[Soccer+HP] Mario and the Vanishing King

"Although the Second War in the wizarding world has passed, Voldemort has fallen, and the biggest dark cloud hanging over the wizarding world has dissipated. But I want to remind you that-even though you are only 11 years old, I still insist that You need to be warned, the sooner the better of course - the wizarding world is not always peaceful, even when Voldemort was notorious or came back, other dark wizards still existed and appeared endlessly, and of course still do. So don’t think that Defense Against the Dark Arts is an obsolete knowledge, this course is obviously worthy of your lifelong study and practice—if you don’t want to lose your life prematurely, I have reminded you.”

Andre is right.

Don't, don't, underestimate Professor Loew.

Like Professor Klose, despite appearing very gentle, this Defense Against the Dark Arts professor still has the ability to control the overall situation from the beginning.After Professor Love finished the previous opening remarks, no one in the class spoke for a long time. Everyone looked nervously at the black-haired professor, and some unconsciously clenched their wands tightly.

"Of course, I don't expect you to master any difficult spells from the beginning," Professor Love said with a smile, "I will guide you to understand black magic from the basics, and then defeat it. So don't be nervous, gentlemen and ladies They." He glanced around from left to right, and then reassured everyone, "Before the third grade, I will not teach you more advanced defensive spells, we will focus on those creatures with black magic, Therefore, you will find that some of our courses will overlap with the Protection of Magical Creatures class. Thanks to the kind Professor Alonso! It is he who proposed to move the lower grades Defense Against the Dark Arts practical class to his outdoor field, and at the same time he He also enthusiastically expressed that he would come to help. Now, follow your schoolbags, let us go to the edge of the Forbidden Forest to find Professor Alonso!"

While everyone was looking at each other, Professor Loew waved his magic wand calmly, and the books on dozens of tables immediately returned to their schoolbags to lie down, and then the schoolbags floated into the air and left in a row. .

The classroom immediately became a mess, and everyone scrambled to squeeze out the door to find their schoolbags, for fear that others would take them away without seeing them.You know, which Hogwarts student doesn't have a little secret in his schoolbag?

"Quiet—don't panic!" Professor Loew looked at the flustered students with a smile, and added, "Everyone's schoolbag is marked with the owner's name. If someone deliberately wants to take someone else's schoolbag as his own, Then I don't think this person would mind missing all of next week's classes." He finished with a playful wink at them.

Mario always felt that he had seen this expression before, but he couldn't remember it for a while.He wanted to ask Marco, but found that he couldn't find a chance to ask.The originally chaotic crowd was immediately filled with exclamations. Mario followed into the corridor and saw that the schoolbags of the whole class were neatly arranged in mid-air, and there was a name floating above each schoolbag—the yellow name It is a student of Hufflepuff College, and the red name belongs to the Gryffindors.

This time you really can't go wrong.

So led by the schoolbags (of course, they followed Professor Love's wand), the freshmen of the two colleges walked out of the castle gate, down the slope, and for the first time came to the edge of the Forbidden Forest, ready to start their The first lesson in Defense Against the Dark Arts was also the first lesson in Protection of Magical Creatures.

"Good morning, Harvey!" Professor Love greeted the front happily.

They were nearing the edge of the Forbidden Forest now, but had yet to spot anyone who looked like their Care of Magical Creatures teacher.Not to mention people, there is not even a "living creature".

"Who is Professor Love greeting?" Marco asked uneasily, still looking around.

"I don't know, maybe there are people around?" Mario also stretched his neck, but he still didn't see anyone. Around them, the students were also trying to find the object of the greeting.

"Hey, Jogi! Come help me!" came a muffled voice from behind a tree.

Professor Loew immediately signaled the students to wait here, and then went to the woods to help, and he came back after a while, followed by... what is that?A tree with legs?

Fortunately, the tree then revealed a human head and greeted them loudly.

