The Death Knell

"The heel of your shoe was knocked off by the stairs? Where is the liar?"

Su Ming strolled towards the eighth floor. Snape's heels looked more like they had been melted by the high temperature, and the existence of the 'restore to new' repair spell meant that the items that could not be repaired were damaged by severe force. Caused by powerful black magic such as fire spells.

Moreover, Snape did have injuries on his body. The strangulation smelled of blood, and it was still very fresh.

In other words, before giving Hermione and the others their first lesson in the morning, Snape should have just rushed back from somewhere, and he either had a fight with someone, or he had used it on something that was grabbing his shoes. He cast a spell and burned his heels.

If this is really the case, then this creature should be afraid of fire, otherwise Snape would choose the Shadowless Curse...

Did what you said to him last night make him take some action? Interesting, but no need to intervene yet.

Now I am going to the eighth floor to do experiments.

The Room of Requirement is a magical place that can only be accessed when a person truly needs it, and when it appears, it is always arranged to suit the needs of the seeker.

For example, when Dumbledore woke up at night and was in a hurry to pee, he took a wrong turn and entered this place. Inside was a magnificent toilet filled with all kinds of luxurious urinals.

This room is located on the eighth floor of Hogwarts Castle opposite the tapestry where the troll beats Barnabas the fool. When the user concentrates on thinking about the desired location and walks through that section of wall three times, a pattern will appear on the wall. A very smooth door leads to the Room of Requirement.

At the same time, the Room of Requirement and the people in it cannot be displayed on any Marauder's Map, and their names will disappear directly from the map.

Neither it nor another underground chamber existed on the blueprints. The chamber was secretly built by Slytherin, but the Room of Requirement did not know who made it.

Su Ming tried it, and it was exactly as expected. No matter how he walked in front of the wall opposite the tapestry, no door would appear.

The X metal blocked all possibilities for his thoughts to leak out. Perhaps for this house, it couldn't feel the presence of the death knell at all, because without thoughts, it would be a dead thing.

Next he tried to make Strangler and Cloak think 'I need a place to hide things', and walked around a few more times, but it still didn't work.

'One is a high-risk monster, the other is a magic prop, and his thoughts may be sensed by the Room of Requirement, but it seems that he does not meet certain conditions for opening the door...' Su Ming pinched his chin and thought in his heart I have some kind of guess.

"Hey?"

Strangling immediately said that he was not a monster, strictly speaking, he was an alien creature, not dangerous at all, and he was friendly to humans.

However, it was useless to think so, the door still did not appear.

It should be some kind of shared small plane, and the display can be changed according to the user's thoughts. It is probably another pinnacle of space magic in this world.

In this way, even if the wall is broken open with a big sword, it is estimated that only the grass outside the castle and the forest in the distance can be seen, and that space will not be connected.

Forget it, bring Hermione here before Christmas, let her take out the golden diadem, and learn about the Horcruxes.

The key is how to let everyone know about her pioneering work? If you want to become the Supreme Being in the future, the sooner you become famous, the better. As expected, you still have to go out and find someone to discuss terms...

If you can't get in here, just put it aside and go to the Potions classroom.

If I remember correctly, there were a lot of old textbooks on "Advanced Potions" in a bookcase in the classroom. There was a special one among them, so I took it out first for Hermione to study on her own.

Anyway, the Ravenclaw lounge has its own experimental area, and any materials she wants can most likely be found from her friends in the Badger Yard.

Snape had to heal his wounds and buy shoes again. He would definitely not be in the Potions classroom during lunch time, would he?

Chance.

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Hermione went to the library immediately after lunch.

Because Ravenclaw's own collection of books does not have any book classification, it is just chaotic and crowded on the bookshelves. She thought the Great Library of Hogwarts would be better. At least the administrator, Mrs. Pince, might be able to point her to the book in which she could find the man named Nico Flamel.

The library has two entrances, one is on the fifth floor. Once you enter, you will face the serious face of the administrator.

The other entrance is on the second floor, hidden behind a tapestry. You can sneak in here after closing at night.

But there are many prank-like traps on this secret passage, such as steps that will suddenly disappear. Once you step on them, the entire staircase will turn into a slide, making all your previous efforts to climb the stairs in vain.

Hermione entered through the main entrance of the fifth floor with her head held high, but when she saw Mrs. Pince's face, the little girl suddenly felt a little frightened.

This woman is more serious than Professor McGonagall. She looks like a malnourished vulture. Not only can she not smile, but she will also scream like a banshee at students who violate the rules from time to time.

Under the management of this middle-aged woman, the library seemed more like a totalitarian state than a place of learning. Various signs told Hermione that Mrs. Pince was monitoring everyone in the library.

Here students are not allowed to speak loudly, nor are they allowed to eat food such as chocolate. Once someone breaks a book, the black-haired witch will know it almost in the next second.

She is probably the master of transfiguration after Dumbledore and McGonagall, because she once turned a stained book into a 'monster book' and chased and bit a troublemaker.

Seeing Hermione standing in front of her with a tangled look, Mrs. Pince's eyes were exposed from under the brim of her hat. She raised her head from the office counter:

"Borrow books? Return books? Don't stand at the door blocking others!"

"I want to ask if there are any books about Nico Flamel. Just read them here. I won't cause trouble."

The little girl quickly replied that she was not used to such a serious female teacher.

"A first-year Ravenclaw? This is not what you should know! If you want to read other books, go and find a place to sit down by yourself, otherwise go back to the tower!" Mrs. Pince didn't buy it at all and coldly backhanded her. One finger to the reading area.

"Thanks."

Hermione thanked her and turned around to leave, because she already understood the underlying meaning of Mrs. Pince's words.

The person Nicolas Flamel does exist in a certain book, but if you want to read it in the library, you need an approval note from the professor, which means that the book is in the restricted area.

But in the second half of the sentence, Madam Pince pointed out that there are similar books in Ravenclaw's tower, where the answer can be found.

The girl skipped away, and at the same time she felt that Mrs. Pince was no longer scary. Maybe she was just not good at expressing herself?

At this moment, the administrator's voice came from behind, cursing the students. It was as harsh as scratching the blackboard with fingernails. She cursed the students who broke the book cover and their whole family turned into slugs and were eaten by pelicans.

Hermione covered her ears and pretended not to hear, and walked toward the stairs with brisk steps.

She returned to the Ravenclaw lounge and spent a long time climbing the tall bookshelves everywhere, and finally found the existence of Flamel in a book.

To be precise, what she found was Flamel's own manuscript - "The Book of Hieroglyphs".

It does not use paper or parchment like other books, but is made of delicate and smooth tender bark. The corners of the cover are tightly wrapped with brass, and it is lightly engraved with words or strange symbols... ..

If you don't understand what the painting is, let's take a look at the content first. Hermione hid in a corner, huddled on the lake blue sofa and crossed her legs.

In the lounge where explosions could be heard from time to time, she was inconspicuous.

No one cares about what others are doing. Everyone here seems to live only in their own world. It's like feeling lonely in a crowded street. It's a strange feeling.

She scratched her face, sniffed hard, and opened the hardcover book that was bigger than her head.

The book is composed of seven pages, each of which is bound with gold rivets and finally put on a book cover. The seventh page of each group does not have any text, but the entire title page of the book is painted by hand. A wand swallowed by a giant snake.

Hermione bared her teeth. Seeing the snake reminded her of Slytherin House. Could it be that Flamel was a Slytherin?

However, as she read more content, she discovered that not only was this person not a Slytherin, but he was actually a person who lived more than six hundred years ago. She suddenly became interested and her eyes lit up.