Hogwarts starts with stealing power

Chapter 208 The vision is coming, who is lying? Do you know the basilisk...

Lin Xia turned to look at the professor.

The professor looked at the petrified ghost with a serious expression.

Lin Xia pondered and asked: "Professor, can ghosts be petrified by the petrification spell?"

Dean Sprout shook his head: "It's difficult, very difficult. Ghosts are different from wizards. Ghosts can hardly affect wizards, so wizards' spells are also difficult to take effect on ghosts, and the effect will not last too long.

For example, even if the petrification spell is effective on ghosts, it will only affect them for a while, but this ghost..."

The dean looked at the other little wizards: "How did you find it?"

One of the little wizards said bravely: "It appeared suddenly. I looked up and it greeted me, and then it suddenly petrified."

Lin Xia asked sharply: "When it was petrified, did it look at you?"

The little wizard hesitated for a while, he couldn't remember it anymore.

"It seemed to be looking at me, or at the ceiling, or turning around to look somewhere else. Anyway, it was petrified all of a sudden. I saw it suddenly petrified!"

Lin Xia looked at the other little wizards again: "What about you? Do you have any other information to add?"

The little wizards looked at each other and shook their heads.

Except for the little wizard who first discovered the petrified ghost, the other little wizards were only busy dancing and talking, and had no time to look up at the ceiling.

If the little wizard hadn't discovered that the ghost was petrified and screamed, and the ghost automatically fell from mid-air, they would not have known that the ghost was in trouble.

Lin Xia looked up at the ceiling and whispered to the dean: "There are so many little wizards on the scene. There must be some reason for not targeting little wizards but ghosts. Maybe we should check the ceiling."

Sprout nodded, "Yes, we should check."

A little wizard asked bravely: "Professor, can this petrified ghost be saved?"

"Of course." The professor said: "The mandrake I cultivated can be used to make potions for petrification recovery, but my herbs are still being cultivated and cannot be recovered so quickly."

When the "ghost petrification tragedy" occurred in the banquet hall, Harry and others found many reasons and finally got rid of the headless Nick party.

Not long after they walked out of the stairs, they met Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall frowned, "What are you doing?"

Harry explained a few words.

Professor McGonagall said in a deep voice: "Something happened at the banquet. Don't walk around. Go back to the common room."

Ron whispered: "Lin Xia and Draco are still in the Great Hall!"

Professor McGonagall: "Don't worry, the little wizards there have been evacuated. You should return to the common room immediately."

Harry and others had to go back first.

At this time, the common room was crowded with many little wizards who had just returned from the banquet hall.

After listening for a while, Ron realized that a ghost had been petrified and was shocked.

He turned to Harry and said, "It is very difficult for a ghost to be petrified. No, to be precise, it is difficult for any magic to work on a ghost.

I don't know who was so cruel to cast the petrification spell on a ghost, and in a place like the banquet hall."

Hermione asked, "Is there a possibility that the power of the petrification spell cast by that person is too strong, so even ghosts with strong magic resistance can't resist it?"

Ron nodded, "It is very likely, but there is a problem here."

He asked puzzledly, "Who would attack a ghost? Did the ghost see something it shouldn't see, or know something it shouldn't know?"

Harry listened to the two people talking there, and suddenly felt worried about the ghosts in Hogwarts.

He had a hunch that being petrified was definitely not the first case.

When the little wizards returned to the common room, some of them were still busy.

The professors of the four major colleges gathered together, confirmed the safety of other little wizards with the prefects one by one, and said that they would patrol more at night and not let the little wizards run away.

They will thoroughly check Hogwarts at night.

The class leader nodded seriously.

After the class leader left, Professor McGonagall turned to look at Lin Xia, "You are deeply resistant to the evil god's whispers. We are short of manpower tonight, so we may need you to help patrol the night. Can you do it?"

Among the students who stayed at this time, in addition to Lin Xia, there were also Cedric and other outstanding students.

These outstanding students can resist the evil god's whispers, but they are just ordinary resistances. However, with the corresponding drugs, there is no problem at all.

As for Draco.

