The sound of the bookshelf falling was enough to wake up everyone in the castle.
At this moment, Fred and the other three who were playing cat-and-mouse with Filch on the third floor of the castle were also startled by the loud noise. They all stopped and raised their ears to listen to the noise around them.
Filch, who was originally chasing a few people, also stopped and looked in the direction of the sound in shock.
"The sound seems to be coming from the direction of the fifth floor." Filch said to himself, and he immediately turned around and rushed towards the library.
"What was that noise just now?" George was the first to be unable to restrain his curiosity.
"I don't know. It may have been caused by Albert. Go back to the lounge first." Fred said immediately: "Go back before the noise just now attracts other professors."
"Quick!" George shouted, and the three of them started running along the corridor. They had to return to the common room before the professors appeared. Because Albert once told them that the professors at Hogwarts were capable.
See through the illusion spell on them.
After running through corridors one after another, the three of them headed to the seventh floor through the secret passage beside the corridors. Halfway through, Lee Jordan asked again: "Are we going to the meeting point? What should Albert do?"
"That guy must have run away before us."
"Go straight back to the common room."
In fact, what they did was quite correct. Shortly after the sound sounded, several professors in the castle were awakened by the sound and came over to check the situation.
In the corridor, the portraits on the aisle were running back and forth, trying to figure out what was going on.
By the time Filch checked the fifth floor, Albert had already fled the scene of the crime, and he was moving faster than them.
Before leaving, Albert did not forget to close the entrance to the library.
It was precisely for this reason that Filch could not find the crime scene for a while. He only roughly knew where the sound came from, but when he went to check, nothing was found.
The culprit behind all this was hurrying to the Gryffindor common room.
Albert tried his best to keep quiet, but the people in the portrait had already been awakened by the sound just now. After they heard the slight footsteps, they all turned their faces curiously and looked at the empty corridor.
After going upstairs, Albert walked halfway along the corridor, then lifted up a tapestry on the wall and walked up a narrower staircase. This was a shortcut that led to the eighth floor.
As for Fred and the others, they would not be caught since they were carrying the Marauder's Map, but Albert was not worried about their safety at all.
When he arrived near the entrance of the common room, the magic on him had not been released, and he was waiting for Fred and others here.
A few minutes later, several people hurried over, looking at Albert who was still waiting for them outside, and asked in confusion: "Why don't you go into the lounge?"
"The Fat Madam will not open the door for us when she is invisible." Albert reminded: "Follow me, and go to the Room of Requirement to rest first. Just in case, we still don't want to be seen."
The three Freds looked confused, but they still followed Albert to the Room of Requirement. In this case, they were willing to trust Albert's judgment. After all, Albert's brain was much better than theirs. He did this
There must be a reason.
On the other side, Filch was inspecting the library, because the sound just now was indeed the sound of bookshelves collapsing in the library. However, when Filch entered the library, he found no signs of collapse on the bookshelves.
Yes, no, even in the restricted book section, there are still no signs of the bookshelf collapsing, as if the sound had never happened just now.
At this moment, Filch knew that he had been tricked, yes, tricked, just like the helmet that was stuck to the floor on the fourth floor, and the damn big shit eggs that were thrown in the corridor, including here.
All the noises are from someone playing tricks on themselves.
Yes, they were the bastards he was chasing just now. Filch vaguely guessed who they were.
Although there was no proof of the Gryffindor twins, Filch had a hunch that it was the two of them who did it.
"Filch? What happened?"
Snape wore a gray shirt-style pajamas and walked into the library with a gloomy face.
"I just heard a noise and came over to check the situation. I think it was probably caused by some students on purpose." Filch turned to look at Snape and whispered: "I was chasing them just now.
There are several students wandering around the castle in the middle of the night, Professor."
"Students, that's fine, we will catch them." Snape looked around the library, then stepped into the restricted book area and took a look. There were no signs of collapsed bookshelves.
"What's going on?" Professor McGonagall walked in quickly. She was wearing a plaid dressing gown and a net. She glanced at the library seriously. She obviously thought that the sound just now sounded a bit like a bookshelf collapsing.
sound.
"There was someone in the library just now, in the restricted book section." Filch said immediately: "I was just looking for a few students who were wandering around the school in the middle of the night. They should be in a group, and they are probably...
Gryffindor student."
"Do you have any valid evidence?" Professor McGonagall asked with a frown.
"What happened here?" Smith appeared outside the door wearing a bronze pajamas. "Are you planning to have a pajama party?"
"Someone is making a loud noise here, Professor. We suspect it is a student. There are several students wandering around the school tonight." Filch said in a low voice. He rarely spoke loudly in front of professors.
"Filch, you just said that it was probably a Gryffindor student who did it?" Professor McGonagall asked. "Is there any proof?"
"You can ask the gatekeeper at the Gryffindor entrance." Snape said suddenly. He was very happy to see the students of Hogwarts suffer misfortune and have their points deducted.
"Well, that's a good idea." Filch nodded.
Professor McGonagall frowned slightly, but ultimately did not object.
Several professors headed towards the eighth floor and found the Fat Lady, the gatekeeper of Gryffindor, at the entrance of Gryffindor.
"Ma'am, did anyone enter the lounge just now?" Professor McGonagall asked.
"No." The fat lady said.
"Have any students left?" Snape asked.
"Yes." The fat lady said.
"Who are they?" Filch asked impatiently.
"I don't know, they are invisible." The fat lady said.
"Just look at who is not in the dormitory, and you will know who has just been wandering around the castle." Snape suggested maliciously.
"Doing this will wake up the sleeping students." Professor McGonagall obviously did not agree with this method.
"Only senior students may use the Disillusionment Curse." Professor Smith suddenly reminded, "I think that since they did not enter the common room, they should still be somewhere in the castle. We will find those naughty students.
."
Smith obviously did not agree with waking up other students. However, in fact, a large number of students had already been awakened by the sound just now.
"I will find them." Filch gritted his teeth.
However, Filch and several other professors searched the castle several times, even searching for secret passages, but found nothing.
okay!
Actually, there are two scapegoats.
A Ravenclaw girl and a Hufflepuff boy became scapegoats. The couple was actually dating in a secret passage, but was caught by Filch who suddenly broke in.
Each was deducted fifty points.
But after questioning, it was obvious that they were not the group of people Filch was looking for.
As for the Gryffindor students Filch is looking for?
Even after the professors turned almost the entire castle upside down, there was still no trace of the Gryffindor students.
There is no way, no one can let them know that there is a hidden room on the eighth floor of the castle, and its name is the Room of Requirement.