Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

After Lin Xia came back from Hagrid's cabin, she went to enjoy dinner with her friends.

The afternoon Care of Magical Creatures class didn't need to take too long, only two hours, which would allow the little wizards to move freely.

But because the little wizards were all very interested in the Hippogriff, the end of get out of class was repeatedly delayed.

It wasn't long after they actually finished class that they could all make it in time for dinner.

Lin Xia came in a hurry and only showed up when they were halfway through their meal.

Hermione asked curiously, "Linxia, ​​what's the matter with Hagrid calling you alone?
Forgive my curiosity, if it's something good, Hagrid should be happy to share it with us."

Lin Xia thought for a moment and said, "It's not a very important matter, but it has confidentiality. Maybe that's why Hagrid didn't ask you to stay.

And I can’t reveal it at the moment, this technology is not mature yet, once it is leaked, Hogwarts may encounter some minor troubles.”

Hermione shrugged with some regret, "Well, I thought you were discussing some new type of magical creature, and I wanted to join in the discussion."

Lin Xia paused.

In a way, Hermione's guess was correct.

After dinner, everyone returned to the common rooms of their respective colleges and began preparation for the first day.

Maybe it was because he was used to being lazy during the holidays, even Draco was a bit lazy and not very motivated.

As one of the founders of the tea party in the common room, Lin Xia transformed several giant badgers on the first day of school in order to motivate the little wizards!

These badgers are so lifelike, just like the real ones.

Not only that, she also let the badger wave his wand and use the Transfiguration Spell in a serious manner, so the little wizards saw -

The badger summoned by this senior student was very skilled in using the Transfiguration Spell and transformed them into long tables and chairs of various sizes!

What made them even happier was that the house-elves from the cafeteria next door came to serve them snacks personally!
"This kind of life is so great! So this is how Hufflepuffs study!" a little wizard said excitedly.

Other little wizards chattered about it:

"Because we have Senior Sister Lin Xia, she is willing to help us and improve our enthusiasm for learning. If other colleges also have Senior Sister Lin Xia, they will definitely do the same!"

"I think the environment here is better than what my parents think of Slytherin. It's worth my firm decision to choose Hufflepuff!"

"Am I the only one who thinks that Hufflepuff is the aristocracy among aristocrats? Senior Sister Lin Xia alone can represent the entire academy.

The wisdom of Ravenclaw and the power of Slytherin are all concentrated in Senior Sister Lin Xia..."

There is no doubt that the skills Lin Xia showed tonight made the little wizard admire her even more.

Cedric was also in the common room tonight.

In the new semester, his studies became busy. In addition, as an excellent student, Hogwarts also assigned him many tasks in private.

These tasks are not mandatory to complete, but each task can earn points, which can be used to increase your authority among outstanding students.

It is said that outstanding students with high scores will be directly hired as professor assistants at Hogwarts upon graduation and continue to stay in Hogwarts.

Cedric was very interested in this career, so he worked hard to complete it.

Seeing Lin Xia showing off this skill, he couldn't help but said with a smile: "Lin Xia, your current Transfiguration skill is probably even more powerful than mine."

Lin Xia shook her head and said calmly: "Senior, you are too modest. When I was a freshman, you were able to skillfully summon a long table and chairs, and transformed the environment. I didn't do as much as you did."

Cedric just thought Lin Xia was humble.

The environment was manually transformed because the environment in the common room was not very good at the time and could not arouse the enthusiasm of the little wizards to learn.

The environment was too comfortable and made people want to sleep.

But in the past few school years, after Lin Xia cultivated and manually transformed the plants, the environment of the common room has become green and fresh, warm and bright, and the air is filled with the scent of mint and rosemary.

It brightens people's eyes and lifts their spirits.

In such an environment, people will feel much better and it can stimulate the little wizards' motivation to learn.

Cedric didn't know why Lin Xia arranged it this way, and what principle it was based on.

