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Chapter 208 The vision is coming, who is lying? Do you know the basilisk...

Lin Xia turned to look at the professor.

The professor looked at the petrified ghost solemnly.

Lin Xia pondered and asked: "Professor, can ghosts be petrified by the petrification spell?"

Dean Sprout shook his head: "It's difficult, very difficult. Ghosts are different from wizards. Ghosts can hardly affect wizards, so it's difficult for wizards' spells to take effect on ghosts, and the effect won't last long.

For example, even if the petrification spell is effective on a ghost, it will only affect it for a short time, but this ghost..."

The dean looked at the other little wizards: "How did you discover it?"

One of the little wizards bravely said: "It appeared suddenly. When I looked up, it said hello to me, and then suddenly became petrified."

Lin Xia asked keenly: "When it was petrified, were its eyes looking at you?"

The little wizard hesitated for a while, he could no longer remember.

"It seemed like he was looking at me, he seemed to be looking at the ceiling, and he seemed to be turning around to look elsewhere. Anyway, he suddenly became petrified. I saw it suddenly become petrified!"

Lin Xia looked at the other little wizards again: "What about you, do you have any other information that you can add?"

The little wizards looked at each other and shook their heads.

Except for the little wizard who first discovered the petrified ghost, the other little wizards were just dancing and talking, and had no time to look up at the ceiling.

If the little wizard hadn't noticed that the ghost was petrified and screamed, causing the ghost to automatically fall from the air, they wouldn't have known anything happened to the ghost.

Lin Xia raised his head and looked at the ceiling, and whispered to the dean: "There are so many young wizards at the scene. They are not targeting the young wizards but only the ghosts. There must be some reason. Maybe we need to check the ceiling."

Sprout nodded, "I want to check."

A young wizard bravely asked: "Professor, can this petrified ghost be saved?"

"Of course." The professor said: "The mandrake I cultivated can be used to make potions for petrification recovery, but my herbs are still being cultivated and will not be able to recover so quickly."

When the "ghost petrification tragedy" occurred in the banquet hall, Harry and others found many reasons to finally get rid of the headless Nick's party.

Not long after they walked out of the stairs, they met Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall frowned, "What are you doing?"

Harry explained a few words.

Professor McGonagall said in a deep voice: "Something happened at the banquet. Please stop wandering around and return to the common room immediately."

Ron whispered: "Lin Xia and Draco are still in the auditorium!"

Professor McGonagall: "Don't worry, the little wizards there have been evacuated. You can return to the lounge immediately."

Harry and others had no choice but to go back first.

At this time, the lounge was crowded with many young wizards who had just returned from the banquet hall.

After Ron listened for a while, he realized that a ghost had been petrified, and he couldn't help but be shocked.

He turned to Harry and said: "It is very difficult for a ghost to be petrified. No, to be precise, it is very difficult for any magic that is cast on a ghost to work.

I don’t know who was so cruel and used the petrification technique on the ghost, and it was in a place like a banquet hall. "

Hermione asked: "Is there a possibility that the power of that person's petrification spell is too strong, so even ghosts with strong magic resistance can't resist it?"

Ron nodded, "It's very possible, but there's a problem."

He asked in confusion: "Who would take action against a ghost? Did the ghost see something he shouldn't have seen, or knew something he shouldn't know?"

Harry listened to the two people talking there and suddenly felt worried about the ghosts in Hogwarts.

He had a hunch that being petrified was definitely not the first case.

When all the little wizards returned to the common room, some were still busy.

The professors from the four major colleges gathered together to confirm with the prefects one by one the safety of the other little wizards, and said that they should patrol more at night to prevent the little wizards from running out.

They'll be checking out Hogwarts tonight.

The prefect nodded seriously.

After the grade leader left, Professor McGonagall turned to look at Lin Xia, "You are deeply resistant to the Evil God's Whispering. We are short of manpower tonight, so we may need you to help with night patrols. Can you do it?"

Among the students still staying at this time, in addition to Lin Xia, there were also Cedric and other outstanding students.

These outstanding students can resist the evil god's whispers, but they are just ordinary resistance, but with the corresponding medicine, there is no problem at all.

As for Draco.

