Chapter 120 Tracking

Chapter 120 Tracking

The crown in the Room of Requirement has been tampered with.

Although this may have Peeves' reasons, after all, it was later that he, under the persuasion of Nearly Headless Nick, used the disappearing cabinet in the Room of Requirement to attract Filch's attention, which caused the disappearing cabinet to become damaged.

It's also possible that someone else who knew the room accidentally touched the Ravenclaw's diadem without paying attention.

But before Karan's eyes, another figure appeared inexplicably.

Lucius Malfoy.

When Callan went to the Owl Loft to prepare the potion preparation room, he accidentally met Lucius on the stairs between the seventh and eighth floors.

Lucius looked very sneaky at that time. He even cast a silent spell on himself to avoid being noticed by others, although this did not hide Karan who was hiding under the invisibility cloak.

Lucius Malfoy, does he also know about the existence of the Room of Requirement?

And the diadem that was Voldemort's Horcrux...

And the vanishing cabinet that was intact.

Callan couldn't help but think of Draco Malfoy later.

It was he who completely restored the Vanishing Cabinet in the Room of Requirement, thereby quietly bringing the Death Eaters to Hogwarts.

But the way Draco learned about the Room of Requirement was because of Marietta's tip-off in fifth year.The function of the disappearing cabinet was guessed by him from the experience of being trapped in Montague.

Lucius Malfoy has not experienced any of this, and he probably does not know the existence of the Room of Requirement and the Vanishing Cabinet...

"Karan, Karan"

At this time, the shaking palms in front of his eyes brought Karan back to his senses.

Large and small candles floated quietly in the air, illuminating the dark secret passage.There are glass bottles filled with bluebell flames all around, making the whole space warm, not as cold as outside the castle.

The cauldron on the long stone table was slowly steaming. Snape, who was wearing Slytherin uniform, was carefully stirring the potion in the cauldron, occasionally casting a curious glance at Karan through the steam.

Karan noticed that after stirring counterclockwise seven times, he stirred again clockwise.

Lily was holding a book of potions in her hand, with a slight sweat on the tip of her nose, and she was looking at him with a confused look on her face.

This is the potion making room, and it's been some time since the Christmas holidays.

"Distracted"

After seeing Callan regaining his attention, Lily reached out and pulled him next to Snape, and the three of them stood behind the cauldron filled with potions.

Karan also completely came to his senses at this time. He glanced at Snape who looked unnatural. He had not confessed to Lily about black magic until now.

However, the change in Snape's expression at this time was not because of this, but because it was soon time to verify the final results of the new formula.Before this, they had wasted too much potion ingredients, and the risk of the experiment was also increasing.

Karan came over not to witness the results of the new formula, but to protect the three of them.

The velvet blanket on the table had been burned with many holes, which were so damaged that they could not be restored with repair spells.

"let's start."

Karan raised his wand, ready to cast the armor spell at any moment.

Snape picked up the sleepy bean liquid that had been prepared in advance and poured it into the cauldron with trembling palms. Then he suppressed the urge to escape and stirred it a few times.

The potion gradually began to change.

After everything was completed, Snape immediately took a few steps back and hid behind Karan with Lily. They exposed their heads on Karan's shoulders, one on the left and the other on the right. The three of them looked like they were facing a formidable enemy.

After a few bubbles bubbled up, the potion in the crucible finally turned into a light blue color, with wavy steam lingering on it.

Karan blinked. He looked left and right at the two heads on his shoulders, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

"What are we..." he asked softly.

After Snape was stunned for a while, he immediately lowered his head to look at the potion book in Lily's hand, comparing it back and forth with his head up and down, faster and faster.

"Could it be..." He said equally softly.

Lily grinned, her beautiful almond eyes curved into a crescent moon.

"We made it"

She immediately screamed with joy and couldn't help but hug them hard.

"boom."

The sides of Kahlan's and Snape's heads suddenly collided, and Lily immediately retracted her hands and opened her mouth in an O shape.

"Oh, sorry."

Seeing the two of them covering their temples, she quickly apologized, but her tone was still full of joy.

Until she left the potion preparation room, she still seemed a little too excited.Snape finally showed a slight smile, and the big stone in his heart completely dropped.

"It finally worked..."

He couldn't help but whisper something. Lily looked at him and smiled happily after hearing it, and Snape's cheeks turned slightly red.

"I mean, uh..." he hesitated, but Karan quickly joked: "Yeah, Sev, it's really not easy."

Snape stared at him fiercely, while Lily said expectantly: "Then what polyjuice potion are we going to make next?"

As she spoke these words, her gaze returned to Karan.During the Christmas vacation, Petunia's look of wanting to ask but not daring to ask was caught in her eye.

Apparently, Lily hasn't given up on learning about Callan's personality, and wants to know what the Polyjuice Potion that turns him into looks like.

