Hogwarts, first floor women's bathroom.

The girl with long blond hair walked out of the cubicle and whispered in annoyance:

"Where the hell did she go?"

She and Harley searched for Hermione all day, from the Astronomy Tower to the basement, but they couldn't find Hermione. Hallie also asks a Gryffindor girl to look for her in the Gryffindor common room, but finds nothing.

"I hope Ash has news......"

Kassandra muttered quietly, turned off the faucet at the sink, and turned to leave the bathroom.

She had to meet up with Harley and Ash and find Hermione before curfew.

As she thought about it, Kassandra suddenly smelled a disgusting stench, just as she wondered if someone hadn't flushed the toilet. She saw a pair of thick, flat, cocooned huge paws!

The girl subconsciously looked up along the short legs as thick as a tree stump, and a behemoth was blocking the entrance to the bathroom.

It was twelve feet tall, with a small head like a cocoa bean on top of its massive body, a stupid expression like retardation on its face, and its dull, rough skin was covered in disgusting pustules and scabies, and the disgusting stench emanated from it!

It carried a stick as thick as its arm, and with a low grunt from its mouth, it approached Kassandra step by step.

Kassandra's breath froze, as she recognized it as a troll.

A troll that may be stupid, but definitely the nightmare of most wizards!

Fear instantly gained the upper hand, making the girl's body tremble uncontrollably and retreat step by step.

Until her back was against the wall, she couldn't retreat.

"Monster, I'm not afraid of your ......"

Kassandra trembled and pulled out her wand, trying to recall in her mind the spell that would defeat the troll.

"Locomotor Mortis (Leg stiff and dead!) ）”

The girl's voice trembled as she waved her wand at the troll's legs, trying to lock the troll's legs and make it fall. That way, she might have a chance to escape from the bathroom.

However, when the spell touched the troll's legs, it failed to lock the troll's legs, or even slow it down.

The troll's high magic resistance is enough to make most spells ineffective against it!

The troll approached the corner girl with heavy steps, smashing the pool to pieces with its raised arms, roaring and waving its sticks at Kassandra!

But just when the girl was completely in despair, she suddenly heard a familiar voice from behind the troll:

"Glacius!"

The troll's movements suddenly stopped, and everything on its body, from the soles of its feet to the size of Pea's head, to its raised arms and the wooden sticks in its hands, was covered in a thick layer of ice crystals, like a specimen that had just been dug up from the Arctic ice.

"Kassandra, come here!"

Kassandra was still stunned when the girl's anxious cries were heard in her ears again.

She looked beyond the troll to see Harley and Ash standing at the entrance to the bathroom. Kassandra gritted her teeth and passed through the frozen troll's feet, but just as she was about to make her way through the troll, she caught a glimpse of what seemed to move the troll's arm.

Click!

The ice crystals on the troll's body suddenly burst into countless tiny debris, and the magic didn't hold it for long.

But at this time, Kassandra was completely unable to think, and she could only continue to run forward.

Seeing that its prey was about to slip out from under its nose, the troll roared and smashed down on Kassandra with its stick.

“Accio！”

In the moment of crisis, Ash did not hesitate to wave his wand at Kassandra.

The next moment, Kassandra's body suddenly lost control, and was pulled by a magical force and flew towards Ash's arms.

Bang!

The wooden stick slammed down, smashing the row of cubicles connecting the toilet and the water pipe in front of him, and the uncontrollable water column burst out of the ruptured water pipe, washing over the troll's body.

The troll's stupid body attempted to turn around in the cramped bathroom and re-attack the three of them.

At this moment, Harley suddenly took out a small bottle from her cloak, which was the imitation of Thunder Brew that Ash had given her!

Syllable!

The bottle shattered the moment it hit the troll, and purple potion splattered out, causing a dark cloud to quickly coalesce above the troll's head. Before the troll could finish turning around, a bolt of lightning that was almost as thick as the troll's body and up to a meter in diameter suddenly fell from mid-air!

Bang!

The lightning almost completely enveloped the troll, and with a deafening thud, the granite-like gray skin of the troll was scorched black, and the troll itself was completely stunned by the attack, and it suddenly fell headlong in the direction of Ash and the three, smashing the floor in the muffled sound.

Vomit!

But the troll wasn't dead, it only took two seconds for it to make a retching sound, shake its head and try to get up from the ground.

“Diffindo！”

Ash waved his wand again, and an invisible blade of wind slashed across the troll's charred head, slicing a bloody scar on the troll's neck, nearly slicing off the troll's head entirely!

The troll's massive body fell with a thud again, and the pee-sized head fell to the ground with only the flesh on the other side still attached to the body—a scene that reminded Harley of Nick, who had almost lost his head, and how he had died.

Ash put away his wand, felt the stiff body of the girl in his arms, and gently comforted:

"Cry if you want to, it's fine."

"I won't cry!" Kassandra raised her face and tried to stubbornly refute Al-Permission's remarks. But whether it was the crystalline condensation in her eyes or the slightly trembling cry, it all revealed her state of mind at this time.

She hugged Ash tightly, as if only Ash's warm embrace could bring her a rare sense of security.

Ash caressed the girl's back, soothing her uneasy mood in this way.

He'd already spotted the troll, and he could have killed it before it reached the bathroom. But if Ash had killed the trolls early instead of arriving 'in time', it wouldn't have had such a significant effect.

After all, the so-called suspension bridge effect is to make people worry about the crumbling fall of the suspension bridge, so that the other party's heart can beat faster, and only then can the other party take the initiative to give him a hug.

Although the plot of the hero saving the beauty is old-fashioned, it is useful!

The only question now is, where is Hermione?

“Revelio！”

Ash waved his wand again, allowing the invisible magic to penetrate the walls and search the corners of the castle.

The professors were on the stairs in the basement, following the muddy footprints left by the trolls, and there were two red targets on the fourth floor. Other than that, the castle was empty, and even the ghosts were hiding.

However, according to Halle and Kassandra, they asked the Gryffindor students to look for Hermione in the common room, but found nothing.

But if Hermione wasn't in the Gryffindor common room, where else could she be?

Or is she not at the castle at all?

Suddenly, Ash thought of something, and his eyes were a little subtle.

Although Sherlock Holmes said that if all impossible situations are excluded, the rest is no matter how implausible it is, that is true.

But, not so much, right?