Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 76 The world behind the door

The Quidditch pitch is boiling!

It took Harry Potter just a few minutes to catch the Snitch - which would be a new record as no one could remember a match where the Snitch was caught so quickly!
The Gryffindors poured into the arena, and Harry was surprised to find Ron and Hermione there, both panting.

"Did you see it?"

Harry shouted happily: "We won! Gryffindor won!"

But the expressions on the faces of the two of them made Harry's heart skip a beat—Ron looked at the crowd around him in bewilderment, while Hermione seemed about to panic.They had obviously only just arrived at the Quidditch pitch.

Harry suddenly remembered the agreement between the three of them - he came to the competition as usual, while the other two kept an eye on Professor Highmore.

But now that Hermione and Ron have both appeared ahead of schedule, could it be that something is wrong with Professor Highmore?
"follow me!"

Hermione involuntarily grabbed Harry's arm, dragged him out of the crowd little by little, and after finally leaving the Quidditch pitch, covered the three of them with the Invisibility Cloak.

Hermione told the whole story again, and Harry opened his eyes wide in horror: "So, Professor Highmore has succeeded?"

It couldn't have been worse, and even the joy of winning the game was lessened.

But at this time, Ron suddenly said: "But maybe we still have time to stop Professor Haimer."

It turned out that after leaving the school hospital, when the two were about to find Hagrid, they found Mr. Al sitting on the flying carpet in the corridor.

They didn't understand why Mr. Al didn't accompany Professor Haimer to the school hospital, but didn't leave until now.However, the two of them made another additional discovery.

Hermione and Ron hurriedly brought Harry to the Office of Ancient Magic, and pushed the door of the office open under Harry's horrified gaze. Fortunately, Professor Highmore was not inside, and judging from the expressions on the faces of the two , they already knew this.

But there was another thing that caught Harry's sight closely - an open wooden door, and there was still a brilliant light shining inside the door.

"I don't understand." Harry said puzzled.

"This is the Mason Gate, don't look at me, I don't know why it's called this name. But according to Professor Haimer, the Mason Gate seems to be related to emotions, and today is the mature day of the Mason Gate—I told you not to use this look at me."

Facing Harry's increasingly weird gaze, Hermione explained angrily: "This is Professor Highmore's collection, and he didn't write it down in detail in the book. I don't know what maturity is all about—in a word, I Like Ron, I suspect that after Professor Highmore got it from Quirrell, he and Mr. Al split up. Now Mr. Al should go to protect the room of the Philosopher's Stone. As for Professor Highmore—as you said See, it should be inside the Mason Gate."

Harry still didn't understand. He stared at the mysterious Mason Gate, then turned his head to look at the two men with serious expressions, and asked in bewilderment, "But why are the troops divided into two groups? What's the matter with the Mason Gate and the Philosopher's Stone?" relation?"

At this time, Ron said with a serious face: "Think about it, buddy, Professor Haimer is an experienced archaeologist, how could he steal the Philosopher's Stone unprepared, he must have been prepared. Mason The door is his preparation."

"Now the time has come, and the Mason Gate has become mature. Professor Haimer finally decided to do it. The organ protecting the Sorcerer's Stone may drag Mr. Al for a while, but this door is different. I guess not many people know about it. The existence of this door. No matter how many secrets there are in the Mason door, now we are the only ones, and we can only rely on us to stop Professor Haimer."

Harry finally understood the meaning of the two people's words-Professor Highmore had to go through the Mason Gate first if he wanted to steal the Philosopher's Stone.

As for the reason, it didn't matter at all, because it was Professor Haimer, who knew what kind of strange method this was, but he had to be stopped anyway, to prevent him from stealing the Philosopher's Stone.

Harry was convinced.

"Then what are we waiting for?" He said anxiously, "Hurry up, hurry up and get into this door—by the way, is there anything else we should pay attention to?"

"Emotion." Hermione mentioned Professor Highmore's previous rejection: "The professor said that the students' emotions are not enough to support us staying inside the Mason Gate."

"What's the reason?" Harry said with a look of disbelief, "Even if you're fooling someone, you have to come up with a more convincing excuse."

Ron thought so too: "You're right, buddy, the professor obviously said that to prevent us from getting close to the Mason Gate. Even my father never used such an excuse, and even Ginny couldn't fool him."

After seeing the two eager to try, Hermione did not stop them.

In fact, Hermione's curiosity is heavier than that of Harry and Ron combined. She still remembers Professor Highmore's description of the Mason Gate - entering the other side of the real world, which can also be said to be another world.

It was hard to imagine what they would meet on the other side of the door, and Hermione couldn't wait to do so.

"Let's go."

Hermione quickly concealed the excitement on her face, she pretended to be serious and said, "It's time to go through the Mason Gate."

The three of them entered the brilliant light one after another, and they felt as if they were being sucked into a certain vortex, gradually sinking deeper and deeper until——

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

As if falling from the sky, Ron was pressed at the bottom, he shouted with difficulty: "Get up, you are going to crush me to death, why is it so heavy, you—"

Ron froze suddenly.

He stared blankly at his hands—now they were a pair of slender claws.

And on him, a snow-white owl and an orange cat with fried fur all over jumped up.

"I--"

The owl spoke, and Ron recognized Harry's voice.

"How did I become an owl?!" Harry yelled in horror.

This is really strange, obviously Ron has become a mouse, Harry has become an owl, but they can still understand what each other is saying.

"what--!"

The scream came from the orange cat's mouth. Not surprisingly, it was Hermione's scream.

"It's an Animagus!"

Hermione suddenly shouted excitedly. She stared at her hair and the fluff on her paws with great interest: "This is an extremely advanced technique of transfiguration. Maybe we won't be able to learn it until we graduate. I didn't expect it to be so Simple is successful, and the Mason Gate is really magical."

Animagus?
Ron blinked his eyes in confusion.

"Then what kind of animal am I?" he asked, only to feel that the owl and the orange cat in front of him were huge: "A beetle?"

The owl and the orange cat looked at Ron all at once. For no reason, under the sight of the two, Ron suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of fear in his heart.

The owl's expression suddenly became extremely vivid, and Ron heard the awkward tone from Harry's mouth.

"Rat. You turned into a rat, Ron."

(End of this chapter)