Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

"Evan, how was your Christmas holiday?" he asked with a smile, sitting on his bed.

"It's not bad, a lot of things happened, but they were all resolved in the end!" Ivan fell tiredly on his bed.

A lot of things really happened this Christmas, looking for Regulus in a cave full of ghouls, meeting a mysterious vampire girl, and busy preparing the shop and so on.Aiwen has never been so tired as he is now. Fortunately, what happened later is getting smoother and everything is developing on the bright side.

"I read the truth of all the incidents in the newspaper, as well as your shop." Colin continued, "I was going to cheer for you yesterday, and there was also the signature of Sirius. After knowing his story After that, my brother and I admired him very much. But my dad thought it was too dangerous and didn't agree to take me to Diagon Alley."

His face was full of regret. Based on Ivan's understanding of Colin, he knew that the other party admired heroes such as Sirius and Harry very, very much.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have taken photos of Harry for a whole year last year.To this day, when Harry talked to him, he still got very excited.

"Don't worry, you can ask Sirius to give you an autograph at any time, and take a few photos of him by the way." Ivan turned over and turned to Colin, "I forgot to tell you, Sirius has promised to be the new principal Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts."

Chapter 252 Firebolt and Repercussions

"What?!" Hearing Ivan's words, Colin could stuff an egg into his open mouth.

He couldn't believe that Sirius would be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts.

Seeing Colin's expression, Ivan knew that Sirius had another admirer.

In fact, there are not a few little wizards who are as surprised and excited as Colin.

It didn't take long for the news that Sirius would succeed Professor Lupine as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor spread like wildfire, and the whole castle suddenly exploded.

Everyone is delighted and welcomes such a legendary figure like Sirius to become the school's professor, and even many students of Slytherin House are looking forward to it.

At the dinner that night, the atmosphere in the auditorium was undoubtedly warm.

When Sirius walked in, there was a long applause in the auditorium, and everyone stretched their necks and looked around curiously, trying to see his appearance clearly.

The chirping and chattering continued, and it wasn't until Dumbledore stood up to speak that the auditorium really fell silent.

Dumbledore looked older than when he was separated a few days ago.

The Wizengamot's multi-day trial of Pettigrew seems to have cost him a lot.

However, his gaze is still shining brightly, through the semicircular eyes, those light blue eyes give people a feeling of seeing through everything.

"Welcome!" said Professor Dumbledore, his beard gleaming in the light of the candles. "I am delighted to see you all at Hogwarts again after the Christmas break. Before dinner begins, I will Let me introduce a new teacher, Professor Black, who will succeed Professor Lupine as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor."

As soon as Dumbledore's voice fell, there was deafening applause immediately below.

The applause on the Gryffindor table was particularly enthusiastic, because Harry, Ron and the others even slapped their palms red because they were too forceful.

Sirius stood up and waved his hand. He was sitting next to Hagrid, with Professor McGonagall on the other side.Except for Snape who looked disgusted, as if swallowing a fly, the other professors also smiled and applauded.

"Look at Malfoy!" Hermione suddenly whispered into Ivan's ear.

Ivan saw Malfoy living gloomyly on the long table in Slytherin. Instead of looking at Sirius, he stared at himself and Harry in disgust.

After noticing Ivan's gaze, he hurriedly turned his gaze elsewhere.

Ivan is not surprised by Malfoy's abnormality.In the case of Professor Lupine, because he wanted to drive Dumbledore from Hogwarts, Lucius Malfoy took a huge risk and further planned the werewolf riot on the basis of Pettigrew Peter's plan.

During the trial, Pettigrew told it all.He told Lucius Malfoy that he controlled Ron to write to Lucius Malfoy, hoping that Lucius could help him deal with Lupine, and he told all about Dumbledore not letting him return to the castle at a critical moment.

Although everyone suspected that Lucius planned the werewolf riot behind the scenes, there was no evidence. Lucius refused to admit that he had received a letter from Peter Pettigrew, and the Ministry of Magic had never caught Greyback's werewolf. No vellus was found.

Under these circumstances, Lucius eventually escaped punishment.

Of course, he also paid a high price. Fudge and those politicians are not so easy to buy, and the amount of Galleons that can impress them is definitely an astronomical sum.

What depressed Lucius the most was probably not the gold, but a great opportunity to defeat Dumbledore, which was wasted by Peter Pettigrew.If he could know the truth of the incident earlier, he would definitely not be as stupid as Peter Pettigrew, who was actually defeated by a few twelve or thirteen-year-old wizards.

Lucius is now very jealous of Ivan, Harry and others, he hates them to death.

Under such circumstances, Malfoy would naturally not have a good face towards Ivan, and his attitude was much worse than usual. He must be thinking about how to deal with Ivan and the others.

But Aiwen didn't care. At Malfoy's level, if he wanted to provoke him, he would be asking for trouble.