Although he is an outstanding student, he has never participated in a night patrol mission and does not know much, so he was sent to guard the Hufflepuff common room.

Lin Xia nodded and said, "Professor, I have no problem."

The professor began to patrol the night.

Lin Xia held a dim light in her hand, and the moonlight poured in through the window, and the corridors of Hogwarts overlapped with layers of shadows.

Suddenly, she stopped and saw a ghost floating towards her.

And this ghost is the headless Nick!

Lin Xia called it, "Nick, where did you go just now?"

Nick: "Me? I seemed to have gone to a place to sleep. It was a comfortable sleep. I felt dizzy when I woke up. I felt like I forgot something important, but how could that be possible? I am a ghost!"

Lin Xia frowned slightly: "Aren't you going to hold a ghost party tonight?"

Nick looked confused: "Party? How come I didn't know there was a party? And, isn't the party held next week?"

Lin Xia was surprised: "Didn't you change the date?"

Nick: "Did I change the date?"

Lin Xia: "Didn't you notice that there were many ghosts tonight?"

Nick: "No, you saw a lot of ghosts, but why didn't I see any?"

Lin Xia's heart skipped a beat, it's bad!

"Nick, come with me, there's something urgent, we have to report to Professor McGonagall."

However, there seemed to be a lot of problems tonight.

After walking for a while, Lin Xia heard vague whispers in her ears, as if telling a powerful spell.

Her body was slightly hot, and "Nine Heavens Mysterious Yang Records Furnace" automatically dispelled the whispers, but Nick seemed to be disturbed and suddenly shouted.

"Don't come over! Don't come over! No, I don't want to kill you, don't come over!"

Lin Xia turned her head and looked, it seemed that this kind of vague whispers was a bit like a special magnetic field, even ghosts would be disturbed.

She thought for a moment, and threw the remnant of the awakening leaf in her hand at Nick.

Nick's turbid eyes immediately regained some clarity: "Little witch, what happened to me just now? I feel like I have been invaded by something strange."

Lin Xia: "You just lost your mind."

Nick, who was almost headless, suddenly twisted his neck, looked back, and floated behind Lin Xia.

"So this is what it feels like to lose your mind? Is this considered anger? I haven't experienced this emotion for a long time."

Lin Xia said calmly: "Nick, although I don't want to tell you this fact, I have to tell you that ghosts have no perception."

"Lin Xia."

Professor McGonagall's puzzled voice came, "Aren't you going to patrol the other side?"

Lin Xia lowered her head slightly: "Professor McGonagall, I have something to report to you about the abnormal ghost incident tonight."

After listening to Lin Xia's report, Professor McGonagall looked very cautious.

She seemed to think of something bad, and immediately said: "What you report is very important, come with me immediately, and you, Nick, you come with me too."

Professor McGonagall took out the secret key from her wizard robe and contacted other professors through the secret key.

Lin Xia took a look and found that the professor's secret key was slightly different from the student's secret key, and the pattern was more complicated.

The two came to an empty classroom.

About ten minutes later.

All the professors also came to this empty classroom, and Lin Xia reported her findings to them without changing her expression.

Snape looked down at Nick, who was almost headless, "You just feel that your mind is very chaotic and you don't remember anything?"

Nick glared at him: "Otherwise, you cold and venomous snake, ghosts will not lie!"

Professor McGonagall said at this time: "Ghosts really don't lie."

In addition to Nick, who was almost headless, the ghosts of the other three colleges were also brought here, namely Ms. Grey, the Fat Friar and the Bloody Baron.

The professor asked the three ghosts one by one.

There was nothing wrong with their bodies, and they all agreed that the banquet would be held next week.

Nick also thought so.

Lin Xia frowned: "But I read the letter Hermione left for me. They said they were delayed by your party. You delayed the three of them and made them eat moldy, rotten, and inedible food with a group of strange ghosts."

Nick, who was almost headless, immediately denied it after knowing the time and place.

"I was floating in the Gryffindor common room at that time. I didn't know about this at all!"

Lin Xia turned to look at other professors.

Dean Sprout looked solemn and whispered: "Could the abnormality of the ghost be related to the petrified ghost?"

