Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying - Chapter 345

“This is not something that requires apology.” Vader reached out and patted his shoulder and said, “Professor Snape is indeed scary.”

“But you’re not afraid.” Ryan said tangledly, as if he was worried about something. “How dare you go to Professor Snape and try to solve this matter… I’m even nervous about answering questions normally.”

“Actually, I was nervous too, but I told myself not to show it.”

Vader shrugged and said, “And to be honest, I did this because Professor Snape was more tolerant to me. In terms of courage alone, I don’t have much more than you.”

Ryan laughed.

“Okay…although I know you are just comforting me…”

Vader was helpless: “Rian…”

“Um?”

“You know what? You don’t have to think of everything and say it…”

Ryan was confused: “No, right? I usually don’t like to talk too much.”

Vader and Theo looked at each other and smiled at the same time under Ryan’s blank eyes.

Indeed, Ryan is always the most silent one among them externally.

But around his friends, he was irresistibly candid.

It was already late at night, and while he was talking, Theo yawned again, his eyelids kept falling down, and he looked very sleepy.

Wade then said goodbye.

“It’s too late. You might run into Filch when you go out. Why don’t you just sleep in our dormitory?” Theo suggested, “Ernie and the others won’t have any objections.”

Ryan also encouraged: “The dormitory in our college is very interesting. It is a cave dug underground. We also have a pot of Boston fern in our dormitory, which is like a green waterfall.”

Wade’s heart skipped a beat, he was indeed curious. But after hesitating for a moment, he still shook his head and refused.

Although Hufflepuff students are usually generous and talkative, they are also very territorial. If they see an outsider in the common room tomorrow morning, they might have a problem with Theo and Ryan.

“Don’t worry, I won’t be caught by Filch.” Wade said: “Since the Hufflepuff lounge has never been entered by anyone from other houses, don’t mention my visit to anyone. ”

Vader actually didn’t believe the Hufflepuff students’ claims that no one from outside Badger House had entered this common room in more than a thousand years.

Rats like Peter and insects like Skeeter can easily sneak in with students, and ordinary students can’t identify Animagus or the Disillusionment Curse.

But since the students of Badger Academy are proud of this, Wade is not going to be the first one to “make an exception” and interrupt their record.

“All right……”

Seeing Wade’s resolute attitude, Theo had no choice but to let him go and took two more lemons from the shelf next to him and asked Wade to take them.

“Cats hate the smell of lemon. If you encounter Mrs. Norris, you can use this to drive it away.”

Wade took it and put it in his pocket, pushed aside a vine that quietly hung down to his shoulders, combed his hair, and left along the barrel door.

Hufflepuff’s entrances and exits could only be crawled in and out, and Wade couldn’t help but wonder – when Professor Sprout came to the lounge, would he also have to crawl?

He grabbed the edge of the barrel and felt like a prairie dog poking its head. Just as he was about to get out, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

Wade looked up, and Theo’s voice seemed to ring in his ears——

“It’s time for Filch to come over!”

“Malfoy reported to Filch…”

“Maybe we’ll meet Filch…”

“What if I meet Mrs. Norris…”

Theo, Theo, I have said too many unlucky words, but they will come true!

Not far away, Filch was holding an oil lamp, and Mrs. Norris’s eyes were as bright as light bulbs, staring at Wade.

Wade hung on the wine barrel, feeling a little embarrassed. After thinking about it, he decided to come out first.

“Meow~”

Mrs. Norris gave a soft cry and walked toward Wade, wagging her tail.

“Come on, Mrs. Norris.”

Filch turned around with the oil lamp and said, “There is no one here. Let’s go look elsewhere.”

Mrs. Norris looked back at her master, and then at Wade. Her big green eyes seemed to say: “Isn’t such a big person human?”

But Filch had already walked out several meters. After hesitating for a moment, Mrs. Norris trotted to follow her master.

Wade laughed dumbly.

With a force, he got out of the passage, landed on the ground, stood up and patted the dirt on his hands. When he turned around, he saw the barrel lid rotating and closing, so the entrance and exit became no different from other wine barrels next to it.

Wade didn’t waste any more time. He walked towards the window of the corridor. After taking a few steps, he suddenly turned into a peregrine falcon, got out of the narrow window, spread his wings and flew away.

The peregrine falcon circled the lawn and the black lake before flying towards the tall tower.

At this time, most areas of the castle were plunged into darkness, except for the magical candles in the auditorium that never went out. Only a few windows were still lit.

The headmaster’s office, several professors’ offices, Ravenclaw and Gryffindor dormitories.

The Hufflepuff and Slytherin common rooms are hidden underground, making them difficult to see from the outside even when they are brightly lit.

Vader flew past Gryffindor Tower, finally stopping outside the window of his dormitory.

The window was open, and the house elf had already lit the oil lamp in the dormitory to guide Vader, who was returning late.

Wade thought of the entrance to his college’s lounge.

It was a wooden board at the end of the stairs. If it weren’t for the knocker on it, it wouldn’t even be a door.

Those who couldn’t answer the knocker question correctly couldn’t enter the lounge.

The entrance to Hufflepuff was disguised as a very real wine barrel, and it was said that it had to be knocked in the correct order to open.

The entrance to Slytherin was hidden in a stone wall. Without the correct password, the stone door wouldn’t even appear.

The entrance to Gryffindor was the most conspicuous among the several colleges – it was a huge portrait, and a password was also required to enter.

Although the portrait of the Fat Lady was conspicuous, it was hidden among the many portraits of Hogwarts, and it seemed “hidden in the city”. People who didn’t know the situation would hardly think that there was a huge space hidden behind it.

The founders of Hogwarts tried every means to hide the entrance of their college, as if the enemy could break through the defense outside at any time and break into the school to burn, kill and loot.

They even seemed to be unable to trust people from other colleges in the same school, and students from different colleges rarely “visited” each other.

It can be imagined that their situation must have been very difficult and dangerous.

But Wade had no way of knowing whether the design of the lounges of various colleges had really played their role in the past thousands of years.

Even in “Hogwarts: A History”, the focus is on introducing all aspects of the school, but the history is avoided by talking about some interesting things, such as the battle of wits and courage between Peeves and successive headmasters, or the activities between schools such as the Triwizard Tournament.

The impact of war, house elves, and the differences between wizards and Muggles on the school, these parts involving the dark side of the real world, have never been mentioned in passing, or even not mentioned at all.

Wade turned back to his original form and sat on the high windowsill, looking at the dark forbidden forest that seemed to extend to the horizon, and could faintly hear the roar of animals.

Tonight, Hagrid’s hut was also dark, without any light.

In the Black Lake, the giant squid stretched out its long tentacles and clung to the wall of the maze. From here, it looked like a dinosaur sticking its neck out of the lake, looking around curiously.

Wade looked for a while, then got up and returned to the dormitory.

A moment later, this light also went out.

In the wizard village that was not far from Hogwarts, but not as close as the neighbor, a faint roar was heard.

It woke up some creatures outside the Forbidden Forest, startled the birds near the village, and the giant squid suddenly shrank into the water, stirring up a wave.

But the distant sound did not wake up the sleeping students.

A moment later, the window of the principal’s office was suddenly pushed open, and Dumbledore, wearing pajamas, stood in front of the window, and the night wind blew his white beard wildly.