Harry Potter: Dark Alchemy

"Why don't you keep moving forward? Did something happen up front? Give way! Give way!"

Filch, the administrator of the castle, was attracted by Chang Chu's scream, and he roughly squeezed past the students from the two colleges with his shoulders. But then he saw another cat, Mrs. Norris, hanging on the wall with Felicia.

Filch stumbled back a few steps, and the students around him quickly avoided his body.

"My cat! My cat! What happened to Mrs. Norris?" Filch grabbed his face with both hands in horror and screamed.

"Chang Chu!" Wright finally squeezed out from the crowd. He apologized to the students around him and trotted to Chang Chu's side.

"Light!" Chang Chu looked at Wright in a panic. She held one hand tightly on Wright's outstretched arm, and pointed the other hand at Felicia, whose tail was hung on the torch holder, "Cat! Fei Licia! She..."

"I saw it, I saw it." Wright held Chang Chu in his arms and patted her back gently, "Don't worry..."

Just when Wright was comforting Chang Chu, Filch's bulging eyes saw Harry standing quietly beside him. He remembered that it was this annoying male student who saw the quick spell spell a few days ago. Introductory correspondence course letter, this annoying boy must know that he is a squib!

"Potter!" Filch screamed at Harry. He stepped forward and grabbed Harry's collar. "You killed my cat! You killed it! I'm going to kill you." ,must……"

"Filch, neither Mrs. Norris nor Felicia is dead." Wright interrupted Filch's rant.

"Lies! You must be teaming up to deceive me!" Filch, who was out of control, couldn't stop persuading him at this time. He even transferred his anger to Wright.

"Argus!"

Just then, Dumbledore arrived on the scene, followed by many other teachers. After seeing the principal and many professors arriving, Filch calmed down a little and let go of Harry.

Then, Dumbledore immediately saw the red letters on the wall that looked like blood.

"Everyone, please go back to the dormitories of your respective colleges immediately and are not allowed to come out." Dumbledore said calmly.

The students of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw immediately headed to the common room on the higher floor, led by their respective prefects.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the crowd disappeared.

Dumbledore passed by Wright, Chang Chu and the Gryffindor trio, and untied Mrs. Norris and Felicia from the torch holders.

"Come with me, Argus." Dumbledore said first to Filch, and then to the five Wrights, "And you, come too."

Then, under the guidance of Lockhart, everyone came to the nearest Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office.

Dumbledore placed the two motionless cats on the smooth and shiny desk surface.

Lockhart frowned slightly. The current appearance of these two cats is not very good. Not to mention they are dirty and have water stains of unknown origin. Dumbledore's behavior is really difficult for him who has a slight mysophobia to accept. But Lockhart still said nothing and just stepped back.

"Your cats are not dead, Argus. And Miss Chang Chu, your cats are the same." Dumbledore said softly, "They are just petrified."

Chang Chu looked at Dumbledore expectantly, and Filch also stopped sobbing quietly.

"It's just that I don't know how they were petrified. What exactly is going on, I don't know yet." Dumbledore said.

"Ask him! Potter! He must have done something good!" Filch still bit Harry.

"It's not me, Mr. Headmaster, I swear, I have never touched Mrs. Norris." Harry looked at Dumbledore sincerely.

"I believe that Mr. Potter did not do this. It is impossible for a second-year student to do this," Dumbledore said firmly. "This requires the most profound dark magic."

"Please allow me to say something, Headmaster." Snape suddenly said, with a very strange expression on his face, as if he was trying hard not to laugh.

"Perhaps, Potter and his friends just happened to appear here." Snape's mouth seemed to be stuffed with something, and his voice was low and thick, sounding a little vague.

The Gryffindor trio exchanged surprised expressions. Was Snape speaking for them? Merlin's most baggy y-fronts!

"However, I find the whole thing extremely suspicious," Snape said. "I don't recall anyone seeing Mr. Potter during dinner that evening."

The trio and Chang Chu immediately began to explain that they had just attended the 500th anniversary party of "Nearly Headless Nick".

"But what happens after that?" said Snape. "Why not go on to the Halloween party? Why come upstairs to the corridor?"

Chang Chu, Hermione and Ron looked at Harry at the same time.

"Because, because..." Harry stammered, "because we are tired and want to go to bed early."

"No dinner?" The sarcastic expression on Snape's face became more obvious, "Or do you mean that you have already had a full meal at the death anniversary party?"

"We're not hungry!" Ron shouted, but almost immediately his stomach began to growl.

Snape didn't even bother to do the most basic covering action, and he showed an expression of undisguised malice.

"Mr. Headmaster, as you can see, Potter is not completely telling the truth." Snape said, "We should probably take away some of his privileges until he tells us the truth, such as removing him from the rules first. Llanffindor Quidditch Team."

"Sorry, Severus." Professor McGonagall said sternly, "I see no reason not to let this kid continue to play ball. These two cats were petrified by dark magic, and it was not like Harry deliberately hit their heads with a broomstick. Just passed out!"

Chang Chu and Hermione lowered their heads. What Professor McGonagall said gave them an inexplicable sense of déjà vu. Completely unaware of what was happening upstairs, Draco, who was already resting on the dormitory bed, suddenly sneezed.

Dumbledore looked at Harry with an inquiring look, his bright blue eyes seemed to be able to see directly into people's hearts.

Lockhart, who was standing in the corner, unnaturally crossed his arms. Mr. Headmaster was really unabashed! Legilimency comes as soon as it comes!

"Innocent until proven guilty, Severus!" Dumbledore said firmly.

"As for the two cats, we will cure them." Dumbledore added. "According to my understanding, Professor Sprout has recently cultivated very healthy mandrakes and will make them after they mature." With the antidote, Mrs. Norris and Felicia can recover."

Professor Sprout smiled warmly at Filch.

"You can go." Dumbledore said to the five Wrights.

On the way upstairs, Harry suddenly realized a problem: in Lockhart's office, people had only been paying attention to the two petrified cats, but no one mentioned the words on the wall at all. .

What does "the secret room has been opened" mean?