Chapter 76 Headless Hat
Gryffindor students are a group of people who are not afraid of trouble, and there are also many students wandering around the castle late at night every year.
“What about you?” George asked.
“What do you think?” Albert threw the towel used to wipe his hair to George angrily.
“Speaking of which, why do you need to take another bath at night?” George reached out to take the towel and threw it back to Albert.
“You’ll feel good if you wash in the morning, and you’ll sleep well if you wash at night.” Albert said matter-of-factly.
All three of them looked at him speechlessly, not wanting to argue about this matter. They all knew that Albert could always give you a bunch of appropriate reasons when talking about things.
“Can you really sleep well?” Lee Jordan asked coldly, and then he also went to take a shower.
Albert sat back on the bed, listening to the twins chatting about the secret passage in the castle. He picked up the wand on the pillow and clicked on the towel thrown next to him.
The Disembodiment Spell took effect, and the towel seemed to disappear from the bed.
Albert picked up the invisible towel, put it in front of himself, looked at it, and covered his hands with it. The covered part disappeared, but overall there was still an inexplicable sense of dissonance.
Albert crumpled the towel into a ball and observed the effect of the Disguise Curse. At some point, this sense of dissonance would become more abrupt.
“How did you do that with your hand just now?” Fred looked at Albert’s left hand under the towel, his eyes widening in surprise.
"What do you mean?" Albert handed Fred the towel that he had cast the Disguise Curse on, "I used a Disguise Charm on the towel."
“Awesome.” George also leaned over to study. "However, there are still some flaws."
"This is all we can do for the time being." Albert's Disguise Curse has been upgraded to level 1, but the invisibility effect is still unsatisfactory. It is not difficult for any skilled wizard to see the flaw, "Some wizards will Use this magic to create a poor quality invisibility cloak.”
"Invisibility cloak?" Fred asked puzzledly, "I've heard of this thing, but why is it said to be inferior?"
"The invisibility effect on the cloak will gradually fade over time," explained Albert.
“Look, my hand is broken.” Fred covered his hand with an invisible towel and winked at George. “If you don’t look closely, you really can’t tell.”
“Wrap it around your head,” reminded Albert.
Fred and George looked at each other, as if they realized something, and a malicious smile appeared on the corners of their mouths.
The door was closed again, and the oil lamp in the room suddenly went out.
"What the **** are you doing? Why don't you turn on the lights in the dormitory? Is everyone asleep?" Li Qiaodan, who had just finished taking a shower, opened the wooden door of the dormitory and found it was pitch dark inside. He frowned slightly and complained.
A flash of light suddenly lit up in the darkness. Lee Jordan looked in the direction of the light source and saw one of the twins standing next to the table, turning around and looking this way. The pale light from the tip of the wand moved up his body and finally stopped on his shoulder.
Li Qiaodan has seen clearly that this man actually...has no head.
"This..." The expression on Li Qiaodan's face froze, and he just stood there blankly.
“Ahem, stop it, you all scared him!” Albert held back his laughter, reached out and pulled off the invisible towel from Fred’s head, exposing his head.
"Is he okay?" George turned on the light again, looked at Li Jordan who was stunned in place uneasily, and cast an accusing look at his twin brother, as if everything was Fred's fault.
“I don’t know, are you scared to death? Fred reached out to touch Lee Jordan, but was stopped by Albert.
I don’t know how long it took, but Li Qiaodan still hadn’t recovered from his daze, and an uneasy atmosphere quietly spread in the room.
“Hahaha!” Li Qiaodan burst out laughing suddenly, startling the three people in the room.
“Are you okay?” Fred asked tentatively.
"It's okay." Li Jordan made a ghostly look at the three of them, and his reaction just now was obviously fake. "However, I'm really shocked by you."
George said angrily: "We were just shocked by you."
"Speaking of which, the scene just now was really scary." Li Jordan took the invisible towel handed over by Albert, looked at it in front of his eyes, and seemed to have thought of something again and asked, "You think, if we scare people like this, Filch, will it frighten him so much that he faints?"
"Probably not. After all, there are ghosts in the castle." Albert directly denied this possibility. People in the magical world have a much better ability to accept and tolerate unknown things than ordinary people.
If you let your head disappear and walk around a crowded street late at night, you will probably scare a lot of people and even make the headlines tomorrow.
“However, it’s quite scary to see other people’s heads suddenly disappear.” Fred said, “Why isn’t there such a thing in Zuko’s joke shop?”
"Zoko is not young and has passed the age of active thinking. Although he has the ability to turn ideas into jokes and props, his inspiration has probably dried up." Albert explained casually, "If he didn't have this kind of Inspiration, of course, can’t make a headless hat.”
“Cap?” Fred’s eyes lit up and he said, “That’s a good name.”
“Write it down, write this down.” George quickly looked for a quill and parchment. “One day, we might be able to make our own headless hat.”
“Before that, you may have to learn the spells carefully.” Albert reminded.
“Um, what’s going on?” Li Qiaodan noticed that the invisible towel was no longer invisible.
“The Disillusionment Charm on it is about to disappear.” Albert checked the Disappearance Charm on the invisibility towel. After all, this kind of thing cannot remain invisible forever like Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak.
In other words, this thing is a bit like optical camouflage.
“Disappeared so quickly?” Fred muttered.
Albert picked up the pocket watch on the pillow, glanced at the time and said: "It lasted about half an hour."
“The duration is so short.” George was a little disappointed.
"I haven't completely mastered it yet. How long do you expect it to last." Albert couldn't help but rolled his eyes. The duration of the magic was related to the wizard who cast the spell.
As for the Disillusionment Curse, Albert was only at the preliminary stage of mastering it. If it were Professor Flitwick, he should be able to create an invisibility cloak that would last for a long time.
Of course, truly skilled spell masters do not need to use invisibility cloaks at all. They can always easily use spells to make themselves invisible, and ordinary wizards cannot detect their existence at all.
(End of this chapter)