"Headmaster, the Fat Lady has been found. She is in a very bad mood on the map of Argyll County on the third floor..." After Snape walked into the auditorium, he quickly locked onto Dumbledore's figure and walked quickly to him
The person next to me said softly.
Fortunately, the two of them were very close to Tom, so that Tom could hear their conversation.
Tom woke up when the two of them came near, but he still pretended to be asleep.
"Okay, I just found a temporary guard for the Gryffindor portrait hole. The students can retreat tomorrow morning."
"Oh, there are still portraits willing to work as janitors now?" Snape sneered. He knew very well the attitude of those portraits after learning about the Fat Lady's experience. You can find out from this group of portraits who were emboldened.
It is not easy for someone who is willing to take the blame.
"It was Ser Cadogan, who volunteered to take the job."
"Oh -" Snape raised his eyebrows.
The two of them walked towards the other side, and their voices gradually became inaudible.
Facts have proven that if you want to talk about something secret, it's best to talk somewhere where no one is - you never know if the person in front of you is pretending to sleep.
Harry noticed Dumbledore's arrival as soon as the door to the auditorium opened. From the corner of his eye, he saw the two professors muttering in the corner. Harry was so anxious that he wanted to run over and listen to the conversation between the two.
The content. Harry turned his head and found that his friend Ron also had a pair of big eyes open. It seemed that Ron was not asleep either.
At this time, Dumbledore and Snape moved, and their footsteps gradually approached. Harry and Ron immediately closed their eyes and pretended to be asleep.
"...The underground classroom, the astronomy tower, and the owl loft have all been searched, but there is no trace of him."
"Very well, Severus. I didn't expect him to stay here."
The conversation that followed was very exciting, and Harry listened with great interest, almost forgetting to hide that he was sleeping soundly.
"Black, the amazing wizard, escaped from Azkaban, and then broke into Hogwarts single-handedly..." Snape's tone was full of sarcasm, and he specially emphasized the word single-handedly.
Sirius Black. Just mentioning this name, Snape would feel a burst of indescribable hatred in his heart: it was this man, and James Potter, who caused him to lose Lily... If it hadn't been for them,
If it wasn't for them, at least Lily wouldn't have died, right?
Dumbledore was so old that he couldn't understand what Snape meant. He glanced at Snape and said, "I trust every teacher at Hogwarts."
Snape closed his mouth and stopped talking.
Dumbledore turned his attention to Harry, who was a few steps away, and said softly: "I believe that Hogwarts Castle is safe. There is no need to tell Potter about the matter for the time being. Let him have a good rest. By the way, you heard that today's visit to Hogwarts Castle is safe."
Did something happen at the gate of Lanffindor College? What a pair of excellent little wizards..."
Dumbledore whispered to Snape while gradually walking away.
The voices of the two were already inaudible, but Harry's mind seemed to be filled with a ball of paste. He had the same question as Snape, that is, how did Sirius get in?
If he had been asked to answer this question a few minutes ago, he would have said without hesitation that Snape brought Sirius in as a spy, hoping to use Sirius's help to get rid of him and help the Dark Lord avenge himself.
But after hearing those words, he hesitated - if it was really him who brought Sirius into the castle, then why did Snape ask such a unnecessary question? How could Sirius act so hastily?
Harry fell into deep thought and could not sleep for a long time.
…
The impact of Sirius's invasion was far-reaching. Filch took down the torn portrait of the Fat Lady and replaced it with a portrait of Sir Cadogan.
This active, irritable and aggressive knight spends half of his day luring others into dueling with him, and the other half is used to make up new passwords - the passwords are changed at least twice a day, and Gryffindor's little
The wizard was miserable. A young wizard with a bad memory like Neville was locked out every day and could only wait for others to take him in. This made him think of some crooked ways.
But the fate of such hot news is to be overshadowed by another hot news. When the Quidditch match is about to come, the discussion about Black finally ends.
