From Azkaban To Hogwarts

When a group of Gryffindors happily ran to the door of the lounge, William was a little frightened by the enthusiasm of these students.

‘Isn’t it too real? Although I know that your daily life is definitely different from being in confinement, is this situation a little too exaggerated? ’

If the students who did bad things in Filch's office moved as fast as rabbits, then when they were locked up in the classroom, they were about the same speed as sloths. But now, what William saw was a group of people who had been locked up for seven or eight days. The monkey is having fun.

What he didn't know was that at Hogwarts, confinement of students was common, and postponing the confinement was not common. As for canceling the confinement - this kind of beautiful thing was almost only heard in legends.

Especially after William gave a group of students a test last time, his confinement was naturally commented as one of the most painful confinements among the students at Hogwarts - if he could have one less week of confinement, then Not a small amount.

"Are you all here? Let's go. It's inappropriate to have so many people in the corridor. Let's find an empty classroom to chat."

William greeted the students with a smile on his face, then turned and walked towards his classroom.

"Professor, there are also students from other colleges——"

"Oh, them, they don't confine me, so I don't have the right to cancel their confinement."

William said to the students behind him without looking back.

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"Well, let's all find an empty seat and sit down."

William stood on the podium and said to the students gathered around him.

After they all found their positions, William smiled and rubbed his hands, then crossed the fingers of his hands, half-bent down, and stared at the students below.

"Things are a bit complicated. Let me think about it. How can I make an agreement with you?"

"As you have heard, if this is done, everyone here, who is in detention with me, and who I send to Mr. Filch's detention, will have a week's exemption from their detention. Time, no doubt about it, but—"

William prolonged his tone and did not give the students below any time to cheer - people who are often in solitary confinement should know how difficult things are after hearing the word "but", so they all pricked up their ears and waited. William's words after his turn.

“But because this matter is too easy for people to try to exploit loopholes, I must emphasize here that if someone wants to follow this example and impose any punishment, I guarantee that he will feel that dropping out of school is a good thing. "

William looked at the children in the classroom seriously - although as a professor, he should not look at students with colored glasses, but he knew very well that if all the children in this classroom were arrested and assigned a pile of papers every weekend, Huo Huo would be Gwartz's disciplinary violations could be mitigated by 80 percent.

Such warnings were empty and powerless. In the past, only senior professors like Professor McGonagall could use them, but today, a group of troublemakers were unusually aware of William's unspoken threats.

"Okay, Professor."

After William's eyes scanned half of the classroom, a low response came from the students in the classroom.

"Well, very good."

Although his voice was very low and completely lackluster, William was extremely satisfied with this answer.

"Then I will simply tell you what happened - just this morning, all colleges went through early morning inquiries. I think everyone here knows the details better than I do, so I won't say more. .”

William moved his fingers to calm his voice.

"You may have all kinds of guesses. Here, I am not going to let you guess any more. Between last night and this morning, there was an attack in the school that was not serious and even sounded funny. — Someone attacked a rooster.”

After this matter was said, a bunch of students immediately lost their seriousness - even if William suppressed it, the matter itself was making people laugh.

There was a pause for half a minute to allow the students to calm down a little.

"Okay, that's enough. Although it's a bit funny to check the lounge because a rooster was attacked, this is completely the school's seriousness - at that time we found blood dripping on the castle door."

"Although the evidence is not clear now, I strongly suspect that a student sneaked out and killed the rooster. What you have to do is to help me find the classmate who killed the rooster."

Now the cheerful atmosphere in the classroom can no longer be tense - mobilize all the troops to find the chicken?

Forget it if you are looking for a live rooster, but find a murderer who killed a rooster?

If William hadn't been a professor and personally sent a group of students present to an unforgettable confinement, these children might have had the idea of ​​bullying the professor now - how could there be such a funny thing, Hogwarts is such a big place The number of chickens that died in the school and kitchen alone in one day was staggering.

To put it bluntly, if the first graders were asked to name the chickens that died every day in the kitchen, the limited vocabulary of half the first graders would not be enough to use it.

"Hmm - it doesn't seem worth it to kill a chicken and mobilize an army. The murderer didn't even steal the dead rooster, so it doesn't seem to be a big deal."

William also laughed happily for a while along with the students.

"But why would I give you a week less confinement if it was just a chicken?"

"I don't know how many students here have studied books about black magic. As far as I know, there are too many books in the magic world that have been casted with various curses. Among these books with a punitive nature, there are Some will only take a slight bite, while others will cause the person who reads it to lose his life."

"I suspect that the rooster's blood was taken away by the murderer, and he tried to use the taken away blood to try the so-called magical magic ritual in the book or other stupid things - although I am not your professor, but I still have to tell you, those are the most dangerous things!”

"Yes, I think many students think that I seem to have something to say - although for a professor, such behavior is a bit excessive, but I still have to say that I have some doubts about the murderer, well, among you .”

The student below looked a little livid - it's not a good feeling to be wronged.

"Don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive, children. This seems to be a false accusation, but there are not many people who can escape the access control designed by Mr. Filch and enter and exit the castle. Although my suspicion is a bit excessive, I don't intend to do anything. Detect the stupidity of the murderer - there may be people in this school who know those secret passages and hidden rooms better than you."

"This is impossible. No one in this school, including Filch, knows the secrets of the castle better than the Weasley brothers!"

