The Rise of the Muggles at Hogwarts

Chapter 224 The end of summer vacation (3)

In the end, Dumbledore did not come back, and just as Professor McGonagall had told them, they were trapped in the Black ancestral home.

Several adult wizards had the foresight to not only take care of the two house elves, but even took away Hermione's cat.

Sirok!Poor Sirocco was ruthlessly pinched by Professor McGonagall, and they never saw the child again.

This is the beginning of the most boring period of the entire summer vacation.

Every day, Kreacher would wake them up on time, and then after breakfast, they would start a vigorous journey of homework.

After two weeks of this, the entire table was almost covered with parchments written by four people.

The only thing that can make Anthony happy is the library treasured by the Black family. As an ancient family that has been passed down for centuries, the Black family has a very rich library of books, many of which are not even available in Hogwarts, and some Black magic books, specifically introducing some cruel black magic.Anthony even found a book introducing Horcruxes.

Although it is just an introduction to this magic, it does not explain how to make it.But this still surprised him. Regulus probably relied on these books to understand that Voldemort was making Horcruxes.

In short, since mid-August, Anthony has stopped writing, even if he is writing a word, his energy is focused on those ancient magic books.

Hermione was also fooled by him and read through those books.

Everyone knew very well that so many assignments were just random remarks made by Professor McGonagall out of anger, and it was absolutely impossible for them to finish them.

There doesn't seem to be much difference between almost not finishing and only half writing.

And Sirius didn't stop them. Anyway, he just prohibited these children from causing trouble. As for what they did, he had no control over them.

He was even afraid that a few young wizards would be bored, so he specially spent a week giving them a private training class on wizard combat.

He taught almost everything about various fighting methods. The few young wizards grew up rapidly and became much more proficient in the use of magic spells. Even Sirius regretted teaching them.

A few people who were able to cause so many troubles before, but now that their magic is improving, they don't know how much trouble they will cause in the future.

This was mainly reflected in the fact that when Anthony begged Sirius to teach him how to apparate, he refused to do so.

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The time finally came to the last week of August.

One morning, several owls suddenly visited Blake's ancestral home.

It was this year's class schedule sent by the school, and the guardian consent form sent with the letter for third-year students to be allowed to visit Hogsmeade, which requires parent signature.

In addition to the first time, they also received a book list for the new school year.

Starting from the third year, young wizards at Hogwarts will have several more elective courses, and they must choose two of the five elective courses.

Five of the choices are Arithmetic, Study of Ancient Runes, Divination, Care of Magical Creatures and Muggle Studies.

This form should be handed in by the little wizard to the school at the beginning of the term.

A few days before the start of school, they had been discussing which course to choose.

The first is the one that everyone is sure about, the Care of Magical Creatures course.Because Harry and the others discovered that the professor of this year's Care of Magical Creatures class actually wrote Hagrid's name.So he chose this course without even thinking about it.

But they had differences in another subject, and Anthony chose to study ancient runes.

Harry and Ron took Divination because they heard the Weasley twins said it was the easiest course to pass.

As for Hermione...

Anthony didn't know if she could still get the time turner after everything that happened, but he saw with his own eyes that she bought a copy of the textbooks for all subjects.

It seems that the results are self-evident.

The last day of August, early morning.

Anthony and the others took the bus to King's Cross Station while pushing their luggage. 12 Grimmauld Place was really too close to the station, and the bus would arrive in just a few minutes...

The send-off was very deserted this time. Apart from the four little wizards, only Sirius followed them.

The class schedule has stated that he will not be teaching the Defense Against the Dark Arts class this year, but will be replaced by a wizard named Lupin.

They had known about this for a long time. Sirius had told them about it during the summer vacation, and Lupine was also very familiar with them. He often appeared at Hogwarts, and for a period of time in August, he lived in Grimmauld. Plaza 12.

Therefore, everyone easily accepted Professor Luping's new identity.

On the platform, after bidding farewell to Sirius, several people passed through the partition wall. When they opened their eyes, a scarlet steam train appeared in front of them. It blew smoke toward the top of the platform. The platform was full of children sending their children off. Wizards and witches boarding a train.

The breath of magic hits my face.

Several people quickly boarded the train and looked inside for empty carriages.

Fortunately, they arrived early and the carriages behind were quite empty.I found a random room and sat in.

——After a while, the train started slowly.

