The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 40 The Exam Is Near
Ryan walked out of the woods and looked at his pocket watch under the moonlight, and was surprised to find that the time had passed 12 o'clock.He hurried to the castle.

When passing by Hagrid's hut, he found that the lights in the hut have been turned off. It seems that Hagrid has recovered from the pain of losing the little dragon, and has now fallen asleep.

Walking into the gate of the castle, Ryan was very nervous.He cast a half-baked Disillusionment spell on himself, and walked around several grand staircases.Slowly return to the Gryffindor Tower from several detours of small stairs.

But he didn't see any patrolling teachers until he got to the Fat Lady's portrait.

Lane marveled at his luck.After returning to the dormitory, he simply washed up, then went to bed in the dark and fell asleep.

During breakfast the next day, Ryan sat at the long table of Gryffindor in the auditorium with dark circles under his eyes.Sure enough, just being able to stay up late in your 20s doesn’t mean you can do it at the age of 11. Try to come back early for your next night outing.

When eating today, the people around seemed to be more noisy than usual, and Ryan heard them say Harry Potter several times.

"What happened?" Ryan asked Percy next to him.

"You don't look in good condition, no wonder you don't know. Last night, my brothers Ron and Harry deducted 100 points in one go. It's really disappointing." Percy shook his head helplessly replied.

This time, Malfoy obviously didn't inform him, how did Harry and the others deduct points?Ryan thought in bewilderment.

I can't guess it by myself, Ryan wants to ask Harry and the others.It's just that Harry and Ron kept avoiding the others during class.

It wasn't until the end of the afternoon class that Ryan found Harry and the others in an empty classroom.Hermione was already here, spitting Harry and Ron on and on.

Ryan sat on the sidelines and listened to Hermione's scolding, and finally figured out how Harry and the others were arrested.

After parting in the hall, Harry and the two of them went straight to Hagrid to pick up the dragon in a wooden box.Then all the way to the Astronomy Tower went smoothly.According to the time, when they received the dragon into the castle, Ryan was still going around with Peeves.

No wonder Ryan didn't see Harry and the others when he rushed to the foyer.By that time they had already gone upstairs.

It's just that after sending off the dragon, the two people who were too excited forgot to bring their invisibility cloaks.As a result, when they swaggered in the castle.It was easily caught by Filch.

No wonder Ryan didn't meet the inspectors when he came back last night, because at that time Filch had already taken Harry and the others to find Professor McGonagall, and there was no one patrolling the corridor.

After Hermione criticized Harry and the others, she turned her head and said to Ryan: "You are just lucky, don't be so reckless next time, if Peeves recruited another professor who was watching the night yesterday, then we would not deduct 100 points yesterday, but It's 150 points."

Ryan originally thought that the turmoil caused by Harry's point deduction would soon pass, but he didn't expect the situation to intensify.

Harry was one of the most popular characters in the school, and now he has suddenly become the target of public criticism.Even the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs didn't give him a good look, because everyone had been hoping to see Slytherin lose the House Cup.

Everywhere Harry went, people pointed at him and didn't lower their voices when they said insulting things to him.On the other hand, the Slytherins clapped and whistled and cheered whenever he walked past them. "Thank you, Potter, you've done us a great favor!"

Ron was also in pain because no one wanted to talk to her now except his brother.

Lane believes that this situation is school bullying, which is very bad.But he couldn't change the malice towards Harry and the others in the academy.

In Ryan's view, this is purely caused by the jealousy of his classmates caused by Harry's previous great reputation, and the Gryffindor students are also emotionally inclined, which makes the atmosphere in the college very bad .

However, for Ryan, whose mental age is close to 30, seeing a group of children bullying a child, he always wants to intervene in it, not to mention that this kind of campus bullying is completely inconsistent with Ryan's moral values.

Therefore, during homework discussion time at night, he proposed to the participating students that Harry should be given a chance to correct the problem. After all, as a Gryffindor student, deducting points is a relatively common thing. Today, everyone treated him like this because he deducted too many points. Lee, so who will you treat tomorrow?

Besides, at this time, Gryffindor students shouldn't fight among themselves and let students from other houses see jokes.

After these words were spoken out, it still had some effect. Although the students still didn't talk to Harry, at least they wouldn't insult him in front of him.

In addition, Ryan and Hermione also worked hard to answer questions in every class, trying to recover some of the deducted points.

But Harry still seemed in a bad mood. He was now in Ryan's study group, sitting with Ron in a corner where no one else could see, reviewing silently until late at night every day.A constant effort to memorize complex potion recipes, spells and spells, dates of major magical inventions and goblin rebellions.

One day, Ryan and Hermione asked each other questions and answered various questions in the library, and Ron quietly carried a picture of the sky next to him. After all, the exam was only a short week away.

Harry suddenly walked in from the outside at this time and told Ryan that he heard that Quirrell had probably succumbed to Snape, and he heard Quirrell surrendering to the evil forces.

After listening, Ron said: "This means that the road to the Philosopher's Stone has been cleared in front of Snape. After all, he is a professor and has applied for the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts many times. This shows that he should have enough ways to Deal with that three-headed Lu Wei. What do we do now?"

"Tell the principal Dumbledore." Ryan rubbed his forehead and said: "After all, Dumbledore put the Sorcerer's Stone in the school, and he is the greatest white wizard, who has the power to fight against all those who are watching the Sorcerer's Stone." forces of evil."

Hermione also added: "If you act alone again this time, Harry, you may be expelled."

But Harry still objected to telling Dumbledore about it.Because he thought that the cowardly Quirrell would not stand on their side to testify for them. ("If Quirrell is the murderer behind the scenes, it's even more impossible to testify." Ryan whispered, but the others ignored him) And everyone knows that they have a grudge against Snape, and there is no way to prove it without enough evidence. Get Snape to plead guilty.

Most importantly, Harry felt that theoretically students shouldn't know about Philosopher's Stone and Fluffy, and it would be difficult to explain clearly if told to Dumbledore.

Sure enough, this is the thinking of a child, who can't tell the seriousness of things.Dumbledore should have known what everyone did during the night tour.However, in order not to destroy Dumbledore's warrior training plan, Ryan didn't point out this point, and let Harry Potter do as he wanted.

(End of this chapter)