Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 92 Who is the know-it-all at Hogwarts?
Worry causes headaches.

Harry had another headache last night.

Although no one has ever been able to mark the specific location of Hogwarts on a map due to magic, but relying on some geography knowledge he learned in Muggle primary school, he still felt that this magic school was most likely located in the north of Britain. .

Because the winter here is too cold. As soon as December arrived, Harry put on a thick sweater.

In the whole dormitory, it seems that only Bourne, who is the strongest, still maintains the habit of going out for exercise every day.

As for Harry, his favorite thing to do in recent times is to spread out on the soft sofa in the Gryffindor common room and warm himself by the burning fireplace.

Even in the Quidditch training organized by Wood, since he had to stay in the biting cold wind for an hour or two, he had several times thought of finding an excuse to take leave.

Of course, it was just a thought. An angry Wood was much scarier than the cold wind.

Except for the first one or two months of school, the title of "Savior" could make the senior wizards look up to him - but in fact, Harry felt very uncomfortable at that time - as time went by, Huo Huo Gwartz's students were all getting used to seeing Harry as an ordinary first-year wizard.

In the eyes of all the teachers and students at Hogwarts, there is a first-year wizard who is anything but ordinary. That little wizard is Bourne.

"What are you thinking about..."

Harry rubbed his head and sat up from the bed, feeling a little ashamed of the jealousy he had just felt.

Obviously at the beginning, he complained to Ron and the others that he, Harry Potter, actually just wanted to be an ordinary little wizard, and whoever wanted that bullshit "savior" title would want it.

He looked out from the window of the dormitory and found that the castle was covered with nearly a foot of snow. The black lake in the distance was also covered with hard ice, and the entire Hogwarts Castle was covered in silver. wrapped scene.

The cold wind rattled the windows, but because there was always a roaring fire burning in the Gryffindor common room, and the heated water brought heat into each dormitory through the copper pipes, Harry and the others This dormitory is actually quite warm.

Today is the Christmas holiday.

A few days ago, during a Potions class, Draco Malfoy deliberately said something weird: "I really feel sorry for those people. They have to stay in Hogwarts for Christmas because their family members Don’t want them.”

He looked at Harry with evil eyes as he spoke, while Crabbe and Goyle snickered. Harry was weighing a portion of pulverized lionfish spines and ignored them.

In fact, Harry himself had no desire to return to Privet Drive for Christmas. Last week, Professor McGonagall made a special trip to the Gryffindor common room to register the list of students staying at school for the holidays, and Harry immediately took the initiative to sign his name on it. He didn't feel sorry for himself at all, but felt that this might be the best Christmas he had ever had in his life.

Ron and the Weasley twins also stayed at Hogwarts because their parents were going to Romania during the holidays to visit Charlie, who had just graduated last year and went directly to work in a dragon farm.

So, when he got up today, he and Ron were the only two people left in the four-person dormitory.

However, Ron got up earlier than him. Not only had he gone to the restaurant and had his share of breakfast, but he also brought him some pies and cakes.

"Harry, why don't you look so good? Is it a headache caused by a cold?"

As he spoke, Ron was breaking apart a haggis pudding with his hands, breaking it into pieces and feeding it to his pet mouse.

Banban ate with gusto.

"You still don't look well today. Do you want to go to the medical room?
George and Fred said that Madam Pomfrey asked Professor Sprout for a lot of herbs and made a large pot of decoction to treat colds.

They had caught a cold while patrolling the Forbidden Forest in the middle of the night, so they went to the medical room to order two cold decoctions.

Although hot steam will be sprayed out of the ears after drinking, their illnesses are completely cured after the spray, and they become lively again. "

Although Bourne has never taken the initiative to talk about becoming a ranger of the Forbidden Forest, the Weasley twins are just two little trumpets.

After the two of them announced it, almost all the students at Hogwarts knew about it within a few days.

This caused a little trouble for Hagrid and Professor Scamander. Many young wizards also wanted to try and see if they could also get the opportunity to have a legal adventure in the Forbidden Forest. The result was not ideal. Professor Scamander rejected them directly. The reason was: the quota of Forbidden Forest rangers was already full.

