Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 133: Bait, fragrant hook and wide spread net

Snape didn't want to say more.

Because he felt that the voice he just heard contained an indescribable meaning that was both familiar and a little strange.

However, compared with the serious things he was going to do tonight, that was actually just a sideshow.

"The Dark Lord is indeed a brilliant Legilimency master, but he is not a natural Legilimency master, and there is no such rare talent among Death Eaters."

Only those born with Legilimency can forcibly convey their will by relying only on the sound they make without relying on magic.

Since Dumbledore secretly brought Newt Scamander and I back to Hogwarts, he might not find another Legilimency as a backup. "

After thinking about the scene in which the White Devil laid a dragnet to "justly beat up" the Dark Lord, Snape turned to Newt, who was standing next to him.

"Professor Scamander, when will your rainfall be-"

He was only halfway through speaking when large drops of rain poured down from the clouds. Snape quickly added two "waterproof and moisture-proof" spells for himself and Newt.

After completing the task of making clouds and rain, the thunderbird named Kalik also flapped its two pairs of wings and fell from the sky. It circled around the heads of the two of them a few times, said hello, and then dived into Newt's suitcase.

Newt: "It's fine now. We can go back now. Counting the time, Teddy should take Dougal into the castle. If the mysterious man really comes back, then they may have discovered something."

The "Teddy" and "Dougal" he calls are a Niffler and an invisible beast respectively.

The origins of these two magical animals are one in the UK and the other in the Far East. They are simply incompatible in the natural environment.

However, Teddy and Dougal were both long-term residents of Newt's suitcase, and their long time together formed a deep friendship between the two neighbors.

When Dugor has the opportunity to go out, he will use his prophecy ability to help Teddy find some Galleons hidden in certain corners that have been dropped by others; during the holidays, Teddy will take out some Galleons. With the small amount of money he saved, he treated Dougal to a sumptuous banana feast.

The two of them are a good pair of partners, and they are also Newt's good friends. At this time, under Newt's entrustment, they were "night-walking on orders" in Hogwarts Castle, looking for the expected traces of the Dark Lord and his minions.

For others, this may be a very dangerous job, but for Teddy and Dougal, there is not much danger.

Because the invisible beast can not only remain invisible at all times, but can also predict what will happen in the future.

Only wizards who have received special training can break the invisibility of invisible beasts.

To capture this magical animal requires careful planning in advance and unconsciously creating some random events to interfere with their prediction of the future; coupled with a cunning and agile Sniff …

Such a dream combination, the words suitable to describe them are either "on" or "always off".
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"It can't be closed."

Ron was standing by the window, wrestling with the windows of their dormitory.

The Forbidden Forest had just caught fire, and a lot of smoke filled their dormitory.

It was raining outside now, and the wind swept the raindrops into the dormitory, making the curtains of Ron's four-poster bed wet.

"Ron, you have to use some magic." His roommate, Seamus Finnigan, came over with his slippers on, took out his wand and wanted to cast a spell on the window.

"Wait!"

With quick hands and eyes, Harry quickly stopped this "explosion genius" who was famous throughout his grade. After all, it would be bad if the entire dormitory wall was missing on a rainy day.

"Just twist it. That's what my aunt's windows look like. The hinges are probably rusty."

While talking, he also walked to the window.

"Look-"

However, just as Harry put his hand out, he suddenly retracted his arm as if he had been stung.

His eyes widened and he pushed up the glasses on his nose, with an incredible expression on his face.

"What's wrong with you?" Ron asked.

"S-Snape..." Harry looked at his friend in disbelief, "...I saw a figure that looked very much like Snape, just passing through the Pendulum Courtyard and heading towards the gate of the castle."

"This is impossible. He was obviously taken away by the Aurors. Why did he come back so soon?"

"I don't know, but I promise I'm not wrong." Harry shook his head, "Snape's outfit and his greasy long hair are extremely conspicuous even in the dark night - they are more conspicuous than The shadows all around are as dark as the boss!"

