The world begins with refining skills

Chapter 291 Harry got hard! (Subscribe)
The Black Lake has a water area of hundreds of square kilometers. It is called a lake, but if you stand on the shore and look at it, the lake surface in the distance seems to be connected with the sky.

This picture of water and sky is no different from the ocean in the eyes of ordinary people.

The Black Lake under the night sky is no longer the deep blue color as it is during the day, but a shiny black color.

This is also the origin of the name Black Lake!

On the lake several miles away from the castle, a black shadow passed by quickly, and a long white line suddenly appeared on the water.

"Ah~ Wuhu~"

Hermione's excited scream rang out in the quiet night and drifted away into the distance along the lake.

In the dark night sky, I saw a raven with a wingspan of more than one meter gliding over the lake with the help of the wind.

Below the raven, Mu Sheng and Hermione held each other's hands and grabbed the raven's paws with the other hand and surfed on the lake.

Hermione looked at the lake surface passing quickly below her feet, feeling the feeling of her body floating lightly under the effect of the levitation spell.

An expression of excitement appeared on her face. She had never thought that magic could be used in this way.

"Victori always has so many wonderful ideas!"

Hermione imitated Mu Sheng and tapped the surface of the lake with her toes, creating a thin line of water.

Looking at the two parallel water lines behind her, Hermione wanted to laugh for some reason, and then she started laughing.

Mu Sheng turned his head to look at the giggling Hermione, and in the unknown land inside his body, the magic fruit on the bloodline tree suddenly jumped a few times.

This means that Hermione has met the conditions for granting the magical fruit.

"Is it that simple?"

Although Mu Sheng was somewhat surprised at Hermione's sudden increase in favorability, he was not surprised.

After all, the conditions for granting the magic fruit are not too outrageous. As long as you can entrust most of your assets to Mu Sheng with confidence, it will be enough.

Those who have been defrauded have a higher level of trust in the scammers than this!
However, although Hermione met the conditions for the gift, Mu Sheng did not intend to give her the magic fruit for the time being.

The number of magic fruits is limited, excluding those given to Megan, Isabella, Penelope and Justin.

Including the fruits that were produced later, Mu Sheng now only has nine.

Hermione spent most of the next six years at Hogwarts and couldn't help Mu Sheng at all. By the time she could help, Mu Sheng probably wouldn't need her anymore.

After surfing on the lake for more than half an hour, the two finally let go of Xiao Hei's paws and landed lightly on the lake.

"Are you ready? Tonight's adventure is about to truly begin!"

"Ready!" Hermione nodded vigorously.

Mu Sheng waved his hand, and a huge bubble suddenly appeared, wrapping up the two of them.

Then the bubble slowly sank and soon disappeared into the lake.

This night, the evil mermaid living in the Black Lake was attacked by two warriors from Hogwarts!

The holy light of justice illuminates this forgotten dark land.

In class the next day, the second-year Gryffindor wizards were surprised to find that their Miss Know-It-All, who always liked to show off, had actually fallen asleep in class.

"Hermione! Hermione Granger!"

In a daze, Hermione heard someone calling her name.

A very familiar voice, the same as that of their head of house, Professor McGonagall.

Wait, Professor McGonagall?
Hermione suddenly remembered that she was in the Transfiguration class and sat up with a start.

When he opened his eyes, he saw Professor McGonagall standing next to him and other students in the classroom were also looking at him.

Hermione, who had been a good student since childhood, encountered such a situation for the first time. She felt embarrassed and her face turned red.

Last night's adventure at the bottom of the Black Lake did not end until before dawn, and Hermione, who only slept for an hour or two, thought she was fine.

However, my body objected to staying up late for the first time, and I fell asleep on the desk after just a few minutes of class.

It was the first time that Hermione discovered that sleeping on the desk was so comfortable!

"I'm sorry, Professor McGonagall, I was so sleepy that I fell asleep accidentally."

Hermione decisively chose to admit her mistake for sleeping in class.

"Hermione actually dared to sleep in Professor McGonagall's class. Professor McGonagall will definitely scold her, hehe."

