Sherlock Holmes at Hogwarts.

Chapter 65: Scotland Yard in the Wizarding World
After seeing Hannah Abbott off, Hermione sat facing Sherlock, staring at him intently.

"What is it, my friend?"

"Detective Sherlock, where can I find a loophole in the Ministry of Magic's security system?"

"that……"

Sherlock shook his head slightly. "I've discovered some things from the case report provided by the Ministry of Magic just now."

"what?"

Hermione looked at Sherlock in disbelief.

“Unfortunately, even though I know these loopholes, I have no way to exploit them. After all, this is a magical world.

If I were 20 now... well, 17 would be enough."

Hermione:
What? From the sound of your voice, are you thinking of making a big move in the Ministry of Magic?
"But what really surprised me was that the wizarding world actually has its own Scotland Yard."

If it were Harry and Ron, they might not understand the meaning of this sentence.

But Hermione understood.

"You seem quite displeased with Scotland Yard."

"Ah! Actually, they still have some mobility and basic investigation capabilities.

When handling some routine cases, he is able to collect clues, question people, and perform other tasks in an orderly manner.

Unfortunately, many detectives there have rather rigid thinking, often following established case-handling models and lacking innovative thinking and bold reasoning hypotheses.

Especially when faced with some complex criminal cases, Scotland Yard's response speed and response strategies are often stretched.

For example, in the burglary before school started, they overlooked a key clue, which led to a stalemate in the investigation."

After hearing Sherlock point out Scotland Yard's flaws without mercy, Hermione didn't know what to say.

She had sometimes heard her parents and other elders in the family complain about the inefficiency of Scotland Yard, but no one had ever pointed out the problem as clearly as Sherlock.

"What I didn't expect was that the Ministry of Magic was no less capable.

This case was actually very simple, just like the problems I helped others solve before.

Because I have this ability to analyze things intuitively, they provide me with all the evidence and then I try to put them on the right track.

In fact, all criminal acts have something very similar in them.

It would be strange if you knew the details of a thousand cases but could not explain the one thousand and first case.

If I encounter a complicated case, I'm afraid I'll have to run around and investigate it myself.

The main difficulty in this case is that there are too many clues, and extremely important clues are obscured by irrelevant signs.

In fact, the information provided by the Ministry of Magic report alone is enough to make inferences. We just need to select the necessary ones and string them together in order.

But the Ministry of Magic turned a blind eye to the clues hidden beneath the surface.

In fact, it seems to me that the Ministry of Magic just wants to close the case as quickly as possible."

At this point, Sherlock frowned deeply.

“As for who the real criminal is, they don’t care.

So even though I have provided the correct idea, I am afraid that Mrs. Aibo will still have to work hard to solve this matter.

However, since we were able to bring out the Ministry of Magic's investigation report, and with Professor Sprout's help, I believe this matter will eventually reach a fair conclusion."

Sherlock paused at this point.

"By the way, thank you for reminding me the name of that lady just now."

"what?"

Oh man, so if you hadn't called out the name Hannah Abbott at the beginning, you wouldn't even know her?

But on second thought, it makes sense.

This guy has long said that his brain is like a hard drive and never stores information that he thinks is useless.

It wasn't the first time that she couldn't remember her classmates' names. Hermione even suspected that if Ron hadn't lived in the same dormitory with Sherlock, the latter wouldn't have remembered the former's name.

Time is like the sand between your fingers, always slipping away without you noticing.

Sherlock has been in Hogwarts for nearly four months, learning and mastering magical knowledge, taking Harry for morning exercises, teaching Hermione to fly, helping classmates solve problems, etc.

Which also means… Christmas is coming.

Like Halloween, this holiday, which originally had religious origins, has evolved over time into a public holiday in the Western world.

On this day, everyone will give each other gifts and hold a feast.

To add to the atmosphere, holiday decorations such as Christmas trees, Christmas stockings, Christmas hats, Christmas wreaths, etc. will also make their debut.

It can be said to be quite lively.

For the young wizards at Hogwarts, this festival is more important than Halloween.

On the one hand, its arrival means the end of the first half of the semester.

All teachers and students in the school will have a full half-month vacation and will not return to school until New Year's Day of the following year.

On the other hand, the children are looking forward to an old man with a red hat and white beard appearing and handing them gifts.

Of course, in the wizarding world, it is the owls who truly take on this responsibility.

But this does not affect the children's good wishes.

The school also made preparations early and asked all students to register whether they wanted to stay on campus for the holidays.

The vast majority of students chose to go home.

This is normal. After all, in these seven years of school life, there are only two opportunities to go home each year.

of course there are exceptions.

"I really feel bad for those people."

In a Potions class, Malfoy said sarcastically, "They have to spend Christmas at other people's homes because their own families don't want them."

Although he hit a wall again and again, Malfoy still wanted to go against Harry whenever he had the chance.

Of course, because of Sherlock, he didn't dare to be too aggressive and just did things secretly.

By now, he has discovered a fact.

If it was just some verbal advantage that wasn't too excessive, Sherlock would ignore him.

This discovery made him extremely excited.

So naturally, I won't miss this opportunity now.

However, this time, not only Sherlock, but even Harry was too lazy to pay attention to him.

Because Harry didn't want to go back to Privet Drive to spend Christmas with the Dursleys.

So even when Malfoy was deliberately looking at Harry when he spoke, Crabbe and Goyle kept snickering beside him.

It turned out that Harry was not sad at all, he even felt a little funny.

This made Malfoy even more gloomy, as if he had punched cotton.

On the contrary, for Harry, this was quite possibly the best Christmas he had ever had.

In fact, when Professor McGonagall first came to register the list of students who would stay in school for the holidays, he originally wanted to sign.

"Sherlock, I won't be going home for Christmas..."

"No, you need to go home."

"go home?"

Harry said in surprise, "Sherlock, you know the situation of my family..."

"Back to my house," Sherlock said calmly, "My parents want to meet my friends."

(End of this chapter)