The right way to attack Moriarty

Before Newt started school, Theseus finally came back with a tired look, as if he had been fighting the dragon for twenty years.Unshaven, the whole person is dirty, and the hair is so dirty that you can't see the color.

"What happened to you?" Newt asked him in surprise, "For Merlin's sake, brother. Did you come back from begging on the street?"

"Don't mention it," Theseus waved his hand, exhausted, "We will hunt down another Italian fugitive in the past few days. For Merlin's sake, your brother and I will almost never come back. Let me sleep first."

"Okay," Newt said, looking between Theseus's dirty body and the clean white sheets, and suggested, "You really don't think about taking a shower first?"

Theseus waved his hand weakly, and threw his whole body into the bed, "Let me sleep for a while, and then I'll talk when I wake up."

Theseus slept for two full days and two nights.

When Newt received the news from Theseus again, Hogwarts was undergoing a sorting ceremony for new students.

The Sorting Hat was writhing on the chair, very restless.

Duart quietly put Theseus' letter on Newt's desk, and slipped away quietly.

Newt held his forehead helplessly. These magical animals were taught badly by his brother, and going in and out of Hogwarts was like entering and leaving Hogwarts.

"Huh?" Gavin on the side made a surprised voice, "What just appeared on your desk?"

All the Hufflepuffs at the long table looked here, curious about the conversation between Newt and Gavin.

Newt coughed, "Oh, it's nothing, I was just bored and used a little magic," Newt said, picked up the wand at hand, and tapped the fork on the table, a series of transformations, very Beautiful, the knife and fork on the table changed from parchment to a large book, then from a book to a potted plant, and finally turned into a bouncing little frog, hopping away.

The second-year Hufflepuffs were amazed, and their attention was quickly taken away by the little frog.

"So," Gavin rolled his eyes helplessly, tugged at Newt, and complained in a low voice, "Why did your Transfiguration fail?!"

"How do I know," Newt shrugged, "Maybe Dumbledore likes me and wants to keep me for a few more years?"

Dumbledore seemed to have heard Newt's complaint, and turned his head to wink at Newt.

Oh, Merlin, Newt laughed and sighed helplessly in his heart, can anyone tell him why this young teacher in his early twenties always pays so much attention to him!

The official sorting began soon, and Gavin was quickly attracted by the sorting ceremony, and he no longer cared about poor Newt, nor did he care about poor Newt's failed Transfiguration grade.

The rest of the Hufflepuffs also turned their heads to look at this year's sorting, and no one noticed Newt again.

After all, for second-year little wizards, the school feast is still very attractive.When they were sorted for the first time, every little wizard couldn't help being nervous. When nervous, it was inevitable that they would miss some details.Newt remembered himself at the time, focused almost entirely on his own future, not pretending to be anything else, and he didn't even notice the beautiful ceiling above his head.At that time, all he could see were the teachers with serious expressions, the writhing Sorting Hat, and the little wizards with nervous expressions.

So, in the second year, all these things that were not noticed at the time were clearly noticed by everyone. Newt's line of sight swept the entire hall without missing a single thing - the beautiful ceiling, the clean table chair, the corner of the teacher's mouth trying to suppress, and the pretending serious second grade and above students.

For freshmen, every sorting is a disaster; for old students, every sorting is a celebration.

Because they have lived in Hogwarts for a whole year, the second-year wizards also have a general understanding of the wizarding world.When the first grade started sorting, it was easier for the second grade wizards to focus on the sorting ceremony.Of course, the attention of the little wizards is often on watching the jokes of the freshmen.

Sitting on the long table of the college and watching other people sorting is a very novel experience for Newt and other second-year wizards—they were still nervous a year ago Trembling, standing in the middle of the hall, looking around in bewilderment, uneasy.But a year later, they were able to look at the other freshman branches very calmly.Pointing and pointing from time to time.

"Look at that little boy, he looks so good-looking."

……

Rusty discussions sounded in his ears, Newt shook his head and laughed, lowered his head and lowered his eyes, no longer paying attention to the messy sorting situation on the field, but opened the envelope in his hand, and read the contents carefully.

