The riots caused by the dogs ended up far exceeding expectations.

Even though the three students were all ruffians who didn't get very well treated in the courtyard, they couldn't just watch them being torn to pieces by a straw puppy, and after noticing that the seriousness of the matter was about to go beyond laughing off, the other students who had been watching coldly had to pull out their wands and participate in the work of stopping it.

Even Penelope, who was angry just now and made a fight for the tiger, can no longer continue to look at all this with the mentality of "deserved". Neil did reiterate the danger of this thing in his previous warnings, but Penelope's impression of it was generally at the level of "a magic item that automatically detects and punishes misbehavior", and never expected this little creature to be so ferocious.

It showed no sign of stopping after knocking down three people, even though the two students who were still conscious had already given up their resistance and were only thinking about running away. It just lunged at them over and over again, dragging them back from their escape path with brute force unimaginable from straw, and then pounced on them and tore and bites.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the shopkeeper's "don't accidentally bite someone to death, stupid dog" restraint is still working, no matter how violent it looks, it doesn't forget to avoid the vital parts when attacking, and only focuses on tearing clothes and biting hair.

But...... Who knows if this little beast will stop after stripping people naked?!

For a moment, the Stuna Charm and the Petrification Charm flew all over the common room, and occasionally a deflected spell or two shattered the glass or blew up the bookshelf, adding to the chaos of the scene, and the two more timid girls began to scream, but the two lying on the ground with their robes torn to strips screamed louder than they did—because the hellish dog mongrel had learned to use the two of them as cover! What the...... You Orientals, if you are not sure that something will be obedient, don't give it too much intelligence, isn't that a simple truth!?

- Neil Wan appeared in the common room as a savior who was above the "boy who never died" in the eyes of his classmates, and it was at this juncture that he appeared in the common room.

Looking at the half-destroyed stalls, the messy lounge, the dogs wagging their tails triumphantly, and the classmates with expressions like they had just returned from the battlefield, he understood the situation in his own way almost immediately. The thumb of his right hand snapped quickly against the canine, then snapped his fingertips lightly with the bloody fingertips aimed at the source of the commotion.

Syllable!

The dog's body burst open in response to the sound, turning back into dry straw scattered all over the ground, and the sound was so loud that the students who had been waiting in a circle subconsciously shrank their necks, and then they looked at each other on the ground in a daze, as if they hadn't realized that the thing that had made everyone disgraced had disappeared.

After nearly ten seconds, the sound of relieved breath rang out one after another.

And the two bad boys, who were a little late and dressed like Aztec leopard warriors, hugged each other and cried as if their hearts had finally been put down. All that was left was Harry, who was hiding behind the doorway and didn't know what to think, seriously considering whether to come back another day.

……

Although the crisis itself has passed, the matter is far from over, and although everyone did not think about it because they were caught off guard at the time of the incident, it is impossible not to report such a serious incident to the branch president. As soon as they breathed a sigh of relief, everyone was about to face Professor Flitwick's wrath again—unlike the one in the herb class, this time he was really angry.

The three little villains who vandalized other people's belongings and tried to bully the younger students were each deducted a full 50 points and suspended from school for a year - this is still the result of the three of them who have fallen into bad luck and are physically and mentally broken; Penelope, who used violent means to defend his classmates, was deducted 10 points, and the other students who turned a blind eye to this were also deducted 5 points each; As for Neil...... The charge of placing dangerous creatures in the common room was very valuable, and even though he repeatedly assured that it was just the result of an overreaction, he was punished with a 30-point deduction and a descriptive punishment, and was required to participate in a week's patrol in the forbidden forest, where the students talked about it, as an assistant to the gamekeeper.

The first time in nearly a decade that such a large-scale punishment had occurred, almost everyone was shocked and sighed at Ravenclaw's title race this year...... But it didn't take long for the smarter part of the group to find out what was wrong.

There is no such thing as negative marks in Hogwarts' house system.

The new school year has only just started a week, and even if you are deducted millions of points at this time, the actual loss is only the points accumulated in this week.

