Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Dumbledore remained noncommittal.

In his eyes, some people are inherently bad, so ever since he brought Tom to Hogwarts, he has been scrutinizing and observing him.

From the very beginning, he sensed the cruel nature of this child.

What he regretted was that he let Tom go and didn't get rid of him in time, and that he was soft-hearted despite his repeated excuses.

It was because of his momentary weakness that the great villain "Voldemort" came into being.

But in Babel's eyes.

She also believed that Tom Riddle became like this because Dumbledore did not intervene in time.

It was because Dumbledore did not guide him well when he was in office that he went astray.

One focuses on direct solutions, the other focuses on patient guidance. Everyone's ideas are fundamentally different.

If Lin Xia were here, she would find that the fundamental difference in their thoughts is that one believes that human nature is evil, while the other believes that human nature is good.

These theories and ideas had been debated for thousands of years in her previous life without any controversy, and even at the end of the world, they were still being debated.

In the wizarding world, it is an even more unsolvable problem.

Things have developed to this point, and there is no point in regretting not correcting them in time.

People still have to look forward after all.

Babel snapped her fingers, and her figure immediately disappeared from the top floor of the Ministry of Magic.

Whether she came or left, no one in the Ministry of Magic was alerted.

Except for Dumbledore, no one in the Ministry of Magic was aware that any great being had ever descended upon the Ministry of Magic.

Dumbledore looked down at his desk. On the desk was a piece of white paper with 10 basic runes written on it.

His deep blue eyes stared at the 10 basic magic runes in a trance.

Then he waved his hand and put the paper into his own space.

The next second, Dumbledore also disappeared in the Ministry of Magic.

He used Apparition to teleport directly to the outside of the Researchers Association.

Other people didn't know the exact address of the association, but this was not a difficult problem for Dumbledore.

Others have to go through a certain ceremony to open the passage to the association, but Dumbledore can come directly to the outside of the association.

He did not go through any conversion ceremony, but just stood outside the door of the Researchers' Association, and the door opened automatically for him.

Dumbledore wants to use the Sage's Eye here to find out the role of the glow candles and what impact the spread of the 10 basic runes will have on the wizarding world.

Because of the research and analysis function of the Sage's Eye, the information it provides is based on rational and objective analysis.

To be honest, this kind of analysis is a bit like big data analysis, and is far more accurate than mysterious predictions.

Therefore, the analysis reports given by the Sage's Eye are often considered important reference materials by wizards.

To a certain extent, the eyes of a sage can glimpse the future development direction of things.

Only Dumbledore knew what evaluation the Sage's Eye had given to this promotion.

He mobilized many resources of the Researchers Association, resulting in that on that day, no researcher could gain access to the Sage's Eye.

On the other side, here at Hogwarts.

Harry and Ron took great pains to finally catch the madly fleeing Scabbers.

How come this mouse is so human-like and so cunning?

When you usually ignore it, it will often hang around in front of the little wizard.

When it is needed, it can always sense it accurately and escape one step ahead.

This time, as soon as Ron and Harry returned to the dormitory, Scabbers, who was lying on Ron's bed, quickly jumped up and tried to run outside.

Fortunately, Ron and Harry had already cast an interception spell to stop Scabbers.

Even so, they still used some offensive magic and accidentally knocked Banban unconscious before they could bring it over.

Originally, Harry didn't think Scabbers was smart, but after a very difficult round-up, Harry couldn't help but say to Ron:

"Now I think your mouse is not simple. Don't you find that it is smarter than other mice?
And it ran away as soon as it saw us, as if it knew we were going to catch it!"

Ron said doubtfully, "Well, it's a bit weird.

Banban doesn't usually react this strongly. He often plays in my palm. I don't know what happened to him today. Did he know that he was about to face a disaster? "

He said the last sentence obviously as a joke.

Harry said: "But it can't detect that we have no ill will towards it. At least we just want to observe it, not dissect it."

