Chapter 176: beginning

But Professor Horace Slughorn's prediction did not seem to come true.
　　 At least on the Hogwarts campus for a long time after Valentine's Day, nothing happened.
　　 Business as usual, it seems to be calm as ever.
　　 This also made Matthew's nerves that had been tense all the time loosened a little.
　　 Soon, the Easter holiday is approaching, and there are only ten weeks left before the final exam.
　　 The Easter holiday is not as easy as the Christmas holiday, because the teachers in every class have assigned a lot of homework...
　　 This also made many students sigh.
　　……
　　 The first day of the Easter holiday.
　　 Early in the morning, Matthew left the Slytherin common room and started to the library.
　　 Just as he walked out of the library door, Matthew ran into Miss Elaine Shafik head-on.
　　 "Good morning!" Matthew greeted each other.
　　 But Elaine only nodded at him coldly, and then quickly walked into the library.
　　 Matthew also followed her and walked into the library. Since it was very early, it was quite clean inside.
　　 glanced outside the window, the weather was great, it can be said that they had encountered such good weather for the first time in months...The sky was extremely clear, like the color of forget-me-not flowers, and there was a breath of summer coming in the air.
　　 At this time, something caught his attention: an animal wandered on the emerald green lawn by the castle.
　　 Now it is sneaking on the edge of the forbidden forest, and Matthew hastily narrowed his eyes, as if... is it a cat?
　　 Soon, he recognized the bottle's brush-like tail and ginger-colored hair. They all looked familiar... If you guessed correctly, it should be Crookshanks!
　　 That's right, it is Crookshanks, what is it doing sneaky?
　　 Matthew was a little curious, stopped and started to observe.
　　 The big cat, wandering on the lawn outside the castle, seemed to be waiting for something... Suddenly, a small thing sprang out from the corner of the castle...
　　Ma Xiu squinted, his nose pressed against the windowpane.
　　 is too small to see clearly.
　　 Matthew quickly scanned his surroundings. Fortunately, he found a brass telescope on one of the bookshelves! Probably some student who finished the astronomy class left it here!
　　 Matthew quickly picked up the binoculars, then quickly ran to the window and opened the window at the same time.
　　 Adjust the focus at the fastest speed... Soon, Matthew saw the thing clearly!
The person communicating with Crookshanks seemed to be a mouse... Just as Matthew's gaze shifted to it, the mouse quickly ran back to the castle... Except that its hair seemed to be gray, nothing else Did not see clearly.
　　 A cat and a mouse make friends, it sounds funny!
　　 But it did happen, as Matthew had seen earlier.
　　Matthew Wickfield quickly fell into thought, because he didn't know what it meant!
　　……
　　 Continue to read books in the library, and more and more people began.
　　 This must be because of the proximity of the final exams. Many students have started to hug their feet, do previews, and of course complete their many homework... It's normal, and it's hard to see so many people in the library.
　　 Due to the increasing number of people, the library quickly became as noisy as the vegetable market.
　　Mrs. Pins ran over and roared several times, but every time after a brief calm, the noisy sound appeared again in a few minutes...
　　 Matthew couldn't stand it anymore, so he decided to change to a classroom.
　　 A few minutes later, Matthew Wickfield came to the spell classroom on the fourth floor, where there are usually fewer people.
　　 Just when he was about to enter the spell class classroom, his eyes lit up and he saw a familiar figure at the top of the sloped staircase.
　　 Matthew's eyes lit up and he trot over quickly... At the end of the stairs, he saw the girl's back.
　　 That's right!
　　 absolutely right!
　　 The person who just went upstairs is Elaine Shafik!
　　 Matthew's face changed suddenly...because it is almost impossible!
　　 Just a few minutes ago, Elaine Shafik stayed with him in the library. When Matthew was leaving, I saw her, where she was doing her homework intently, and she was not ready to leave at all!
　　 But who is that person just now?
　　 Is it because I left the library with my front foot, Miss Shafik also left, and then dropped in with myself and arrived at the stairway on the fourth floor almost at the same time...
　　 This sounds even more impractical!
　　Or, there are two Elaine Shafik at the same time?
　　 Matthew thought, but to be cautious, he didn't catch up and ask anything...
The cat and the mouse communicating with each other; the two Elaine Shafik who appeared at the same time, plus the surface calmness of Hogwarts in the past few months... For some reason, Matthew suddenly felt evil in his heart cold.
　　 Could it be said that the "rapid change" that Slughorn had expected is today?
　　……
　　 Let us turn our eyes back to the mouse that Matthew saw a few hours ago.
　　 I have to say, this mouse is so beautiful that it's not pretty...the whole body is gray, the whole body is depilated, and it looks a bit sluggish...
　　 After bidding farewell to the big cat, Crookshanks, it got into the castle very carefully. Taking advantage of the fact that there were no people in the corridor of the castle early in the morning, it quickly climbed in the corridor.
　　 until it struggled to climb in front of an extremely ugly giant stone monster.
