harleyscars Chapter 108 Under the Trapdoor (How much do you think 7K7 is suitable for 1?)
Chapter 108 Under the Trapdoor (How much do you think 7K7 is suitable for 1?)
Chapter 108 Under the Trapdoor
After nightfall, the common room was still full of people, and Ron, Harry, and Hermione walked out without much concealment. Everyone's eyes were on the chessboard, and no one paid attention at all.
Lukesi took the lead without hesitation. Although the three of them who are already familiar with the school don't need to lead the way, Lukexi still has a big role to play.
Mrs. Norris, as Filch's eyes and ears, haunts Hogwarts like a ghost, and now Luke, who has grown into a big cat,
He is almost one meter long now, like a little leopard. Although Mrs. Norris has experienced many battles and walked among the little (xiong) witches (hai) and masters (zi) unscathed, but physically The gap caused Mrs. Norris to be crushed in all directions, and Luke once again stood at the pinnacle of the Hogwarts pet world.
Not long after they went downstairs, Luke jumped out with a 'crash', and within a few seconds, a hoarse howl of ghosts and wolves began, and Mrs. Norris, who was kicked and beaten by Luke Jumped onto the wall, kicked the armor, crooked the portrait, and ran wildly.
'You don't talk about meow!When will Meow Meow grow so big!You, you, you, stay away from me~'
However, Mrs. Norris' resentment had no effect on Lukexi. He licked his paws, restrained his coldness, and then returned to the front of the three of them lightly, continuing to walk in the forefront.
But tonight is destined to be an uneasy night. Not long after Mrs. Norris left, Peeves once again blocked a corner. In the silent campus corridor, Peeves muttered full of resentment. Spread far and wide.
"I've got a balloon and a big shit egg."
"Hey, balloon poop."
"Fill it with water and shake it."
"Hey~ water polo big dung big bomb."
"The witty and clever Peeves is lurking at the door of the Gryffindor lounge."
"He waited for Weasley!"
"Bang~"
"Bahahahaha~"
"There are many obstacles,"
"Grandpa! Don't want it! Grandpa! The little one is wrong! It's really wrong!"
"wrong?"
"Wrong wrong! I was wrong! Peeves was wrong!"
"What's wrong?"
"do not know."
"Oh, let's go then."
Ron rounded his wand, and hit Peeves with a stick.
"Bang~ bang~ bang~ bang~"
Peeves frantically catapulted around in the corridor, and in the blink of an eye, he disappeared in the long corridor, only a lingering shout followed him away:
"I~yi~definite~will~back~come~"
"Cool~" Although it's not the first time I've seen it, every time I see Ron kick Peeves Harry, I feel very relieved. He was hit on the head by Peeves in an unfortunate attack. Something that is not right is still fresh in my memory.
"If only I could be like you, but I'm afraid my wand will break right away."
"Not only that, you also need to learn how to release the magic power, otherwise you won't be able to hit him, Peeves can only be touched by the magic power, and you have to be strong enough to pull him in mid-air and can't transform into a ghost form."
"It's useless to learn." Harry looked at Ron's arm, then at his own arm, and then decisively gave up the idea.
"Won't Peeves go to sue? We should put on the invisibility cloak." Hermione reminded with a little worry. She and Harry walked behind without being spotted, but Ron must have been seen.
"Play a few more times and be honest. Peeves is smart. Last time he went to sue Filch, he played bludger with me all night after that."
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A few minutes later, they came out of the corridor on the fourth floor, and the door of Lu Wei's room was slightly opened.
"Look, it looks like the guy has gone in."
As soon as Ron finished speaking, Luxy rushed into the room with a 'squeak'. After a burst of "Wow~" and "Wow~Wow~", Luxy poked out the little girl from behind the door. Head, he waved his claws at the three of them, as if he had already got Lu Wei done.
Opening the familiar thick wooden door, Lu Wei stood in the room energetically, but after seeing the trio, Lu Wei didn't yell, but he still didn't get out of the way. within his guardianship.
"I need music now, right? It seems that the person who sent the Hagrid eggs was really to pass Lu Wei."
At the door of Lu Wei's room, a harp is placed there. Unfortunately, the current harp does not play music, and they do not plan to use what the predecessors left behind. magic.
"Lukexi, then I will work hard on you."
"Whoah??"
Luke turned around in a little confusion, and then he saw his master's wand pointing at him.
???
