Chapter 732: Peeves and the Vanishing Cabinet

Chapter 732: Peeves and the Vanishing Cabinet

Chapter 732 Peeves and the Vanishing Cabinet

 In the magical world, many wizards like to hold various dances, especially those of ancient pure-blood families, which hold them two or three times a year. For example, birthday dances and Christmas dances have become a fixed event, but the focus of most dances has never been on dancing.

This time is no exception. The music in the office never stops, but there are very few people dancing.

Most people just turn around twice symbolically, and then start chatting with the people around them with a glass of wine.

I have to say that Professor Slughorn has a wide network of contacts and has invited many famous people.

In addition to the well-known writer Walple and the vampire Bloody, whom Kyle had met before, there was also professional Quidditch player and current Chaser of the Montrose Magpies, Buwell Hodder, a reporter from the Daily Prophet. Rita Skeeter, but another wizard.

 According to Slughorn's introduction, he has completed most of the interviews with the Director of the Ministry of Magic and above.

Kyle also saw the owner of Honeydukes Candy Shop...yes, there is a signed photo of him in Slughorn's residence. The school is so close to Hogsmeade, there is no reason not to invite him over.

Even so, Slughorn seemed to feel that it was not lively enough. According to him, Halloween was just a simple gathering, and Christmas was the highlight. He also told Kyle and Connor not to miss it.

 But they have completely different views on this.

 Some time later, Kyle met the drunk Professor Sybill Trelawney again.

Neville looked shocked, but Kyle couldn't help laughing and almost snorted the mead.

"No," Kyle said. "You can go across the room and have a look."

But Kyle came here just to hide and not drink anything on the table.

 In an instant, it felt like it was raining in the whole office.

Kyle observed it for a while and was disappointed to find that it was just a normal cup of butterbeer.

 The room was in chaos as everyone screamed and dodged water balloons falling from the sky.

 “Okay,” said Harry, grabbing his mug of butterbeer and walking across the dance floor.

 “Kyle, I didn’t expect you to come too.”

 As one of the professors at Hogwarts and a descendant of the famous seer Cassandra Trelawney, she is also somewhat well-known.

“I guess that’s why he wanted to come to the dance to cause trouble.”

He was flying on the ceiling, holding a large number of balloons filled with water in his hand. Without a word, he launched an indiscriminate attack on the students below who had not yet reacted.

 A few minutes later, Harry, who finally got rid of Walpole's entanglement, arrived. He must have said a lot, and he directly picked up a glass of butterbeer and drank it in a gulp.

Like them, Harry has been looking for various excuses, such as Quidditch practice, because he doesn't want to attend Slughorn's dinner party.

Slughorn should have said there was free sherry at the ball, and then she came over.

There is also Luna, who is discussing with Neville whether Scrimgeour is a hidden vampire and his secret plot, specifically to manipulate the Aurors and use the gum disease curse to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within.

Other employees of the Ministry of Magic have not complained about him being a nuisance to the public, which is enough to prove Scrimgeour's identity.

“He just doesn’t dare to provoke the four deans. The other professors are just trying to save face.” Kyle said, “But he may not be in a good mood tonight.

“But Professor Slughorn is still here. Didn’t Peeves never dare to mess with the professor?”

 “How do you feel?” he asked.

 The two found an excuse to get away from Slughorn and came to the beverage area where there were relatively few people.

While most people haven't reacted yet, it's better to leave as soon as possible, lest everyone swarm up and block the door later.

Kyle pushed away a water balloon again, then pulled Kangna and ran towards the door.

“Remember what the Fat Friar said at the dinner party? Peeves got mad because he didn’t have his pumpkin statue, and went crazy destroying the armor upstairs.

As for Scrimgeour's identity as a vampire, this is even more nonsense. If he were a vampire, the huge looking glass in the Auror's office would have been ringing long ago.

Kyle decided to order a copy when he went back so that he could take it out and have fun when he got bored.

"Yeah." Harry nodded, "I just wanted to try it, but Professor Slughorn didn't object.

"What..." Harry didn't react for a moment, thinking that Kyle was talking about this dance. He immediately shook his head and said, "It's too bad. I can't believe Hermione can insist on coming every time."

After Luna and Neville left, the dance began to become boring again, until there were ten minutes left before curfew...

"Ha, I always felt like something was missing, but it's okay now." Kyle said with a smile: "After all, how could such a lively place be missing Peeves?"

"Maybe she's used to it." Kyle followed his words and said, "Why didn't you find an excuse to reject him?"

Kyle originally thought that the dance was over, but he didn't expect Peeves to suddenly burst in from the outside.

"I came here with Ron. He really wants to see the ball." Harry said.

If you don't consider the logic and just look at the fun, "The Quibbler" is indeed a good magazine.

With a slight movement of his fingers, he threw a flying water ball somewhere else.

“Can you invite boys to the dance?”

 As the captain, he was able to arrange the training time during the dinner party, but he also avoided it many times.

