Chapter 379 Finding Wormtail
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Yun Yin Shen
Chapter 379 Finding Wormtail
Those hundreds of little ink dots moving like tadpoles along the map of the castle,
——For MacGuffin, it is where its greatest value lies.
The ink dots represent the names of all wizards and intelligent creatures active in Hogwarts.
The names marked in extremely small letters, like miniature animations from time to time, turn into little stick figures to show what people are doing in a certain place in a certain castle,
And as George clicked on the [Marauder's Map] parchment with his magic wand, the picture on it could be enlarged to a specific floor.
Those little stick figures formed by ink can more vividly show everyone's movements and situations.
For example now... Principal Dumbledore is walking up and down in his office with Cornelius Fudge, discussing matters;
Professor McGonagall and Snape were rushing to her office, where a wizard with an unknown name was waiting for her;
Harry and Ron resting in the common room;
As for Hermione's name, it appeared next to the two of them and in the library respectively;
Peeves walks around in the magic elevator;
Filch chased Mrs. Norris and ran around on the fourth floor...
As for the traces of Peter Pettigrew, whom McGuffin has always wanted to know the most, he has not been able to distinguish the names from those densely dotted ink dots for a while.
George and Fred pointed out several passages to Hogsmeade for McGuffin.
"There are seven in total, four of which have been sealed by Filch. The one on the fifth floor... because of the big earthquake you caused last year has collapsed and is completely blocked. Don't try it. The other one goes through the Whomping Willow, and the last one is behind the hunchback of the one-eyed witch on the fourth floor—it leads to the basement where Honeydukes stores candy, but don't worry! The two of us have already made an agreement with the Froomes and the others, you just need to tell them that you know us."
George sighed softly, "It's a pity that after Hogwarts was renovated last year, many old secret passages on this map were discovered, and many new rooms were added... Fred and I originally planned to modify this map, but found that the raw materials in it were too expensive. We couldn't get deep-sea mullet ink alone, so we had to give up."
"Moonface, Prongs, Wormtail, Padfoot...their mastery of mischief also made it difficult for us to make fundamental changes to the map," Fred said. "So the two of us just decided that you should be more suitable to be the master of this [Marauder's Map] than us."
"Oh! By the way, don't forget to erase the traces of this map, just tap it lightly with your wand and declare 'the prank is over'. Snape almost captured us both earlier."
"It was too dangerous just now!" Fred said with a grimace,
"Don't let Filch see this either. We snatched it from his office when we were young, innocent, carefree, first-year wizards—"
"Although he didn't understand it, he must have known about it, otherwise he wouldn't have confiscated it and put it in the drawer of the filing cabinet to eat ashes."
McGuffin stared at this magical map and couldn't put it down.
He carefully investigated every name and every secret passage on this old map, to see how many secrets of the ancient castle of Hogwarts the four troublemakers had explored.
The twins knew the deal was done when they watched the McGuffin stand contentedly fumbling with the map.
Afterwards, McGuffin took a red sweater out of his pocket and handed it to them.
——This is a temporary trial piece.
It looks like an ordinary sweater on the outside, but in fact it is a sweater with an enlarged inner space. Anyone who can put their head on it can 'wear' this sweater.
Um, it can also be said to be worn.
how to say!
McGuffin couldn't describe it well to the twins, so he put it directly on Fred's head.
Then, a very frightening thing happened before the eyes of the twins.
——Fred was caught directly by the sweater, and only his head came out of the small hole on the other side.
Legs, lower body, arms, body all disappeared, only the red sweater and head and neck stood on the bathroom floor.
"I originally wanted to make something that could be scaled up and down like the Hulk's pants, and never shattered. I didn't expect to make such a scary sweater!"
"What Hulk?" George asked wonderingly, and took off the sweater from Fred's head, which was a little frightened.
"The sweater scared even Hagrid, and it took me a long time to pull it off Hagrid's head," McGuffin added to the two.
"However, I don't know why. It has become the most stable and largest space I have created with the extended casting method of [Untraceable Stretch Curse]."
