The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 105: There is a vicious dog inside, please do not approach

Although they had just walked through this secret passage a week ago, the twins felt it was unfamiliar now. It was no longer dirty and messy as before, but had become much tidier, with stone bricks on the ground.

At the entrance of the Screaming Shack, the originally dilapidated wooden door was repaired, and a wooden sign was inserted next to it, which read: There are vicious dogs inside, please do not approach.

"The vicious dog written here can't be your Garlon, right?" Fred asked uncertainly. Garlon was the only animal related to a dog around Ada.

"Merlin's beard! I've never seen that Labrador retriever bite anything except Percy's mice!" George felt that there must be something wrong with Ada's brain, otherwise why would she believe that Garlon could guard the house.

Ada thought about the slogan on the wooden sign for a long time. Her initial idea was "If you don't want to lose your life in an accident, please don't enter the room."

But in the end, Ada gave up on this idea. This place would almost belong to her from now on. It was still a bit creepy to have such a slogan hanging at the door. She always felt like she was living in some dangerous place.

"There is no other choice except Garlon." Ada said helplessly, "I want to get a three-headed dog back, but I have to be able to do it. I don't have the luck to meet a Greek when I'm drinking, and this Greek happens to have a three-headed dog cub with him."

Garlon really can't play the role of a guard. It is too non-aggressive. Although it is now much larger than Mrs. Loris, Garlon is still no match for that annoying stinky cat.

Fortunately, it is not the sled three idiots, otherwise there would be an expensive decoration plan waiting for Ada at any time.

Ada reached out and pushed open the wooden door. Unlike the darkness last time, the room was illuminated by sunlight, and the unpleasant smell was gone. She said to the twins, "Fred, George, welcome home."

Walking into the room, the twins were so surprised that their mouths couldn't close. Everything in the room had changed. The messy room became orderly. The thick dust covering the floor was gone, the peeling wallpaper was well pasted on the wall, most of the worn-out furniture had been replaced, the piano had been repaired, and there was a guitar next to it.

The Shrieking Shack didn't look haunted at all. The clean and bright rooms looked more like a warm home. If the twins hadn't been here before, they would have thought that the Shrieking Shack had always been like this.

On the other side of the window was Hogwarts, but outside was the white Hogsmeade. George pointed at the window and asked worriedly, "The wooden boards are gone. Will anyone notice anything unusual here?"

"No, the sunlight shining into the house is real, but the wooden boards covering the windows have not been removed at all." Ida explained while standing in front of the window, "This is what Winnie and I did together. We just made the wooden boards lose their proper function and prevent them from blocking the sunlight."

The wooden board is now somewhat similar to a one-way mirror. Sunlight can pass through, and people inside the house can also see outside clearly. The difference is that people outside the house can never see what is happening inside the house. All they can see is the wooden board.

Unless someone with great magical powers forcibly breaks the spell, no one will discover the situation in the Shrieking Shack.

"Winnie? The house-elf who always brings you back?" Fred asked. "Will she turn around and tell the professors at school about what happened here?"

If the professors knew about this, then Ada's work this week would basically be in vain, but the probability of this happening was very low. Although Ada was not Winnie's master, the professors in the school were not either. The only one who could be called the master seemed to be the headmaster Dumbledore. However, there were hundreds of house-elves in Hogwarts, and Dumbledore would not be so idle to question Winnie.

"I didn't do anything bad here. On the contrary, I dispelled the rumor that the Shrieking Shack was haunted." Ada was not too worried and continued, "Dumbledore should give me a special contribution award."

The twins didn't know why Ada was so obsessed with this award. From the day she learned about the Special Contribution Award, this award became Ada's "obsession". If it weren't for Winnie, Ada might have given up her plan to renovate her old house long ago. The fact that the Screaming Shack was cleaned up so quickly was mostly due to Winnie's efforts.

Every time Ada came with her, the diligent elf always rushed to do the work, and Ada became the one who caused the trouble. And after confirming that this place was really "clean", the house elf would come alone at night. Such a hardworking Winnie made Ada feel a little guilty.

There were originally a lot of damaged furniture in the room. Those that could be repaired had been repaired by Ada and Winnie, but some of the furniture was so damaged that it was no longer worth repairing. These furniture were taken away and thrown away by Winnie, so the Screaming Shack now looks a little empty.

The elf Winnie also patted her chest and promised that she would fill the empty furniture in the room. There was a room in the castle where a lot of furniture was stored. Some of these furniture could be taken out of the room. Except for being a little old, there were no other defects.

Other elves also often take out furniture from that room, so it’s okay for Ada to borrow it temporarily. At worst, she can just return it later.

In any case, thanks to the house-elves, most of the problems were solved. The Screaming Shack that was "forcibly" occupied by Ada could be regarded as Ada's first private residence in this world and her secret base.

"This place is ours now. Should we change its name?" Fred suggested after walking around the house. He was very satisfied with this place now. This was a place that belonged to the three of them alone. All the little discomforts in his heart had long since disappeared.

"Yeah, we can't just keep calling it the Shrieking Shack. It'll be too easy for people to find out the secret." George agreed with his twin brother's suggestion, "Think of a name that only we know!"

Ada, who was sitting on the sofa, tilted her head and said, "Do you have any good ideas? Fred, you came up with one, so tell me first!"

Fred stroked the hair on his chin while walking around the room. It was a relief to not stir up dust. Ada leaned lazily on the sofa, thinking about what name to give it. It would be best if it could include the names of all three people.

"We found this place through the Marauder's Map. I think we should pay tribute to the four great plunderers!" Fred thought for a while before coming up with an idea. "Let's call it the Dominator's House. From now on, we will be called Dominators!"

At first, Ada admired the plunderers' magical attainments, but later she admired their "crazy imagination". If it weren't for their wild imagination, how could they have found so many secret passages?

Especially the one hidden under the Whomping Willow. Any normal person would not want to get close to the vicious Whomping Willow, and would not discover that there is a secret passage hidden here.

So it's not wrong to pay tribute to the predecessors. Aida has no objection to the ruler's self-proclaimed name, but naming this place the Ruler's House always sounds weird.

However, Ada still took out her magic wand and wrote down the name. The red letters made of magic power floated in the air. Ada turned her head and looked at George. George had been thinking just now. She didn't know what the result of his thinking was.

"My idea is similar to Fred's, but I'm thinking of the House of Thieves." After George said this, he looked at Ada, wanting to know what name Ada came up with.

Good fellow, both the ruler and the chivalrous thief, the ideas of the two brothers sound quite violent, not warm at all. Ada also wrote the name in the air with her magic wand. Although there were only three people voting, the sense of ritual in life cannot be missed.

Waving the magic wand again, the red characters danced in the air and finally merged into a new word. This was the name Ida had thought of. Compared with the twins, the name Ida came up with was really harmless and was simply the embodiment of love and peace.

(End of this chapter)