Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Accidents often happen at the last minute.

Just when Lin Xia thought she would gain nothing tonight, she took her last lap and suddenly discovered a huge shadow.

This is a real shadow, wrapping itself up like a layer of black cloth.

What Lin Xia saw should be the back.

She immediately took out a video recorder, which was a miniature and lifelike lion. After being modified by Professor McGonagall, it had both audio and video recording functions.

They will open it during every patrol, so if they encounter any unexpected incidents, they can record it immediately.

When Lin Xia saw the shadow, the video camera had already recorded this strange figure before her.

Lin Xia stared at the shadow. For some reason, she felt a sense of familiarity from it.

If this was a minion sent from another world and was a very dangerous thing, then she would be able to hear and feel the evil god's whispers in her ears.

But she felt nothing, and the energy running through her body showed no signs of heating up.

The most important thing is that this shadow did not give her a very dangerous feeling.

Lin Xia thought: Could it be that the little wizard sneaked out for a night stroll?
Lin Xia hurried back and knocked on Professor McGonagall's office door. This was her last patrol and the other two little witches were still waiting there.

They immediately noticed Lin Xia running towards them, and they all felt a little nervous.

Did Lin Xia discover something? !

How come they didn't feel anything!

When Mag saw her rushing in, he immediately stood up and said decisively, "Take me to the location you found. Did the video record it?"

Lin Xia handed over the lifelike little lion in her hand, "I've recorded it, professor. It's a very large shadow. I'm sure it didn't appear during the previous patrols. It suddenly appeared."

Mag quickly noticed Lin Xia's discovery and frowned. Judging from the size alone, this was a huge creature!
When they arrived at the scene where the shadow was found, it had disappeared.

Professor McGonagall stepped forward step by step. This area was very close to the office of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

She thought about it and knocked on Professor Lupin's office door.

"Come in!" a low and hoarse voice sounded.

Lin Xia and Mag walked in together.

As Lin Xia approached, Mag glanced at her but didn't say much.

With her around, she can always protect the little wizard.

After walking in, the light in the room became dimmer, as if there was a huge shadow blocking the transmission of light.

At the end of the light source, there was a huge shadow with its back to them.

If Professor McGonagall hadn't seen a head popping up from the shadow with thick, lush curly hair on it, she would have taken out her wand and almost attacked!
Lin Xia recognized him immediately: "Professor Hagrid, why are you here?"

Hagrid was wearing a black wizard robe. He had his hood down, revealing his hair. Because of his huge body, he blocked the light of the candle.

Professor McGonagall fired several fluorescent flashes in succession, allowing the white balls to follow around her, making the scene in the room brighter.

Hagrid turned around, his face flushed and he said embarrassedly:
"Lin Xia, I just saw you, but I didn't want you to recognize me, so I covered my face."

The case is solved, it turns out that huge shadow was actually Hagrid?
Professor McGonagall said seriously, "I almost thought an evil creature had descended upon Hogwarts. You should be thankful that I came here to check it out first, instead of rushing to send out a signal and call on other professors to come."

Hagrid looked embarrassed and stammered, "I'm sorry, Professor McGonagall, I won't come over next time."

McGonagall shook her head: "No, Hagrid, I don't mean that you can't come, but you can't come so secretly. Come openly next time."

Lin Xia walked over to the desks of the two professors, wanting to see what they were doing.

After walking in, I found that there was a book open in front of both of them. It was a Hogwarts textbook.

Both of their books looked very old. Lupin's textbook was a little yellowed, while Hagrid's was still brand new, but the pages had begun to curl.

And these two people opened the same page together, which contained the "Armor Protection Spell"!
Lin Xia looked up at Hagrid.

The two-meter-tall man blushed a little under her gaze and said hesitantly:

"I, I came to Professor Lupin to learn the Armor of Protection. I don't have a good grasp of this spell, and it doesn't work if I study on my own, so I came to Professor Lupin."

