A ruined Hogwarts

After asking Professor McGonagall about the disappearing spell, Owen was satisfied and let him go.

Melete, who was lying in his arms, squinted her eyes lazily, and sometimes used her little paws to ruthlessly push away Owen's teasing palms, with a "don't bother me" look, completely unable to tell that she had just jumped on her own. Come out and choose to follow Irving.

Owen happily pressed Melete's paws, playing a game with her where the cat's paws had to be on top, causing the little cat to turn around angrily and bury his head like an ostrich. Owen didn't care at all and just kept playing with the fluffy ball at the end of Melet's tail. He felt that when it swayed with the tail, it looked like a nice cat-teasing stick.

"Ah, it's getting late, I should go back." After a while, Owen felt sleepy again, so he stood up and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you today, Hagrid."

"Oh, no trouble." Hagrid waved his huge palm and enthusiastically handed him a large bag of rock biscuits, asking him to go back and share it with Harry.

"By the way, tell Harry for me about the sorting he mentioned last time." Hagrid's expression became serious, "I asked Dumbledore and he said not to worry too much, but that's okay. Maintain the necessary vigilance.”

"Ah? Did someone really do something to the Sorting Hat?" Owen was surprised. Why is Dumbledore making so much noise?

"I don't know." Hagrid shook his head solemnly. "Although the Sorting Hat swore that it had never been tampered with, it just discovered that Harry had important Slytherin traits, but it couldn't tell what it was...after all, it You also don’t have the ability to get to the bottom of someone else’s head just by staying on top of them for a while.”

"But I don't think a guy under a confusion spell can tell whether his feelings are real or fake." Hagrid's brows knitted into knots. "Hogwarts is not peaceful recently. Someone is plotting...that thing." , something like this happened again in the Forbidden Forest..."

When talking about "that thing", Hagrid's tone was very vague.

"Okay, I'll tell Harry." Owen twitched the corner of his mouth. Obviously Dumbledore was also confused by Harry's sorting. After all, he didn't know about the Horcrux at the moment. In addition, he should have noticed something unusual about Quirrell, so his train of thought went astray.

Dumbledore is a smart man, and smart people tend to think too much, and then get led into trouble.

"Should I say that he is worthy of Gryffindor's brain circuit?" Owen thought amusingly in his heart.

"But, Hagrid, maybe Harry really has the qualities that Slytherin likes?" He said with a smile.

"If he is really suitable there, I believe he will not become bad..." Hagrid said seriously.

Facing Owen's deep gaze, Hagrid felt inexplicably guilty, and then realized that he didn't seem to have said anything good about Slytherin in front of him. It seems that most of the Shafik family’s words come from Slytherin.

Hagrid opened his mouth and explained awkwardly: "Well, I mean you will lead him astray... Ah, bah, I mean, he will be led astray by you... No, no, I mean, You are actually a good young man, you will lead him well..."

Melete, who was lazily dozing, slightly opened her golden pupils, glanced sideways at the stupid big man, yawned widely, and rested her head on the back of Owen's hand.

Listening to Hagrid's clumsy and clumsy explanation, Owen couldn't help laughing and said: "I understand, Hagrid. I'll go back first, bye."

Hagrid took a long time to straighten his tongue, looked at Owen's back, and muttered softly: "I didn't mean for you to lead him astray..."

On the way back to the common room, Owen did not forget to stop by the Ravenclaw Tower on the west side of the castle. Without wasting much time, he found Ms. Gray and briefly talked to her about last night's situation.

"...I just saw the outline of that dangerous thing from a distance, and then ran away. The raven was fine, but without it to lead the way, I got lost in the Forbidden Forest and couldn't find the fax machine. The shadow of..."

The Ravenclaw students who came in and out looked at Owen curiously. They rarely saw Ms. Gray talking to people from other houses. In fact, Ms. Gray often doesn't even talk to the students in her own college. It is unprecedented that she can talk happily with people now.

Many people deliberately passed by Irving and Ms. Gray and carefully remembered Irving's face. But the two people who were talking ignored them and just moved closer, talking much softer.

Ms. Gray nodded her head slightly and said in a faint tone: "Hogwarts is indeed in danger recently. Stay away from the Forbidden Forest in the future. I will continue to help you keep an eye on the fax machine."

Owen thanked him and sighed in his heart that the days of staying up late would continue. He was really worried that he would not grow taller if he stayed up too late. Fortunately, Shafiq's hairline could withstand the test, otherwise he would have been worried about hair loss long ago.

After chatting with Ms. Gray for a while, Owen said goodbye to her and went back to the dormitory to catch up on his sleep. He was woken up by Melete who was very hungry, and then he got out of bed in a daze and poured milk for her.

Early the next morning, Owen mailed several letters.

One copy was sent to my father, asking him to help him apply for a license to keep cats and dogs. After all, cats are XXX-level magical animals and are sometimes aggressive towards people. To raise cats, you need to apply for a license from the Ministry of Magic.

But this is a piece of cake for Mr. Shafiq. As the head of a pure-blood family with a long history, rich family background and strong financial resources, although Mr. Shafiq does not hold a position in the Ministry of Magic, as one of the important investors, he has a high status in the Ministry of Magic and is even more powerful. A member of Sengama, he maintains good relations with many officials in important positions.

Another letter was sent to Uncle Mac, who was in charge of the potion shop, asking him for some medicinal ingredients. Quirrell couldn't wait to send a list of herbs. In addition to the herbs for refining the elixir of life, most of them were herbs that restored and replenished vitality. Although these herbs are not very expensive, fortunately they are not too rare. After all, the most important part of the elixir of life is the magic stone, and other herbs are the main ingredients of many healing potions.

Owen himself can control a large part of these herbs, and his value is not a concern to him. Who makes the Shafiq family rich? So he didn't feel any pressure.

As for the other three letters, they are replies to three famous ghosts. During this period of time, through Owen's persistent writing, he finally succeeded in getting in touch with the three ghosts who were hiding from the world, and became familiar with each other.

"Phew, this is half the success of the British Ghost Gathering." Owen couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. You know, when he said at the ghost gathering that he had a good relationship with these three ghosts, that was just bragging. Only now can this be considered somewhat true.

After finishing everything, Owen found a place where he could bask in the sun. He held a long black piece of wood under the warm sunshine, hummed Hedwig's March, and whittled it with a shiny silver knife. wood.

Thanks to his skillful craftsmanship in making magic props all year round, a wooden stick with the exact same shape as his wand was soon created. Owen also stuffed a magic unicorn hair obtained from Hagrid into it, giving it a slight magic wave.

Well, a fake wand can easily deceive people in Owen's hands.