"Put things in. You tie the two openings tightly from the outside, and then make a ball. It should be able to make do with it for a while. After a week, I will provide other items for casting the [Cast without Trace], such as two large bags or a schoolbag?" McGuffin asked.
The twins didn't answer, they were all excitedly putting on each other's sweaters, they thought it was some kind of prank, and they were having a good time.
"A masterpiece of genius! MacGuffin!"
"You can decide for yourself the unimportant things,"
Fred praised and said that they took out the bags of candy and put them in a sweater to try, and it really worked, but it was too strange to hold a ball of sweaters, so the two discussed whether they could disguise it with a school bag.
After processing the lake water summoned from the teacup,
McGuffin and the others returned to the common room.
Then, as the twin brothers said, this attempt by their second-hand dealers is a big business.
It's also not known how they managed to avoid the professor, Percy and the other prefects making deals.
In short, McGuffin found that in the next few days, many little wizards would not be short of magic candies and things from Zocko's joke shop.
The two brothers also made a lot of money from ear to ear.
The sweater thing also made them scare a lot of people, especially Ron.
The screaming that night nearly punctured everyone's eardrums.
But, for Harry, the most important thing is - the Quidditch match is about to start again.
They had heard the news first from Percy.
"Be careful! Professor McGonagall is furious!"
"It is said that Wood wrote a letter to [Global Light Wheel Company] and Mr. Jordan Mandela of the World Quidditch Council, and the two of them joined forces to provide this broom with a large sum of money to support the goblins of Gringotts. They came to Hogwarts to put pressure on Professor McGonagall to restart the Quidditch match to test the new broom... Later, they alarmed Cornelius Fudge in Dumbledore's office..."
"In short, that's it... After the exams this semester, regardless of whether the Death Eaters have been caught or not, Hogwarts will start holding Quidditch matches for two or three days in a row."
Percy broke the news to nearly everyone he met.
Unlike Harry who was very pleasantly surprised, Hermione was very worried about it.
"There are eleven Death Eaters outside trying to kill Harry... how dare Wood?" Seeing Harry's indifferent expression, Hermione said again, "What's more, the fire dragon is still outside, how do you train? It's too dangerous."
— This is indeed a problem.
There are fire dragons stationed on the three grounds outside Hogwarts Castle. They always spray a pillar of fire on any flying object, and many round-faced fat people are almost roasted.
So much so that the dragon trainers had to agree to the three fire dragons soaring in the sky of the castle every day, and in the early morning, dozens of wizards used the group sleeping spell together to force them to sleep, which slightly stopped the malicious practice of the fire dragon.
It also made it possible for the little wizards to communicate with the outside world through owls when eating in the morning.
But the Quidditch training ground is not far from where the dragons are stationed, and unless they train above the Forbidden Forest, there is no safe training place in the mid-air near Hogwarts Castle no matter what they do.
Perhaps the Forbidden Forest was far enough away from the castle to attract the attention of the fire dragon, but such a bad idea would never be allowed by Professor McGonagall.
Especially when Wood greatly offended the entire Hogwarts faculty,
In the end, Wood couldn't find any other way. The Gryffindor Quidditch players could only conduct inefficient Quidditch practice in the narrow space above the square courtyard.
Just like this, they have to compete with the other three Quidditch teams for the right to use it.
Although the biggest thing in Hogwarts is that the Quidditch competition restarted amidst Professor McGonagall's objections.
But for the entire wizarding world, the riots and mutiny of the dementors and the disappearance of eleven Death Eaters are the most serious problems.
And this matter will gradually ferment and become more serious.
After more than half a month, the Aurors were still unable to catch these dark wizards, which had begun to panic many native wizard families in England. People finally began to spread rumors that these Death Eaters were looking for the Dark Lord who had disappeared.
Even newspapers and media in the mainstream British wizarding world, such as the "Daily Prophet", which has been suppressing this type of news, can no longer remain silent.
The Daily Prophet even ran a story about Rita Skeeter directly,
An article on 'What is Cornelius Fudge really? 'Signed article.
In her beginning, Cornelius Fudge became a greedy, corrupt official with a lot of foreign witch lovers. Even during the period of the Dark Lord, Fudge once said that he would leave the British magic world to escape and surrender. The speech was discovered.
