Chapter 402 400 Ghost Castle

Chapter 402 400. Ghost Castle

As if the cry brought back some memories, Nick had an expression of surprise on his face, and then he drifted towards the direction of the sound without hesitation.

"Aha! It's Myrtle!"

Soon, Nick led Jon and the others to find the ghost girl who was hiding behind the tree and crying secretly.

It was a girl with a face full of freckles, not pretty, and a bitter melon face.

Myrtle was stunned for a moment when she saw Nick, and then she saw Jon. After discovering that he was a living person, she became extremely panicked.

"It's over! It's over! I caused trouble for Mr. Barrow again! I was discovered by Muggles!"

She floated up in panic, and just as she was about to escape, Nick called her.

"Don't be silly, Myrtle. The fact that he came with me proves that he is a wizard. Come on, take us to find that guy Barrow."

Myrtle, who was already a little nervous, seemed to have just reacted now. She lowered her face still sobbing in mid-air, looked at Nick and then at Ms. Gray, who stood aside with an arrogant expression and said nothing.

"Yes, is it Nick?"

"Nonsense! You haven't seen me for more than ten years and you forgot about me! Come on, Dumbledore asked us to come here. Are you following Barrow, right? Come on, take us to see him. "

Myrtle then flew back to Nick's side. She wiped her tears and only then noticed Jon's clothes and the end of the wand in his pocket.

"Oh! Dumbledore asked you to come!"

Her mood seemed to change very quickly. She was sad one second, and became excited the next.

"I thought he had forgotten us! We also got news about Dumbledore here and knew that he is in France now. Mr. Barrow is still planning to sell the castle back to those people while waiting for the next good news to come. Vampire, give them a break and take us to Dumbledore!"

Myrtle led them in the direction of the Ghost Castle, floating happily in the air.

"Is this a student of Hogwarts? It's been a long time since I saw a student of the school. I used to be one of the students like you, but an accident turned me into a ghost."

When she said this, her mood seemed to become sad again, but her tone soon rose again!

"We also heard about the Triwizard Tournament recently! Barrow read us the newspaper and told us that Dumbledore will soon retake Hogwarts Castle! Everyone is very happy!"

Only then did Nick have the opportunity to interject and ask.

"Besides you, who else is here with Barrow?"

"Professor Binns, who taught me the history of magic, and the fat monk who used to stay in Hufflepuff, and more than a dozen Mr. and Mrs. Ghost are all here in Barrow."

Myrtle happily introduced their life here to Nick.

"Barrow tricked those vampires. He used the connections of Professor Binns' family in Germany during his lifetime to contact the Ministry of Magic. He also found a descendant of the Fat Friar and asked him to help dig out one of us who had been there. Half of the treasures hidden by the dead ghosts during the Goblin Rebellion were taken away by the descendants of the Fat Monk. At the same time, he also helped us complete negotiations with the German Ministry of Magic and placed this previously uninhabited castle under its jurisdiction. Barrow's name. We then used the money to hire professional wizards and set up Muggle expulsion spells and concealment magic around the castle. We also transformed the castle into something like Hogwarts Castle. It’s not as big as the real Hogwarts”

Listening to her endless story, Jon realized that under Barrow's management, these ghosts who had left the castle were still living well.

Soon, under the leadership of Myrtle, Jon felt that he had passed through a cold barrier like a water curtain, but in fact he did not feel any difference in his field of vision, but as he gradually went deeper , an increasingly chilly aura began to sweep through his body. I don’t know when, all the dense woods around him disappeared, replaced by a wasteland full of gravel, and in this piece of In the middle of the wasteland is a towering gray-black castle!

This castle is indeed not big, far less majestic than Hogwarts Castle and Durmstrang Castle, but being called a castle also means that it is not too small.

As soon as he walked to the front of the castle, Jon saw an old ghost sitting on the steps of the gate. He held his chin and stared at a stone tablet next to him, muttering something inaudible but subconsciously. If you feel drowsy.

"Professor Binns!"

Myrtle's loud shout seemed to wake up the ghost. He raised his head and saw Jon walking over and Nick and Ms. Gray floating beside him.

"Ah, Sir Nicholas and Lady Grey, are you also here to join Barrow? That's fine, after all, we have been together for so long."

His voice was not loud, a bit like an old monk chanting sutras, and he addressed Nick and the others with old-fashioned honorifics without appearing alienated.

Then he looked at Jon again.

"There is another living person. Is he the child you rescued on the way? The place where ghosts gather is not suitable for living people to live, but it doesn't matter. I don't know if he feels about the first wizard village established by Hangis. Interested, it was an unforgettable history.”

Myrtle didn't seem to communicate with him much, as that would make people feel listless.

"I'm going to take them to find Barrow, Professor Binns."

She led Jon and the others past the ghost professor who used to be in the castle and floated into the castle.

Just as Myrtle said, although the entire castle was not big, the ghosts deliberately dressed it up like Hogwarts. Even if the ghosts could not enjoy any material things, it was still a spiritual comfort for them.

Nick met many acquaintances along the way. He had a good relationship with ghosts and students in Hogwarts before. Now he met many old friends here and was very happy.

Soon, they came to Barrow's place under the leadership of Myrtle.

It was in an empty office on the top floor of the castle.

