Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

After seeing the faces of all the professors clearly, Lin Xia was a little surprised. She actually saw Professor Lupin among them!

The other friends also saw Professor Lupin. Ron and Harry were so excited that their bodies were shaking.

If he hadn't been aware that he was under the invisibility cloak, he would probably have wanted to move closer to talk to Professor Lupin.

It’s not easy for them!
Harry and Ron could guarantee that all Gryffindor students missed Professor Lupin's Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

Seeing that they were all very excited, Lin Xia was afraid that they would make mistakes, so she simply performed the "Covering the Sky and the Sun" skill silently.

A wave of magical power came silently, and the other young wizards didn't notice it. Even the professors who were active around didn't realize that someone was performing magic under their noses.

Lin Xia said, "Okay, you can talk now. I have cast an anti-eavesdropping spell. The professor can't hear us talking."

Harry immediately said, "When will Professor Lupin be back? Will he be able to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts tomorrow?"

Ron: "It seems not possible. I saw Professor Lupin and Professor Snape talking. When did they become so close?"

Draco looked down at his magic watch: "We are only five minutes away from the point we patrolled yesterday."

As they were talking, Professor McGonagall suddenly came towards them. Harry and the others stepped back in a hurry, narrowly brushing against their bodies.

Professor McGonagall said seriously, "Stop all magic. I will cast a detection spell. Anything with magical fluctuations will be detected."

Ron immediately asked Harry nervously, "Will the Invisibility Cloak be detected?"

Harry's heart was beating like a drum. "I don't know."

The Weasley twins gave a positive reply.

George said, "Don't worry, the Invisibility Cloak is better known as the Deathly Hallows. It's not that easy to detect."

Fred: "I have tested it with many magics before and found nothing."

Ron muttered, "How can your detection magic compare to the professor's?"

George smiled and said, "Hey, do you remember the Marauder's Map? We learned more spells from it than the professor taught us."

Fred: "Don't underestimate the detection magic above. You have also seen that the Marauder's Map can display the names of all students, professors and outsiders who enter Hogwarts. Even the professor can't do that."

Lin Xia didn't listen to their discussion, but stared intently at Professor McGonagall.

Mag waved her wand and said in a sonorous voice, "Manifest everything!"

A ray of silver light appeared brightly from the tip of her wand.

This spell looks ordinary and does not have the effect of large-scale scanning.

Wherever the magic wand pointed, a fan-shaped silver outline would appear, and wherever the outline illuminated, a silvery-white light like particles would be sprinkled.

Lin Xia's eyelids twitched.

This is an advanced detection spell!
It is not a large-scale test, but a small-scale test. Because the scope is narrowed, the result will be more accurate.

Although the invisibility cloak is also a high-level magic item, what she is afraid of is that the invisibility cloak can escape the detection spell, but the things wrapped in the invisibility cloak cannot escape.

Lin Xia said quickly: "I am going to remove the Heaven Covering Sun, and you should not make any noise afterwards, and put all the rare items you are carrying into the Traceless Retractable Ring."

After saying this, Lin Xia removed the spell and quickly threw the strange object he was wearing into the ring.

Upon hearing this, the other partners followed suit.

After a while, Professor McGonagall's detection magic arrived at the area where they were.

The little wizards couldn't help but hold their breath, feeling like thieves.

They saw that in the area where they were, dots of color like starlight slowly emerged, which was no different from the area that Professor McGonagall had examined before.

But McGonagall apparently paused in the area, examined it carefully, and then moved her wand to the other side.

After all the professors had walked to the other side, Lin Xia continued to cast the Heaven Covering Sun Spell and said, "That was a close call just now."

"Professor McGonagall paused a little while ago, and I almost thought she'd spotted us," Harry agreed.

The twins said, "The Invisibility Cloak is indeed one of the Deathly Hallows. Even the Advanced Detection Spell cannot detect it."

Ron was amazed: "So, as long as we put on the invisibility cloak, we can go to any corner of Hogwarts."

Lin Xia shook her head: "You can't say that. Professor McGonagall obviously discovered something just now, but she couldn't find it. It doesn't mean that other professors can't.

Don't forget that Dumbledore is also in the school. If he casts the detection spell, he will definitely be able to find some traces."

