Hogwarts: Dirge of Magic

On Christmas Eve, the lights in Hogwarts were much brighter than usual.

All Academy students (except myself.) enjoying tonight's happy hour in the Great Hall.

Outside the castle, it was already dark, and the non-college wizards had returned to the same dorms after Hogwarts.The noise outside followed them.

Therefore, Sifa walked silently alone on the passage from the main castle to the Ravenclaw tower. The sudden silence of the environment made him feel a sense of loneliness inexplicably.

correct!Sifa touched his pocket and took out a bottle of orange potion.It is the stamina potion!

Under the light of the moon, Xifa drank it in one gulp, and the effect of the medicine gave him a temporary ability to move for a long time.

Looking at the dark tower in front of him because there was no one there.Xifa sighed, if he didn't solve this matter, he would never have a peaceful life.

When Dumbledore suggested that Xifa go back to the dormitory first, Luna realized that Xifa had a task assigned by Dumbledore.

While everyone was paying attention to the scene in the middle of the field, she took out the potion from the satchel, and asked Alice to go forward to tidy up Sifer's rather messy dress.By the way, he unobtrusively stuffed this small bottle of potion into Sifa's pocket.

Speaking of the dress, at this time, Xifa had already changed into a pure black windbreaker, and the dress had already been put back in his pocket.

Walking into the tower, Sifa didn't dare to disturb the magic stairs.

Seeing that the candles on one side of the wall tended to rekindle.

Xifa quickly slapped the wall next to him. Under his palm, there was a raven pattern on the stone tablet. At this time, the raven's head was completely covered by Xifa's palm.

Immediately afterwards, he also hurriedly said a password. "Knowledge!"

Quickly push away the loose wall and get into it, this is the emergency secret that Alice told herself a long time ago.

In the low secret passage, Xifa felt his own magic power. After taking the magic potion for so long, his magic power had recovered to its current peak.

Now that the magic power is abundant...he took out a luminous stone, operated the soul-sealing and soul-locking spell to give him true vision, and at the same time cast the super-sensing spell to make his eyes capable of night vision.

Cifer slowly climbed up the stairs.

Roof of Ravenclaw Tower.

A floor tile was suddenly recessed downwards, and then slowly slid to one side, revealing a square opening with a width of one or two people.

When the hole was fully opened, a figure emerged from it, it was Xifa.

Seeing that the bright moon was hanging above his head like a full moon.Xifa put away the luminous stone, and there was nothing on the roof, and there was nothing abnormal, so he came to the edge of the roof and looked out.

Ravenclaw's observatory is at the top of another castle's astronomical tower, and there is no exit design at the bottom of the astronomical tower. To enter the astronomical tower, you must take the air corridor of the Ravenclaw tower.

Xifa squinted his eyes, climbed down from the roof, and walked from the top floor of the tower into the top air corridor.

There are oil paintings on the walls of the main castle, and a pair of armor is placed below.

And in this corridor, apart from stargazers in twos and threes, that is, special astronomical telescopes, there are also some other unknown small alchemy devices.

Except for the stargazing instrument, the other instruments were slowly rotating, making a tick-tock, regular mechanical sound in the quiet night.Full of complex and orderly texture.

These are all superficial. In Xifa's eyes, the ticking sound is a wave of magic waves, and those stargazing instruments emit threads of magic power.They form a fine network.

Xifa's heart was shaken, and he was a little uncertain whether these silk threads were arranged by Dumbledore or by this illegal visitor.

When Xifa stepped forward, his earrings suddenly emitted a hazy stream of light, which soon covered Xifa's body with a thin film, and then the light disappeared.

Stretch out your hand, try to touch those magic threads, sure enough, those threads ignore you.

This was a warning made by Dumbledore, Sifa understood it, no longer hesitated, and quickly quickened his pace.

Soon, he entered the Astronomy Tower.

Unexpectedly, there is no teleportation array here, only oil paintings.

Because Xifa's footsteps were too light, and Dumbledore had given him an alchemy earring to hide his aura.