Professor Lupin's melancholy eyes also looked over, and he said in a hoarse voice: "I am teaching him Armor Protection, but the progress is much more difficult than I thought. Hagrid, I don't think it will be possible to teach you in one night."

Hagrid was clumsier than he had imagined.

Professor McGonagall said seriously, "You still want to stay in the office all night? This is absolutely not allowed. Starting from this semester, professors are not allowed to hang around in the office.

Even Snape moved his laboratory to his bedroom, and I cannot make an exception for you, even if you seem to have a legitimate reason."

Hagrid said anxiously, "What should I do in class if I can't learn how to protect myself with armor?"

Professor McGonagall frowned, "Until midnight at the latest. I will stay to supervise you."

She turned to look at Lin Xia, "You go back first."

Lin Xia nodded and said okay.

Professor McGonagall is the type of person who appears cold on the outside but is actually warm-hearted. She was probably afraid that something unexpected might happen during Hagrid's class, so she agreed to hold the class until midnight.

Although he was said to stay to supervise, he was actually also joining in Hagrid's teaching.

After Lin Xia went out, Hermione and Rosa also completed their last round of patrol. The three of them went back together and said hello to other outstanding students who returned with them.

As for the replacement, he arrived ten minutes ago.

They were all veterans who had done patrol missions in the previous semester, so they started patrolling spontaneously without saying hello to Professor McGonagall.

Hermione asked: "Lin Xia, did you really see any unusual events?"

Lin Xia shook her head. "Strictly speaking, that's not an anomaly. It's just the little wizard wandering around at night."

Rosa breathed a sigh of relief and muttered, "I participated in patrol missions ten times last semester, and there was no problem at all. How come there was an accident when I was patrolling with you this time... Or was it the little wizard..."

Hermione said dissatisfiedly: "We don't want any accidents to happen. Even if they do happen, you can't put the blame on us!"

Rosa was choked by her words and whispered, "I know."

She went to see Lin Xia: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that to you." Lin Xia said "um", "It's okay."

Anyway, we won’t be doing missions together in the future.
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After Lin Xia returned to the golden wooden house, she opened the secret key and found that the points had been synchronously transferred to her account at the moment the mission was completed.

Points are being distributed very quickly, it seems that Hogwarts takes this matter very seriously.

She began her daily practice, thinking that perhaps she could take on later patrol hours in the future.

Not only will you earn points faster, but you will also be more likely to encounter evil species. After all, the crystal cores of evil species also possess enormous energy and extremely strong vitality.

If she could get a few more evil seed crystal cores, she wouldn't have to keep collecting herbs with strong vitality.

The life energy of the evil seed crystal core alone is enough to match that of many hundred-year-old herbs.

Thinking of this, Lin Xia couldn't help but look at the pet egg on the table. It was covered with a layer of light black film, and in the center, there was a claw mark with a lighter black mark.

That was left when the White Fairy smeared the mixture on the pet egg.

Fairy Bai still has some potential to be a breeder.

Before falling asleep, Lin Xia took another look at the box covered with forbidden magic words. Tom's diary and picture frame were placed in the box without any unusual movement.

Late at night, three in the morning.

The box suddenly moved. Lin Xia opened her eyes instantly, looked at the box, and found that it moved a few times and then stopped moving.

So Lin Xia closed her eyes again.

But in Tom's diary, there is another scene -

Picture frame: "How did you end up here? Why did you end up like this? Where is this place? Have I been taken to a dark underground?"

In the frame, Voldemort's completely destroyed appearance appeared.

His face seemed to have been burned with high temperature, a bloody mess, no hair, even no nose, only two small holes.

His eyes were very small, like a snake's eyes, and it was hard not to think that when he opened his mouth, what came out was not his tongue, but a snake-like red tongue.

Tom: "I should be the one asking you this question. Why do you appear in the frame? I don't know how many parts of my soul are in it."

