Hogwarts: This professor is too Muggle.

Chapter 83 Watching Movies
Night falls.

Hogwarts.

Easter falls on the Sunday after the first full moon of the spring equinox. Technically, this year's Easter falls on April 4th. Since the holiday falls on a Sunday, Hogwarts always begins its holiday on Fridays. There's no such thing as make-up classes or adjustments. It's a two-week holiday, which relieves the professors and delights the students.

Unlike the Christmas holidays, students are not allowed to leave school during the Easter holidays.

Students in the third grade and above can go to Hogsmeade for the weekend, while students in the lower grades can only stay in the castle.

In fact, some students believe that this kind of holiday without classes is more enjoyable than going home for Christmas. Back home, they have to be disciplined and nagged by their parents, but here, they are surrounded by playmates and feel happy to do homework together.

The house-elves in the kitchen serve up Easter delicacies from all over the world in various ways, and the ghost troupe puts on a special show. Even though Nearly Headless Nick has performed his story hundreds of times, the younger students still scream every time they see him perform acrobatics with his ghost head.

This is a dinner party worth looking forward to. It is not as grand as the Christmas one, but it is more lively and joyful.

At 7:30 in the evening, all the teachers and students of the school gathered in the auditorium.

The front guest seats were decorated as screens, with a large mirror placed on top, and a hazy silver mist swirled around them. The auditorium had four long house tables, nearly a thousand seats. Except for a few empty seats in the dead corners of the front rows on both sides, the rest were occupied. Many students even squeezed into the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff tables in the middle just to get a better view...

Not only students, but also ghosts floating in the air, portraits squeezed in picture frames, almost all the moving creatures in the school were there.

The deans walked in the middle of the aisle to maintain order, while the professors of elective courses sat at the back of the long table, waiting with the students.

Dumbledore watched this scene with a smile on his face.

"Then I'll start."

Melvin nodded to the vice-principal, took out the memory cloud and put it into the shadow mirror. The lights in the magic dome and the auditorium dimmed.

A light melody sounded, and the prelude was extremely brief.

There is no detailed credits, no director, no starring actors, no photography and editing, and only a statement after the title:
Adapted from true events.

"Beep...beep..."

The pure red train slowly moved along the rails and finally stopped next to a small, dark platform. The lights came on, the doors opened, and passengers poured out.

"I'm getting off the bus, don't pull back!"

"Has anyone seen my toad?"

"First-year students, first-year students, come here!" In the chaotic and crowded scene, the burly Hagrid was very conspicuous, with a thick beard temporarily covering half of his face. He held an oil lamp in his hand and smiled: "Children, little ones, follow me."

The students filed out in neat lines, one stepping on the other, like ants.

It was a late summer night, the air was damp with dew, and as the soothing witches' chants played, the view zoomed out to reveal a vast lake and flat grasslands. Hogwarts Castle slowly emerged into view, its foyer and windows lit up, and its cold, hard towers disappeared into the night sky.

The freshmen took a small boat and rowed across the lake, and the warm lights rippled in the water.

“So that’s how we were back then…”

Harry's eyes were a little dazed. Ron had been chattering about the Sorting Test all the way, and Hermione had been reciting half of the textbook, which made him panic. He was very worried that he would not be able to pass the test and would be sent back to the Dursleys. The embarrassment and awkwardness were still fresh in his memory.

"Look, that's me."

"I'm there!"

"Here, the one who fell."

"Ha ha!"

There was a commotion in the auditorium. At the same time, there was also a commotion in wizard pubs across England. Many parents of students were staring wide-eyed for their children.

Those who were not students at home were enjoying the night view of Hogwarts.

They haven't seen each other in years.

They thought their memories were blurry, but when the mirror image appeared, they could still recognize the path near the station, the boat on the Black Lake, and the windows of the castle tower.

“We were like that back then too…”

Malcolm and Taclot sat next to each other, each leaning in one direction, trying their best to keep a distance from the person opposite them.

The two of them showed similar looks, reminiscing and remembrance, mixed with a little sadness. It was hard to describe the specific feeling, it was complex and wonderful.

After the first act, the scene jumps directly to the sorting ceremony. The process is not detailed, and it only focuses on showing Harry being sorted into Gryffindor. The perspective of the film is also fixed on him, and through his eyes, it observes several professors in the guest seats.

Next came the principal's speech, introducing the two professors and emphasizing the restricted area of ​​the fourth-floor corridor.

"If you don't want to suffer an unexpected and painful death, don't enter the corridor on the right side of the fourth floor." Dumbledore's meaningful expression gradually faded.

The scene changes, and the student life at Hogwarts officially begins: attending classes in the classroom, eating in the auditorium, playing on the playground, playing in the Black Lake... and by chance, joining the Quidditch team as a seeker.

Melvin skipped the chase scene between him and Draco, and only showed Harry flying across the sky and the tower on his broom. The little boy was flying freely, with the endless blue sky behind him and the hills, forests and vast lake below him.

Finally, there is a shot of Professor McGonagall, and then the scene cuts to the lake, where students are gathered in the courtyard discussing Harry becoming a Seeker.

The film doesn't detail the events in between, but viewers can fill in the gaps in the story by looking at the two scenes. Melvin didn't directly bring the real story into the film; instead, he edited and transitioned it, downplaying minor characters unrelated to the main plot. Whether it was a student like Draco or other professors, relevant scenes were cut whenever possible. If they couldn't be cut, they were transferred to Harry and the characters around him.

