Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Harry and the others had no idea what was happening outside the castle.

But it is conceivable that they would be stunned when they came back from exploring Professor Babel's office and found that their college cup had been deducted 100 points.

It wasn't just Harry and the others who felt sad, all the Gryffindor students felt very sad.

With this amount of points deducted, the dream of winning the house cup again just by winning the Quidditch championship was completely shattered.

The culprits behind all this turned out to be Mikel and the Student Union President Percy... When the Gryffindor students heard the news, their faces would be very excited.

Percy and Mickle followed Professor Snape back to the castle in silence. As soon as they entered the castle, they instantly felt warm and their bodies seemed to relax a lot.

Percy frowned, and finally decided to say to Professor Snape who was about to leave: "Professor, we can make up for our mistakes in other ways. Please -"

Before Percy could finish his words, Mikkel suddenly grabbed Percy's shoulders, covered his mouth with his hands, and dragged him away quickly.

He walked away while apologizing: "I'm sorry, Professor. Percy just wanted to talk to me, not you. I'm really sorry..."

Only after Percy was dragged into the school elevator and the elevator door closed did Mikkel let go of Percy's mouth.

Percy's face was gloomy at this time, as if a storm was coming, and he stared at Mikel coldly.

He had never suffered such a humiliation since he became the student union president!
He was actually held hostage by an ordinary student!

"Give me an explanation," Percy said coldly.

Seeing his gloomy expression, Mikel instinctively became nervous, but then he relaxed on second thought.

At this time, Percy had not yet become an official of the Ministry of Magic. He was not yet so stubborn and self-righteous, and still retained the innocence unique to the Weasley family - he always felt that he was very powerful and could do anything.

Mikel said flatteringly: "President, I am doing this for your own good!"

Percy was stunned for a moment, and was about to ask something, but suddenly remembered to pay attention to his image. He coughed heavily, held his head high and said, "Tell me, what's going on?"

Mikel: "We have all been taught by Professor Snape. You should know how cruel and ruthless Professor Snape is. The punishment he imposes will never change.

If you ask him to reduce the points, he will definitely use it to reduce more points.”

He changed the subject and said, "Of course, President, you must have anticipated this, so you thought of talking to Professor Snape and never mentioned the point deduction, but suggested doing other things to make up for it.

It's just that I'm not feeling well right now and want to go back to the dormitory to rest, so I pulled the president aside to prevent Professor Snape from assigning us any more tasks."

After Mikkel finished speaking, he apologized to Percy: "I'm sorry, President, I betrayed your trust."

Percy was delighted, enjoying the feeling of superior power, and said seriously:

"Okay, I get it. I won't do it again!"

The elevator arrived at the Gryffindor Common Room, and the two walked out together. Percy thought of something and said:
"But today's investigation has failed. Since we can't easily go out at night, let's investigate during the day. Tomorrow during the day, you will come with me to check the Quidditch stadium."

Mikel:…

After being warned by Snape, he no longer wanted to waste time with Percy.

But when he thought about the fact that Percy would join the Ministry of Magic in the future and most likely hold an important position, this connection would still be very useful, so Mikel finally agreed.

"Okay, President."

On the other side, Harry here.

They wandered around, passing through several secret passages, before arriving at Professor Babeling's office.

Hermione wondered, "Why don't we take the normal main road? Then we can reach the floor where the office is very quickly."

Ron shook his head. "No, there are too many little wizards on the main road, and Professor Babel is on the eighth floor, which is a floor that little wizards don't go to very often. Once the elevator lights up on the eighth floor, the little wizards will notice something is wrong."

Harry whispered, "It's mainly because the eighth floor is very close to the principal's office. It's too easy to run into other professors on the way."

As they were talking, there was a noise in the corridor. The little wizard immediately stopped talking and stood quietly aside.

After a while, Professor Snape came walking quickly, and on the other side, Professor McGonagall also appeared at the end of the road.

