Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

"What did that stupid Gryffindor do before?" Snape asked coldly, "He angered the Thestrals!"

"Harry didn't do anything!"

Ginny Weasley mustered up the courage to look the Potions Professor in the eye and said loudly:

"He just helped us drive off a Grindylow, and then he was suddenly attacked!"

"I don't think it's Harry's fault, Professor."

Wade suddenly said, "Look at this Thestral. It has a wound on its back."

Professor Snape walked over and saw a long, thin wound on the back of the Thestral, near its hind leg, that was bleeding.

He approached the Thestral, his hooked nose twitching slightly.

“The smell of khat.”

"Chat?" Ginny asked automatically.

"Take a good look at your textbooks!" Snape glanced at her and said, "Chat can be used to make a drug that causes fear, palpitations, and even hallucinations and manic tendencies in the user."

"So... someone fed the Thestral a potion?" Wade said seriously. "Did he want to use the Thestral to hurt Harry, or to create chaos in Hogwarts?"

Professor Sprout opened the Thestral's mouth and took a look. He said, "It's not a finished potion... There are grass roots between its teeth. It looks like someone has directly fed it a large amount of Chat."

"I remember that this kind of grass is mainly produced in East Africa and Arab countries, and its transportation and sale are prohibited in most countries..."

Wade recalled the contents of the book: "But... uh... Britain and New Zealand both allow sales within a certain range, but it should not be easy for ordinary people to get their hands on it."

"As long as there is a way, it is much easier to get it than you think. More importantly... who can lay hands on the Thestrals of Hogwarts..."

Snape groaned.

Hagrid said angrily, "If I find out who did this, I will definitely make him pay!"

Ginny watched the discussion from the side and couldn't get a word in for a long time.

Her friend pulled Ginny's arm, trying to leave, but Ginny seemed to have roots under her feet and refused to move.

After the conversation between the few people was interrupted for a while, Ginny tentatively said: "Professor, Harry has been taken away..."

"The house-elves will take him to the infirmary, if that's what you're asking," said Snape.

His tone was cold and he looked impatient, but compared to the treatment other Gryffindors received from Snape, he was very gentle towards Ginny.

Vader looked at the dazzling red hair thoughtfully.

"Thank you, Professor."

Ginny didn't feel like she was being treated specially, she just felt that Professor Snape was as scary as ever.

The girl whispered a thank you and ran off with her friend.

At this time, Dumbledore had also arrived at the scene.

The reason why he was a step late was that he went to visit Harry first, and there was still some blood on his sleeves.

"How's Harry, Dumbledore?" Hagrid asked hastily.

"It's just some flesh wounds. Madam Pomfrey will heal them quickly."

Dumbledore waved his wand and checked the Thestrals. Professor Sprout told him what they had discovered.

Dumbledore nodded slightly.

"Hagrid, take all the Thestrals back to the stables. I think we need to do a thorough check."

"Where's Geraldine, sir?" Hagrid asked nervously: "I know he hurt Harry, but it wasn't intentional. Geraldine has always been a good child..."

"Of course, it was only used by someone with ill intentions." Dumbledore said, "It will be up to you to take care of it until the effect of the potion wears off."

"Okay, Professor." Hagrid sniffed, picked up the immobilized Thestral with one hand, and carried it away.

"Dumbledore!" Snape said disapprovingly, "A beast that has hurt a man cannot be left here..."

Professor Sprout frowned. "There is a difference between actively causing harm and passively causing harm, Severus. It was confused by the Chat and didn't know what it was doing."

Dumbledore did not make a decision immediately, but asked, "Mr. Grey, what do you think?"

Vader was stunned for a moment. Snape and Professor Sprout looked at him at the same time.

Facing the gazes of the two professors, he thought for a moment and said, "I think we should ask the students who participated in the challenge to leave first, temporarily terminate the project, and check whether other creatures have been tampered with."

"As for how to deal with the Thestral named Geraldine...why not ask Harry for his opinion? After all, he is the victim."

Dumbledore nodded and said, "Let it be so."

Snape snorted immediately, and the look in his eyes from Wade seemed to show that he was also very dissatisfied with him.

They all knew that given Harry's personality and his relationship with Hagrid, he would definitely not pursue the matter further.

Wade just pretended not to see it.

Anyway, Professor Snape has always been like this - he never gives you a nice face and never says nice things, but he will definitely answer your questions and will definitely help you if you ask him for help.

In all the time he had been in school, Wade had only seen him praise Malfoy once.

Of course, this may also be because they have never taken Potions classes with Slytherin students, otherwise they might have seen Professor Snape's fancy way of praising Slytherin.