It was called an office, but there was actually no table or chair in it, and there were no bookshelves around it. There were only some portraits of Hogwarts Castle and the four giants without the appearance potion attached.

Barrow was just like what Jon had seen in the original book, with hollow eyes, a thin face, and silver bloodstains on his robe. Even if he just stood there motionless, he could scare many timid people.

After seeing Nick brought in by Myrtle, Barrow's thin face showed a friendly smile, but the smile froze after seeing Ms. Grey.

However, this did not mean that the smile disappeared, but was replaced by a bigger surprise.

"Hai"

He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to call out Ms. Grey's name, but in the end he swallowed the rest of the words back into his stomach with shame.

"You are here, just in time. We are discussing going to find Dumbledore recently. The students he leads have stabilized, and I have almost finished my preparations here. It's time to go find him."

Ms. Grey seemed to have not seen him, and her eyes did not even glance at Barrow.

Nick was very enthusiastic, but Jon could feel that even Nick himself was a little scared when facing Barrow.

"That's why we're here, Barrow. Let me introduce you to Jon Green, the warrior who will represent us in the Triwizard Tournament this year."

Barrow's eyes were fixed on Jon at this time, and there was scrutiny in his eyes, but Jon did not avoid it.

"I've heard of your name. Your deeds have spread all over Europe in the past few months. Did Dumbledore send you to find me?"

As the chief envoy of this "mission", of course only Jon was qualified to convey the real purpose of their visit.

"To be precise, it was not Professor Dumbledore, Mr. Barrow, who asked me to find you, but Salazar Slytherin, one of the founders of Hogwarts."

After hearing this name, Jon could see that Barrow's transparent and empty eyes suddenly tightened.

"Lord Salazar Slytherin"

"Yes, it was this gentleman, but the portrait that conveyed his instructions was left by him a thousand years ago. He asked me to find you to ask if you had kept the things he asked you to keep when you left Hogwarts."

Barrow seemed to be crying, he covered his face, and people couldn't tell what kind of expression he had at this time, but his hoarse and low voice still rang out.

"Of course. That thing, I dare not forget it all the time"

England, Malfoy Manor.

After the second project was over, Hogwarts Castle learned that Dumbledore himself had temporarily returned to France, and Lucius also had a rare vacation for a while.

Draco still had to go to school, so now there were only him and his wife Narcissa at home.

Oh, yes, and the house elf Dobby.

"I told you to let the tea cool down before bringing it over! What are you doing!"

Lucius, who was always restless even after returning home, seemed to be holding back a lot of anger, holding the boiling hot tea and trying to find an outlet to vent.

Dobby was unfortunate, because he was the one who had to take the blame every time.

"But, but Master, I wanted to let it cool down here as you requested, but you couldn't wait to come over."

"So I'm wrong!" Lucius looked unkind, "Punish yourself!"

The next moment, Dobby rushed to the wall, kept hitting the wall with his big head, and screamed.

"Bad elf! Dobby is a bad elf!"

Lucius let him roll out of the living room until his forehead was bleeding.

Narcissa heard the noise and walked down from the bedroom upstairs.

She was pale and thin, and it seemed that she had been having a bad life since Draco was chosen as a warrior.

"Why don't you continue to watch your son at school?"

She couldn't help but question her husband the first time she saw him.

Lucius paced around the living room in agitation.

"There are still three or four months before the next project starts. Dumbledore and his students have temporarily left the school. There is no danger around Draco."

"Whether there is danger or not is not for us to say."

"Okay, I know! But you have to believe me, I won't harm my son."

Lucius finally sat down on the sofa.

"The point is, I always feel something is wrong, Narcissa, especially in the castle, something is wrong."

Whenever Narcissa talked about Draco's current situation, she couldn't help but have red eyes. She sat next to Lucius and grabbed his hand.

"Is it because of Dumbledore and the others?"

"They must have some tricks, everyone knows this, but the wrong place is not here." Lucius said the source of his irritation, "It's Crouch and Snape. They seem to be hiding something from others. I can feel that they think they can disguise it, but who is a fool after being under the master for so long?"

"What do you think it is? Is it related to this game?"

"I feel it is much more troublesome than the game itself." Lucius said solemnly, "I have contacted that Jon Green, and he promised to guarantee the safety of our son in the game."

Hearing him say this, Narcissa breathed a sigh of relief and her face looked much better.

She was not interested in the intrigues among the Death Eaters. The only thing she cared about was the safety of her son.

In the Triwizard Tournament, the most dangerous person is John. Even his sister and brother-in-law died at the hands of that boy. How could her poor son survive?

"But they rejected my idea of ​​providing them with some help privately, saying that they didn't trust my character."

When saying this, Lucius's face was obviously a little dark. He was obviously still brooding over John's outspokenness at the time.

Narcissa comforted her husband.

"Don't worry, the situation is not clear now, right? Even if they really win the Triwizard Tournament, they only have France and Hogwarts Castle. The master still controls the whole of Britain. We still have a chance in the future."

Lucius didn't say anything more.

Narcissa stayed at home all day, or had afternoon tea with those pure-blood ladies. She didn't know what happened at the forefront of the conflict between Voldemort and Dumbledore.

After the second game, especially after Draco narrowly escaped death underwater and hugged him tremblingly, Lucius had a sense of uneasiness in his heart.

He could only hope that this premonition would not affect his family, especially Draco who was in the center of the whirlpool.