stunned again.

"I don't, but I seem to know who does."

"Who ?!!"

Rove looked at Shirley, who hesitated for a moment, then stretched out her slender fingers and carefully grabbed a silver chain from her neck and lifted it gently.

At the end of the silver chain, a special cross was pendantd, and the ponytail girl shook it lightly and asked softly:

"Helena, the key to the castle you said...... Does it look like this? ”

Helena: "......"

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