Filch liked to punish students corporally. Every time the lights went out, he liked to run around in the corridors, just like the Gestapo, catching those little wizards who stayed out at night, and then asked them to clean the toilets.
Ever since he became the castle administrator, all students have avoided him like the plague.
However, Wang Xu, who has read the seven Harry Potter films, knows that this squib, hated by the students, is one of the few who did not leave when the decisive battle came and chose to fight Voldemort at Hogwarts to the end.
You must know that at that time, it was already the seventh part of Harry Potter. Dumbledore was dead, the Dark Lord was resurrected, and the entire magical world was shrouded in shadow.
When the decisive battle came, many wizards chose to leave, including Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Gryffindor.
In this precarious situation, many people thought that staying would mean waiting to die.
Filch was a squib, but he was greater than many wizards. He removed the strips of cloth on the mop and used them as weapons, locked his cat in the office, and chose to stand up and fight the Death Eaters to the death.
Wang Xu admired this kind of loyal person very much, and knew that what Filch needed was not pity, but an opportunity, and Wang Xu happened to be able to provide him with this opportunity.
One rubbish skill book and two rubbish martial arts books, it cannot be said how powerful Filch can become, but it can narrow the gap between him and ordinary wizards.
Of course, there is a premise here. He must seize this opportunity himself. Opportunities wait for no one.
Pushing open the office door, Wang Xu hummed a tune and walked in, preparing for his lucky experiment.
He asked Winky to find twenty colored marbles and hide them in various corners of Hogwarts, intending to play a treasure hunt game with Harry.
In order to mobilize Harry's enthusiasm, or let him express his luck, Wang Xu decided to use a secret as a bet, and this secret was something Harry could not refuse under any circumstances.
tick tock, tick tock
The grandfather clock in the room kept ringing, and time was passing quietly.
Wang Xu is a very patient person. He just sits on the chair in the office and lets time slip away from his fingertips.
Ten p.m
DONG DONG DONG!!
"Professor, are you in there? I'm Harry!"
After waiting for more than an hour, Harry's voice sounded outside the door, causing Wang Xu, who had closed his eyes to rest, to slowly open his eyes.
"Come in." Wang Xu spoke slowly, sat on the chair and poured himself a cup of herbal tea.
click
The door opened, and Harry, wearing a student uniform, opened the door and walked in from the outside, asking: "Professor, are you looking for me?"
"Sit down." Wang Xu pointed to the chair opposite, picked up the cup and took a sip of herbal tea.
Harry didn't know what Wang Xu wanted to do with him, so he sat down in a daze, with a blank look in his eyes.
Wang Xu put down the teacup, touched the ring on his hand, and said: "I guess Professor Dumbledore came to you to give you a task. This task is related to Professor Slughorn. Strictly speaking, it is for
Professor Slughorn is hiding a secret, right?"
"Professor, I, I don't know what you are talking about." Harry looked a little flustered and did not dare to look at Wang Xu.
Wang Xu smiled, pointed upstairs, and said: "My office is on the second floor, and the principal's office is on the third floor. If you have the architectural drawings of Hogwarts, you will find that the principal's office is above my head.
Above. Normally, people sitting downstairs cannot hear the conversation upstairs unless the people above are singing karaoke. But I am an exception. I am more sensitive than ordinary people. If I want to, this
A little obstruction is nothing."
"Professor, me"
"Don't rush to refute. I'm not trying to get anything from you, but I can give you some necessary help. Let's play a game. I've hidden twenty stained glass pieces in the Hogwarts castle.
beads, I don’t know the location of these glass beads. After an hour, if you find more glass beads than me, I don’t think you need to worry about Professor Slughorn, because I have all the secrets you want to know.
Know."
Wang Xu raised his head and glanced at the grandfather clock, then turned his eyes to Harry and said with a smile: "Want to try it?"
"Professor, what if I lose?" Harry asked weakly.
Wang Xu spread his hands and replied: "Then there is no other way. The problem you want to know can only be found by yourself on Professor Slughorn. You may have to spend several months for this, and it will not be until the second half of the semester.
Hopefully you know."
Harry didn't speak for a while, and then he said, "I agreed."
"Come on, the game begins." Wang Xu pointed at the door, indicating that Harry could take the first step.
Harry took a deep breath, opened the door and rushed out.
Wang Xu glanced at the grandfather clock. It was now ten minutes past ten. How effective the lucky potion was, the answer was about to be revealed.
"Gudong!" Wang Xu picked up the teacup and took another sip.
The tea mixed with lucky water flowed down his throat to his stomach, and a feeling of happiness filled his heart.
In the desks in the classroom, in the corners of the corridors, under the carpets in the lounges, and in the bathtubs in the bathrooms.
Wang Xu did not open up his sense of martial arts, but just followed his heart to find those hidden marbles.
As time passed by, the expression on Wang Xu's face became more and more serious.
It had been fifty minutes, but he had only found seven marbles. Sometimes he followed the guidance in his heart, but in the end he came up empty.
"There may be something to gain in the kitchen!" Wang Xu naturally had this thought in his heart, as if that's what he should think.
Wang Xu played with the seven marbles in his hand, walked down the stairs, and came to the kitchen door.
Before he could open the door, the kitchen door opened on its own, and Harry walked out with a happy face.
Seeing Harry here, Wang Xu frowned slightly and glanced at his right hand.
What caught his eye was that Harry was holding a handful of marbles in his hand. There were so many marbles that he could hardly catch them with one hand.
"At least eight or nine!" Wang Xu just had this idea when he saw Harry running towards the Potions classroom without looking back.
The Potions classroom is also in the basement, and is only separated from the kitchen by Hufflepuff's dormitory, which is more than ten meters away.
Under Wang Xu's gaze, Harry dove into the Potions classroom. Soon, exclamations of joy rang out in the room. Wang Xu walked in and took a look, and there he actually found various items from the bookcase and the medicine pot.
A glass ball.
"Professor, I have found eleven!" Harry ran over excitedly, holding a handful of marbles in his hands.
With just a simple glance, Wang Xu could guess that there were exactly eleven marbles, no more, no less, and he had already lost according to the previously agreed rules.
"Awesome, really awesome!" Wang Xu opened his hand slightly, and seven marbles rolled down from his fingertips and fell to the ground like broken pearls.
Harry didn't know what Wang Xu was going to say, so he scratched his head in embarrassment and said with a silly smile: "I have a talent for finding things since I was a child. When my cousin Dali loses things, I help him find them."
Wang Xu smiled and said nothing. He did not tell Harry that he drank lucky water before the game started.
They didn't even tell Harry that if they wanted to find twenty glass beads in the huge Hogwarts, ordinary people wouldn't be able to find them all in a day.
"Professor, can you tell me what you know about Professor Slughorn?" Harry asked expectantly, holding the glass bead in his hand.
Wang Xu is not someone who cannot afford to lose. If he loses, he loses, so he said: "Go back and tell Dumbledore that the secret hidden by Professor Slughorn is that he told Voldemort how to make Horcruxes. Voldemort made a total of
He has obtained seven Horcruxes. Only by destroying all the Horcruxes can he be killed, otherwise he will be resurrected. Go ahead and tell Dumbledore, Dumbledore will understand."
Harry nodded heavily, hugged the glass beads and ran away.
Wang Xu stood at the door of the Potions classroom, watching Harry disappearing into the corridor, and whispered: "What a lucky boy!"