Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Wade got out of the car and patted the snorting Thestral. The black Pegasus tilted its head slightly, its empty eyes both scary and cute.

Michael picked up the leaf umbrella, looked back at the empty front of the carriage, and then caught up with the team.

Everyone walked up the stone steps into the castle. The muddy ground made the portraits on both sides complain, but the students walked past them without noticing and quickly ran towards the warm auditorium.

Professor McGonagall, wearing a black wizard robe, was standing next to the marble staircase with her hands clasped. Under her gaze, the students' noise suddenly became smaller or even disappeared, and everyone walked into the hall quietly.

"Gray, Granger!" Professor McGonagall suddenly said, "You two, come with me."

Wade and Hermione looked at each other, and they squeezed through the crowd and followed Professor McGonagall to her office.

This office is much smaller than the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office, and may be the smallest among the many professors' offices, but it is warm and the fireplace is burning brightly.

In the past two years, Wade often came here to ask Professor McGonagall questions, so he knew that there was a small door hidden next to the bookshelf in this office, and behind the door was the bedroom where Professor McGonagall usually rested and lived.

Professor McGonagall waved her wand and two chairs slid out from under the table.

"Sit down."

Professor McGonagall sat behind the desk, looking at the two of them with a satisfied smile on her face.

"Gray, Granger, you are both the best students I have ever taught. When you chose your courses before, you also chose all the elective courses - so this semester, you will study twelve courses."

"Yes, Professor," Hermione said nervously.

Wade looked at Professor McGonagall, nodded, and said nothing.

He was afraid that as soon as he opened his mouth, the desire would bubble up from his throat.

"Even if I don't say it, I think you all understand that studying twelve courses at the same time is a heavy burden. Few people can handle so much coursework."

Professor McGonagall warned seriously: "Many outstanding wizards are not good at every subject. If you change your mind now and want to apply to give up one or two courses, I can fully understand, and I think it will be very wise."

"I'm sorry, Professor," Hermione said, "but giving up before I even try is not my style."

"I made my choice after careful consideration, Professor," Wade also said.

"Well... I think you noticed when you were choosing your courses that some courses have conflicting schedules."

Professor McGonagall said: "In order to ensure that every student can successfully complete their studies, the school has specially applied to the Ministry of Magic for something that can help you adjust your time -"

"when."

Professor McGonagall placed two golden timers on the table, with thin gold chains behind them.

On the dial of the timer is a small hourglass filled with golden sand, which looks delicate and mysterious.

Wade couldn't help swallowing, his heart suddenly rose, and he could hardly take his eyes off it.

"This is a time-turner."

Professor McGonagall said, "Every time it turns, time goes back one hour..."

"What?" Hermione exclaimed, "This is impossible! Time... time is irreversible!"

"It's incredible, but magic can indeed reverse time, Miss Granger."

Professor McGonagall said seriously: "But reversing time is a very dangerous magic. Many wizards have tried to use time converters to change the past, but they all have disastrous consequences without exception."

"For example, killing your past or future self, or causing someone who should have existed to never be born, or causing someone who should have lived a happy life to encounter strange misfortunes."

"The Ministry of Magic will impose the most severe punishment for the misuse of the Time Turner, which is more serious than murder and breaking the Statute of Secrecy!"

"In order for you to use it legally, I wrote a dozen letters to the Ministry of Magic to prove that you were all model students and would never use it for anything other than studying -"

"You must swear to me that you will indeed keep this promise! And don't tell anyone about this!"

Naturally, both Vader and Hermione raised their hands and swore.

The power of magic comes from the wizard's heart. When a wizard makes a serious oath, even without signing a contract, magic will produce invisible constraints.

Professor McGonagall pushed the Time-Turner forward gently, saying, "You may take it away, then."

"Remember, the maximum period for time travel is five hours. If you exceed this time, the probability of danger will increase greatly."

"I suggest that you only go back one hour at a time. This way you can catch up with the course without violating the time restriction."

"Also, after reversing time, you can't change anything that has already happened, and your past self can never see your future self."

"The Ministry of Magic has hundreds of laws regarding the use of the Time-Turner. Please read them carefully! Do not violate any of them, or I will take back the Time-Turner!"

Chapter 326 Hermione: Maybe it’s a god?

Before leaving Professor McGonagall's office, Wade and Hermione both hung the Time Turner around their necks and hid it in their school robes to avoid being seen.

The two walked side by side in the empty corridor, too excited to say a word. As they walked, Hermione jumped twice on the spot.

"time!"

Hermione said excitedly, "Vader, this is a time-turner! It's so cool! No wonder when I asked Percy how to complete the twelve subjects successfully, he said he couldn't tell me, but I will know when the time comes."

"Ah."

Vader touched the outline of the time converter through his clothes and wondered, "I wonder who was the first person to discover that the power of time can be tamed."

"Even though I'm a wizard, I still think - maybe it's a god?"

Hermione thought for a moment and said, "I've never seen any spells related to time in a book."