Lin Xia was advising them not to think that they could get away with it just because they had an invisible cloak.

With Professor McGonagall's previous pause, this time, Lin Xia and the others did not dare to get too close to the professor, and stayed several meters behind him.

Draco took out his magic watch again and looked down at the time from time to time.

I don't know how long it took, but it seemed like only a moment, Draco suddenly said with alertness: "Here it comes."

A rustling sound suddenly came from the corner, and the sound radiated over a very large area.

They walked forward a few steps and felt that the sound was still the same, neither getting louder nor smaller. They took a few steps back and it was still the same.

Ron: "No wonder you thought it was the sound of mice moving around. It really sounds like it."

Lin Xia observed the professor's movements and whispered, "The professor is verifying the location where the sound came from. They can't confirm it immediately."

George: "We observed it yesterday. It will last at least 30 seconds."

Fred suddenly said: "This sound has become weaker!"

Lin Xia observed that the professors were all moving in a certain direction, so he made a quick decision: "Go a few steps forward. The professor seems to have discovered something."

They followed the professor's footsteps and came to the end of the corridor, but the professor did not look at the floor. Instead, he looked up at the ceiling.

Professor Flitwick waved his wand and a hole was immediately blown in the ceiling.

Everyone looked over and saw a blurry object falling from the ceiling and landing on the floor with a plop.

"This……"

Not to mention the students, even the professors were shocked. They actually saw a group of rats and a group of snakes entangled with each other. The rats were biting the snakes' scales, and the snakes were biting the rats' tails.

The biting is not regular.

Part of the mouse's body had been swallowed by the snake, leaving only one leg exposed, while some mice arrogantly swallowed their entire tongue.

They heard that sound at night, which was the friction of snake scales and the roar and struggle of mice!

Lin Xia and Draco's expressions were relatively calm, but Harry and the others were horrified and took a few steps back in fear.

However, the Weasley twins did not change their expressions. Lin Xia could not help but glance at them and felt that they had probably seen similar scenes more than once. If it was their first time, it would be impossible for them not to show any nervousness.

Ron asked tremblingly: "What kind of monster is this?"

It is normal for snakes to eat mice, but it is weird no matter how you look at it when mice swallow snakes.

Lin Xia said in a deep voice: "This is the strange thing that was born from the fusion of the evil god world and the wizard world. If these strange things are placed in the wizard world, they can bewitch the wizard's spirit. If they fall into the evil god world, they are said to be a tonic."

Ron's face was filled with horror. "So the school asked us to patrol late at night just to find these strange things?"

Draco shook his head: "No, we students are still too reluctant to face strange things.

Unless you are a senior student who has undergone a series of training, you can destroy these strange things. We usually record strange phenomena."

While they were communicating, the professor also began to take action. Professor McGonagall said with a serious expression:
"Just as we expected, this is the 'Gnawing Snake'!
Through the pollution of the evil god's world, the mice have developed evil nature and will actively bite snakes. Finally, the newborn snakes will break out of the mice's bodies, forming a strange creature with both a snake head and a rat head!

We have to get rid of it tonight, otherwise once the little wizards encounter it, it will instantly disrupt their mental state."

Professor Snape said coldly: "The biting snakes have just begun to be cultivated and cannot yet form a strong interference.

Moreover, this kind of strange creature is difficult to cultivate successfully. Even if we ignore it, the rat may not be able to complete the act of swallowing the snake and die quietly. "

McGonagall: "Yes, this is very likely, but this is Hogwarts. There are so many young wizards here. We can't put them at risk."

She said quickly: "The gnawing snakes have just started to breed and can be eliminated quickly. Let's start eliminating them now!"

In addition to being the Head of Gryffindor and a professor at the college, McGonagall is also the Vice-Headmistress.

When Dumbledore was away, she was the most powerful person in the school.

She wanted to clear it up now, and the other professors did not refuse, muttering to themselves.

A complex and mysterious magic rune was heard, and Harry and the others were stunned. They could actually roughly hear what the magic rune was saying!
Some of this magic words are made up of basic magic words. All the words combined together mean:

"Great goddess of light, the light you cast breaks through the shadows and mist, illuminating the earth and competing with the power of the evil god..."

A long spell was said, and at the end everyone heard the last spell, which was expressed in common words -

"Bright flame!"