After all, they are all ghosts. Most people will first think that both are related.

Lin Xia asked thoughtfully: "What if they are two different events?

If these two events are the same thing, and we haven't found any clues, what if we look at them from two different perspectives?

Ghost anomaly is one, and petrified ghosts are another.

For the former, we can combine it with the recent anomaly of Hogwarts.

For the latter, we may be able to find some information to see if there is any way to petrify ghosts immediately?"

After hearing this, the professors of the four major colleges looked at each other.

In their hearts, there were some guesses.

But these guesses were not easy to tell the little wizard.

After asking Nick, it was already late.

Lin Xia still had a few corridors to patrol, but the professor asked her to go back and rest first.

Dean Sprout said: "If you feel tired tomorrow and can't go to class, you can come to me and I will ask for leave for you."

Lin Xia nodded and thanked, "Okay professor, but I'm not tired yet."

After she left and the ghosts dispersed, several professors gathered together with serious faces, cast an anti-eavesdropping spell, and discussed the ghost riot anomaly.

"Could this be one of the anomalies, and is it related to the invisibility charms that we encountered a few days ago?" Professor McGonagall asked.

Lin Xia had previously discovered that someone was selling invisibility charms, and following the clues from the little wizards' tricks, the professor discovered that -

the person selling charms can freely enter and leave the public lounges of the four major colleges!

At the same time, the seller is a different person each time.

Without exception, the young wizards who bought the talismans could not remember what the seller looked like, and even their names were incomplete.

The professor looked through the student list, but could not find such a person.

This person seemed to be made up out of thin air!

Ten years ago, this kind of thing happened in Hogwarts, and the professor called it a "vision".

But the last time was different from the previous ones.

Before, there were only imaginary people, and they appeared in the same place every time.

But this time, not only did they appear in different places, but the invisible spell talismans they sold were still effective.

So this confused the professor, whether these were visions or not.

And now there is the "ghost vision" incident.

Many young wizards said they had seen ghosts, but the ghosts in Hogwarts said they had never seen those ghosts at all.

So who is lying?

Who saw the truth and who saw the illusion?

Snape said in a deep voice: "Whether it is a vision or not, we need to take some measures. If this happens again next time, we will not be able to react in time."

Last time, the invisible spell charm was sold. This time, everyone saw ghosts that would not come at all. Who knows if there will be a vision that directly attacks the students of Hogwarts next time?

Although from the current point of view, the vision is quite safe.

But it is better to be safe than sorry.

As for the ghost being petrified, they have no good solution.

They can only wait for Sprout's mandrake to be cultivated and let it get out of the petrified state before they can tell the last scene they saw.

On the other side, Lin Xia returned to Hufflepuff's golden wooden house.

After finishing the training, she did not practice alchemy, but opened her diary.

Inspired by the invisible spell charm, Lin Xia was also wondering if she could make some charms to sell to the little wizards.

If the little wizards don't buy them, the school's grocery store should also accept them.

So she has been practicing alchemy every night recently.

It's just that there is a lack of relevant information and guides, and there is no knowledge point, so Lin Xia can't ask others for advice, so it's a bit difficult for her to practice.

A line of words slowly appeared on the sun, not so urgent, and seemed leisurely.

Tom: [I thought about the alchemy formula you asked me yesterday, and I feel that there is a lot of room for improvement. If you adjust some parameters, maybe you can get the correct ratio through calculation]

Lin Xia: [You talk, I'm listening]

Tom: [First...]

The two discussed the alchemy formula for half an hour before solving a certain problem.

But in addition to this, there are two other big problems that need to be thought about for several days.

Lin Xia: [Recently, a petrified ghost appeared in Hogwarts. Do you know any spell that can cause such great damage to ghosts with such high magic resistance? ]

Tom: [Unless it is black magic, ordinary spells cannot cause much damage to ghosts]

A little ink stain fell on the diary, smudged into a big spot.

Tom: [But if you want to talk about powerful damage and petrification, I know of a magical creature that can do that, and that's the "basilisk". Do you know the basilisk?]