The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 29 If you don’t do something, you won’t die.
After returning to the dormitory at night, Angelina, who had just laid down, heard a loud "bang". Angelina looked in the direction of the sound and found that Ada had thrown a small bag on the bedside table.

"What is that?" Alia was also startled by the sound, and she asked Ada curiously.

"Did you bring the stone back to the dormitory?" Angelina asked.

"Why would I bring back bags of rocks when I have nothing better to do?" Ada was also a little speechless. "These are the pastries that Hagrid asked me to bring back. He asked me to share them with you."

Angelina and Alia shook their heads. It was not because they had heard of the reputation of rock cakes, but because no normal person would be interested in food that made such a "loud noise".

What? You said a French baguette? How can that be food? It's clearly a weapon!
"Come on, try it. Don't let Hagrid's kindness go to waste!" Ada took out a piece of rock cake from the bag and said to the two of them.

Seeing the true appearance of the cakes, the two shook their heads even more firmly, "Ada, you don't have to try it. We appreciate your kindness."

Looking at Angelina and Alia, who were like twins, Ada put down the "brick" in her hand. The hardest food Ada had ever seen was an unthawed frozen pear, but in front of the rock cake, the hardness of the frozen pear was nothing.

The professors turned the castle upside down throughout November, but they couldn't find the murderer, let alone the murderer. Apart from some contraband items hidden by students that Filch found, they found nothing.

The students' tense spirits were completely relaxed, and Hogwarts returned to its former laughter and joy.

The Gryffindor common room was particularly lively today. There were a lot of cakes on the coffee table, as well as pots of pumpkin juice. The seniors even set off some fireworks.

The students were celebrating today's victory in the common room. In today's Quidditch official match, the team defeated Hufflepuff under the leadership of Charlie.

Fred and George were eating cakes with big mouthfuls, but the delicious cakes could not calm the twins' restless hearts.

"Tonight, we decided to go for a night tour. Do you want to join us?" The twins once again invited them to form a team.

"Tonight?" Ida hesitated, "Aren't you afraid of being caught?"

"The professors don't search the castle very often anymore, so we just need to be careful." George swallowed the cake and explained to Ada.

Fred followed suit, saying, "It's the Old Man and his cat that we need to watch out for."

Ever since Hagrid called Filch "old git", the twins began to refer to him by that name as well.

"You two are really brave enough to commit a crime!" Ada also picked a piece of cake. "I can imagine the scene of Professor McGonagall bringing you back from Filch."

"Isn't this even more exciting!" said Fred.

"A dull life is meaningless!" George said seriously, "Ada, do you still want to waste your years?"

My life is not wasted, I have been swimming in the sea of ​​books. Ida thought so in her heart, but she said: "How can I not waste my life?"

"You're just wasting your time living a mediocre life at Hogwarts!" said George.

"When you are old, and your children ask you what secrets there are about Hogwarts, but you have no answer, won't you feel ashamed?" Fred waved his hands and asked Ada to imagine the future.

Well, you two brothers are like old Pavel Korchagin! When I was in the orphanage, Ida had seen enough of the children, she wanted to be beautiful on her own!
Ada rolled her eyes, ignored Fred Korchagin and George Korchagin's conversation, and turned back to the dormitory.

"We'll wait for you in the common room at half past eleven," the twins said to Ada as she left.

Ada, lying in bed, suffered from insomnia for the first time in a long time. Recently, due to her worries about the attacks, she had not wandered around the castle late at night for a long time. She actually missed this "Gryffindor behavior".

Just do it. Ada got up, changed into her night gear, and quietly left the dormitory.

Ada walked down the stairs of the girls' dormitory and just saw Fred and George talking in low voices in the common room.

"I guess Ida will come, one silver Sickle!" said Fred. "How about it?"

"It just so happens that I also think Ada will go, and it's also a silver Sickle." George was not fooled at all.

Ada walked down the stairs and said to the two brothers, "Ahem... I don't want to go out at night. I'm just worried that you'd be discovered, so I came here to watch over you..."

"Okay, we got it." Fred smiled and looked at Ada who was being stubborn.

"Let's go and find the secrets of Hogwarts under the cover of night!" George went out first.

Breathing the air in the corridor at night actually makes people feel relaxed and happy.

"Ada, we found a secret passage in the first week!" George said to Ada behind him. Fred also patted his chest and boasted: "The secret passage behind the flatterer Gregory can lead to the outside of the school. We are professionals!"

