From Azkaban to Hogwarts.

He tried to remove the freezing effect from a tree that hadn't yet broken—his usual method of dispelling curses felt a bit clumsy at this moment, but it still worked. After about a minute, he made a preliminary judgment that the tree was still alive, but had suffered extremely serious damage.

"And there's one more unlucky rabbit..."

He spotted the injured life and waved his wand to try to break the spell.

This time it's also feasible—although the rabbit suffered quite serious injuries, there's still hope for saving it.

"The results are amazing..."

William confirmed the magic's effect once more, then casually waved his wand. As the wind swept through, the frozen trees were quickly blown into pieces and eventually disappeared.

"It must never be used on people indiscriminately... Even before Li Huo fully matured, it didn't possess such terrifying destructive power..."

"However, the casting takes a little too long, and I'm not skilled enough yet. Also, if I get hit in the early stages of flight, it might cause damage to my side... But this isn't a big problem. I just need to increase the speed at which the ice ball leaves my hand and add some defense..."

He pondered the changes in the spell and prepared to find a more open space to practice—the new spell was just taking shape and there were many things that needed to be studied and revised; he really couldn't continue to wreak havoc in the densely forested areas.

-

“You seem to be very busy lately, Professor William.”

After grading the homework, Lupin stood up, glanced at the time, and noticed that William was still at the table dealing with that thick stack of materials. He couldn't help but ask him a question.

"More or less..." William looked up, stretched his shoulders, and glanced at the time. "It's already this late?"

He stuck the bookmark into the book, then started rummaging through his desk for snacks. After picking out a bag of gummy bears for himself, he looked up and asked Lupin, "What would you like?"

“One chocolate frog,” Lupin hesitated slightly, “but didn’t you say you haven’t been eating much candy lately?”

“Hmm…” William glanced at what he was holding. “I recently discovered a pretty good way to counteract the negative effects of candy and chocolate.”

As he spoke, he demonstrated with his left hand, "It looks like this..."

As he waved his left hand, a small sphere of water appeared in his palm. As William slowly pushed it with his hand, the water sphere gradually grew larger and larger until it was large enough to cover his left hand.

"This is?"

Lu Ping stared at it for a long time, but still couldn't figure out how this thing could be related to weight loss.

"An improved spell that makes the water flow like a spring; I've been busy with this lately."

"But it?"

"Unrelated to exercise?" William smiled. "Keep this a secret, Professor, this is our trump card... The world is getting more and more chaotic, we need to prepare in advance."

“Yes…” Lupin sighed, “The situation over there is becoming increasingly unclear.”

"Speaking of which, I need to go and experiment again. I probably won't go out for dinner. Who knows, there might be new progress this time—I've been having good luck lately."

"Then good luck, Professor William."

William left with a half-empty bag of gummy bears, leaving Lupin guarding the office.

Just as Lupin was planning the content for the next lesson, Moody pushed open the office door with a big smile, and behind him, the twins were brought in like quails.

"It's them again?"

Lupin looked at the twins in surprise. "I remember their solitary confinement hasn't expired yet, has it?"

"Of course...it's just that we'll be even busier now."

Moody grinned, revealing a rather unappealing smile. "These two guys actually tried to break through the new defense checks to collect Owl's mail, and I caught them red-handed."

'They've actually updated the protective measures…'

Fred was exchanging glances with his brothers out of the corner of his eye. They hadn't been careful and were caught red-handed while collecting a bag of dung balls.

'It's okay, keep a low profile and see if you can find out anything.'

"Really... I was the one who handled the last detention. Where are you planning to send them to work?"

Lupin shook his head helplessly; he wasn't going to care this time.

"No rush. I need to find out what they transported in before. This period is chaotic, so I need to question them carefully to find out how many loopholes they discovered."

“Be careful, Professor Moody. You can’t allow human body deformation, even in this tense situation.”

"Okay, okay, I understand, the situation is tense..."

Moody waved his hand dismissively.

-

"The situation is tense..."

The twins didn't glean much of anything meaningful after leaving the office—or rather, the idea of ​​getting information from a legendary Auror was hardly reliable.

"Everyone's saying the situation is tense. The last letter from home mentioned it, Bill mentioned it again when he sent Easter gifts, and even that big-headed Percy brought it up..."

Fred glanced at George. "They all say something happened, but it's just that the American wizarding community got a new president of the Magical Congress..."

"Yeah, the atmosphere on campus is off too. Haven't you noticed that the professors are acting strange this year?"

"Some professors, even Professor William, aren't assigning a lot of homework anymore, and the other professors have also reduced the workload appropriately. Ron and his classmates didn't even have much homework for Easter..."

"I always feel like they're hiding something from us..."

"We can't be fooled like this... as if we're just children..."

The two looked at each other, and as this hidden feeling surfaced, the original prank seemed to lose its motivating effect.

