Hogwarts: Where are the Pokémon?

Chapter 125 Geng Ghost: I'm Not a Pokémon!

Ministry of Magic

Xia Lin and Dumbledore were sitting in the Pokémon Protection and Administration Bureau drinking tea at the same time.Not long ago, Fudge had just left here.

The two were calm and relaxed, and seemed not at all worried about what was about to happen in Hogwarts.

"The environment here is pretty good." Dumbledore took a sip of black tea and spoke slowly.

He has Fox, and returning to Hogwarts is an instant thing. Xia Lin also has a teleportation move, and Voldemort's Tiaohulishan is useless at all.

What's more, they were deliberately deceived from the beginning.

"It's my first time here too."

I'm ashamed to say that although Xia Lin has been appointed as the director of the Pokémon Protection and Management Department, he has never been here to see it once.

Fudge arranged the place well, but it was in vain. After all, he couldn't stay here, at least for the time being.

"After the seventh-year wizards graduate, we can recruit some people to work here." He said to Dumbledore, "This can be regarded as a little help for the employment of graduates this year."

"I heard that you invited other schools to the Hogwarts Cup this semester?" Dumbledore asked suddenly.

In fact, this is not a trivial matter. The exchanges between different schools also involve the Department of International Magical Cooperation.But if you're just visiting, don't worry too much.

In fact, Dumbledore only found out about these news recently. If it had been in the past, Fudge would have told him everything.Now that Fudge has a new backer, he naturally distanced himself from Dumbledore.

Dumbledore actually didn't care about this, which made him feel a lot easier.You must know that when Fudge first took office, he was almost equivalent to Fudge's acting minister.He has to go through all the big and small things.

"That's right, I plan to continue to promote Pokémon." Xia Lin nodded.

The two chattered for a long time without mentioning anything about Voldemort, as if they didn't care about everything that happened in Hogwarts.

It wasn't until it was getting dark that Dumbledore slowly stood up.

"Okay, it's almost time for us to go back."

-

Time goes back to the afternoon.

Harry was determined to protect the Philosopher's Stone on his own, and the other professors simply didn't believe what they said.And his plan is very simple to say, that is to grab the Philosopher's Stone before "Snape".

But once implemented, he knew the difficulty.

First of all, it is impossible for him to be close to the corridor on the fourth floor during the day, which is a place explicitly forbidden by Dumbledore. They have violated enough school rules this semester. If you don't want to, then you can only watch the Philosopher's Stone being stolen.

Harry had tried to get Hermione to keep an eye on Snape and monitor his movements, but that failed too.

"Anyway, I don't believe Snape would dare to act during the day!" Harry thought for a while and said, "We'll wait until night, but we must be faster than him!"

All three of them set their eyes on Snape, and no one noticed that one of them had disappeared from everyone's sight in the evening.

At night, after everyone else had fallen asleep, Harry and Ron got up slowly.

"Go and get the Invisibility Cloak," Ron said in a low voice to Harry.

The two tiptoed around, trying not to make noise, but it woke Neville.

At first Neville wasn't sure what they were up to, but when he saw Ron and Harry meeting Hermione in the common room, he knew they were going out.

"You shouldn't go on a night tour!" Neville struggled for a while, but decided to jump out and stop them.

Gryffindor managed to add back the points last time. If Harry and the others were caught again, at least 150 points would be deducted!

In order to protect Gryffindor's points and prevent Harry and the others from being expelled, Neville felt that he had to do something.

"What - Neville?"

Ron was taken aback, and even his voice was a little distorted.

"Why are you here?"

"I heard the sound of you getting up." Neville stopped in front of them earnestly. He lost his wand, but it didn't matter. To be honest, his spells were not as powerful as his fists!
"I don't think you should violate school rules anymore! If you insist, then I will stop you!"

"Get out of the way of Neville, don't do anything stupid!" Ron was annoyed, they couldn't afford the delay now.

"No! Moreover, you taught me to use it for resistance!"