Although he was an excellent student, he had never participated in a night watch mission and didn't know much, so he was sent to guard the Hufflepuff common room.

Lin Xia nodded and said, "Professor, I don't have any questions."

The professor started patrolling the night.

Lin Xia held a dim light in her hand, and the moonlight poured in through the window, causing layers of shadows to overlap in the corridors of Hogwarts.

Suddenly, she stopped and saw a ghost floating towards her blankly.

And this ghost is headless Nick!
Lin Xia stopped it, "Nick, where did you go just now?"

Nick: "Me? I seemed to go somewhere and take a nap. It was so comfortable. It made me dizzy when I woke up. I felt like I had forgotten something important, but how could that be possible? , I’m a ghost!”

Lin Xia frowned slightly: "Aren't you going to hold a ghost party tonight?"

Nick's eyes were a little confused: "Party? Why didn't I know there was a party? Also, isn't the party just held next week?"

Lin Xia was very surprised: "Didn't you change your date?"

Nick: "Did I change the date?"

Lin Xia: "Didn't you notice that there were many ghosts tonight?"

Nick: "No, you saw a lot of ghosts, but why didn't I see any?"

Lin Xia's heart skipped a beat, terrible!

"Nick, come with me. There is something very urgent that we need to report to Professor McGonagall."

However, there seemed to be a lot of problems tonight.

After just walking for a while, vague murmurs sounded in Lin Xia's ears, as if they were telling powerful spells.

Her body felt slightly hot, and "Nine Heavens Xuanyang Secret Record·The Furnace" automatically dispelled her gibbering, but Nick seemed to be disturbed and suddenly shouted.

"Don't come over! Don't come over! No, I don't want to kill you, don't come over!"

Lin Xia turned around and looked. It seemed that this vague murmur was a bit like a special magnetic field, and even ghosts would be disturbed.

She thought for a moment and threw the remains of the Leaf of Awakening onto Nick.

Nick's cloudy eyes immediately regained some clarity: "Little witch, what just happened to me, I feel like I have been invaded by something strange."

Lin Xia: "You just lost your mind."

Nick, who was almost headless, suddenly twisted his neck, looked back, and floated behind Lin Xia.

"So this is the feeling of losing consciousness? Is this considered anger? I haven't experienced this emotion for a long time." Lin Xia said calmly: "Nick, although I really don't want to tell you this fact, I have to Let me tell you, ghosts don’t have any feelings.”

"Lin Xia."

Professor McGonagall's confused voice came, "Aren't you going to patrol the other side?"

Lin Xia lowered his head slightly: "Professor McGonagall, I have something to report to you, about the abnormal ghost incident tonight."

After listening to the content of Lin Xia's report, Professor McGonagall looked very cautious.

She seemed to think of something bad and immediately said: "What you reported is very important. Come with me immediately. And you, Nick, come with me too."

Professor McGonagall took out the secret key from the wizard's robe and contacted other professors through the secret key.

Lin Xia took a look and saw that the professor's secret key was somewhat different from the student's secret key, and the pattern was more complicated.

The two came to an empty classroom.

About ten minutes passed.

All the professors also came to this empty classroom, and Lin Xia reported his findings to them without changing his expression.

Snape looked condescendingly at the almost headless Nick, "Do you just feel that your mind is confused and you can't remember anything?"

Nick glared at him: "Otherwise, you cold poisonous snake, ghosts can't lie!"

Professor McGonagall said at this time: "Ghosts really can't lie."

In addition to the almost headless Nick, three other ghosts from the academy were also brought here, namely Ms. Gray, Fat Monk and Bloody Barrow.

The professor asked the three ghosts one by one.

There is nothing wrong with their bodies, and they all agree that the banquet will be held next week.

Including Nick thinks so too.

Lin Xia frowned: "But I read the letter Hermione left for me. They said they were held back by your party. You held the three of them back and ate moldy, rotten, and basic food with a group of strange ghosts. Inedible food.”

When Nearly Headless Nick found out the time and place, he immediately denied it.

"I was floating around the Gryffindor common room at that time and I had no idea about it!"

Lin Xia turned to look at the other professors.

