Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Harry looked at Neville who was packing up and asked, "Mickle, has he left yet?"

Neville said, "Yes, he didn't watch the Quidditch match, he left on the morning bus."

Ron muttered, "He left so easily. I thought he would stay in school on purpose. He has been working hard to show himself this semester. I thought he would stay in school!"

Neville said, "It seemed that there was some kind of test, so I didn't stay. Hmm, I don't know if it was a test for outstanding students."

Neither Harry nor Ron had applied for the HSC test, but their friends had all experienced it and knew that the test was usually conducted during the winter and summer vacations.

However, this test is limited to testing on combat personnel.

If you are a researcher, you only need to submit your research items to the school. The school will go through a series of reviews and eventually grant the student the status of an outstanding student for research talents.

As for how the school verifies and how fast the verification is, it depends on whether the items submitted by the students have passed the review of the paper journal, whether they can be put into production immediately and quickly brought to market.

Simply put, the more prepared you are, the faster your review will pass.

Ron and Harry still remembered that both Lin Xia and Hermione had first passed the journal stage before submitting their research to the school.

On the next day, their status as outstanding students was approved, but there was some time delay in the step of awarding the badges and receiving school-wide recognition.

Ron said: "He asked many people before, if we design a magic wand in the shape of a sword, how many people would support it, and he also sent out many questionnaires.

Anyone who is willing to fill out the questionnaire will be rewarded with a copper Knut. I thought he was going to focus on research, but how come he ended up being a combatant? "

Neville shook his head: "I don't even know what status he applied for as an outstanding student."

While Ron was chatting with him, he quickly packed up the things he thought he would need.

“I have also thought about whether I should take the exam to become an outstanding student. It is not easy to pass the exam in the lower grades, but I heard from Lin Xia that when I reach the higher grades, the number of outstanding students will be further opened up.

Especially since this year, there are more places than ever before. Lin Xia said we can seize this opportunity in the fourth and fifth grades. "

Neville quickly shook his head, "How can I be an excellent student if I can't even learn spells? I just ask that I pass all the subjects, and I'll be satisfied."

Harry nodded automatically.

He didn't think his grades were that bad, but he also thought that excellent students were out of his reach.

Even though he had learned the "Patronus Charm".

This spell can best test a wizard's magical aptitude and talent. He was able to learn it and had already stood in front of many young wizards, but Harry was still a little unconfident.

This was the confusion of the unknown. He always felt that he was very different from good students like Lin Xia and Hermione.

Neville saw them packing up and asked curiously, "Didn't you apply to stay in school? Why are you packing up too?"

Ron replied subconsciously: "We need to make some preparations, and plan to go--Ah!"

Harry stepped hard on his foot, and Ron howled in pain and jumped three feet high.

Harry said to Neville calmly, "We were just cleaning up. Seeing that you were all cleaning up, it didn't feel good to just sit there and wait, so we just cleaned up everything at once."

Neville stared at Ron jumping up and down in a daze, then shrugged: "Okay."

What he actually wanted to say was that they didn't seem to be cleaning up at all, but rather like they were throwing things around.

It was clean and tidy before it was confiscated, but after it was confiscated, it became even messier.

Harry and Ron had already finished collecting their belongings before Neville, and they left the dormitory first.

Neville looked at the mess on their bed and finally didn't ask "Do you want to move?"

Because in Neville's impression, once a dormitory is assigned, it cannot be changed.

So Ron and Harry were just accompanying him to collect things casually. Neville wanted to say, "There's really no need for this, bro."

But after spending so much time with Mikel, Neville also knew that some things couldn't be said too clearly, as saying them too clearly could be a bit hurtful.

Although it is unnecessary, you should learn to accept the kindness of some people.

At the same time, in Hogsmeade village.

After the Quidditch game, the professors who remained in Hogwarts gradually moved to Hogsmeade.

Except for a few professors who continued to stay in the school and were responsible for ensuring the safe departure of all the young wizards, the other professors had already gone elsewhere.

