Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

After hurriedly leaving the second floor, Lin Xia went up to the third floor.

The third floor is the accommodation area, with several dormitories, and there is no direct staircase leading to the third floor like on the second floor.

Lin Xia searched for a while and finally found a tightly closed door in one of the dormitory rooms that had not been used for a long time.

She thought for a while, opened the door of the dormitory, and then opened the small door inside.

This way, other people who arrive later don’t have to look for it, they can just follow the open door and know how to get to the 4th floor.

The stairs leading to the 4th floor are very narrow and can only accommodate one person.

Moreover, the stairs are all made of wood, and when you step on them, dust falls down and makes a "creaking, creaking" sound.

It sounded like it would collapse at any moment, and the stairs wailed with every step I took.

Lin Xia quickly arrived at the 4th floor, but before going to the 4th floor, she had to unlock the iron door first.

She waved her wand, circled the lock and tapped it: "Alaho!"

However, nothing happened.

Lin Xia raised her eyebrows slightly. This door looked ordinary and unremarkable, but it actually had magic counter-attack. It was not an ordinary door.

Since the normal unlocking method could not be used, Lin Xia's eyes darkened slightly, and he waved his magic wand at the magic lock, and said in a light and indifferent voice: "Shatter into pieces!"

With a "click", the lock broke into pieces.

Lin Xia gently touched the door with her magic wand and pushed it outwards. The door was pushed open lightly.

A beam of sunlight playfully came in through the crack in the door. When the door was completely opened, Lin Xia was bathed in the sunlight, as if she was wearing a golden robe.

Lin Xia walked out and looked up at the sky.

The weather today is really not good. Even though it is still daytime, the sun is always covered by clouds.

In addition to being able to feel the heat of the day, judging from the visibility, it seems like five or six in the afternoon even though it is only two o'clock in the afternoon.

"Lin Xia, have you arrived yet? Where are you?"

Hermione's voice came from the door. Lin Xia turned around and lifted the invisibility spell, revealing her figure.

Hermione ran over quickly and said happily, "When I went to the third floor, I saw the only dormitory door that was opened. There was also a small door inside that was also opened. I guessed that you did it."

She looked around and asked, "Besides you, no one else has come up yet?"

Lin Xia shook her head: "It should be only the two of us who arrived first."

While they were looking around, an Auror spotted the werewolf in an alley not far from Honeydukes and began a fierce chase.

The chase was quite loud, and the sounds of violent collisions could be heard on the rooftop.

Lin Xia's ears moved slightly, and her attention was drawn to that.

She locked her sights, looked from a high vantage point, and was able to spot the werewolf's escape route better than the Aurors in pursuit.

Hermione also looked over and asked in confusion, "Aren't the werewolves going to cooperate with the Death Eaters to wreak havoc in Hogsmeade? Why do they look like they're going to run into the woods outside the village?"

Lin Xia thought about it based on the habits of werewolves: "When a werewolf is in an excited state, it won't think so much, nor will it care too much about whether its situation is dangerous.

When fighting with a wizard, it is basically the wizard who will run away, not the werewolf.

So is it possible that the werewolves were actually trying to trick the Aurors by doing this, rather than actually trying to escape?"

Hermione was stunned for a moment, and carefully observed the situation below, and found that it was just as Lin Xia said.

The werewolf was not running away, it was playing a trick on the Aurors.

They stand high and see far, and can see the situation on the field, but the Aurors in it may not be able to see it clearly.

If they keep chasing the werewolves and use up most of their energy, and then the werewolves counterattack, won’t the Aurors be in great danger?
Hermione asked anxiously, "Do we need to find a way to alert the Aurors?"

Lin Xia used the extrasensory spell to amplify her vision and could see the expressions on the werewolf and the Auror's faces clearly.

She suddenly realized something, shook her head, and whispered: "I feel that the leading Auror is not stupid and should have discovered the werewolf's intention.

Did you see that? The Auror Captain kept making gestures with his hands behind his back, and the Aurors who saw his gestures dispersed and went to various places at the same time. "

After Lin Xia finished speaking, the situation on the field suddenly changed again.

The Aurors scattered in different places waved their wands at the same time and recited complex and obscure ancient magic words.

