Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 386 May
"Merlin!"

"Hermione, what did you say to Malfoy?"

"Harry, did you see her expression, it's like swallowing a big dung egg."

Ron laughed and talked all the way, and he didn't stop until he returned to the common room.

When they returned to the common room, everyone looked at Hermione, especially the wizard, and even the twins had expressions of pain and fear on their faces.

Where the 'big brother' came, everyone quietly moved away.

It wasn't until Hermione moved away that the MacGuffin heard them whispering.

"Have you heard? Gore and Crabbe are going to be hospitalized for observation tonight...they said they always feel...that place is not right."

"I know, they don't want Madam Pomfrey to treat there, so they have to go to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magic and Magic to hire a male therapist."

"Really?—Hiss, that sounds so painful!"

"... poor fellow, even a Slytherin is poor enough!"

Even Percy walked back and forth in front of Hermione with a sigh, and wanted to say something to get closer, but finally left directly with a look of fear.

Just as everyone was in awe and fear of Hermione, there was a bang in the common room, and a house elf appeared out of thin air.

It's Dobby.

Ridiculously dressed,

There are two white cardboards hanging on his body, one behind the other,
Scribbled slogans,

On the front it reads:

—resisting the tyranny of Hermione Granger,

On the reverse it reads:

— No pay, no holidays, long live work.

There are also many finger prints that resemble children.

Ron and Harry looked at this scene, looking like they wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh.

It was very uncomfortable.

All the little wizards present paid great attention to this weird house elf, and were extremely curious why she came to find Harry and the others.

However, after thinking about it with my toes, I knew that Hermione had finally pissed off the house elves.

So much so that the strategy of handing Hermione over to them to fight against slavery and fight for a salary turned back on her.

In the end, Dobby found Harry and ran over happily.

"Harry, Mr. Harry Potter, Dobby was sent by other elves to clean the Gryffindor common room." Dobby said to them happily.

"They're on strike!"

"It is said that Miss Granger secretly put some coins and clothes in the kitchen and angered them... Dobby has never seen so many elves so angry when he came to Hogwarts." Her thin voice became a little melancholy.

"Anyway, they're on strike."

"Before Miss Granger apologizes and promises not to do the same thing, Dobby will be responsible for cleaning the entire Gryffindor dormitory."

"It stands to reason that this shouldn't be..."

"Of course, Dobby is very happy."

McGuffin watched Hermione warily.

These words made Hermione not much depressed, but her expression became more determined.

"Although it was not expected, at least the elves dared to resist. This is a rare progress."

Hello!This is not the point!
McGuffin complained in his heart, if this goes on, even if the elves don't rebel, the other little wizards probably won't be able to bear it.

Can Dobby clean a common room and dormitory as big as Gryffindor by himself?
After that, McGuffin and Hermione each drew a little blood from Dobby, wanting to see what kind of magic their group had, which could actually affect their behavior and thinking.

The purpose of the two is the same, but their motives are very different.

For McGuffin, the matter of [Blood Curse] is more realistic and important.

According to what he thought, the parchment system even directly triggered a new mission.

——[Save the elves]

Still a series of tasks.

McGuffin felt that this was more difficult than Gan Voldemort.

The ultimate goal of this series of missions is actually the vision goal proposed by Hermione, to enhance the status of house elves in the entire wizarding world.

- It's almost impossible to do.

There are too many potential party interests blocking the completion of this task.

But the first step is in line with his current thinking.

——[Explore the curse in the blood of the house elves].

Not only can he figure out whether this spell can be used on Wormtail, but he can also get a lot of talent points.

It seemed that a trip to the Restricted Area was inevitable.

……

As we enter May, the temperature begins to rise gradually.

Everything seems to have revived, insects chirping and birds flying, and the greenery is lush.

The owl also seems to have adapted to the fire dragons flying around the castle, working day and night, trying to avoid the fire dragon's work and rest time.

Green quietly emerged from the ground and branches, occupying the entire scenery outside the castle.