“The swollen gums curse can be developed. I think it is more effective than a lock tongue to seal the throat.” Kyle said with a smile.

I have to say that some of Mr. Lovegood’s remarks are quite interesting, and he always brings up some points that others would never think of.

 “Oh, by the way, have you seen Ron? I’ve been looking for him.”

Ever since he knew that someone in school bought love potion, he was not going to touch anything of unknown origin again.

Soon, the two came to the corridor outside.

Kanna raised her arms and smelled her sleeves, frowning and said, "I just wanted to say, did you smell a sour smell?"

"It's vinegar." Kyle lowered his voice and said, "Actually, this is what I told Peeves. Adding a little vinegar to the water will make it more lethal."

Kanna looked at Kyle with a look of disgust.

“Don’t look at me like that, it was a long time ago.” Kyle shrugged, “At that time, I asked him to help find a ghost, and this idea was considered as payment.

“After all, freshmen often make mistakes when knocking on wooden barrels. It’s a pity that the vinegar sprayed out is wasted like this...”

“Anyone who has had a water balloon thrown by Peeves will hate you.”

"You can just say it's Filch." Kyle said with a smile, "He helped Umbridge torment the students last year. This can be regarded as teaching him a lesson."

 The two of them followed the direction of the stairs.

There was a burst of noisy voices and the sound of chanting curses behind them... It seemed that most of them had already reacted and started using magic to drive away Peeves.

But by this time, Peeves had thrown all the balloons and ran away.

 When Kyle and Connor came to the foyer on the first floor, they happened to meet.

"It's you, boy Kyle, I didn't notice you were there just now." Peeves said happily, but then he seemed to remember something and wanted to run away.

 “Oops, they’re coming after me…”

"Wait a minute." Kyle stopped him hurriedly and said, "It's been so long. How are you doing with the things I asked you to do?"

Peeves' translucent body suddenly froze on the spot.

 After a moment, he turned around slightly stiffly, and rarely put away his smile, "Okay, you ask me to find the facially paralyzed witch who can't smile. I think she has left Hogwarts."

"Impossible." Kyle shook his head and said firmly, "Ms. Gray will not leave Hogwarts."

"But she is indeed not in the castle." Peeves said. "Even Bloody Balor was looking for her, but he found nothing. She must have run away."

Although he didn’t get the answer he wanted, Kyle didn’t feel too disappointed because he had expected this result early on.

 “Forget it if you can’t find it.” He waved his hand and prepared to continue walking to the common room.

"Hey, little devil Kyle, I'm not trying to deal with you." Peeves didn't know what Kyle was thinking. When he saw him turning around and leaving, he quickly explained: "I've really been looking for her... Oh, I think she was kidnapped by Bloody Barro and locked in a doorless room on the second floor."

"oh?"

Kyle stopped and turned to look at Peeves. "A room without a door on the second floor?"

If it's on the eighth floor, it should be the Room of Requirement, but if it's on the second floor...could it be that there is a similar room there?

"Ah, yes." A proud smile appeared on Peeves' face again, "No one is more familiar with this castle than me. There is such a place in Hogwarts. It is very mysterious. It contains the secrets of all the students for thousands of years. Treasure. But no one knows where.”

Hearing this, Kyle has determined that Peeves is talking about the Room of Requirement. The reason why it is on the second floor is that he must have mistaken the location.

At this time, Kangna on the side suddenly asked: "But Peeves, didn't you just say that Bloody Barrow was also looking for Ms. Grey?"

　　When mentioning Bloody Baron, Peeves couldn't help but shudder, but he still insisted: "It was all pretending by him to confuse the public.

Within half an hour, I saw the little guy from Slytherin suddenly appear at the door of a storage room on the second floor, muttering something like "gone, can't be found".

“I guess it must have been Bloody Barrow who asked him to check the situation, but Ms. Gray, who doesn’t know how to laugh, has already run away.”

Peeves nodded firmly, "Well, that must be the case."

Regardless of whether Kyle believed it or not, he believed this statement anyway, and Bloody Baron had a motive. All ghosts knew that he was the one who killed Lady Gray of Ravenclaw. In case he wanted to reappear on a whim, Let’s take a look at the scene at that time.

Peeves looked serious, and the more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

 But how can I put it, even if Kyle doesn’t know the truth, it’s impossible to believe what he says.

Ms. Gray disappeared with the Ravenclaw diadem, and there was also a part of Rowena Ravenclaw's memory in the diadem. What can Bloody Baron do? Can you go and deliver it?

Also, the storage room is inhabited by ghosts who can pass through the wall. You don’t need to think about it to know that it is impossible.

But the next second, Kyle thought of another question.

“Wait a minute, Peeves, who is the Slytherin you just said you saw on the second floor?”

"Let me think about it..." Peeves touched his chin, "I remember he and Potter had an argument in the corridor. I always wanted to see them fight, but unfortunately they met McGonagall. By the way, Potter shouted at that time He Malfoy.