Snape pushed open the door of the Hog's Head Inn in Hogsmeade village. The room was silent. Compared to the hustle and bustle outside, the Hog's Head Inn was uncharacteristically silent.

He walked forward a few steps calmly, came to a space, and stepped in.

The next moment, he arrived at another place.

This place was also very quiet, but everyone was doing their work quietly, with people occasionally communicating in low voices.

Snape came to the surveillance area and asked, "Is there any street whose surveillance is damaged?"

The Auror in charge of monitoring said, "No, the monitoring magic runes set up in every place are functioning normally."

The Auror turned and looked at Snape. Surprisingly, Snape had three eyes, with another eye between his eyebrows. Using all three eyes at the same time allowed him to perform very well in monitoring and reconnaissance.

Snape continued to ask: "What about the suspicious everyday people? Have you captured any of them?"

The Auror said confidently, "Yes."

He quickly pulled up some surveillance footage and saw Snape staring at them grimly.

"There were a few people who I didn't see entering the doorway, but suddenly appeared in the middle of the street. They were stowaways, and they were casting Stunning Spells at other wizards in the crowd for no reason."

Although this group of wizards did not appear in the video, their location had been captured by the Auror based on the angle at which the spell appeared.

The Auror used his wand to draw a line to show the location of the group of people, and then the line moved all the way and finally landed on a street.

The next second, this group of people showed up.

Snape memorized their faces one by one. He had never seen them before, but this was normal. Death Eaters generally would not reveal their true identities when they went out.

The face they are using now is most likely a fake face.

The Auror said: "The level of spell they used was not dangerous, but their identities and actions were included in the supervision, especially since they used the invisibility spell to enter."

Snape said coldly: "Give me support, I will go to meet them." The Auror hesitated: "Isn't it better not to act during the day? What if it causes any danger..."

"There won't be any danger." Snape raised his head proudly and said in a defiant tone, "I'm just dealing with a few scum in advance."

The Auror was convinced: "Okay, take this."

He took off a blue patch from his neck. "Stick it to your neck, and I can communicate with you at any time. If necessary, you can also put it between your eyebrows, and I can immediately build a trajectory of their movements for you."

As he said this, the eyes between his eyebrows kept moving, still staring at the surveillance camera.

Snape took the patch, looked at it carefully for several seconds, as if he was looking for some germs, and then reluctantly put it on his neck.

If he didn't need this Auror to locate him, he would never wear the patch.

With a clang, Snape pushed open the door of the Hog's Head Inn and glanced down at the patch on his neck.

The patch changes with temperature.

The temperature indoors is relatively hot, so the patch appears blue. When you go outside and the temperature suddenly drops, the patch gradually becomes transparent.

Snape moved his neck and felt only a slight foreign body sensation.

The Auror's voice came to my ears: "Do you hear me? Turn left at the first intersection in front of you, then turn right at the second intersection, walk forward three steps, come to the third intersection, and then go straight.

As long as you keep going forward, you can hear their voices. They are gathered together, cheering and playing, and some wizards have even used invisibility spells.

I was able to identify each of their voices, far more than the seven people I saw on the surveillance camera.”

Snape didn't answer, but followed the route.

On the other side, Harry and Ron came to the laboratory.

Lin Xia didn't ask what they prepared, but asked: "Are you all packed? Let's go to Hogsmeade now."

Harry nodded and told what he had heard: "I heard them say that the express train will not stop at Hogsmeade Village, so how do we get there?"

Ron said deliberately: "Why don't we go on a broomstick? We can cast the invisibility spell on the broom."

Draco: "Or take a car. Our car can also be invisible."

Lin Xia looked out of the laboratory window and shook her head seriously:

"My heart is heavy. I feel that Hogwarts is under surveillance everywhere. No matter what method I use to get out, I will be discovered by the professor."

She used the clairsensory charm to amplify her vision and didn't notice anything, but she felt that there was a dragnet spreading all over Hogwarts, as if it wanted to lock everyone in.

