Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 138 Quirrell in the sand table
Peter Pettigrew didn't want to say more.

But facing an archmage who was proficient in "Legilimency" and didn't know Occlumency, he couldn't keep his mouth shut just by talking.

Especially since he is still scared now.

After only holding on for less than a minute, Dumbledore emptied out all the secrets hidden in Peter Pettigrew's mind.

"It turned out to be like this..."

Dumbledore couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

"...Peter was the keeper of the Fidelity Charm. He betrayed his friend James and revealed the address of the Potters to Tom.

However, why didn't Sirius defend himself in the Wizengamot court? "

He waved his hand casually, and Peter Pettigrew fainted on the recliner again. Not only that, Dumbledore also conjured a rope and tied it tightly.

"Headmaster Everard," Dumbledore turned to look at a portrait hanging in the headmaster's office, "I need you to go to the Ministry of Magic immediately."

Then, in front of all the former headmasters' magical portraits, he told what he had seen in Peter Pettigrew's mind.

When he heard that the only heir of his family was wrongfully imprisoned, Phineas Nigellus Black suddenly lost his composure.

The old wizard with a wise face was so excited that he even pulled off a strand of his goatee. "How dare they do this, how dare they treat a descendant of the great Black family like this! Unforgivable, unforgivable!"

This time, even the former principals from Gryffindor House who had always been at odds with Phineas in the past did not sneer at the "most unpopular principal in history".

"I'll go to the Minister of Magic's office right away, and I'll give you an answer shortly." Principal Everard said to Dumbledore. Then, his figure disappeared from his portrait without a trace.

After temporarily locking Peter Pettigrew in the office and arranging the rest, Dumbledore said hello to Fox.

The fire phoenix, which had been resting on the perch, flew over and pulled the old wizard together to disapparate in Hogwarts Castle.
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Bourne took the lead through the fire barrier, with the Weasley twins following behind him, each of the three little wizards holding their own wands.

However, Bourne's previous prediction - "There may be a dark wizard in the future" - seems to be wrong based on the current situation.

None of the Harrys and Quirrell he expected were in this room.

In the entire room, there was only a floor-to-ceiling mirror with a beast's foot-style base in the middle, and something like a stone altar.

That floor-to-ceiling mirror is undoubtedly the Mirror of Erised that Dumbledore borrowed from Madam Pince.

But Bourne really didn't know what that stone altar was.

Its outer edge is carved with a circle of fragrant mallow patterns, and above it is a large sand table. After observing it for a moment, Bourne felt that the sand table looked familiar.

"Why does it look so much like the arena of the Horntail Hall?"

Bourne couldn't help but feel confused.

"And, where are Harry and the others?"

Just as he was thinking about this, a wave of water flowed on the Mirror of Erised, and a huge room suddenly emerged from the mirror.

"Harry, Ron, Hermione, and that person is...Professor Quirrell?"

Due to the bird's-eye view, George and Fred relied on the very representative turban to recognize that the three people following Harry were Quirrell.

George couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"How dare they do this and go out for a night out tonight?"

Fred was even more straightforward.

"Idiot, what you should ask is...how did they get involved with Quirrell?"

And his implication is: Are these three people in any danger now?
Unlike Harry's small team, because they have been in contact with Bourne, Sherlock, and Peeves more this year, the twins have no prejudice against Professor Snape - they just simply don't like him - they mainly believe that Professor Snape There's something very wrong with this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Therefore, they were very worried that their youngest brother and his friends were together with such a person in the middle of the night.

"Little Ronnie! Can you hear me?" George walked to the Mirror of Erised, reached out and knocked on the mirror, shouting into the mirror.

However, neither the little wizard nor Professor Quirrell were indifferent in the mirror image. They were still wandering around, as if they were looking for something.

However, this is not a wasted effort.

Because when George tried it, the sand tray on the altar immediately changed.

Four sand figures of different sizes grew out of the sand table one after another, like springs emerging from the ground.

In addition, a fire dragon clay puppet the size of a Shar-Pei slowly rose up from the sand table.

"This is……"

Bourne looked at the Mirror of Erised, and then compared it with the sand table in front of him.

"...The positions of Harry and the others in the mirror seem to be consistent with what is in the sand table. The fire dragon seems to correspond to the dragon-shaped sculpture in their place."

In addition, the layout of this sandbox is somewhat similar to a miniature version of "Horn of the Horntails". It is not difficult for Bourne to guess a possibility: Although Harry, the three of them and Quirrell also passed the level just arranged by Professor Snape, But the place they entered was different from that of themselves and others. They might have entered the "Hall of the Horntails".

He and Nico Flamel were kidnapped to that place before. The tent is an alchemy prop with a powerful "traceless stretch spell". It can even be marked as a specific location, and people can use a "portkey" to teleport in from the outside.

Considering that the level of Professor McGonagall has some changes from the original work, there is an alchemy chandelier that is most likely made by Nico Flamel.

In the last step of protecting the Sorcerer's Stone, in addition to the Mirror of Erised, Dumbledore asked Nico Flamel to arrange a "Horn of Horntail" (tent), which seemed to make sense.

"But Principal Dumbledore encouraged us to take the risk and let us enter the room we are in now. There is also a magic sand table in it. What is the reason for this?

He wouldn't let us watch and let Harry, Ron and Hermione stay in the same place with a dangerous person, right? "

Just think about it and you know it's impossible.

Bourne looked down at the sand table again and found that the positions of the sand figures on it were constantly changing synchronously with the movement of several people in the mirror screen, and they were always consistent with each other.

