Chapter 54

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

The astronomy tower is on the west side of the castle. Hoffa has some impression of that place, because Ravenclaw's tower and astronomy tower are high towers of Hogwarts, and there are several high-altitude corridors connected in the middle.

With the help of the magic steps of Ravenclaw tower, Hoffa quickly raised his position.

As we approached the tower, the scene began to change. The oil paintings on the walls disappeared and were replaced by rows of mirrors and astroscopes.

These astrometers rotate slowly in the passage, making a regular light sound, and everything is in order.

Hoffa slowed down and carefully searched for the possible location of the transmission array.

After a while, Hoffa didn't find the teleport array, but at the end of the corridor, he saw an oil painting, the only one in the corridor.

This is a strange picture. In other pictures, there is a person or a group of people talking.

In this portrait, there are two people, a man and a woman, two adult witches.

This couple should be lovers or husband and wife, the man has gray hair, high nose, face with a gentle smile.

The witch has chestnut hair and soft appearance. She leans lazily in the arms of the wizard. She seems to see through Hoffa's sneaking state at a glance.

"Merry Christmas, son." She said softly.

Then the silence returned, leaving only the sound of the ticking star.

Hoffa frowned and canceled the stealth. He stared at the men and women in the picture.

He saw a strange familiarity on the man in the painting, where he had seen the man.

Finally, a small detail made his hair stand up behind his head.

He was wearing a silver earring, just like himself.

Many, many days ago, a casual word from ENDOR flashed through his mind.

"My last friend also wore earrings. His name was Nemon... '

Nemon.

When I searched the club in the club classroom, I also met this man. So, the woman next to him is his wife.

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

It could be a secret passage leading to the top of the observatory, or a prison for the black wizard.

But it takes a password to get through this portrait.

In the portrait of Hogwarts, only Ravenclaw's lounge needs to be solved. But other portraits need a password to pass, and the password will be changed regularly.

Hoffa rubbed his head. He was not afraid to solve the puzzle.

But for a completely unknown password, he didn't know what to do.

However, at this time, behind the passage came the soft sound of footsteps.

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

A figure in a grey robe slowly emerged from the darkness, slender and thin, with a strange pale mask.

That's what Hoffa's been tracking for a long time.

What's more strange is that it passes through the mirror, but its shadow can't be seen in the mirror.

Hoffa was glued to the wall, his fingers gripping his wand, his heart beating wildly, his palms full of sweat.

Reality is just around the corner, but there is a strong sense of unreality in the other person. Hoffa even feels that what he sees is not a person.

"Order." The masked man stood in front of the portrait and said the password without hesitation.

The man in the picture smiles.

"Merry Christmas."

With that, he slid away slowly, leaving the corridor hidden behind the portrait.

The masked man got into the portrait and it closed again.

Nemon, order?

Hoffa shook his head and forced his beating heart to calm down.

He had a vague feeling in his heart, but he was not sure.

Hoffa clenched his teeth and released the phantom state.

"Order." He also said to the portrait.

The portrait opens slowly.

Hoffa got into the corridor without saying a word. He must find out the reason.

In front of him was a stone revolving staircase, along which Hoffa went up.

In spite of doubts, anxieties and puzzles. But when Hoffa came into the room, he was surprised.

He had thought that it was directly to the top of the astronomical tower, or the cell of a prisoner, but he never thought that it was an office.

Compared with the just magnificent Slughorn's office, this office can only be described as simple and crude.

This is a circle shaped room. There are no decorations in the room. There is only a common wooden table, a bookshelf, a revolving escalator and some books on the bookshelf. There are also rows of paintings on the wall.

There is nothing in the office but these things.If the papers on his desk had not been neatly stacked, Hoffa would have thought that the office had been robbed.

He followed the painting on the wall.

The paintings are arranged in chronological order, and the time is marked under each painting.

The first painting is a boy riding on a broomstick. He looks seven or eight points like Adebayor goshak.

There are more than ten of his paintings, from school to graduation to marriage.

The boy became a young man, and the oil painting became a moving old-fashioned black-and-white photo.

In the next row, the young man in the photo is surrounded by a woman in the oil painting.

Hoffa stopped in front of the last picture of the men and women disappearing.

Nimon gossack

(1901-1928)

Alice gossack

(1903-1928)

Hoffa raised his head pale.

The identity of the owner of this office is very clear, it is the dean of Ravenclaw house, ADBE goshak, and the last partner of the goblin is the son of the dean.

The school put the array in the dean's office.

Then the masked man......

at this time, above the revolving stairs, there was a ringing sound, like a broken iron chain.

Hoffa responded.

No, Miranda!

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

Hoffa slammed the door and rushed out.

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

Under the cold night sky, countless blue runes shine dim light in the moonlight.

And the guy in the mask is standing in the middle of the platform right now.

In the sky, black and green swirls are dense, and strange light flashes from time to time.

