Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

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"Hey, 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?"

Chapter 82 Secret Passage, McGee

Wade paused: "Is it obvious?"

"Others may not be able to see it, but it's too obvious to us!" Fred said with a smile, "We saw you come out of the corridor where the mirror is just now, and now you have found the portrait of Paracelsus. Aren't you looking for the secret passage?"

"But it's no use. Filch also knows the secret passage behind the portrait. He is very alert! Even if you sneak in, you will definitely be caught by him when you come out." George said: "That guy knows the secret passages of four castles."

"But we know better! If you really want to sneak out of school and do something—"

"We mean - go to Honeydukes and get some candy or something -"

"Then go to the middle of the corridor on the fourth floor and find the statue of a one-eyed hunchbacked witch—"

"The command is [Separate left and right]——"

"The exit is at Honeydukes."

"Well then—" Fred winked mischievously, "I look forward to having a great adventure with you!"

"Why did you tell me?" Wade asked curiously, "You haven't told many people about this secret passage, have you?"

"Of course! Even little Ronnie doesn't know!"

"But you have found two secret passages on your own - you are qualified to become the new generation of law breakers!" Fred said solemnly, as if he was carrying out some serious inheritance.

"We have also received some help from our predecessors - um - very valuable help -" George said vaguely: "So we should also help some like-minded people!"

"Good job, Wade!" Fred gave a thumbs up: "You are talented."

Vader didn't want to know what the "talent" he was talking about was... He always felt that the twins had some misunderstandings about him.

"Separate left and right!"

Wade found the statue of the hunchbacked witch and chanted a spell. The statue's hunchback immediately opened, leaving enough space for him to walk in.

But Wade stood at the entrance, looking at the dark passage, and finally chose to restore the statue again.

——Why did you have to sneak out of school illegally?

Wei De suddenly had this thought.

Gryffindor would see this as a great adventure, but in his opinion, this behavior of increasing one's own risk is actually undesirable.

He really needed to meet Remus Lupin and Marchionne at the same time, but the secret passage was only a backup option. When the legitimate means could not achieve his goal, it would not be too late for him to use the secret passage to leave the school.

Several professors flashed through his mind quickly, and finally stopped on Professor Murray's kind smile.

Not only because of Professor Mori's care and appreciation for him, but also because this professor didn't take rules and discipline seriously.

Hogwarts did not allow access to the Floo Network, so he connected it to the fireplace in his office (although Dumbledore must have known);

It was not legal to connect the fireplace of a non-magical household to the Floo network, but he secretly found someone to open it anyway;

Many people who have the same status and prestige as Professor Murray will gradually become moral role models and the embodiment of rules as they grow older (even if only on the surface), but Professor Murray will roll up his sleeves and personally bargain with the businessmen.

So, Professor Murray was the most likely person to make an exception and approve his leaving the school.

……

"Snapped!"

The familiar sound made Wade turn his head immediately. He thought it would be one of Phil and the others, but unexpectedly it was an unfamiliar house-elf.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Weed Grey." The elf bowed deeply.

"You are--" Wade's fingers faintly clasped the wand and glanced at the top of the elf's head: "McGee? Good afternoon, MacGee."

The elf's eyes widened in surprise, and his eyes, which were already as big as tennis balls, became even more prominent, and tears quickly welled up.

"Ved Grey actually remembered McGee's name? McGee is just a house-elf who is more insignificant than dust, but Vied Grey actually remembered his name? He even said good afternoon to McGee? No wizard has ever said good afternoon to McGee - no wizard has ever remembered McGee's name -"

The elf burst into tears.

Vader sighed, squatted down and said to him: "Sorry, did I say something wrong?"

"No - no - how could Weed Grey be wrong? He is just as Zoe said... a very, very great wizard... just as good as Zoe said--" McGee said, crying.

"This is too much of an exaggeration. I'm not great at all." Wade took out a tissue from his pocket and handed it to him, saying, "If you keep crying, I'm afraid you'll attract others!"

"A house-elf that is not discovered by wizards is a good house-elf" - this idea is like a moral law imprinted in the elf's mind. McGee's crying immediately became lower and gradually stopped after a while.

"I remember Zoe said you were researching how to make those candies?" Wade asked tentatively, "Did you come to me because you have any results from your research?"

"Yes—yes—Ved Grey will see candy on the table tonight—"

McGee sobbed, "But—no—McGee didn't come for that—McGee came to warn Weed Grey—"

"Warning?" Wade was stunned: "Warn me about what?"

"McGee was cleaning in Slytherin and heard a few students say - said they were going to teach Weed Grey a lesson while he was practicing potions -"

McGee finished speaking with great difficulty, and then froze, as if he couldn't believe what he had done. Then he shuddered and slammed into the wall, shouting, "Bad McGee! Bad McGee!"

"Wait, McGee!" Wade grabbed her and stopped her from hitting the wall: "What are you doing, McGee?"

"McGee is punishing himself - McGee is so bad - he actually leaked the secret of the little wizard -" McGee said with tears in his eyes: "But Weed Grey needs to know - someone has bad intentions towards him - McGee... McGee wants to tell Weed Grey who it is, but McGee can't tell their names..."

As he was talking, he wanted to hit the wall again, but Wade quickly stopped him and said, "Wait! You were trying to protect me, remember? You didn't reveal any secrets, but you protected a student who was about to be in danger. You don't need to be punished for that!"

"Is—is that so?" asked McKee, bewildered.

"Of course." Vader nodded affirmatively and vigorously.

McGee hesitated and stopped struggling, tilting his head, as if he was in some kind of confusion.

Wade said softly, "Listen to me, McGee - thank you for punishing yourself to protect me and save me from bad luck... Protecting others and sacrificing yourself is a very noble, loving and responsible act. It is also the meaning and value of life. There is absolutely no reason to be punished for it."

McGee stared at him blankly.

After a long time, he bowed deeply, with the tip of his nose touching the ground.

"Vide Grey, please be careful about your own safety - McGee will never tolerate Vide Grey being hurt..."

After saying that, he disappeared from the spot with a "pop" sound, taking the dirty tissue with him.

Chapter 83 Badge, Approval

Wade took note of McGee's warning, but it was not something he needed to think about for the time being.

He used to practice potions in the potions classroom when it was free, and was probably seen by Slytherin students a few times. But they didn't know that since discovering the Room of Requirement, Wade rarely went there.

As for who those people are, Wade naturally knows it.

He decided to leave them alone for a few days, but not for too long - if it took too long, those Slytherins might choose to give up.

After class on Thursday, Wade went to the Astronomy Tower to see Professor Murray as usual, and unexpectedly met a few seventh-grade students on the way. They were much taller, but they all looked dejected, which made them look shorter for some reason.

A girl was saying to the person next to her: "I want to kill Jennifer! She told me before that the alchemy course was very interesting and Professor Murray's requirements were not high - is this not high?"

"Professor Murray was really easy to talk to before! Remember? When we were in sixth grade." Another student sighed and said, "It's just that the professor accepted a new student this year, and suddenly he doesn't like us - he used to like me very much."

The girl in front of me said angrily, "You're teaching yourself runes in the first grade? That's crazy! If we weren't all in school, I would have thought it was a lie!"

One student lamented: "Alas...why doesn't he spend more time on Quidditch?"