Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Lin Xia finally understood what was going on with that strange feeling she had felt when she entered the Researchers Association.

The Researchers' Association is large, with many doors, but when I go there to eat on a daily basis, the researchers I see are all solitary and somewhat aloof.

But she had seen the paper presentations provided by Talling. Researchers submitted papers every day, and a researcher was as efficient and productive as a cow.

Even though she had the help of Hogwarts and had many brilliant ideas, she could only develop one item in one semester.

In the Researchers Association, a senior researcher can basically complete three studies in a month!

If there were other people helping behind the scenes, that would make perfect sense.

Lin Xia: [How did you know this news?]
Tom: [I also received an invitation that year, but after I learned that they were a group of research madmen, I did not go in. I just kept collecting information about them in secret.]
Lin Xia was very surprised.

Did Voldemort also receive an invitation from the Researchers' Association?
She thought about it and felt that this statement was unreliable.

If even a wizard like Voldemort can join the Researchers' Guild, why did the association reject Dumbledore? Were they worried that the two of them would fight in the association?

Lin Xia: [But I have already joined. Do you have any method to teach me to distinguish whether other people have bad intentions towards me?]
Tom: [I remember there are related strange objects that can detect other people's malice, but they are not very effective. This is mental magic. This kind of magic is like prophecy magic. It makes people love and hate it, and it is hard to see through it.]
Lin Xia understood this feeling very well.

One is concerned with science, the other believes in metaphysics. They have different approaches, and it is extremely difficult to force them to understand each other.

Because metaphysics cannot be calculated by a set of formulas, and there is no routine to speak of.

Lin Xia's eyes flickered as she wrote: [Do you know Skull Pun? He is my introducer]
Tom was shocked.

Skull Pun, of course he knows!
In order to continue his research, this crazy researcher did not hesitate to transform himself into a skeleton, retaining only his own thoughts.

Back then, he was the second most influential person besides himself. I didn't expect that after joining the Researchers Association, he would embark on such a path of no return.

Tom: [I know, you have to be careful, Skeleton Pun doesn't really want to introduce you, he just wants your brain so that you can become a slave.

The things I mentioned above were pioneered by Skeleton Pun. He tended to find many slaves and then do research specifically for him.

He is an extremely selfish person. I don’t know why he always has so many followers around him, even though Puen has given up on himself to this extent! ! ]
There is no such thing as charm value in the wizarding world, but there are creatures with full charm, such as "Charm Baby".

Lin Xia: [Maybe his personality makes people want to follow him. Some people are born leaders.]
Tom thought of himself and wrote: [You are right]
Lin Xia: [Tom, I found a very strange picture frame. I suspect it is another fragment of your soul. If you choose to devour this soul fragment, your ability should be greatly enhanced.]
Tom didn't write anything for some time.

It doubts Lin Xia's motives.

It has been a year since it got along with Lin Xia, but it couldn't guess what Lin Xia was thinking, especially last school year, when Lin Xia asked it:

Do you want to break free from Voldemort's control and live as a completely independent individual?

This made Tom's heart beat fast.

This is actually not true. The soul-splitting method he studied should not allow the separated soul fragments to have the desire to leave.

Voldemort is it, and it is also Voldemort, except that it carries fragments of Voldemort's soul in his youth, but its essence is still Voldemort.

One's own soul, transcending one's own control, becoming an independent individual?

He shouldn't have such thoughts, nor should he take the opportunity to think about them.

When he was seriously thinking about the feasibility of this method, Tom knew that Voldemort's soul-splitting experiment was a complete failure.

Lin Xia: [I have never given up the idea of ​​training you to be an independent individual, but you are too weak, and you have been staying in Hogwarts and cannot be promoted]
Tom is a fragment of Voldemort's soul, which means that if it wants to improve, it must be accompanied by killing.

But you can't kill people at Hogwarts.

Last school year, just a little wizard was petrified, which made the professor nervous.

It was not convenient to take Tom with her to the place she was going to during the summer vacation, so this matter was put on hold.

