After the map was hacked by Zhang Xu, it was not easy for Harry to find someone in the castle.

The trio went to the common room of the Eagle Academy, the Muggle Studies professor's office, Zhang Xu's professor's dormitory, the kitchen and reading room, and finally spent a lot of effort to find Zhang Xu at the top of the Astronomical Tower.

When Harry's trio met Zhang Xu, they found that he and the other Hogwarts professors were almost all gathered at the top of the tower.

When Harry's trio reached the top of the tower, they saw the professors chatting happily after a few bottles of red wine, and they were all immersed in laughter, even Snape's face was a little better than usual.

Not only did the professors not get angry when they found the three students who had crept in, but Professor Sprout conjured up three chairs and invited them to sit down.

Seeing that their headmaster, Professor McGonagall, had no objections, the Harry trio sat down in their chairs with a little trepidation.

Zhang Xu poured a glass of red wine for each of the three of them, but they only took a symbolic sip and then sat there and didn't dare to move.

The students had been to Harry many times, and they had been to the ghosts' gatherings, but this was the first time they had known about the professors' gatherings.

After listening to the professors talk for a while, Harry realized the reason for the professors' gathering today.

Today is the first working day of 1996 for professors, and it is also the day on which the 1995 year-end bonus and other benefits are distributed.

Last year, the Triwizard Tournament was successfully held, and Hogwarts students won the championship, so Dumbledore waved his pen and won the year-end prize by 20% more than in previous years.

Although this year-end bonus is affected by performance appraisals, everyone except Snape has gained a lot.

Naturally, the professors, who had just received a large sum of money, wanted to celebrate, so there was a party tonight.

When Zhang Xu was pulled from the dormitory by Professor Flitwick, he felt the same as Harry and the others now.

The professors chatted for more than half an hour before they ended, and with the exception of Professor McGonagall, who told Harry and the others to go back before the curfew, the other professors didn't pay attention to their arrival.

Just now, Zhang Xu saw Harry and they kept looking at him, and he knew that they were looking for him.

"Is there anything you guys are up to?" Zhang Xu asked.

At the beginning, Harry and the others could still rely on their momentum to ask Zhang Xu for an explanation, but they first walked around the castle, and then sat with the professors for half an hour, and now they are all in one go, and then they are exhausted.

After all, this problem is too serious, and the boat of friendship will capsize.

After Harry and the three of them raised the question in a hurry, Zhang Xu couldn't help but laugh and cry.

In the end, Zhang Xu used "How much money is the salary of being the Minister of Magic?" For this reason, their doubts were dispelled.

Looking at the three guys in front of him who had too little homework and too much thinking, Zhang Xu was a little speechless.

Just as Zhang Xu was about to go back to wash and sleep, Harry stopped him.

"Percy may want to shut down the Defense Society." Harry said, "Is there anything you can do?" ”

"Just change places and don't let him know." Zhang Xu said, "There are so many places in Hogwarts, and it is not difficult to find another place. ”

"So where can it be?" Harry asked.

"Think for yourself." Zhang Xu replied.

There are a lot of things that happened today, and there are more than one or two things that Harry wants to discuss with Zhang Xu.

"Did the Death Eaters really infiltrate Hogwarts?" Hermione asked suddenly.

"Yes." Zhang Xu replied.

"How did they get in?" Ron asked.

"There are a lot of secret passages at Hogwarts, and they came in through one of them." Zhang Xu continued to answer.

"How did the Death Eaters know about the Secret Passage?" Harry suddenly shouted, "Could it be that Snape brought them in?" ”

Zhang Xu looked speechlessly at Harry, who habitually threw the pot at Snape, this time the pot was actually right.

But Zhang Xu couldn't tell Harry the truth, otherwise something would definitely happen.

"The Death Eaters are also Hogwarts graduates," Zhang Xu said, "and it's not surprising that they know the secret passage as well as you know it. ”

"And will the Death Eaters infiltrate Hogwarts in the future?" Hermione asked worriedly.

"I can't rule out this possibility," Zhang Xu said, "but now all the protective measures in the secret passages have been reset, and if you break in, you will die." So there's basically no need to worry about them running in through the secret passage again. ”

The trap that Dumbledore had laid in the passable passage had already told the professors that it was a similar magic to the age-limiting circle set around the Goblet of Fire when the Triwizard Tournament was registered, and now the students of Hogwarts were fine when they passed by, but if a wizard older than the student entered, even the professor, it would touch the trap in the secret passage.

"And what about the Death Eaters who escaped from Azkaban?" Ron asked.

Zhang Xu wanted to roll his eyes at this time, the three of them were now relying on Zhang Xu to obtain internal information.

"You don't have to worry about that, the Ministry of Magic will find a way to deal with them." Zhang Xu said.

Then Zhang Xu looked at Harry and said, "Harry, I remember that you will continue to study Occlumency with Professor Snape from tomorrow night, this time I hope you can study seriously, Voldemort is different from the past." ”

Harry nodded with an ugly face, although he said that it was no problem, but when it came to really facing Snape, he still resisted in his heart.

Next, Harry, they seemed to have questions to ask, but Zhang Xu didn't give them another chance to ask, and waved his hand to signal them to shut up.

Zhang Xu and Dumbledore have been playing "Harry Potter Warrior Development Project" together for so many years, and this year can be said to be a year to test the results.

Everything that should be said has been said, and everything that should be reminded has been reminded, Zhang Xu plans to stop helping Harry Potter from this year onwards, wanting to see how he grows.

In the past few years, Zhang Xu has been working as a nanny for Harry, either explicitly or secretly, to train him and avoid him from detours.

Harry Potter will be 16 years old this year, and he can get married as long as his parents agree. It's time for people at this age to start taking responsibility for the decisions they make.

So Zhang Xu decided to leave Harry alone from today and now.

"Harry, human abilities need to be improved by themselves." Zhang Xu said to Harry.

"One thing I've learned from my short life......"

"The more you rely on the ideas of others, the more you will find that there is a limit to the improvement of your abilities......"

"Unless you're really on your own."

"What the hell are you trying to say?" Harry looked at Zhang Xu strangely.