From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 1 Map Secret Room
Hogwarts.

A well-known and famous magic school.

If you ask Muggles about its popularity, I believe at least eleven out of ten people would believe that it is the best wizarding school.

It has to be said that it is the perfect ivory tower that many people dream of.

Although compared with the Muggle education system, it is at most a magical secondary school or a magical vocational high school, but you cannot deny its contribution to the wizarding world, especially the British wizarding world.

It supplies almost the entire staff of that bloated and inert institution - I am of course referring to the Ministry of Magic (what other institution deserves those adjectives as well?).

It is also because of this that you won't see the British Ministry of Magic using the university one graduated from as a basis for civil servants to confirm each other's factions like in the British political arena, with Cambridge and Oxford despising each other and then working together to exclude King's College.

At least the civil servants in the British Ministry of Magic are all alumni of the same school.

But there is a saying that goes, there are no factions within the party, and there are all kinds of weird things.

Birds of a feather flock together. It is more magical than magic if people gather together without creating factions to distinguish each other! Moreover, these wizards who waved small wooden sticks and kept muttering mysterious things are also human beings. At least there is no reproductive isolation between them and Muggles. So no matter how much some people deny it, they are also within the scope of the word "human beings".

So how are the civil servants in the Ministry of Magic, who cannot use the schools they attend to distinguish their factions, divided into factions?

Bloodline and origin.

It's a pretty primitive division.

Purebloods, half-bloods and Muggles.

But the boring and complicated entanglement between them is not worth even a little bit of description!

So let's put aside all this political chaos and get back to Hogwarts.

It was the summer of 1991. Like all schools, Hogwarts was in its summer vacation. This bustling and vibrant school was quietly napping in the hot July sun. New students would be welcomed in two months. This ancient castle needed rest just like the professors inside it.

Especially the old wizard who is very old and has gray hair and beard.

"Hmm..." Albus Dumbledore smacked his lips with satisfaction. The new product launched by Honeydukes to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the fall of You-Know-Who was very much to his taste, so after dealing with the annoying letter from the Ministry of Magic, he would have some as a reward for himself.

"Hmph..." Dumbledore sighed contentedly, fully enjoying the sweet feeling of the sugar juice flowing between his teeth. "A perfect day must start with candy, right, Fawkes?"

Phoenix Fox stood on his own stand, responded with a soft chirp, and then stretched out his gorgeous tail feathers. Now is his prime moment, but he will soon usher in this twilight. But for a phoenix that can be reborn from the ashes, death is no big deal, right?

After admiring Fawkes's tail shining with golden light, Dumbledore put another candy with moving limbs into his mouth, and listened with enjoyment to the sound of the insect-like candy colliding with his teeth. It took him a while to squeeze out the sugar juice in its belly with his teeth.

"Sharing the candy with colleagues might be a good strategy... perhaps Minerva would appreciate its charm?" Dumbledore muttered to himself uncertainly as he swallowed the crumbs of the candy.

But just as he stood up to look for his colleague, there was a knock on the oak door of the principal's office. From the sound, it seemed that the person knocking on the door was very anxious.

"Come in!" Dumbledore sat back in the cushioned chair, his wise eyes looking at the sudden visitor from behind his half-moon lenses.

A dark shadow pushed the door open - Severus Snape, Head of Slytherin, Potions Professor, member of the Order of the Phoenix, and also a notorious Death Eater.

"Dumbledore." Snape moved his lips and said in a low and urgent voice, "We need to talk."

Dumbledore stared into his eyes for a while, and was disappointed to find that Snape paid no attention to the candies on his table. So he had to give up his desire to share and said calmly: "Now is a rare holiday, you and I have plenty of time..."

Then he waved his hand, and a similarly cushioned chair moved itself across from the desk.

"Please take a seat."

Snape looked down at the wooden chair decorated with intricate patterns, stepped aside to make way for it, and said firmly, "Not here."

Dumbledore raised his eyebrows in surprise. "If you want to take a walk, I happen to know a good place..."

But before he could finish his suggestion, Snape interrupted him impatiently: "There is a discovery in the basement of the castle that I must let you know about."

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"I've been in this castle for nearly a century, but I've never heard of such a place." Dumbledore looked around the vast room in front of him. They passed through a winding tunnel and came to the bottom of the castle.

At the end of the marble staircase was a magnificent but empty circular hall. On the wall opposite the staircase there were four foyer-like structures, but apart from the reflective walls, there was nothing noteworthy on them.

The room seemed to be embedded in the mountain. Some skilled craftsman had carved it out of the mountain. Stone pillars decorated with gold thread connected the ceiling and the ground. They were one and the same. In the center of the colorful floor tiles was a circular area. The spotless ground was like a mirror, reflecting two figures in long robes, one gray and one black.

"That's Hogwarts! I've never seen it from this angle!" Dumbledore's voice was full of surprise. He saw the bird's-eye view of Hogwarts from the floor. "How did you find this place? Severus?"

"That's not important." Snape said through gritted teeth. He pulled out his wand and tapped it in the air. Ripples appeared on the ground and the aerial view of Hogwarts disappeared from above.

"Pay attention." Snape reminded, he tried to keep his ears from hearing Dumbledore's disappointed nasal voice, but failed as expected. He didn't understand what was so good about this place full of idiots and fools.

When the ripples on the floor calmed down, a new picture appeared on it.

It was a child sealed in crystal.

His messy black hair makes his fair skin look even brighter. Although he looks young, one can foresee a future in which he will be a playboy.

(End of this chapter)