[Soccer+HP] Mario and the Vanishing King

"What's going on in this house?" Marco looked at them in confusion, but this time even Andre couldn't give a satisfactory answer. "I don't know." He said, "Hogwarts Castle has a long history, no one can tell how powerful magic it has, maybe we just triggered something unintentionally..."

"In this case, maybe we can restore the original state by bringing back the White King?" Mario asked hopefully.

"I don't know," Andre said again.Mario had never seen him admit that he didn't know anything so often, and Andre was usually the most knowledgeable of them all, but now Andre looked a little frustrated. "And the Room of Requirement is a very special existence in the entire castle. Its magic lies in the fact that it cannot be judged by common sense. During the battle against Voldemort, many parts of the castle were damaged, but this room was in fire. Survived. You know, the dangerous black magic of Fiendfyre can destroy even Horcruxes."

"So... what do we do now?" Marco asked.

That's exactly what Mario wanted to ask.The three of them were standing in a room that was very familiar a few seconds ago, but now, this room made them feel very strange and strange. "So... since this house is so miraculous, will it repair itself? Just like what you said just now, that kind of... recovering from Fiendfire?" Mario looked at Andre.

"You mean...?"

Mario nodded. "I mean, if it has a self-healing mechanism, then maybe when we get out, it will restore the king by itself."

"But this is a bit too outrageous!" Marco expressed doubts.

"Perhaps, there is a way." Andre said slowly, touching his chin, "We can try it out to see if this assumption is correct."

"Anyway, it's useless for us to just stand in this room." Mario spread his hands, "How is it, Marco?"

Marco looked back and forth between the two of them. "Well, what you said makes sense, there is no better way anyway...instead of waiting here..." After finishing speaking, he was the first to walk over and open the door of the Room of Requirement, and the three of them followed one another. out the door.The door closed behind them, and they turned, watching nervously as the door faded away from the white wall until not a trace of pattern was visible.

Suddenly a bell rang in the castle.

They were taken aback before they noticed something was wrong with the whole hallway too.The hallway was too bright for bedtime.

"One... two... three... stop!" Mario carefully identified, "The clock strikes three times!"

"Three o'clock in the afternoon?" Marko turned around and looked at the shadow cast by the window on the ground, which was caused by the sun. This bell could not refer to the early morning, not to mention that they all knew that the school would not ring at bedtime. Bell's. "But how is that possible? Weren't we playing Quidditch on the playground an hour ago? It was almost dark by then!"

Andre walked quickly to the window at the end of the corridor without saying a word, and carefully lay down on it and looked down for a while. "It's three o'clock in the afternoon, indeed," he said, turning around, to their surprise, "but the question is—what day?"

"What day?" Mario felt completely confused. "What day? Didn't we just pass History of Magic this afternoon—"

Bang!

The door of the stairwell next to him was slammed open, and Julian ran out in a panic.

"I can't believe I overslept and Penny didn't call me!" he mumbled ruefully as he ran past them.After running a few steps, he stopped suddenly, turned around and looked at Mario and the others in shock. "Why are you here?" Julian quickly walked a few steps back to them, "I thought I was the only one who was going to be late! Why are you standing there stupidly? My God, are you going to give up the History of Magic exam? ?”

"History of Magic?" Marco looked even more surprised than Julian.

"Merlin! What did he do to your memory?" Julian looked at Marco worriedly, "We have a History of Magic exam this afternoon, remember? Our last exam this semester?" Confused, Julian shook his head helplessly. "I have to go, I'm going to be late soon! Otherwise, Professor Klose will not let me into the exam room! You two will take him to the exam, right?" He looked at Mario and Ann Andre, Andre nodded quickly.

"Great, see you in the auditorium!" Julian said.After speaking, he ran away as fast as a little rabbit.

"History of Magic?" Marco turned to them, "What the hell is going on! Someone explain it to me!"

Andre seemed to be lost in thought, and his expression looked a little unfathomable. "May [-]th," he said with a nod, as if he was calculating something, "then it will be five hours..."

