Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

"This——" Hermione suddenly became a little nervous for some reason: "Magic Lovers Club?"

Michael sighed, "Hermione, what's the difference between this and Wade's after-school tutoring interest group? Where's Neville?"

Neville stammered, "I-I can't think of anything for the moment."

"Theo?"

Theo said, “How about a sunflower club? Sunflowers represent hope, sunshine, loyalty, determination, and growth. Isn’t that very appropriate?”

"Well--"

Michael began to struggle.

Indeed - it was appropriate in every sense, but somehow it felt a little ordinary. If he were to name it himself, he couldn't have come up with a better one.

"Ryan?" Michael looked at the last person and decided that if he didn't have a good idea either, he would call the Sunflower Club.

Ryan fiddled with the planetary model on his desk, thought for a while and said, "How about Starry Sky Chaser? SSC for short."

Michael clapped his hands vigorously and praised loudly: "Cool!"

Chapter 23 Jokes and Secrets

With an official name, this group that was originally just gathered by chance suddenly became official. Everyone discussed some details together - for example, adding other members must be approved by everyone, not destroying other people's things, and SSC members should protect each other when facing professors or other students.

Wade originally thought that this was a bit like a game - it was just a small group of a few people, so if they got along, they would gather together, and if they didn't, they would disperse. Why would they set rules and regulations? But the others were all participating very seriously, which gave Wade some strange feelings.

It was as if he had really joined some mysterious organization.

……

"Rue was used as a drug to remove poison in ancient Greece. It was discovered in the 16th century AD. So far, people have found that its medicinal value is as follows: the extracts from the stems and leaves can remove toxins. The pollen has a protective effect against the poisonous gas sprayed by basilisks. Rue is widely planted. The cultivation method is - you need to pay attention when cultivating it -"

Wade wrote the last letter on the parchment, finishing his homework for yesterday's Herbology class. As for the homework for other subjects, he had finished them all on the same day after class. Wade checked the grammar again and rolled up the parchment after the ink dried.

"Wade, have you finished your homework?" Hermione came over and asked.

"Correct."

"I have something to tell you," Hermione whispered.

The two moved to the other side of the classroom, and Wade waved his wand: "Close your ears and listen."

——In this way, no matter how loud they speak, it is just a slight buzzing in the ears of others.

Vader looked at Hermione's worried expression and asked, "What happened?"

"It's like this. The day before yesterday afternoon, Malfoy challenged Harry to a duel in the trophy room at midnight. As soon as I heard him, I knew he had bad intentions because he didn't have the guts!" Hermione said angrily, "But Harry and Ron totally ignored my advice. For some reason - the boys' face - they were so selfish! They didn't even think about how many points they would lose if they were caught! They didn't care about the honor of the college at all!"

Hermione took a few deep breaths, suppressed her anger, and continued: "Of course, this is not the point - because we were lucky not to be caught, although it was just a close call -"

"--You guys?" Wade grasped the key words.

"Yes. When I was trying to stop them from doing something stupid, I was accidentally locked outside the common room and had to go with the two of them." Hermione frowned and said with disgust: "As expected, Malfoy did not go to the trophy display room. He also revealed the news to Filch - that despicable guy! Then when we escaped, we broke into a locked room -"

Hermione suddenly lowered her voice and asked, "Weid, do you remember what Professor Dumbledore said when school started?"

Wade thought about it. Dumbledore didn't say much, so what impressed him most was of course -

"Idiot! Crybaby! Scum! Twist?"

"Oh, that's not it!" Hermione rolled her eyes and reminded, "It's - anyone who doesn't want to suffer an accidental, painful death -"

"——Don't go to the corridor on the fourth floor?" Wade remembered, "Did you go to the fourth floor? What did you see?"

"Yes. We accidentally ran to the fourth floor, and then we saw a -" Hermione swallowed, with a lingering fear on her face: "A three-headed dog as tall as a house!"

"--How did you survive?" Wade was speechless. He had long forgotten such details, and he had never expected that Hermione and the others would experience such adventures so early. He said, "I remember seeing this kind of monster in a book. Although the three-headed dog today is not the legendary hellhound, its teeth can easily crush the skull, and its teeth are also corrosive and poisonous. It is difficult to heal the wound after being bitten by that guy."