Going outside to relax, spring outing on the grass by the black lake, quietly feeling the breeze, listening to insects and birds will definitely be a very pleasant thing.

The only problem is that,

Little wizards can't do that.

Not only because the eleven Death Eaters and the entire group of dementors are still missing, but also because the Hogwarts exam is approaching, in the middle of May.

(McGuffin is worried that the Death Eaters have been missing, and the Death Eaters will not be mentioned, but most Dementors cannot hide for so long without being discovered. They need human emotions as food. This situation is extremely abnormal. - These guys don't really go to Voldemort, do they?)
(The exam was brought forward because Jordan Mandela and other people representing the interests of the new broom [Nimbus 3000S] requested the Hogwarts Board of Directors. They believed that it would be best to have a period of time between the game and the exam so as not to affect the status of the Quidditch players.)
All this makes students need to force their brains to quickly sink into the magical knowledge of last year and this year.

(Because the exam of the previous semester was cancelled, the knowledge points of the two school years were tested side by side, so this year's final exam is said to be very difficult)
For example, this is shown in the dissertations of various subjects now... all kinds of boring regulations and laws about goblins and werewolves in the history of magic; Snape assigned a lot of research reports on the differences between life and death water, shrinking potions, and transformation potions; even Professor Flitwick of the Charms class assigned them a paper on [Happy Curse].

All these made the McGuffins try their best to squeeze out their energy and brains every day.

All are exhausted and irritable.

But they're fine.

The Ordinary Wizarding Levels (OWLs) for George and Fred's fifth year are approaching.

This exam was a week earlier than Harry's final exam.

Although Mrs. Weasley had low expectations for their exam results, she couldn't help that Charlie Weasley was still at school.

So this legendary Quidditch player was forced to become the twins' tutor and supervisor.

Although the twin brothers didn't care about Percy's words, they still respected Charlie.

So they can only use their best to learn.

Speaking of Percy, he's also preparing for the (Ultimate Wizarding Level Tests) NEWTs, the highest qualifications that can be achieved at school.

If he wanted to work in the Ministry of Magic, he had to achieve excellence in all the courses on this qualification certificate.

Even the Muggle Studies class is so unpopular that almost no one signs up for it. You have to get excellent in order to work in Auror, memory write-off team and other departments.

As for the Department of Law, which he has always wanted to enter, he needs several courses such as Defense Against the Dark Arts, Potions, Leaves of Grass, History of Magic, and International Relations of Magic to be excellent at the same time in order to be admitted.

Although Percy thought he performed well in the Ministry of Magic's preliminary admission interview some time ago, if he entered the Ministry of Magic, this qualification certificate would be the winner.

So he became more irritable and irritable.

Any little thing can make him furious.

Especially the roar of the fire dragon passing around the castle from time to time every day, which made this guy completely lose his mind.

One time I almost rushed out with my wand, wanting to have a 'dragon slaying'.

The fire dragon, the strike of the house elves, being imprisoned in Hogwarts Castle, the exam held in advance...these messy things made them accumulate a lot of psychological pressure.

It makes the little wizards of Gryffindor look like they are about to boil water.

Any little thing can boil up.

The most serious of them were Hermione and Harry, who were even more anxious than Percy.

Hermione was obsessed with the house-elves and the lessons, and Harry, in addition to studying for his exams all day, had to train with Wood above the small space between the castles.

As for McGuffin, he was in no rush about the final exam.

The Werewolf Suppressor has been almost perfected, and even if there is a Werewolf who is proficient in it - 'Lumstrong Jet Movement', it is completely unable to break through its blockade.

The only thing he was anxious about was the [Blood Curse], that is, the trace of the snake [Nagia].

Now perhaps only by cracking the enslavement magic in the house-elf blood, and turning Peter Pettigrew into his 'house-elf', can he feel relieved. (even temporarily)

So McGuffin spends every night in the restricted section of the library, looking up things about ancient magic on house-elves.

