A broken Hogwarts

Chapter 23 First Night Tour

After the topic of sorting was over, Harry fell into silence, immersed in his wild imagination and couldn't extricate himself.

Owen saw the opportunity and said to Hagrid: "Hagrid, do you have a map of the Forbidden Forest or something? Or the specific distribution map of these magical creatures?"

Hagrid's black beetle-like eyes blinked, and then his smile narrowed: "I never need a map of the Forbidden Forest, the routes are all memorized in my mind!" He pointed to his temple.

"Well, could you please..." Owen thought carefully about his words.

"Sorry, I'm afraid not." Hagrid immediately understood Owen's intentions and shook his head sharply, "I have spent almost half my life trying to drive the Weasley twins out of the Forbidden Forest. I don't want to

There’s one more person I’d have to worry about driving away…”

Hagrid glanced at Owen. Although he had a simple and honest personality, he was by no means a fool.

"But you know, those who really want to explore the Forbidden Forest will not stop because of the lack of a map." Owen smiled nonchalantly.

"But at least it can prevent them from going deeper inside." Hagrid said seriously, "There are too many dangerous creatures deep in the Forbidden Forest. Although they have an agreement with the school, they generally will not attack students easily, but if someone accidentally

If they are angered, the angry magical creatures will have no control over the agreement. If a student is in danger deep in the Forbidden Forest, I may not be able to rescue him in time."

"I have said that the Forbidden Forest is very dangerous, especially for lower grade students." Hagrid persuaded him earnestly, "Don't die because of curiosity."

"Speaking of which, this is my first time taking a night walk in a castle." Owen thought with some humor, "I don't know, am I such a rule-abiding person?"

In just half an afternoon, Owen and Hagrid had become familiar with each other, and they got along very harmoniously and naturally. If Owen wanted to, he could make himself very popular.

For example, now, when Owen and Harry were about to return to the castle, Hagrid enthusiastically stuffed their pockets with rock biscuits and gave each of them a small pendant made of unicorn hair. He

Noticed that Owen was looking at the decorations in his cabin.

"It turns out that some people are not as good as others say. You have to make your own judgment." After receiving benefits from others, Irving did not hesitate to say a few good words for him in front of others.

"Silent...breath covering..." Owen recited two spells to himself, blocking his own movements and body odor.

Owen has been coveting this spell that can make people invisible for a long time. However, as a high-level magic spell, even many adult wizards may not be able to use the Disillusionment Curse. Although Owen has understood the principle of the Disillusionment Curse in advance, he has not yet

Be able to take time to study and practice.

"Ah? Then I can't accept it," Harry said quickly.

"That's Hagrid, a very nice guy!" Harry got angry when he saw him.

"Hagrid, this report..." At this time, Harry took out a piece of newspapers from the pile of newspapers in his hand and shook it. The title on it was: Latest report on Gringotts break-in incident.

"The day this incident happened happened to be my birthday, so we probably happened to be there at the time!" Harry said, "Moreover, it says: The underground vault that had been searched by the intruders had been emptied earlier that day...

…”

"It seems that Mr. Filch and I have come together." Owen shook his head helplessly. After observing secretly for a long time, he finally saw Filch huddled behind a wall at the entrance to the Hufflepuff lounge.

Just waiting to catch the guys running out one by one.

"Hagrid, are you really not going to use these things to improve your life?" Owen shook the rough-looking pendant in his hand at Hagrid, and the snow-white hair was like flowing silver moonlight as he waved it, "Are they worth it?

Less money.”

"Don't tell me, Owen, you went with him to see that, that..." Draco said in a long tone as soon as he sat down at the long table. After speaking, he glanced at Harry, but in the end he didn't say anything.

What a bad nickname.

Since he was familiar with the roads while exploring the castle during the day, Owen wandered around the familiar route near the Hufflepuff common room, intending to wait and see. However, as soon as he arrived nearby, he almost met Mrs. Norris who was patrolling around.

