Hogwarts Asylum

In the Gryffindor common room, although Wood couldn't wait to share with Harry the inspiration he had gained from Bokov's induction technique, after Harry asked what happened again, he finally decided to tell the senior students first Explain the reason why girls are blocking the corridor of the first grade boys dormitory.

However, Wood's words obviously did not make Harry understand, so after listening to Wood's explanation, Harry couldn't help but ask: "Why are they like this when Professor Petrova comes?"

"Then you have to ask them yourself." Wood shrugged, "Or you can ask her."

With that said, Wood gestured with his eyes to Aaliyah, who was sitting on the sofa and giggling, "She was also one of them just now."

On the sofa next to them, Ron, Neville and Seamus also heard Wood's explanation. Like Harry, they were still confused after listening. To them, Wood's explanation was the same as no explanation at all.

"Maybe it's because Professor Petrova has some special skills to attract them." Seamus looked at the corridor and guessed with some envy.

"Hogwarts is really unfair." Ron muttered, "Why can girls enter the corridor of the boys' dormitory at will?"

At Hogwarts, anyone can enter and leave the men's dormitory at will, but if a boy walks into the corridor of the women's dormitory, the corridor will suddenly turn into a particularly steep slide. When Ron first started school, he was beaten by his My two brothers tricked me into it, but it was not a pleasant feeling when it suddenly fell and fell to the ground halfway through.

At this time, the group of senior girls suddenly let out a scream, and then two people squeezed out of the group of girls. It was Professor Petrova and Draco.

At this time, although Draco had Professor Petrova in front of him and a bunch of senior girls squeezing in behind him, looking very happy, he was really miserable.

Just now, Draco originally wanted to lead the way, but the situation at the door of the dormitory really didn't allow it. Moreover, if he hadn't hid behind Professor Petrova and let Professor Petrova open the way, he might not have squeezed out until now. Pile of people.

Compared to Harry and Ron who were confused, Draco did know a little bit about what these senior girls were thinking. After all, it was not unusual to like the same sex. The Malfoy family had a wide range of social contacts, and Draco had been interested in it since he was a child. Saw some.

It's just that Draco never expected that there were so many Gryffindors...

Turning his head to look at the group of senior girls huddled together behind him, Draco sighed silently and rubbed the back of his head. He didn't know who was so bored just now and took the opportunity to pull out his hair.

On the sofa, Ron looked at Draco, who was walking towards the common room door behind Professor Petrova. He touched Seamus with his shoulder and said, "Seamus, you are familiar with Malfoy. …”

Before Ron could finish speaking, Seamus raised his hands and shouted: "Draco——"

Seamus' voice was so loud that Ron wanted to hide his face and hide under the table. Draco heard it of course. He heard the sound and looked around, only to realize that all his roommates were back.

Draco glanced at Professor Petrova and saw that she didn't look particularly anxious, so he walked towards Seamus.

"What's wrong?" Draco asked.

"Why didn't you go to the library tonight?" Seamus said casually, "Ron and the others are all wondering if you have an appointment with Qiu Zhang - uh uh uh -"

"Don't listen to Simo's nonsense." Ron covered Simo's mouth and smiled funny, "Does he mainly want to ask you where you want to go with Professor Petrova?"

"Who is Qiu Zhang?" Draco took a deep look at Ron and saw the flattering look on his face before explaining, "Teacher Olorin has something to do with Xiaodiao, and I was about to take Professor Petrova with him. Look for it at the public owl loft.”

"Oh, you go ahead first." Ron waved his hand to Draco, indicating that it was okay.

After Draco left, Ron released his hand covering Seamus and complained: "What the hell, are you planning to kill me?"

After being released, Seamo took a few deep breaths and then said, "I think you are planning to kill me."

At this time, Neville, who had not spoken for a long time, finally asked: "If Professor Eurolin is looking for Draco's little eagle, why is Professor Petrova here?"