A flame as bright as the scorching sun appeared out of nowhere. Every little wizard who saw the flame felt a stinging pain in the eyes, shed tears, and quickly closed their eyes.

But there were also some little wizards who forced themselves to open their eyes, such as Lin Xia.

With her physical condition, this level of dazzling light only made her eyes feel a little stinging. She blinked for a few seconds and immediately adapted to the brightness.

She saw that the wizards turned a blind eye to such bright flames, which must have been due to their precautions.

The professor controlled the flames and landed on the unformed Gnawing Snake.

The bright flames seemed to be incompatible with this group of strange creatures. Once they fell, they did not burn on their skin, but burned from within their bodies!

Flames penetrated through their bodies, and countless bright holes immediately appeared on the biting snakes. A closer look at these holes revealed that they were all the result of burning effects caused by the bright flames!
Even though it was just an unformed biting snake, it already possessed a certain level of intelligence.

They felt threatened and began to twist slowly. Both the snakes and the mice had ferocious expressions, and everyone heard a distorted scream.

It was like the wailing from the hollow of the eighteenth level of hell!!

Lin Xia reacted immediately and realized that the professor was not affected by these roaring and distorted screams. That was because they were used to dealing with strange things, and they also used protective magic at the first moment.

At some point, their bodies were covered with a layer of bright armor made of bright flames.

The flames on the armor were disturbed by an invisible force, shaking left and right, but they did not go out.

"Armor protection!"

Lin Xia waved the magic spell and cast a spell, and an invisible protective barrier covered all the little wizards.

Because he was unsure about the extent of the impact of the evil god's whispers when the Gnawing Snake was destroyed, Lin Xia turned the protective effect of the armor to the maximum.

The surging magic power poured out without regard for her life. At this moment, she didn't care whether she would be exposed or not.

Once you are infected by the evil god's whispering, it is equivalent to leaving a seed of the evil god in your body. You will be disturbed by the whispering from time to time, like a thorn in your side!

Many wizards do not fall into depravity when they are first disturbed by the whispers. Instead, it is only after being wrapped in the whispers for a long time that the seeds of depravity are planted silently and unknowingly.

"Wake up quickly, don't stare at the biting snake, stare at the bright flame quickly, even if tears are streaming down your face, you must keep your eyes on it!"

Lin Xia shouted angrily, awakening the minds of all the little wizards.

They stared at the fire of light, tears streaming down their faces, but they dared not close their eyes.

Lin Xia immediately opened the Traceless Retractable Ring and took out a few Leaves of Sobriety.

Every time she read the forbidden book, she would gain a full amount of Leaves of Sobriety, but she could rely on her physique to resist the evil god's whispers, so she didn't use them much.

After accumulating for several times, I have a large batch of stock, which I can give to my friends this time.

After taking the leaves of clarity, the little wizards all felt their minds become clearer.

Because the eyes were staring at the fire of light for a long time, the initial stinging pain and tears gradually turned into clear vision, as if they had adapted to the bright light of the flame.

After coming out of his trance, the little wizard finally heard the screams and roars of the biting snake.

These roars sounded like torture, and just listening to them made people shudder.

Lin Xia protected them as they retreated, whispering, "The Gnawing Snake is about to be burned to death, let's leave quickly.

I just used magic, and I'm afraid the magic fluctuations I caused are too strong and the invisibility cloak can't cover it, so I'd better leave first."

The other little wizards had no objection.

It was the first time they saw the strange creature being destroyed, and all their spirits were taken away when the strange creature screamed, and their bodies were out of control.

If Lin Xia hadn't reacted in time, they wouldn't know what would have happened.

The Hufflepuff dormitory was the closest, so they returned to Hufflepuff first.

When Lin Xia left, she looked deeply at the others, and finally her eyes fell on the Weasley twins.

Compared to the panicked reactions of Harry and the others, the twins were much calmer, obviously having experienced something before.

Lin Xia said: "Two seniors, please take good care of Harry and the others. If you really can't help, stay with them all night. I'm afraid that when they fall asleep at night, they will be dragged into nightmares by the evil god world."

The Weasley twins did not joke, but said solemnly, which was rare:

"We will keep them well!"

(End of this chapter)