Volume 5: The Burning Golden Flame Chapter 387: Vicious Beauty Trap
Gryffindor's sword seemed to be welded to the table, and it did not move at all when hit by the knight's sword in the armor's hand.
However, the feather pen that was writing on the parchment bounced for a moment due to such gravity, leaving a black ink mark on the parchment. Then it found the right angle and continued writing.
The one in armor holding the long axe took this opportunity to chop off the binding spell and freezing spell on the first suit of armor with one axe, allowing it to regain its ability to move.
The sword and shield armor also raised their swords and shields again, and the three sets of armor formed a triangle and surrounded Hermione in the middle!
The only thing that made Hermione feel a little relieved was that these armors seemed to be targeting only her, and did not pay attention to the shorthand quill that was still writing furiously on the desk, and therefore did not interfere with the process of copying the magic runes.
Fawkes stood on Hermione's shoulder and did nothing else.
Apart from other things, these armors all have extremely strong physical resistance, making it difficult for Fox's normal attacks to cause any effective damage to them. If he directly uses his ultimate power, it will inevitably make this office the most eye-catching existence under the cover of night, and all concealment and containment will become futile.
So its current mission is to keep an eye on Hermione, and once it finds that she is in desperate situation, it will immediately Apparate and take her away.
This was the task assigned to it by Dumbledore, to prevent Hermione from risking her life in order to complete the task.
Hermione did not confront these armors head-on. She looked at the progress of the shorthand quill from time to time. According to the time estimate, it would take at least three minutes to copy down all the magic runes on the table, and she had to hold on for three minutes under the attack of these three sets of armor.
Originally, according to Hermione's suggestion, since all Muggle electronic devices cannot be used in Hogwarts Castle, purely mechanical cameras can still be used. As long as such a camera can be brought in, the magic runes on the desktop can be copied at the fastest speed.
But Dumbledore said that these magic runes containing magic and in operation could not be recorded in this way, just like a camera could not withstand the eyes of a basilisk. The huge force would directly cause the camera itself to collapse, and the film would be burned into a ball of charcoal.
If you want to copy this kind of magic rune, you can only use the most basic method of handwriting and copying. There is no other possibility of tricks.
But in fact it was only three minutes. Hermione looked at the three sets of armor and took a deep breath. The hand that was not holding the wand reached into the pocket of her robe. She took out the Marauder's Map and quickly glanced at the location of the Auror closest to the headmaster's office.
Most of the Aurors were on the first floor, with only one team of Aurors appearing to have just walked down from the third floor to the second floor and were returning to the auditorium on the first floor .
That is to say, with all the movable stairs now stopped, even if the people downstairs noticed any movement in the principal's office, it would take them at least two minutes to reach the seventh floor at the fastest. This time was enough for Hermione to take away the parchment that she had already copied.
Then she found Jon's name at a glance. He and Lee were now in the garden outside the castle, and not far from them were the names of Snape and Crouch.
After making sure that everyone was in place and calculating the time, Hermione put the Marauder's Map back into her pocket. The three suits of armor had completed their initial charging, and they rushed towards her at a faster speed with weapons in hand.
Hermione also waved her wand, but this time the target of her wand was obviously not any armor, but the wall facing the window!
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Garden, bench.
Jon and Li have been sitting here for a while. They are still chatting, but at Li's instruction, the distance between the two of them has gone from some distance in the beginning to getting closer and closer now, almost completely touching each other.
"I say, I really can't figure out what effect this bracelet you're wearing has that would make us do this?"
After Jon once again made sure that there were no walls around him, he couldn't help but complain.
Li's voice now has become exactly the same as Hermione's, but he seems to want to imitate the girl's accent deliberately, but his impression of girls is too single, and whenever he opens his mouth, he smells like a green tea.
"Hermione didn't tell you this? Maybe she was afraid you would feel embarrassed, so she kept it from you on purpose."
"Why should I be embarrassed about this? What effect can this bracelet have? It's impossible that Crouch used some delayed-acting love potion on it."
Li obviously knew what the bracelet's original function was. After hearing what Jon said, he stared at Jon .