The two sides met not far in front of the three people.

Professor McGonagall looked a little serious: "Have you found out who is walking outside?"

Professor Snape said coldly: "It was two stupid lions from Gryffindor who said they saw rats during the match and suspected that the rats had dug holes on the Quidditch field.

According to the habits of mice, they come to explore the burrows at night and fill them up. They plan to report to you after all this is done."

Professor McGonagall frowned, "This is too dangerous. Didn't anyone tell them that they couldn't leave the castle easily at night without permission?"

Snape sneered: "You will never imagine who these two people are. They are Percy and Mikkel. I was a little shocked when I saw these two people."

Not to mention Mikel, a rising star recently, judging by his actions, he should be very cautious.

With his intelligence, it was impossible for him not to realize how dangerous it was outside the school at night, but he went anyway.

As for Percy, it's even more shocking that he would make such a low-level mistake.

This is the president of the student union!
No matter how unreliable Hogwarts is, the student council president has to go through multiple selections and tests, and Percy must know the school rules.

Snape said coldly, "Should we consider another candidate for the student council president? I feel that Percy has become more and more unruly since he became the student council president, and has made many mistakes that even young wizards would not make."

Professor McGonagall whispered, "There has never been a precedent in the school where someone is dismissed from the position of student union president within less than one semester. I will find time to talk to Percy tomorrow.

Recently, something has been stirring outside the castle. I suspect that something strange has occurred outside, so I need to gather people to clean up the periphery. I want to bring some outstanding students with me. It's time for them to see the outside world."

Professor Snape said calmly, "I have no problem with that, but I have to report to the headmaster first and get his consent."

While the two were talking, a sculpture in front of them suddenly rotated, revealing the stairs inside.

Snape and McGonagall walked up the stairs together, and Harry could still hear their conversation as they left -

"Because Mikel and Percy violated the school rules, if we hadn't noticed something strange outside and felt the presence of someone, these two people would probably have been buried outside the castle. So I taught them a lesson and deducted 100 points from Gryffindor."

"what ever."

The professor walked into the statue, and it turned again, taking them to the principal's office.

Harry, Ron and Hermione waited for a minute, and when they were sure that no other professors were coming, they breathed a sigh of relief and stretched their stiff necks. Ron looked frustrated: "I just heard something, Gryffindor was deducted 100 points, and it was because of Percy and Mikel!
If this continues, even if Gryffindor wins the Quidditch championship, it will not be able to retain its place in the House Cup!"

Harry was also sighing, nothing dangerous had happened at school this semester and he certainly wouldn't be able to get extra points for the house like he had in previous years.

Hermione disagreed.

"Professor Snape's punishment this time is correct. You two must be taught a lesson. You are not excellent students and you don't know many inside stories. The castle perimeter at night is not as peaceful as it looks during the day."

She paused and whispered, "Inside the castle, strange visions appear from time to time, and we are disturbed by the evil god's whispering.

We have excellent students patrolling inside the castle to eliminate risks in time, but there are no people patrolling outside the castle every day. The evil god's mumbling outside will only be more frequent than inside the castle, and I'm afraid strange phenomena are happening every day.

It is possible that an evil god that no one knows about has really appeared. In such a dangerous situation, they still want to run around. They deserve to be deducted so many points!"

Seeing Harry and Ron's indifferent expressions, Hermione said, "If you are caught by the evil god's whispers outside, you will most likely end up like the manager of Honeydukes. Do you think it doesn't matter even if that's the case?"

Harry and Ron looked at each other, their expressions becoming more serious.

It turns out that the outskirts of the castle are so dangerous at night. They used to think that the professor just said that because he didn't want them to run around.

Harry asked, "Hermione, since it's so dangerous outside the castle, wouldn't the professors at the school think of cleaning it up?"

Hermione asked back, "How do we clean it up? If we clean it up, it will grow back again. If we can't get rid of the things that are connected to the evil world, a new batch will grow every once in a while.