Suddenly, the Hogwarts Express appeared in her sight. A red train entered the school, as if tearing a gap from the closed hole.

Lin Xia could still hear the discussions of other friends, but she had already made a decision.

"There's no need to think of any other solution. We can just take the express train out. It just doesn't stop at Hogsmeade, but that doesn't mean it doesn't pass by. Once it passes Hogsmeade, we'll jump off the train and leave."

Ron and Harry looked at each other. This method sounded even more exciting.

While Lin Xia and others used the invisibility spell and quickly ran to the gate to get on the bus, Professor Babel was also monitoring Hogwarts in a corner of the school.

Monitoring students to prevent them from leaving school without permission was just a secondary task. Her main purpose was to monitor whether any Death Eaters would sneak into Hogwarts while the school was in chaos after school.

The "Sage's Eye" large formation set up by Hogwarts was previously used as a protective formation, but as its protective effect became weaker and weaker, it has been used for other purposes by Hogwarts.

Last time, Professor McGonagall proposed to use the "Eye of the Sage" to help students practice "Animagus" and got several places.

This time, Babel used the "Eye of Sage" to monitor Hogwarts and had already felt the power of this magic array.

The "Eye of the Sage" is obviously more suitable for monitoring and calculation, and it is more powerful than the magic arrays she had set up before.

Babel thought to herself: "From the beginning, Hogwarts should not have included this magic array in the protection system. It is a waste of resources. I don't know how much energy has been wasted!"

She waved her wand and threw several little wizards who tried to sneak out of the school using the invisibility spell back into the school, and whispered a warning in their ears -

"If it happens again, everyone will have 100 school points deducted!"

Apart from these little wizards who always challenge the school's authority from time to time, there has not yet been a Death Eater who wants to take advantage of the chaos to sneak into the school.

This made Babel's work a little easier, but the serious expression on her face did not ease. No one wanted to come to school, which meant that the Death Eaters had set up their main battlefield in Hogsmeade village.

She groaned for a moment, "What on earth is there that attracts them? Maybe there is a Horcrux of Voldemort left there?"

Suddenly, Babel set her sights on the Hogwarts Express.

"Well, there are a few little ants that have sneaked in here and are trying to sneak out."

She tapped the wand in her hand, as if she was thinking about something.

"According to Dumbledore, I shouldn't let any of them escape, nor should I allow students to participate in dangerous activities over at Hogsmeade, but they are not ordinary students."

Just as she was thinking, the express train suddenly made a "beep beep" sound and emitted a few wisps of white smoke, and clanged towards the outside.

Seeing this, Babel put down her wand.

"It's too late to cast the spell now. I can't possibly stop the train. It would affect the travel of so many young wizards and cause them so much panic. This is not in line with Dumbledore's intention... Well, Dumbledore, don't blame me. Everything is the choice of fate."
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On the other side, Snape had arrived at the gathering place of the wizards.

When he arrived, the group of wizards had automatically dispersed and went to different places. Only three wizards remained where they were, making all kinds of funny and weird noises.

The cold air was filled with the aroma of roasted chestnuts and sweet chocolate. As soon as Snape appeared, the three wizards looked up with excitement in their eyes.

"I've been smelling hyenas for a long time. It turns out to be you, Snape. Do you enjoy being Dumbledore's dog?"

These low-ranking Death Eaters did not know Snape's true identity.

In the eyes of many people, Snape is the Potions professor at Hogwarts, and he bears the imprint of Dumbledore from beginning to end.

Originally, Snape wanted to confirm their identities, but now that they have exposed themselves, the battle is about to begin!
Snape waved his wand sharply: "Armor!"

An invisible protective shield appeared and blocked the two consecutive attacks. The next second, an attack spell came through the air. Snape suddenly turned to the other side and avoided the sneak attack.

He waved his wand gently, and the tip of his wand brushed the wrist of the Death Eater who flashed towards him.

The spell was cast silently and without a wand. Suddenly, thick blood spurted out from the wrist of the Death Eater. The Death Eater uttered a wail and fell to the ground. (End of this chapter)