However, the first Quidditch match day also came with increasingly bad weather - this could not stop Captain Wood of Gryffindor from increasing the amount of training. The entire team trained every day under the supervision of Mrs. Hooch.
It takes extremely hard training.
As a result, just after the last training before the game day, Wood brought a message.
"We don't have to compete with Slytherin!" The anger on Wood's face was clear. "Flint just came to me and told me that we were going to play Ravenclaw - he said that the injury on their Seeker's arm was not done yet.
good."
"Nonsense!" Harry shouted angrily, "Malfoy's arm has healed a long time ago, he is pretending to be sick! We only trained tactics against Slytherin before, but in the end we have to fight Ravenclaw?"
"Can't Team Ravenclaw resist? Protest this unreasonable arrangement?" Fred also complained dissatisfiedly.
Angelina thought for a moment, "Perhaps the Ravenclaws think that they have a higher chance of winning in this bad weather - the storm will obscure the Seeker's vision, and our advantage will be weakened, and
Ravenclaw's rapid advance will not be greatly affected."
Angelina's analysis is still very reasonable, at least most of the team members believe it.
"Then let's show Ravenclaw what it means to be brave and good at fighting. Our batter combination is the strongest combination in Hogwarts, and we will definitely make these Ravenclaws suffer a lot." Wood told everyone.
Cheered up.
Harry also secretly vowed to perform well and seize the Golden Snitch as quickly as possible, so as to avoid letting his teammates get soaked in the heavy rain for too long.
The core issue in this competition is the weather. In fact, everything Marcus says is nonsense. The fundamental reason why he avoids the competition is that he does not want to go out and ride a broom in this kind of weather-this requires braving violent storms, lightning, and thunder.
Being caught in the rain at a high altitude! Think about it, there is no cover around the broom and it is in mid-air. How strong is the wind? More importantly, no one knows when the game will end - the only time for the Quidditch game to end.
That is, the Golden Snitch was caught. Marcus felt that catching the Snitch in the heavy rain would be too unrealistic, and the game would most likely last for several hours or even until the weather cleared.
After thinking about this, Marcus lost his mind and went to play against Gryffindor.
As for Ravenclaw, there is another theory. The reason why Alessandro Ricci, the captain of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, chose to compete with the Gryffindor team in the rain is natural.
It couldn't be what Angelina said: "the advantages are magnified and the disadvantages are reduced", but he got a batch of new cloaks, which are very suitable for use in heavy rains.
"Waterproof cloaks!" On the Quidditch field, he handed several brand-new cloaks to his team members. "Didn't the Charms class teach us water-avoiding spells before? So I tried to apply it to the cloaks.
, and it really worked out!”
As he spoke, he put a cloak on himself. Sure enough, the rain falling from the sky fell on the cloak, and it just rolled and fell to the ground.
However, just a "raincoat" is not enough. Rainwater will still flow into the pants along the hem of the cloak, so Richie also attached water-proof charms to several pairs of pants. Coupled with the mask on the cloak, it can be said that
The all-round protection can amazingly enhance the combat effectiveness of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team in rainy weather.
After the team members put on the waterproof cloaks, their perception was immediately different. The previously annoying rain disappeared without a trace, and they seemed to be in a warm and dry indoors instead of on a windy and rainy Quidditch pitch.
"Mask, put a water-proof spell on the mask too!" After flying in the sky for a few times, Chaser Roger Davis made a suggestion to Captain Ridge.
He just discovered that although the mask covered the rainwater coming towards his face, the rainwater also stayed on the mask, seriously obstructing his vision.
"No problem, it's waterproof and moisture-proof!" Under the watchful eyes of his teammates, Captain Rich took out his wand and tapped Roger's mask lightly.
The next moment, not a drop of water was left on the mask, and no rainwater could remain on it at all.
"It's wonderful!" Roger praised, got on the broom and flew into the sky. This time, there was no trace of rain on him, and his field of vision was many times wider and clearer than before.
He happily soared in the air on his broomstick and circled along the Quidditch pitch.