All the people on the oil paintings are still resting with their eyes closed.

Dumbledore is a wizard who graduated from Gryffindor. He is very likely to use oil paintings as the secret door of the secret passage.

But here comes the problem, I don't know which oil painting it is!Even if you know, what is the password?

It seems that there are no traces of intruders, so Dumbledore's handwriting is all here.

With the idea that there is nothing to lose by trying, Xifa tried the perception technique.

The angle of view suddenly changed.

All the oil paintings in front of him glowed with a shining blue light, but there was a portrait with a worn-out frame in an inconspicuous corner.It actually exudes amazing magic fluctuations.

No way?Xifa thought in his heart.So sloppy?Don't cover up at all?

In fact, here, the principal and others feel that there is no need to cover up anymore.

You must know that the finer the spellcasting, the more finely spelled it is covered, and the difficulty of casting spells is multiplied.

In other words, this magic painting has been used as the switch of the secret passage, and it is extremely difficult to hide it by using magic.

What's more, you have to break through the campus barrier to Hogwarts, and then find this place from the vast castle.

Entering here does not trigger the alarm outside.

To be able to do all this, hiding this portrait with some small means is an act of deception. It is better to just throw it outside, and make people hesitate to guess whether it is a trap.

Xifa cautiously came to the portrait. It was a relatively abstract portrait, and there was no figure on it.

The color is gloomy and distorted, vaguely, as if it is brewing something.

After careful observation, no hidden mechanism was found.

In other words, to open the portrait, the correct password must be spoken.

This...

Xifa felt a little helpless, this obviously required a password, not the doorknob that could be summoned like in the kitchen.

I didn't do it!Sifa was mad.

At this moment, the earrings on the ear were slightly hot, could it be...

Xifa cheered up.He glanced around and ducked behind a large box for equipment.

Gradually, Sifa felt as if he heard footsteps.But in fact, there was no movement in the ear.

Dazed!Use a compass!

Xifa quickly took out the compass from his pocket and started it hidden in his pocket.

Under deliberate control, the slightly lit magic circle was covered by the pocket.

Xifa poked his head out quietly, it was it!The faceless man I met with Dumbledore at first!It is still alive!

No, is this faceless man alone, or a group of people with the same appearance?Thoughts raced through Sifa's mind.

Doing his best to keep himself calm, he stared at the Faceless Man with unemotional eyes.

The Faceless Man seemed to pass through the threaded corridors with ease.It came straight to the abstract portrait that it could not touch.

"Jill flower!"

This time, Xifa can be sure that the sound came from the ears!Faceless people can really interfere with reality!

Wait...Jill Flower...that's Luna's favorite flower!Xifa almost couldn't help but jumped out.

Fortunately, the next picture made him decide to continue watching.

The faceless man's voice fell, and the portrait began to rotate continuously.

Eventually, three flowers appeared above.

Two of them are known to me, namely Mandala and Bianhua.The one left... is the poppy?

So, where did Jill spend it?What do you say it does?

In Xifa's sight, the faceless man pointed to the three flowers one by one from bottom to top.

Finally, a Jill flower that I have been very familiar with for the past six months emerged.Because it is the cover of every Luna textbook and notebook.

Seemingly looking for differences, the Faceless Man gently wiped a corner of the flower.Afterwards, the blue Gil flower slowly disappeared.The portrait also slowly reveals the secret passage behind it.

When the screen does not move, the secret path is completely formed.

The faceless man unscrewed the door without hesitation and walked in.

After it entered, the door automatically began to close, and soon everything returned to tranquility.

Xifa quickly stood up from behind the box, while moving his slightly stiff body, while looking at the portrait.

There is no other change in the portrait, it is still exactly the same as when I first saw it.

"Jill flower!"

According to the previous steps, first press your fingers on the corresponding flowers from bottom to top.

Then, Xifa compared the Gilhua that appeared in front of him with the memory in his mind.

Having found it, Sifa reached out and wiped off the outermost petal.

Not surprisingly, the secret door quietly reappeared.