Chapter 62 Hogwarts Dungeon

This circular, low passage is tortuous and somewhat leaky.

With the weak light of the wand, the four quickly walked out of the passage, and a tall stone tunnel appeared in front of them.

After arriving here, it is the right way, and they have to go a long way to reach Hogsmeade.

William had never walked here before, he used to walk the other way, this was the first time he had come here with his twin brothers.

The two said that it was a mysterious place, and they wanted to take him and Cedric to open their eyes.

In fact, William knew where it was from the first moment he came.

This underground space is mentioned in the Hogwarts architecture book recommended by Dumbledore.

William remembered it deeply because there was a sentence on it: Ravenclaw's daughter Helena once got lost below and almost didn't come back.

So Gryffindor blocked the secret passage with magic, and people couldn't find the entrance after that.

I just didn't expect it to be discovered by the looters, and the cracked password was also found.

To be honest, this is not so much a secret passage as it is the underground palace of Hogwarts.

It is really like an underground palace, with a main road, and there are countless small rooms and walkways on both sides of the road.

Walking in the tall underground palace, William felt that if they ran around, they might get lost below.

Fortunately, there is a Marauder's map, and the raiders have found a way to Hogsmeade.

The four of them looked at the road on the map and kept getting into the depths of the Hogwarts Castle. Every step they took, William's heartbeat quickened.

The terrain here is very complicated, like a huge maze, even more complicated than the stairs of Hogwarts Castle.

William seriously doubted that Ravenclaw was involved in the design of this underground palace.

The four of them walked for about 20 minutes, first descending from the marble steps of the west side of the rotunda, then turning around in the opposite direction, passing through a wide passage, and finally entering the crypt directly below the rotunda.

The air was dull and William felt claustrophobic.

As the footsteps of several people sounded, soft floor lamps lit up on the low eaves in the crypt.

By the light, they could see the solid form of forty Doric columns against the upper marble floor.

Recognizing this structure is not because of how knowledgeable William is, but because the building is really familiar.

William thought of the Parthenon.

The Parthenon is located in the center of the ancient castle of the Acropolis, on a limestone hill. William had seen the photo, that architectural style, once and never forgot.

The building in front of this underground palace is also the same towering rectangular building.

But unlike the Parthenon, the buildings in this underground palace have no trace of time flow, the reliefs are lifelike, and the colonnade is carved with complex ancient runes.

William stared intently at the temple, his attention completely drawn.

"Relax, William." Fred raised his eyebrows smugly, "This building is nothing, it's still here."

Fred said and quickly slanted to the left, leading a few people through the wide underground space.

There are various statues in the corridor, and William also saw a model of Hogwarts Castle, exactly the same as the one that Dumbledore gave to William!

It's just that this model is made of gold, with golden light shining all over it, more precious than the wooden building sent by Dumbledore.

Suddenly, William heard the sound of water running.

- That's a lake!

In the middle of the lake, there is a small island with only one building on it.

The building was about two stories high and made of granite. Under the illumination of the floor lamp, the four facets are polished and polished.

This is a pyramid.

But the problem is this pyramid - without the spire - on that smooth platform,

There is a wooden coffin with four coffins on it, each of which is a different color!

"How is it?" George laughed. "Isn't it shocking?"

Fred glanced at the pyramid obsessively and said, "We were shocked when we first saw it. Who would have thought that such a thing could exist in the depths of Hogwarts Castle?"

Cedric walked to the lake, but an invisible force blocked him.

"There's a layer of magic around that, and we can't get past it." Fred shrugged.

"Whose coffin would that be?" Cedric said.

"Could it be the Big Four?" William guessed.

He always felt that this was the tomb of the Big Four, and only they could build such a building in the castle.

"Maybe they kept it for themselves, but there should be no corpses in it." Cedric analyzed.

"I heard that of the Big Four, all three except Ms. Hufflepuff left school."

Looking at the coffins, a gust of wind blew through, and the four of them felt cold.

They left in a hurry, not paying attention to the golden compass placed on the shore of the island.

The four of them walked faster and faster, obliquely crossed the underground palace, and entered a narrow corridor again.

In these dense corridors, there are many doors, and each door has an identification number.

"Can you open it?" Cedric asked excitedly.

? "Every door is locked..." Fred said.

William used his wand to aim at the position that should be the door lock, and said, "Araho hole open!"?

But the door didn't move.

William took out the knife from his robe, which had been given by the twins.

He inserted the knife through the crack between the door and the wall, and the knife slashed from the top to the bottom, and then he drew it out.

The door was still closed as before, and not only that, the blade had melted. ?

George suggested: "Otherwise, find Muggle dynamite next time and blow it up?"?

William rolled his eyes, where are they going to get explosives.

George was a little disappointed, certainly frustrating for a wizard dedicated to exploring Hogwarts.

"Come on, let's continue to Hogsmeade," William said.

They can only have eye addiction now, and they can't open any other place.

After a few people left, they walked for a long, long time, and the scenery after that was not much interesting.

Fortunately, there are snacks from the Honey Duke, inspiring them to move forward.

After about forty minutes, the tunnel stretched upwards.

"It's almost there," George said to William and Cedric, pointing to the seemingly endless aisle.

At this moment, William suddenly stopped.

"Did you hear anything?" he asked.

"what?"

"The sound of someone moving," William said.

He pricked up his ears and listened carefully for a while, the sound seemed to be far away, yet it seemed to be very close.

The crypt was empty and deep, and the echoes could be heard far away.

Could it be that there are other people in this underground palace besides them?

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