ragginovel Chapter 568 Irma and Argus (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!)
Chapter 568 Irma and Argus (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!)
Chapter 568 Irma and Argus (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!)
"McGuffin... ready?" Harry urged in a low voice from the other side of the library.
McGuffin waved his hand as a signal, and then continued to focus on searching for the [Endless Labyrinth] in the restricted area.
Although it has been confirmed from the mindless Sir Nick, after the discussion between McGuffin and Harry, the two decided to take the opportunity of the last day tonight to see if the opening method of [Ravencarlaw's Secret Library]...is still the same as before.
So, while Mrs. Pince was not there, McGuffin sneaked into the restricted area, and under the twilight, he found the original Mobius ring pattern.
It is slightly raised above the ground and has a bronze texture.
(The Möbius ring, or the Möbius strip, is a circle of paper tape made by twisting a strip of paper 180° and then bonding the two ends together. That is to say, its curved surface is reduced from two to only one.)
' Ha, looks like it hasn't changed yet. '
After thinking about it in his heart, McGuffin hurriedly took out his wand and placed it in the center of the pattern of the Moubius ring on the ground... and tapped it, saying the secret word to open it:
"Infinite knowledge, infinite wisdom!"
The bronze ring pattern that symbolizes infinity, ... suddenly began to glow, squirmed, and slowly floated up, like a 3D projection, suspended in front of McGuffin's eyes.
McGuffin waved his wand a second time, pointing to the center of the Moubius ring.
The pattern began to distort and deform... Finally, it became a rather peculiar mirror surface with circles of waves floating on it, shining with silver light.
The mirror rotated, disturbed, and trembled.
Then a human wizard's old face stood out, with long silver-white beards.
This was exactly what McGuffin had in mind.
It then asks the 'curse of Theseus' question:
"Theseus will slowly exchange his memory and thoughts to another person starting on the third day of April every year, in order to live forever. When all souls and memories are exchanged..."
"Ask—is it possible for him to live forever at last?"
Its voice, like the friction of a saw blade in a lumber factory, is hoarse and low, echoing in the silent library——
——Now there is no need for McGuffin to answer Harry's question, he also heard this question that he had heard before.
"McGuffin, don't go in... Hurry up and cancel the spell casting, come back? I seem to hear that Mrs. Pince is coming back." Harry stood on the ladder and hurriedly urged.
"Um!……"
"Stop the curse!"
McGuffin waved his wand for the third time, calming everything down. He made the restricted section of the library calm again, and all traces of it were wiped away by him.
Seeing that the method of opening the channel was exactly the same as he remembered, McGuffin confirmed the guess he had argued with Harry just now—
The public personnel of the Ministry of Magic, and the goblin engineering contractors...they can't make any bottom-level changes to [this chamber (secret library) in Ravencallaw].
It is estimated that they can only make some levels of fire dragons and fried-tailed snails...
There is absolutely no way to change the black and white stepped endless maze,
That means...Harry can get a big advantage in the first game.
After all, they've already been there once.
"McGuffin!" Harry whispered again.
"Okay, okay..." Just as McGuffin bowed his head and slipped out of the restricted area.
Mrs. Pince stepped on her hard high heels and walked into the library. With her vulture-like eyes, she immediately noticed that McGuffin was not arranging books in place.
Then, he immediately discovered where McGuffin was now.
"You...stop." She sternly shouted.
"Okay... okay... I knew you would take this opportunity to sneak into the restricted area... Albert!"
Before Mrs. Pince could speak, a deep, angry voice sounded beside her,
"Am I right? Ms. Irma... The Gryffindor squad headed by Potter and Albert are simply terrorists who violated the school rules. They take pleasure in this and don't care... They must be severely punished, some kind of punishment must be carried out..."
The person who came was Filch. He was wearing a weird black leather windbreaker, and a fluffy, thick, figure-patterned scarf was hanging around his neck... The thin hair was neatly combed behind his head.
Even the scrawny Mrs. Norris, who keeps circling around him by his side, has a ridiculous pink bow tied around her neck.
Although Filch yelled at McGuffin as usual and scolded him harshly, McGuffin could not hear much anger from it, but instead revealed a strange emotion full of disgust.
