Putting down the newspaper, John looked up at the Gryffindor table.
Ron and Hermione were quarreling again.
"How do they quarrel every day and still have such a good relationship?" John fell into deep thought.
The reason was still two pets. Crookshanks often ran out, but he still didn't forget to catch Scabbers.
This incident was the trigger. Ron had long disliked the ugly cat.
On one side was the pet he had kept for twelve years, and on the other side was the ugly cat he had just bought half a year ago. He didn't understand why Hermione couldn't understand.
At least from Ron's perspective, there's nothing wrong with this.
John was also curious as to why Crookshanks was staring at Scabbers.
He understood that Crookshanks was too smart to fail to see that the rat was the pet of his owner's friend.
"Peter Pettigrew."
The Marauder's Map will show the people in Hogwarts, and the rat next to Ron is not named Scabbers.
John has always known about this, but he can't run up to Ron and tell him, isn't this mouse called Scabbers?
"That mouse is hiding so hard now that he can't even leave the dormitory."
Originally, John wanted to check if the Animagus had turned into a mouse, but unfortunately Scabbers didn't give him a chance.
John had no choice but to put this matter aside for now.
After eating the sausage on his fork, John felt someone standing behind him.
He looked back and saw Professor Snape deliberately slowing down.
"Well, this matter needs to be resolved." With a slander, John stopped Professor Snape.
"professor."
As if waiting for this sound, Snape stopped and turned around slowly.
John saw the look of expectation on that face. He wiped his mouth and said, "I know."
After a mindless conversation, Snape had an unprecedented smile on his face.
He drawled, "Oh?"
John said the key word: "full moon."
Snape said quietly: "Mr. Wick, you are a smart man."
Well, be smart now, right?
John wondered if Snape was secretly calling him stupid.
After muttering something in his mind, he smiled and said, "Thank you for the compliment."
One big and one small, like two cunning foxes.
Snape's footsteps became faster when he left, which showed that he was in a happy mood.
The two were playing riddles, Daphne's beautiful eyes widened, confusion written on her face.
Heinrich ate calmly. He picked up the juice, then cautiously dipped some in it to drink.
Yeah, garlic flavor.
He walked towards the Gryffindor table without hesitation, and the twins, who had failed in their prank, ran away as soon as they realized the situation was not going well.
Harry was in a good mood, and Lupine agreed to teach him the Patronus Charm.
After this Christmas, he no longer has to be ridiculed by Malfoy and the others.
Said Malfoy, Draco arrived.
The tables of the two houses were obviously separated by a Hufflepuff, but Draco Malford walked around just to make his presence felt to Harry.
"The Dementors are coming—"
He pretended to be panicked, making Pansy and the others laugh.
Harry's face was dark, and Ron and Hermione, who had been having a cold war just now, immediately started to protect their cubs.
"Shut up, Malfoy!"
Ron was already in a bad mood. After being teased like this, he stood up immediately. Malfoy looked at him without any sign of weakness.
"Weasley, you should be glad this is the Great Hall."
With a naked threat, Malfoy whispered: "If you dare, fight me in a duel."
Ron looked bad. This was not the first time that he and Malfoy had quarreled.
Malfoy's strength has improved a lot. If he fights, he may not be able to win.
He didn't realize that Malfoy wouldn't scold him now because of his background. Thanks to Percy being from the Star Club, otherwise he wouldn't be so civilized with his little mouth smeared with poisonous honey.
"I'll duel you, Malfoy."
Harry wasn't going to watch his friend being humiliated, so he stormed out.
"That's enough, Malfoy, do you want to be imprisoned?"
Hermione stopped the two cubs from going out to duel. She stared at Malfoy, unwilling to be outdone.
Points will be deducted every time a curse is cast, and Gryffindor is being ridden by Ravenclaw.
Malfoy shrugged and said sarcastically to Harry: "Oh, dear Potter, you will hide behind your friends."
After saying that, he made an expression like a crying baby, turned around and left with the others.
Ron was so angry that he punched the table with his fist, and Hermione comforted Harry, "He just dares to say that."
Harry muttered: "I know, thank you."
The relationship between the three little ones has been restored after what happened just now.
...
