Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Ron felt insulted by Hermione's remarks to him. He stared at Hermione angrily and stormed out of the Great Hall.

Harry looked at Hermione, then at Ron, and finally chased Ron and ran out.

Hermione fearlessly met the gazes of her friends, mainly Lin Xia, and explained:
"I have nothing against Ron, and I think I am telling the truth. There are many things that not everyone can do."

Lin Xia also said patiently and gently: "Hermione, I think your idea is right, but when talking to friends, you also need to pay attention to their personalities. Not every friend can tolerate straightforward admonitions.

Also, if you observe carefully, you will find that Ron does not have a good relationship with his brothers. "

Hermione asked in confusion, "Should I pay attention to my friend's emotions and devalue another friend?"

Lin Xia was silent for a moment, and whispered: "Of course, there is no need to belittle it, but we can change to another more gentle way of speaking."

Draco then said: "How about this, I will teach you when you can speak and when you can't speak."

Hermione:?
Draco smiled and said, "It is indeed frustrating not to be able to tell the truth, and it is not in line with my personality to speak in a roundabout way. Sometimes I choose not to speak and not to think about these things, which can make me feel more relaxed."

Hermione turned to look at Lin Xia and asked, "Lin Xia, do you think I need to learn this course?"

Lin Xia: "If you mean The Art of Speaking, I think you should."

Hermione said to Draco readily, "Okay, I'll study with you then."

Lin Xia noticed that Draco's smile became even brighter.

She couldn't help but watch the scene with amusement.

Draco and Hermione? Hermione and Ron?

Emmm, eat melon, eat melon.

……

"Ron, stop, don't run so fast, we are in the wrong place!"

Ron ran forward with his head down, and suddenly noticed a bathroom, so he walked in.

After entering and seeing the surrounding scene, he couldn't help but curse, "What kind of damn luck is this!"

He entered no other place than Myrtle's bathroom, the one that led through the Chamber of Secrets.

This bathroom was sealed at the end of last semester. Unexpectedly, it has been opened again now, but it is still abandoned and the school has not considered renovating it.

Harry ran over and said breathlessly, "Ron, are you still angry?"

Ron: "Yeah, I'm still angry."

Harry: "But Hermione..."

Ron shook his head. "No, Harry, I'm not angry with Hermione, I'm angry with myself. I really want to refute Hermione, but damn, I find that Hermione is so right!"

Harry racked his brains to comfort his friend.

"Then you...then you..."

Ron: "I decided to work hard to make money. I can't sell information like my brother, and it's not something I'm good at, but I can help Lin Xia with research, work in her laboratory, and make money every day."

Harry agreed and said, "The conditions offered by Lin Xia are very good."

Ron pulled Harry out and said, "Let's go to class. After class, we'll talk to Lin Xia and ask her to assign us more tasks so we can make more money!"

Harry was silent.

In fact, he is not very interested in doing research. Instead, he is more interested in alchemical runes. There is no man who doesn't love machinery!

But seeing that Ron was in high spirits, he didn't want to spoil his fun, so he just agreed.

They ran for a while but couldn't find the magic elevator, and happened to see the vacant magic staircase.

Ron suggested, "Our first class is Divination. I remember the classroom is on the fourth floor. We can get there by climbing two flights of stairs. Why don't we take the stairs?"

Harry had no objection.

But sadly, they encountered the mischief of the magic staircase. Halfway up, the stairs suddenly turned, forcing them to go downstairs!
Going down was not the worst part. There were other stairs leading upwards, so Ron continued walking up. But the stairs changed again after a while, sometimes going left and sometimes right.

They walked for a long time but still couldn't see a classroom. They even got lost and didn't know which floor they were on.

Harry was sweating profusely, worried about being late for first period.

"Ron, let's not take the stairs, let's find an elevator!"

"Okay!" Ron also regretted taking the stairs.

While the two were looking for a way out, Lin Xia, Draco and Hermione also went to the Divination classroom.

