It was late at night, and the lights in various parts of the castle were gradually extinguished. England ushered in a rare good weather, a night without heavy rain and dark clouds. The stars in the sky shone on the earth, giving Hogwarts a mysterious atmosphere.
veil.
In the open space near the playground, the professors temporarily built a simple open-air chicken coop, and Hagrid lived in a small wooden house next to it. In order to ensure his personal safety, there were no secret passages to the water pipes nearby. And the snakes
If the monster swaggers across the ground, the defensive spell deployed by Professor Flitwick will be activated instantly.
The rooster army provided by the generous Mr. Wallop is currently sleeping huddled against the wall. Although it is an open-air environment, Professor Sprout has placed several pots of warm blood vines beside the wall. This plant will continuously generate heat.
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In the wooden house, Hagrid walked out with a lantern. He stretched his neck and looked into the chicken coop surrounded by stone walls. After confirming that there was nothing abnormal, he walked back into the warm room.
Not long after, Hagrid's muffled snoring came from inside the house.
The stars in the night sky became brighter, and the cool night breeze blew through the entire castle. Beside the stone wall, a rooster with its head tucked into its neck shook its head. Maybe it was a little cold.
In an instant, without any warning, a sharp wound appeared in its throat. The rooster wanted to flutter twice before dying, but for some reason, it didn't even have the strength to lift its wings.
On the empty wooden roof, there was a slight fluctuation in the air.
In the chicken pen, with the fall of the first victim (the victim chicken), it was like a chain reaction. The sleeping roosters fell one after another, as if there was an invisible sharp blade that was constantly cutting.
Open their throats.
Just when the prisoner was about to attack the next victim, something happened.
The nameplate that read "Wallup Breeding Farm Presented to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry" glowed with a faint light, and an stimulating binding spell instantly enveloped the surrounding area.
The transparent air on the originally empty wooden roof began to twist, and Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall immediately lifted off the invisibility cloaks covering their bodies.
The two powerful wizards stretched out their wands, and the Appearance Charm and the Patronus Charm spurted out from the tips of the wands.
However, the Appearance Spell did not work, and no outline appeared in the field.
The three silver cats belonging to Professor McGonagall suddenly rushed to the stone wall. The silver light on their bodies shone brightly, but apart from disturbing the chickens, nothing happened.
"Invisibility cloak?" Professor Flitwick frowned, then waved his wand, and strong winds surged. However, he saw nothing except chicken feathers blowing all over the ground.
At the gate of the castle, several other professors who had been hiding quickly rushed to the scene.
"No one caught, Minerva?" Professor Sprout asked.
"Run away..." Professor McGonagall's face looked a little ugly.
They adopted Sean's idea this time. After borrowing Harry's invisibility cloak, Professors Flitwick and McGonagall, who were of suitable size, first hid in Newt's suitcase, and then quietly climbed to the wooden roof.
superior.
Among the chickens, Newt, who had a little knowledge of alchemy, made a few temporary arrangements. He made several nameplates into temporary magic props. As long as the rooster wearing the nameplate was attacked, the binding spell on it would
will start by itself.
In the plan, when the binding spell is activated, Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick will immediately cooperate. In order to prevent the heirs in the castle from seeing the flaw, Sean even suggested that they find a trusted male and female student union president to drink.
He took Polyjuice Potion and pretended to be the two of them, hoping to deceive the heir behind the scenes.
But what the professors didn't expect was that the murderer would actually turn invisible and was not trapped by their spell.
Snape, with a gloomy look on his face, stepped forward, grabbed a recently dead rooster and looked at it, then took out his wand and recited a few spells.
"My throat was simply cut with a sharp weapon. There was no poisoning or black magic." He said coldly.
Everyone else looked at Professor McGonagall, waiting for her to make a decision.
"We need to think of other ways. The invisible guy is difficult to deal with, and our failure to return this time also exposed our purpose." Professor McGonagall had a headache. "It should be fine tonight. Leave one person behind."
Stay with Hagrid."
The professors looked at each other in confusion, and everyone shivered when the cold night wind blew on the back of their necks.
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"Didn't catch it?" In Professor McGonagall's office, Sean opened his mouth in surprise.
There shouldn't be anything wrong with his plan. Only a few people knew about Harry's invisibility cloak. In order to prevent possible moles in the castle, he even used Polyjuice Potion - you know, Snape
Pu was always unhappy when he provided these things.
Professor McGonagall nodded and told Sean everything about last night.
After listening, Sean rested his chin on his hand.
The opponent still took action, which means there is no mole in the castle, or that the mole does not exist at the professor level. Invisible enemies, but the revealing spell and so on are not effective?
Sean couldn't understand. The world of magic was very magical, but he had never heard of a creature that was not affected by magic spells. The triggering binding spell should be able to hit...
Unless the opponent is incredibly fast... But it cannot be a wizard, and there are no such invisible and extremely fast creatures among magical animals...
How can there be any creature that is not affected by the curse... Sean's brows furrowed hard.
Professor McGonagall did not interrupt his thinking. Although Sean's plan did not succeed, in her eyes, the little wizard had proven his intelligence.
And he looked so much like Albus when he was thinking... Professor McGonagall's eyes flashed under her glasses.
On the other side, Sean, who was puzzled, had placed the target of suspicion on some mysterious power. He even doubted whether a certain guilty party had been resurrected in advance. Otherwise, the spell would not take effect. How could this happen?
Explanation, the other party is not a ghost...
Wait! Sean's eyes suddenly widened.
Ghost, yes, how could I forget that guy?
Seeing the change in his expression, Professor McGonagall asked softly: "Sean, did you discover anything?"
Sean raised his head: "Professor, will ghosts be affected by the curse?"
"Ghost? Of course not," Professor McGonagall was a little confused. "You suspect that the murderer is a ghost? But ghosts cannot be invisible, and they can only have a very small impact on the real world, such as splashing a little water or something.
——Severing the neck of a creature is not something a ghost can do...Wait a minute!"