Chapter 119 Growing in the Dark
After the carriage carrying the examiners and test papers left, the entire Hogwarts seemed to come alive all of a sudden.
This is not to say that the examiner is a terrifying and cursed object that cannot be touched, but that with the examiner's departure, many of Hogwarts' bans were lifted almost at the same time.
The Gryffindor table became full of life, the Slytherin students became more aggressive, and the outside of the castle was filled with disgusting students who had just finished their exams and made the professors frown.
Peeves appeared out of nowhere, humming an unknown ditty happily while attacking the idle and annoying fifth graders with all kinds of random things.
In short, everything that is temporarily restricted due to exams is everywhere.
Fortunately, the newly liberated prefects have also joined the work - they have been suppressed by review for too long and are the absolute natural enemies of this group of quasi-sixth graders.
As for the seventh grade students...even the prefects are starting to go crazy, who can control them?
Even if the examiners give priority to the papers for the NEWTs exam and then quickly deliver them to the school, they can just send them away as soon as the graduation ceremony begins.
And under such circumstances, Peeves, who had just received a large amount of supplies as agreed, unknowingly faced his biggest challenge this year.
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"Are you sure?"
"Of course," George and Fred stood among a group of seventh graders. On their desks, several hand-drawn topographic maps of Hogwarts were spread out. The high accuracy amazed this group of students who had lived there for seven years. Incessantly.
The twins pointed to the map they copied from their collection and said, "We have been busy during this period and have secretly visited almost all the hidden corners of Hogwarts. I dare not say all of them, but more than 80% of the secret locations have been visited. We found out."
"These places contain the props that Peeves often uses to prank students. We guess-"
George pointed to the blue cross on the map, "There may be more Peeves treasures in these places, but they need to be checked manually."
"And this way," he pointed to the blue route again, "this way is Bloody Baron's daily route - we still haven't figured out why Peeves is afraid of him, but according to this route , we have a high probability of escaping after irritating Peeves."
"These red routes are our summary of the possible routes Peeves would take without being harassed - we couldn't be more specific."
The two looked at the group of seventh graders with smiles, "Is this enough to join you? In addition, we need to bring in two more people."
"Of course it's feasible. Your plan is worth the price of admission, not to mention there is so much information - welcome, then, let me talk about our findings."
The four leading prefects looked at each other, then nodded and extended the invitation.
"We have a lot of information on fighting Peeves, have detailed plans for its reaction after encountering an attack, and have made several plans for those reactions..."
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"Review lessons, make up homework, and wait for the end of the semester to come..."
Andrew thought to himself, came out of the library, and found a familiar red hair in the corridor.
So - he didn't say hello and left hiding.
Just kidding, the fifth graders have just finished their exams, and they have time and energy. Andrew has no intention of being shown off - although theoretically Percy and the others are on duty this week, what big job can he do after just finishing the exams?
Others have to worry about their grades to show concern, Percy - forget it, Andrew needs to worry more about his final exams.
Normally, you don’t have to worry about failing the exam, but I don’t know if it’s because his magic power has developed a bit in the past two weeks or because he hasn’t put a lot of energy into transfiguration for a while. In short, Andrew’s level of transfiguration has begun to improve sharply during this period. , which makes him have trouble controlling time...
‘You have to learn to develop in the long term, and don’t always focus on that little bit of progress…’
He persuaded himself in this way, then extended his study time and began to run to the library more frequently.
Therefore, he ignored the changes in the castle. A large number of seventh-grade students frequently appeared in various places in the castle, and a large number of idiots looked extremely funny when dealing with Peeves. The jokes they made in a hurry made Peeves laugh.
A large number of dung bombs were mail-ordered in the castle, and then many were stolen due to lax security.
The students who were holding cameras and planning to take pictures in the castle did not change much, but for some reason they became more casual than before, as if someone was guiding them.
All in all, the graduates' carnival became extremely well-behaved.
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When the NEWTs results were about to be released, that is, before the senior graduation ceremony was about to take place, Percy, who had been busy for two hours, was suddenly stopped by his younger brother.
"Percy, do you remember your purse?"
"Of course," Percy looked at his two brothers who looked confident, with a bit of doubt on his face, "But are you sure this is now?"
"Most likely not, but we have reserved a spot for you."
The twins were smiling, and Fred even deliberately looked a little sad. "We still have a lot of things to figure out. If we can figure out most of them this time, we will have solved the mystery. If we fail, we have no choice but to continue."
"Why can't you be more steady?"
"Because seventh graders don't have time."
George shook his head, "We have been preparing from then until now, and we also plan to try whether the direction is correct - the students in the library have found a few books at least, we can't just rely on guessing."
"I can't," Percy thought for a moment, shook his head and refused, "I can't have too serious a conflict with Peeves before the end of next semester - if any students are being pranked, I must be able to use my identity as a prefect. Order Peeves to leave."
"Well, you missed a good show," the twins shook their heads regretfully, "Then we just need to invite Lee Jordan."
"good."
Percy nodded, watched the two people leave, and then added in a low voice, "Be safe."
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"Did we spend too many galleons just running errands?"
George seemed to have a bad conscience.
"It's not even ten galleons in total, George," Fred said indifferently, "and there are expensive confidentiality fees!"
"That's true..."
George responded seriously, "With Ravenclaw's prefect, Merlin's beard, how long have we been trying to keep this a secret?"
The two laughed heartily, and after a long while, their eyes became firm.
"Then get ready?"
"Well, get ready, notify everyone, and start taking action tomorrow."
(End of chapter)