The Admiral of Hogwarts

Obviously, being expelled because of someone's death wasn't a glorious thing, so Hugo and the others decided to organize their words carefully these few days and wait until they were ready to go find Hagrid.

However, that day after the conversation reached this point, Hermione began to inquire about what exactly happened with Hagrid's expulsion from school, because in her mind, Hagrid shouldn't be the kind of person who would deliberately kill someone.

"According to the records left by the Ministry of Magic, Hagrid was only listed as a suspect in that murder case, but he was not convicted," Firefly said, stating the information Hood had searched.

"And the reason he was expelled was because he was raising an Acromantula, a magical creature classified as XXXXX by the Ministry of Magic, in the school, and this point has been confirmed and was not a frame-up."

"That does sound like something Hagrid would do. Our big-headed friend always has a different perception of magical creatures than normal people," Veneto said, spreading her hands.

"When I helped him revise that notebook last year, I discovered this point. He used words like 'cute' or 'alluring' to describe many fierce beasts—"

"If that's the case, Hagrid's expulsion from school wasn't unjustified." Hermione, who had flipped through all the wizarding world's laws, pursed her lips after hearing Firefly's words, then looked helpless.

"Because for the act of privately raising a XXXXX-level magical creature, the law can sentence the breeder to life imprisonment in Azkaban at most."

"More importantly, Hagrid was secretly raising man-eating Acromantulas in a place like Hogwarts." Hugo quickly added. "Considering the threat to the surrounding young wizards, Hagrid being expelled can be said to be a lenient punishment."

Since the discussion in the Room of Requirement ended that time, the days passed by like that. Almost everyone thought that the next attack would come soon, but until the Easter holiday arrived, everything was still quiet.

For Hugo, the biggest gain during this period, in addition to slowly mastering the usage of ancient runes, was that Hermione's understanding of information caused a deviation in the plot, allowing Hugo to gain some destiny points.

Perhaps because of these days of peace, it seemed that almost everyone thought that the attacker, whoever he was, had quit for good.

Peeves had finally grown tired of singing his song "Oh, Potter, you nasty little faker.". And Harry also told Hugo and the others during a library study session that everyone was now willing to interact with him again.

Even better news came from Professor Sprout. In March, she told everyone in class that several Mandrakes had opened a lively and noisy ball in Greenhouse Three.

That is to say, as long as they waited for a very short period of time, these Mandrakes would be able to complete the final transplant and then be brewed into a potion to rescue those who had been petrified.

However, all of this was not the most important thing for Hugo and the other second-year students, because the Easter holiday was coming, and Hugo and the others had to choose their third-year elective courses.

"This course selection will be related to our future, so I think we must consider and make choices very carefully." In the Ravenclaw common room, Hermione said with a serious face to Hugo, who was sitting opposite her.

"Okay, okay, I know the importance of course selection, but sis, you've said this five times today." Hugo looked at his course list with a helpless expression and analyzed.

As an admiral, Hugo would naturally not have any employment pressure in the future, so he chose courses purely according to his interests.

However, Hermione's ideas were different from Hugo's, because she believed that since she had come to this magical world, she naturally couldn't miss any opportunity to learn magic.

Unlike Gryffindor, after the third-year elective course schedule was sent to the second-year students, the Ravenclaw upperclassmen began to guide these younger students on how to choose courses, and also told everyone some tips that needed to be mastered in the course selection.

"By the way, sis, what courses have you decided to choose?" A few minutes later, Hugo broke the silence and asked Hermione.

"I plan to choose all the courses except for Divination. Although if I choose courses like this, Potions will conflict with Muggle Studies one day, the upperclassmen said that the school has a way to solve this problem."

Speaking of this, Hermione took Hugo's course schedule and looked at it, then nodded with satisfaction. Because Hugo chose only one less course than her, Muggle Studies, which showed that Hugo was indeed choosing courses according to his needs, and not just for ease.

Although the mainstream of education in Europe and the United States is traditionally so-called happy education, this kind of education is only aimed at young people from grassroots families. For middle-class or above families, their requirements for their children are no lower than those of the Northeast Asian countries.

The Granger siblings came from a family of dentists, which meant that their family belonged to the top part of the middle class, so they naturally wouldn't relax on their children's education.

At least in Hugo's memory, he and his sister had taken many kinds of extracurricular classes when they were young, so they were admitted to famous private high schools after graduating from elementary school.

So as a sister, Hermione naturally felt obliged to check her younger brother's choices at this time. Fortunately, the results of the inspection were very good. Hugo did not relax himself in terms of academics.

"Sis, why do you want to choose Muggle Studies?" At this moment, Hugo also took the opportunity to raise his own question. "Haven't you found that those textbooks are full of a lot of fallacies?"

"But I think it's very important to see how wizards view ordinary people, because it allows me to understand the real differences between the two worlds." Speaking of this question, Hermione immediately became serious.

"You need to know that according to my observation, the wizarding world has always had an inexplicable sense of superiority over the ordinary world, and this sense of superiority naturally brings about worse racism and discrimination that permeates the entire magical world."

"And if you want to change all of this, then it's more appropriate to start from one of the roots of these problems, the wizard's perception of ordinary people, so I think I should study the content of this course."

"Of course, I don't plan to study this course for too long. I just plan to take this opportunity to collect information, so I will most likely only attend it for one year next year."

To be honest, if you don't need to consider the difficulty of learning, course selection is actually a very simple thing.

At least according to the information Hugo inquired from the upperclassmen, anyone who chooses Ancient Runes and Arithmancy and can pass the exams will definitely not have any major problems in future employment.

Because compared to Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, and Muggle Studies, the wizarding world believes that Ancient Runes and Arithmancy can better reflect the level of a wizard.

Firefly and Veneto chose the same courses as Hugo in terms of course selection, because they didn't have any particular favorite or expertise in these elective courses.

So they believed that choosing the same courses as the admiral in this situation was naturally the best choice, because it would allow them to spend more time with the admiral.