(It¡¯s time to tease students again, although Xiaofan did not appear in person)
The happy Christmas vacation is over in a blink of an eye, and the Hogwarts Express is winding its way back in a white robe. The returning students look out the window at the gray weather, and their mood seems to be a bit gloomy. [bsp; As soon as Hermione stepped into the Gryffindor common room, she spotted Harry and Ron sitting by the fire from a distance, going back and forth, playing wizard chess. And when she came excitedly carrying her luggage, she happened to see Harry spread his hands and let out a helpless sigh.
"Harry, don't be discouraged. You have only been exposed to this game for less than half a year. Of course you can't beat me." Although Ron said comfortingly, his face looked very proud, "Hey, you still need to practice more. Let's play again Oh, Hermione, you're back!"
"How was your holiday?" Hermione asked briskly.
"Not bad," Harry and Ron looked at each other and added: "Received a surprising gift, and a, uh several equally surprising journeys" At the end, his tone was hesitant, but Ron Not noticing his emotions, he began to tell Hermione what happened to Harry.
Hermione looked envious when she heard that Harry had received an invisibility cloak, but when she heard that Harry had used this cloak to travel to Hogwarts many times at night, he was almost killed by Snape and Phil. After being caught by Qi and others, she encountered a mysterious little broom, the Mirror of Erised that reflected her inner wishes, and even finally Dumbledore's dissuasion, she finally couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Oh my god, Harry, you almost got fifty points deducted from Gryffindor!"
"Haha," Ron gave Harry a knowing look, "I said this must be what she cares about most!"
"Nonsense!" Hermione opened her eyes angrily, "I'm just worried that Harry will, oh, well" She glared at Ron with a sarcastic smile, "Mr. Weasley, the corner of your mouth Cramps?"
Then, she ignored Ron's angry look and turned to Harry and asked: "So to hear you say that, Harry, during this period of time, you haven't 'looked for' information about Nicola Flamel, right?" Bar?"
"Hermione, I hope you can say 'not found'," Harry said helplessly, "Didn't Ron say before that when I went to the ** area to look for books, I was almost caught by Filch, so it wasn't me. Not working hard, but¡¡±
Before Harry could finish his explanation, Hermione waved her hand and said aggressively: "But what I just saw was that you and Ron were playing chess. Harry, you"
Ron asked dissatisfiedly: "So you think our Christmas vacation should be spent in the library? Hermione, please don't tell me that you had a reference book next to you when you were eating roast turkey!"
Smelling the smell of gunpowder all around him, Harry hurriedly stepped in front of the two quarreling people, and it took him a long time to extinguish the raging flames.
Afterwards, it took Hermione three times longer than usual to place her luggage in the dormitory, and when she returned to the saloon again, the look on her face finally softened a lot.
"Harry, tell me about the 'little broomstick' puzzle!" Hermione said enthusiastically.
"But we should look for Nicola Flamel's information first, right? Besides, according to what Little Broomstick said, it doesn't matter if we can't solve it."
"Harry, how can you be so hopeless," Hermione said in astonishment, "Don't you think what Little Broomstick said was hurtful? It seems that he doesn't look down on us Gryffindors at all. In this case, we should solve this mystery even more It's better to be faster than he was before!" Her eyes were burning with fire, and she was never afraid of guessing riddles. "In particular, solving puzzles and finding information about Nico Flamel are two completely different things."
"Hermione has one more head than ordinary people!" Ron stood behind Hermione and said to Harry through lip language.
Harry almost laughed out loud at this, and finally had to say to Hermione with a strange expression: "Okay, the first sentence is 'Brotherhood is deep, willing to share glory and power in the world. Cruel and ruthless, ruling. Those who seek selfish revenge will eventually be punished by heretics.'"
"Another sentence is: 'The black eagle flew over the golden waterway, with a bang, broke through the box of hope, and took away the white!'"
After listening to the riddle, Hermione couldn't help but murmur to herself, imprinting it in her mind. After a long time, she said: "Black Hawk, Golden Waterway, and Box of Hope may be nicknames for special things, but entrusting glory and sharing Power, this should refer to characters and deeds, as for heresy"
Hermione and Harry looked at each other and exclaimed at the same time: "Church!"
As soon as they finished speaking in unison, Hermione asked suspiciously: "Harry, you didn't think of this until now, right?"
"I" Harry twitched the corner of his mouth in embarrassment, he didn't mean well.It is said that because of the Mirror of Erised, some time ago, his mind was filled with images of himself enjoying admiration with his parents and relatives, and he had no time to think about other things. Even after Dumbledore's advice, he did not He went to pursue the false scenes in the Mirror of Erised, but he had already forgotten about the little broomstick. It was only now that Hermione mentioned it that he really started to think about those puzzles.
Hermione raised her eyebrows. With her keen mind, she guessed the reason in an instant, but because of this, she did not continue to ask further, and just sighed secretly. At the same time, having just left home and returned to Hogwarts, she began to miss her parents again.
"But I remember Professor Binns said that wizards and the church are not very friendly, right?" Harry frowned and searched hard, but he couldn't think of anything more. After all, he had absolutely no memory of the History of Magic class. Most of them are cold tabletops and dull heads.
Hermione sighed: "Yes, Professor Binns once said: 'Because the church believes that magic is either sacred or evil. Since we don't believe in God, the church considers wizards to be heretics who worship devils.' Little Broomstick said that he hopes to let everyone know the 'Secret of Hogwarts', so it has nothing to do with Catholicism or Christianity Let me think about it again"
"Very well, if you really have two brains, uh if your mind can think of two things, can you explain to me what you were just talking about?" Ron asked loudly.
Harry found that Hermione seemed to have no intention of explaining, and immediately said: "In the Muggle world, there are many people who believe in gods, among which the Catholic and Christian believers are the most numerous. My aunt and uncle are also one of them, because of the religious beliefs The reason is that they hate wizards and think that we have betrayed our faith and have unclean blood. They even issued an order to hunt wizards"
"Hunting wizards?" Ron asked dumbly, as if he couldn't understand how weak Muggles could have the power to cause trouble for wizards. It wasn't until a long time later that he said again: "I thought the wizard had a good relationship with them! Otherwise"
"Otherwise what?" Hermione, who was lowering her head in deep thought, suddenly raised her head.
Seeing this, Ron was stunned, "Well, why else would there be a statue of the Pope on the fifth floor of the castle"
Hermione exclaimed: "The fifth floor? How is that possible? I've never seen any statues of the Pope there!"
"This is what I heard from Fred before. It's in the small corridor near the women's toilet in the east." Ron shrugged and mocked: "Also, Hermione, you usually go to the saloon, classroom and How can we pay attention to the statues there when we are living at three o'clock in the library? We don't have any classes on the fifth floor this school year."
Hearing these words, Hermione opened and closed her mouth speechlessly, while Harry's ears were slightly red, and he suddenly recalled a passage that Little Broomstick once said: "Today's students are becoming less and less curious. They are indifferent to everything, only care about their academic performance, and the result of sticking to the textbooks is just mass-producing some student dictionaries, which is not a good sign."
At this time, Harry looked at Hermione, then at Ron, and thought suspiciously: "Maybe the little broomstick is right. Do we care too little about the place where we usually live?"