"Maybe he's not in Hogwarts." Ron said casually, took out a wizard's chess board from somewhere, looked at everyone with interest and asked, "Does anyone want to play chess?"

Although after Professor Petrova left with Draco, the senior girls no longer blocked the corridor of the first-year boys' dormitory, and everyone knew that it would be difficult to beat Ron at wizard chess, but it was not easy to go back to the dormitory so early. It wasn't interesting, so Seamus and the others sat across from Ron.

"Two of us will play one of you, and we will kill all your chess pieces tonight!" After saying that, Seamus looked at Harry on the other sofa and asked, "Harry, are you coming? "

Harry, who was in agony as Wood frantically taught him Quidditch tactics, heard this and responded loudly, regardless of what Seamus asked: "What? Is there something important? I'll be right over!" "

As he said that, Harry looked at Wood with wide eyes, his eyes seemed to say: If you don't let me go, I will cry for you on the spot.

Wood finally let Harry go. There was no way. Some tactics required the cooperation of the batsman, pursuer and seeker, but the team's two batsmen didn't know where to go. , haven’t returned to the lounge yet.

However, Wood looked at Harry, who had sat opposite Ron, and said to Aria: "He seems to think I didn't hear what his roommate was saying."

"Who asked you to talk so much the night before the game." Due to Professor Petrova's departure, Alia, who had returned to normal, gave Wood a big eye roll, "Although Harry had been flying so fast during training before, Very good, even as flexible as a bird, but aren't you afraid that he will be under too much pressure and perform abnormally in the game?"

"No, he is Harry Potter." Wood looked at Harry, his eyes full of confidence, "And..."

Wood didn't say any more. What he actually wanted to say was that he was already in fifth grade and only had three chances left. If he hadn't won a Quidditch Cup in the past three years, he would regret it for the rest of his life.

Aria shook her head. She knew that Wood dreamed of winning the Quidditch Cup, but she still didn't agree with Wood's approach of forcing everyone to train.

Of course, Aaliyah couldn't say anything, because if Wood was strict with everyone, then he was cruel to himself. He was obviously a goalkeeper, but in addition to training with the team, he also At other times, he also practiced additional training on other positions on the team. He said that as the captain, he had to prevent the players from getting injured during the game (Quidditch does not have a bench).

……

As an international metropolis, London is still as bright as day even when night falls.

Of course, where there is light, there is darkness. There is a tall tower in the center of Fish Street Hill in the Financial City. It is called the "Monument to the Great Fire of London". It is used to commemorate the 1666 fire by a bakery in Pudding Lane, London. , the fire began to sweep across London, leaving more than 10,000 London residents homeless at the time.

At this time, although there were lights all around the monument, the observation deck on the top was dark, probably because the monument was not open at night.

However, in the darkness, a figure covered in hooded robes stood on the viewing platform of the monument.

"The fire that swept through London, but only killed five people, tsk."

The hooded man sneered, and the hood on his head shook.

"I really don't know what those wizards in the past were thinking. They wanted to prevent the introduction of the Secrecy Law, but they didn't want to kill too many people?"

"Tell me, if the guy who set the fire was still alive today, how strong would his fire be?"

"Who knows, it shouldn't be a problem to burn down the whole of Paris. After all, even Grindelwald can burn down half of Paris."

"If Grindelwald knew you said that, he would probably want to come out and challenge you."

"It sounds like you respect him very much. Who told him in front of him that wizards more than 300 years ago couldn't defeat ordinary people, let alone now?"

"It's us. It's not like you didn't see the outcome of the fight."

The hooded man asked and answered himself, looking very strange.

After a long time, the hooded man sighed.

"In the end, wizards are still passers-by in history—"

"You have that time to sigh, why not help those idiots in MI[-] figure out how to break the power of magic."

"You really want to advance the war?"

"Otherwise? What's the point of us causing trouble everywhere?"

"It's so fun and interesting to watch them fight life and death, and then when the end comes and realize that everyone is the same, they go to hell hand in hand."

"You are hopeless. My suggestion is to find a time to commit suicide."

