The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 33 Windfall
Ada's stomach was full of delicious turkey, roast meat and Christmas pudding, and she left the auditorium contentedly.When he left, he held some gifts from the wizard's color bag and firecrackers in his arms.Includes a brand new set of gobstones, and an exquisite wizard chess set.

In the afternoon, Ada planned to study Professor McGonagall's notebook by the fireplace, but the fireplace in the lounge was occupied in advance by a few drenched students.

These boys had a long snowball fight on the playground, and each of them looked like they had just been fished out of a black lake. They stood by the fireplace, baking their clothes and themselves.

Ada, who lost the fireplace, had to stay in the dormitory. If she replaced the notes in her hand with comics and gave her a bottle of Kuoluo, it would be a proper house girl.

This stay lasted all afternoon, until the turkey in her stomach was digested, Ada was willing to leave the dormitory to go out for food.

Ada ate some sandwiches and Christmas cake, which finally calmed her hunger-twisted mind.However, being full of food and drink is the most likely to make people lose their dreams, and Ada is the same. She is now lying lazily on the bed like a salted fish, not wanting to do anything.

This happy Christmas made Ada relax, and she even hoped that today would never end.But her hope is doomed to fail, besides, she is still a person with ideals and ambitions, how could she really go on forever.

The twin brothers entrusted Ada with one thing before returning home. They asked Aida to go to the mirror on the fifth floor to see if it really had a secret passage.

During the vacation, Ada would go to look at it every day. The mirror was embedded in the wall as a whole. Its bottom was some distance from the ground, and complex patterns were engraved around it.

These engraved patterns are full of mystery and always attract Ada's attention, but she has never been able to find any clues from them.

Now that she thought of the mirror, Ada decided to look again. Anyway, it was still early and the curfew had not yet arrived.

Ada in a cloak stood in front of the mirror, looking like a student who happened to pass by the mirror and stopped to look good, even if someone saw it, she wouldn't be surprised.

Ada, who had been staring at the mirror, could no longer recognize herself in the mirror. She felt that she was mocked by "Ada" reflected in the mirror.

Today's good mood was ruined by this mirror, and she kicked towards the mirror in a panic.

Ada used a lot of strength in this kick, but it failed to cause even a little crack in the mirror. Not only did nothing happen to the mirror, but it shocked her own feet.

"It hurts...it hurts..." Ada squatted on the ground, massaging Guangrong's injured right foot with her hands.

This damn mirror really doesn't give her any face!Leaving the comfortable dormitory on Christmas night and standing in the empty corridor, Ada felt that she was really full and looking for trouble!

Ada swore that when the twin brothers came back, she would kill them both and vent her anger on herself.

Ada, who was about to leave with her "injured" right foot, made a new discovery, and her footsteps that were supposed to leave also stopped.She suddenly noticed some changes in the pattern around the mirror, which had never happened before!
It seems that my kick just now should have accidentally triggered some mechanism, so the patterns are different.Ada thought to herself.

The changes in these complicated patterns are not obvious, they are only slightly sunken, and it is difficult to be noticed.If Ada hadn't looked carefully enough before, I'm afraid she wouldn't have noticed this at all.

While observing carefully with her eyes, Ada stretched out her hand to touch these sunken places.These places that have changed feel like the shapes of letters, but she hasn't distinguished them clearly yet.

After distinguishing these letters clearly, Ada began to try to combine and arrange them, trying to restore them into a complete sentence.Her memory was already very good, and it became even better after making the wall hangings. It is not difficult to remember these letters firmly.

Ada squatted on the ground and kept writing and drawing on the ground with her fingers, trying to restore the letters into words first, and then put them together into sentences one by one.It's just that there are many ways to combine them, and Ada can't piece them together for a while.

She tried many combinations, but there were always some letters left.After a long time, Ada, who had lost many brain cells, finally put it together, and her brows that had been frowning all the time were relaxed.

