days at Hogwarts

Chapter 208 Action, sneaking into the Slytherin common room

The depression that was the nest of the acromantula was a mess, except for the painful groans of some spiders, only the cold wind mixed with ice and snow was blowing.

Most of the spiders were beaten to the point of losing their combat effectiveness, and the remaining spiders were frightened by Loren's strength and dared not approach.

"Damn it, they actually want to eat us!" Ron gritted his teeth and looked at the acromantula with missing arms and legs, feeling that spiders seemed less scary.

The acromantula standing next to Aragog huddled together, trembling.Although he couldn't see it, Aragog seemed to hear the scene in front of him from the many groans. The white cloud covering his eyes became cloudy, and he let out a mournful neigh.

Hermione's eyes flickered with resentment, but she quickly settled down.If it wasn't for Loren being strong enough, they would not only lack limbs, but bones.

In the Forbidden Forest, there is not only a group of giant spiders, but neither the unicorn group nor the centaur group will take the initiative to harm the little wizard.The acromantia ignored Hagrid's kindness, and this was what they deserved.

The high temperature of the explosion melted the snow in the depression, and the cold and hard soil absorbed enough water to become muddy and sticky.Harry trudged awkwardly through the mud to the acromantula, which was dying of old age.

The acromantula, who had been in charge of delivering the message by Aragog's side, backed away tremblingly, giving way to the position beside Aragog.

After thinking for a few minutes, Harry still couldn't understand: "Don't you want to save Hagrid?"

Aragog, who was as big as a small elephant, gasped feebly and made a suffocating sound. His horrifying appearance revealed some sadness: "Hagrid, Hagrid..."

It didn't answer Harry's question, and fell into deep memories: "I come from a far away country. When I was not hatched from an egg, a tourist gave me to Hagrid. Hagrid was a child at that time." , he took care of me, hid me in a cupboard in the castle, and fed me the crumbs that were sprinkled on the table. He regarded me as a friend, and he was a good man. Later, people found me and asked me to When he was responsible for the death of a girl, he protected me from his own insecurities. He helped me settle in the woods, visited me often, and even found me a wife - Mosag. You see, our group development flourished thanks to Hagrid's help."

Harry became even angrier, he growled in a low voice: "Then why don't you give us a clue to save Hagrid?"

"The basilisk is the natural enemy of the acromantia. If you human wizards drive the basilisk into the Forbidden Forest like you did to me, my group will die out."

Large teardrops oozed from Aragog's eight eyes and flowed into the spider's carapace. He didn't know whether to cry for the friendship between himself and Hagrid, or for the tragedy of the race.

"I'm getting old. I don't know how many winters I can survive. If Hagrid dies with me, I don't think it's a bad thing."

Harry roared, "Hagrid's not that old! He's got plenty of winters to live!"

He felt that he was holding his breath in his chest, wishing he could burn all these giant arachnids to ashes.

Aragog didn't refute, it gasped weakly, confirming what it said.It's old, and I don't know how many winters it can survive.

Their voices were not low, and Loren and the others could hear them on the other side of the depression.The three of them were blessed with the floating spell, avoiding the quagmire on the ground, and drifting unsteadily to Aragog's side.

Hermione looked at Aragog, Hagrid's acromander friend.After a long time, Hermione said in a deep voice: "I think Hagrid must have told you that you are not allowed to hurt any human beings. You are not worthy of being Hagrid's friend. You have none of the good qualities in him."

Aragog collapsed limply in the mud, not saying a word, only the sound of weak breathing proved that he was still alive.

Ron kicked it lightly: "Don't play dead, tell us the information, Hagrid is still waiting to come back for Christmas!"

Aragog didn't respond at all.

Harry and Ron gritted their teeth with hatred, but just let them kick, and Aragog fell silent.

Hermione's face slumped tightly, and she went up angrily and kicked her feet hard.

The carapace of the arthropod was kicked "bang bang", Aragog grunted twice, feeling that his brains were about to be kicked yellow.It doesn't know how many winters it can survive through normal aging, but if this little witch continues to kick it, it will definitely not survive today.