Now even Lu Wei was stunned, his huge dog head moved forward, and then sniffed Luke who suddenly turned into a brass instrument?
"That. Ron"
Harry tugged at Ron's robes, then pulled out a fine but rough flute from his pocket.
"Hagrid gave me this for Christmas, without turning Luxie into what is this?"
"Harry, look at Fluffy, he's so big, how useful is your flute? What if he can't hear?"
"What's more, everything has changed, so let's try it out. I even practiced it specially, and the magic is good. Even if you don't know how to play it, as long as you know the tune in your heart, you can let it move by itself."
Lukexi's changing instrument floated up, and Lu Wei's eyes followed the strange brass-colored instrument.
(Here is the original song title and the .100% restored B station version, it is recommended to watch while listening.)
Just listen to this sound!
Lu Wei shuddered all over!
As a dog who listens to Hagrid's lullaby to sleep, Lu Wei's perception of music is actually different from that of normal dogs. Think about Hagrid's loud voice, how gentle can it be?
Lu Wei's sleepiness when listening to music is not because Hagrid's lullaby hypnotizes him, but as long as he hears "gentle" songs other than Hagrid's lullaby, he becomes sleepy.
To put it simply, Harry, who doesn't know how to play the flute at all, is more gentle than Hagrid's lullaby while playing the flute. Dreamland.
And this song gave Lu Wei another kind of shock!
"Aww~owwow~"
The big dog with three heads started to shake its head, and the dog that got up in an instant turned its buttocks and shook its head. It didn't mean to be sleepy at all, but it didn't have the slightest thought of attacking Ron and the others.
First, there was Lukexi, and then there was the flute that smelled like Hagrid. Lu Wei, who had a high sense of intimacy, completely let go of himself after hearing this sound.
However, shaking his head and shaking his head, it seemed that he was shaking too much. The three heads began to collide unceasingly. With a muffled sound like pushing a golden mountain and falling jade pillars, Lu Wei's three heads tilted, and there was a loud sound. There was a snoring sound, and the snot bigger than a human head bubbled up and down. This guy slept so soundly, as if he was sent away.
"Meow meow meow?"
Lukexi, who had changed back to the original, trembled all over, and he looked at his master in horror!
'Meow meow meow!Meow meow meow! '
"How does that count as doing something weird to your body?"
Ron smiled and rubbed Lukexi's little head, "This is adding a new function for you. Look, how powerful you are, Lu Wei has been brought down by you."
"Whoah???"
Lukexi looked at Ron dubiously, and then smashed Lu Wei's big snot bubble with his paws. The dog turned over in his dream, and he was pulling blindly with his feet on his back. He didn't know what he dreamed of, but he always felt It was like running away, and the resistance was a little fierce.
"Forget it, let's go down first while Lu Wei is having a beautiful, uh, nightmare. I'm afraid he will wake up and get angry, and he will be in trouble if he can't be comforted later."
Seeing the intensified struggle, Ron hurriedly opened the trap door, and the deep emptiness suddenly made people feel uneasy. Humans do have a natural fear of the unknown. (Harry is quite brave in the original book! Ron actually asked Hermione if she would be the first to go down.)
"You two don't look in there."
Ron's eyes also left the hole, he took out his wand and pointed down: "Luminescence!"
A white beam of light gushed out from the trapdoor, Ron slowly adjusted the brightness, and glanced inside after it was less dazzling.
"Oh! This is scarier than when there is no light!"
Below the trapdoor is an extremely large 'underground world'. As far as the entrance of the trapdoor is concerned, it is at least hundreds or even thousands of feet long. The ball of light thrown to the bottom is about the same size as the trapdoor, but now It's about the size of a postage stamp.
"The dark vines below are the devil's net? Harry, come and have a look, you have good eyes."
Hearing this, Harry lay on the edge of the trapdoor, and then took a closer look!
"That's right! We should have brought Neville here, he's very good at dealing with these plants."
Although the freshmen in the first grade would not come into contact with this dangerous plant, they had Neville. Under their encouragement, Neville told everyone how he tamed the devil's net with methods other than flames.
But that kind of miraculous operation is not magical at all, and this method based on feeling is not something normal people can do at all. Therefore, Neville also received a 'Grass Whisperer' card made by Fred and George. The badge and the big crown were so shiny and dazzling, but Neville happily put them away and hid them in the suitcase like a treasure.
"Scared?" Ron asked.
"good."
