The Ancient Wizards of Hogwarts

Filch held up a lamp and blocked the three people at the end of the corridor, saying in a sinister tone:

"Mr. Black, and you, I hope you can explain why you are here!"

"I……"

Harley nervously wanted to explain, but Ash spoke faster than her:

"Mr. Filch, there is astronomy class tonight, and they only came here because they accidentally got lost."

"Astronomy class?"

Filch held up the lamp and waved it over the faces of Cassandra and Harley, and said in a still sinister tone:

"Slytherin and Hufflepuff do have astronomy classes, but I remember you should be a Ravenclaw student, right? Mr. Black."

Filch's eyes flickered from the three of them. Cassandra and Harley did have good reasons, and even he couldn't punish them. As for the matter of trespassing into the restricted area on the fourth floor, that was not his concern.

But Ash...

Filch frowned, hesitating about what to do.

He was determined to let Ash go, and it wasn't the first time anyway.

But the problem is that besides them there are two Slytherin students. If he doesn't impose any punishment, how will other students think of him?

Cassandra's expression moved slightly, and she hurriedly wanted to defend Ash:

"Actually, Ash..."

Ash stretched out his hand to cover the girl's mouth, looked at the administrator Filch, and said frankly:

"Yes, I sneaked out. There is nothing to defend."

Filch was a little surprised that he admitted so simply, and asked coldly:

"Do you know the consequences?"

Ash nodded calmly and said: "Of course, I will be detained."

"Yes, you will be in confinement."

Seeing that Ash offered to be put into solitary confinement, Filch sneered and stopped worrying. He turned to look at Cassandra and the two of them and said coldly:

"As for you, even if you have to come home late because of astronomy class, you'd better hurry back to the lounge. If you are caught by me again, I will still put you in solitary confinement!"

"But it was Ash who saved..."

Ash grabbed Harley who wanted to defend him and said warmly:

"You guys go back to the lounge first. Staying here will only make things worse. Don't worry, I'll be fine."

"Okay." Cassandra took a deep breath, and she took the initiative to hold Harley's hand and pass by Filch. But before leaving, she glared at the scary-looking administrator fiercely, and she swore she would never forget this day!

After watching the two disappear at the end of the corridor, Filch's expression softened a lot and he asked calmly:

"So, Mr. Black, how do you want to be incarcerated?"

The English word ‘Detention’ actually has two meanings.

The first is to detain, imprison, seize, or detain, usually by locking a person in a small, dark cell.

The second type is detention after school, detention after school, and detention in class.

As a school, Hogwarts' so-called confinement certainly has the second meaning.

The punishment methods of ‘confinement’ are roughly divided into three types:

First, help Filch with work.

Second, help other professors with work.

Third, manual labor, such as cleaning toilets and scrubbing chamber pots—the kind that requires no magic at all.

Ash thought carefully and replied:

"As long as it's not cleaning chamber pots or cleaning toilets, that's fine."

"Ah."

Filch sneered and said:

"Then polish the silverware in the trophy room."

Ash asked:

"Can I use magic?"

Filch frowned, glanced left and right, and said in a low tone:

"Then you better hope no one finds out!"

"Okay." Ash smiled and nodded.

As an administrator, Filch could not tolerate cheating by students, but he could acquiesce.

In other words, as long as you don't get seen.

Therefore, as long as Ash was not discovered by others when he went out late at night, Filch would pretend not to notice and would not punish him in any way.

The prize showroom is on the fourth floor, so there's no need to take a long detour.

Filch led him to the showroom and stopped in the corridor, allowing Ash to enter alone.

"Scourgify!"

Ash waved his wand and used Cleansing on the entire trophy room - even though nothing seemed to have changed on the surface.

Not because the magic didn't work, but because it was really unnecessary. After all, house elves clean up all parts of the castle every day, and they hardly miss any blind spot. Therefore, the purpose of punishment is more of a formality, rather than actually requiring students to do something.

When Ash left the trophy room, Filch was waiting at the door.

His eyes swept over Ash's wand, with an imperceptible hint of envy in his eyes.

Filch looked back and said in a warning tone:

"You can go back to the Ravenclaw common room."

Judging from his appearance, he should be taking Ash all the way back to the Ravenclaw lounge, in order to prevent him from slipping away again.

However, Aike doesn't want to go back now, otherwise why would he come out?

Ash thought for a moment and said:

"But I feel like if it's just this, it doesn't seem to have a punitive effect."

"Huh?" Filch looked a little surprised. What do you mean it failed to serve as a punishment?

He had been at Hogwarts for more than twenty years and had seen all kinds of students, but this was the first time he saw students who took the initiative and demanded punishment!

Filch couldn't see through Ash's thoughts and frowned and asked:

"What do you want?"

Ash thought for a moment and asked:

"Mr. Filch, is there anything else you need my help with?"

Filch was silent for two seconds and said slowly:

"Then please help me clean up the office again."

He originally planned to stop there, but Ash took the initiative and he had no reason to refuse.

It wasn't forced by him anyway.

He led Ash to the foyer on the first floor and entered the administrator's office next to the foyer.

The room was very small, with no windows and only a faint light provided by oil lamps hanging from the ceiling.

This made the office not only look dark and dirty, but also filled the air with a faint smell of fried fish. It was probably Filch's dinner, but because the room was completely airless, it couldn't be dispersed until now.

The walls around the room were lined with many wooden filing cabinets, which contained detailed information on every student who had ever been punished at Hogwarts.

Ash waved his wand:

"Scourgify!"

The wand released a faint light, and the smell in the air was instantly dispelled. The stubborn dirt on the floor was also cleaned up, and the old and dirty gray carpet took on new life, revealing its original clean golden and blue color. background color.

"magic……"

Filch looked at all this with growing envy in his heart, and there was also a trace of imperceptible jealousy hidden in his heart.

He was about to speak when he suddenly saw Ash waving his wand again, this time targeting the quill in the pen holder on the desk.

Uh-huh!

The quill suddenly flew out of the pen holder and floated in the air!