A day of learning magic at Hogwarts

Hogwarts has two long holidays throughout the year.

One is the Christmas holiday and the other is the Easter holiday.

However, when the Christmas holidays come, students at Hogwarts usually leave school and then go home to reunite and spend Christmas together; during the Easter holidays, the opposite is true.

Ultimately, this is because when the Easter holidays are coming, it also means that the final exams are approaching.

Students of all grades who have been struggling for a whole year are forced to start studying seriously in this darkest moment to cope with the upcoming exams.

So when Ian Traister signed the Easter leave list, he found that there were very few names on it.

Among the Hufflepuff students in the same year, he was the only one who even signed it.

Of course, Ian also had his reasons for choosing to leave school.

On the one hand, he still has a lot of pounds left over from his "magic tricks" last summer, which he can "squander" for a while.

And more importantly, after doing this series of "big things" at Hogwarts, he needed to find a place to hide from the limelight.

……

Now, it's already a week after the Easter holidays began.

Ian has been staying in Aberdeen this week, the Muggle city geographically closest to Hogwarts.

This port on the North Sea has basically no shortcomings except that the weather can be bad from time to time.

In a coffee shop downstairs of the hotel where he was staying temporarily, he met a new "friend".

A Muggle girl named Joanne works part-time as a waitress in this cafe, which has a very quiet business.

Since there were no customers in the coffee shop most of the time, she quickly became familiar with this little boy who was dressed a little weirdly.

"Tell me that story again!" Joanne sat next to Ian with interest.

"Okay... okay..." Ian shook his head helplessly, "Where did we talk?"

Joanne is a very kind-hearted Muggle girl. Every time she sees Ian coming to the cafe alone, she thinks he is a poor homeless child (which seems to be the case).After hearing that he grew up in an orphanage, my sympathy was completely overflowing...

So no matter what Ian said, she insisted not to take a penny from him.

"You can tell me stories, I love hearing stories!" She said, "Just think of it as payment for me."

So Ian casually made up some of his experiences at Hogwarts into a story.

But Joanne seemed very interested in the story and insisted that Ian finish sharing the story, otherwise she would not be able to sleep.

"Speaking of the bad guy named Riddle, his soul left Quirrell's body and ran away!" She said quickly, "Then what?"

"That's it..." Ian nodded and continued, "After this story, it is basically over, only some minor details remain..."

"But what I'm interested in are these tiny details!" Joanne insisted, "What is in the corridor on the right side of the fourth floor? What did Ian do before talking to Quirrell? What? What is his plan?"

……

"It's the way it is!"

"Ian's plan is to take a look in the corridor on the right side of the fourth floor... Based on the information he already knows, he has concluded that there must be something hidden there; and Professor Quirrell and the spirit behind him, Tom... Riddle, has been peeping at that thing..."

"He has had this idea for a long time. Of course, his goal is not the hidden thing. He is not interested in that thing... What he really wants is to accumulate first-hand practical experience in magic!"

"Think about it, facing a three-headed giant dog and facing the traps set by senior professors with climax magic is an experience that most wizards are not qualified to have in their lifetime. What's even better is that all of this is actually There will be no life-threatening danger, after all, it is the teachers who set all this up, and with Ian’s understanding of them, it is impossible for them to kill him."

"Not even expelled from Hogwarts. Ever since Professor Armando Dippet became Headmaster (Hogwarts Headmaster before Albus Dumbledore), expelling students has been a common practice in this castle. It's a very rare thing. Unless you secretly raise an extremely dangerous magical creature like an eight-clawed giant spider, and let it roam around the castle, suspected of killing a Ravenclaw girl; this kind of 'unnatural' You will be fired if you do something wrong.”

"In comparison, just sneaking into an area that is strictly forbidden by the principal, letting a three-headed giant dog sleep, and passing through a few traps... This kind of violation of several school rules can be regarded as a trivial matter."

"This plan was hatched in Ian's mind after he learned that there was a three-headed giant dog in the corridor on the right side of the fourth floor."

"Therefore, he began to ask his two friends, Macmillan and Finlay, to keep an eye on the Marauder's Map and the principal's movements."

