Chapter 161: The Secret Room Behind the Grandfather Clock
Although it is the point of curfew, there will be no professors to raid the Hufflepuff common room to the kitchen.
Even Filch, the Hogwarts caretaker whom the students hated the most, and his Lady Loris don't patrol after curfew.
The badger and the kitchen are conjoined, and the first house-elf to work at Hogwarts was Helga Hufflepuff's good companion, and this unwritten rule that has not been written into the school rules has been in effect since the founding of the school, although there have been attempts to remove this privilege from Hufflepuff House, but after a day or two, they are honest.
The elves will no longer provide meticulous room service, you will no longer see any of your favorite food on the table, and even have to guard against drinking pumpkin juice and lemon juice with lethal Hufflepuff-flavored vinegar, and the elves are loyal to Hogwarts, there is no doubt about it, but they are even more loyal to Helga Hufflepuff, because most of the elves in the kitchen today are descendants of the original one.
It was already past twelve o'clock after talking to the fat friar, and Harry, who had gone to the kitchen for a late night snack, rubbed his stomach to digest his food, and walked briskly in the empty Hogwarts castle at night.
Although the Fat Friar had told him a lot of information about the Senior, most of it was gossip that could only be used as a small talk, and there was little to it about the Awakened, but it was no wonder that it was difficult for other wizards to perceive the special thing about the Awakened unless they were of the same kind.
One thing Harry recognized about Setilarius was that he was inhuman, and Harry also felt a little bit about it, as the leader of the magic refining with the warband, after a few months of training, he clearly found that he was different from the others.
The same is the use of magic to strengthen the body, Harry's progress is almost more than three or five times stronger than theirs, and the effect is more than three or five times stronger, the first to discover this is Qiu, her body is not too repulsive to the fusion of magic, and the pain is also very low, and because of this, her progress is the fastest in the group, but when it comes to refining her palm, she also spent almost a month, and Harry only took a little more than a week before he found the trick.
As for strength, if Harry can crush a coconut, Autumn can probably only pinch a walnut, although there are factors in which female strength is congenitally weak, but the gap is still obvious.
As the completion of the mana refining became higher and higher, Harry also felt that his five senses were constantly being enhanced, he could hear a wider range of audio, softer sounds, he could taste and smell how many different spices were added to the food he ate, and even more sensitive to the recognition of colors, it was not easy for boys to distinguish lipsticks, but Harry could see the subtle differences between the same color but different batches of lipstick.
This made him feel that he was evolving more and more in the direction of non-human, or superhuman, and that humans had paid too much to evolve intelligent brains, and at this moment, he seemed to have once again regained those abilities that had been cut off.
He was curious, curious about what inhuman changes had occurred in Certilares, who was the Awakened One, and what kind of changes had led him to say that he might not be considered human.
Hogwarts is huge, even if no one bothers him, it is very difficult for Harry to visit the whole Hogwarts in one night, the castle seems to be no more than five or six hundred meters in length, width and diameter, but the internal space is large enough to fit several Hogwarts-sized castles into it, and the space magic such as the Traceless Stretching Charm is used to a very high extent in this school.
If one day Dumbledore had the idea of holding a full marathon at Hogwarts, the venue would not have to be moved to the grass outside the castle, the students would only have to run a few laps along the outermost corridor around the castle and the race would be completed.
If not, it's not just about half an hour, or even an hour's break, between classes, to leave enough time to go to the bathroom, and it's not for nothing that Hogwarts has a variety of convenient and quick secret passages.
The location indicated by the words conveyed by the fat friar was already clear, and at the end of the corridor, there should be a decoration similar to a grandfather clock, and in order to open this secret room, it was necessary to enter the password of the clock and the stars.
Although this was a hundred years ago, Harry didn't think that it would be found now, the decoration in the Hogwarts campus has changed very little, many of the decorative paintings and blankets hanging on the walls have not been touched for hundreds of years, even if the Hogwarts students traveled here thousands of years ago, they can easily identify the direction and road in the current Hogwarts castle.
Harry's luck was a little lacking, though, as he didn't find a place or item during the two hours of purposeful wandering, and he did see a few of the grandfather clocks, but none of them were the ones he was looking for.
