Hogwarts, where the stars shine

The library of Hogwarts is located on the second floor of the castle. It has thousands of bookshelves and stores tens of thousands of books.

Irma Pince is the librarian, and according to gossip among the students, Mrs. Pince has a close relationship with Filch.

Although the relationship between the two has never been confirmed, the two have the same characteristics: they do not seem to like students, and they are also disliked by students.

Filch always patrols the castle with his skinny cat, trying to catch any students who break the rules and punish them severely.

Even if you are just wandering around the castle, you may still attract Filch's questioning. He stubbornly believes that if students are wandering around the castle, they must be conspiring to "do evil."

As for Mrs. Pince, the librarian, Mesa guessed that she was a book-loving person who loved books.

The thin and elderly Mrs. Pince is almost always in the library, guarding her cherished books for perhaps 48 hours a day and monitoring all the students in the library.

If you treated the collection even slightly roughly, Mrs. Pince would chase you out of the library with a feather duster, like a malnourished vulture.

If you dare to damage the collection of books in the library, Mrs. Pince will not only give you an experience you will never forget, but you will also be banned from entering the library for a long time, let alone borrowing books from the collection.

Perhaps it was the similarities between Mrs. Pince and Filch that made students think that the two were inseparable.After all, in their world, students are the most annoying creatures in the world, bar none.

How Mesa knows this is of course because since the beginning of school, Mesa has spent all his spare time in the library, swimming in the ocean of books.

Although Mesa did not damage the library's books, his textbooks were all sourced from thrift stores, and there will inevitably be note marks or minor damage.

This was a trivial matter to Mesa, but it was a top priority in Mrs. Pince's eyes. After seeing the "dirty" old books, the administrator became furious and she yelled at Mesa.

If he hadn't had a feather duster on hand, Mesa would have left the library covered in feathers.

At 07:30 on Thursday evening, half an hour before the library closing time, Mesa Black, who was suspected of damaging books, fled the library in panic, but the angry Mrs. Pince was still behind him.

After walking down the long corridor and down the marble staircase with nowhere to go, Mesa planned to return to the common room.

Since the beginning of the school year, Mesa and his two roommates have not even exchanged five sentences with each other. The three of them have completely different schedules.

When Mesa left the dormitory in the morning, Bol and Derek were still awake; when Mesa returned to the dormitory from the library every night, the two men went to play somewhere else.

Except for sleeping in the same dormitory at night, the three of them were just like neighbors who were not allowed to worship.

The maze of corridors was empty, and Mesa walked deeper and deeper beneath the school grounds, finally stopping in front of a damp stone wall.

All he needed to do now was to speak the password and Mesa could return to the cold, damp common room, but he didn't do so because there was an open suitcase in front of the stone wall, and old books and clothes scattered on the floor.

This is Mesa's suitcase. It should have stayed in the dormitory, and the messy old books should have stayed on the bedside bookcase.But now they appear outside the common room. Can they still grow legs and run out on their own?

The answer is no.

Apparently, someone deliberately threw Mesa's luggage out to embarrass him.

With such a childish approach, the name of the person who threw the luggage out was immediately revealed.

Leaning down, Mesa checked whether his belongings were damaged, sorted them out, and put them back into the suitcase.

At this moment, Lilia Shafiq appeared behind Mesa. She went to meet the chubby Sean Hart. The two were not assigned to the same college.

There are not so many things that are perfect in the world. Although Sean really wanted to enter Slytherin, the Sorting Hat still sorted him into Hufflepuff.Instead, Mesa was assigned here.

"Is it starting now?" Lilia Shafiq asked softly, "I thought they would wait until next week to start!"

After saying that, Lilia also leaned down and helped Mesa organize the items.

Lilia still had a certain fondness for the boy in front of her who was suspected of being a Muggle. She liked smart people.

Mesa picked up a book, flipped through it, and then said: "This is just a trivial temptation, the real trouble is yet to come."

"This is so inappropriate." Lilia frowned slightly, "We are all Slytherins, and we should help each other. In this school, Slytherins already have enough enemies."

Slytherin and Gryffindor are enemies. This feud has a long history and has existed for more than a thousand years.This feud stems from the old affairs between the four giants, and also involves a secret rumor in the school.

Of the remaining two houses, Ravenclaw focuses on wisdom and exploring the unknown, and Hufflepuff is tolerant and generous. However, due to some historical reasons and the disgusting behavior of some people, Slytherin is not the best in these two houses. The academy is also not very popular.

If one day the two houses were to publicly take sides and choose between Slytherin and Gryffindor, I'm afraid no house would choose to support Slytherin.

Although sometimes the bravery of Gryffindors is stupid, they are far more popular than the "smart" Slytherins.

If Gryffindor can be considered an external threat, Slytherin also has hidden dangers within it, and they are not monolithic.

According to the sorting criteria given by the Sorting Hat, Slytherin students must be shrewd, cunning, ambitious, resourceful, and preferably from pure-blood families.

This standard comes from the founder of the college and one of the great Four, Salazar Slytherin.

But times have changed, and these traits are no longer visible in some Slytherin students.

They are neither shrewd nor cunning, nor do they understand what it means to make decisions before taking action, and what it means to protect oneself wisely.All they have left is their pure-blooded nobility and their former glorious glory.

Slytherin students, or those who graduated from Slytherin, have publicly expressed pure-blood supremacy more than once.Under the leadership of an outstanding Slytherin graduate, the Wizarding War was launched.

If the students of Slytherin were compared to a pyramid, the top of the tower would naturally be people from the 28 holy families, and the remaining purebloods and mixed-bloods would make up the rest of the pyramid.

As for Muggle-born wizards, this situation is not unheard of in Slytherin, but it is very rare.

It is true that there are people in Slytherin who do not agree with pure-blood superiority, but they are also rare, as rare as Muggle-born Slytherin students.

Based on this, even if Muggle-born wizards join Slytherin, they are still at the lowest level of the academy, being derided as "Mudbloods".Unless they can win the heartfelt respect of their classmates, or the fear engraved in their bones.

The school had just started, and Mesa didn't have time to earn respect, nor did he show another side of himself, which meant that in everyone's eyes, Mesa Black was just an ordinary person.

Second-hand textbooks, rusty telescopes, and robes that are always one size too big, these personal belongings illustrate the poverty of Mesa.

A down-and-out ordinary person, still from the Muggle world, has entered the noble Slytherin, which naturally arouses dissatisfaction among some people.Hence the scene tonight, throwing Mesa's luggage out of the Slytherin common room.

"What are you going to do?" Lilia asked softly, stuffing the last book into her suitcase.

"What do you think I should do? Fight with them and fight to the death," Mesa asked, "or complain to Professor Snape in tears?"

After buttoning the packed suitcase, Mesa lifted it up.

"Forever pure," Mesa spoke to the stone wall.

Generally speaking, the password for the entrance to the Slytherin common room is changed every two weeks.

The entrance hidden in the wall slowly appeared, and Mesa walked into the lounge carrying her suitcase, leaving Lilia Shafik standing outside the door blankly.