In This Hogwarts Without a Savior Chapter 408

   It's not the main thing to understand these, because Jon still hasn't figured out the most critical issue.

   "Do you know why the Dark Lord wants to take Hogwarts Castle into his own hands so much?"

   Obviously, even the Sorting Hat cannot explain this problem.

"I'm not sure about that. It stands to reason that he shouldn't have cared so much about this castle, because even if the castle really belonged to him, it wouldn't bring him any benefit or improvement. He can stay in the castle for a long time."

  This question is not only bothering Jon, including Dumbledore and the principals, they are all wizards who once owned the castle, and everyone has not figured out what Voldemort's purpose in obtaining the castle is.

   But even if he can't figure it out clearly, it doesn't actually hinder what Jon is doing now. The more the enemy wants to do, the more he can't do it.

  As long as you can win the championship of this game, it doesn't matter whether you know the answer to this question or not.

  So Jon stopped thinking about Voldemort, but completely focused on how to find the Triwizard Cup.

  After he walked into the auditorium, he didn't notice any obvious difference from when he came here before.

The flame on the candle is dancing, illuminating the dark place where the sun cannot reach. The surrounding tables and chairs are clean, and there is nothing on it. Only the ceiling that reflects the sky outside can feel the sunlight deflection.

It is almost noon at 11 o'clock now, and there is still more than an hour before Emil and the others enter the castle to start the game, and if Jon does not find more clues within this hour, it will be equal to the time before him. The advantages gained in the two games were in vain.

Jon first checked the hall along the perimeter of the auditorium. After finding nothing, he walked up to the high platform with long tables that only professors were usually allowed to sit on, and saw the Only Voldemort himself is entitled to sit in the seat.

   There seemed to be no problem here, but Jon keenly noticed that there was also a lit candle floating behind the long table.

   At first glance, there is nothing wrong with a candle here. There are many similar candles floating in other places in the auditorium, but Jon realizes that this candle is suspended in the sunlight.

   Other candles are used to illuminate places where the sun cannot reach, to enhance brightness.

   Of course, it is also possible that the candle flew in the wrong place, but Jon is more inclined, it is actually a clue left by Matthew and the others deliberately.

   Observing the candle, and not finding anything on the surface, Jon began to raise the wand in his hand, and lightly pointed at the wick of the candle.

  The next moment, the flame of the candle suddenly exploded, and the flame rose to a height of more than half a meter, but in the end the flame quickly declined, and the entire candle was directly shortened by half.

   It was at this time that he discovered the real strangeness of this candle.

  Although the wax on the surface of the candle was half burnt, the wick inside didn't mean to be burned at all. On this standing wick, Jon saw a line of small characters vertically.

  【School belongs to the essence of school】

Just after Jon finished reading this vertical line of writing, the entire candle suddenly lit up, and then the candle was completely burned out, leaving only an extinguished wick falling to the ground, and on the wick, the line of small characters also All disappeared.

  Jon picked up the wick and found nothing special on it, then he asked the Sorting Hat softly.

   "So what is the nature of school?"

  With the Sorting Hat following him, of course Jon would not be so stupid as to use this help and solve the puzzles by himself. For this castle, the Sorting Hat must know much more than him.

   "That depends on whether the school mentioned here refers to Hogwarts in a narrow sense, or refers to all schools in a broad sense."

   "What if it just refers to Hogwarts?"

   "If it only refers to Hogwarts, then the meaning of the castle itself was actually created by the four wizards at that time, just to allow the little wizards to escape the oppression of the Muggles, so that they can control the magic power in their bodies."

   Jon squeezed his chin, and he continued.

"So, if it refers to the scope of the school, then the essence of the school is to teach and educate people to impart knowledge? One is to avoid oppression, and the other is to impart knowledge. If this clue is to guide the place where the three strong cups are located "

  Jon looked down at the ground.

   "Will Graves and the others really use this method of satirizing the Dark Lord to make riddles?"

   The Sorting Hat did not provide any answers to this question.

If this puzzle refers to Hogwarts, then the castle under Voldemort's rule has violated its essence, because the place where the oppressors were liberated became a slave field for oppression, and the place for slaves was used to slavery. The key to planting students is underground.

But that's still the problem. Jon can almost understand the position of Matthew, the referee himself. Judging from the attitude he has shown from the beginning of the game to the present, he can indeed be said to be impartial, so in the last round In the first game, will the projects designed by him be displayed in this more biased manner towards Dumbledore?

But if this school refers to the whole of the noun school, then the concept of teaching and educating people is too big. All the classrooms in the entire castle conform to the concept of the essence of this school. If you want to make every classroom It is basically impossible to find them all without a period of two or three days, and it is not necessarily possible to find clues accurately during the search.

  Jon felt that such a broad concept might as well not leave this clue, because searching the entire castle would take little more effort than just searching for the classroom.

  In the end, he decided to go to the place where the subterraneans live. Maybe Matthew really has a heart for Dumbledore, but it's not easy to express the position of the Magic Council itself?

  He quickly found the stairway leading to the basement with familiarity. This is the most corner of the entire castle, but it is the place Jon is most familiar with.

  Two years ago, he spent more than half a year here, so it is impossible for him to feel strange.

   Going down the stairs, the place is no different from when Jon left. It is still so dark, damp and cold, and there is no one inside.