This dealt a huge blow to Fudge's popularity, and made the elder Crouch, and other strong potential candidates for the Minister of Magic, should be his replacement, agitated in the wizarding world.
It seems that many people think that Cornelius Fudge should directly take the blame and abdicate, and give way to other candidates who are tough and powerful, and who can more effectively combat terrorist attacks by Death Eaters and other black wizards.
Ron had heard from his father, Mr. Weasley, that Fudge was desperate to grab at any straw.
He is now strongly seeking Dumbledore's consent to let Harry and McGuffin stand on his behalf and promote it.
Dumbledore clearly disagreed with this behavior.
McGuffin and the others not only learned about the real situation in the wizarding world outside from the magic newspaper and Ron.
Even many young wizards born in wizarding families in England are discussing whether to transfer to the Ilvermorny School in the United States,
They were discussing the strict rules of the Ilvermorny school. When they didn't get the wizard level certificate, the little wizards could only deposit their wands in the school for safekeeping.
Moreover, the Aurors in the United States supervise the entire wizarding world, and there are strict laws to control any big shit, which also makes many young wizards flinch from this new type of magical country.
They thought that if their family had to leave Europe and move to North America, it would be better to go to Canada. Although the magic school there was only established in the past ten years, it was very low-end, but at least they could hold the wand in their hands.
However, these troublesome chores are not important to Mag at all, and he doesn't care.
Now all his attention is focused on practicing the [Untrace Stretching Curse] during the day and searching for Pettigrew Peter every night.
This guy is indeed the 'King of Hide and Seek', even if he saw his name on the [Marauder's Map], McGuffin could never find the location of this guy.
This guy sometimes hides in an abandoned classroom, sometimes under a secret tunnel, sometimes goes to the girls' dormitory, and sometimes sneaks into Hufflepuff's common room. Every time he acts in the early hours of the night.
McGuffin had to get up in the middle of the night every day to find this guy with [Invisibility Curse] and [Marauder's Map], plus he had to stimulate the growth of the World Tree seedlings in the early morning, which made his mental head not as good as Hermione's now.
The two dark circles have been hanging for more than half a month.
"Ji, I knew I had controlled Wormtail earlier." McGuffin was full of regret.
Especially after he avoided a group of patrolling iron armors in fear, and then hid alone on the marble stairs invisibly, waiting for Peeves, who was jumping around in the hall on the first floor, to leave automatically while patting the ball, the feeling in his heart was even more so.
Damn Wormtail!
But fortunately, McGuffin has mastered the law of a pettigrew - this guy will always come to the Hogwarts kitchen at night to find something to eat. This is the only commonality of this guy's trajectory these days.
After evading one of Filch's inspections, McGuffin finally sneaked into the Hogwarts kitchen.
His magic is obviously not fooling the house elves, but these little guys are also used to the little Hogwarts wizard sneaking into the kitchen to find something to eat.
Nobody took it seriously.
Instead, a few elves wrapped in tea towels with Hogwarts badges greeted them. They bent down and bowed, facing the position where McGuffin was standing, and put a cup of steaming strong black coffee on the long table.
It was not easy for McGuffin to hide when he saw this.
After canceling the spell, he appeared in front of the elf and took out the [Marauder's Map] from his pocket.
"I solemnly declare that I have done nothing wrong!"
With a light touch of the magic wand, the [Marauder's Map] trembled and opened, the lines intersected and extended to every corner of the parchment.
McGuffin clicked on the Hogwarts basement area again, and the location of the kitchen in the castle quickly zoomed in, and the names of hundreds of elves and stick figures with ink dots were displayed on the map.
He picked up the coffee and took a sip, refreshing himself.
Look carefully where Peter Pettigrew's last name is.
This is a meticulous job.
"Sir! Mr. MacGuffin Albert!?"
A sharp, piercing voice sounded cautiously from beside him.
Sounds like a pleasant surprise.
"More than?"
McGuffin looked up.
Dobby looked up at him with puzzlement and delight, those green ping-pong eyes trying to look behind him, as if trying to see the presence of another figure.