"It may not have reacted at first, but then it lunged at us with a roar, and we were almost eaten by it!" Hermione clenched her fists, her body trembling slightly. "The school actually - actually put such a dangerous monster in the castle! It's unbelievable! Even if they want to use it to guard something, what if another reckless student breaks in?! Doesn't the school consider the safety of ordinary students at all?"

Wade made a joke: "Maybe there is a death index or something like that in magic schools? The death of a few students every year is not a big deal at all, and it can serve as a wake-up call to others! Let them know that they can't take the professor's words lightly!"

"——There is such a thing!" Hermione grabbed her face in horror and said incoherently: "But I didn't see it in "Hogwarts: A History" at all - yes, such a thing would certainly not be written in the book - it's terrible! How could the Ministry of Magic allow——"

Wade didn't expect that she didn't doubt his words at all, and quickly raised his hand to apologize: "I'm sorry! Hermione, I was just talking nonsense. Don't take it seriously--"

Hermione stared at him blankly, tears welling up in her brown eyes.

Wade felt really guilty now. He said again sincerely, "I'm sorry, I just saw that you seemed scared, so I made a joke. But it seems to have become a joke in hell - I'm just an idiot! Don't be angry -"

Hermione kept a straight face and said nothing, and was so angry that she ignored Wade for a long time.

It was not until the practice was over and everyone else had left that Wade stopped Hermione and apologized repeatedly before the girl finally let go.

Hermione lowered her head and said sullenly, "Actually, I know - everyone dislikes me - but I treat you as a friend, so don't tease me like everyone else -"

Wade was so soft-hearted that he almost drowned in guilt. He was so embarrassed that he would slap himself in the face if he thought about it in the middle of the night. He knew that Hermione had a hard time in Gryffindor, so he was sensitive and vulnerable. He raised two fingers and said seriously as if he was swearing, "I'm sorry. I promise it won't happen again."

Hermione looked into his eyes for a long moment before she whispered, "A joke is only a joke if both parties feel happy about it."

"I remember that." Wade was ashamed. He actually asked a real eleven-year-old girl to tell him such a simple truth. Did he really regard himself as a heartless little boy after living a new life?

Looking at the vortex above his head, Hermione smiled slightly.

"Okay, I'm not angry anymore." The girl coughed dryly, "Let's talk about the three-headed dog - I actually want to discuss with you whether I should go to Professor McGonagall?"

"You want to talk to Professor McGonagall about the safety of the three-headed dog?" Wade immediately understood what she meant.

"Yes." Hermione scratched her already messy hair in annoyance and said, "Although they locked the room, it can be opened with just an unlocking spell. In case a curious student runs in - well, I want to suggest to Professor McGonagall that we use powerful magic to hide the room, but this will expose the fact that we have violated the school ban -"

"Why don't you think about it from another angle, Hermione?" Wade said after thinking for a moment: "Maybe the door was locked so simply to allow someone to open it."

Chapter 24 Purchasing Agency

Hermione's eyes slowly widened, and she obviously understood something. She trembled and said, "So, that's it—"

"That's right," said Wade. "That's Harry Potter."

"-Death Indicator!" Hermione shouted at the same time.

The two looked at each other.

"-Harry Potter?" said Hermione in surprise.

"...It was just a joke." Wade said helplessly.

The two looked at each other again.

Hermione frowned.

It dawned on Hermione.

"No wonder..." She whispered, "Percy - Gryffindor's prefect, a fifth-year Weasley - said that in the past, whenever students were not allowed to go to a place, Professor Dumbledore would explain the reason. But this time, he just said that students were not allowed to enter the corridor on the right side of the fourth floor, but he didn't say why."

"If it had been clearly stated that there was a three-headed dog hiding there, even the Weasley twins would not have gone there to seek death, let alone Potter, who is only in his first year." Wade was not surprised. "The vague warning was intended to attract the curious Gryffindors. Dumbledore probably left some kind of test there."

He remembered that Harry Potter played a real-life level-breaking game in the first grade. He and his friends each solved a level with their own wisdom and ability. In the end, Harry used the "magic of love" to kill the final boss Voldemort.

The seven Harry Potter books are each more substantial and darker than the previous one, but the first one is still full of childlike fun. Even the conspiracies and tricks seem innocent and cute, with Voldemort coming to Harry Potter to gain experience.

"How could he do this!" Hermione's fear immediately turned into anger: "Someone might die! Is it okay? Or does he not care about Harry Potter's life at all?!"

