Hogwarts: Don't call me the Staff Maker

Chapter 796 The Brave Neville

The sudden sound in the Gryffindor common room instantly dispelled Harry's drowsiness, waking him up instantly and causing him to instinctively raise his wand.

But the next second, a hand landed on his arm.

"Don't be nervous, Harry. Take a closer look and see who they are."

Siron's voice brought Harry back to his senses, and he looked in the direction from which the sound came.

It was Ginny and Neville; they were back, standing in front of the passageway, looking at them with delight.

The two of them didn't care at all about Harry's actions and ran over at the same time.

"I knew you'd come! I knew it all along, Harry!" Neville looked even more excited than Ginny, his face flushed red.

"You guys—" Harry paused, "Didn't you just go to eat breakfast? And shouldn't you be in the classroom at this hour?"

"I don't want to go to that old witch Carol's class, and she'd love for us not to go either," Neville waved his hand dismissively. "It's okay, we'll just get locked up again, we're used to it."

Xilun couldn't help but purse his lips.

Neville put it simply: every time they were put in solitary confinement, he had to go to Professor Flitwick to cast a memory charm and a confusion charm on Carol. It could be said that Neville's current carefree attitude is entirely due to the heavy burden he has been carrying; it's been very difficult for him.

"So you came back because you didn't want to cast Defense Against the Dark Arts?"

"Of course not," Ginny shook her head. "Because someone saw you."

"Who?"

“Seymour,” Neville continued, “was saying casually that he thought he saw your shoes while we were eating breakfast, but they disappeared in the blink of an eye.”

"Symour thinks he's seeing things," Ginny said. "But I know he's not mistaken. Your shoes disappeared because you used an invisibility cloak."

"That's right, and then we came back. I never expected it to really be you!"

At this point, Harry realized that his invisibility cloak was no longer a secret, and the commotion just now was so obvious that anyone familiar with him would definitely be able to guess what had happened.

He just didn't expect that Ginny and Neville would come back to see him during class.

"How did you get back?" Ginny asked curiously. "As far as I know, the entire Hogwarts was surrounded by them. Hogsmeade, the station, and the main gate were all teeming with Death Eaters. How did you manage to get through all those checkpoints and sneak into the school?"

"Ron, Hermione, and I came in through a secret passage," Harry said. "As for Shiron, he's been here since the start of the school year."

Ginny nodded. She knew that Celen was always at school, but she had never seen him before.

It's rare for us to meet, and everyone seems to have so much to say.

Neville, unlike his usual timid self, became a chatterbox, talking incessantly about the things Carlo had done.

"She made the students use black magic to attack each other, and when we refused, she made others attack us."

"The headmaster Snape doesn't care at all and lets her do this."

"But it was useful for someone to stand up against her; it gave everyone hope. Harry, I noticed that when you did that."

Harry never expected that he was involved in this.

"But Neville, you'll be resented for doing this," Harry said.

"Fortunately, I haven't received any real punishment so far," Neville shrugged. "I guess they're reluctant to kill too many pure-blood wizards."

Xilun couldn't listen to this anymore.

So that's what Neville was thinking. No wonder his workload has been increasing lately. Even Professor Flitwick had warned him that frequently using memory and confusion charms on Karoch could potentially damage her brain.

"Is it possible that someone made her forget the punishment she gave you?" Siren said quietly.

Of course, Carlo's head is not important at all; what matters is whether Snape or Mystic will see through it.

Therefore, he had to remind Neville that it was best to restrain himself when necessary, at least to allow Carlo to fully fulfill his role.

Neville froze, staring blankly at Siron, blinking.

"Wait, you're not going to say it was you—"

"oh!"

Neville clapped his hands in sudden realization.

No wonder when he went to find Carol, she knew nothing about the confinement; it turned out someone had cast a forgetting spell on her. "Thank you, thank you, Siron—"

"You should thank Professor Flitwick." Siren took a step back and returned to the secret passage.

"This isn't the place to talk. Come with me."

The two people who saw the secret passage widened their eyes at the same time.

"A secret passage? In the Gryffindor common room?" Like Siron and the others, Neville initially didn't believe it was true, thinking he was seeing things and rubbed his eyes for a while.

"Did you just dig this up?" Ginny asked instinctively.

"If we can dig through Hogwarts, we won't have to be afraid of the Man of Darkness anymore." Sirius smiled. "He appeared suddenly, I guess because the school thinks we need a new secret passage—alright, come on in, I think I hear footsteps outside."

Ginny and Neville didn't hesitate and immediately crawled into the secret passage.

Just after Harry finally crawled in, Carole's voice suddenly came from outside.

"Tell me, have any students returned?"

"I'm sorry, madam, I didn't know," the plump lady said in a voice sharper than usual. "You can't expect us to always be in the same frame."

"I want to go in!"

"No problem, please tell me the password."

"I said, I want to go in! Listen, if you don't want to get into trouble, do as I say!"

Carol seemed to have done something outrageous, and the Fat Lady suddenly screamed. Then, the passage opened, and Carol strode in with several Slytherins.

However, at this moment, Ginny and Neville were already inside the secret passage.

"Where does this road lead?"

"The Room of Requirement, a truly safe place," Siron said. "I bet you're looking for this place too."

"Yes," Neville nodded.

Carlo has been targeting students who refuse to submit, and they must unite to barely resist him.

Ginny's first thought was of the former SDA, which was basically the club that the students who rebelled against Caro had all participated in.

In addition, the classroom where they had their classes, that magical room, allowed them to discuss countermeasures without any reservations.

Strangely, when they arrived at the eighth-floor corridor and walked back and forth three times using the same method, the door to that room did not appear.

This matter has been troubling them.

"That's because I was using the room at the time," Siren explained. "The Room of Requirement can only fulfill one person's request at a time. If someone is using it, no one else can be summoned."

"Now I know," Ginny said with a smile.