Chapter 43 Devil's Net

At 3.30pm on a Friday afternoon, William and the other Ravenclaw students hurried down the steps to the grounds in front of the door for their first flying lesson.

It was a clear, breezy day, and the grass waved slightly beneath their feet as they trotted down the sloping grass towards a flat lawn across the field.

Hufflepuff's students were already there, and dozens of broomsticks lay neatly on the ground.

William had heard Fred and George complain about the broomsticks in the school, and now he sees it.

Each one is tattered, like an antique that has been used for decades. Not to mention the safety performance, the senses are also very poor.

Is Hogwarts short of money?

Certainly not short of money.

William seriously suspects that someone has eaten the kickback!

Mrs. Hooch walked over quickly. She had short grey hair and yellow eyes like those of an eagle.

"Okay, what are you all waiting for?" she snapped, "everyone standing next to a broomstick.

Hurry, hurry, hurry up! "

William found a broomstick that didn't look so broken and communicated with it with his eyes.

William had never come into contact with this kind of thing, and only hoped that the other party would give some face.

"Stretch out your right hand and put it over the broom handle," Mrs. Hooch called from the front, "and say: 'Get up!'"

"Get up!" everyone shouted.

William's broom trembled and climbed up, as if struggling to climb a mountain.

William raised his voice again, and the speed of the broom only increased a little.

Qiu's broom ran into her hands in an instant, and she raised her eyebrows and glanced at William smugly.

This is the first time she has surpassed William in a certain class.

When everyone's brooms were in hand, Mrs. Hooch showed everyone how to get on a broom without slipping off her head.

Riding on a broomstick is not as uncomfortable as imagined, some invisible support, as if it is under the buttocks.

Mrs. Hooch walked up and down the line, correcting their grip.

"Okay, as soon as I whistle, you kick your legs off the ground and kick hard," said Mrs. Hooch.

"Stand on the broom, go up a few feet, then lean forward slightly and drop straight back to the ground.

Hear my whistle—three—two—”

However, Shabby from Hufflepuff Academy seemed to be too nervous. He didn't wait for the whistle to touch Mrs. Hooch's lips before he kicked hard and flew up.

"Come back, child!" Mrs. Hooch shouted, but Xia Ru flew away like a rocket.

Fred and George also said that the broom was very slow, and William thought it was fast. After a while, Shabby disappeared.

Nimbus 1700 is not that fast, right?

A little further from the greenhouse, they found Charpy.

He was lucky.

Not far away, is the special fertilizer used to irrigate various herbal plants.

- The excrement of magical creatures.

Although there is a layer of magic protection on the outside of the septic tank, but at that sprint speed, it is impossible for Shabby to break through the defense and slam into it.

He is also unfortunate.

Shabby fell from the sky, and the reason why he was not injured was because he fell into a group of vines.

The broom was still moving vigorously, it awakened the plant, a large number of tentacle-like branches poured out from the ground, and a whip broke the worn broom.

Shabby jumped up and struggled to move towards a damp wall, but the plant's snake-like tendrils wrapped around his ankles and lifted him up.

He desperately ripped off the vines, but the more he broke free, the faster and tighter the vines became.

When William and the others arrived,

Xia Bi has been wrapped into a zongzi, like a gourd baby, hanging from the eaves.

"Help!!" Shabby shivered, he staggered, looking like a green caterpillar from a distance.

But no one dared to go up, and the tentacles more than ten meters long waved in mid-air, hitting the ground and smashing a big hole.

The effect is like ten Illaois opened up!

Everyone looked at Mrs. Hooch.

Mrs. Hooch's expression changed slightly. She recognized the name of the plant in front of her - the Devil's Web!

You can recognize it at a glance, not because she is knowledgeable and has unique achievements in herbal medicine... but because Robert, a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, died under this plant a few months ago!

Robert was really miserable. After being drunk during the day, he was injured by a wild boar, and then happened to fall into the devil's net and was entangled, and finally died of blood loss.

Of course Mrs. Hooch knew that Professor Sprout had transplanted the devil's net, but she did not expect that this plant was transplanted near the septic tank.

This broomstick is so immortal, why does it want to fly here?

Well, other places are also quite dangerous, with tall walls to the west and north, Black Lake to the south, forbidden forest to the east, and a more dangerous beating willow not far away...

Hogwarts is a dangerous place.

As for Mrs. Hooch, the Quidditch teacher...

Although she is an adult wizard and a teacher, she is not familiar with the Devil's Web!

You can't count on a physical education teacher to solve calculus problems for you, or calculate the probability of red-green color blindness for you?

You can't even expect a Quidditch teacher to remember the weaknesses of the Devil's Web.

Even if she did, she would have given it all back to the professor for many years.

"You are all waiting here, I'll call Pomona..."

Madam Hooch panicked and was about to go to rescue the soldiers, but before she could finish speaking, the devil's net opened again.

Being disturbed by so many people, the devil's net has a bad temper, and a lot of vines are raised on the ground, destroying everywhere.

Everyone retreated to the back, and Shabby was also thrown high, and the cane flew him towards the cesspool.

The little wizards all exclaimed, as if they would see Shabby swimming freestyle in seconds.

Qiu grabbed the broom and seemed to want to sit up and save Shabby.

"Are you crazy?" William said. "Before you get close, you will be entangled in the devil's net."

"Then what should I do?" Qiu asked loudly, clutching the stick.

"I heard Hagrid say that the Devil's Web likes the dark and damp—"

"But we have no fire!" Qiu exclaimed, wringing his hands anxiously.

William asked in surprise, "Are you a witch?"

He pulled out his wand and waved it, chanting a spell in his mouth, and the tip of the wand shot out a blue bellflower-like flame.

He crossed the crowd and walked slowly towards the devil's web, with flames hanging from his wand like blue lanterns,

Everyone looked at William, and many little wizards covered their eyes.

But countless vines fluttered their teeth and claws, but none of them dared to approach William, and they all hid in the dark corner.

In just a few seconds, Shabby felt the vines loosen their grip on him.

The plant twisted and twitched, automatically loosening the tendrils wrapped around him, and he finally broke free.

Shabby breathed a sigh of relief.

So, he fell from the air.

"Aah! Help!!"

...

...

(The third is completed)