"Why are you so late tonight?"
Mr. Ogg was furious at the trio's late return, even a hint of panic in his tone...
In truth, not long after letting the three brats into the Forbidden Forest, he regretted it.
He didn't know what had gotten into him.
Just a few compliments had convinced him to actually let three underage wizards into the Forbidden Forest...
He hadn't followed them before because the seniors were leading the group.
The seniors were perfectly capable of handling the outer reaches of the Forbidden Forest.
But three first-year wizards... I'm just lucky nothing happened!
If anything had happened... losing his job would be the least of his worries; he might even have ended up in Azkaban!
"Sorry, I just saw a group of moonbeasts dancing on the road. We unknowingly watched them for a little longer."
Levid lied without hesitation.
"So they were moonbeasts... No wonder, these little creatures love to dance in the moonlight," Mr. Ogg had no doubt.
A lovable, magical creature like the Moonbeast truly held a strong allure for a child this age.
"Next time, I'll take you in myself!
It's too dangerous for you to go in on your own!"
Mr. Ogg said, escorting the three back to the castle.
Walking through the empty corridors of the castle late at night, Levid said anxiously, "What should we do... If Mr. Ogg comes in with us, it'll be difficult.
It seems our search for magical power will have to be put on hold for a while.
I have to find a secret passage leading out of the castle..."
Tom couldn't help but glance at Levid again.
Wouldn't it be easy for this guy to deal with Mr. Ogg?
Besides, secret passages weren't always...
Then Tom noticed that Levid was looking towards Anne.
This meant that Levid was deliberately saying this to Anne.
Tom came to his senses and shut his mouth, swallowing back the words he was about to say.
Anne hesitated after hearing Levid's words, but remained silent.
She had been about to say that she knew a path leading directly from the castle to the Forbidden Forest.
This was the secret passage her aunt had told her.
She had always used this route to sneak into the Forbidden Forest before.
But after thinking it over again and again, she decided not to tell Levid and Tom.
In fact, it would be best if Levid and Tom could not go with her!
That way, she could take all the "magic power" by herself!
At night, there were always witches wandering around searching in the Forbidden Forest.
The reason they didn't run into the witches tonight was because she reported to Nurmengard that she was going to the Forbidden Forest tonight.
And Grindelwald suspended the search tonight in order to prevent Levid and the others from discovering her plan.
In other words, whenever she wanted to go out to collect magical power in the future, she
only had to tell Grindelwald in advance that Levid and Tom were going out at night, and the witches in the Forbidden Forest would stop their actions that night.
In this way... her actions of going out to collect magical power at night would really be done secretly!
Thinking of this, Anne was both excited and nervous!
Suddenly, Levander asked, "Annie, you look a little excited.
Do you know the secret passage out of the castle?"
Anne, coming to her senses, quickly shook her head.
"No, I don't know.
Tonight's my first time in the Forbidden Forest.
How could I possibly know?"
"Oh... so that's a shame..." Levander said with regret.
Tom glanced at Anne with pity.
He knew Levander well, and he knew that if Anne said she didn't know, she would be in Levander's notebook.
Levander was a vindictive man!
Tom had every right to speak on this point...
Silence soon fell over the three, each with their own agenda.
Soon, they returned to the common room door.
"Harmony!"
Anne uttered the new password, and the door opened.
As the mutual aid society grew in influence, the password for the Slytherin common room changed from "Pureblood" to "Harmony."
This, admittedly, was a great victory for the Mutual Aid Society...
"...Don't worry, we'll find a way out.
Um... Good night..."
Anne said, and headed towards the girls' dormitory.
Levvid and Tom watched her disappear around the corner of the second-floor staircase, but didn't immediately return to the dorms.
They found a secluded spot by the window and sat down.
Beyond the Slytherin common room's window lay the bottom of a black lake, its dark green reflections reflected in the water.
Sitting by the window, one could clearly see the fish swimming beneath the lake.
One could even occasionally spot a giant tentacle darting through the darkness...