That night, the Gryffindor common room was still buzzing about Sirius becoming the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and everyone was looking forward to his first class.

It's a pity that the second grade doesn't have Defense Against the Dark Arts until Thursday.

The discussion about this continued until Harry took out his Firebolt.Almost instantly, he was surrounded by people scrambling to see the Firebolt.

"My God, this is the Firebolt. I saw it in the window of the Quidditch boutique in Diagon Alley. The price of this broom is astronomical. Where did you get it?"

"Let me ride it, please?"

"Have you ever ridden, Harry?"

"Can I just take it, Harry?"

People pass around looking at the Firebolt, admiring it from every angle.

After learning that this broom was a Christmas present from Sirius to Harry, the crowd burst into more exclamation immediately, and everyone looked forward to Sirius and the upcoming Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

"I don't understand how it's just a broomstick that makes them all so excited," said Hermione, frowning, as she sat on the sofa in front of the fireplace, checking her Christmas homework.

"It's the most expensive broomstick, more expensive than all the broomsticks in the school combined!"

Alvin sat on the sofa beside her, looking at the book about vampires that he had just borrowed from the library, he raised his head and glanced at the long parchment in Hermione's hand, "You misremembered this place , the material of the shrink potion does not include the eyes of puffer fish."

"Oh!" The tip of the pen in Hermione's hand hurried across the parchment.

"Seriously, you don't plan to take so many classes next semester, do you?"

"I know," Hermione said with a sigh, "that timer is driving me crazy, being in different places at the same time, and being careful not to be seen, I can't stand it any longer , I am going to give up Muggle Studies and Divination next year. That way, I can have a normal schedule again."

"Next year?!" Ivan immediately noticed the time Hermione said.

"Be consistent from beginning to end, Ivan!" Hermione continued to look down at her history of magic homework, "I can't live up to Professor McGonagall's expectations of me, you know, she worked hard to get me The Time-Turner, and it's helped us a lot."

Seeing Hermione's appearance, Ivan didn't know what to say.

Hermione was right, thanks to the help of this time-turner, they were able to successfully capture Peter Pettigrew, otherwise the current situation must be terrible.

He didn't object to Hermione's insistence, but just hoped that she would do what she could and consider her physical condition more.

Chapter 253 The Abnormal Snape

In terms of timing, Ivan is not qualified to talk about Hermione.

He also has a lot to do besides the normal school curriculum.

Every afternoon when there is no class, I go to the Response Room to make potions. In the evening, I review and edit newspaper articles with Hermione in the library. After returning to the common room, I finish the work assigned by the professors with Colin and Ginny. Homework after class, quietly studying black magic books in the bedroom in the dead of night, etc.

There is not enough time at all, and Ivan feels that he also needs a time converter, so that he can arrange time more flexibly when his body can handle it.

Looking at the thick magic book and parchment in front of Hermione, Aiwen prepared to brew some potions for her that could concentrate and improve concentration.

All in all, after the holiday, he returned to the familiar and busy school life.

Early the next morning, when Ivan and Colin walked into the auditorium for breakfast, they saw Harry, Ron, and Hermione sitting at the dining table, discussing the course schedule.

"After Professor Lupine left, there are new changes in this semester's curriculum." Ron looked at the timetable and said happily, "It's really great. Today, the third grade only has Sirius' Defense Against the Dark Arts class."

"This is Sirius' first class, the only catch is that he's going to be with the Slytherins," Harry continued, grabbing some sausages and fried tomatoes.

"What did you say he prepared for us?" Ron asked expectantly.

"I don't know, but I hope Sirius's first class goes well. If Malfoy dares to make trouble in class, I won't let him go."

"Relax, Harry! Sirius is not Hagrid, he won't let Malfoy mess with him, I hope Malfoy will ask for it, and let Sirius kick him out." Ron spread his bread Serve with thick jam.

"The class schedule for the third grade is really good. The second grade has Potions class in the morning and History of Magic in the afternoon. We don't have Defense Against the Dark Arts class until Friday." Colin said disappointedly, and he also shared what he just got. The schedule was flipped out.

"That's bad enough, seeing Snape on the first day of school." Ron wrinkled his nose, as if recalling something bad.

Thinking of Snape's face when he left yesterday, Ivan nodded in agreement.

"By the way, Ivan!" Harry raised his head and said, "Hagrid just wrote me a note, he invited us to drink tea with him this afternoon, and by the way, help him to see what will be used in the new semester courses s things."

"I'll go, what did Hagrid prepare?" Ivan picked up his own bread.

"Probably some other kind of caterpillar, after those Flobber caterpillars are all dead, he needs something new for his lessons." Harry said uncertainly, with a hint of worry in his tone, "Did he promise?" We, before the outcome of Buckbeak's case, will not rush to create new dangerous magical creatures?!"