Fortunately, students on the night tour always find surprises around the corner.
Our cute and quirky Peeves had a surprise encounter with Harry in a timely manner, and the startled Peeves ran away, although he had been screaming at Big Brother before, but who was Peeves, it was a forced and unwilling compromise.
Those who know the times are handsome, and Uncle Peev can bend and stretch, which is nothing.
But Peeves doesn't have the slightest idea of dealing with Harry a second time, this guy can catch him! This guy was the first bastard in Hogwarts history to take himself out of the sky with his bare hands! My mom has never done anything so excessive, wait, what? I was born and raised without a mother? Oh, that's fine.
"What are you running?"
Harry, who had swooped out for several meters, stepped on the wall and took advantage of the force, and directly knocked Peeves out of mid-air, he looked at Peeves with a smile, and said in a gentle and kind tone, "Aren't we good friends, Peeves?" ”
"Big brother!"
After learning two half-chicken crows, Peeves squeezed out a very bright and sunny smile and greeted Harry in a cheerful and uplifted tone.
"You're also basking in the moon, big brother, the moon is really round tonight, I know a good place for moonbathing, why don't I take you to take a look?"
"Don't be so nervous, Peeves, I'm not going to eat you again." Harry let go of his hand, and a thoughtful black hand helped Peeves straighten his crooked hat.
After being silently calmed down, Peeves really wasn't so nervous, but the inner eight shape he posed with his thighs was a bit like the toilet was blocked when frequent urination and urgency suddenly attacked.
"I'd like to ask you about something."
"No problem, wrap it up on me! I don't want to talk about Peeves, I'm familiar with this place at Hogwarts, and I don't know as much about those elves, and Hogwarts know-it-all is that I'm Peeves. Big. Belch. Big brother, you can ask casually. ”
"Hey, hey, hey." Peeves rubbed his hands together and spoke eagerly, and when he saw the satisfied smile on Harry's face, he cautiously asked, "Can you let your brother go home and sleep?" I'm just worried that his dark circles are so heavy, I need to make up for it, don't get tired. ”
Although he silently restrained the chaotic and evil will that made up his body, when he was silently touched, this pure dark power still made Peeves feel like he had entered an ice cave, and his heart was cold and flying from the inside out, and the little heart almost jumped out.
"Anyway, the dark circles under the eyes have spread all over the body, so it doesn't matter if you sleep or not." Harry glanced at his well-behaved and clever silence, Peeves is really a wonderful person, and the dark circles under his eyes are all out, "I'll just ask one thing, and I'll leave when I'm done." ”
"You say what you say, big brother you say." Peeves said impatiently, if he had hair, he would have been blown up into a hedgehog by now, and he didn't want to stay with a ghost like Mooran for a moment.
"I need you to help me find a place, at the end of a corridor with a grandfather clock, Hogwarts is so big, it will take me days or even a week to find them one by one, if you can help me, I promise he will go back to sleep."
Harry pointed to the silence who held Peeves in the palm of his hand, but after hearing this question, Peeves did not immediately jump up and lead the way, of course he knew Hogwarts very well, a thousand years was enough time for Peeves to find every corner of Hogwarts, but it was still a little difficult for Peeves to find the corresponding location immediately that Harry said.
"A hundred and two years ago, a Hufflepuff student named Setilares Scotty should have been there so many times, do you have an impression of him?"
"Uh, that's well???"
Peeves' eyes widened suddenly, and he looked straight at Harry, "How do you know that stupid ahem. I mean, the name of that handsome, personable, learned, humble and friendly gentleman? ”
Looking at Peeves' appearance, it is estimated that Setilariis played a lot of happy games with Peeves at the beginning, making him happy.
In front of that murderous senior, Harry is also as well-behaved as a good baby, but he is a real boss who was bloodstained when he debuted, suppressed the entire Forbidden Forest in a moment, and played games with Peeves, of course, it was much more exciting than now.
Harry just smiled at Peeves and didn't say much, just under the gaze of the smiling gaze, the Peeves who were jumping up like a fire with their butts on fire led the way in front of them, and they made their way through many corridors, climbed the stairs to the third floor of Hogwarts, and stopped at a remote corner.
