Chapter 543: Exploring the Secret Base, Cursed Opal Necklace (1/2)

Chapter 543 Exploring the secret base, the cursed opal necklace

"What about Dumbledore? What did he say?" Harry asked eagerly.

“The Black family is one of the twenty-eight pure-blood families, so it’s normal to have some connections that we don’t know about.

What Dumbledore meant was that this was a deal. Only Sirius, Gandalf and Phineas knew the contents of the deal, but it would not have any impact on the Order of the Phoenix. "

"Very true." Aaron nodded affirmatively, "Dumbledore is still very discerning sometimes."

"Okay, I'll leave as soon as I have something else to do." After Tonks said that, she stood up, turned around and left the Leaky Cauldron.

Watching Tonks leave, Harry felt a little uncomfortable.

I finally heard news related to Sirius, but found nothing.

"Hey, hello." Slughorn came over with a glass of wine.

"Hello, Professor, it's nice to meet you." Harry stood up enthusiastically, pulled out a chair and asked Slughorn to sit down.

"What are you doing here?"

Slughorn raised his eyebrows and said proudly, "The relationship between the Three Broomsticks and me is quite deep. I still remember what it looked like when it was called a Broomstick!

In the past, I would occasionally host a few dinner parties and invite only outstanding students.

Would you like to come? "

"It's an honor, Professor." Harry said somewhat unnaturally.

He was really not interested in Slughorn's dinner, but who asked him to need information on Slughorn? Nothing could bring the two parties closer together than a banquet.

"Welcome to you too, Granger, Gaius."

"Thank you very much, Professor," Hermione said.

Aaron resisted a little, but before he could speak, Slughorn said first, "I know you will definitely come. Don't forget to bring your pet and wait for my owl to send the message."

After saying that, Slughorn left quickly without giving Aaron a chance to defend himself.

"Beautiful, I can't even think about it now."

Ron's mouth twitched slightly, and he said with a depressed look: "At least he invited you, but he treated me like a transparent person."

"Look around, at least your sister is on his invitation list."

Ron: ...

Is there anything so comforting?

"Harry, what kind of trick are you playing?" Ron asked in confusion, "I remember you said you didn't like attending his banquet."

"Dumbledore asked me to get to know him better.

This matter is very important, otherwise Dumbledore wouldn't let me go. "

"Our principal is always like this." Aaron curled his lips disdainfully, picked up a glass of butterbeer and drank heavily, "Okay, that's it for today, let's go back as soon as possible!

Hogsmeade isn't much fun right now, and the weather will get worse if we don't leave. "

"No." Hermione held down Aaron's right hand, "It's hard to come here, please stay a little longer!"

"Uh...Hermione." Ron said with some embarrassment, "It's already very windy and snowy outside, I think..."

Hermione immediately gave him a cold look, which scared Ron's neck and immediately chose to follow his heart, "I think it would be better for us to wait until the wind and snow calm down before leaving."

"Yes, that's what I thought." Hermione said seriously, "I'm going to buy some more beer, and after drinking it we'll go to Honeydukes Candy Shop.

The shop was still open and warmer than the Three Broomsticks. "

...

On the other side, the Slytherin common room.

Klea carried Abe to Aaron's dormitory. She took out her wand and lightly keyed the hole, "Open the Alaho hole."

With a click, the door opened.

She strode in, then locked the door tightly and added a layer of defensive spells on the door.

"Okay, now it's time to explore the secret." Klea waved her wand, and the suitcase on the floor moved to the side of the closet, and an ordinary square floor fell into view.

When Abe saw this, he was immediately stunned.

There was a flash of confusion in his big eyes, but they were soon filled with consternation.

It quickly jumped from Klea's arms to the floor, looking like it should not be approached by strangers.

"I wasn't sure at first, thinking he was just trying to cover up something, but now it seems I was right." Old God Klea said with a smile, "Be good, get out of the way. I will talk to him later." explained.”

Abe shook his head seriously, and his body became several times larger, pressing the floor tile under him.

