Chapter 345
Chapter 345
Chapter 345
"This is not something to apologize for." Wade reached out and patted his shoulder, saying, "Professor Snape is indeed terrible."
"But you're not afraid." Ryan seemed to be brooding over something, and said in a tangled manner: "You dare to go to Professor Snape and try to solve this matter... I'm nervous even to answer questions normally."
"Actually, I was nervous too, but I tried not to show it."
Wade shrugged and said, "And to be honest, I only did this because Professor Snape was more lenient with me. In terms of courage, I am not much more than you."
Ryan laughed.
"Okay... Although I know you are just comforting me..."
Wade was helpless: "Lian..."
"Ok?"
"You know what? You don't have to say everything you think of..."
Ryan was puzzled: "No, right? I don't usually like to talk too much."
Vader and Theo looked at each other and smiled at the same time at Ryan's confused look.
Indeed, Ryan is always the most silent one among them to the outside world.
But when he is with his friends, he is so straightforward and frank that it is hard to resist.
It was already late at night, and while he was talking, Theo yawned again, his eyelids kept drooping, and he looked very sleepy.
Wade then offered to leave.
"It's too late. You might run into Filch if you go out. Why don't you just sleep in our dormitory?" Theo suggested. "Ernie and the others won't mind."
Ryan also encouraged: "The dormitory in our college is very interesting. It is a cave dug out of the ground. We also have a pot of Boston fern in our dormitory, which looks like a green waterfall."
Wade's heart skipped a beat. He was indeed curious. But after hesitating for a moment, he shook his head and refused.
Although Hufflepuff students are usually tolerant and easy to talk to, they also have a strong sense of territory. If they see a stranger in the common room tomorrow morning, they might have a problem with Theo and Ryan.
"Don't worry, I won't be caught by Filch." Wade said, "Since the Hufflepuff Common Room has never been entered by people from other colleges, don't tell anyone that I have been here."
Wade didn't quite believe what the Hufflepuff students claimed, that no one from outside the Badger House had entered the common room for over a thousand years.
Rats like Peter and insects like Skeeter can easily sneak in with students, and ordinary students are unable to recognize Animagus or Disillusionment Charm.
But since the students of Badger College are proud of this, Wade does not intend to be the first person to "break the exception" and interrupt their record.
"All right……"
Seeing Wade's firm attitude, Theo had no choice but to let him do as he pleased and took two lemons from the shelf next to him and asked Wade to take them.
"Cats hate the smell of lemons. If you run into Mrs. Norris, you can use this to drive her away."
Wade took it and put it in his pocket, then pushed aside a vine that quietly dropped down to his shoulder and combed his hair, and left along the barrel door.
The only way to get in and out of Hufflepuff was to crawl, and Wade couldn't help but wonder - would he have to crawl too when Professor Sprout came to the common room?
He grabbed the edge of the barrel and felt like a groundhog sticking its head out. Just as he was about to go out, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
Wade looked up and seemed to hear Theo's voice in his ears——
"It's time for Filch to come over!"
"Malfoy and Filch reported..."
"Maybe we'll run into Filch..."
"What if I run into Mrs. Norris..."
Theo, oh Theo, if you say unlucky things too much, they will come true!
Not far away, Filch was holding an oil lamp, and Mrs. Norris's eyes were as bright as light bulbs, staring at Wade.
Wade was hanging on the wine barrel, feeling a little embarrassed. After thinking about it, he decided to come out first.
"Meow~"
Mrs. Norris gave a soft cry and walked towards Wade, wagging her tail. "Let's go, Mrs. Norris."
Filch turned around with the oil lamp in his hand and said, "There's no one here. Let's go look somewhere else."
Mrs. Norris looked back at her master, then at Wade, her big green eyes seemed to say, "Isn't this big one a human?"
But Filch had already walked several meters away. After hesitating for a moment, Mrs. Norris trotted to catch up with her master.
Wade laughed in silence.
He exerted force and crawled out of the passage, fell to the ground, stood up and brushed the dirt off his hands, turned around and saw the barrel lid rotated and closed, so that this entrance and exit became no different from the other wine barrels next to it.
Wade did not waste any more time. He walked towards the window in the corridor. After taking a few steps, he suddenly turned into a peregrine falcon, flew out of the narrow window, spread his wings and flew away.
The peregrine falcon circled over the lawn and Black Lake before flying toward the tall tower.
At this time, most areas of the castle were plunged into darkness, except for the hall where there was a magical candle that never went out, and only a few windows were still lit.
The headmaster's office, several professors' offices, and Ravenclaw and Gryffindor dormitories.
The Hufflepuff and Slytherin common rooms are hidden underground, and even when brightly lit, they are difficult to see from the outside.
Vader flew past Gryffindor Tower and finally stopped outside the window of his own dormitory.
The window was open, and the house-elf had lit the dormitory's oil lamp to guide Vader who was returning late.
Vader thought of the entrance to his college common room.
It was a wooden board at the end of the stairs, and if it hadn't been for the knocker on it, it wouldn't even have been reminiscent of a door.
Those who cannot answer the door knocker question correctly will not be able to enter the lounge.
The entrance to Hufflepuff is disguised as a very realistic wine barrel, which is said to have to be knocked in the correct order to open it.
The entrance to Slytherin was hidden in a stone wall, and the door wouldn't even appear without the correct password.
The entrance to Gryffindor is the most conspicuous among the several colleges - it is a huge portrait, and a password is also required to enter.
Although the portrait of the Fat Lady is conspicuous, it is hidden among the many portraits of Hogwarts, making it appear to be "hidden in the city". People who don't know the situation would find it difficult to imagine that there is a huge space hidden behind it.
The founders of Hogwarts tried every means to hide the entrance to their school, as if the enemy could break through the outer defenses at any time, break into the school, burn, kill and loot.
They even seem to be unable to trust people from other colleges in the same school, and students from different colleges rarely visit each other.
It can be imagined that their situation must have been very difficult and dangerous at that time.
But Wade had no way of knowing whether the designs of the lounges in various colleges had really played their full role over the past thousand years.
Even in "Hogwarts: A History", the focus is on introducing all aspects of the school, but the history is avoided and only some interesting things are discussed, such as the battle of wits and courage between Peeves and successive headmasters, or activities between schools such as the Triwizard Tournament.
The war, the house-elves, the impact of the differences between wizards and Muggles on the school, these parts involving the dark side of the real world are never mentioned briefly or even not mentioned at all.
Vader changed back to his original form and sat on the high windowsill, looking at the dark forbidden forest that seemed to extend to the horizon, and he could faintly hear the roar of animals.
Tonight, Hagrid's hut was also pitch dark, with no light at all.
In the Black Lake, a giant squid stretched out its long tentacles and clung to the wall of the maze. From here, it looked like a dinosaur sticking its neck out of the lake, looking around curiously.
Wade looked at it for a while before getting up and returning to the dormitory.
After a moment, this light also went out.
A faint roar was heard in a wizarding village that was not far away from Hogwarts, but not quite as close.
It awakened some creatures outside the forbidden forest and startled the birds near the village. The giant squid suddenly shrank into the water, causing a wave.
But the distant sound did not wake up the sleeping students.
A moment later, the window of the headmaster's office was suddenly pushed open, and Dumbledore in pajamas stood in front of the window, his white beard flying wildly in the night wind.
(End of this chapter)