One person ascends to the Pure Huang Court

Although she knew that Moody and Hussock were right beside her, the Disillusionment Charm prevented her from seeing them, and the atmosphere of exploring a mystery alone made Hermione feel nervous and excited.

Unlike Harry and Ron, Hermione had already been looking up the background of various forces in the library after the announcement of the Goblet of Fire. Knowing yourself and your enemy will ensure victory in every battle.

Naturally, I also know the origin of Durmstrang. In addition to teaching students normal magic, Durmstrang also teaches dark magic, and even has special dark magic classes. The first Dark Lord Grindelwald was born in Durmstrang.

To be honest, the overall level of attainment in the dark arts of Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is indeed stronger than that of Hogwarts, and there must be all kinds of vicious and dangerous protective measures in their lair.

The more you know, the more you know the dangers.

Hu Xiuwu heard her heartbeat and rapid breathing, so he put his hand on her shoulder.

He could feel that when he put his hand on the girl's slender shoulder, her body trembled suddenly, but then she calmed down and her heartbeat slowed down a lot, returning to normal.

Hu Xiuwu couldn't help but admire in his heart the girl's strong and calm character. In just a moment of distraction, the girl was able to adjust her mentality and calm down.

This kind of mentality is not comparable to the flowers of the younger generation who grew up in a greenhouse. At first glance, it is obvious that he has been through a lot since childhood, just like Hu Xiuwu.

Over the past month or so, the communication with Harry and the others has mainly been Ron, the big mouth, who often brags about his past adventures to these new friends.

He could tell that Harry and the other two, like Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo, had been deceived by their elders at a very young age, and had been ravaged by the artificial hardships created in the greenhouse, and had gone through a lot of hardships.

But it is also undeniable that through these events, they also developed a rare and valuable character.

Moody walked in front and used the short stick in his hand to gently push open the double-leaf hatch on the deck, which was very different from the style of a sailboat and shaped like a castle gate. He was the first to go in to explore the way, followed by Hermione, and Hu Xiuwu left behind.

As soon as he entered, Hu Xiuwu felt that the scene in front of him suddenly changed, and he also felt as if he had been reading with his head down for a long time and then suddenly looked up into the distance.

Looking from the outside, it is only a hundred square meters, but when you go deeper, it seems like you have entered a spacious, quiet, brightly lit castle, as wide as a square and as tall as a building.

Hu Xiuwu found it quite novel, but he discovered that Moody and Hermione were breathing steadily, as if they were already accustomed to this kind of scene.

Is this the traceless extension spell recorded in the spell book? It is indeed amazing.

Although it was the first time that Hu Xiuwu saw this kind of scene, he had read about it in the library before.

The Traceless Extension Charm, a spell that can enlarge space. It is said that the person who has mastered the Traceless Extension Charm can build a zoo in a suitcase.

In fact, there are similar magic spells in the East. The magic weapon of Tiangongtang is called the Devouring Sac, which can shrink objects and then store them in a sphere the size of a bullet. It's just that Hu Xiuwu has never had the chance to see it.

Today I really had a broad vision.

Putting aside the Traceless Extension Charm, the layout of the cabin is like the great hall of Hogwarts. The middle of the hall is like a patio, and the ceiling reaches up to the second floor. Opposite the door is a spacious angled staircase, which stretches out to the left and right like a roc spreading its wings and rests on the corridor on the second floor. The stairs are connected to a circle of corridors that surround it, a bit like the old tube-shaped buildings, or a covered Hakka drum tower.

On both sides of the stairs are two long rows of gift tables placed side by side. Under the protruding corridor, there are bookshelves against the wall. The bookshelves are filled with various magic books, including some that introduce black magic.

The upper floors are separate student dormitories, while the lower floors are places for students to rest and communicate.

It turns out that this cabin doesn’t just look like a castle, it is a castle.

Durmstrang actually moved a castle onto a big ship, how generous.

The blue brick walls on both the first and second floors were covered with portraits of Durmstrang alumni, but most of them were sleeping.

Only a few night owl portraits were chatting. They were natural surveillance devices. Once they detected abnormal movements, they would alert the people in the cabin.

However, all the people from Durmstrang went to attend the ball today, so even if these portraits were torn from their frames, no one would come.

But we still cannot be careless, because although there is no one in the cabin, there are other living creatures.

In an inconspicuous corner, a short and inconspicuous house-elf is directing the rag and mop to clean.

