A day at Hogwarts

Saturday morning is white,

Hogwarts professors lined up,

The headmaster directs...

Everyone rode the school's broomsticks to the depths of the Forbidden Forest.

A group of people came outside the hot cave, and the heat gushing out made Professor McGonagall carefully put away the new scarf.

"It's been a long time since I came here."

Professor Sprout looked a little nostalgic.

Dumbledore raised his brows and turned to ask her, "Pomona, were you the one who planted mushrooms in the hot cave back then?"

Professor Sprout looked at the surrounding trees a little awkwardly, and replied nonchalantly: "I was a good student at that time, and Minerva and Felius can testify that I will come here after graduation."

Both Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick laughed.

After the joke, Dumbledore began to make arrangements: "The hot hole has existed for many years, and the passage Charles accidentally found is the first time it has been discovered, so we must cheer up."

"Filius, you explore the way."

Professor Flitwick immediately smiled and said, "No problem, I'm the smallest one for this."

Dumbledore went on: "I am at the front of the line, and Minerva follows me."

(Professor McGonagall nods.)

"Pomona, you and Charles follow Minerva, and if there are too many enemies, you will be responsible for pestering them."

(Professors Sprout and Charles understand.)

"Severus, you're at the back, if anyone gets hurt it's up to you."

(Snape nods impassively.)

"Okay, we..."

Before Dumbledore could finish speaking, a huge black figure suddenly appeared in the hot cave, walking out with something like a stick in his hand.

Everyone raised their wands to attack the black figure at any time, scaring the Hogwarts keykeeper and gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid until his legs went limp.

Hagrid didn't come empty-handed, he still held a large beef leg, which looked quite fresh.

Dumbledore frowned and asked him, "Ruburt, why are you here?"

Hagrid looked very sad, and after looking at the others, he replied: "Professor Dumbledore, I let 'carpet' live here. When I came to feed it today, I found that it was gone, and there were many more stones on the ground."

"I'm worried that it was pressed down by the rocks that fell from the roof of the cave. I just went back to get a lamp."

"Professor, it's very kind of you to be here, can you help me?"

After he finished speaking, he found that the atmosphere at the scene was a bit weird. Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall looked at each other helplessly, Snape sneered, and the others looked at the scenery.

Dumbledore asked seriously, "Rubus, did you bring that Voldebat here?"

Hagrid said strangely: "Professor, so you've seen the carpet before. I know you've been very busy recently, and I want to tell you when you come back from Africa."

Charles was speechless when he heard it. He had suspected that Hagrid got the Voldebat, but it was too rare to be sure. He didn't expect it to be so.

Hagrid continued: "Recently, many children in Aragog were brutally killed by that 'spider reaper', and their legs were cut off."

"I met Bell at the Three Broomsticks that day. He's an expert on magical animals working in Africa. He happened to have a Voldebat. I bought it and sent it to the man who killed Aragog's children when the weather warmed up."

"I know the rug is kind of dangerous, but I guarantee it won't eat without my permission."

Now everyone except Dumbledore was looking at the scenery, including Professor McGonagall.

Dumbledore looked at Hagrid, and said after a while, "Ruburus, go find Sylvanus, Newt is here too, they are together now."

Hagrid asked in surprise, "Professor Kettleburn caught the rug?"

Dumbledore can only say: "You will know when you go."

When Hagrid left, Snape sneered and said, "Headmaster, if you let him go like this again, Hogwarts will soon have another victim."

Everyone present knew who Snape was referring to. Dumbledore said calmly, "I believe Hagrid was not the murderer of Myrtle."

"Let's go."

Professor Flitwick cast a Disillusionment Charm on himself, and quickly disappeared from everyone's eyes.

After a while, a white light lit up in the cave, and Dumbledore led the others in. He stopped before the white light, and did not move forward until the next white light came on.

A group of people came to the hall, and the tops of everyone's wands were lit with white light. You can see that there are many stones scattered on the ground here, all of which were thrown by the purple cabbage.

Charles smiled and explained, "I used the Flying Charm."

Professor McGonagall turned around and praised: "It's a smart approach."

Everyone dispersed to look for clues, and Professor Flitwick said to Charles, "Take your wand and shine on the top."

Other people's lighting spells are like light bulbs, just like Charles's is like a flashlight.

There are some patterns on the ceiling of the hall, Charles doesn't see anything special, but Professor Flitwick takes it very seriously.

After reading it, Professor Flitwick said, "It's nothing but a few groups of ancient runes that glow as lamps."

Charles was very curious about luminous runes, and under the guidance of Professor Flitwick, he discovered those variant ancient runes.

He is not familiar with ancient runes, he only knows that the blessing of this kind of writing can prolong the time that the magic spell is attached to the object, and he is not clear about other functions.

At this time, Charles thought of a question and asked Professor Flitwick: "Professor, there was no light here just now, how did you determine what was around?"

Professor Flitwick said triumphantly: "This is a little trick. You can use the wand as your own eyes, and you can see everything around you, even if you use the Disillusionment Charm and wear an invisibility cloak."

Charles asked for advice immediately, but now is not the time. Professor Flitwick said a few words, the principle is the same as that used by the old man and his friend a hundred years ago.

The other professors scoured the hall and the surrounding stone chambers to no avail, and Professor Sprout seemed to know it would be like this, and was a little perfunctory in his work.

Then everyone came to the newly discovered passage, and Professor Flitwick sneaked forward again for reconnaissance.

This passage is surrounded by long strips of stone bricks. After more than 20 meters, it begins to lead downward. The stone wall is hotter than the outside, and the air is also hotter. Everyone took off the thick clothes inside the robes and asked Charles to put them away. Put it in the bag.

Charles also took out a few bottles of happy water to rehydrate everyone.

"Huh?" Charles suddenly stopped.

The others stopped too, and Professor Sprout asked him, "Anything wrong?"

Charles took a lighter out of his pouch, lit it, and held it motionless, noticing that the flame was being blown by the wind, which was coming from below.

Then he squatted down, put the lighter on the ground, and found that the wind was in the same direction.

Amidst the countless question marks from the bigwigs, Charles explained: "The wind here is blown up from below, which means that there is more than one passage underneath, and there must be passages leading to other places to supplement the air."

Dumbledore asked: "You mean there are other caves leading to the front?"

Charles nodded and replied: "I think so, maybe it is such a passage, or it may be a vent hole."

However, he was not completely right. After walking two to three hundred meters, a huge cave appeared. A deep ditch forty to fifty meters wide divided the ground into two halves. After throwing a stone down for a while, you could hear the sound of water. There is a palace-like gate.

Everyone saw that this place seemed to be safe, and looked for clues everywhere. Charles took out a thermometer and put it on the ground, and the mercury stopped at a place close to 40 degrees Celsius.

Not long after, Dumbledore suddenly shouted: "Be careful!"