Wade said: "Professor Murray once lent me a book that said the time converter itself has no unique function. It is a magic called the Time Reversal Spell that allows people to travel through time and space."

Hermione immediately became interested: "Time reversal spell?"

"Unfortunately, this spell has not been passed down, and it is not even certain whether it really exists."

Wade shook his head and stopped letting his thoughts wander. He said, "But... don't you think that [Restored to the Original State] is also a spell that reverses time?"

Hermione thought.

As they talked, the two of them unconsciously slowed down their pace, and when Professor McGonagall hurried over from her office, she found the two of them still standing stupidly at the door of the auditorium.

"What are you two doing standing here?"

Professor McGonagall's voice came from behind.

Hermione was so startled that she almost jumped. Vader turned and said, "We want to wait until the Sorting Ceremony is over before we go in, Professor."

Professor McGonagall smiled approvingly, and then said, "The Sorting Ceremony should be over by now. Follow me!"

The witch pushed open the door of the auditorium, and many students looked over there.

Professor McGonagall walked calmly to the teaching desk, while Wade and Hermione returned to their respective houses.

"What did Professor McGonagall ask you to do?" Ron asked curiously.

"Um... it's the course schedule for the new semester. As you know, I've chosen twelve courses."

Hermione said vaguely.

Percy, who was sitting in front of the Gryffindor table, turned around and nodded at Hermione with a smile. The two exchanged a knowing smile.

Michael deliberately sat at the end of the Ravenclaw table, leaving a position that was convenient for Wade to enter and exit.

However, when Wade came back, he was busy showing the leaf umbrella in his hand to some pretty girls, so she didn't bother to talk to Wade. She just gave him a look in her busy schedule.

Wade looked at the teachers' seats in front of him - the people sitting in front were almost the same as at the end of last semester, especially Professor Abigail, who was still sitting next to Snape with a half-smile on her face, while Professor Snape had a gloomy face as always.

Near the edge of the long table sat a large man - Hagrid was dressed much more respectably than before, not like a raw meat-eating savage, but his hair and beard were still messy.

Dumbledore stood up and spoke.

"Welcome!" he said happily, "Welcome to Hogwarts! I hope we can still have a colorful new year!"

The students all burst into laughter, and the Weasley brothers shouted loudly: "Professor! Is there a challenge in September? What monsters are we going to defeat?!"

"Oh, my old friends in the Forbidden Forest may not be willing to be beaten, but speaking of which, I once encountered a mutant carnivorous slug in the forest. It bit my friend Sean and ate him. When we pulled poor Sean out, he was covered with..."

"Cough, cough!" Professor McGonagall suddenly coughed twice.

Dumbledore paused for a moment as he recalled the past, and after two seconds he said:

"Let's stop talking about affecting appetite! This year, we are very happy to have another outstanding member join our teaching team——"

"Rubeau Hagrid!"

Hagrid's face turned red with joy. He quickly stood up and waved to everyone, and everyone's eyes moved upwards.

Dumbledore smiled and said, "Professor Kettleburn of the Care of Magical Creatures class has retired in order to spend more time with his remaining little rascals. Hagrid will fill his vacancy and serve as the professor of Care of Magical Creatures in addition to serving as the gamekeeper!"

A few seconds later, warm applause broke out from the Gryffindor table, and after a while, the applause from other houses hesitantly followed.

Hagrid gave a nervous smile and stood awkwardly for a while before sitting down at the reminder of Professor McGonagall.

Even when sitting, he was much taller than Professor McGonagall next to him, not to mention Professor Flitwick on the other side - this professor with goblin blood looked like a little doll against Hagrid's background.

"Dumbledore is getting more and more crazy!" Draco Malfoy sneered, "He actually hired a servant to be our professor! I really wish I was in Durmstrang now!"

The Slytherins around him followed suit.

Ever since Malfoy accidentally nearly killed Crabbe last semester, the students around him were initially very afraid of him and kept their distance from him.

But after a while, they gathered around him again, and their attitude was more respectful than before.

In the past, they only tried to please Malfoy because of his family's money, but now they gathered around him because of him.

"I also took Care of Magical Creatures."

Michael's face turned pale, and he asked, "Ved, I know you have a good relationship with him... So, this... Professor Hagrid, besides being tall, shouldn't fight with students, right?"

As he spoke, he glanced at Professor Abigail in the teacher's seat, and it was obvious that he was still frightened.

Wade didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Hagrid was the referee many times when you participated in the maze challenge. You should know that he has a good temper."

"The good temper of a gamekeeper is not the same as the good temper of a school professor."

Michael said seriously, "And your applause was a bit perfunctory...If you were happy to have him as our professor, you wouldn't do that."

Wade smiled helplessly and said, "Hagrid likes dragons."

Michael was puzzled: "Who doesn't like dragons? As long as they don't attack me."

"Even if Hagrid was attacked by a dragon, he would just think these little guys are cute and charming - that's the difference between you," said Wade.