A certain Hogwarts esoteric leader

"He probably went to take the secret passage." Penello finally said, "Do you know the secret passage?"

"I know a little bit about it." Yunieff said. Gadwin had mentioned a few of them on the train. "I heard that there are many secret passages in Hogwarts."

"Yes." Penello nodded, "Hilliard is very interested in these secret passages. In fact, most students are interested in secret passages, but Hilliard is different."

"Not the same?" Yunieff asked curiously.

Penello nodded and led them through the corridor they walked last night: "For ordinary people, taking the secret passage is mainly for the convenience of reaching a certain place, such as the two Weasleys of Gryffindor. Always going in and out between Hogwarts and Hogsmeade. I think even if the school is closed now, they will still do that. They are used to it."

"But Hilliard's purpose is to understand the secret passages themselves." Penello smiled, "He sometimes even takes unnecessary long detours to take the secret passages. I bet he is better than us. Gotta get to the auditorium even later."

They turned a corner and then simply went down the stairs. After 10 minutes, they reached the first floor.

It was much easier than when they went up last night, and they could be faster if they didn't have to wait for the stairs to move to the correct position.

There were not many people in the auditorium, and they were the first group.

Penello led them to sit on the long table in Ravenclaw, picked up a spoon and tapped it lightly on the edge of the gold plate, making a crisp sound, and saw a piece of breakfast popping out of the plate.

Bacon, meat floss, toast, milk, and cherry tomatoes.

Union and Hermione followed suit and got their share.

Sure enough, Hilliard was nowhere to be seen. He waited until they had eaten for a while before he appeared late and sat next to them.

We chatted casually for a while, and when we were halfway through eating, a dozen owls flew in with flapping wings.

Penello received a copy of the Daily Prophet, which had a report on Azkaban and listed five or six Gray Roar wanted posters, including Sirius, but the overall tone of the news was that everything was still there. Within the control of the Ministry of Magic.

Hermione hesitated to speak at the side, but she knew that there were more than just a few people running out.

After the front page, there is a follow-up report about the fire dragon attack.

The report read: The Ministry of Magic used a clever public opinion method to eliminate the impact of this incident in the Muggle world, that is, claiming that the fire dragon was a flying airship with a similar shape, and actually built such one and flew over London.

Then there is the Leaky Cauldron. The newspaper said that many wizards have written letters calling for its reconstruction, but it is hard to say how exactly it will be rebuilt because the place has been exposed to Muggle sight.

On the other side, Hilliard received a copy of "Wizard Weekly" and six gold galleons, which was the royalties for an article.

Yunieff was very interested in this and asked him about it.

To his surprise, Hilliard gave out specific submission methods without hesitation, and was not limited to one magazine, including newspapers such as "Muggles Today" and "The Quibbler."

Yunieff expressed his gratitude.

After dinner, and with some time left, Hermione and I went to the library.

The library is on the second floor and is easy to find. The space inside is very large. Thousands of bookshelves are lined up in rows, and there are naturally tens of thousands of books stored. Yunieff feels that the space here should be expanded.

He didn't read any books, but took the time to browse the entire library, and found that the collection of books was quite mixed. In addition to professional books on curses, potions, and herbal medicine, there were also various miscellaneous books, ranging from unofficial histories of magic to From wizarding novels to Quidditch and food cooking, it’s all there.

This is the general book area. There is also an area at the back of the library, separated by a rope, which is the legendary forbidden book area.

Yunieff naturally has hopes for the books in it, but borrowing books in this area requires permission signed by the teacher.

Moreover, Mrs. Pince, who manages the library, keeps a close eye on this area. I don’t know how she knew about it. As soon as Yunieff walked to the edge, she appeared with him and stared at him intently.

Yunieff could only stop and wait until he was fully prepared before exploring again.

I borrowed a copy of "History of the Wizarding Wars" by the way.

At about [-]:[-], although it was still early for class, they decided to go to the class location first.

This decision is correct.

With no one to guide them, they finally experienced the difficulty of finding their way through Hogwarts.

Stairs that are always moving, doors of all kinds.

Some doors looked like doors, but were actually walls. Hermione suffered a loss when she bumped into them, her forehead red.

In the process of searching for the way, Yunieff gradually realized that he seemed to have a certain talent in identifying the authenticity of these doors.

The real door would give him a vague inhalation, as if calling him to enter.

In addition, they had set aside enough time, so despite encountering various unreliable ghosts and portraits to guide them, as well as the trouble-making Peeves, they finally arrived at Potions class 10 minutes early. classroom.

The classroom was underground and quite cold. It actually felt more like a biology laboratory to Yunivo, because the shelves on the walls were filled with various labeled glass jars, in which were soaked in solutions animal specimens with strange postures and scary expressions.

In a small jar, Yunivo also saw a cattail.

Fortunately I didn't bring it out.

There were already some people in the classroom, all Hufflepuff students. After asking around, I found out that they had assigned an upperclassman who had no class in the morning to lead the new students, so they arrived very early.

Another ten minutes passed before he and Hermione's roommates arrived, sweating profusely.

They had just sat down when they saw Snape slamming the door open and walking straight into the classroom. He walked quickly to the podium, glanced around with his gloomy eyes, and saw Yuniev and "The Wizarding War" that he had not had time to put down. "History", his face suddenly turned as dark as the bottoms of several cauldrons placed on the podium.

Yunieff immediately opened the two books from Potions and placed them on top.

Snape opened the roll call list with a snap, and without even looking at it, directly called his name: "Universal Garrel."

"arrive."

Snape chuckled.

"An arrogant little wizard mistakenly thought that he had reached the graduation level in potions and actually read other books in my class."

"There are still 10 minutes until class..." Yunieff thought for a second and defended himself.

"Did I ask you to speak?" Snape said.

Yunieff kept silent.

"One point will be deducted from Ravenclaw for your arrogance." Snape picked up the quill and wrote down on the parchment.

The classroom was completely silent, and before the class officially began, all the students already knew how difficult this professor was to be trifled with.

Snape continued to call names, and every time a name was called, the corresponding student would stiffen his neck and straighten his back, for fear of being caught.

When he finished calling the last name, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Snape slowly closed the roll.