Everyday Players at Hogwarts..

Chapter 432 In the Tunnel
Sometimes, keeping the same secret can unexpectedly bring two people closer together.

And that was the case with Neville and Harry at this moment.

The two of them chatted about everything, and from time to time they showed each other the magic in their hands.

Harry tentatively cast a simple levitation spell, and Neville stood still with his sword in hand.

Neville held Harry's right hand, and Harry unexpectedly found that he needed to expend more magic power than usual to cast spells.

After an unknown amount of time, when Harry had told Neville almost everything except Voldemort's secret and the Moon City and Atlantis that were bound by the contract, Neville said, "Harry, you know, I have been training at night whenever I don't have astronomy class."

"Plus, I was not being watched due to the influence of the magic circle, which allowed me to discover many interesting things."

"For example, Lupin, our assistant professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, disappears into the Whomping Willow every night."

"Do you think he knows some Celtic magic that allows him to become one with trees, or is he the long-lost tree shepherd?" Neville looked at the Whomping Willow.

The branches of this tree were shaking as if in a strong wind, the branches swaying back and forth. It must be some brainless magical creature like a goblin, who had approached her rashly again.

"Thank you, Neville, this information is very useful to me." Harry's face was as dark as water and he took a deep breath.

The next day, on the astronomy tower, the venue was bathed in silver moonlight, and there was a slight chill in the air.

The Ravenclaw eagles were all setting up their telescopes, looking at Jupiter and sketching their views on the star charts, but Harry was looking at something else.

The sky tonight is cloudless and windless, which is perfect for stargazing.

But far more useful to Harry were the little squares of golden light that flickered across the grounds below, caused by the lights in the castle windows.

Because he was looking in the direction of the Whomping Willow.

An unknown amount of time had passed, until Ron had finished filling out Harry's star map, when Harry finally saw the fleeting figure in the telescope.

So Harry adjusted the telescope slightly and pretended to be observing Jupiter like the other students.

"You saw it," Ron whispered.

Harry nodded, and at the same time, a paper crane disappeared into the sky under the cover of night.

Ten minutes later, with the bell for the end of get out of class, and at the call of Professor Sinistra, the Ravenclaw eagles walked tiredly up the steep spiral staircase and disappeared into the classroom.

Under the cover of night, two figures stealthily broke away from the crowd and walked out of the castle.

"Harry!" A figure rushed out from the bushes and hung on the tall and thin figure.

The moonlight shone on their cheeks, revealing their messy bird's nest-like and flaming red hair.

“Can you keep your voices down?” Behind the man with the bird-nest hair, a taller and thinner figure with fiery red hair appeared.

"Harry, Lupin is in the Shrieking Shack tonight?" Draco Malfoy, with light blond hair and pale cheeks, emerged silently from the darkness like a vampire.

Obviously, these four people are the influential figures in Hogwarts today, the Three Musketeers of Hogwarts, and Ginny Weasley, the sister of Ron, the leader of the Three Musketeers.

"Hey, Ron, could you please stop mentioning that ridiculous title of the Three Musketeers? Also, when were you the leader?" Ginny couldn't help rolling her eyes.

"Okay, you all remember how to get into the secret passage under the Whomping Willow."

"Press the scar on the Whomping Willow, and do it quickly." Harry said as he walked.

"Didn't we agree that you press it, Harry? No one among the three of us can do it except you." Ron waved his hand.

Ginny rolled her eyes.

"Then - let's do it ourselves. We are wizards. We can just use a levitation spell to control the stone and then a shock spell."

"Ginny can also conjure a bat." Ron said quickly, feeling a chill on the back of his head. In the night, the four of them crossed the dark greenhouse, vegetable garden, and black lawn outside, and finally arrived at their destination today - the Whomping Willow.

Just as Ron stretched out his wand and was about to chant the spell.

A long sigh flashed by, and Harry approached the thick Whomping Willow.

Sensing the approach of a living creature, the branches of the Whomping Willow struck towards Harry like a storm.

Just as Ginny was about to scream, Harry strolled around, dodging the branches one by one by lowering his head, shrugging his shoulders, bending over, stepping back, and taking a small step to the right.

Before Ginny and the others could react, Harry's hand was already on the scar on the thick tree trunk.

Suddenly, the tree seemed to turn into marble and stopped moving, and all its leaves were still.

"I think we should not waste time." Harry shrugged and looked behind him.

"You left me behind again to show off." Ron couldn't help but mutter.

He completely forgot that he originally wanted to be lazy and let Harry do it all.

Draco and Ginny couldn't help but give Ron a cold look when they heard this, and then walked to the tree trunk.

After Ron and the other two crawled into the tunnel, Harry followed them in.

It was a smooth dirt slope, and at the bottom was a very low tunnel. Ron and the others were just ahead.

"Are we really going in?" Ron began to back off.

He was the tallest among the four of them. Harry and the others could bend over and trot forward, but he would probably have to crawl.

And this tunnel seems to have no end.

"Now that we're here," Harry took the lead and bent over to enter the tunnel.

Ginny and Draco followed closely after seeing this.

"I really hope I can run into Lupin on the road." Ron muttered as he crawled forward helplessly.

Ten minutes later, "Why don't we go back?" Ron backed out again.

But this time, even Harry couldn't help but agree in his heart.

Because this tunnel is too long.

Besides, this tunnel is not meant for people to walk on.

Even Lupin, who had mastered the Fenrir incarnation and whose physical fitness had soared, should have passed this tunnel in the form of a wolf.

The height of the tunnel and the plum-shaped footprints on the ground that Harry had modified and could vaguely see in the darkness also proved this point.

Although his body had been transformed by magic, Harry could not bear the feeling of being in the dark, bending over, with no end in sight.

Not to mention Draco and Ginny behind him.

Ron, who had been crawling all the time, was probably about to collapse.

"Here!" Harry turned around and took out a bottle of potion. It was green and slowly turned from calm to boiling.

"Shrinkage potion?" Ron recognized it immediately.

(End of this chapter)