Volume 4: The Sea and the Ship Heading North Chapter 229 The Sealed Door
Lee held on to Neville and Ron tightly. He was the oldest and the strongest among the five people. With his desperate efforts, he prevented Neville and Ron from escaping. Instead, they were knocked out of the door by the group of black cats and rolled down to a floor they were supposed to pass!
The barrier charm that Hermione cast in a hurry greatly slowed down the speed of the door panel sliding down. Because of this, the impact of the boys' rolling down was not so great that they were not injured when they landed.
It was precisely because of Neville's help in resisting that after using the barrier spell, Hermione was able to pounce on Luna in front of her in an extremely timely manner. The two of them lay directly on the door panel, causing the black cats to miss the opportunity and pass over the heads of Hermione and the others, and hit the stone wall with a "bang"!
At this time, the effect of the barrier spell on the door panel gradually disappeared, and the sliding speed that had been slowed down accelerated again, carrying the girls to continue descending to the first floor!
It was at this place that the boys and girls were forced to separate. The black cats, which had already split into dozens or hundreds, quickly split into two groups. One team completely blocked Neville and the others' way to the stairwell, while the other team followed the door panel and chased in the direction Hermione and the others left!
Lee, Neville and Ron, with their backs pressed against the wooden door on the 15th floor, were looking at the black cats that had surrounded them and were slowly approaching, breathing rapidly.
"What should we do?" Li asked.
Ron didn't know if it was because he was nervous or if he was just trying to emphasize it.
"We can't let them catch us! We mustn't! We mustn't!"
Neville did not let the situation force him to give up thinking. He immediately pointed his wand at the locked door behind them.
"Alaho hole open!"
There was a sound of the lock core clicking inside the door lock.
"I remember the house elf said that from the 20th floor to the 13th floor are vegetable gardens and pastures. The floor we are on now should be within this range. Whether it is the vegetable garden or the pasture, the space inside should be very large. As long as we go in, we will still have a chance to hide!"
As he spoke, he used his shoulder to push open the unlocked door, and then Lee, Ron and Neville stumbled into an open grassland together.
This room had a blue sky simulated by magic, and the ground was covered with endless emerald green grass. In the distance, a flock of sheep grazing leisurely turned their heads in confusion and looked at the three uninvited guests.
Soon after, more uninvited guests broke through the door frame, disrupting the quietness of the grassland.
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Hermione hugged Luna tightly, they both held wands in their hands, and the door panel was getting closer and closer to the first floor.
"Listen to me! Luna! When I count to three! You immediately cast a barrier spell on the door! I will block the !"
Luna had already crawled out of Hermione's already thin arms. She stared ahead with a focused look on her face and nodded in agreement very seriously.
“I will do it!”
Soon they went down from the fifth floor to the second floor, and the black cats followed them relentlessly. When they saw the corner of the stairs to the second floor, Hermione and Luna turned back to back, holding their wands, one looking forward and the other looking back.
"one two three!"
"Lots of obstacles!"
Luna had just been promoted to the second grade this semester, but the barrier spell was not a difficult spell to learn. After going to sea, John had repeatedly emphasized that she should not neglect her studies, so when she was on the Hogwarts, she had already mastered it under the guidance of senior students.
The barrier spell worked successfully and began to slow down the speed of the door panels again, but at the same time, while they slowed down, the black cats were still moving forward at full speed, and the distance between the two, which had not been opened to begin with, was rapidly shortening!
Just as Hermione and the others were about to pass by the second floor of the tower, Hermione pointed her wand at a large vase in front of the stairs on the second floor.
She used Transfiguration!
Even though she had been working hard to acquire knowledge over the past six months, she still couldn't understand and remember all the weird magical animals in the wizarding world.
But even if she couldn't tell what these black cats were, Hermione had already seen the consequences of the spell Neville and the others had cast on these cats.
Conventional magic is not only ineffective against them, but will also cause them to split. In this case, we don't need to use spells that can directly affect them, but instead use transfiguration that works indirectly!
The Transfiguration Charm is the fastest of all magical spells. The next second after Hermione swung her wand to finish the spell, the vase began to extend rapidly up the stairs. The pottery fragments turned into wooden branches, and they grew more and more densely, connecting with each other, and finally completely blocked the gap between the black cat and Hermione and the others!
There were even a few black cats that were rushing in the front, but they were unable to dodge and were entangled in the vines. They were blocked in the wooden wall while screaming!
All this happened in just two or three seconds, and during this time, the door panel, which had slowed down, finally slid down into the lobby on the first floor.
Hermione grabbed Luna's arm, struggled to stand up, and ran to the door together.
"We have to get the message out so that George and Fred on the ship can find a way to rescue Neville and the others, and then find a way to help Jon!"
As she spoke, she slammed her whole body against the two doors, but the doors did not move at all.
Hermione endured the numbness on one side of her body and pointed the tip of her stick at the door handle.
"Alaho hole open!"
However, this time the unlocking spell had no effect. The two doors remained as if welded to the ground, not moving at all.
Hermione's face began to turn pale, and she thought of the kerosene lamp that welcomed them at the door when Jon brought them to the tower.
It is not just a magic prop for welcoming guests, it also has the function of guarding the gate!
The hand holding the wand began to tremble, and the pain that she had ignored due to her eagerness now began to erode her senses.
"Thunder...explosion!"
She tried to use the same dark magic that she had seen Jon use on the door, but only a few sparks came out from the tip of the wand and there was no further reaction.
There is no last-minute request when using spells. If you know how to use spells, you know how to use them. If you don’t know how to use spells, you don’t know how to use them.
There was a commotion coming from the direction of the stairwell that was getting louder and louder. It was obvious that with Hermione's magical power, she couldn't sustain such a drastic Transfiguration for too long, and the group of black cats would break out soon!
And at this desperate moment, Luna was quietly looking at the ordinary painting that Hermione wanted to study but was interrupted by Rabbil.
"If the Sir is really a bad guy, then are some of the things the elf told us before also lies?"