Soon, the surrounding scenery began to run towards the back crazily.

At noon, when they were getting ready to eat, Dobby prepared lunch for them. (No more buying food on the train.)

A very unexpected figure walked past their carriage.

It was Malfoy, and his two lackeys, Crabbe and Goyle.

Malfoy looked pale and thin, with thick dark circles in his eyes, looking very worried.

Neither Anthony nor Harry was surprised by this.

"Tom is back." Harry took a bite of the meat pie in his hand and said, "Lucius betrayed Tom before. It would be strange if their family's life is better now!"

"You haven't seen how groveling Lucius was in the cave. It's really disgusting!"

"I don't think Riddle will do anything to the Malfoy family. After all, his family is so rich, it's good to be a money bag. At least on the surface, the Malfoy family can still operate in the wizarding world. He needs such a role." Anthony had a clear understanding of this, and would only kill Lucius unless Voldemort went crazy.

"Anyway, he will definitely not be as arrogant as before." Ron didn't care about the Malfoy family. He only cared that Draco would probably become better this year.

The train continues north.

Suddenly it began to rain, and as it went north it began to rain harder, and now the windowpanes were a thick, sticky gray, which gradually deepened until the lights in the corridor and on the luggage racks came on. .The train was swaying, raindrops were beating on the windows, and the wind was roaring.

"Why is it raining so heavily?" Hermione, who was sitting inside, looked out of the car window curiously, but she saw nothing but endless clouds.

At this moment, the train suddenly slowed down, and then slowly stopped.

The sound of wind and rain outside the window became louder.

Harry was closest to the door and got up to look down the corridor.

After pushing the sliding door of the carriage, people from all the carriages along the corridor poked their heads out to look around.But everyone's face was blank, no one knew what happened.

"Boom!"

The train suddenly shocked and stopped, and the sound of banging came from the distance, indicating that the luggage dropped from the shelf.Then, all the lights went out suddenly, and they were plunged into complete darkness.

"What happened?" Ron's voice came from behind Harry.He hid behind Harry and looked down the corridor.

Hermione was a little nervous. She wrapped her clothes tightly, and the surrounding suddenly became cold.

On the window sill, a clearly visible cold air began to freeze the rainwater at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Harry groped his way back to his seat.

"What happened?" Hermione asked.

"I don't know? The train broke down?" Harry replied half-jokingly.

"It's an inspection!" Anthony suddenly pulled out his wand and said.

"Check?" Everyone looked at him.

"Harry still remembers what we read in the summer newspaper, that the Ministry of Magic wanted to send dementors into Hogwarts?"

"Remember! We also learned the Patronus Charm for this!" Harry was certainly impressed. It took him a long time to learn that magic. Fortunately, there was a Boggart at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. With the guy's help, he was able to summon the physical guardian angel.

"You mean, the dementors are checking the Death Eaters in the car?" Harry understood and immediately understood what Anthony meant.

"Only places where a large number of dementors gather will suddenly cool down significantly, because those negative creatures are the darkest and coldest things."

At this moment, a short and harsh sound suddenly came from outside the car window, and Hermione saw what seemed to be a vague black outline floating past the window.She quickly wiped a clean spot on the glass.Just as he was about to look, the door of the carriage suddenly opened, and someone fell down, falling on top of Harry.

"I'm sorry! Do you know what happened? Oops! I'm sorry-"

"Neville?" Harry said as he helped him up.

"Harry? Is that you? What happened?" In the darkness, Neville groped his way up.

"Fluorescence!" Milky white light illuminated the entire carriage.It was Hermione who raised her wand.

"Dementors, it's dementors!" Ron said.

"How could it be? Aren't they the guards of Azkaban? Why are they here? In the car?" Neville sat aside with Harry and Ron, and then asked with a sudden pale face.

As the child of a former Order member, Neville had heard from his grandmother about the Death Eaters' final destination, Azkaban, but how could something like that end up here?

At this time, the door of the carriage was opened again.With the help of fluorescence, everyone could see clearly who was coming.

"Ginny?"

"I'm here to see Ron!" She said with a sigh of relief outside the door.

"Come in, sit here." Hermione shooed Anthony away, then pulled Ginny and sat down.

"Um..." Anthony touched his head and suddenly became dissatisfied with those dementors. Look, the young man didn't even have a place to sit.