Chapter 34 Life is incomplete without night tours!
Rove circled the library, he really wanted to sneak into the restricted area and catch that nasty silverfish.
But it was a pity that no matter where he went, Mrs. Pince's eyes were fixed on him, so the boy had no choice but to give up strategically.
Rove walked towards the self-study area, where there were some tables and many students sitting there reading.
Most of them are Ravenclaw's kittens. As an academy known for its "wisdom", the most intuitive way to show "wisdom" is academic performance.
Although this understanding is biased, Yingyuan has formed a top-down introversion atmosphere, and people come to the library to study every day.
Hufflepuff is a small pioneer of anti-involution, leisurely and undisturbed is the daily life. When the little badgers are free, most of them don’t come to the library. Instead, they drink afternoon tea in the common room and enjoy the snacks made by the house elves.
The industrious, restless, and busy house elves have cured their internal friction.
There weren't many Gryffindor students, they were too busy adventuring around the castle.
As for Slytherin College, they firmly believe that "socializing is better than studying hard", making good contacts is the main task, and learning is just a small skill that comes with it. After all, many people have poor academic performance and have to go home to inherit the manor and family business.
Rove quickly found Shirley and Hermione in the corner. The two girls were studying, one frowning slightly, and the other biting a quill. They both looked very serious and hardworking.
Shirley was writing the homework assigned to her by Professor McGonagall, and Rove glanced at it, okay... the progress is a little bit faster than him.
As for Hermione, just as Rove leaned over, she stretched out her hands to cover the parchment, blushing and said, "Don't look at it!"
But Rove has already seen a lot of content, and he read in a low voice:
"Dear Professor Dumbledore, hello... I am an ordinary freshman in Gryffindor College... I want to complain..."
Hermione hurriedly lay down on the table, with her chin pressed against the parchment, and shouted, "Don't read...don't read!"
Rove sat in a chair with a strange expression on his face and said, "Hermione, aren't you writing a letter to the principal, planning to complain about Professor Quirrell?"
Hearing this, even Shirley glanced curiously, Hermione blinked, and blushed and hummed:
"Can't you? I'm also thinking about everyone's studies! What can I learn from this Defense Against the Dark Arts class?"
"Then you may have to write a lot of letters."
"Why?" The girl raised her head, looked at Rove, and frowned softly, "You mean, it's just a letter of complaint, and Professor Dumbledore won't take it seriously?"
"No, I mean..." Rove grinned and said, "You may have to complain to many professors, half of the teachers at Hogwarts are unqualified.
You just met Professor Quirrell and you can't bear it? "
"..."
Xue Li tapped the table with her fingers gently, and she reminded in a low voice: "Mrs. Pince is watching us."
Both Rove and Hermione shut up immediately, and after a while the witch looked away, Rove explained in a whispering voice:
"I just wanted to go to the restricted area, but I was caught by Mrs. Pince. Now she is staring at me, ready to trouble me."
"Why are you going to the restricted area?" Shirley asked curiously.
"I found a silverfish." Rove replied.
Both girls looked confused, which is normal, and the "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" written by Newt did not record this unpopular magical creature.
Silverfish are so rare that even Newt, who has seen so many things, has only seen one in his life.
"It's a magical creature that can swim between the lines and feed on the magic contained in the words." Rove explained:
"They can absorb words, and of course they can also spit out words. It is no exaggeration to say that a silverfish is a walking library."
"Really? You caught it?" Hermione was very excited, she was more interested in this kind of magical creature.
If you catch a silverfish and you want to read some books in the future, you don't need to use it in the library, you can let it spit out the contents.
"The silverfish escaped to the restricted area. Just as I was about to go in, Mrs. Pince appeared." Rove sighed. "I have to figure out a way to catch it in the Restricted Section."
"To enter the restricted section, you must have an approval slip signed by the professor." Hermione had already inquired clearly.
"It's useless, the teachers won't write a note for a little wizard who has just entered school for a week." Rove shook his head.
Shirley hesitated for a moment, and said, "Rove, if you really want to go to the restricted area, I can help you."
"Professor McGonagall?"
"Yeah." Shirley nodded lightly: "I said that I want to go to the restricted area to borrow a few transfiguration books, and Professor McGonagall should agree."
"No." Rove straightened his sitting posture, and said seriously: "That silverfish is very cunning, and the movement of catching it is probably not trivial. If Professor McGonagall finds out that you lied to her, it will affect her impression of you, and the loss outweighs the gain."
Rove tilted his head, thought for a while, narrowed his eyes and said, "Let's go for a night tour, I'll sneak into the restricted area in the middle of the night."
"How can you swim at night? If you are caught, you will lose college points!" Hermione objected, "No! Absolutely not!"
Rove ignored this innocent little girl, don't look at Hermione like this now... Open your mouth about the school rules, but shut up about the school, it's because she hasn't felt the charm of violating the school rules.
After experiencing it for the first time, she will eat the marrow and know the taste, and then be more active than anyone else all day long!
Seeing that Hermione was still reluctant, Rove smiled and said:
"Your objection is invalid. I travel at night, not you. If you want to deduct it, you will also deduct Hufflepuff house points."
"Besides, not having night tours at Hogwarts is just like not skipping classes, failing classes, and not having puppy love. It is an incomplete campus life."
"Heretician!" Hermione rolled her eyes, she turned her head and snorted coldly: "I and Shirley won't go out at night, skip classes, fail subjects and... what!
Right, Shirley? "
Shirley pursed her lips and smiled, her eyes curved into a pair of crescent moons after she laughed.
At this moment, two shriveled arms stretched out, pressed the heads of Hermione and Shirley down, and then grabbed Rove's ears.
In the end, Mrs. Pince grabbed the clothes of the three of them. She didn't know where the strength came from, and pulled the three of them like this. Under the awe-inspiring eyes of the little wizards, she drove them out of the library.
Standing at the door of the library,
Hermione looked aggrieved, and she said with a bitter face: "It's over, the library will definitely be stared at in the future..."
"Life is incomplete without being kicked out of the library." Rove comforted without sincerity.
Hermione puffed up her cheeks in anger, she rolled her eyes, and suddenly asked, "When are you going to go on a night tour?"
Shirley looked up at him too.
Rove looked wary and said, "What? You also want to write to Professor Dumbledore to report me? Hermione, don't go too far."
Hermione said angrily: "Report you big-headed ghost!"
"In a few days, I'll get to know Hogwarts better." Rove folded his hands in his sleeves and said with a smile, "Do you two want to go together?"
"Who is with you! You wait to be caught!!" Hermione snorted coldly, took Shirley's hand and left.
From a distance, Hermione looked like a cheerful big white goose, and Shirley's ponytail swayed slightly, like the swaying branches of a country girl.
Rove stopped to look at the backs of the two girls. He waited until they disappeared from sight before he walked to the window and stared into the distance with his hands on his cheeks.
According to the preferences of the tauren system, of course that silverfish also has an owner.
But when Newt was still studying at Hogwarts, he had seen a silverfish in the library. At that time, it had eight tail whiskers at the end of its abdomen.
Every hundred years, silverfish will grow a tail. In other words, the silverfish Rove saw was probably the same one that Newt saw back then, and by this year, it was over nine hundred years old.
Who will be the owner of a silverfish that has lived in the Hogwarts library for more than 900 years?
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(Thanks to "Give me a bottle of wine and give me a cigarette" and "Bingxu" for their rewards.)