　　 Not far from the stone monster's feet, there is a small hole... There is no doubt that this mouse did it; it seems that this mouse has spent months digging out this hole for some purpose!
　　 The mouse passed through the cave easily. What appeared around it was a spiral staircase. It was slowly moving upward, like an escalator...
　　 rotated higher and higher, higher and higher, and finally, the mouse who looked dizzy saw a shiny oak door in front of which was a brass door knocker in the shape of a lion and eagle.
　　If you are someone familiar with Hogwarts, you must know where this is...This is the principal's office at Hogwarts!
　　In theory, this should also be the office of President Gellert Grindelwald.
　　 It's hard to imagine that the principal's office at Hogwarts would be so defenseless and without any magical protection, allowing such a mouse to break in so easily.
　　 But this mouse didn't seem to have the idea of ​​opening the wooden door and breaking into the principal's office.
　　 It stayed there, as if something was brewing.
　　 Soon, a head appeared on the ground; limbs also stretched out; after a while, a man stood at the place where the mouse was just now, and got up cowering.
　　 This person is very short, not much taller than an average second or third grader. His thin, light-colored hair is unkempt and he is bald on his head. His skin looked very dirty, almost the same as the fur of the previous mouse. His pointed nose and small watery eyes also had the characteristics of a mouse...
　　 So, this is not an ordinary mouse.
　　 is an Animagus.
　　 And this short-headed man, if a staff member from the Auror Office of the Ministry of Magic is here, he can be easily recognized
　　His name is Peter Pediru, one of the three dark wizards who escaped from Azkaban prison almost ten months ago.
　　……
　　 Although Mr. Peter Pediru looked embarrassed on the outside, his eyes were very clear.
　　 He took out his wand, pointed it at the brass door knocker in the shape of an eagle head, and said softly:
　　 "Dumbledore!"
　　 Only a creak was heard, and the brass door knocker was opened.
　　 The entire principal's office is covered with dust, as if no one has used this office for a long time.
　　 Peter moved the bench beside the principal's desk to reveal the wall behind.
　　 Then he raised his wand again and aimed it at the wall with ancient patterns carved behind
　　 "Do not disturb the dragon ()!"
　　 The wall carved with ancient patterns cracks a little bit from the middle, revealing a deeply hidden door.
　　 Peter also seemed very shocked.
　　 He hesitated a little, and seemed to be waiting for something.
　　 Almost thirty seconds later, only a clear meow was heard.
　　 A tabby cat broke into here somehow.
　　 It glanced at the hidden door very excitedly--
　　 Then, the tabby cat disappeared, replaced by a serious woman, wearing a pair of square glasses, it looks like the lines around the cat glasses. She was wearing an emerald green cloak, her jet-black hair turned into a tight hairpin.
　　 Looking at the hidden deep door in front of her, she looked very excited!
　　 "I think we found it, Peter!" Professor Minerva McGonagall said tremblingly, "Weapons that can deal with Grindelwald..."
　　……
　　 Two figures, one tall and one short, broke into the door hidden in the principal's office.
Inside 　　 is a very strange space, surrounded by pitch black, and the starry sky can be clearly seen from above.
　　 But the time now is far from late at night.
　　 They seemed to appear on the top of Hogwarts.
　　 There were two stone steles that appeared in front of them...One was extremely tall and the other was quite short.
　　 On the tall stone stele, the names of many students are densely written; and on the top of the shorter stone stele, only one name that makes them excited can be seen
　　 "Albus Dumbledore!"
　　 But, UU reading www.uukanshu. There are faint traces of blackout around the com name.
　　Professor Minerva McGonagall looked extremely excited. She seemed to have spent a lot of effort to calm herself down.
　　 She took out her wand, pointed it at the stone monument in front of her, and whispered softly--
　　 This is a very long process.
　　 But with the passage of time, the black mark around the name "Albus Dumbledore" shrinks at a speed visible to the naked eye...
　　 "Old and great Hogwarts..." Professor McGonagall said softly, "Let your mind wake up... Drive the usurper away and welcome the real master of your choice!"
　　 As the black mark disappeared completely, the stele suddenly began to tremble.
　　……
　　Matthew Wickfield is eating lunch in the auditorium at this moment.
　　 Suddenly, the golden dinner plate on the table ping-pong, and the goblet was shaking...Everything around was shaking, everything was shaking...
　　 Is it an earthquake?
But this is impossible. There is a detailed record in "A History of Hogwarts"... With enough earthquake-proof magic at Hogwarts, even if there is a magnitude 9 earthquake in Glasgow, it will not be here. There is any shock!
　　 "Everyone, please leave Hogwarts Castle in an orderly manner under the leadership of the prefects!" Professor Vita Rozier's voice immediately rang in their ears.
　　 The voice of the vice principal was very calm.