Halfway through, Hermione suddenly said, "I left something in the dormitory. I'll go back first. You don't have to wait for me. Go to the classroom first!"

Draco looked at her back and muttered, "Did she forget the divination book "Seeing the World Through the Mist"? I saw her take the wrong book when we were having dinner in the Great Hall before."

Lin Xia asked: "What book is she holding?"

Draco said uncertainly, "It seems to be a book about the history of the wizarding world. This elective course was also held this morning. I thought Hermione didn't take the Divination class!"

But Hermione clearly said she was taking the elective and had to go to the classroom with them.

Lin Xia's eyes flashed thoughtfully.

She always felt that it was not that simple.

They had just taken the magic elevator to the fourth floor and were about to leave for the divination classroom when Lin Xia looked up. Her vision magnified by the supersensory spell allowed her to see two little wizards chattering in front of the picture frame in a magic staircase on the sixth floor.

Lin Xia raised her eyebrows and turned on her listening skills. After a while, she heard the conversation between Ron and Harry.

It turned out that they couldn't find the way to the divination class and were looking for a picture frame to find out the route.

But in the picture frame they found, the protagonist was a brave knight who spoke in a slightly crazy way.

But fortunately, they found a way out and ran down quickly.

Lin Xia was about to look away, but suddenly, her eyes stopped and looked in one place.

It was also a huge picture frame with a blank screen, but she clearly saw a man in a black robe just now.

The small, blood-red eyes, the bald head, and the nose with only two small red spots were laughing loudly with a crazy look.

This is clearly Voldemort!

Lin Xia stared at the picture frame for too long. Draco felt something was wrong and asked, "Lin Xia, did you find anything?"

He followed her gaze and saw nothing.

Lin Xia: "Draco, does Hogwarts have such a rule? What will be the punishment for taking down the picture frame without permission?"

Draco was stunned and his brain started working quickly.

"No." After a moment, he replied affirmatively, "Hogwarts does not have any rules regarding stealing picture frames."

An ordinary little wizard wouldn't be able to steal a picture frame.

What's so good about stealing a picture frame?

If it is the kind of picture frame that is responsible for the password to open the door, then it is even more forbidden to steal it. The portrait can go to Dumbledore in person to report it.

The portraits are connected; they can go from one place to another.

A faint smile appeared on Lin Xia's lips.

"You go to the divination classroom first. I have to go somewhere first and will be back soon."

Draco's expression changed: "Lin Xia, you are not going to steal the picture frame?" Lin Xia did not comment: "I just happened to see one that suits my taste."

Draco:…

What new kind of evil is this?

Lin Xia walked away without looking back and said, "In order to avoid getting you into trouble, you should not come with me and go to the classroom quickly."

Draco stood there for a while and decided to go to the classroom.

At worst, he would wait for Lin Xia to steal it, and then he would go to Lin Xia to ask her to see what kind of picture frame it was that Lin Xia would steal it?

Walking up the magic stairs, accidents often happen.

But maybe these stairs had played tricks on Ron and Harry before, so when facing Lin Xia, they were a little uninterested and didn't move much.

Lin Xia easily came to the blank picture frame.

She looked at it quietly for a few seconds, making sure that she was not mistaken.

Lin Xia looked around and saw several picture frames around, looking at her secretly.

When they saw her looking at them, they all hid themselves shyly.

Some shameless ones chose to close one eye and open the other, looking at Lin Xia openly, wanting to see what she was going to do.

Lin Xia first walked up to the portraits and knocked on their frames.

These portraits also ran away.

Lin Xia quickly came to the picture frame she liked and waved her magic wand lightly. The picture frame automatically left the wall and was put into the traceless retractable ring as soon as she touched it.

She thought about it and cast another invisibility spell on herself.
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Suddenly, there was a slight and rapid sound of "da, da, da..." in the empty stairwell. Ron was startled and turned around to look, but found nothing.

Suddenly, a gust of wind seemed to blow past him. Ron immediately turned his head to look, but found nothing.