All the professor can do is to clean it up regularly, which is just a temporary solution but not a permanent one."

They walked through one long corridor after another and finally arrived at the easternmost corner of the eighth floor.

The three of them couldn't help but stop.

As long as you open this ordinary door in front of you, you will arrive at Professor Babeling's office, and everyone subconsciously takes a deep breath.

On the other side, Snape and Professor McGonagall took the spiral staircase and arrived at the door of the headmaster's office.

Just as Snape was about to knock on the door, he suddenly paused and turned to ask McGonagall, "Did you feel that something was wrong just now?"

Mag: "What's wrong?"

Snape: "I just felt like someone was watching me, but I felt that with the two of us here, no one would dare to spy on us in secret. But after coming here, I still feel a little uneasy."

Snape thought for a while and said, "Forget it, I'd better go back upstairs and take a look."

McGonagall stopped him: "We are already in the principal's office, let's report to Dumbledore first. He probably also wants to know about Mikel and Percy's situation. As for the feeling of being spied on..."

She shook her head: "I don't feel anything. Could it be that you came in from outside and haven't let down your guard yet? By the way, how many anomalies did you deal with outside?"

Snape thought for a moment and said, "There are at least ten of them. Those two were very lucky. If I had arrived a step later, they would have faced a vision.

That vision is quite terrifying. Once you are entangled, your magic power will be devoured and it will be difficult to deal with. "

Just then, perhaps because they had not come in for a long time, the office door was suddenly opened.

Snape and McGonagall looked at each other and walked in together.
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Harry took a deep breath, reached out, grabbed the door handle, and pushed it open!

What came into view was a warm and bright room. The air was filled with a sweet smell of milk, and there were two adults gently coaxing a sleeping baby.

"This is a gift Merlin brought us!"

"He is so cute, I want to give him all the good things in the world!"

"I'm going to teach him how to ride a broomstick someday!"

"Haha, I want to teach him how to make potions, and let him invent interesting and fun potions with me."

Harry was momentarily bewitched by this warm scene. He took a few steps forward and saw the babies in their arms.

His pupils shrank. The baby had emerald green eyes, similar to those of the witch holding him!
And at this time, there was no lightning-shaped scar on the baby's forehead!

Harry stared at this scene with wide eyes, and a strong thought surged in his heart. He knew where he was -

This came to his birth scene!

But his parents were already dead, and what he saw now was nothing but an illusory memory.

Harry's eyes were slightly red as he stared at his parents without blinking.

He had no memories of his childhood and had long forgotten what they looked like. He could only collect various old newspapers to get a glimpse of their faces.

"Harry, Harry, smile, smile!"

"Harry, my cutest baby, you are my beloved. I will never let the mysterious man hurt you!" Lily held the baby and coaxed him softly.

"Woof woof!" Suddenly a big black dog rushed into the room and rolled on the ground. The baby saw it and started laughing with his mouth wide open.

Mr. and Mrs. Potter also laughed out loud, "Black, you're using Animagus to coax Harry again. What if he keeps looking for a dog godfather in the future?"

The next second, the big black dog turned into a human form, and a tall and handsome nobleman appeared in front of Harry.

It's Sirius Black!

At this time, he did not look haggard and old after being imprisoned in Azkaban for many years. Instead, he was handsome and had the charm of a mature man.

Black laughed: "Then I will become a dog and hang out with Harry from time to time!"

Tears were streaming down Harry's eyes, and he really couldn't tell.

Sirius clearly betrayed his parents, but in this clip, the tenderness in his eyes is so real.

Whose words are true?

Harry cried uncontrollably and was sent out of the office in a daze.

At the same time, Ron, who looked proud and complacent, and Hermione, who was also very happy and cheerful, were sent out.

When they saw Harry crying, they immediately restrained their expressions and asked, "Harry, what happened?" (End of this chapter)