Chapter 210

"Professor Quirrell's two trolls had been locked on the third underground floor, originally intended to be placed inside along with Dumbledore's own arrangements..." Professor McGonagall said, "Unexpectedly, such a thing happened. It's truly strange; they were both locked with iron chains. I really don't know how they broke free."

"You mean, there are two trolls?" Murphy was stunned.

His crows were spread almost all over the school, so he could observe many secrets in the school.

Most of the tasks on the Guidebook were obtained this way. Murphy didn't have the ability to predict; he was just playing an information gap.

But, there weren't that many windows underground, and the crows didn't like to go there, so there weren't many. If Professor McGonagall hadn't said it, he really wouldn't have known there were two trolls down there.

Come to think of it, there did seem to be two trolls in the original work: one was defeated by the three little ones today, and one was the one guarding the Sorcerer's Stone at the end, which was finished off by Quirrell himself.

But because only one troll appeared today in the original work, he hadn't thought about this possibility.

"Yes, one is smaller and not yet an adult, and the other is fully grown, very strong, and extremely ferocious. We must control it immediately, otherwise, who knows what kind of destruction it will cause."

Murphy frowned, just preparing to give Tom a reminder through the Guidebook, when he suddenly received a scene.

Tom, seems to have been smashed flying?

……

"No!!"

"Tom!"

Harry watched helplessly as his friend was smashed flying by the troll in front of him, furious to the extreme. He drew his wand without hesitation, subconsciously chanting the spell Tom had used, "Expelliarmus!"

However, he hadn't practiced the Disarming Charm much before, and this shot only sparked a tiny red spark, hitting the tall body without even being able to tickle the opponent.

But, he still attracted the troll's attention.

The troll bent down and looked at the three little ones.

"Meat," it said, drool dripping down.

"Harry, quick, run! This guy is hungry!" Hermione screamed.

The troll reached out a hand and grabbed at Harry, who rolled and actually crawled out from beside it.

He reached the corridor and saw Tom in the corner in the distance at a glance.

"I'll go lure it away! You go save Tom!" Harry yelled, then picked up a fallen faucet from the ground and smashed it at the troll, "Come on! You big dummy! Come eat me! You big idiot!"

The troll couldn't understand what Harry was saying, but it felt that the opponent was provoking it. It snorted angrily and turned to chase after Harry.

"Harry!" Hermione was terrified, not knowing what to do for a moment.

"Quick, go check on Tom!" Ron said, pulling Hermione and running toward the corner.

Tom felt like he was going to die.

Although at the last moment, he subconsciously used the Armor Charm he had previously obtained from a task reward, due to being too rushed, the completion of his Armor Charm wasn't high, and the troll that ambushed him had even greater strength than the first one.

With one club strike, he was smashed flying more than ten meters away, and the Armor Charm couldn't completely offset the damage.

He felt as if all the bones in his body had been shattered.

"Tom!" Hermione and Ron ran over, pleasantly surprised, "You're still alive!"

The two helped him up, "Can you still walk?"

Tom stood up, only then discovering that one of his legs seemed to be broken, but strangely, he didn't feel particularly painful, "Where's Harry?"

"He went to lure that troll away, let's go quickly, go call a professor, he can't hold on for too long..."

Tom looked up at the end of the corridor. Harry was desperately dodging left and right. Thanks to Quidditch training, his body was very flexible. Several times when he was about to be hit, he would duck and roll, actually dodging it.

But this couldn't go on; it was too dangerous. The troll's big club wasn't a Bludger; getting hit once wouldn't just end with a few broken bones.

"No, we have to go help him..." Tom said.

He couldn't walk anymore. If this continued, Harry would inevitably be hit before they found a professor.

And Harry didn't know the Armor Charm, and his wand wasn't a snakewood wand; getting hit meant death.

"Give me your wands." He suddenly said.

"What?"

But Hermione and Ron still handed their wands to Tom, who gripped his two wands and their wands together.

A wand is an antenna; the more antennas, the stronger the signal will naturally be.