"What five hours?" Marco looked like he was going crazy. "My God, Andrea! Do you know what's going on? Please don't pretend to be deep there, please? Please use your noble Wisdom save us in our doubts! The whole thing is-"

"Shut up!" Andre raised his head and glared at Marco angrily, "Stop making noise, I'm thinking!"

"Noise? You said my words were noise! ​​Mario, did you hear that? How could he say..."

"Alright, alright, Marco." Mario quickly said in a calming tone, "Let's let Andre be quiet for a while! He seems to have found something, give him a little time to think. After all, he can do it." We can't do it!"

"Well, since you said so." Marco reluctantly closed his mouth.

"I have a guess." After a while, Andre said suddenly, "But I need to confirm this guess, we have to go to the auditorium!"

"What's in the auditorium, Andre?" Mario pulled Marco, and followed the hurried Andre through the corridor.Marco still seemed to want to say something, but under Mario's silent stop, he still didn't say a word.

"Maybe there is nothing." Andre said, still walking forward without looking back, "but there may be everything—I have to go and see it with my own eyes before I can tell you whether this guess is right or not."

"Can't you say it now?" Marco couldn't help asking.

"No." Andre said bluntly.

They walked down the stairs on the west side under the leadership of Andre. Andre didn't say a word, and Mario couldn't ask any more questions, so he could only keep the huge question in his heart.Andre's pace became faster and faster, until they almost rushed all the way to the first floor.This feeling was a bit familiar, Mario remembered that they chased the straggling mouse that night, and ran down the stairs on the west side in the same way, but this time, he didn't know what was waiting for them next.

"Andre!" Just as they came out of the stairwell on the first floor and were about to go to the auditorium, they were suddenly stopped.They turned around and found that it was Professor Loew.

"Professor!" The three spoke in unison respectfully.

"Why are you here?" Professor Loew came over and asked seriously.

"Professor, we...we..." Mario hesitated for a long time, but couldn't give a complete answer.

"We're lost!" Marco's reaction was quick.

"Lost?" Professor Loew was a little skeptical, and looked more serious. Mario already felt a strong sense of oppression. "Is this your first day at school, you brats?" He frowned, "Or do I look like a tricky three-year-old?"

"We want to go to the auditorium," said Andre, who didn't look flustered at all.

Professor Loew showed a playful look, and looked at the three of them one by one with scrutiny.Mario even felt that the moment those gray eyes looked at him, he had been completely seen through.

"I don't suggest you go to the auditorium at this time." Professor Loew said, his expression relaxed a little, and the oppressive feeling on Mario's body disappeared. "Andre, I think you know the rules," he bent down, looked into Andre's eyes, and said word by word, "you can't be seen."

"But—" Andre opened his mouth in surprise, and after a few seconds he suddenly realized, "Oh—I see, Professor!" He nodded to Professor Love and said solemnly.

"Good boy!" Professor Love straightened up with a smile, "Then, I wish you all the best today, gentlemen!"

he left.

Andre kept watching Professor Love's back until he turned a corner and completely disappeared from his sight.He immediately pulled Mario and Marco into a nearby broom closet.

"Can you explain now, Andrea?" Mario asked.

"Listen, don't interrupt me before I finish speaking, we are in a hurry." Andre said in a hurry, speaking much faster than usual, "It is more than three o'clock in the afternoon on May [-]th, we Taking History of Magic exams in the Great Hall."

"What? But we're not in a broom closet listening to you—"

"Don't interrupt me!" Andri stared at Marco, and emphasized again, "We are indeed in this broomroom now, but we are also taking a History of Magic exam at the same time, and that exam will end in three hours. I don't know what we did wrong in the Room of Requirement, but now we're back in time, see? We're five hours back in time! That's why Julian was so shocked to see us just now, because the History of Magic exam is coming soon It started, and he didn't know that we were already waiting at the entrance of the auditorium to enter the exam room. What he saw was us five hours later, and he was worried that we would miss the exam!"

"My God——" Mario felt that he was running out of brains, "you mean, we are both here and in the auditorium?"

"Yes, it is."

"This is so cool!" Marko suddenly jumped up, "We went back in time! Then I can tell myself the answer to History of Magic. I'm sure the third question should be B instead of C!"