"Children, look what I have prepared for your first class?" the head said excitedly, and then put the whole tree on the ground.It was only then that everyone discovered that their Protection of Magical Creatures teacher was wearing a thick long coat, which was exactly the same color as the tree trunk in his arms. No wonder he looked like a walking tree.

"Harvey Alonso, your professor of protection of magical creatures." He rubbed his hands, then took out a small bucket hanging behind him and put it aside.Mario found that the barrel was full of black beetles, and the bugs were not like any beetles he had seen before.If only Andre was here, he couldn't help thinking.Andre must know what this is!

"Turtle!" Professor Alonso pointed to the worms in the bucket, "Bowtruckles' favorite food, so you must have guessed it, right? The children we invited in the first class are... the patron saint of trees Bowtruckle!" He opened his hands exaggeratedly, showing them the tree in front of him.

The audience was silent.

The students stared questioningly at the tree in front of them, hoping it would move to show that it was an "animal".

"Professor..." David raised his hand weakly, "Is this a tree?"

"It is indeed a tree." Professor Alonso replied with a smile, looking at everyone expectantly.

"Then what do you want us to see, Professor?" Marco asked aloud.

"Observe, pay attention to observe, gentlemen." Professor Loew added from the side.

The sharp-eyed Mateo immediately noticed the abnormality: "There is something in the tree!"

Everyone stared at the trunk carefully looking for clues.

"Don't get too close. Bowtruckles are very shy creatures, but if they feel that the trees they live in are threatened, they will jump down and attack the intruders." Professor Alonso told everyone to keep a distance while explaining, " So stand back, kids."

After he finished speaking, he took out a few wood beetles from the bucket and approached the tree trunk. Several branches on the trunk suddenly moved and caught the wood beetles in their "hands".Only then did everyone see clearly that there was a small thing only eight inches in size lying on the trunk. Its whole body was covered with bark and twigs, making it impossible to distinguish it from the trunk.

The Bowtruckle that had acquired it was so quiet that Professor Alonso was able to remove it from the trunk and show them its long, sharp fingers. "Look at its fingers, your eyes won't like it. It's the Bowtruckle's most powerful weapon, but the woodjack has nothing to fear from these fingers, provided they are provided with them," said Professor Alonso. "Now , I want you to work in pairs and help me feed these Bowtruckles."

Everyone immediately divided into groups and lined up to find Professor Alonso.

"Pay attention to these branches and leaves." When Mario and Marco walked over, Professor Alonso reminded them, "They may be camouflage for a Bowtruckle, be careful not to break them, it won't like this."

Mario felt that the one they were assigned seemed to have a bad temper. As soon as Marco put the tree down, it stared at its two small brown eyes and gestured at them with powerful fingers, and almost scratched Marco's arm.Mario quickly stuffed a wood turtle to it, and it was successfully quieted down.

"I don't understand why Thomas likes this class..." Marko said with lingering fear, "It sounds like taking care of different kinds of animals, and these animals are not very safe."

"Think about it." Mario saw that the Bowtruckle had already wiped out a ground turtle, and started to move again, and immediately stuffed another one in. "At least Professor Alonso is a good person, and think about it, Doing Defense Against the Dark Arts and Protecting Fantastic Creatures will give us a lot of free time."

"I feel much better thinking about it!" Marco said happily, and then lowered his voice mysteriously, "Listen, I heard in the bathroom yesterday that there is a secret passage in the school, we can go and see it if we have time look?"

"But the secret path is not necessarily much safer than magical creatures." Mario said wisely, motioning to Marco to throw another wood beetle to the little guy in the tree.

Marco blushed. "You're talking more and more like Andre, Mario!" he whispered disapprovingly. "I'm just not good at taking care of animals!"

"Okay, I know, I know." Mario suppressed a laugh, "I'll go, I swear! So shall we call Andre?"

"Why not? Andre absolutely can't stand that there are things he doesn't know in school, and he will try to find out!"

