The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 175 New Letter
The auditorium was filled with a festive atmosphere. In addition to the common pumpkin lanterns and bat decorations, there were also some very local decorations, such as some ghost models. There were also special snacks such as sugar skulls, blood-filled candies and tombstone cookies on the dining table.

"Isn't Halloween tomorrow? Why is it like a holiday today?" Ryan asked in surprise. Several classmates around him also showed puzzled expressions.

Hermione next to her heard the question and answered, "The customs here are different from those in the UK. In South America, Halloween is celebrated from October 31st to November 2nd, a total of three days."

It seems that wizards in South America have longer holidays like Muggles, but this is a good thing for Ryan, after all, everyone likes holidays. At least from the perspective of food, the food during the Castrobrusso festival is much richer than the daily food.
However, Ryan's good mood did not last long. On the morning of Halloween, he received several letters. There were letters from the Weasley twins, Percy, and even Colin and Ron, who did not contact him often. These letters told Ryan that a terrible thing happened in the school: Sirius Black broke into the school and even destroyed the portrait of the Fat Lady of Gryffindor with a knife.

When Ryan took the letters to the common room, he found that most people were waiting there, and everyone had one or two letters in their hands. However, the information from others was not as true as the one Ryan got. For example, a Hufflepuff student next to him swore that Black broke into the Gryffindor common room and fought with a bunch of students for hundreds of rounds before being forced to flee.

Just as everyone was standing in the room nervously sharing the news they had received, Professor Sprout walked into the room, roughly counted the number of people, and said to everyone: "Okay, you are all here now, and I have something to say. Many of you may have received letters from friends at school telling you what happened in Hogwarts last night. In order to avoid the spread of rumors, I will now give you a formal notice."

"First, Sirius Black did enter Hogwarts Castle last night, and destroyed the portrait of the Fat Lady when he was unable to enter the Gryffindor Common Room. Second, there were no casualties in the process, so I hope everyone will not spread rumors. Finally, unfortunately, we did not catch Sirius, so I hope everyone can persuade your friends to cooperate with the school as much as possible at this time and not mess around." After saying this, Professor Sprout glanced at Ryan.

It seems that the Weasley twins are notorious in the school. Ryan could only give an awkward but polite smile to show that he knew.

After Professor Sprout finished speaking, everyone dispersed. On the way to class, Ryan kept wondering what the defense of Hogwarts Castle was like. In his previous life, many fan fictions he read said that the headmaster could monitor the movements of the entire school. Of course, this was not difficult from a technical point of view. After all, Harry Potter's father could do this, so it was not difficult for Hogwarts School to have a similar monitoring system.

But if real-time monitoring as described in some fan fiction is really possible, why didn't Dumbledore just catch Black directly?

Of course, Ryan does not agree with the Dumbledore conspiracy theory mentioned in many fan fictions. After all, as the leader of the white wizards, Dumbledore should not indulge criminals. Of course, under this premise, Dumbledore would not do such a thing as knowing that his subordinates were wronged and forcing them to stay in Azkaban for more than ten years.

The most likely explanation is that the surveillance system at Hogwarts can only show who is where, but it requires someone to watch it all the time, and there is no automatic alarm function. As a headmaster, how could Dumbledore stare at the monitor all day like the security guards?

In this case, Ryan felt that he would have a better chance of causing trouble in Hogwarts Castle in the future, as long as he was not too unlucky and avoided those portraits and ghosts.

Naturally, in this situation, everyone couldn't help but discuss how Black broke through the Dementors' blockade and sneaked into the school, but most people believed that he must have entered the school through some secret passage.

Because everyone is in Brazil now, the Hogwarts incident is a little far from them. So after discussing for a long time, everyone put the incident behind them. It was just that when everyone wrote letters to their friends in Hogwarts that night, they couldn't help but say a few more words of comfort. However, the situation in Hogwarts did not turn around because of this incident. Just when everyone was about to forget the previous incident, another new unfortunate thing happened in Hogwarts.

It was mid-November that day, and Ryan came back from dinner to find everyone in the common room discussing the upcoming Hogwarts house competition. Ravenclaw students were especially nervous about this year's competition, after all, because Zhang Qiu participated in this exchange activity, Ravenclaw could only find substitute players to play in the game.

Although Ryan was not very interested in Quidditch, he still joined the discussion circle for social purposes, occasionally saying a word or two to pretend that he was not a rookie.

Just as everyone was discussing heatedly, Hermione suddenly pushed the door and walked into the common room with an open letter in her hand.

"Ryan, something happened at Hogwarts. The Dementors got out of control and broke into the Quidditch field. Harry fell directly from the sky."

As soon as Hermione finished speaking, there was a loud bang in the common room. Everyone began to ask Hermione what happened. As Hermione read the letter, the details of what happened were slowly constructed by everyone. To sum it up in one sentence: the excitement and happiness of everyone on the Quidditch field made the hungry Dementors out of control, and Harry fainted because he was too close to them. Fortunately, Dumbledore drove away the Dementors and saved Harry.

"I don't know why we have Dementors protecting the school."

"This filth should have been eradicated long ago."

"What on earth is the Ministry of Magic thinking? What's the difference between Hogwarts and Azkaban?"

While everyone in the common room was discussing the matter passionately, Ryan and Hermione returned to their compartment.

"This letter was written by Ginny at Harry's bedside. She said that Harry was in a very bad condition when he was taken to the hospital. He looked pale and was trembling all over. So she wanted to ask Harry how to solve this problem now?" Hermione asked as she handed the letter in her hand to Ryan.

"As far as I know, there is only one solution Harry can use now," Ryan said.

(End of this chapter)