Chapter 369 The Fearsome Hogwarts

"It went so smoothly that it was unimaginable."

After Andrew left, Dumbledore happily came out of the room and sat on a chair. "He doesn't have the stubbornness and short-sightedness of ordinary wizards. He is really an exciting young man."

"Yes, young minds are good at discovering different things. I am also looking forward to seeing which project Taylor will use to conduct his own unique research on human transformation after he has mastered the art of human transformation."

Professor McGonagall nodded, "At least Mrs. Pince is now satisfied with the changes - lighting is so important."

"Yes, change," Dumbledore nodded. "Since there were no accidents when casting the spell for the first time, I'm relieved. I have to go back to the office and keep an eye on it, Minerva."

"And these papers, Albus."

Professor McGonagall handed over the documents that she had prepared in time, with an unusually natural expression.

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"It's going better than expected. There's still a while... let's go check out the Hogwarts information."

After completing the first test of human transformation more smoothly than expected, Andrew felt extremely relaxed - after overcoming the difficulty of casting the spell for the first time, all that was left was to become familiar with the spell and control the strength.

This event was quite worthy of celebration, but the celebration method he was familiar with could not be found in Hogwarts or even Hogsmeade. As for drinking alcohol, it was even more difficult to purchase it.

Studying was not suitable either, so he could only find some extracurricular books to read to kill time - Professor McGonagall just provided a good choice.

Although he had carefully read a history of Hogwarts, he was not too impressed by Professor McGonagall's cruel punishments.

‘It can’t be like in the game, where the whole school was filled with chaos and duels more than a hundred years ago. ’

Thinking about the exaggerated expressiveness and terrifying power of the Chain Avatar in the game, he even wanted to laugh - there may be ancient magic or something, but there is no such thing as the Chain Avatar, not even the Dark Lord himself. Come on, that's really an exaggeration.

'Speaking of which, the first volume is a legend, and it also contains Dumbledore's admission. It's just a mess made by the editors. As a result, they wrote the first volume in a hurry to get it on the shelves, and it was also serialized in the follow-up. Readers only care about Dumbledore, and there are so many loopholes that they can't even see...'

Such pleasant thoughts appeared in his mind, causing Andrew to smile whenever he saw anyone today.

"Good morning, Mrs. Pince."

"Good morning, Taylor, do you need any help?"

"I want to check some school rules from the past century, because I heard some scary rumors today."

Andrew responded with a smile.

"School rules?"

Mrs. Pingsi was stunned for a moment - she had not seen anyone interested in borrowing this book in several years.

"There is nothing similar in the library, but Mr. Filch definitely has a copy. However, I suggest you not to show it to your classmates. I would say that Dumbledore's second greatest achievement after taking office was to convert most of the outrageous Penalties were eliminated or weakened.”

"Then what is the first greatest?"

Andrew asked curiously.

"Installing security lights in the library."

Mrs. Pince naturally gave an answer that no one could find fault with.

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'hiss…'

In Filch's office, Andrew gasped.

He looked at the records in front of him and felt a little doubtful about life.

No, were you so wild back then?

The caretaker, Mr. Filch, is not here now, but he generously shared his 'treasure' with Andrew.

And Andrew also got a glimpse of the terrifying school rules and victims of Hogwarts back then.

Mr. Filch's former administrator was Mr. Apollyon Prinlow, and in that era when Dumbledore went to school, the school rules were terrible and outrageous.

'Whip, rope, stick...'

Andrew put down the record and said, "What the hell, is this a school or Azkaban? Are the dementors not like this anymore?"

And these punishment records, which are not excessive in Azkaban, Andrew even saw on his acquaintances - Mr. Weasley's name was in the records.

[Arthur Weasley, Gryffindor, stayed up all night at four in the morning and received one hundred blows from the cane. 】

It's four o'clock in the morning, stay up all night, a hundred canes.

Andrew checked the time - Dumbledore had already become the principal, but the abolition of the previous school rules was still in progress.

‘It’s too bad, just wait a little longer. ’

But he could only say that he was worthy of being a Gryffindor - he just didn't know why he stayed up until four o'clock, it wasn't written in the record anyway.

As for when Dumbledore entered school, it was even more terrifying. At that time, not to mention the corporal punishment from the administrator, students also unexpectedly greeted each other with duels.

'The surprise is true...'

Andrew could only say that he was amazed - but that's all. Although Mr. Filch may really think that kind of punishment was okay because he was a person at that time, but let's forget about that kind of thing.

He felt that his method of confinement was harsh enough, and the corporal punishment was too much.

Hanging a student up all night would have happened when Dumbledore entered school, at least not now - he usually thought Professor Snape was a bit too much, but compared to the school rules back then, Professor Snape was Seems approachable.

‘I can’t read it anymore, I can’t read it anymore, this thing is too scary, but it seems that I can use it to implicitly mention it in the new chapter, as a legend of Dumbledore’s warmth, but I have to make up for it by replying to the letter, I don’t want to be hung up on the Astronomy Tower. ’

‘Just record it as an outline first, and consider what to add later. ’

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“Hal, how is the investigation going?”

In Andrew’s dormitory, when Hal appeared at the door, even Hughes, who was buried in the history of magic textbook, looked up curiously at Hal, to see what explosive news this self-proclaimed well-informed reserve reporter brought.

“Nothing, as if nothing happened.”

Hal waved his hand, “The weirdest thing is that he went to the library with a junior girl yesterday, but, how to say it, after the “student representative” party of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he brought two people with him when he returned to school.”

“But the other one didn’t go to the library with him.”

Kevin looked gossipy.

"The other one is from Hufflepuff, and the remaining one is from our house, the second-year one, um, yes, Luna."

"Oh, she's from our house."

Everyone lost interest - is it abnormal for a Ravenclaw to go to the library? It's far and tiring to go back to the common room, and there's a possibility that you can't get in. The library is so comfortable.

"Luna, do you like going to the library?"

Hughes didn't read the book, and asked curiously.

"Of course I checked it out. She's the kind of person who loves to go to the library. She likes to read all kinds of adventure things and knowledge about magical creatures. She also likes those weird rumors. She's also very keen on divination. In short, she's the kind of person who often goes to the library to read miscellaneous books and share weird knowledge. She's quite crazy," Hal said proudly, "I must have investigated it seriously, and the other one is the same."

"Then there's no news. They went to the library together," Kevin waved his hand boredly, "It seems that Andrew is really tired. After all, he was on duty for a long time yesterday. It was boring. I thought there was some magical gossip."