Hogwarts does not have a rule prohibiting students from returning to school during the summer.
It's just that the school's garrison strength has decreased after the holidays. After all, most professors will take advantage of this time to deal with their own affairs, and even Dumbledore is not always at school.
In previous years, only two deans, Sprout and Snape, stayed at the school year-round.
Sprout has to take care of the plants in the greenhouse and cannot be away for long periods of time.
And this is also her hobby. Rather than visiting friends or traveling to relax, she would rather be with her beloved flowers and plants.
Snape simply had nothing to do, and even he didn't know if he had any other friends besides Ernie.
In addition, the Wizengamot supervision order has not been lifted, and he is too lazy to go out. He might as well stay in school and study potions.
The remaining two deans, Professor McGonagall, also has the position of vice-principal, and they have to work hard for a while during the holidays. With her character, even if she has some criticisms about the leader's indifferent style, she will still work hard without complaining. Not open to trade.
Although Flitwick has nothing to do, he traveled around the world when he was young and made many friends. Not many of them are alive today, but there are also many.
Every year, the old professor would travel around the world to meet up with friends. The older he gets, the more rare those friendships will be severed. After all, not everyone can live for more than 600 years like Flamel.
Among the other stronger professors, Sinistra, who teaches astronomy, can be said to have given up on vacation, and is also a contestant running around the world.
But unlike Professor Flitwick, she was not visiting friends, but looking at the stars.
There are many high-quality astronomical observation points around the world, and Sinistra always comes back with a lot of star maps.
The same goes for Professor Babuling from the ancient magic literature class, but no one knows where she went or what she did.
This professor who is proficient in ancient runes is extremely mysterious, and no one even knows her origins.
Ani only heard Hagrid mention that Barbling had been teaching at Hogwarts when he was in school, and that was already fifty years ago.
The situation of other professors is similar. After working hard in school for one academic year, who hasn’t had some personal matters yet?
Trelawney, on the other hand, will carry out the housekeeping attribute to the end, but apart from helping to test the quality of the sherry, there is a high probability that he will not be able to count on anything else.
If you imagine she can play a role in the security of Hogwarts, give her two bottles of wine and ask her to copy a sheet of music, then hang it in the middle of the room and tape it to her back.
This does not mean that you can predict good or bad luck, but it just makes you realize that Trelawney's "spectrum" is unreliable...
Filch, op. cit.
Hagrid is naturally loyal and reliable, and his combat prowess far exceeds the baseline, but he rarely goes to the castle, and when he has the spare time, he might as well hang out in the Forbidden Forest.
Uh, by the way, Snape also left school early this year after the holidays, fearing that he might not be able to come back before school starts.
Therefore, after the holidays every year, Dumbledore would seal the student dormitories after a comprehensive inspection to avoid being exposed.
After all, for Hogwarts, the safety of students is the most important thing.
Hermione wanted to stay at school for a few days, and Ani was of course everything. But she still had to talk to Dumbledore tomorrow. Rules are rules, and people's hearts are people's hearts.
After sending the little witch to the office, Ani returned to the tree house, holding a phoenix in one hand and a cat in the other, lying on the bed with her arms around her.
Oh, by the way, there is also a little bird snake lying on the chest. I forgot to bring it with me when I went to Egypt last time. Aini dug more than thirty honeycombs in the forbidden forest to coax the little guy.
I picked up a lot of wool today, especially Hermione, who is large in quantity and high in quality. After helping her share the work, she also helps him improve his strength. She is such a cute little girl.
Taking stock of the day's harvest, Ani fell into sleep happily.
Shortly after Ani fell asleep, Sylvie also appeared in the tree house.
Biting her fingers, she looked at the big and small children stacked on the bed for a while. A hazy green light flashed, and a little fairy clung to Aini's neck.
Well~~~
Rubbing Aini's earlobe, Sylvie bit her finger again...
How can I fall asleep?
This is a big problem!
One night passed, and after waking up, Aini stretched himself carefully.
There was nothing he could do. He accidentally kicked Tom out last time. He didn't want to experience Maomao's aggrieved look again.
What's more, now there is a phoenix and a bird snake...
Huh?
Ani turned his head, and the little fairy on the side was looking at him intently, with his own shadow in his emerald eyes.
Even if it was the first time he saw this image, he would not mistake Sylvie's aura.
Yes, I have one more pendant on my body.
Now that I'm back, I naturally want to go to Dumbledore first.
After returning from Egypt, the old wizard rushed into the principal's office, trying to peel off the resentment mixed with the memory.
Even though Dumbledore is one of the top people in the contemporary wizarding world, who could be a simple person in ancient Egypt who could become a high priest?
This period of time cannot be said to have achieved little, it can only be said to be no progress. If it could be digitized, the progress bar was still stuck at zero when Aini left yesterday.
There are some countermeasures, but they got this thing to decrypt it, not to destroy or seal it. They dare not use any risky methods.
If the integrity of the memory is destroyed, their gains this time will be greatly reduced.
After washing, Aini poured the alfalfa he brought back outside.
After making out with the unicorns for a while, Ani said goodbye to Sylvie, hugged Tom and Lulu tightly, and patted Fox's wings.
The phoenix grew extremely fast after its natural nirvana, and now it has no burden on it to travel short distances in space.
Teleporting to the entrance of the principal's office on the third floor, Aini climbed the spiral staircase obediently after reading the password.
It would be impolite to move indoors directly. Even if Dumbledore always regarded him as his successor, he still needed to maintain the necessary respect.
As soon as the door opened, Tom, who was still a little sleepy, immediately became energetic.
There was nothing I could do, the wailing coming from inside was really too miserable.
"Wait a minute, Ani." Dumbledore stood on the open space in front of his desk, holding the crystal ball and testing it repeatedly.
As a few minutes passed, the wailing in the room became smaller and smaller, but the wrinkles on the old man's forehead became deeper and deeper.
When the wails subsided, Dumbledore lowered his hand holding the crystal ball and sighed.
"Still no progress?" Aini raised his eyebrows. It seemed that the problem was much more difficult than he thought.
"The only gain is that there is one less wrong direction." The white wizard smiled at himself, but he was a little happy.
It has been a long time since he encountered a difficult challenge, which made him feel like he was when he was young and studying.
"There is too little information about that era, and there is even less content handed down from the three major systems of ancient Egypt. Especially if the memory cannot be damaged, it is indeed an interesting problem."
Ani had no intention of comforting Dumbledore. He knew that the old man did not need comfort.
Maybe in a way, they are the same kind of people.