A child yelled out from below, as if this sentence was a more uncomfortable slur than the previous injustice.

"Be humble, kid," William glanced at the student and thought, it's already this time, why are you roasting someone on the fire?

"Well, I apologize if I offended you in any way, but that's the way it is. I doubt that any unlucky person or adventurer would try to believe the stupid words in a book and read those things in the book that were not included in the book. The confirmed thing has reappeared in Hogwarts, and what I want you to do is to help me find the person, or the place who tried to use chicken blood to perform rituals."

"What you are looking for are people who are distracted all day long, people who behave strangely, or you are looking for blood stains that may be left in the secret passage or strange patterns made with chicken blood."

"Of course, as I told you all at the beginning, these things will only be dealt with lightly this time, and if I hear anyone trying to imitate or fake it, I will make them regret it."

"This is an adventure and a commission. It is something I promulgate to all the students here."

"Those who find the relevant location will have their confinement time reduced by one week, and everyone who catches the culprit will have their confinement time reduced by one week. The two rewards can be stacked."

When the main event reward was announced, everyone became excited - even without the exciting reward, just participating in this big operation made all the Gryffindors feel that this time they had not come in vain.

For Gryffindor, adventure itself is the best reward, not to mention the visible reduction in confinement!

"Last nonsense." Facing the students below who were already mobilized, William made a calm gesture.

"If cheating or forgery is discovered, then it will be dealt with as imitation."

"Well, by the way, if one of you did it, then if he turns himself in, I will only be sentenced to one week of confinement and be given a lighter sentence. The rest of the people will still have the same reduction or exemption."

William added uneasily that although judging from the reactions of the students present, his suspicion was wrong, it did not affect him from patching the matter.

But no one reacted to this. They were all moved by this so-called adventure and wondered, what is that?

"Okay, then what are you waiting for? Let's go!"

William waved helplessly, and the students who had long been unable to sit still rushed out of the classroom while happily saying hello.

‘I hope Professor McGonagall won’t come after me. This group of Gryffindor students is already difficult to manage. If I slap them like this, they may not go out to cause trouble every day in the future. ’

But there is no other way. Among the items listed by William, those secret passages and hidden locations must be checked.

He was a wild wizard who was not born in Hogwarts, and was not very familiar with the school. Occasionally when the stairs changed paths, he would have to ask the surrounding oil paintings to help him find his way. If he hadn't been a professor, according to the temperament of those oil paintings, he would I don’t know how many times I’ve been lost.

'It's a coincidence. If a group of them hadn't been caught by Mr. Filch, and then a group of them had collectively caused trouble in Mr. Filch's office, where would I have found so many active Gryffindors? ’

You know, fifth-year students, even Gryffindors, focus on their studies, seventh-year students are busy with internships, and sixth-year students are not doing internships or preparing for exams but are busy falling in love. All the students under William are salty. Fish, it’s hard to find students who want to help.

Besides, if those students were not in solitary confinement, there would be no reason for William to command so many students - just arrange something to do during class. After class, the students still have their own lives. Who cares about the professor except those in solitary confinement? What do you want to do?

'Well, after that, the problem of secret passages and secret locations should be solved - as the kids themselves said, no one in Hogwarts is more familiar with the castle than them. If someone in the castle does If there is any evil magic ritual, these children will definitely be able to discover it. ’

'Safety - there should be no problem. The other party even had to kill the chicken in the middle of the night. Judging from the fact that the first chicken died now, even if there were some weird rituals, it would only restore the power of a chicken. It's not enough to beat these naughty kids. ’

Although saying this is a bit unfair to serious students, William knows very well that except for the best group of students, students who study normally will never be able to defeat these little villains alone, because they have learned enough in daily life to use them to play pranks. magic, and these magics are quite useful in fighting.

'A sinister ritual of killing a chicken - it shouldn't be a big deal. ’

To be honest, if it weren't for the curse, William himself wouldn't even bother to care about this matter - it wouldn't be a big deal if a dead chicken was left there.

'It's my turn to investigate. Well, first I'll ask about the coagulation status of the blood. Then, after judging the time of the crime, I'll add an hour to ask those oil paintings who came in and out of the school during this time - I hope it's me. Making a fuss out of a molehill. If possible, that thing had better be killed by a small animal and then come to the castle. ’

Although the Gryffindors seemed to want to make big news, William had no intention of making the matter bigger.

As the bearer of the curse, he would rather things be as small as possible - if he found a weasel or something, he would happily reduce the confinement of those Gryffindors.

——

"Did you see anyone passing by this corridor last night?"

"Sorry, Professor, no."

…

As the investigation progressed, William became more and more relaxed. He followed the suggestion of the knight's portrait and asked all the portraits entering and exiting the main road of the castle, but there were no replies from these portraits.

‘It’s totally fine. ’

‘The suspicion has been eliminated. Sure enough, reading detective books is helpful. After watching too much Conan, I can be a bad detective. When I have money, I will definitely get a house in Baker Street, also No. 9 and Three Quarters. ’

"William, what are you doing here?"

Just when William finished checking the last portrait, Adams suddenly appeared.

"A little investigation into who passes through these corridors."

"Is it useful? When Aphra was invisible before, I didn't see these portraits."

Adams asked curiously.

"Aphra?"

"Have you forgotten? She was born with the Disguise Charm."

William, who was originally a little swollen, suddenly calmed down.