Every magic school has ancestral house-elves, and Durmstrang is no exception. They also pay special attention to the origin and bloodline of wizards, and only recruit so-called pure-blooded wizards. They call themselves aristocrats, so it is even more impossible for them to clean the house by themselves.

So a few house-elves were carried on board to take charge of hygiene.

Although house-elves are of humble status, they should not be underestimated just because they are born with the ability to Apparate. Even the barrier of Hogwarts cannot prevent these house-elves from Apparate.

It would be troublesome if the house elves discovered their whereabouts and had to Apparate to inform Karkaroff.

Moody was a veteran Auror, so he naturally would not forget the house-elves. However, the house-elves had the habit of trying not to appear in people's sight when sweeping and cleaning, so they cleaned late at night when no one was around, and they often hid in remote corners and shadows.

So even after entering the cabin, Moody still did not let his guard down and still kept the Disillusionment Spell on his body.

After looking around the hall with his magic eye and finding nothing special, Moody went to the second floor. People who were cast the Disillusionment Charm could not see each other. Moody could see Hermione and Hussault Hussault with his magic eye, but Hussault Hussault and Hermione could not see him.

However, Moody was not worried that Hermione and Hu Xiuwu would not be able to keep up with him, because he had noticed the sneak attack on Hu Xiuwu in advance.

Although their figures and footsteps have disappeared, Oriental people seem to have a unique way of observing people, called the sixth sense, the method of observing Qi, which does not look at the physical form but focuses on the spiritual body and soul.

As Moody expected, when he was heading towards the second floor, Hu Xiuwu had already sensed it, and the arm on Hermione's shoulder became slightly stronger, reminding her to move towards the second floor.

The girl was very smart and immediately understood Hu Xiuwu's hint. She held onto the carved handrail and tried to tiptoe up.

When he reached the second floor corridor, Moody did not stop.

The second floor is full of student dormitories. If you want to find Igor Karkarov, you have to find his room.

But he was a man who attached great importance to power and status, otherwise he would not have believed in Voldemort's pure-blood wizard theory and joined the Death Eaters. It was impossible for him to live on the same floor with the students.

Moody's magic eyes penetrated the walls and ceiling, looking for traces to continue upwards. He stopped on the second floor where a huge red deer head supporting a double-headed eagle school emblem of Durmstrang was hung on the wall.

With the perspective of his magic eyes, he could see that the stairs leading upstairs were behind this wall, but the secret door was sealed with a powerful magic. Moody's unlocking spell was like using hair to open an electronic lock and could not shake it at all.

Moody knew Karkaroff's strength. It was impossible for him to set such a powerful seal. This should be a magic barrier strengthened by successive headmasters of Durmstrang.

The unlocking spell was useless. Moody pondered for a moment and released a sound barrier nearby, intending to blow the door open, but this would make too much noise, so he released the silencing spell in advance.

But just as Moody was about to release the blasting spell, Hu Xiuwu stopped him.

It's just opening a door, why make such a fuss, can't you just push it open?

Hu Xiuwu leaned against the wall, took a deep breath, tensed his muscles, gripped the ground with his toes, and with the spine as the core, he integrated all the strength of his body and pushed towards the secret door.

Even the most powerful magic seal could only hinder the wizard. Hu Xiuwu pushed the door open with a force of a thousand pounds, and even if there was any magic seal, it was useless.

Chapter 259 Third Floor

At the edge of the secret door disguised as a wall, electric arcs flashed wildly like a short-circuited wire. Runes faintly lit up on the wall, but quickly dimmed.

The door that originally led to the third floor was forced to open a one-foot-wide gap under Hu Xiuwu's vigorous physical door-opening method.

As soon as the door opened, Moody got in with a dexterity that didn't match his size. It can only be said that the retired Auror is still as skilled as ever.

Hermione slipped in right behind him like a kitten.

After Hu Xiuwu sensed two gusts of breeze blowing past, he let go and floated inside. After he let go, the stone door closed quietly, as if nothing had happened.

But if you look closely, you will find that the stone door appears to be generally intact, but in fact the runes on the door are covered with fine cracks, such as cracks in the aged paint, and the internal mechanisms have also been damaged. Now it is just an empty shell.

The three of them had entered the stairs leading to the third floor. Unlike the stairs between the first and second floors, the second and third floors were connected by a spiral staircase, but it was not as narrow as the stairs in ordinary castles. Hu Xiuwu and the other two could easily stand side by side on one step.

