Ancient wizards return to Hogwarts

"That's so stupid." Les shook his head. "He simply doesn't regard the teachers and students of Hogwarts as human beings. A simple spell can kill him."

"That was -?" Daphne asked curiously.

Les told Daphne about the monk's invasion methods.

Daphne and Astoria covered their mouths together: They actually sent themselves to Hogwarts through precipitation? This method is unheard of and impossible to prevent!

"It's not a big problem, because this kind of 'appearance method' requires special props, and they probably won't be able to come up with a second one."

‘Even if there is a second piece, they may not be able to find someone who can use it. ’ Les added in his mind.

While Les cut off the claws extended by the Secret Order towards Hogwarts, Harry also found a way to escape from Filch's office and returned to the corridor. This time he met the ghost of Gryffindor House, Nearly Headless Nick.

Harry chatted with him.

"This Halloween will be my 500th anniversary." Judging from Nick's tone, he seemed quite proud.

"I'm going to have a party in a relatively spacious underground classroom. Friends from all over the seven seas will be here. I would be honored if you could attend, as would Mr. Weasley and anyone else alive. Most welcome guest—but I bet you'd rather attend the school banquet, wouldn't you?"

"Oh no, I'll come." Harry accepted Nick's invitation.

Harry's conversation with Nick attracted Les' attention.

Seeing that Les was observing the Gryffindor ghost, Daphne also introduced him to the ghost and the origin of his nickname.

"He is the ghost of Gryffindor House. Unlike Barrow in our house, Nearly Headless Nick is a more active guy. His real name is Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington. He was in Gryffindor during his lifetime. After graduating, he became a court magician. As a result, due to a magic accident, Sir Nicholas was sentenced to be beheaded. The executioner's ax was very blunt, and he was chopped forty-five times in total, but even so, his head was not fully recovered. Disconnected from the neck," Daphne said softly.

Les frowned. This was obviously not a pleasant story for the wizard.

"So this is the meaning of the confidentiality law." Rice came to this conclusion after a moment of silence.

In the eyes of many supporters of pure blood theory, the "Law of Secrecy" is an insult and blasphemy to wizards, but Rice, who is called the "originator" of pure bloodists, believes that the "Law of Secrecy" is a protection for wizards.

There is no way, because wizards have never established a political power or created something similar to the Sorcerous Kingdom, which makes them always dependent on Muggles.

Vines can exist attached to big trees, but they cannot replace them.

There are regimes founded by people who master magic. Ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and the Nordic gods all existed like this, but they have all disappeared in the long history. The Nordic gods were created by wizards themselves.

From the moment when wizards did not want to become slaves of the gods, thus triggering Ragnarok, the "Law of Secrecy" became the only option for wizards who did not want to integrate into the Muggle world.

In Rice's view, his awakening cannot change the current situation that wizards are absolutely weak compared to the power of the Muggle world - even adding the other three old friends will not change anything.

Today's wizards are too stretched out, not to mention the current ones, the little guy downstairs from five hundred years ago is also ridiculously stretched out - a majestic Hogwarts graduate who can't even understand the art of transfiguration, and can still be... The Muggles were disarmed and then captured and imprisoned for a night. They were publicly beheaded the next day and no one came to save them. Les really couldn't comment.

The difference in strength is too big, so just hide it honestly. The good news is that wizards are pretty good at playing hide and seek.

As for the integration of the wizarding world and the Muggle world, Rice feels that it is impossible, at least according to the current public opinion environment in the wizarding world. Wizards are much more conservative than they were back then, and they don't dare to come into contact with the Muggle world.

At this moment, the almost headless Nick floated past the three of Les. He seemed to be in a good mood, probably because he invited the Boy Who Lived to his death anniversary party.

Les suddenly remembered something, so he called Nick.

"Sir Nicholas, will Barrow be invited to your death anniversary party? Will he attend?"

Nick looked quite surprised to be stopped. He stopped there, looked at the appearance of the three Les, and then remembered that they were students of Slytherin House.

"Of course!" Nick said proudly: "This is the grandest death anniversary party in this century. No ghost can resist this temptation, and Barrow is no exception."

Les nodded, this would be best. He wanted to chat with Barrow, but he had never had the chance before.

The words of the almost headless Nick also reminded Les of Ravenclaw trapped in the seal. If she could come out, she would definitely not miss this event, right?

"Can I attend your death anniversary party, Sir Nicholas?" Les wanted to take advantage of the party held by Nick to have a good chat with his student Barrow.

He wanted to know about Barrow's mental journey. He still couldn't believe that Barrow would kill the daughter of Ravenclaw.

Hearing that Les wanted to attend his death anniversary party, Nick, who was almost headless, was stunned for a moment, and then a smile appeared on his face. He nodded repeatedly and shook his head: "Absolutely no problem, this is a great honor for me! The same goes for the other two ladies who are as beautiful as white roses."

"certainly."

"my pleasure."

Seeing that Les took the initiative to apply to go to the death anniversary party, Daphne and Astoria also rushed to agree to Nick's invitation. The two of them were also very curious about this kind of event that was only held among ghosts.

As for the Halloween dinner held by the school, that thing happens every year, but the ghost's death anniversary party is hard to say. Maybe the next time it is held, they themselves will already be ghosts.

"That's great!" Nick, who was almost headless, was very happy when he saw that he had invited three living people to his party after just strolling around. However, before leaving, he also made an unkind request in a very embarrassed manner: He asked Les and the three of them to admit that Nick was extremely impressive when facing Sir Patrick, the captain of the Headless Hunters. Very scary.

Perhaps for ghosts, it is very honorable to be feared by strangers.

Of course, this was no problem, and Les agreed immediately.

Soon, Halloween is coming.

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