It couldn't stand it anymore, so it spit out weakly: "I won't say it, for the continuation of the group, I hope the basilisk will stay in the castle forever."

"How did Hagrid raise something like you, even Norbert is better than you!" Harry cursed angrily.

The snowflakes kept drifting, and the freshly melted snow showed signs of refreezing.Loren shivered, and he squatted down so that Aragog could hear his voice more clearly:

"The basilisk is much more dangerous than your acromanders. The unicorn colony and the centaur colony will not allow the basilisk to enter the Forbidden Forest. Dumbledore will also not leave a hidden danger to the little wizards. The meaning of this sentence You think for yourself. Besides, if you don’t say it, the group of acromantulas will die today.” With a wave of Loren’s magic wand, it blew up a thick giant tree that could only be surrounded by three people.

The tree trunks fell into the snow with a dull bang.

The sound was like thunder, blasting in Aragog's brain, making it tremble all over.

Aragog was also crying in his heart... Didn't they say that these are Hagrid's friends, shouldn't they be kind and brave Gryffindors?

First, it was the little witch who was punching and kicking to extract a confession, almost vomited bile from the beating.

And this wizard who threatened to exterminate the whole family if he didn't tell the clues, how could they be kind, how could they be like Hagrid's friends, how could they be like Gryffindor?

Loren's wand lightly tapped on Aragog's shell, and every time the solid wood and the carapace collided, the acromantula's heart trembled.

"Pipe! The basilisk moves through the pipe!" Aragog squeezed some strength from his broken body and shouted, "Although I have been staying in the basement, I have noticed its traces when the basilisk passed by a few times. .”

Harry showed joy, and suddenly realized: "No wonder I heard the voice of the basilisk several times, but I didn't find its trace. It has been hiding in the water pipe in the wall!"

Loren's wand continued to tap: "Any other clues?"

"No, no more." Aragog fought, "I gave you the clues, let my group go!"

Loren was a little hesitant. To be honest, he didn't really want to let these acromants go.He had no tolerance for cannibals, and he remembered that the acromantula had helped Voldemort in the end, but Aragog was so cooperative that it would be bad if he backtracked.

"Leave them alone."

Accompanied by the clatter of horseshoes, two centaurs walked out of the woods, Firenze with silver mane and Ronan with red mane.

"Firenzie! Ronan!" Harry exclaimed in surprise, they met last year in the Forbidden Forest, and it was the centaur who rescued him from Quirrell.

Ya Ya followed behind the two centaurs shaking his head, and rushed to Loren quickly, making mud marks all over his robe.Wang Wang kept barking.

Loren recognized that this was the rescuer it moved, and it was asking for credit and praise.

Firenze walked up to a few people with a few jumps, looked at them with twitching corners of his eyes, and looked at the miserable scene around him, his mood was very complicated.

After the huge noise of the explosion happened, they rushed over quickly, just in time to see the scene of several people extorting confessions.

To be honest, magic is very powerful, especially for young wizards of this age who can cast such powerful spells. Hogwarts' magic education is excellent.But then again, the moral education at Hogwarts seems to be a little bit wrong, with fists and feet tortured, threats of genocide...

Durmstrang, who is famous for his black magic, is not so outrageous...

Ronan wandered among the giant arachnids all over the ground for a while before coming over, and said inscrutablely, "Jupiter enlightens that proper dormancy is more conducive to the prosperity of the group."

Ron whispered to his little friend, "What do you mean?"

"These spiders have multiplied unscrupulously, and they have encroached on the living space of many other animals. In a few years, other animals will unite to completely exterminate these spiders. With your intervention, they will spit out some territory, and It can last for decades." Firenze explained.

"It's fine to just say that the following content is wrong, and it has to be related to the astrology." Ron complained to Harry in a low voice.

No one paid any heed to his complaints.

Hermione remembered what Dumbledore had left behind, and asked with bright eyes, "Did Dumbledore communicate with you in advance?"

Firenze nodded: "Dumbledore left a letter to our elders, saying that you may need help, and we happened to meet Fang when we rushed over."

Ronan asked hesitantly: "What happened in the castle, why did Dumbledore send you ponies to the Forbidden Forest?"

