The Admiral of Hogwarts

After briefly considering the basilisk, Hugo decided against directly exposing it.

At least until he could find the student or teacher controlled by Voldemort's diary, he felt it was better to remain still and wait for an opportunity.

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He suddenly remembered a special power of the Horcrux diary: gradually draining the life force from the bewitched wizard to resurrect itself.

Considering this, Hugo didn't want to defeat the basilisk only to have the mastermind hide and become Voldemort 2.0.

After all, one Voldemort was bad enough; two would make life too difficult.

For him, this world wasn't just a story or a few movies, but the world where he, his family, and his friends would live, so he naturally wanted it to be peaceful.

After thinking everything through, Hugo, feeling much clearer, returned to the Ravenclaw Tower with Hermione and Veneto to rest.

After he lay in bed, Victory informed Hugo through the admiral network that he had gained 2.5 Fate Points from the Quidditch match incident.

Interestingly, Victory told him that stopping Ron's spell mishap and the resulting slug vomiting only earned him 0.5 Fate Points. He had already received some Fate Points for changing the way Harry and Ron arrived at school, thus protecting Ron's wand, and according to the rules, he couldn't receive Fate Points twice for the same event.

The other two Fate Points came from preventing Hermione from being called a Mudblood, as happened in the original story. According to Victory, the system seemed to think that Ron's standing up for her was the beginning of their relationship, and Hugo messing that up naturally earned him some extra Fate Points.

"Okay, I guess that's part of fate," Hugo thought, scratching his head after hearing Victory's explanation.

However, he figured his very existence was the biggest variable, so such changes were inevitable. "Okay, as long as it's not something like Harry becoming a Death Eater, other changes should be fine," Hugo thought seriously before falling asleep.

When Hugo met Harry and Ron the next afternoon, he learned that Harry had heard strange voices while helping Lockhart answer fan mail the day before.

Knowing this, Hugo felt he could at least confirm that Lockhart, the weakest link among the professors, hadn't become Voldemort's target.

A professor had far more freedom and resources within the school than a student, so even if a simpleton like Lockhart were controlled by Voldemort, it would cause significant trouble.

Therefore, upon realizing that Voldemort's Horcrux had entered the school, Hugo immediately focused on Lockhart.

Fortunately, according to Harry's recollection, he had looked up at the clock on the wall when he heard the eerie voices, allowing him to precisely remember the time of the event.

This time was less than five minutes away from when Veneto heard the basilisk moving in the pipes.

During the time Harry spent in Lockhart's office, he had been constantly subjected to Lockhart's incessant chatter, and Lockhart hadn't even left his desk, possibly to spend more time with the famous Harry. Therefore, Lockhart was naturally ruled out as a possible target of Voldemort's control.

In the following period, Hugo devoted himself wholeheartedly to learning various kinds of knowledge. Since every ship girl's magical learning experience could be transmitted to the admiral network, he could naturally learn all kinds of knowledge several times or even more than ten times more efficiently than others.

Having witnessed how powerful the ship girls were, Hugo, realizing that he was the weakest link in the system, naturally seized every opportunity to learn various kinds of knowledge to strengthen himself.

This knowledge included both what he was learning at school and the knowledge that the ship girls had collected in various regions.

During this period, the ship girls acquired a large amount of knowledge through multiple channels, some through communication, but most of it came from loot obtained after double-crossing others.

After all, this was a world where knowledge was power, so the knowledge circulating on the market was far from all there was to this world.

Fortunately, not every pure-blood family that monopolized various kinds of knowledge was aloof and high above, and at least impoverished pure-blood families like the Weasleys were not uncommon in the magical world of Europe and the United States. And not many of those families were willing to live in poverty like the Weasleys.

In this case, many pure-blood families that had already declined naturally chose to embrace the darkness completely. After all, just like the stories Hugo had read in his previous life, half of the most profitable businesses in this world were written into the legal provisions.

And for those pure-blood families, they could completely disregard the law for the sake of profit.

But this also gave the dispatched ship girls a very good opportunity. In the battles in the underground world, the ship girls acquired a large amount of magical knowledge as spoils of war, including important wealth and even knowledge accumulated over hundreds or even thousands of years by some pure-blood families with some history.

After the ship girls screened them, the magic that was suitable for Hugo's current stage of learning was passed on to Hugo. Then, under the guidance of Veneto and the others, he began to learn this magic.

It had to be said that the ancient pure-blood families did have many very valuable parts in the accumulation of knowledge, so much so that they could find a large amount of content suitable for a second-year student like Hugo to learn.

Because he was only a second-year student now, there wasn't much magic he could learn, but the families' knowledge of various magics and magic-related experiences was also very important to Hugo.

At least he felt that after mastering that knowledge, he found it much easier to complete his normal studies.

Also, thanks to his hard work during this period, Hugo successfully consolidated his foundation in magical learning. Compared to the basic knowledge learned at school, the knowledge accumulated by those pure-blood families over several or even dozens of generations could better help him touch the origin of magic.

When a person is focused on doing something, they always feel that time passes quickly, and they also enjoy things that seem boring and tedious to others.

Fortunately, Hugo wasn't doing these things alone. At least when he was learning, his sister and Veneto were always with him.

Naturally, during this period, Hugo and Veneto also took the opportunity to discuss the knowledge of the academic courses during this period and taught Hermione some of the newly acquired knowledge.

After all, no matter what, Hermione was now Hugo's sister and one of the most reliable people in this world.

Of course, this indoctrination was also carefully mixed into the learning of academic knowledge. Because the channels for acquiring this knowledge were not suitable for Hermione to know now.