From Azkaban To Hogwarts

"Talked back and forth for a lonely...yawn,"

The journey back home is still long - the more you go through the process, the more complicated it becomes.

The negotiation was naturally successful. After all, there was no conflict between the two schools.

It is the Ministry of Magic that pays for it, and the competition is a traditional practice. Where is the attention of the competition, and the school's communication requirements can be met. At most, they can only talk about the location and method of the next one.

But even so, William and the others still used up most of their short Christmas vacation, and judging from the current situation, the rest will probably have to be accounted for on the way back.

While waiting for the staff from the Ministry of Magic to submit the information, William couldn't help but yawn and complain about the negotiation - he couldn't help it because he was sleepy, because time was tight. During the negotiation, he spent the night sorting out the information to determine the content of the book to be copied the next day. .

Originally, they didn't have enough time to look through the information in the library, and minus the time spent on making mascots in formal occasions, he would have almost finished reading the basic information he needed.

Don't think about more, those books are definitely not open to the public.

But even so, he still feels that he has benefited a lot - in today's world where the entire magic world is pursuing spell casting speed, there are not many places where the research and improvement of complete rituals can be preserved. After all, adding rituals to magic is now very cost-effective. too low.

"Originally, we were not expected to come to the negotiations. Things still have to be left to professionals," Adams also yawned in reply, but smiled quite happily - Quill did not miss his share when working hard, he wanted More than a dozen of his books have been copied.

"No, without those staff, we would be very tired. Besides, Professor William, you have received an extra income this time," Professor Corey said cheerfully, "The Three Broomsticks bought us a drink. Isn’t it too much to drink?”

"Of course, this is a celebration of the successful conclusion of our operation."

Although William prefers the wine at the Leaky Cauldron, he can't go all the way to Diagon Alley to drink, right?

"Keep your voice down, Professor William," Professor Corey gave crucial guidance with a smile. "If the noise is too loud, Professor McGonagall won't be able to pretend not to hear."

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"Oh hoo! Get the snitch out, George!"

On the Quidditch pitch, Fred shouted happily, as if he didn't know anything and no one secretly stuffed the original copy of the questionnaire into Professor McGonagall's office.

After learning that Lupine was one of the four mentors, the two were frustrated for a long time, but finally started to search frantically in the secret passage with this clue.

The reason is very simple. Since the Marauder's Map clearly marked the school's secret passage, then the secret passage must be one of the things that the instigator is most proud of.

They succeeded - although Peeves is good at causing trouble, most of the time he is so bad that even students can't deal with him. Therefore, they found the original document that had not been collected by Peeves in a remote secret passage.

After some discussion, the two finally decided to hand over the original documents.

If Professor McGonagall was angry, but nothing was discovered through investigation, they would admit it - even if there was no Peeves, both of them would be punished.

If the professor discovers anything from the original documents, don't blame them for pushing back and helping the professor find the real culprit.

"Of course, we won't be crazy for a few more days, but my dear brother, are you sure you can't use a stick to pull out the snitch?"

George let go of the Snitch while complaining. The little guy fluttered his golden wings and flew slowly to celebrate his freedom, then disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Cool!" Fred flew out first on Harry's Firebolt, followed by Harry and Ron, who rode the twins' Nimbus 2000.

"Let's make a bet, Harry. If you catch the Snitch, George and I will tell you ten secret passages!"

"But if I get caught, you have to help George and me fight against the next thing."

"sure!"

As a professional Seeker, Harry agreed without thinking.

"what about me?"

Ron asked slightly dissatisfied.

"You win on the same terms, but you lose a month's worth of socks to wash."

Fred replied without thinking.

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"My dear Professor Baker," Karkaroff said after sending off the negotiation team and returning to his school in Durmstrang's castle, "How about private communication?"

"I don't think it could be any better, Headmaster."

Professor Baker replied with narrowed eyes.

"The students are happy, and so are the professors at Hogwarts, a win-win situation."

"Very good - a win-win, we won twice." Karkaroff tapped his desk with his wand, and the wine and wine utensils appeared on it. He slowly opened the wine with his own hands and gave it to himself and Professor Baker in front of him poured a glass each.

"Whatever comes to mind, the Triwizard Tournament - if we win, there will be even less opposition."

"Although we have been working hard to maintain it, the new students in the school are still unable to improve. They have never thought about it, leaving Durmstrang, where can wizards learn black magic?"

"You're right, Principal."

As a person who assists in managing the school, Beck DeWitt is very aware of how strong the former Death Eater principal is - a former prisoner who has been the principal of Durmstrang for more than ten years. If Anyone who thinks this is just luck is really hopeless.

Winning over professors, disciplining students, currying favor with the former president, and getting enough support from the school board were not easy, but they were all accomplished by the people in front of them.

‘Who is Sirius Black the number one Death Eater? The most powerful among the Death Eaters is obviously Headmaster Karkaroff! ’

He has read the Daily Prophet in the UK - the Ministry of Magic has been deceived like a stupid pig for more than ten years. It has no discernment and only randomly names names. Sirius is the first? What a joke!

The idiot who was wrongly accused has been in Azkaban for more than ten years, but the principal in front of him who should be sentenced to life imprisonment decisively chose to rescue himself - it is not clear enough who has the ability?

"Also, no news about the Triwizard Tournament will be revealed for the time being. Viktor's World Tournament is about to begin. We can't let anything steal the spotlight."

"Yes, principal."

"By the way, how about the kind of pure-blood family that I told you to look for last time that is a little depressed in private?"

"There seems to be an old pure-blood family over in Austria that is secretly selling magic items, but we're still checking."

