Mastering Lightning from Hogwarts

Therefore, McGonagall had always hoped that Slytherin would be crushed by Gryffindor. They should have had a great opportunity in previous years with excellent Seekers like Charlie.

But despairingly, due to Anduin's rectification of Slytherin, the entire Slytherin, even the Quidditch team, had greatly increased in strength, and Gryffindor had been almost completely crushed by Slytherin for six consecutive years.

Therefore, Professor McGonagall had been paying attention to potential players in Gryffindor in recent years, and this time she found Harry.

She saw with her own eyes that Harry could dive 50 feet without any effort, and with his lightness and speed, he would definitely be a good Quidditch player.

And Harry's appearance also gave her hope, of course, the main reason was that Anduin was not biased towards Slytherin.

Although it had only been a few days, Professor McGonagall could feel the growth of these little lions in Gryffindor.

During dinner, Harry secretly told Ron and the others about the news and told them that Wood wanted to keep it a secret.

"That's so cool, being selected for Quidditch in the first year breaks the school record, you're about to become the youngest player in Hogwarts!" Ron excitedly lowered his voice, constantly praising.

"Since you're so happy, I don't think you should go looking for that ship tonight," Hermione muttered, still a little unwilling.

"But maybe this means today is my lucky day?" Harry smiled indifferently, "Besides, we've already promised Malfoy, if we ditch him, that kid will definitely laugh at us."

"That guy is always so arrogant, why do you care about what he thinks?" Hermione rolled her eyes speechlessly, "And I won't accompany you to fool around."

Speaking of this, Hermione even had the urge to report them to the professor, after all, this prank was aimed at Professor Wilson, who knew if it would offend him.

"If you don't go, you don't go, we didn't ask you to. Ron ignored Hermione's threat, "This is a good opportunity to get a legendary item, and aren't you curious about that magical ship at all? That's a flying sailboat, and it's said to be alive!"

"This..." After hearing what Ron said, Hermione seemed a little tempted, but at the same time, she considered other concerns and became very conflicted.

At this time, Harry suddenly interjected as if he had thought of something, "Hey! Didn't Malfoy say that we're going to find something alive, so should we bring some gifts? That way, we can please it."

"That makes sense! Harry, you're so smart!" Ron's eyes lit up at this time, but then he frowned in distress, "But what would a ship like?"

"If we assume that it's a ship with its own thoughts, it will definitely like things that are good for the ship, such as ship oil, anchors, ropes, wooden boards, or ship decorations, but will it really think like a normal ship?" Although Hermione said she didn't care, she couldn't help but interject when she heard them discussing this.

"Sure enough, you're also very interested in legendary items," Ron looked at Hermione with a 'I knew it' expression.

But then Ron was confused again, "But this is Hogwarts, where are we going to find anything related to ships?"

"What if we just bring candy?" Neville suggested at this time, "No one knows if a living ship doesn't like eating candy, I still have a lot of ready-made snacks."

As a junior familiar with Anduin, Neville usually received various imported snacks like the Weasleys, and the Longbottom family only had him as a child, so he had more good things stored up than Ron.

"How could a ship like to eat candy? That sounds too strange," even Harry thought Neville's suggestion was a bit outrageous.

"That's right, once when I passed by the left corridor on the 4th floor, I saw a very exquisite tapestry, and it was wrapped with a hemp rope with gold threads, I guess that ship will definitely like it!" Ron suddenly interjected after thinking hard.

"Are you crazy?" Hermione's tone couldn't help but rise excitedly, "Running out for a night tour during curfew is one thing, but you also want to steal Hogwarts property? If you're discovered, you might be expelled."

"I didn't say I was going to steal it, we can just take that rope, and buy another one to replace it later, and that ship won't necessarily accept the so-called gift," Ron muttered quickly, as if everything was in his calculations.

"But that's not very good," Hermione was speechless, how could these guys be so bold, "Also, the right corridor on the 4th floor is the forbidden area that Headmaster Dumbledore mentioned during the opening ceremony, if you accidentally break in, there will be big problems."

"Let's just not go to the right corridor, I think Ron's idea is great!" Harry himself was not a timid person, and immediately helped Ron.