"This is it, big brother."
Some fidgeting Peeves tugged at their clothes and smiled reluctantly, "If you're talking about that gentleman, this is the place." ”
Peeves pointed to the back of the wooden staircase around the corner, where a cabinet-like object loomed in the corner.
"Thanks, Peeves, I'll play with you when I'm free."
In the blink of an eye, Peeves had fled several meters away, and without looking back, it was as if some beast of prey was opening its mouth, intending to bite off his ass.
Although it was a little darker and there were no windows for the moonlight to let in, it was not gloomy at all, as if the broken grandfather clock was not covered with too much dust, and the regular cleaning of the elves kept the grandfather clock generally tidy.
The glass cover that held the hands of the clock was gone, or perhaps it hadn't been installed in the first place, and Harry had pulled the three hands to 12 o'clock, the 'end and beginning of the day'.
Looking downward, there are several slightly faded five-pointed stars arranged in a regular pattern, and in the center of the star map, there are also three hands of different lengths and thicknesses.
"Ten fifty-five sharp?" Harry fiddled with the pointer, "Looks like the senior isn't a riddler who likes to leave people with difficult questions, that's awesome." ”
As the upper and lower sets of hands came to the correct position, the originally motionless gears began to bite and rotate at this moment, and the sound of the door lock popping open came out, but after two or three seconds, the floor clock popped open the lid, revealing a wooden door hidden behind the precision gears.
Harry was a little nervous, he didn't know what kind of secret was hidden behind the door, but just as he was about to reach out, a few strands of black and silver handwriting appeared on the wooden door, it was a magical text, it was exactly the same color as Harry had seen it in the Forbidden Forest.
"Knock three times and push in from the other side of the doorknob."
After reading out this magical message that ordinary wizards couldn't see at all, Harry finally understood why the senior wasn't worried that the fat monk was looking for the wrong person, as long as he couldn't see the magic of the awakened and didn't open the door in the right way, maybe the room behind the door would be different.
But instead of acting immediately, Harry took a few steps back, and let Silent Ran step forward, knocking lightly on the door three times, pushing the door inward from where it should have been a wooden door looseleaf.
"Fluorescent flickering."
A ball of light flew in, illuminating the space behind the wooden door, silently pushing the door of the secret room open completely, and then stepped inside.
No wonder Harry was a little too cautious, the senior was a ruthless character who killed people without blinking, although it was true that the people he killed were not good things, but in the history of the wizarding world, he was more or less an excellent executioner, and his mother Lily seemed to know something about Setilares Scottie, but Lily didn't like him, at least not very much about some of his actions.
The ghost knows if this guy will dig a hole for the latecomers, the small group of awakened wizards has never said 'kissing a family', they are also human, but in some aspects they will show a special 'extreme', and the magic of the awakened people with different tendencies of each person is a very good proof of this.
Harry didn't doubt that Lily had found some of the records left by Setilaris when she was at Hogwarts, perhaps because of this, Lily on the good side of Order was very displeased with Setilaris on the evil side of Order, but if Lily knew that her son was a chaotic evil, it was estimated that dozens of rattan sticks would have to be broken.
Harry is really fighting for her, and she can accomplish the feat of leaving a name in history with hard work, but according to the chaotic and evil nature, it is likely that the name of the history will become a pleasing and stinking for 10,000 years.
But Harry didn't want to be a serious good guy in his life, good guys are easy to be bullied, and being a bad guy, as long as you're the worst, then no wicked person can grind you.
The pathfinder silently probed around the room carefully, there were no traps, no mechanisms, and it was a big empty room with no decoration.
Harry, who had put down his snack slightly, came out of the room silently, and then turned into a pitch-black cloak that encased his body firmly, and he stepped through the wooden door into the empty room.
But what he saw was completely different from the scene he saw silently.
One of the walls of the room, which seemed to be made of crystal, reflected Harry's body, and in the middle of the empty house, a black and silver vortex slowly expanded outward.
It's a familiar scene.
(End of chapter)