From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 201 Golden Horn
When Ivy left the headmaster's office, Snape had already agreed to the plan to train Harry.

In other words, he was willing to prove to Dumbledore personally that Harry was a brainless creature.

According to Ivy, Snape might be planning to follow the principle of nearby bullying, pull Harry over to his side and give him a good beating, and then tell Dumbledore that Harry is a hopeless case.

As for telling Harry himself about this, Dumbledore thought that it would take at least until after Peter Pettigrew's sentence was concluded.

But now, Dumbledore has not made up his mind to convene the Order of the Phoenix. After all, finding the Horcruxes cannot be successful by relying on numbers. Moreover, the Horcruxes themselves have the power to bewitch people. Even an old wizard with great magical powers may not be able to resist Voldemort's dark magic.

Moreover, if the truth about the Horcruxes is told to the members of the Order of the Phoenix, there will be a risk of secret leaks. Last time, there was a traitor among the members of the Order of the Phoenix, so there is no guarantee that there will be no traitor this time.

If the truth about the Horcruxes is not revealed, the members of the Order of the Phoenix might not take them seriously. If by chance one of them falls into Voldemort's trap, it would be a complete loss of both the wife and the army.

Therefore, the fewer people who know about the Horcruxes, the better. Time is not on Voldemort's side now, and the search for the Horcruxes can be taken slowly.

The breakfast time at Hogwarts starts at 8 o'clock and ends at 10 o'clock, because the school will take special care of the students who have astronomy classes the night before. For these growing children, adequate sleep is very necessary. Therefore, the school allows them to get up later, and even the end time of the buffet breakfast is pushed back.

Ivy strolled leisurely in the castle, passing by the little wizards going to their classrooms for classes. He was going to find the entrance to the Room of Requirement that was built more than a hundred years ago.

Ever since he discovered that the magical animals that appeared in the castle were all those he had once raised, Ivy went to the Room of Requirement every few days.

However, after many fruitless searches, Ivy had to give up the idea of finding the entrances for the magical beasts in the Room of Requirement, and instead began to use the 2nd-level Transmutation spell Knock to search every wall in the castle.

The effect of knocking is very simple. It is a spell used to open secret doors or locks. However, unlike "Alaho Opening", knocking is also effective for blocking magic and can temporarily suppress blocking spells for ten minutes. During the duration, the door that was originally blocked or hidden by magic can be opened normally.

It was because of this feature of knocking that Ivy decided to use it to find the way to the Room of Requirement in Hogwarts that existed a hundred years ago.

However, Ivy's spell slots were limited after all. Even if he used the versatile spellcaster to combine the first-ring spell slots into the second-ring, he could cast no more than fifteen knock spells a day, and it was obviously not cost-effective to use a spell slot higher than the second-ring spell slot to cast the knock spell. Moreover, he had to spend a fourth-ring spell slot and a fifth-ring spell slot every day to consolidate his private space in Hogwarts.

But now that the one-year period has expired, Ivy only needs to release Mordenkainen's private chamber once more tonight, and he will be able to obtain a private area that lasts permanently.

After that, it was the five-ring teleportation spell. It would take another half a year for this spell to become permanent. Once the teleportation spell was permanent, Ivy could explore the other world with confidence. Half a year was enough for him to upgrade the [Scribe Mage/Ancient Fighter] profession to level 13. To be honest, he was just a little short of experience points.

"Haven't you figured it out yet, little brats?"

As Ivy studied the wall in front of him, he heard Peeves' voice.

Looking up, I saw that this mischievous elf was bullying the first-year students again.

"We can't possibly set our trousers on fire!" one boy shouted. "We haven't even learned a few spells yet!"

"Then you can't pass!" Peeves flew in the air, obviously very proud. Creating trouble for students on their way to class has always been his favorite thing to do. He himself doesn't like to go to class, and he doesn't like to let other people in the castle go to class.

