Chapter 138: Inspiration Charm

"A room for hiding things, very powerful." Neville muttered. "By the way, Professor, what time is it now?"

"Seven-forty." Tang Nade glanced at his watch. "I don't suggest you linger here, but if you really want to explore, I can't stop you."

He dropped this sentence casually and left with Lu Na in his arms.

Neville followed him, poked his head out of the door to take a look, and then found a relatively hidden corner in the room to sit down, looking at the situation at the door nonchalantly.

Harry understood his intention; in fact, the doubt that the children had been analyzing was that there was no place for the culprit to hide on the eighth floor. And now that it was confirmed that there was a secret room here that could hide things, then the culprit was very likely also using this room to hide.

Colin's victimization time was between eight-ten and eight-forty, of which eight-ten was the time recorded by the last student to leave Gryffindor before Colin, and eight-forty was the time when McGonagall found him lying on the ground.

Neville waited in the room for a long time without seeing anyone come in or go out; he hesitated slightly, then added a Disillusionment Charm to himself, and then walked out the door.

Harry and the Professor followed out, and they also maintained an invisible state. If the culprit who attacked Colin was also invisible, then there would be four invisible people in this narrow corridor, and maybe they would bump into someone while walking.

When the Professor's watch reached eight-twenty, the Fat Lady's portrait opened, and Colin walked out from inside carrying a bunch of grapes. Harry held his breath all of a sudden, staring intently at his movements.

The young Colin was not on guard against the seemingly empty corridor, and the room that could hide things did not open again. Colin walked to the stairs without any obstruction and began to walk down the stairs step by step.

Just as he stepped down the third step, Harry clearly saw a circle of light start from the soles of his feet and spread upward rapidly. Then, Colin, without any awareness, was petrified and fell to the ground.

After he was petrified, the camera in Colin's hand suddenly flashed a white light, and then a smell of burnt plastic began to spread.

Not long after, Professor McGonagall found Colin; she hurried to knock on the door of the Headmaster's office, and then Deng Buliduo also appeared. They lifted Colin up and walked toward the school hospital.

Neville, who had revealed his figure, gently touched the ground Colin had stepped on; he twisted his fingers thoughtfully, looking as if he had made a discovery.

After Neville returned, Harry and the Professor also went to investigate that floor. The knowledgeable Professor saw at a glance that there was a trap here, and it was arranged using magic runes.

"This looks obviously like magic runes, I mean ancient magic runes, but their shape and composition do not conform to the rules that ancient magic runes should have at all, so they can only be broadly called magic runes." He said. "I suspect this is a targeted trigger trap, but this is too strange; I can't imagine how it works at all."

"But in this way, we still don't know who is the culprit who directed this attack." Harry said with a headache.

"This is not difficult; since we have the TARDIS, as long as we catch who arranged this trap, that's enough." The Professor said confidently.

"But we can't keep monitoring the stairs here... oh, I have the Marauder's Map!" Harry said pleasantly surprised.

After Professor Lupin resolved the misunderstanding with Sirius, he returned the Marauder's Map to Harry, and Harry also regarded it as a very meaningful souvenir. Never thought that there would be an opportunity to use it at this time.

Using the TARDIS, they returned to the end of the term, that is, the moment when time travel began. Harry got back his Marauder's Map, and then came to the day of the Quidditch match again.

After Colin fainted, the camera exploded inexplicably, which showed that the reason the culprit attacked him was very likely because he accidentally photographed something during the match.

Therefore, Harry only needed to monitor the time from the end of the match until Colin was attacked at night to see who had been here.

There were no strange people in the afternoon; coming and going were all Gryffindor students, and they were entering and leaving their dormitories. Deng Buliduo came down once halfway, and after dinner, he returned to his office.

Just after dinner, around six o'clock, Tang Nade came to the crime scene.

He wandered in the corridor for a while, and then his name disappeared from the Marauder's Map.

"It seems that the creator of the map did not discover that storage room." The Professor commented. "To be honest, I didn't discover it when I was in school."

"He almost went straight to that room." Harry recalled Tang Nade's trajectory. "Perhaps he didn't set up a trap."

After a while, at six-forty, Lu Na came.

