HBWnovel Chapter 206 Halloween Event - Pumpkin Mystery 9
Chapter 206 Halloween Event - Pumpkin Mystery 9
Although the deans promised in unison, they said that after the end of the Halloween event, they would definitely do a good job in the ideological work of the little wizards, so that the little wizards would realize the danger of this behavior and prevent it from happening again.
But apart from Gryffindor and Ravenclaw whose dormitory is located on the tower, the attitude of the deans of the other two colleges is more that the old gods are there and hang high.
Albus: It's a bit dangerous, and we should be reminded, but we can't force them too seriously, otherwise they will easily confront them.
Professor Flitwick (heart suddenly hangs up. jpg): Worried, very worried...the children won't climb the windows too-should...won't they (not sure)?
Professor Sprout (confused): Windows?Isn't the grass outside the children's bedroom window?It's just climbing the window, so there's nothing to worry about.
Professor Slughorn (with a confident smile): What climbed the window?You keep your eyes open and take a closer look at the location of the Slytherin dormitory. Who would want to leave the dormitory through the window?
……
Sure enough, as Professor Flitwick expected, they also live on top of the tower. Now that Gryffindor's "Crouching Dragon" has appeared, it is not far from the appearance of Ravenclaw's "Phoenix Hatchling".
Soon, the second lucky person who found another way through the window was born, in Ravenclaw's bedroom.
I saw the gentle and quiet girls living in this Ravenclaw dormitory, who were usually remembered by the professors. Facing the opened window, they first looked at each other a few times, Then there was an eerie agreement in a very short silence.
Tie up your hair, roll up your cuffs, and put on a pair of climbing shoes.
Turn out the sheets, remove the curtains, tear off the decorative orange ribbons, then connect the end to the end, tie a firm knot, and wind all the fabrics that can be found in the room into a long rope.
Standing by the window sill, he flung out the long rope coolly, leaned out and looked down.
After confirming that the rope was long enough to reach the ground, they tied the end of the rope still in their hands to the furniture.
Worried that the weight of a piece of furniture might not be able to support them to the ground safely, they tied up a row of furniture one by one - everyone's bed, bookcase, table, coffee table, sofa and doorknobs.
Professor Flitwick (embarrassed, daring to describe): This safety awareness is quite high!
Afu: A little security conscious, but not much.
Seeing these soft-spoken, gentle and gentle girls, polite and kind...the girls bravely climbed out of the window one by one, moved down along the cloth rope little by little, and finally stood in a group on the grass. Row.
Slughorn rarely looked at Professor Flitwick with regret, trying to comfort him.
Professor Flitwick: ???My well-behaved, sensible and worry-free children...
Afu: I won't say who is hurting.
Just as Professor Slughorn patted Professor Flitwick's shoulder with "sadness" to express his comfort, Professor Sprout called Professor Slughorn to look at the grid of the light curtain he signaled .
"There...it seems to be your Slytherin child?" Professor Sprout's voice hesitated, as if he was not sure what he saw.
Professor Slughorn looked where Professor Sprout pointed to—
Professor Slughorn: ! ! ! Σ(っ°Д°;)っ (dumbfounded) how could this be! ! !
The other professors who heard that there was something exciting to watch and cast their eyes one after another: (⊙?⊙)? ? ? ! ! !Outrageous!It's outrageous!
The picture presented on the grid of the light curtain is not the familiar dormitory scene, but...
The bottom of the deep water.
Yes, this Slytherin prefect who had a single bedroom also chose to go out through the window.
And Slytherin's bedroom is located under the Black Lake, which means——
Outside the window is the Black Lake.
When the professors looked over, this very "innovative" Slytherin prefect was happily splashing in the black lake, trying to swim upstream.
"Why can he open the bedroom window!" A professor asked in shock.
"How did you unlock the spell on the window of Slytherin's bedroom?" The professors' inquiring eyes lingered on Afu and Professor Slughorn.
