The next morning, the storm outside the window had already stopped.

The outside of the castle was still wet, and when Matthew Wakefield arrived in the Great Hall, he found that the ceiling was also covered with dark clouds.

"Matthew!" someone shouted Matthew's name.

Slytherin's prefect, Garma Farley, trotted over, and she handed Matthew a piece of parchment.

"It's the second-grade class schedule, and I didn't find you last night," she said. ”

"I'm sorry, but after the opening party yesterday, I went straight back to my dorm room to rest. Matthew quickly explained.

Indeed, when he returned to the Slytherin common room last evening, he was immediately lying on the velvet bed that had been separated for more than two months.

It's just that he lay in bed for a long time before falling asleep, thinking about the new Transfiguration professor all the time.

Garma didn't care much about it: "It's okay...... How's the summer vacation, I heard you're alone in Diagon Alley?"

"Not bad, isn't it? Matthew replied.

"It's always a good thing to have more contact with the wizarding world......" Garma whispered.

Garma Farley is already a sixth year student at Hogwarts, and she is also a very responsible and popular prefect with the younger students. When Matthew first entered the school, he met her and had a crush on her.

The two exchanged a few words, and several senior students on the other side called her.

Garma waved at Matthew and left.

......

At breakfast, Matthew smeared jam on slices of bread and looked in the direction of the guest of honor.

Sure enough, the central position was still empty, and there was no trace of Headmaster Gellert Grindelwald.

For some reason, Professor Grindelwald, as the principal, rarely stayed at the school...... Or rather, he's been busy...... Matthew has long been accustomed to this.

Meanwhile, at the guest of honor, Matthew was somewhat surprised to see a few new faces.

About five or six strangers...... Among them, Auror Lux, who had a relationship with Matthew a year ago when he captured the vampire Troca...... and Neville's father, Mr. Frank Longbottom......

Probably all Aurors?

Matthew secretly speculated...... Maybe these five or six wizards are probably the Aurors who Neville said were responsible for keeping Hogwarts safe this semester.

To be honest, it made him a little confused.

You must know that the Aurors are the top armed force within the Ministry of Magic, the threshold is extremely high, and it requires a long period of training, so the number is scarce.

Although there are no detailed figures, Matthew estimates that the total number will not exceed thirty.

And the status of the Aurors in the wizarding world is actually very high...... Neville Longbottom was appreciated by Professor Slughorn because his parents were both Aurors, and he became one of the few students to join the Slug Club in his first year (of course, it is also related to the fact that the Longbottom family is a relatively famous pure-blood family, but there are many students who were born in pure-blood families at Hogwarts).

So many Aurors, plus a lot of Dementors...... The Ministry of Magic cannot afford to ignore the protection of Hogwarts.

So here comes the question -

Those three "criminals" who escaped from Azkaban, what are "where they are sacred"?

Why is the Ministry of Magic so sure that those three "criminals" will definitely come to Hogwarts?

According to common sense, a fugitive who has escaped from Azkaban should not flee as far as possible...... Why did they come to Hogwarts?

These doubts hovered in Matthew's mind.

It's a pity that there is so little information at hand now, and I don't have any clue at all.

And this kind of thing should have nothing to do with junior students like me......

Probably so......

......

At that moment, another teacher joined the seat of the guest of honor.

Matthew's brows suddenly furrowed.

Because, the new teacher is none other than Professor Severus Snape, their Transfiguration teacher for the new semester.

The frequency of changes in the Transfiguration class teacher is indeed a little too frequent, just like the position of the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor in the original books.

But what puzzled Matthew even more was that this "Severus Snape" professor was really too unfamiliar......

Severus Snape is a figure that Matthew is quite familiar with.

Greasy hair, huge hooked nose, hollow dark glasses...... Cold, mean, and at the same time dedicated......

And now the person who is eating breakfast at the guest of honor, in terms of appearance and behavior, is very different from the Snape in Matthew's memory!

Moreover, the surname "Snape" is not a wizard's surname at all (Snape is a half-blood wizard, and his father Tobias Snape is a Muggle), and the probability of the same name and surname is actually very small......

So Matthew thought about it for a long time last night, but he didn't come up with a reason.

Is it really just a change in the worldline?

......

"Good morning, Matthew!" a weak voice suddenly came from behind Matthew.

Draco Malfoy arrived in the Great Hall with sleepy eyes, he didn't seem to have adjusted his summer clock.

"Good morning!" Matthew quickly turned around and said hello.

Malfoy glanced at Matthew and suddenly asked, "You love jam so much?"

Matthew was stunned and looked at the slice of bread in his hand......

Just after patronizing and thinking about things, the jam on the bread slices was thickly smeared by him several layers.

"yes. He nodded quietly: "This tastes good......"

"Well, I didn't expect you to be so heavy......" Malfoy snorted again, and began to spread butter on his slices of bread.

"By the way, Draco!" Matthew suddenly shouted softly.

He remembered one thing—

In the original books, Snape had always had a good relationship with the Malfoy family, and Lucius Malfoy was his prefect when Snape entered Slytherin House in his first year......

"What's wrong?" Malfoy didn't stop.

"Our new Transfiguration teacher...... What is that Professor Snape's name...... Do you know?" said Matthew casually, "What kind of man is he?"

"Let me think about it. Malfoy shoved the bread into his mouth and muttered:

"Kind of impression...... Where have you probably heard of it...... But not very impressive......"

"Alright!" Matthew sighed inwardly.

Glancing at the guest of honor again, the new Transfiguration teacher seemed to have finished breakfast and had just left the auditorium while Matthew was talking to Malfoy.