Chapter 459 Dumbledore's Method
Fish had not planned to try the age line tonight. He just went out shopping out of habit. However, after hearing what Harry and the others said, the cat was a little eager to move, so he did not walk and stop as usual, but went straight to the hallway where the Goblet of Fire was placed.
Of course, in order to take care of Harry and Ron who were following behind him, especially because he did not want to lose Hermione again, the cat did not walk very fast. Harry and Ron could keep up with him by just speeding up a little.
Just when Fish came to the stairs leading to the hallway on the second floor, he suddenly stopped.
"Meow~"
The cat shook his ears, twitched his nose twice, and called softly.
And the little black cat that Hermione turned into also acted timidly.
"Meow?"
She nudged Fish with her head, asking if he wanted to leave first.
"Meow."
Fish shook his tail and squatted down at the stairs, looking down with his head down. Seeing this, Hermione could only squat down next to him helplessly.
The twins who could understand Phish's words also fluttered their wings in panic at first, but soon they calmed down.
"What's wrong, Phish?"
Ron, who couldn't understand cat language, couldn't help but ask in a low voice when he saw that these Animagus looked strange.
"Shh, listen."
Without waiting for Phish to answer, Harry beside him pulled his robe and said so.
Ron listened for a moment, and his face suddenly changed.
A dull and strange rhythm of footsteps came from downstairs, and it became clearer and clearer.
Ron was very familiar with this strange footsteps - it was the sound of Professor Moody's artificial leg and crutches hitting the ground when he walked.
Sure enough, after a while, Professor Moody appeared at the bottom of the stairs.
"Good evening, Phish, and Miss Granger."
The faculty and staff of Hogwarts knew about the two cats a long time ago, and they would occasionally bump into them, and Moody was no exception.
"Meow~"
(=ΦωΦ=)
Although he didn't like Professor Moody very much, the cat still greeted him politely.
Moody's magic eye turned and then stopped behind Fish.
"Harry? And Mr. Weasley?" He raised his eyebrows, "Are you... planning to sign up?" The magic eye swept over the shoulders of the two, "Those two birds should also be students? Let me guess... the Weasley twins?"
Although the twins' Animagus form has always been kept secret, many people know that they are Animagus, so Moody guessed the truth after a little thought.
"Professor McGonagall's teaching level is really amazing." Moody exclaimed sincerely.
Animagus is not a simple spell. You must know that before Fish, there were only seven Animagus registered in the 20th century. Even if those who were not registered are included, there would definitely not be more than a hundred.
"Meow~"
(=`=)
After hearing Moody praise Professor McGonagall, Fish's impression of him improved a lot.
Unlike the carefree Fish, Harry and the others were a little nervous at this time. They didn't expect to meet Professor Moody here, and they didn't expect that Professor Moody's magic eyes could see through Harry's invisibility cloak.
Just when they were at a loss, Professor Moody continued to talk to himself: "Even if I drive you back, you won't give up, right?"
A terrible smile appeared on his mutilated face, and then he turned aside to make way.
"Go and try, give up early, and go back to sleep!"
"Thank you! Professor Moody!" Ron and Harry hurriedly thanked him.
"Meow~"
Fish also called out as a thank you, and then he and Hermione lightly jumped down the stairs and turned into the hallway.
Behind them, Professor Moody turned his magic eye to a dark corner, then nodded slightly towards that corner, secretly rejoicing in his heart...
Fortunately, Dumbledore had been following behind Firth, which gave him time to throw Harry Potter's name into the Goblet of Fire first.
Dumbledore, who was hiding on the side, also smiled and nodded, and then followed Firth and the others with the fake Moody. He didn't know what the fake Moody had done before, and he didn't doubt that he appeared near the Goblet of Fire...
Because it happened to be Moody's turn to patrol tonight, and even if it wasn't his turn, with Moody's suspicious personality, it was very normal for him to stay up late at night and walk around.
It can only be said that the Mad-Eye Moody chosen by Barty Crouch Jr. was too suitable as a disguise object, and even Dumbledore couldn't see any flaws.
When Firth and the others entered the hallway, they saw that the Goblet of Fire was placed in the center of the hallway, on the three-legged stool that was usually used to place the Sorting Hat during the Sorting Ceremony. A circle of thin gold lines was drawn on the floor, with a radius of ten feet, surrounding the cup in the middle.
"Who's going first?"
The twins turned back to human form, and Harry and Ron also took off their invisibility cloaks, and the four looked at each other.
The two cats, Fish and Hermione, squatted on the side and licked their fur calmly. However, Fish seemed to have thought of something in the middle of the process. He first returned to human form, took out his wand and cast a soundproof spell nearby, then turned back into a cat and continued to lick his fur calmly.
The corners of Dumbledore's eyes twitched as he came in. This little fur cat was becoming more and more professional at making mischief.
Fake Moody didn't pay too much attention. He was just a little surprised that Fei Xu could master such a level of sound insulation spell, and then continued to use his magic eyes to observe the movements of Fei Xu and his party.
