Bring a fairy tale to Hogwarts!

Inside the Three Brooms bar, yellow candle flames burned quietly on the tables, creating a warm atmosphere and illuminating the greenery beside the wooden tables and chairs, as well as the professors.

But Rosmerta and Hagrid, among others, stared wide-eyed at Victor at one side of the round table—Victor's expression remained calm and indifferent, as if guiding the fairies was something easily accepted.

Professor Flitwick's high-pitched voice was the first to ring out, his eyes widening in surprise:

"It's normal for them to actively ask you for guidance?!"

"No, no, no, that's not something the fairies I know would do."

"You may not know this, but the fairies of England have existed for thousands of years. They are very skilled at making alchemical artifacts; the sword of the founder, Mr. Gryffindor, was forged by them. However, they believe that any wealth they create should belong to them forever, not to any buyer, which led to the biggest conflict with the wizards."

"Later, the ban on wands for fairies in the 'Law on the Administration of Magical Races' exacerbated this conflict. Fairies felt they had received fewer rights, and some began to be hostile to wizards, which was the origin of the previous fairy rebellions."

"So you understand now?" Professor Flitwick shook his head with a sigh. "The goblins I know aren't exactly friendly to me. It's quite an achievement that you've become an advisor to Gringotts."

Finally, Professor Flitwick sighed again, as if recalling some unpleasant memories.

Just by looking at his appearance, Victor could roughly guess what those past events were like—Professor Flitwick was very short, clearly had some goblin blood, and was a wizard, so he probably had been looked down upon by both sides quite a bit.

"I didn't expect fairies to have this kind of personality," Victor said with a hint of surprise. "I thought they were no different from those... house-elves."

"What misunderstanding do you have about fairies? I don't see anything similar between them," Hagrid couldn't help but retort.

Professor Sprout also remarked, "It seems the fairies are really treating you very well."

"You'll have to teach us," Professor Flitwick concluded. "It should be very useful for the students; quite a few in sixth and seventh grade want to go to Gringotts."

"sure."

After taking a sip of his butterbeer, Victor said, "But it's really nothing special. As long as it brings money to the fairies, that's fine. It would be best if it taught them how to make money."

"Whoever can bring money to the fairies will be their good friend."

However, at this point, Victor recalled a series of tales about fairies from their region…

Compared to the magical world, which is capable of rebellion, the fairies in the fairy tale world are a disgrace to the fairies. They are either cheated out of their labor during trade or killed by humans.

For example, there was a fairy named Rumpelstilskin who worked diligently all night sewing straw into gold thread for a girl, but in the end, he was cheated out of his payment.

He remarked, "...but the English devils are still very good at trading."

"Who can argue with that?"

The professors nodded in agreement. Although they didn't fully understand what Victor was saying, they all knew that fairies loved money.

Ms. Rosmerta smiled and said:

"You're right, Professor Victor."

"But the goblins all agree with your divination, so it seems Hogwarts has a truly talented divination professor. I'm sure the results of this year's OWLs divination exams will be excellent."

However, after saying all this, Ms. Rosmerta suddenly remembered something and slapped her forehead:

"...I almost forgot, if you are indeed the Gringotts advisor, I actually have another letter to give you. It was delivered by an owl just now; it seems to have gotten lost and stopped in the kitchen."

She rummaged in the pocket of her apron and finally pulled out a parchment envelope, which she handed to Victor.

The envelope had an old-fashioned design, with a red stamp and a crest of a roaring dragon—the emblem of Gringotts.

The recipient was addressed to Mr. Van der Bohm, Advisor to Gringotts.

Victor raised an eyebrow and opened the letter.

The letter read:

[Dear Mr. Van der Bohm,]

[Regarding the theft on July 31st, the Gringotts internal investigation team has preliminary results. As you suggested last time, we upgraded the security systems at the main entrance and inside the vaults, but during this time, we unexpectedly discovered some clues about the intruder. The intruder seems to have made some connection to items in other vaults, and after conducting a magical investigation, we discovered that the perpetrator's movements pointed towards the vicinity of Hogwarts.]

[Because this case has severely damaged Gringotts' reputation, we earnestly request that you continue your investigation on campus, and we are willing to pay any "cost".]

[Note: The vault stolen by the suspect originally contained the Philosopher's Stone, which Headmaster Albus Dumbledore had entrusted to him.]

Sincerely,

[Bridgen, General Manager of the Diagon Alley Branch at Gringotts]

...The vault that was broken into actually belonged to Headmaster Dumbledore?

Could the suspect have even pursued them to the vicinity of Hogwarts?

This is big news.

However, Victor wasn't particularly surprised by this—if there were dark wizards in the wizarding world capable of breaking into Gringotts, their combat strength would most likely be at the level of Headmaster Dumbledore.

His gaze swept over the letter again, finally settling on a word written in a flamboyant, elegant style:

Philosopher's Stone.

"Did the letter say anything special?" Hagrid asked curiously, noticing Victor's increasingly intriguing expression.

"...Actually, it's not really true."

Victor glanced at the letter one last time, then folded it and put it in his pocket. But instead of telling Hagrid what the letter contained, he said:

"Gringotts just asked me to investigate something."

……

By dusk, the awkwardness between the professors had almost completely disappeared.

Victor also gained a preliminary understanding of the personalities of several professors and school staff. For example, Professor Sprout had a very good personality and did not get angry even after his mandrakes were plucked by students; Professor Flitwick was very excited about the savior coming to school and wanted to know the reason for his survival... and Hagrid was obsessed with magical creatures.

The last one left the deepest impression on him.

After briefly inquiring about the details of Victor's good relationship with the fairies, Hagrid immediately began to frantically press Victor for details about the "fairies" he had casually mentioned earlier, believing them to be magical creatures unique to the Far East...

It took Victor some time to deal with his persistent pestering and finally get to the time to go back to school.

But during this process, he also noticed a small detail:

Professor Quirrell did not participate in their conversation. He seemed to have gone somewhere alone, and only emerged wearily from an alley when it was time to return to the school.