"Then you go and tell him," Mario pushed Marco, "you just say 'Hey Andre, we found something you didn't know'!"

"No, no, then he will never help me with my homework again!" Marco kept shaking his head.

"You came up with the idea." Mario spread his hands, "If you still want to pass the Transfiguration homework..."

"I didn't say I'm not going! I mean..." Marco quickly defended, "I just don't think it's good to say it directly, maybe it needs to be a little roundabout..."

At lunch, they first found Andre at Hufflepuff's table, but in order to avoid being overheard, they dragged him to the corners of the Slytherin house table.

As Marco expected, Andre really expressed interest.

"Secret passages? This won't be written in "Hogwarts, A School History"!" He was rarely excited, "It is said that the twins of the Weasley family discovered four secret passages during their first year of school , although they have the help of the Marauder's Map, this achievement has not been surpassed so far!"

"So you decided to join?" Marco asked happily.

"Of course, I have to see what the secret path looks like!"

"Then we've decided?" Mario looked at the two of them in turn, "What time do you think is better?"

"How about Halloween in a week? Do you want to have a Halloween adventure?" A familiar voice cut in.

They were all taken aback, and when they looked back, they found it was Thomas.

"What are you discussing?" Thomas bent down and looked at them curiously. "I heard you discussing the time. Are you discussing how to play Halloween?"

"Nothing." Marco quickly denied.

"We... we are discussing when to go...to take up a seat in the library, there are too many people there recently!" Mario added.

"Yes, that's right, and the library is always full of noisy girls. I still don't quite understand that it's just an assignment for a transformation class. Is it worth shouting and recalling the details of Professor Klose's class? "Andre's unchanging answer once again refreshed Mario's perception of him, and he decided to ask Andre for his speaking skills in the future.

"Andre, you really don't speak like a child. You feel like you're almost catching up with Philip! Don't tell him that I say that about him, or he will beat me to death in the dueling club!" Thomas smiled. Say, "Halloween is coming soon so don't think about homework all the time. Halloween is all about having a good time, don't you think so? Seriously, I suggest you go to the basement after dinner that night. There are surprises!" After speaking, he blinked mysteriously and left.

"How much do you think he heard?" Mario asked with some concern.

"I don't know, maybe... not much? I just heard that we were discussing the time?" Marco replied hesitantly.

"Maybe...he heard everything." Andre picked up his luncheon meat thoughtfully. "We don't even know when he came here. It's too careless."

"Then what do you mean... what does he mean by mentioning the basement?" Mario picked up the boiled vegetables on the plate, feeling that he had no appetite, "Does the basement have anything to do with... and the secret passage?" He unconsciously lowered his voice .

"It's hard to say," Marco pulled his plate and began to eat. "I come out of the basement every day, and I haven't seen any secret passages. Maybe he just said it casually?"

"But when have you seen Thomas talk so little?" Andre raised his head. "He usually won't stop talking for a few minutes. He must have something to tell us, but he can't say it clearly."

"That's not necessarily related to the secret passage, right? And the secret passage I heard is on the third floor." Marco still insisted.

"I also think Thomas is trying to tell us something...he's unusually quiet and secretive." Mario said, "Why don't we ask Manu?"

"Didn't you notice that they didn't show up together today? Maybe Thomas is avoiding him." Andre said sharply.

"Are they arguing again? But...why did they tell us these things when they were arguing?" Marco's curiosity was also attracted.

"So, Thomas still wants to tell us something!" Mario said with certainty.

"Then let's take a look!" Marco hit it off with him.

"I also agree this time." Andre nodded, "But before we go, we have to prepare well, just in case!"

A week before Halloween, the two of them spent all their free time in the library by Andre.

They were forced to read all the references to the basement in "Hogwarts, A School History", most of which were about Slytherins, of course, and a part about Hufflepuff.

"Your lounge is really next to the kitchen?" Mario asked Marco with a look of surprise.