"George and Fred are really lucky." After feeding the pet mice, Ron sat down next to Harry. "Now, in addition to being able to go on night walks in the Forbidden Forest without violating school rules, they can also receive a pocket money every week.

More importantly, they both gained points for Gryffindor after becoming coordinators of the Forbidden Forest, which almost offset the points they had deducted this semester.

For this, my mother specially wrote a letter to thank Bourne. Thanks to him, he found out from the book that Hogwarts actually has such a position as the Forbidden Forest Assistant. "

"You found it in the book?"

While eating the pie that Ron brought him, Harry said vaguely: "I thought this was what his grandfather, Professor Slughorn, told him. After all, the old The professor is the former dean of Slytherin. At such an old age, he must know..."

At this point, Harry seemed to have thought of something and quickly swallowed what was in his mouth. "...Is Hermione still looking into that Nic Flamel thing?"

"Yes, she even made a list for me before going home."

Ron said with a grimace: "She said that the two of us should stay at school during the Christmas vacation and go to the library to check out the "Directory of Contemporary Magical Masters", "The Great Discovery of Modern Magic", "Research on the Development of Modern Witchcraft" and The books "The Great Wizards of the Twentieth Century" - just by looking at the names, you can tell that these books must be thick and hard tomes - they must have been carefully kept by Mrs. Pince in a safe bookshelf. above.

I don't understand, why don't you agree to ask someone? For example, Bourne, he might know who Nick Flamel is. After all, he is the assistant librarian of the library, and he found the position of 'Forbidden Forest Coordinator' from "Hogwarts: A School History". He must have read a lot. "

Harry hesitated.

However, he finally decided to try the method he suddenly came up with first.

If they still can't figure out who Nic Flamel is, it won't be too late for them to consult Bourne.
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Perhaps because of the closing of the world line, even though Harry, Ron and Hermione did not meet the troll in the bathroom on Halloween, they still had incidents in the previous "vampire attack" A lot of interactions.

The experience of working together to fight against the brutal vampires allowed the three young wizards to bridge a series of conflicts caused by the unformed midnight duel with Draco Malfoy. This iron triangle is still very stable in Hogwarts. .

Almost as if destined, they faced off against Snape, the current Head of Slytherin and the ruthless point-deducting machine in Potions class.

From getting a headache when he saw Snape at the opening party to being targeted in Potions class, Harry really had nothing to say to this professor.

Ron and Snape also had a falling out.

According to incomplete statistics, in just half a semester, Professor Snape hit him on the back of the head more than sixty times for reasons such as "whispering in class" and "talking bad about the teacher behind his back"! On average, I knock at least twice a week. You know, the first grade potions class is only once a week!
As for Hermione, her hostility towards Snape was even more serious. He was definitely the teacher that the little witch could not tolerate the most.

Because he didn't give her any extra points!

Even if he actively answers questions in class, and the answers are all standard answers in the book, the potions professor who looks like a big bat will still find excuses for Hermione such as "following the script" and "lack of innovative ideas". Deduct a point or two!

Can she bear this?

Hermione has sent many real-name reporting letters to Dumbledore, but so far the old headmaster's reply has only been to comfort the little witch, but not to substantively punish Professor Snape, who has a lot to write about.

If she hadn't been so angry, how could she have sneaked over and set the professor's clothes on fire as soon as she saw Snape casting a jinx on Harry's broomstick during the Quidditch match? - She is the little wizard in Gryffindor who likes to abide by school rules.

It is precisely because of this plot inertia that when they noticed that Snape would always wander around the corridor with a room with a three-headed dog when he had no classes recently, they could not help but preconceptions that this professor He must have no good intentions.

Hermione initially wanted to report Snape again, but considering Dumbledore's previous response and the fact that the trio did not have substantive evidence, she finally had to write a long letter about herself. The two-foot report was thrown into the trash.