When Salazar Slytherin chose to build the common room and dormitories of Slytherin College under the Black Lake, he considered the airtightness of the space and the firmness of the windows.
He used special materials to make the windows, carved a lot of magic lines inside and out, and cast a lot of spells to ensure that Slytherin would not be flooded.
Due to Slytherin's habit of hiding a few cards, the windows that prevent the Black Lake from entering are actually not completely sealed, but the spells and methods that can open the windows are not known by ordinary wizards.
Although the rest of the professors didn't know that Slytherin's window could be opened before today, when they learned this information, their first reaction was to look at Afu and Professor Slughorn.
As the incarnation of Hogwarts Castle, Afu knew the relevant information about opening the Slytherin window, and the professors even boldly guessed that she could directly control the switch of the Slytherin window with a single thought.
And Professor Slughorn, he is the Head of Slytherin House after all!
If he didn't know about Slytherin's hidden messages, who else would?
"No! Since he is already in the Black Lake, didn't the water from the Black Lake already poured into the dormitory when he opened the window earlier?"
"Hiss—" The picture of the black lake pouring into the dormitory subconsciously appeared in the minds of several professors, and they took a deep breath.
"The other bedrooms of Slytherin will not be flooded too!"
"The dormitory is not sealed. Since the water has been poured in, the other dormitories will definitely be affected!"
"Then... the Slytherin common room..."
"What are you still doing in a daze! Hurry up and save people!" The Professor of Conservation of Fantastic Beasts said, standing up hurriedly and about to rush out.
"Wait!" The professor next to him quickly grabbed him.
"What are you waiting for! The children are in danger now! Hurry up and save them!"
"No... I mean—" Under the anxious eyes of the Professor of the Protection of Fantastic Beasts, he pointed to the other illuminated grids belonging to Slytherins on the light curtain, and there was no sign of flooding in those grids , "Look there, the little wizard is fine."
The Professor of the Protection of Fantastic Beasts repeatedly confirmed that his eyes were not blurred, that Slytherin was not drowned, and that the little wizards were all right, and then he slowly put away his idea of saving people.
"Ahem..." Professor Slughorn's cough attracted everyone's attention.
"Hmm... I think..."
"Actually, I mean..."
"Eh... this matter, I..."
Under the scorching gaze of everyone, Professor Slughorn tried to say something several times, but he always faltered, stammered vaguely, mumbled in a vague way, and kept swallowing guiltily and embarrassingly. Drooling.
A look of extreme embarrassment.
Seeing Professor Slughorn's embarrassing expression, the professors seemed to understand something in a daze.
"Could it be that you told that child how to open the bedroom window?"
The tone seemed to be speculative and inquiring, but with a hint of certainty.
"Hmm." Professor Slughorn's voice, as thin as a mosquito's fly, was immediately caught by everyone.
"It's really you!"
Although it seemed that he had guessed something, he should have prepared himself, but it was hard to hide his surprise when he actually heard Professor Slughorn clearly admit it.
"No, what are you planning?"
"You told the little wizard about this, what are you planning?"
"Are you really not afraid that your Slytherins will be drowned?"
The professors asked questions in one go, full of doubts and puzzles.
Professors (confused): o((⊙﹏⊙))o I don’t quite understand your brain circuit, what are you trying to figure out?Tusslytherin flooded?Figure redecoration?Or do you want to splash in the water?
"Ahem..." Professor Slughorn cleared his throat, "This is how it happened."
Professor Slughorn said let me quibble (strike out)—explain.
Under the gaze of the rest of the professors, Professor Slughorn slowly explained the whole story.
……
It turned out that this Slytherin prefect who was thumping in the Black Lake also served as the director of the Hogwarts Black Lake Biological Research Society.
Out of his enthusiasm for studying aquatic magical animals, and in order to explore the ecological environment at the bottom of the Black Lake in Hogwarts, he traveled around and wanted to apply for organizing club activities at the bottom of the Black Lake.