Theseus probably woke up completely. The letter was long and long-winded. It first took thousands of words to introduce how he missed Newt.Then there were three more pages, all about his hardships after being transferred to the Auror Division of the International Ministry of Magic.In the end, it took another two and a half pages to complain about how unreliable the mission was, and Newt summed up the central idea, which was roughly—

It is unusual for wizards to be present in large numbers where Muggles live, mainly in northeastern Europe.

Northeastern Europe?

Newt put down the parchment in his hand, lowered his head to touch Gavin's arm, Gavin turned his head, and Newt asked, "Has anything particularly big happened in London recently?"

"A particularly big event?" Gavin asked, "What do you mean? The James Group fell apart, or did Britain and France reach a diplomatic trade again?"

"No," Newt shook his head, thought for a while, and asked, "Have there been many strange people suddenly appearing, such?"

"No." Gavin replied very simply, "I made up all the newspapers after I got home, and there is no such thing as you said." The little boy with light brown hair thought for a while and added, "At least there is no official report This kind of news. Let me think about it. The latest newspapers, financial news, entertainment news, and political news I read the day before school starts. Well, the latest news is that the British Bank of London and the French Bank of Paris have realized the banking industry. The Bank of London is about to usher in another bilateral foreign trade transaction.”

"No, I'm sure not." Gavin answered very firmly this time without any hesitation.

"Well," Newt replied in a low voice, without saying anything.

He suddenly remembered one thing.When he sent the first letter to Jim, he tried to track Jim's location with eggshell powder ground from bird and snake eggs, but halfway through the magic tracking, it failed.

What did Yan Mo say at the time?

"By the way, the tracking of Bird Snake Egg Powder shows that Little Jim is still in London, um, the suburbs of London, probably."

"Anyway, it can only be displayed in the suburban area, and the area can't be tracked any further down."

The tracking of Bird Snake Egg Powder encountered strong resistance after arriving in the suburbs of London, and it could no longer be tracked.

It is impossible for Muggles to block the tracking of Bird Snake Egg Powder, and Jim, the owl, is also a temporary idea. It is impossible for anyone to know about this before, so there is only one possibility——

That place was under the protection of a certain wizard early in the morning, and a very complete magic spell was set up in that place, blocking all external tracking.

Newt tapped on the table with one hand, thinking for a while.

Perhaps, wizards and Muggles have always had contacts, but people don't know it.

The suburbs of London should have originally belonged to the James Group.Newt remembered what the coachman had said earlier.In London, it was originally the power of the James Group, which was later mixed with the Italian Group.Still, Newt thought, when he sent Jim his first letter, it was early enough that the Italian group might not have gotten involved yet.

In other words, if there is indeed a wizard with Muggle connections in the suburbs of London, then this wizard is likely to belong to the James Group.

Newt was writing and drawing on the parchment, thinking about these things. No matter what, he would ask Jim later. Jim had been in the James Group for so long, so he could know some news.

The professor read one name after another, and one after another, little wizards stepped forward, put on the sorting hat, and then walked to their own long table.

"Jim Moriarty."

……

There was silence.

Everyone turned their heads in disbelief to look at the little wizard under the sorting hat.

"No, it's impossible!"

"Merlin, what's going on here?"

"Didn't the youngest son of the Moriarty family become a squib? How did he receive the acceptance letter from Hogwarts?"

Discussions began at many long tables, and even the usually quiet Slytherins couldn't help breaking the usual table manners and whispering.

"Hasn't the youngest son of the Moriarty family been judged by St. Mungo to have no magic power? How did he appear here?"

"My Merlin, the other day my sister said that she saw a little wizard in Diagon Alley who looked very much like the youngest son of the Moriarty family. I still don't believe it. Merlin, what happened to this world?"

"That's right," the little wizard was filled with righteous indignation and was very angry, "Can the Squib get an acceptance letter from Hogwarts?"

"The youngest son of the Moriarty family, even if he comes, where will he be assigned?" Someone began to laugh at Jim's overreach, "Squibs have no magic power, so he won't be assigned home by the Sorting Hat, right?" ?”

"It must have been a mistake. You see, he has been on stage for so long. The Sorting Hat must be worrying about where he should be sorted."

"Where do you go? Probably Hufflepuff, where all kinds of waste and rubbish are collected, ah, a squib, it won't be assigned to Slytherin." The chubby black-haired boy Myron just said When it was over, everyone cheered and laughed in a low voice.

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