The Admiral of Hogwarts

Because another 0.5 destiny points were obtained, Hugo, who was in a good mood, patted Neville on the shoulder to encourage him. Unfortunately, Neville at this time was not the brave man who slayed Nagini at the end of the original story, so he just responded vaguely, seeming unwilling to get involved in such matters again.

As an outsider, Hugo naturally didn't want to say much at this time. So, he could only pat Neville on the shoulder to encourage him, and then leave the corridor with Veneto.

Soon, the time for the match arrived. That afternoon, Hugo and the Ravenclaw students took various flags to the Quidditch pitch. However, unlike the previous match, in this match, some of them supported Gryffindor, and some supported Hufflepuff, so the flags they carried were not uniform. There were both gold and red Gryffindor flags, and brown and yellow Hufflepuff flags.

"What are you doing?" After sitting down, Hugo saw that his roommate, Michael Corner, had actually brought a kettle and placed it beside him, so he asked curiously.

"I filled it with hot chocolate," Michael said. "The last match almost froze me to death in the cold wind, so I specially prepared some hot drinks this time to avoid being frozen stiff in the stands. If you and the ladies need some, I can give you some."

"Ah, thank you very much indeed," Hugo said with a smile and a nod. However, in his memory, this match seemed to be quite short, so he probably wouldn't need these things.

"Look over there." Just as the professors were entering the arena, a cry of surprise suddenly came from beside Hugo. He raised his head and saw that Headmaster Dumbledore, who would not normally appear in the stands for an ordinary match, had suddenly appeared here today.

Obviously, the attack on Professor Quirrell during the last match and the tampering with Harry's broom had made the Headmaster feel something was amiss, so he had come to the match today to oversee things.

Snape's face seemed to turn even more gloomy than before. After seeing Dumbledore, he naturally felt relieved. Then, he began to focus his attention on targeting the Gryffindor team. As soon as the match started, Snape gave Hufflepuff a penalty shot for no reason.

However, only three or four minutes after the start, Harry, who was searching the entire pitch in the air, suddenly swooped down to the ground, shooting towards the ground like a bullet. At the same time, Hugo also noticed a bit of chaos at the border between Gryffindor and Slytherin, which seemed to indicate a fight had broken out.

In the midst of this chaos, Harry brushed past Snape. Then, he pulled up when he was only one or two meters above the ground. Next, he raised his right hand high, and everyone saw the golden snitch in his hand.

The stands erupted; this would be a new record, with the match ending less than five minutes after it began. No one could remember when the snitch had been caught so quickly in any previous match. Hugo noticed that the Ravenclaw students around him were happily waving to the field and cheering loudly.

Only Michael Corner had a look of frustration on his face after cheering for a few seconds, because the kettle wasn't very light, and now that the match had ended so quickly, he could only carry the kettle full of hot chocolate back to the castle.

Because today's match was so magical, even after Hugo returned to the common room, he could still hear some students discussing the issue. So, in order to avoid the noise, he, Veneto, and Hermione took their backpacks straight to the library, planning to return to the common room after the excitement had died down after dinner.

After reading for a while, Veneto took out Hagrid's notebook and continued to sort it out. At the same time, she placed a large pile of books about magical creatures beside her as a reference. During this Christmas break, the ship girls had sorted out 80% of the content of this book through the admiral network, and the remaining work was left to be done now.

It must be said that Hagrid had put his heart and soul into this notebook, which contained a large amount of first-hand information obtained from his own observations. But the problem was that the content of this notebook was recorded by Hagrid himself in chronological order, so it was not only fragmented and unsystematic, but also used a large number of colloquialisms and slang in the middle.

Therefore, during the previous sorting process, Hugo found this chaotic notebook very headache-inducing. Fortunately, the ship girls had the admiral network, so they could digitize all these notebooks and quickly sort them by keyword indexing. This was why they were able to sort out most of the notebook content during the Christmas break. But on the other hand, the problem of the notebook being non-standard made the sorting more difficult.

Unlike Chinese, English has specific nouns for many professional issues. Non-professionals may never come into contact with these words in their entire lives. And Hagrid, due to his level of education, did not master those specific nouns. If Hugo and the others wanted to compile these notes into a book, they had to replace those unprofessional words inside.

This was why Veneto had taken a large pile of books on the subject to look at for comparison, because she needed to revise all those unprofessional words, so she needed these professional books to compare and revise.

Hugo and Hermione, on the other hand, were reading an old magic book written in Latin. From this book, they discovered many small tricks about casting transfiguration spells. Although some of the tricks were no longer very useful today, there were still a few that could be used.

Just as they were reading, Harry suddenly came to the library with Ron. After looking around, he came to Hugo and said softly, "Hugo, I've discovered something important and I'd like you to help me analyze it. Can you come out for a moment and listen to me?"

"Okay," Hugo nodded and said, then gave Hermione and the others a word of advice before following Harry and Ron out of the library and into an empty classroom. After confirming that there were no mischievous Peeves in the classroom, he told Hugo about the conversation he had heard between Snape and Professor Quirrell.

"Since you told us last time that that thing was the Sorcerer's Stone, I think everything now makes sense," Harry said, looking at Hugo with his green eyes and a serious expression.

"Obviously, Snape wants to force Quirrell to help him get the stone. He asked Quirrell if he knew how to subdue Fluffy—and mentioned Quirrell's 'little tricks'—I guess, besides Fluffy, there are probably other mechanisms guarding the stone, possibly a lot of magic and spells, maybe Quirrell cast some anti-dark magic spells, Snape needs to undo them—"

"But in my opinion, Snape is more trustworthy than Quirrell," Hugo waved his hand and said. "Don't forget, Snape has been a professor at the school for ten years. I believe Headmaster Dumbledore has had enough time to see a person clearly in ten years. But Quirrell only came to the school this year, and his credibility is much lower, no matter what."