Chapter 485 The date is in progress
After the bell rang at eleven o'clock in the evening on the bell tower, the few lighting torches that were still lit on the walls on both sides of the castle corridor began to gradually go out, and the quiet corridor fell into darkness again.
Suddenly, a faint voice came from somewhere, as if someone was talking in the corridor.
No, it should be said that someone was indeed talking in the corridor.
A pale light appeared out of thin air in the darkness, causing dissatisfaction and criticism from the wizards who were preparing to sleep in the surrounding portraits.
“It seems to be very lively tonight.” Isobel stopped and listened to the whispers in the distance. She turned to her boyfriend and said, “It doesn’t matter if we go on a date another day.”
"It doesn't matter, anyway, with this thing, we won't run into other professors." Albert shook the Marauder's Map in his hand. Naturally, he had to bring important things with him for a night date, otherwise he would be disturbed by others. Dating is such a bummer.
“That map has a very high magic content.” Isobel said as he continued to walk forward. “It used very clever tracking spells, trace spells, and disguise spells.”
"I know." Albert asked, "By the way, can you make one yourself?"
“Can’t you do it yourself?” Isobel was a little surprised. In her eyes, Albert was actually no different from being omnipotent.
No way, this guy basically knows everything, and he knows everything.
"My tracking spell is not very good, and I don't know how to use the trace spell." Albert shrugged. He was surprised to find that Isobel knew him so well. Sometimes it felt a bit incredible to think about it.
However, the natural telegrapher is really powerful!
“There has been a lot of pressure accumulated recently.” Albert reached out and took Isobel’s hand, leading her to continue walking forward.
“Why do you say that?” Isobel asked. She frequently used the time turner, which indeed accumulated a lot of pressure. As O. W． The LS exam is approaching and the pressure is getting bigger and bigger.
"It's just a vague feeling, and you care too much about grades." Albert casually changed the topic, "We went to the Ravenclaw common room to chat. I haven't been to the lounges of other colleges? "
"You have already been there last time. It is best not to go at this time. Some Ravenclaw students are still reviewing their lessons." Isobel suggested, "How about we go to the Gryffindor common room? , I’m also curious about what your lounge looks like.”
"Percy Weasley is probably still reviewing his lessons." Albert said without thinking.
“Are you trying to say that I don’t study hard enough?” Isobel glanced at her mouth and took Albert directly to the Ravenclaw common room.
On the way to the Ravenclaw common room, they encountered many students who were cursing and returning to their respective lounges. There were students from the four houses, and Filch's curses could be heard from further away.
“Did the guard of the hunting ground really keep a dragon?” Isobel asked her boyfriend beside her curiously after everyone else had gone away.
“Well, it’s true, I secretly raised a Norwegian Ridgeback.”
Because the dragon would be sent away tonight, Albert did not deliberately hide it.
"So, what was rumored a while ago is also true?" Isobel suddenly realized, looking at Albert with a strange face, "Is it because the dragon was not found in the Ministry of Magic's surprise inspection because you hid it?"
“Well, congratulations, you got the answer right. You are indeed my girlfriend. Here, I’ll give you a reward.” Albert reached out to pick up Isobel’s waist and kissed her cheek.
“Actually, I even suspect that this matter has something to do with you from beginning to end.” Isobel felt that her boyfriend was always mysterious and knew a lot of things.
“If he helped hide the dragon, the matter would most likely be directly related to him.”
"You can think that I helped Hagrid get the dragon eggs, help him fulfill his wish to raise a dragon, help him hide the dragon from the Ministry of Magic's surprise inspection, and finally help him send the dragon away." Albert said simply. Admitted it.
“It’s hard to imagine you doing that.”
"In my prophecy, Hagrid is destined to get the dragon egg." Albert sighed helplessly, "Raising dragons is Hagrid's dream and his persistence. Even I can't." Maybe he stopped him from raising a dragon, so I gave him a hand, and we are friends after all.”
Of course, there are some things that Albert didn't say. He used the dragon egg incident to get himself a lot of tasks and rewards. This is the most important thing. If he can't squeeze out experience, Albert will basically not intervene and let it go. .
"I understand what you mean." Isobel nodded. She also had her own persistence at the beginning. In order to kill Rowena Smith, Isobel also paid a lot. In the end, she could not let go easily and would not give up. , even if you make some irrational decisions as a result.