If it doesn't work, McGuffin even considered directly using the Desperate Curse to force Peter Pettigrew to find Voldemort, or using [Horcrux] to threaten Voldemort in exchange for the blood of [Nagia].

But just thinking about it, even if Voldemort only has shadow and soul, his attainments in these dark arts are not comparable to his own.

Don't lose your wife and pay for your troops again.

After thinking about it, McGuffin felt that it would be most reliable to follow the original plot.

But now the plot has completely deviated from the track... The Marauder's Map is in his hands, and Sirius is fat and strong at Hagrid's place, which is beyond mentioning... Plus those damned dementors and Death Eaters who have escaped from prison,... Will they really look for Voldemort?
Will Voldemort still avoid his most loyal servant for fear of being seen at his weakest, as described in the plot?

McGuffin didn't know, and he didn't dare take the risk.

He must have a buffer guy to test and obtain first-hand real intelligence information.

In between, the only good news is that, after days of library research,

The curse on the house-elf, combined with his talent points, and Voldemort's half-finished experience in black magic gained after completing the [Death Enemy] series of quests, plus the summaries of the bits and pieces of taboo knowledge in the restricted area, finally put together the original lost magic.

——[Soul-moving phantom, fragment 29/30]

Maybe it will work tonight.

After midnight, McGuffin suppressed his excitement, waved his wand and cast an invisibility spell on himself, then quietly slipped into the empty common room. After passing through the passageway of portraits, he went to the restricted area of ​​the library with ease.

But what I didn't expect was that when I was excited, I didn't open the Marauder's Map as usual. As a result, since then, there have been several tails behind my buttocks, and there are more than one.

……

"Harry! Harry!"

Ron gently shook Harry awake, and he spoke in a low voice, very softly.

"Borrow the invisibility cloak!"

"What are you doing?" Harry couldn't help but lower his voice following him.

"No! I found that McGuffin disappeared every midnight..."

Harry's eyes followed Ron's fingers and looked at McGuffin's bed,
This guy's curtains are drawn tight for some reason.

That's kind of weird, the McGuffin doesn't usually do that.

"This guy must know a magical passage to Hogsmeade... I knew that his deal with George and Fred had an ulterior secret."

"It must be the purchase channel for magic candies!"

"I'm their brother!—and best friend 1"

"It's all hidden from me!"

Ron complained, encouraging Harry to take the Invisibility Cloak out from under the box and follow the McGuffin.

After hesitating for three seconds, Harry took out the Invisibility Cloak and put it on with Ron.

But after they came out of the portrait channel, they encountered the biggest trouble.

The two did not know where McGuffin had gone.

"McGuffin is going too fast!"

"Go back and ask him directly tomorrow!"

Under the Invisibility Cloak, Harry said to Ron.

"No, I have to discover their purchase channel myself... Go to the spiral magic staircase first, McGuffin will always go..."

"--what!"

"What, Harry, don't pull me into me!" Ron said.

"I do not!"

Before Harry finished speaking, he felt something touch his leg, and he clearly heard something grunting.

He looked down slowly, but found that there was nothing.

"Peves?" Harry asked tentatively, his voice trembling.

The silent and dark corridor was empty, and a snoring sound surrounded them.

No matter what this thing is, the comer is not good.

Under the invisibility cloak, Harry and Ron glanced at each other, immediately reached a tacit consensus, and hurriedly turned around and ran towards the portrait of the Fat Lady.

But they didn't expect them to turn around, and before they took two steps--

boom!
They hit something very hard.

"--what!"

Three long screams echoed in the corridor.

Then the sound of the iron armor clanging and running came from a distance.

Ron was so frightened that he tore off the invisibility cloak, and ran towards the fat lady with hands and feet.

"Harry, come on!"

But didn't wait for him to finish.

"Ron?"

Hermione's voice came through the air.

Then the sound of breaking the curse sounded, and the voice of her wearing a powder-blue plaid pajamas appeared in front of the two of them.

"What the hell are you guys doing?"

--what!

Ron screamed again, feeling a warm, furry, invisible thing whirling around his legs.

(End of this chapter)