It’s just that he used to prefer studying in the dormitory, but now he prefers studying in the common room.

He said: "Everyone knows the basic Transfiguration. Even if you ask Draco to do the Transfiguration, he can do it as well as I did back then."

He changed the subject, "But I can't make my own Transfiguration and then wave my wand to transform other objects. This is incredible!"

Lin Xia couldn’t help but smile: “This is a little trick I learned from Professor McGonagall. In fact, I used Transfiguration for both transformations.

I set up the program and let the badger wave his wand to cause a surge of magic power. At this time, when I cast my Transfiguration spell, it will cause the badger to also use the Transfiguration spell.

If you are interested, you can go to Professor McGonagall to learn. She will be happy to teach you."

Cedric said embarrassedly, "I was busy with the mission this summer and didn't do the Transfiguration homework she assigned. If she sees me and I'm not angry, then I..."

Lin Xia looked at him with pity.

"Today is our first day of class. Professor McGonagall is not in a good mood. The reason is that we are too easily affected by Professor Trelawney's predictions. I have a feeling that she will not be in a good mood this week."

It was their first time to take a prophecy class, so they had to go through an adaptation process.

The shortest time is one week.

Cedric's expression changed, and he decided to hide from Professor McGonagall this week and not get caught by her!
He got down to business: “I came to you to remind you about the honor student task.

Since last year, outstanding students at Hogwarts have had many more tasks to do, especially patrol tasks, which require us to report any strange phenomena we discover.

Starting this year, there will be more such missions, and they will be uninterrupted patrols at night. If you can hold on, I suggest you take the night patrol missions.

One is that the points you get are at least twice as much as before, the other is that you can get the latest news about the evil god's whispers, and the third is that you can be the first to detect changes in Hogwarts."

After Lin Xia returned to school, she did not open the secret key and did not know which section had been updated.

But from what Cedric said, there are more benefits for top students.

After staying in the common room for half an hour and guiding the young wizards to have an independent discussion, Lin Xia returned to the golden wooden house.

She opened the key and saw the updated information on it:
Seeker: Lin Xia
Monthly allowance: 100 gold galleons (unclaimed) Permissions:

① 7% off on purchasing primary materials and 8% off on intermediate materials

② Each month, you can receive a banned book within a limited range (online reading, reading time is one month)

③ Every two months, you can receive a banned book within a limited range (physical book reading, reading time is one month)

③ Apply for a laboratory (self-maintenance, construction fee: 5,000 gold galleons)
obligation:

①Experimental results will be published within two years

Lin Xia compared the previous subsidies and found that there was actually no change after the last upgrade of permissions, except that the school was much more generous in giving gold galleons.

Not only was the monthly subsidy of gold galleons increased to 100, but the construction quota of the laboratory was also increased from 3,000 gold galleons to 5,000 gold galleons.

She still had intermediate authority, with no change, but she received a lot more gold galleons in subsidies.

According to Lin Xia's understanding, the wizarding world does not print money very often and has no concept of currency circulation.

Of course, there was no financial crisis.

If there really is, it was the fault of the goblins in Gringotts.

The goblins dare to do whatever they want, and human wizards can just find a reason to take over the sky-high value properties from them.

“This time it’s a big deal!”

Lin Xia's thoughts wandered, where did these gold galleons come from?

It's impossible that the money was taken from the professor's salary, right?
Or was it privately subsidized by Headmaster Dumbledore?
Maybe this was money from the Ministry?

After reading the updated information, Lin Xia opened the [Task Area] again.

After a while, a pile of densely packed tasks appeared in her eyes, which surprised her.

This year's Hogwarts tasks are more demanding than last year's.

[Patrol mission: 9:10-3: pm, patrol the third floor (recommended to go with a group, up to people)
Points: 0.4
Danger: You may encounter evil species, be disturbed by the evil god's whispering, and are more likely to encounter aliens.

