Chapter 937 Mrs. Norris’s Secret

Perhaps for other Hogwarts students, the castle is alive, which is closer to a metaphor.

It is true that there are more than a hundred magic staircases in Hogwarts Castle, and they will change positions from time to time according to rules or requirements. There are also various secret passages, mechanisms, and magic rooms in the castle, but these are more scattered. Magic, not totalizing will.

At least in the eyes of most children from wizarding families, this is just a bigger and more bizarre magic house.

But this does not include the four James Potters who made the activity map with their own hands.

It was a very wonderful experience. Different from the speculations of those troubled students who were eager to go out at night and seek excitement, the Marauder's Map was not a prank prop made by Sirius and others to violate school rules from the beginning, but to help Lu Ping endured the torture of lycanthropy.

Before the invention of Wolfsbane potion, Lupine had to undergo a painful transformation on a full moon night. When his good friends discovered this secret, their first reaction was to find ways to relieve Lupine. pain of. To this end, Sirius, James, and Peter learned how to transform into Animagus, accompanying Lupine in his transformation every night and taking night walks in the castle.

The prototype of the activity map was gradually drawn and perfected during their night tours.

However, with the strength of the four of them at that time, they simply could not complete the production of such a large and detailed magic map, especially the marks of all wizards and ghosts in the castle. This was simply beyond what they could read in the books—— No one knows how to tag a ghost, and no one knows how to display everyone's real name, especially when it has to be reflected in real time.

However, the Marauder's Map appeared inexplicably and magically.

When James tapped the parchment and said the idea as a joke, this incredible magic was realized.

Since then, Sirius, James and others had vaguely felt that they might have received some incredible secret help from Hogwarts Castle - after all, Professor Dumbledore's name would appear faithfully on the sheepskin. On paper, this alone is incredible.

Does Hogwarts Castle have life?

What an interesting point. And... two really interesting and surprising colleagues.

Grindelwald raised his eyebrows and whispered with interest.

"You don't seem surprised? Professor Black. You seem more determined than Mr. Filch."

As the contemporary head of the Apokalis family, he naturally knows the research topics outside the school at this time.

One of the very important conjectures and directions is the research on the "semi-intelligent ripple" of Hogwarts Castle. Quirrell is the research object of this project. Elena hopes to reconnect Quirrell with "Hogwarts". Watts Network” to regain some spellcasting ability.

What surprised Grindelwald was that a squib and a wizard who had been in prison for eleven years could actually find new clues.

"Oh, no, I just think Mrs. Norris...is a little special."

Sirius Black came back to his senses, his eyes lingering on the Maine Coon cat that was much fatter than before for a few seconds.

"As for the gift from Hogwarts Castle, this has been a long-standing legend in the school. I heard that many students seem to have received help."

After Filch's prompting, he remembered an oddity that he had ignored before:

In addition to wizards and ghosts, there is a third creature named Mrs. Norris on the Marauder's Map!

Now that I think about it carefully, this is indeed incredible.

You know, there are more animals in Hogwarts than this one Maine Coon cat, even if we only count the pets with names, whether it is the phoenix in Dumbledore's office or the pets raised by students, they None of them will appear in the Marauder's Map.

They hadn't realized this problem during their night tour at Hogwarts more than ten years ago.

At that time, they focused more on those magical secret passages and how to avoid the pursuit of the castle administrator and his minions. Compared with the stupid and slow Argus Filch, Mrs. Norris was undoubtedly better. It was even more upsetting that they simply ignored the issue.

Why does the Marauder's Map show a cat's footprints and name? !

"I didn't expect that we have been playing hide and seek with ourselves for so many years... It's so interesting..."

Sirius Black touched Mrs. Norris and murmured softly, his eyes gradually brightening.

He may not be as good as Remus and James in terms of academic performance, but in terms of intuition and desire for adventure, he can be said to be the strongest one among the four. After knowing that such an unknown treasure may exist , he couldn’t wait to go and see it.

Since Filch, as a squib, can obtain "Mrs. Norris", it means that this inheritance has worked.

Hogwarts appointment letters, these things are bound by magical contracts.

Perhaps the castle administrator will not be able to judge the effectiveness of this contract by controlling the college hourglass like professors can, but there is another clearer judgment for this position-any castle administrator will definitely Becoming Peeves' nemesis.

Judging from Peeves' anger that he wanted to pounce on him and bite him to death, his position was obviously recognized by the castle.

That is to say...

"It looks like I have to go to the castle administrator's office tonight."

Sirius Black pondered for a few seconds and said softly. He turned his head and looked at the old man next to him.

"What about you? Do you want to go and see it together, Professor Apokalis?"

"Well, I won't go -"

Grindelwald looked at the intricate stairs below, then at the two castle administrators in front of him, and shook his head with a smile.

"Someone has to patrol the corridor. I'll drive the students back first. If you find anything over there, I'm sure you'll tell me later. I'm not in such a hurry. Okay, leave me alone. , you go ahead..."

"Well, okay. Thank you for your hard work."

"Professor Apokalis, the floors above the sixth floor are yours."

"No problem, don't worry--"

Grindelwald stood at the door of the principal's office, smiling warmly and waving.

He waited until Sirius and Filch's figures completely disappeared from the stairs, and several minutes passed before he withdrew his gaze.

"Hey. Hogwarts, what an interesting place-"

The old devil shook his head in disbelief, but unfortunately these things had nothing to do with him.

As an elderly retired guy, his work has ended long ago. Now he just wants to go back to the bedroom and bed, have a good and comfortable sleep, and laugh at an old guy before going to bed - —There aren’t many opportunities to show off like this.

Grindelwald turned around, looked at the two ugly stone statues behind him, and cleared his throat.

"Lemon Olaf!"

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Oh my god! !

I accidentally posted a duplicate chapter! So I stayed up late and wrote an extra chapter to apologize.

The content has been replaced, and the number of words is much, much more than the price! Life is not easy, I am forced to do it, sigh~~