"Ahem." Karan coughed twice on purpose. He smiled helplessly: "Why are you in such a hurry? We have only succeeded once. We must at least verify this formula several times."

"We still need to make living hell potion." Lily was immediately discouraged. She was completely fed up.

"Book of Potions, Book of Potions."

Karan gestured twice, and he said calmly: "What I mean is that if we can prepare more perfect formulas, maybe we can be like Mr. Bach, and we can also write a brand new book Potions book."

Lily and Snape both stared at him in disbelief, as if they didn't believe what they had just heard.

"That's Mr. Batch." Snape's eyes widened: "Zygmunt Batch, the greatest pharmacist in history."

"You're joking, right?" Lily was more direct: "The book is a professional book about potions."

"But we are already pharmacists now."

Karan smiled naturally and said: "Although we only succeeded once, we have already made two newt-level potions. The most important thing is that we are only in the first grade now."

"Even if you don't publish a book, it's enough to publish articles in some magazines."

"Of course, the premise is that our formula is perfect enough."

Lily and Snape obviously hadn't come to their senses yet. They looked at Karan at a loss, and then looked back and forth.

They didn't expect it to go this far.

Karan looked at them with a smile when a brief noise caught his attention.

"You shouldn't be so impulsive. What if that woman finds out?"

"She won't know..."

Two figures came from far away from the corner of the stairs.

It's Narcissa Black, and Lucius Malfoy.

It seemed that they had just ended Professor Meadows' confinement, and indeed, Meadows had extended their confinement beyond Christmas.During this period, she used various excuses, and seemed to have made up her mind not to let these snake descendants have free time, and even had to clean the entire castle several times before she would give in.

After seeing the three Callans, they immediately stopped arguing. Lucius even snorted at Snape, obviously dissatisfied with him hanging out with two Muggle-borns every day.

"You should stay away from this kind of person"

Lily comforted Snape without fear, but Lucius and Narcissa did not stop to teach them a lesson, but hurried away, looking like they were in a hurry.

Karan narrowed his eyes slightly. After the two of them disappeared completely, he quickly opened his backpack and took out the invisibility cloak.

Wolf still lives in Steve's suitcase and follows him back to Hogwarts.But it doesn't seem to have any plans to return to the Forbidden Forest, and Steve is willing to take care of it, so the invisibility cloak is carried by Karan at all times.

Although the two people on the side knew that Steve had the invisibility cloak, they didn't expect that it was actually in Karan's hands.

They all watched with wide eyes as Karan skillfully put the invisibility cloak on his body. Snape suddenly asked sharply: "You are going to catch up with them secretly?"

It was obvious, and Lily saw it too.

"Yes."

Karan nodded calmly.

"Do you want to go together? There is no one around now. If you want, hurry up and don't be discovered by others."

Lily agreed without hesitation. Although she didn't know why Karan did this, she disliked Lucius very much, and she knew Karan thought the same way.

Snape was only one step slower than her. Although Lucius welcomed him at the beginning, the series of things that happened later had greatly changed his view.

He wanted to know Lucius' true face.

The three of them hid under the invisibility cloak and quietly chased after him.

The corridor was silent. In fact, it would be curfew time soon.But Narcissa and Lucius seemed to have no intention of returning to the dormitory immediately, and they started arguing quietly again.

"I don't know what they think."

Lucius frowned deeply: "But the time we have available is too little, and we all blame that damn woman."

He cursed angrily in a low voice.

"Then you should stay away from her."

Narcissa tried her best to comfort her, her arrogant face showing worry and concern: "Especially when we are under her nose, you should not risk doing those things."

"She won't know." Lucius repeated again: "It's just once. I will be more careful in the future."

"It's just that I need to prepare. I need a lot of preparations..."

"If I could get more help..."

He suddenly stopped and turned to look at Narcissa.

Narcissa seemed to have thought of something, and her expression suddenly became panicked.

"What on earth did you do that day?" she asked with a trembling voice.

Lucius was silent, with a tangled expression on his face.

"It's not something you should care about."

he finally said.

"But someone will pay the price."

Far behind the two of them, Lily and Snape, who were hiding under the invisibility cloak, both had blank faces. Only Karan frowned slightly.

Narcissa and Lucius separated at the corner of another staircase, and Lily asked softly: "What should we do next?"

Karan silently listened to Lucius's footsteps coming from the stairs upstairs, and decided to leave Narcissa alone, but continued to follow him secretly.

But after the three of them walked up the stairs, they could only see the neat rows of armor and the prize display room not far away.

The entire corridor was deserted.

They lost track.

"Could he be hiding in some room?" Lily guessed in a low voice.

There are indeed many rooms in the corridor on the fourth floor, and Lucius is probably hiding in them.

But Karan's eyes moved to another location.

Halfway down the corridor on the fourth floor, there is a statue standing.

This is a statue of a hunchbacked one-eyed witch.

It is also the secret passage leading to Honeydukes Cellar in Hogsmeade.