"Secret!" Marco blinked, "No one except Hufflepuff knows where our lounge is and how to get in!"

"Is there no one from other colleges?" Mario insisted.

"Maybe there is... But without the guidance of Hufflepuff, you absolutely can't get in." Marko said, "Don't look at me like that, I won't take you in!"

"why?"

"Because...how should I put it? Our emblem is a badger, you know? Although we are always friendly to others, we are always cautious about where we live..."

"Although the truth is correct, I don't know why, but I still feel unhappy..." Mario said with a sigh.

"Don't think so, none of us have the right to ask others to have the obligation to trust us [-]%." ​​Andre interjected rarely, without even raising his head.

"Andre, I think it's even more sad when you say that to Mario..." Marco whispered.

The day before Halloween, the three of them didn't even dare to whisper in class, for fear that others would see that they were "conspiring" something.Especially in the history of magic class, they even became the last three people in the class to fall into a coma.

"How can I let myself fall asleep!" Mario said angrily after class, "What if I accidentally talk in my sleep?"

"Don't worry, the whole class is sleeping and no one can hear you." Marco yawned and said.

"Anyway, you have to go back to the dormitory to sleep at night. If talking in your dreams will reveal the secret, David and Mateo probably already know." Andre said, "If you don't hurry up, the pie will be gone."

Mario immediately regained his energy, picked up his schoolbag and ran towards the cafeteria, without even hearing Andre's next words.

"But it's said that today is a vegetable pie, so it's okay to be late..."

They were visibly absent-minded at dinner, and Mario didn't even raise any objections to the vegetable pie, and declared he was full after eating just one pie and half a drumstick.Marco and Andre had to finish their dinner under his urging eyes, and then they parted at the entrance of the auditorium, and each went to their common room.

After a night of torment, finally, Halloween is here.

The school is filled with Halloween decorations.Live bats fluttered around the castle with flapping wings, and Hagrid had somehow acquired giant pumpkins that had been carved into lanterns big enough for three people to sit inside.

That morning, Mario went to the first greenhouse for two herbal medicine classes.After the lesson, he and the Gryffindors rushed back to the tower to take a quick shower to get off the sticky juices that had been sprayed on him by those precious meebu meebo.In the afternoon, he met Marco and went to the edge of the Forbidden Forest to take a class on the protection of magical creatures. Professor Alonso didn't seem to plan to let them get in touch with anything other than Bowtruckles before Halloween, so this class passed very easily. Everyone gathered in twos and threes in front of the Bowtruckle and chatted, just pay attention to throwing a wood turtle or two over from time to time to appease the little guys.

Before dinner, they gathered with Andre at the door and walked into the hall together.

The auditorium was festooned with lights and candles, and the tables were set with gleaming gold plates, and a thousand bats fluttered across the walls and ceiling, and a thousand more, like low black clouds, hovered over the dining table. The hovering and flying above made the candle flames in the pumpkin's stomach flicker.

The three of them parted ways temporarily at the college table. After all, on such an important occasion, they had to be seated in different colleges.

Mario found that David had reserved a seat for him, and hurried over to sit down.As soon as he sat down, David asked him, "Would you like some baked potatoes, Mario?"

It was only then that he realized that food appeared on the golden plate in the blink of an eye, just like they did at the beginning of school banquet.

Although it has long been heard that Principal McGonagall has invited the skeleton sisters to cheer for Halloween, but for those who still have "special operations" in a while, they still have to leave the auditorium early.Although it is a bit regrettable, there is still a huge unknown ahead of them waiting for them to explore, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation.

After Mario sneaked out of the gate, he soon saw Marco and Andre on the right, and they were standing at the door of the broom room, waving to him.

"Are you ready?" Marco whispered excitedly.

Mario nodded: "Okay, let's go!"

The three of them walked down the stairs and headed for the basement classroom. The noise in the auditorium was left behind, and even a loud applause sounded very faint.

