Hogwarts Rising Again

Chapter 42 The Crazy Knight's Territory
"Sir Cadogan, your original portrait is not in the corridor, nor in this classroom, is it?" Molin asked tentatively.

"Yes, my heroic comrade-in-arms!"

Sir Cadogan seems to regard Maureen as one of his own. He is sitting on the side of the road in the painting. This painting is a noisy street scene. It is snowing heavily. In celebration of the arrival of Christmas, lights and festoons are everywhere.Many also waved to Sir Cadogan, who evidently knew the fellow who always wore armour.

"Who moved your painting here? Don't you know?" Mo Lin asked again.

"That's right! I don't know! Don't let me catch that sneaky traitor who sold out my territory while I was going to conquer the world! This kind of person is unforgivable."

Sir Cadogan was very angry, but a child in the painting gave him a Santa hat. Sir Cadogan stood up and took off his helmet, put on the Santa hat, and said: "Thank you very much, handsome little boy. Gentleman! Sir Cadogan is at your service."

Maureen understood Sir Cadogan's meaning of "going to conquer the world". It is likely that when Sir Cadogan was looking for his pony who was so stubborn and ran away from home at any time, someone secretly painted his portrait. Moved from the original place.And the people in the portrait can return to their photo frames directly no matter where they are, so when Sir Cadogan returned to his photo frame, he found that the photo frame had changed its place.

But why move Sir Cadogan's portrait over and over again?

Maureen looked at the person in the painting greeting Sir Cadogan, and then at Sir Cadogan, and quickly thought of the most important point!
Although many portraits in the castle can talk and visit each other, most of the portraits do not chat with students casually. Many of the portraits are just doing their own things and don't care about things that are not related to them.A portrait knight like Sir Cadogan who is restless looking for challenges from students and eager to help others is rare. If he sees something, he will easily tell it.

In other words, someone did not want Sir Cadogan, who was always talking nonsense, to see certain things, so he moved his portrait away, which means that there must be some secrets in the place where Sir Cadogan's original portrait was. It is!
Maureen figured this out, and immediately asked, "Sir Cadogan, where is your original portrait?"

"The place near the North Tower of Hogwarts Castle, my heroic comrade-in-arms, is a piece of land that I have fought for many years, but was betrayed by treacherous people, so I had to leave my hometown!" Sir Cadogan said angrily.

"Let's go! Let's go there to see the situation! What I mean is, go to your original territory to scout out the enemy's situation, and see if we can find out the traitors! Take back your territory!" Mo Lin echoed solemnly.

Sir Cadogan immediately burst into tears. He took off his Santa hat, put on his helmet again, drew out his sword, and shouted: "Thank you! My faithful friend, when I regain my territory, I will give you half of the country!"

When he pulled out the sword, he frightened the little boy who gave him the Christmas hat. The little boy burst into tears, and a black dog ran from a distance and barked at Sir Cadogan. Sir Cadogan ran away from the painting in a panic. .

"This way! My great and brave friend, let's go together to recover the lost territory!"

Sir Cadogan passed through the paintings in the corridor and returned to his original frame, but his frame was too big for Maureen to move, even with the Displacement Charm, it would be too much to move a painting in the middle of the night. Obviously, it's bedtime now, and it's against school rules for students to wander around in the corridors, and Maureen doesn't want to be caught by Filch, the administrator of Hogwarts.

According to Hugo, Filch had already served as the administrator of Hogwarts in his father's time. He was old and had a bad temper. Especially after his pet, Mrs. Norris, died of old age, his attitude towards students became even worse. If it is bad, students will be punished from time to time.

"I have a chance to help you move the photo frame back next time." Maureen ran towards the North Tower of Hogwarts under the leadership of Sir Cadogan.He had never been to the North Tower, which seemed to be the place where the divination class was taken, but the divination class was an elective, and it was not included in the freshmen's curriculum.

The castle at Hogwarts wasn't framed everywhere, and where there wasn't a frame in front, Sir Cadogan couldn't move forward.Maureen could only quietly take down a book-sized landscape painting from the wall, and let Sir Cadogan squeeze into the landscape painting.

"Follow my steps, mighty warrior, through the fearless ladder ahead, climb up! Pierce this armor's throat with your sword!"

"Come on, my warrior, the canyon on the left is difficult and dangerous, that is the only way we must go in the battle, don't be afraid, go forward bravely!"

"We need to crawl forward and turn to the swamp on the right, there is a statue of Gregory the flatterer, draw your sword and split it in two!"

Maureen ran cautiously for 10 minutes, and under the command of Sir Cadogan's various nonsensical slogans of "going forward bravely", he came to an unfamiliar platform.This place has a wide view, and you can see the night scene on the other side of Hogwarts, but it is already midnight, and it is pitch black, only a few black shadows fly in the sky of the Forbidden Forest, which may be some kind of big bird.

"This is my original territory! Be vigilant, we are ready to fight!" Sir Cadogan had already run from the landscape painting in Merlin's hand to a painting on the wall next to him, drew out his sword, and looked left and right, but the painting Drawing a map of the starry sky, Sir Cadogan became unstable and floated up in the gravity-free starry sky.

"If your painting is here, the secret that I don't want you to see should be around here. So what's strange about this place?"

Maureen glanced around. There was a wall opposite the original portrait of Sir Cadogan. There were also some paintings on the wall, but they were all pictures of fruits and vegetables, as well as some classical and strange buildings. Speaker.There are some pictures of people in the corner not far away, but those people gathered together for dinner and didn't even look at Mo Lin.

Mo Lin touched the wall with his hands. There was nothing special about the wall. He wanted to see if he could find some special places. Maybe there were some secret passages in the wall, but the wall was very solid and there were no cracks.

Withered yellow flames were burning on the torches on the wall, and the lights kept flickering, making Mo Lin's shadow flicker and sway from side to side.

Mo Lin didn't find anything strange, but at this moment he suddenly heard footsteps coming from far and near, coming towards him!

(End of this chapter)