Chapter 510 School Starts

"So, the preparation of this potion is..."

Lupine easily answered Harry's potions problem and asked him to think about it. Then he turned around and left under the admiring eyes of Sirius and Harry, walking all the way to the kitchen before stopping.

"Huh...it's okay, it's okay..."

He breathed a sigh of relief - he finally remembered this question under the cover of various words, and he didn't embarrass himself in front of those two guys.

'That's it. Is the summer homework for fourth-year students at Hogwarts so difficult now? ’

‘Is Snape deliberately targeting students again? ’

He couldn't help but complain - there was nothing he could do about it. In Harry's eyes, he was a professor, and in Sirius's eyes, he was Lupin, the top student and prefect of that year. The fact that he was stumped by his fourth grade summer homework was really... I can't say it...

'I took orders for brewing potions when the economy was obviously at its most difficult, so why did I...'

He knew very well that a large part of the reason for this was that he had been away from the Potions course for too long and did not have much contact with potions on weekdays - but facing the eyes of those two guys, he really couldn't say such a thing explanation comes.

‘Why hasn’t school started yet? ’

Lupine couldn't help but think about it - but he soon had a headache about starting school again.

Because of the relationship between two colleagues who were not very reliable, he had a very important task to complete before the start of school, which was to sneak attack his two colleagues and then use the cloaking potion to test whether they were controlled.

‘Haven’t you ever thought about how outrageous you are? ’

Lu Ping thought angrily - the two of them would check the security of the big office every day, and would check the safety of the food from time to time.

As for the wand, it is placed where it is most easily encountered at all times. When attacked, it will attack without mercy - in this case, it is difficult for one to sneak attack on the other, but these two A colleague who was unaware of himself made a request for a sneak inspection...

‘We can only turn to Dumbledore for help. Do they still expect me to sneak attack them? ’

Lupine muttered angrily, then returned to his room and began to write a letter.

——

"Dong dong dong."

"Please come in."

While William responded, he quickly put the fake body away and hid in the blind corner of his field of vision.

The door opened in response, but to William's expectation, the visitor was not Adams, but Moody.

"Hello, Professor William."

"Hello, Professor Moody, are you back to school early?"

William put away his wand a little, but still raised it covertly - it shouldn't be, why did Moody return to school early?

As a retired employee who was re-employed, Moody shouldn't have come to school so early, and it didn't make sense that he came to his office instead of checking in his office immediately.

"I've done some things, I think-"

Moody raised his left hand and shook a small potion bottle.

William nodded, took out the potion bottle with his left hand, and then swapped, staring at each other to test each other, and then put the tested potion on himself.

"No problem."

"No problem."

They breathed a sigh of relief almost simultaneously, and then William welcomed Moody in completely.

"What happened that you returned to school early and didn't even return to your office?"

"What happened? You just returned to school and didn't care. You didn't even know what happened to Dumbledore's Phoenix, and you stayed at school the whole time?"

After asking each other almost repeated questions, the two of them started to laugh at the same time.

"You go ahead, Professor Moody."

William shook his head and motioned for Moody to come first.

"I went to Canada. I always felt that what happened at the end of last semester was not that simple. I gave the former principal some help and tried to figure out what happened there - but found nothing."

"But the problem is that I got nothing." Moody narrowed his remaining normal eyes, "I think I still have a certain standard. Even if you hide it, Professor William, I can follow your taste. find you."

'You overestimate me...'

William shook his head slightly and became concerned - Moody couldn't find the problem, so it was definitely not an ordinary problem.

"Do you think it could be that person?"

"I'm not sure, but I felt that I was about to alert the other party, so I retreated decisively."

Moody's magic eye rolled around, "That place is even more secret than your room... At most, your magic eye can't see through some things here, but even I can't see through there..."

"Don't look around, Professor Moody."

William spread his hands helplessly. Is it great to have a magic eye?