Harry thought that the centaur and Hagrid had a good relationship, so he told the truth about Hagrid's injustice and arrest.

"I told you before that Mars foretells strife..." Firenze stamped his hoof back and forth restlessly on the ground.

Ron curled his lips, and muttered, "Jupiter reveals, Mars heralds... what's going on with the other stars, did the stars say how to rescue Hagrid?"

Harry tugged at his sleeve to tell him to stop.

"Yes." Firenze heard it, and replied seriously, "The trajectory of the sun has deviated, and the world will undergo unprecedented changes."

Loren is very sensitive to words like the sun, so he immediately asked, "What change?"

Firenze spread his hands: "I don't know."

The four little wizards curled their lips at the same time, not knowing what you said.

Loren looked around and put away his wand: "Let's go back to school and check the basilisk. If you act fast, it will really bring Hagrid back for Christmas."

There is still about a week before Christmas, and he is more active in guiding, and he can hand in the task to Dumbledore in advance, so that he can have a good Christmas.

The centaurs escorted them all the way to the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

Firenze stopped and looked in the direction of the castle from a distance: "The rest of the road is up to you, little ponies."

Ronan walked around Harry and Ron a few times, looking at them with a serious face: "You guys keep that tin box, take it back as soon as possible, it rampages in the Forbidden Forest, never rests at night, Always yelling. The animals are getting sick of him."

"The Flying Car!" exclaimed Ron, incoherently delighted. "It hasn't been knocked apart... oh, that's great..."

"Don't worry, we will definitely take the Flying Car away after we finish dealing with the castle." Harry blushed a little, it was not a smart thing to drive a Flying Car to smash the Whomping Willow.

"Remember the revelation of the astrology!"

Before leaving, Loren entrusted Yaya to the centaurs and told them that when Hagrid came back, he would go directly to them to bring Yaya back.

Gryffindor common room.

Loren, Hermione, Harry, and Ron sat around the fireplace, the rising flames dispelling the chill they had brought from the forest.

"It is known that after the basilisk came out of the secret room, it wandered around the castle through the pipes. The location of the secret room is still unclear."

Hermione took out an empty candy box to represent the Chamber of Secrets, a licorice magic wand to represent the Basilisk, and placed two Bibi Beans in front of the Chamber of Secrets, "We have two suspects now, one is Malfoy, and one is Malfoy. It's Crabbe. It's also possible they're neither, and the heir is more hidden than we thought."

"In any case, we're going to enter the Slytherin common room and get some information from them. It's best to find out who the heir is, or get the location of the Chamber of Secrets." Hermione analyzed sternly.

"The Polyjuice Potion can be done before dinner, and it's easy for us to move since everyone else in the castle is gone. Besides, we need something for the person we're going to transform."

She looked at Harry and Ron, and said in a nonchalant tone, as if she were sending them off to the supermarket to buy some laundry, "If you can get anything from Crabbe and Goyle, that'd be great. They're Malfoy Best friend, very handy for us to extract information. We also need to make sure that when we interrogate Malfoy, the real Crabbe and Goyle don't get in."

After telling Harry and Ron, her eyes turned to Loren.

Loren took out two large bottles of Living Hell Potion from his pocket. In order to help the basilisk test its eyesight, he had stored a lot, and Snape had enough anyway.These two bottles were formulated by several members of the Potions Club in senior years. They are of high quality and have no unknown side effects.

"According to Hermione's plan, find a way to put the potion of living hell into the food of Crabbe and Goyle, and after they are unconscious, pull out a few hairs of both of them. Then stuff them into the broom."

"Oh, well, well." Harry thought back to his plan, "but Hermione, Loren, what about the two of you? Whose hair are you going to pull?"

Loren shook his head: "I won't become anyone, I will follow you invisibly to prevent accidents."

Of course he knew that Malfoy couldn't get any information out of him.But now the clues are almost clear, the sewer pipe, the bathroom, the scene of Myrtle's first murder... After Harry and Ron come back, with a little guidance by themselves, they will be able to determine the location of the secret room.

Why do you have to use compound decoction, of course it is to see the cat girl.