Before she walked up the stairs, she was moving in and out there, looking very strange. Harry couldn't help but walk out from his hiding place, draped in the Invisibility Cloak to observe her movements.

Lu Na was wearing a pair of strange glasses, jumping and hopping in the corridor, not knowing what she was doing. Harry once thought she might be dancing.

Suddenly, she stopped, and then walked quickly to the top of the stairs on the eighth floor, saying to the stairs that were slowly changing positions below: "Thank you!"

"Then," she pulled her wand out of her sleeve and quickly drew the shape of an eagle in the air. "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure!"

The spell fell, and the world around did not change at all, but Harry noticed that Lu Na's body paused suddenly, and then she ran happily into the corridor on the eighth floor.

"Room of Requirement!" She said happily. "Rowena Ravenclaw also left her own secret room."

After wandering three times, Lu Na successfully walked into that room, and she began to look around curiously.

Harry also roughly knew the story behind it, because Lu Na later thought it was a dream and mentioned it to everyone at the Torchwood gathering.

After she walked into the place where things were hidden, she wandered around and found Ravenclaw's diadem. But Tang Nade knew that it was a very dangerous, or rather, a magical item not suitable for children to use, so he stopped her in time. Moreover, in order to avoid Lu Na coming to explore again, he also cast a Memory Charm, making her forget this memory.

"Amazing spell, she might have gained knowledge through this." The Professor commented. "The students of your grade are really amazing, creating spells one after another."

"In fact, Lu Na didn't completely create it herself; the casting gesture of the spell was summarized based on the trajectory of the Hogwarts stairs." Harry said.

"Oh, that is to say, this is a spell left by Rowena Ravenclaw." The Professor took out his wand. "Theoretically, I can also try."

He imitated Lu Na's gesture, drew an eagle, and then recited that Ravenclaw maxim.

"So that's how it is, I understood it all at once." The Professor said. "This spell will greatly enhance your inspiration; perhaps the effect is somewhat similar to the diadem."

"In fact, I figured it out all at once; this is not just a storage room for hiding things, but as Lu Na said, the Room of Requirement." The Professor explained. "It will change its form according to people's thoughts, but when there are people inside, obviously it cannot change."

"Your thinking is a bit too jumpy..." Harry scratched his head.

"Yes, inspiration bursts, this is always uncontrollable." The Professor shrugged. "It's just that Tang Nade happened to want to enter that room for hiding things first, so we thought this was a secret storage room."

"In fact, I suggest you also try this spell, it's great, everything is figured out all at once." The Professor said happily. "I just thought of a plan, perhaps we don't need the Time-Moment... uh, I'll go discuss this with other professors slowly later."

"Then I might as well try." Harry looked down at the Marauder's Map; there was no one coming for the time being.

"Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure." Harry waved his wand and finished reciting the spell.

The moment he finished reciting, a self-evident feeling emerged in his heart. This spell could only be used once a month, because human inspiration is not infinite; they come from the accumulation of details in life, and by connecting two seemingly unrelated things in the subconscious, one can get a strange conclusion all at once.

Harry suddenly thought, since Tang Nade always looks strange, could it be that there are actually two Tang Nades in the school?

That is to say, Tang Nade's brother, Dark, actually didn't die, but deceived everyone around him together with Tang Nade. In this way, Tang Nade's split performance in the second year also makes sense; the one who favors students, takes care of Hermione and Ron in every possible way, and wishes to give them tutoring every day is one of the twins; while the one who wanders around, sometimes managing Neville investigating the girls' restroom, sometimes managing Lu Na looking for the diadem, is the other twin brother.

Then, Tang Nade has double the time; of course, he can attend the banquet while carrying out attacks; arrange Avalon while manipulating the Chamber of Secrets; serve as a professor while executing Deng Buliduo's secret plan.

This is a very interesting conclusion, derived from the story of Mrs. Fontroy and Harry's intuitive suspicion of Tang Nade.

But for now, the person who attacked Colin is unlikely to be Tang Nade. Harry shook his head and decided to put this conclusion aside for now and leave it for future verification.

When he refocused his gaze on the parchment, Harry couldn't help but take a deep breath and widen his eyes in disbelief.

An unexpected name was walking quickly toward the top of the stairs on the eighth floor; it was Pei Xu. ===== CHAPTER 139 =====