[HP] Being a problem student at Hogwarts

"It's none of your business, Mug." Malfoy said in a embarrassed but arrogant tone, a strange smile gradually appeared on his pale face.

"But even if I say this, you won't believe it, will you?" He changed to a tone that pretended to be friendly, but it was obviously a very poor imitation.

"You Gryffindors are always overly curious and like to stick your noses everywhere to sniff out other people's privacy..." Malfoy said, "I would like to advise you to mind your own business."

But he almost had "Come and find out what secrets I have" written all over his face.

"...a less successful provocation, Master Malfoy." Tom teased.

Malfoy's face turned pink. He gave Tom a stern look and scampered down the stairs.

Tom watched his back disappear and slowly walked to the corridor where Malfoy had just rushed out.

The corridor was empty. Tom took out his wand and whispered: "The trace appears."

Then thin shadow-like black smoke appeared one after another. Tom walked along and stopped near a tapestry of a huge troll beating Barnabas stupidly.

A moth-eaten troll stopped beating the ballet teacher and turned to stare at him.

Magic showed that Malfoy's traces stopped here. But there seems to be nothing in this area.

Look at Malfoy's smoldering look. He can't just sneak over to find a date with some Gryffindor girl, and then justifiably anger her with his emotional intelligence, and be beaten to pieces by her. Protective accessories?

Then there is no explanation for the dragon leather gloves on his hands.

Besides, there's no one here.

Is there some secret room or secret passage?

Tom cautiously lifted the tapestry with his wand and found a white wall behind it.

Turning around again, I saw an empty white wall on the opposite side.

"Strange," thought Tom.

He tried to read the memory of the portrait - he also had a sudden idea - and found that after struggling to break through a protective film (he guessed it was the resistance of the world in the painting itself), he almost fell into a bottomless world. In the darkness, he finally stabilized on a small shimmering fragment.

This was the first time he practiced the memory magic that Lockhart "transmitted" to him. The other party's method of casting the spell itself was not considered mainstream, and he chose to cast it on a portrait on a tapestry out of the norm, so that he I don't know if the current situation is normal.

He first tried to sense it, and found that he could escape at any time, so he relaxed a little and was able to take a closer look at this strange little world.

The main color is black, so dark that you can't see the top. There is a sense of danger below, and something bad will happen if you fall in. There were some tiny shimmering fragments scattered in the darkness. I sensed the fragments under my feet, and probably had the vague idea of ​​"waving the stick". There was a thin line of light partially connected between the fragments. Tom stretched out his feet to test it, and the light-condensed line and the fragments at both ends immediately shook unbearably. .seven

It seems we can't go this way.

Tom thought for a moment, pulled away, used what was probably a mutated version of Legilimency again, and fell into that small world again. This time, as he expected, he landed on another piece of debris.

This fragment was even smaller, and after a quick glance at it—"hit"—Tom had to quit because he couldn't stand still.

It seems that resistance to memory reading, in addition to Occlumency, can also rely on low IQ. Tom looked at the portrait of the troll and smiled bitterly.

Of course, it may also be because the object of his spell is not a real living creature, but just a magical portrait. At present, it seems that the movement of the portrait may be just a behavioral pattern set during the painting. Those vivid portraits, maybe because the behavioral patterns are more complex and complete? Or even have certain learning ability?

Well, maybe there is a special memory storage location for such a portrait, but obviously it is difficult to gradually detect and find this portrait.

So choosing this theme to hang the portrait here is also a confidentiality measure? After all, who could let a giant monster act as eyes?

Tom retracted his divergent thinking and checked the area several times using various magic spells, but he still couldn't find the secret room or secret passage he expected.

The only thing that was certain was that there must be something wrong with Malfoy appearing here so awkwardly.

Tom hesitated, pointed at the corner of the tapestry with his wand, and whispered: "Detective Eye."

This was one of the results after he vowed to reform the detection spell last school year. It can detect and record the general fluctuations of magic power in the surroundings. The disadvantage is that the magic power consumption is not low, but the duration is not very long. It takes a few days to come in person. Make up for it once, and remember to collect the data before the magic effect completely dissipates. If you arrive late, it will be in vain.

A small, round eye pattern appeared on the tapestry. Tom looked at it for a while, then waved his wand to modify the pattern on the edge of the tapestry to make the eye less obtrusive.

"Okay," he muttered, "let's see what Malfoy is up to..."

He walked away unsatisfied, thinking that one day he should ask Lockhart how he did those photos that he wished he could walk everywhere. They were both eyes and ears and could assist in casting spells. How did he do it?

Maybe a Christmas gift would be a good excuse... Well, thanks to the cheeky mentor for the personal demonstration.