Hogwarts Life Guide

"The pattern on the door was left by a professor many years ago. In addition to the one on the door, he also left the same pattern in another place in the kitchen. Dolu can take the gentlemen and ladies to see..." The house elf who calls himself Doru has a hoarse voice, perhaps because he is very old. He speaks very slowly, walks slowly, and uses a short and thin cane.

"Dolu doesn't know why he left these patterns, but he doesn't allow Dolu to tell others about it." Dolu continued, "Dolu is the last elf who knows about this!"

Tangning and Hermione looked at each other and there was indeed something wrong with this pattern!

Following Dolu, Tangning asked, "Do you remember the specific time when the professor left the pattern? Also, Dolu, why do you say you are the last one?"

Dolu suddenly stopped, but his back was turned to Tangning, which prevented Tangning from seeing his front.Then Dolu started to cry, "Dolu doesn't remember..." he sobbed, "Dolu's parents are dead, poor Dolu..."

"Dolu, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..." Tangning realized that he had said the wrong thing and tried to make up for it.

But Dolu only choked for a short while. Before Tangning finished speaking, he suddenly seemed to have forgotten what had just happened and said to himself, "Dolu is taking Mr. and Miss to see the patterns!" He turned his head and confirmed that Tangning and Hermione were still behind him. "Follow Dolu. Dolu is happy to serve wizards." He said and walked forward slowly with his cane.

When Dolu turned around, Tangning saw traces of tears still remaining in the folds of his face, but his expression returned to the initial calm and numbness, which looked very strange.

"How could this happen?" Hermione tugged on Tangning's sleeve, covering her mouth with her other hand, and asked softly with a look of sympathy on her face.

"Maybe he's too old!" Tangning was not sure. He guessed that Dolu was probably as mentally disturbed as Kreacher.

But Doru, who seemed to be old, actually heard Tangning and Hermione whisper, "Doru has long forgotten how old he is, but Doru still remembers when the great Mr. Dumbledore was still in school. Already born." Doru was full of pride, "Doru had seen the great Mr. Dumbledore when he was young!"

"Almost a hundred years old!" Tangning just lip-synced to Hermione. Doru was indeed considered to have lived a long life among house elves.

Along the way, house elves would bow to Tangning and Hermione from time to time. Tangning was used to it, but Hermione seemed uncomfortable. She tried to get the elves to stop doing this, but almost no elves were willing to listen to her. if.

Following Dolu through a short corridor, they left the kitchen and came to a small room.Different from the hot and noisy kitchen, the small room was very cold, with no other exit except a regular round hole on the ground.

"Below is an underground river that leads to the sea. For more than 1000 years, we have been pouring leftovers into the cave according to tradition..." Dolu said slowly, slightly like Professor Binns who taught the history of magic. .

Tangning took two steps forward. There was not even a guardrail beside the cave. Fortunately, the ground nearby was relatively clean.When he looked into the cave, he couldn't see anything clearly in the pitch black inside. Standing near the cave entrance, he could vaguely hear the sound of water coming from below, and from time to time, there would be bursts of white smoke coming out of the cave entrance. Come.

This gave Tangning a conjecture. If the house elves' tradition of dumping leftovers was connected with a snake hiding in the dark, it would not be difficult to explain why there is such a big snake in Hogwarts. It has enough food sources.

Clues to the monster in the secret room were probably hidden in the underground river below. Tangning was hesitating about what to do next, and Hermione seemed to have discovered something.

"Tangning, look over there!" Hermione pointed to the wall facing the corridor, "Is there a triangular pattern there? It's in the corner of the wall, and there seems to be something on it."

Following the direction Hermione pointed, Tangning also discovered the pattern and what was on it.Its color was very similar to the dark gray corner of the wall, so Tangning didn't notice it at first.

"It seems to be a coat of arms." Tangning pulled out her wand and tried to take the coat of arms into her hand, but it didn't move at all.

"Will the Flying Charm work?" Hermione said and took out her wand. "The crest is flying!" But it remained motionless.

"Dolu, can you get that coat of arms?" Tangning turned to ask Dolu, but for a moment, Dolu seemed to have fallen asleep, with his eyes closed, and his big head was shaking but he never fell. Fall to the ground.

When Tang Ning asked, Dolu suddenly woke up, "Transfer magic is not effective on that thing, sir, but I will be happy to help you get it!" As he said that, Dolu tremblingly walked around the black hole, Tang Ning She quickly stopped him, just in case he accidentally fell into the hole... Tangning didn't want to be charged with harming an elderly house elf.

"I'll do it by myself, Doru, just wait here," Tangning said to Hermione with a smile, "Get ready for the levitation spell, I'm putting all my money and life on you!"

The distance between the black hole and the wall is very narrow, the length of two feet.When Tangning passed the edge of the black hole against the wall, she could still feel the moist cool wind in the hole blowing against her face, with a hint of earthy smell.

Hermione was always watching Tang Ning, fearing that Tang Ning's foot would really slip. "Be careful," she said uneasily, holding the wand tightly in her hand.

"It doesn't matter, it's just a short journey..." As she spoke, Tang Ning was already close to the coat of arms. As she got closer, he could see the full coat of arms clearly. There were also triangular marks on the gray and black surface. Tang Ning tried to poke it with her wand. He poked the coat of arms. Suddenly, the coat of arms jumped up and landed on Tang Ning's right hand!

Almost instantly, Tangning felt as if a rope was tied around his waist, pulling him forward with irresistible momentum, and then his feet lifted off the ground and flew up. "It's the portkey!" Tangning shouted. He saw Hermione waving her wand and shouting something, as if it was his name... Then, he couldn't see anything clearly and could only feel himself. It flew forward like a gust of wind.

The dark coat of arms seemed to have a magnetic force, sticking tightly to the back of Tangning's hand. This was the characteristic of the door key.According to Tang Ning's understanding, door keys are divided into touch activation and timed activation according to the activation method. This coat of arms obviously belongs to the former. Although she doesn't know why it suddenly jumped on the back of her hand, Tang Ning is sure that she must be there. Grab it as soon as you arrive at your destination!

Soon, before Tang Ning could figure out how to grab the crest on the back of his hand, his foot touched the ground with such force that Tang Ning had no time to control her balance and fell down!The coat of arms also fell not far from his head.

Tangning was stunned for the first time, but he immediately woke up and reached out to grab the door key. Almost at the same time, the door key suddenly flew away!

Tangning immediately got up. Fortunately, he kept holding the wand in his hand. He tried to wave the wand to snatch the door key back, but he failed.Following the direction of the door key's flight, Tangning saw an old man with sparse hair, sunken eye sockets, and a skinny old man staring at her. His cloudy eyes were motionless. The door key was hanging in the palm of his hand out of thin air. Tangning would even think that the person in front of her was a dead person.

"Armor for protection!" Tangning used the Iron Armor Charm as soon as she spotted the old man. "Who are you?!" he asked, pointing his wand at the old man.At this time, Tangning noticed her situation. The surrounding area looked like a castle. The walls were made of large stones. They looked old, but the color of the stones was different from that of Hogwarts Castle. same.

"...r!"

The old man came out with several bird songs, but Tang Ning couldn't understand any of them.

The old man was also stunned, and suddenly said another sentence, "Hogwarts student? Why are you here?"