Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Peter Pettigrew didn't want to say more.

But facing an archmage who was proficient in "Legilimency" and didn't know Occlumency, he couldn't keep his mouth shut just by talking.

Especially since he is still scared now.

After only holding on for less than a minute, Dumbledore emptied out all the secrets hidden in Peter Pettigrew's mind.

"It turned out to be like this..."

Dumbledore couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

"...Peter was the keeper of the Fidelity Charm. He betrayed his friend James and revealed the address of the Potters to Tom.

However, why didn't Sirius defend himself in the Wizengamot court? "

He waved his hand casually, and Peter Pettigrew fainted on the recliner again. Not only that, Dumbledore also conjured a rope and tied it tightly.

"Headmaster Everard," Dumbledore turned to look at a portrait hanging in the headmaster's office, "I need you to go to the Ministry of Magic immediately."

Then, in front of all the former headmasters' magical portraits, he told what he had seen in Peter Pettigrew's mind.

When he heard that the only heir of his family was wrongfully imprisoned, Phineas Nigellus Black suddenly lost his composure.

The old wizard with a wise face was so excited that he even pulled off a strand of his goatee. "How dare they do this, how dare they treat a descendant of the great Black family like this! Unforgivable, unforgivable!"

This time, even the former principals from Gryffindor House who had always been at odds with Phineas in the past did not sneer at the "most unpopular principal in history".

"I'll go to the Minister of Magic's office right away, and I'll give you an answer shortly." Principal Everard said to Dumbledore. Then, his figure disappeared from his portrait without a trace.

After temporarily locking Peter Pettigrew in the office and arranging the rest, Dumbledore said hello to Fox.

The fire phoenix, which had been resting on the perch, flew over and pulled the old wizard together to disapparate in Hogwarts Castle.

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Bourne took the lead through the fire barrier, with the Weasley twins following behind him, each of the three little wizards holding their own wands.

However, Bourne's previous prediction - "There may be a dark wizard in the future" - seems to be wrong based on the current situation.

None of the Harrys and Quirrell he expected were in this room.

In the entire room, there was only a floor-to-ceiling mirror with a beast's foot-style base in the middle, and something like a stone altar.

That floor-to-ceiling mirror is undoubtedly the Mirror of Erised that Dumbledore borrowed from Madam Pince.

But Bourne really didn't know what that stone altar was.

Its outer edge is carved with a circle of fragrant mallow patterns, and above it is a large sand table. After observing it for a moment, Bourne felt that the sand table looked familiar.

"Why does it look so much like the arena of the Horntail Hall?"

Bourne couldn't help but feel confused.

"And, where are Harry and the others?"

Just as he was thinking about this, a wave of water flowed on the Mirror of Erised, and a huge room suddenly emerged from the mirror.

"Harry, Ron, Hermione, and that person is...Professor Quirrell?"

Due to the bird's-eye view, George and Fred relied on the very representative turban to recognize that the three people following Harry were Quirrell.

George couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"How dare they do this and go out for a night out tonight?"

Fred was even more straightforward.

"Idiot, what you should ask is...how did they get involved with Quirrell?"

And his implication is: Are these three people in any danger now?

Unlike Harry's small team, because they have been in contact with Bourne, Sherlock, and Peeves more this year, the twins have no prejudice against Professor Snape - they just simply don't like him - they mainly believe that Professor Snape There's something very wrong with this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Therefore, they were very worried that their youngest brother and his friends were together with such a person in the middle of the night.

"Little Ronnie! Can you hear me?" George walked to the Mirror of Erised, reached out and knocked on the mirror, shouting into the mirror.

However, neither the little wizard nor Professor Quirrell were indifferent in the mirror image. They were still wandering around, as if they were looking for something.

However, this is not a wasted effort.

Because when George tried it, the sand tray on the altar immediately changed.

Four sand figures of different sizes grew out of the sand table one after another, like springs emerging from the ground.

In addition, a fire dragon clay puppet the size of a Shar-Pei slowly rose up from the sand table.

"This is……"

Bourne looked at the Mirror of Erised, and then compared it with the sand table in front of him.

"...The positions of Harry and the others in the mirror seem to be consistent with what is in the sand table. The fire dragon seems to correspond to the dragon-shaped sculpture in their place."

In addition, the layout of this sandbox is somewhat similar to a miniature version of "Horn of the Horntails". It is not difficult for Bourne to guess a possibility: Although Harry, the three of them and Quirrell also passed the level just arranged by Professor Snape, But the place they entered was different from that of themselves and others. They might have entered the "Hall of the Horntails".

He and Nico Flamel were kidnapped to that place before. The tent is an alchemy prop with a powerful "traceless stretch spell". It can even be marked as a specific location, and people can use a "portkey" to teleport in from the outside.

Considering that the level of Professor McGonagall has some changes from the original work, there is an alchemy chandelier that is most likely made by Nico Flamel.

In the last step of protecting the Sorcerer's Stone, in addition to the Mirror of Erised, Dumbledore asked Nico Flamel to arrange a "Horn of Horntail" (tent), which seemed to make sense.

"But Principal Dumbledore encouraged us to take the risk and let us enter the room we are in now. There is also a magic sand table in it. What is the reason for this?

He wouldn't let us watch and let Harry, Ron and Hermione stay in the same place with a dangerous person, right? "

Just think about it and you know it's impossible.

Bourne looked down at the sand table again and found that the positions of the sand figures on it were constantly changing synchronously with the movement of several people in the mirror screen, and they were always consistent with each other.

He tried tapping the sandy figure with his wand, but there was no special reaction from the person in the picture.

However, when he touched the Shar-Pei-sized fire dragon clay puppet with his wand, his keen observation skills immediately noticed that the fire dragon-shaped sculpture in the mirror image seemed to move accordingly.