HP Approaches the Magic World

After returning to the cabin, Jon began to have a bad feeling in his heart.

It seems, probably, maybe, it was today that Harry and the others ran into it?

He wasn't sure, because his memory about time had become very blurry, and he could only vaguely remember these two days.

"What's wrong? Are you listless?"

Stephen, Fallon and Scully were already waiting here. The four of them originally planned to play cards all night, so they ran out of the dormitory collectively. Unexpectedly, Jon began to lose focus now.

"Aren't you sleepy?" Scully pulled out a small bottle from the pocket of his robe, which contained some strange liquid.

"Would you like to try this? I bought it from the Gryffindor twins. It is said that one bite can refresh your mind."

"No."

Jon shook his head, "I just felt like something was going to happen, so I was a little worried. However, the professors are watching, so let's start playing."

…

But Hogwarts Castle is not peaceful today.

Almost all the ghosts have been mobilized by Peeves, and they are hiding around the castle, staring at the path from Gryffindor to the entrance to the fourth floor.

But Harry didn't know about this.

No one paid attention to them.

For the first time in many days, Harry didn't feel sad about this incident.

Hermione was busy looking through all her notes, hoping to happen upon a spell they were going to break later. Harry and Ron didn't speak, thinking about what they were about to do.

The students all went to bed one by one, and the number of people in the common room gradually decreased.

"You can go get the invisibility cloak."

Ron whispered, and at this time Lee Jordan finally stretched and yawned and left. Harry ran upstairs, rushed into their dark dormitory, and took out the invisibility cloak. At this moment, he inadvertently

Seeing the flute that Hagrid gave him for Christmas, he put it in his pocket and prepared to use it against Fluffy - he felt that he was not in the mood to sing to the big dog.

Then he quickly ran back to the common room and started discussing with his teammates: "We'd better put on the invisibility cloak here and see if it can cover all three of us - if Filch sees a pair of

The feet walk on the ground by themselves——"

"What are you doing?"

A voice sounded from a corner of the room, and Neville flashed out from behind an armchair, holding his toad Leif in his hand. It looked like Leif had been fighting for his freedom just now.

.

"It's nothing, Neville, it's nothing."

Harry said, quickly hiding the invisibility cloak behind his back.

Neville stared at their guilty faces and said:

"You are planning to go out again."

"No," Hermione quickly defended, "we don't want to go out. Neville, why don't you go to bed?"

Harry looked at the grandfather clock by the door. They couldn't waste any more time. Snape was probably already playing music to lull Lu Wei to sleep.

"You can't go out," Neville said. "You will still be caught. In that case, Gryffindor will be even more unlucky."

"You don't understand," said Harry, "that this is very important."

But Neville seemed determined this time and was desperate to stop them.

"I won't let you do this."

He said, rushing over to block the entrance to the portrait hole, "I want—I want to compete with you!"

"Neville," Ron was furious, "get out of that hole, don't be an idiot -"

"You are not allowed to call me an idiot!" Neville said, "I think you should stop violating school rules! And you were the ones who encouraged me to stand up to others in the first place!"

"Yes, but you are not resisting us."

Ron said angrily, "Neville, you have no idea what you're doing."

He took a step forward, and Neville threw away the toad Leif in his hand. The little thing jumped three times and disappeared.

"Come on, come here and hit me!"

Neville raised both fists, "I'm ready!"

Harry had no choice but to turn to Hermione and said anxiously: "Think of a solution quickly, we don't have time."

Hermione stepped forward and raised her wand.

"Neville," she said, "I'm so, so sorry for doing this.

——All petrified!"

She pointed her wand at Neville and shouted softly.

Neville's arms snapped to his sides, his legs stood upright, and his whole body became stiff. Then he swayed a few times and then fell to the ground with a plop, looking as hard as a wooden board.

Hermione ran over and turned him over. His upper and lower jaws were locked together and he was speechless. Only his eyes were moving, looking at Hermione and the others in horror.

"What did you do to him?"

Harry asked quietly.

"It's a whole body binding spell."

Hermione asked sadly, "Oh, Neville, I'm so sorry."

"You'll understand later, Neville."

Ron said, and then they stepped over Neville and put on the invisibility cloak.

And just as they left the Gryffindor lounge, an elf suddenly appeared in Jon's cabin.

"Good evening, Talos, what happened?"

Jon put down the cards in his hand and turned to ask.

The passing elf nodded.

"Those three little wizards have left Gryffindor, so the secretary sent me to tell them. He will delay for a while, hoping that you can come over quickly."

"What's the point of me going?"

Jon complained, but still put down his cards.

"Everyone, do you want to go together?"

…

In the castle.

Leaving Neville lying motionless on the floor, Harry and the others walked down the corridor, feeling that this was not a good sign.

In a state of high emotional tension, every sculpture in the shadows looked like Filch's figure, and every sound of wind in the distance sounded like Peeves swooping towards them.

Just as they were about to climb the first staircase, they suddenly saw Mrs. Norris hiding at the top of the stairs.

"Oh, let's kick it, just this once."

Ron said in Harry's ear, but Harry shook his head, and they walked around it carefully. Mrs. Norris looked at them with two bright eyes, but saw nothing.

They didn't meet anyone all the way, and they arrived at the stairs leading to the fourth floor smoothly. Peeves was jumping up the stairs, loosening the carpet on the stairs, hoping to make others fall.

"Who's over there?"

They had just stepped onto the stairs and were walking towards Peeves. Peeves suddenly narrowed his black eyes that always liked mischief and said towards their position, "I know you are there, even though I can't see you."

You, are you a ghoul, a revenant, or a student kid?"