But for more than a year, Wade asked Professor Snape questions about potions, and he always got answers, even if they were beyond the syllabus.

After he moved to the Room of Requirement to brew potions, he no longer went to the underground classroom to practice.

After meeting Professor Snape on the road and being ridiculed twice, Wade finally figured out what he meant was, "Why don't you continue practicing? Don't give up halfway!"

Vader: “…”

So after the next Potions class, he took his recent achievements to the professor for review and explained -

I recently changed the place where I practice because some potions take too long to brew and it’s not good to occupy the Potions classroom all the time.

Then I received comments like "so-so" and "don't get carried away".

Chapter 2: It May Be Evening

Chapter 171 Doubt

When Wade came out of the maze, he saw the Weasley twins leading the students to block the entrance, waving their arms and shouting -

"Protest! Protest!"

"Give us back the ultimate challenge!"

"This is the result of everyone's hard work. The school can't just be closed down!"

"We want freedom! We want justice! We want the ultimate challenge!!!"

A group of adolescent boys and girls mixed together without any distinction between colleges, shouting slogans one after another, scaring the small animals on the outer layer so much that they trembled in fear and hid under the bushes in panic.

Wade was surprised to see a few pearly white figures among the students—

Most of the ghosts in the school had come and joined in the protest for some reason, even Peeves and the Weasley twins were standing shoulder to shoulder, arm to arm, yelling in unison.

Wade turned around, thinking that the headmaster would say something, but Dumbledore was gone.

Professor McGonagall stood in front of the students. The head girl of Gryffindor pointed her wand at her throat and shouted angrily: "Silence..."

The extremely loud sound was like rolling thunder and a lion's roar. The sound waves surged in all directions like a tide, and ripples appeared on the surface of the Black Lake.

There was a gurgling sound in the lake, and the giant squid that had floated to the surface to watch the fun dived down.

The forbidden forest suddenly became quiet, as if even the insects had stopped flapping their wings.

The wind stopped and the clouds died down. The students covered their ears with their hands, looking shocked. No one spoke anymore. It was so quiet around the maze that one could hear everyone's heartbeat.

Professor McGonagall put down her wand and clasped her hands together, looking dignified and elegant.

She looked at everyone and said, "A student has been attacked by a Thestral in the maze. We need to suspend all activities and investigate the cause of the incident."

Fred dared to whisper: "We are not afraid of getting hurt..."

Professor McGonagall narrowed her eyes.

Fred immediately changed his words: "No... I mean... we will be careful not to anger the Thestrals..."

"The Thestral was not angered by the rude behavior of a student. It was fed a large amount of Chat."

Professor McGonagall suppressed her anger and said, "This is a very bad behavior! Whoever did this prank had better turn himself in to me immediately! Otherwise, if I find out who did it, he will be sent home!"

She glanced meaningfully at some of the naughty students.

Most of the students looked at the Weasley twins, and of course some people stared at some Slytherin students with bad reputations with suspicion.

The twins immediately raised their hands and said in unison: "I swear, it wasn't us, Professor!"

George added: "Chat is expensive, I know that, but I wouldn't spend money on it to play a practical joke."

No one believed the twins' denial, but when George said this, everyone believed it.

Weasley's brothers and sisters are from the first grade to the sixth grade, and two of them have already graduated. Almost all of their classmates know what their family conditions are. Among the brothers and sisters, from Percy to Ginny, everyone uses second-hand goods.

The older Percy and the only girl, Ginny, occasionally had a few new things, but the Weasley twins and Ron had been wearing hand-me-downs for years, as if they had found them.

Of course, everyone knew that Fred and George were secretly trying to make money on their own, and everyone also knew that they had some savings.

But to say they would spend a lot of money on an impractical grass, to play a meaningless prank, to randomly hurt a student...

No one thought that the two of them would be so stupid.

Percy glared at the twins, raised his hands, and asked seriously: "Professor, who is the injured student?"

Professor McGonagall pursed her lips. She didn't want to say anything, but when she saw the looks of the students around her, she finally said, "Harry Potter. He was scratched by a Thestral and was just sent to the school infirmary."

Ron and Hermione in the crowd turned pale, looked at each other, and ran towards the school infirmary.

With a "boom", a buzz of discussion exploded among the students, and many eyes were cast towards the Slytherin students.

In fact, even the Slytherins themselves suspected that it was someone from their own house who did it. They did not voice their guesses aloud, but subconsciously looked at several students who often insulted Gryffindor and advocated the pure-blood theory in the lounge.

For example, Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott and others who often had conflicts with Harry and others in the past.

For example, seniors such as Foley and Yaxley.

So some Slytherins suddenly found themselves isolated by their classmates.