HP’S PARALLEL WORLDS - Chapter 23
“That is to say, the Ministry has been busy with this matter in recent days. Muggle immigration authorities have our people over there, so whether they want to take a plane or a ship, they can’t get around the security checks conducted by our people. Phantom shift or something, and there is no way to directly cross that wide English Channel, so, since they do not want to use the not convenient and fast enough flying broom, then naturally, they can only use the door key.”
“In any era there are such guys who break the law while making money for themselves by providing illegal services to others, but these guys who rent out the door keys, don’t they think about how dangerous those old Germans and Frenchmen they let in are?”
“So, really, those foreign wizards who came in illegally, came to us to find that thing, did they?”
“Yes – no, I can’t say the rest more, after all, if I say more I will violate the rules of the Ministry.” Faced with the above question from the bar owner, one of the three adult wizards made this reply.
It could be completely deduced from the conversation between the four men that the three men who were drinking should all be employees of the Ministry of Magic, and Violet actually didn’t care at all about what the so-called illegal immigrants they were talking about were actually looking for in England.
Only, just as she was waiting patiently, hoping that the barman who had been standing at the stairway would move away a bit and provide her and Vincent with an opportunity to go upstairs, the male wizard who had just refused to continue, put down his empty glass and then stood up from the small table.
And so immediately afterwards, Violet was thus exposed together with Vincent due to the unexpected situation that had occurred in a completely unanticipated manner.
“Magic eye?!” Having already learned about this kind of prosthetic eye in the original novel, which was used by wizards who had lost their real eyes, Violet knew very well that the magic eye was not only able to help its user see normally, but also had the function of seeing through walls, cabinets, and invisibility cloaks with ease.
Therefore, the man who stood up from the table just turned around, and Violet, who noticed that one of his eyes was actually a magic eye, immediately realized that she and Vincent, who were hiding in their invisibility cloaks, had both been completely seen through by each other.
The man with the magic eye would have looked like a very ordinary middle-aged man if not for the scar that trailed from his forehead to his cheekbone, covering his eyelid and going vertically downward.
But just after raising his hand to straighten his travel cloak, he saw Violet and Vincent standing in the store, hidden in their invisibility cloaks, and after a slight daze, the magic-eyed man curled his mouth and smiled lightly.
“I guess, you guys should be curious about this kind of place where children are forbidden to enter, so you secretly took your parents’ invisibility cloaks and subsequently sneaked here to have a look when the elders brought you to the village, right?”
Not guessing the real intentions of Violet and Vincent, but merely making the above speculation based on general common sense, the magic-eyed man with short, spirited hair just stepped in front of Violet and Vincent, then bent down and put his hand on their shoulders.
“What’s wrong? Are there any children here?” After the magic-eyed man stood up and quickly put down his empty glass as well, the other two men at the small table just noticed the situation on the magic-eyed man’s side after greeting the barkeep.
“Yes, some naughty but also witty enough child.” The magic-eyed man just answered his companion’s question and gently pushed Violet and Vincent under the invisibility cloak and walked out of the pig-headed bar.
“No matter how curious again, I still have to say that a place like a bar is really not the right place for you guys to enter nowadays. So, don’t waste any more time in this kind of place which is not fun at all for kids, Honey Duke Candy Shop, that place is suitable for you guys, understand?”
Not directly uncovering the invisibility cloak on Violet and Vincent, but after speaking in a good way, he went straight back to his two partners, the magic-eyed man obviously still had work to finish, so he soon left in a hurry on his feet.
“……” Totally did not expect to be forced to leave the bar because of such an unexpected situation, Violet just looked through the glass window towards the inside of the pig-headed bar, after decisively dismissed the idea of going in again to try something.
“The bar owner has obviously heard what that man said to us just now, so you see, he closed the stairway there like a garden fence fence gate.”
Even if she could regain the height she had in her previous life, she had to admit that the fence gate that reached her waist was not something she could just lift her legs and cross easily, and Violet knew very well that if she and Vincent went over there in their invisibility cloaks and opened the fence gate, the bar owner, who was located behind the counter, would definitely be able to realize that an invisible person had appeared in his house and was planning to to go upstairs.
“Tch, no way, it seems we have to go to the honey duke candy store.” As soon as he said this, he ripped off his invisibility cloak, and then gestured slightly to Hetty over the glass window, Violet soon waited for Hetty who stepped out of the bar, and then very helplessly turned back to the village avenue.
As today is not the weekend that Hogwarts students can visit Hogsmeade Village, so the Honey Duke candy store is not overcrowded.
You can look through the store window and see a few scattered customers inside the store, as well as the store owner sitting behind the counter, Violet quickly made up her mind and used the invisibility cloak to cover all three of them.
When a few customers in the candy store bought their snacks and opened the door, Violet seized the opportunity and, together with Vincent and Hetty, who had been disguised by her magic, entered the store very smoothly. The two people beside you, together with the silent touch behind the counter.
Very smoothly with the stone steps behind the counter, to the empty cellar, Violet faced as her aunt once said that, put a lot of wooden boxes in the warehouse, soon found in the floor because of the dust cover, so that it is not even visible here has a secret door entrance.
In what appears to be an ordinary, dust-covered stone tile floor three long and one short knock three times, ushered in the live door opened silently and automatically, Violet followed in their actions completely unnoticed by any other person, through the entrance and exit, to the secret passage.
It is impossible to use a wand to illuminate, so at the beginning of the flashlight, Violet just in the stone door in the three people’s heads properly closed after lifting the invisibility cloak, and then pressed the flashlight.
“Okay, let’s go, based on the current time, it is estimated that by the time we feel the entrance and exit that leads to that side, Hogwarts should have ushered in lunchtime. This way, in the vast majority of students and teachers are gathered in the auditorium to eat, we open that side of the entrance and exit of the movement, should not be noticed by others.”
The first thing you need to do is to look at your watch, then step forward and take the lead, and Violet did manage to walk along the winding secret passage for almost an hour before arriving at the end of it.
“I do not have a wand, so open the passage entrance and exit of this matter, can only be left to Hetty you to do. As I have informed before leaving today, the entrance and exit of the passage is located at the humpback of the one-eyed hunchback witch statue.”
“Whether it is located inside the hollow statue or outside the statue, Hetty you just need to tap the statue with your own enchanted finger and subsequently recite the phrase left and right separation, in this way, the entrance and exit will open automatically.”
“Okay, Miss Violet.” With the invisibility cloak in hand, the first to climb to the interior of the hollow statue, Hetty before opening the statue, but also very cautiously and carefully put his ear to the statue, carefully listen to see, the statue is located in the fourth floor corridor, whether there is any sound of people talking or playing.
Nothing movement was heard, so it was estimated that there should be no one outside, and Hetty thus confirmed that the corridor was indeed empty by poking her head out slightly after opening the statue according to Violet’s instructions.
“Come out, Miss Violet, Mr. Wood.” After cloaking herself in her invisibility cloak and using both hands to prop up her invisibility cloak as a way to make it easier for Violet and Vincent to squeeze underneath it with her, Hetty just saw the automatic closing of the entrance and exit of the passage after Vincent broke off and climbed out of the statue and turned off the flashlight that had been turned over to him.
“Great, now that we’re on campus, all we need to do next is head to the eighth floor and look for the giant tapestry of silly Barnabas teaching the trolls to dance the ballet.”
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