Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 176: Beginning

However, Professor Horace Slughorn's prediction did not seem to come true.

At least on the campus of Hogwarts, nothing happened for a long time after Valentine's Day.

It's business as usual, and everything seems to be calm.

This also made Matthew's nerves, which were tense all the time, relax a little.

Soon, the Easter holiday came, and there were only ten weeks left before the final final exam.

The Easter holiday is far less relaxing than the Christmas holiday, because the teachers of each class have assigned a lot of homework...

This also makes many students sigh.

……

The first day of the Easter holiday.

Early in the morning, Matthew left the Slytherin common room and started to go to the library.

Just as he walked out of the library gate, Matthew bumped into Miss Elaine Shafik head-on.

"Good morning!" Matthew greeted the other party.

However, Elaine just nodded slightly indifferently towards him, and then quickly walked into the library.

Matthew also followed her and walked into the library. Since it was very early, the inside was quite clean.

Glancing outside the window, the weather is great, it can be said that they have encountered such good weather for the first time in months... the sky is extremely clear, just like the color of forget-me-not flowers, and there is a sense of summer coming in the air breath.

At this time, something caught his attention: there was an animal wandering on the emerald green lawn beside the castle.

Now that it was sneaking around the edge of the Forbidden Forest, Matthew quickly narrowed his eyes, as if... a cat?

Soon, he recognized the bottlebrush-like tail and **** hair, which looked familiar... If he guessed right, it should be Crookshanks!

That's right, it's Crookshanks, what is it doing sneakily?

Matthew was a little curious, so he stopped and began to observe.

The big **** cat was wandering on the lawn outside the castle, as if waiting for something...Suddenly, a small thing sprang out from the corner of the castle...

Matthew squinted, his nose pressed against the windowpane.

Too small to see at all.

Matthew quickly scanned the surrounding area. Fortunately, he found a brass telescope on a bookshelf beside it! Probably some student who finished his astronomy class left it here!

Matthew quickly picked up the binoculars, then quickly ran to the window and opened the window at the same time.

Adjust the focus as quickly as possible... Soon, Matthew saw the thing clearly!

The one communicating with Crookshanks seemed to be a mouse... As soon as Matthew's eyes moved to it, the mouse quickly ran back to the castle... except that its hair seemed to be gray, Can't see anything else.

A cat befriends a mouse, it sounds funny!

But it did happen, as Matthew had seen before.

Matthew Wakefield soon fell into deep thought, because he didn't know what this meant!

……

Continue to read books in the library, more and more people start to appear.

This must be because the final exam is approaching, many students started cramming, previewing, and of course completing their numerous homework... Normally, it is difficult to have so many people in the library .

Due to the increasing number of people, the library soon became as noisy as the vegetable market.

Mrs. Pince ran over and roared several times, but each time after a short period of calm, the noisy voice reappeared a few minutes later...

Matthew couldn't stand it anymore, so he decided to change the classroom.

A few minutes later, Matthew Wakefield came to the Charms classroom on the fourth floor, where there were usually fewer people.

Just as he was about to enter the Charms classroom, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw a familiar figure appearing at the **** of the stairs.

Matthew's eyes lit up, and he trotted over quickly... At the end of the stairs, he saw the girl's back.

Exactly!

Absolutely!

The person who just went upstairs is Elaine Shafik!

Matthew's face suddenly changed... because this is almost impossible!

Elaine Shafik had been with him in the library just a few minutes earlier. When Matthew was about to leave, he saw her, concentrating on completing her homework, and she didn't look like she was going to leave at all!

But who was that person just now?

Could it be that because I left the library, Miss Shafik also left, and then arrived at the stairs on the fourth floor almost at the same time as myself...

This sounds even more impractical!

Or are there two Elaine Shafik at the same time?

Matthew was thinking, but for the sake of caution, he didn't catch up to ask something...

The cats and mice communicating with each other; the two Elaine Shafik appearing at the same time, plus Hogwarts' surface calm in the past few months... For some reason, Matthew suddenly felt A chill.

Could it be that the "upheaval" that Slughorn expected is today?

……

Let's return to the mouse that Matthew saw a few hours ago.

I have to say that this mouse is not beautiful at all... its whole body is gray, its hair is shedding all over its body, and it looks a little depressed...

After bidding farewell to the big **** cat, Crookshanks, it entered the castle very carefully, taking advantage of the absence of people in the corridors of the castle early in the morning, it quickly climbed the corridors.