While talking, the two of them had arrived at the entrance of the Ravenclaw common room.
“You come or I come.”
"It's better for you to come, why am I just an invited guest?" Albert smiled and made an invitation gesture, then put his head to Isobel's ear and asked softly, "Bring it secretly How does it feel when your boyfriend enters the common room of your college?"
“What does it feel like?” Isobel repeated: “It doesn’t feel like anything. Anyway, you can go in by yourself.”
“How about taking me to your dormitory?” Albert suggested with a smile.
“Are you sure?” Isobel’s expression became strange and she reminded. "Did you know that Hogwarts has an old-fashioned rule?"
"I know. It was said in "Hogwarts: A School History" that the founders of the school believed that boys were not as reliable as girls. So they enchanted the stairs in the girls' dormitory, but the Big Four didn't think anything of it. Yes. We can enter the girls' dormitory without stepping on the stairs." Albert reminded him with a naughty wink, "I have a broomstick here!"
"Okay, you win." Isobel said discouragedly: "You'd better not go to the girls' dormitory. The noise you make will disturb the girls who haven't fallen asleep yet. If the other girls learn that you are planning to secretly sneak into the dormitory late at night, Sneak into the girls' dormitory...you don't want to know the result!"
“I thought the girls would warmly entertain me for afternoon tea!” Albert joked with a smile.
“If you didn’t come at night, maybe it would be possible.”
"Good evening, Ms. Grey." Albert greeted the Ravenclaw ghost with a smile, without any embarrassment about being discovered on a date.
"Good evening, if I were you, I wouldn't run around at night." Ms. Gray looked up and down at the two talented wizards of Hogwarts in front of her. "Although many people think that dating after the curfew starts is a romantic thing. thing."
After saying that, Ms. Gray floated away.
“It seems that you are very familiar with this lady.”
Isobel began to introduce Ravenclaw House to Albert. She still insisted that if Albert had come to Ravenclaw, he would not be as adventurous as he is now.
Albert just smiled and said nothing.
During the chat, the two of them talked about some trivial matters at home, and then introduced their families to each other.
Isobel also learned from Albert why he was the heir to Wild Smith.
“Squib?”
Isobel nodded imperceptibly: "At the beginning, I guessed that you might be a descendant of a wizard or a squib. However, I didn't expect that you are actually a direct line of Smith."
“Those are no longer important.”
Albert revealed the matter lightly.
Yeah, it’s not important anymore!
"However, your sister may be in a little trouble!" Isobel said suddenly: "She now has admiration and attachment for you. To her, you are her own, a very special existence. I am with her In his heart, he probably thinks of the bad woman who took away his brother, and there is no way he will be liked by her!"
"Don't think too much. When Nia grows up and becomes more sensible, she won't be like that." Albert found that Isobel's statement might be right, but he felt that time could help solve all this. Everything changes, let alone a young girl.
"Let's go to the observatory. If you are lucky, you should be able to see the Norwegian Ridgeback." Albert suggested with a smile: "You should also be curious about what the little dragon looks like!"
After Isobel agreed, the two left the Ravenclaw lounge together and headed towards the observatory. On the way, they also met Filch, the administrator who was patrolling near the Astronomy Tower.
After Filch disappeared at the end of the corridor, Albert whispered to Isobel: "Perhaps, you have also noticed that Filch is a squib, and a disembodiment spell that is not too bad can easily hide him."
“You know a lot.” Isobel gave Albert a deep look.
"If you observe carefully, it is not difficult to find out his identity. Filch has never used magic from beginning to end, not once, and it is impossible for a Muggle to serve as an administrator at Hogwarts, so he It can only be a squib."
Isobel looked at Filch’s leaving figure and shook her head imperceptibly.
They came to the corridor on the first floor of the Astronomy Tower and found Malfoy sneaking around. They didn't know how he escaped from Filch who was patrolling around.
“Malfoy will definitely be caught, deducted points, and put in solitary confinement.” Albert said to Isobel as he started to walk up the spiral staircase.
“I heard that you seemed to have made a prophecy for Mr. Malfoy.” Isobel asked with interest.
“Well, I did make a prophecy, and that prophecy is beginning to come true now.” As they spoke, the two walked up the steep spiral staircase and opened the wooden door on the top floor of the astronomy tower.