Harry, who is used to high altitudes, was a little stunned at this altitude, but it was not that he had not flown that high. The performance of the Nimbus 2001 was enough for him to fly to an altitude of [-] meters where the air was thin, and it could even be a little more outrageous. He didn't intend to continue trying. There were many ways to die, but falling to death was definitely not the first choice.
"I'm a little weak-legged."
If it was pitch black, Hermione could still grit her teeth and jump down, but seeing this, the feeling would be even more terrifying. After all, she was still a girl.
"With me, let's go."
Ron gave Harry a look, then threw Luxe into Hermione's arms, took her a step forward, and stepped into the trapdoor, followed by Harry, he stepped in too.
When falling at a high speed, the cold and humid air of the underground world passed by his ears rapidly. Ron felt that his arm was about to be pinched by Hermione, but the feeling brought by such a rapid fall was still extremely exciting.
Ron even turned around and gave Harry a high-five in the middle of the fall. The two had an indescribable love for such a super exciting fall.
"Floating into the sky!"
Although he knew that there must be the magic arranged by the professors to prevent direct falling to death, as well as the buffer of the devil's net, but seeing Hermione's pale face, Ron still planned to give her some comfort.
Under the effect of the super-wide-range floating spell, the three people and one cat who had been falling rapidly braked in the air smoothly, and then fell lightly into the devil's net.
Before these tentacles came up to play, a ball of flames ignited from Ron's hands. He made great progress in casting spells without a wand, especially fire magic. He didn't even need to chant spells, but the only drawback That is, it is still impossible to directly go out of BIU, and his control over the magic power needs to be strengthened.
This warm flame was not the white light just now. The high temperature emitted by the flame caused the devil's net to flee in all directions, and they hurriedly pulled away the branches to expose the ground below.
A long stone passage is the only way forward here. The thick stone slabs have an ancient and heavy feeling. It seems that this place is older than the time experienced by the castle, but there are no clues or traces, and it is impossible to judge this feeling. Is it true.
The sound of ticking water accompanied the footsteps of the three, and the slight tension caused the three to slow down.
But after walking for a while, they stopped and listened.
Some soft rustling and clanging sounds came from the front of the corridor, which were faint and unreal.
"Could it be a ghost?"
"I feel a bit like the sound of wings flapping, similar to the sound of the golden snitch."
"Go and have a look, there is a light ahead."
Ron lowered the intensity of the lighting spell again, and the yellowish light in front of him became more conspicuous at this moment.
They came to the end of the corridor, and before them was a brightly lit room with a high vaulted ceiling, and countless small birds, shining like jewels, fluttered here and there with their wings.
There is a thick wooden door in the room facing the corridor.
"Professor Flitwick's level, the unimaginable levitation spell, he even incorporated a bit of the concept of transfiguration into it, which is too exaggerated, it's the first time I've seen it! This is compound magic!"
Ron looked at these little birds and couldn't stop clicking their tongues. They were not real birds, but a group of metal keys with wings flying randomly in the sky, but they were orderly.
In the magic world, it is not particularly difficult to turn dead objects into living birds and fly in the sky. Any talented wizard can do it after learning the transfiguration technique, but the more powerful people can make the transfiguration It lasts longer, and eternal deformation does not exist at all, unless you have something out of specification as an auxiliary.
"Then we are going to catch them now?"
After entering the room, Harry looked up at the flying keys.
"Do you use a broom?"
He pointed to the broken broom that had been thrown aside with a forked tail and opened his mouth.
"I feel like this was designed just for me?"
A feeling of being arranged spontaneously arose, but thinking that this was a place for young wizards to explore, Harry also extinguished the subtle feeling of the Destiny's Child.
He is not the only one who can fly well at Hogwarts. If Ron becomes a Seeker, he will probably be laid off. Like an orangutan with wings, so nimble that Harry would be ashamed.
"We are wizards." Ron touched his chin and said, "What is the essence of magic, have you ever thought about it?"
"The nature of magic?"
Harry and Hermione looked at each other, a little confused.
"Changing reality?"
"May all your wishes come true?"
"No, neither." Ron had no idea of riding a broom to find the key at all. "The essence of magic is to make wizards lazy."
"so"
"There are many obstacles!"
Those flying keys suddenly froze, and even the flapping of their wings seemed to be slowed down.
"Wow, Professor Flitwick's magic strength is really high!"
"Then."
"There are many obstacles! There are many obstacles!"