Until it struggled to climb in front of an extremely ugly huge stone monster.

Not far from the stone monster's feet, there is a small hole... There is no doubt that this mouse did it; it seems that the mouse spent several months digging out this hole for some purpose. The hole is the same!

The mouse easily passed through the cave, and what appeared around it was a spiral staircase, which was slowly moving upwards, like an escalator...

It spun higher and higher, higher and higher, until at last the dazed-looking Mouse saw ahead a shiny oak door with a brass knocker in the shape of a griffin.

If you are familiar with Hogwarts, you must know where this is... This is the headmaster's office of Hogwarts!

In theory, this should also be where Principal Gellert Grindelwald works.

It was hard to imagine that the headmaster's office at Hogwarts would be so defenseless, without any magical protection, allowing such a mouse to break in so easily.

However, this mouse didn't seem to have the intention of gnawing open the wooden door and breaking into the principal's office.

It stayed there, as if something was brewing.

Soon, a head appeared on the ground; limbs also stretched out; after a while, a man stood where the mouse had been just now, and got up timidly.

The man was short, not much taller than an average second or third grader, and his thin, light-colored hair was disheveled, with a large patch of baldness on the top of his head. His skin looked very dirty, almost the same as the previous mouse's fur, and his pointed nose and small watery eyes still had the characteristics of a mouse...

So, this is not an ordinary mouse.

Rather, it is an Animagus.

And this short man, if there are staff from the Auror Office of the Ministry of Magic here, he can be recognized very easily——

His name was Peter Pedilu, and he was one of the three dark wizards who escaped from Azkaban Prison almost ten months ago.

……

Although Mr. Peter Pedirou looked distressed, his eyes were very clear.

He took out his wand, aimed at the brass door knocker in the shape of a eagle head, and said softly:

"Dumbledore!"

There was only a creak, and the brass door knocker was opened.

The entire principal's office is covered with dust, as if no one has used this office for a long, long time.

Peter moved the bench beside the principal's desk, revealing the wall behind.

Then he raised his wand again, aiming at the wall carved with ancient patterns behind—

"Sleeping Dragon Do Not Disturb ()!"

The wall carved with ancient patterns cracked a little from the middle, revealing a deeply hidden door.

Peter also seemed shocked.

He was a little hesitant, and seemed to be waiting for something.

After about thirty seconds, only a crisp meow was heard.

A tabby cat also broke into this place somehow.

It looked at the hidden door very excitedly——

Then the tabby was gone, replaced by a stern-looking woman with square glasses that looked like the stripes around the cat's glasses. She wore an emerald green cloak, and her jet-black hair was pulled back into a tight pin.

Looking at the hidden deep door in front of her, she looked extremely excited!

"I think we found it, Peter!" Professor Minerva McGonagall said tremblingly, "A weapon that can deal with Grindelwald..."

……

Two figures, one tall and one short, broke into the door hidden in the principal's office.

Inside is a very strange space, the surroundings are pitch black, and the starry sky can be clearly seen above the head.

But the current time is far from late at night.

They seem to have appeared on the top floor of Hogwarts.

Appearing in front of them, there are two stone tablets... one is extremely tall, and the other is quite short.

On the tall stone tablet, the names of many students are densely written; on the top of the shorter stone tablet, there is only one name that makes them excited——

"Albus Dumbledore!"

It's just that ~IndoMTL.com~ has some blacked-out traces around the name.

Professor Minerva McGonagall looked extremely excited, and she seemed to have had a lot of effort to calm herself down.

She took out her wand, pointed at the stone tablet in front of her, and whispered softly——

This is a very long process.

But as time went by, the black mark around the name "Albus Dumbledore" was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye...

"The ancient and great Hogwarts..." Professor McGonagall said softly, "Let's wake up your consciousness... Drive away the usurpers and welcome the real master you have chosen!"

With the complete disappearance of the black marks, the stele suddenly began to tremble.

……

At this moment, Matthew Wakefield was eating lunch in the auditorium.

Suddenly, the golden dinner plate on the table ping-pong, and the goblet is shaking...everything around is trembling, everything is shaking...

Is it an earthquake?

But this is impossible. There are detailed records in "Hogwarts: A School History"... Hogwarts has enough anti-shock magic, even if there is a magnitude 9 earthquake in Glasgow, here There will be no vibrations either!

"Everyone, please leave Hogwarts Castle in an orderly manner under the leadership of the prefects!" Professor Vita Rozier's voice rang next to their ears.

The vice principal's voice was very calm.