Albert could feel himself falling, the cold, damp air whistling past his ears.
Above his head, he heard the screams of Fred, George and Lee Jordan. The sound fell in the tunnel and made him feel like laughing.
Sure enough, I am still too young.
Although there was a devil's net as a cushion below, Albert didn't want to dive into it headfirst, so he chanted a shock-absorbing spell and made the few people who jumped down from it suddenly brake in mid-air and stop abruptly in the air.
The feeling of the shock-absorbing spell was amazing. Albert felt like he was slowly falling in the air like a feather, but the speed was very slow.
"Scared me to death?" Fred patted his chest and said, "This must be several stories high. If it weren't for the shock-absorbing spell, I might have broken my neck if I fell down."
"No, if it were to happen normally, we would fall on those things." Albert pointed to the vines above his head and comforted with a smile.
"What's going on with those vines?" Lee Jordan looked at the wriggling vines, frowned slightly, and had a bad feeling.
Because the ball of light that Albert created had completely disappeared, the vines gathered together again.
"Guess?" Albert said casually.
"Don't keep me in suspense."
"This should also be a trap. Which professor do you think set it up?"
"This thing can actually move?" George wanted to step back and get further away from these strange vines.
However, George found that his legs were entangled by vines. He stumbled and fell into the vines. The vines immediately stretched out their snake-like tendrils and wrapped around George's body.
"Isn't it amazing?" Albert winked at George, not caring that his legs were entangled by the long vines.
"What the hell is this?" George tried desperately to tear off the vines on his body, but the more he struggled, the faster and tighter the vines wrapped around him.
"Stop moving, I remember what this is, it's a devil's snare!" Fred screamed loudly.
Lee Jordan, who was originally panicked, didn't dare to move anymore after hearing this.
"Oh, dear Albert, we are going to break up with you. You are just standing there watching us make a fool of ourselves." George complained angrily.
The vines were almost wrapped around his neck, making it difficult for him to breathe.
"The more you struggle, the tighter the Devil's Snare will get." Albert kindly reminded, "In fact, this is just a very simple mechanism. It's like it's saying hello to us: asking if we have studied the Herbal Medicine class seriously."
"Damn, your joke is not funny at all. Please hurry up, I can't breathe!" George gasped and tried desperately to tear off the vine wrapped around his neck.
"The Devil's Snare likes darkness and dampness, and is afraid of fire and light." Fred muttered to himself, using his magic wand to create flames to drive away the Devil's Snare.
Within seconds, everyone could feel the vines wrapped around them retreating, trying to avoid the light and warmth.
Lee Jordan set fire to the vines and tried to rescue George. The Devil's Snare began to twist and twitch violently in the flames, automatically loosening the tendrils wrapped around George.
“Isn’t it interesting?”
The embarrassed George was finally picked up from the ground by Albert. He originally wanted to pull Albert down with him, but failed.
"Thank you so much." George said unhappily, but he also admired Albert's calmness. Albert had not been nervous from the beginning.
If Fred and Lee Jordan had not been infected by his calmness, they might have been trapped to death in the Devil's Snare.
"When did you find out they were Devil's Snares?" Lee Jordan couldn't help asking.
"From the beginning, I thought that telling you might disturb the fun of your adventure." Albert said something that made people want to hit him. "In fact, this is a test of a person's knowledge reserves and calmness."
"It is normal for ordinary people to be nervous and struggle when they are caught in a devil's snare without knowing it."
"Thanks for your explanation," George complained unhappily.
"What good things do you think Dumbledore will hide here?" Fred looked at Albert and asked, "You should be able to guess something!"
"What do you think it is? This isn't a difficult mechanism, is it?" Albert said with a smile, "Let's go and see if there are any more interesting things ahead."
"You must know."
"It is said that this is something that was almost stolen from Gringotts." Albert asked with a smile, "You guys are planning to steal it too?"
The three of them shook their heads in unison. They would not steal what the principal had hidden.
They walked forward, down the slope of the corridor. Besides the sound of their own footsteps, they could also hear the sound of water dripping slowly along the wall.
"Did you hear anything?" Lee Jordan stopped and listened.
The other people listened quietly to the sounds around them, and indeed vaguely heard a light rustling sound coming from the front.
"Let's go, we'll find out what's going on when we get there."
Albert pointed ahead, where lights were on.
They found that at the end of the corridor was a brightly lit room, and the sound came from above their heads. On the high vaulted ceiling, there were countless small birds, flapping their wings, flying around the room.