But by coincidence, when they visited Hagrid's hut not long ago, Hagrid accidentally let it slip that the three-headed dog was his little treasure, used to help Dumbledore guard the house. An important item entrusted by a wizard named Nicoléme.

Hagrid realized that he had made a mistake and refused to tell the young wizards anything about "Nicholas" even to death, and emphasized that this matter was not something that the young wizards should be involved in.

However, Harry, Ron and Hermione could not give up so easily. The three of them launched an investigation for more than a month around "Nicholas Flamel".

During this period, Ron also suggested to his two friends to consult other people, but Harry and Hermione rejected this suggestion several times.

Harry guessed that the item that Nicolas Flamel gave to Dumbledore to keep was most likely the item that Hagrid had retrieved for Dumbledore when he took him to Gringotts for the first time. Not long after school started, the Daily Prophet revealed that Gringotts was forcibly broken into by a dark wizard.

He believed that the two things were most likely related: the dark wizard who broke into Gringotts was trying to rob the item that Nicolas Flamel had given to Dumbledore for safekeeping. Letting other little wizards get involved in this matter might bring danger to them.

Moreover, Hermione, the smartest among the trio, made an optimistic estimate. With the strict tone of the little wizard at Hogwarts, the three of them only needed to ask other people about Nicolas Flamel, and the matter would be solved within a week or two at most. It will spread throughout the magic school.

"Because being able to escape unscathed after invading Gringotts is not something that ordinary wizards can do. At least they have to be at the level of a Hogwarts professor. Therefore, I have reason to suspect that the dark wizard may be Professor Snape. "

The seriousness with which she said this made Harry and Ron feel as if they were modeled after Professor McGonagall.

Finally, Hermione gave the opinion that the three of them could only investigate the matter secretly, and Snape must not be aware of it. After finding enough evidence, they can report the matter directly to Dumbledore and let the powerful principal take action.

So, they first had to figure out why Snape wanted to risk getting that thing from Nicolas Flamel?
To figure out the above question, they must first figure out two other questions: first, what is the thing hidden in Hogwarts; second, who is Nicolas Flamel? ——
After a quick breakfast, Harry and Ron ran to the right corridor on the third floor of the main building of the castle, where there was only one History of Magic classroom.

When they opened the door and went in, they saw that the ghost professor in charge of teaching was floating in front of the blackboard as usual. The two of them couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

"Good day, Professor Binns." The two of them greeted the oldest professor at Hogwarts in unison.

They were going to consult the "real old professor" to see if he knew the name "Nicholas Flamel".

This is what Harry came up with - asking someone may not work, but they can find ghosts!
And Professor Binns is the only ghost professor in Hogwarts, and he is the kind of fierce man who can implement the 007 work system by himself if there are no previous principals to stop him... a ghost.

Many years ago, one day, when the still-living Binns was sitting in front of the fire in the faculty lounge, he dozed off. When he woke up and rushed to class, he forgot to take his body with him. As a result, he died that night, but this small problem did not prevent him from continuing to teach.

Rumor has it that the old professor didn't even notice that he was dead, or that he didn't care at all.

Although many young wizards feel that Professor Binns's teaching method is to repeat the text in a voice without any emotion. During class, the students are either busy distracting or looking at him blankly (some also choose to look at the blackboard), but his voice is As sleepy as a whining vacuum cleaner.

But in fact, when comparing it with other magic schools, Professor Binns is very likely to be Hogwarts' trump card - according to the records in "Hogwarts: A School History", the old wizard started from Hogwarts. Gwartz has been Professor of History of Magic since the school was founded!

In other words, for Professor Binns, events such as the "Goblin Rebellion" and the "International Wizarding Convention" are not the kind of magical history heard from hearsay or seen from old papers, but his career as a ghost professor. Some events that I have actually experienced.

Perhaps, due to the authority of the magical contract, he may not have a deeper understanding of Hogwarts Castle than previous headmasters.

However, if you ask Professor Binns about some famous wizards in history, as a ghost who can memorize all the "History of Magic" textbooks that are constantly adding new content, he will probably be able to remember those famous descendants!
(End of this chapter)