It's been a week since Valentine's Day night, the duel that will go down in history.

Of course, in the entire Hogwarts castle, there are very few people who know about the duel, whether it is teachers and students.

After all, in most people's minds, Valentine's Day night was nothing more than a stormy, thundering, and terrible night! They were forced back to the common room until the next morning, when they learned that the truth had been revealed......

The daily newspaper of the Prophet on February 15 gave a detailed report on the truth of everything.

These include a number of attacks at Hogwarts some time ago, and Hogwarts' Deputy Headmaster, Lady Vitarozier, who found out the real culprit in this series of events: a vampire named "Troka", but the cunning vampire had already fled before the Minister arrived at Hogwarts with the Aurors......

Minister Milisenbarod apologized to the public. And she claims that the Ministry of Magic will do everything it can to apprehend the vampire and throw him into Azkaban.

......

And on the Hogwarts campus, there is a lot of talk about it

"It's unbelievable!" said Gamafary, a fifth-year Slytherin, "Professor Troka is a vampire! I've always had a good impression of him......"

"I always thought Troka wasn't a good thing!" said Marcus Flint, a sixth-grader, "I remember that Transfiguration class two weeks ago, when I made a mistake and he asked me to copy the entire Principles of the Advanced Transfiguration Guide ten times......

"The wizarding world is so merciful to vampires!" commented Theodoreaught, a first-year student, "to let this creature that can endanger the lives of wizards run wild...... In my opinion, they should all be caged and kept in captivity!"

All in all, there are a lot of perspectives.

But on the whole, all the turmoil has subsided.

A week later, most of the students who had been "attacked" were discharged from the hospital, and they were recovering well.

These included Ronald Weasley, who was the first to be attacked, and Maria Adams and Ricco Caro, who were the second to be attacked...... and Justin Finchrie, Neville Longbottom, and Hermione Granger, who were attacked this semester...... And, of course, the school doctor, Mrs. Poppy Pomfrey.

Aside from Harry Evans, he looks like he's going to be in the school hospital for a long time...... Maybe he'll have to repeat a year of grading.

Madam Pomfrey's temper seemed to have become more irritable than before, and she began to dislike the junior students who visited the school hospital.

And those students who were discharged from the hospital became "parties" and attracted attention in Hogwarts castles.

Among them, Ronald Weasley liked the feeling, even though he seemed to be a little frightened. But whenever asked, he was usually happy to describe his "adventures" in great detail

“...... I was cleaning the prize showroom and found that I hadn't had enough detergent with me, so I went back to Mr. Pringer's office...... Then I felt something hit me suddenly, I couldn't even see its face at the time, I was bitten on the neck, and then my whole body didn't know what kind of curse I was in, and my whole body was swollen and uncomfortable, and I couldn't move at all...... I was taken back to the prize room by it all the way and thrown to the ground...... And then after a while, I was flipped up again, and that's when I finally saw its face, and it was our Transfiguration teacher, Professor Troka, who stuck out his fangs and began to suck my blood, and then I felt weaker and weaker, until I finally lost consciousness......"

......

Of course, not everyone behaved like Weasley.

Neville and Hermione, for example, rarely mentioned the assault in front of others.

Except, perhaps, with Matthew Wickfield.

And now, once again, they were gathered in the classroom of the History of Magic class.

"My guess was correct!" Hermione whispered, "Professor Troka is indeed a vampire...... Just yesterday, Miss Clinwart, the prefect of Ravenclaw, was taking someone to tidy up his office, and found the remains of many small animals in a cupboard......"

"There are chickens, there are rabbits, there are kittens and puppies. Without exception, they were all drained of blood and piled up in that cupboard...... That's at least a few dozen corpses!" Hermione continued:

When Professor Kettleburn, the Magical Beasts Conservation teacher, arrived, he recognized the remains of several chickens and a litter of rabbits, all of which he had lost pets...... He was crying very sadly......"

"Is that so?" replied Matthew casually.

He had already guessed that the "murderer" of the chickens and rabbits that Professor Kettleburn had thrown away was none other than Professor Troka...... I'm afraid that when Professor Troka first arrived at Hogwarts, the Vice Chancellor Professor Rozier had not had time to arrange a "blood source" for him, so he had to make this decision.

After all, vampires are creatures that have to suck fresh blood three times a week to survive.

However, after that, this little problem was solved, and Professor Troka no longer had to run to the Forbidden Forest every night to steal and suck blood......

"Don't you think it's strange Matthew, don't you?" Hermione exclaimed, "There are so many critter corpses, only Professor Kettleburn claimed some of them, where did the other critter......s come from?"

“...... Then it only proves that he may have other helpers at Hogwarts!"

"That's enough, Miss Granger!" Matthew couldn't help but reprimand.

This stern salutation almost startled Hermione.

"This kind of thing is not something we should be concerned about!" said Matthew, righteously, "Have you forgotten that just a week ago, because of your meddling, you almost dragged Neville into danger...... Haven't you learned enough by now?"

Hermione looked slightly disgruntled, but she eventually lowered her head:

"Sorry...... I shouldn't have bothered with so much ......"

"Alright, alright. Matthew's anger subsided slightly, and he said:

"The perpetrator of the series of attacks is gone, it's all over, and it's time for us to enjoy a peaceful life at Hogwarts. ”

"Hmm!" both Neville and Hermione nodded.