Just then, Hermione spotted a harp pinned beneath Cerberus's body. "Look! There's no time to waste! He's already gone down!"
The group's hearts sank. They had hoped to get the Philosopher's Stone first and keep it from falling into The Dark Lord's hands, but they had unexpectedly arrived at the same time.
"This way!" Ron and Jerry worked together to lift the trapdoor in the floor.
It was pitch-black below, and they could see nothing.
"Lumos~" Ted held out his wand, and a ball of white light emerged from its tip, but they still could not see the bottom.
Ted merely flicked his wrist, and the Spiritual Light actually detached from his wand and floated downward. "You can use the Lumos Charm like that?" Hermione looked utterly incredulous. The books had not mentioned that.
This was a modified Lumos Charm Ted had developed based on the DND spell Dancing Lights, capable of changing how the orb of light operated.
Ted's Lumos Charm was now called the "Dancing Lights Charm," and it was already lv4!
"Forget that! Look down there!" Ron shouted.
As the orb of light drifted down, they saw what lay below. Four or five meters beneath them was a vast mass of densely packed vines, thick and thin alike. They were even writhing and shrinking away from the light, like countless venomous snakes! "What the hell is that?" Jerry broke out in goosebumps.
"It's Devil's Snare," Neville said gravely. "A special variety cultivated by Professor Sprout. It's bigger and more active than ordinary Devil's Snare."
He looked at his friends. "Once we go down, we can't move. The more we move, the tighter the Devil's Snare will bind us. It could even strangle us to death. If we stay still, it won't react too strongly. Its weaknesses are