"Say it like you're going to save them."

"..."

"Forget it, let's move it forward. While Harry Potter and his generation are still alive, we can move the war forward. Maybe there will be a chance to save a few more people."

As a gust of wind blew by, the hooded man disappeared in place, as if no one had ever been there, and calm returned to the monument viewing platform.

……

Sutton Park, Birmingham.

When Rosa was carried away by two men in suits, there was a burst of curses from the crowd.

"These MI[-] people are really going too far..." an old man with a white beard said indignantly.

Obviously, this old man with a white beard is the type of person who often watches government news. He just recognized the documents in the hands of the two men in suits. That's why he was so angry after they left because the people from MI[-] On the surface, they have no law enforcement power. No matter what the reason is, their behavior of knocking out the man wearing the scary mask and taking him away is illegal.

But unlike other passers-by, the old man with the white beard complained while peeking at the back of the young man who had already hid in the crowd but had not completely left.

This young man was the little Tom who personally guided Rosa, who had been stalling for time before the people from MI[-] arrived.

Little Tom was unmoved by the scolding around him. After all, the MI[-] where he worked was a secret department. Although many people knew that this department existed, they still couldn't admit it on the surface.

Besides, these passers-by were scolding MI[-] and politicians. What does this have to do with him, a hunter from MI[-]?

After watching Rosa, one of the targets of tonight's mission, being carried away, little Tom hid in the crowd and began to look for the next target. His eyes were very sharp, and coupled with his clothes, he looked like a real Werewolf.

However, little Tom searched the crowd for a long time and found no one suspected of being a wizard, so he began to slowly squeeze out, preparing to find an uninhabited corner to change his clothes, and then look elsewhere to finally catch a The wizard gets a week's vacation, plus a hefty bonus, and he has had no days off for almost three years.

In fact, there was indeed a wizard in the crowd wearing a Muggle tramp costume, fishing in troubled waters.

This wizard is none other than Mundungus, who organized tonight's operation.

When Rosa was carried away just now, Mundungus was shocked. As the leader of tonight's operation, although the guy who cast the explosive spell on the street also shocked him, at that time, his heartbeat It couldn't come sooner than now.

Mundungus was very confused, why was Rosa captured by Muggles?Could it be that he was wanted for a crime on the Muggle side?

Before Mundungus took action tonight, he had thought that the men he had gathered would be arrested, but he only thought that he would be arrested by scouts, strikers, or Aurors, but he never thought that he would be arrested by the Muggle government. People caught.

Listening to the scoldings of the Muggles around, the two arresters still didn't have the power to enforce the law.

Although Mundungus did not understand what MI[-] was, this department without law enforcement powers should be similar to the Transportation Department and Sports Department of the Ministry of Magic. If people from the Transportation Department and Sports Department dared to arrest ordinary wizards at will, Definitely will be fired.

I hope I arrested the wrong person...

Mundungus comforted himself.

However, deep down in Mundungus's heart, there was actually another instinctive guess, that is, Rosa's identity as a wizard had been exposed.

Although he didn't know how Rosa was exposed, the wizard's instinct told Mundungus that he had to leave here quickly, otherwise he would end up miserable.

However, Mundungus did not use Apparition to leave. He did not want to take this risk. What if there were people from the Muggle government in the crowd?

Although he was confident in his ability to escape, he was still not sure whether his movements would be faster than the guns in the hands of Muggles.

As a black marketeer who has been wandering in the shadows all year round, Mundungus knows more about things like guns than other wizards. After all, some wizards who like Muggle culture will also pay to buy these things.

It’s the same as leaving slowly anyway. Who would embarrass a homeless person with nothing to do?

Looking at the dark crowd, Mundungus pretended to scratch his armpits to make the stench from his body stronger.

Passers-by couldn't stand the smell, so they crowded around, leaving a lot of space for Mundungus.

As Mundungus got further and further away from the center of the crowd, he began to be grateful for his outfit tonight and his dislike of bathing.