Time passed quickly, and John clocked in at sunrise and sunset every day and cast spells.
The storm seemed to have no intention of coming, and John was a little depressed.
Usually I have to catch some dementors to practice.
Turn on the phantom body, turn off the brain, go out and come back, the poor dementor is missing.
Due to the intervention of Aurors, the dementors are now almost imprisoned in one place.
And the dementors often want to escape, so sometimes if there are a few, they just think that the dementors have escaped, and they can forget about finding them after searching.
They didn't know that the reason why the Dementors wanted to escape was because Dementors often disappeared out of thin air.
The dementors were like encountering a natural enemy and trying to run away but being stopped.
Terrible in capital letters.
John didn't care about them. He became more and more skilled in soul surgery and stuffed the decomposed soul into the bottle.
A shelf full of bottles filled with souls, enough for a dozen dementors to be decomposed.
The ring is getting darker and darker. There is no need to lure the Dementors, just use the Soul-Eating Curse to pull them over.
"That's almost enough."
Looking at the white-light bottles on the shelf, John carefully put the things away.
With these soul fragments, it was enough to operate on Nagini.
Stretching out his left hand and pinching the unused box, John whispered: "Crush."
The box was like a paper cup held by a big hand, and a strange force emerged from all sides to smash it into pieces.
Unlike the Crushing Curse, this is ancient magic.
Strictly speaking, it is a variant of ancient magic that can capture objects.
It sounds similar to the levitating spell, but it's actually not the same.
The levitating spell lifts up objects, and essentially causes damage when the objects fall due to their weight.
And this object-taking spell is to pick up something with one hand and drop it at an accelerated speed.
This is what John found in "Forbidden Magic".
With a snap of his fingers, the smashed box burst into flames, burning the box clean.
"That way there's no evidence left."
John chuckled lightly, there was enough material, so there was no need to harm the dementors.
After putting away the soul fragments, John glanced at the Boggart, who had been silent for a long time, and let it go.
...
December 18th.
A group of students preparing to go to Hogsmeade gathered at the gate of the castle, and John saw Harry again.
He was standing alone at the door, really pitiful.
With a sigh, Harry prepared to go back.
"pitiful."
Seeing how pitiful the savior was, John thought to himself that he had two Marauder's Maps anyway, so he might as well give one to Harry.
This thing was supposed to be Harry's anyway.
So he called Harry, who looked at John coming over with some confusion.
"John? How did you..."
John took out a piece of parchment, and Harry's eyebrows skipped a beat. Wasn't this an assignment for himself?
No, John is not a professor, so what kind of homework is assigned to him.
Harry didn't know why, but John smiled slightly and said mysteriously: "There is more than one way to leave Hogwarts."
After saying that, he placed the wand on the blank parchment and tapped it lightly.
"I solemnly swear that I have no evil intentions!"
Ink lines spread across the white paper, and Harry's eyes widened.
"This is the Marauder's Map." John chuckled and said, "I believe you can see the effect."
Harry's mouth opened slightly, as if he didn't expect that John would give him such an important thing.
He was a little embarrassed and asked: "Is this... for me?"
"certainly."
John nodded and said with deep meaning: "It is yours."
Harry was overjoyed. He saw several ways to leave Hogwarts, which made him think a lot.
"Thank you, John." Harry thanked him sincerely.
"The ending spell is: the prank is over."
John waved his hand, turned and left the castle.
Shortly after he left, Harry prepared to leave through the secret passage.
As a result, he was caught by the Weasley twins and taken to the fourth floor corridor.
They winked mysteriously and said, "Let's get you into some holiday spirit before we go."
With that said, he pushed Harry into the classroom nearby.
They introduced Harry to a secret passage that could leave Hogwarts. Harry looked strange and wanted to say something. Fred, who was sharp-eyed, saw the Marauder's Map in his hand.
"It turns out that we thought we lost it here."
Harry picked up the Marauder's Map blankly, but he didn't expect the twins to use it directly after picking it up.
Looking at their familiar looks, Harry looked strange, as did the twins.
Anyway, Harry can finally go to Hogsmeade.
Full of excitement, he entered the secret passageway with the statue of the hunchbacked one-eyed witch, and walked all the way to the Honeydukes Candy Shop.
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