If the frame really contained a fragment of Voldemort's soul, as long as Tom took the dominant position, it would surely become more powerful after being devoured.

Tom: [Aren't you afraid that I'll run away after I become stronger?]
Lin Xia smiled gently and looked up at the golden wooden house.

Waves of golden light flashed by, and the wooden house was filled with many defensive and offensive magic arrays, including the forbidden magic array that Tom feared very much.

When she was in the golden wooden house, these formations would not be activated, but when she left, these densely packed magic runes became the cages she set for Tom.

Not to mention that the diary has been sealed in a box, and the box is decorated with many magic-forbidden arrays in three layers inside and outside.

She wasn't worried at all about Tom running away.

Lin Xia: [That only means that I misjudged you. You don’t have free will in your body.]
Tom was silent again.

Lin Xia waited patiently.

After a while, Tom wrote: [You can find a big box and put me together with the picture frame, and I will help you keep an eye on it]
Lin Xia smiled faintly: [I wish you success]
There was no need to look for another big box; the box she used to keep her diary was enough.

After putting the picture frame and diary in place, Lin Xia locked the box, opened the magic array in the room, and then walked out of the golden wooden house.

The patrol mission she had accepted was about to begin.

Lin Xia arrived at the third floor half an hour in advance and came to the agreed location.

She was already very familiar with Hogwarts. There was only one classroom on the third floor, which was the office of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. There was also a Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. There were no other offices.

But this time when she arrived on the third floor, Lin Xia discovered that there was another small office to the left of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office.

Following the instructions of the secret key, Lin Xia knocked on the door.

"Come in." A solemn female voice came. Lin Xia opened the door and found Professor McGonagall sitting in a chair, busy with work.

For a moment, Lin Xia thought she had taken the wrong path.

Isn't Professor McGonagall's office on the third floor?
She wanted to turn and look down the corridor.

Professor McGonagall looked at her inquiringly, as if she could guess what she was thinking, and nodded:
"You are not in the wrong place, Lin Xia, this is the third floor, and I am the wizard who is monitoring the third floor tonight.

You will get used to it in the future. Each professor is assigned a monitoring area. If any problem occurs, we will go to investigate immediately.

And the professor changes his inspection area every week, so I'm not always here."

Lin Xia asked: "Professor, why are there so many patrol missions in Hogwarts? Is the school going to become dangerous again?"

Professor McGonagall shook her head and said, "No, there are Dementors outside the castle. Nothing unusual has happened yet, but where Dementors gather, there will always be some unclean things attracted, so the school decided to take precautions."

I don’t know what she was thinking about, but she paused.

"There are too few outstanding students in Hogwarts. This week is just a transitional week, and everyone will have to work harder. When the second week starts, the school will consider letting some students with good character and academic performance join the patrol." Lin Xia asked sharply, "Can they also get points?"

McGonagall: "Yes, but the points will be lower than those of outstanding students. You can also use the points to exchange for Hogwarts resources."

For some reason, Lin Xia always felt that recruiting people from outside would not be so simple, and it was very likely to be open to individual students.

Her thoughts quickly turned to Harry.

Professor McGonagall glanced at the magic clock and said, "You arrived half an hour early today. I will explain the mission to you ten minutes before your patrol begins. Now go and do your thing."

After she finished speaking, she lowered her head to correct students' homework.

Seeing Professor McGonagall like this, Lin Xia thought that this patrol mission looked a little dangerous, but it was actually not very dangerous.

Otherwise, Professor McGonagall would definitely not be in the mood to mark students' homework.

She is a very dedicated associate professor who cherishes the life of every student.

Time passed quickly, and two outstanding students came to accept the tasks, one of them was Hermione!

Lin Xia smiled and said, "I thought you would prefer to stay in the dormitory and study."

Hermione raised her chin proudly: "Draco told me tonight that he has been upgraded to intermediate level authority, because he also completed some tasks assigned by the school during the summer vacation, so he just happened to be promoted.

You have been at the intermediate level for a long time, so I want to raise my own authority to the intermediate level as well."

