Mysterious Journey

Chapter 433 (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻

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A few minutes later, outside the Potions classroom.

Looking at the tightly shut wooden door, the agitated group of young witches and wizards subconsciously stopped.

Although everyone had been very excited in the common room, when they actually arrived at Professor Snape's classroom door, most of the young witches and wizards felt as if they had been doused with a bucket of cold water, a thick layer of hesitation and fear appearing on their faces.

"What's there to be afraid of? It's the other houses bullying us this time."

Looking around at his classmates, Justin Finch-Fletchley mustered his courage and stepped forward to push open the Potions classroom door.

Compared to the older students, under Aileen's influence, this year's first-year students were significantly braver. Professor Snape was not seen as such a terrifying devil.

What's more, according to Justin Finch-Fletchley's thinking, there was a "Potions Assistant" in the classroom who was leaning towards them. Choosing the Head of Slytherin as a breakthrough point was undoubtedly the most correct choice.

"Professor Snape, Big Sister Aileen, our Hufflepuff vegetable garden has been robbed by the Slytherins..."

Justin Finch-Fletchley pushed open the door and rattled off all the lines he had rehearsed dozens of times in his mind, his eyes quickly moving around the classroom, trying to find the trustworthy silver-haired figure.

However, before he could finish speaking, he felt a sudden darkness in front of him.

"It's class time. Get out!"

Professor Snape spread his arms, like a giant bat, as if he had glided from the middle of the classroom to the doorway in an instant, his tone icy as he directly interrupted Justin Finch-Fletchley's words, a hint of displeasure appearing on his face.

Looking at Professor Snape, who was different from usual in class, Justin Finch-Fletchley swallowed and glanced at his classmates, as if gaining a little more courage, and continued stubbornly.

"But Professor, listen to me, our Hufflepuff vegetable garden has been robbed..."

"Yes! Professor Snape, the Slytherins didn't even leave the roots. They turned over our entire plot."

"That's right, that's right, if you go and ask now, you'll definitely catch them in the act!"

"The most shameless thing is that they even teamed up to pretend to be fighting!"

"Besides Slytherin, there are also Gryffindor, Ravenclaw must have a part in it too..."

Vegetable garden? Turned over the plot? Fighting? What kind of nonsense was all this?

Snape frowned, looked back at the students in the classroom who had stopped what they were doing and were looking towards the doorway, as well as the Hufflepuffs gathered outside the door, his expression becoming more and more impatient and cold. He pointed to the outside.

"Mr. Finch-Fletchley, everyone, get out! I don't want to repeat myself a third time."

These days, having gotten used to Aileen helping him, Snape immediately felt the difference between the two after returning to teaching Potions alone. This already made him a little irritable.

If it were Harry or Aileen, perhaps Severus Snape would have the patience to listen to what they were saying.

However, for Justin Finch-Fletchley, a transparent figure with ordinary grades and no special background, who also dared to barge into the classroom at this time, there was only one outcome...

Facing the tall Professor Snape, Justin Finch-Fletchley, like a small chick, had no power to resist and was directly grabbed by Snape's arm and pushed out without mercy - bang!

Then, the Potions classroom door was slammed shut, and Professor Snape's voice floated out from the crack in the door.

"And... Hufflepuff loses thirty points, because you disturbed the Potions class."

Facing the closed wooden door of the underground classroom again, the Hufflepuff young wizards stood in the corridor looking at each other, the situation seemed very different from what they had imagined in the common room?

Professor Snape didn't even give them a chance to explain, and directly drove them all out.

"Well, it doesn't matter. Professor Snape is unreasonable, and siding with Slytherin is not a one-day thing."

Phoebe Thompson, the second-year student who had suggested asking the professors for a fair trial, coughed and comforted the somewhat depressed and bewildered Justin Finch-Fletchley, looking around at his classmates.

"However, Professor McGonagall, as Deputy Headmistress, and Professor Flitwick, will definitely not tolerate their students' outrageous behavior this afternoon! As for Slytherin, we'll come back after class!"

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Hogwarts Transfiguration Classroom.

"I will find out about the specific situation later, now, please go out!"

Professor McGonagall said in an extremely cold tone, her sharp eyes swept over the Hufflepuff young wizards standing at the door, "At the same time, I will explain to Professor Sprout about your behavior of interrupting the class."

Bang!

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Hogwarts Charms Classroom.

"Well, I see, I understand roughly."

Compared to the direct rejection of the other two Heads of House, Professor Flitwick's attitude was obviously gentler.

At least he didn't directly drive Justin Finch-Fletchley, Phoebe Thompson and others away, but patiently took a few minutes to carefully listen to the Hufflepuff little guys' accusations about the "vegetable stealing incident" this afternoon.

Of course, this may also be because this Charms class was exactly a combined class of fourth-year Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students - after hearing that their vegetable garden had been looted, most of the Hufflepuff young wizards showed unease and restlessness.

Professor Flitwick blinked, looked at Phoebe Thompson's eyes and said with some confusion.

"However, according to your statements, it should be the Slytherin and Gryffindor houses who damaged the vegetable garden. Throughout the whole process, the Ravenclaw students seemed to have been helping Professor Sprout, right?"

"Eh? That's what they said, but..."

"But they failed to successfully stop Gryffindor and Slytherin from fighting each other, which is indeed not right."

Professor Flitwick raised his palm, nodded with a serious face, and continued extremely smoothly.

"No, we, they..."

A hint of confusion appeared in Justin Finch-Fletchley's eyes, something, seemed wrong?

Without giving the Hufflepuff young wizards a chance to rethink, the Head of Ravenclaw glanced at the restless students in the classroom, then looked at the aggrieved lower grade Hufflepuff students, pondered for a few seconds, spread his hands, and revealed a helpless expression.

