some magical Hogwarts

Chapter 43 The Devil's Web

At 03:30 on Friday afternoon, William and the rest of the Ravenclaw students hurried down the steps to the front yard for their first flying lesson.

It was a clear, breezy day, and the grass swelled slightly under their feet as they walked briskly down the sloping lawn to a flat lawn on the opposite side of the field.

The Hufflepuffs were already there, along with dozens of broomsticks, neatly arranged on the ground.

William had heard Fred and George complain about the broomsticks at school, and now he saw that it was true.

Each one is tattered, like an old antique that has been used for decades.Not to mention the safety performance, the senses are also very poor.

Is Hogwarts short of money?
Certainly not short of money.

William seriously suspected that someone had taken kickbacks!
Mrs. Hooch, with short gray hair and yellow eyes like a hawk's, came walking quickly.

"Okay, what are you all waiting for?" she snapped, "everyone stand by a broomstick.

Quick, quick, hurry up! "

William found a broomstick that didn't look so broken, and communicated with it with his eyes.

William has never been in contact with this kind of thing, and only hopes that the other party will show some face.

"Put your right hands over the broom handles," cried Mrs. Hooch ahead, "and say, 'Get up!'"

"Get up!" everyone shouted.

William's broom climbed tremblingly, as if he was struggling to climb a mountain.

William increased his voice again, and the speed of the broom increased only a little.

Qiu's broom was in her hand in an instant, she raised her eyebrows and glanced at William triumphantly.

It was the first time she had surpassed William in a class.

When everyone's brooms were in hand, Mrs. Hooch showed everyone how to get on a broom without slipping off their heads.

Riding on a broomstick is not as uncomfortable as imagined, some kind of invisible support seems to be under the buttocks.

Mrs. Hooch walked up and down the line, correcting their handshakes.

"Okay, as soon as I whistle, you kick your legs off the ground, and you have to kick hard." Mrs. Hooch said.

"Hold the broom steady, go up a few feet, then lean forward slightly and drop straight back to the ground.

Listen to my whistle—three—two—"

However, Sharpie from Hufflepuff seemed to be too nervous. Before the whistle touched Mrs. Hooch's lips, he kicked hard and flew up.

"Come back, child!" Mrs. Hooch shouted, but Xia Bi flew towards the distance like a rocket.

Fred and George also said that the broom was very slow, but William thought it was very fast. After a while, Sharpie disappeared.

Nimbus 1700 is not that fast, is it?
A little farther away in the greenhouse, everyone found Sharpie.

He was lucky.

Not far away, there are special chemical fertilizers used to irrigate various herbal plants.

- excrement of magical creatures.

Although there was a layer of magic protection outside the septic tank, with that sprint speed, there was no guarantee that Xia Pi would break through the defense and plunge into it.

He too was unlucky.

Xia Pi fell from a high altitude, and the reason why he was not injured was because he fell into a clump of vines.

The broomstick was still moving vigorously, it awakened the plant, a large number of tentacle-like branches sprang from the ground, and a whip broke the old broomstick.

Sharpy jumped up and struggled to move toward a damp wall, but the plant's snakelike tendrils wrapped around his ankles and lifted him up.

He tried desperately to tear off the vines, but the more he struggled free, the faster and tighter the vines tangled.

When William and the others arrived, Xia Pie had already been wrapped into rice dumplings, hanging from the eaves like a gourd doll.

"Help!!" Xia Bi shivered, he wobbled, and looked like a green caterpillar from a distance.

But no one dared to go up, ten meters long tentacles waved in the air, pounded on the ground, and made a big hole.

The effect is like ten Illaoi opening up together!
Everyone looked at Mrs. Hooch.

Mrs. Huo Qi's face also changed slightly, she recognized the name of the plant in front of her - devil's net!

She was instantly recognizable, not because of her profound knowledge and unique achievements in herbal medicine... but because Robert, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, died a few months ago because of this plant!

Robert was really miserable. He was drunk during the day, and after being seriously injured by a wild boar, he happened to fall into the devil's net and was entangled. In the end, he couldn't get medical treatment and lost blood to death.

Of course Mrs. Hooch knew that Professor Sprout had transplanted the devil's net, but she did not expect that the plant was transplanted near the septic tank.

This broomstick is so immortal, why did it fly here?
Well, other places are also quite dangerous. There are tall walls to the west and north, the Black Lake to the south, the Forbidden Forest to the east, and an even more dangerous Whomping Willow tree not far away...

Hogwarts is such a dangerous place.

As for Mrs. Hooch, the Quidditch teacher...

Although she is an adult wizard and a teacher, she is not familiar with the devil's net!

You can't expect a physical education teacher to answer calculus problems for you, or calculate the probability of being a red-green color blind carrier for you, right?
You can't expect a Quidditch teacher to remember the weakness of Devil's Web.

Even if she ever knew it, she would have given it all back to the professor a long time ago.

"You all wait here, I'll call Pomona..."

Mrs. Huo Qi was flustered and was about to go to rescue the soldiers, but before she finished speaking, the devil's net widened again.

Being disturbed by so many people, the devil's net has a bad temper, and a large number of vines protrude from the ground, destroying it everywhere.

Everyone backed away, Xia Pie was also thrown high, and the rattan led him to fly towards the cesspit.

The little wizards all exclaimed, as if they would see Xiabi freestyle in the next second.

Qiu grabbed the broom and seemed to want to sit on it to save Xia Pi.

"Are you crazy?" William said. "Before you get close, you will be entangled in the devil's net."

"Then what should we do?" Qiu asked loudly, clutching the stick.

"I've heard Hagrid say that Devil's Web likes to be dark and damp—"

"But we have no fire!" Cho exclaimed, wringing her hands anxiously.

William asked in surprise, "Are you a witch?"

He drew out his wand, waved it, and muttered a spell, and from the tip of the wand, a blue bellflower-like flame shot out.

He walked slowly over the crowd toward the devil's net, with flames hanging from his wand like blue lanterns,

Everyone looked at William, and many little wizards covered their eyes.

But there were countless vines showing their teeth and claws, but none of them dared to get close to William, and they all hid in dark corners.

In just a few seconds, Sharpy felt the vines loosen their hold on him.

The plant twisted and twitched, unwinding the tendrils that wrapped around him, and he finally broke free completely.

Shabby breathed a sigh of relief.

So, he fell from mid-air.

"Ah! Help!!"

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(The third one is completed)

(End of this chapter)