[Patrol mission: 10-11pm, special patrol on the third floor (recommended to go with a group, up to 3 people)
Points: 0.5
Danger:……】

[Patrol mission: 11:12 pm to 3: pm, special patrol on the second floor (recommended to go with a group, up to people)
Points: 0.6
Danger:……】

Each floor has a corresponding patrol mission, and the higher the floor, the more points you get.

The more quiet it is at night, the more points are given.

For example, the points given on the second and third floors are the same, with the highest being 2 points during the period from 3 to 0.9 a.m.!

这不是指从晚上9点，一直干到凌晨3点才能获得0.9，而是单单凌晨2点-3点这一个小时内，就能获得高达0.9积分。

This is incredible!
Points are free!
If you choose the fourth floor, you can get up to 1 point during this time period!

Lin Xia thought about how she racked her brains to complete tasks in order to increase her authority in her first year as an outstanding student. They were all very dangerous tasks, the kind that were hard to come by.

Comparing it with the current flooded mission areas, I have to say that life is so happy now.

Lin Xia thought about it and accepted the patrol mission on the third floor from 9 to 10 pm.

This time I took the mission not to earn points, but to obtain information.

What on earth is Hogwarts trying to do? It has increased the benefits and assigned tasks for outstanding students so much.

After accepting the task, the message [Accepted] will pop up immediately on the secret key light screen.

Lin Xia only needs to arrive at the third floor 10 minutes in advance, and a special professor will meet with her to explain more detailed task requirements.

She looked at the magic clock and saw that there were still two hours left, so she decided to open her diary.

A dazzling array of cursive characters quickly emerged, showing how desperately the owner wanted to communicate.

Tom: [Lin Xia, you suddenly disappeared for two months. I thought you had an accident! !
I almost thought that I would be trapped in the forbidden magic array for decades before I would have a chance to see the light of day again! ! ! ]
Lin Xia: [Tom, Hogwarts is on summer vacation. During this vacation, I went to many places, traveled, gained knowledge, and also went to study these associations. Do you know this association?]
Tom: [Researchers Association!!!]
Those bright red exclamation marks can make people feel how uneasy the person who wrote this text is.

Maybe he was really imprisoned too harshly. Without Lin Xia asking, Tom wrote down a bunch of words.

It is unwilling to write one letter at a time, as this method is too inefficient. Instead, it puts a ball of thick ink in the middle and then spreads it around to form paragraphs of text.

Lin Xia also learned more information from Tom, which was information that many professors and Ollivander had never mentioned.

It wasn't that the professor was hiding anything from her.

Rather, they have never joined the association at all, and their knowledge of the association is more at the stage of listening to others and imagining about it.

Things that you can't get always make you worry about them.

I have never been able to join the Researchers Association, and in my heart, it has been like a white moonlight.

Tom: [This is a crazy association. Those who can enter the association are all research madmen. You must not let them stay in the association. They will use any means to do research! ]

Tom was really afraid that Lin Xia would join the association, so he didn't want to come out.

Because the Researchers' Association is very special, the way to enter and the way to leave are also special. You cannot enter or leave without permission.

This association is located in a different space and does not belong to any country.

If Lin Xia went in and brought it in, it would probably be discovered immediately by the tower spirit there - the Eye of Truth!

Once scanned, incomplete soul fragments like his would become materials that many researchers would fight over.

Whether it is used for research or as a slave, it is a very common thing.

Lin Xia: [Mad man? Research mad man?]
Tom: [You just joined, so it's normal that you don't know. That group of people will do anything to do research.

They can abandon their own bodies and transform themselves into other creatures. They can also take away your body and imprison your mind, making it impossible for you to escape for the rest of your life, and you will work for them for the rest of your life - that is, doing research!
The imprisoned soul cannot rest and can only calculate day and night. Don't think that only some researchers would do this.

In fact, the senior researchers there have a large group of slaves behind them who act as their brains and come up with one experimental plan after another for them!
Once you become a slave, you will never be able to escape from the web they weave! ! ! ](End of this chapter)