Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 392 The newspaper brought by the owl before the exam
Sure enough, when McGuffin used [Occlumency] to record these memories in his brain.

The parchment system in his mind automatically popped up a prompt:

【移魂幻影】（29/30）→【忒休斯之咒】（1/1000）碎片+【摄魂取念】（2/50）碎片→【移魂幻影】（30/30）→补全
——Requires 250 talent points for complete completion.

--agree or not?
agree!

Does that even need to be said?
However, he still felt distressed.

The talent points that I had managed to accumulate, were squandered overnight,

The landlord's family has no food left.

"McGuffin! Tell me who is right! Didn't you just say that you figured it out?" Hermione pushed McGuffin, waking him up from his thoughts.

Yes, this place is not suitable for slow research, it is safer to go back.

So McGuffin raised his head, and said to Hermione and Harry, who were a little tense, "I already know where the exit is, let's go out and talk about it!"

"where?"

"It's up there... right where Harry and I just came out!" he said with absolute certainty.

"That's impossible!" Harry was extremely surprised.

"I didn't see anything. It's just some vague gray fog...just, just...when I was about to come out of it, I saw some images of black stairs here?"

As he said it himself, he seemed to think of something, and his expression became serious.

"Aren't those black stone stairs?"

"Yes, no, that's the window that connects the library to this space..." McGuffin said.

"Then what are you waiting for? Get out of here. I can't stand this place," Ron urged impatiently.

"Don't worry, we just know where the exit is, but we still don't know how to get out?"

"Hermione, are there any relevant records among the scrolls left by Voldemort?"

Hermione hastily pulled apart the other parchment scrolls one by one, and several people quickly glanced at the contents.

In the last scroll, Voldemort mentioned the identity paradox of the [Ship of Theseus] (riddle) they heard last night, and studied in detail the influence of [The Curse of Theseus] on later magic similar to mind-controlling spells.

In particular, [Confusion Curse], [Inspiritual Intent], [Occlumency], and the two different meanings of manipulating human minds [Imperial Soul Curse] have evolved in the European magic world and the African magic world...

At the end of the parchment scroll, there is a black and white sketch,
——is a sea-going ship sailing on the water.

It was enchanted, and the sails of the ship bulged without wind.

The boat is ups and downs, it seems that it is riding the wind and waves, and keeps moving forward.

On the side, there is a paragraph of Voldemort's mad words:

I changed Rowena Ravenclaw's uninteresting door-opening riddle to a stricter, qualifying selection mechanic.

Latecomers, if you can solve this my riddle, it proves that you are qualified to exist here.

You can come and look for me, enter under my command, and accomplish a great magical cause with me.

The unsystematic and fragmented magic research experience of my student days is given as a gift to every wizard who does not stick to traditional morals and pursues the boundaries of magic to the extreme.

In addition, a friendly reminder for latecomers who want to go out:

- From here it begins and from here it ends.

"What does that mean?" Ron said angrily.

"perhaps?"

Hermione understood something, she picked up her wand suspiciously, and tapped the pattern of the black and white big ship.

The tip of the wand sank into the painting.

As if she had discovered something, she twitched her wand, and it didn't move at all.

Seeing this situation, she hurriedly greeted the others.

So several people picked up the magic wand together, pointed the tip at the skull figure of the sea ship, pressed it together, and pulled it slowly.

The sea boat began to be pulled slowly, and was pulled to the edge of the parchment.

Several people spent a lot of effort, and then pulled the big boat in the picture with all their strength.

With a tearing sound.

It starts to appear in reality and grows little by little.

A sea ship with a black and white sketch style was displayed in front of McGuffin and the others.

It was about the size of an ordinary car, and as soon as it came out, it plunged into the pool.

Originally there was no wind or waves, like a mirrored pool, it immediately raised waves, and the torrents, like a suspended river, were driven towards the center of the Moubis ring by this two-dimensional line-style black and white big ship.

Stab it!

After a very violent sound of tearing paper.

The ship somehow returned to the scroll.

And that stream of water gathered in the middle of the circular stone staircase to form a circular water gate, and then fell into the pool again from the other side.

A suspended water bridge was formed.

And the scene in the circular water gate is exactly——

"This is?" Ron exclaimed in surprise.

That's right, this time McGuffin and the others saw it clearly, and that was the scene of the Hogwarts library.

In the middle of the night, the extremely weak rays of light illuminate the densely packed bookshelves indistinctly, blurring the scene.

But MacGuffin Harry and the others could tell at a glance that this was indeed their library.

"It starts here, it ends here! That's right, that's it."

Just as Hermione was excited about solving the puzzle, Ron eagerly pulled Harry and tried to step directly into the waterway.

It's a pity that we can't go this way.

He stabbed hard two by one and almost fell into the pool again.

It was McGuffin who pulled the two of them.After that, he secretly used his wand to copy Voldemort's study parchment notes and put it in his arms (Hermione didn't notice).

"Hermione, how do we leave, swim over?" Ron asked stupidly.

Harry said grimly, "If only I had a broomstick!"

He recalled the experience when he almost fell directly just now.

Really don't want to try it again.

After Hermione restored everything here to its original state, she tried to turn the water curtain rushing into the air into an ice bridge.

It's a pity that when we got around the Moubis ring, we couldn't get any closer. (there should be some kind of magic attached there)
It was McGuffin who cast the levitation spell on several people, turned the wand into a rope and tied everyone together, making them tread water and come to the exit.

A group of people passed through and finally returned to the library.

……

This extraordinary adventure indeed gave McGuffin and the four of them something to gain.

Hermione finally stopped thinking about [Endless Library], and she felt much better.

According to her, she was finally able to focus on preparing for this exam.