This time he seemed to have thought of a new trick, blocking the door and asking everyone who wanted to go through to light their pants on fire. He could enjoy the embarrassed expressions of the students because they were about to be late, and also enjoy the wonderful scene after they set their pants on fire. It was a win-win situation, Peeves won twice.

"I'm going to tell Bloody Baron!" threatened a junior student, who had obviously learned this trick from another senior student.

"Really? I'm so scared~" Peeves pretended to be scared and looked left and right, then burst into laughter in the air.

"Those first-year brats can't do that! Slytherin students never call Master Barrow by his nickname!" Peeves laughed loudly at the students' mistakes and stood in the air with a smug look on his face.

"What should we do? Should we take a detour?" "But who can be sure that Peeves won't block us on the other side?"

Several first-year students were extremely frustrated and exchanged glances with each other.

Soon, they noticed Ivy standing by the wall, and the dark green robe he was wearing with the Slytherin snake emblem embroidered in gold thread on it.

Perhaps because of Slytherin's reputation, several first-year students hesitated and did not speak. They just looked at Ivy expectantly, hoping that he would take the initiative to lend a helping hand.

Peeves obviously noticed the actions of the little wizards, but he just laughed nonchalantly: "You expect a Slytherin student to help? You might as well expect your pants to catch fire!"

Ivy watched everything with interest, since he was in no hurry to go to class. Several young wizards whispered to each other for a while, and finally sent out a little girl with big eyes, light blond hair, and a trance-like look.

"Hi." She came up to Ivy and greeted him. "They want you to call the Bloody Baron. The ghost is afraid of him. Is the Baron a ghost too? Why is his nickname so scary?"

"Luna!" The girl who sent her over was obviously devastated, "I meant 'please'!"

Luna nodded in understanding. "They want you to invite the Bloody Baron over."

"It's you! No! It's us!" the noisy girl corrected again.

Luna followed up with her words, "We hope you'll invite the Bloody Baron over."

"Why do you want to see Bloody Barrow?" Ivy asked with a smile.

Luna didn't answer immediately, but turned her head to wait for the next instruction.

"Because of Peeves!"

Luna relayed, "Because Peeves is blocking our way."

"Then why don't you ask me to help you deal with Peeves?" Ivy continued.

Luna nodded, as if she thought it made sense: "Please help us deal with Peeves."

Ivy waved his finger, and Peeves didn't even have time to scream. He was quickly dragged into the ceiling as if he was being lifted by the ankle, and the door that was originally blocked also opened with a "bang", scaring the little wizards standing in front of it. But they quickly came to their senses and ran through the door one after another, and no one even turned back to thank Ivy.

"Luna! Come here!" The girl who assigned Luna whispered, but Luna, who was lost in thought, obviously didn't hear it. So the girl shook her head and left.

"You don't seem to like your friends very much." Ivy turned back to Luna and the little girl's eyes finally focused for the first time.

"Oh, they're not my friends," Luna said slowly, not seeming to be worried about being late at all.

"If we're not friends, we generally won't get so close." Ivy didn't mind wasting some time on this weird little girl. Anyway, he had already used up his second-level spell slot for the day.

"Because they all said they would join the Ministry of Magic in the future." Luna glanced at the direction where the little wizards left. "Getting on good terms with them will help my father investigate the tooth rot conspiracy. They want to use dark magic and gum disease to destroy the Ministry of Magic from within."

"The Ministry of Magic and conspiracies are too early for them." Ivy smiled, "Aren't you going to class?"

"I think so too, but there are many similar people in Ravenclaw, and there is one or more clubs." Luna sounded very much in agreement with Ivy's words, "Thank you, I should go to class."

"Thank you is not enough." Ivy wanted to tease the little girl.

Luna frowned, seeming to be in a dilemma: "Then I'll give you this."

Then she pulled a cork from her pocket, stuffed it into Ivy's hand, and skipped away.

Ivy opened her hand. It was a wooden cork of butterbeer with a hole not drilled in it. Perhaps it should have been a necklace around Luna's neck with other brothers and sisters in the near future.

