Wind and Eagle Wings at Hogwarts

Chapter 346 346. Unprecedented Conflict

As the weekend of this week approached, Scott clearly felt that the atmosphere in Hogwarts Castle was becoming more and more restless.

Everyone is so curious about what Medea publicly declared in an interview a week ago.

If what she said is true, then this week's Sunday at Gaunt's House will be a big event that will shake up the British wizarding world.

A big event that will affect many people.

Eddie and the Weasley twins have secretly opened an underground gambling game, attracting many students to bet.

Early Saturday morning, Scott came to the Room of Requirement and entered Helena's study.

"Good morning, Helena."

After closing the door, Scott walked to the landscape painting at the entrance of the inner room, waiting for Helena to open the door for him.

"morning."

In another painting, Helena is trimming a plant with scissors.

It's a pity that no matter how many branches and leaves she cut off, the plant in the painting still maintains its original appearance, and the branches and leaves that she cut off have disappeared.

But Helena still took the trouble to cut it.

"You're here." She didn't look at Scott, "Hogwarts is very lively recently."

"It's very lively." Scott echoed casually.

"I heard that Medea is going to duel with her descendant of the demon king?" The girl Helena in the painting turned around, her eyes full of curiosity.

"She announced it that way, in the newspaper," Scott said. "Maybe she won't go, maybe Voldemort won't go, and we won't know until after tomorrow."

Helena wrinkled her nose, "Unfortunately, I can't leave Hogwarts, but Helena doesn't want to visit."

She was talking about the ghost Helena.

Scott just smiled when she said that.

As he spends more and more time together, he has become very clear that the girlish Helena in the painting is not a cheap lamp.

The somewhat wayward girl in the painting must have other plans for saying this, and Scott chose not to disagree.

The girl Helena threw away the scissors in her hand, walked out of the painting with her skirt in both hands, passed through the paintings, and walked towards Scott's position.

"Aren't you curious, Scott." She walked into the landscape painting in front of Scott, and turned to face Scott.

Scott smiled, "It's useless to be curious. We just need to wait, and news will come out after tomorrow."

Helena in the painting looked at Scott suspiciously.

"I always feel like you're lying to me." She stared into Scott's eyes, "Didn't you try to get first-hand information? Or keep an eye on it secretly?"

A helpless expression immediately appeared on Scott's face.

He said in a helpless tone: "You think too highly of me, Helena, I'm just a student and I can't do so many things."

"Who knows." Helena was dubious.

Scott suddenly smiled again, "Are you worried about your good friend Medea?"

"Who is worried about her!" The girl in the painting raised her voice a lot, "I broke up with her a long time ago!"

"Really." Scott put on a noncommittal attitude.

"Of course!" Helena said even louder.

The landscape she was in moved to reveal the door of the same interior.

"Go in quickly, don't keep mother waiting!" She said in a urging tone.

"Thanks for the reminder, I'll go right in."

Scott pushed open the inner door and walked in.

"Good morning, Master."

"Good morning."

First bowed slightly to Ravenclaw in the painting, and after getting a response, Scott walked to the desk in the room and sat down.

He took out several notebooks from the shapeshifting lizard pouch at his waist, picked up a pen, and began to seek answers from Ravenclaw as usual for questions in his studies.

After all the problems in the normal study progress were resolved, Scott turned to the last page of his ancient rune notes, and took out a panoramic telescope from his leather bag.

He first introduced the function of the panoramic telescope to Ravenclaw, and then showed her the contents of the notebook in his hand.

"This is the rune that I barely deciphered, but it lacks some key points and cannot form a correct rune circuit." He said to Ravenclaw in the painting.

Ravenclaw smiled slightly, "Do you know that it's wrong to crack other people's products like this?"

"I know."

Scott glanced at the mentor in the painting with some surprise, not understanding why Ravenclaw suddenly emphasized this.

She should have known that he was no moral model.

