Hogwarts and the Ghost Flower

Chapter 234 Dusk, the last chance
Not long after Inolant left, the mermaid who had spoken before gradually revealed his appearance.

Surprisingly, he has lake green curly hair that is very similar to Vilia, and what is different from the many guardian mermaids in the Black Lake is that he has an extremely beautiful appearance and eyes like sapphires.

Seeing him appear, the guard mermaids saluted him one after another.

"(Selki) If Mercus comes back, let her come to see me."

"(Selki) Yes, Elder!"

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Time passed by bit by bit, and another hour passed after Inolante returned from the mermaid territory.

They found Luna, but there was still no news of Vilia.

The last person to see Vilia should be Luna. At that time, there was still half an hour before the start of the second project of the Triwizard Tournament.

If Wei Liya has been tied up in the Black Lake since then, then she has been in the Black Lake for more than three hours!
"Prophecy! That prophecy of Professor Trelawney!" Luna suddenly shouted.

"What prophecy?" Inolante hurriedly asked.

For a moment, everyone looked at Luna, listening to her utter the prophecy.

...darkness...abyss...cold...dusk...

If the darkness, coldness, and abyss refer to the Black Lake, then the chance at dusk mentioned in the prophecy cannot really be to wait until seven o'clock in the evening to find Vilia, right?
After listening to Luna's words, Inolante was thoughtful, as if he suddenly remembered something, he suddenly raised his head and looked towards the Forbidden Forest.

Apart from time, the only thing he could think of related to dusk was the story about the invisibility cloak.

Three brothers walked along the desolate and winding road at dusk...

He wasn't entirely sure that the so-called Chance at Dusk was referring to this story, but it was worth a try.

What's more, if someone really took Vilia away from the Black Lake, maybe they would really hide her in the Forbidden Forest.

Thinking of this, Inolante explained his guess to Dumbledore.

To his surprise, Dumbledore agreed directly, "Inolante, there is indeed a bridge in the Forbidden Forest...you and Hagrid go together, he is more familiar with it."

Seeing that they had clues, Luna naturally wouldn't stay where she was and wait.

In the end, besides Inolant and Hagrid, Luna, Glass and Snape who came to the Forbidden Forest came together after hearing the news.

Under Hagrid's leadership, the group arrived at the only bridge in the Forbidden Forest.

It is said that it is a bridge, but it is not really a bridge built over a river, but a natural bridge formed by a large number of petite mushrooms.

But here, there is no sign of Wei Liya either.

Everyone was about to leave in disappointment, only Luna and Inolante frowned and stared at an old tree not far from the Mushroom Bridge.

In the story of the invisibility cloak, the only one who survived the trick of death was the third brother. To be precise, only the third brother died.

Glass paused as he was about to leave, and looked at the old tree, but the next moment he flew over, and Snape couldn't stop him.

"Hawk?"

Luna and Inolante felt a gust of wind blowing beside them, and in a blink of an eye Glass arrived at the old tree one step ahead of them.

On the back of the old tree that the seven of them couldn't hug was Wei Liya who had disappeared for almost four hours.

Glass took out his wand, checked Vilia's state carefully, and found that she was just under the sleeping spell, and she was a little choked, so he was relieved.

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When Vilia regained consciousness, it was already nine o'clock in the evening. She was lying on the bed in the infirmary of Hogwarts. Except for some discomfort in the nasal cavity, nothing happened.

This time, she was careless.

(End of this chapter)