Klea couldn't laugh or cry, "It makes no sense for you to do this, I already know it."

Abe is unmoved. You know it's your business, but if I don't stop it, it's my business.

If the owner knows that it is indifferent, the future life will probably not be easy.

In a word: If you want to get over, first...move me away.

Klea waved her magic wand, and Abe floated uncontrollably.

But the next moment, it landed on the ground again and gave Klea a provocative look. It was completely ignored by the floating curse.

Klea didn't take it seriously, "Do you know why I asked you to come here? Because you are Aaron's pet since he was a child, and he trusts you very much.

In other words, he must have taken you into this secret room, and you can show me the way. "

White steam spurted out of Abe's nose, and he turned his face away with an arrogant expression.

It is impossible to lead the way, it is the most loyal dragon in the world.

"I know this is his secret, I promise not to tell outsiders." Claire persuaded, "You know my relationship with him, and you also know my relationship with his family. I will definitely be your mistress in the future, right?"

Abe blinked and gently moved the faucet.

This is indeed the fact, but this is not a reason for it to give way.

"It's good that you don't deny it." Claire smiled with satisfaction, and then pointed the magic wand at the door, "I will count to three. If you don't give way, I will open the door. I believe others will be surprised to see you."

Hearing this, Abe was confused.

What is this? This mistress is too unkind, and she doesn't play by the rules!

"Three, two, one..."

Before the voice fell, Abe quickly became smaller, decisively jumped to the side, and gave up the floor tile.

However, compared with the previous unruly appearance, it now seems to have suffered a great grievance and lowered its head in frustration.

A warm hand rubbed its head and straightened its clothes.

"Okay, okay, I apologize to you, isn't it?" Claire said gently, "Actually, if you don't move, I won't open the door.

When Aaron comes back, tell him what I did, he won't blame you."

Abe blinked blankly, but his eyes regained a bit of spirit.

It did its duty, but it was helpless. The master shouldn't make it too difficult for it.

Claire squatted down and slowly wiped the floor with her fingers, but couldn't find any flaws.

"You can't fool me!"

Claire shook her head, and a little purple light appeared on her index and middle fingers, and a layer of three-dimensional text covered the floor.

The illusion gradually lost its effect, and a keyhole appeared in the middle of the floor.

"Alaho open."

Bang!

The unlocking spell hit the floor without any effect, but bounced to the ceiling.

Claire frowned slightly, she could naturally see what kind of defensive magic was set up for this entrance.

Either Aaron comes in person, which is the right of the owner, or opens it with a key, which is the method of the guest, or breaks it violently, which is the method of the enemy.

It is not difficult to break this barrier with her ability, but she does not want to enter as an enemy.

"Do you have any ideas?" Claire looked at Abe and asked.

Abe hesitated, his two front paws collided with each other, and he seemed particularly entangled.

"It's really right to leave you here." Claire seemed to have thought of something, and excitedly picked up Abe and rubbed his head with her face, "Hurry up, take out the key."

Abe stubbornly covered his pocket, which was his bottom line, and he had to keep it no matter what.

"Alas! I hope there can be more trust between people and dragons." Claire said meaningfully, "You don't want me to break the door violently!

If there is any noise, Aaron will be unhappy."

Hearing this, Abe fell into a brief thought, and slowly grabbed a black key from his pocket with his two paws.

"So good."

Claire grabbed the key, inserted it into the keyhole, and turned it counterclockwise.

The floor suddenly split into two pieces, opening like a door.

A dark hole appeared, and the grease on both sides instantly ignited, illuminating the endless road.

"Is this...he dug it out?" Claire asked in surprise.

She thought Aaron had dug a secret room under the dormitory at most, but now it seems that the scale of this secret room is much larger than she thought, at least larger than this secret passage.

Claire took a deep breath, carefully held Abe in her arms, walked along the steps into the secret passage, and the floor tiles closed.

......

Hogsmeade Village.

