A day of learning magic at Hogwarts

Since the beginning of the new year, time has been flying by.

Soon the Easter holidays begin to approach.They just have to wait for the Easter holidays to be over and then in a few weeks they will start their annual final exams.

But strictly speaking from a time perspective, the final exam is actually still far away from them.

But apparently the teachers didn’t think so, and they started giving out tons of homework.

Panic also began to appear among the students; Hogwarts has a system of repeating grades and retaking courses.

If you do poorly on a class and end up with a failing grade in a class, you'll have to retake it as a sophomore with a new class of first-year students.And if you do poorly on exams in multiple courses, you may have to repeat a grade.And if you fail too many courses, you may even be at risk of dropping out...

Justin obtained a set of "real history questions" from the dictations of the senior students; judging from the difficulty of these "real questions", it is very easy for most students to pass the final exam at their level. matter.

However, panic still began to spread in the Hufflepuff common room.Because the only cases of repeating a grade at Hogwarts in the past ten years were all from Hufflepuff House.

Ian Traister instantly became a favorite. Megan, Wayne, Oliver... every Hufflepuff classmate was eager to borrow class notes from him.At the same time, people would ask him questions from time to time.

Of course Ian was willing to lend out his notes, but he doubted whether they could understand his scrawled handwriting.

……

The library was also crowded with people from four different colleges.

Mrs. Pingsi has not been as busy as she has been recently for more than half a year.

When there are many people, it will inevitably be noisy.Especially when there are a bunch of people around you reciting the twelve uses of the fire dragon's blood, or practicing waving a wand.

Ian Traister already misses the peaceful days of the past.

"Should I find a quiet classroom instead of crowding in the library with a large group of students who are preparing for pre-study classes?" he thought to himself.

The castle of Hogwarts is very large, and theoretically there should be many classrooms that are free and will not be disturbed.

Then, Ian glanced out the window.Hogwarts has experienced such good weather for the first time in several months. The sky is clear and clear, showing a very clean blue, and there is a strong breath of spring in the air.

Suddenly, only a burst of messy footsteps was heard.

Someone broke into the library at a trot. He looked very anxious. In his desperation, he didn't stop the car for a moment and ran straight into the library's bookshelf... and even almost caused the bookshelf to collapse.

It was Ian's good friend Ernie MacMillan, gasping for air.

"I've had enough!" Mrs. Pingsi cursed and rushed out of the management room, holding her usual weapon, a feather duster:

"If you make such noise again, I will kick you all out of the library."

While cursing, she waved the feather duster and blew Ernie away.

While avoiding Mrs. Pince's attack, Ernie winked desperately in Ian's direction.

Ian understood, quickly closed the book and walked out of the library.

"Are you okay?" Ian asked with some concern when he came to the corridor.

"It's okay, I'm thick-skinned!" Ernie grinned.

Then his face became serious: "Justin told me that he was on the Marauder's Map and suddenly discovered that Professor Dumbledore disappeared from the map. He left Hogwarts!"

Judging from the situation on the Marauder's Map, Albus Dumbledore, as the headmaster, has been staying in his office almost all the time in recent months.At most, he occasionally visited other places in the castle, but never left.

Now he actually left Hogwarts, which was quite unusual.

Ian's expression also became serious.

He nodded: "Follow me!"

……

The two of them rushed to the vice principal's office.

However, they were lucky enough to meet the Vice-Principal, Professor Minerva McGonagall, at the stairwell of the second floor.

In her arms, she held a large pile of books.

"We want to see Professor Dumbledore!" Ian asked first.

"Drizzt, and MacMillan..." Professor McGonagall glanced at the two boys in front of her, "Want to see Professor Dumbledore?"

She repeated, as if it was rather suspicious that they would have such thoughts: "Why?"

"There is something very important..." Ian said vaguely, "We must tell..."

Professor McGonagall looked a little angry. She said coldly: "Professor Dumbledore left 10 minutes ago. He received an urgent letter sent by an owl from the Ministry of Magic and flew to London immediately!"

"If there's anything urgent, you can tell me directly!"

Ian and Ernie exchanged glances.

"It's Professor Snape!" Then, Ian said sternly, "He deducted Hufflepuff's points for no reason in yesterday's Potions class. This is already the 12th time this school year. ...I think we are qualified to meet Professor Dumbledore and report this matter to him."

Professor McGonagall's expression softened, and she even looked a little bit dumbfounded: "I don't think this trivial matter will alarm Professor Dumbledore... You go, I will find a chance to talk to Severus."

Ian and Ernie had no choice but to leave.

After jogging a few dozen steps away——

"It should be confirmed, Professor Dumbledore has really left Hogwarts!" Ernie whispered, "By the way, Ian. I remember that Professor Snape seemed to have missed the key in yesterday's Potions class. Let’s score!”

"Really..." Ian didn't care about this, "That's because I remembered it wrong, but I think he shouldn't remember it either. After all, he will find reasons to deduct points in almost every class."

"Then what should we do next?" Ernie continued to ask.

"Act according to the pre-plan!" Ian said decisively:

"You go back to the common room, and with Justin, find where Mrs. Norris is on the Marauder's Map..."

"And I'll go to the kitchen to find the house elf!"

"Ian, good luck!"

"Will do!"