"How are they going to enter Hogwarts?" Isobel looked at the cloudy night sky and suddenly turned her head to ask Albert, "I remember it was mentioned in "Hogwarts, a School History", because the area around the school Protected by ancient magic, outsiders cannot enter this school directly by flying."
"Then how do you think they got in?" A faint smile appeared on Albert's lips, and he looked up to a certain place in the school. The window of the principal's office was still lighted.
“You mean, the principal let them in?” Isobel immediately realized what was going on, “The principal knows about this?”
"Congratulations, you got the answer right!" Albert said happily. "Actually, I wrote a letter to the principal and briefly explained to him the situation at Hagrid. Since the principal is not prepared to get involved, it means that he actually acquiesced. It’s Potter’s approach.”
“Are you trying to say that all of this was actually what you expected?” Isobel said with a slight eyebrow raised.
"It can be said like this."
She didn’t want Albert to get too carried away, otherwise sooner or later he would make a mistake and be unlucky.
"Honestly, I didn't expect to find you as my girlfriend." Albert put his head next to Isobel's ear and whispered softly: "I really never thought that Hogwarts is still here. There is a wonderful girl like you.”
“So, you started looking for a girlfriend for yourself when you were in first grade?” Isobel covered her mouth and chuckled, but she still liked what Albert said.
"If you are in the same class, I don't have any feelings. Your sister is actually very beautiful, but her personality may not be compatible with mine. Shanna from Gryffindor has a pretty good personality, and she is also a Muggle, so she gets along well with me. It's pretty good." Albert said desperately while secretly observing the changes in expression on Isobel's face, "I think Shanna might like me a little bit."
“What do you see me doing?” Isobel couldn’t help laughing.
“Are you jealous?” Albert said seriously.
"Jealous, why should I be jealous? What's there to be jealous of? Those girls you mentioned are just poor losers." Isobel said pitifully.
This statement made so much sense that Albert didn’t know what to say.
He suddenly understood a little bit about the situation where Fred, George and Lee Jordan were usually left speechless by his own words.
While the two were talking, there was a sound of footsteps outside the spiral staircase.
It's Potter and Hermione.
They were whispering about Malfoy being captured and detained.
Just when the two were about to open the wooden door and enter the attic, Albert suddenly felt that his cheek was being held by someone and his mouth was being blocked.
Then, the door was opened, but no one else was seen entering the observatory.
Albert didn’t quite understand why Isobel did this.
Suddenly, the sound of the box falling to the ground sounded on the observatory.
The two people immediately separated and looked in the direction of the sound.
"Who is there."
The scene suddenly fell into a strange atmosphere.
At this moment, Harry, who was hiding under the invisibility cloak, was a little panicked. They never thought that there would be anyone else on the observatory.
"Potter, the invisibility cloak is good, but I can't see where you are hiding?" Albert lit up his wand, looked at the door with the help of the light from the tip of the wand, and spoke first to break the silence.
“Why are you here?” Harry got out of the invisibility cloak and looked at Albert and asked.
“Sorry to interrupt your date!” Hermione was not an idiot like Harry. When the two came in just now, they caught them kissing.
The students at the school knew that Albert already had a girlfriend, but they had never been seen dating together.
Unexpectedly, the two of them would meet here.
"Isobel is interested in Xiaolong, so I brought her here to try my luck. Besides, don't you think this is also a good date place?" Albert winked at Harry and reminded: "Bo Te, if you have your own girlfriend in the future, you can bring her here for a date."
Harry was a little embarrassed and even forgot about Malfoy being deducted points and sent to solitary confinement.
“Is this the dragon?” Isobel looked at the little dragon in the crate with interest. This was the first time she saw what a living dragon looked like.
"This guy's teeth are poisonous." Albert took out a pair of dragon skin gloves from the deformed lizard skin bag and handed them to Isobel. He did not forget to remind: "If you want to touch it, remember to wear gloves. I don't want you to get into trouble because of it." school clinic."
Looking at Albert taking out the gloves from his pocket, Hermione's expression suddenly became complicated.
“It’s so irritable!” Isobel was bitten while playing with the dragon.
Norbert was moving violently in the box.
"Norwegian Ridgebacks are more aggressive!" Albert drew out his wand, and after the spell hit the little dragon, it stopped struggling.
