Chapter 98 Roar
Lupine was very efficient, and he told Vader at noon the next day that he had bought the vanishing cabinet from Borgin and Burkes.
At the same time, Vader borrowed the vanishing cabinet in the castle from Professor McGonagall on the pretext of studying alchemy, and promised that he knew the dangers involved and would not get into it randomly.
The Vanishing Cabinet is a black and gold cabinet with many ancient magic texts and various wonderful patterns engraved on it. Ancient magic forms a wonderful passage between the two disappearing cabinets. Even in Hogwarts, where apparation is prohibited, people can achieve the magic of instant movement through the two disappearing cabinets.
In the plot, the Death Eaters invaded Hogwarts along this passage, and Dumbledore also died that night.
Vader used the shrinking spell to bring the Vanishing Cabinet to the Room of Requirement, and then found time to conduct experiments. He communicated with Lupine through the Friends' Account, put various things into the disappearing cabinet, and then took them out from the other end.
The first few experiments went smoothly - apples, bread, pillows, buckets and other things were put in and they were all intact when taken out.
Lupine also suggested using living animals to conduct experiments-rats, rabbits, pig monsters...the size is getting closer and closer to humans, and they are gradually replaced by magical creatures.
The experiment went awry on the thirteenth occasion.
Wade felt something was wrong when he opened the cabinet door. After opening the door, he found a dwarf pig monster lying inside that had stopped breathing.
[Vade: It's dead. 】
[Lupine: What happened? 】
[Vade: There are no wounds, but breathing has stopped. You can take a look over there. 】
Vader closed the cupboard door again, then Lupine opened it and saw the cold body of the piggish. He moved it out and examined it carefully.
[Lupin: The body was very cold, as if it had been dead for at least three or four hours. There were strange cracks on the surface of the skin, and the bones became brittle than biscuits. The moment it closed the door, it seemed to go to a strange place, and then died there. 】
[Lupin: Vader, the Vanishing Cabinet is more dangerous than we thought. 】
[Vade: I understand. The experiment is on hold while I see if I can repair this cabinet. 】
When he put down his pen, Wade couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
He thought that the Vanishing Cabinet was broken by Peeves when Harry was in second year, but he did not expect that it was not intact before being broken.
He stared at the disappearing cabinet with all his concentration. Slowly, countless golden magic lines emerged like running water. Complex magic arrays were stacked layer by layer. Hundreds of ancient magic words were wrapped around the disappearing cabinet like chains.
Tiny flaws, incomplete lines, runes worn by time, magic that seems to be corroded...
He found the missing parts of the disappearing cabinet bit by bit.
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Umbrella house.
The actual combat training was over, and everyone applied bruise healing ointment to each other. Harry asked: "Vader seems to be very busy recently? He only comes to the umbrella house once every three or four days."
Every time he comes, he spends about an hour teaching them a new spell and pointing out the problems they encounter in learning, and then disappears quickly.
"Yes." Michael said helplessly: "The alchemy professor seems to have left a very difficult assignment for Wade. Recently, he rarely even comes back to the rest room, and always stays elsewhere to study alchemy."
Cleaning crabs crawled over, collected all the tampon balls, and mopped the floor.
Everyone's eyes couldn't help but follow it around. They didn't leave the umbrella house until the crab returned to its shell nest and lay down quietly. As soon as I walked down the next floor, I met an unexpected person.
"H-how are you..."
Professor Quirrell seemed to be startled by this encounter. With a shy smile on his face, he stretched out his hand and whispered hello to his students.
Michael, Hermione and Ryan reflexively lowered their heads and said, "Good evening, Professor."
Harry and Theo said generously: "Hi, Professor Quirrell." Neville was a step behind, and he hurriedly said hello.
When the two sides were about to separate, Harry added an extra sentence: "Come on, Professor! You are really brave!"
Professor Quirrell smiled briefly and nervously, stretched out his hand and waved slightly.
"You..." Hermione stared at Harry with a thousand words in her eyes.
Theo said directly: "Harry, do you think Professor Quirrell is... uh... brave?"
——There is no more timid professor in the whole school than Quirrell.
"You don't understand." Harry said deeply, as if he was hiding a lot of secrets in his heart: "Professor Quirrell is fighting against evil. He is really amazing."
Although Theo and Neville didn't understand, they nodded in confusion. The others looked at each other with incomprehensible expressions.
"Keep an eye on him and don't let them get close again." Michael said in a low voice.
Everyone nodded silently, feeling that they were burdened with a heavy responsibility.
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Harry didn't know about other people's worries. He returned to the dormitory with joy as always, shared what he had learned today with Ron, played wizard chess for a while, and then went to bed.
But for some reason, the scar on his forehead hurts tonight. While everyone else fell asleep, Harry couldn't sleep. He simply put on his coat and sat in front of the window, looking at the starry night scene outside.
Suddenly, a black shadow passed through his vision, and Harry reacted for a moment before he realized that it was a person flying through the sky on a broomstick!
Who was that?
What was he doing flying over the school in the middle of the night?
Harry found his Nimbus 2000 without thinking, rode on the broomstick through the window, and jumped down from the eighth floor of the castle!
He quickly descended in the air, and soon pulled up the altitude again, hovering in the sky for a while, and found a figure by the Black Lake. Harry went around from a high altitude, and when he got close, he found that the person standing there was actually Wade.
"Hi, Wade." Harry dropped his broom and walked over, asking, "Why are you here?"
"Harry?" Wade turned around, also a little surprised: "It's so late, why haven't you slept yet?"
"I can't sleep." Harry touched the scar on his forehead and said, "I don't know why, I have a headache today - maybe Snape is cursing me under the Black Lake?"
Wade's eyes swept across the lightning-shaped scar and answered the previous question: "I was about to go back to sleep at night, and suddenly I saw that there seemed to be a white-haired person here... But when I flew over, I found that he was gone."
He was not sure whether the figure he saw tonight was the same as the one he saw more than half a year ago, but for some reason, Wade always cared about this matter.
Maybe because the distance was too far, he had never seen the name of that person.
Harry scratched his hair, without thinking too much, guessed: "Maybe you saw it wrong?"
"Maybe."
Wade did not argue. He saw Hagrid holding an oil lamp and his hound Fang, taking advantage of the night to walk into the Forbidden Forest.
"It looks like Hagrid hasn't slept yet." Wade said.
"He should have gone to feed Norbert, right?" Harry said casually.
"Norbert?" Wade suddenly turned his head and looked at him.
"Yes! Oh, that baby dragon. Hagrid named it Norbert." Harry explained: "It grew bigger and bigger, and it was impossible to keep it in the wooden house. Hagrid moved it to a cave in the Forbidden Forest."
Wade was surprised: "Didn't send it away?"
Harry sighed helplessly: "Hermione persuaded him several times, and Ron also said that his brother Charlie was studying dragons in Romania, and Norbert could be sent there for them to take care of, but Hagrid said he couldn't bear to do it..."
"Roar————"
In the Forbidden Forest, a huge roar suddenly sounded, and a beam of fire suddenly shot out and rushed straight into the sky!