After putting Banban into a cage prepared in advance and covering Banban's eyes with a white cloth, they carried Banban to the laboratory.

"Harry, Ron!"

Neville and Mikkel met them and greeted them.

Mikel stared at the mice in the cage with a frown on his face, and asked in doubt, "What are you doing?"

Neville also misunderstood after seeing this, and said in horror: "Do you want to kill the mouse?"

Ron quickly shook his head and held the cage in his arms: "This is my pet, how could I do this? I just took it for a checkup!"

Mikel said grimly, "Why do you suddenly want to get checked out?"

Ron: "I think it's very smart. Maybe it's some kind of magical creature that hasn't been discovered yet. It's a brand new species."

Mikkel poured cold water on him and said, "Don't be so smart. If it is a brand new magical creature, why can't so many professors here notice it when they have seen it?"

Harry stopped Ron from getting angry and asked, "So, Mikel, what do you think this rat is?"

Harry continued, "You said it's not a magical creature. Is there any way to prove it?"

Mikel looked at them deeply and shook his head: "I don't know."

The plot line has changed since entering Hogwarts. The Hogwarts here is nothing like what is described in the books, and it doesn't match the description in the movies at all.

To be honest, this wizarding world has been changed.

Not only is there Voldemort, but there is also a world of evil gods that I have never heard of, and students will be disturbed by the evil gods' mumbling when reading banned books.

If he hadn't emerged as a rising star and achieved excellent results this month, he wouldn't have been able to obtain this information!
Because the plot line has changed a lot, Mikel is not sure whether the mouse Banban will reveal his whereabouts in advance.

In just a few seconds, many thoughts came to Mikel's mind, but he finally chose to ignore the matter. Anyway, his purpose was not to expose Banban.

However, if Scabbers' Animagus came into contact with him, he wouldn't mind giving him another blow to see if he could gain one of Peter Pettigrew's innate abilities.

As a Death Eater who has been hiding for so many years, what Mikkel envied most was his talent for transformation.

Not every wizard can transform back into human form whenever he wants after becoming an Animagus for more than a decade. Peter Pettigrew has an outstanding talent for Transfiguration.

Mikel said, "Harry, have you seen any big black dogs recently?"

He suddenly asked this. Harry was stunned and shook his head: "No more."

Mickle said: "Harry, do you remember the death prophecy Professor Trelawney gave you?
She said she saw an ominous sign in you, and that ominous sign was a big black dog. I think the professor's prediction might be wrong.

Seeing a big black dog will not kill you, it just may have some smell of death, but it will not kill you either."

Harry didn't understand why Mikkel suddenly changed the subject. They were clearly talking about mice in the last second, but how come they jumped to the big black dog in the next second?
Harry replied: "Whether I die or not, I don't want to see the big black dog again. This is the safest thing."

He asked back: "Mikel, when you say these words, do you want me to see them or not?"

Mikkel was silent for a long time and only said: "Harry, I just want to care about you."

Harry responded bluntly: "I'm sorry, but I don't need your useless concern."

Harry and Ron quickly passed by Mickle and Neville.

Ron nudged Harry's shoulder slightly, still holding the cage in his arms, protecting it tightly.

Ron asked quietly, "Harry, were you angry just now?"

Harry quickly replied, "No."

He didn't know how to tell his partner, and when he noticed Mikel's indifferent attitude towards the big black dog, he was actually a little angry.

Even Harry didn't know why he suddenly became sulky.
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When they got to the lab, Hermione was already there with her Crookshanks.

Crookshanks has a very strong body, and looking at it makes people feel very pressured, as if one jump of it can create the effect of "Mount Tai pressing down on one's head".

In front of Crookshanks, there were five cages containing mice.

Three of the mice are pets. They eat magic food provided by their owner and never steal food from outside.

The other two mice were specially requested by Lin Xia from the kitchen.