"..."

In the top floor cinema of The Three Broomsticks, Malcolm and Tuckerlot had returned to their normal sitting positions, staring intently at the mirror. The scolding in the Transfiguration class, the actions in the greenhouse and the feces reminded them of how stupid they were in the past.

After graduating and entering the adult world, they begin to taste the flavor of life. The carefree days in school that only appeared in their dreams are now presented in front of them in detail, and the emotions directly touch their hearts.

This is the effect of youth campus films.

The freshmen's school life is on track and the film enters the main storyline.

Roommate Longbottom got lost and came home late, so Harry and his friends went out to look for him. The noise they made attracted the administrator, and they chased and hid all the way. They accidentally broke into the corridor on the fourth floor and found a ferocious three-headed dog.

Here is a close-up of Lou Williams, with three heads opening their bloody mouths at the same time, with clear muscle texture and sharp teeth with traces of blood.

The image is so clear that it looks like the audience's head is stuffed into the mouth of a three-headed dog.

"Wow!"

The audience was immediately in an uproar. The scene was even more exciting than the one in the trailer.

"What on earth do they want to do? Locking up a guy like that in school!"

"Don't you see what it's standing on?"

"On the floor?"

"No! It's a trapdoor. It's obviously guarding something!"

"..."

The audience's doubts were also aroused, and they began to put themselves in Harry's shoes, wondering why there was a three-headed dog in the school, what was under the trapdoor, and whether the two professors were plotting something.
Then, Hagrid appeared again and used his big mouth to reveal that the thing under the trapdoor was related to Nicolas Flamel. Harry wanted to continue to find out what it was, but the gamekeeper was like an NPC who had received a task and was unwilling to say anything.

"I won't say anything."

"Then we'll have to find it ourselves!"

Harry and others in the picture are anxious, and the audience outside the picture is even more anxious. The freshmen don’t know who Nicolas Flamel is, but they know!

"The Philosopher's Stone! There's the Philosopher's Stone down there!"

Malcolm shouted anxiously, wishing he could get into the mirror to remind them, but then he was covered in the mouth by Taklot next to him, and the two began to fight.

With the appearance of the three-headed dog, the originally relaxed and happy daily atmosphere changed. Following Harry's perspective, the audience found that Quirrell began to appear frequently in the picture. During the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, his weird expression was shown in close-ups many times, as if implying something.

Harry and his companions gradually uncovered the truth about the Philosopher's Stone, and accidents began to happen frequently in the school.

In the first Quidditch match, Harry's broom was cursed and he was hanging in the air, swinging. After struggling on the verge of life and death, he won.

At the Halloween party, Harry and Ron were so full that they went to the bathroom together. As a result, they encountered a troll and fought with it until the professor arrived.

After the first snow, a group of students were punished with detention for being late for class. The detention included a tour of the Forbidden Forest. Harry was among them. As a result, they happened to encounter a mysterious wizard breaking into the Forbidden Forest to hunt unicorns. Professor McGonagall and the centaurs worked together to repel him.

Accidents happened one after another, and even the most obtuse wizard could sense that something was wrong, and the theater gradually became quiet.

Just when the audience was in a heavy mood, Christmas arrived.

As the cheerful "Jingle Bells" played, the school castle was decked out in Christmas decorations. Students, wrapped in fluffy scarves, left their footprints on the white snow. From Harry's perspective, the pumpkin juice in the image was steaming, and the roasted turkey's skin was golden brown...

The Christmas scene was very beautiful, but the audience's hearts were always in their throats and they couldn't calm down.

The situation was indeed not right. Professor McGonagall had to go to Hogsmeade to settle accounts, Professor Sprout had to go out to purchase herbs, the deans each had their own work, ordinary professors went home for the holidays, and even the headmaster received a letter from the Ministry of Magic and had to leave the school.

The keen audience noticed that something was wrong. Various coincidences were intertwined, and the school's defenses were weakened layer by layer, becoming weak and empty. In the end, it was discovered that only Harry and a few other freshmen were left in the school.

The newborn in the mirror is still enjoying Christmas unconsciously, but an invisible shadow has already shrouded him. This contrast tugs at the audience's heartstrings.

The background melody of "Jingle Bells" gradually faded. The strange Quirrell stood behind the window of the school infirmary, watching the professors leave the school one by one. His face was hidden in the shadows, and his expression could not be seen. Only the purple headscarf could be seen.

The screen fell into darkness, and the creaking sound of old loose-leaf pages suddenly sounded. The sound of old wooden doors opening and closing was so painful that it seemed to cut the audience's nerves.

All the wizarding pubs in England fell silent, and the emotions of the audience in the theater were stirred, and they vaguely felt that it was the sound of their own heartbeats.

In the previous crisis, the professor and the principal could seek help, but now that the help and backing have been stripped away, are the freshmen going to have to face the dark wizards alone?

How is this possible?
Malcolm and Taklot's expressions unconsciously became very ugly, their brows tightly knitted together, as if they were back in their student days, choosing to stay in school during the Christmas holidays, while the professors and principals left one after another, leaving only them and a powerful dark wizard in the entire school.

In the dark environment, they seemed to feel someone watching them from the shadows, which made them very nervous.

"..."

Seeing the two men clutching each other's robes tightly to relieve tension, their wives looked at each other and fell silent.

(End of this chapter)