Levvid raised his wand and drew a graceful arc through the air.
Then, Tom noticed that the faint crackling of the fireplace, which he had just heard, had completely vanished.
Clearly, Levvid had blocked out the sounds with some kind of magic he didn't understand.
"It seems Annie isn't telling the truth,"
Tom said with relief, once he was sure he wouldn't be eavesdropped.
Li Weide smiled and asked, "That's normal, Tom... Put yourself in her shoes.
If you were her, would you tell us about the secret passage?"
Tom was silent. In fact, if he were Annie, he wouldn't want to tell anyone about the secret passage either.
That way, he could keep all that magical power to himself and grow stronger quickly!
"Even if that's the case... without your help, how could she find other locations?"
Tom asked after a moment's silence.
"Have you forgotten how familiar she was with the route tonight?
You don't think they can't find those places, do you?
They just don't have the method to find the power there...
Now that I've provided her with the method, she can naturally leave us alone... and even leave the people behind her alone."
Tom couldn't help but feel a little relieved, relieved that those so-called magical powers were fake, and all of this was just Li Weide's arrangement.
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Otherwise, Annie might really have been able to take all that magical power for herself!
Tom was now thinking of the "fakes" made by Levid.
"Those fakes... do they really seem to work?"
"Of course, don't you see how many precious potion ingredients I used?
Although this stuff is a fake made by me, it can indeed enhance one's strength."
"What?!"
Tom's eyes widened.
"Can this stuff really..."
"Don't get excited, Tom... Do you think there's no price to pay for a sudden increase in strength?
There are side effects."
Levid said calmly.
Anyway, the residue did have side effects, so what he said was not completely deceiving Tom.
"So there are side effects..." Tom's heart immediately balanced again after hearing this, and at the same time, he felt even more sorry for Annie.
It was bad enough that she was tricked, but she also absorbed a fake with side effects!
Of course...if Tom found out that he was the one who was schemed against the most, he would definitely go after Levid...
"Anyway, we should just wait and see what happens, and let her absorb the energy with peace of mind.
When she finds that her power has grown to the point where she can no longer hide it, she will naturally help us pass the news to Grindelwald..."
Tom nodded.
"That shouldn't be a problem, but...if Grindelwald comes, how will you deal with it?
Will you tell Dumbledore?
How will you explain why you know all this?"
"Tom, if Grindelwald comes, we definitely can't count on Professor Dumbledore," Levid said calmly.
"Why?" Tom asked puzzled.
"Grindelwald knows Dumbledore's power better than anyone else, so... if he wants to come to Hogwarts and cause trouble, he'll have to find a way to get Dumbledore out."
"Yeah... Dumbledore doesn't know what's going on here anyway.
If he's gone, there might be no one at Hogwarts who can rival him, except for Headmaster Dippet.
But Headmaster Dippet is already very old... He might not be a match for Grindelwald either."
Tom asked worriedly, "Then how do you plan to deal with Grindelwald?"
If you can't defeat him by simply luring him here, then there's nothing you can do...
"If you can't defeat him, then so be it.
My goal isn't to defeat Grindelwald anyway... If even Dumbledore can't do it, why shouldn't we be able to do it?"
"Then what are you doing..."
Tom was completely confused.
You schemed to lure Grindelwald and his witches here, but in the end, you don't intend to defeat Grindelwald.
What's the point of all this?
"My goal has always been to take care of his witches.
We're just first-year wizards, so we only need to do what we can," Levid said with a smile.
"You want to arrest all the witches he brought here?
But... can you really defeat so many witches?
And...
I don't think Grindelwald will just sit back and do nothing!"
Tom still felt that this was unreliable.
Even if Levid was so powerful, he was only eleven years old.
Taking on so many witches was almost impossible.
"Don't underestimate Principal Dippet. He's been the headmaster of Hogwarts for so many years, and he's lived to such an old age...
How could he not have some skills?
He'll definitely be able to hold Grindelwald back for a while.