The elf would clean up a group of mice hiding in the kitchen every day, and enthusiastically gave Lin Xia dozens of them, saying that there were more if that was not enough.

Lin Xia rejected their kindness and only took two.

Before Harry and Ron arrived, Lin Xia had already conducted a round of tests on Crookshanks.

There were good mice and bad mice here. Crookshanks just took a glance and then circled around the cage containing the bad mice.

"I told you Crookshanks was clever!" said Hermione proudly.

Lin Xia noticed that Crookshanks showed a certain desire to destroy these bad mice and wanted to suppress them under his claws.

After Ron came in, he let go of his protective hands. Crookshanks saw Scabbers in the cage and suddenly showed great aggressiveness, jumping in front of Scabbers' cage in a few seconds.

The sharp claws showed a cold light, as fast as lightning!

It wants to kill Banban!
Fortunately, Ron turned around quickly at the critical moment and protected the cage.

He said in horror: "Stop it quickly, it wants to kill my Banban!"

Lin Xia looked at Crookshanks and suddenly said, "Stop!"

Crookshanks seemed to understand what she said, and actually stopped the next second.

Lin Xia looked into Crookshanks' eyes and whispered, "Can you tell me some information? Why do you always chase this mouse?"

Crookshanks stared at Lin Xia and suddenly meowed a few times.

This scene was very strange to watch, Lin Xia acted as if she could communicate with Crookshanks!
Ron asked: "What is Lin Xia doing?"

Harry shook his head. "I don't know, but she seems to be communicating with Crookshanks."

Hermione: "My Crookshanks is very smart. He can read himself and occasionally points to a line of words in a book to talk to me, but I never knew he could communicate with people."

Only Draco looked calm.

From childhood to adulthood, he grew up under Lin Xia's beatings.

Now that someone else has discovered Lin Xia's excellence, Draco actually feels relieved.

Finally, he is not the only one suffering!

Draco said: "Lin Xia has a talent for communicating with animals, which she showed when she was young. As long as she looks at the animals, she can often know what they are thinking.

Animals can also hear Lin Xia’s thoughts. Sometimes when we get lost in the forest, Lin Xia will ask animals to show us the way.”

Ron: "Why did you go to the forest for no reason? Isn't your master around?"

Draco: "My back garden is a forest. We often played in the forest when we were young."

Other little wizards: ...

I almost forgot that Draco's Malfoy family is a veritable aristocracy in the wizarding world, with countless assets.

Lin Xia is communicating with Crookshanks.

"Why are you so obsessed with this rat number one?"

"It's not even a rat!"

"Then who is it?"

"It's an evil wizard, it's disguised as a mouse to do bad things!"

"How do you know it's an evil wizard?"

"I can smell it. He is the worst, most evil person I have ever met!"

Lin Xia ended the communication, took out a cat strip from the Traceless Retractable Ring and handed it to Hermione. Hermione opened the cat strip and fed it to Crookshanks.

Lin Xia looked at Banban in the cage and silently cast a tracking spell on it, and then cast an isolation spell so that Banban could not sense any magical fluctuations.

Although Banban seems to be in a coma now, who knows if he is pretending.

Lin Xia took out a huge box covered with forbidden magic words.

"Ron, put Scabbers in the box."

Just as Ron was about to take action, Lin Xia suddenly waved her wand and cast a spell at Banban -

"Collapse!"

There was no change in Banban's fainting demeanor.

Ron didn't understand what was going on, so he grabbed Scabbers and put him in the box.

After Lin Xia closed the box, she took out the Marauder's Map that she had borrowed from the twins.

Lin Xia first told them what she had heard.

"Don't be nervous or make a fuss. This is one of my abilities. I can communicate with animals."

The others nodded, indicating that they were emotionally stable and could accept it.

Lin Xia continued: "Crookshanks told me that this is not a mouse, but a wizard! A very evil wizard, the most evil person he has ever seen!" (End of this chapter)