026: Secret Passage
"Otherwise, I can help you with your Potions class," Caitlyn suggested a solution, "I don't ask you how well you treat this subject, I just hope you don't deduct points for the House in Potions class." ”
Joel and Eddie thought about it for a long time, and couldn't seem to find any reason to refute it, so they agreed to Caitlin's request for make-up lessons, and she agreed to meet at the library door at 6:30 p.m. every Wednesday night.
Joel's focus wasn't on it, he was still figuring out how to sneak out of Hogwarts Castle over the weekend.
At lunchtime, he found his target.
Joel slipped out from behind the Weasley twins, and the Weasley brothers sat side by side, patting the Weasley brothers on the left on the right shoulder and the Weasley brothers on the right on the left shoulder.
"Don't touch me, George."
"You too, Fred, I almost spilled the stew on a napkin."
The Weasley brothers grumbled face to face, and then they saw Joel's head between their shoulders.
"Haven't seen each other in days, Mr. Weasley?" Joel said hello.
"Hey, which ...... are you" Fred's brain shut down for a moment before he realized Joel's name, "Little Joel!" Since the train parted, the two of us have missed you very much! ”
George also made a touching look of reunion after a long absence.
"Don't talk about it," Joel sighed and said with a bitter face, "You two deceived me so badly. ”
"You lied to me that the sorting ceremony was going to be a fight with the Welsh Green Dragon, and I almost fainted nervously while waiting for the sorting in the small room next door to the auditorium!" Joel exaggerated.
"A lot of freshmen saw me mess ......," Joel said miserably.
"This ......" The Weasley twins didn't expect Joel to sell badly when they came up, and they ran out of ideas for a while.
"What do you want?" Fred whispered as he turned his head sideways.
Joel said solemnly, "I have low blood sugar, and sometimes I get up early to go to class and get panicked, I heard that Hogsmeade's Honey Duke candy is very good, and I want to go there to buy some candy to eat." ”
"Low blood sugar, what's that?" George frowned, he and Fred had never heard the word before.
"Even on an empty stomach...... Joel had to explain to the two of them the causes and consequences of hypoglycemia.
He hadn't learned about this before, and it was a stumbling explanation to explain it, and the Weasley brothers were also in a fog when they heard it.
"If you have hypoglycemia symptoms in the morning, you have to eat two pieces of sugar, otherwise you will be very uncomfortable, and you may even pass out, right?" George concluded.
Joel nodded sharply.
"If you want candy, I have a lot of them in my dorm room, and I can give them to you as compensation." Fred made a suggestion.
"No, we don't taste the same." Joel certainly couldn't accept this suggestion, and he wanted to get a secret way out of Hogwarts Castle from the Weasley brothers.
After all, the Weasley brothers are arguably the most familiar with Hogwarts Castle among their school students in the original books.
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"Hey! I was deceived by the lies of the two of you before, and I couldn't get off the stage in front of everyone! Seeing this, Joel hurriedly urged, wanting to arouse the guilt of the two of them.
"We lied about the sorting ceremony, but I think you're exaggerating the truth," George shook his head, "Katie! ”
He suddenly shouted.
A tall, lanky girl turned her head from the other end of the long table, "What's wrong Fred?" ”
It's Katie Bell, whom Joel had seen at the sorting ceremony.
"I'm George, have you seen Joe before......" George didn't finish his words before Joel covered his mouth.
"I just want to go to Hogsmeade for a while, and you two just tell me the secret passage," Joel whispered in George's ear, "or I'll tell Mr. Filch to block you two at the Gryffindor common room door after curfew!" ”
"You have the ability, you two don't go back to the dormitory to sleep all night when you go out on an adventure!"
"You ......" George and Fred on the side didn't expect Joel to come up with such a solution, Gryffindor's common room was in the tower, where there was only a way for the portrait of the fat lady to provide access to it.
"Okay...... Weasley twins figured it out, it was nothing more than telling Joel a secret passage to Hogsmeade, and if he didn't get his way, he wouldn't have to think about going out to explore after curfew.
"There is a statue of the One-Eyed Witch in the hallway on the fourth floor near the West Tower, and behind the statue is a passage to Hogsmeade."
"We've said yes, you can't tell Filch secretly, let him stay on track." Fred asks Joel for reassurance.
"Of course, I've already achieved my goal, so why do such a thankless job as reporting you?" Joel had a point, and the Weasley brothers looked at each other and sighed, only reassuring themselves that they were making up for the Sorting Ceremony's lies.
Joel shared the news with Sergei after getting the location of the secret passage, and the two of them agreed to head to Diagon Alley together on Saturday morning.
Early Saturday morning, Joel and Sergei sat at the long table in the auditorium to fill their stomachs after a night of hunger.
"Try to eat as little as possible, we'll have a rough and long trip in a while." Joel's kind reminder.
"Oh." Sergei nodded, ate two more slices of bread, and followed Joel up to the fourth floor of the castle.
In order not to attract attention, the two of them also specially changed the Hogwarts school robes and wore only a plain black robe.
In the hallway leading to the West Tower, Joel saw the one-eyed witch statue.
The witch hunched over, and Joel pushed it hard to the side, revealing a passage behind it.
"Come on, the slope here is a bit steep, be careful when walking." Joel and Sergey walked into the passage with a set of books in their arms.
After the two left, the One-Eyed Witch returned to her original position and continued to look ahead with her only eye, just as the morning sun shone through the castle window on the statue's eyes.
Quiet and beautiful.
The passage was steep and long, and Joel and Sergey walked for half an hour before they reached the end.
At the end of the passage, there was a straight ladder leading to the top, and Joel handed the scroll in his hand to Sergey, and quickly climbed up with his own hands and feet, moving the plank above the straight ladder with both hands.
Then he turned around and took the scroll and climbed up.
They were now inside Duke Honey's Confectionery, which had just opened, and it wasn't Hogwarts students' day to visit Hogsmeade, and there was no one in the shop, except for an old gentleman sitting at the counter to settle accounts.
When the two appeared, the old gentleman glanced up, and then buried himself in his business, and seemed to have become accustomed to it.