Ivy burst out laughing. This was truly a special thank you gift.

Walking down the stairs of Hogwarts, Ivy was going to cast a spell in his own chamber of secrets. By the way, he scratched Xiaoyan's chin and checked on Norbeta's development.

However, after going down two floors, Ivy heard a noisy sound in the corridor.

People's shouts and screams came along the corridor into the stairwell and into Ivy's ears.

Ivy suspected that some magical animals that were over a hundred years old had escaped, and he was worried that he had no place to find them, so he just found them.

"unicorn!"

From a distance, Ivy could hear someone recognize the species of magical beasts and the "clacking" sound of horse hooves hitting the floor.

"Run! Don't look back! An angry unicorn is not easy to deal with!"

The sound of the young wizard's footsteps running down the corridor also turned the corner.

Next came several students whose clothes were in disarray due to running wildly, and the golden unicorn chasing them closely.

When rescuing magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest, Ivy liked to pick those with unique fur colors, the pure black half-breed crup and the agate-colored hippogriff were among them.

Normally, only young unicorns have golden hair, but the one Ivy raised is different. Even when it grows up, its hair is still shining golden, like a sculpture made entirely of gold.

The golden unicorn lowered its head, revealing its spiral horn completely, and it looked like it was about to pierce the little wizard in front of it in the next second.

"Petrify all!" A flash of spell followed the unicorn out from the corner, but it only brushed against its golden fur before changing direction and hitting a portrait in the corridor. In the portrait, the milkmaid and the cow being milked were both terrified - only their eyes could move.

"Be careful! Hide in the classroom!" Chasing behind the unicorn were the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Lupin and Transfiguration professor McGonagall. It seemed that the unicorn had been running in the castle for a while, because the classrooms of these two professors were not on the first floor.

"Ivy! Help them!" Professor McGonagall obviously noticed Ivy's conspicuous robe and called for help.

Ivy waved his wand lightly, and the students being chased by the unicorn seemed to have suddenly broken free from the constraints of gravity and fell to the ceiling. The unicorn's golden spiral horn lost its target, and it could only snort angrily and paw the ground with its hooves.

"Thank God!" Professor McGonagall paused, panting. "Stay away from that unicorn!"

A few brave students, let's assume they are Gryffindors, quietly opened the door of the classroom and looked at the unicorn with shining eyes.

Professor Lupin changed his posture from running to walking quickly, and at the same time, he did not forget to cross the unicorn's body and warned Ivy: "Be careful, the unicorn has a bad temper."

"It's okay, I can deal with them." Ivy walked towards the unicorns that kept standing up. They were trying to reach the robes of the little wizards.

As a magical animal that is almost indistinguishable from a horse, unicorns have similar habits to their Muggle relatives. Apart from the additional skill of using their horns to butt people, they can also use their big teeth to bite people and kick.

"Don't!" Professor Lupin stretched out his hand to stop him, "Unicorns don't like boys..."

However, Ivy has already started to scratch the golden unicorn's chin. In addition to the long light golden mane on its back, the unicorn's body is covered with a layer of soft short hair, and there is a layer of down under these hairs to help them keep warm in the cold winter of the Forbidden Forest. In other words, the unicorn feels great to touch.

"This is so strange..." Lupin exclaimed in amazement as he stood not far away. "Except for Hagrid, I've never seen a unicorn approach a male before."

"Thanks to you, Mr. Doom, Slytherin scores ten points." Professor McGonagall finally caught her breath and walked over to announce.

"How did this unusual unicorn appear in the castle? I remember that they always stay away from places where humans gather." Professor McGonagall put the little wizard who was lying on the ceiling down and drove them to the other end of the corridor.

"Uh..." Ivy said hesitantly, "In fact, most of the magical animals that have appeared in Hogwarts recently are related to me. Including the golden horn in front of us."

(End of this chapter)