Aaron carried Hermione out of the Three Broomsticks Bar. She was wrapped tightly in a cloak, with a scarf wrapped around her neck several times, and the gloves were worn well, trying to resist the wind and snow outside as much as possible.

Hermione accidentally drank a few more glasses, and she walked crookedly, looking like she might fall at any time.

In this case, it was naturally impossible to go to Honeydukes Candy Store, and they had to return to Hogwarts as soon as possible. Filch might not let them in if they exceeded the time.

Harry and Ron followed not far behind them. The two Gryffindors pretended not to see anything.

On the one hand, they all understood the relationship between Hermione and Aaron, but for some reason there had been no substantial breakthrough.

They were more than friends, but less than lovers, and they were anxious.

Now that they had the opportunity to get close, they were naturally happy to see it happen.

On the other hand, they didn't have to carry the person, so it was easier in this icy and snowy place.

"Ah!"

The sharp cry was particularly piercing in the wind and snow, and even Hermione, who had been lying on Aaron's back, opened her eyes in a daze.

Several people turned their heads and saw Katie Bell from Gryffindor flying in the air.

Her arms were stretched out, her hair was blown everywhere, her eyes were wide open, and she looked like she was particularly frightened.

Then she screamed terribly and fell to the ground in great pain.

"Abe..." Aaron subconsciously wanted his pet to go over and save people, but then he remembered that it had been borrowed, and immediately looked at Katie and chanted a spell.

She paused for a moment when she touched the ground, then fell into the snow and mud.

But it didn't end there. Katie was twitching violently on the ground and letting out intermittent screams as if she was choking.

The girl following her pressed her tightly, but the effect was minimal. Harry and Ron hurried over to help and barely managed to control her.

"Hold her down and don't let her move." Aaron gently put Hermione down, then took out a bottle from his pocket and poured out a brown pill.

Without being polite, he opened Katie's mouth and fed the pills in.

The screams gradually stopped, and Katie's body twitched less severely, but the situation was still not optimistic.

"What did you feed her?" Harry asked.

"Antidote." Aaron said concisely, "I prepared it myself, with the tears of the phoenix added. It can remove most of the toxins and relieve the symptoms of the curse, but we still have to send her to the hospital as soon as possible."

"Lini." Hermione looked at the girl next to Katie and asked, "What just happened?"

"I warned her not to touch it," Lini said incoherently.

"Don't touch what?"

"That package." Lini pointed to a torn brown paper package in the snow. There was something glowing green inside.

Ron bent down to pick it up, but Harry grabbed his arm and said, "Don't touch it."

"You really can't touch it." Aaron pulled out his wand and used the levitating spell to carefully lift the green-light opal necklace out of the brown paper bag, "Good guy, this curse is not so strong.

Fortunately, she wore gloves and didn't touch it directly, otherwise her life might not have been saved. "

"Get out of the way, let me see." Hagrid heard the scream and ran over in a hurry.

He stared at Katie for a second, then bent down and picked her up, running towards the castle at high speed, "No one can touch that necklace unless it's wrapped."

Hearing the warning sound coming from the wind and snow, several people looked at each other.

"I seem to have seen this necklace." Harry wrapped the opal necklace in kraft paper and said solemnly: "It was displayed in the Borkin Burke store a long time ago. The label said it was enchanted. How did Katie do it? Did you get this?"

Lini couldn't help but trembled and said with a choked voice: "When she came out of the toilet of the Three Broomsticks, she had this package in her hand and said that she would deliver it to someone in Hogwarts."

"The Imperius Curse." Aaron said firmly, "She must have been under the Imperius Curse.

Katie doesn't know that we have to be inspected by Filch when we get back, and this package may not even get into the school. "

"Did she say who it was to be given to?" Hermione asked.

"No." Lini cried in panic, "I told her not to bring this thing to school, but she didn't listen to me, and then, I wanted to grab the thing from her hand, and then Then you will all know.”

"Okay, we have to go back to school quickly." Hermione staggered and put her arms around her. "You need to rest. Take that necklace back with you. Dumbledore may be able to research something."