Harry Potter: The Age of Magic

Chapter 6 Footprints Appear

"Oh, yes, Mrs. Norris is the cat raised by the caretaker Filch." After Rosie mentioned it, Hagrid suddenly remembered that he had not mentioned that Mrs. Norris was a cat, and looked at it with some surprise.

To the other person, ask, "Have you ever heard of Mrs. Norris? Did you know that she was a cat?"

"I heard it mentioned by Hogwarts students by chance before." Rossi said casually, and then said dissatisfiedly, "Besides, you shouldn't immediately think about the fact that Mrs. Norris is a cat.

Can you make it clear?"

"Uh... I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you about this." Hagrid explained apologetically, "Everyone in Hogwarts knows that Mrs. Norris is a cat, so I was negligent for a moment.

I forgot to emphasize this to you."

Can this be ignored? So if I didn't know in advance and didn't ask him questions, wouldn't I have been misled from the beginning? Could it be that in this copy, even the most basic case facts and clues may have wrong information?

Or guide?

While Rossi was thinking secretly, he looked at Hagrid with his dark eyes and asked again:

"Do you have any other information or reminders about this case?"

"Uh..." Hagrid hesitated for a moment, and finally lost his battle under Rossi's probing eyes. He said in a very uncertain tone, "Perhaps, when investigating this case, you need to close your eyes and use your ears.

Listen to the sounds around you and use your nose to discern the messages contained in the breeze.”

After saying that, Hagrid winked at Rossi and then said:

"Next, you need to investigate by yourself. I have other things to do later, so I can't investigate with you. If you need to rest, you can go to any of the four colleges' common rooms to rest."

Without waiting for Rossi to reply, he continued speaking quickly:

“If you discover something and need help, you can reach out to any faculty member.”

"Uh... my personal suggestion is not to ask the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor for help."

"Okay!" Recalling the ridiculous performance of the idol professor in the movie, Rossi twitched the corner of his mouth and suppressed the complaints in his heart about Dumbledore finding such a big trick to teach, "I know.

Got it!"

After watching Hagrid leave, Rossi clicked on the information panel again and looked at the mission information carefully:

"Task 1: Find Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets (in progress).

Clues (not obtained), results (not completed)

Mission 2: Investigate the truth behind the attack (ongoing).

Clues (not obtained), inference (lack of preconditions), conclusion (lack of preconditions)

Mission 3: Rescue Ginny (not opened - lack of prerequisites)"

"Sure enough, this special copy will also display the mission details after entering the mission map." Rossi folded his arms and thought silently, "That Hagrid didn't even provide any key clues. I'm really convinced."

While muttering, Rossi looked at the last message on the panel:

"What's the situation with the mission to save Ginny not being started? Does it have to wait until I meet the girl named Ginny before it can be started?"

"If the NPC in this game does not know and pronounce his full name in advance, then he can only view his last name. This setting is obviously not friendly to ordinary players. Especially what happened in this special copy

The time is sixty years after the game timeline. If other players enter and want to clear the dungeon, it will definitely be difficult."

"But this doesn't have much impact on me who knows the plot."

"Ginny, I remember Harry Potter's future wife, Ron's sister is called Ginny, uh... Ginny Weasley?" Rossi continued to recall the plot of the movie, muttering almost silently.

road:

"The plot of the Chamber of Secrets begins with the house elf Dobby preventing Harry Potter from going to school. The key plot is that Lucius Malfoy mixed Tom Riddle's notes, which are Voldemort's Horcruxes, into Ginny Weasley's books.

In the book, Ginny was bewitched by the young Voldemort and opened the Chamber of Secrets to release the basilisk. In the end, Harry Potter killed the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, destroyed the Horcrux notebook, and saved Ginny who was facing death."

Thinking of this, Rosie tried to read: "Ginny Weasley..."

As she whispered, she focused her gaze on the mission panel, expecting that the mission information would change accordingly.

"There is no movement...does it need to be in contact with the other party?"

Rosie, who had vaguely felt that there was a high probability of failure before making the attempt, was not discouraged. She pursed her red lips, then took out the golden wand from the wand bag on her waist, bowed her body slightly, and used

A low voice recited the incantation:

"The footprints appear!"

A golden mist spurted out from the tip of the wand in an instant, and then, the mist spread throughout the corridor as Rosie danced around.

Footprint Appearance: A magic that can display all the footprints within a ten-meter range within three days. Just specify a footprint, and all the actions of the owner of the footprint at that time can be reproduced. The appearance time of the footprints and the scene recurrence

The duration is related to the level of the magic. The cooldown time of this skill is 1 hour.

The next second, chaotic and noisy golden footprints quickly appeared within a ten-meter range centered on Rossi.

Since the skill level was not high, the duration of only thirty seconds seemed very urgent. The moment the footprints appeared, Rossi immediately hunched over and started searching carefully.

But after just glancing around a few times, Rossi's willow-leaf-like brows wrinkled:

"I originally thought that the difficulty in starting this dungeon was that Hagrid didn't give any direct clues. After I confirmed with him that Mrs. Norris was a cat, I could use the skill of footprint reveal to easily reproduce the cat.

The scene where the cat is petrified by the basilisk can give some clues.

But there are no traces of the cat or the crawling traces of the basilisk at all. What's the situation, and was it covered up by someone using 'disappear without a trace'?"

"Disappeared without a trace..." Rossi pondered for a few seconds, then suddenly he had a flash of inspiration and said, "If it disappears without a trace, can I use 'super-sensory tracking' to reveal the erased footprints again?"

Without any time to think, Rossi flicked the wand again and quickly cast the identity skill that he had only learned the first level.

The mist of blue light penetrated into her eyes in an instant, turning her dark eyes into a faint blue.

But in an instant, Rosie saw golden drop-shaped cat paw prints suddenly appearing on the dark stone wall. She couldn't care less about her excitement and walked forward quickly, quickly pressing the 11-inch golden wand against the cat's paw prints.

On the paw prints.

Just when she was about to use the "Revelation" spell to recreate the scene at that time, dark lights suddenly flickered from the cat paw prints. After a moment, the newly revealed footprints were covered up again.

.

Seeing this, Rossi, who had blue eyes, chanted a curse without much hope:

"Show up!"

However, after spending dozens of magic points, it failed to cause any changes. Obviously, this spell failed without any accident.

Rossi gave a helpless smile and slowly withdrew the wand against the corner, thinking in her heart:

"If we go by the plot, it was Ginny Weasley who summoned the basilisk, and she was the one who ordered the basilisk to petrify the cat here. If this is the case, then 'disappear without a trace' was used to cover the tracks.

It can only be her.

But even though my super-sensory tracking is only at level one, can she, a first-year freshman, really know how to use 'Disappear without a Trace'? And she can resist my magic just by relying on the residual magic power? Then this freshman also can't use it.

Isn’t it too strong? Is there an unknown change in the plot? Or is this just a revision of the plot by the copy? "

Full of questions, Rosie deactivated the effect of the supersensory tracking. Before the students' get out of class time came, she found the location of the abandoned girls' bathroom on the second floor of Hogwarts from the system map and searched for it.

Speaking of which, Rosie found this abandoned girls' bathroom when she was searching the Hogwarts campus, although in the main timeline of the game, this bathroom was marked as inaccessible.

But for Rosie, who knew the plot of Harry Potter, this information was enough to remind her that that was the bathroom where Moaning Myrtle was.

Of course, this is also the entrance to the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets.

(End of chapter)