The Admiral of Hogwarts

Professor McGonagall's face showed a satisfied expression as she watched everyone in the classroom diligently taking notes. Compared to Gryffindor, the house she headed, Professor McGonagall actually felt better about Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff in this regard.

After all, Ravenclaw students had a love for knowledge, and Hufflepuff students were relatively well-behaved. Therefore, they would often listen attentively in class and take notes.

As for Slytherin students, because of their family wealth, they generally only listened to the parts that interested them, and were not so attentive in areas they didn't care about.

Gryffindor students were the most infuriating to Professor McGonagall, because these students in her own house were purely restless in nature, so they often drifted off in class.

Although there were many factors that determined a person's magical level in the wizarding world, the biggest influence was talent.

However, in order to bring out that talent, it was still necessary to study diligently and practice various exercises after class. And Hugo and his friends, in Professor McGonagall's eyes, were the kind of people who had both talent and were willing to work hard and study diligently.

It had to be said that Professor McGonagall's guess was very accurate, because due to the system, Hugo's talent could be said to be among the best of his peers, and the same went for ship girls like Veneto.

As for Hermione, although she came from a purely Muggle family, according to some ancient records, wizards born into non-magical families often had more talent in magic.

Therefore, in actual practice, when Hugo and his two companions had already transformed the gecko into exquisite combs according to Professor McGonagall's instructions, most of the students in the classroom were still waving their wands, repeatedly practicing the wand movements and the pronunciation of the incantations.

"Very good! I'll award ten points to Ravenclaw." Looking at the combs in front of Hugo and his friends, Professor McGonagall smiled.

"And I think you don't have to do homework today, because from this comb I can see that you have mastered the knowledge in this area very well, so there's no need to waste time writing homework."

Professor McGonagall's words immediately made all the students in the room show envious expressions. Not to mention that they had recently dominated the top three in class performance in almost every Transfiguration class and earned points for their house, just the fact that they didn't have to do homework after class was enough for those students to admire them from the bottom of their hearts.

After the class bell rang, Professor McGonagall finished assigning homework and signaled Hugo and his friends to stay, then let everyone leave the classroom. After everyone had left, Professor McGonagall took the three of them to her office.

"Alright, sit down, don't be nervous." After the three of them sat down, Professor McGonagall said, "I just want to ask you some questions, of course, these questions are just some private questions and will not be linked to any situation within the school."

"Please ask, Professor McGonagall." Hearing Professor McGonagall say this, Hugo vaguely guessed what she wanted to talk to the three of them about. And later, the questions Professor McGonagall asked were indeed what he had guessed before.

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"I remember you borrowed a book called 'Transfiguration and Combat' from the Restricted Section a while ago. Can you talk about why you did that?" Professor McGonagall sat behind her desk and asked, staring into Hugo's eyes.

"Because of the attack last time, Professor McGonagall." Hugo replied immediately, "Although I'm not sure whether that attack was really caused by a monster from the Chamber of Secrets, or whether some people were playing tricks. But we can see that this attack shows a very obvious hatred for students like us from non-wizarding families."

"So, for safety reasons, we must master some self-defense skills. But neither last year nor this year have we learned much useful stuff in Defense Against the Dark Arts class."

"That's right, so we discussed it privately and then asked the older students what to do." At this time, Veneto continued Hugo's words.

"And after removing the books that might be dangerous to study at our age, we found that the content of this book should be able to help us."

"I see…" After Hugo and his friends explained the current situation, Professor McGonagall showed a thoughtful expression.

The reason why she wanted to ask Hugo and his friends this question today was very simple, because as the Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall herself had the responsibility of managing school affairs, and things like lower-grade students borrowing books from the Restricted Section naturally fell under her jurisdiction.

And after Hugo and his friends disclosed their method of borrowing books to the entire Ravenclaw house, the Ravenclaw students immediately began to obtain borrowing slips from the Restricted Section through Lockhart's channels.

Although they consciously controlled the frequency of borrowing books, this little trick could not be concealed from Professor McGonagall, who had worked at the school for decades.

In fact, secretly reading books in the Restricted Section without permission was an open secret at Hogwarts. Even Professor McGonagall had done it herself back then, so the school itself would not react too strongly to this matter.

However, considering the students' physical and mental safety, the professors would often find those they believed lacked sufficient ability to study the contents of these books and issue warnings to them and prevent them from doing this dangerous practice.

And an important purpose of Professor McGonagall's conversation with Hugo and his friends today was to see if they had the ability to master the knowledge in those books.

It had to be said that Hugo had cleared a large part of the suspicion on himself by telling the entire Ravenclaw house about this method before, at least now Professor McGonagall believed the reason Hugo gave for borrowing the books. And did not think he was some kind of sinister person.

After all, Voldemort's approach back then had left a deep impression on the professors of Hogwarts, so in the generations of oral teachings and earnest admonitions of the professors in the school. Those who learned magic by taking shortcuts to gain knowledge and then avoiding others to eat alone would often become the focus of the professors' observation.

Fortunately, although Hugo and his friends played a close-to-the-edge ball, the overall approach was still within the rules. More importantly, they did not hide this channel.

Therefore, Professor McGonagall's visit to Hugo and his friends today was just to understand the specific situation after they borrowed that book.

"It's not a bad thing to learn some self-defense magic at this time." After thinking quietly for a few seconds, Professor McGonagall looked at Hugo and his friends and said.

"And I also know that you children always think that the things in the Restricted Section are better than the things outside, so you always want to take a look."

"But the reason why the Restricted Section is the Restricted Section is because the books in there have a certain degree of danger." Speaking of this, Professor McGonagall began to persuade Hugo and his friends.

"So I want to hear how you ensure your safety when studying?"

"We also found that this book was too difficult for us when we got it, and we basically couldn't learn it on our own." Hermione said at this time. "So we asked Professor Halsey to tutor us."