"He did say that, but the problem is that Hagrid's definition of danger is different from other people." Ron stuffed a large piece of bread covered with jam into his mouth, "Those monsters with fangs, In his eyes, he may just be a cute and good baby."

"That's why we need to help him choose a suitable magical creature." Hermione stuffed a thick magic book into her schoolbag, "I'm going first, see you later!"

"What's the matter with Hermione? I just saw her class schedule, which is different from ours. She has three classes this morning." Looking at Hermione's back, Ron frowned and said, "Last time That's the way it is for the semester, her schedule is wrong, I don't understand, she must be hiding something from us..."

Hearing Ron's words, Ivan and Harry lowered their heads hurriedly. They knew the reason, but they promised to keep the time converter a secret for Hermione.

Ron was still muttering there, until Harry said that after watching Hagrid this afternoon, he could take the Firebolt out for a test flight and let Ron ride the Firebolt, he forgot about it .

Twenty minutes later, people went to the first class, and the auditorium began to empty.

Ivan separated from the elated Harry and Ron, and he followed the depressed Colin to the basement classroom. It's best not to be late for the Potions class.

As soon as they opened the door and went in, they saw Snape standing gloomily on the podium.

"Mason, Creevey, you two are late, this class started 5 minutes ago!" Snape looked at the two of them in disgust, "Ten points deducted from Gryffindor, now hurry back to yourself Sit down in your seat."

"But, professor..."

"Five more points from Gryffindor," said Snape icily, "don't ask any questions until I agree."

Aiwen and Colin did not continue to argue with him. They saw Ginny winking, and the two hurried to their respective seats and sat down.

As he sat down, Colin whispered, "Does he even know what he's doing? There's 10 minutes until class!"

"We'd better be careful, Snape's not in the right shape today."

Everything was just as Ivan said, Snape's attitude was a hundred times worse than usual.

For students who weren't in Slytherin House, today's potions were a total ordeal.

Snape first commented on the vacation assignments one by one in harsh and harsh language. In his narration, everyone's assignments were completely useless, even worse than first-year students.He directly gave a lot of people zero points and asked them to resubmit a paper on moonstone next week.

He then divides the group into pairs and instructs them to mix a common antidote.

Snape dragged his long black cloak around the classroom, watching them weigh dried nettles, crush snake fangs, and almost all the students were criticized.

Several Gryffindor and Hufflepuff girls were even told to cry by Snape.

Under Snape's supervision, no one except Aiwen could successfully complete his potion.Because of this, Snape deducted a lot of points from everyone. Gryffindor was the hardest hit area. By the end of Potions class, Gryffindor lost more than [-] points.

"I really don't understand, what the hell is he trying to do?"

When going to the auditorium for lunch, Ginny complained to Alvin, "Is he trying to scare all the girls to tears?!"

"I was about to cry just now. If Ivan hadn't reminded me not to put the porcupine quills in boiling water, the cauldron would definitely explode!" Colin said with lingering fear.

"Yes, Ivan was deducted [-] points for this." Ginny said bluntly, "because he successfully prevented his classmate's cauldron from exploding."

Ivan did not participate in their discussion. Snape was indeed very abnormal today, and must have something to do with Sirius.

What must have happened between them last night? !

Based on Ivan's understanding of Sirius, he might be impatient to fight Snape and decide the outcome.

It's not clear how it turned out, but Snape seemed to transfer all his hatred of Sirius onto the students of Gryffindor House.

His behavior this morning was abnormal to the extreme, and his attitude was even worse than that of Neville's blogger incident last time.Usually, that's the only way he would treat Harry.

When Ivan walked into the auditorium, he realized that the atmosphere inside was as abnormal as Snape.

Chapter 254 Academy War

Among the four houses of Hogwarts, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff belong to the relatively moderate middle school, while Gryffindor and Slytherin are at the two extremes respectively, which is a kind of hostility. The competitive relationship between them is not pleasing to each other.

However, this kind of hostility and competition is within the scope allowed by school rules.

In the words of Fred and George, everyone knows where the line is.There may be people who occasionally cross a toe or two, but they will take it back immediately before causing big trouble, otherwise they will be severely punished by the school rules.

But at noon today, the atmosphere in the auditorium was very strange.

Ivan keenly felt that something seemed to happen between the two colleges of Gryffindor and Slytherin.

The two sides are at war with each other, and the relationship is tense to the extreme, which has never happened before.

As soon as he, Colin, and Ginny walked in, they saw a few Slytherin students headed by Malfoy staring at the three of them maliciously.

Harry and Ron hurried up to welcome them to the Gryffindor table.

Seeing how cautious and wary they are, Ivan suspects that if there are no professors sitting on the teacher's bench, they will definitely fight immediately.

"What's going on?" Ivan sat next to Hermione.