Ron leaned against Harry, trembling, and said in horror, "Harry, did you feel like something just passed by us?"

Harry looked confused: "No, I can't detect anything."

Ron took a deep breath, "Well, I hope I'm overthinking it."

On the other side, Lin Xia had already entered the divination class and came out of invisibility.

She had just run into Ron and Harry.

But because Ron looked rather timid, she did not suddenly appear to greet them.

Draco saw her and whispered, "Got it?"

Lin Xia nodded.

She observed the surroundings. This classroom didn't look like a classroom at all. It was more like a mixture of a loft and an old-fashioned teahouse, with at least two hundred small round tables crammed inside.

Around the table were printed armchairs and small zen-like poufs.

It's rare.

She actually saw a small cushion here. She thought the wizarding world didn't use this thing at all.

Everything in the room was illuminated by a hazy red light, mainly because the lights here were covered with large crimson scarves, and the curtains were drawn tightly, as if to avoid the sunlight.

There were little wizards whispering around.

"I heard that this classroom didn't have a direct door before. If you want to go up, you can only come to a small platform first. There is a round trap door in the ceiling. That is Sybill Trelawney's Divination class."

"The little wizards all climbed up one by one via a silver ladder."

"Because there were too many people signing up for the Divination class, the little wizard caused a serious traffic jam in the passage, causing the class to be seriously late."

"Some young wizards suffer from height sickness and fell down halfway up the ladder."

“That’s horrible!”

"Fortunately, this year we have changed it so that we can come directly to the classroom."

Lin Xia sat down and her first reaction was heat.

It's so hot that it's suffocating.

There were fireplaces with roaring fires in them, and on a platform stood a large copper teapot, emitting a strong, sickening odor.

There were also shelves along the circular walls, crowded with dirty quills, candle ends, many tattered playing cards, countless crystal balls, and a large number of teacups.

With good eyesight, Lin Xia could see the spider web at a glance.

Her fingers were itching to move, but she suppressed her desire to "clean it up".

"Thank God, I finally found the classroom!"

Ron and Harry's voices came, their faces flushed, and they ran over on the last train.

The next second, the class bell rang.

Draco looked around but didn't see Hermione.

"Where is the teacher?" Ron pulled Harry and sat next to Lin Xia.

Suddenly a voice sounded from the shadows, a soft, muffled voice.

"Welcome," the voice said. "It is so great to finally meet you in the material world!"

As Professor Trelawney stepped into the firelight, everyone noticed that she was very thin and had a pair of large glasses that magnified her eyes many times their original size.

She was wearing a thin, transparent shawl decorated with many shiny metal sequins. There were countless beads and chains hanging around her long, thin neck, and many bracelets and rings on her arms and hands.

For a moment, Lin Xia thought of Luna.

This professor's style is a bit like Luna's. He always likes to decorate himself with something.

It was just because Trelawney was a professor that no student dared to tell her what to do.

"Sit down, my children, all of you sit down."

Everyone either sat in armchairs or on cushions, and were automatically divided into small groups according to the distribution of tables, with all groups using the same table.

Ron whispered, "This professor seems a little weird."

Hermione agreed, "Yeah, I think so."

Her voice startled the others, and Draco was even more surprised and asked, "Hermione, what are you doing here?"

Hermione said calmly, "I've always been here!"

In the center, Professor Trelawney continued to speak: "I am your Divination professor, you may not have seen me before.

I found that often going out into the hustle and bustle of campus life would blur my third eye.”

She adjusted her shawl slowly and said, "Since you have chosen the Divination course, this is the most profound subject among all magical arts.

I must say this up front: if you don’t have insight, I can do nothing. In this area, books can only teach you a little.”

Lin Xia listened with great interest, while the other little wizards looked surprised, especially Hermione.

Books are of no help at all in this subject?
"Many wizards, despite their talents in the fields of banging, various smells, and sudden disappearance, cannot see through the veil of the future... Believe me, this is a talent that only a few people can obtain." (End of this chapter)