The Admiral of Hogwarts

That day, Harry and Ron returned looking utterly lost. They had originally thought that asking Hugo, the clever one in their eyes, could solve the problems they were currently facing, but they didn't expect Hugo's answer to make them even more confused.

After all, lacking Hermione, the brain of the original trio, Harry and Ron often had to rely on their intuition. But sometimes intuition couldn't lead them in the right direction, as was the case now.

On one hand, due to their distrust of Snape and his recent suspicious behavior, they firmly believed that Snape was the mastermind behind everything and that he was currently plotting a conspiracy to steal the Philosopher's Stone.

On the other hand, Hugo's answer made them both realize that no matter how unreliable Snape was, he had been under Dumbledore's nose for about ten years. According to Harry's thinking, a bad person couldn't stay at Hogwarts for so long without being discovered by Professor Dumbledore. This contradictory conclusion naturally plunged them into a dilemma.

But no matter how conflicted Harry and Ron were, or how worried they were about the safety of the Philosopher's Stone, these things wouldn't affect the passage of time. As summer approached, most of the students in the school began to busy themselves with the upcoming final exams. Hermione, for example, had already created a study plan to prepare for the exams in ten weeks. Hugo and Veneto naturally accompanied her in completing this study plan.

And there were definitely many people who did the same as Hermione. During this time, every time they went to the library, they could see it was filled with students who had begun to study.

Even the professors had entered the state of preparing for the final exams, assigning a large amount of homework that made the Easter holiday far less enjoyable than Christmas. Fortunately, whether it was Hugo, Hermione, or Veneto, they were all interested in studying, so although these days were hard, they were also enjoyable.

Of course, no matter how much one tried to find joy in hardship, this kind of exam preparation life was still a bit boring for Hugo, especially compared to the Soviet ship girls. After witnessing the disappearance of their own country, the actions of these ship girls in Russia could be considered major moves.

For example, in just a month or two, they had made a name for themselves in Chernabog Alley, the black magic street in Moscow, and also recruited more than twenty wizard subordinates. Just the other day, they announced that they had achieved a complete victory in the battle against one of the two major forces that originally controlled Chernabog Alley, becoming the new controllers of half of the shops in this black wizard alley, and also obtaining a large amount of wealth.

"They now have a large manor in the northeast of the Ural Mountains for breeding magical creatures, 170 square kilometers. The surrounding area is a nature reserve ten times its size. And this is just one of the several manors they have obtained, the one with the median area! What's even more exaggerated is that some of these manors even have xxxxx-level magical creature breeding licenses issued by the Russian Ministry of Magic."

That evening, after receiving the list of spoils sent to him by the Soviet ship girls after their victory, Hugo found Veneto and Firefly the next day, which was the end of lunch on Saturday, to discuss this matter.

Although Hugo and the ship girls could transmit various information through the admiral network, as a novice admiral, he still preferred to talk to the ship girls face to face sometimes, like today. So now he and the two ship girls in Hogwarts were in the Room of Requirement to discuss the current situation.

"What's so surprising about that?" Veneto shrugged and said. "Wizards have quite large territories in those remote places, and a force that can occupy half a street in Moscow's largest black wizard commercial street is definitely rich. So it's normal to seize spoils of this level."

"And to be honest, such a large piece of land in the wilderness near the Ural Mountains is nothing to wizards," Firefly interjected at this time. "I learned from several Gryffindor pure-blood girls that their family's manor in England alone is more than ten square kilometers, and that's only considered to be middle to upper level among wizards."

"Okay, I'm making a fuss about nothing." Looking at the two calm ship girls, Hugo spread his hands with a helpless expression. It seemed that the wealth of pure-blood families should never be based on the Weasley family, otherwise, the financial resources of those wizards would be greatly underestimated.

Come to think of it, the existing pure-blood families basically have hundreds or even thousands of years of history. Even Muggles would accumulate a lot of wealth if they could maintain their inheritance for so long, let alone wizards, who are much more powerful than Muggles.

So, although the wealth seized by the Soviet ship girls seemed like a lot to Hugo, the truly powerful wizard forces wouldn't be staying in that kind of black wizard settlement area. Even if this wealth was accumulated by the black wizard organization for more than half a century, it was actually about the same as the inheritance of a medium-sized pure-blood family.

Moreover, this "about the same" refers to the approximate total amount of wealth. If we talk about the specific situation, it is obviously a matter of sufficient quantity but insufficient quality. The most obvious thing is that most of the knowledge inheritance found by the Soviet ship girls in the final spoils was ordinary stuff. Not only were there few high-quality products, but they were also not systematic.

According to the content and book list that has now been uploaded to the admiral network, Veneto felt that if she sorted out all the books in the Hogwarts library and the Room of Requirement, it would definitely be much better than this.

Of course, neither the collection of books seized this time nor the secret treasures of Hogwarts are of great significance to Hugo now. Although he had received an enhancement before, this enhancement only accelerated his growth rate, rather than instantly giving him the body and magic power of an adult.

Hugo's current magic level is equivalent to that of a relatively good third or fourth-year student. There is still a distance from the lower limit of being able to access this knowledge. So at most, he can only connect to those ship girls who practice magic through the admiral network and experience it from a distance. If he really wants to learn these things, he will definitely need to postpone it in terms of time.

On the other hand, the ship girls can take this opportunity to learn some knowledge that is difficult to learn in public, such as the Avada Kedavra curse, so as to improve themselves, so as not to have to rely on close combat, or even firing a several-hundred-millimeter cannon at point-blank range, to deal with many enemies like in this battle.

After finishing the discussion about these matters, Hugo and the others left the Room of Requirement. Originally, according to the plan, they intended to go to the library to study. But because the sunshine today was so good, the sky was clear and bright, as blue as a forget-me-not flower, and there was a feeling in the air that summer was about to arrive. So after hesitating for a while, Hugo decided to call Hermione to go outside and bask in the sun together.

Hermione should be taking a nap at this time, so Hugo and Veneto decided to split up. Veneto would go back to the Ravenclaw Tower to call Hermione down, then meet Hugo, who was waiting in the hall, and go out for a walk together.