Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 79 Attacking Filch

  The two returned to the castle the same way. As soon as they returned to the third floor, George and Fred prepared to take a shortcut back to the Gryffindor common room.

  Before they got out of the secret passage, the two had already determined the next route, and repeatedly confirmed that the number one "enemy" of the overnight tour was still resting in their own room.

   "Ah, ah..."

   Seeing that George was about to sneeze, Fred quickly covered George's mouth with his hand to avoid making too much noise.

   "It's okay, but the nose is a little itchy." George stretched out his hand and rubbed his nose, and covered his yawn again. He began to miss his soft bed

   "Maybe he caught a cold!" Fred looked at his twin brother sympathetically, "Go back!"

  The two walked up the stairs to the fifth floor, planning to go directly to the eighth floor through a secret passage here.

"Meow."

  An unfamiliar meow.

  Fred froze in place, raised his wand and looked forward, a black figure came out from around the corner, the two of them took a closer look, it was Filch's Mrs. Norris.

  The cat turned and ran away when it saw the two of them.

  After looking at each other, Fred and George suddenly laughed happily. They both knew what the cat was doing, and Filch would soon search the castle all over the place.

  However, Fred and George didn't care because they had already returned to the waiting room by then.

   Fred and George were in a very happy mood when they thought of Filch who had a cold and got up to toss about in the middle of the night.

   "Let's go, I want to go back to bed early." George yawned frequently.

  The two came to the eighth floor through the secret passage on the fifth floor, walked through the dark and silent Gryffindor corridor, and came to the portrait of the fat lady.

  However, the painting in front of the two of them was empty, which made their originally happy mood plummet to a trough.

  The fat lady went out to visit late at night.

  At this moment, both Fred and George realized that they were locked outside the Gryffindor lounge.

   "What should I do?" Fred's expression was not very good. They didn't know when the Fat Lady would be back. Moreover, Filch had already woken up, and he and his cat were on their way to the fifth floor.

  The guy took a shortcut through the secret road, and the speed was faster than the two expected.

   "Albert is really a crow's mouth." George said helplessly, "I don't want to spend the night here at all, I will definitely catch a cold, or should I find a place to rest first?"

  Looking for a place to rest?

   It is undoubtedly more appropriate to continue the night tour, find a place to stay, and wait for the Fat Lady to come back, than to continue the night tour at the risk of colliding with Filch.

  Where is the right place to stay?

  The answer is the secret way.

There are several secret passages on the eighth floor, but Fred is not sure which ones Filch knows. Through the Marauder's Map, both of them saw that Filch had already reached the fifth floor through the secret passages, and they began to search for the night-walkers. student.

   "Let Filch find it!" George pouted.

   "Be careful, lest the boat capsize." Fred reminded.

  He didn't want to be caught by Filch at all. Once caught, the end would definitely not be very good.

   Not only do you need to face Filch's annoying face, you also need to face Professor McGonagall, Percy, and after being deducted a lot of points, the Gryffindor students will not give them a good look.

   Now, we can only hope that Filch will give up the search sooner, and the Fat Lady will return sooner.

  Fifth floor, portrait corridor, Filch is patrolling with an oil lamp. He is in a terrible mood right now. He accidentally caught a cold today, and his head is still a little dizzy. He can't rest peacefully even if he wants to have a good rest all night.

   No, no, still no.

  Filch swept across the abandoned classrooms with an oil lamp in his hand, and pricked up his ears to carefully distinguish the surrounding sounds. His pet, Mrs. Norris, was also helping to search for the target, but he still couldn't catch the night swim student, and he didn't even hear anything else?

   "Run away?" Filch murmured, "No, that's impossible!"

   It didn't take a few minutes for Mrs. Norris to call the alarm until he was here, there's no way those nasty brats could have run that fast.

   "They can't go far, I will definitely catch them!" Filch thought that no one knew all the secret passages of Hogwarts castle better than him, and no one could escape from his grasp.

  However, Filch didn't know that his actions fell into the eyes of the twins. They stared at the ink dot symbolizing Filch on the Marauder's Map, watching it move through the secret passages through the various floors of the castle, and watching Mrs. Norris and Filch separate, searching for their whereabouts separately.

   "Filch is really familiar with the secret passages of the castle. It's very difficult for ordinary night tour students not to be caught by him." George said with emotion.

"Now is not the time to lament these things. We can't stay here any longer. Filch may know about this secret passage. We must find a place where Filch doesn't know." Fred immediately realized their ambiguity. The situation is not good.

   "Why don't you go and see if the fat lady is back." George suggested that if he could enter the lounge, he wouldn't need to worry about Filch.

   "Go and see." Fred agreed.

   They left the secret passage again and came to the portrait of the fat lady at the end of the Gryffindor corridor, but the result was still disappointing, the fat lady still hadn't come back.

"We have to go. If Filch searches the eighth floor, we won't be able to hide. Go to the passage of the knight's armor on the seventh floor. I don't think Filch knows that passage. We just need to hide somewhere. Welch will never find us."

  However, there is Mrs. Norris on patrol on the seventh floor, if you are not careful, you may be caught.

  The two of them planned to go to other floors through the secret passage carved with griffins on the eighth floor, but they found that Filch was walking towards the eighth floor along this secret passage.

"Run!" Fred yelled in a low voice, and hurried to run quickly. When the two of them went up the stairs to the seventh floor, Filch had already walked out of the Griffin sculpture, and he heard running immediately. moving sound.

"I found you, don't try to slip away!" Filch muttered, holding the oil lamp, he stepped towards the seventh floor to chase, Mrs. Norris immediately ran over to join her, and led the way ahead, leading him to find the place where he was at night. The guy who wanders around the castle.

   "No, Filch is coming this way!" Fred didn't try to open the knight armor statue, because Filch moved very fast.

   If the secret passage is not closed in time, it is very likely that Filch will discover it.

  This is definitely not a scene the twins would like to see, and they have the Marauder's Map in their hands, so they can go around the castle with Filch.

caught?

  Can you see the movement of the opponent clearly through the Marauder's Map, and can you still be caught?

nonexistent.

  At this time, George sneezed suddenly, and the sound rang in the corridor, which immediately attracted Filch's attention.

   "Hurry up, Filch is coming this way." Fred looked at George speechlessly, and hurriedly urged.

   "What now?" George quickly followed.

   "What else can we do?" Fred shrugged helplessly, "He chased, we ran."

  A game of cat and mouse has officially begun.

  (end of this chapter)