Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 122: Breakfast

Latest URL: Early the next morning, the storm outside the window had subsided.

The outside of the castle was still wet; when Matthew Wakefield came to the auditorium, he found that the ceiling was also covered with dark clouds.

"Matthew!" Someone shouted Matthew's name.

Slytherin prefect Gemma Farley trotted over, and then she handed Matthew a piece of parchment.

She said: "This is the class schedule for the second grade. I didn't find you last night."

"I'm sorry, after the school-opening banquet ended yesterday, I went directly back to the dormitory to rest." Matthew quickly explained.

Indeed, after returning to the Slytherin common room last night, he immediately lay down on the velvet bed he hadn't seen for more than two months.

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

Gemma didn't care much about this: "It's all right...how is your summer vacation, I heard you are staying alone in Diagon Alley?"

"It's not bad." Matthew replied.

"More contact with the magic world is always a good thing..." Gemma said softly.

Gemma Farley is already a sixth-year student at Hogwarts, and she is also a very responsible prefect who is very popular with younger students. When Matthew first entered the school, he met her and had a good impression of her.

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

Gemma waved at Matthew and left.

…

During breakfast, Matthew looked in the direction of the guest seat while spreading jam on a slice of bread.

Sure enough, the most central position is still empty, and there is no trace of Principal Gellert Grindelwald.

For some reason, as the principal, Professor Grindelwald seldom stays at the school... Or, he is always busy... Matthew is already used to this.

At the same time, at the guest table, Matthew was a little surprised to see several new faces.

About five or six strangers...including Aurord Lux, who met Matthew when he captured the vampire Troka a year ago...and Neville's father, Frank Mr. Longbottom...

Probably all Aurors?

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

To be honest, this 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 they need a long period of training, so the number of them is small.

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

Moreover, the status of Aurors in the wizarding world is actually very high... Neville Longbottom was appreciated by Professor Slughorn precisely because his parents were both Aurors, and he became one of the few Students who joined the Slug Club in the first grade (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 born in pure-blood families in Hogwarts).

So many Aurors, plus a large number of dementors... The Ministry of Magic cannot be said to be indifferent to the protection of Hogwarts.

So here comes the problem——

Who are the three "criminals" who escaped from Azkaban?

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

According to common sense, shouldn't the fugitives who escaped from Azkaban escape as far as possible... Why did they come to Hogwarts?

These doubts hovered in Matthew's mind.

It's a pity that the information at hand is too little, and I don't have any clues at all.

And this kind of thing probably has nothing to do with a low-grade student like myself...

It should be...

…

Just then, another teacher joined the guest seat.

Matthew frowned suddenly.

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

The change frequency of the Transfiguration teacher is indeed a little too frequent, just like the position of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor in the original book.

But what makes Matthew even more puzzled is that this professor "Severus Snape" is really too strange...

Severus Snape is a character Matthew is quite familiar with.

Greasy hair, huge hooked nose, empty black glasses... cold, mean, and devoted at the same time...

And the person who was eating breakfast at the guest table was very different from the Snape in Matthew's memory in terms of appearance and behavior!

Besides, 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), the probability of having the same name and surname is actually very small...

So last night Matthew thought for a long time, but he couldn't figure out why.

Is it really just because of the change of the world line?

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

Draco Malfoy also came to the auditorium with sleepy eyes, and he seemed to have not adjusted his biological clock from the summer vacation.

"Good morning!" Matthew quickly turned around and greeted.

Malfoy glanced at Matthew, and suddenly asked with some doubts: "You love jam so much?"

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

Just now when he was busy thinking about something, he smeared several layers of jam on the slice of bread thickly.

"Yes." He nodded calmly: "This tastes good..."

"Well, I didn't expect you to have such a strong taste..." Malfoy huffed again, and started buttering his slice of bread.

"By the way, Draco!" Matthew suddenly shouted softly ~IndoMTL.com~ He remembered something——

In the original book, the relationship between Snape and the Malfoy family has always been good; when Snape entered Slytherin House in his first year, Lucius Malfoy was his prefect...

"What's wrong?" Malfoy didn't stop what he was doing.

"Our new Transfiguration teacher...that Professor Snape...do you know him?" Matthew said nonchalantly, "What kind of person is he?"

"Let me think about it." Malfoy stuffed the bread into his mouth while muttering:

"I have a little impression... I may have heard of it somewhere... But I don't have a deep impression..."

"Okay!" Matthew sighed softly in his heart.

Looking at the guest table again, the new Transfiguration teacher seemed to have finished his breakfast and just left the auditorium when Matthew was talking to Malfoy.