Under the superimposition of three consecutive obstacle spells, the flying keys couldn't even do the most basic movement, and were frozen in the sky as if they were frozen. This hindering force beyond their ability to move directly sealed all their movements.
"It should be this one!" Ron pointed to a large key with a broken wing, which was particularly conspicuous.
"It seems that Professor Flitwick's level did not stop that person."
"That's right, these are prepared for little wizards like us, how difficult can it be?"
"One is Professor Sprout's Devil's Net, and the other is Professor Flitwick's Levitation Curse. These are the foundations of the foundation. Believe it now, Dumbledore must have created this place to provide students with a The opportunity for a big adventure, he only said at the time, don’t come if you are afraid of death, not that if you go in, you will be deducted.”
Ron squeezed the big key into the lock hole of the wooden door, and with a light click, the lock of the wooden door popped open, and the old key flew away tremblingly, apparently in a short time Nai was caught twice, his body a little overwhelmed by the passionate caress.
"I think Professor Flitwick needs to adjust the difficulty, but he probably won't have the chance to play this kind of secret room in the future. He should add a copy spell and a fire spell to the key. If we grab the wrong key and touch something we shouldn't touch, we can Saw a half-baked man buried in a pile of keys."
"Please be human Ron"
Harry wiped the sweat from his brow, he could already imagine the tragic scene just by listening to it, that was not deciphering, but naked murder.
"Let's go, let's go to the next level, which should be the level set by other professors."
After passing through the big wooden door, there was a dark room in front of them, but before they could use the light spell to illuminate it, the room suddenly lit up, illuminating a magnificent scene.
What appeared in front of them was a super-large chessboard the size of two football fields, but it was not a Heroes of Might and Magic card board, but a black and white checkered chessboard of Wizard Chess.
The layout here was before the start of school, and there were no card games at that time, and even if Professor McGonagall wanted to change
Remember 8:0?professor.
The black and white two-color chess pieces are bigger than people. Whether they are black or white, they are all made of solid stones. The chess pieces have no facial features. Their empty faces are staring at each other blankly, as if they are waiting With the beginning of a fight.
"What should we do now?" Harry asked in distress. He was good at playing cards, but forget about playing wizard chess. This thing is not fun, and he has never touched it at all.
"There is a door behind the white chess piece. We should need to complete this chess game to pass the level."
Hermione pointed to the distance, she frowned slightly and said: "Although I have never played Wizard Chess, the rules are similar to Muggle Chess, I think."
"Who are we? Have you forgotten?"
Ron pulled them onto the chessboard involuntarily, and then came to the side of the black square knight.
"What kind of knight are you?"
Ron kicked the knight on the horse and fell off the horse. Luke jumped on the horse's head and stretched his body like a pre-match activity.
"Give me your hand, and you two come up too."
Ron went up second, and then pulled Harry and Hermione up as well. The knight without the horse was still dumbfounded. He got up from the ground, and remained silent on the spot rather at a loss.
"By the way, lend me your lance, too."
Ron leaned over and reached out to grab the knight's lance, which made him even more confused.
"We are the Sun Knights!"
Knights do not die with their bare hands!
This requisitioned lance turned into Ron's weapon.
A knight doesn't die without a mount either!
The whole series of riding proficiency instantly took away the right to use the stone horse activated by the transformation technique, and then it was also given a layer of buff like the lance.
"Hold on tight, lean over, and let me do the rest."
Ron patted the big stone horse, and its four hooves stepped on the chessboard, making a series of "dang dang dang" crisp sounds.
"The fire has gradually extinguished, but the king's shadow is nowhere to be seen on the throne!
When the flame of inheritance is extinguished;
Bells ring around;
The ashes of immortality will rise from the coffin;
O ancient salary king!
Be the firewood again and burn!
I."
"Ron! Ron!" Harry patted Ron's shoulder who was speaking incomprehensibly, "What's wrong with you?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I suddenly thought of the 3.0 expansion pack that we haven't released yet. What do you think of this paragraph as a promotional word? The 3.0 version of Dark Soul must be a big hit!"
"Okay, so now—"
Ron clamped down on his lance, aiming at Baizi's king and queen.
"When the sun's rays once again illuminate the sky—"
"Sun Knight!"
"charge!"
Ron held the reins of the stone, and the movement of the black stone horse under him made the rules set by Professor McGonagall fall into some kind of bug. She never thought that there would be a little wizard, right? The ownership was taken away, the white chess pieces were stunned, and then rushed over in a swarm, while the other black chess pieces remained motionless.
it's fine.
