Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures

“I can’t believe that Fred and George actually left Hogwarts,” said Hermione, waving the letter she had just received. “They’ve opened a joke shop in Diagon Alley, selling those dangerous things. Mrs. Weasley will be so upset!”

“Why should she be upset? The prank products they make are quite amusing,” said Elaine, also reading Fred and George’s letter.

“It’s not about whether it’s amusing or not, but…” Hermione said, “the two of them should graduate from Hogwarts before they come out to do what they want to do.”

“Well, Hermione, they don’t need a diploma to prove anything, they’re doing great now,” said Evan. “It’s just a waste of time for them to stay in school; it’s meaningless. It’s better to come out early and do something valuable!”

Similar to his current situation, he wouldn’t learn much useful knowledge if he continued to stay in school. Evan’s main reason for not leaving Hogwarts was that there were secrets left by the Four Founders that hadn’t been unraveled yet, but Fred and George didn’t have this concern.

In any case, the story of their flight to freedom had been retold countless times, and had become part of Hogwarts legend.

In this letter, the two detailed the whole incident.

It was said that they were preparing to cause trouble outside Umbridge’s office, the headquarters of the Inquisitorial Squad.

The entire Hogwarts castle was now littered with traces of Fred and George’s mischief, except for that place which was tightly guarded.

Filch was sure that Fred and George would definitely go there, so he and a group of Slytherin students ambushed there in advance.

Needless to say, for the honor and dignity of pranks, they predictably showed up at that location.

Even knowing there was an ambush, they went ahead without hesitation.

Perhaps, Fred and George had planned to leave Hogwarts and wanted to create a big scene before leaving.

After a chase and fight, they were caught, but were not ready to surrender.

Fred and George raised their wands high, and the fireworks they had prepared inside the castle exploded simultaneously.

Amidst the violent shaking and chaos, the two used ‘Accio Brooms’ in front of all the students in the school.

In the blink of an eye, the Starcatchers, which had been fastened to the wall of Umbridge’s office, flew in front of them.

Fred and George got on their broomsticks and performed wonderful flying skills amidst the fireworks and the tumultuous applause from the students.

Finally, the two quickly sped out of the castle into the glorious sunset outside.

The most legendary part of the whole story was the final conversation between Fred and Peeves.

“Give them hell from us, Peeves.”

It was certain that for centuries, Peeves had never taken order from a student, but Peeves suddenly swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute to Fred and George, giving the twin brothers the highest respect.

The departure of Fred and George was not the end of the Hogwarts mischief, but the beginning of the climax.

There was complete chaos in the castle, with a great number of students now vying for the newly vacant positions of Troublemakers-in-Chief.

All kinds of prank traps and mischievous magical creatures could be seen everywhere. Dungbombs and Stinkpellets were dropped so frequently in the corridors that it became the new fashion for students to perform Bubble-Head Charms on themselves before leaving lessons, which ensured them a supply of fresh clean air, even though it gave them all the peculiar appearance of wearing upside-down goldfish bowls on their heads.

Filch prowled the corridors with a horsewhip ready in his hands, desperate to catch miscreants, but the problem was that there were now so many of them that he did not know which way to turn.

The Ministry of Magic’s Inquisitorial Squad and Slytherin students were attempting to help him, but odd things kept happening to them.

Hexes, traps and attacks against them were rampant. In the end, the members of the Inquisitorial Squad did not dare to leave the office alone, and the Slytherin students did not even dare to leave the common room. They were all frightened!

As for Peeves, he seemed to have taken Fred’s parting words deeply to heart.

Cackling madly, he soared through the school, upending tables, bursting out of blackboards, and toppling statues and vases.

On several occasions, he shut Mrs. Norris inside suits of armor, from which she was rescued, yowling loudly, by the furious caretaker.

Peeves smashed lanterns and snuffed out candles, juggled burning torches over the heads of screaming students, caused neatly stacked piles of parchment to topple into fires or out of windows, flooded the second floor when he pulled off all the taps in the bathrooms, dropped a bag of tarantulas in the middle of the Great Hall during breakfast.

The other professors in the school were also unwilling to help with management, and they turned a blind eye to what was happening in front of them.

After failing to find Umbridge’s whereabouts, the Ministry of Magic and Fudge were now plunged into a new trouble and choice.

They wanted to send Aurors to Hogwarts to maintain order, but they were worried about public reaction.

But without sending Aurors, all reform activities would come to a standstill.

Whether they were willing to admit it or not, Hogwarts was out of control, just like the current situation in the Wizarding World.

After leaving Hogwarts, Fred and George did not go home, but flew directly to Diagon Alley to start running their own joke shop.

They had already rented the shop, and by the way, they also helped Evan manage it.

As Hermione expected, Mrs. Weasley was very sad and angry at Fred and George’s behavior.

She had always hoped that the two of them could work in the Ministry of Magic, or at least successfully complete their studies. However, with Percy’s example and the precedent set by Evan, Hermione, and Elaine’s escape, she gradually accepted the situation and blamed it all on Fudge.

Things had reached a fever pitch, and Fudge and the Ministry of Magic were completely passive.

Under such circumstances, Evan, Hermione, and Elaine finally got to Caresius and set off for Norway.

The castle of the vampire Slytherin family was located in the deepest part of the tundra plain. Evan could never forget the first time he saw this castle.

Against the backdrop of the biting cold wind and a huge full moon, the colossal structure stood on the steep cliff, like an eagle perched on a huge rock: tall, ancient, perhaps glorious in the past, but now full of desolation.

Under the pale moonlight, the castle was silent, and there was a mysterious atmosphere in the air.

In the distance, the roar of pine trees mingled with occasional cries of wild beasts, enhancing the desolation.

In such a place, time and space seemed to have stopped, making people wonder whether they were at the end of the world.

Along the steep cliff, Evan looked down. The empty valley was pitch black and bottomless.

If one wanted to hide something like the body of an evil god, this place was indeed the ideal location.

Isolated from the world, devoid of human presence, no matter what kind of evil it was, it would gradually be forgotten by the world…

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