It's like playing Wizards Chess, where your opponent is already plotting to kill your king, while you're still tirelessly moving your pawns forward, hoping to transform them into something good at the end.

“We need to figure this out… Should we stop the plan before we figure everything out?”

George looked at Fred with a hint of negotiation in his eyes.

Just as they would never use a running ball to attack Ron during a game, they wouldn't want to pull any more inappropriate pranks if things got really tense right now.

"Yes, and I suggest we ask that person."

"Kakarov?"

"Of course, Karkaroff."

-

[There's chaos now. Many Durmstrang graduates, after hearing propaganda slogans similar to those of yesteryear, are preparing to go to the American wizarding world after graduation.]

[I'm sorry, my friends, I had hoped you could have a wonderful graduation trip to Durmstrang after graduation, but it seems we won't have time to organize it now.]

The chaos isn't just confined to the school; the surrounding magical world is in a bad state as well. Personally, I don't recommend that you apply to go to other countries after graduation, and I sincerely hope you won't get involved in what's happening across the ocean. I always feel that it's more dangerous there than I imagine...

...

"That's all. It seems our friend still doesn't know what happened—he's currently lobbying the surrounding magical world to increase vigilance."

"Whether it's at home, Percy, Bill, or even the professor and our friend, the principal, they're all giving me the runaround, talking about things that are all rather vague and unclear."

George waved the letter in his hand. "Especially the school. Didn't you notice? Actually, before the unrest, the school seemed to realize that something was wrong, but they never admitted it."

"The source is in the American magical community..."

"It turned out they were wearing a veil, refusing to lift it..."

The two looked at each other, and then their eyes lit up with surprise.

Do you remember first grade?

“Of course, George.”

"Back then, we used some snowballs to deal with that scarf that would never fall down."

"Yeah, it's really nostalgic. Remember the rumors we heard at the end of first grade? We don't know if they were true or not, but there was something amazing hidden under the scarf, and we threw a lot of snowballs at it..."

"Shall we create another snowball effect and pull off a big prank?"

"Isn't this a bit too risky?"

George appeared to be trying to persuade him, but his eyes were full of excitement.

"Of course, why not? Since everyone is being so secretive, why don't we throw the snowball out this time and see what's hidden under the veil?"

"But we haven't really prepared for the exam yet."

"To hell with the exam—okay, for the professor's sake, let's finish this snowball fight and then come back to the exam."

Fred spoke with great excitement, their eyes gleaming with the anticipation of exploring the unknown—this was even more exciting than stealing the survival map from Filch's office last time.

Chapter 588 The Twins' Big Plan

"Did they catch those two bastards again?"

In the large office of the Self-Defense Arts, William listened to Lupin's words and shook his head helplessly. "I knew those two students wouldn't graduate peacefully. You and Professor Moody will have to work hard and keep a close eye on them during this time—I don't think I'll be able to find the time right now."

"What's matter?"

Lupin had no problem keeping an eye on the two students, and then he asked William if there was anything he could help with.

"I'm working on a new spell—it's progressing very well so far, and I seem to have found a working route..."

William's tone was a mix of excitement and exhaustion. After making some progress in both Transfiguration and Dark Magic, his research on new spells, while not exactly progressing at lightning speed, was definitely at a level where he had reached a plateau. This allowed him to devote most of his energy outside of class to it.

"That's wonderful, things have been going so smoothly lately."

Just a few days ago, William figured out the potion ratios for different types of Animagus hair and human hair, and he had already brewed a bunch of potions and sent them to the Ministry of Magic. Such great progress in magic these past few days is truly heartwarming.

“I’m afraid I’ll have to trouble Professor Moody a lot. I received a notice from the Ministry this week to cooperate in verifying the distribution of the first batch of potions,” Lupin shook his head as well. He had to help promote the Ministry of Magic’s charity event, which was losing money but gaining publicity. The classes wouldn’t be delayed, but he was somewhat powerless to help with the twins’ death.

Besides, everyone was mentally prepared for this kind of trouble. We can't just give up on normal activities because of a minor setback. Do you think the two of them can demolish Hogwarts Castle?

“Alright, then we’ll have to trouble Professor Moody,” William shook his head and began preparing his lesson. Professor McGonagall was still at school, and the two of them could at most learn from Lockhart. They weren’t bad people, so keeping a close watch on them was partly to keep them in check, and partly to relieve their own tension and reduce their fear of facing the Dark Lord. What bad intentions could two students who only knew how to play pranks possibly have?

-

"Will Mom scold us to death?"

In the Gryffindor common room, Fred packed his luggage while making pointed jokes with his brother.

"The roar is certain, but now I'm wondering if our remaining half of our ass will change too."

"That shouldn't be the case, right?"

Fred answered his brother, but he himself wasn't very confident.

After several days of assessment and reflection, they realized that staying at Hogwarts wouldn't be helpful for any pranks they could pull off—since they were determined to do something big all at once, staying at Hogwarts to continue their studies wouldn't be of much assistance.