The Admiral of Hogwarts

“Ron, I have a different view on this.” For the sake of destiny points, Hugo felt he should say a few more words. “Because besides releasing curses, protection spells also need to keep an eye on the person being protected in order to be effective. And I noticed that just as Professor Quirrell screamed and stood up, Harry's broom also returned to normal.”

“You think the mastermind is Professor Quirrell? But when Professor Quirrell stood up, he touched a group of people around him, including Snape,” Ron retorted. “Maybe it was because he touched Snape when he stood up, which interrupted his spellcasting.”

“But this only says that both of them are suspicious.” Hugo said, looking at Harry and Ron. “Because you are Gryffindors, it's very normal to be a bit biased against Professor Snape. But as a Ravenclaw student, I think from a fairer perspective, they are both very suspicious today.”

“But what about Snape being bitten by the dog before?” Ron said, “Think about what kind of valuable thing would be guarded by that three-headed dog. I think Snape might want to get that thing.”

“Then why would he attack Harry?” Hugo pointed out the irrationality in Ron's words at this time. “Generally, someone who wants to steal something or carry out some kind of conspiracy naturally hopes that others will pay as little attention to them as possible. In this case, attacking Harry would obviously easily arouse suspicion. Just like you said, Snape is a conspirator, would a conspirator make such a simple mistake?”

“This—” Being asked by Hugo, Ron suddenly found that he didn't know what to say. However, he quickly resorted to sophistry, “No matter what, Snape is not a good person, so he probably did these things. I believe Harry can find the evidence.”

“Enough!” Hugo originally wanted to refute Ron's statement, but at this time Hagrid said loudly and irritably, “I think you guys are definitely wrong. Although I don't know what the real situation is, Snape would never want to kill a student! Now, you few listen to me—you are interfering in things that have nothing to do with you. This is very dangerous. Forget about that big dog, forget about what it's guarding, this is between Professor Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel—”

“Nicolas Flamel,” Harry said at this time, he heard something unknown from Hagrid's words. “So it also involves a person named Nicolas Flamel, right?”

“Enough, enough.” Hagrid was a little angry that he had revealed this secret, so he chased Hugo and the others out of the room together. Watching the door close behind him, Harry turned his head to look at Hugo and the other two.

“Sorry, I made you get kicked out together.” Harry's face showed apology. He also knew that Hugo was completely implicated by him. If he hadn't mentioned the thing guarded by the three-headed dog, Hugo would definitely not have been kicked out.

“It's nothing.” Hugo waved his hand and said, “Even if you guys didn't come, I would have come out now, because I still have some things to do today. As for the questions I wanted to ask Hagrid, I can ask them next time, no need to be too anxious.”

“By the way, do you know about that Nicolas Flamel that Hagrid just mentioned?” When everyone walked to the gate of the castle together, Harry suddenly asked Hugo. In Harry's eyes, Hugo and the other Ravenclaw students read more books, maybe they knew who this person was.

“Uh—then I might need to go back and check.” Hugo said, he felt that it was best to tell Harry this information after he was prepared, so as to obtain more destiny points while ensuring Harry's safety as much as possible, and at the same time keep an excuse to get close to Harry.

After all, Harry is the object of Dumbledore's key observation now. If Hugo, as a Ravenclaw student, approached Harry for no reason, it might make Dumbledore focus his attention on him. If he was considered to have ulterior motives, it would be very inconvenient for him to do many things in the future. And now, finding out Nicolas Flamel's identity is a very good excuse.

“Then I'll have to trouble you.” Harry scratched his hair and said to Hugo. After all, everyone was a first-year student, so even if Hugo was a Ravenclaw student, it was normal to not know about this thing. In Harry's opinion, it was already very good that Hugo was willing to help at this time.

As soon as Harry finished speaking, a group of excited Gryffindor students suddenly rushed out of the castle, and then pulled Harry to celebrate. Seeing this, Ron also quickly took three steps and made two steps to chase after them. Watching Harry and Ron leave, Hugo and the others returned to the Ravenclaw Tower.

“Today's destiny points have been calculated.” Just after Hugo and the others returned to the common room, Victory contacted Hugo through the admiral network. “You have obtained a total of 4 destiny points, of which 2.5 points were obtained by you attacking Quirrell with a special method and preventing his conspiracy, 0.5 points came from you changing the conversation with Hagrid after the game. The other 1 point came from you raising suspicions about Quirrell when you met Harry.”

“Sounds pretty good indeed.” Hugo was generally satisfied with the destiny points obtained in this operation, but there was still one question. “Why did we only get two destiny points for the attack we planned for so long? I originally thought it was three points.”

“Because the ultimate goal of your attack, preventing Quirrell from casting spells, is consistent with the past, which has a big impact.” Victory explained. “However, due to your creative attack methods and the different attack targets at the beginning, you have obtained 2.5 destiny points. From another perspective, if you attacked Snape or used flame magic as before, I think you would at most be able to obtain 1.5 destiny points.”

“I understand.” Hugo now had a clearer understanding of how to obtain destiny points, and also understood how he should adjust his plan when he encounters similar situations next time.

After eating lunch, taking advantage of Veneto using an excuse to entangle Hermione, Hugo came to an empty classroom. As soon as he entered the door, a tall figure came over and hugged him.

“Quick, tell me how you guessed it at the time?” One of the Weasley twins hugged Hugo's neck and asked excitedly. “You don't know how ugly Marcus's face was when we went to Slytherin to exchange those bets just now.”

“Yeah, yeah.” Another person also stood up and hugged Hugo's neck from the other direction. “Especially seeing them take money out of their pockets, that kind of heartache made me so happy.”

“You mean those Slytherins looked heartbroken?” Hugo asked strangely. In his impression, most of the students from Slytherin came from those pure-blood families, and their pocket money was on average much more than students from other colleges. If it could make them feel heartache, it definitely wasn't a matter of a few Galleons or a dozen Galleons.

“Of course, do you know what the odds they gave for the thing you bet on? 1:12!” Saying that, the Weasley on his left let go of Hugo and took out two small leather bags from a drawer and put them on the table. “This is the money you and Veneto won, it's all here waiting for you to take it away, I really envy your luck.”