In an instant, a golden light flashed, and a large magic net formed in the air, trapping all three werewolves in the magic net.

"Awooo!" A werewolf roared towards the sky, stimulating several other werewolves to roar as well.

The magic net trapped them, but it couldn't trap their voices.

Soon after, the werewolves in other places heard the sound and started howling too.

“Ouch!” “Ouch!” “Ouch!”

The wizards who were still staying in Hogsmeade village were frightened when they heard the wolves howling, and their steps became more hurried.

The back entrance of Hogsmeade village welcomed a large wave of wizards, making it even more crowded.

Some wizards who had not yet finished their shopping could not help but want to leave after being stimulated by the sound.

"Don't crowd or push! There are too many of us here. Once the Death Eaters come, we will be more vulnerable. Everyone try to spread out."

"Don't crowd. Every person going out has to have their information verified by the Ministry of Magic. There's no rush!"

Whatever comes to mind.

A Death Eater quietly mixed into the departing team. Looking at the chaotic scene on the field, he smiled grimly and waved his wand.

"The flames are blazing!"

A modified version of the attack spell was launched, and wherever the magic wand was waved, a burst of high temperature flames would be created!
"Do not!!"

"Help me, it hurts so much, why can't I put out this fire!"

Some wizards had a trace of fire on their bodies, and they quickly cast the magic spell "Clear Water Like Spring", but the clear water they produced could not extinguish the flame.

Some wizards felt as if their souls were being burned by flames, causing pain not only in their bodies but also in their heads.

"Ice is like a spring!"

A wizard cast a spell, immediately extinguishing the flames on his body, and shouted: "This kind of fire is very special, it must be suppressed with ice, everyone use ice like springs!"

The rebellious Death Eaters seemed to be using their wands to send out "springs of ice", but in fact they were waving their wands continuously, trying to create a blazing fire.

A wizard suddenly stood in front of him, staring at him seriously, "It's you! I just saw you waving your wand around and a fire appeared on the field. It must be you who is causing trouble!" The Death Eater laughed loudly and stopped pretending. He pointed his wand at him and grinned, "So what if it's me? You can't stop me!"

The two wizards started a fierce battle.

Although the Death Eaters' attack was powerful, more and more wizards joined in. Several wizards attacked one Death Eater and quickly suppressed him.

The wizards were outraged and wanted to execute the Death Eaters on the spot, but were stopped by other wizards.

"No, send him to Azkaban and make him suffer a fate worse than death!"

"Yes, let him live a life worse than death. Every Death Eater should have this fate. Letting him die now would be a relief for him!"

"Hand him over to the Ministry of Magic and lock him up!"

Seeing that the commotion at the back door had been suppressed, Lin Xia shifted her gaze to the werewolf.

The werewolf was bound by the magic net and could not move out, so he could only turn around and fight the Auror face to face.

In a limited space, the Aurors' advantages become more and more prominent.

Although werewolves are physically strong and have high magic resistance, they are irrational creatures after all. When faced with powerful attacks, they do not dodge but instead use their bodies to withstand them.

The Aurors took advantage of the werewolves' reduced IQ and used many kinds of attacking magic arrays to force the werewolves to passively take the beating.

One of the werewolves, perhaps because he was beaten too many times, actually went into frenzy mode at one point.

It was fearless and rushed towards one of the Aurors madly.

The sharp claws tore the Auror's body apart, and the sharp teeth aimed at his throat and bit it hard!
A scream was heard and the Aurors in the magic net reacted quickly, blocking the sound at that moment.

As a result, the screams of the human wizard did not spread out, but Hermione and Lin Xia on the rooftop witnessed the scene.

Hermione said grimly: "Has that Auror been killed by a werewolf..."

Lin Xia took a deep breath and said calmly, "Hermione, this is the battlefield we will face in the future. It's either you die or I live.

When facing a dark creature like a werewolf that has no reason, we must not show mercy. Otherwise, if we let our guard down, we will be the only ones to die!"
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Draco, Ron and Harry finally went up to the roof at this time.

The three of them stayed in the joke shop on the first floor for too long and couldn't find a chance to come up.