'It's probably an illusion..." McGuffin thought with his head down, and then he hurriedly showed that I knew I was wrong and had a good attitude of admitting it.
Harry also hurriedly jumped off the ladder and ran over panting.
"Mr. Filch, McGuffin..." Harry tried to excuse McGuffin.
"Shut up, don't panic... This situation is the most disgusting... Ms. Irma and I have been fed up with you guys... Snorting slugs, flying saucers... Frog brains... Big shit... We have enough, we have to kill chickens today..."
Although Filch said so, his gaze remained on Mrs. Pince's face.
And Mrs. Pince didn't yell like usual, chasing and driving them away with a magic feather blanket, but kept a 'gentle face'.
This?
really very very strange,
Harry and McGuffin involuntarily raised their heads...to look at Mrs. Filch and Pince.
always feel...
"Mr. Argus...it's not a good time to punish them for staying in the library, soon, that's what I said..."
Mrs. Pince refused Filch's request for punishment, her voice was very soft and thin.
It doesn't fit this guy's usual setup at all.
It made Harry and McGuffin's eyes widen, and they looked at everything in front of them in disbelief.
"Yes, yes... Indeed, in a few days, the library will... at that time, it is indeed not suitable as a punishment place... If so..."
"Okay...you're lucky...Albert, go to my office tomorrow night and help me clean up a hallway..."
"Now, get out of here quickly."
Filch's words revealed a hint of impatient expulsion.
It's... so simple?
And it's not just such a simple punishment, but also... Mrs. Pince just now, and the meaning revealed in Filch's words... plus Nick's reminder just now,
It made the two of them almost sure that the 'Top Ten Tournament' was held in that [Endless Labyrinth].
MacGuffin and Harry couldn't believe how lucky they were, so they left the library as fast as they could and walked into the corridors, so that Ilky wouldn't change his mind.
The moonlight outside the window filled the entire corridor, and the two moved forward quickly, preparing to go back to the Gryffindor common room.
"McGuffin... that's great. Now it's up to you to give me some training. It's best to train for that place... such as your [Flying Curse] and [Levitation Curse] usage methods and skills.... You can fly in that place, and you can take advantage of it."
Harry said excitedly, striding forward.
"Although I don't expect you to be able to levitate yourself without using a magic wand, at least you can let me wave my wand to levitate myself? How do you solve this problem?"
"In the beginning, I used clothes and shoes... to make them have the effect of [Levitation Curse], and then after being able to fly myself up, Harry, you can try to separate your torso one by one to cast spells, so that's it..." McGuffin explained.
"Really? Then I'll try... Anyway, Filch is still in the library..." Harry happily took out his wand, and suddenly found that his wand was gone.
"Where's my wand? Wand..."
Harry was sweating profusely, and he immediately pulled the McGuffin to stop, groping on his body...
It's a pity that nothing was found, his magic wand with the phoenix tail feather... really disappeared.
"Did you leave it in the common room while doing your classwork?"
"No, I clearly remember taking it... I saw it in the library just now..."
Harry recalled, "Yes, it should have just jumped off the ladder anxiously...the wand should have fallen at that time."
"Come on, let's go back."
"Back to the library?" asked McGuffin.
"Well, even Mrs. Pince and Filch can't say...don't let me go in and find the wand?"
"Then why don't I just use the [Flying Curse] to call it over?"
"Crazy? That's my wand... What if it's broken just like Ron's last wand? It's not a broomstick, it can fly, and it can respond to the wizard's call. What's more, if Filch and the others are still there..." Harry said anxiously, and finally took the McGuffin back to the library in big strides.
The two of them met the elusive Mrs. Norris on the road. That guy seemed to be staring at them again, and followed closely behind them.
Panting, Harry and McGuffin ran back to the corridor in front of the library, then stopped, took a few deep breaths, and prepared to enter the library after breathing calmly.
In order to prevent Mrs. Pince and Filch from finding fault with them and causing trouble for the two of them.
The two McGuffins entered the library, and before they could speak, they discovered——
Irma Pince and Als Filch embraced each other before their eyes, kissing passionately like glue.
Um?Um!
--what?