“I tell you, that Malfoy must be there! I went there under the order of Bloody Barro…”

Peeves was talking incessantly, but Kyle didn't listen to what he said.

  Why did Malfoy suddenly go to the second floor?

 Can’t be found…gone…

 Is he looking for something? Or is there something there that he wants?

But the storage room is full of useless things, such as tables, chairs and benches that cannot be repaired, or old brooms that have been discarded. What does Malfoy want with those things?

Kyle was thinking, feeling that he had forgotten something, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

 No wonder Dumbledore always keeps a pensieve in his office. After experiencing too many things, it is still necessary to sort out his memories occasionally...

 “Kyle, what’s wrong with you? They’re coming?” Connor’s voice and the noise of countless people came to my ears.

When Kyle came back to his senses, he realized that Peeves had disappeared. At the same time, Slughorn ran down the stairs with several professors and students.

He ran at the front, and he didn’t know whether it was because he moved too much or had too much dinner. The gorgeous violet robe on his body was tight and looked like it might burst at any time.

"Kyle, Connor... have you seen Peeves? Someone said he was coming to the hall." Slughorn said angrily, "That nasty guy, he ruined my ball!"

"He ran that way." Kyle didn't know where Peeves had gone, so he pointed in a direction.

"What, he ran back upstairs again?" Slughorn looked at Kyle's hand pointing to the library on the second floor and felt his legs weak.

 The ghost can fly, but he can't. After running upstairs and downstairs several times just now, he really can't run anymore.

"Children..." He looked at the students following behind him, "I leave Peeves to you. Please help me and catch him.

“Whoever can bring Peeves over will be rewarded with a vial of Felixir.”

Upon hearing the elixir, several students' eyes turned red. They patted their chests, turned around and ran upstairs.

Having been splashed with vinegary water, they were originally going to settle the score with Peeves, but now that Slughorn had offered a reward such as Felixir, they had no reason not to agree.

Several people rushed upstairs in a hurry.

Slughorn leaned on the railing and took a few breaths, and couldn't help complaining:

“Armando should have listened to my advice and driven Peeves out of the castle. The ghost only caused trouble, and everyone in the castle complained about him..."

 “Yeah, same now,” Kyle said.

“Child, aren’t you going to give it a try?” Slughorn looked at Kyle and said, “I think you have a good chance of catching that troublemaker and getting my reward.”

 He took out a small bottle with a cork from his pocket, which contained a golden elixir.

Kyle couldn't help but glance at the bottle, then shook his head and said: "Sorry, Professor, although I really want this reward, I don't know if I drank too much at the dance. I'm a little sleepy now and just want to hurry up." Go back and have a good sleep.”

"When you say that, I seem to remember that you have been staying at the wine table." Slughorn patted his head, "Listen to me Kyle, although you are an adult, you still have to exercise restraint and don't drink too much. More spirits, or you can try mead, I personally like the taste of it.”

 “I will, Professor,” Kyle said. After Kyle made a few perfunctory remarks, he made an excuse and left with Kangna.

When the two returned to the Hufflepuff common room, Kyle was still thinking about Malfoy's purpose in going to the Room of Requirement.

 Obviously he couldn't have just wandered over there, there must be some purpose...but what exactly was it?

"Kyle, thank God, you are finally back. I remember you have a copy of "Transformation and Disappearance". Can you lend it to me?"

In the common room, Ryan, who was finishing his homework, saw Kyle coming in and asked quickly.

"Okay." Kyle said casually: "The book is in the cabinet in the dormitory. You can go find it yourself..."

 “Wait.” Kyle raised his head suddenly.

  Cabinet...disappearing cabinet?

He finally remembered that in the third grade, the nearly headless Nick had tricked Peeves into throwing a cabinet directly above his office in order to help Harry who was captured by Filch.

 And that cabinet is the disappearing cabinet.

Furthermore, Nearly Headless Nick also said that the Vanishing Cabinet has been placed in a storage room on the second floor.

 Filch knew that it was a vanishing cabinet and planned to take this opportunity to drive Peeves out of the school on the grounds of damaging the school's finances.

Dumbledore certainly couldn't drive Peeves away, or no one could drive Peeves out of this castle.

Later on, the incident fell into disuse, as if nothing had happened.

 The severely damaged vanishing cabinet was also cleaned up by the house elves.

Of course, this is the case on the surface.

The real situation is that the disappearing cabinet was actually taken away by Kyle before the house elf rushed over... What the elf threw away was just an ordinary cabinet with the transformation spell cast on it.

No one knows about this except Kyle.

 …

  Could it be the vanishing cabinet that Malfoy is looking for?

If so, how did he know that there was a disappearing cabinet in the storage room on the second floor? Could it be that he had been there before, but he was only in second grade at the time, so he probably wouldn't have gone to a dirty storage room.

 But if not, then what is he looking for...

Kyle thought to himself as he walked to an armchair and sat down. Although Kangna didn't know what Kyle was thinking, she didn't disturb him and just sat quietly next to him.

 …

 (End of this chapter)