Ron gloated. He always remembered that Hermione and Mu Sheng had caused him and Harry to be smeared with feces on the wall.

"No matter how much you like reading, you must pay attention to time, Miss Granger," Professor McGonagall warned Hermione, who still had a dazed look in her eyes.

"Have you reviewed the content of this lesson in advance?"

"Yes, Professor McGonagall, I reviewed it last weekend."

"That's good, go back to sleep, Miss Granger, but don't sleep in during Professor Flitwick's next Charms class!"

"Yeah! Thank you Professor McGonagall!"

Hermione was grateful, then she laid down on the desk with peace of mind and fell asleep in a few seconds.

Ron, who was sitting a few rows behind Hermione, watched in disbelief as Hermione got away with it.

"This isn't fair! Why is it okay for a know-it-all to sleep in class?"

Ron issued a cry from a poor student against the unfairness on campus!
Ron looked at Hermione's sleeping figure indignantly, and at this moment, Professor McGonagall's serious voice suddenly sounded above his head.

"Mr. Weasley, answer what I just said!"

"what?"

Ron looked up blankly at Professor McGonagall, his mind going blank.

Professor McGonagall knew Ron hadn't heard anything when she saw his expression, and her tone became even more severe.

"Pay close attention, Mr. Weasley! Don't let me catch you distracted again."

Faced with Professor McGonagall's reprimand, Ron did not dare to argue, but he was filled with resentment in his heart.

This is not fair!
Ever since that night's adventure to the Black Lake, Hermione seemed to be addicted. Every once in a while she would beg Mu Sheng to take her on a night walk to explore the mysterious places in Hogwarts.

Soon it was late October and Halloween was only a few days away.

That night, after everyone fell asleep, Hermione sneaked out of the Gryffindor common room again.

After a few times, she was no longer as nervous as she was during her first night walk.

After she left, two heads suddenly appeared from the air over there in the boys' dormitory.

It was Harry and Ron wearing the Invisibility Cloak.

"Sure enough, I guessed it right. Miss Know-It-All sneaked out at night," Ron boasted to Harry with a proud look on his face.

Ever since she was caught sleeping in class by Professor McGonagall, Hermione learned her lesson and her nighttime adventures would only last three or four hours at most.

In this way, although you will still feel sleepy the next day, you will not fall asleep uncontrollably. At most, you will not be in good spirits and will not actively answer questions in class.

Unless someone paid special attention to her, no one would notice that there was anything wrong with her.

However, some people just pay special attention to it!
Because of his inner imbalance, Ron always wanted to find some problems with Hermione and kept paying attention to her performance in class.

After more than a month, he actually discovered something.

So there was this stalking tonight.

"Ron, what's the point of doing this? Hermione is also from Gryffindor House. What can you do even if you catch her violating school rules?" Harry was a little puzzled. If Ron really reported Hermione and caused Gryffindor to be deducted points, everyone would only blame him for stabbing his companions in the back.

After all, for Gryffindor students, Hermione's violation of school rules and walking at night was actually a cool behavior.

However, reporting classmates from the same college is different, as you will be looked down upon by everyone.

"Why is it meaningless? Catching her weakness is the most meaningful thing!" Ron said unconvinced.

He just wants to prove himself!

"Let's hurry up and catch up, Hermione will be far away soon"

Ron said as he put the invisibility cloak over them, and the two heads disappeared into thin air again.

Harry had no choice but to accompany his only good friend.

The door to the Gryffindor common room opened again and then quickly closed, as if something invisible had gone out.

"There, why is she running so fast? Isn't she afraid of being discovered by Filch?"

After coming out of the common room, the two soon spotted Hermione.

In just a short while, she had already walked down from the eighth floor to the staircase on the fourth floor.

"Let's hurry up and don't lose him!"

Seeing Hermione going down another flight of stairs, the two of them hurriedly followed.

However, just as the two of them went down to the fourth floor, the stone stairs suddenly shook.