"Okay, actually there aren't many things that can be considered contraband. Maybe it's in the bedroom?" Moody laughed - the bedroom in the back was protected by all kinds of messy spells, and his magic eye couldn't see through it at all. , so he can make this kind of joke.

"Asking is a teaching tool." William spread his hands and said confidently.

"Teaching aids are teaching aids, I don't care about it anyway." Moody smiled hoarsely, "It's you, why have you been indifferent to what's going on in the school after you returned to school early - this is not like you at all. Professor William.”

"Did I return to school early and be pulled back by the principal to work overtime? As for the rest - nothing happened recently."

"Albus's phoenix has been reborn. Do you have any clues?"

"Fox? I just asked for some tears. How come I was reborn?"

William was stunned for a moment, and then thought of a possible fact - Dumbledore didn't intend to create a dementor to sacrifice to the sky, so he sent his own phoenix up?

I've never heard of anything so outrageous...

"It seems you know about the ring?"

Moody saw something was wrong at a glance.

"Don't ask me, there's nothing you can say if you ask," William shook his head decisively - Dumbledore could just say whatever he wanted to say, but he didn't dare to mention matters related to Horcruxes without authorization.

"More mysterious than Albus... Your voice is wrong when you speak. Is there something in your mouth?"

"It's been seen...the blades of mandrake."

William smiled.

"Planning to teach yourself Animagus? It's a good idea... illegal?"

"Let's make it illegal first... The current situation is not good... If you need it later, let's see if the principal will help get a registration form that has been prepared in advance..."

William sighed, "That's all it can do."

"Don't force it," Moody nodded. "We still have Dumbledore."

"Yeah, we still have Dumbledore."

William agreed - but he was a little unsure now.

The invincible Dumbledore almost fell into the Horcrux trap. The trump card system was a Horcrux that was good at weaving lies and Legilimency. It was precisely because of these successive events that he had to illegally self-study Animagus. In order to improve your own strength...

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"The homework is finally done..."

Harry lay on the table and sighed.

Under the guidance of Sirius and Lupin, he finally completed his summer homework relatively independently. Although the quality of the homework on History of Magic and Divination was appalling, he still completed it after all.

"If you survive this year, there will be no homework for next summer..."

Lupine would use words like this to motivate him during this period, prompting him to complete his homework better - this is true. According to the twins, even the self-defense course that can be called hell is still wonderful in sixth grade. The stadium with the breeze is mesmerizing.

It was a very strange description - but Harry could definitely feel the excitement between the two of them.

But the problem is, he is in fifth grade this year...

"There are still...one, two...only five days left until the holiday starts!"

Harry exclaimed - the holiday was over so soon?

This was simply fatal. He raised his dizzy head, summoned Hedwig, and then began to write a letter to Qiu.

Although he couldn't talk about the study and training of Animagus transformation, he still had many things that he planned to share with Qiu - such as Snape's strange potions homework, the papers assigned by Lupine that took a lot of time, And Professor McGonagall’s somewhat simple...

'Eh? Simple? ’

It was only when Harry was writing that he realized something was wrong - but when he thought about it carefully, he realized that those magics were really simple, as if he could understand them at a glance...

After writing densely on two pieces of parchment, Harry put the letter away and tied it to Hedwig's leg, "You know where to send it..."

After Hedwig flew out happily, Harry suddenly found that he was not sleepy at all.

He cheered and walked downstairs - at this moment, Sirius and Lupine each had a controller, and they looked extremely unlike wizards.

"Homework done, Harry?"

"finished!"

Harry said with a bit of pride - although his history of magic was poor, almost everyone was like that. As for the Divination class, it was even easier. The professor wanted to see him die anyway, so just develop in that direction. .

"Just in time, let's go shopping for books for the new year tomorrow. Your notice for the new school year arrived some time ago, and Moony Face has been keeping it for you."

Sirius said as he grabbed the handle from Lupine's hand and urged Lupine to quickly take out the things.

Lupine glanced at the character on the TV that Sirius was about to lose, stood up without saying anything, then returned to his room, and soon took out Harry's notice for the new school year.

