The Alchemist of Harry Potter

Chapter 200 Who Is Doing It
boom!
The sound of bookshelves falling was enough to wake up the entire castle.

At this moment, the three Freds who were playing a mouse-and-cat game with Filch on the third floor of the castle were also startled by the loud noise. They all stopped and listened to the surrounding noises.

Originally, Filch, who was still chasing several people, also stopped, and looked in the direction of the sound in astonishment.

"The sound seems to be coming from the direction of the fifth floor." Filch said to himself, and he immediately turned and rushed towards the library.

"What happened to that noise just now?" George was the first to hold back his curiosity.

"I don't know, Albert may have made it out, go back to the lounge first." Fred said decisively: "Go back before the noise just now draws other professors over."

"Quick!" George yelled, and the three of them started running at full speed along the corridor. They had to return to the common room before the professors appeared.Because Albert once told them that the professors at Hogwarts have the ability to see through the Disillusionment Spell on them.

Running through one corridor after another, the three of them went to the seventh floor through the secret passage beside the corridor.On the way, Lee Jordan asked again: "Are we going to the meeting point? What about Albert?"

"That guy must have run before us."

"Go straight back to the common room."

In fact, what they did was quite correct. Not long after the sound sounded, several professors in the castle were awakened by the sound, and they all came over to check the situation.

In the corridor, the portraits on the aisle even ran back and forth, trying to figure out what happened.

By the time Filch checked the fifth floor, Albert had already fled the scene of the crime, and he was even faster than them.

Before leaving, Albert did not forget to close the library entrance.

It was also for this reason that Filch couldn't find the scene of the crime for a while. He only knew where the sound came from, but when he went to check, he found nothing.

The culprit of all this was rushing to the Gryffindor common room.

Albert tried his best not to make a sound, but the people in the portrait had already been awakened by the sound just now. After hearing the slight sound of footsteps, they all turned their faces curiously and looked at the corridor with nothing in it.

After going upstairs, Albert walked halfway along the corridor, then lifted a tapestry on the wall, and walked up a narrower staircase. This is a shortcut that can lead to the eighth floor.

As for Fred and the others, since they carried the Marauder's Map, they should not be caught. Albert was not worried about their safety at all.

When he came near the entrance of the common room, he did not dispel the magic on his body, and waited for Fred and the others here.

A few minutes later, several people rushed over, looked suspiciously at Albert who was still outside waiting for them, and asked puzzledly, "Why don't you go into the lounge?"

"When we are invisible, the fat lady will not open the door for us." Albert reminded: "Come with me, and go to the Room of Requirement to rest first. Just in case, we should not be seen."

The three of Fred looked confused, but they still followed Albert to the Room of Response. Under such circumstances, they were willing to trust Albert's judgment. After all, Albert's brain was much better than theirs. There must be a reason.

On the other side, Filch was patrolling the library, because the sound just now did sound like the bookshelves in the library collapsing.However, when Filch entered the library, he didn't find any signs of the bookshelves collapsing.

Yes, no, even in the restricted book area, there is still no sign of any bookshelves collapsing, as if the sound had never happened just now.

At this moment, Filch knew that he had been tricked, yes, he had been tricked, just like the helmet glued to the floor on the fourth floor, and the damn big dung thrown in the corridor, including here All the sounds were someone playing tricks on him.

Yes, those bastards he was chasing just now, Filch vaguely guessed who they were.

The Gryffindor twins, although there was no proof, but Filch had a hunch it was the two of them who did it.

"Filch? What happened?"

Snape walked into the library wearing a gray nightshirt with a sullen face.

"I just heard a noise and came to check the situation. I think some students probably made it on purpose." Filch turned to look at Snape, and said in a low voice, "I was chasing them just now, Several students wandered around the castle in the middle of the night, Professor."

"Students, very good, we will catch them." Snape looked around the library, and then stepped into the restricted area to have a look, but he didn't find any signs of collapsed bookshelves.

"What's going on?" Professor McGonagall walked in quickly. She was wearing a checked dressing gown and a hairnet. She scanned the library with serious eyes. She obviously thought that the sound just now was a bit like a bookshelf collapsing. sound.

"Someone was in the library just now, in the restricted section." Filch immediately said, "I was just looking for a few students who wandered around the school in the middle of the night, they should be in the same group, and they are probably... Gryffindor students."

"Do you have evidence?" Professor McGonagall asked with a frown.

"What's going on here." Smith appeared outside the door wearing a bronze pajamas. "Is this going to be a pajama party?"

"Someone is making a loud noise here, Professor. We suspect it was made by the students. There are several students wandering around the school tonight." Filch said in a low voice, he rarely speaks loudly in front of the professors.

"Filch, you just said it was probably done by Gryffindor students?" Professor McGonagall asked. "Is there any evidence?"

"You can ask the gatekeeper at the entrance of Gryffindor." Snape said suddenly.He was happy to see Hogwarts students get unlucky and get points deducted.

"Well, that's a good idea." Filch nodded.

Professor McGonagall frowned slightly, but did not object in the end.

Several professors went towards the eighth floor one after another, and found the fat lady, the gatekeeper of Gryffindor, at the entrance of Gryffindor.

"Ma'am, did someone enter the lounge just now?" Professor McGonagall asked.

"No." The fat lady said.

"Have any students left?" Snape asked.

"Yes." The fat lady said.

"Who are they?" Filch asked impatiently.

"I don't know, they are invisible." The fat lady said.

"Just look at who's not in the dormitory, and you'll know who's just wandered around the castle," Snape suggested maliciously.

"This will wake up the sleeping students." Professor McGonagall obviously disagreed with this method.

"Only senior students are likely to use the Disillusionment Charm." Professor Smith suddenly reminded, "I think, they didn't enter the common room, they should still be somewhere in the castle, we will find those naughty students .”

Smith obviously didn't agree with waking up other students. However, in fact, a large part of the students had already been awakened by the sound just now.

"I'll find them." Filch said through gritted teeth.

However, Filch and several other professors searched the castle several times, including the secret passages, but found nothing.

okay!

In fact, there are two scapegoats.

A Ravenclaw girl and a Hufflepuff boy are taken as scapegoats. The couple are actually dating in a secret passage, but they are caught by Filch who suddenly barged in.

Fifty cents were deducted each.

But after questioning, it was obvious that they were not the group of people Filch was looking for.

As for the group of Gryffindor students Filch was looking for?
The professors turned almost the entire castle upside down, but there was still no trace of the Gryffindor students.

No way, no one told them that there was a hidden room on the eighth floor of the castle, and its name was the Room of Requirement.

(End of this chapter)