Daily Life at Hogwarts

Chapter 26: Open sesame

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"I think so." Albert couldn't help but smile. He glanced at the ghost passing by and raised his hand to greet him: "Good morning, Sir Nicholas."

"Good morning kid, what's up?"

"Sir, do you have time for me to take a picture?" Albert asked, holding up his camera.

"Oh, okay!" Nick thought for a moment and asked, "Do you need to pose?"

"No, come, look here." Albert adjusted the angle and took a picture of Nick.

"Is it ready?"

"That's all right, thank you Sir Nicholas."

"You're welcome. I'll be leaving first!" Nick floated away quickly.

Angelina came over and wanted to see what Albert had taken pictures of, but there was nothing in the pictures.

"It seems that Muggle cameras cannot capture ghosts. Perhaps, using a wizard's camera can do it." Albert wrote Sir Nicholas Deminsey Porpington behind the photo.

"It's amazing that you can remember his name." Angelina admired Albert's memory. At least she herself would definitely not be able to remember this string of names.

"It's not the camera's problem." A voice sounded.

Albert turned around and saw a beautiful red-haired girl just walked into the auditorium. She noticed that everyone was looking at her and started to explain, "The photo needs to be developed with the correct developing solution so that the people in it can move. Also, ghosts are spirits and they cannot be photographed by a camera."

With that, the girl walked towards the Ravenclaw table.

"Wow, you're worthy of being a Ravenclaw student. You know so much." George said exaggeratedly.

"It's really amazing." Albert sighed, looking at Angelina and inviting her, "Would you like to go to other parts of the school with us after dinner?"

"Forget it." Angelina hesitated and refused, "I have an appointment with someone else."

"That's a pity." Albert picked up a piece of fruit and ate it while thinking about how to get the developing potion.

There were gradually more and more students in the auditorium, most of them were freshmen. Perhaps because it was the weekend, the senior students all slept late, while the freshmen were already eager to tour the school.

After saying goodbye to Angelina, the four of them walked out of the hall chatting. As they passed through the entrance hall, they all noticed Filch holding the cat and staring at them.

Albert stopped and found a task prompt on his panel:

Malice from the administrator.

You have been targeted by Filch, the Hogwarts caretaker. It is time to fight back. During a night walk, get rid of Filch's pursuit and let him know that even if he targets you, he will not be able to catch any clues.

Reward: 1000 experience.

After reading the task, Albert couldn't help but twitch his mouth. He found that after coming to Hogwarts, triggering the panel task seemed to become a bit complicated.

"What's wrong?" Fred turned around and asked in confusion.

"Nothing." Albert walked a few steps quickly to catch up with the team. The four of them crossed the wet viaduct, and he suddenly asked, "Do you know the spell of the Disillusionment Charm?"

"What is that?" George asked puzzledly.

"It is said to be a kind of invisibility magic." Albert explained, "I read in a book that this invisibility spell can make the disguised person or object become like a chameleon."

"That sounds cool." George was interested in the spell. "If I can master it, I won't have to worry about being caught when I go out at night."

"I thought so too. At least we don't have to worry about Filch." Albert nodded. He planned to go on a night tour after mastering the Disillusionment Charm.

"But how are we going to get the spell?" Fred was a little depressed. "Dad might know, but he certainly won't tell us."

"How about asking the professor?" Li suggested.

"For now, we can only look for it in the library," Albert said. "Of course, if we can't find it, we can ask the spell professor, but I doubt whether he is willing to teach us this spell. After all, he might associate it with night wandering."

Several people looked at each other and sighed helplessly. If they could master this magic, it would be much easier to do many things in the future.

Albert stopped by the viaduct, put his hands on the railing and looked down. He still remembered that at the end of the novel, it was here that Harry Potter broke the Elder Wand and threw it off the bridge.

That black sheep.

The Elder Wand is a good thing. Even if you don't use it, you can hide it somewhere unknown.

That was the real artifact in the Harry Potter novels, and the other one was the Philosopher's Stone, but both good things were destroyed.

"Anyway, let's find the library first."

"Even if we find it, we probably won't be able to learn it for the time being?" Li said a little discouraged. He did not forget that he had not even mastered the simplest magic.

"Don't say such depressing words." Albert glanced at Li and said contemptuously, "How do you think I master other magic?"

"How did you do that?" the twins asked curiously.

"Of course you have to spend a lot of time practicing. Otherwise, how can you expect to learn it in one go?" Albert said unhappily.

The four of them talked about the Disillusionment Spell as they walked, and wandered around the first floor of the castle for a long time. They found several empty classrooms filled with miscellaneous items, and a place that looked like a secret passage, but none of them could open the secret passage, which made the four of them very depressed.

"Most secret passages require specific passwords or special rhythms to open." Albert explained to the three people as they walked. "If we want to find them, we can only try our luck or ask other people who know the secret passages. But I dare say they won't tell us easily."

"Transfiguration classroom." George reminded, "I remember Professor McGonagall taught Transfiguration."

Li Qiaodan whispered: "I heard that this course is extremely difficult to learn."

"It is indeed a bit difficult." Albert also discovered this when he was teaching himself. It took him the longest time to transform matches into needles, but after learning it, most of the transfiguration techniques were not that difficult.

Of course, it may also be related to his panel skills.

The four of them found the History of Magic classroom on the second floor of the castle. Fortunately, the classrooms were marked, otherwise they would not have known where to find it.

"There is a wooden door here. I think it should be a secret passage." Li Qiaodan excitedly pointed to the entrance hidden behind the stone statue.

"It seems to be locked." Albert drew out his wand and used Alaho to open the wooden door in front of him.

"Your spell is ineffective." Fred stretched out his hand and twisted it, but still couldn't open it.

"I guess it requires some password to open it." Albert muttered.

"What do you think the password is usually?" Lee Jordan asked back.

"How could I possibly know that?" Albert rolled his eyes at Li, thought for a moment and said, "The most famous secret door password in the Muggle world is Open Sesame. The story comes from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves."

At this point, Albert's wand happened to hit the wooden door.

The next moment, the wooden planks on the door were ripped off their hinges and were about to break into a pile of firewood.

The four of them opened their mouths wide, their eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and they had no idea what had just happened.