Pushing open the door, the three girls were lit only by the faint fluorescence on their wands, the sound of heavy breathing in the darkness, and the smell of animal excrement masking the smell of garlic.It was a hall with a Traceless Stretching Charm attached, and as they descended into the hall, they saw a large dog lying on the ground.The three of them were shocked, and they all recognized that this was a three-headed dog, a very ferocious magical animal, even if it couldn't bite a few people, as long as it barked, it would definitely attract other professors.But in the next second, they noticed that the dog's condition was not quite right, and it should have found the three of them long ago, but it was still lying on the ground, snorting and panting."
Don't go over, Hermione, it's going to bite your neck."
As Hufflepuffs, Susan and Hannah knew a lot better about magical beasts than Hermione, and the fat girl immediately stopped her friend who was holding her wand close to the big dog.Hermione crouched down and reached out to touch the liquids on the ground, which looked black under the blue fluorescence of the tips of her wands, and the viscous liquid had already covered the soles of the three of them."
It's blood."
Hermione shook her hand, and there were two cooks among the three, a new killer who had broken the pot after last night, and they didn't feel anything about the blood: "The three-headed dog is hurt, and it's very badly injured. ”Hannah came closer, but the big dog didn't even have the strength to look up at the three of them, just gasped.It had several huge wounds on its body, which were undoubtedly serious even for a dog of this size, and even one of its heads was about to fall off."
It must have been Hagrid or the professor of the Magical Beasts Protection Division who put it on guard here."
Hannah reached out to feel the depth of the wound: "Poor thing, we have to help it." ”"It still has dried scabs from 'rat juice' on its fur, and someone has taken all the mouse tumors in the Potions prep room to treat it."
Hermione sighed and began to pull bottles and cans out of her bag.She usually saves a lot of potions as prizes, but this time she brought them all, and casually distributed a few bottles of blood-tonifying potions to the girls, and each unscrewed one bottle and poured it into a dog's head.Although I don't know if the potions that people drink are useful for magical beasts, they should not die if they drink it, right?
It's always right to stop the bleeding first.She probably guessed what was going on, the dog must have been blown up by the professor's detonator yesterday, so someone smeared it with rat juice as a cure.As a result, today I encountered an even more terrible black magic, it was not an opponent at all, and it turned out to be the way it is now.Maybe Professor Snape was standing in front of the potions table all night yesterday and boiling the dog with medicine, so he limped in the morning class, and the bad professor said that people might have hemorrhoids, which was really bad.Remembering her professor's shapeless appearance, Hermione looked like a dead fish again.The potion also seemed to have an effect on the three-headed dog, and its bleeding slowed down or even stopped, except that the blood loss caused it to pass out."
Well, we can't do further treatment, and we don't have time."
Only then did the three girls notice that there was a trapdoor next to it that led to the bottom, which seemed to be the right way: "The situation has stabilized, let's move on first." ”Hermione tugged on the handle of the trapdoor, and with a creak it opened, so she pulled out a few more portable light sticks from her bag, broke them a few times in her hand, made them glow green, and threw them down.At this time, it turned out that "it was the devil's net." ”Hannah recognized it, and she was much calmer at this time: "There are these things in the forest behind my house, and once the living animals fall into it, the more they struggle, the more they will tighten, until they kill the animal. ”"We just have to jump and don't move, and in a few minutes they'll fall apart."
Susan also gave a solution, and Fantastic Beasts and Plants were not a problem for Hufflepuff.But Hermione took a few more torches from her fanny pack and expertly lit them with a grinding wheel, lighter and gasoline, and gave one to each of them: "We don't have that much time, the devil's net is afraid of flames, we can disperse them as long as we hold the torches firm." ”"Why do you have everything in your bag?"
The two little badgers were stunned, and they saw that Hermione took out various props from her bag as if she had been prepared.Hermione shook the torch in her hand to make it more vigorous and replied: "Professor Wilson told me that you need to anticipate things before you can not panic, so in this operation, I prepared all the countermeasures against unexpected situations in the field that he mentioned in physical education class, and did not use the wand to ignite the fire in order to avoid them being accidentally broken during the descent, after all, the wand is still too fragile compared to the torch, and the devil vine has a lot of strength." ”"You're so good!
Chirp. ”Hannah kissed Hermione adoringly on the cheek, "He did say how to keep fire-fearing animals away if he wasn't around. ”Susan also wanted to kiss Hermione, but the latter was very wary of avoiding it, and she had to cough a little: "Let's go down and try not to hurt these plants, I think they may be a means of defense that our dean has placed here." ”"I'll go down first, then Hannah, and then Susan."
The passage behind the trapdoor was not loose, and she arranged the order, while saying that "it's better to leave a mark on the ground, if" This is simple. ”Susan is on your ground next to the trapdoor, drawing a strawberry-shaped trace with the cream cake she carries with her."
Let's go."
Hermione jumped first.Although the passage is nearly vertical, the dense devil's net acts as a buffer when it lands, and the three of them hold torches, just so that the plants are at a distance that will not entangle them, but they seem to be unwilling, which allows them to land safely.Out of the deep well of dense vegetation, there was only a stone corridor, which seemed to be the only way.In addition to the sound of their own footsteps, there was the sound of water dripping down the walls, and the hallway down the slope reminded Hermione of the bathroom where the water pipe burst last night, and her adrenaline was pumping and her vision narrowed.She forced herself to calm down, telling herself that she couldn't go blank in her mind like last night, that she had to think, and that wisdom was power.The three slowed down a little, and one of them ate a chocolate frog on the way and adjusted his state."
Can you hear anything?"
Hannah whispered to the other two girls, her ears sharpened, and she heard what seemed to be a soft rustle and tinkling sound in the darkness ahead.Susan tilted her head to listen, but she couldn't hear it, so she could only guess: "Could it be a ghost?""
I don't know, but it feels like a winged creature, maybe a swarm of bats."
Hannah said that she didn't like the animals very much, and probably the PE teacher didn't like them either, and even emphasized not eating bats in PE class."
There's a light ahead, and I see something moving."
Hermione said this, and the three of them came to the end of the hallway, in front of which was a brightly lit room with a high vaulted ceiling.Countless small birds, as brilliant as jewels, flapped their wings and flew around the room, and there was a heavy wooden door opposite the room."
It's the key to growing wings."
The fat girl pushed her glasses: "I didn't know that such magical creatures exist in nature, they are either illusions or have been put under a levitation charm." ”Hermione thought for a moment, tentatively stretched out her hand and shook it in the hall, only to find that it only alarmed the keys to flee everywhere, and did not mean to attack a few people: "Let's go and see what the lock on the opposite side looks like, and then find the right one among the thousands of keys." ”