(End of this chapter)
Those hundreds of little ink dots moving like tadpoles along the map of the castle,
——For MacGuffin, it is where its greatest value lies.
The ink dots represent the names of all wizards and intelligent creatures active in Hogwarts.
The names marked in extremely small letters, like miniature animations from time to time, turn into little stick figures to show what people are doing in a certain place in a certain castle,
And as George clicked on the [Marauder's Map] parchment with his magic wand, the picture on it could be enlarged to a specific floor.
Those little stick figures formed by ink can more vividly show everyone's movements and situations.
For example now... Principal Dumbledore is walking up and down in his office with Cornelius Fudge, discussing matters;
Professor McGonagall and Snape were rushing to her office, where a wizard with an unknown name was waiting for her;
Harry and Ron resting in the common room;
As for Hermione's name, it appeared next to the two of them and in the library respectively;
Peeves walks around in the magic elevator;
Filch chased Mrs. Norris and ran around on the fourth floor...
As for the traces of Peter Pettigrew, whom McGuffin has always wanted to know the most, he has not been able to distinguish the names from those densely dotted ink dots for a while.
George and Fred pointed out several passages to Hogsmeade for McGuffin.
"There are seven in total, four of which have been sealed by Filch. The one on the fifth floor... because of the big earthquake you caused last year has collapsed and is completely blocked. Don't try it. The other one goes through the Whomping Willow, and the last one is behind the hunchback of the one-eyed witch on the fourth floor—it leads to the basement where Honeydukes stores candy, but don't worry! The two of us have already made an agreement with the Froomes and the others, you just need to tell them that you know us."
George sighed softly, "It's a pity that after Hogwarts was renovated last year, many old secret passages on this map were discovered, and many new rooms were added... Fred and I originally planned to modify this map, but found that the raw materials in it were too expensive. We couldn't get deep-sea mullet ink alone, so we had to give up."
"Moonface, Prongs, Wormtail, Padfoot...their mastery of mischief also made it difficult for us to make fundamental changes to the map," Fred said. "So the two of us just decided that you should be more suitable to be the master of this [Marauder's Map] than us."
"Oh! By the way, don't forget to erase the traces of this map, just tap it lightly with your wand and declare 'the prank is over'. Snape almost captured us both earlier."
"It was too dangerous just now!" Fred said with a grimace,
"Don't let Filch see this either. We snatched it from his office when we were young, innocent, carefree, first-year wizards—"
"Although he didn't understand it, he must have known about it, otherwise he wouldn't have confiscated it and put it in the drawer of the filing cabinet to eat ashes."
McGuffin stared at this magical map and couldn't put it down.
He carefully investigated every name and every secret passage on this old map, to see how many secrets of the ancient castle of Hogwarts the four troublemakers had explored.
The twins knew the deal was done when they watched the McGuffin stand contentedly fumbling with the map.
Afterwards, McGuffin took a red sweater out of his pocket and handed it to them.
——This is a temporary trial piece.
It looks like an ordinary sweater on the outside, but in fact it is a sweater with an enlarged inner space. Anyone who can put their head on it can 'wear' this sweater.
Um, it can also be said to be worn.
how to say!
McGuffin couldn't describe it well to the twins, so he put it directly on Fred's head.
Then, a very frightening thing happened before the eyes of the twins.
——Fred was caught directly by the sweater, and only his head came out of the small hole on the other side.
Legs, lower body, arms, body all disappeared, only the red sweater and head and neck stood on the bathroom floor.
"I originally wanted to make something that could be scaled up and down like the Hulk's pants, and never shattered. I didn't expect to make such a scary sweater!"
"What Hulk?" George asked wonderingly, and took off the sweater from Fred's head, which was a little frightened.
"The sweater scared even Hagrid, and it took me a long time to pull it off Hagrid's head," McGuffin added to the two.
"However, I don't know why. It has become the most stable and largest space I have created with the extended casting method of [Untraceable Stretch Curse]."
"Put things in. You tie the two openings tightly from the outside, and then make a ball. It should be able to make do with it for a while. After a week, I will provide other items for casting the [Cast without Trace], such as two large bags or a schoolbag?" McGuffin asked.
