Harry Potter: The Age of Magic

Chapter 196 The new secret passage in Hogwarts

There are dementors guarding Hogwarts on all sides. If Peter Pettigrew wanted to escape, it was unlikely that he would go through the door.

The secret passages leading outside the school naturally became the top priority.

Not to mention the secret passages that may not have been discovered yet, there are as many as 5 that they know about.

There are only two people, Rossi and Black, and there is obviously a shortage of manpower.

"It seems we have to find foreign aid."

Rosie, who was hiding in a secret corner on the third floor of the castle, looked at Blake.

"Looking for foreign aid? Who?"

Blake lowered his voice, "You must first ensure that the foreign aid you find will not betray me."

Just then, a thick-haired cat quickly jumped down from upstairs.

"Crookshanks?"

Rosie, who had not seen the cat for a while, immediately recognized it as Hermione's pet.

"Meow!"

Crookshanks shouted to Rossi, then stopped directly in Black's footsteps.

No, it looks like it's just coming for Black.

"This cat is very smart. I communicated with it for a long time and finally it understood what I was thinking."

Blake glanced down at Crookshanks, and then said to Rosie quite proudly, "It's helping me find Peter."

After a pause, he smiled dryly and said, "It just looks a little naughty."

"I know it's smart..." Rossi's eyes were fixed on the interaction between the two of them.

Crookshanks tugged at Blake's trouser legs with his mouth, and the four short legs moved back desperately, but Blake just pushed them aside with a smile.

But you don't look very smart, Blake!

Rolling his eyes, Rossi complained speechlessly in his heart.

Squatting down, gently stroking its soft hair, and asked warmly:

"Crookshanks, did you discover something? Do you want to take us there?"

"Meow~"

Crookshanks immediately gave up fighting with Blake, and instead rubbed his flat face against Rossi's hand a few times.

Immediately afterwards, it circled around Rosie twice and quickly climbed upstairs.

Obviously he wanted to take them to find something.

"Um... does it mean for us to follow it?"

Seeing this scene, Blake's tone was obviously mixed with annoyance.

Looking back at him like a fool, Rossi sighed and said nothing.

God knows how many times he missed it...

Dodging waves of students rushing downstairs, Rossi and the two followed Crookshanks all the way to the seventh floor.

After turning the corner and passing a bathroom and a classroom office, Crookshanks stopped at the end of the corridor.

There hangs a rich and colorful painting of a rural landscape.

There is a small river in the foreground of the picture. Next to the river is a house with a closed door. Next to the house, a colorful puppy is standing there looking into the river.

Crookshanks circled back and forth there, turning back and meowing a few times from time to time.

"Do you know what mechanism is hidden here?"

After quickly flipping through the documents he had saved about the secret passages of Hogwarts, Rossi, who found nothing, turned his attention to Black.

"have no idea."

Blake stared at the painting on the wall with intense eyes, "But I can probably guess it."

As he spoke, he walked to the wall and gently rubbed the puppy's back a few times.

"When I was in school, this painting did not exist here. If it had some kind of mechanism, it should have been made by a later student.

Well... to us predators, this is just a little trick."

While at school, Black and the four of them called themselves the Marauders, so the Marauder's Map was sometimes called the Marauder's Map.

As he said these words, the puppy in the painting suddenly came to life.

I saw it circling the house a few times like it was having fun, and then opened the door and got in.

After waiting for a few seconds, it poked its head out of the dark door, stared at Rossi and blinked, then turned around and ran out with a rope in its mouth.

As it ran closer and closer, it pulled a complete rope ladder out of the house.

When it ran to the river, it jumped high into the air. This jump actually jumped out of the canvas and pulled the long rope ladder into reality.

How can this be done? What a strange mechanism!

Seeing this scene, Rossi sighed sincerely.

"This rope won't last long, hurry up and catch up!"

Blake, who was the first to climb up the rope ladder, turned back and reminded.

"OK!"

Rossi responded and followed him up the rope ladder.

However, as soon as she stepped on the ladder, the rope ladder floating outside the canvas suddenly retracted into the painting at an extremely fast speed.

In just an instant, it took Blake and Rosie into the room.

After feeling dizzy, Rossi felt like he had entered an empty and cold place.

The map of the system was pitch black, and everything around her was obscured by darkness. Even if she was wearing equipment that increased her night vision, her field of vision still did not exceed 5 meters.

What is this place?

While the voice of doubt rang in Rosie's heart, she took out the wand with her right hand and lit it up silently.

The range illuminated by the luminous spell can be slightly stronger than the field of vision provided by the equipment, but it does not exceed ten meters.

"The ultimate flash!"

Rosie tried to cast the advanced spell of the Luminous Curse, but it didn't seem to have much effect. Instead, it shook her so hard that she couldn't open her eyes.

"What the hell is this place! Where's Blake?"

She complained dejectedly and changed the spell on her wand to [luminescent flash] again.

At this time, she was on a circular platform suspended in mid-air, surrounded by endless darkness.

In each of the four directions of the platform, there is a floating staircase engraved with different animal portraits, leading to the dark depths.

"Blake! Are you there!"

Holding his hands to his mouth, Rossi called out a few words, but never got any response.

Is he not here? Or is my voice also blocked by this darkness?

Hmm... green snake, red lion, blue eagle and yellow badger, so these four directions represent the four houses of Hogwarts?

Thinking of this, she walked along the stairs engraved with red lions.

After walking for about ten seconds, a circular floating platform that looked similar to before appeared in front of her again.

On the last step leading to this platform, there is still a red lion engraved on it.

The red lion, green snake, yellow badger, and blue eagle are exactly the same as before! Is this a maze? If you go wrong, you will return to the starting point?

Thinking to herself, she casually took out the umbrella from her inventory and made a light or dark cross on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, she walked quickly towards the stairs engraved with green snake patterns.

Thirty seconds later, she appeared on the floating circular platform again.

"Did I make that cross?! It seems I was right, this place is indeed a maze!"

Holding his chin gently with his right hand, Rossi muttered silently, "But which way is the right way?"

After a pause, she looked in the direction where the yellow badger was engraved.

Forget it, there are only two roads left anyway, it doesn’t take much time to walk them both...

(End of chapter)