The masked man raised his wand high, and the top of the wand shone with a dazzling green light.

The flow of magic in the air almost suffocated Hoffa. He only experienced this feeling once. It was outside Ollivander's wand shop. He felt similar magic in Tom Ryder. But this one is more terrible than the last one.

Hoffa finished his stealth, and he jerked up his wand. He yelled, "Miranda, stop it!"

Hearing the cry, the light on the mask man's wand gradually went out, it slowly turned around, and the strange pale mask on his face was as ironic as ever.

"Who are you looking for?"

The other side asked faintly.

"I'm looking for you!"

Hoffa yelled, "Miranda, do you know what you're doing?"

"You have the wrong person."

The masked man interrupted Hoffa with his head tilted.

"Wrong? When you hear about Charles crouch leaving the team, the first thing you think about is going to check the teleport array in the snow. When you hear from Albert that the transmission array of Hogwarts is in the sky tower, you leave the party immediately. "

Hoffa repressed his anger:

"Miranda, did you send the black wizard to kill me?"

"It's me, but you're still mistaken."

With that, the mask man waved his wand like lightning.

A touch of purple light came in a flash, it did not say a word, directly.

Hoffa, who was always on guard, immediately got out on the spot.

"Disraement!"

Hoffa entered the phantom state and ran towards the masked man.

The mask man narrowed his eyes.

"It doesn't make sense."

It's very fast to swing the wand again.

"Scorching earth!"

There were large flames on the ground, which spewed high and formed orange walls.

The temperature in the air rises rapidly and the ice on the roof dissolves quickly.

Hoffa had never seen such a spell before. He could only quickly jump on the stone pillar, jump over the wall of fire from the air, and then put up a coma curse.

"Faint to the ground!"

He didn't move. He held up his wand.

"No magic shield!"

The red light of the coma mantra hit an invisible ripple and disappeared.

Hoffa's idea of sneaking away was shattered.

The masked man stood behind the transparent shield and said with a smile, "do you only know the curse in the textbook? You can't beat me that way. "

The other side is more difficult than imagined. Hoffa didn't give up. In the rush, he stretched out his hand and quickly poured magic into his wand. His wand turned into a huge sword in a flash.

He's carrying a big sword and he's going to cut it off. "

The masked man stepped back.

"Metamorphosis, interesting, triple armor guard."Dong!

Dong!

Dong!

With three dull sounds, three ghost knights with ice blue steel armor fell from the sky and hit the observatory ground heavily.

Drink!

Then they roared, and they closed their shields and protected the masked man in all directions.

Hoffa smashed his sword on his armor.

Boom!

the swords and shields intersect, and a long trail of sparks emerges.

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

The defense of the three ghost irons is not built. It's not a common irons curse at all.

"It's really Dumbledore's favorite student. There's something about it."

The mask man's indifferent voice came from the armor.

"Shut up

Hoffa retreated continuously, increasing the input of magic power. The sword changed rapidly in his hands and became a heavy hammer.

After that, he took three steps in a row, dashed forward again, swung the heavy hammer, and hit the armor with a roar.

Dong!

There was a heavy thunder.

One of the Knights was smashed out.

The masked man after the armor didn't expect such a move. He stepped back decisively, and another armored Knight came forward to fill the vacancy.

But he was a little slow. Hoffa took back his wand and started the ghost walk. Three steps and two steps from the gap rushed in, a grasp of its cold wrist, a wrong twist, pulled down its wand.

Then Hoffa's right hand waved rapidly, and the wand turned into metal, wrapped his right arm, and turned into a huge Silver Lion's head fist.

Boom!!

The lion hit the masked man on the chin with a hook on his head.

Hoffa was afraid it was Miranda, so this time he only used 70% of the force.

But even so, it is like a piece of paper paste, the mask smashed. The whole person flew upside down, flipped three or four times in the sky, hit the ground heavily and rolled several times. The neck is bent off.

Between the rise and fall of the rabbit, the situation reversed. With half the magic as the price, Hoffa captured the opponent's weapon and knocked it down on the spot.

Hoffa's eyes widened and he stepped back quickly, away from his opponent. He didn't expect that the other side was so vulnerable and exaggerated.

However, he is not feeling well either. Running continuously makes him physically exhausted.

On Christmas Eve, the observatory was in a state of tranquility.

For a long time, Hoffa saw that the other side collapsed and did not move. He thought he had beaten it.

"Miranda!"

He frowned and stepped forward.

However, the other side was not as weak as he thought. He put up his arms, staggered up from the ground, and turned to look at Hoffa.

"Mi... I'm Cao!"

Hoffa was startled the moment he saw it.

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

There was no facial features on that face, only a mouth, which was similar to those stone bearing monsters he saw in hellheim, the underworld!!

Hoffa gaped at the monster in front of him and felt crazy.

"Who the hell are you..." Hoffa cried out in shock.

The faceless man got up.

"Guess what."