Maybe it's because his mentor Ravenclaw is a master alchemist, so he hates this kind of behavior?
The smile on Ravenclaw's face deepened, "It seems you don't understand why I bring this up."

Scott nodded honestly.

"I'm not talking about ethics," Ravenclaw said. "It's about method."

"Method?" Scott didn't understand.

"This is a customary rule among alchemists."

Ravenclaw in the painting said.

"Of course you can crack other people's alchemy products to obtain the rune circuit mastered by others, but you'd better crack it according to the alchemist's method, that is, find a way to safely disassemble it."

"Safe disassembly?" Scott asked in surprise, "Will they leave such a back door? After all, this is a product of a merchant."

"If the alchemist who invented this product is a regular alchemist, there must be one." Ravenclaw said, "This is an unspoken rule among alchemists. Of course, there is another unspoken rule. Even if the rune circuit is successfully deciphered, the same product cannot be produced.”

"But I'm not an alchemist," Scott said.

Ravenclaw in the painting smiled again, "You are the alchemist's apprentice."

Scott also laughed and said, "I will abide by the second unspoken rule and not make the same product."

"It seems that such rules cannot bind you." Ravenclaw was not angry.

"It's also hard for me to imagine that such a rule can bind you, the mentor." Scott said, "This is not like Ravenclaw's attitude towards knowledge."

Ravenclaw in the painting seldom chuckled, "That's because I don't have the convenient ability like you, so I can only use the alchemist's method to crack other people's products."

I knew it.

Scott thought silently.

Ravenclaw made a rare joke with Scott, and then began to help him perfect the broken rune circuit.

A product like a panoramic telescope does not have a single rune circuit inside, but a combination of several rune circuits nested within each other.

This makes it many times more complicated than the rune circuits that Scott has studied before.

And the rune circuit must not make mistakes, any slight mistake will lead to the collapse of the whole.

So Scott had no choice but to ask his mentor for help.

Because this set of rune circuits was too complicated, Scott spent a whole day with the help of Ravenclaw and couldn't sort it out.

Of course, this has something to do with Ravenclaw not fully helping him.

This is Ravenclaw's teaching habit. She never directly tells Scott the correct answer, but guides him to think and teaches him the way to solve the problem.

Scott never disputed that either.

He understood that it was not advisable to follow the script after getting the correct answer, and what the Ravenclaw mentor taught him was more important.

In the evening, Scott, who returned to the Ravenclaw Tower, found that the common room seemed a little too lively tonight.

In the past, Ravenclaw's common room was quiet, and even if someone talked, it would not be too loud, but it seemed different today.

"Scott!" Eddie, who was sitting by the window, waved to him.

Scott walked over.

His roommates are all there.

"What happened?" he asked his roommates. "I heard them talking about Gryffindor and Slytherin fighting?"

Eddie nodded again and again, "Yes, it's wonderful! You will definitely regret missing today's event!"

"Why do you say that?" Scott glanced at him. "You think I haven't seen them fight?"

Roger patted Scott on the shoulder with a smile: "You have never seen such a large-scale fight. Most of the students in Slytherin and Gryffindor have ended up."

Milton shook his head, "They were so excited that even the professors didn't have time to stop them."

"When did it happen?" Scott asked.

"In the afternoon," Eddie said, "the morning was when they played Quidditch against each other, and that's when they built up some anger."

Roger said: "From the morning to the afternoon, there was constant friction between the students of the two colleges, and as the accumulated anger grew, it finally detonated completely."

The two told Scott what happened that day.

"In the beginning it was because of the friction on the court, Slytherin kept malicious fouls, and Gryffindor started to fight back."

"There was also a lot of noise off the field."

"Gryffindor won this game. After the game, the unconvinced Slytherin started provoking again."

"It was mainly Malfoy who provoked Potter."

"The two are fighting."

"There's also the matter of the Witch and the Demon King. Gryffindor often used the newspaper interview to stimulate those pure-blooded Slytherins."

"There are more and more people fighting, and the scale is gradually expanding."