, Owen quickly hid in the corner of the corridor to avoid those sharp yellow cat eyes.

Obviously nothing will be gained tonight.

"Okay, thank you." Owen smiled and waved to him, and went back to the auditorium with Harry to have dinner.

After dinner, he quickly wrote a letter and went to the Owlery to mail it home.

As one of the main materials for wand cores, unicorn hair is much easier to obtain than phoenix tail feathers and dragon heartstrings. However, there are only a small number of unicorns. The hair they usually shed is precious enough and has many other uses.

.

Hagrid avoided Harry's gaze, abruptly changed the subject, and began to talk about things in the castle.

In fact, he hasn't gone out and wandered around these days, mainly because he has been immersed in the practice of magic spells and lived a very fulfilling life every day. Going out for night walks has little meaning to him, and he doesn't need to be in the forbidden book area yet.

book.

He had to eat his food one bite at a time, and most of his energy was now focused on the Defense Against the Dark Arts spells. After all, Hogwarts was really not safe.

After returning to the common room, Owen quickly finished his homework as usual. With his current knowledge base, these homeworks that other little wizards think are very troublesome are very simple for him, just like high school students returning home.

It’s the same as writing the exercises for the first grade of junior high school.

By now, Owen has mastered most of the commonly used defense spells against dark arts, such as defensive disarming spells, obstacle spells, confinement spells, offensive stun spells, crushing spells, etc. As for the more advanced armor spells and blasting spells,

Owen has not started practicing the Patronus Charm and so on.

If Hagrid took the only dirty packet from the vault that day, which meant that it was empty, then that was what the intruder was looking for?

While the two were arguing, Owen stopped talking. He took a piece of steak and slowly used the knife and fork.

"Yeah, I went to have afternoon tea with Harry." Owen yawned, "Overall, it was very pleasant, well, except for the rock cake..." He touched the stuffed bag in his pocket.

Take out the stone-like cakes and put them on the dinner plate.

"Okay, I have reservations." Draco hugged his shoulders and said, "My father has never liked letting him stay in school. He always huddles on the edge of the Forbidden Forest and does some sneaky things alone. If it weren't for

Dumbledore supports him..."

"Don't worry, I value my life very much." Owen pondered for a moment, nodded, and stopped continuing the topic. His current main focus really needs to be on practicing magic spells, and things about the Forbidden Forest can be put aside later.

"Since Dumbledore believes in him, doesn't that mean anything?" Harry frowned, not wanting to hear the other party talking about this topic.

"Besides, I haven't learned the Illusion Curse yet."

"It doesn't matter, take it, I have plenty of this stuff. Besides, I am very satisfied with my current life." Hagrid patted Yaya's head, and deep smile lines appeared in the corners of his eyes. Obviously, he was not

I don't know anything about the value of these things, I just don't care much about them.

"However, since there hasn't been any big incident for a week, this anomaly should be quite harmless." Irving thought, "And it's very low-key... I hope it's not brewing any big news."

"That's not necessarily true. You know, Dumbledore is probably a little confused..." Draco curled his lips.

In the following time, Owen rarely huddled in the armchair in front of the fireplace to warm himself. Instead, he said hello to the others and sneaked out of the common room.

"I hope I can catch a little Hufflepuff wizard who is out for a night walk tonight." He was very curious about the purpose of these people, maybe that was the anomaly caused by him.

Owen turned around and left, wandering around the castle casually for a while, and met Slytherin's ghost Barrow on the way.

Well, Mr. Barrow must have been having a lot of fun recently. Because Draco tried desperately to ask him where the blood stains on his body came from, and ended up being chased and frightened by him for several days. He almost had a nervous breakdown.

Fortunately, Owen's relationship with Bloody Barrow has always been harmonious. He chatted with this gloomy, taciturn ghost for a while, and asked him to help him pay attention to any abnormalities in the castle.

When the night got darker, Owen ended his night tour and went back to rest.

(End of chapter)