The twins didn't answer, they were all excitedly putting on each other's sweaters, they thought it was some kind of prank, and they were having a good time.
"A masterpiece of genius! MacGuffin!"
"You can decide for yourself the unimportant things,"
Fred praised and said that they took out the bags of candy and put them in a sweater to try, and it really worked, but it was too strange to hold a ball of sweaters, so the two discussed whether they could disguise it with a school bag.
After processing the lake water summoned from the teacup,
McGuffin and the others returned to the common room.
Then, as the twin brothers said, this attempt by their second-hand dealers is a big business.
It's also not known how they managed to avoid the professor, Percy and the other prefects making deals.
In short, McGuffin found that in the next few days, many little wizards would not be short of magic candies and things from Zocko's joke shop.
The two brothers also made a lot of money from ear to ear.
The sweater thing also made them scare a lot of people, especially Ron.
The screaming that night nearly punctured everyone's eardrums.
But, for Harry, the most important thing is - the Quidditch match is about to start again.
They had heard the news first from Percy.
"Be careful! Professor McGonagall is furious!"
"It is said that Wood wrote a letter to [Global Light Wheel Company] and Mr. Jordan Mandela of the World Quidditch Council, and the two of them joined forces to provide this broom with a large sum of money to support the goblins of Gringotts. They came to Hogwarts to put pressure on Professor McGonagall to restart the Quidditch match to test the new broom... Later, they alarmed Cornelius Fudge in Dumbledore's office..."
"In short, that's it... After the exams this semester, regardless of whether the Death Eaters have been caught or not, Hogwarts will start holding Quidditch matches for two or three days in a row."
Percy broke the news to nearly everyone he met.
Unlike Harry who was very pleasantly surprised, Hermione was very worried about it.
"There are eleven Death Eaters outside trying to kill Harry... how dare Wood?" Seeing Harry's indifferent expression, Hermione said again, "What's more, the fire dragon is still outside, how do you train? It's too dangerous."
— This is indeed a problem.
There are fire dragons stationed on the three grounds outside Hogwarts Castle. They always spray a pillar of fire on any flying object, and many round-faced fat people are almost roasted.
So much so that the dragon trainers had to agree to the three fire dragons soaring in the sky of the castle every day, and in the early morning, dozens of wizards used the group sleeping spell together to force them to sleep, which slightly stopped the malicious practice of the fire dragon.
It also made it possible for the little wizards to communicate with the outside world through owls when eating in the morning.
But the Quidditch training ground is not far from where the dragons are stationed, and unless they train above the Forbidden Forest, there is no safe training place in the mid-air near Hogwarts Castle no matter what they do.
Perhaps the Forbidden Forest was far enough away from the castle to attract the attention of the fire dragon, but such a bad idea would never be allowed by Professor McGonagall.
Especially when Wood greatly offended the entire Hogwarts faculty,
In the end, Wood couldn't find any other way. The Gryffindor Quidditch players could only conduct inefficient Quidditch practice in the narrow space above the square courtyard.
Just like this, they have to compete with the other three Quidditch teams for the right to use it.
Although the biggest thing in Hogwarts is that the Quidditch competition restarted amidst Professor McGonagall's objections.
But for the entire wizarding world, the riots and mutiny of the dementors and the disappearance of eleven Death Eaters are the most serious problems.
And this matter will gradually ferment and become more serious.
After more than half a month, the Aurors were still unable to catch these dark wizards, which had begun to panic many native wizard families in England. People finally began to spread rumors that these Death Eaters were looking for the Dark Lord who had disappeared.
Even newspapers and media in the mainstream British wizarding world, such as the "Daily Prophet", which has been suppressing this type of news, can no longer remain silent.
The Daily Prophet even ran a story about Rita Skeeter directly,
An article on 'What is Cornelius Fudge really? 'Signed article.
In her beginning, Cornelius Fudge became a greedy, corrupt official with a lot of foreign witch lovers. Even during the period of the Dark Lord, Fudge once said that he would leave the British magic world to escape and surrender. The speech was discovered.