"Perhaps Professor Snape gave those Aurors some magic potion," Seamus Finnigan shrugged and said.

He didn't know about Nick Flamel's Philosopher's Stone, let alone Harry and Ron's suspicions about Snape.

Therefore, when it comes to Professor Snape returning to Hogwarts in the middle of the night, what he said is actually like every little Gryffindor who hates the head of Slytherin - the ultimate bad breath, pure enjoyment ——The main theme is full of malice.

But to Harry and Ron, these words were nothing less than a revelation: Yes, if it is true, it must be like this!

Is Snape the Potions Master?

Then wouldn't it make perfect sense for him to carry some magic potion with him.

Why did he go back to school overnight?
Without getting Nick Flamel's Philosopher's Stone, Snape would definitely not give up easily.

If you think about it this way, it actually makes perfect sense logically.

Moreover, there was a fire in the Forbidden Forest just now - Bourne is not in the dormitory now. He and the twins must have followed the professor into the Forbidden Forest - unprepared for it, several other professors also went to the Forbidden Forest to stop the fire. spread.

"Professor McGonagall seemed to have said that since Principal Dumbledore was not in the school, she asked Filch to increase patrols."

As he spoke, Ron's voice gradually dropped.

Originally, he wanted to advise Harry not to worry too much. But after saying this, even he lost confidence.

After all, Filch had only so much ability to put it bluntly, and even little wizards like them could fool him around.

If Snape were to steal the Sorcerer's Stone now, wouldn't it be like him carrying Scabbers - with a handful?
Thinking of this, Ron couldn't help but take a breath. He didn't even realize that he hadn't seen Scabbers at all tonight.

"We can't hesitate any longer," Harry said to Ron seriously: "We have to go on a night trip tonight, and we have to call Granger."
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"Jiejiejie~~~"

Pettigrew laughed wildly with pride, but in his heart, he couldn't laugh so "soul-soully" when he turned into a mouse, the most he could do was "squeak".

The Hogwarts library was silent at midnight, and Mrs. Pince and the little wizards were not here.

Rows of tall bookshelves are like dark hills, and there is only a faint smell of parchment in the air. Peter Pettigrew turned into Scabbers the mouse, crouched on all fours, and walked quickly among the bookshelves.

"No one knows the secret passages of Hogwarts better than me, no one!"

With nothing to worry about and the task assigned by the Dark Lord completed, Pettigrew felt extremely powerful.

However, just as he was about to run to the door of the library, a pair of green eyes suddenly appeared in the middle of the ajar door.

"Meow-"

The Filch-like cat, Mrs. Norris, suddenly poked her head through the door.

Perhaps because he had been playing the role of a mouse for many years, Peter Pettigrew could not help but acquire some of the habits of a mouse. He stopped almost instinctively.

Cats are the natural enemies of mice.

When Leng Buding saw Mrs. Loris, all the hair on his body stood up in fear.

"Let me see if any little wizard who doesn't sleep at night has hid in the library."

Following Mrs. Norris, Filch, carrying a storm lantern, also came outside the library door.

"Every month, I catch one or two little wizards here, and I never fail.

Each of them said that they love to learn.

Ha ha.

They just want to sneak into the forbidden book area here, and then secretly learn a few poisonous spells and curses to brag to others. "

Filch pushed open the door, raised the lantern in his hand high, and the dark yellow light suddenly shone into the empty library.

Mrs. Norris walked in front of her master, like a king inspecting her territory, lowering her head to sniff the surrounding atmosphere from time to time.

Peter Pettigrew quickly climbed up the bookshelf, and climbed to the top of a row of bookshelves in a few moments. There was no way to go below, so he was going to walk over it.

However, perhaps it was the predator's natural sense of food. When he passed over Mrs. Norris's head, the cat suddenly raised its head.

"Meow-"

"Who is there!"

