With the departure of January, the snow around Hogwarts Castle slowly melted.

However, the weather did not improve quickly, and was replaced by a slightly bleak dampness.

Gray-black clouds covered the sky over the school, and the cold wind blew over the castle from time to time, and the continuous cold rain made even the greenhouse of the herbal medicine class very slippery and muddy......

Fortunately, there is no other bad news beyond that.

The whole school gradually came out of the gloom around Christmas, and everything that happened at the castle that day was gradually forgotten. Even the students who had been back at home to watch were returning to the campus to continue their Hogwarts classes.

Of course, there was a little accident in the middle -

For example, in early February, Professor Sybil Trelawney, a teacher of the Divination class, was suddenly taken from the principal's office to the school hospital and disappeared from the school for at least two weeks......

Even after returning to school, she looked depressed for a long time, and looked as if she had just been seriously ill.

Professor Albus-Dumbledore's explanation was that Professor Trelawney had accidentally ingested a spoiled, oak-aged bottle of mead in his office, which had caused a more severe form of "food poisoning" that led to the hospital lying in the hospital for several weeks.

Only a few people in the know know the seriousness of this matter.

Because the bottle of mead that Professor Trelawney accidentally drank was actually a Christmas present from Professor Horace Slughorn to Headmaster Albus Dumbledore just before Christmas......

The bottle of mead was not the so-called spoilage as advertised, but someone had put a rather terrible poison in it. If Professor Dumbledore hadn't given Professor Trelawney a piece of "bezoar" and called Professor Snape in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

In short, it was a murder! a murder against Albus Dumbledore, and if you count the previous accident with Miss Katie Bell of Gryffindor, this was the second attempt made by the killer hiding inside Hogwarts.

Word of Professor Trelawney's story quickly spread, but it wasn't as sensational as Katie's injury, and everyone seemed to think it might have been an accident. And she was in Professor Dumbledore's house at the time, and she took the antidote immediately, no big deal.

In addition, for most students, Professor Trelawney was not a teacher they liked in the first place (with the possible exception of Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil of Gryffindor), not to mention that the school itself had another very good teacher of divination: Professor Ferencze the centaur, and Professor Trelawney's injury was in a sense a pleasure for many students. So this incident did not cause any problems on campus.

Of course, there is good news. It was Professor Horace Slughorn, who had been injured on Christmas Eve, and was back in school...... He also resumed teaching Potions class.

However, this did not seem like exciting news to many students, as it meant saying goodbye to the "fun" Potions lessons that Professor Dumbledore had told.

......

From February to March, the weather did not change much, except for humidity and wind.

Notices were posted on all common room billboards saying that all trips to Hogsmeade after the semester had been cancelled, and everyone complained about this. But most of them expressed understanding, after all, there have been too many accidents in the past few months.

And at this moment in the basement of Hogwarts Castle, Miss Daphne Greengrass of Slytherin House is now troubled by the Apparition class.

This is a new course in Year 6 and is scheduled for Saturday afternoons so as not to miss the regular classes.

The teacher in charge of this class is a staff member of the Ministry of Magic: Professor Wicky Tecros. He was a rather stern middle-aged man, and many of his students were spurred by his lectures, such as Draco Malfoy, who was the one who was reprimanded the most in class for often exchanging ideas with Crabbe and Goyle about things.

Under normal circumstances, Hogwarts campuses are generally unable to apparition and disappearance. Professor Snape went out of his way to revoke the magic (with the Principal's approval) and lifted the restriction every Saturday for two hours, only in the Great Hall, of course.

The Apparition class was more difficult than Daphne had imagined, and she always felt that she was not determined enough, focused enough, and not at all calm......

She hadn't made much progress in her classes for months, and every time she returned to the Slytherin common room on Saturday night, her sister Astoria would come up curiously and ask for some tips on apparition and transfiguration...... She would even take out a small notebook and write it down carefully, very seriously.

Daphne was puzzled by this, after all, as soon as she was about to meet. Astoria, a fifth-grader on the LS exam, had a much higher course task than her, and she had such spare time to care about the content of the apparition manifestations......

Yes, with . With the LS exam approaching, Astoria had to spend more and more time reviewing her homework...... And even in the evenings or on weekends, she would often leave the common room with her books and go to the library.

Daphne had enough of her own worries to bother with Astoria, though she thought her sister had been a little weird since she recovered.

"Don't be discouraged, sister, you'll be able to make it next week. Astoria said and hurriedly patted her on the shoulder, looked at her watch again, and saw that it was almost eight o'clock: "Yo, I need to hurry up, go to the library......"

Daphne didn't answer, just nodded listlessly.

Astoria grinned, then quickly climbed out of the stone gate.

......

But Astoria Greengrass, with a book in her hand, didn't really make it to the library.

Her real purpose was to run towards the eighth floor, the principal's office.

The dripping mouth-shaped stone monster jumped lazily to the side after hearing the command "egg yolk finger cake".

Astoria ascended the spiral staircase step by step, and just as she grabbed the brass knocker and was about to knock—

Suddenly, she heard conversations coming from inside the room, one belonging to Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, and the other a somewhat shrill and even hysterical female voice.