"That must be the Sister Skeleton." Marco listened carefully and said, his words echoed in the corridor, which sounded uncomfortable.

In fact, the corridor they were in was not at all pleasant.

Candles were burning in the corridors, as in the rest of the castle, but they were dark, thin candles, with a bluish glow that cast a sinister look on their faces.With every step they took, the temperature dropped, and soon the three of them were shivering with cold.

"It's too dark here," Andre took out his wand, "Luminescence flickers."

The tip of his wand shone brightly, illuminating not far ahead.Mario and Marco did the same, and the light from the three wands made the hallway brighter again.

"Why do I have an ominous premonition..." Marco whispered.

"Me too." Mario agreed.

"Hush, don't talk..." Andre stopped, "Did you hear that?"

"What?" the two asked in unison.

Then they heard it, and the sound was unbearable, like a thousand fingernails scraping across a huge blackboard.

"I kind of don't want to go any further." Mario said honestly, covering his ears. "It's too harsh."

"It's already here, let's go and have a look..." Marco said, but he seemed reluctant.

"Say it straight up if you're afraid." Andre disagreed.

"Who...who is afraid?" Marco said immediately, "I just think Mario doesn't like the sound! You don't dare to go... I'll go and have a look!" After speaking, he raised his wand and walked forward immediately.

"Marco, wait for us!" Mario also hurriedly chased after him.

They turned a corner and found the front door open, and Nearly Headless Nick stood in front of it, still draped in black velvet.

"My dear friends," he said in a melancholy tone, "welcome... welcome to my banquet... though somewhat surprised, I am very grateful..."

He took off his feather hat and bowed to invite them in.

Mario walked into the room and saw that the sight in front of him was unbelievable!

The dungeon was filled with translucent, milky figures who floated about the room, some waltzing on the crowded stage.The sound they heard just now came from the band on the side. The band was sitting on the stage covered with black cloth, playing dance music with thirty musical saws.In a large chandelier overhead, black candles were also crowded and lit, emitting a faint blue light.The three of them rubbed their hands tremblingly, and their breath formed a cloud of white air in front of them, as if they were in winter.

"It's full of ghosts!" Marko said in shock. "It's so cold!"

"Shall we move forward?" Andre suggested.

"Be careful not to pass through their bodies!" Marco reminded.

They walked cautiously along the edge of the classroom, always paying attention not to run into those ghosts.Mario sees the fat friar, Hufflepuff's ghost, chatting with the bloody Baron, but Baron doesn't seem very happy.

"To be honest, after being in school for so long, I still think Barrow is scary." Mario whispered.

"Actually, he's quite quiet. Of course, he always has that sad face..." Andre said, "But I admit that he looks scary, and we don't want to sit next to him when we eat."

"Look, there is something to eat!" Mario discovered the New World.The three of them, who were terribly cold, immediately went to the long table, but they stopped in panic at the table, full of hope.

The smell is really bad!

Large chunks of rotting meat were placed on delicate silver plates, some burnt small cakes lay on tall trays, and next to them were several plates of animal offal covered in maggots, and a piece of cheese with green hairs.In the middle of the table was a large black five-tiered cake, with a tombstone-shaped decoration on the top, on which was written in bright red sugar syrup:

Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington

Died October 1492, 10

They were dumbfounded, especially as the ghosts crouched down and passed between the tables with their mouths wide open.

"Do you think they can taste like this?" Marco asked in shock.

"Maybe the spoiled food is used to make the smell stronger..." Andre said, covering his nose.

"Can we move away from the table? I feel like throwing up..." Mario suggested.

They hurried back to get away from that table and the horrible food.Just then, Nearly Headless Nick came over.

"Have a good time?" he asked enthusiastically.

"Uh, good...thank you," Mario said.

