The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 34 Secret Base
The next morning, Ada didn't go to the secret passage again, although there was always a little self in her ear bewitching her: go to the underground room to see... go to the underground room to see.

Ada chose to go to the library with the senior sister who gave her the hat before. This senior Smith wanted to work in the Ministry of Magic and become a civil servant after graduation.Ada asked her about the employment of Hogwarts graduates, and Senior Smith's answer made Ada feel that the future was bleak.

The low employment rate has always plagued Hogwarts graduates. Compared with Muggles, the number of people in the wizarding world is simply a drop in the bucket, and the jobs that can be provided are also very limited.

Wizards generally live longer and work longer. Ada has never heard of retirement in the wizarding world, so there are not many positions that can be vacated every year.Didn't you see that Professor McGonagall is still working hard at such an old age?

And Hogwarts provides fresh blood to the magic world every year, and every year's graduation promotion requires work, but it is obvious that the magic world cannot provide so many positions, which has caused the employment rate of Hogwarts graduation promotion low problem.

Hogwarts, which can't provide teaching and distribution, is also worthy of being called the best magic school in the world?It is far worse than Bluefly.Ada thought.

While sitting in the auditorium having lunch, Ada discovered that Benedict Foley had actually appeared on the teacher's seat. Apparently, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor had returned early.Foley may be deeply in love with his teaching job, and perhaps he came back in search of something.

The appearance of Fuli made Ada's lunch not very enjoyable. She always felt that this mysterious professor was full of danger.

In the afternoon, Ada nestled in the dormitory again, and she forced herself to calm down, not to be affected by the continuous noise of the "little man in the ear".Ada is holding the book in her hands, but she will lose her attention from the book in front of her while reading, which is extremely inefficient.

At night, Ada kept walking up and down the dormitory, but she couldn't stand the temptation and decided to go to the secret passage on the fifth floor again.

In the dark underground room, Ada made a "little sun" again, and with the help of its light, Ada kept searching in the room.

Although it is not clear who built this secret room, since this "predecessor" built this room underground, it means that the room has its meaning of existence.

If it's just to build a secret passage leading to Hogsmeade, then there's no need to spend so much effort. The investment in this room is obviously much larger than a secret passage.

Existence is reasonable, so Ada believes that there must be hidden secrets in this huge room that she has not discovered, which is why she cannot meditate all day today.

Ada raised the torch and observed the statues in the room. These giant statues stood on the stone slabs on the ground with their feet, and supported the dome of the room with their hands and shoulders.

The overall shape of the statue reminds Ada of Atlas in mythology. The Titan god was punished to stand on the body of the earth goddess Gaia and hold the sky god Uranus.Whether these giants holding up the "sky" imitated Atlas or was purely a coincidence, Ida was not quite sure.

Ada took a closer look at one statue after another. Although their shapes are very uniform, they have different expressions, and no two statues with exactly the same facial expressions can be found.

Ada wandered around the room a few times, except for the original two entrances and exits, she didn't find any other passages, and there was nothing strange about it.

"It seems that it's not a good thing to always think about nothing!" Ada muttered.Her voice spread in the empty room, and bounced back when the sound waves hit the walls, and the echoes seemed to confirm her thoughts.

Maybe this is just a safe house built to resist foreign enemies, I'm thinking too much.Ada thought to herself.

Ada, who found nothing, was not depressed, on the contrary, her expression looked more relaxed.There are no amazing secrets in this room, and I can set this place as a secret base. Isn't this the meaning of its existence?

The only thing to pay attention to is probably not to be hit by falling stones. As for whether this place will collapse, Ada has not considered this issue for the time being. She thinks that she has survived for so many years, and it is not bad for the past few years.Just make it stick.

Ada will graduate in a few years, and whether the room wants to landslide or explode on the spot will have nothing to do with her, Cui.

Ada raised her wand. She planned to practice her spells here. The place was big enough and private at the same time.

"Yingadim Leviosa!" She first raised a stone on the ground with the [Levitation Curse], and then canceled the spell after reaching a certain height, and the stone floating in mid-air, which lost its magic power, began to move rapidly. fall.

"Bones to pieces!" [Crushing Curse] was fired at the stone, and the stone fell very fast. Ada's spell failed to hit it, but hit the wall behind.

Ada still can't hit 100% of moving objects, so she deliberately controlled her magic power to make the spell less powerful.This reduced version of the [Crushing Curse] just blasted a small hole in the wall, and did not cause any serious consequences.

"Yingardim Leviosa!" Ada repeated the previous operation, and once again made the stone fly.But this time, while the stone was falling, Ida's spell hit the target successfully, and the stone exploded in the air.

There was no joy after success, and Ada's expression was indifferent.In her opinion, she just did a trivial thing, but she still felt that she was not good enough.

Dumbledore should be able to destroy this place with a single spell, and Ada is still far behind.

Although she has also mastered many spells now, and these spells can also help Ada in life, but that's all.

Life is a wizard, and Ada uses this title to evaluate her current self.This evaluation is also suitable for many people in the magic world. They master magic and have magic power, but they are still "ordinary people" in essence.

This is a very simple reason. Many students at Hogwarts can pass the wizard level exam, but not many people can become Aurors and become a respected great wizard in the end. It's a life of mediocrity.

When an "ordinary person" who can cast spells obviously cannot satisfy Ada, it is natural to be unwilling to live a new life.Ada wants to be a great wizard, to be admired like Dumbledore, or to be feared.

Everything is for this great goal!

Therefore, this half semester, unwilling to reconcile Ada, has been doing similar exercises. This kind of exercise is a small step on her journey to greatness.Now her spell hit rate has been greatly improved, and it is not a problem to beat up a child, but if it is against a master, Ada probably has little chance of surviving.

Most spells can be blocked or counteracted, with defensive spells dodging or deflecting attacks.Excellent wizards can even bounce curses back, which Ida saw in the dueling book, and this ability made Ada very envious.

But the prerequisite for the spell to be blocked is that your spell can hit the effective area, just like the strike zone in baseball.If the spell is too crooked, people don't even need to block it, just stand there and watch your monkey play.

Then when the other party took advantage of your inattention, he gave you a hard blow, and you were knocked down to the ground without being able to avoid it. Thinking about it, I feel aggrieved, how aggrieved and aggrieved.

This is the gap in actual combat experience, and it is a shortcoming that Ada cannot make up for at this stage.

After warming up with a few larger stones, Ada began to target small stones, and also began to lengthen the distance between herself and the stones.

Under the effect of Ada's [Crushing Curse], there are more and more broken stones in the underground room, and the demolition team is in great need of talents like her.Ada, who has been practicing for a long time, also feels a little tired, and it is time to go back.

As Ada walked back, kicking the broken stones, her current appearance was in line with what she should be.

After returning to the castle from the underground room, Ada noticed that the curfew time had passed. Rather than worrying about the employment rate, Ada felt that she might need a watch more now.

In the dark underground room, it is easy for people to ignore the passage of time. If Ada always goes there to practice, she may even miss the class time one day.

Ada, who cast the [Phantom Curse] on herself, walked slowly on the way back to Gryffindor, waving her wand all night, which consumed a lot of her energy.

If only I knew where the kitchen was!Ada clutched her stomach and walked back to the lounge silently.

(End of this chapter)