Finally, he flew to the super high poles on both sides of the Quidditch pitch, waved excitedly to Richie, and gave a thumbs up.
Richie felt a little uneasy instinctively, but he didn't know why.
At this time, a white light flashed across the sky, and Rich suddenly understood, and he immediately shouted: "Be careful!"
But it was too late, a bolt of lightning struck the golf club on the golf course. Roger was startled and swung the broom, but was accidentally thrown off by the broom.
Fortunately, he was not struck by lightning. Unfortunately, he was thirty feet above the ground.
The students on the Ravenclaw team only heard a "bang" and watched Roger fall into the mud, splashing a large amount of muddy water.
"Merlin!" Richie exclaimed. He fell from a height of nine meters above the ground. If there hadn't been a large puddle of mud and water on the ground, Roger would have gone to see Merlin by now.
But even with the buffer, Roger himself was seriously injured. He fainted without a sound. Some teammates tried to help him up, but they heard Rich yelling: "Don't touch him!"
Richie knew that if he fell from that height, his bones and internal organs would have been severely damaged. If he picked Roger up hastily at this time, it would probably cause the broken bones to pierce the internal organs, causing massive bleeding or rupture themselves, causing the displaced internal organs to become dislocated.
More serious.
In short, do not touch the injured person who fell to the ground easily.
"Don't touch him!"
Richie stepped on his broom, said a few words and flew towards the castle quickly. He wanted to find Madam Pomfrey.
He flew very fast, and in less than a minute, he broke through the window of the school hospital and shouted to the confused Madam Pomfrey: "My teammate fell from the air!"
Madam Pomfrey was indeed the famous doctor Dumbledore had hired. Even though Richie's appearance caught her off guard, she still reacted immediately, took out her first aid kit in less than ten seconds, and
Sitting astride his broom, the two of them flew out of the smashed window.
By the time Madam Pomfrey rushed to Roger's side, it was less than two minutes before Roger fell.
In just two minutes, blood overflowed from the corner of Roger's mouth.
"It's very troublesome," Madam Pomfrey said with an extremely serious expression, but being serious, she did not stop working on her hands. She quickly took out various bottles and jars and poured the liquid into Roger's
Put it in your mouth or apply it on his body. "The internal organs are ruptured and the bones are broken. Fortunately, there is always someone who falls from a high altitude every few years. I have always been fully prepared and arranged."
After applying the medicine, Madam Pomfrey took out her wand and pointed it at Roger. The bleeding from the corner of his mouth stopped immediately, but his face was still as pale as a white paper.
"The life is saved," Madam Pomfrey frowned, "but he must stay in the infirmary tonight. I want to observe his recovery."
"Okay," Richie agreed, "It's just..."
Madam Pomfrey immediately interrupted his follow-up statement, "No, he will definitely not be able to participate in the Quidditch match tomorrow. His bones need some time to recover."
For Richie, this was a bolt from the blue: there was a game tomorrow, but their team's chaser was seriously injured!
It is impossible to change the opponent now - the time to change the opponent has passed. Unless the Ravenclaw team directly surrenders, they will have to play a game with Gryffindor tomorrow.
In this year's situation, abstaining from a game means the same thing as directly announcing that you will stop competing for the Academy Cup.
"It's over..." Richie's face was white and his eyes were dull, "This is great——"
He suddenly stopped talking because he thought of a path that seemed feasible: Tom Yoder.
This freshman's performance as a Chaser in his first year was absolutely amazing, but it's a pity that he stopped playing Quidditch after he entered his second year.
Now that Chaser Roger was seriously injured, Richie immediately thought of this junior.
So he allowed Madam Pomfrey to take the seriously injured Roger back to the castle, while he disbanded the team and hurried back to Ravenclaw Tower with his broom - he didn't even have time to change his clothes, shoes and the clothes on the broom.
Mud and water dripped all over the floor.
He found Tom in the common room and asked him with a stunned expression: "Yordle, can you play Quidditch tomorrow?"