"The professors prevented several conflicts. Even if those guys entered the professor's office, they still didn't repent after they came out."

"In short, they started attacking each other non-stop, and many students suffered."

"Fred and George threw a couple of turds with sparklers in the cubicle while the Slytherin troll captain was in the bathroom."

"Then the twins ran away, and Troll Flint had to give Ron a hard time, oh, poor boy."

"Percy avenged him, and our prudish Head Boy would fight, and his spell made Flint's ears smaller, and he stinks of trolls all day long."

"In the afternoon, the two colleges started a decisive battle."

"Now the school hospital is full of people."

"..."

Scott had no idea he'd missed so much in just one day in the Room of Requirement.

"Looks like Gryffindor and Slytherin have already lost their house points," he said with a smile.

Eddie laughed and said, "Oh, that's the first thing I thought when I saw them start fighting."

"Me too," said Roger.

"Me too," Milton said.

The four of them laughed together.

"Just wait until tomorrow." Eddie said excitedly after laughing, "Tomorrow is the covenant between the witch and the devil!"

"I don't know if tomorrow's evening paper and the day after tomorrow's daily newspaper will report this matter." Roger was also curious about this matter.

[You didn't tell them what we were doing? ]

Scott asked Eddie with his eyes.

[I want to give them a surprise. ]
Eddie answered with eyes.

"I'd rather not have a fight," Milton said. "A fight between them might turn into a war."

Both Eddie and Roger fell silent.

As the new generation born in the last Wizarding War, although none of them experienced the war personally, they have all heard of the horror of the war.

Especially children like Roger and Eddie who were born in wizarding families may feel more deeply about this.

Because some of their relatives and friends died in the war.

"Dumbledore will definitely go, won't he?" Eddie wanted to look at it from an optimistic perspective, "Maybe it's a good opportunity for Dumbledore to combine the witch's green-robed man and the devil's eater together." Kill all the dead!"

Milton shook his head, "Impossible, you won't believe it yourself. We all know that the witch is so smart, how could she not think of this."

Roger seemed to recall the meeting with Medea back then, and then nodded affirmatively, "Yes, since the cunning witch made such news public, it means that she has already made all preparations."

"We just need to wait for the news." Scott was not as nervous as they were.

"Don't worry, the magic world won't be in chaos." He said firmly, "At least not now."

All three roommates looked at him questioningly, wondering why he was so sure.

"Because the chaotic wizarding world is not in the interests of the Witch, Dumbledore, the Ministry of Magic, or most people," Scott said.

Milton frowned, "But the Devil and his Death Eaters are enough to cause chaos."

Scott said with a smile: "The devil's horcruxes have all been destroyed. He can no longer act like he used to. He is too afraid of death."

"That makes sense." Roger nodded in agreement, "Since the Horcrux is in the hands of the Witch, I don't think the Demon King can stop her from purifying the Horcrux, nor can she take it back."

Eddie also said: "The witch is powerful and cunning, she has already taken the lead, and I don't think she will lose to the devil this time."

Scott felt that Voldemort should not show up to cause trouble until he was successfully resurrected.

It is hard to say whether Voldemort would dare to go to Gaunt's old house to stop Medea. The most likely thing is to send Death Eaters to get back his Horcrux.

Of course, this is all speculation.

Scott is also not sure whether Voldemort has been successfully resurrected.

He could only judge from the fluctuation of the magic power of the Dark Mark on Snape's arm and whether Harry was dreaming.

But whether this judgment is accurate or not, he cannot be 100% sure.

On Sunday morning, Scott and Eddie came to the school hospital.

Eddie stood at the door and looked in, "The beds are all taken up."

"Didn't you already know that?" Scott pushed him and walked in directly.

Indeed, all the beds in the school hospital were filled with Gryffindors and Slytherins.

These people didn't stop even when they were lying down. The students from the two colleges were lying on two rows of hospital beds, staring at each other with hatred.

(End of this chapter)