Hogwarts: I will not become the Dark Lord

“Jerry, what did Headmaster Dumbledore want to see you about? Is it to deal with the basilisk?” Hermione asked impatiently as she saw Jerry walk in with his head down.

Jerry frowned and nodded slightly, perfunctorily replying to Hermione, but in his heart, he was pondering what Dumbledore had just said to him.

He was certain that Dumbledore was hiding something from him, but he still couldn't figure out what Grindelwald had discovered in Egypt that would make the usually calm and unflappable Dumbledore abandon the mess at Hogwarts and rush to Egypt so urgently.

“That’s great! Hogwarts will be safe from now on, and everyone won’t have to worry about attacks anymore!”

Heh! Safe? Hogwarts safe my foot! This damn place has something happen every year!

“It’s getting late, Hermione, you should rest. I need to go back to my dorm too!” Jerry pointed to the clock on the wall. It was already 9:15 PM, long past the school's curfew.

“Okay!” Hermione looked at the clock, grabbed Jerry’s hand, and whispered, “Jerry, can you talk to Madam Pomfrey for me? I’m fine and don’t need to stay in the hospital. I have classes tomorrow!”

“No, you have to listen to the doctor in the hospital!” Jerry looked at Hermione speechlessly, gently patted her forehead, and decisively refused her request. Others pretend to be sick to skip class, but you’re doing the opposite!

“Fine, don’t help then. Why do you nag like my dad!” Hermione muttered, then slapped away Jerry’s hand that was messing with her face, her cheeks puffed up with anger.

Jerry pinched Hermione’s cheek one last time, then smiled and left the hospital wing under her annoyed and dissatisfied gaze.

“Hiss hiss hiss! (Kill! Intruders, filthy blood! Kill!)”

In the first-floor corridor of Hogwarts, before Jerry could enter the Slytherin common room, a hissing sound entered Jerry’s ears.

Jerry instantly realized the danger of the situation. He quickly lowered his head, quickly pulled out his wand, and tensed all his nerves.

“Could it be that Voldemort couldn’t restrain himself so quickly and is launching another attack with the basilisk!”

Jerry held his wand, cautiously lowered his head, and followed the hissing sound all the way. However, as soon as he stepped onto the second floor, the basilisk’s hissing suddenly disappeared.

“What are you doing here? Don’t you know what time it is?”

Just as Jerry was confused, another cold and familiar voice appeared.

Jerry slowly raised his head, looking at Snape not far away, but his expression didn’t relax, because he wasn’t sure if the person in front of him was real or fake.

But soon Jerry’s hanging heart relaxed, because in the next few minutes, Snape’s mouth was as if smeared with honey, saying a lot of sarcastic words, none of which were repeated.

“Professor Snape, it’s so late, what are you doing… at the entrance of the girls’ bathroom?” Jerry looked at the room next to him, gestured to Snape with his eyes, and asked suspiciously.

“I am the one asking you questions, not you asking me. Also, put away your wand. What’s wrong, Mr. Green, do you think bullying students is not enough to satisfy you, and now you are preparing to attack a professor?” Snape continued to say in his unique sarcastic tone.

“Professor Snape, I have said some things many times. If you don’t believe me, you can ask other students in the school!” Jerry slowly lowered the wand in his right hand, but secretly held the Elder Wand tightly behind his back with his left hand, just in case.

Just as the two were talking, a burst of rapid footsteps appeared. Before long, Professor McGonagall’s figure appeared before the two.

“Severus, Jerry, what are you two doing here?” Hearing the commotion, McGonagall quickly came to the second floor, looking at the somewhat tense atmosphere between the two, and asked suspiciously.

“Good evening, Professor McGonagall. I just came out of the hospital wing and was about to go back to the common room!” Jerry politely greeted Professor McGonagall, then looked at Snape again.

Professor McGonagall heard Jerry’s words and also looked at Snape with a questioning gaze.

“It’s very late, Jerry Green, you should go back to your dorm first!” Snape glared at Jerry after seeing this, and said.

Jerry helplessly took out the Elder Wand again, cast a few layers of protective spells on himself, and slowly opened the door. Like sweeping for mines, he carefully checked every corner of the room.

However, to Jerry’s surprise, this time was different from the last time. The other party not only didn’t leave any notes or anything like that, but even the traces of their actions were cleaned up.

A skilled veteran! Jerry thought to himself. If the spell he left behind hadn’t been triggered, Jerry himself might not have noticed that someone had quietly sneaked into his dorm.

… …

Early the next morning, Harry, Ron, and Neville sat listlessly at the Gryffindor table, as if they had lost their souls. Even the steaming breakfast in front of them couldn’t arouse their interest.

“Why are you all so listless?”

Hearing Jerry’s voice, Harry, Ron, and Neville suddenly looked up at him, and said excitedly as if they had found their backbone: “Jerry, something bad has happened, Headmaster Dumbledore has left the school!”

After Jerry took a sip of the white porridge brought by the house-elf, he glanced at the three in surprise, “How did you know about this?”

“Last night, we secretly went to find Hagrid wearing the Invisibility Cloak!” Harry said in a low voice to everyone after observing the surrounding environment, “Moreover, Dumbledore, Minister Fudge of the Ministry of Magic, and Lucius Malfoy also went to Hagrid’s hut. We heard their conversation!”

“That’s right, they suspect Hagrid of the attacks and are going to lock Hagrid in Azkaban!”

“It’s all Malfoy’s father, Lucius, who forced Professor Dumbledore away with his position as a school governor! Grandma is right, their whole family are bad seeds!”

Jerry frowned, listening to the three people’s chattering and chaotic words, lost in thought.

“I didn’t expect Dumbledore to be in such a hurry to go to Egypt! What exactly happened over there?” Jerry thought to himself.

“Jerry, what should we do? Dumbledore is gone, they might close the school. After he leaves, there will definitely be attacks happening every day.”

“Wait for me at Hagrid’s hut tonight, we’re going to the Forbidden Forest!” Jerry left a cryptic sentence, then left the hall under the three’s puzzled gazes.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to explain to Harry and the others, but Jerry felt that with the brains of Harry, Ron, and Neville… it’s better to let them automatically fill in the blanks!

“What does Jerry mean? Why are we going to the Forbidden Forest?”

The three looked at each other and shook their heads.

“I know!” Harry suddenly slapped his palm, looking at Ron and Neville confidently and said. “It’s spiders, Jerry must be taking us to find spiders! Hagrid said before he was taken away last night, ‘If anyone wants to find something, just follow the spiders and you will find the right direction!’

It must be!”

Ron and Neville looked at Harry with an inexplicable sense of awe, then scratched their heads, feeling itchy, as if they were about to grow brains!

Jerry: See! I said that Harry was smart since he was a child!