Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 81 The Mysterious Broom Cabinet

  Carrying the oil lamp, Filch, who hurried to the fat lady's portrait, suddenly smiled, and the gatekeeper at the entrance to the Gryffindor common room disappeared.

   Not being able to enter the Gryffindor common room means that the night tour students can only continue to stay outside.

  No one can slip away from their hands.

  No one can!

   "Ah sneeze!" George sneezed again.

  Fred in front stopped and looked at George speechlessly.

   "Where are you going?" George rubbed his nose and leaned over to ask.

Fred moved his wand to the Marauder's Map, observed the positions of Snape and Filch, and couldn't help speeding up his pace. He planned to make a circle around the eighth floor, avoiding Snape and Filch while getting rid of Filch's arrest. Elky's cat.

  However, Filch did not chase in the direction of the sound. Instead, he turned back and blocked the corner of a corridor, waiting for Snape to appear, intending to prevent them from leaving through the nearby secret passage.

   "When did that guy become smarter!" Fred hurriedly stopped and walked back. Seeing that Filch actually planned to block the corridor, his heart suddenly became cold.

  Snape was almost on the eighth floor, and when he reached the eighth floor, they would be stuck here.

"Professor, they should still be on the eighth floor. I heard the noise just now." Filch said with unconcealable excitement in his tone, "You go through this side, and I'll go around the other side. There is no escape."

   "It's over, it's blocked!" Fred looked desperate. Now, there wasn't enough wiggle room for the two of them to avoid Filch's hunt.

  However, when Fred and George anxiously passed the tapestry of Barnabas with the troll stick for the third time, they accidentally found a door on the wall opposite the tapestry.

   "How did it appear?" George asked, staring at the door in the wall in amazement.

  They didn't know there was such a door here, and it wasn't marked on the Marauder's Map.

  Fred gritted his teeth and said, "It doesn't matter, just hide in first!"

  The two opened the door and hid inside, only to find that behind the door was a dusty broom cabinet with a few old brooms inside. "

   When Filch and Snape surrounded from both sides, the entrance to the Room of Requirement had already disappeared.

  The two of them were completely in vain.

   "Where's the person?" Filch was stunned for a moment. He heard a voice from here just now, but why didn't he see anyone?

   Hiding?

  Or... escaped?

   "No, they can't go far, I just heard someone sneezing." The muscles on Filch's cheeks twisted together in anger.

   Originally thought that he could stop those Gryffindor students who played him around and give those students a hard lesson, but the other party still slipped through his fingers.

  This huge gap made Filch feel extremely aggrieved.

  In the broom closet, both Fred and George covered each other's mouths, for fear of making a sound and attracting the attention of the two outside.

  No way, Filch and Snape were standing outside the broom closet where they were hiding. If they opened the door, something terrible would happen.

  As if someone was taking care of the lucky couple, Snape and Filch finally left, and they went to other places on the eighth floor to search for the whereabouts of the twins.

   Of course, the result is still nothing.

   "Next time someone wanders around at night, report to me immediately." Snape said to Filch before leaving.

  Hearing the sound of footsteps gradually going away, Fred and George couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief, but they didn't have the idea of ​​going out immediately.

I don't know how long I stayed in the broom closet, until I saw from the Marauder's Map that Snape and Filch had given up searching for them, then I carefully opened the door and came out, for fear of making any loud noises and causing Fei Wilkey's attention.

"It's dangerous, I almost got caught by Filch. But, what's the matter with this broom closet?" George raised his wand and was about to check the broom closet where the two had just hidden, but found the door on the wall It's gone.

   "What's going on here?" Fred was also confused, and reached out to knock on the wall twice, and then looked at the Marauder's Map at hand.

   There is no hint on this.

"The castle of Hogwarts still hides a lot of secrets, even Moonface, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs don't all know these secrets!" George couldn't help but sighed, looking at his twins The brother asked, "By the way, how did that door appear just now?"

   "I don't know!" Fred gave up temporarily after the research was fruitless, "Forget it, let's go back first, I hope the fat lady has come back."

  Before returning to the portrait of the Fat Lady, both Fred and George breathed a sigh of relief.

  The fat lady in pajamas looked at the two of them and asked, "Where have you been?"

   "Walking." George said the command immediately. "Sings really well."

  The portrait opened, and they immediately climbed into the common room, slumped into armchairs, looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

   "Tonight is really thrilling." George's excitement has not completely subsided.

   "I think Filch must be mad." Fred laughed happily. To be honest, he really didn't like that Mr. Administrator.

  Back to the dormitory, it was almost five o'clock. Although feeling very tired, the two of them couldn't fall asleep at all until they were vaguely awakened in the morning.

   "Ah..." Fred yawned big, didn't even bother to open his eyes.

   "When did you guys come back?" Albert put on his long-distance joggers and opened the window to let the cool morning breeze into the room.

   "About...about five o'clock in the morning." Fred suppressed another yawn, and asked sleepily, "What time is it?"

   "Seven thirty in the morning."

  Looking at the sleepy twin brothers, Albert shook his head, "I told you all, don't go for a night tour at this time, there are two herbal medicine classes in the morning, and they are in the greenhouse, so don't be late."

   "Let me tell you..." George picked up his pillow and threw it at Fred, who fell back on the bed, looking very tired.

"You said that the fat lady was not around at night, and you were almost caught by Filch, and you escaped by hiding in a broom cupboard on the eighth floor?" Lee Jordan felt incredible when he heard George's story. Curious what method Fred and George used to escape from Snape and Filch?

   Or, George is lying?

   "Later, when you were looking at it, the broom cabinet disappeared?" Albert heard George talking about the location of the cabinet, and immediately knew what they were talking about.

   Room of Requirement.

  The two guys got away with it by hiding in the Room of Requirement.

  After Fred and George left the broom cupboard, they found it had disappeared without warning.

   That day, Fred and George skipped their morning herbal medicine class and slept until the afternoon before waking up naturally.

  (end of this chapter)