Chapter 409 407. Lestrange
Because he didn't know in advance that the third project was carried out in the castle, Jon didn't bring the Marauder's map with him.
Otherwise, he has actually discovered the whole process of Diane's exit by now.
But then again, even if he knew in advance, it would still be a problem if he wanted to avoid the screening before the start of the game with the Marauder's Map.
After searching the entire second floor, Jon stayed in a spell classroom, and began to calm down and rethink the puzzle left on the candle with the Sorting Hat.
"If this essence refers to the classroom, the scope is too wide. It is already three o'clock, and we have just finished searching the second floor. If we want to find the entire castle, it will take at least one day and one night. The warriors in the middle and the warriors met halfway, and what happened would drag the time even further. The game time is so long, the students in the castle have to stay outside all the time, and they can't guarantee that the classroom is The place where the trophy will be hidden in the end, and when the game will end in the end is far away.”
Jon continued after a serious analysis.
"So, I think the answer to the riddle should not be the classroom, but a specific place."
The Sorting Hat pondered.
“[The school belongs to the essence of the school], what else is the essence of this school besides teaching and educating people?”
Jon thought for a moment, then he said.
"The essence may not be wrong, but teaching and educating people is mainly used to transfer knowledge. Normally, the classroom is a place to transfer knowledge, but now there are no professors and students in this school, so the classroom is just empty. It’s just a room. Think about it differently, besides getting knowledge from professors in school, there is actually another way—”
"library."
Jon stood up from his chair.
"Compared to the concept of a classroom, the library is much clearer. There is no second library in Hogwarts."
I also agree with the sorting hat.
"Perhaps your feeling is right, we can go and have a look."
Then Jon didn't continue to search from classroom to classroom, but went directly down the stairs to the location of the Hogwarts library.
The door here is closed tightly, but there are two armor guards on both sides of the door.
After seeing the two sets of armor, Jon couldn't help but feel refreshed.
"I remember that the library didn't seem to have these two armors before."
The Sorting Hat only said this cautiously.
"Before I lost consciousness, I was sure that there was no armor here. I don't know if there is any armor after that."
"I came here once two years ago, and the armor was not there at that time. As for whether they were specially arranged by the referee, we only need to try a little bit to find out."
While talking, Jon stared at the two armors approaching the library door, and when he was less than one meter away from the door, the originally motionless armor suddenly raised the knight sword in his hand, Stopped in front of Jon.
Jon was not frightened by their sudden movements, but raised his wand with a smile on his face.
"I remember that Mr. Graves said when he read out the rules that this castle has no restrictions as long as it can enter. In other words, these two things are actually a test. If you can pass it, you will prove it. The library is open, but this is a restricted area."
After he finished speaking, he waved the magic wand in his hand, and at the same time, the sound of spells sounded from his mouth.
"Thunderbolt Explosion!"
At the same time, on the seventh floor of the castle, Emil walked out of the principal's office with a gloomy face together with the wizard who had attacked Diane and knocked him out.
"Why can't we get such crucial information as the position of the Tri-Winner Cup?" Emil couldn't help asking.
The wizard shook his head and said.
"Graves is also wary of people inside the federation. When arranging the position of the trophy, he was personally responsible for it and didn't tell anyone else. Besides, it doesn't matter if we don't know where the Triwizard Cup is, as long as If we can find Jon Green and deal with him, the Triwizard Cup will be in our hands sooner or later."
Emile asked next.
"So how do we find Jon Green? The castle is so big, it's not so easy to find it, not to mention what kind of clues he found, how many steps faster than us is also a problem, maybe we haven't waited for us to find it By the time he was there, he would have finished the game with that trophy?"
Just as the wizard was deep in thought about Emil's question, a sudden explosion caught the attention of the two of them instantly!
"You have lived in the castle for almost a year, do you know where this voice came from?" The wizard's voice was a little excited.
Emir also showed joy on his face.
"It's in the direction of the library!"
It didn't take Jon much effort to solve these two armors.
They didn't look like they would fight the players. Jon just used an ordinary blast to test the strength of the armor first, and they automatically gave up their duty of guarding the library. The sword in front was retracted again, and it changed back to that lifeless look.
Jon didn't encounter any obstacles when he pushed the door of the library this time. He easily pushed the door open and entered it.
And just after he entered the door, the door closed itself, and then candles were automatically lit one by one, illuminating the room as wide as the auditorium.
All kinds of books were neatly placed on the bookshelves, and the seats and benches were neatly tidied up. It seemed that before the students and staff were taken away from the castle, someone had already cleaned all the venues.
Jon didn't stay on the outer bookshelves. He walked along the long corridor after entering the door to the depths of the library, and finally came to a red line.
Going forward is the restricted book area, but there is not a single banned book left in the current Hogwarts library, most of them have been entered into Jon's ring, and a small part has been transferred to British magic by Voldemort. department.
Straight across the red line, Jon continued to move forward. Before he reached the end, a creature with the body of a lion and the head of a woman blocked his way.
A magical animal from Egypt, it has always been used by wizards to guard their precious objects and secret places, it is a very intelligent animal, likes riddles and anagrams, it usually only becomes very nervous when the thing it guards is threatened Dangerous, anyone who wants to pass by it will be forced to guess the riddle, otherwise they will be attacked by it and eaten directly.