In other words, with the exception of the three unlucky ones who were suspended from school and Neil, who was about to be forced into compulsory labor, the others suffered little from it. And even for the trio, a year's suspension isn't necessarily a bad thing — think about it, what a terrible picture it would be if you returned to the classroom the day after the incident and found everyone talking about the gossip that someone had been stripped bare-bottomed by a straw dog in the common room.

It's frustrating to have to postpone O.W.Ls exams for a year, but it's probably impossible to study with peace of mind in such an environment.

……

"—So you see, in the end, I'm the only one who suffers, is that reasonable?"

The Potions classroom on the ground floor was cold and gloomy all year round, with glass jars lined with creepy animal specimens along the walls, and damp, earthy, and pungent medicinal smells in the air all the time—most of which had failed to be refined, and the owner of this classroom was merciless to his students, and one of his few hobbies was to assign classwork that most people couldn't do.

Even such a classroom with an oppressive atmosphere and foul air could not suppress Neil's desire to chatter.

"Okay, maybe I should inject a little less spiritual power, or restrain it with stricter restraints, but I still have to say that if no one came to smash my shop, nothing would have happened, don't you think?"

Hermione, who had been instigated by him as a co-opter for a long time, showed a bored expression.

"Listen, Neil, I'll admit you're a little unlucky in this matter, but you'll have to look at the consequences as well - I think Professor Flitwick has taken you lightly with that in mind."

"Oh, you're ruthless, Miss Granger."

Neil blinked aggrievedly, but his expression was contrived, clearly deliberate. Hermione snickered and gave him a light punch, "Stop playing tricks!" ”

"That's not easy to do—but speaking of which, where have Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley gone?"

A flash of contempt flashed across Hermione's face.

"In the library - copy the papers for this class."

"Now? It's only fifteen minutes until class. ”

"That's right. Weird, right? She retorted with some annoyance, rather hating that iron is not made of steel, "Why can't they finish their homework on time?" I mean, you can't even give up on Potions because you don't like Snape, right? Besides, handing in a bad paper will only give him more excuses to find fault......"

"Life doesn't always go your way, Miss Granger." Neil leaned back, leaned back on the table in the back row, and lazily replied, "Just talk about me, I really don't want to leave my beloved shop at the beginning of my career and go to volunteer in that dark and unruly forest, unless the hunting ground keeper agrees with me to grow some ghost mushrooms in the woods...... But what choice do I have? ”

Hermione selectively ignored the slightly dangerous-sounding plant name.

"Don't be so pessimistic, Hagrid is very nice, you will like him, Harry and he are very good friends."

Neil thought back to the super-large man he had caught a glimpse of at the opening ceremony—taller than the Yellow Turban Lux, with five feet of hair and a five-foot-long beard, standing there like a king-sized caveman.

"Hmm...... I see, maybe we'll have something to talk about. Ah, here they are. ”

Harry and Ron hurried into the classroom through the back door, a large ink stain on Ron's hand, apparently in a hurry. Seeing that Snape hadn't arrived in the classroom yet, both of them were visibly relieved and began to look around to find their friends. It wasn't easy to find someone in the crowded and dimly lit underground classroom, but luck seemed to be on their side this time, and it didn't take much for the two of them to spot Hermione, who was looking at them harshly, and incidentally noticed Neil Wan, who was cheekily sitting among the Gryffindor students, who was waving at them heartlessly.

"Mr. Potter. Mr. Weasley. It's great to see that you two caught up in time. ”

Harry smiled a little sheepishly, and Ron nodded his head with a big grin, not the slightest hint of doing anything wrong, "Hey, Neil." I heard you're in big trouble again, huh? Fred and George were delirious with laughter when they heard that someone had eaten up their pants, and they asked me to ask you, do you sell that little thing that eats people? ”

"I'm happy to do it, Mr. Weasley." Neil smiled slightly, not correcting his misconception of the dog, "But since that sad accident, I've been forbidden by Professor Flitwick to make straw crafts, even though I've repeatedly explained to him that you can only move if you make a dog...... However, I've heard that you can get nice rattan on the outer wall of the castle? Rattan snakes are also a very interesting thing, I don't know if they are interested. ”