Ron was very envious of the [Marauder's Map] that McGuffin got from the twins, but now that the final exam was approaching, he couldn't care less about finding the purchase channel that he had been thinking about.

McGuffin was very proud of himself for secretly copying Voldemort's study notes.

He obtained black magic through the series of quests of "Enemy", and the memory experience related to ancient magic, which can be used in conjunction with this "Voldemort's Study Notes" to improve his magic level, and the new spell of "Moving Soul Phantom" has also begun to be continuously improved.

Although it still has the common problem of newly created magic spells - sometimes it doesn't work.

However, by comparing Voldemort's research manuscripts on [Inspiriting] and [The Curse of Theseus] recorded on the scroll, he can feel that he can quickly achieve a perfect release of this curse.

That is the [Extraordinary] level.

By the time……

With the cooperation of Scabbers (Wormtail), the guy who unconsciously became a mole.

Hey!
Najya will certainly not escape his palm.

In addition, once the [Blood Curse] was lifted, McGuffin planned to start dealing with Voldemort's Horcruxes, destroying or collecting all Horcruxes before the plot changed significantly.

Anyway, after he took Nagia away, he probably would have been fighting Voldemort's immortality.

After finishing all the [Horcrux] matters, only the soul fragment on Harry and Voldemort's own life are left.

At that time, whether it is the use of missiles to wash the ground or the siege of wizards, it can be solved smoothly, and there is no fear that Voldemort will not die.

In this adventure, though, only Harry's heart grew heavier.

(Touching the items left behind by Voldemort) This incident really caused him a great mental shock.

Not to mention that the content in those manuscripts is also too bloody, cruel and psychopathic.

Especially the content related to the [Curse of Theseus] made Harry's scar feel like it was splitting open, causing burning pain.

This made him very worried and scared.

However, when they started drawing up the exam timetable according to the courses they chose, he didn't have the energy to worry about the panic in his heart.

The tense atmosphere faced by the exam almost overwhelmed everyone.

The exam timetable written by Hermione surprised Harry and Ron even more.

The first column of this table reads:

Monday
9 o'clock, arithmetic divination

9 o'clock, Transfiguration class
lunch
1 o'clock, spell

1 o'clock, ancient runes

(...)
As for the dense list of herbal medicine classes, potions classes, Muggle studies, history of magic and various conflicting exams, Harry and Ron were even more dizzy.

Harry looked at his and Ron's exam timetable, and then looked at McGuffin's, which was even more pitiful, only a few lines, which can be said to be almost the shortest exam timetable ever,
The contrast made his brain swell and dizzy even more.

This is too bad.

"I said Hermione, McGuffin, you two won't mix up your timetables!" Harry asked.

"Hermione, how could you be sitting in two exam rooms at the same time... Speaking of which, your schedule is also like this." Ron was also extremely puzzled.

"what?"

Hermione said a little impatiently, she looked at her timetable, and picked up the MacGuffin's timetable to look carefully.

"Yes, of course I copied it correctly."

"However, it's MacGuffin! I know you take few courses, and I never thought it would be so few. Aren't you afraid of repeating a grade?" Hermione asked.

"Huh? What?"

McGuffin was looking at the description of [Soul-shifting Phantom] in the system. Before he could react, he was stunned for a while before realizing what they were talking about.

Seeing McGuffin's sluggish reaction, Ron suddenly realized.

"McGuffin hasn't taken an exam since he came to Hogwarts. You don't think the exam is easy, do you?"

"Harry, why don't you remind him."

"By the way, I remember that you didn't seem to..."

Ron looked at the two guys with envy and jealousy, especially McGuffin's ease these days, he could see it all.

"You can't do this! MacGuffin!" said Hermione sternly.

"Just for the credits to come together in these courses...you have to get all the courses to a Distinction level."

She was a little crazy, with a manic expression, and hurriedly moved piles of parchment and notes, as well as books of various courses, from her desk.

"You've got to study hard!" she said with an irresistible expression for your own good.

At this moment, there was a sound from the window beside them, and a brown owl flew in, throwing a copy of "Daily Prophet" in front of them.

"Isn't it time to deliver newspapers?"

Harry opened the rolled newspaper suspiciously, took five nuts out of his pocket, and stuffed it into the little skin pouch on the little owl's leg.

The little guy flapped his wings and kept flying in front of them, prompting them to pay.

After Harry paid the money, the little guy flew out again contentedly.

"This is?"

"McGuffin, Ron, Hermione, come and see!"

When Harry screamed, many owls flew in from the window at the same time, so many that they formed a brown-black torrent, penetrated into the Gryffindor common room, hovered in the sky, screamed, and threw newspapers in front of the little wizard.

In this familiar scene, even if McGuffin didn't read the content in the newspaper, he could still know that something big happened.

"It says that the Aurors have found traces of the dementors, and they appeared in London... and werewolves... and the Death Eaters joined forces to cause a major casualty in a Muggle bar, about a few hundred people, and... recently, a series of Muggle serial killings occurred in the city of London in just three or four days. The Aurors of the Ministry of Magic also admitted that this was related to the Death Eaters."

Harry said seriously.

McGuffin looked at the black-and-white photographs of magic in the newspaper.

Aurors cordon off a Muggle pub.

Under the fluorescent lights, there were many wizards in black robes walking around, casting spells to erase the memory of Muggles, and Mad-Eye Moody's old face was half exposed at the edge of the cover... The magic eye was also photographed, swaying around in the photo.

Moody was pushing Rita Skeeter, who was slapping him with a notebook, away with a fierce face.

"Look, Ron, your father!"

Harry pointed it out.

Mr. Weasley was also at the scene of the photo for some reason,

He was conferring with a small, bald old wizard in purple robes.

This worried Ron a little.

　The previous chapter has been revised.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)