This dealt a huge blow to Fudge's popularity, and made the elder Crouch, and other strong potential candidates for the Minister of Magic, should be his replacement, agitated in the wizarding world.
It seems that many people think that Cornelius Fudge should directly take the blame and abdicate, and give way to other candidates who are tough and powerful, and who can more effectively combat terrorist attacks by Death Eaters and other black wizards.
Ron had heard from his father, Mr. Weasley, that Fudge was desperate to grab at any straw.
He is now strongly seeking Dumbledore's consent to let Harry and McGuffin stand on his behalf and promote it.
Dumbledore clearly disagreed with this behavior.
McGuffin and the others not only learned about the real situation in the wizarding world outside from the magic newspaper and Ron.
Even many young wizards born in wizarding families in England are discussing whether to transfer to the Ilvermorny School in the United States,
They were discussing the strict rules of the Ilvermorny school. When they didn't get the wizard level certificate, the little wizards could only deposit their wands in the school for safekeeping.
Moreover, the Aurors in the United States supervise the entire wizarding world, and there are strict laws to control any big shit, which also makes many young wizards flinch from this new type of magical country.
They thought that if their family had to leave Europe and move to North America, it would be better to go to Canada. Although the magic school there was only established in the past ten years, it was very low-end, but at least they could hold the wand in their hands.
However, these troublesome chores are not important to Mag at all, and he doesn't care.
Now all his attention is focused on practicing the [Untrace Stretching Curse] during the day and searching for Pettigrew Peter every night.
This guy is indeed the 'King of Hide and Seek', even if he saw his name on the [Marauder's Map], McGuffin could never find the location of this guy.
This guy sometimes hides in an abandoned classroom, sometimes under a secret tunnel, sometimes goes to the girls' dormitory, and sometimes sneaks into Hufflepuff's common room. Every time he acts in the early hours of the night.
McGuffin had to get up in the middle of the night every day to find this guy with [Invisibility Curse] and [Marauder's Map], plus he had to stimulate the growth of the World Tree seedlings in the early morning, which made his mental head not as good as Hermione's now.
The two dark circles have been hanging for more than half a month.
"Ji, I knew I had controlled Wormtail earlier." McGuffin was full of regret.
Especially after he avoided a group of patrolling iron armors in fear, and then hid alone on the marble stairs invisibly, waiting for Peeves, who was jumping around in the hall on the first floor, to leave automatically while patting the ball, the feeling in his heart was even more so.
Damn Wormtail!
But fortunately, McGuffin has mastered the law of a pettigrew - this guy will always come to the Hogwarts kitchen at night to find something to eat. This is the only commonality of this guy's trajectory these days.
After evading one of Filch's inspections, McGuffin finally sneaked into the Hogwarts kitchen.
His magic is obviously not fooling the house elves, but these little guys are also used to the little Hogwarts wizard sneaking into the kitchen to find something to eat.
Nobody took it seriously.
Instead, a few elves wrapped in tea towels with Hogwarts badges greeted them. They bent down and bowed, facing the position where McGuffin was standing, and put a cup of steaming strong black coffee on the long table.
It was not easy for McGuffin to hide when he saw this.
After canceling the spell, he appeared in front of the elf and took out the [Marauder's Map] from his pocket.
"I solemnly declare that I have done nothing wrong!"
With a light touch of the magic wand, the [Marauder's Map] trembled and opened, the lines intersected and extended to every corner of the parchment.
McGuffin clicked on the Hogwarts basement area again, and the location of the kitchen in the castle quickly zoomed in, and the names of hundreds of elves and stick figures with ink dots were displayed on the map.
He picked up the coffee and took a sip, refreshing himself.
Look carefully where Peter Pettigrew's last name is.
This is a meticulous job.
"Sir! Mr. MacGuffin Albert!?"
A sharp, piercing voice sounded cautiously from beside him.
Sounds like a pleasant surprise.
"More than?"
McGuffin looked up.
Dobby looked up at him with puzzlement and delight, those green ping-pong eyes trying to look behind him, as if trying to see the presence of another figure.
(End of this chapter)