"Honestly, I didn't expect you to come!" he said happily, "There are not many living people who have come to my death anniversary dinner. Harry and the others came once when they were at school. I have always been grateful to them—— Oh, by the way, and Manu and Thomas, they always come to support me, lovely young people!"

"Manu?"

"Thomas?"

"Yeah, that's right. They have promised to come every year since they found out about this little banquet I held in the second grade, but this year they will be late..." Nick looked around and said proudly, "The number of people Satisfying, with a lot of people coming all the way back. Seriously, I kind of miss Peeves around this time, and if he's still here, it might be a little more fun... When I'm talking It's almost here, I have to inform the band first, I'm sorry I'm sorry..." He bowed to them and walked towards the direction of the band.

"Attention everyone, I'm speaking now!" Nick stepped into a blue spotlight as the band stopped playing, "My late Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I thank you for coming. Attend my Deathday Dinner. 510 Two years ago today, I, Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, died at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Witchcraft..."

"I can't take it anymore, it's too cold here..." Marco suggested tremblingly, his teeth chattering.

"Let's go." Mario agreed tremblingly.

They stepped back toward the door, nodding to each ghost that looked at them. After 1 minute, they finally returned to the corridor full of dark candles.

"I decided not to talk to Thomas for a week!" Mario said angrily.

"I'm going to cast a long-haired spell on Thomas, if I can!" Marco angrily pulled out his wand and lit it up. "How can there be any surprises? It's obviously a shock!"

"Fortunately, I really thought it had something to do with the secret way..." Andre said disappointedly.

"On the bright side, at least you got to witness the Ghost's Deathday Party, didn't you?" said a voice.

They raised their wands and found that it was Manu who had spoken.Both he and Thomas were wrapped tightly in winter cloaks, and they were holding food brought from the auditorium, looking at them with smiles.

"How is it? Don't you think it's special? To tell you the truth, Manu and I were taken aback when we found out, but to be honest, how many people have attended the dinner party held by the ghosts? And It's such a special day again! Isn't it?" Thomas said enthusiastically.

"Thank you, Thomas," said Mario dryly.

"Thanks, you're so kind, Mario! I'm really glad you guys like me, you know? I've never told anyone about Nick's dinner before, if it wasn't because you were talking about Halloween that day, I'm not going to tell you! This was originally a secret between Manu and I, but after discussing it with Manu, he agreed with me to tell you this secret. After all, this experience is still rare, isn't it, Manu? "

"That's right, I think so too." Manu said with a smile, "But Thomas obviously forgot to tell you to wear more clothes, isn't it freezing?"

"It's quite cold..." Marco hadn't recovered yet.

"But Thomas, may I make a suggestion?" Andre said.

"Say it quickly, I'm a person who is very good at listening to other people's suggestions, whether it makes sense or not! Because I always feel that I don't look at the problem comprehensively enough. For example, the last time I saw Hagrid and his Fang -"

"Let Andre finish, don't worry," Manu said.

"The next time you plan to surprise us, can you tell us what it is in advance so that we can be mentally prepared?" Andre said seriously.

Manu laughed so hard that the food in his hand almost fell to the ground.

"But it wouldn't be a surprise if I told you in advance..." Thomas said in confusion.

"Go in quickly, Nick will finish speaking in a while!" Mario hurriedly added, "Let's go back to the auditorium to see if there is anything to eat!" After speaking, he waved to them and quickly pulled Marco and Andrea are gone.

"Hey, do you still want to hear about Hagrid and Fang?" Thomas's loud voice came from behind.

"You can catch the last batch of frosting pies if you hurry up!" Manu's voice drifted over.

They hurried through the dark blue underground corridor, holding their wands high in their hands, turning one turn after another.

"Hope there's some food left in the auditorium!" Mario said hopefully when they finally climbed the stairs.

But thinking about it afterwards, it seemed that that day was not destined to be so smooth.

The author has something to say: *Professor Alonso is online today!In fact, I really like the Protection of Magical Creatures class!serious face!