Retirement from Hogwarts

"What should we do..." Before Harry could finish his words, a voice suddenly sounded from the other end of the hall.

"What are you three doing in the house?"

It was Professor McGonagall, holding a large stack of books in her arms.

"We want to see Professor Dumbledore," Hermione said.Harry and Neville thought her behavior was very brave.

"Want to see Professor Dumbledore?" Professor McGonagall repeated, as if it was very suspicious for them to have such an idea. "Why?"

Harry gulped - how should I put it? "It's a secret." As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he immediately wished he hadn't said them, because Professor McGonagall got angry and her nostrils fluttered.

"Professor Dumbledore left 10 minutes ago." She said coldly. "He received an urgent letter from the London Star Ministry of Magic via Space Magic Communication and has already gone to London Star through the space port."

"He's gone?" Harry said anxiously, "At this time?"

"Professor Dumbledore is a very great wizard. He has many things to do and his time is precious——"

"But this is very important."

"Is what you have to say more important than the Ministry of Magic, Harry?"

"Well," said Harry, throwing caution to the wind, "Professor - it's about the Philosopher's Stone -"

Professor McGonagall had never expected this to be the case.The book in her arms fell to the floor with a clatter, but she didn't pick it up.

"How do you know-" she stammered.

"Professor, I think - I know - Snee - someone is trying to steal the Philosopher's Stone. I must talk to Professor Dumbledore." Harry tried to organize his words.

Professor McGonagall looked at them with a mixture of surprise and suspicion.

"Professor Dumbledore will be back tomorrow," she said finally. "I don't know how you found out about the Philosopher's Stone, but don't worry, no one can steal it. It's well protected and safe."

"But the professor—"

"Potter, I know what I'm talking about." She said impatiently, then waved her wand and picked up the fallen book. "I suggest you go outside and get some sunshine."

But they didn't.

"Tonight," Harry said quickly when he was sure that Professor McGonagall was too far away to hear, "Snape will pass the trial tonight. He has got everything he needs, and now he has Dumbledore cheated his way out of school. I bet it was him who sent that letter, and I bet the Ministry of Magic would be shocked to see Dumbledore suddenly appear."

"But what can we have—"

Hermione looked behind them and inhaled sharply.Harry and Neville turned away.

Snape stood there.

"Good afternoon." He said smoothly.

They stared at him blankly.

"You shouldn't stay indoors in this weather," he said, his face twisting into a weird smile. "We were just-" Harry said, actually he didn't know what he was going to say.

"You need to be careful," said Snape. "By wandering around like this, people will think you are up to something bad. Gryffindor can't afford to lose any more points, can it?"

Harry blushed.They turned and headed outside, but Snape called them back. "Just a word of warning, Potter - if you ever wander around in the middle of the night again, I'll have you kicked out personally. Have a nice day."

He strode towards the staff lounge.

"We must find a way to protect the Philosopher's Stone. If we can't stop him tonight, then we will never have a chance again." Harry said worriedly.

"I don't think the Philosopher's Stone needs our help to protect it. You don't think you are more powerful than a lot of magic spells, do you? I bet Professor McGonagall is definitely going to block you at the door of the Trial Road now. It's not like you don't Having been to other paths of trial, do you think it is possible for a person with evil intentions to obtain the magic stone inside?"

"But what if he succeeds, Jack? I think he won't trick Dumbledore away if he is not fully prepared. You know, this kind of thing can only be done once, and it won't work next time." Hermione This time she actually sided with Harry. It seemed that the Sorting Hat wanted to send her to Gryffindor for a reason.

"It seems you won't be relieved if we don't go there tonight." Jack sighed softly. "Okay, let's meet at the door of the Road of Trials at nine o'clock tonight, but now. I want you to go back to the dormitory first. Don't arouse the suspicion of the professors, especially Professor McGonagall. If Professor McGonagall starts to doubt you , then you don’t want to do anything else.”

"By the way, Harry. Remember to bring your invisibility cloak tonight." Jack added as they were about to separate.

……

When Harry and Neville came to the door of the Road of Trials wearing the Invisibility Cloak, the door suddenly opened, and a hand grabbed the two of them inside.

"Don't do it, don't do it. It's us, Harry."

Jack, who had entered the trial beforehand but failed to cheat because of the lack of cooperation in a certain book, raised his hands and shouted loudly to Harry, who was obviously frightened.I remembered the words that appeared in the book when I wanted to forcibly exercise my master's authority and asked Horus to open the room at the end of Nicoléme's trial road for me, 'You can get my people but not my heart.' He couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly at the message.

"You scared me to death, I thought it was Snape." Harry complained to Jack and Hermione.Neville looked at the two people in front of him steadily, still not recovering from the shock just now.

"I think Snape has already gone in. When we went inside before, we found that Lu Wei was already asleep."

"What, he's already in?" Harry asked in surprise.

"I think so. He left a player there."

"Looks like I prepared this for nothing." Harry held up the flute that Hagrid had given him for Christmas.

"It's better to be prepared than not. Let's go." Jack said with a shrug.

After passing through the light curtain of the bronze door again, several people came to the familiar rotunda again.

"Are you ready?" Jack asked, looking at the other three.After the other three nodded, he gently pushed open the door belonging to Nico Flamel.As the door opened, a melodious organ sound came from inside the house.

The four of them tiptoed into the door and walked towards the sleeping Lu Wei.Jack pointed at Lu Wei's paws pressed against the trap door while he was sleeping, and then pointed at Harry Navi and himself.The two nodded knowingly, and together with him, they lifted Lu Wei's paw and gently put it aside.Hermione gently opened the trap door that was previously pressed as they raised their paws.

"What should we do?" Harry asked in a low voice, looking at the dark world under the trap door.

"Tick tock." The sound of liquid dripping was particularly harsh in the quiet room.

"Jump first and then talk." Jack pushed Harry who was looking down, then pulled the other two people and jumped in too.

"Woof woof woof." As they were falling, a burst of crazy barking came over their heads.