Hogwarts Melting Ice Journey

Lockhart put away all his signatures and hurried out of the common room. He felt that he needed to take the time to practice his spell casting skills. If he couldn't do Stephen's three methods, he would really die.

Stephen shook his head. He didn't say how long it had to be done before. At most, it would limit Lockhart's behavior in the future.

But no matter how positive Lockhart is, when he teaches Harry in the future, he probably won't be as unreliable as in the original book.

"Martin, what do you want from me?" Stephen finally had the opportunity to observe Martin carefully today. In the past, he would appear suddenly and leave quickly, so that Stephen could not observe carefully.

His rare impression was that Martin was a black-haired boy with an ordinary appearance and no special features.

Martin was not wearing the wizard robes he wore in class, but was wearing a black trench coat and a cloak. I really didn't know what he wanted to do.

If Stephen hadn't known about Martin's love for black clothes, he could have seen Martin's face clearly just now and almost couldn't recognize it just now.

"Luckily I'm not face-blind, otherwise I wouldn't be able to recognize Ben and Martin except for their hair color." Stephen thought to himself.

Martin handed a letter to Stephen, "Open it and read it."

Stephen opened the envelope and found a map inside. Stephen looked at Martin with some confusion, hoping that he would give him an explanation.

"The structural diagram of Hogwarts, but it is quite old. There is no record of the changes in the stairs. After all, it is just an ordinary structural diagram." Martin sat down. This was the first time Stephen saw him and did not leave immediately. "There are six secret passages recorded in this structural diagram. I went to check them one by one."

Stephen checked the structural diagram, and there was no one from the Whomping Willow to the Screaming Shack. It seemed that the one from the Whomping Willow to the Screaming Shack was only built during the recent years of the principals.

He didn't see the Room of Requirement on it either, so it seemed like the structural diagram was incomplete.

"This picture does not show the existence of the cursed treasure house, but I think it is because of some magic, or it may be because it does not exist.

Filch should know some secret passages. When I checked, I saw him emerging from several secret passages. Based on my observations, he should know three of them. "

Stephen nodded, indicating that he understood: "If you give me this picture, don't you use it?"

Martin smiled, pointed to his head, and then stood up to leave the common room. Stephen was used to this, Martin was always so mysterious.

Stephen seemed to have thought of something: "Martin, do you know where Ben is?"

Martin looked back at Stephen: "No, I don't know. I'm only interested in secrets. Finding people is not what I'm good at."

Well, maybe it’s just that I’m not good at it, that is, I can always find Stephen.

"I guess you could ask Penny Heywood, she knows a lot about school gossip."

"Go find Petunia?" Stephen thought for a while, but gave up the idea. He didn't know where Petunia was now.

Although he said he didn't care about the rumors she caused, in recent classes, he would not get close to Penny unless necessary.

He put the notebook away and placed it in the lining of his robe. Stephen decided to go to the Room of Requirement. He needed to practice the spell well so that he could deal with the dangers he might face in the future.

On the other side, inside the library.

Rowan found a book without the author's name, and the cover said "Notes on Magic Research". Although he came to find the book on transfiguration, he was a little curious when he saw the book and took it off the shelf.

He opened the book, and the preface on the first page said that names also have magic power. When a wizard's name is mentioned, a certain amount of magic power will fluctuate. The purpose of this book is to reveal the unknown name magic, which wizards can use to hide themselves or expose their enemies.

Rowan looked at each page carefully, and the difficulty of the magic on it increased page by page. This book is not thick, but it contains a lot of magic theories.

Rowan couldn't understand it when he read a third of it. He felt that he should borrow the book and take it back to study it carefully.

And when he had this idea, he found that the book became extremely heavy, as if resisting Rowan's move to take it out.

Rowan had no choice but to sit down, take out his quill and notebook, and decided to study it slowly in the library first.

A long time passed without realizing it, and it was time for the library to close.

The library always closes much earlier than usual on weekends because Mrs. Pince needs to use this time to maintain the books.

Rowan registered several transfiguration books that he wanted to take away. He spent all his time studying name magic and had not read the books he originally wanted to read.

"By the way, Mrs. Pince, you should know the books in the library very well." Rowan wanted to ask Mrs. Pince about the name magic research notes.

"Oh, Rowan. Of course, many books were placed in the library through my hands." Mrs. Pince was familiar with him because he came to the library almost every day and had a good attitude towards books.

"Then have you seen a book? It's called." Rowan found that he couldn't remember the name. Although he thought the name of the book was easy to remember, he also confirmed that he remembered the name of the book, but I just couldn't say anything.

"Emm...what is it called?" Rowan still couldn't tell, "Well, it's just a book with an unnamed name."

"Oh, you're talking about that book. There are indeed some magical magic barriers on that book. People can't mention their names and can't take them out of the library at will." It seems that Mrs. Pince knows what Rowan wants to say, "I see I don’t know what it says, but it should be related to the title of the book, and it involves very profound magic.”

"Thank you, Madam Pince." Rowan thanked her and left the library.

Mrs. Pince scanned the seats to make sure no one was there and then closed the library door. She was about to start sorting out the books that had been scattered by students.

As Rowan walked, he thought about what he had seen before. He felt that name magic was very magical, and he felt that he had to study it carefully, but before that.

"I think I have to go eat first. I accidentally stayed in the library for too long." Rowan touched his stomach, looked around, and was suddenly attracted by the two people outside the window, "Wait, then It seems to be Ben and who is the person next to him?"

Rowan did not dwell on this issue. After all, Ben and they were not from the same academy, and it was normal to have his own friends. And in fact, apart from the two previous experiences, they were not very familiar with Ben.

In his opinion, the top priority should be to solve his own food and clothing problem. He hurriedly walked through the corridor and walked towards the restaurant.