Of course, Snape and Crouch moved them to other places in advance, and they will not stay here to meet Jon. About Snape, they have been here for nearly a whole year. Fully prepared, Dumbledore has brought Jon and his party here for such a long time, and he has never seen a stump student in the castle. Obviously, this is the result of Snape and Crouch's strict defense.

  Walking in the dark basement corridor, surrounded by the dormitories of hemp students, it is estimated that no one of the participating students is more familiar with it than Jon.

  He didn't stay, the first thing he came to was of course the dormitory where he used to live as "Randy Smith".

Pushing the door open and walking in, there is obviously a new owner here, the old and damp bed is neatly folded, and there is still a linen robe hanging on the hanger beside the bed, Jon did not touch the things in this bedroom , Is there any problem? In fact, it can be seen just by standing and looking at it, because there are too few items in it, and there is no place to hide the trophy.

It took Jon half an hour to quickly check the remaining dormitories. There was no door lock in each dormitory, so his progress was not slow, but until all the rooms in the basement were checked Once again, he didn't get any gains.

   This didn't disappoint Jon much. If things really went so smoothly, then he would have doubts.

  After confirming that there would be no more discoveries here, Jon decisively left from the basement. He began to search from the classroom on the first floor to see if he could try his luck in the broad sense of the school concept.

  There are not many classrooms on the first floor. It only took him an hour to get to the second floor, and at the same time he walked up the easternmost staircase of the castle.

  It's 1pm.

  Outside the castle, Matthew released Diane and Emil on time and let them enter the castle.

   But under the eyes of everyone, neither Diane nor Emil moved first. They watched each other in front of the gate of the castle, obviously on guard.

It's okay if the time is staggered, no one will waste the time looking for the trophy to squat in front of the goal, because once the squat fails, it is tantamount to a complete waste of all the advantages and efforts of the previous two games, but at this time the two of them have the same results , the situation is different when entering the castle together.

   Both Diane and Emil knew in their hearts that no one could guarantee whether the person who entered the castle first would launch a sneak attack on the other person and eliminate one on the spot.

In this way, when they were deadlocked in front of the door for a full five minutes, Emil finally gritted his teeth and knew that it would be the most detrimental for him to continue procrastinating like this, because every extra second was tantamount to giving back to the people who were already there. Jon in the castle increases the advantage.

   "Let's go together."

   He stared at Diane and said.

Diane didn't want to procrastinate here anymore. It wasn't that she didn't see clearly that Emil was being involved here. She was actually helping Jon indirectly, but she kept raising her wand in this way, so that her arm had begun to feel obvious. Sore and numb, and with so many people watching, she couldn't bear it any longer.

  So she nodded and agreed to Amir's proposal.

   Such a gate is more than enough for two people to enter at the same time. They stared at each other, and they didn't put down their wands. They walked slowly towards the castle together until they entered the castle completely.

   Just after they entered the castle, the open door was closed again, isolating the castle and the space outside.

  Diane didn't relax for a moment, even after entering the castle. She kept a close eye on Emil, thinking in her mind how high her success rate would be if she acted immediately after the gate was closed.

Not asking for 100% to let Emil out, even if the two of them lose the qualification here at the same time, it is tantamount to victory for her, only one Draco can enter the castle until the sun goes down, for Joe Well, we can't turn up any storms at all.

   And just when the gate of the castle was completely closed and the hall began to become dark, Emil, who also raised his wand and faced Diane, suddenly showed a mocking smile on his face.

  At that moment, Diane's heart suddenly jumped, and a bad premonition suddenly rose, but before she could say the spell, a scarlet beam of light hit her back silently!

   "Plop."

   Diane, who was hit by the Stunning Curse, just fell to the ground, and blood was poured out of her smooth forehead.

   "Should we leave her here, or throw her out?" Emil asked.

  The sneak attacking wizard is modifying Diane's memory.

   "Throw it out, we not only want to win the championship, but also always let people know that you eliminated them by relying on your absolute strength."

Hearing this, Emil didn't show the slightest expression of shame on his face. Instead, he directly grabbed Diane's arm who had been comatose after his memory had been changed, and then pushed open the closed castle gate, leaving the castle where he was just half a minute ago. The competitor who walked in with him in the public was thrown out of the castle.

  When the gate of the castle was opened from the inside again, many people outside noticed this scene.

They saw that the person who opened the door was Emil, and they also saw that he threw out Diane, who was unconscious and bleeding from her head, and then Emil closed the door again without saying anything. up.

   There was a brief silence among the students in the castle, and loud cheers erupted in the next second.

   Among other things, Emil eliminated an opponent in less than three minutes after entering the castle, which is definitely encouraging for the castle students who have been depressed since the first project.

The students in Durmstrang had a gloomy face, but Rozier had a calm face. She walked forward, helped Diane who was unconscious in front of the castle gate, and lifted the stun spell on her at the same time. .

  Diane opened her eyes in confusion, and her pupils gradually began to focus after seeing Rozier.

   "Sorry, Professor, I didn't fight him in a duel."

   Rozier just shook his head.

   "You have done what you need to do, and the rest has nothing to do with us."

  She helped Diane, who had not fully recovered her strength, return to the auditorium, and Matthew also announced Diane's exit at this time.

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