The Admiral of Hogwarts

Time flew by, and February arrived quickly after January, but the weather remained terrible. Although there were occasional sunny days, the dim sunlight didn't bring much warmth to the land.

However, no matter how bad the weather was, the Quidditch teams still needed to train, especially the Ravenclaw team, whose training tasks had increased rather than decreased recently compared to before.

After all, Harry Potter had the Firebolt, which completely leveled the playing field in terms of equipment with the Ravenclaw team. Considering that Cho Chang had been a substitute since joining the team last year, everyone was not optimistic about the outcome of a one-on-one match between them.

Fortunately, the Ravenclaw team was used to matches where the Seeker's advantage wasn't on their side, so everyone's morale wasn't greatly affected, but the intensity of training increased a lot.

Also, because of this reason, Veneto had to devote a lot of time to participate in training. Although she was only a substitute, Captain Davies believed that using her as a sparring partner would help improve the overall level of the team.

This day happened to be Saturday, so after finishing their homework, Hugo and his sister Hermione walked out of the castle, preparing to watch Veneto training on the field. As a result, halfway there, they received a message from Enterprise through the Admiral Network.

"Admiral, I've found Peter's location, near Hagrid's vegetable garden," Enterprise reported to Hugo while quickly walking through the corridor.

Ever since Peter disappeared, she had been constantly sending out her carrier-based aircraft, transformed into birds, to search the surroundings of the school. After several months, she finally locked onto the opponent's location.

Being able to find this rat was indeed mainly due to luck, but prior analysis was also essential.

After all, Peter was a rat transformed from a human, and he had been maintaining human thinking. Therefore, he must have had certain choices when choosing a hiding place, rather than being like a real rat, able to hide in any small space.

According to the ship girls' analysis, Peter at this stage didn't think he had been completely exposed, so he still hoped to return to the Weasley family after Sirius Black was captured and continue his lurking life. Therefore, he naturally wouldn't leave the school too far.

On the other hand, with Peter's timid personality, the opponent would most likely not choose to be too close to the Dementors. Therefore, the probability of him hiding in Hogsmeade was not very high.

So, in the search, the ship girls successfully narrowed the search range, focusing on the area centered on Hogwarts Castle, and places with human activity were even more important.

And just as the ship girls and Hugo had previously thought, Peter, not knowing that the fact that he was an unregistered Animagus had been completely exposed, finally slightly expanded his range of activities after hiding for several months.

Especially after the weather had improved in the past few days, Peter, who had been hiding in Hagrid's room, finally decided to leave the room a little distance and take a few turns in the nearby vegetable garden.

It must be said that this rat really knew how to choose a place. Compared to the castle itself, where house elves, pet cats, and owls were active, Hagrid's hut, with only Hagrid and a clumsy dog in the room, was obviously much safer.

Even if he wanted to eat something, Hagrid had more food here, and with Hagrid's rough personality, he would basically not notice the small amount of food a rat stole.

But what Peter could never have imagined was that those sea eagles that quickly swept across the sky and the birds chirping in the nearby trees were all searching for a rat with many wounds on its body and a missing claw on its front paw.

Therefore, he had only been in the pumpkin patch for less than five minutes when he was identified and locked onto by Enterprise's carrier-based aircraft that had transformed into sea eagles, and then notified every node on the Admiral Network.

"What are you going to do? The Quidditch pitch is over there!" After receiving the signal from the Admiral Network, Hugo immediately walked towards Hagrid's hut, and as soon as he left, Hermione immediately noticed something was wrong.

"I have a feeling that I should go to Hagrid's now," Hugo said seriously to his sister. In the magical world, there is a special advantage, that is, some premonitions can really be used as reasons for some things.

So, in the current situation where he couldn't think of a reason, Hugo could only use this excuse that couldn't really be considered an excuse to prevaricate his sister.

"Then I'll go with you," Hermione said, changing her plans after hearing what Hugo said. After all, compared to her best friend, her brother was obviously more important.

"Okay, let's go together," Hugo thought for a while and felt that it wouldn't be a big problem for his sister to follow from a security perspective, so he nodded and went to Hagrid's hut with Hermione.

"The opponent is hiding under a pumpkin, it looks like he's sunbathing," As Hugo walked along the path on the lawn towards Hagrid's hut, Enterprise and Unicorn continued to revise the information about Peter.

"Unicorn and Firefly are now ambushing in the Forbidden Forest. If Peter flees into the Forbidden Forest, he will be discovered and captured immediately," Enterprise said, rushing out of the castle gate and speaking at the fastest speed.

"Slow down a little, wait for me. Because Unicorn's carrier-based aircraft just discovered that the rat seems to be wearing a golden necklace around its neck."

"A golden necklace?" Hugo immediately asked after hearing this word. "Can you roughly tell what kind of necklace it is?"

"I can't tell the style, because all that can be seen from the sky is a golden chain," Enterprise replied immediately. "However, whether it's the appearance or the shape, this necklace looks like it's been around for a while."

"More importantly, Animagus transformation theoretically allows you to transform with the clothes you're wearing. So the fact that the opponent is now wearing a golden chain seems quite suspicious."

Hearing this, Hugo immediately realized that things had changed, so he slowed down and began to wait for the ship girls to meet up with him. Soon, Enterprise caught up from behind.

"You said you were going to Hagrid's to take a look? Perfect timing, I was also planning to find him for some tea," After saying a few simple words, Enterprise took the Granger siblings to Hagrid's hut together.

Just as the group walked to a place more than ten meters away from the pumpkin patch, Peter moved. Obviously, the opponent had been staring at the road coming from the castle, and would run away immediately if he saw anyone coming.

"Look, there's a rat wearing a golden chain," Hermione immediately pointed to the pumpkin patch and shouted, and subconsciously chased after it. Obviously, Peter forgot that he now had a golden chain on his body, which was very conspicuous in the sun when he ran.

Seeing his sister chase after it, Hugo and Enterprise also followed. At the same time, they each drew their wands and began casting spells at the rat that was running away frantically.

As one spell after another exploded in front of Peter, Peter had to give up fleeing into the Forbidden Forest and turned to run along the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

At the same time, Peter also knew the reason why he was being chased from Hermione's shout just now, which made him relax a little.

At least he knew that these people behind him were chasing him because of the dazzling chain on his body in the sunlight, and not because they recognized him as Peter.