It would be great if the school can agree with their club to establish a long-term and stable observation point at the bottom of the black lake through the great success of this activity.
So, as a Slytherin who thinks twice before taking a step, with such ambition, he submitted an activity application to Professor Slughorn and asked for help.
When the prefect had just become the president, he had already spent a large sum of money Gallon to customize and equip everyone in the club with a magic item that could breathe freely underwater for a long time.
And in order to allow more students to participate in club activities - build a good reputation so that the application for establishing a fixed observation point in the future can be approved by the school.
Also considering that after the school agreed, the observation point could be put into use directly, so he spent a lot of money to customize an alchemy item that could isolate the lake.
As long as this alchemy item is placed at the selected position at the bottom of the black lake, it can be centered on it, and a space for wizards to breathe freely will be automatically isolated at the bottom of the lake.
In order to be able to enter and exit this space conveniently, their club needs to occupy a classroom or room at the bottom of the lake as an entrance and exit. (That is, you can directly enter that space by walking directly to the direction of the Black Lake from that room)
Although there is no clear written rule that the space in the cellar belongs to Slytherin, it is already the default fact.
I want to apply for a long-term community site in the site occupied by Slytherin. Although the current president of the Hogwarts Black Lake Biological Research Society is a Slytherin prefect, he doesn’t even need to go through Slugher Hall if he wants to apply for a community site. Professor En can directly approve applications for himself, but no one can guarantee that the future presidents of the club will all come from Slytherin.
and……
According to everyone's knowledge, the windows of the room at the bottom of the black lake are firmly closed, and the walls are also extremely hard. Even the most destructive spells cannot make holes in the windows and walls.
So he took the application form and went to the dean of Slytherin, Professor Slughorn, and asked about how to open the connecting room and the space for alchemy items to be opened.
Professor Slughorn was tolerant of the potentially huge impact that would help Slytherin's reputation and his own grow.
So he generously approved the application, and generously expressed that he could choose any spare classroom in the cellar.
As for the confusion raised by the little wizard, he waved his hand and bald, and told about the fact that the windows of the room at the bottom of the black lake could be opened.
Professor Slughorn: Guess I accidentally slipped my tongue.
In order to make things easier for him, and out of trust in the prefect of his house, Professor Slughorn told him how to open the window—after getting a guarantee that he would not tell others the way easily.
In fact, when Hogwarts was first established, it was not strictly guarded against the behavior of little Slytherin wizards entering the Black Lake through the window (for fear that when Hogwarts was surrounded by Muggles, Slytherin would be blocked in the cellar , so can escape through the window).
But later, as wizards’ safety issues gradually weakened, and the wizarding world gradually faded out of Muggle’s sight, little wizards no longer had the need to escape. In addition, there were more and more magical animals at the bottom of the Black Lake, and they became more and more dangerous. The method is no longer passed on by word of mouth, but only by the dean from generation to generation.
But all along, there has never been a clear regulation that the little wizard is forbidden to enter the bottom of the lake through the window, so Professor Slughorn dared to tell the little wizard.
……
After receiving a reasonable explanation, the aggressive gazes of the professors gradually faded away. After all, the actions of the little wizard on the screen were not expressly prohibited.
Although Gryffindor riding a broom down the tower seems to violate the school rules.
Aff: Does it seem like Slytherin behavior is suddenly more acceptable?
Professors (silent): ...
"So he opened the window directly after he found that the door couldn't be opened...because he knew how to open the window."
"In addition, I have something in my hand to ensure that I can swim out of the Black Lake..."
The professor who spoke looked at the little wizard on the screen as if there was an invisible barrier separating the lake water. Looking carefully, his clothes were even dry.
"So I directly chose this path that everyone had never imagined."
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Did not expect it!Slytherins can come out of windows too!
Badgers must also climb windows, but because Badger’s dormitory is on the ground, you can step on the ground directly when you come out of the window. It looks ordinary, so I won’t write about those who climbed windows.
Whisper bb: Badger Badger has other tricks.