Poseidon's Staff
At 10 o'clock, in Ravenclaw's bedroom, Harry was still lying in bed. Everyone except Ron understood why Harry didn't want to go out.
As Harry's new little brother, Anthony even brought back a few pies and a glass of milk from the Great Hall and placed them on Harry's bedside table.
Since Ron was still there, Harry couldn't thank him directly at the time, and he even ate the pie with milk after Ron had gone out and gotten cold.
Ron still returned to the dormitory from time to time to see if Harry was awake. He couldn't wait to take Harry to greet the crowds of other students. Ron had never been so popular before.
At that moment, an unexpected person entered the dormitory: Hermione.
"Hermione! What? Girls can go into—the boys' dorms?" Harry sat up abruptly, stammering.
"It's just a girls' dormitory, boys aren't allowed in, Harry, have you forgotten?" Hermione was furious, but when she saw Ron's eye-catching bed (each bed had its name engraved in gold lettering), she understood.
During this time together, she also came to understand what kind of oddball Ron was. While Harry and even Neville avoided other people's advances, he was the only one who enjoyed it.
He even dragged along a senior named Sage, saying he wanted to publish a book.
"Oh, Harry, it's Ron, isn't it?" Hermione thought she understood.
"Yes, but what did I forget?" Harry still couldn't remember.
"Look next to you!" Hermione snapped, looking like a furry cat with its fur standing on end. She pointed to Ryan's bed next to her. Since things related to Atlantis couldn't be discussed verbally, and Ryan wasn't there to act as a middleman, Hermione could only remind Harry in this way.
"Damn it! How could I forget? It must be Ryan." Harry realized.
"What does this have to do with Ryan? He's been living all alone, unnoticed by anyone. If it weren't for XXXXX, we wouldn't have noticed him at all." Hermione frowned.
Looking at the furious Hermione in front of him, he decided not to tell her the pattern he had discovered. Ryan's presence was clearly under his own control.
Harry's forgetting about Atlantis was also related to Ryan deliberately shielding Harry from the story.
The weather was clear, and the castle was located in Nottingham Forest, a place that was usually unmarked and unnoticed by ordinary people.
A figure suddenly appeared in front of the castle gate. The gate opened automatically, and a short creature with bulbous eyes was already waiting with its head down not far behind the gate.
"Young Master Ryan, here, this scepter is finished," said the House-elf Jack, holding a crystal-clear scepter in his withered hands, its shaft seemingly containing the ocean.
"Not bad, it looks impressive enough. We'll use this scepter and necklace in a bit." Ryan nodded in satisfaction, touching the necklace Kate had given him.
Ryan didn't want to spend too much time taking Harry and Hermione to Atlantis, but if he were to teleport the two of them directly to the seabed, then his previous story would simply fall apart.
But if he used the Anywhere Door and his Skywalker Alchemy Workshop's unique products, Ryan felt it lacked sophistication and wasn't fun.
So Ryan had Jack make a scepter that looked impressive, so they could pretend it was a powerful magical artifact. Kate's necklace was the same, with another purpose.
Moreover, this way, Kate can see it, feel a sense of involvement, and stop being upset about her not showing up last week.
"Alright, that's settled then." Ryan smiled slightly and disappeared from the spot.
Meanwhile, Harry and Hermione, who had just been talking in their dormitory, heard a voice in their minds. "Harry, Hermione, go straight out now. No one will notice you. Meet at the Black Lake in Hogwarts."
"It's Ryan! Harry, hurry up!" Hermione exclaimed excitedly.
"Hermione, how am I supposed to change if you don't go out?" Harry complained.
A moment later, Harry and Hermione walked toward the gate. Along the way, all the wizards treated them as if they were invisible. But that wasn't quite right; they would still subconsciously avoid Harry and Hermione, but they didn't find it strange.
Hermione was eager to see Ryan and get to the bottom of the ocean as quickly as possible, so she didn't pay much attention to this amazing scene.
Harry, on the other hand, felt as if he had returned to his elementary school days, to the life of the invisible man, when no one dared to befriend him because of Dudley.
Harry found it strange, but he was actually enjoying it, which made him unconsciously slow down his pace.
"Oops! My shoe fell off." Harry had suddenly slowed down and Hermione stepped on the back of his shoe. If that were all, his shoe wouldn't have fallen off.
This is all because Harry has had the habit of wearing Dudley's old clothes since he was a child. Although he was often ridiculed for his loose-fitting clothes, Harry still subconsciously chose a size larger when buying clothes, and the same goes for shoes.
"I'm sorry, hurry up, Harry." Hermione said apologetically, pacing back and forth in a hurry.
Before long, Hermione and Harry arrived at the Black Lake. Although it was only September, the weather had already turned quite cold. The mountains around the school were shrouded in a gray haze, some trees had already lost all their leaves, and the Rainbowfish that often appeared near the lake had disappeared.
"Why is nobody here?" Hermione rubbed her hands together.
"No, look at the lake." Harry was nearsighted, but his eyesight was exceptionally sharp, though perhaps it was because he no longer used tape to hold his glasses in place.
Near the lake, a whirlpool appeared, spinning and spinning. After about ten seconds, a column of water emerged from the whirlpool, and two people slid out from it, one in front of the other, like a transparent pipe.
"Ryan, what's this?" Hermione asked, pointing to a girl about her height who was wearing Hogwarts and had Ravenclaw badge.
"This is Kate, Kate LeWinster. She's in her fifth year now. I'm sure you two have met her before. She's also one of only two people from Hogwarts who have been to Atlantis," Ryan said, leaning on his cane.
Harry looked at Kate, who was as cold as ice, and seemed to understand why she had spread the news on Wednesday afternoon that Madam Pomfrey was not in the Hospital Wing and that he would be going there.
Of course! Their world of two has become a four-person affair because of him and Hermione. Harry knows very well how charming Ryan is, and he can't believe there is anyone in the world who wouldn't be captivated by Ryan's slight smile.
"Ryan, what's this?" Harry could only give an awkward smile and change the subject, pointing to the scepter in Ryan's hand.
"This is Poseidon's Staff. It can travel through any water. We'll use it to get to Atlantis." Ryan pointed at the replica with an air of importance. Kate, standing beside him, remained expressionless, but in Ryan's mind, she was laughing loudly.
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