Hogwarts Rising Again

Chapter 69 House Elves

Maureen scratched one of the pears in the fruit painting, and the pear gave a little chuckle before it turned into a big green doorknob.

"It's really interesting magic."

Maureen had always been interested in Hogwarts paintings, and this enchanted oil painting looked particularly different.

He turned the doorknob, opened a gap, and slipped in.

This is a room with a high ceiling, just like the auditorium in the hall. There are many gleaming copper pots and basins piled up on the surrounding stone walls. These are the tableware they usually use for eating. There is also a huge fireplace opposite. , in the middle are four long wooden tables, facing the long tables of the four colleges above the hall.

"Good morning, sir." A house-elf came over and bowed, and then many house-elves poked their heads out from under the table and looked at Mo Lin in awe.

"Hello."

Maureen looked at the house-elves. They had big green eyes like ping-pong balls, noses as long as pencils, ears like bats, and long fingers and feet.Each house-elf is wrapped in a tea towel bearing the Hogwarts crest.

"My name is Lulu, sir. May I help you? Tea or drinks?" asked the house elf named Lulu.

Maureen didn't have any prejudice against house elves. His grandfather Alton always wanted a house elf to help him beat his back, but there were no house elves in their family.

"I just—" Mo Lin lowered his voice and said in a low voice: "I want to leave the school, there is a passage here, isn't it?"

"Yes, sir, right by the fireplace."

Lulu pointed to the huge fireplace opposite and said that it was against the school rules for students to leave the school privately, but Lulu didn't even ask Mo Lin why he left the school.House-elves don't ask questions they shouldn't know, they just obey.

"Floo powder? I thought the fireplace in the school was not connected to the outside." Mo Lin asked strangely.Hogwarts is a very safe castle. In order to prevent people from using floo powder to break in, the fireplace of the school should be closed.

"It's not disconnected, sir. The fireplaces in the school will be supervised, and anyone who wants to come in must register. Wizards can't come in and out at will. Of course, it's okay to show a face in the fireworks, but you can't go in and out with the whole person. But I Not through the floo dust, but through the mines, sir."

Lulu bent over and led Mo Lin to the fireplace. The flames in the fireplace were raging. The flames were golden and exuded a warmth, warming his body.

"Mine tunnel?" Molin looked at the fireplace, not understanding what a mine tunnel was.

"Yes, mine, sir."

Lulu snapped his fingers at the raging fire in the fireplace. The warm flame gradually shrank and disappeared. He walked into the fireplace and knocked on the blackened bricks. The bricks began to rotate one by one to the sides. A long passage was formed, the passage was very dark, and it led to nowhere, and there seemed to be some bright lights in the distance, flickering and extinguishing.

"That's how you get out of school, sir," Lulu said.

"What is this mine tunnel for?" Molin asked curiously.

Lulu groped around from behind the wall, pulled out a rope, and shook it lightly. A mine cart appeared from the end of the darkness with a bang. The mine cart was covered with dust, and there were some cinders and rotten leaves that had not been cleaned up. .

"It's built by the goblin, it's convenient for our house elves to leave school to buy food. We can use it to transport food, such as bringing back the big pumpkin." Lulu replied respectfully.

Maureen walked into the fireplace, the hearth of which was higher than his whole body, and he said curiously: "I remember that the magic of your elves is very strange, can you send everything back with a snap of your fingers, why do you need it?" Build mines?"

"Be prepared, sir. You are right. We don't use this mine tunnel very often. If you find it troublesome, I can take you there directly. However, we have to register for house elves to apparate when they leave the school. You are not good." Lu Lu said honestly.

Another house-elf kindly brought up a little stool for Maureen to step on and climb into the minecart.There were two seats in the minecart, but there were no joysticks, not even lights, and it had a strange smell.

"Sir, do you want me to clean the minecart for you?" Lulu took off the tea towel and asked enthusiastically.

"No, thank you, Lulu, can I not mention my leaving school?" Mo Lin asked in a low voice.

Lulu said happily: "You're welcome, sir. We'll keep it a secret for you, we haven't seen anything."

"Thank you, how do I start it..." Before Mo Lin finished speaking, Lulu had already pulled a rope next to it, and the mine cart sped out with a bang.

"Have a nice trip, sir, remember to open the door twice quickly." Lulu's voice quickly disappeared behind.

"What door?" Mo Lin shouted, but he could no longer see Lu Lu.

The speed of the mine cart was very fast, and Mo Lin could only feel his school uniform whistling, and the disguise hat was almost blown away by the wind, so he quickly took off the disguise hat and stuffed it into his arms.This mine road is surrounded by stone walls, and at intervals, dim miner's lamps flash past. These miner's lamps have been cast with inextinguishable flames and can continue to burn.

Molin kept moving forward in the dark, he couldn't figure out how fast the minecart was, which reminded him of the dizzy speeding minecart when he went to Gringotts last time, The speed of the minecart made by the goblin always seems to be only one.

After advancing for about 20 minutes, the speed of the minecart stopped abruptly, and the rapid braking made Molin almost fly out. Fortunately, he pulled out his wand in time and shouted "slow down", and the slowdown spell was applied to him, allowing him to fly in time. Stabilized his figure.

"This passage is really dangerous. Fortunately, magic can be cast here."

Maureen couldn't help muttering and jumped off the minecart. Hogsmeade is a village the school allows to visit, so it's not a big deal for students to perform some magic here on weekends.

In front of the mine cart is an upward stone ladder, leading to nowhere.Mo Lin walked up the stone ladder. The walls on both sides of the stone ladder were illuminated by kerosene lamps. The walls were rough, and water seeped in some places, making a ticking sound.He walked up the stone ladder, and in front of him was a dilapidated wooden door.

Mo Lin looked at a dilapidated wooden door in front of him. There were some holes in it, which could not be broken.He pulled the wooden door, but when the door was opened, what he saw was a wall with no exit at all, as if someone had sealed the exit with a wall.

(End of this chapter)