Filch shouted then. At the same time, he raised the lantern higher. A big mouse, more than ten centimeters long, appeared in the eyes of the Hogwarts janitor.

"A...mouse?"

Filch felt a little surprised, because he knew how much Mrs. Pince, who was in charge of managing the library, loved her darlings and cast many spells to drive away pests and beasts in the library.

However, as a squib with limited magic knowledge, he did not immediately think of such a high-end magic as "Animagus".

"Forget it, forget it. A mouse is a mouse. Even if it's not a little wizard who sneaked into the forbidden book area, I have to help Mrs. Pince catch it."

When he thought of Mrs. Pince's stern face, Filch suddenly felt a burning sensation in his heart.

"Mrs. Norris, you still have to take action. It climbs a bit high, so it's not easy for me to get up."

After spending many years with Filch, Mrs. Norris could already understand the meaning of what the old man said most of the time. So before he finished speaking, the cat climbed onto the bookshelf and pounced on Peter Pettigrew.

Dangerous!
Looking at the big furry round face approaching quickly, Peter Pettigrew's heart rang with alarm bells.

In desperation, he immediately kicked off an animal-skin book beneath him with both legs. The thick book immediately fell and hit Mrs. Norris' high-raised head accurately.

The cat was knocked down from mid-air, the book also fell to the ground, and the knots tied to the cover were loosened a lot. The animal skin book suddenly opened into a big mouth and quickly bit into Mrs. Norris, who was smashed to pieces.

In order to save his pet, Filch fought with the book and kicked the book away. But every time it was kicked away, it would turn around and pounce on it the next second, looking like a pit bull with a brain full of blood.

"Damn it, stay away from my cat!"

Filch yelled and scolded the crazy magic book, but it showed no intention of stopping. Even the pages in its mouth were torn into pieces.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Peter Pettigrew took three steps at a time and rushed out of the library door.

He ran a long way before he stopped, stood upright, held his front paws on the wall like a human, and kept breathing heavily.

However, while panting, he couldn't help but scream.

He was mocking Filch -

"After all these years, the night patrol at Hogwarts is still like this. All the work is still handed over to Filch, and the old waste has not made much progress.

If it were me, I would definitely mobilize a few ghosts to accompany Filch when he patrols.

Anyway, those ghosts usually don't need to sleep, and they also like to roam around in the castle late at night. As long as a few ghosts follow Filch, then I will..."

Before he could finish his thoughts, a group of translucent figures suddenly emerged from the wall he was holding on to.

A group of headless ghost knights, riding skeleton-like ghost horses, suddenly emerged from the wall. This is the Headless Knights, which is considered the best society by "Nearly Headless Nico".

Their appearance made Pettigrew tremble with fright, and he was so scared that he didn't pee on the spot. Not only that, even though he was covered in hair, the cooling caused by the gathering of several ghost knights still made Peter feel a biting coldness constantly drilling into the seams of his bones.

"You take the left side of the corridor, they will be in charge of the right side of the corridor, and I will be in charge of the middle corridor!"

The leader of the Headless Knights quickly divided up and arranged the personnel, but he forgot that there were some decorations in the corridor - although it was impossible to hide people, hiding a mouse was not a problem - before the Headless Horsemen started running wildly, Peter followed the gap at the ankle of a standing armor and got into the armor.

The Headless Horsemen were running around to make sure that no outsiders were intruding in the corridor on this floor, and then they collectively turned to another location that needed to be searched.

After waiting for a while, finally when the Headless Horseman was gone, Pettigrew came out of his hiding place.

He was startled, but after a few seconds, he couldn't help but feel that what just happened seemed quite interesting.

"Those ghosts, maybe they were just passing by, or they were doing some sort of drill.

But it was not bad, they had all left anyway, and Pettigrew couldn't help but think: "Ghost patrol is indeed a good plan, but if I were to arrange it, I would at least have to mobilize those magic portraits hanging in the corridor. , they are more hidden than ghosts, and almost no one can hide from their eyes.”

(End of this chapter)