"No, Marco! You can't do that!" Andrea said seriously, "You can't just run into the auditorium and tell everyone the answer to the third question!"

"Why? I won't run into the auditorium, it's too conspicuous! I just need to find a chance to tell myself, if we can pass now before entering the examination room—"

"Remember what Professor Love said? We 'can't be seen'!"

"We will only be seen by ourselves!"

"Don't you understand? We are breaking one of the most important rules of magic! No one can change time! Imagine your reaction if you suddenly saw yourself rushing from the other side of the corridor?"

"I think... I might think I'm crazy," Mario realized suddenly, "or black magic or something..."

"Yes, and we may attack ourselves! There are enough terrible disasters caused by wizards tampering with time in history. Many people have killed their past or future selves by mistake!"

"Okay, so we just wait and do nothing?"

"No, I think—there must be something wrong somewhere in the Room of Requirement, and we're going backwards in time," Andre said. "And I think that the chessboard is very likely. Maybe there The Time-Turner is hidden, but the British ones were completely destroyed in 1995..."

"So how do you know this? Why is it that you're not surprised that we're back in time?" Marko asked.

"My mother, she told me about the Time-Turner. She said that there is a Department of Mysteries in the British Ministry of Magic. There is a time hall in the Department of Mysteries called a Time-Turner. Mother had one before, but frequent time travel overwhelmed her and even caused some mental problems, so she gave it to the Ministry of Magic." Andre looked at Marco , "And your father, Mr. Seanan Royce, was the last person she saved with the converter."

Marco opened his mouth wide in surprise, unable to speak a word.

"So, we have to find the White King, right?" Mario tried to bring the topic back to ease the awkward atmosphere between the two, "What if we don't find the pawn?"

"Then we have changed the past, or changed the future. Because we played chess in the Room of Requirement after eight o'clock, and the king was still there at that time, if we don't find the chess pieces and put them back within five hours If we were there, we would change the past, and with it, the future would be changed... Then, by the time the five hours are over, maybe we wouldn't be in the Room of Requirement, or maybe... we wouldn't exist .”

Mario couldn't help shivering. "It's terrible! Then what are we waiting for? Hurry up and find the king!"

"But...where should we find it?" Marko asked, "The castle is so big, and we only have five hours! No, there are less than five hours left..."

"If we go back in time and find that the pieces are missing—" Andre said while thinking, "then it means that something must have happened in the Room of Requirement while we were still answering the questions in the auditorium."

"So——since we returned to the room at three o'clock in the afternoon, and the king was not on the chessboard at that time, it means that the chess piece was thrown in the room!" Mario reacted.

"But it doesn't make sense!" Marco frowned, and this time he followed the rhythm keenly. "It was three o'clock in the afternoon when we came, and the chess pieces had disappeared by then, which means that if anything happened, it must be Before that! At least 10 minutes have passed since we left the Room of Requirement, and if we go back, we may not be able to find the chess pieces!"

Andre sighed. "You are right, Marco. But this is the only way now. Maybe we will find some clues when we go back this time? After all, we only focused on the obvious places before."

Although I know that I can't be seen by others, it is too difficult to practice.

They tried their best to choose the stairwell with few people, but they still met a few senior students.After all, it was an afternoon when only the first grade was still taking the exam. Even if the students who were not taking the exam were willing to enjoy the sunshine outdoors, they would still return to the castle.They try to make themselves look natural, rather than sneaky like they are holding some secrets.Fortunately, I didn't meet anyone I knew along the way, otherwise they would have been lost immediately.

The corridor on the eighth floor where the Room of Requirement is located is as empty as ever.Although the east side of this long corridor is connected to the Gryffindor common room, the west side is always inaccessible, because the location here is really remote, there are neither classrooms nor teachers' offices, except for a Beyond the large tapestry is a featureless white wall, and even the westernmost stairwell is hardly visited by anyone.However, for some young wizards who are afraid of being discovered, this is a great advantage.

Mario and the others carefully slipped up the stairs to the eighth floor, and only after confirming that there was no one else in the corridor outside did they dare to go out boldly.However, just as they were about to walk through the white wall three times, they suddenly heard movement in the stairwell.

