Chapter 40: The Exam Is Approaching

Ryan stepped out of the woods and looked at his pocket watch in the moonlight, and was surprised to find that it was past 12 o'clock. He hurried to the castle.

Passing by Hagrid's hut, he found that the lights had gone out, and it seemed that Hagrid had recovered some of the pain from losing the dragon and was now asleep.

Walking through the gates of the castle, Ryan's spirit was highly tense. He cast an immature illusion spell on himself and navigated several large staircases. A few small detours of staircases slowly lead back to the Gryffindor Tower.

But until he got to the portrait of the fat lady, he did not see any patrolling teachers.

Ryan was amazed at his luck. After returning to the dormitory, he washed up briefly, and then went to bed in the dark and fell asleep.

At breakfast the next day, Ryan sat down at the long Gryffindor table in the Great Hall with dark circles under his eyes. Sure enough, staying up late in your 20s doesn't mean that you can be 11 years old, so try to come back early next time you go on a night trip.

During today's dinner, the people around him seemed to be more noisy than usual, and Ryan heard them talk about Harry Potter several times.

"What's going on?" asked Percy, who was next to the Ryan statue.

"You don't look good, no wonder you don't know. Last night, my brother Ron and Harry both deducted 100 points in one go. It's a bit disappointing. Percy replied with a helpless shake of his head.

There was no Malfoy to tell the whistle this time, how did Harry deduct the points?

He couldn't guess by himself, and Ryan wanted to ask Harry about it. It's just that Harry and Ron have been hiding from the others during class.

It wasn't until the end of the afternoon class that Ryan found Harry in an empty classroom. Hermione was already here, counting Harry and Ron.

Ryan sat on the side and listened to Hermione's count, finally figuring out how Harry had been caught.

After parting ways in the foyer, Harry and the two of them went straight to Hagrid to pick up the dragon in a wooden box. Then it went all the way to the Astronomical Tower. By the time they got the dragon into the castle, Ryan was still going round and round with Peeves.

No wonder Ryan didn't see Harry when he got to the foyer later. By that time they were already upstairs.

It's just that after sending the dragon away, the two people who were too excited forgot to bring their invisibility cloaks. As a result, they swaggered down in the castle. It was easy to get caught by Filch.

No wonder Ryan didn't meet the inspectors when he came back last night, because Filch had already taken Harry and them to Professor McGonagall, and there was no one patrolling the hallway.

After Hermione had finished criticizing Harry, she turned to Ryan and said, "You're just lucky, don't be so reckless next time, if Peeves had recruited another professor to watch the night yesterday, then we wouldn't have deducted 100 points yesterday, but 150 points." ”

Ryan originally thought that the turmoil caused by Harry's deduction would soon pass, but he didn't expect the situation to get worse.

Harry, who had been one of the most popular figures in the school, was now the target of public criticism. Even the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students didn't give him a good look, as they had always wanted to see Slytherin lose the House Cup.

Everywhere Harry went, people pointed fingers at him, and he didn't keep his voice down when he said insults to him. On the other hand, whenever he walked past the Slytherins, they always applauded, whistled, and cheered. "Thank you, Potter, for doing us a great favor!"

Ron was also miserable because now no one except his brother was willing to talk to her.

Ryan thinks this situation is school bullying and is very bad. But he couldn't change the hostility of the academy towards Harry.

In Ryan's opinion, this was purely due to the jealousy of his classmates due to Harry's previous fame, and the fact that the Gryffindor students were emotional, which made the atmosphere in the house very bad.

However, for Ryan, who is close to 30 years old, seeing a group of children bullying a child, he always wants to intervene and take care of it, not to mention that this kind of school bullying is completely inconsistent with Ryan's morality.

So he suggested to the students in the evening that Harry should be given a chance to correct the problem, after all, as a Gryffindor student, deducting points is a relatively common thing, and everyone treated Harry like this today because of the extra points, so who will they treat tomorrow?

Besides, Gryffindor students shouldn't be infighting at this time to let students from other houses see jokes.

It still had some effect after saying this, and although the classmates still didn't talk to Harry, at least they wouldn't insult him in front of him.

On top of that, Ryan and Hermione also worked hard to answer questions in each class, trying to get back some of the points they had deducted.

But Harry still seemed to be in a bad mood, and he was now in Ryan's study group, sitting with Ron in an invisible corner, silently reviewing late into the night. Constantly strive to memorize complex potion recipes, remember those spells and spells, remember the dates of major magic inventions and goblin rebellions.

One day, Ryan and Hermione were in the library asking each other questions and answering all kinds of knowledge, and Ron quietly carried a celestial chart next to him, after all, the exam was only a week away.

Harry suddenly walked in from outside, telling Ryan that he had heard that Quirrell had probably succumbed to Snape, and that he heard Quirrell's surrender to the forces of evil.

Ron listened, saying, "This means that the path to the Philosopher's Stone in front of Snape is clear. After all, he is a professor and has applied for the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts many times. This means that he should have enough to deal with the three-headed Luwei. What do we do now?"

"Tell Headmaster Dumbledore. Ryan rubbed his forehead and said, "After all, the Philosopher's Stone was put in the school by Dumbledore, and he is the greatest white wizard, and he has the strength to fight against all the evil forces that watch on the Philosopher's Stone. ”

Hermione added, "If you go it alone this time, Harry, you might be expelled." ”

But Harry was still opposed to telling Dumbledore about it. Because he didn't think the cowardly Quirrell would stand on their side and bear witness for them. ("If Quirrell was behind the murder, it would be even more impossible to testify.") Ryan whispered, but the others ignored him) and everyone knew they had a grudge against Snape, and there was no way to get Snape to confess without enough evidence.

On top of that, Harry felt that in theory students shouldn't know about the Philosopher's Stone and Loe, and that it would be difficult to explain it if Dumbledore was told.

Sure enough, this is the thinking of a child, and he can't tell the weight of things. Dumbledore must have known what everyone was doing during their night trip. However, in order not to destroy Dumbledore's warrior training plan, Ryan did not point this out, and let Harry Potter do what he wanted.