Chapter 44 Night Tour
"Also, regarding the fight between four young wizards on the Hogwarts Express, ten points will be deducted from each of them. I hope everyone can remember this lesson and not fight on the train."
After Dumbledore finished speaking, the hourglasses recording the scores of Slytherin and Gryffindor's houses changed.
Jiang Li looked at the people who were fighting.
She knew what happened on the train, but she didn't think Snape would suffer any loss. Instead, she was worried that the people who fought with him were just unlucky enough to run into a big guy using a small account.
The moment they saw the house hourglass falling, the Gryffindor students couldn't hold back any longer.
At the beginning of the school year, their school was deducted 30 points! !
Lily lowered her head silently, looking a little guilty.
James seemed to have thought of something, and he winked at Sirius, and they talked about something with a grin on their faces.
The Slytherin students were initially angry about the points deducted, but when they saw the miserable state of Gryffindor, they felt strangely balanced.
Luckily they only deducted 10 points.
Snape didn't care, he could make up for the ten points deducted this school year.
After the banquet, the freshmen left with their respective college teams.
Slytherin's dormitory is at the bottom of the lake, and Lucius brings a group of freshmen to the common room.
Lucius's smooth platinum hair was particularly eye-catching among the Slytherins. Senior students gathered around him. He was like a proud aristocrat, elegant and noble. His contemptuous eyes softened only a little when he saw Narcissa.
"The Slytherin tradition cannot be abolished. Before returning to the dormitory, let us first select the head of the first grade. All freshmen will fight in pairs. The one who wins the battle will be the head of the first grade."
He swept his scrutinizing eyes over the freshmen present, pausing briefly on Snape.
Snape's expression remained unchanged.
The little wizards soon found their opponents.
Standing in front of Snape was a boy with a haughty look on his face.
Snape remembered him, Avery Shafik, a stupid and bad guy.
"Expelliarmus."
The moment Avery raised his hand, Snape raised his hand and used the Disarming Spell to knock the man away, quickly ending the fight.
"A very beautiful disarming spell."
Lucius clapped his hands and looked at Snape in admiration.
Others also ended their battles one after another. The losers were dejected, and the winners chose their opponents to fight again until the final winner was decided.
Snape felt like he was cheating when facing these little wizards.
With a disarming spell, he knocked away all the young wizards along the way and became the chief of the freshmen.
"Severus, you are as good as I thought." Lucius patted his shoulder with a look of satisfaction, "Keep it up, I will handle what happened on the train for you."
"Thank you for your kindness, but I can handle it myself." Snape said confidently.
Lucius admired his confidence and nodded, "Okay, then you can solve it yourself."
Slytherin values strength above all else, and Snape's ability to win the respect of others through his own abilities also proves that he is indeed worthy of his investment.
The night was as dark as water. After all the little wizards fell asleep, two figures sneaked out of the Gryffindor dormitory.
"James, your invisibility cloak is so cool, they definitely won't know it was us who did it."
"That damned Slytherin must be punished in a way he will never forget."
Whispers were heard in the empty corridor.
"Who's there?"
Filch, holding the lantern, shouted. His ugly face looked even uglier in the dim light.
He walked towards James and Sirius, waving his stick around, searching with his eyes and muttering to himself.
"You don't have to hide, I've already seen you."
Sirius and James were pressed so tightly against the wall that the stick almost hit them.
Filch seemed to have noticed something and slowly walked towards them, his eyes fixed on the wall, his face almost touching the two of them.
"Clap."
There was a sound of something falling.
Filch's eyes sharpened and he immediately looked towards the source of the sound.
Jiang Li was seen standing not far away, holding something in his hand that seemed to be moving.
Filch knew her; she was the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
"Professor Malfoy, why are you here?" He said in a strange voice, "It shouldn't be your turn to patrol today."
"It's not very convenient during the day, so I thought about getting familiar with the environment here at night."
