The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 96 Wizards and Ghosts

In the dirty and dim bar, Ada and the twins were sitting together. Ada frowned at the dusty butterbeer bottle, with a look of disgust written on her face.

George took out what the two brothers had prepared in advance-three clean cups.Ada suddenly realized that it was no wonder they were coming to the Pig's Head Bar, no wonder they were clinking as they walked, it turned out that they had hidden three cups.

After wiping the mouth of the bottle, Ida poured the butter beer into the cup. Fortunately, the outside was only dirty, and the butter beer was not "polluted".

The twins took a sip of the butter beer beautifully, with excited expressions on their faces. The two brothers kept looking at the customers in the bar, but they didn't do it too obviously, and they didn't arouse the disgust of other customers.

The door of the bar was opened, and a gust of cold wind blew in. Four tightly wrapped people walked in, neither their figures nor their faces could be seen.

In this bar, concealment is standard, and only the first time visitors like the three of Ada will come in openly.

The customers spoke in a low voice and couldn't hear anything, and the twins didn't see any interesting people they expected to see, and the twins couldn't hear the conversations of other customers because they didn't have good ears.

"Your advice, we should go to the Three Broomsticks," said Fred despondently.

"Yeah, at least it's warmer there than here." George continued, tightening his cloak, "and Mrs. Rosmerta."

Mrs. Rosmerta is not something young people like you can handle!Ada rolled her eyes, her eyes were large so it was noticeable every time she rolled her eyes.

Fred saw Ada's white eyes, but he didn't care. Instead, he looked at Ada with contempt. He said, "Young fruits are always jealous of ripe peaches, just like..."

"Like what?" Ada raised her glass and asked casually.

"It's nothing, I'm just envious of the wine that other people drink, and I also want to drink whiskey." Fred was very sensible and didn't continue, he firmly believed that if he continued to talk, he would definitely take a bath of butter beer, Plus a clean up.

"We didn't expect the Pig's Head Bar to look like this. Hagrid said it was very interesting." George began to change the subject.

Hagrid's words were the reason the twins wanted to come here, it's just that the twins never thought about the difference between them and Hagrid.First of all Hagrid was an adult, and secondly Hagrid knew how to have fun in the Hog's Head, which the twins didn't have, so it wasn't much fun for the twins.

"Where are we going now?" Ada asked, "Back to school?"

"After finally coming out to play, can't you stop thinking about your books?" Fred asked, "Or do you really want to go to Azkaban for further studies?"

From the emerald of Hogwarts to the emerald of Azkaban, isn't this span too big?
The three men from the Hog's Head were walking the streets of Hogsmeade again, and they were now going to the Shrieking Shack.This wasn't the first time they'd been there, they'd even been here at night, but they hadn't seen the Scream Shack haunted.

The Screaming Shack is an abandoned house in Hogsmeade village.For many years, villagers believed that the shack was haunted because of the screams coming from the shack.

Although the British Isles are not a big place, there are endless rumors of haunting.

For example, in the year Ada was born, a strange incident occurred in the Enfield area of ​​North London. Objects in the room always moved for no reason.The owner of the house was so terrified that he even asked a psychic to deal with it, and the room calmed down.

But in fact it was a wandering wizard who was living there at the time, and he wanted to scare away the owner of the house, so he used magic to animate the furniture.Later, when things got serious, the wizard left here, and it wasn't at all the work of the psychic.

Another well-known haunted place is the Tower of London. Muggles claim they have seen ghosts in the tower more than once, the most famous of which is Queen Anne Boleyn.

Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second queen, was believed by the empathetic Henry VIII to be a witch.Queen Anne was accused of treason and adultery, imprisoned in the Tower of London, and beheaded with a longsword in 1536.

After her death she was packed into a chest and buried hastily in the cathedral in the Tower of London.

From then on.Some people began to see the ghost of Queen Anne. She was wearing a white robe and patrolling the green areas and corridors in the tower. Strange stories about the headless queen spread.

It is said that every year around the day of Queen Anne's execution, someone will always see her with her head under her armpit, riding the carriage of the Headless Horseman back to the place where she was born - Blickling Manor in Norfolk.

What was involved behind the downfall of Queen Anne, Ada didn't know, but she knew one thing: Henry VIII's suspicion was right, the man who brought a storm to the Tudor dynasty and changed the direction of British history Queen Anne was, indeed, a witch.Her portrait still hangs in the Hogwarts castle to this day.

Ada even wanted to ask Sir Popington if he had seen the ghost of Queen Anne, after all, they were all beheaded.

Many haunted rumors circulating among Muggles are caused by wizards, but the reason why the Screaming Shack is haunted has never been clarified.So in the eyes of wizards, this humble hut is the scariest one.

The three of Ida stood outside the fence of the Shrieking Shack, and besides them, there were also some courageous and curious people standing nearby. Everyone was waiting for the ghost to come, hoping to hear something that would scare the villagers. screams.

The shed is surrounded by fences, and tourists are not allowed to enter, but even if everyone wants to go in, there is no way to enter this abandoned house. Before the shed was rumored to be haunted, the doors and windows here had been sealed. .

Aside from the spooky appearance of the Shrieking Shack, it's hard to connect it with being haunted.The Screaming Shack is neither the old castles where many people died, nor the manor where some big figures once lived.

The students gathered nearby slowly dispersed. After waiting for a long time, they lost their patience, and there were no shrill and terrifying screams from the shed.

Everyone was discussing whether the ghosts had left the place, or if the shack was just a rumor, a way to increase traffic to Hogsmeade.

"It doesn't look like a haunted place at all!" Ada said while holding on to the railing. She really wanted to pull out her wand and blow her body to pieces, or torn apart, blasting open the closed doors and windows of the shed, and then went in to find out.

"That's what everyone said. It must be true. It scared a lot of people back then!" Fred replied. He picked up a stone on the snow and threw it at the hut. Of course, nothing happened. Did not happen.

"What year was it?" Ada asked sideways.

Legend has it that Hogsmeade was established at the same time as Hogwarts, and was used as the headquarters of the Goblin Rebellion in 1612.Ada wondered exactly which year in Hogsmeade's long history the rumors of the Shrieking Shack had spread.

The twins looked at Ada together, their eyes seemed to say: You ask us, who should we ask?Aren't you a know-it-all lady, are you just so capable?

"After I go back, I'll look around to see if I can find something related to the Screaming Shack." Ada said, she was full of curiosity about the shack, "Then let's make a plan and go into the shack How about catching ghosts inside?"

The interest of the twins was also ignited. The two brothers and Ida high-fived. The matter of exploring the Screaming Shack was settled. This shack, which has been abandoned for a long time, will welcome three people to visit in the near future. .

(End of this chapter)