'Oh oh oh oh oh oh-huh? !ah!ah! ! ! "
It is conceivable how McGuffin and Harry felt when they saw this scene.
Now they have seven or eight fire dragons in their hearts, plus the snails come alive...they are dancing disco before and after, crazily breathing fire...
It's just, it's just—
Instant explosion!
Instant explosion! !
Reason was sounding the alarm frantically, reminding the two of them that they should evacuate quietly and run away before Mrs. Pince and Filch found them.
But this almost shocking scene caused their brains to stop functioning for a while, and the two of them could barely move.
— Boo!
Although Harry didn't know what it was like to cuddle and kiss a girl, the two people in front of him must have set an extremely wrong example.
— Boo! (*￣3)(ε￣*)
Again.
'Merlin, who will save us!I really don't want to watch this scene...'
McGuffin cried out for help in his heart, but this extremely shocking scene couldn't make them move away.
Maybe they heard the prayers in their hearts——
"Meow!"
That damned Mrs. Norris' cry sounded from behind McGuffin, Harry and the others.
Filch and Mrs. Pince parted at last, and they looked around in panic.
Then--
Their eyes met, and the four of them saw each other.
Confirmed eyes,
——The horrified expressions of McGuffin and Harry clearly showed that they had seen everything.
Mrs. Pince was so frightened that she pushed Filch away. Her entire face was almost purple,... soy purple, sour purple.
"You...you..." She stammered, unable to speak at all, and she looked completely different in peacetime.
"Both of you!" Filch was surprised and astonished, and even more annoyed by the destruction of the 'good thing'... He roared angrily, like thunder... It exploded in the empty room of the Hogwarts library.
McGuffin's legs went limp, and he staggered... His butt hit the ground directly, and then he immediately turned around and paved the ground with all his strength, trying to get out of here quickly with his hands and feet.
"I... we won't bother, let's go... Harry!"
Mrs. Pince was further exasperated by the loud, thoughtless remarks of the MacGuffin.
But obviously according to her current position, she was a little speechless.
Filch was furious, his legs seemed to be on a broomstick, he didn't turn around like usual, he rushed over——
"McGuffin, MacGuffin...my wand!"
Harry called hastily.
"Oh, the wand is flying..."
McGuffin recited the [Flying Curse] around the bookshelves where they had been.
A wand whirled and flew from under the ladder into the McGuffin's hand.
McGuffin handed Harry the wand, "Go, go... go! Go!"
The man exuded an ominous aura, pressing on every step of the way like the evil ghost Shura... and chased after him.
McGuffin and Harry's heart trembled in shock... his legs were even limp and moved back and forth,
—They can't run fast at all.
He was overtaken by Filch in almost two steps, and he directly grabbed the collars behind them one by one, and held them tightly, directly controlling the two of them.
Filch pulled McGuffin and the others directly in front of Mrs. Pince as if he was carrying a chicken.
- It's over!
Don't want to silence it!
It wasn't that McGuffin didn't resist, it was because the aura of the two of them was too terrifying.
The usual rage was simply not enough to describe Filch's current expression and look.
His eyeballs were protruding, filled with bloodshot eyes, staring at the two of them closely... The muscles on one side of his sagging cheeks were twitching constantly...
"Sir, I... I... we're coming back to get my dropped wand..." Harry stammered, panicking.
"Irma, let's take these two guys..."
"……How to do?"
Filch twisted the joints of his two hands, rattling... He looked at Mrs. Pince with firm eyes, as if he could do anything as long as the lady gave her an order...
"Mr. Argus Filch, it's up to you... as long as... as long as they don't say a word... it'll be... fine."
Filch looked at McGuffin and Harry.
"Sir, we didn't see anything, no, we haven't been here since just now!" McGuffin and Harry suddenly gained some strength, glanced at each other, and immediately answered in unison very cleverly.
"Very well...very good. Mark your words...if I hear this from other people from now on..."
"I suppose you'll have another three years at the castle and the school...don't you?"
Filch said this through his teeth, threatening.
"Quickly get lost... all your punishments for tonight will be cancelled... remember, you haven't been here tonight."
McGuffin and Harry nodded, then hurriedly left the place.
That situation was even faster than the withdrawal of the US military.
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