Professor Vampire.

Chapter 271: Gillweed

"What is this?"

Harry was stunned for a moment, looking at the herbology book that Cedric handed to him, and asked in confusion.

"There may be something you need in it." Cedric smiled, "I just told me that Qiu was also in the library just now, and saw the three of you still looking up information here..."

"I guess you haven't found a way to get out of the water yet."

"Are you here to laugh at me on purpose?" Harry's face changed and he asked stiffly.

"No, I just want to return a favor to you." Cedric smiled warmly.

"Favor?" Harry looked at him confused.

"Have you forgotten? Before the first match, you told me that the event would be related to dragons." Cedric said, "If you hadn't told me this information, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to come up with that clever method on the spot."

"I didn't do you any favors." Harry muttered, "Except for you and Kowalski, all the warriors in the first round know what the event is. I just don't want to take advantage of you..."

"But this is indeed a big favor for me." Cedric smiled and sighed, "If you don't have this idea of ??not wanting to take advantage, but choose to be like the principals of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, and want to foresee the competition..."

"If I don't know, I may suffer a big loss, and maybe even embarrass the warriors of Hogwarts."

He forcefully stuffed the book in his hand into Harry's hand, and then said: "So take this book, I just happened to find it, and page 69 has what you need."

Harry clenched the book in his hand stiffly, with mixed feelings in his heart.

He really needed a solution to help him finish the game, but this solution was given by his opponent, which made him very frustrated.

"We are not just opponents, Harry." Cedric seemed to know what he was thinking, and smiled and comforted him, "Isn't this mutual help between friends?"

Harry was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed with relief.

Yes, he and Cedric are not just opponents-

As early as in so many Quidditch games, Cedric and the Hufflepuff team's open and aboveboard style had won Harry's favor.

After the experience of helping Hufflepuff snipe the Slytherin team in the second grade, he and Cedric could actually be called friends.

"Give me the method to deal with the game, what will you do?" Harry was no longer entangled in accepting Cedric's help, but worried that he had no other way to deal with it, so he asked this way.

"Don't worry, I've already figured out what to do." Cedric smiled, "It's a coincidence that Mr. Filch found me a few days ago and said that he had confiscated this book from a Hufflepuff student and asked me, the prefect, to help return it."

"But I couldn't find the owner of this book after asking around the entire Hufflepuff, so I took the initiative to look through the contents of the book and happened to find some useful things."

"Don't worry, I will return the original book to Mr. Filch. This one was copied using a copying spell and can only exist for a few hours, so Mr. Filch won't know about it - anyway, you don't need to read it for too long, right?"

Harry was relieved and put away the book that Cedric brought over.

"Thank you, Cedric." He thanked sincerely, and then sighed bitterly, "To be honest, if I hadn't sent this book, I really don't know what to do..."

"After all, you are still young and haven't learned a lot of things. This is normal." Cedric smiled, "Your performance in the first game has impressed me. You can think of such a clever way to use the flying spell to summon the flying broom."

"In fact, this is also what my friend thought of," Harry looked at Ron next to him and said softly, "If it were just me, maybe Professor Dracula would have to come down and rescue me in the first game, right?"

"It's okay, at least you have achieved good results." Cedric waved his hand and said goodbye to Harry, "I wish you a good game tomorrow, Harry!"

"I also wish you a good game tomorrow, Cedric!" Harry also waved his hand.

After Cedric left, Ron and Hermione quickly gathered around Harry, as if they had grabbed a life-saving straw, staring closely at the book that Cedric sent.

"Harry, look at what's written here!" Hermione said hurriedly.

"Will this really work?" Ron wondered, "Maybe he just wants to interfere with his opponent... Harry, Diggory's score is a little lower than yours now, if he wants to trip you up..."

"Cedric wouldn't do that." Harry shook his head and interrupted Ron, "I believe in his character. Just based on the fact that he would rather admit defeat than win unfairly on the Quidditch field, there's no need for us to doubt him."

As he spoke, Harry turned to page 69 according to the page number Cedric told him.

The page clearly recorded a type of herb - chinweed.

"Gillweed is produced in the Mediterranean area. It is gray-green, long and sticky..." Ron read the content in the book, "This is not a spell. What does it have to do with tomorrow's game?"

"Keep reading, Ron!" Hermione turned back and glared at him, then read on:

"It was discovered by Elladora Catridge in the early years. According to him, wizards who take Gillsweed will grow gills that can breathe underwater, and webbed hands and feet will grow for swimming..."

Hermione looked up in surprise and found that Harry and Ron had the same look in their eyes.

"It actually works!" Ron exclaimed, "Does this mean that Harry can hide a Gillsweed in his pocket and eat it before entering the water..."

"Don't be happy yet, I think we'd better finish reading the functions of Gillsweed first--" Hermione said seriously, "What if it has any side effects?"

Then, she continued to read: "The effect of the herb was verified a century later by herbalist Beaumont Mejri Banks, who determined that the magic of a Gillsweed can last for about an hour."

The three of them were more and more surprised.

The effect of Gillsweed can last for about an hour. This is simply a herb tailor-made for the second event of the Four Finals!

"I must get a Gillsweed!" Harry slapped his thigh and jumped up from his seat, "I can wear an invisibility cloak, sneak to Hogsmeade, and buy one from the herb shop over there!"