Someone came up.

"I don't understand, why does it keep biting me...it won't let me touch it...it used to like me very much..."

"Is there something wrong with this thing? I think the intuition of animals is usually very accurate..."

The sound was getting closer and closer. They looked around, ran a few steps quickly, and hid at the corner of the corridor.A few seconds later, two figures appeared——

It's Thomas and Manu.

Thomas also holds a yellow tabby cat in his arms, but it doesn't look very happy and has been struggling.

"It's it!" Marco exclaimed in a low voice. The cat was the same one he had seen in the Hufflepuff common room a few months ago.

"Hush—" Mario quickly covered his mouth with his hand.

Thomas was waiting in front of the tapestry with the cat in his arms. Manu walked past the white wall three times with his eyes closed, whispering something.The third time he walked by, a wooden door gradually appeared in the wall, and Mario was sure it was the same one the three of them had seen when they left the house.

"So when we went back in time, the house was used by Thomas and Manu," he whispered.

"Now we finally know where they kept the cat," Andre said.

Marco's mouth was still covered by Mario, and he only let out two muffled hums, and Mario quickly took his hand off. "Do you see that the cat seems to have something in its mouth?" Marco took a few breaths of fresh air and said.

"What?" Mario leaned forward and leaned against the wall trying to look at Thomas.Then he saw that the cat had something in its mouth—it looked like a white thing with a flat, round bottom—

"White King!" Marco gasped.

"Who's there?" Thomas heard the movement, and walked towards the corner where they were hiding with the cat in his arms.Terrified, the three of them backed away and prayed that Thomas wouldn't find them.

"What's the matter, Thomas?" It was Manu's voice.

"I seemed to hear someone talking just now... Manu, did you hear that?"

"No, no one else will come here at this time, right? This corridor is so far away..."

"I know. But I still think I heard a voice just now, as if someone was talking around the corner."

"Could it be that you heard it wrong?" Manu's voice followed, "Is it what Barnabas said?"

"Stupid Barnabas still sleeping, not awake at all!" said Thomas. "I really think there's someone, really! Manu you have to believe me—whoops! It scratched me! Wait—Jesus! It's gone! Manu, catch it!"

Mario ventured to poke his head, and found that the cat had jumped to the ground, and was running away flexibly under the siege of Thomas and Manu, and in the process, it did not let go of the "prey" in its mouth - King Bai was still killed. It bites firmly in the mouth.Manu almost caught it, he had reached the tail, but the tabby leaped forward and all that was left in Manu's hand was a handful of ginger fur.The tabby cat took the opportunity to sneak into the stairwell, Thomas yelled after him and ran in. Manu shook his head, shook off the cat hair in his hand, and quickly followed behind Thomas.

"Did you see clearly? The thing in its mouth is really the White King?" Andre asked.

Marco nodded very positively. "That's the king piece, I can't see it wrong! I'm too familiar with wizard chess!"

"I saw it too, it's really similar!" Mario said too, running out of their hiding place, "Hurry up, we have to follow them!"

They hurried across the corridor, carefully opened the wooden door, and followed into the stairwell.When they were about to go down, they heard Thomas' voice coming from below——

"Manu, hurry up! It's already on the third floor!"

The author has something to say: *The Time Converters in the original book were all destroyed by Harry and the others in the fifth book.Here I tend to think that some of the Time-Turners were not collected by the Department of Mysteries, or that only the Time-Turners stored by the British Ministry of Magic were destroyed, so these Transformers escaped the fate of being destroyed.And I don’t think the Time-Turner needs to look the same as Hermione, it can have many styles~

*The fact that Lele's mother saved Luo Luo's father also involves the question of whether the time converter can change the past, which is basically consistent with the original book: the time converter cannot change the past, so Lele's mother went back to the past to save Screw's father, just because she's done it before.The same is true for the three of them this time. The chess pieces were there at the beginning of their normal chess play, and the chess pieces disappeared when they went back to the past, which means that they have found the chess pieces and put them back in the past timeline.I don't know if this is explained clearly~