Lin Xia: "You're most welcome. I'm happy to have another awesome companion!"

While the two of them were talking, another outstanding Ravenclaw student came over and said, "Hello, my name is Rosa Azeris, you can just call me Rosa, I'm in the fourth grade."

Lin Xia and Hermione both introduced themselves to her.

Seeing that she was the oldest, Rosa couldn't help but suggest, "Are you going to do patrol missions all this week? Anyway, each patrol mission requires at least three people. If you want to do it all the time, why don't we form a fixed team?"

Hermione hesitated, and Lin Xia said, "We have never participated in a patrol mission before, so we don't know whether it is easy or difficult. We plan to give it a try first."

Rosa: "Well, I tell you, this is the easiest task I've ever received. You will definitely be able to get the hang of it quickly."

She said enthusiastically: "It's just too difficult to find a good teammate. The teammates I met were all weird. They were either too solitary or too dependent on me."

Lin Xia's eyes deepened slightly.

Ravenclaw pursues wisdom, and wizards who can enter Ravenclaw are also relatively smart.

This sentence seems to be a complaint, but it is actually expressing one's requirements for teammates.

"Alright, students!"

At some point, Professor McGonagall stopped grading homework and came over to them.

As she walked out, she said, "Let me tell you about the patrol mission. You need to keep moving around on the third floor...

Each person starts from a different place. After completing a complete patrol, they can rest for ten minutes and then continue patrolling.

Please note that you cannot patrol together, you must separate, otherwise it will be difficult to discover anything strange in other places.

When you hear any sound, immediately press the recorder in your hand to record the sound...

If you see anyone suspicious, you can also press the video recorder in your hand to record it. These will serve as important evidence and will be analyzed by specialists to see if anything strange has happened. "

"correct."

Professor McGonagall suddenly stopped and said in a very serious tone: "Don't go near the place where the sound comes from or any suspicious person. After recording, quickly return to the starting point. If you record anything unusual, come to my office."

Hermione raised her hand high: "Professor, how do you judge a suspicious person? Is he not a little wizard who deliberately goes out for a night stroll?"

Mag: "Don't judge. When you see them, just record them and avoid them. Even if they are little wizards, you have to avoid them. There will be special people responsible for it.

If it is really a night tour, the little wizard will be punished accordingly."

She emphasized: "This punishment is much heavier than in the past. The little wizard will never want to go out at night."

Two voices sounded at the same time: "What punishment?"

Hermione and Rosa glanced at each other.

Professor McGonagall said calmly: "A new group of spiders has appeared in the Forbidden Forest. It is said that they have just migrated here.

But Hogwarts doesn't need so many spiders, and Ranger Hagrid has long wanted to issue a task to ask the little wizards to help clean up the spiders.

I think those little wizards who like to wander at night can definitely handle this task. After all, if they have the courage to wander at night, how can they be afraid of spiders? "

The other three little witches couldn't help but look at each other with flickering eyes.

It is conceivable that this news will be spread wildly tomorrow.

"Lin Xia, just stand here and walk back from the left side. Then you can rest for ten minutes."

Professor McGonagall began to assign starting points to each little witch.

"You can start walking now." Professor McGonagall shouted to Lin Xia again.

Lin Xia nodded.

At the beginning, she was walking parallel to Mag and others, but then Mag stopped. Lin Xia couldn't stop and had to keep walking.

She used the extrasensory spell and heard Professor McGonagall's voice: "Hermione, you stand here and come back for patrol in ten minutes. Start from the right and calculate the time yourself."

Soon, Professor McGonagall assigned Rosa another task. This time, Rosa was to go on patrol again in 20 minutes.

Lin Xia walked around and returned to the designated starting point. She felt that this task was quite simple and easy.

The only downside is that it's a bit boring and I can't communicate with other witches.

But the patrol is only for an hour, and there is a ten-minute break after each round, so the cost-effectiveness of this job is already very high.

I don’t know if it’s because the school has just started, but those evil god’s mumblings or strange visions need time to develop.

Their patrol today should not have yielded any findings. (End of this chapter)