Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 33 Hogsmeade Village

   "Who advanced?"

   A group of people who had finished breakfast were standing in front of the entrance to the mirror tunnel on the fifth floor.

   "You don't need to ask, of course you choose one of the three!" Albert said naturally, "You have already gone in once, so you naturally have experience."

   "Okay, I'll go first." Fred walked down the stairs carefully, and the other three followed immediately. The mirror returned to its place after the four entered the secret passage.

  This passage is a bit crowded, the **** is steep, and the surroundings are pitch black. The four of them slowly walked down the stairs.

   Albert raised his wand and muttered, "Luminescence!"

   "I hate this narrow and dark place." Lee Jordan complained in a low voice.

   "Don't complain, just keep up." Fred was concentrating on maintaining the Luminous Charm, and slowly walked down the stairs.

  The passage here is narrow, and it is even difficult for the two to pass sideways. The surroundings are dark, and they walked a long way along the stairs. Halfway through, Fred's wand went out several times.

   "I think it's time for you to practice the Luminous Charm. This is the most basic spell." Albert poked his wand forward and reminded aloud.

   "I hate this feeling." Fred muttered under his breath, trying to make his wand glow again.

   "After walking up this section of stairs, the front space will be wider, Albert go ahead and lead the way!" George suggested, he was fed up with having to stop every few minutes.

   "Okay!"

After walking up the stairs, they came to the gloomy passage. The ground was a bit wet and made of hard soil. Occasionally, water dripped from the top of the head, and one drop fell on Albert's face, which made him shiver uncontrollably. , Hastily reached out to wipe off the water on his face, and continued walking.

   Along the way, Albert walked very slowly to avoid accidentally falling. The others did not speak, and focused all their attention on dealing with the uneven ground of the passage.

  The four of them stumbled forward, the passage was more and more winding, and it was unknown who dug it.

   Having said that, it is a bit strange that they were not suffocated to death.

  Albert raised his wand above his head and looked over the passage.

   "What are you looking at?" Fred asked.

   "Uh, there are ventilation holes on the top of the head?"

   "Where is it?" All three of them looked up at the top of their heads, but they couldn't find the ventilation hole that Albert said.

   "Right where we just walked."

   After walking for an hour and 20 minutes, the passage began to extend upwards, which meant that the exit was very close, and the four people who were panting began to speed up their pace.

  Five minutes later, they could feel the cold wind blowing outside.

  The entrance of the secret passage is under a very secret big rock, and the exit is very narrow, the fat man might be stuck.

   It's still raining outside, but it's not very rainy.

  After Albert walked out of the passage, he took out his umbrella and opened it to block the rain above his head.

  The three Weasleys hurried over.

   "You didn't bring an umbrella." Albert was speechless for a while.

   "No." The three shook their heads in unison.

   Albert used the copy spell to conjure three umbrellas for them.

   "You are still as reliable as ever." The three praised cheekily.

   "By the way, is this umbrella so strange?" Lee Jordan looked at the umbrella in his hand curiously. Does it actually expand and contract?

   "This is a new invention of the Germans a few years ago. It is convenient and easy to carry." Albert used the water and fire spell on himself to ensure that his clothes and boots would not get wet when passing through the lush grassland.

   "Be careful?" When he heard George's exclamation, he turned his head and saw Lee Jordan fell to the ground, his whole body was wet.

   "Are you okay!" Fred quickly reached out and pulled him up.

   "It's unlucky, the clothes are soaked." Lee Jordan complained in a low voice.

  The twins looked at Albert together.

   "What do you look at me like this, I didn't cause him to fall." Albert was a little puzzled.

   "Have you mastered the drying spell?"

   "What makes you think I have this kind of family magic?" Albert asked angrily.

   "Ahem, we are just asking casually, I always think you can do all kinds of magic." Fred coughed dryly to ease the awkward atmosphere.

   "I said you three, can you get out of here first." Lee Jordan, who was drenched all over, had a bad temper, "I hate rain the most, most, most."

  They walked through the grass towards the Hogsmeade village ahead.

  Probably because of the rain, the streets of Hogsmeade were deserted, and Lee Jordan, whose teeth were chattering, proposed to go to the Three Broomsticks first. He wanted to drink a cup of butterbeer to warm up his body first.

  The three of them have no opinion.

  They walked along a road, and after a few minutes, they easily found the bar mentioned by the three.

   Well, there are three brooms hanging on the door of this bar, forming a triangle.

   What made Albert want to complain was that the pointed triangular roof on the door was actually crooked. Is it really worthy of being a house built by a wizard?

   Completely disregards physical rules and general visual aesthetics.

   Of course, there is a signboard in front of the bar, which reads: Three Broomsticks.

  There were very few people in the bar today. When Albert entered, he only saw a wizard sitting on the counter chatting with the proprietress.

   There was a raging flame burning in the fireplace, Lee Jordan hurried over, took off his robe and put it by the fireplace to dry.

   "I'm going to order drinks." Albert said and walked towards the counter. After the twins looked at each other, they sat on the chair opposite Lee Jordan.

   "Four bottles of butter beer, warm." Albert said to the proprietress of the bar.

  The wizard seemed very upset because the chat was interrupted, and turned his head to stare at Albert.

  Albert glanced at him blankly, then ignored him and sat down next to the wizard.

   "Where's the brat?" The wizard muttered in a low voice, and after being glared at by the proprietress of the Three Broomsticks, he obediently shut up.

"Are you Hogwarts students?" Ms. Rosmerta looked at the four young wizards who entered the store in surprise. She couldn't understand how these four little guys slipped out of Hogwarts .

   "How much?" Albert asked expressionlessly.

   "Eight Sickles." Ms. Rosmerta went into the back room to help them warm butterbeer.

   Albert looked at the bar in his spare time.

   Honestly, it's way better than the Leaky Cauldron.

  The lobby of the bar is very bright, several tables are arranged neatly, and the sanitation is also very clean. There is no strong beer smell inside, but the decoration is a bit like the medieval tavern in the game in memory.

   After waiting for about five minutes, four glasses of butterbeer were placed in front of Albert, and he quickly called for someone to come over to help get them.

   "8 Sickles." Albert took out eight Sickles and put them on the table, picked up a glass and walked to the table by the fireplace.

  The butter beer exuded a strong buttery aroma. Albert took a sip, and it felt a bit like a buttery hard candy that was not so greasy. It drank very smooth, with no alcohol, and it was more like a drink.

   "How do you feel?" All three looked at Albert in unison.

   "It's very ordinary, just a kind of drink." Albert looked at the three of them, blinked and said, "It's like you drink Muggle soda drinks. It's not difficult to drink, but you're not used to it."

  The three of them looked at each other and couldn't help laughing, as if they would hear such an evaluation from you.

  (end of this chapter)