There are bright candles in Hogwarts, but most of the students have gone home, and the castle is very deserted.

The Astronomical Tower is on the west side of the castle. Hoffa has some impression of that place, because the towers of Ravenclaw and Astronomical Tower are both high towers of Hogwarts, and there are several high-altitude corridors connected together.

With the help of the magic ladder in the Ravenclaw Tower, Hoffa quickly raised his position.

After approaching the Astronomical Tower, the scene here began to change. The oil paintings on the walls disappeared, replaced by rows of sight glasses and astrological instruments.

These planetariums slowly rotate between the channels, making regular soft sounds, and everything is operating in an orderly manner.

Hoffa slowed down, carefully searching for the possible location of the teleportation array.

After searching for a while, Hoffa did not find the teleportation array, but at the end of the corridor, he saw an oil painting. There was only one oil painting in the corridor.

This is a weird portrait. In other portraits, it is a person or a group of people chatting and talking.

In this portrait, there are two people, one male and one female, and two adult wizards.

This man and woman should be lovers or husband and wife. The man has gray hair, a high nose, and a gentle smile on his face.

witch has chestnut hair and a soft appearance. She leaned lazily in the arms of the wizard. She seemed to see through Hoffa's stealth state at a glance.

"Merry Christmas, child." She said softly.

Then the surroundings returned to silence, leaving only the sound of the ticking asteroid rotating.

Hoffa brows frowned, canceling stealth, he stares at the men and women in the portrait.

He saw a trace of unfathomable mystery in the man in the painting. Where did he meet this man?

Finally, a small detail made the hair on the back of his head stand up.

He wears a silver earring, just like himself.

Induo's inadvertent words flashed through his mind many, many days ago.

'My last friend also wore earrings, his name is Nimon...'

Nimon.

When I searched the club in the club classroom, I also met this man, putting it that way, and the woman next to him was his wife.

There is no doubt that there must be something behind this portrait.

It may be the secret passage leading to the top of the observatory, or the prison where the dark wizard is held.

But password is required to pass this portrait.

In the portrait of Hogwarts, only the common room of Ravenclaw needs to be solved in order to pass. But other portraits require a password to pass, and the password will be changed regularly.

Hoffa rubbed his head, he was not afraid to solve puzzles.

But for the completely unknown password, he doesn't know what to do.

However, at this moment, soft footsteps came from the passage behind him.

Hoffa quickly turned his head, and the whole person immediately disappeared into the air, entering a stealth state.

A silhouette wearing a gray robe slowly emerged from the darkness, slender and thin, with a strange pale mask.

It is exactly what Hoffa has been tracking for a long time.

What's even more bizarre is that it walks through the sight glass, but its shadow cannot be seen in the sight glass.

Hoffa sticks to the wall, fingers clenched wand, heart beats wildly, palms are full of sweat.

The reality is right in front of him, close at hand, but the other person has a strong sense of unreality, Hoffa even feels that what he sees is not a person.

"Order." The masked man stood in front of the portrait, without the slightest hesitation saying the password.

The man in the portrait smiled slightly.

"Merry Christmas."

After speaking, he slowly slid away, leaking the tunnel hidden behind the portrait.

The mask man got into the portrait, and the portrait was closed again.

Nimon, order?

Hoffa shook his head, forcibly calming his beating heart.

He felt vaguely in his heart, but he was not sure.

Hoffa gritted his teeth and released the disillusioned state.

"Order." He also said to the portrait.

The portrait slowly opens.

Hoffa got into the tunnel without saying a word, he must figure out the reason.

In front of him is a stone spiral staircase, and Hoffa follows the stairs all the way up.

Despite the inner doubts, anxiety, and confusion. But when Hoffa walked into this room, he was still surprised.

He thought it was directly connected to the top of the Astronomy Tower, or a cell for prisoners, but he never thought that this was actually an office.

Compared with the office of Slughorn that was just splendorous and majestic, this office can only be described as simple.

This is a ring-shaped room. There are no decorations in the room. There is only an ordinary wooden table, a bookshelf, a revolving escalator, and there are some books on the bookshelf. There are also rows of oil paintings on the wall.

Besides these things, there is nothing else in the office.

If it weren't for the neat and tidy piles of documents on the desk, Hoffa would almost think that this office was ransacked by thieves.

He slowly glanced over the oil painting on the wall.

These oil paintings are arranged by time, and the time is marked under each oil painting.

In the first oil painting, there was a boy riding on a broomstick. He looks like Adbe Gosak.

There are more than a dozen of his oil paintings, from school to graduation to marriage.

The boy turned into a youth, and the oil painting turned into a moving old-fashioned black and white photo.

Going down in the row, there is another person beside the young man in the photo. It is the woman who enters the oil painting.

Hoffa stopped before the last photo of the man and woman disappeared.

Nimon Gorsak

(1901---1928)

Alice Gorsak

(1903 ---1928)

Hoffa look pale and lifts the head.

The identity of the owner of this office is very clear. It is the head of the Ravenclaw House, Adbe Gosak, and Goblin's previous partner turned out to be the son of head.

The school put the teleportation array in the head office.

Then the masked man...

At this time, above the spiral staircase, a crisp sound came from ding dong, as if an iron chain broke.

Hoffa reacted.

No good, Miranda!

He rushed up the spiral staircase in two steps and found that the iron door leading to the outside of the house had now been cut by the curse, and two steel chains were scattered on the ground.

Hoffa slammed the door and rushed out.

In front is a huge open-air platform, on which there are more than a dozen large stone pillars for observing the stars.

Under the cold night sky, countless blue runes are shining dim rays of light in the moonlight.