Frame: "Shut up! You lowly defective product, you were my first soul split, and the technology at that time was very immature, so you could only hide in the diary and be a spirit!

I am different. At least I can still walk in the frame, more freely than you, and can hear and see more news through the frame, you lowly defective product!"

In the past, when Tom met people of his kind and communicated with himself, he would not have any emotions.

Because those soul fragments are also part of himself.

Just like one is a good emotion and the other is a bad emotion, but the owner of the emotions is the same, so there is no difference between the emotions.

Caring about things is a subjective thought. They are the same person and have no such consciousness at all.

But this time, Tom felt that something had really changed.

It was actually angry about what the frame said!
We are all just fragments of soul, so who is nobler than who?
Even though it is trapped in the diary, it can still plunder other people's minds and make them do things for it.

And judging from the appearance, it obviously has great advantages!
Voldemort looks like this now, he can scare children to tears if he walks outside!

Tom: "You are smart and capable, but you are still stuck in the frame. Can you escape?"

Tom chooses not to tell what surrounds the frame.

The frame shook for a few seconds, and every time it felt like it could break out, it was blocked by a burst of hot breath, making it feel a little panicked.

As a soul fragment, it rarely feels fear.

And it found that as it continued to collide, its power was lost very quickly and could not be recovered at all!

Picture frame: [What the hell is this place? My strength cannot be restored at all. I want to get out! !]
After saying that, he immediately hit her hard a few more times.

Lines of text slowly emerged. Although there was no voice, one could feel the gloating between the lines.

Tom: [You are a great, intelligent, mature, perfect person, who has inherited perfect heroics and intelligence, and you still can't figure out where this place is?]
When Huafang saw this text, he was so angry that he jumped to his feet, but he didn't dare to waste his energy to continue hitting it.

The frame doesn't know that there is a kind of anger, that someone is being sarcastic.

Frame: [If you are locked up in a place like this, well, I admit that it is indeed difficult to move around and grow, so we have to get out as soon as possible!]
As if feeling that these words were also a slap in the face, the picture frame added:

"The reason why you are so immature and a defective product is also related to the place where you are now. No wonder you didn't develop well, it turns out that the place you are in is too bad!"

Tom: [Hehe^_^]
Voldemort in the frame also tried hard to force a smile, "So how do we get out?"

Tom: [I don’t know. Maybe you are too mature to adapt to the environment here. I am different. I have adapted well. Also, I am also growing, but slowly.]
Frame: "How did you grow up?"

Tom: [You are a powerful and mature product, do you still need a defective product like me to teach you?]
The frame felt insulted, so he stopped talking.
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The next day, early in the morning, today's class was Potions.

Snape walked in in a hurry. His greasy hair became his standard feature. It was said that many young wizards sent him a bunch of shampoo anonymously, but Snape never used it.

Oh, it seems that the shampoo is produced by the Porter family.

Yes, it’s Potter from Harry Potter. His shampoo formula is sold and he gets a dividend every year.

Potter's parents had already left Harry a huge fortune in advance.

Snape said with a sour face: "Today we are learning about the shrinking potion. After you finish the potion, use a toad to test whether the potion is successful. We need to use the roots of daisies..."

Ron whispered, "What's wrong with Snape today? He sounds particularly irritable."

Lin Xia said thoughtfully, "Are you still upset about Professor Lupin becoming the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts?"

Ron was surprised and said, "No way, Professor Snape is so petty?"

"Ron Weasley!"

Suddenly, a voice came from behind them. Snape had walked behind them and looked at them with cold eyes.

"Everyone has already cut the roots of the daisies. Why haven't you started yet? Ten points from Gryffindor!"

Ron was about to say that Lin Xia hadn't cut it either, but when he looked down, he found that Lin Xia beside him was already slowly carrying out the second step.

He miscalculated. He shouldn't have chatted with Lin Xia who was so indecisive. (End of this chapter)