But Professor Horas Slughorn's prophecy seems to have not come true.

At least nothing happened on Hogwarts' campus for a long time after Valentine's Day.

Everything seemed as calm as before.

This also made Matthew's nerves that had always been tense, and he also relaxed a little.

Soon, the Easter holiday came, and there were only ten weeks left before the final exam. However, the Easter holiday was far less relaxed than the Christmas holiday, because the teachers in each course assigned a lot of homework...

This also made many students sigh.

...

The first day of Easter holiday.

Early in the morning, Matthew left the Slytherin common room and started to the library.

Just as he walked out of the library gate, Matthew happened to run into Miss Elaine Shafik.

"Good morning!" Matthew greeted the other party.

However, Elaine just nodded at him a little coldly, and then quickly walked into the library.

Matthew also followed her and walked into the library. Because it was very early, it was quite quiet inside.

Matthew looked out the window and said that the weather was great. It can be said that they had encountered such a good weather for the first time in a few months... The sky was so clear, just like the color of forget-me-not flowers, and there was a sense of summer coming in the air.

At this time, something caught his eye: an animal wandered on the emerald green lawn beside the castle.

Now it was sneaking on the edge of the forbidden forest, Matthew quickly squinted his eyes, as if... it was a cat?

Soon, he recognized the brush-like tail and ginger hair, which looked familiar...it seemed to be Crook Mountain!

No, it is Mount Crucker, what is it doing sneakily?

Matthew was a little curious and stopped to observe.

The ginger cat was wandering on the lawn outside the castle, as if waiting for something... Suddenly, a small thing popped out of the corner of the castle...

Matthew squinted his eyes and his nose was pressed against the window glass.

Too small to see clearly.

Matthew quickly glanced around and was lucky that he found a brass telescope on the bookshelf on the side! Maybe some student who finished astronomy class pulled it here!

Matthew quickly picked up the telescope, then ran to the window quickly and opened the window at the same time.

Adjust the focal length as quickly as possible... Soon, Matthew saw the thing clearly!

The person who communicated with Crook Mountain seemed to be a mouse... As soon as Matthew's eyes moved to it, the mouse ran back to the castle quickly... except that its hair seemed to be gray, he could not see anything else clearly.

It sounds funny to make friends with a mouse!

But it did happen, as Matthew had seen before.

Matthew Wickfell soon fell into deep thought because he didn't know what it meant!

...

As I continued reading books in the library, more and more people began to grow.

This must be because of the proximity of the final exam, many students began to cram and preview, and of course they also completed their numerous homework... If it were normal, it would be difficult for so many people to have a grand occasion in the library.

As the number of people increases, the library quickly becomes noisy like the vegetable market.

Mrs. Pins ran over and roared several times, but each time after a brief calm, the noisy sound appeared again in a few minutes...

Matthew couldn't stand it anymore, so he decided to change his classroom.

A few minutes later, Matthew Wakefield came to the magic class classroom on the fourth floor, where there were few people.

Just as he was about to enter the magic class classroom, his eyes suddenly lit up and he saw a familiar figure appearing at the entrance of the stairs on the slope.

Matthew's eyes lit up and he quickly trotted over... At the end of the stairs, he saw the girl's back.

That's right!

Absolutely true!

The man who just went upstairs was Elaine Shafik!

Matthew's face suddenly changed... because it was almost impossible!

Just a few minutes ago, Elaine Shafik stayed in the library with him. When Matthew left, he saw her, who was concentrating on completing her homework, and she was not ready to leave at all!

But who was that person just now?

Could it be that because I left the library, Miss Shafik also left, and then walked with me and arrived at the entrance of the stairs on the fourth floor at almost the same time...

This sounds even more unrealistic!

Or are there two Elaine Shafiks at the same time?

Matthew thought, but on the verge of caution, he did not chase after him and asked something...

The cat and mouse that communicated with each other; the two Elaine Shafiks who appeared at the same time, and the apparent calmness of Hogwarts over the past few months... For some reason, Matthew suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

Could it be that Slughorn's expected "radical change" is today?

...

Let's look back to the mouse that Matthew saw a few hours ago.

I have to say that this mouse is not beautiful at all... its whole body is gray, its hair is all gone, and it looks a little unconscious...

After saying goodbye to the big ginger cat, Crook Mountain, it carefully got into the castle and climbed quickly in the corridor early in the morning without anyone in the castle corridor.

Until it struggled to climb to the front of an extremely ugly huge stone monster.

Not far from the feet of the stone monster, there was a small hole... There was no doubt that this mouse was done by it; it seemed as if the mouse had spent several months digging the hole for some purpose!

The mouse easily passed through the cave, and around it was a spiral staircase that was slowly moving upwards like an escalator...

As he rotated, he rose higher and higher, and finally, the mouse, who looked a little dizzy, saw a shiny oak door in front of him, with a brass door knocker in the shape of a lion-headed beast.

If someone familiar with Hogwarts, he must know where this is... This is the principal's office of Hogwarts!

In theory, this is also the place where Principal Grindelwald works.

It is hard to imagine that the principal's office of Hogwarts would be so unprepared and without any magical protection that such a mouse could break in so easily.

However, the mouse did not seem to have the idea of ​​nibbling open the wooden door and breaking into the principal's office.

It stayed there, as if something was brewing.

Soon, a head appeared on the ground; limbs also stretched out; after a while, a man stood where the mouse was just now and got up with a coward.

This man is very short, not much taller than an ordinary second- and third-grade student. His thin and light hair is messy and there is a big piece of bald on his head. His skin looks dirty, almost the same as the fur of the previous mouse. His pointed nose and watery little eyes also have the characteristics of rats...

So, this is not an ordinary mouse.

But an Animagus.

And if this short man had an Auror office staff here, he could easily recognize him—

His name is Peter Pediru, and he is one of three dark wizards who escaped from Azkaban prison almost ten months ago.

...

Mr. Peter Pediru's appearance looked embarrassed, but his eyes were very clear.

He took out his wand, aimed it at the brass door knocker in the shape of the eagle-headed beast, and said softly:

"Dumbledore!"

Only a creaking sound was heard, and the brass door knocker was opened.

The entire principal's office was covered with dust, as if no one had used this office for a long time.

Peter moved away from the bench beside the principal's desk, revealing the wall behind him.

Then he raised his wand and pointed it at the wall carved with ancient patterns behind—

"Draco dormiens nunquam titilndus!"

The wall carved with ancient patterns cracked a little from the middle, revealing a hidden door.

Peter seemed very shocked, too.

He hesitated a little, and seemed to be waiting for something.

Almost thirty seconds later, a crisp cat moan was heard.

A tabby cat broke into this place without knowing what method he did.

It looked at the hidden door with great excitement—

Then, the tabby cat disappeared and replaced it with a serious-looking woman wearing a pair of square glasses, which looked like the patterns around the cat's glasses. She was wearing an emerald green cloak and her black hair tied into a very tight hairpin.

Looking at the hidden door in front of her, she looked extremely excited!

"I think we've found it, Peter!" Professor Minerva McGonagall said tremblingly, "a weapon that's enough to deal with Grindelwald..."

...
To be continued...