"But I didn't let you resist us!"

Ron and Harry had already collapsed, but facing Neville like this, they were a little helpless.

At the critical moment, Hermione has to make a move!
"I'm sorry Neville -" Hermione gave an apologetic expression, making Neville think she had changed her mind.

"It's okay, as long as you come back—"

"All petrochemical!"

Immediately a spell flew out of Hermione's wand.

Neville's arms snapped to his sides, and his legs stood at attention, standing straight.His whole body became stiff, he swayed a few times, and then fell to the ground with a plop, looking as hard as a board.

Hermione ran over and turned him over.Neville's jaws locked together and he couldn't speak.Only his eyes rolled, looking at them in horror.

Harry was also terrified.

"What did you do to him?"

Judging by the way he and Ron looked, they obviously didn't recognize the spell.Hermione doesn't just learn first-year knowledge step by step. In fact, there are quite a few spells in the library that can be learned.

"It's a body-binding spell."

After Neville, who had been under the spell, settled down, Hermione said a few more words of apology, then put on the Invisibility Cloak together with Harry and the others, and rushed towards the corridor on the fourth floor.

On the way, they met Mrs. Norris and Peeves, but fortunately, Harry pretended to be the bloody Barrow with quick wit and frightened him.

Now, they are standing in front of the wooden door.

"No sign of battle—"

"Two possibilities, either Snape hasn't come yet, or he answered the Sphinx's question correctly," Ron guessed.

"Obviously the second, since the lock is open." Hermione said grimly.

She suddenly realized that replacing the guard guarding the Philosopher's Stone with a Sphinx seemed to have fooled herself. If she failed to answer the Sphinx's question correctly, wouldn't she be attacked?
"Let's release the Pokémon first." She said nervously.

All three released their Pokémon, ready to fight.

"Why don't you go back, it's too dangerous." Harry swallowed.He didn't think much about it before, but now that he thinks about it carefully, what he is going to do is life-threatening.

He was touched that Hermione and Ron could support him until now.

Hearing that, before Hermione said anything, Ron exclaimed in surprise:

"Are you crazy?"

"Do you think you can answer the Sphinx's question without Hermione?"

"As soon as you step in with your front foot, you will be eaten in the next second!"

Harry: ...

At least Ron is very clear about his position.

"All right--"

Seeing this, Harry didn't say much anymore, and directly lifted the cloak.

The invisibility cloak may not be able to fool the Sphinx's eyes and nose, and even if it could, the trapdoor is still under the Sphinx's body.

As soon as the door was opened, the three met the eyes of the Sphinx.

The sphinx is a sphinx-faced monster with a higher intelligence than many magical animals.To be honest, sometimes Xia Lin feels that some magical animals have a higher level of strength than Hagrid...

What appeared in front of Harry and the others at this time was an animal with the front half of a woman and the back half of a lion.It also has a pair of huge wings on its back, no smaller than Dewey!

The three little ones stood in front of the sphinx, looking like three puppies.

Sphinx looked at them, did not attack immediately, but said slowly:

"Try to get past me unless you can answer my riddle. One guess - I'll let you pass. No guess - I'll pounce on you. No answer - I'll let you go, Not to hurt you."

It gave Harry and the others a chance to choose, but although they would attack if they guessed wrong, in fact, Xia Lin had already made preparations to prevent Harry and the others from dying tragically.

"Ask!" Hermione boldly took a step forward.

The lion cub released by her followed suit.

"Listen now—what is seen and not seen now, like a lion, like a dog, like a horse, like a bird, that people desire when it's hot, and loathe it when it's cold?"

"what?"

Ron's mind went blank, and Harry was brooding too.

They only have one chance to answer, if they can't answer correctly, then what they have to face is a magical animal that is no less dangerous than a fire dragon!
"Hurry up and find a way, Hermione!" He was so anxious that he was about to cry.

"Stop making noise!" Hermione punched him directly.

