Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Chapter 81 Secret Passage
[Vade: Dad, if you are sure that he is a trustworthy person during the interview, please tell him that I will meet him at the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade Village this Saturday morning.]

【Ferdinand: You can leave school? 】

[Ved: I have a way]

[Ferdinand: Is it safe? ]

[Weider: Don't worry, Hogsmeade is always under the watchful eye of Mr. Dumbledore.]

……

Between the open pages of the book, there is a magical moving photo - the love in the parents' eyes and the happy smile on the child's face are all permanently recorded by the camera.

Ferdinand stared for a long time before closing the friend's book.

Although the words disappeared from the paper, they were already engraved in his mind.

When they said goodbye at the station, the father and son lifted a veil called "whitewashing the truth". From then on, Wade gradually began to write down some facts that he had hidden from them in his friend's account.

For example, Slytherin still advocates the supremacy of pure-bloods and often conflicts with Gryffindor; for example, he plans to start practicing more difficult spells with several classmates to prepare for the future.

Wade also asked Ferdinand for help and posted a job advertisement in the Daily Prophet. The delivery address was a guest room in the Leaky Cauldron. Ferdinand booked the room for a month and came to check the letters after get off work every day. Tom, the owner of the bar, looked difficult to get along with, but he was actually a warm-hearted person who helped him sort out various job application letters every day.

The conditions listed in the advertisement were very harsh, and the salary was only average, but even so, there were many letters sent from all directions every day. Wade specifically reminded him that some wizards would attach curses or potions that hurt people in the letters, so he should not open the letters himself.

In fact, Ferdinand didn't need Wade's reminder, as he was very wary of magic. He spent a lot of money to ask the bar owner Tom to help check whether the letter was safe. Ferdinand believed that Tom's magic level must be high to open a bar in a traffic thoroughfare like Diagon Alley and run it safely with poor hygiene.

In the letters, some people attached their grades when they graduated from Hogwarts and asked for a salary increase; others boasted about their abilities but could not provide any valid proof other than their boasting.

But it didn't matter. From the beginning, Ferdinand knew that the job advertisement was actually for one person. Wade heard the name of the wizard from somewhere and insisted on hiring only this one person. No matter how good the resume of others was, they would not be hired.

And now, that person has finally arrived.

Ferdinand decided to keep this barrier for his son. If this guy named Remus Lupin was just a show-off or had questionable character, Ferdinand would never let him be with his son.

“Tock, knock, knock!”

There was a knock on the door of the guest room, and the voice of the owner Tom came from outside the door: "Mr. Gray, Mr. Lupin has arrived at the bar."

"Okay, I'll be right there." Ferdinand took a deep breath, straightened his collar, and walked out.

Arriving at the bar on the first floor, Ferdinand, under the guidance of Tom the boss, saw the man - his brown hair was mixed with white hair, and his extremely worn wizard robe had several patches on it. He looked very young, but his face was haggard and old, like those middle-aged unemployed guys holding signs looking for work in Canary Wharf.

Ferdinand frowned.

A wizard who seemed to have trouble even with the basic ability to make a living - this was his first impression of Remus Lupin.

According to Ferdinand's understanding of magic, it should be much easier for wizards to make money legally than for Muggles... How bad must one's skills be to not even be able to buy a new piece of clothing?
Or... does he think that wearing shabby clothes will arouse more sympathy from his employer?

But this is who Vader wants to find.

Ferdinand walked over anyway.

The wizard noticed the movement from a distance and looked up sharply. Although he looked exhausted, his eyes revealed calmness and peace, and the quick and concealed movement of grasping the wand made him look very alert.

Ferdinand suddenly understood—this was indeed the person that Wade had been waiting for for a long time.

… “Huh, that’s weird.”

Padma muttered as she flipped through the newspaper at breakfast time.

"What's strange?" Michael, who was eating pie, asked vaguely.

"A job advertisement that I used to see in the newspaper every day has disappeared." Padma tilted her head, as if trying to find the missing advertisement through the cracks in the newspaper.

"We found someone!" Michael said nonchalantly.

"That's impossible!" Padma said doubtfully, "We discussed this in the dormitory. At 10 Galleons per week, it shouldn't be possible to recruit wizards of that level—"

Wade didn't say anything and finished his breakfast quietly.

After class, Wade walked up the stairs alone. The changing stairs took him to the fifth floor. After searching for a while, Wade finally found the mirror that was more than a meter tall that Marchionne mentioned in the letter.

Vader tapped the mirror with his wand and whispered, "mostrar la verdad (truth appears)!"

The mirror suddenly flipped, revealing a dark passage behind it. Wade lit his wand with a fluorescent spell, walked in and was stunned.

There was actually an open space only a few steps away in front of him. Going further, the passage had completely collapsed. The rubble, bricks and soil had blocked the originally spacious passage tightly. One could even see traces of black magic on the walls.

Someone used a very dangerous explosive spell here, completely destroying this secret passage.

Wade stepped out silently, restored the mirror, and then took out the Book of Friends.

【Vade: The passage collapsed.】

[Marchioni: What? It was working fine when I was in school! The castle's magic couldn't stop it from collapsing?]

[Marchioni: Forget it, I know a secret passage behind the portrait of Paracelsus on the sixth floor. It's easy to find. He wears a furry red hat, is chubby, and likes people to talk to him. If you talk to him about alchemy or divination, he will tell you everything...]

Vader: ...

I always feel that Marchionne's student life was also colorful.

He climbed up a flight of stairs and easily found the portrait of the man who was so bored that he snapped his fingers. Wade was about to talk to him when he suddenly felt a hidden gaze. He turned his head and saw Mrs. Norris squatting on the ground, licking her paws and staring at him with her peripheral vision.

Mrs. Norris is the pet cat of the castle administrator Filch. Like her owner, she is old and thin, with her fur losing its luster, but she is still sensitive and responsive. Once she finds a student who violates the rules, she will run to find her owner so that the student who violates the school rules will be punished. Like Filch, she is hated by most students in this school.

A man and a cat looked at each other.

It was certainly not against the rules for students to walk around the school in broad daylight, but as long as he opened the secret passage, Mrs. Norris would definitely call Filch.

The most important thing is that Filch should also know the existence of this secret passage, so it is no longer safe to enter and exit this secret passage.

Vader prepares to leave.

"Hey, Wade!" Fred and George came out from somewhere, greeted them warmly, and took Wade away.

Fred put his arm on Wade's shoulders and asked quietly:

"Are you looking for the secret passage in the castle?"

(End of this chapter)