The Admiral of Hogwarts

After finishing all the shopping and saying goodbye to the Weasley family and Harry at the Leaky Cauldron, Hugo and Hermione left with Hood and the others.

The only difference from when they arrived was that the Granger siblings were both wearing the glasses that Indomitable had given them.

At first, Hermione, having understood the functions of these glasses, was reluctant to accept this magical item, which was very valuable in her eyes.

However, after Indomitable stated that the glasses were only experimental products and not a gift, but rather needed someone to help them with testing, she accepted them.

After all, for someone like Hermione who loves to learn, such a magical tool that could assist in learning was something she couldn't refuse in her heart. Moreover, as Indomitable said, if such a magical tool wanted to gain widespread recognition, it was essential to find outstanding students like them to test it before its release.

To get Hugo and Hermione to wear these glasses, the ship girls could be said to have put in a lot of effort, for example, they were now really planning to produce and sell these magical tools themselves.

At the same time, in addition to giving these glasses to Hugo and Hermione, they also selected some of the students who ranked at the top of their grades in each year to test them.

It has to be said that this required them to spend a lot of money, but for the ship girls who had earned a lot of money before, this expense was completely affordable. After all, in the eyes of the ship girls, everything they owned, including their lives, was far less important than the safety of their admiral.

It was also during this shopping trip that Hugo tried to use the ship girls' wealth to buy skills for himself. Unfortunately, because the process of these ship girls acquiring this wealth in the magical world had little to do with Hugo, their wealth could not be used by Hugo to exchange for skills.

Hugo also specifically asked Victorious if it was possible to bypass this restriction, but Victorious regretfully told Hugo that this restriction came from his own soul, so there was no way to modify it with external force. It was like even the most skilled liar could deceive the whole world, but he could not deceive his own soul.

The only thing that could be exchanged for skills was the money that Belfast earned from writing novels based on Hugo's memories through the Admiral Network, because the acquisition of this wealth could be said to have come from Hugo.

But the problem was that she earned all Muggle money, so even with black market exchange, there were only about 1000 Galleons of wizarding currency that Hugo could use.

"Let's save this money for now," Hugo thought for a while and realized that he didn't need any ordinary skills for the time being, so on the way back to Hood's house, Hugo instructed the ship girls through the Admiral Network. "After all, I'm not in a hurry to use those ordinary powers, and there's no need to risk exposing myself to exchange currency."

However, apart from some setbacks in money, Hugo gained a lot in other aspects of this trip. For example, because his trip completely changed the situation of Harry and the Weasley family's pre-term shopping in the original text, and changed the sales of Lockhart's works, he gained 17.5 Fate Points at once.

But Hugo would rather not have gained so many Fate Points this time, because the bulk of these Fate Points came from him changing the fact that Ginny held Voldemort's Horcrux.

Considering Dobby's previous search for Harry, Hugo can be said to have lost a very important plot advantage this year.

According to everyone's analysis, the biggest possibility now is that Lucius Malfoy will still put that crucial diary into someone's luggage according to the original plan and take it to school, but unlike the original plot, this time his target should be a randomly selected unlucky student.

As for why Hugo dared to be sure that Malfoy would do this, the reason is very simple, that is, Malfoy now believes that Voldemort is indeed dead, so he wants to hide it from everyone and quickly dispose of that notebook. And if he wants to ensure that there are no future troubles, sending this book to Hogwarts may be the only solution he can think of.

With Lucius Malfoy's usual cautious attitude, he will definitely not risk being discovered by his former accomplices or others to throw this thing away randomly.

After all, even if he doesn't know what the specific thing is in this notebook, he can still understand that this thing should be a very dangerous dark magic item.

During the last period of the holiday, the Granger siblings lived with Hood and the others. It has to be said that since Renown and Repulse came, Hood's living standards can be said to be rising in a straight line. At least Hugo felt that in this respect, even house elves are not as good as the maid sisters.

During this time, Hugo and Hermione previewed the second-year coursework together and learned a lot of knowledge about combat. And when sleeping at night, Hugo, who has private space, spent his time using the Admiral Network to quickly learn various knowledge and contact the ship girls.

Through the contact, Hugo learned that in just less than a month, those newly arrived ship girls had successfully settled down in their respective selected locations and began to develop their own forces at their current footholds. The only exception was Enterprise, she kept saying that she wanted to give Hugo a surprise, so Hugo didn't know what she was doing now.

In addition, those plans that Hugo formulated to infiltrate the magical world have also made new progress. Three of the British destroyer ship girls summoned before: Javelin, Baffler, and Venus went to the British Ministry of Magic as British wizards who graduated from foreign wizarding schools to apply for jobs and passed the exam.

Considering that the only purpose of entering the Ministry of Magic is to obtain more information and intelligence, these three destroyer ship girls naturally chose different positions in order to cover more intelligence points through a wide net approach. Therefore, the three of them naturally chose different departments.

Among them, Venus chose the International Magical Trading Standards Association under the Department of International Magical Cooperation, which is the department where Percy Weasley's first job was after entering the Ministry of Magic in the original text. This department is conducive to collecting some information about the British Ministry of Magic's external exchanges.

Baffler joined the Floo Network Administration. According to the conclusions previously discussed by the ship girls, it is very necessary to mix one's own people into departments related to core transportation like this. In addition to being able to open the back door in emergency situations, monitoring this important transportation network is conducive to collecting some information that is usually difficult to access.

Javelin, one of the three, joined the most difficult department to join in the Ministry of Magic: the Auror Headquarters under the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Unlike the other ship girls who can now directly take office and play a role in the Ministry of Magic, because Aurors need to undergo a three-year training after joining, she cannot provide too much useful information for the time being.

However, both Hugo and the ship girls expressed acceptance of this situation, and at the same time specifically told Javelin not to worry now. During this time, just like ordinary newly hired Aurors, it is enough to complete these trainings step by step according to the rules.

Under the circumstances that everything was going smoothly, time finally came to the last day of August, and tomorrow was the opening day of Hogwarts.

It will be on the shelves tomorrow, please support.