"I already have mine!" Hermione said happily, taking out a small bottle from her pocket, showing off a hair inside, "Remember the duel club event? Millicent fought me hand to hand, and I held her From her collar. She's home for Christmas, and I just have to tell Malfoy I've decided to come back."

"Pfft!" Loren couldn't hold back, and chuckled lightly.

Hermione looked at Loren suspiciously: "What are you laughing at?"

"I think of happy things..."

……

After dinner, Myrtle's bathroom.

Loren and Hermione were huddled together in a small single room. Hermione kept stirring the cauldron, and thick black smoke came out of the cauldron.

In the past, they always operated on a flat place outside. At night, they hid the crucible in a small room and took it out again the next day.But now, with Polyjuice Potion on the verge of success, Hermione was too anxious to move around.So the two huddled directly in the compartment to stir the cauldron.

Harry and Ron ran in from outside the bathroom and knocked lightly on the door: "Loren, Hermione."

Loren and Hermione came out holding three cups of soup. The soup was as thick as syrup, and it was still bubbling and bubbling in the flat glass.

"Got it?" Hermione asked.

Harry showed her, clutching a few strands of hair with one hand, tugging at the laces of two large shoes with the other, and carrying Goyle's large wizard robes under his arm.

But his tone was not easy: "Only Goyle's, Crabbe doesn't know where to go."

Ron was a little disturbed by such an accident: "Crabbe didn't show up during the whole dinner, we couldn't find him."

Loren frowned, determined to stop tonight's actions.

Hermione pursed her lips: "Harry and I take Polyjuice Potion, Loren, you and Ron will follow us invisibly. The effect of Polyjuice Potion can last for an hour."

Before Lorendo could think about it, Hermione had already added "Millison's hair" into the polyjuice potion in her hand, and there was loud noise in the tumbler, bubbling like a carbonated drink. Afterwards the reaction stopped and the decoction turned an ugly yellow color.

Hermione gulped down, and Harry followed her example and drank the Polyjuice Potion as well.The two found a compartment and went to change clothes.

Ron looked at the residue of the two cups of soup in disgust, and said, "Oh—the essence of Millicent Burst, the essence of Gregory Goyle, I guess they must be terrible."

There was a quick burst of pain as the transformation took place, and there was a cry of pain from both of them in the compartment, but it was done quickly.

Harry unlocked it, stepped out of the compartment in Goyle's form, and said in a low, husky voice, "How is it?"

Ron walked around him several times, jumped up and patted him on the shoulder: "Oh! It's exactly the same. Unbelievable, unbelievable..."

They were playing tricks on the sidelines.

Loren was guarding outside Hermione's cubicle early, estimated the time, knocked on the door, and tried to call out in a calm tone: "Hermione, how are you? Are you okay?"

A high-pitched voice answered him with a little cry: "I—I really don't want to come out. You go on your own."

When Harry and Ron heard this, they hurriedly gathered around: "Hermione, we know that Millicent is ugly, and no one will know it's you."

"No—really no—I don't think I can go. You guys hurry up and don't waste your time."

Harry looked at Ron, confused.

Ron laughed out loud: "Your expression is more like Gore. Whenever the teacher asks him questions, he always has this expression."

"Stop messing around." Loren greeted the two of them. "There should be something wrong with Hermione's transformation. I'm going to take her to the school infirmary. Let Ron follow you in an invisibility cloak, and you go and act."

Harry and Ron looked at each other, and combined with Hermione's reaction, it seemed that this was indeed the case.Harry hurriedly checked himself, touched his hands and feet, touched his cheeks and facial features, and was relieved to confirm that there were no missing parts.

"We'll meet you in the school infirmary after this is over," said Harry, and Ron nodded.

Before leaving, Loren called the two of them to stop, and after thinking about it, he said: "Safety comes first. If something goes wrong, make a big fuss, and the professors will notice."

According to his estimation of the duel with Crabbe last time, Crabbe's strength should not be as good as Harry's, or even Ron's.But when it comes to Voldemort, you can never go wrong with caution and caution.

In fact, the safest way is to cancel the action directly, but as Dumbledore said, Harry has the right to face Voldemort, and he should also face Voldemort...