"That's all - I took a look at the books and purchased three new books. Then we need to prepare a few new sets of robes for Harry and replenish his potion materials."

"Eh? That's all? Let me see-"

Sirius was stunned for a moment, then took the envelope and shook it, then shook it again, his eyes widening in disbelief.

"Where's the prefect badge?"

He looked at Lupine and said, "Don't be ridiculous, Moony. Where's Harry's prefect badge - fifth graders have to choose prefects!"

"I'm also very curious. Obviously the best student in this class is Harry, but he is not a prefect..." Lu Ping shook his head, "I only remembered this when I was checking the mail the day before yesterday, and then reported it to the school. I sent a letter asking for the reason, but there has been no reply yet.”

"A shady secret, absolutely a shady secret!"

Sirius jumped up from the sofa, "Why isn't Harry a prefect? ​​I'm going to write to Professor McGonagall to ask about this! Is there anyone more suitable to be a prefect than him?"

'By the way...we have to select prefects this year...'

Harry then remembered something like this - in his first year at school, Percy was a prefect. At that time, Percy always liked to show off his status as a prefect.

But he didn't seem to be too disappointed. Seeing that Lupine and Sirius were aggrieved about this, Harry felt particularly happy, as if not being a prefect was not a big deal.

In other words - he had never considered becoming a prefect during this holiday. Because he had not expected it, he was not disappointed.

Just when he was so moved that he was about to go over and say something, an owl knocked politely on the window, and was let in with a wave of Sirius's wand.

"Like the school owl, I would like to see the school's reply - if they dare to say that someone is better than Harry and more suitable to be a prefect, I would like to ask who brings the honor to the Triwizard Tournament. Come back!"

Sirius angrily untied the letter from the owl's leg, then removed the sealing wax and read it.

Before reading a few sentences, the anger on Sirius' face disappeared, and then a smile appeared.

"No wonder, no wonder, I said..."

"Prefect, just like that, we don't care about it, what a big deal!"

Lupine's expression turned grim after saying this - sorry, that's just who he is.

"What kind of letter is it?"

Lu Ping walked over quickly and took the letter. After reading a few sentences, a smile emerged. It was a smile from the heart.

Just when Harry was wondering what happened, Sirius happily tried to lift Harry up and handed him the letter.

Harry glanced at the letter and immediately spotted Professor William's handwriting at the bottom of the letter.

He simply skipped the previous text and read the less official line.

[…The above is the document after Professor McGonagall’s final review. I’m going to tell you everything at her request. As for Harry being a prefect, we discussed it during the meeting and then rejected it…

Being a prefect is great, but how can I put it, becoming a prefect is also a memory worth recalling, but he doesn’t have that time anymore...]

Seeing this, Harry suddenly felt a dangerous aura approaching.

When he took a hard look and read on, he realized that this feeling did not come suddenly——

[I have estimated that the privileges obtained by the four warriors mentioned above in the subsequent campus life are no worse than those of the prefects, and the corresponding badges are also being produced - although I guess no one will wear them normally...

(What privilege?)

Since he has the privilege of being more than a prefect, it would be a waste of time for Harry to fulfill the obligations of a prefect... He had already fulfilled his obligations in the Triwizard Tournament...

This year is the OWLs year, which is already busy enough. Dumbledore also plans to give one class a week to the three warriors who are still in school, plus some extracurricular classes for me. Professor Moody agreed with me during this period. Guidance... It would be too much time to deal with the prefects...

And I'm really not sure he would be able to allocate his time without special help...

A prefect not only has rights, but also obligations. He...]

"No college points will be deducted unless there is a serious violation of discipline, privileged borrowing rights for some books, and all the benefits of a prefect!"

Sirius patted Harry's shoulder cheerfully, "There are also Dumbledore's classes. Prefects don't get this kind of treatment!!!"

Although school hasn't started yet, Harry feels that it has already started...