"Why are you too..." Hermione rolled her eyes frantically, then turned around angrily and ignored the other three boys.

At this time, Harry and the others were happy to be idle, and soon put their heads together again, chattering and discussing the 'plan' for the evening.

Time passed quickly, and soon it was 10 o'clock at night, and Harry and the others were ready to go. They planned to start their operation half an hour early, so they wouldn't miss the agreed time.

However, after the three of them sneaked out of the common room, they found that Hermione had also come out at some point.

"What? Have you changed your mind and are ready to go with us?" Harry looked at Hermione and smiled happily.

"I'm here to stop you from doing stupid things. Malfoy's suggestion is extremely stupid. You wouldn't really believe his nonsense, would you?" Hermione thought for a long time, but still felt that their behavior was too reckless, and they might even cause the academy to lose points.

"We're already out, how can we regret it now? And don't you think night tours are cool? George and the others started running around everywhere on the second day of school," Ron waved his hand indifferently. In fact, for them, going on an adventure was a particularly exciting thing in itself, and the consequences didn't matter at all.

Harry nodded at this time, "If you don't want to go, go back to the common room, we've already made up our minds anyway."

"Hmph!" Hermione glared at the three of them angrily, and immediately prepared to return to the common room and ignore them, but when she turned around, she found herself locked out. The Fat Lady walked out of the portrait!

"This... are you kidding me!" Hermione covered her head in despair, and then looked speechlessly at the three people who were gradually walking away, "How unlucky, it seems I really have to follow them, staying here will probably be discovered faster."

Hermione shook her head in tangled thoughts, and then ran to catch up with the others. Harry, Ron, and Neville thought that Hermione had finally changed her mind. Anyway, for them, there was no difference between 3 people and 4 people.

So the group of four came to the 4th floor along the planned route.

However, just as they were about to swipe the tapestry, everyone suddenly heard a sound of footsteps from a distance, accompanied by a faint light.

"Crap! It must be Filch patrolling here!"

Ron whispered quickly when he saw this, and then these people didn't have time to care about the tapestry in a panic, and ran wildly in the opposite direction.

Finally, the four of them came to the end of the right corridor on the 4th floor, but other than a door next to it, it was completely a dead end. It looked like they would be caught by Filch on the spot.

In desperation, Harry tried to move the handle of the door, but found that it had been completely locked, which made the few people become more and more nervous.

"Get out of the way! Alohomora!" Seeing the panicked look of the others, Hermione quickly stepped forward, took out her wand, and cast an unlocking charm on the door.

The spell worked, and the people in front of them couldn't care too much when they saw this, and rushed in one after another.

After locking the door for a while, the footsteps outside finally gradually faded away, and everyone slowly let go of the stone in their hearts.

At this time, everyone had the mind to look around the room.

Everyone found that this room was a huge circular space, completely unlike what they saw outside. Obviously, this place, like the training room they had seen, had been expanded by the 'Undetectable Extension Charm'.

At this time, the huge room looked like an ordinary stone room. The surrounding environment was dark and humid. Only on the wall opposite the door was a stone knight statue holding a sword in both hands!

"Merlin's beard, what is this place, why does it look so gloomy and terrifying," Ron swallowed nervously.

"I don't know," Hermione shook her head blankly at this time, but then she thought, "Could this be the forbidden area that Professor Dumbledore mentioned? I think we'd better leave quickly, lest something bad happen!"

The other three nodded in unison when they heard this, after all, it looked too strange inside.

"Buzz!"

At this moment, before anyone could take action, a roar suddenly came from the room.

Then everyone saw two blue lights suddenly light up in the eyes of the knight's stone statue in the distance, staring at the four of them with extremely cold eyes.

"Intruders detected, preset level one instance [Abyss Well] activated!"

"Buzz!"

"Instance not completed, unauthorized intruders have been marked as invaders, first-level guards are now being deployed!"

After that roar, everyone heard the knight's stone statue suddenly emit several cold and emotionless voices.

And after the stone statue said the last sentence, its eyes instantly changed from dark blue to scarlet.

Then the four of them saw the stone ceiling above their heads suddenly crack, until it opened a huge opening!