“What did you do?” Hermione asked confused.
"Stun Curse, you don't want to be troubled by Filch, right?" Albert explained casually and changed the topic, "By the way, what were you talking about just now? You seemed very happy."
"When we came over, we saw Malfoy being caught by Professor McGonagall." Hermione said excitedly, "It was that guy who almost caused Hagrid to be expelled from school. He finally got his comeuppance."
“I really want to know what Snape’s expression would be like when he saw Professor McGonagall bringing Malfoy to see him.” Harry also had a look of gloating on his face.
“Well, it’s indeed interesting, and I want to know too.” Albert turned to look at Isobel, who was rubbing her fingers: “Are you okay?”
"It's still very young!" Isobel sighed: "It shouldn't be a month yet. The dragon is really a very dangerous creature."
While they were chatting, a few black dots appeared on the horizon, which should be the friends Charlie mentioned in his letter. They soon landed on the observatory.
"What's wrong with it? It seems to be very lethargic?" A wizard asked as he checked the little dragon in the crate and raised his eyebrows.
"I cast a stun spell on it to quiet it down," Albert said.
"This is not easy. Dragon skin is very resistant to magic." Several other wizards showed surprised expressions. They had also dealt with dragons and naturally understood how difficult these creatures were to deal with.
"Probably because this dragon is too young and its resistance to magic is not strong." Albert said casually, "Say hello to Charlie for me!"
“Okay, Mr. Anderson.”
Charlie's friends were all cheerful people. After briefly introducing themselves, they began to wrap the rope tightly around the box with the rope they brought. They did not dare to stay at Hogwarts and hurriedly flew away on their broomsticks with the little dragon. .
There is no way. If the Ministry of Magic knows that they are illegally carrying a dragon, they will probably be jailed.
“Then let’s go first!”
Harry and Hermione both relaxed, waved at the retreating figures, and turned to say goodbye to Albert and Isobel.
Then they even forgot to bring their invisibility cloaks and went downstairs.
“Why don’t you remind them?” Isobel looked at Albert in confusion.
"Let them suffer a little, so that they can really remember, so that they don't like to run around after curfew in the future." Albert showed an expression of "I am doing it for their own good," which made Isobel speechless.
She always felt that Albert just wanted to see those two guys in trouble. They didn't know how to use the Disillusionment Curse, and they would most likely be caught by Filch when they went down.
A large number of points will be deducted and confinement will be imposed.
It’s not hard to imagine what would happen if everyone woke up and were shocked to find that Gryffindor House’s scores had dropped significantly.
“You are such a bad person!”
Isobel looked at Albert who was checking the invisibility cloak and asked, "Is there anything wrong?"
“It’s truly the Deathly Hallows!”
Albert couldn't help but sigh in his heart. This invisibility cloak felt weird to the touch, as if it was woven with water.
"It's very special. You can't tell what it was made of at all." Albert handed the invisibility cloak to Isobel, and then looked at the new task that appeared on the task panel: collect three Deathly Hallows.
After seeing this mission, Albert was speechless for a while.
However, his attention was quickly brought back by Isobel.
“What are you going to do with this thing?”
"Well, I'll take it and return it to Potter later!" Albert said without thinking.
As they were about to leave the observatory, they heard footsteps coming from the bottom of the spiral staircase.
“Perhaps, Potter revealed to others about our night outing.” Isobel teased.
"Who do you think it will be?" Albert looked at the person who came and asked himself as he greeted him: "Good evening, Principal Dumbledore."
"Good evening, Mr. Anderson." Dumbledore looked at Albert and Isobel. He was not angry, nor did he blame them for being here in the middle of the night.
“That little dragon was sent away?”
"Already sent away!" Albert handed the invisibility cloak to Dumbledore simply: "Potter forgot to take away the invisibility cloak. I think he must have regretted how he forgot it on the roof! "
"Yes, they encountered a little trouble." Dumbledore did not reach out to take the invisibility cloak handed over by Albert, but said gently to Albert and Isobel: "I suggest you move the date to It's always bad to break school rules during the day, and not sleeping at night is not good for your health either."
With that said, Dumbledore turned and left.
“Let’s go back too!” Albert said to Isobel with a smile, “Don’t be surprised, after all, Dumbledore is still very open-minded and easy to deal with.”
(End of this chapter)