Hogwarts Rising Again

Chapter 402 The Origin of the Dancing Curse

Alton took Maureen to check the waterworks. Muggle waterworks have a lot of pipes, and the reservoirs are divided into several square openings, arranged in a patchwork manner.

To Maureen, this place was like a Muggle maze. While he was still wondering what the rows of underground pipes were, Alton had already jumped down, cast a light magic, stood on the water, and put The wand dipped into the water and stirred twice.

"There is no trace of magic, and the source of the dancing curse is not here," Alton said.

"That's really strange. Muggle households have to use tap water. It stands to reason that casting underwater spells is the easiest way. If it's not here, then where?"

Alton carefully checked every concrete floor of the waterworks with a spell, but he still couldn't find the source of any spell.

"Can you think of other places that Muggles usually go to? Maureen." Alton stood up from the water, and then waved his wand. The water in the pool arched to form a series of steps. Alton walked along the water Step up.

"Grandpa, did you ask the wrong person?" Although Mo Lin knew some Muggle knowledge, this knowledge was far from enough to support him to think about this kind of question.

"Forget it, let's go find Edmund! See if he has anything to gain." Alton pulled Maureen up, opened his pocket watch, and Apparated to Edmund's side.

Edmund just came out of the church, and he also grabbed some banknotes in his hand, but it seemed that there were not as many as Alton and Maureen. After all, Alton and Maureen were a combination of grandparents, and in terms of gaining sympathy Has an advantage over Edmund.

"Is there any gain?" Alton asked.

"No, everything in the church is normal, except that several Muggles who were praying generously gave me money just now, let God bless me-the enthusiasm can't be stopped." Edmund threw a large stack of banknotes depressed into the trash can next to it.

Alton casually put a spell on the trash can.

"And what about the mall?"

"I haven't gone to the mall yet, let's go and have a look now." Edmund imitated Alton and cast a disillusionment spell on himself to avoid being handed out everywhere.

The three of them walked along the main street to the largest shopping mall in the town. The muggles on the street were still dancing tirelessly, but they didn't stop. Even the little doll in the stroller was lying there and writhing. .

They checked the whole mall again as usual, but still found no trace of magic.

"This guy is a bit powerful. There are traces of dancing curses everywhere, but there are no other spellcasting spells left behind." Edmund said.

"If this curse cannot be broken, the news about Dancing Town will spread quickly, and it will be even harder to hide it." Alton sat on a chair at the entrance of the shopping mall, frowning as he watched the people coming and going on the street. Muggles, wondering what the problem was.

Edmund asked: "Should we go back to the Ministry of Magic to find other people to help, I'm afraid we can't do it alone in this place—"

He hadn't finished speaking when suddenly there was a loud noise from a distance, which immediately attracted Mo Lin's attention.

A firework exploded in the sky not far away.

"Someone actually set off fireworks?" Mo Lin saw the fireworks in the distance. What's the matter with the fireworks in broad daylight?

"Go and see!"

Alton snapped to Maureen and Apparated to where the fireworks exploded.

The place where the fireworks are set off is in a substation. The substation is built on the hillside of a hill, and there is a tall signal tower at the top of the hill.There are many iron poles standing in the substation, many wires winding around, and there are transformers used by Muggles to transmit electricity.

The fireworks tube was on the concrete steps at the entrance of the substation. At this time, there were two Muggle workers in the substation shouting loudly, as if they were looking for the person who set off the fireworks.

"Which wicked person set off fireworks at the substation, looking for death?" A bald man danced the cha-cha dance and cursed, "Didn't you know that fire is banned here!"

Another young man with a pockmarked face who was dancing jazz stood by the fireworks cursingly: "You run really fast, don't let me catch you!"

Alton walked over quietly, pointed at them with his wand: "Legiliency!"

The eyes of the two Muggles suddenly became slack.

Alton read their memories, and shook his head after a moment: "The fireworks seem to be set off by themselves. It's strange, they didn't see the person who set off the fireworks."

Alton cast another detection spell: "Look for the trace!"

The spell spread out quickly and spread throughout the substation, then he raised his head, glanced at the tallest signal tower on the top of the hill, and suddenly found something, he let out a light surprise.

"Alton, what's the matter?" Edmund asked quickly.

"Come with me, Maureen, you wait below." Alton had apparated to the top of the signal tower more than 20 meters high, and Edmund followed closely behind.

Maureen also wanted to go up to join in the fun, but Alton obviously didn't allow him to go there. He immediately fumbled in his pocket twice and took out the "Cloud Piercing Arrow Telescope".He bought this by the way when he went to Diagon Alley the day before yesterday. Professor Kane used this to search in the stadium last time. It is known as "high-definition recognition for crossing obstacles in 360 degrees without dead ends", so Mo Lin also bought one. .

He saw a red plastic figure on the wire at the top of the tower. This is a lifelike toy. It has been dancing various dances on the wire. appearance, it will change a dance.

Alton carefully cast a confinement spell with his wand, and then slipped the plastic figure into a purple bag.

"Fuck!"

The electric tower suddenly sent out a burst of electric sparks, and the intense blue electric sparks spread out like waves, traveling down the mountain along the wires, and soon spread throughout the whole town, and the lights of the whole town were turned off. It flickered suddenly, and then slowly returned to normal.

Mo Lin was surprised to find that the power station employees who were dancing and cursing not far away had stopped dancing.

"Strange, why are my legs so sore?" The bald man touched his legs with a puzzled expression. He felt that he was almost unable to walk?
"Are your legs sore too?" the pockmarked young man asked.

"Yeah, it feels like I've run hundreds of kilometers, my God! These are the crocodile leather shoes I just bought yesterday, why are they damaged like this today?" The shoes of the bald man's pair of leather shoes have been worn away.

"You won't buy fake shoes, right... Oh no, my sneakers are all glued." Another employee just wanted to laugh, but found that his toes were already exposed.

These Muggles have been dancing all day, and they are still rubbing around the ground with devilish steps. It's no wonder that the shoes are not broken.

(End of this chapter)