Chapter 185 Confrontation between Liars (2-in-1)
After testing this refreshing diary for a long time (including but not limited to throwing, tearing, kicking and soaking...) - the twins finally determined one thing.
This diary that suddenly appeared with a questioning tone was not as interesting as they imagined - the Marauder's Map had deceived the two of them, but it seemed completely different.
"No, please answer it. It seems like it only asks stupid questions."
"Are you crazy? How did we lie to Ron in the first place!"
George quickly stopped his brother who wanted to commit suicide.
When the two of them deceived Ron into signing an unbreakable oath, they only succeeded with a handshake - now they were writing in a diary that they had never met before!
"It makes sense...it's not right," Fred shook his head firmly, his eyes became clear, "No, no, how could I have such strange thoughts? I always have. We tricked others into signing, so why did we almost fall for it today?”
"Put it down, you're just in a hurry!"
George mocked mercilessly, poking the diary back and forth with the wand in his hand - but it showed no response.
"Hell, you can't communicate if you don't write on it, but it's easy to get tricked when writing... I wish I were still a kid. At that time, I could fool Ron into signing..."
Fred looked regretful...
"We need to find someone who is willing to sign for us and is not afraid of harm... It would be nice if it wasn't so unknown. Really, if you can't even grasp the scale of teasing... it would be too easy to hurt people."
George sighed, but Fred's fluttering eyes suddenly became energetic, "You just said you can easily hurt people, right?"
"Of course, oh, wait, you mean?"
"That's right, brother!"
"One, two, three, say it together!"
"Nearly Headless Nick (Peeves)!"
The two looked at each other and saw disgust in each other's eyes - this was a rare disunity.
"Why Nick (Peeves)?"
"We have to deal with him (even if it hurts, Nick doesn't care, if he can lose his head, he will thank us to death)!"
Nick is the ghost of Gryffindor - his greatest wish is to completely disconnect his head from his body, but he has never been able to do so.
There were obvious differences between the two, and they finally decided to target the almost headless Nick - the poor ghost had been looking for a way to completely remove his head for many years, if it was really very harmful. Maybe it can be completed!
Of course, the most important thing is that Nick can communicate, but no one knows whether Peeves will go crazy.
Just do what they said - the two of them clamped the diary with wooden sticks in disgust, then wrapped it up, unfolded the Marauder's Map and began to search for Nick's location.
It wasn't difficult. In less than five minutes, the two found their target. Ten minutes later, the two happily blocked Nick who was in a daze in the empty classroom.
"Good afternoon, Nick."
"Oh, hello, Weasley children, do you want to play a prank? If you don't disturb me, I hope to stay here for a while."
Three people, or two people and one ghost, are very familiar - because the twins like to play outside too much, and those places are the places ghosts like, and they will even stay there for a long time.
"It's a prank, but it's very dangerous. We plan to sort it out and then find a suitable partner."
"Is it dangerous?"
"A very dangerous prank that could kill someone, even a ghost—even lose their head."
"Really lost your head?"
Nick's eyes lit up for a moment, but then dimmed again - he had tried too many times over the years, but it just didn't work.
"Of course, so we are thinking of inviting the bravest Ghost Blood Man Barro to try it."
? ? ?
Nick's expression suddenly became angry.
"Bloody Barrow...he, well, he may be fine, but you are Gryffindor, shouldn't you come to me for such dangerous matters?"
"But tricking Slytherins into doing dangerous things isn't that what Gryffindors should do?"
"Hell, you two bastards just planned to trick me into doing it! Okay, you succeeded, I am willing, what are you going to do? Who are you provoking?"
"No, it's the easiest. You just need to sign it."
The twins smiled and opened the package and took out the diary.
"Signing the diary? It's really nonsense... Is it really a dangerous prank? You didn't use an ordinary notebook to trick me, did you?"
Nick looked at the plain-looking diary with doubts in his eyes.
"It's so dangerous that neither of us dare write anything on it! Look, let's demonstrate it!"
The two of them tore the book open in front of Nick, demonstrating its powerful recovery ability, and then cast several destructive spells to show that what they said was true.
"Well, well...it looks very dangerous...oh, of course, there are other risks..."
Nick was a little moved, but he didn't let it go, "Well, it would be bad if he healed my neck."
"You've got to try it, Nick, here's the ink and the quill."
The twins took something out of another bag and placed it in front of Nick.
"Okay, hopefully it's dangerous enough."
Nick muttered, then picked up the quill with great effort, and started writing in the blank diary. While writing, he complained, "I am not used to a normal quill. I should borrow it from Professor Binns." A little bit of his special product…”
[I am Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington. 】
Such writing appeared on the diary, and after a moment of silence, the diary absorbed this line of text.
"It seems to be possible. It is indeed dangerous!"
"Right."
[Hello, Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, my name is Tom Riddle. 】
"Tom Riddle."
Nick muttered the name silently, "Oh, I know, I have met, yes, a student a long time ago. He was a Slytherin student, and he seemed to be a prefect. He was very handsome, um, yes The ghosts are also very friendly, yes, that’s right, he likes to communicate with the ghosts very much, and said that we are witnesses of history!”
"Slytherin student?"
"Well, he is a Slytherin student. He is excellent both in character and academics. He is also a prefect and the president of the Boys' Union. He can chat with every ghost, especially the ghosts of Ravenclaw, especially Ms. Grey."
"This is so rare. A Slytherin with full character is as incredible as a vegetarian troll."