As he said, he was ready to run back to the common room and get his invisibility cloak.

However, at this moment, Hermione caught a glimpse of the last line of small words on the page:

"P.S.: Gillweed is relatively rare and is a precious potion material. It is not recommended to be used as a swimming tool for a long time; it is not recommended to be sold on a large scale."

She opened her eyes wide and grabbed Harry's arm in a panic.

"Wait a minute, Harry, the herb shop in Hogsmeade may not have Gillweed..."

"Why?" Harry and Ron stopped eagerly.

Hermione pointed to the last line of small words on the book, and the joyful expressions on Harry and Ron's faces suddenly froze.

"Then what should we do?" Harry asked blankly.

Ron looked at the various other books piled up next to him, and his eyes gradually became a little dazed.

"Diggory should not have seen that line of small words, otherwise he would not have given you this book..." He murmured, "Is there no way for Harry to complete the game?"

The three people stood there blankly, and even Mrs. Pince's ferocious actions to chase them away were almost unnoticed.

"I've told you several times that the library is closed!" Madam Pince shouted angrily, "Are you three guys challenging the authority of the librarian?!"

She has been a librarian at Hogwarts for so many years, and has the "power of life and death" over all books. Any little wizard who needs to borrow books needs to have a certain degree of respect for her, and she is proud of this.

However, today, someone dared to ignore Madam Pince as a librarian, which is definitely a direct resistance to the authority of the librarian!

"Oh, sorry, Madam Pince, we were distracted just now." Hermione, who often came to the library to borrow books and had the most dealings with Madam Pince, was the first to react and apologized, "We'll leave right away!"

As she said that, she immediately pulled Harry and Ron out, leaving Madam Pince resentfully sorting out the large number of books they left behind.

...

On the other side, Hermione pulled Ron and Harry in each hand and ran to the Gryffindor common room at the same time.

While running, she said hurriedly: "You two hurry up, maybe we still have a chance now."

"Give up, Hermione, we have no chance..." Ron let Hermione pull him, and said dejectedly, "Let Harry swim two laps in the Black Lake, Professor Dracula will pull him out of the water."

"I'd better go to Hogsmeade to take a look, what if the herbal medicine store there has gillyweed?" Harry didn't give up like Ron, but his expression was also not optimistic.

"The game is not over yet, and everything is not settled yet!" Hermione looked at the two of them sternly and said loudly, "You two cheer up, Harry still has a chance to succeed in tomorrow's game!"

"Have you thought of any way, Hermione?" Harry looked at Hermione hopefully, and raised the last glimmer of hope in his heart.

"Yeah." Hermione nodded heavily. "Just because there is no gillyweed in the herb shop in Hogsmeade doesn't mean there is no gillyweed in other places!"

"You mean..."

"Gillyweed is not only a tool to help people swim, but also a very precious potion material." Hermione said, "Let's go to Snape's potion storage room and look for it. We should find something."

Ron and Harry widened their eyes in surprise.

They never thought that Hermione, an excellent student who always abides by school rules and regulations, would take the lead in proposing the plan to steal the things of the potion professor...

"Hermione, are you really not infected by Fred and George to break the school rules?" Ron hesitated and asked in a low voice.

"I just did it for Harry, just this once!" Hermione glared at Ron and said sternly.

Then, she looked at Harry, "Harry, hurry back to your dormitory and get your invisibility cloak. Let's go to Snape's office in the basement of the castle... In addition, I think we need a few helpers."

That night, Fred and George made a big move in the corridor of the dungeon of Hogwarts Castle.

They first threw several large dung balls at the entrance of the Slytherin common room, and then set off several exaggerated fireworks outside Snape's office.

According to Fred and George, they had wanted to do this for a long time.

Snape was so angry that he didn't sleep at night and rushed out of the office in anger, determined to catch the troublemakers who didn't take them seriously.

However, Fred and George had the advantage of the Marauder's Map. They shuttled back and forth between various secret passages in the castle, fooled Snape around, and took him from the basement to the eighth floor of the main tower without being caught once.

At the same time, the three young wizards hid in a large invisibility cloak and sneaked into the dungeon of the castle when Snape went out to capture Fred and George.

"Alohomora."

Hermione pointed her wand at the lock of the potion material storage room and whispered.

The lock opened, and Harry, Ron and Hermione pushed the door open and walked in. They saw countless potion materials and many experimental products soaked in jars, some of which were extremely strange and looked particularly creepy.

"Is it so easy to get in here?" Ron closed the door and asked in confusion, "I thought Snape was very powerful, but I didn't expect his protective magic to be so poor."

"Maybe... he never thought that anyone would dare to sneak into his potion storage room?" Harry said uncertainly.

Hermione frowned and stared at the wand that had just cast the unlocking spell.

"Why do I feel a little strange..." She whispered, "Snape's protective magic should not be so fragile. Instead, I feel that it is more like it has been cracked by someone, leaving me with only a most ordinary door lock."

"Don't think too much, just get in." Ron said carelessly, "Instead of thinking about these things, you might as well hurry up and help Harry find the gillyweed!"

"Yeah, that's right." Hermione nodded in agreement.

Then, the three little wizards began to search Snape's potion material storage room inside and out, comparing it with the description in the book sent by Cedric, trying to find the gillyweed that Harry would need in a few hours.