Ada stood up and looked at the corridor first, but found no one else.Only then was Ada relieved, opened her arms and read to the mirror: "Show me the world in the mirror!"

As Ada's ritualistic voice fell, the mirror in front of her slowly disappeared, and a dark entrance appeared in front of Ada's eyes. The entrance was not big, just enough for a person to pass through.

Ada took out her wand and said in a low voice: "Luminescence!" She walked in with the light of the 【Luminescence Curse】.

After entering, there is a small platform, which can probably stand three or four people.There is a tunnel extending downwards under the platform, and Ada shoots the light ball from the tip of the wand along the tunnel.

Under the effect of the light cluster, Ada also saw the tunnel clearly. Its slope was not steep, and it was easy to go up and down, but the end could not be seen.

There was a torch that had been stored for an unknown amount of time at the entrance of the tunnel. Ada lit the torch with the [Flame Curse], holding the torch in her left hand and walking into the tunnel with a wand in her right hand.

The only light in the dark tunnel was the torch in Ada's hand, and the only sound was her footsteps. She felt that she could hear the beating of the heart in her chest.

The tunnel didn't go straight down, and there were many turns along the way. Ida didn't know how long she had walked. Fortunately, she finally reached the end of the tunnel.

Ada held the torch high, trying to figure out where she was now.It's just that the place that the torch can illuminate is really limited, and she can't see the whole picture here, but she just thinks that this place should have reached the underground of Hogwarts.

Ada used the [Luminescent Curse] again, this time with a lot of magic power, and the [Luminescent Curse] became a little dazzling.She raised her wand aloft and launched a ball of light into the air, like a flare in the dark night.

With the help of this magic flare, Ada finally saw this place clearly. This is a large room with many statues of giants around the walls. Or, give people a full sense of oppression.

There was nothing in this room except stones scattered all over the place.Ada looked up at these statues. Most of them had been damaged, and a few had collapsed to the ground. Presumably it was because of the passage of time that they became like this.

This was supposed to be a good hidden space, but the stones constantly falling from the statue reminded Ada that there is a possibility of landslide at any time.

Holding the torch, Ada carefully walked across the room to the opposite side, and there was another upward tunnel, which seemed to be another entrance.

Along the newly-appeared tunnel, Ada slowly moved forward. This time, she didn't walk for too long. When she reached the end, she pushed open a stone door in front of her, and the bright moonlight poured in.

The location of the exit is a village, and the majestic Hogwarts castle is not far from the village, so the name of this small village is ready to come out - Hogsmeade.

Fortunately, there were no pedestrians passing by on this road, so no one noticed Ada who appeared here suddenly.

Ada had no plans to visit Hogsmeade on a cold night. Now that she had discovered the secret passage, she had naturally completed the task assigned by the twins, so she decided to return the same way.

After going through the long tunnel again, Ada returned to the original platform. She was not in a hurry to get out. She could observe through the mirror at the entrance whether anyone was passing by in the corridor.

This road has been walking for a long time, so when I came back here, it was already past the curfew time, so it is better to be careful.

After waiting on the platform for a while, Ada came out from the secret passage. She first cast the [Illusion Curse] on herself, which made her feel a chill from head to toe, as if someone just She poured a glass of ice water over her head.

As the spell took effect, Ada's body color merged into the surrounding environment at night, like a chameleon, the "invisible" Ada returned to the common room boldly and confidently.

Ada, who was lying on the bed in the dormitory, did not fall asleep quickly.Her body was exhausted, but everything tonight made her very excited, as if every cell in her body was carefully recalling what happened tonight.

This night, from Hogwarts Castle to the huge room buried deep in the ground, and then to Hogsmeade, the village of wizards, the road seemed to be safe, but everything brought Ada a sense of excitement.

She was fascinated by the act of walking underground in Hogwarts late at night and exploring the secrets of the castle.

Ada now likes this exciting life more and more, maybe she is not a stable person in her bones.The sorting hat assigned her to Gryffindor, probably because of this characteristic of her!

(End of this chapter)