"After all, only if Albus Dumbledore, the most powerful wizard, leaves school, can I break into the corridor on the right side of the fourth floor without being caught out immediately."

"To this end, he also made a lot of arrangements——"

"For example, when he quietly entered the corridor on the right side of the fourth floor, his two good friends took a large group of Hufflepuff classmates to Professor Quirrell's office and asked him all kinds of questions. A bunch of questions about the final exam... which simply means keeping him from leaving the office for a while."

"Of course, Professor Quirrell didn't seem to be prepared to break into the corridor on the right side of the fourth floor during the day. The reason is also very simple. There are still a lot of people coming and going in that corridor... He broke in 'openly' in broad daylight. It’s easy to be discovered or stopped.”

"This little problem doesn't bother Ian. He only needs to use a herring can to lure Mrs. Norris to the entrance of the corridor, and then let her eat the canned food there. In Hogwarts, no one wants to talk to Norris. If Madam stays together, they will naturally stay away from each other. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ian can sneak in quietly. "

"And he is not alone. Ian also brought his house elf friend Klein. When Ian entered the three-headed giant dog's room and passed through the trap door, Klein was there Waiting for him up there. The pair of enchanted pebbles that Hannah gave him as a gift at Christmas played a big role in this."

"You only need to knock one of the pair of magic stones, and the other pebble will make a crisp sound. Ian kept one of them in his hand, and the other was temporarily given to the house elf for safekeeping. And they agreed to knock regularly every 5 minutes. If on Klein's side, there is a sudden continuous crisp sound on the cobblestones, or there is no sound for 5 consecutive minutes, it means that Ian may be in danger, the house elf I will tell Professor Sprout as soon as possible and ask her to come and save people.”

"All the preparations are extremely sufficient, but in fact, most of the preparations are actually in vain."

"The 'defense' of that hidden thing can no longer be described as weak, it can even be said to be child's play——"

"Ian originally just wanted to accumulate first-hand practical experience in magic, but 10 minutes after entering that corridor, he even felt that he had been cheated..."

"The ferocious-looking three-headed giant dog is the first level; magical animals of this size generally have extremely high magic resistance, and even ordinary adult wizards cannot easily stun it. But the three-headed giant dog Magical creatures like dogs have a very 'fatal' weakness. They are very lethargic and will quickly fall asleep when encountering looming events. Ian took advantage of this weakness and sang a song loudly in the room, and soon three heads were The giant dog fell asleep and Ian passed the test smoothly."

"The second level may be set by Professor Sprout, a bunch of devil's nets... This kind of plant likes humid environments. You only need to use flames to deal with it, and you can easily drive them away. Ian is almost unable to With little effort, I passed the customs smoothly.”

"The third level is a thick wooden door. Even the unlocking spell cannot open it. But the room where this door is located has countless keys flying in the sky with spells. There is a high probability that Flitwick The professor set it up; there is a broomstick on the other side of the room. That means you need to ride the broomstick and find the key in the air; Oh, is this really a level and not some final exam content? Ian Drizzt’s flying skills are pretty good, so he passed the level smoothly.”

"The fourth level is a giant chessboard. The intruder needs to participate in the wizard chess, play the black chess, and then command the black chess to defeat the white chess. Ian did not spend a second to think about it. He took the position of the king (no one would pass this level without using the king...he still thought about it at the time). White's skills were not very good, so Ian relied on a little bit of chess from his previous life. With experience, you can easily complete the victory. This level must have been set up by Professor McGonagall, with that exquisite transformation technique."

"The fifth level is a giant monster. It must have been brought by Professor Quirrell. He seems to be very good at dealing with giant monsters. He got the monster on Halloween. This kind of monster has no brains and is just brutal. It is not difficult to deal with powerful creatures, not to mention that Ian already has experience in dealing with giant monsters... But this is already the most 'difficult' of all the levels."

"The sixth level consists of several bottles of potions and a logical reasoning question...presumably set by Professor Snape. Ian can imagine that Professor Severus Snape racked his brains and finally thought There is such a logical reasoning question whose answer can be seen at a glance... Hahaha, it’s so interesting!”