Harry and others ignored Professor Moody who was standing aside. They gathered together to discuss for a while, and soon decided to let the twins try the effect of the age-increasing agent first.
George and Fred didn't hesitate. They each took out a small bottle and carefully dropped a drop into their mouths - they would be seventeen in a few months, so they didn't need to drink too much.
After swallowing the age-increasing drug, the twins stood there and waited for a while. After confirming that the drug had taken effect, they took out the note with their name and school on it, then held hands with each other and stood next to the circle of gold thread. .
The two looked at each other, then nodded firmly and counted in unison: "Three...two...one!"
George and Fred took their right feet at the same time and crossed the golden line.
At first, everyone thought they were going to succeed. However, before the twins could celebrate, there was a hissing sound near the coil. Then the twins who stepped into the coil were thrown out and fell heavily. On the ground.
That alone was not enough. With a loud popping sound, Dumbledore's same long white beard appeared on both of their chins... But compared to the headmaster of Hogwarts, their beards were even smaller. To appear sparse.
"Hahahahaha..."
The twins got up from the ground dizzily, looked at each other's white beards, couldn't help pointing at each other and laughing.
"Meow?"
(=ω=)
Seeing that there was so much hair growing on their faces, Fish's eyes suddenly lit up, and he turned to look at the little black cat Hermione beside him.
"Meow!"
Hermione bared her teeth at Fish. She would rather drink Polyjuice Potion than grow a beard!
"Aging agents really don't work..." George stroked his white beard and sighed in an old scholar's tone: "But it doesn't matter, we have other ways!"
Then they tried the Flying Curse again... There was no doubt that the curse was directly intercepted by Dumbledore's golden thread, and the Goblet of Fire on the stool did not move.
Use the transformation spell to turn the note into a paper crane and fly directly in... This time the age line didn't intercept it, but it spit out the note again.
"It seems that the Goblet of Fire will not acknowledge the note if it was not delivered by me personally." Professor Moody pretended to speculate on the side.
When he was delivering Harry's note into the Goblet of Fire, it had been spat out, so he had to cast a powerful confusion spell on the note. Only after being confused by two confusion spells did the Goblet of Fire Accepted the note with Harry's name on it.
Naturally, the twins also considered the confusion spell, but the object they cast was the circle of golden thread outside the Goblet of Fire.
However, it was a pity that their level of confusion spell was not high enough. In addition to being thrown away again, the white beard on their chin became even thicker, which was no worse than that of Dumbledore.
George and Fred were not discouraged. They continued to try and tried every means. After repeated failures, their chins were like hanging a thick woolen curtain, causing the twins to lower their heads involuntarily. head.
"Damn it! Even the Animagus is useless!"
Fred took out a pair of scissors from somewhere and sighed while struggling to twist the thick white beard on his chin.
"Uh... do we still want to try?"
Seeing the miserable state of his two brothers, Ron flinched a little.
Harry gritted his teeth and said, "You're already here, why don't you give it a try? It's just a little beard, just cut it off with scissors!"
He still wants to become a warrior and be admired by everyone...mainly Qiu Zhang.
Ron thought about it, followed Harry into the invisibility cloak, and then the two of them stepped into the age line together.
"Huh?"
Professor Moody, who had been watching, looked at the two people who walked into the coil in surprise.
Harry and Ron were not thrown out by the coil as he expected, and they successfully stood inside the coil.
"S-succeeded?!"
Ron's voice of surprise also came from the circle, but as soon as he finished speaking, the hissing sound that had been heard countless times sounded again, and then Fish and the others saw Ron and Harry disappear and appear. His body drew an arc in mid-air and fell hard to the cold stone ground ten feet away.
Of course, there is also a white beard.
"Damn! Why can't I shave this beard?!"
Just when the two of them felt extremely sorry, bad news came from the twins again.
Harry and Ron looked around and saw the twins staring blankly at the handful of white beards they had cut off in their hands, but the beards on their chins had not diminished at all.
"You should give up now, right? I suggest you all go to Madam Pomfrey's place, or go back to sleep first, and then go to Madam Pomfrey's place tomorrow."
Moody spoke again, but his magic eyes glanced at Fish beside him intentionally or unintentionally.
"Meow~"
(=ΦωΦ=)
Fish stuck out his butt and stretched, raised his little paws and walked towards the Goblet of Fire.
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According to the setting in HP, Harry's invisibility cloak is one of the Deathly Hallows. It is said to be a super invisibility cloak that can avoid the tracking of the Grim Reaper...
Let's not say it really works, at least the invisibility ability is a bit more powerful... As a result, the Dementors can't hide it, Moody's magic eye can easily see through it, and the Marauder's Map can also mark the location...
Compared with other invisibility cloaks, it just has no limit on the invisibility time. As one of the famous Deathly Hallows, this effect is really a bit lame.
Obviously, in the legend of the Deathly Hallows, the invisibility cloak is the most powerful one.
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It seems that Tianzun has started school recently? I don't know what kind of school it is, and it started so late.