"So, even if you want to punish and deal with the perpetrators, you have to find Professor Dumbledore, or Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape, they are the ones who can help you in this area."

"But, the Ravenclaws also stole vegetables..."

"Did you see this with your own eyes? Mr. Finch-Fletchley."

Professor Flitwick's face sank slightly, looked at Justin Finch-Fletchley's eyes, and said seriously.

"Making wild guesses without evidence is not a smart choice..."

"Although we didn't see it, but from the last..."

"Alright, let's stop here. The school will investigate the Gryffindor and Slytherin brawl and the damage to your vegetable garden later - now it's class time, if there's nothing else..."

Hearing Justin Finch-Fletchley's words, Professor Flitwick's expression relaxed slightly.

Their Ravenclaw children were indeed more reliable than the other two houses, he knew it in his heart.

Professor Flitwick waved his hand, interrupting Justin Finch-Fletchley's subsequent deductions and explanations, and pointed towards the classroom doorway, his meaning couldn't be clearer.

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A few minutes later, outside Hogwarts Castle.

The Hufflepuff young wizards, who had been rebuffed everywhere, sat at the entrance with gloomy faces, each of their eyes filled with confusion.

After wandering around the castle, no professor or Head of House was willing to listen to their demands, and help them deal with those hateful "vegetable thieves".

In the eyes of the Hufflepuff young wizards, the Heads of House of Hogwarts were more or less protecting their students, and the whole incident was obviously a conspiracy against Hufflepuff.

Counting the time, those three waves of hateful guys should have returned to their respective houses smoothly.

Not to mention whether they could snatch back their vegetables with so few people, even if they were preparing to fight back... the current situation made it impossible to start for a while.

What to do? Should they fight? Who to fight first?

The greatly affected Hufflepuff young wizards sat blankly at the entrance of the castle, their hearts full of anger and injustice, but they didn't know where to vent it, or how to face the upcoming dinner.

"If Big Sister Aileen were here..."

Ernie Macmillan sighed. After experiencing several rejections, he finally realized the kind of confidence and steadiness he had when Aileen was around, when they would never lose, regardless of whether others gained.

"I just looked, Big Sister is not in the Potions classroom... It is said that someone saw them go directly to the Forbidden Forest after lunch, maybe it's filming the Magical Creature segment again?"

"Why don't we go and find Big Sister Aileen?" Justin Finch-Fletchley's eyes lit up, and he asked tentatively.

"That's the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest, not to mention the terrible existences such as werewolves, vampires, and centaurs in the forest, we can't get past the three-headed dog guarding the entrance of the Forbidden Forest."

Phoebe Thompson shook her head, without hesitating to deny the two first-year students' naive ideas.

The location of the Hogwarts teaching staff vegetable garden was just a little bit next to the entrance of the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest.

The three-headed dog Fluffy, which guarded the teaching staff's vegetable garden, usually had a more important responsibility besides protecting the vegetable garden, which was actually to assist Hagrid's work and prevent students from breaking into the Forbidden Forest without permission.

"This won't work, that won't work, then what should we do now?"

Justin Finch-Fletchley hammered the railing hard, the breath stuck in his heart making him feel so uncomfortable that he was about to suffocate.

"Wait..."

Just then, Susan Bones stood on tiptoe, looked in the direction of the Forbidden Forest, and said uncertainly.

"Look, the three-headed dog that had been guarding the edge of the professors' vegetable garden seems to be gone?"

Hearing Susan's words, the Hufflepuff young wizards stood up one after another, looking curiously towards the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest.

"Huh?! Hey, really! That scary three-headed dog is gone."

"Great! Then, we can go find Big Sister Aileen and the others."

Justin Finch-Fletchley said quite excitedly.

"Hmph! Aileen, Aileen... You first-years, always relying on Aileen, can't you guys be a little more promising. In this situation, there is no need to find Aileen for help."

Phoebe Thompson glanced at the excited first-year students and snorted coldly in displeasure.

In fact, most Hufflepuff students had a very complicated feeling about Aileen - this little girl was too dazzling, dazzling enough to challenge and influence the entire Hogwarts.

And this, in the eyes of second-year students like Phoebe Thompson, would indeed have a subtle sense of disapproval and jealousy.

It's just threatening the Sorting Hat, getting better grades, taking the lead in causing trouble, becoming the head of the house-elves, daring to confront people... If they wanted to, they could easily do it, but they just hadn't thought of it before.

"Listen, since the other houses have teamed up to bully us, and the professors are partial and protect them, and don't uphold justice, then let's just take over the professors' vegetable gardens in one go!"

Phoebe Thompson said hatefully, a dangerous "Honey Badger" aura showing in her eyes.

Compared to mature and steady older students, young badgers like first and second years are actually more likely to accept the "Honey Badger" theory proposed by Aileen before, take life and death lightly, and just do it if you don't like it. Who doesn't know how to flip the table?!

"This time, let's learn from Slytherin and Gryffindor and take everything from the entire vegetable garden, leaving not even a sprout!"

"There's no need for Aileen at all, this matter can be solved by listening to me. Anyway, even if the school professors ask, let them first have the other houses return all of our vegetables!"

"I think Thompson makes sense, it's just swapping land. Let's just snatch all the professors' vegetable gardens, either no one eats, or return our things - anyway, the dishes for the faculty seats are not worse than what we originally had, it depends on how the professors choose."

"Let's go, let's go, what are we hesitating about? Let's set off quickly, who knows when that big dog will appear."

"Anyway, it's already like this, either Professor Dumbledore punishes everyone together, or the whole school is fine, we won't be foolishly bullied this time! Let's go, we won't leave them a single sprout!"

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