From Kamal Taj to Hogwarts

"Miss Carlotta Pinkstone, why are you here?" Dumbledore asked in surprise.

"Albus, who is she?" Professor Slughorn asked.

"A fifth-year Gryffindor student." Dumbledore answered Professor Slughorn's question seriously, and then looked at Pinkstone. "Miss Pinkstone, what are you doing here?"

Pinkstone's expression was slightly confused, and then suddenly became very frightened, and said tremblingly: "Professor, I won't be expelled, will I?"

Dumbledore's eyebrows furrowed deeper. He took two steps forward and asked, "Miss Pinkstone, calm down first. We need to know what you just did here?"

Pinkstone held his head in his hands, closed his eyes in pain, and tried to think about something: "I...I don't know...I just seemed to have stuck something on the wall of the castle..."

Dumbledore tried his best to sound gentle, but the urgency in it was still very obvious. He asked: "Now think about it carefully, where did you stick that thing?"

Pinkstone stretched out a trembling hand and pointed at the painting she was facing.

There was an ordinary-looking oil painting at the location she was pointing to, which only showed a shining golden goblet. The golden goblet had two exquisite solid gold handles, and the body of the goblet was engraved with exquisite symbolic carvings.

Dumbledore waved his wand and took the painting off the wall.

The wall behind the oil painting is a shocking sight!

The originally light gray thick marble wall seemed to have been splashed with a pool of black ink, and there was a trace of black mist with an evil aura escaping outwards. It seemed that this blackness still had a tendency to spread.

Looking back at the oil painting, there is already an evil aura tainted on the back.

"Such evil black magic!" Professor Slughorn took a breath, turned to look at Pinkstone, and asked sternly. "What on earth did you stick on the wall?"

Pinkstone slumped in the corner, hugged his legs, and murmured helplessly: "I don't know... I really don't know..."

Professor Slughorn looked at Pinkstone's performance and helplessly took out a bottle of magic potion from his pocket and handed it to her, saying: "Drink the calming potion first. Maybe it will calm you down a little bit."

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Pinkstone tremblingly took the potion from the professor's hand and poured it into his mouth.

After drinking the potion, her face seemed to look better.

After seeing Pinkstone's expression stabilize, Dumbledore said seriously to Professor Slughorn: "Horace! We first need to solve this dark magic now, and we will talk about other things later!"

"Understood." Professor Slughorn nodded. "We can't let it continue to spread."

The two stretched out their wands, and wisps of silver magic squeezed towards the evil black stain, causing it to gradually shrink and weaken.

Looking at the traces of black magic in front of him, Xiwen suddenly thought of a question at this time, so he asked aloud: "Professor, if this is another magic node, how many intact magic nodes are left in the castle?"

"There should be quite a few more, right?" Professor Slughorn thought for a while and answered uncertainly.

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"Two left!"

At the same time, Helena in the ghost hall gave an accurate answer.

"Most of the structure of the castle was done by my mother, and I have some understanding of it through my ears and eyes," Helena said.

"Hogwarts Castle itself is a great alchemical product, and the magic node of the castle is, simply put, a hub of magic movement left behind by the four founders, including my mother, when they built the castle.

Each of the four of them left one such hub."

"There are many parts in the castle that rely on the flow of magic power to run smoothly, and most of these magic powers rely on magic nodes for transfer. If the magic nodes are destroyed, and only one node is destroyed, the normal operation of the castle may not be possible.

There will be some impact, but this impact increases exponentially. Now that two of them have been damaged, many functions in the castle should have lost their effectiveness."

Xiwen nodded secretly. According to the house elf Budi, many utensils in the kitchen no longer work.

"When the third magic node is destroyed, the magic operating system of the entire castle will suffer a serious blow, and half of the castle will be paralyzed." Helena continued. "If all four nodes are destroyed, Huo

The magic power of Gwartz itself will completely dissipate and turn into an ordinary building!"

"Aren't you anxious when the magic nodes are destroyed one after another?" Ghost Xiwen frowned and looked at Helena and asked.

"I'm just a ghost, what's the use of being anxious?" Helena smiled bitterly and shook her head, looking sad.

"No!" Xiwen interrupted her and said firmly. "Even ghosts have their own unique functions."

"I think we should break the rules for once!"

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In the corridor on the underground floor, President Dippet and a group of professors also rushed over, and most of them felt the previous vibration.

"Albus, how's it going?" Principal Dippet stepped forward and asked.

"It's not good." Dumbledore shook his head and sighed. "This black magic can indeed be removed, but the magic nodes behind the wall have been completely eroded."

Principal Dippet's face became extremely ugly.

At this time, many little wizards poked their heads out from the entrance of the corridor on the first floor of the basement, seeming to be curious about the reason why all the professors suddenly left the meeting when the Halloween dinner was being held.

Because of their arrival, the corridor became noisy.

"Garadia, let them go back to their respective common rooms." Principal Dippet said to Professor Mellors a little irritably.

Professor Mellors nodded and walked towards the group of overly curious little wizards. Her voice came faintly from the end of the corridor.

"All prefects, take the young wizards from their respective colleges back to the common room of each college immediately. Those who are still staying out after ten minutes will be treated as violating school rules!"

As Professor Mellors finished speaking, the voices of several prefects calling for organizational discipline also came over one after another, and the chatter of the young wizards gradually faded away.

"Why are you still here, Mr. Rozier?" Principal Dippet noticed that Sivan was still there, so he asked. "Do you want to be deducted points and put in solitary confinement?"

Xiwen shook his head, looked directly into the principal's eyes and said, "Principal, I have something to report."

Principal Dippet frowned and said, "I'm sorry, Rozier. We have important things to deal with now. Can you leave your matters until next time?"

Xiwen said without giving in: "What if I say that what I want to say is related to what you have to deal with?"

"Armando, let him speak." Dumbledore said suddenly.

Principal Dippet took a deep look at Dumbledore, then turned to look at Sivan, and said in a deep voice: "Then let's talk about it, Mr. Rosier."

"The culprit who destroyed the magic node is Professor Luo Lei!"

Xiwen said word for word.

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