Dean Sprout looked solemn and whispered: "Could the ghost's abnormality be related to the petrified ghost?"

After all, they are both ghosts, and most people will immediately think that they are related.

Lin Xia asked thoughtfully: "What if they are two different events?

If these two things are the same thing and we haven't found any clues, what if we look at it with two eyes?

Ghost anomalies are one type, and petrified ghosts are another type.

For the former, we can look at the recent anomalies in Hogwarts.

As for the latter, we may be able to find some information to see if there is any way to petrify ghosts immediately? "

After hearing this, the professors from the four major colleges looked at each other.

In their hearts, there was some vague speculation.

But these speculations are not easy to tell to the little wizard.

By the time Nick finished asking, it was already very late.

Lin Xia still had a few corridors to patrol, but the professor asked her to go back and rest first.

Dean Sprout said: "If you feel very tired and cannot attend class tomorrow, you can come to me and I will help you ask for leave."

Lin Xia nodded in thanks, "Okay professor, but I'm not tired yet."

After she left and the ghosts dispersed, several professors gathered together with serious faces, cast an anti-eavesdropping spell, and discussed the abnormal riot of ghosts.

"Could this be one of the visions, related to the incident of selling invisibility charms that we encountered a few days ago?" Professor McGonagall asked.

Previously, Lin Xia discovered that someone was selling invisibility talismans. After following the clichés from young wizards, the professor discovered——

People who sell magic talismans can freely enter and leave the common rooms of the four major colleges!

At the same time, it’s still a different person selling each time.

Without exception, the little wizards who bought the magic talismans could not recall what the person who sold the magic talismans looked like, and they could not even remember their names.

The professor looked through the list of students and could not find such a person.

This person seems to have been made up out of thin air!

Ten years ago, something like this happened at Hogwarts, which the professor called a "vision."

But that last time was different from the previous one.

Before, there were just random people appearing in the same place every time.

But this time, not only did they appear in different places, but the invisibility charms they sold were also effective.

So this confused the professor as to whether these were visions.

And now there's the "ghost vision" thing.

Many young wizards claimed to have seen ghosts, but the ghosts in Hogwarts said they had never seen those ghosts at all.

So who is lying?
Who sees reality and who sees illusion?
Snape said solemnly: "Whether it's a vision or not, we need to take some measures. If this happens again next time, we won't have time to react."

The last time they sold invisibility charms, this time they let everyone see ghosts that would never come. Who knows next time, there will be strange phenomena that directly attack the students of Hogwarts?
Although from the current point of view, Vision is quite safe.

But don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the eventuality.

As for the ghost being petrified, they didn't have a good solution.

We can only tell the last scene we saw after Sprout's mandrake is cultivated and freed from its petrified state.

On the other side, Lin Xia returned to Hufflepuff’s golden wooden house.

After finishing her training, she did not practice alchemy, but opened her diary.

Inspired by the invisible magic talisman, Lin Xia was also wondering if she could make some magic talismans and sell them to young wizards.

If the little wizard doesn't buy it, the school grocery store will probably accept it.

So these days, whenever she has free time at night, she practices alchemy.

It was just that she lacked relevant information and guides, and had no knowledge points to ask others for advice, so Lin Xia had a difficult time practicing.

A line of words slowly appeared on the basis of the day, not so urgent, and seemed leisurely.

Tom: [I thought about the alchemical formula you asked me about yesterday, and I feel that there is a lot of room for improvement. If you adjust some parameters, maybe you can get the correct ratio through calculation]
Lin Xia: [You say, I’m listening]
Tom: [First...]
The two discussed the alchemical formula for half an hour before solving a certain problem.

But beyond that, there are two other big questions that will take several days to think about.

Lin Xia: [Recently, a petrified ghost appeared in Hogwarts. Do you know of any magic spell that can cause such great damage to a ghost with such high magic resistance? ]
Tom: [Unless it is black magic, ordinary spells cannot cause much harm to ghosts]
A little ink stain fell on the diary and became a big dot.

Tom: [But if you want to talk about powerful damage and the petrification effect, I know that there is a magical creature that can do it, and that is the "basilisk". Do you know the basilisk? ]
(End of this chapter)