"Is this... the second mechanism?"
"What do you think? If we go in directly, will these birds attack us?" George suffered a loss last time and became very cautious, fearing that he would fall into a trap again.
"There's a door across the way. I'm afraid we'll need to go through this room," Fred said, pointing to the heavy-looking wooden door across the way.
"It's possible," Lee Jordan suggested. "If they all come at us at once, we can all cast the Explosion Spell together and blow them all away."
"That's a good idea. I don't want to just run over there anyway." George also didn't want to face those birds with sharp beaks and claws that could tear him apart at any time.
"Albert, what do you think?"
The three of them looked at Albert, waiting for his decision on whether to blow up all the birds above their heads and drive them away.
"This level may be more interesting than we thought. And those things above our heads are not flying birds." Albert pointed to the flying broom in the room and said, "Let's go. We shouldn't be attacked, at least not for the time being."
"Are you sure?" Lee Jordan raised his eyebrows.
"Sure."
"Okay, I'll go first." Lee Jordan took a deep breath, shielded his face with his arms, and rushed to the other end of the room.
Sure enough, everything was safe and sound.
"It seems that these things are all keys." George also discovered the secret of the flying birds. They are all flying keys.
"The door is locked."
Fred walked over and pulled the handle with Lee Jordan, only to find that the wooden door remained motionless.
"Use the Alaho-Doh Curse," George suggested, and put it into action, but it didn't help.
"Could there be an anti-Alaho-opening spell on the door?"
The three of them looked at Albert. He was the only one here who knew how to break the anti-Alaho spell.
Of course, there was no effect.
"Or, we can use Open Sesame to tear down this door." Lee Jordan did not forget the great feat he performed on his first day at Hogwarts.
"You'd better not. I don't want to be stabbed by those flying keys up there." Albert stopped Lee Jordan's crazy idea.
"Don't tell me we need to find a key in this pile of keys." The four of them looked up at the keys flying above their heads.
"Congratulations, you got it right. I guess we need to find the right key to open the door." Albert said calmly, "They obviously can't be just decorative items."
"But there are hundreds of keys on it!"
"You should be thankful that we have three excellent Quidditch players here." Fred couldn't help but sigh.
George had already taken the brooms and was ready to distribute them to the three best flyers. Since there were only three brooms, Lee Jordan, who had relatively poor flying ability, would not get one.
Albert did not take the broomstick; he was examining the lock of the door.
In the novel, Harry found the key, and it seemed that it was because Quirrell had already used the key to open the door, so he caused some damage to the keybird, but how should they find the key
"We're looking for a big key." Lee Jordan looked at the door handle in a pretentious manner.
"There are big keys all over it," Fred couldn't help but complain.
"Does anyone know what shape the key for this lock is?" Albert suddenly asked.
"Maybe... it's shaped like a door." George raised his hand and drew the approximate shape of the key in the void.
"That's not easy." Li Jordan muttered, "There should be quite a few of these keys."
"Try to find a rusty door key." Albert pointed to the rusty door lock and said, "I guess the key should be very old."
"Why don't you come along? You're better at this than us." They each grabbed a broom, kicked their feet, and when they were mid-air, they looked back at Albert and asked in confusion.
"No, I'm going to try another method." Albert shook his head and refused. He was ready to try the lock picking tool to see if he could pry open the door handle lock using the Muggle method.
If it really doesn't work, it's not too late to go up and grab the key.
Several people rushed into the dense array of keys, looking for the key bird that Albert mentioned, and caught the right key when they saw it.
However, the enchanted keys dodged too quickly for them to catch.
"Think of something!" Fred shouted.
"Let's...let's make a big net to cover all the keys!" George finally came up with a good idea.
The three of them landed on the ground and began to use transformation magic to create a large triangular net for capture. Thinking that they would be able to cover the key in it later, the three of them were in a good mood.
As a result, before they could implement their plan, they heard a click and the door lock was opened.
The three of them turned their heads stiffly and saw Albert holding the door handle with his hand, smiling at them and said, “The door seems to be open, let’s go in.”
As he said this, he pushed the door open.
"How...how on earth did you do that?" Lee Jordan stuttered.
The three of them racked their brains and tried hard to catch the key. What was the purpose
At this moment, even Fred and George fell into self-doubt.
"I'm not sure if this method works," Albert explained. "But it seems that wizards don't take Muggle methods seriously, so this loophole is left."