Chapter 12: Night Return and Professor McGonagall

On Thursday of the second week, before Slajelin and Gryffindor's flying lesson, Draco Malfoy's provocation to Gryffindor House ushered in a small climax in ordinary life, but all this was just the matter of Gryffindor and Slyering's sworn rivals, and it had nothing to do with Ravenclaw, who was focused on his own world, and the good old man Hefpuff. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At dinner, Malfoy's reappearance at the Gryffindor table gave a different smell.

After taking Potions class, he went to the library to look up materials and began to write about the hemorrhoid potion homework, but he didn't know about it.

By the time Holly finally finished her Potions homework five weeks early, it was 12 p.m. The first time he hadn't returned to his dormitory so late, Holly was full of interest in Hogwarts at night. Though... It's against school rules... Filch and his cat, Lady Norris, are the only humans and animals to roam the corridors of Hogwarts other than ghosts at night.

As Holly descended from the side of the castle library and was about to walk back to the west tower where Ravenclaw was, a cat suddenly appeared in the hallway, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps.

"Hello, Mr. Filch. Is there anything wrong with you?"

"Hello, Countess Holly Parker, it's so late, I think you should know the school rules... Well, your confinement starts this weekend—"

"Excuse me, Mr. Filch, I think I'm going to be punished as a Hogwarts student, but as a member of the Wizengamot, I don't think I've violated any of the rules. So, Mr. Filch, you can now go on with your work..."

"Good luck then, Count. With a little regret, Filch and his cat continued to patrol the castle. Holly, on the other hand, was quietly walking a short distance behind Filch towards the Ravenclaw Tower.

As he walked to the third floor near the prize room, the screams of a certain boy, the screams of Filch, and the sound of the exhibits being knocked over resounded throughout the castle, while Holly focused on the exit at the other end of the corridor of the prize room.

Seeing the four first-year students who had seen him panic out of the Charms classroom and towards the corridor on the right-hand side of the fourth floor, a smile appeared on Holly's lips. After seeing that the four men were Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and Neville Longbottom, Holly scrambled ahead of them and cast an "Alajo Hole" on the door on their way. The four men hurried into what Dumbledore called the forbidden area, and slammed the door shut. When Filch went up to the fourth floor after dealing with Peeves, he only found Holly chatting with Gray in the hallway, and after being ignored by Gray and getting a reply that Holly didn't see anyone, Filch turned to the other floors to search for the four bunnies he was looking for.

Within a few minutes, the four people who had entered the stairs on the right side of the fourth floor ran out again.

"Stop. As the four of them ran past the corner where Holly was hiding, Holly suddenly shouted from behind. Seeing that there was no shadow behind them, the quartet accelerated their escape.

"Gryffindor deducts twenty points. Holly shouted unhurriedly and clearly. And among the hourglasses that can be seen anywhere in the castle, twenty points of gems flew away from Gryffindor's hourglass... The running quartet didn't notice this. Only Hermione felt that the voice just now seemed familiar, but she didn't have time to think about it. I'll talk about that later...

Seeing the four people running away from the fourth floor, Holly gently pushed open the door in the corridor on the right, and a foul smell came from the pavement. Holly, who opened the door wide and lit up her wand, did not enter the door, but just observed the contents from a distance. An iron chain on the feet of a three-headed dog connected to an iron door, while the rest of the place was empty. Under the iron gate, there are probably valuables that need to be protected. After a while, I came back to take a look, and I thought that I couldn't deal with the three-headed dog for the time being, so I closed the door and let everything return to its original state. Turning around and picking up his bag from the corner, he walked back to the Ravenclaw tower without looking back.

The next day, also Friday. When Holly stepped into the hall at 7 o'clock to start breakfast, as usual, he found that Gryffindor had scored twenty points less than the night before. Could it be that what she shouted the night before took effect? Holly wondered, but she decided to shout as little as possible in the future, after all, she was not a teacher, and it was not a good thing for too many people to discover her authority.

Holly, who had eaten breakfast, did not immediately rush to the library. The dessert after breakfast at Hogwarts is very much to the taste of Hoghley. By the time the last student arrived in the hall and started breakfast, Holly had already pulled out his Transfiguration textbook and was previewing the next two weeks.

The hall, which used to be bustling, suddenly became quiet on this day, and the source of all this was the change in the castle's scoring hourglass. Gryffindor's negative score is unusually striking compared to other houses. And the exchange of words between the teachers in the teacher's seat also proves that the teachers are puzzled by the change in scores. Filch, who was alone eating in the corner, looked excited. Obviously, the four students he had not caught the night before had been caught by a certain teacher, and there were also points deducted, indicating that his work was working. Thinking of this, he fed Mrs. Norris a little more candy.

McGonagall was a very serious professor, especially when compared to Flitwick. McGonagall's seriousness is different from Snape's coldness, always giving people a sense of seriousness, which does not make students fearful, and can maintain the image of a teacher in front of students. After showing us the amazing Animagus Transfiguration in the first week, the Transfiguration class begins in the second week, where McGonagall shows the students how to turn a table into a rampaging boar.

It was clear that McGonagall didn't have a high demand for Transfiguration for first-year students, as she could tell from her teachings. Turning matches into needles didn't change much in size, let alone shape, but even so, McGonagall spent a lesson on the theory, and asked all the students to take notes, and there were only three main points:

1. Recite the mantra cuspis.

2. Turn half of the wand to the left with your thumb and forefinger while you pronounce the spell.

3. Imagine in your mind that matches turn into needles, and don't miss a single detail.

In the second lesson, everyone is engaged in the process of turning matches into needles. In McGonagall's words, the student who was able to turn the train into a needle in this class would be given one extra point to his college. In Gryffindor and Hufflepuff's class the day before, Hermione Granger had already managed to do just that. It seems that she is using this example to tell each of us that it is normal for the transformation to be unsuccessful, and that a successful transformation is a small probability event. This statement succeeded in angering all the first-year students of Ravenclaw and Slyergelin. For the two arrogant colleges, being compared to others is the most unacceptable thing. By the end of the class, Ravenclaw had scored four points under the leadership of Holly and Erinka Black Sterling and Draco Malfoy, while Slajlin had earned three points from the rival deans thanks to the performances of Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson and Theodore Nott... In comparison, the gap between Gryffindor and the leading houses has not decreased. At the end of class, McGonagall asked Holly to wait for her at the door of the hall at three o'clock in the afternoon, as if she had something to talk about.