He tried tapping the sandy figure with his wand, but there was no special reaction from the person in the picture. However, when he touched the Shar-Pei-sized fire dragon clay puppet with his wand, his keen observation skills immediately noticed that the fire dragon-shaped sculpture in the mirror image seemed to move accordingly.

Things get interesting.

Bourne pointed his wand at the fire dragon clay puppet and recited a spell he learned in the Charms class, causing it to dance on the sand table.

A surprising scene happened: the fire dragon sculpture in the mirror screen actually started to move, and it actually danced along with it!
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"Merlin's beard!"

Seeing the fire dragon sculpture that suddenly started dancing on the spot and causing the ground to tremble constantly, Ron stood frozen in place with his mouth open. It took a second or two before he uttered this exclamation.

In fact, not only Ron, but Hermione and Harry were also shocked by this sudden change.

Hermione suddenly had an idea: Lord Newton's coffin slab would not hold up.

As a scumbag, Harry didn't care about Newton or not. All he could think about now was: Could this thing be the guard at the last level?
Not to mention, what they are doing now includes the elements of "magic gems", "underground adventure", and "fighting against evil". If you add a fire dragon, this set of themes is really complete—— No dungeon is complete without dragons.

You know, Harry's thoughts are actually the same as those of the other person present (although this is not quite accurate). Even more coincidentally, even without using this soul-level perception sharing technique, Voldemort and Harry actually thought of going together this time.

Harry is very talented in magic.

There is no doubt about this.

Although he is still just a scumbag in elementary school, he actually has more potential than Hermione, who is a top student.

Because when he looks at problems, his cognition will become more "magical", which even Ron, who was born in a pure-blood wizard family, cannot compare with him.

Like Voldemort, when he encountered the spectacle of dancing fire dragon sculptures, he was surprised and thought. However, he was neither so surprised as Ron that he had no ideas in his mind, nor was he like Hermione who only relied on the knowledge he had learned to construct. logical system.

Like Voldemort, he instinctively trusted his intuition, thought about the problem in a wizard's way, and came to the conclusion that this was the true face of the final level.

Of course, to become a magic master, sufficient talent is only a "sufficient" condition, not a "sufficient and necessary" condition.

If you don't study hard and absorb magic knowledge eagerly, no matter how good your talent is, it will be in vain.

Just like Harry at this time, his wizard intuition had given him the answer, but he himself didn't know what to do.

"Cable out!"

At the critical moment, you have to look at Quirrell (fog).

As the professor recited the incantation, cables came out of his wizard robe, crawling along the ground, and soon approached the "crazy" fire dragon statue.

They surrounded the dancing fire dragon statue from all directions, constantly tying snares and knots on their own, and began to entangle and pull at various parts of the fire dragon's body.

To deal with this kind of thing, a rope or something is best: as long as its joints can be blocked, then this thing will become a rookie.

But at this moment, the fire dragon sculpture suddenly opened its mouth and sprayed out a fiery and long-lasting cone-shaped breath fire at the "cable army" that was rapidly approaching it.

The upper body of this fire dragon sculpture was shaped like the Hungarian Horntail Dragon. After it came to life, it "inherited" some of the latter's characteristics.

For example, he is good at breathing fire.

The reason why wizards usually think that Horntail Dragon is the most dangerous fire dragon is actually because this kind of fire dragon has the longest breath distance known; in addition, because they have a very bad temper, they will always choose to use breath. Come and grill something.

Many people who have come into contact with the Horntail Dragon have suffered injuries due to this.

Of course, this time the fire dragon breath was actually controlled by Bourne with a magic wand.

Not only that, after burning the cables summoned by Quirrell, he also controlled the big dragon sculpture to jump off its pedestal, shook its wings, and then pounced directly on Quirrell.

"There are many obstacles!"

"Split into pieces!"

"Thunderbolt explosion!"

Quirrell was so frightened that he released three spells in a row. At this time, he didn't even bother pretending to stutter, and recited the spells accurately and fast.

Except that the first spell had some effect - the speed of the fire dragon's speed on the ground did slow down significantly - the remaining two lethal spells did not harm the fire dragon sculpture at all.

Although the spell exploded some smoke on its body, after all, "smoke does not hurt", it twisted its neck very humanely, paused for a second or two, and then accelerated towards Quirrell again.

"Great, great master!"

Quirrell dodged the attack of the fire dragon while asking Voldemort who possessed him for advice.

"How can we get rid of this terrible monster? It must be the guard guarding the Magic Stone. As long as we pass it, we will definitely find the Magic Stone."

"Use your own brain!"

Voldemort seemed to hate the fact that iron cannot become steel. He reminded Quirrell: "Use the transformation spell and other spells, and your attacks will have no effect on it. This should be a very high-end alchemical product."

However, just when Quirrell wanted to turn the fire dragon sculpture in front of him into something like a tea cup, and then it would be as far away as possible, the big dragon immediately showed some new changes.

Obviously, this was also done by Bourne. He cast the transformation spell on the clay puppet on the sand table first. Because he had no experience in controlling fire dragon duels, Bourne turned it into something similar in size and size to the fire dragon, but something he was very familiar with.

He conjured up a knight errant.

When this bipedal mecha appeared in front of Rocky and several young wizards, their brains all shut down for a moment because of what they saw.

"What is this?"

George and Fred didn't know it either.

"This is a knight," Bourne replied.

"But aren't knights supposed to ride horses?" The twins were still a little confused.

But Bourne didn't want to explain too much for the time being. He was completely devoted to the work of remotely controlling the knight errant. This was actually a brand new experience for him.

(End of this chapter)