The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 329 The Uninvited Guest

Although she has kept pets for several years, Ada has never studied the psychology of pet behavior. She doesn't know the meaning of the various sounds made by cats and dogs, but Ada knows that there must be demons when things go wrong.

In order to verify her conjecture, Ada returned to Crookshanks, and the big cat stopped meowing.Crookshanks lay on his back in front of Ida, showing his soft belly, as if he was trying to be cute to Ada.

Ida got up again out of Crookshanks' sight, and Crookshanks let out another "gurgling" sound.After going back and forth like this a few times, the big cat followed Ada wherever she went, and would even rub Ada's calf affectionately.

In the Twilight Cabin, fighting wits with a cat, if word got out, Ada wouldn't have to.Looking at Crookshanks who was monitoring her, Ada showed a treacherous smile.

No matter how cunning a hunter is, he can't beat a good fox!No, it's the other way around.

In any case, Ada has already confirmed that the cat owner is still the same cat owner. The reason why she is intimate with herself and allows herself to play with it is just to prevent herself from wandering around in this room.

Knowing that he is the master here, Crookshanks doesn't mind getting into the secret passage in front of him, but he seems to be worried about walking around the room by himself.

Of course, these ideas are likely to be Ida's one-man show, and Crookshanks may not be as smart as Ida imagined.The big cat got into the secret passage and ran into the hut, simply because it was too cold outside.

Ada lightly kicked Crookshanks away from her feet. She wanted to search her house carefully. She didn't want to find dead mice, dead birds, etc. in a corner of the room. .

After searching the room inside and out carefully, Ada did not find any small animal corpses, but her worry did not decrease at all, on the contrary, it became more.

There was no Crookshanks food reserve in the room, but Ida found something in the room that didn't belong here, and she found a black animal hair in the carpet downstairs!Still a very flavorful hair!
Ada pulled the innocent-faced Garen over and compared them carefully. This black animal hair did not belong to Garen.

Garen's color was off-white, and the color didn't match first.Secondly, Gallon is a Labrador. Although it also sheds hair, the Labrador's hair is not as long as this one.

By the same token, this black hair does not belong to Crookshanks.

The reason why Ada pulled Garen to verify it was just to confirm that her pet hadn't undergone any mutations. After all, this is a magical world, and everything is possible.

There is only one way animals can get into the hut, and that is the secret passage under the Whomping Willow.Because the entrance and exit of Hogsmeade were sealed by Ada's magic, animals could not enter and exit.

In previous winters, Ada had never found any traces of animals in the hut. How could the sudden extra black hair not make people feel strange?
Although the real situation may be similar to Crookshanks, being brought here by Gallon, it is always right to be cautious, and it just so happens that Ada can also try out the spells she has newly learned.

"Footprints appear!" Ada whispered.

A pale golden mist sprayed from the tip of the yew wand, and soon covered every corner of the room.

This is a very useful spell. Aurors can use this spell to track down dark wizards or criminals. Ada can also use the footprints to deduce whether there are any uninvited guests breaking into the cabin.

In the hands of some people who are proficient in this spell, this spell can also directly show what happened here in recent days, but Ada can't do this yet, otherwise she can directly lock the real culprit.

The golden mist gradually dissipated, revealing many golden, glowing footprints on the ground.By the size and shape of the footprints, it was possible to tell which were Ada's own, which belonged to Fred and George, and which belonged to Winnie the house-elf.

There are three kinds of animal footprints, one from Gallon, one from Crookshanks, and the last one should be the owner of the animal hair, the uninvited guest of Twilight Cabin.

Ada stared at Garen viciously, and the off-white Labrador shrank into a ball in fright, making pitiful moans.It looked really pitiful, but Ada still wanted to grab Garen and beat him up. Is it you kid who brought the enemy here?

In the end, Ada still didn't have the heart to do it, and spared Garen's life for the time being.

The other footprints gradually disappeared, leaving only the paw prints of the uninvited guest still glowing.This paw print looks more like that left by a canine animal, but this paw print looks much larger than the average canine animal.

If the size of the canine was inferred from the paw print alone, Ada felt that hitting five Galleons should not be a problem.

Following this line of paw prints, Ada tried to deduce the trajectory of this canine animal.From the entrance of the secret passage, it left very few footprints, as if it was carefully hiding its whereabouts. If it weren't for the missing hair, Ada might not have found this uninvited guest at all.

But what is a little strange is that one line of this string of discreet paw prints leads to the bathroom!This situation should not happen, and it is very unreasonable.

The location of the bathroom is the bathroom of the original Screaming Shack, but it has long been unusable due to disrepair. The current bathroom is rebuilt with magic in the original location after Ada transformed it into the Twilight Cabin.

The forced wet and dry separation made this bathroom a bit cramped. Ada also checked here just now, but she didn't find anything unexpected.But with this string of paw prints, everything has changed.

The slightly dense paw prints prove that the canine has stayed under the shower for a long time, and the paw prints at the shower switch prove that it has turned on the shower.

A canine that loves a hot bath, what the hell?

Waving the magic power away, all footprints disappeared, and Ada went back upstairs, sitting by the warm fireplace.Now Ada is really the first two, she is confused by the canine on the one hand, and angry on the other hand.

An unknown animal ran into your house without permission, leaving a trail of footprints and a hair, and the suspect took a comfortable hot shower in your house, and finally walked away.

It's just too much!
Ada grabbed Garen again, thinking about how divine this canine was, while rubbing Garen's doggy face hard.Garen looked at his elder brother as if asking for help, but Crookshanks had long been hiding away from Ida, and a low-pressure woman could not be offended.

In normal times, Ada might not have cared so much about this canine that broke in illegally, and might not have hated Garen, the insider, so much.However, Ada has only recently begun to suspect that Sirius Black is an illegal Animagus when her house is taken over by a canine.

This is too much of a coincidence, why, besides forcibly breaking into the Gryffindor common room, Sirius Black also learned to steal houses?

Most importantly, neither Garen nor Crookshanks seemed hostile to the intruder, and the intruder was not in conformity with the habits of animals, and did not leave a mark of enclosure, but was very anthropomorphic. a hot bath.

It can be seen from the animal hair left on the ground that the house elf Winnie hasn't had time to clean the room, but there are no obvious water stains on the walls of the room.A canine animal did not shake its hair after taking a bath, but chose to air dry naturally. This is not only unscientific, but also unmagical!

Could this trespassing canine be Sirius Black?
A big question mark was drawn in Ada's heart.

(End of this chapter)