The Admiral of Hogwarts

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Mrs. Pince's arrival caused Hugo and the others to stop chatting, and the entire table quickly returned to silence.

Hugo and the others stopped discussing and then began to take out their assignments and write.

Although this was the first week of school, the teachers did not hold back when assigning homework, and almost everyone assigned a pile of it.

After dinner, several people gathered again to do homework together.

For Hugo and the others, the library table was so big, and there was nothing wrong with doing homework together with acquaintances.

As for Harry and Ron, it would naturally be much easier to have a few Ravenclaw students helping them with their homework.

Hermione revealed her eagerness to teach in this process, but because of Hugo's presence, she was much gentler than in the original text.

And Harry and Ron's attitude towards listening to lectures also seemed much more upright than Hugo remembered. After all, Hermione and Harry were not in the same house now, so helping them answer questions in their homework was just providing some help because of their good relationship. Harry and the others naturally understood that their attitude should be better.

Soon, the time came to around 7:50 in the evening.

At this time, Harry and Ron stood up and began to pack their bags.

Because according to Professor McGonagall's punishment, they should now go to complete their respective after-school work.

After saying hello to them, Hugo and the others buried themselves in some extra books.

For those with good academic standing like them, even answering Harry's questions would not affect their speed of doing homework too much, so they had already finished their homework at this time.

Then, they took advantage of this free time to read the part of the books that interested them.

"When will we be able to study those books in the Restricted Section?" Just as Hugo was reading a copy of "Transfiguration Today" that had just arrived this month, Veneto's voice suddenly sounded in his mind.

"We've read almost all of the books outside in the past school year, and now only the Restricted Section hasn't been properly looked at."

The Restricted Section is located at the back of the library, separated from other areas by a thin metal chain.

It looks as if it is completely undefended.

However, Veneto and Firefly had approached the Restricted Section many times on weekdays and felt a different kind of power from it.

According to Veneto's later explanation to Hugo, the entire Restricted Section in the library was covered with a large number of defensive spells.

These spells not only enveloped the entire Restricted Section, but also left marks on each book.

In addition, these defensive spells can not only operate independently, but also connect to the entire Hogwarts Castle's defense system.

Although, in order to avoid accidental injury, the active defense system is not usually turned on, the passive monitoring is always running.

That is to say, anyone who enters the Restricted Section to read a book will be recorded by Hogwarts Castle and reported to Headmaster Dumbledore, who will then make a decision on this record.

Of course, considering the students' desire for knowledge, the school will naturally turn a blind eye to those students who occasionally come to the Restricted Section to browse books, but if Hugo and the ship girls hope to copy all the books, they will definitely be stared at by Dumbledore.

"We'll always have a chance," Hugo said through the admiral network after looking at the books in the Restricted Section with titles spelled out in peeling, faded gold letters that were difficult to understand.

"But we still have to be careful now, after all, we're only in our second year, and the days ahead are still long."

"But this year we can choose a few books from inside that don't look so dangerous to take out and read," Hugo said after hearing the unhappy hum from the ship girl in the admiral network.

"I think that as studious students in the eyes of the professors, reading one or two books a month that are related to what we are currently learning should not attract any attention."

Around 11 o'clock in the evening, Hugo and the others finished reading and walked towards the Ravenclaw Tower.

However, just as they were passing through a corridor on the fourth floor, Veneto suddenly quickened her pace and walked to the front, blocking Hugo and Hermione, and then looked around vigilantly with a wary expression.

Looking at Veneto's nervous appearance, Hermione and Hugo simultaneously drew their wands subconsciously and looked around nervously.

After everyone subconsciously prepared for defense according to the previous training habits, Hermione lowered her voice and asked.

"What happened, Veneto?"

"I just seemed to hear some strange rustling sound, maybe it's Peeves," Veneto was silent for a while after Hermione asked, and then her whole body relaxed.

"Of course, it may also be the sound of the wind blowing through the corridor windows that was a bit strange, after all, this kind of old house can sometimes scare people."

"Oh, then it's okay," Hermione nodded understandingly after hearing Veneto say this and put away her wand.

After living in an ancient castle like Hogwarts, it is indeed easy to encounter some scary things, especially when walking through an almost deserted corridor late at night, even a slight breeze can scare people.

Hermione herself had been frightened several times before by the inexplicable noises in the castle, so she naturally didn't suspect anything after hearing Veneto's explanation, and didn't think she was making a fuss in this place.

However, Hugo knew that the situation just now was definitely not as Veneto said, after all, Veneto was a seasoned ship girl and could never be frightened by that little bit of wind.

"I just heard the sound of friction coming from the pipes inside the wall and the hissing sound of some kind of cold-blooded animal," Just as the three of them returned to normal and continued walking towards the Ravenclaw Tower, Veneto explained to Hugo through the admiral network what she had just discovered, "I'm sure it should be a big guy."

"If that's the case, then I think what you just heard should be the sound of the basilisk moving in the pipes," After hearing Veneto's words, Hugo immediately realized what was going on.

"It seems that the diary is still brought into Hogwarts as before, and is manipulating someone to release the basilisk."

"This is a terrible thing," Veneto said, "Because a large part of the reason why all the people who were attacked in the original text survived was because of luck, and this time it may not be the case."

"You're right, this is indeed a worrying thing," After saying this to Veneto, Hugo connected to Firefly in Gryffindor, "Firefly, please pay attention to the situation in Gryffindor these two days and see if anyone is suspicious."

"Understood," A crisp and neat reply came from Firefly in the admiral network.

"Starting tomorrow, I will carefully observe everyone in the academy and try to track their movements as much as possible. In this way, I think if someone really gets that notebook, they should be able to be screened out."

In the beginning, Hugo originally planned to have the ship girls directly rush into the Chamber of Secrets, grab the basilisk, and beat it to death.

But later he realized that none of them knew Parseltongue, so they couldn't open the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets located in the girls' bathroom in a relatively harmonious way.

And if he couldn't open the Chamber of Secrets through a relatively peaceful method, then he could only choose to break through the wall, but in this way, he wouldn't be able to enter the Chamber of Secrets without anyone knowing and solve the problem completely, and at the same time, he would let the whole school know about this matter.

Considering that it is not clear who got Voldemort's notebook, Hugo felt that they should also remain hidden, so that they could catch the mastermind behind the scenes as much as possible.