In the end, Draco had to use a confusing spell to confuse one of the shop assistants and make him give up the stairs behind him so that the three of them could go up.

As soon as they came up, they saw Hermione and Lin Xia. Seeing that they had already lifted their invisibility, the three of them also lifted their invisibility.

Ron asked curiously, "How long have you been up here, and what have you found?"

As he spoke, he looked out and saw the battlefield between the werewolves and the Aurors.

The werewolf who went berserk first had died under the siege of other wizards, but the death of his fellow werewolf also stimulated the other werewolves, and the remaining two werewolves also went berserk.

In broad daylight, their eyes turn blood red, greatly increasing their magic resistance and harmlessness.

As long as they aimed at one of the Aurors and charged forward recklessly, that Auror would basically be dead.

Harry saw this and asked nervously, "What should we do? Should we go and help?"

Harry hastily drew his wand.

He forgot that they were very far away from the werewolves. At this distance, even if he used spells, he would hardly be able to hit them.

Lin Xia stopped him and said in a deep voice: "Harry, do you see that they are surrounded by the golden, looming net?

That was a battlefield they had deliberately divided out, where the werewolves inside couldn't get out and people outside couldn't get in.

Even if we were nearby and used a spell on the werewolf, it would be intercepted by the magic net."

Harry frowned, "So we can only watch?"

Lin Xia said affirmatively: "Yes, the magic network has divided them into an independent battlefield. It is a competition between Aurors and werewolves. We cannot intervene unless -"

She paused, "A great wizard like Dumbledore would have a way to break through the restrictions of the magic network and intervene in this war."

"Look what's that over there?"

Draco pointed to a place where many wizards suddenly came in.

These wizards were all thin, and their skin was pale as if they had not seen the sun for a long time.

Lin Xia raised her eyebrows and quickly recognized these wizards.

To be precise, these people were all "scholars" who had just attended her previous paper conference on the binding wand.

Some scholars were sitting in the front row and made eye contact with her, so Lin Xia recognized them quickly.

Ron asked curiously, "How did they come to obtain Hogsmeade Village? Aren't these scholars imprisoned by the Ministry of Magic?"

After the paper release conference, because the students were getting a little impatient waiting, the professor tested them first and let them leave first.

As for how Hogwarts would deal with this group of scholars after that, they had no idea.

All we know is that among this group of scholars, a Death Eater was found who used Polyjuice Potion to transform himself into Professor Beauxbatons.

Afterwards, they witnessed with their own eyes how the professors of Hogwarts used the Starlight Magic Array in the Great Hall to kill the Death Eaters.

Hermione: "I thought the professor would let the other scholars go once they found the Death Eater who used Polyjuice Potion.

But now it seems that this group of scholars has not cleared their suspicion and is still detained by the Ministry of Magic. What is the point of just putting them in Hogsmeade?"

Ron complained: "I feel that many of these scholars are rich in theoretical knowledge, but their practical ability is touching, and they may not be able to deal with Death Eaters and werewolves.

If the Ministry of Magic really puts them on the battlefield, I'm afraid they will be used as cannon fodder, right?"

Lin Xia glanced at Ron. In his impression, Ron always had the potential to be a bad mouth.

Sure enough, after a while, they discovered that this group of scholars did not disperse, but gathered somewhere.

Some people began to chant incantations or gesture, as if they were performing a major ceremony.

Lin Xia deliberately used the extrasensory spell to amplify her hearing and listen to what these scholars were saying.

"I have dozens of inventions, three of which are related to high-level artifacts, three are related to people's livelihood, and the other four are related to testing. Those Death Eaters will definitely not miss the opportunity to kill me!
If you come and attack me quickly, you can clear my suspicion and the Ministry of Magic will release me!"

"Death Eaters, oh Death Eaters, I don't know anything, but I'm smarter than you, come and attack me, I'm not in the same group with you idiots!"

"What's the point of killing ordinary wizards? If you want to kill someone, come and kill a senior scholar like me and kill the future master of spells in advance!"

Lin Xia:......

It has to be said that the mental state of scholars who have been detained by the Ministry of Magic for a long time is somewhat worrying! (End of this chapter)