Chapter 673 The Secret Passage in the Office

Ivan held the wand and crossed a corridor to the office door of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. He hesitated whether to go in directly to arrest people or wait for Moody to come out before launching an attack.

Ivan has outstanding self-control and believes that Moody and Barty Jr. are not his opponents, but they will not be blind and careless. Choosing the latter is obviously safer.

However, what he didn't expect was that after entering the office, Moody seemed to be stuck in there, with no intention of coming out.

Ivan waited in place for more than ten minutes, and his little patience was gradually exhausted in the cold wind.

As a last resort, Ivan turned his attention to the Marauder's Map again, this time not to see if Moody had come out, but to try to find the locations of Dumbledore and Hermione.

According to the previous agreement, they should have arrived.

But what surprised Ivan was that the names of Dumbledore and Hermione magically disappeared from the Marauder's Map.

Ivan frowned. This situation was completely beyond his expectation. In the past four years, he had solved a lot of troubles with the Marauder's Map, but today it completely failed...

"Could they have gone in early?" Ivan murmured to himself. He had some doubts that Dumbledore had taken Hermione to arrest someone.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Ivan, who was feeling the cold wind blowing outside the door, finally made up his mind to go to Moody's office to take a look!

"Protegos~ (Armor Protection)" Ivan carefully blessed himself with an armor spell, then pointed at the door lock and released another one.

"Alohomora~ (Alohomora opens)"

With a slight noise, the locked office door was opened.

Ivan gently opened the door and walked in. It was very dark inside and he couldn't see his fingers. It wasn't until he cast a spell to light the fireplace on the side that the orange-red fire illuminated the surrounding area.

The interior layout was the same as the last time he came here. It was still so messy. Many documents and strange magic items were piled haphazardly on the wooden table.

In the mirror directly opposite, several figures were vaguely reflected, which looked very strange.

Ivan took a few steps forward to take a closer look, but at this moment the monster skull hanging on the wall next to him made a buzzing sound.

"Diffindo~ (divided into pieces)"

Almost instantly, Ivan cast a spell with his backhand, blasting the monster's skull to pieces.

Looking at the debris on the ground, Ivan was not happy at all. He didn't know how this magic prop provided warning, whether it was a sound or something else, and whether Moody understood that he had entered.

"Forget it, we have to face each other anyway..." Ivan sighed, and did not dwell on this for too long. He had long known that Moody had installed a warning device in the office, and he did not expect to be able to hide it. The other party is nothing more than a head-on fight.

Thinking of this, Ivan was no longer as cautious as before, and looked directly at the seven large boxes piled in the corner.

He strode over, used a magic spell to blow up the lock on the box, and kicked the first box to the ground. A pile of spell books and several broken looking glasses were scattered on the ground.

Then, Ivan opened the first six boxes one by one, containing various sundries and several conspicuous black magic items.

Ivan's movements became more cautious, but his speed was not slow at all, and he quickly opened the last box.

To his disappointment, there was no secret passage inside as he imagined. There were just a few stacks of newspapers and a pile of student homework randomly placed in the box.

"That's weird, where could it be?" Ivan touched his chin and whispered to himself, looking around and looking at every place in the office.

Since Moody disappeared out of thin air in this office, there must be another closed space.

Could it be that there is a passage in the fireplace? Or maybe Moody left here via Floo?

Ivan took a glance and thought it was unlikely.

Drill a hole behind the wall?

It's also difficult... This is Hogwarts, and the entire castle is blessed with magic. It's not that easy to transform it.

Ivan's eyes wandered around the office, passing by the mirror and small cabinet, and suddenly saw the mahogany table in the center of the office, and then his eyes froze.

Because this wooden table is very strange. It looks boxy and has no legs underneath. To a certain extent, it is no different from a large box.

The most important thing is that he has been to several professors' offices and has never seen a desk of this style. It is likely that Moody brought it himself.

Ivan walked to the mahogany table and knocked on the table gently. A crisp sound was transmitted from the contact point. The corners of Ivan's mouth slightly raised, which proved that the table was completely empty.

It would destroy the extended space magic inside and cause Moody's death. Ivan did not dare to violently blow up the table with magic spells, but carefully studied the method of opening the wooden table.

This was not difficult for Ivan, who was close to level 7 in alchemy. It took less than half a minute for Ivan to find the mechanism to activate - a sensor with a golden antenna placed on the corner of the table.

After some fiddling, the golden antenna retracted, the wooden table slowly shook, and a gap opened on the left and right. The front baffle quickly sank into the bottom, and an open passage appeared in front of Ivan. in front of.

This passage is like a door, with a dark and narrow corridor inside.

The moment it was opened, a strong and strange smell came out.

Ivan subconsciously covered his nose and took a few steps back. He almost thought it was some special black magic. Then he remembered that when he first entered Moody's office, he seemed to have smelled a similar strange smell.

There should be no need for Moody and Barty Jr. to commit suicide...

Wanting to understand this, Ivan released the hand covering his nose and smelled it carefully. It vaguely felt like the smell of feces, rotten food, and fermentation mixed together.

Thinking of the food Moody brought in every day and the poor ventilation of this wooden box, Ivan probably understood how this smell accumulated.

I have to say that in order to successfully hide from the Marauder's Map, Barty Crouch Jr. was really cruel to himself!

Ivan sneered, cast a bubble spell on his body to avoid smelling the unpleasant smell, and then went down the stairs of the passage.

The torches on both sides were lit one by one, illuminating the road ahead.

What surprised Ivan was that there were a large number of Daily Prophets posted on the four walls. At first glance, the prominent front page titles were all familiar faces, and they were all news related to him and Harry. Report!

Before Ivan had time to look further, his eyes were fixed on the room at the end of the passage - the Moody he had been looking for was standing there at the moment, with his back to him, looking into a huge looking glass in trance, motionless, as if he had not yet Noticed someone walking in.

But when he got closer, Ivan saw that what was shown in the looking glass was the scene in the office above. It was obvious that Moody had discovered him when he first came in.