"Were you teasing me just now? In fact, Hermione has already told you what the bracelet is used for?"
Hearing him ask this, Jon felt that the world was beginning to become absurd .
"It's really a love potion? What's going on? What's the point of Crouch using Hermione to potion me? Does he want me to become a love slave and then become stupid?"
Li also realized at this time that Jon was just guessing it, and he couldn't help but complain.
"How do I know the villain's train of thought? When I first learned about the effect of this bracelet from Professor Dumbledore, I was even more surprised than you. It not only contains a love potion, but also a very strange potion."
"Strange potion? How strange?"
Jon asked with a somewhat broken look in his eyes. He felt that using Hermione to drug him was strange enough, and there couldn't be anything stranger than this.
"It was on one of the beads on the bracelet that Professor Dumbledore discovered that there were some magical potions hidden in it, and anyone who wore it would be permeated by these potions all the time. This potion itself is not harmful to humans, but it will be absorbed into the human body and will also assimilate the body fluids in the human body, allowing the potion to mix with it. The love potion can be mixed with this potion to produce a new potion, which also has no effect or harm on humans, but..."
Jon seemed to have thought of something that was extremely against public order and social morality. He stared at Li in horror.
"But what?"
"But this new potion created after mixing with the love potion has no effect on women. For men, it is equivalent to the most deadly poison."
Li Zai's expression was also very strange when he said this, as if he couldn't imagine what kind of thought process the person who designed this vicious plan had.
Jon fell into a strange daze, trying to sort out the logic of the potion with his confused mind.
The potion itself is harmless to humans, but it can be integrated into human body fluids, and then combined with the love potion to become a new potion.
This new potion is harmless to women, but highly toxic to men. The person wearing this bracelet is Hermione, which means that the potion on the bracelet has no effect on her.
However, Crouch's real target was actually him, and this potion mixed with aphrodisiac would only work on men. But the key point was that after this potion was put on Hermione's hand, it would manifest itself as Hermione's body fluids.
The target was him. The poison was Hermione's body fluids, and there was a love potion as a trigger, and a quiet environment where no one could disturb them was provided...
After thinking it through, Jon's face suddenly became extremely gloomy and ugly, and he could only grit his teeth and squeeze out a few words.
"Crouch is damned!"
This plan sounds weird, but after Crouch has completed all the prerequisites and delivered the bracelet to Hermione naturally, the success rate is actually surprisingly high!
Jon would not be on guard against Hermione at the ball at all, and the love potion is not an ordinary poison, it can even be said that it is not a poison. Even if Jon was poisoned by this potion, he would not feel anything wrong.
Even if he actually had a great affection for Hermione, his subconscious mind might even contribute to the effect of the love potion.
At that time, there would be no need for anything else. As long as he and Hermione kissed in a state of confusion and passion, he would be dead for sure!
If it weren't for the Marauder's Map and Hermione's own vigilance, he might have fallen into the trap by now.
Crouch definitely did enough research on him. At least he knew his interpersonal relationships in the carriage and knew that he had a closer relationship with Hermione among the girls. He also knew clearly that it would be extremely difficult to attack John directly, so he could only take a roundabout way.
A normal student of fifteen or sixteen would hardly be able to resist this move, as teenage hormones are budding at the time, and this plan is extremely sinister.
If John really fell into the trap, Hermione would be finished even if she was alive, and this did not cost any strength from anyone on Voldemort's side, only the life of a small half-blood student and a special bracelet.
It's no wonder that John was so angry. This series of plans was really disgusting and vicious. However, Crouch was so cruel that he could even kill his own parents. It was not surprising that he could come up with such a vicious plan.
"So what are we going to do next?"
Soon, Jon calmed himself down. It was obvious that Crouch's plan could no longer succeed. What they needed to do now was to divert Crouch's attention and facilitate Hermione's actions in the castle.
Lee signaled to Jon with his eyes a window on the seventh floor of the castle.
"See that? We need to wait for Hermione's signal here. If there is a signal, we need to continue the show. If there is no signal, Hermione herself will come and tell us to return to the carriage."
Just as Li finished his words, a red light suddenly flashed through the window of the principal's office where he pointed!