"Sometimes I see it, sometimes I don't see it, can I see it? It looks like a lion and a horse, what exactly does it look like?" Harry wondered, "How could there be something that looks like a lion and a dog and so many things?"

He glanced up at the sphinx who was waiting for an answer, thinking that there is something that looks like a lion and looks like a man.

But it is clear that the Sphinx cannot be the answer to the question.

But Hermione's eyes lit up after hearing his complaint.

"Unless this thing has no specific shape!"

"I know! It's Yun Duo!"

"The answer is correct." The Sphinx stood up smiling, revealing the trapdoor held down by its belly.

After the three of them pushed it away, looking at the entrance of the black hole, they hesitated again.

"Anyway, let's jump!" Ron mustered up his courage and planned to be reckless, but Hermione stopped him.

"You don't even know how deep it is! Leave it to me!" Before finishing speaking, she took out two elf balls, "Come out, Shuttlecock Grass, Chrysanthemum Grass Leaf."

Two Pokémon appeared in front of Harry and Ron.

"Jukoye, you tie Harry and Ron with a cane whip and send them down."

Hearing this, two vines immediately spread out from the small bump on Chrysanthemum Leaf's neck, tightly bound the waists of Harry and Ron, and the power of the vines directly lifted them up.

"Oh--"

"It's a little too tight—"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Hermione interrupted them aggressively, firmly grasping the shuttlecock grass with both hands, and jumped directly to the entrance of the cave.

The light shuttlecock grass relieved a lot of the impact for her, bringing her to the ground slowly like a parachute.

But to their surprise, after landing, their feet were not ground, but intertwined vines.

"what is this?"

It was so dark that I couldn't see clearly.As soon as Ron opened his mouth, the vines immediately began to surge!
"This is the devil's net!" Hermione exclaimed loudly!
"They'll stalk us to death!"

She didn't have to say it, because the vines were already doing it.

Harry and Ron were bound hand and foot, and even had one wrapped around their necks.The vines were constantly shrinking, making them unable to breathe.

"I'm getting strangled—"

Ron felt a little hypoxic, and just when he thought he was going to die, his little fire pony suddenly jumped down from above.

The light and heat of the flames behind the little fire horse immediately frightened the devil's web.

They immediately began to retreat until they shrank into a corner.

"Huh - I remembered, Devil's Web is afraid of light and fire," Hermione said in hindsight.

"Ron, your halo has done a great job!" Harry was also extremely grateful.

But he thought, not only did he not do much work so far, but he would have died long ago without them.

But then he finally came in handy.

In the level set by Professor Flitwick, he got the key by relying on his flying skills.

Going forward, the three of them came to a completely dark room.

"here is--"

Hermione was about to say something, when suddenly a dark purple flame surged in the darkness.

"Be careful!" Ron quickly grabbed her and tore her away.The little fire horse rushed up immediately and blocked the flame.

"Hee hee hee - Gengar!"

In the darkness, the fat Geng Gui suddenly appeared in front of them.

This Geng Ghost is naturally the Geng Ghost that Xia Lin sent to monitor Voldemort before, but now, monitoring is naturally unnecessary.

"This must be a level designed by Professor Xia Lin. Could it be that our enemy is Geng Gui?" Ron couldn't help guessing.

However, Geng Gui shook his finger with a wicked smile, and took out a poke ball with his backhand.

——It is not a combatant, in fact, it is now the trainer of this level.

Of course, in the face of Voldemort and Quirrell, it must have personally brought the other Pokémon in this room together.

It didn't fight Voldemort, but it also made Quirrell extremely painful. The three abnormal states of paralysis, burns, and poisoning were superimposed on Quirrell's body.

"It wants to command Pokémon to fight us?"

Ron's "I'm not dreaming" expression made Geng Gui a little unhappy.

Who do you look down on?

Today it not only has to fight, but also has to fight two!

Geng Gui threw the elf ball in his hand, and then, a big black dog appeared in front of Harry and the others.

The expressions of the three people changed immediately.

"—It's Heluga!"

(End of this chapter)