There was a pair of tasseled lamps hung on the walls every five steps on both sides, and the stairs were brightly lit, not dim at all.

Under the illumination of the bright lights, Moody's figure suddenly emerged from the air, and the Disillusionment Charm on Hermione also lost its effect.

Professor Moody and Hu Xiuwu suddenly reappeared in front of her. Instead of feeling relieved, Hermione became even more nervous.

The disappearance of the Disillusionment Spell on the three people only proves that there is an unknown mechanism here, which is not a good thing.

Moody looked at the oil lamp hanging on the wall beside him: "It seems that there is not only a spyglass hanging on it, but this oil lamp itself is a magical tool that can break the invisibility."

"Looking glass?"

Hu Xiuwu didn't know much about the West or magical instruments yet, and the matter of Zhang Lingyu and the Deathly Hallows occupied most of his time recently.

Fortunately, there was a Gryffindor girl next to him, and Hermione simply explained the function of the spyglass to him:

"The looking glass is a kind of dark magic detector. When there are suspicious people around it, it will light up and rotate."

Moody added: "But it's also easy to deal with. A strong Confusion Charm can render it ineffective."

It was because he discovered the looking glass hanging on the oil lamp through the magic eye that Moody rushed in so anxiously. He wanted to deal with the looking glass first.

But I didn't expect that this oil lamp, which was exactly the same as the other oil lamps hanging on the stairs, was actually a magical instrument.

Hu Xiuwu said: "The Disillusionment Spell has been broken. Professor, should we still go in?"

"Keep going, no one will find us anymore." Moody looked at the runes behind the secret door and had some guesses in his mind. "I thought there would be a trap behind this door, and I'm ready to help you block it."

"But after you forced the door open, there was no movement at all. We walked in peacefully."

Hu Xiuwu followed Moody's gaze and saw the runes behind the door were dim but intact. He began to ponder:

"It was Karkaroff who turned off the trap behind the door. That's right, Behemoth lives with them, and those people are not wizards. If they accidentally touch the trap and die on the ship, Karkaroff will have no way to defend himself."

"Not only that," Moody bent down, stretched out his fingers and touched the angle between the wall and the stairs, and a little dust stained his fingers.

"The hygiene here is not as good as downstairs. If the house-elves clean every day, this situation will not happen. It is obvious that either the house-elves are not allowed to come up to the third floor at all, or they only come up to clean regularly."

Hermione glanced around and noticed some small details about the third floor: "Indeed, there are no portraits in the corridor."

This is unthinkable in Hogwarts.

At Hogwarts, portraits are the headmaster's eyes, and they can help Dumbledore take care of every inch of Hogwarts.

Every time someone wants to cause trouble, the first thing they have to do is to find a way to avoid the ubiquitous portraits.

Even Sirius Black had once been defeated in front of the portrait in the Gryffindor Common Room.

Moody said solemnly, "Karkaroff removed the portrait and banned the house-elves from coming up. There must be some secret he is trying hard to hide."

Is it Karkaroff's secret or Behemoth's secret?

Due to Karkaroff's identity as a former Death Eater and the warning in the hall, Moody had a deep prejudice against him, but Hu Xiuwu looked at it from the perspective of a bystander.

It is possible that Behemoth wanted to hide the secret. After all, this was still Durmstrang's territory. Both the portraits and the house-elves had to obey Igor Karkaroff.

Logically speaking, there was no need for him to go to such great lengths to hide a secret.

On the contrary, only Behemoth, as a guest, would find these portraits and house-elves an eyesore and might discover their secrets and whereabouts, and would therefore ask Karkaroff to remove the portraits.

But Moody and Hu Xiuwu's ideas are just guesses. Besides, it is possible that both parties have secrets that they want to hide. It is better to see it with your own eyes.

The third floor of the cabin is much smaller than the second floor. In addition to a public rest area, there are five rooms. The end of the stairs is not the third floor, but still spirals upward. Above it should be the control panel.

Moody randomly found the nearest room and tried to open the door:

"Open the Alaho hole!"

The wand shot out a faint light, but a barrier rose up from the door lock, bouncing the light away and failing to open the door.

Although it failed, it was still within Moody's expectations. The protective spells of these rooms were of the same level as the protective spell of the secret door just now.

Moody made way and Hu Xiuwu stepped forward skillfully.

Then, great effort will produce miracles.