"Well, remember, contact them secretly and don't let outsiders find out - we don't need explicit praise, we just need to let them express their praise for the power of dark magic at the right time, so that people will think that those Muggles A born wizard has no ability to access this kind of real magic.”

"Okay, principal, I'll do it right away."

"By the way, didn't that professor come to Hogwarts for this exchange? The professor who teaches self-defense, named William. What do you think of him? Can he reverse Hogwarts's progress in the field of black magic? Is it weak? If I remember correctly, the results of Hogwarts' OWLs this year have been widely circulated."

"That's right, Principal," Professor Baker hesitated, "How should I put it, he seems to be better at teaching than I thought - my personal suggestion is that if possible, we can actually hire him with a high salary. side."

"High salary?" Karkaroff became interested, his usually slightly cold eyes were full of enthusiasm, "Even you said that, Baker?"

"Yes, Principal -" Professor Baker nodded, "a professor who is very responsible for teaching. Because students asked questions, I specifically communicated with Professor McGonagall at Hogwarts and tried to buy some Hogwarts papers. .”

"But when I asked about buying eight sets of papers," Professor Baker said with an inexplicable smile, "the professor asked me what type of questions I needed."

"Question type?"

"Well, systematic examination, comprehensive examination or staged examination, subjective or objective, normal difficulty or enhanced difficulty..."

Some terms are too convoluted to speak in English, and Professor Baker doesn’t even understand them now.

"What did you buy in the end?"

Karkaroff became interested.

"I plan to compare the comprehensive examination questions for seven grades and the systematic examination questions for fifth grade with the results of our students at the end of the semester - I reviewed those papers and found that they were of high quality and very useful. It’s confusing, basically it’s impossible for students to get points without mastering the relevant magic.”

"So you think so highly of Professor William?"

Karkaroff laughed and said, "It seems that he is indeed worth hiring with a high salary - but I'm afraid we can't hire him."

"With the Hogwarts salary, this isn't difficult, right? I remember that the professor didn't graduate from Hogwarts. It stands to reason that he doesn't have such deep feelings."

Professor Baker was a little confused.

"I also investigated during the summer -" Karkaroff shook his head and drank the remaining wine in the glass, "No way, Dumbledore brought that Professor William out of Azkaban, I know What the hell is that place? That professor will never leave."

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"Finally home."

William was lying on the bed in the lounge of his office, arranging himself into a giant Chinese character.

The official entry and exit procedures were so troublesome that he even wanted to cross the border illegally, but unfortunately that was impossible.

"School starts in two days. I need to take a good rest for two days before sorting out the things I copied - these two days, I've been yawning," he turned over, "I'm seriously lacking in sleep..."

However, when he was about to take a good rest, there was a knock on the office door.

‘I just came back, who can pinch me so accurately? ’

Although he was reluctant and even planned to pretend to sleep, his sense of responsibility still made him hide in the dark and take out his wand and open the door.

It's Harry.

"Sorry to bother you now, Professor."

Harry looked distraught.

"What's wrong?"

William sat on the chair and made two cups of hot chocolate - he couldn't sleep anyway, so be kind to yourself.

"um, I…"

Harry hesitated, and finally lowered his head - although he was an old Seeker, the gap between Nimbus 2000 and Firebolt...

"That's right, professor, I entrusted George and the others to go to Professor Binns and copy some information..."

Compared to the other option the twins gave him to take the blame for Professor McGonagall's office, he was still intimidated.

"Copying information?"

"That's the information about Sirius and the others' violation records...I'm very curious..."

Harry tried to spin lies and tried to convince himself that he had really got it - that the twins had really shared Sirius's confinement records.

This kind of anxiety is not that difficult to act. Sirius's confinement records are a bit like twins. Now he is a little suspicious of his father - although the twins did not give him, but judging from the relationship between the two that Sirius said, He didn't think there would be any exceptions.

'hiss…'

William gasped - if he had been called Sirius, he would have been on his way to other countries incognito at this moment.

This kind of confinement record will only hurt the hearts of the living if you die, but if you are alive, you will wish you were dead.

"Why are you checking this?"

William covered his face in confusion, "Okay, it seems we need to briefly talk about some common sense in getting along."

Although William didn't like feeding chicken soup to his students, it was about to affect family relationships, so William felt that he still needed to give him the necessary guidance.

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"Choose one of the two, which one will Harry choose?"

"He has no choice - Harry doesn't have the courage to face Professor McGonagall's wrath. We are the only ones in Hogwarts who have such courage."

Fred said something that was not worthy of pride with a proud look on his face.

"Maybe we should add one more - I think our senior has more courage than we do."

George added.

"Well, this was a little prank we sent him - he did it first."

Fred smiled evilly, and then looked outside again, "When do you think Professor McGonagall will open the letter and come to us?"

"Well, I think the professor should be able to find Sirius, but I can't say for sure."

"Indeed... but no matter what, we need to have a formal meeting with Mr. Black - I don't think the hospital is a suitable meeting place."

"I think so too. How about meeting at the Room of Requirement?"

"Awesome, tell him we've found areas they've never discovered before!"

The two high-fived each other as a way to unanimously approve this meeting.

"Just after the investigation paper is over?"

"Of course - but I'm looking forward to Professor McGonagall finding him. After all, I've always been curious about how the professor will punish graduates if they break school rules."

"Are you really not going to take down the toilet seat in the school?"

"Don't you want to send it to Snape?"

George asked rhetorically.

"If Sirius is okay this time, I think I will - how about in Ron's name?"

"Well, he's getting older, and it's time to let our dear brother know some of the dark sides of school."

The two smiled at each other, then stopped laughing together.

"Keep your voice down, Professor McGonagall is back!"

They saw the warning in each other's eyes and smiled at each other.