Retirement from Hogwarts

Friday, December 21st.

"It's almost 8 o'clock, why hasn't Jack arrived yet?" Harry anxiously paced at the door of the Trial Road.

"Don't worry, since Jack has promised you, he will definitely not let you go." Hermione said beside her.

"Of course I'm not afraid of Jack letting me go." Harry shook his head and explained to Hermione, "I'm worried that if we continue to stand here like this, it will be bad if we are discovered by people passing by."

At this moment, someone suddenly patted Harry on the back.He was so frightened that he swooped forward, then quickly turned around, pulled out the wand and pointed it at his back.

"Harry, you don't have to react so much, right?" Jack asked in surprise. "Didn't I just pat you? Did you even pull out the wand?"

"We just talked about what to do if someone finds out, and you showed up." Neville explained beside him.

After hearing Neville's explanation, Jack couldn't help but shake his head. "We are not doing anything shameful, what is there to be afraid of? Forget it, let's go in first, so as not to worry you here."

After Jack finished speaking, he used the unlocking spell to open the door to the trial road and walked in first.

After the four people entered the trial road, they first passed through a dark and deep corridor, and then came to a tall rotunda decorated with a large amount of turquoise.At the end of the rotunda, two bronze doors that seemed to have existed there forever stood quietly waiting to be opened.

Enter this. . .By. . .when. . . .

A line of vague golden text is engraved on the silver door frame of the bronze arch.

"Once you go in, there is no way out." Jack turned around and said to the three people behind him.

"How can we not go in when we're all here? You won't die anyway, so there's nothing to be afraid of." After saying this, Harry passed Jack and took the lead in pushing open the door and walking in.

Neville looked at Harry disappearing into the shadows behind the door, shrugged at Jack, and followed Harry's footsteps in.

"In that case, let's go in too." Jack took Hermione's hand and said, and after saying that, he and Hermione walked into the black shadow behind the bronze door.

When Jack walked through the bronze door, he found himself surrounded by darkness.The bronze gate that was originally behind him also disappeared at some point. , Hermione, who walked through the door holding hands with him, didn't know where she was.When he used his mental power to confirm that he couldn't feel anyone else's breath around him, Jack panicked for a moment.He began to run quickly in the darkness and search.But until the world around him started to change, he didn't notice any other auras.

When Jack found that the darkness around him began to dissipate, he had already appeared in a dazzling white light in a huge square surrounded by various arches and decorated with four major emblems.When he looked back behind him, the dark space that surrounded him had long since disappeared, and only a huge obelisk stood quietly behind him.

Then Jack discovered that since he came to this square, waves of buzzing discussions had been echoing in his ears.But when he listened carefully, he found that he couldn't hear anything clearly

.Suddenly, the buzzing sound disappeared, and Harry, Neville and Hermione, who had disappeared long ago, appeared around the obelisk.

At this time, one after another, names that seemed to have been carved somewhere from eternity appeared on the tall obelisk, and the emblems of the four colleges appeared on the top of the four sides of the obelisk.An ornate gold Hogwarts school emblem floated on the top of the obelisk at some unknown time.On the round base of the obelisk, a line of barely legible Latin appears.

"Take my heart and I will tell you where you should go." Hermione whispered, not noticing Jack's recent appearance.

Harry asked strangely: "My heart? What is that?"

"I think that might be what he's talking about." Neville said, pointing to a disk in front of the obelisk.It was a metal disk surrounded by a large number of hollow structural rings.Circles of magic circles of different shades were carved on the disk, surrounding a heart-shaped gem.

Then Neville stepped forward and gently placed his hand on it.In an instant, the entire obelisk seemed to be charged with energy. Each name lit up layer by layer, then the college emblem, and finally the school emblem.Then, a huge beam of light shot into the sky from the obelisk.After the light beam disappeared, the obelisk seemed to be running out of energy, and each name began to flicker on and off.

Finally, the entire obelisk fell silent, and only a few of the many names on the obelisk were still illuminated.With a rumbling sound, the entire square began to shake, and a large number of arches were closed.

"It's not easy to have a first-year baby, but the quality of the first one is so poor. It turns out that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers."

"Who is it?" Neville was obviously frightened by the changes in the arch. The moment the voice appeared, he nervously pulled out his wand and turned his back to the stone monument on guard.Completely unaware of the change in light on the stone tablet when the sound appeared.

"Hey, you little guy is really slow to react. Turn your head, turn your head, I'm behind you." The voice said helplessly, "As for who I am? You can call me Horus, the noble chooser. grown ups."

When Neville turned around, he saw a miniature hawk-headed man composed of rows of glowing names floating a few centimeters in front of his nose.This made Neville, who was already nervous, staggered even more frightened and fell backwards.Following his movements, several more names dimmed.The hawk-headed man grew smaller.

"How did you, a coward like you, get into Gryffindor? It can't be that guy from the Sorting Hat, right?" Horus, the hawk-headed man, guessed maliciously.

At this moment, a hand suddenly grabbed Horus, and the hand passed through its body without any hindrance.

"What are you doing, you rude barbarian!" Horus roared angrily at Harry who stretched out his magic claw towards him.

"Are you a ghost, Mr. Horus?" Harry asked curiously.

"How could I be a ghost!" Horus roared at Harry with a louder voice, as if he was greatly insulted. "I am the manager of the Path of Trials created by the great Ravenclaw, how could I be just a ghost?"

"Nice to meet you, the great Lord Horus." Jack performed an ancient chest-raising salute to Horus.