Jiang Li walked towards Filch and said softly, "I just found this poor abandoned little thing. I don't have the energy to raise him. I wonder if Mr. Filch can raise her."
She opened her hands, and in her hands was a skinny kitten that was not even as big as her palm, with some dirt stuck on its wet fur.
"I didn't find a mother cat nearby, so I guess this kitten was abandoned."
Filch glanced at the kitten, frowned and said, "I don't have time to keep a pet. I need to clean up and patrol the castle every day, and catch those mischievous little wizards."
"I know, so I just ask you to look after him for two days, okay?" Jiang Li looked at Filch and asked sincerely.
Her attitude was very gentle, and Filch's expression was not so cold anymore.
He took the kitten from Jiang Li's hands.
The skinny kitten seemed to have noticed something. It licked his fingers and made a faint cry.
Filch froze for a moment.
Seeing this, Jiang Li smiled and said, "It seems that it depends on you a lot. Please take care of it."
Filch froze, unsure of what to do.
"Maybe you can put it in your pocket and feed it some goat milk. It must be hungry. I found it in the bushes." Jiang Li suggested.
"I have to work. I don't have time to feed it," Filch said grimly.
He put the kitten in his arms, walked past Jiang Li, and headed to the other side with an unhappy look on his face.
If Jiang Li guessed correctly, that direction seemed to be the kitchen of Hogwarts.
She smiled at Filch's back, leaned against the wall, and said to the two people who were trying their best to hide themselves, "You're out at night on the first day of school. You're worthy of being a Gryffindor student. I hope you won't be late for my class tomorrow."
Under the cloak, Potter and Sirius looked at each other.
"Has she spotted us?"
"Impossible. If she found us, how could she let us go? She must be trying to trick us."
"But she knows we are Gryffindor students."
"Come on, only a brave Gryffindor would go swimming on the first night, and she's right to think so."
"You're right. I was almost fooled by her."
The two quickly comforted themselves and wandered around the Hogwarts castle wearing invisibility cloaks.
Jiang Li walked towards the Forbidden Forest, where there was a small house where Hagrid lived.
But Hagrid should be on patrol now. Jiang Li didn't see him and went straight into the depths of the Forbidden Forest.
She remembered that there were many magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest. Maybe some of them would attack her first without fighting spirit, and she could get the alchemical materials for free.
The dark forest was filled with an eerie atmosphere.
Jiang Li saw a fire in the distance and thought Hagrid was there, so he walked towards the fire. It turned out that a pair of students who violated discipline late at night were sitting there, leaning against each other with an oil lamp next to them.
They had no idea that there was a huge eight-eyed giant spider behind them, with its fangs hanging over their heads, and they were still talking to each other.
Jiang Li felt a little annoyed. Didn’t these two people notice that there were spider webs all around?
"Spiders, retreat!"
Jiang Lichao fired a spell and hit the eight-eyed spider.
Her action frightened the young couple.
Andromeda then noticed the eight-eyed giant spider that was so close to her and let out a scream of fear.
Ted Tonks also discovered the giant eight-eyed spider and immediately stood in front of Andromeda, looking like he was going to fight the spider in close combat.
The eight-eyed giant spider was enraged and immediately pounced on the two nearest people.
"A blazing fire!"
A flame transformed into the shape of a phoenix and flew towards the eight-eyed giant spider.
Jiang Li ran over and said to the two dazed lovers, "Why don't you move away? Do you think the spider is not full?"
Andromeda immediately realized that Jiang Li was not going to punish them. She smiled gratefully at her and left with Ted Tonks, who had not yet reacted.
Watching the two people leave, Jiang Li pinched his fingers, loosened his joints, took out a dagger from the bracelet, and planned to decompose the eight-eyed spider.
I'm so lucky. I didn't expect to find eight-eyed spiders in the forbidden forest.
Hogwarts is indeed a place of great feng shui.
Jiang Li sighed as he performed the dissection.