Professor Murphy, I hope you're right.

"Harry! Run this way!" Tom shouted.

Magic power is a water flow; the closer the distance, the greater the power.

Harry heard Tom's shout. He was already exhausted and covered in sweat. He didn't know what Tom was going to do, but at this moment, he decided to trust this clever partner.

He struggled to roll again under the troll's attack, drilled behind the troll, and then ran toward the three of them, while the troll also immediately turned to chase.

60 feet, 50 feet, 40 feet...

Suddenly, two palms reached over and pressed onto the four wands, "Tom, what spell?"

Tom looked at the two partners beside him, his eyes suddenly lighting up.

A wizard is a power source; the more power sources, the stronger the power will naturally be!

"Wingardium Leviosa, we've all learned it!"

Tom instantly thought of the spell they had just learned together in class recently. The three of them all knew this spell, and they all used it quite well.

"3!"

"2!"

"1!"

"Wingardium Leviosa!!!"

The moment Harry passed by them, the three voices shouted at the same time.

In an instant, a surging magic power rushed out. The resonance of the magic power of the three young wizards and four wands made the entire third-floor corridor tremble. Suddenly, not only did the wooden club in the troll's hand escape its control, but even the troll itself was lifted up by the lift of the Levitation Charm.

"Ow! Ow!"

The troll, like a turtle flipped over, frantically waved its limbs in the air, unable to touch the ground no matter what. It screamed in terror but couldn't move even a centimeter.

"We did it!" Hermione shouted in surprise, "Look! We floated the troll!"

Ron's hand was still pressed on the wand, "My god."

He seemed to be savoring the spell just now, and after a while said, "It turned into a troll balloon."

"Troll balloon..." Harry walked over, panting, "I was almost beaten into a Quaffle by him!"

"Pfft hahaha... Quaffle..." Ron laughed, "Weren't you a Bludger just now?"

Even Tom couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Then he heard Harry's words, and a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.

Quaffle, pfft.

"Oh, mate, you finally smiled!" Ron suddenly said.

"Although you usually smile, you look like a Slytherin," Ron laughed, putting his hand on his shoulder for the first time, "But now, it's different."

"Then what do I look like now?" Tom was curious, "Gryffindor?"

"Now, well..." Ron thought for a while.

"Like a friend."

……

The Guidebook in Tom's arms suddenly vibrated.

"Side quest: Make a friend! Completed!"

"Quest progress: 3/2. Over-completed!"

"Quest reward: Love Potion recipe."

"Over-completion reward: Petrification Spell!"

"Congratulations, congratulations."

Dumbledore's Mirror was still outside during Christmas, so Dumbledore's traps were only placed behind the trapdoor after Christmas. And Quirrell's troll was also very strange. If it were said that Quirrell arranged the troll behind the trapdoor and then let them run out, the troll would have to pass through several professors' traps, climb from the extremely deep underground to the fourth floor, avoid Fluffy from the fourth-floor corridor, and run to the underground classroom—this is no troll; this is even more powerful than Quirrell himself who couldn't pass Fluffy's barrier. Therefore, it can be inferred that on Halloween, the troll wasn't placed behind the trapdoor as a trap, but was just locked somewhere underground—in this way, even if they escaped, it wasn't particularly strange. Otherwise, the professors would definitely know there was a mole, and a simple investigation would be enough to catch Quirrell. This is also the reason why Murphy could still participate in the Sorcerer's Stone project after school started. At this time, in fact, several professors' traps hadn't been completed yet. In fact, when school just started, the only trap confirmed to be completed should be Hagrid's Fluffy. After all, Dumbledore's trap is the innermost; if he doesn't put it in, how can other teachers put in traps? But, there should have been some traps at this time, otherwise Snape wouldn't need to be so nervous to confirm the situation of the traps. Therefore, this is a contradiction in the original work. In order not to argue with everyone, I let the protagonist participate in setting traps in the early stage. As for when the other professors' traps were set, since the original work didn't say, I don't know either. To avoid contradictions, I'll just skip it.

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