Professor The Vampire Earl of Hogwarts

"This is?"

Harry froze for a moment, looked at the herbalism book Cedric handed him in front of him, and asked suspiciously.

"There may be something you need here." Cedric smiled, "I just told me that Qiu was also in the library just now, and saw that the three of you are still looking up materials here..."

"I guess you haven't found a way to get into the water yet."

"Did you come here to laugh at me on purpose?" Harry asked bluntly, his complexion changed.

"No, I just want to return your favor." Cedric smiled warmly.

"Favour?" Harry looked at him confused.

"Did you forget? Before the first game started, you told me that the event would be related to fire dragons." Cedric said, "If it wasn't for the information you told me, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to come up with that kind of game on the spot." Ingenious method."

"I don't give you any favors." Harry muttered, "Except for you and Kowalski, all the warriors in the first round know what the competition is, I just don't want to take advantage of you..."

"But it is indeed a great favor to me." Cedric smiled and sighed, "If you don't have the idea of ​​not wanting to take advantage, but choose to be with Beauxbaton and Durmster The principals of the two schools, Lang Na, want to play games with foresight..."

"Without knowing it, I may suffer a big loss, and maybe I will embarrass the Hogwarts warriors."

He forcefully pushed the book into Harry's hand, and said, "So accept this book, I also found it by chance, No. 60 page nine has what you need."

Harry clenched the book in his hands stiffly, with mixed emotions in his heart.

He really needed a solution that could help him complete the game, but this solution was sent by his opponent, which made him very frustrated.

"We're not just rivals, Harry." Cedric seemed to know what he was thinking, and he smiled and comforted, "Aren't we helping each other as friends?"

Harry froze for a moment, then smiled relaxedly.

Yeah, he and Cedric weren't just rivals—

As early as in so many Quidditch matches, the aboveboard style of Cedric and the Hufflepuff team had already won Harry's favor.

After the experience of helping Hufflepuff snipe the Slytherin team in the second year, he and Cedric have actually become friends.

"You gave me the way to deal with the game, so what do you do?" Harry was no longer obsessed with accepting Cedric's help at this time, but worried that he didn't have another way to deal with it, so he asked.

"Don't worry, I've already thought about what to do." Cedric said with a smile, "It's a coincidence that this book was found by Mr. Filch a few days ago, and he said it was from a Hufflepuff. If the students confiscated it, let me, the prefect, help send it back."

"But I asked all over Hufflepuff and couldn't find the owner of this book, so I went through the contents of the book on my own initiative, and just found something useful."

"Don't worry, I will return the original book to Mr. Filch. This book was copied using the copy spell, and it can only exist for a few hours. Mr. Filch won't know about it—you don't need to read it anyway. Too long, right?"

Only then did Harry feel relieved, and put away the book that Cedric had brought over.

"Thank you, Cedric." He sincerely thanked, then sighed bitterly, "To be honest, I really don't know what to do without the book you sent..."

"After all, you are still young, and you haven't learned a lot, which is normal." Cedric smiled, "Your performance in the first game has already impressed me. I can think of summoning a broomstick with the Flying Curse, so that you will be able to do so." Ingenious method."

"Actually, this is what my friend thought of." Harry and Ron next to him looked at each other, and said softly, "If I was the only one, Professor Dracula might be needed to save me in the first match right?"

"It's okay, at least you have achieved a good result." Cedric waved his hand and bid farewell to Harry, "I wish you a smooth race tomorrow, Harry!"

"I wish you the best for tomorrow's game too, Cedric!" Harry waved his hand too.

After Cedric left, Ron and Hermione quickly moved to Harry's side, staring closely at the book Cedric had sent as if grasping at a straw.

"Harry, look at what's written on it!" Hermione said hastily.

"Would it really work?" Ron wondered, "Could it be that he just wanted to interfere with his opponent...Harry, Diggory is a little lower than your score now, if he wants to trip you up son……"

"Cedric wouldn't do that." Harry shook his head and interrupted Ron, "I believe in his character, based on the fact that he would rather admit defeat than win without force on the Quidditch pitch. We don't need to doubt him about this."

While talking, Harry turned the book in his hand to page No.60 according to the number of pages Cedric told him.

There is a type of herb clearly recorded on the page—Gill Sacgrass.

"The gills grass is produced in the Mediterranean area. It is gray-green, long and sticky in shape..." Ron read to the content written in the book, "This is not a spell, it can be compared with tomorrow's game. what is the relationship?"

"Keep looking back, Ron!" Hermione glared back at him, and his words read back:

"It was discovered by Eladora Ketterridge in the early years. According to him, after a wizard eats gills, gills will grow to breathe underwater, and webs will grow on his hands and feet for swimming... "

Hermione looked up in surprise and found that Harry and Ron had the same look in their eyes.

"It actually works!" Ron exclaimed, "Does this mean that Harry can hide a gill weed in his pocket and eat it before entering the water..."

"Don't rush to be happy, I think we'd better read the functions of the gills grass first—" Hermione said rigorously, "What if it has any side effects?"

Then she went on to read: "The efficacy of the herb was verified a century later by the herbalist Beyomont Metieri Banks, who judged that the magic power of a gillwort could last about An hour's time."

The surprise emotion in the eyes of the three of them is getting stronger and stronger.

The effect of gills grass can last for about an hour, which is simply a herbal medicine tailored for the second event of the semifinals!

"Be sure to get a gill weed!" Harry slapped his thigh violently and jumped up from his seat, "I can definitely sneak into Hogsmeade in an invisibility cloak and go to the herb shop over there Buy one!"

