Chapter 1017 The Room of Requirement
After returning from Hogsmeade, Harry found that he had insomnia again. In addition to having that **** nightmare, Autumn's incident also distracted him from most of his energy.
Harry knew in his heart that Hermione was right, unless Cho dumped Cedric, he had no chance. This made Harry extremely irritated, especially when he saw Cedric and Cho holding arms and being intimate in the corridor. Harry wanted to go up and separate them. This also led to Harry using sedatives more frequently recently. .
Harry somewhat complained about why Hermione mentioned this matter. Slowly forgetting is sometimes a good choice.
“When do you plan to start?”
Harry turned his head and asked Hermione. He needed other things to distract himself. Putting most of his energy into Quidditch training was a good choice, but after recently starting to study the "Self-Defense Guide", Harry hoped to find A place to practice magic.
“Everyone is free on Thursday.” Hermione looked around to make sure no one was eavesdropping, then lowered her voice and said, “Fred and George promised to take me to their secret base today.”
“Can we go?” Ron interrupted.
“I think it should be fine.”
As soon as Hermione finished speaking, Umbridge's angry scream suddenly came from the hall.
“How dare they!”
Following this came the sound of newspapers being torn into pieces, and a lot of whispering. Everyone looked at the toad on the teacher's seat with strange eyes.
“What’s wrong with the toad?”
Harry looked at the back of Umbridge who walked away angrily in confusion.
"You haven't read today's newspaper yet!" Ron held back his laughter and handed Harry the Daily Prophet.
“The toad was in the newspaper?”
Harry took the Daily Prophet and spread it out directly in front of the dining table. When he was about to read the first page, he heard Ron next to him say.
“No, it was actually reported to the Daily Prophet.”
Harry discovered that the Daily Prophet had actually made the headlines in his own newspaper, because the Daily Prophet's headquarters in Diagon Alley had been bombarded with a bunch of howling letters.
This incident made the newspaper a hot topic in the British wizarding community.
Some said they were dissatisfied with the false reports of the Daily Prophet, while others said they were protesting against the newspaper's beautification of Umbridge.
“Yes, I happened to pass by and was almost frightened!”
Based on the recollections of one of the parties involved.
He had never seen so many shouting letters explode together.
At that time, someone was setting off fireworks, and a large number of magic fireworks rushed into the headquarters of the Daily Prophet. The scene was very spectacular.
However, this matter is not over yet.
When everyone's attention was attracted by the roaring letters and fireworks, Umbridge's avatar unexpectedly appeared again and sang the song of the toad. Many people have heard this song now.
It's no wonder Umbridge is so angry. No matter how you look at it, it looks like the students of Hogwarts are causing trouble. At least the song of the toad spread from Hogwarts.
“...Each insider who provides valid clues will receive a reward of 100 Galleons. This is a considerable reward..." Ron muttered, seeming to be considering whether to report Fred and George. Although there was no evidence, Ron felt that the matter was related to the two of them.
“Do you really think anyone can get this reward?”
Fred and George appeared out of nowhere, glanced at the open newspaper, and said contemptuously: "These bounties are just like farts. If they don't want to give them to you, even if they really provide valid clues, they can still hold them off for now." , don’t give me a penny. This thing is just to make it look good, don’t look at me like that, the last time Albert offered a reward of 10,000 Galleons, the Ministry of Magic lost it. Do you think you are more powerful than Albert?”
"The Ministry of Magic owes Albert ten thousand galleons?" Harry and Hermione were very surprised when they heard this. "When did this happen?"
"When we threw Peter Pettigrew into Azkaban," Fred explained, "the Ministry of Magic made excuses and squandered the money without giving him a single galleon."
“Is it because there is no reward for Peter Pettigrew?” Hermione asked tentatively.
"No, the 10,000 Galleons is a reward for catching Sirius. It has nothing to do with Peter Pettigrew. Now you understand what **** the Ministry of Magic is?" George called to Hermione: "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore, just follow me. .”
Harry and Ron looked at each other, got up and followed.
“Where are we going?” Ron asked.
“Shut up Ron.”
After entering the secret passage, Fred glared at Ron with disgust: "Do you want everyone to know what we are going to do?"
“What are we doing here?” Ron muttered dissatisfied.
"You should shut up first instead of preparing to be the leaker." Fred and George took out their wands from their robe pockets and tapped the three people's heads. A cold feeling instantly spread throughout the three people. whole body.
"This is the Disillusionment Charm." Hermione recognized the spell.
“Follow me quietly!”
Fred and George took Harry and the three of them to the Room of Requirement opposite the tapestry where the troll beat silly Barnabas on the eighth floor.
“There’s no one around, you’d better hurry up!” Fred urged.
After George passed the wall opposite the tapestry three times, a very smooth door appeared on the wall.
“Okay, let’s go in!” George opened the wooden door and took the lead into the Room of Requirement. Inside the door was a spacious room.
“There is such a wonderful place hidden here.” Hermione looked around in surprise.
"This is called the Room of Requirement. We discovered it by chance during our first-year night outing. Later, Albert found a way to use this place." George spread his hands and introduced the three of them to Harry: "This is the most magical place in Hogwarts. It’s a place where few people in the entire school know of its existence. Umbridge definitely doesn’t know about it, and even if she knew, she wouldn’t be able to get in. Once someone is in the Room of Requirement, no one else can get in.”
"Dumbledore should know, he mentioned it to Karkaroff at the Yule Ball." Harry thought of Dumbledore mentioning the chamber pot at the Christmas party.
"Of course, there are other people who know." Neither Fred nor George bothered with these issues and continued to introduce, "This is the place where we used to practice magic. I remember that George and I used to hide behind the pillars and chant spells at each other. , the accuracy of training spells.”
"This is great, but there's not enough room." Harry had been looking at this room since just now. It was difficult to accommodate more than twenty people to practice magic together.
"Don't worry, the space inside can be expanded according to demand." George comforted, "When the time comes, you can think, 'We need a place to learn to fight.' The Room of Requirement will become such a place, even if the entire school's students come here It’s all enough.”
“I’ll tell you secretly that Albert has always wanted to crack the secret of the Room of Requirement, but he failed.”
(End of this chapter)