Rumble!
After a round of rotation and movement, the orientation of the stairs between floors changed.

In a short while, Hermione had already gone down to the first floor and then disappeared after turning a corner.

By the time Harry and Ron finally reached the first floor, Hermione was nowhere to be seen.

"Miss Know-It-All, how come she's running so fast?" Ron panted, "Why do I feel like she's not walking at night?"

Who would be so unabashed about their night walk?

The sound of footsteps could be heard from a long distance away.

"What should we do now? We can't find her anyway, why don't we go back?" Harry suggested.

Ron was also a little discouraged, but he was still unwilling to give up: "Since we are here, let's look around. If we still can't find it, we can go back."

Hearing Ron say this, Harry no longer objected.

So the two of them put on the invisibility cloak and wandered around the castle.

Rustle, rustle, rustle
When we came to a corridor, we heard a rustling sound as if someone was walking quietly from not far away.

"Someone's here, is it Hermione?"

"I don't know, let's go check it out!"

Relying on the invisibility cloak, the two were not afraid of being seen and walked carefully in the direction where the sound came from.

Soon Harry and Ron came to a dead end, with a wall blocking their way.

"Strange, the sound clearly came from here?"

"Could there be some mechanism?"

The two of them curiously searched the wall but found nothing.

Rustle, rustle, sizzle
"That guy is moving again!"

Hearing the voice going away, the two of them hurriedly followed it.

Following the sound, Harry and Ron soon arrived at the water inlet of a sewer.

"Strange, is that person in the sewer? Should we go down and take a look?"

"Hermione probably won't go down there because it's so dirty. Let's go back."

"All right."

Just as the two were about to leave, the rustling sound became clearer.

It seemed that the person inside was also walking towards this side.

Harry and Ron looked at each other and tacitly chose to wait a little longer to see who was inside.

So the two of them put on their invisibility cloaks and squatted at the entrance of the sewer, looking inside.

As the sound got closer, the two suddenly realized that the rustling sound was not the sound of human walking, but more like the sound of something rubbing against the ground.

Just as the two were wondering, two yellow eyes as big as light bulbs suddenly appeared in their sight.

The eyes were surrounded by palm-sized scales, revealing a snake head as big as a car.

"What a big snake!"

"How can there be such a big snake in Hogwarts?"

Just as a thought flashed through Harry and Ron's heads, their bodies turned into a stone-like gray texture like dried cement.

The basilisk's head looked outside the hole in the sewer for a while, and when it found nothing, it continued to snake forward along the pipe and left.

Only two stone statues covered by the invisibility cloak were left.

As the night deepened, Filch, who was on night patrol, passed by here several times but failed to spot Harry and Ron under the invisibility cloak.

Harry and Ron did not show up until the next morning when class started.

After asking their roommates and learning that they had not seen Harry and Ron since early morning, everyone realized that something might have happened to them.

Because the sewer entrance was located in a remote area, Harry and Ron were standing close to the corner.

This resulted in no one encountering them and discovering the two people under the invisibility cloak.

Two living people disappeared in Hogwarts, one of whom was Harry Potter, which immediately caused an uproar.

Dumbledore and the professors were also alarmed, especially Snape, whose already gloomy face looked even colder than before.

Fortunately, Ron's twin brothers, after learning that their brother and Harry were missing, used the Marauder's Map to find their location.

Only then did they discover the two people who had been petrified.

"Oh my Merlin! Who did this? Harry and Ron were killed!"

"They are not dead. Didn't you hear what the professor said? They were petrified."

The scene where Harry and Ron were petrified was surrounded by students who had heard the news.

A student was attacked at Hogwarts, something that hadn't happened in decades.

Um, Professor Quirrell's attack on Victeri last year doesn't count!

"Has the basilisk been released by now? I remember the first victim appeared on Halloween.

And why did you petrify Harry?"

When Mu Sheng was thinking about it, he suddenly felt a cold gaze.

When he turned his head, he found that it was the old virgin Snape who was glaring at him, and Mu Sheng immediately glared back.

(End of this chapter)