We just need to find a way to take down those witches before Grindelwald arrives to reinforce us."
"What difference does it make? If Grindelwald comes, he'll definitely bring a lot of witches with him.
How can you possibly take down so many witches in such a limited time?"
Tom paused, then continued, "Besides, how do you know Grindelwald will personally deal with Principal Dippet?
If I were him, I'd have my men tie up the principal, and then I'd go find that power myself!"
"Tom, you're very smart.
You even thought of that," Levid smiled approvingly.
"You have another idea?"
Seeing that Levid didn't look surprised at all, Tom knew that he must have thought of that too.
"Yes... I've prepared several plans," Li Weide said with a smile.
"What I just told you is just one scenario, and I haven't finished yet...
What you were most confused about was how we could easily defeat so many witches, wasn't it?"
"It wasn't us...
I'm not that confident, it was you..."
Tom corrected.
Two people against a bunch of witches?
Don't drag me into this!
I don't want to die!
"Tom, fortune and wealth are achieved through risk...
How can you become stronger if you're such a coward all day?"
Li Weide said, pulling several spherical objects from his pocket and placing them on the table.
"Dung bombs?
Are you planning to defeat the witches with them?"
Tom was stunned.
Dung bombs are a kind of prank prop, something that castle managers hate the most, even if the current manager isn't a Squib.
Because once this kind of thing is smashed open, the smell of manure inside will linger in the same place for a long time...
"Tom, don't forget that I am now Professor Slughorn's favorite student.
Do you think I can get some powerful drug formulas from him?"
Tom suddenly realized, "Yes... We still often visit the Forbidden Forest in the name of confinement, and send him some materials from the Forbidden Forest from time to time...
We just need to say that we plan to use these drugs to knock down those powerful magical beasts, and then get materials from them..."
He looked up at Levid, and then continued:
"Although Professor Slughorn will definitely not agree if others say this to him, but if it's you... he will definitely give you the formula.
Then we just need to make the drug into something like a dung bomb... If it is operated properly, we can naturally knock down all the witches..."
Levid smiled, "Your method is really good, even I can't think of it."
"Uh... what are you going to do if Professor Slughorn disagrees?"
Tom asked.
"That's all right. Actually, I have the formula for a powerful drug," Levander said confidently.
What powerful drug formula wasn't in the system's rewarded potion book?
"Then why did you ask Professor Slughorn?"
Tom asked, puzzled.
He had no doubt Levander had the formula; after all, he had a powerful family behind him. He just wondered why Levander would go to such lengths.
"I only sought out Professor Slughorn to testify...
I just needed to let him know I wanted to use the drug...
Your excuse was actually quite good. Even if Professor Slughorn disagreed, he knew I had the idea to use the drug on magical creatures.
That way, we have a reason for these 'dung bombs' we have,"
Tom said, a sudden realization dawning on him.
"That's right... Otherwise, even if we caught the witches, we wouldn't be able to explain why we happened to have so many 'dung bombs'!
It's a hard motive to explain, but by finding Professor Slughorn, we have a motive."
Suddenly, Tom asked in surprise: "Wait... Could it be that when you asked Professor Slughorn to put you in solitary confinement in the Forbidden Forest, you already had this plan?
But... at that time, we clearly didn't know about the existence of that kind of magical power!"
"That's right... So, the 'bait' I planned at that time was something else."
Levid smiled.
"Then... what did you plan to use as bait at that time?"
Tom asked with a frown.
"Wasn't Grindelwald very interested in the two of us before?" Levid asked back.
"Yes... hiss... you want to be the bait yourself?" Tom asked in shock.
"Tom... do I look such a selfless person?"
Levid asked again meaningfully.
"If it's not you...wait...you're not planning to use me as bait, are you?"
"Hehehehe...of course it's you, could it be me?"
"You bastard! I..."
"Why, you're not convinced?"
"...You know me, I've always been convinced...Um, put your wand down first, don't be impulsive..."
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