And the guy with the mask is standing in the center of the platform at the moment.

in the sky, black and green vortex is densely covered, with weird rays of light flashing in the middle from time to time.

The mask man raised the wand, and the top of the wand is shining with dazzling green rays of light.

The flow of magic power in the air suffocated Hoffa. He had only experienced this feeling once. It was outside Ollivander's wand shop, and he felt similar magic power on Tom Riddle's body. But this time is more terrifying than last time.

Hoffa finished stealth, he lifted his wand abruptly. He shouted: "Miranda, stop!"

Hearing the shout, the rays of light on the mask man wand gradually extinguished, it slowly turned around, and the weird pale mask on his face was as sarcasm as ever.

"Who are you looking for?"

The other party asked indifferently.

"I'm looking for you!"

Hoffa said loudly: "Miranda, do you know what you are doing?"

"You admitted the wrong person ."

The masked man interrupted Hoffa with his head tilted.

"Acknowledgment? After you heard Charles Crouch leaving the team, what you immediately thought of was to check the teleportation formation in the snow. When you heard from Albert the Hogwarts teleportation formation was At the Astronomy Tower, you immediately left the banquet."

Hoffa suppressed the anger in his chest:

"Miranda, did you let the dark wizard come to kill me?"

"It's me, but you still recognize the wrong person."

After speaking, the mask man waved wand like lightning.

A touch of purple light came in an instant, without saying a word, just do it.

Hoffa, who had been vigilant, immediately rolled on the spot.

"Disler Falcon!"

Hoffa entered a state of disillusionment and ran towards the masked man.

Disillusionment Charm...The mask man squinted his eyes.

"It makes no sense."

It swings wand again extremely fast.

"Hot scorched earth!"

A large area of ​​flames appeared on the ground, and they spewed up high, forming a fan of orange red fire walls.

The temperature in the air rose rapidly, and the ice on the roof quickly dissolved.

Hoffa had never seen a spell like this before. He could only quickly jump on the stone pillar, jumped over the wall of fire from the air, and then raised his hand with a Stunning Spell.

"Stupefy!"

The opposite side did not move, and wand was turned sideways.

"Forbidden Magic Shield!"

The red light of Stunning Spell hit an invisible ripple and disappeared invisible.

Hoffa's idea of ​​stealth stealing the chicken was suddenly disillusioned.

The masked man stood behind the transparent shield and said with a smile: "Do you only know the spells in the textbook? You can't beat me just by doing this."

The imaginary tricky, Hoffa didn't give up, he extended the palm of his hand while running wildly, magic power quickly poured into the wand, his wand turned into a huge broadsword in an instant.

He carried the big sword and slashed at the opponent. "

The mask man takes a step back.

"transfiguration, interesting, 3rd-layer armored guard.

dong!

dong!

dong!

Three muffled noises, three ghosts in blue steel armor full of ice Knight It fell from the sky and smashed heavily on the ground of the observatory.

Hah!

Then roared, they combined their shields, and all directions firmly protected the masked man in it.

Hah!

Hoffa dragged the broadsword onto the armor.

Boom!

The sword and shield intersected, and a long fire star emerged.

The shock made Hoffa's arm numb and almost vomited blood.

The defensive power of the three ghost armors is not covered at first glance. This is not an ordinary Shield Charm at all.

"As expected of Dumbledore's protégé, there is something. "

The masked man’s indifferent voice came from inside the armor.

"Shut up! "

Hoffa retreated continuously and increased the input of magic power. The giant sword changed rapidly in his hands and turned into a heavy hammer.

After that, he continued for three consecutive times. After a step, he rushed forward again, lifted the heavy hammer, and slammed it on the armor with a bang.

dong!

A loud thunder-like noise.

One of the iron armor Knights was forcibly smashed out.

The masked man behind the armor did not expect such an appearance at all. It took a step back very decisively, and the other armor Knight quickly Stepped forward to fill the gap.

But still a step slower, Hoffa retracted wand and turned on the ghost to walk. Three steps and two steps rushed in through the gap, grabbed its cold wrist, twisted and twisted. The wand that got off it.

Then Hoffa's right hand swung quickly, and wand instantly turned into metal, wrapped his right arm, and turned into a huge silver lion head glove.

bang! !

The lion’s uppercut hit the mask man’s chin.

Hoffa was afraid that the opponent was Miranda, so he only used 70% of his power this time. .

But even so, it was like a piece of paper, the mask shattered. The whole person flew out, flipped three or four times in the sky, hit the ground hard, and rolled a few times. The neck was rolled. They were all bent down.

The situation turned around between the rabbits and the falcons. Using half of the magic power as a price, Hoffa captured the opponent’s weapon and knocked it down on the spot.

Hoffa's eyes widened, he quickly backed away, and distanced himself from the other party. He himself didn't expect the other party to be so unable to withstand a single blow, and fell so exaggeratedly.

But he was also uncomfortable. Running continuously made him consume a lot of energy.

In the snow on Christmas Eve, the observatory fell into a quiet state.

For a long time, Hoffa saw the other party collapse on the ground, motionless , I thought I disabled it.

"Miranda! ? "

He frowned and slowly walked closer.

However, the opponent was not as weak as he thought. He propped up his arm, swayed and got up from the ground, turning his head. looked towards Hoffa .

"M...my cao! "

Hoffa was taken aback when he saw it.

Under the mask, it was a completely unfamiliar face, or rather, not a face at all.

That face has no facial features, only a mouth. It looks a bit like the monument monsters he saw in Helheim in the underworld!!

Hoffa stared at the monster in front of him dumbfounded. Feeling crazy.

"Who the hell are you...? Hoffa called out in shock.

The Faceless Man got up.

"Guess. "

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