George muttered in a low voice, "And the name is right. He turned his diary into a question-and-answer magic creation?" "I don't know, but something is still wrong. Mr. Nick, can you talk to him more?"
"Okay, that memory seems to be still in front of me. The conflict between the students was not that big at that time..." Nick wrote in his diary while remembering the past.
"By the way, how did you get this diary?"
"It was probably confiscated or thrown away in Filch's office, and we pulled a little prank and got him."
"Is that so?"
Nick nodded - he was now very interested in this diary that could communicate, mainly about Tom Riddle. That boy left a very good impression on him.
[From Filch's office, it was probably confiscated or lost. 】
"Ask him again why he suddenly wanted to create such a diary!"
Fred seemed to have thought of something and added.
"OK."
Questions were quickly written up.
The recovery of the diary was obviously silent for a while, but soon a large section of writing appeared.
[For the unfinished exploration and the remaining treasures in the castle, I was obsessed with searching for the traces left by the four giants in the castle. I finally found some clues and received some gifts, but it was not just those. I originally planned to continue searching. But I have to face my graduation ceremony...
When I graduated, I thought, if my clues were gone, would subsequent students still be able to find those hidden treasures?
Finally, I decided to leave a diary of my adventures, hoping that future students could find it and help me complete that great adventure. 】
"Adventure and treasure?"
"Sounds good, bro."
"No wonder people haven't found it after searching for so long. It turns out that not only Dumbledore has dug, but this Tom Riddle has also dug. It's true. No wonder we only found the passage at most..."
If this Tom talks about treasures in vain, the two of them will definitely sneer at it, but since Dumbledore has also discovered it, this matter becomes much more reliable.
"Don't worry you two, there's still more to come."
Nick had to interrupt the conversation between the two because another large section of writing appeared on the diary.
[To be honest, I never thought that the person who opened it again would be a Gryffindor. This is really unacceptable... If you can get the diary into the hands of a suitable Slytherin, I will Let him pay you a large sum of money.
Or you can pass the message on, and you will also receive a hefty reward...]
"This Slytherin guy might actually be the popular guy, but he seems to have made a mistake about one thing..."
George snorted, "Leave it to Slytherin, they'll dream!"
It would be fine if it were the other two houses, but Slytherin should go eat shit!
“No,” George cursed and his eyes became strange, “Nick, please threaten it. If it doesn’t honestly reveal the so-called treasure, then soak it in the toilet and let him live with him for the rest of his life. Good shit for company!”
"This is not good..."
Nick was a little embarrassed. He was a good old guy, but he was not good at it. Moreover, Tom was a very good person back then.
"Ask if there are traps in the treasure, you can take them, and if there are information, you can read them. The traps and magic of the four giants can always help you clear your head, right?"
Fred smiled seductively, but secretly exchanged glances with George - Sure enough, did you also notice that something was wrong?
“It refused to respond, as if it couldn’t ask anything!”
Nick tremblingly wrote down the twins' threatening words, and then was blocked.
"Then bring it over. Don't worry, Nick, we will do what we say. We will definitely find out the secrets of the treasures of the four giants during this period, and then you can go explore and get a share!"
"I actually..." Nick hesitated a little. He didn't like this very much, but the treasures and protective spells of the four giants - one of them can take his head off, right?
During the inner struggle, the diary fell into the hands of the two men again.
Almost instantly, the two began to fight wildly, destroying and cursing at the same time, "I'll make you illiterate, I'll make you mess around, I'll make you a Slytherin!"
The diary was destroyed again and again and then quickly restored.
This venting behavior didn't stop until the twins seemed a little tired.
"Don't worry, Nick, nothing will go wrong. We will take care of him, even if it means using the toilet!"
“You know, we’re in good standing!”
The two left out of breath, then found their usual empty classroom, soaked the entire book in water, and threatened them while soaking it. After all kinds of failure, they had to hide the soaked diary and walked out.
——
"Hell, this thing is really capable of bewitching. If we weren't good at it, we might be fooled by it!"
"A treasure tailor-made for Gryffindor, the temptation is too great."
"Yeah, he looked reluctant and asked us to hand him over to Slytherin... Tsk tsk, and he also secretly told us not to spread it, otherwise the reward would be much less."
"We are meeting our colleagues..."
George sighed, "But we are just playing a prank, it doesn't matter what it wants to do."
"Nick will probably get his wish. This thing might really kill him, and his head will probably fall off."
"Then two more clueless Weasleys will become the laughing stock of the castle."
The two of them were exchanging witty remarks.
"Maybe he will be laughed at by Ron, oh, Merlin's beard, what a terrible thing that is!"
"So we have to go back with revenge... He actually plans to make us the object of Ron's ridicule. This is simply unforgivable."
The two of them condemned this at the same time, and happily imagined whether it would be Ron, that little fool, who would be deceived into becoming a ghost.
"It's unimaginable and unbearable. If there is such a ghost in Gryffindor, I will consider letting my child go to Beauxbatons, otherwise he may have to drop out of school on the first day in embarrassment."
"No, I think I will drop out of school..."
"That makes sense."
"Let's ask first. When it reluctantly starts to guide us and let us fall into its trap, we can happily tell it that its clumsy trap was seen through from the beginning."
"It's really a perfect prank..."
The two of them looked at me and I looked at you. There was indelible joy in each other's eyes.
This Hogwarts suddenly became interesting!
(End of this chapter)