Chapter 466: The Little Cat Is In Action (Edited)

Barty Crouch Jr. was loitering outside Snape's office, his magical eye peering out from time to time.

Wasn't Snape on night duty today? why did he stay in his office and not come out?

Barty Crouch Jr. was very depressed, he had been waiting here for some time, but Snape was pacing around his office, apparently preparing some potion, with no intention of making his nightly rounds.

Actually, Barty Crouch Jr. could understand that, as Potions Master, school patrols were not so important when he was in the midst of potions research.

It's just that understanding is understanding, and being depressed is still being depressed... Isn't that too much of a coincidence?

Barty Crouch Jr. was torn, not knowing whether to stay here and wait for Snape to leave, or wait for another opportunity to return.

After a while, he decided to leave.

Since Snape didn't seem to have any signs of finishing, and he still had enough Multijuice Potion for the time being....

"Tsk!"

Barty Crouch Jr. smacked his lips in disgust and limped out of the basement.

Just as his false leg hit the stairs, Barty Crouch Jr. suddenly felt the anti-theft spell he had left in his office activate.

At first, Barty Crouch Jr. thought Dumbledore had heard what he had done, but he soon came to his senses....

The person who touched the anti-theft spell should be Fish.

Barty Crouch Jr. went back upstairs and thought it would be good to let Fish suffer a little in his office.

As for whether they would find the real Moody, Barty Crouch Jr. wasn't worried at all; without the magic key he carried with him to open the lock, either by violently breaking the chest or with some other lock-opening spell, they would only be able to see the contents of the first level of the chest.

So the Barty Crouch Jr. turned away again, intending to continue waiting for Snape to leave his office.

On the other hand, when Fish and Hermione emerged from the Gryffindor dormitory, they headed straight for Moody's office.

"Nya?" (Fish, where are you going?)

Hermione was quick to notice the difference between Fish's usual walks, where he went completely aimlessly, scratching his paw or rolling around when he saw something interesting.

Today, however, as soon as the cat emerged from the hole in the wall, he headed straight for the stairs with a clear purpose.

Worried that Fish was getting into trouble again, Hermione was quick to ask.

"Nya, nya, nya (Fish is going to visit Professor Moody, who once said there are lots of interesting things in his office)."

(=??=)

Fish responded vaguely to Hermione's question.

However, Hermione, under the guidance of Professor McGonagall, has been with Fish for a long time, so naturally, she will not be fooled like that.

"Nya?" (Something interesting? What exactly is it?).

"Nya! ... Nya?" (It's some kind of magic trap... Probably the same thing as the age line?)

(=??=)

Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Fish had to be honest, but he didn't particularly care....

He had passed Dumbledore's age line, Moody obviously wasn't as good as Dumbledore, and cheating shouldn't be as much of a problem as the age line.

Fish made a very simple deduction.

Hermione: "..."

I knew it!

Fish had never really liked Professor Moody, and Hermione had come to speculate that Fish was going to fight him after he had been successful in his entry to the Triwizard Tournament.

To be honest, breaking into an office wasn't such a bad situation....

There was already a rumor going around Hogwarts that Fish had beaten up the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and was part of the You-Know-Who curse, and Hermione guessed that it had probably come from Ron.

So, at first, Hermione did want to stop Fish, but after some thought, she thought it would be good to let him into Moody's office, so that he wouldn't have to fight with Professor Moody after he got it off his chest.

Of course, this was mainly because Hermione didn't know Mad-Eye Moody well enough, otherwise she probably would have stopped Fish.

Before long, the two cats arrived at the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office.

It was the same office Fish had been in a few times.

In first year, Quirrell's scent was too strong and Fish wasn't interested in going in.

So the first time Fish entered this office was the night Mrs. Norris was petrified, and they followed Lockhart.

At that moment, the walls were covered with Lockhart's paintings, among which stood out, apart from the annoying ones, his decorations and his books, all of them placed on a shelf in front of the door.

In addition, there were several mirror cabinets, all beautifully carved. Lockhart also kept flowers in his office and sprayed perfume everywhere.

The next time he came to this office was last year, when Lupin came to teach. Because from time to time he also taught in his office.

During the time that Lupin used it, the office was much simpler, other than the desk and chairs that were already there and the bed and the cubicle closet, it was basically just teaching materials and his old beat-up suitcase that he never left behind... unlike Lockhart.

I wonder what Professor Moody's office looks like.

With this curiosity in mind, Fish, in human form, discreetly and deftly set up a sound barrier nearby, then pointed his wand at the door to Moody's office....

"Alohomora!"

(?ΦΦ?)つ━☆*.

The office door did not respond.

"It really didn't work nya."

Fish wasn't discouraged, it wasn't like he'd never seen anything like this before.

Tucking his wand into his belt, Fish took two steps forward and gripped the door with both hands.

Hermione, still in her little black cat form, saw Fish's actions and helplessly covered her face with her paws.

"Nya!"

ヽ(●-`Д′-)ノ

With a wave of his arms, Fish yanked the door off Professor Moody's office.

But as soon as the cat yanked the door off, two ropes flew out of nowhere and wrapped themselves around Fish.

"Nya?"

∑(?`Д′?)

Fish held the door up with both hands and was tightly bound by the rope.

As he threw the door aside, Fish's body shrank back into his cat form, and the rope around him immediately loosened and fell limply to the ground.

"It's not as good as Minerva nya's rope."

(●`?′●)

Fish, who had regained his human form, looked at the pile of rope that had stopped moving at his feet and said smugly to Hermione.

Hermione, who was watching from a window sill not far away, wagged her tail lazily and meowed in support of Fish.

Hermione had no intention of going in with Fish because she didn't think she was strong enough to face Professor Moody's magical trap and would only add to the mess, and because...

Fish had asked him to stay outside and keep watch.

Since Professor McGonagall's office was downstairs, Fish was worried that she would come up and get him, so he asked Hermione to stay outside and warn her, so that the cat could escape early....

Although Hermione didn't understand the point of doing this, since Fish asked, she certainly wouldn't refuse.

Fish picked up the door he had thrown aside, placed it against the wall and waved to Hermione, who was not far away, before lifting his leg and entering Professor Moody's office.