Chapter 334 The Shrieking Shack and Sirius

"The Dark Magic Detector just now-?" Daphne looked at Les, her eyes full of suspicion. She always felt that the stick didn't seem to have a problem in the middle of the journey.

"Just as the Auror lady said, it's broken." Les responded.

In his opinion, the detector did have some problems. It forced things that were not considered Dark Magic items to be Dark Magic items. Isn't this broken?

Following the route of the Thestrals at the beginning of the school year, Les took Daphne to Hogsmeade Village.

Today's Hogsmeade Village has become extremely lively because it is crowded with Hogwarts students. In order to undertake this "overwhelming wealth", the merchants in Hogsmeade Village are also working hard. Needless to say, filling the shelves, all kinds of new products are also supplied, for fear that they can't satisfy the students with bulging wallets and high consumption desires.

Daphne came to Hogsmeade for the first time. She stared with big eyes, looking left and right, almost dazzled.

"Let's go to Honeydukes first, then visit Zonko's Joke Shop, and finally go to the Three Broomsticks to get some food? Are you interested in the most haunted house in the UK - the Screaming Shack?" After trying to move her eyes away from the windows of various stores, Daphne took out the plan she had made before and asked Les what he thought.

Of these stores, Les was most interested in Honeydukes. It was said that there were magic candies that sold well all over the world, and new products from major candy companies would also be sold here. He would never miss it.

The second place he was most interested in was the Screaming Shack. He really wanted to see what the so-called "most haunted" house in Daphne's mouth was like.

There are indeed such things as "ghosts" in the magic world, such as the Banshees active in Scotland and Ireland. If there really is such a thing in the Screaming Shack, then he must carefully judge its threat to Hogwarts, because the screams of the Banshees are deadly.

"Let's go to the Screaming Shack first?" After learning that there was such a magical place near Hogwarts, Les decided to go to the Screaming Shack first.

"Okay." Daphne led Les towards a slope.

The Shrieking Shack is located slightly higher than other houses in the village, and the windows of the whole house are nailed with wooden boards. Standing by the fence and looking into the garden, the weeds are overgrown inside. Combined with the rumors about the Shrieking Shack, anyone standing here will feel creepy.

"It is said that there are very vicious ghosts here, and even the ghosts of Hogwarts will not come here. The nearly headless Nick told me that he heard that a group of very rude people live here." Looking at the deserted garden, Daphne couldn't help but shudder.

The unknown is the biggest source of fear. If you tell Daphne that there is a giant monster living here, or even if you tell her that there is a fire dragon inside, it is difficult to arouse fear in her heart.

But it is such an illusory "ghost" that can scare her.

Les carefully observed the cabin in front of him and did not see any signs of life in it. The surrounding houses and the Shrieking Shack kept a sufficient distance, so there was no need to worry about the female ghost causing harm to nearby residents.

‘Why don’t we go in and take a look?’ This thought flashed through Les’ mind, and he quickly put it into action.

“Hey!!!” Seeing Les take the initiative to enter the range of the Shrieking Shack, Daphne felt her scalp tingling.

She didn’t really want to go in, but it was more terrifying to stay outside alone, so she followed Les tremblingly and stepped into the garden of the Shrieking Shack together.

“Don’t worry, there are no dark creatures, magical animals, or curses here. This is just an ordinary, abandoned cabin.” Les felt the fear in Daphne’s heart, so he took the initiative to comfort her.

“Really? But——” Daphne wanted to tell Les about the rumors she had heard, but Les interrupted her.

“All the information about the Shrieking Shack is rumors.” Les turned around and looked at Daphne, “and what you see is the real fact. Tell me, do you notice anything strange here? Let me ask you another question, what on earth can make the so-called ghost stay in this small broken house for decades?”

Daphne was speechless about this, she couldn’t answer these two questions.

After a while, she remembered the seals under the school and asked hurriedly: "Will it be the same as the seals in the dungeon? Someone has sealed a group of evil spirits in this wooden house..."

Les: ...

Thank you, Daphne, you have lowered the status of the four of us by yourself.

"No, I didn't feel the sealing magic here, there are only-"Les patted the wooden board on the window and said: "Just a few ordinary and common spells."

"Anti-unlocking spell, permanent sticking spell, and spell to strengthen the wooden board, tut tut, the person who sealed the window of this room obviously doesn't want people outside to go in, nor does he want people inside to come out." He carefully felt the spell on the wooden board, and pointed out the spells attached to the Screaming Shack like a treasure.

Daphne blinked: After Les's explanation, this place doesn't seem so scary.

"Are all these spells meant to imprison someone?"

"Why is there only 'ghost screams' and no sound for help?"

"Maybe someone was drugged, or there are spells interfering around?"

Les and Daphne analyzed what might have happened that year bit by bit, but there were too few clues and they couldn't make any sense.

"Let's go in and take a look first." Les pulled out his wand, pointed it at the ground, and soon dug out a very deep U-shaped pit. He bypassed the defenses on the walls and windows through the deep pit and went straight into the Screaming Shack.

Bang!

Les lifted a piece of floor, waved his wand backhand to eliminate all the dust, and then he stood up and jumped into the Screaming Shack.

After coming up, he carefully looked at the surrounding layout and found that this was what a long-abandoned house should look like. The furniture in the house was covered with dust, and most of the furniture was destroyed. It seemed that the person who lived here before had a bad temper.

"Huh?" Les found something wrong. He bent down and carefully observed a claw mark left on the foot of the bed.

It looked like a wolf's claw mark, and Les had a bold guess in his heart.

Les walked around the house again, and then found a secret passage that led to nowhere.

"Things are getting more and more interesting." He went straight into the tunnel and walked forward. Daphne followed him and walked into this narrow secret passage together.

The tunnel was extremely long and winding. After walking for a long time, a faint light finally appeared in front of him.

After Rice came out of the tunnel, before he had time to breathe two breaths of fresh air, he heard a bang of air being broken.

Now he knew where the end of the secret passage was.

After quickly dodging the attack of the Whomping Willow, Rice retreated into the tunnel.

He knew how to deal with this rare magical creature. He only needed to find a scar on the root of the tree and poke it to restore peace. But before Rice could take action, the sound of the Whomping Willow outside suddenly disappeared. Then, a huge black dog with sleek fur rushed into the tunnel.

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