"Then you were caught off guard and got hurt by the three-headed dog?" Wade asked back.

"That's not the case. But that's because it started out - ah -"

Hermione suddenly understood, as if she had seen the truth through the fog.

"I guess - just a guess - maybe Dumbledore put some restrictions on the three-headed dog so that it would not actually attack the students who strayed in, but just scare them. But if you want to do something further, the three-headed dog will not sit idly by." Wade said carefully.

"I saw it standing on a trapdoor," said Hermione. "It must be guarding something."

"If the facts are as we suspect," Wade said finally, "Harry Potter will certainly know what it is guarding."

……

The progress of things seemed to be slowed down, perhaps because Hermione was angry with Harry and Ron and ignored them, so she didn't get any further news.

But Wade didn't care much about these things. He knew that everything was under Dumbledore's watch and there was nothing to worry about. Compared with Harry Potter's adventure, Wade was more concerned about the progress of spells.

In the most recent practice, he accidentally discovered that it was not only when he was instructing others that he could see the arc of the correct way to cast a spell. When he looked in the mirror, he could also see his own guide line, which made his spell practice much faster. So Wade took some time to practice potions - there were always a lot of common materials on the shelf at the back of the potion classroom, free for students to practice, but because of Professor Snape, most students were unwilling to step into the underground classroom except for class, even Slytherin students were the same.

Wade practiced potions in his spare time, and Snape turned a blind eye and occasionally pointed out his mistakes in a sarcastic tone. Overall, as long as you are not too sensitive, you can still learn a lot from him.

Every time this happened, Wade was glad that he was a Ravenclaw - if he was a Gryffindor Lion, he might have been kicked out by Snape on the first day he secretly stepped into the Potions classroom?

One afternoon, Wade successfully made a pot of wound cleanser, which was evaluated as "barely usable" by Professor Snape, who asked him to send it to Madam Pomfrey in the infirmary - the Quidditch match was about to begin, and the infirmary would become busy at this time.

When Wade returned to the Umbrella House from the school infirmary, he found that everyone was very excited. They all gathered around Theo. Even Hermione put down her book and said thoughtfully, "I want three feet of parchment and five bottles of ink. I heard that there is a kind of shorthand quill pen that is very useful. If there is one, I also want to buy two -"

Theo was writing down the notes quickly while Michael shouted, "Oh, come on, Hermione. I know you love to study, but life would be so boring if you only study! You should buy yourself something fun! Honeydukes' candies are great! I recommend the Super Bubble Blast, which fills the room with blue bellflower-colored bubbles. It's almost a girl's favorite. Fizzy Bees are also a hot seller, as is the Butterbeer from the Three Broomsticks. Almost everyone can resist a drink."

"Hmm..." Hermione hesitated for a long time and said, "Then bring me another Galleon of candy! No weird things like cockroach piles!"

Although it was not convenient for her to bring the candies back to the dormitory - she would definitely be questioned by other girls and might even make some sour gossip - she could put the candies in the umbrella house and share them with her SSC friends.

"What are you talking about?" Wade walked over and asked curiously.

"You're finally here, Wade! We've all been waiting for you!" Neville said happily, "This week is the first Hogsmeade weekend. All students above the third grade can go to Hogsmeade Village."

"I know!" said Wade, "but what does this have to do with us first years?"

Of course, Wade had heard of Hogsmeade. It was the only village in Britain with only wizards and no Muggles. It was said to be very unique and interesting, and it was right next to Hogwarts, within walking distance.

However, Hogwarts stipulates that only students in the third year and above can go there on certain Saturdays, and they must have the signature permission of their guardian, so Wade and his friends will not be able to go to Hogsmeade until at least two years later.

"It didn't matter at first." Michael said excitedly, "But Theo said - a third-year Hufflepuff student said that he could help the younger students buy some of the things they wanted, and he also made a list of goods in Hogsmeade Village. Theo and Ryan said that they could help us add the things we want."

Wade took the product list and asked curiously while reading it, "Who is so kind? He doesn't mind the trouble - or is he trying to make a profit?"

Ryan shook his head and said, "No, Cedric doesn't help out just to make money."

Wade was startled: "What did you say his name was?"

"Cedric." Ryan said, "Cedric Diggory, top of the third grade, there is almost no Hufflepuff student who doesn't like him."