A day of learning magic at Hogwarts

Ian did not return to the Hufflepuff common room immediately, but went to the Charms office on the third floor of the castle before it was completely dark.

Most of the teachers at Hogwarts will not leave school during the Christmas holidays.

After a gentle knock on the door, Professor Flitwick's slightly sharp voice sounded in the room: "Please come in!"

He quickly pushed the door open and saw the short Professor Filius Flitwick standing on a pile of books and playing violin.

Ian waited patiently for the performance to end, then walked forward and said, "Professor Flitwick, I'm sorry to bother you. It's just that I have some questions and I want to ask you for advice."

"Is it Drizzt?" Professor Flitwick recognized Ian at a glance. He still admired this first-year Hufflepuff student. "Didn't you go home for Christmas vacation? Come on, what's the problem? tell me!"

After that, he put away his violin and put on a pair of glasses.

"It's about the problem of counter-curses," Ian bent down and said seriously, "Professor, I have been studying how to crack counter-curses all day today. Their theory does not seem complicated, but if it is put into practice …”

He told the short professor in front of him the problems he encountered today in detail.

"Counter-curse..." Professor Flitwick pushed up his glasses, "This is upper-level content. I remember Miranda Gorshak classified it in "Standard Spell Level [-]". How can you remove it? To this.”

"A friend of mine gave me a blank piece of parchment." Ian explained simply. "There is obviously something hidden on it. I have tried using the Revealing Charm and the Revealing Charm, but they have no effect. , the parchment has obviously been cast with the corresponding counter-curse in advance..."

"The Revealing Charm and the Revealing Charm..." Professor Flitwick was a little surprised, "You are only in the first year, can you use these spells... Merlin's beard, why didn't the Sorting Hat sort you into my house! "

After a brief sigh, he quickly got to the point: "There is nothing wrong with your idea, Drizzt. But there is a slight deviation in your thinking."

"Because it is quite difficult to break the counter-spell, especially if you have no idea how the other party cast the counter-spell."

"To give you the simplest example," Professor Flitwick casually took out a piece of paper, "If I put several counter-curses on it, even Professor Dumbledore may not be able to break them all..."

"But if it were Professor Dumbledore, he would definitely not think about cracking it, but would look for loopholes in my counter-curse."

"After all, the biggest difference between counter-curses and ordinary magic spells is that they are very passive; when different counter-curses are entangled together, loopholes will definitely appear; and in this case..."

Professor Flitwick spoke in great detail, and Ian listened very carefully.

Until outside the window, it was completely shrouded in night.

"Oh, it's completely dark!" Professor Flitwick glanced out the window, "It's actually been so long."

"Then Professor, I'm going back first!" Ian said quickly, "Thank you for your help..."

"Be careful on the road."

……

Ian Twist walked through the cold and dark underground corridors, and he seemed to be in a good mood.

When he was about to reach his destination, he met Mrs. Norris.

"Good evening!" He bent down and touched her head gently, and then he got into the barrel at the entrance of Hufflepuff College.

The Hufflepuff common room was still empty.

Ian spread out the parchment beside the campfire, took out his black walnut wand, and started trying again.

After Professor Flitwick's guidance and finding the right path, Ian will obviously be much smoother now.

He was mumbling various spells, testing the bottom line of this parchment.

Until an hour later——

"Successful!" Ian shouted in surprise.

As he spoke, thin lines of ink spread like spider webs from where the tip of his black walnut wand had touched, connecting, criss-crossing, and spreading to every corner of the parchment; Words appeared on it, large green cursive characters:

"Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs

gentlemen who help magical mischief makers

Introducing

Marauder's Map"

"The Marauder's Map, is this the name of this parchment?" Ian suddenly thought.

This is indeed a map, with almost all the details of Hogwarts Castle and grounds drawn on the entire map; and, the most unusual thing is that there are many small black dots moving on the map, each with extremely small The name is marked in font.

"This is..." Ian was stunned for a moment.

He noticed: In the upper left corner of the map, a marked black dot showed Professor Dumbledore pacing the study in the principal's office; in Professor Sprout, it seemed that he was taking care of her flowers and plants in the greenhouse; the administrator Filch Mrs. Norris, the cat, patrols the basement...

Originally, with the help of Professor Flitwick, he unlocked the counter-curse on the "Marauder's Map" so that he could see its true face; Ian Twisted was a little complacent for a time.

But when he saw the secrets on the "Marauder's Map" with his own eyes, he couldn't help feeling a little emotional and feeling ashamed.

What kind of exquisite magic is required to create such a map.The four brothers Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs were indeed much stronger than me.

Hogwarts is really a crouching tiger, hidden dragon.

……

Ian looked at the Marauder's Map in front of him, his eyes scanning up and down the familiar corridors, and then discovered something new.

They were some secret passages he had never seen before, some running between schools, and some even connecting outside the school...

It seems that the four brothers Moonface, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs must be from Gryffindor House; Ian can be sure.I hope to have the opportunity to meet them in the future.

At the location of the Hufflepuff common room, Ian saw his name, alone in the common room.

His eyes moved to the Gryffindor Tower again... This time, he only saw about a dozen names piled together; if he didn't distinguish them carefully, he couldn't tell the names apart at all.This is because most students have gone home during the Christmas holiday. Normally these names would be more crowded...

Then, Ian saw several surprising facts:

Hey, why is Professor Snape always motionless by the Gryffindor tower... Isn't it cold for him in the weather outside?

And Professor Quirrell, he didn't seem to be in his office either.

In addition, a completely unfamiliar name appeared in Professor Quirrell's office——

"Tom Riddle!"