Under the cover of darkness, the three of them moved farther and farther away from the Gryffindor tower. The twins wanted to explore another secret passage, while Ada wanted to find a "safe house" and complete the mission at the same time.

Along the way, the three did not meet any professors. Fred and George took Ada to a mirror on the fifth floor, where they thought there might be a secret passage.

"Are you sure there really is... uh... a secret passage here?" Ada said, looking at the twins, who were fiddling with the big mirror.

"Not particularly sure, but this mirror is highly suspicious."

"This is our intuition. It's not just you girls who have intuition!"

Ada didn't feel the same way as the twins, she thought the mirror looked ordinary and there was nothing suspicious about it.

[Ding! The host has found a secret passage to Hogwarts. The completion of the night tour mission will be increased by +1. If the host can find the correct way to enter, the completion of the night tour mission will be increased again.]

When I left the tower just now, the progress of [Night Tour Mission] had already become 6, and now it has become 7. Looking at the completion degree that has increased by two points, Ada took out the magic wand and decided to increase it a little more.

Ada did not touch the mirror randomly, but poked it with her wand, hoping to find the entrance through the flow of magic. However, her approach was the same as the twins', and it was a waste of effort.

Just as the three people were standing in front of the big mirror, at a loss, a cat's meow was heard.

Meow!
The three of them turned around at the same time and saw a skinny cat appear in front of them. This cat was none other than Yaya's blind date, Mrs. Loris.

Mrs. Loris stared at Ada and the other two with her big cat eyes, and meowed again as if to warn them: Meow! It seemed to be telling the three of them to raise their hands! Don't move!

"Run!" Ada started to flee the scene as soon as she saw Mrs. Norris, followed closely by Fred and George.

The three of them ran away from the fifth floor. Mrs. Norris followed them all the way, meowing continuously, calling for her owner, Filch.

After a while, Ada heard the "click, click" sound of Filch's footsteps.

"Run separately!" Ada turned left when she reached the intersection on the fourth floor, while Fred and George chose to go downstairs at the same time.

Ada was almost mad at the twins running away together. She thought to herself: Can't you two run separately? One turns right and the other goes downstairs. Do you have to run together?
Ada, who was running away alone, was eventually caught up by Mrs. Norris, and she was in a "confrontation" with Mrs. Norris.

Ada took out the rock cake from her pocket, which she had put in her pocket as a weapon when she left the dormitory.

She said seductively, "Mrs. Loris, this is a rare delicacy in the world!" Ada shook the rock cake in her hand and threw it to Mrs. Loris.

The rock cake made a sound when it hit the ground, and rolled in front of Mrs. Loris. But Mrs. Loris was not tempted by the rock cake in front of her at all, and still stared at Ada.

It seems that this cat-and-dog-unfriendly rock cake has no use other than being a turntable. Ada had no choice but to turn around and run away again, with Mrs. Loris still chasing after her.

"There are so many obstacles!" Ada cast an obstacle spell on Mrs. Norris, using this spell to block Mrs. Norris's cat steps.

Mrs. Norris slowed down her pace due to the obstruction. Ada continued to cast barrier spells on the cat behind her, which allowed her to finally get rid of Filch's pet.

Ada touched her chest and calmed her heartbeat, which had been pounding so fast after all the running. Ada thought: I should exercise my physical strength, but I don't have enough time.

Ada escaped the pursuit, but the twins were not so lucky. They were caught by Filch.

"Haha, I finally caught you two." Filch grabbed the back collar of the twin brothers' robes with one hand each. "This time I will make you two pay!"

Filch's expression was now very excited, and even the wrinkles on his face were shining.

The twin brothers who were "brought to justice" said: "Filch, let's hear how you plan to punish us? Clean the trophy display room or wash your stinky mop?"

"I'll hang you up and whip you!" Filch said viciously. "Even cutting you open won't make me hate you!"

"Unfortunately, the headmaster abolished these punishments long ago. There's nothing you can do, poor Filch!" The twins were not scared by the horrible punishments mentioned by Filch. This was more than the first or second time they had dealt with Filch.

"One day or another, I will teach you two a lesson!" Filch bit his back teeth hard, grabbed the back collar of the Weasley brothers' school robes and walked towards his office.

Fred and George, who were caught by "fate" by the scruff of the neck, had no choice but to follow Filch away, leaving Ada hiding behind the statue alone in the empty corridor.

(End of this chapter)