In the Triwizard Tournament of the original book, such a magical animal also appeared in the last game, and one was also arranged for the Triwizard Tournament in this world.
But before the sphinx could speak, Jon raised his wand and pointed it at it.
Without chanting the mantra, the tip of the wand had already begun to glow with a miserable green light.
This sphinx obviously felt the dead silence in the green light, and the mouth that was just about to open subconsciously closed again.
Jon doesn't have any interest in guessing riddles here, and if he can solve the problem in the simplest and crudest way, he naturally doesn't need to use his brains.
"Get out of the way or die."
To be honest, the library is a very disadvantageous place for the sphinx. Its size is not small, and in this narrow space, it is simply impossible to dexterously avoid spells.
And if it is ordinary spells such as stun spell and petrification spell, it doesn't have to be afraid of Jon's threat at all. All high-level magical animals generally have a thick skin with a strong magic immunity effect.
But for the Death Curse, unless the skin is as thick as a fire dragon, no magical animal can be so forceful.
Sphinx is very smart, otherwise he wouldn't like guessing riddles. When he saw the green light on the tip of Jon's staff, it stepped aside, stared at Jon and didn't make a sound.
Jon didn't relax his vigilance, the wand in his hand was always aimed at the Sphinx, and at the same time slowly passed by it, and just when Jon was about to pass completely, a loud bang came from the library door pass it on!
That's obviously also a blasting spell, and it's much stronger than Jon's previous spell with astringent effects!
Even the door of the library was crumbling by the violent shock wave, and a lot of dust fell from the ceiling.
Also taking advantage of this opportunity, the sphinx jumped suddenly, from the narrow restricted area to the wide study area of the library, and the stern woman's face was staring at Jon.
The door of the library was also opened at this time, and two figures of roughly the same height walked in from a cloud of smoke.
Jon clenched the wand in his hand, looking at the two figures, he couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
Finally, the smoke cleared, and the people who walked into the library showed their true faces, and one of them was naturally Emile Lestrange.
The other person standing beside him made the corner of Jon's mouth involuntarily reveal a sarcasm.
"So in the end, your means are such blatant cheating?"
Emil's father, Brandon Lestrange, who became the new head of Lestrange after Jon killed Rabastan, Rodolphs and Bella, said so bluntly Standing in front of Jon.
Facing Jon's question, Brandon seemed very indifferent. He didn't put down the wand in his hand, and aimed at Jon together with his son.
"Cheating has never been shameful in the Triwizard Tournament, but it is a tradition."
Jon looked at the father and son coldly. Neither of them made a move immediately. Jon was not afraid of anything. He always felt that things were not that simple.
It can be said that the original Lestrange family was wiped out by Jon alone, and it is precisely because of this that Brandon now has the opportunity to take power with his son.
The father and son should know better than anyone else what kind of threat he is, so how can they confirm that a person who can only be regarded as unknown among the Death Eaters and a seventh-grade student are better than him? Bella and Rodolphus, the two long-established dark wizards in the magic world, are stronger?
Of course Brandon had his own support. He stared at Jon closely, thinking that before the Triwizard Tournament had officially started, Voldemort personally visited Lestrange's house. In addition to Bella's funeral, he also personally explained to him the ultimate goal of the father and son in this game.
Kill Jon Green and get the Triwizard Cup.
As a participating warrior, of course Emil cannot use the Death Curse to kill people, so the only person who can do it is Brandon.
As for how to let Brandon intervene in this final match, Voldemort certainly has his own arrangements.
Now this arrangement has worked, and Brandon has reached the critical moment to face Jon directly. At this time, without any hesitation or hesitation, he waved his wand in the next second.
"Avada Kedavra!"
The miserable green light instantly illuminated the entire library, and the death curse struck straight at the place where Jon was standing!
At the same time that Brandon released the spell, Emil and his father also completed a perfect cooperation. He also raised his wand together, and without chanting a spell, he directly aimed at the position above Jon and silently released a coma curse.
They have all studied the magic that Jon has always relied on, and know that he can fly, so their spells are mainly to block the space above him!
Jon has no brains and will definitely use the Levitating Charm whenever he encounters a problem.
Although the banned books in the restricted book area are gone, the surrounding bookshelves are still placed here honestly. He dodged behind the bookshelves and escaped the joint attack of Lestrange and his son.
Animagus did not turn him into a magical animal, but strengthened his human physique and reaction speed.
It is precisely in this way that compared with before, Jon's actions have actually become more dexterous.
After successfully dodging the death curse and stun curse, he did not fight back immediately, but turned his head and glanced at the end of the restricted area where the Sphinx was originally blocking. There were no trophies placed there, just a door It looks like a very ordinary wooden door.
After realizing that the game could not be over in a short time, Jon focused all his attention on Lestrange, the father and son.
Hiding behind the bookshelves, he pointed his wand at Brandon through the gaps among the many bookshelves.
"Shenfeng Wuying!"
The invisible sharp blade cut off a desk in front of Blanton in an instant, and at the same time sparked a light blue light shield 20 centimeters in front of him.
After the Iron Armor Curse narrowly blocked Jon's spell, Brandon didn't hold back any more, and he immediately took out a ring inlaid with black gemstones.
The next second, countless black mist gushed out from that ring!
(end of this chapter)