With that said, he was about to run back to the common room and put on his invisibility cloak.

However, at this moment, Hermione caught a glimpse of the last line of small print on this page:

"Attachment: Gill grass is relatively rare, and it is a precious potion material. It is not recommended to be used as a swimming method for long-term consumption; it is not recommended to sell it in a range."

Her eyes widened, and she grabbed Harry's arm in a panic.

"Wait a minute, Harry, the herb shop in Hogsmeade probably doesn't have gills..."

"Why?" Harry and Ron stopped their eagerness to try.

Hermione pointed them to the last line of small print on the book, and the joyful expressions on Harry and Ron's faces suddenly froze.

"So what should we do?" Harry asked blankly.

Ron looked at the various other books piled up next to him, and his eyes gradually became a little dazed.

"Digory probably didn't see the fine print, or else he wouldn't have given you this book..." He muttered, "Is there no way for Harry to complete the game? "

The three stood there in a daze, even Madam Pince's ferocious gesture of pushing them away hardly noticed.

"I've said it several times, the library is closed!" Mrs. Pince yelled angrily, "Are you three guys challenging the librarian's authority?!"

She has been a librarian at Hogwarts for so many years, and she holds the "power of life and death" of all books. Any little wizard who needs to borrow books needs to have a considerable degree of respect for her, and she is also proud of it .

However, just today, someone dared to ignore Mrs. Pince as a librarian. This is definitely a direct rebellion against the authority of the librarian!

"Oh, I'm sorry, Mrs. Pince, we were distracted just now." Hermione, who still often came to the library to borrow books and had the most dealings with Mrs. Pince, was the first to react and quickly apologized, "We'll be leaving right away!"

As she spoke, she immediately took Harry and Ron and ran out, leaving only Mrs. Pince sorting out the large volume of books they left behind full of resentment.

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On the other side, Hermione pulled Ron and Harry into the Gryffindor common room, one in each hand.

While running, she said hurriedly: "Hurry up, you two, maybe we still have a chance now."

"Give up, Hermione, we have no chance..." Ron let Hermione pull him, and said dejectedly, "Let Harry swim around the Black Lake for a while, and Professor Dracula will Get him out of the water."

"I'd better go to Hogsmeade to have a look. What if the herbal shop over there has gill grass?" Harry didn't give up on himself like Ron, but his expression was also not optimistic.

"The match isn't over yet, and everything hasn't settled yet!" Hermione looked at the two of them sternly, and said loudly, "Cheer up, both of you, Harry still has a chance to succeed in tomorrow's match!"

"Have you thought of a way, Hermione?" Harry looked at Hermione expectantly, raising the last hope in his heart.

"Hmm." Hermione nodded emphatically, "There's no gill weed in the herbal shop in Hogsmeade, but it doesn't mean there's no other place!"

"what do you mean……"

"Gill grass is not only a tool to help people swim, but also a very precious potion material." Hermione said, "Let's go to Snape's potion storage room and look for it, we should find something of."

Ron and Harry's eyes widened in surprise.

They never imagined that Hermione, a top student who always abides by school rules and disciplines, would be the first to suggest the idea of ​​stealing things from the Potions professor...

"Hermione, are you really not infected by Fred and George for violating school rules?" Ron hesitated and asked in a low voice.

"It's just for Harry, just this once!" Hermione said sternly, glaring at Ron.

Then, she looked at Harry, "Harry, hurry up and go back to your dormitory to get your invisibility cloak. Let's go to Snape's office in the basement of the castle... Also, I think we still need a few helpers."

That night, Fred and George had a big operation in the corridors of the Hogwarts Castle Dungeon.

They first threw several big dung eggs at the door of the Slytherin common room, and then set off several exaggerated fireworks outside Snape's office door.

According to Fred and George, the two of them had wanted to do this for a long time.

Snape was so angry that he didn't sleep at night, and rushed out of the office in a rage, and he was bound to arrest the troublemakers who ignored them.

However, Fred and George had the advantage of the Marauder's Map, shuttled back and forth between the various secret passages in the castle, played around with Snape, and abruptly led him from the ground to the eighth floor of the main tower. Got caught once.

Meanwhile, the three young wizards, hiding in a wide invisibility cloak, sneaked into the castle dungeon while Snape was out to capture Fred and George.

"Alohomora."

Hermione pointed her wand at the door lock of the potion material storage room, and muttered softly.

The door lock opened in response, Harry, Ron and Hermione pushed the door open and walked in. They saw countless potion ingredients and many experimental products soaked in jars, some of which were extremely strange. It looks very pervasive.

"Is it so easy to get in here?" Ron closed the door and asked suspiciously, "I thought Snape was very powerful, but I didn't expect his protective magic to be so bad."

"Maybe... he never thought that anyone would dare to sneak into his potion storage room?" Harry said with some uncertainty.

Hermione frowned, staring at the wand that had just cast the Unlocking Charm.

"Why do I feel a little strange..." she whispered, "Snape's protective magic should not be so fragile, but I feel that it has been cracked, leaving only the most common door lock Leave it to me."

"Don't think so much, just come in." Ron said carelessly, "Instead of thinking about all these things, why not hurry up and help Harry find the gill grass!"

"Yeah, that's right." Hermione nodded in agreement.

Afterwards, the three little wizards began to rummage through Snape's storage room for potion materials. According to the description in the book sent by Cedric, it would take a few hours to find Harry. Gill grass used.

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