The lance that was brandished deflected all the attacks, the knight on the black horse smashed the pieces in front of him, and the lance thrusting forward with the horsepower pierced the hearts of the white queen and the king in an instant, knocking them off the throne It shattered and rolled onto the black and white chessboard.
Immediately, the white pawns that lost their king and queen immediately froze, and then they stepped aside one after another, giving them a passage to the portal.
"It's simple, right?"
After driving the black horse to the door, Ron got off his horse and caught Harry and Hermione.
But when they opened the door and walked in, a pungent stench swept over them again.
Here is the level designed by Quirrell!
This garlic guy put a troll in here!
"The whirlwind sweeps away!"
The stench disappeared, leaving only the unconscious giant lying on the ground alone with a big bag on his head.
"Is Quirrell the son of a troll? Why do you like this stinky thing so much? It's disgusting."
They spat at the troll and walked through the side door.
As soon as they walked through this door, two walls of fire rose up at this moment, blocking their way forward and their way out.
A table with seven bottles was placed in the room, and the three of them looked at each other and took a few steps closer to the table.
"Snape's level."
"Obvious."
Besides the seven vials, there was a piece of parchment on the table. Hermione reached out and picked it up and read softly: (This is parchment)
"Fantastic."
Hermione let out a long breath, and she smiled brightly.
"It's not magic, it's a logical deduction—a puzzle. Many great wizards don't have the slightest ability to logical deduction. After all, there are no detective novels in the wizarding world, and these things are rarely used, and schools don't teach them. "
"If they can't solve it, there is a high probability that they will be trapped here. If there is no way to bypass this magic flame, then it must be so."
"It is."
"Snape's riddle is a bit easier though, as I suppose it should be."
Ron took out a Gallon from his pocket and transformed it into a carving knife, then he used it to write on the table, and handed over the task of solving the puzzle to Hermione.
'Just ask: If your wife asks you, if she falls into the water with your mother, who do you save? '
Then he engraved two bottles on it, which seemed to be an alternative problem and made Harry's scalp tingle.
"How to choose this, this, this, Ron?"
"It's not an option, is it?"
"If you choose one of the two, you can only gamble on luck!"
Harry frowned and had no idea how to solve the problem. Although he didn't have a wife or even a girlfriend, he could understand the sinisterness of this proposition.
"You're too young Harry."
Ron patted Harry on the shoulder.
"If you drink it with luck, you will die 100%, no matter which bottle you drink."
Ron leaned down and wrote the answer below, then covered it up with a flawed magic.
"If your wife asks you this question, is she still necessary? If it affects your child's IQ and EQ, then you will regret it for the rest of your life. You can't marry that kind of woman, no matter how beautiful she is."
"So you're going to throw your wife's bottle into the fire, and then sprinkle the potion from your mother's bottle on you, because that kind of troublemaker will only hurt you, and your mother will protect you, right?"
"You don't have to drink the potion. Both bottles are poison, but the effect is different depending on how you use it."
"Oh!!!"
Harry nodded suddenly, as if there was nothing wrong with what he said.
"But please be human. It's too scary, Ron, the people who come here are all children."
"That's not necessarily true, you forgot the man in black?"
"I figured it out!"
At this moment, Hermione also finished interpreting the puzzle, and she clapped her hands happily, letting the two of them look over.
"Seven bottles, three are poison, two are wine, and the remaining one allows you to safely pass through the black flames in front, and the other one allows you to return through the purple flames in the rear."
"The smallest bottle can help us pass through the black flame!"
Hermione held up the inconspicuous little bottle, which contained not enough potion for a mouthful.
"So... who's going there now?"
Ron took the vial and shook it in his hand.
Hermione and Harry swallowed.
"Leave it to Stone Gate of Destiny to make the choice."
"Now is not the time for poker Ron"
Interrupted by this, the original tense atmosphere disappeared a lot.
"Maybe enough for the two of us."
Ron changed the carving knife in his hand back to Garen, and then turned it into a small bottle again, and evened out a little bit of the potion that passed through the black fire.
"However. Before that, I need to confirm one thing."
"Fox."
As soon as the words fell, the phoenix followed the flames and came to them.
"It's not unexpected, let's go Harry, this time you go first, maybe you can meet someone, you have been holding back for ten years, I think you need to vent, at least to make yourself more comfortable."
"Go ahead, I'll be there soon."
(End of this chapter)