Hogwarts Asylum

51. The beginning of the chessboard



"Harry, Harry? Professor O'Loughlin is coming out."

In the secret passage, Harry was pushed awake by the twins. After they accepted the money, they immediately decided to take turns watching with Harry to prevent Harry from accidentally falling asleep in the secret passage.

Harry couldn't help but agreed, it was a good thing to have someone to help him.

So, when it was George's turn to stare, he saw the door at the end of the corridor move. He quickly asked Fred to wake up Harry who was napping beside him.

Harry, who was in a daze, suddenly woke up when he heard Fred say that O'Loughlin was coming out, and he took the telescope from George's hand.

As soon as Harry set up the telescope, he saw O'Loughlin walking out of the door at the end of the corridor, and the monster inside the door was sleeping on his stomach, with three snot bubbles swelling and shrinking.

After O'Loughlin came out, he began to move towards the mirror. Harry quickly retracted and slowly pulled the mirror back, fearing that if there was a slight gap, he would be discovered.

"How about it?"

"Did you come out?"

"Shh!"

Harry motioned to the twins to keep their voices down. Although they were laughing inside without being noticed when Filch passed by just now, Oralin and Filch were different. Filch was a squib, and Oralin was a squib. Lin is a wizard!

The twins understood each other's mouths and covered each other's mouths. Then, as if they suddenly understood, they retracted their hands and covered their own mouths.

They quietly came to the back of the mirror and leaned their ears on the mirror one by one, trying to hear the location of Professor O'Loughlin based on the sound of his footsteps.

"Ta-ta-ta, tap-ta-ta, tap-ta-"

The footsteps came from far to near, then from near to far, and then stopped.

"He's waiting for the stairs," the twins said in extremely thin voices.

"Ta-ta-ta, tap-ta-ta, tap-ta-"

"He's gone." Their voices returned to normal volume this time.

"Filch is on the first floor, do you want to follow?"

"Of course." Harry pushed open the mirror immediately, tiptoed to the stairs and stopped. He picked up the binoculars to see if there was any figure of Eurolin in the main building.

Why is Oluolin on the stairs to the fifth floor!Shouldn't he go back to the campus hospital? !

The twins followed. They were always watching the movements of Filch and other professors. It didn't matter Filch. If any of the professors came out in the middle of the night and everyone didn't notice, it would be a fool. Besides, Professor Quirrell and Snape We were at the Forbidden Forest just now.

"Professor Quirrell is on his way back, and Snape is missing!" George said in Harry's ear.

Harry immediately didn't care about hiding. When he saw O'Loughlin entering the fifth floor, he quickly stepped onto the stairs he just arrived to catch up.

Since there is already an exception like Professor O'Loughlin, the twins no longer dare to have 100% confidence in the Marauder's Map like before. Therefore, among the three people in the group, apart from the one who reads the map and explores the path, the last one must Snape, who was always alert to observe his surroundings in case he disappeared from the map, suddenly had the same abilities as Professor O'Loughlin.

In this way, the three of them followed Olorin sneakily all the way to the entrance of the eighth floor.

"Wait!" Fred, holding the map, stopped the other two.

"what happened?"

Fred pointed to a small black dot on the eighth floor on the map and said, "Professor Trelawney suddenly appeared here."

On the map, a small black dot with Professor Trelawney's name stayed at the location where she suddenly appeared. George and Fred were both confused. Professor Trelawney's reputation in the school was not very good. Everyone said that she She is just a liar, how could she suddenly appear in the castle.

The twins all remembered that their brother Charlie had complained before when they were learning to apparate. It would be great if apparation could be used in the castle. Bill, who was next to Charlie at the time, also said that it was because the castle was under a counterattack. Not only students, but also professors cannot use the Apparition magic.

Harry, who only knew the professor of the required courses for the time being, didn't understand the twins' confusion. He asked, "Is there any problem with this?"

On the eighth floor, opposite a tapestry of a troll beating silly Barnabas, Eurolin was talking to Trelawney.

"Sibyl, why are you here?"

"Oh, it's Michael. I remember you still live in the woods where down-and-out wizards gather..." Trelawney said drunkenly and nonsense.

Trelawney knew Oralin when she was in school. At that time, she was two grades above Oralin. She was an ordinary Ravenclaw who was ahead of the school in Divination and other subjects were average. Her only claim to fame was that she was an ordinary Ravenclaw. The reason is that she claims to be a prophet with a third eye like her ancestors, and often uses this to defraud students, such as divining love for some little witches who are in unrequited love, and divining fortune for some unlucky people.

The consequence of this was that by the time Orolin met Trelawney in the sixth grade, she had already made too many divination mistakes, and no one was willing to listen to her nonsense anymore, and she had become an isolated and pitiful ghost.

However, the appearance of Oralin was like a life-saving straw for Trelawney. Because Oralin believed that Trelawney had the ability to predict, she quickly regarded Oralin as her best friend at that time, and even When she planned to apply for a job with Dumbledore a few years later, she also wrote to ask for O'Loughlin's opinion.

When O'Loughlin tried to stop Snape from eavesdropping on the prophecy, he not only tricked Snape into moving to another place, he also sent some money to Trelawney and asked her to live somewhere else. Hog's Head Bar, as for the results...

As a result, Trelawney, a greedy guy, accepted the money and continued to live in the Pig's Head pub, and Snape also learned about the prophecy from other places.

In fact, Oluolin has always believed that there is such a thing as destiny in the dark. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain why he has done so many things but cannot change the endings of many people.

But prophecy, in O'Loughlin's opinion, can only be used as a reference. On the one hand, Trelawney is indeed very unreliable, and her predictions are sometimes not as accurate as O'Loughlin's own premonitions. On the one hand, it was also because he couldn't find any real prophets in the magic world, or in other words, those prophets were unwilling to see him, and he didn't dare to go to Nurmengard.

O'Loughlin was thinking that the reason why a guy like Voldemort, who was so arrogant that he should regard prophecies as fallacies, believed in the vague and incomplete prophecies that Snape heard in the dark was probably because of Deng Xiaoping. After hearing the prophecy, Blido hires Trelawney to teach divination.

Rather than saying that Voldemort believed in the prophecy, it would be better to say that he believed in Dumbledore. Perhaps no one in the wizarding world believed in Dumbledore more than him. After all, Voldemort was almost at his peak at that time, but he still couldn't defeat him. It turned out that Dumbledore was guarding Hogwarts during the period of decline.

Unfortunately, it now seems that Dumbledore's arrangements for Trelawney may mean that he started to open up the chessboard from that time on.


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