Learn magic from Hogwarts

Chapter Fifty-Eight: Secret Paths and Statues

Filch was patrolling the second floor. After Noah arrived on the second floor, he decisively stepped on the detection magic to go up to the third floor. He carefully avoided all the magic on the stairs, accurately found the correct staircase, and went up to the third floor.

This castle is full of secret passages. For example, there are many areas in the dungeon that cannot be accessed from the dungeon and must be reached from other floors.

On the second floor, Noah only discovered four secret passages that led to unknown directions.

I never had the chance to explore it later.

However, Filch is on the second floor, which is obviously not suitable for exploration now.

Noah had not taken classes on the third floor, but he knew that their Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office was on this floor.

After carefully glancing at the corridor and confirming that there was no professor nearby, Noah stepped onto the third floor.

The interior of the castle is larger than it appears from the outside, and the corridors reflect this well.

There are multiple corridors on each floor here, and there are even more hanging paintings or tapestries.

And these things hanging on the wall are often the best places to hide secret passages.

Noah on the second floor discovered this.

Because of the four secret passages he discovered on the second floor, two were behind the portraits, one was behind the tapestry, and the last one was on the wall disguised as a false door. This last one obviously required a password, but Noah

The correct password has not been cracked yet.

Noah noticed a secret passage in the first corridor on the third floor.

It's behind a portrait.

In the portrait is a girl sitting on a single chair. She is sleeping soundly with her head slightly lowered, and she makes a small breathing sound from time to time. She looks delicate and cute.

But Noah glanced at the figure in the portrait indifferently, then raised his hand and tentatively pressed against the frame of the portrait.

He wanted to see if the portrait could be moved.

The secret passage is right behind the portrait, and it doesn't look like it's magical.

Sure enough, he made the portrait tilt a little with a gentle push. The sleeping girl inside was shaken by the shaking of the portrait for a moment, but she was sleeping soundly. She just adjusted her posture, smacked her lips, and continued to sleep soundly.

Noah tilted his head slightly and simply took out his wand.

The floating spell was firmly applied to the portrait, causing the portrait to fall off the wall without any bumps, revealing the small door behind it.

Noah entered it, and the portrait was hung smoothly again, covering his traces.

This corridor is very narrow and somewhat low. With Noah's current height, he could reach the top of the secret passage just by raising his hand.

As an adult, you might have to bend down.

Keya couldn't wait to stick his head out. As a snake, he could roughly feel the place without using his eyesight.

This is a one-way passage with no forks, but it is not a straight road, but has twists and turns. If Noah hadn't activated the detection magic, he would have been stunned by this road.

After walking for about ten minutes, there was finally no road ahead of him.

Noah groped around at the end and found a wooden door.

After learning through detection that there was another portrait on the other side of the wooden door, he skillfully used the floating spell to remove the portrait and walked out of the secret passage without disturbing the image.

After looking at the corridor, he was already on the fourth floor, and the secret passage was the passage from the third to the fourth floor.

Noah glanced at the door next to him and found a statue of a hunchbacked witch next to the door.

Very good, there is also a secret passage behind this statue, but this secret passage requires a password to move the statue.

Noah wanted to try to break the magic in the statue.

He walked to the statue and looked at the witch carefully. She was a one-eyed witch, very tall, and her name was engraved under the statue - Goncida of Gesmer.

Noah remembered this name. She was recorded in the history of magic textbooks because she discovered a cure for dragon pox.

Noah narrowed his eyes and raised his hand to tentatively touch the stone statue.

Just when he was about to specifically detect the magic on the stone statue, a faint sound came from the other end of the corridor.

Noah paused, frowned and looked at the source of the sound.

That was not Filch's footsteps, but two footsteps that were deliberately muted.

However, the two of them were running at a trot, and no matter how gentle they were, they would still make a lot of noise.

Keya judged the identity of the visitor earlier than he did.

It's the Weasley twins.

The two of them started their night tour again without much memory.

After thinking for a moment, Noah hid beside the statue, using the tall statue to cover his body. At the same time, his figure was slightly invisible, as if he had blended into the shadows and was difficult to detect.

This is a kind of magic that hides in the shadows. It is not the kind of advanced magic that blends into the shadows. It is just a kind of hidden magic that hides itself in the shadows and becomes difficult to detect.

The magic required is not high, and there is no need to even draw a magic circle. It is a fairly simple magic.

It's so simple... that it's used for hide-and-seek. Because it's not completely hidden, once you move or are touched or lose the protection of the shadow, your identity will be revealed in minutes.

But using it here is enough for Noah to successfully hide himself.

The Weasley twins came running from the other end of the corridor, snickering and seeming to be happy about something.

The two hurriedly walked past the witch statue, not noticing Noah hiding in the shadows. They walked purposefully through this corridor and turned into another corridor.

Noah bets that the two of them must have discovered some special secret passage, so they went to explore it tonight.

After the footsteps of the two people faded away, Noah stepped out of the shadows. He glanced at the direction in which the two people disappeared, and had no intention of following them. Instead, he turned around and continued to study the statue.

Soon he discovered some traces of magic on the statue's hunchback.

The entrance should be here, but what is the password?

Noah thought for a while, then patted Keya: "Leave it to you."

Keya responded to his words by spitting out the snake letter and making a hissing sound.

Now Noah wants to use more conspicuous magic, and Keya needs to be on guard.

Snakes are unique in this aspect of detection, not to mention that Koya is not an ordinary snake, so it is best used to alert if anyone is approaching.

Noah raised his hand slightly and pressed it on the stone statue.

"Detection."

The blue magic array unfolded under his feet. The complicated magic array was somewhat similar to the one he had stepped on before, but the difference was that there were four layers of ring-shaped arrays wrapped around the triangular array, and five layers.

Each of the arrays rotates slowly at a staggered speed, looking like gears.

"Analysis."

The magic circle slowly began to rise upwards, passing through his and the statue's legs, and continued to rise upwards.

As the magic circle passed by, special runes appeared in Noah's eyes, which were analyzed by detection magic.

Soon the magic array rose to the witch's hunchback and suddenly stopped. Noah's eyes drooped slightly, the runes under his eyes flashed, and disappeared together with the magic array.

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