Settle at Hogwarts

When Remus's breathing gradually became even, his limbs and paws relaxed and drooped to the edge of the bed.

Tabor took Severus and apparated back to the Slytherin common room.

"Okay, let's go and rest. You can come to my office early next full moon, and I will prepare two materials."

Severus rubbed his eyes that were almost unable to open and nodded with force.

"Okay, uncle."

Tabor soon appeared in his office.

"Have you taken care of that kid?"

"Of course, it's just a little furry annoyance."

Tabor sat down on the sofa nonchalantly.

"If you ask me, people who cause trouble should not come to Hogwarts, especially lowly werewolves."

"Black, you shouldn't say that, Lupine is a good boy."

"Yes, and before he was bitten by the werewolf, he was a 'pure-blood' wizard!"

Tabor had become completely immune to the daily squabbles of his former principals.

He rested until dawn, then went to the Room of Requirement for a walk.

Remus Lupine on the bed had returned to his human form, but the transformation seemed to have consumed a lot of energy in his body, making him look extremely weak.

Tubble did not wake him up, but just asked the house elf to bring him breakfast when Lupine woke up, and then walked out of the Room of Requirement.

Walking slowly in Hogwarts in the early morning, most of the professors and students are still sleeping, and even the portraits on the walls are quiet.

For the rare occasion, Tabor didn't use apparation, nor did he walk into any secret passage. He just walked downstairs layer by layer until he came to the edge of the black lake shrouded in mist.

"(????)??Hey, Principal Prince, are you looking at the giant octopus again?"

"Hagrid, I'm just out for a walk."

"It's rare to see you out of the castle!"

Hagrid walked up to Tubber, holding a large basin of bloody meat in his hand, and poured it directly into the black lake.

The next moment, the originally calm lake suddenly began to become restless.

"The crayfish you threw into the lake before, Principal Prince, multiplied too fast. If I hadn't trapped them, I'm afraid the entire black lake would have turned red."

Listening to Hagrid's complaints, Tubo's eyes lit up.

"Are you surrounded there? Take me over and have a look."

After Hagrid threw all the pieces of meat in the basin, he took Tabor to the lake near the Forbidden Forest.

A large area of ​​the lake has been surrounded by a mess of nets, and the lake is full of red crayfish.

"They have no natural predators here, and with the abundance of food it really becomes easy for them to overrun."

Tabor randomly picked out a crayfish with teeth and claws, and thought it weighed 50 grams, which was much larger than ordinary crayfish.

"Lai Lai!"

"Principal Prince, Lailai is always at your disposal."

Tabor threw the crayfish in his hand back into the water: "These ingredients are all ready to eat. Let the elf who has learned to cook crayfish add a meal to all the colleges for lunch."

"I know Mr. Principal, Lailai will inform Panda to prepare."

Tabor nodded, then simply turned the stone at his feet into a net bag, and returned to the Room of Requirement carrying a bag of lobsters.

Perhaps it was because he had consumed too much energy, but Remus still had no intention of waking up.

Tabor asked the Room of Requirement to add an extra kitchen and walked in carrying the crayfish.

Remus moved his nose in his sleep and felt a pungent smell lingering on the tip of his nose, but this smell was not unpleasant.

Slowly opening his eyes, he saw a golden-red bed curtain.

"Goo~Goo~"

Remus's face turned slightly red when he heard his stomach growling.It wasn't until he found that he was alone in the room that he breathed a sigh of relief.

Soon, Remus saw that the room was different from last night. There was an extra door.

And the smell that lingered in his dreams came from behind that door.

"Click."

Tubber, wearing an apron, opened the small door and met Remus's confused eyes.

"Yo! I'm awake!"

Tabor simply waved his magic wand and opened another door on the golden-red wall.

"Go here to wash up, and then come and eat. After you transform, you need to supplement your nutrition."

Tabor's tone was so natural that Lupine felt that his werewolf status made no difference in the eyes of the principal.

"Why are you still standing there? Aren't you hungry?"

Remus looked at Principal Prince who was carrying a large bowl of red food, and his stomach whined unsatisfactorily.

"I, I'm going right now."

Tabor conjured up a set of tables and chairs, and then saw Remus stumbling into the bathroom. He couldn't help but curl his lips: "What a reckless Gryffindor."

In order not to keep his principal waiting too long, Remus used his last bit of strength to quickly wash himself off, and then ran back to the room he was in.

At this time, in addition to the pot of something with an alluring aroma, there was a normal English breakfast and two bowls of white rice on the table.

"Sorry, Principal Prince, for keeping you waiting."

Tabor motioned for Remus to sit down first, and then eagerly picked up a crayfish.

"You must have never eaten this before. It tastes very good. You only need to remove the head of the shrimp, and then twist the tail of the shrimp to extract the meat. Of course, if you are skilled enough with the cutting spell, you can hit it on its back."

Remus followed Tubo's example, peeled off a piece of shrimp and stuffed it into his mouth. The next moment, his face turned red, obviously looking like he was being burned.

Tabor sighed helplessly and put a glass of milk in front of Remus.

"Are you another little guy who can't eat spicy food? Lailai, remember to make the crayfish at noon slightly spicy."

"Okay, Mr. Principal."

Lailai didn't show his face, but his voice echoed in the room.

"Principal, this is too spicy."

"Then you can eat your share of breakfast. This is also my first time trying to cook crayfish. Maybe I added too much ingredients."

Tabor put the basin of crayfish in front of him and destroyed most of them in a short time.

"Mr. Principal, do I have to go to class?"

Looking at Remus' still pale face, Tabor shook his head.

"Take a rest. I asked for leave for you this morning."

Disappointment flashed across Remus's eyes. He felt that no matter what, he couldn't be like other students.At the very least, no normal student would need to take leave every month.

"Don't worry. I think with your grades, you don't need to worry about this for a day and a half, right?"

Tubb waved his wand and sent the dishes directly to the Hogwarts kitchen.

"Well, now you can go back to the dormitory to have a rest, or you can go out for a while. Remember to come see me next month."

After Tabor finished speaking, he returned to his office.

"Huh? Minerva, what do you want from me?"

Minerva shook a few pieces of parchment in her hand, with a somewhat unhappy expression on her face.

"Regarding the Hogwarts Collaboration Competition, your audition plan is to let the students fight with the alchemy dolls? You know, the freshmen don't know anything yet! The time is still before Halloween?"

Tabor smiled: "Don't worry, I will control the alchemy doll myself. Two groups will take about half an hour every day. Starting tonight, until Halloween. I will slightly lower the difficulty for the new students."

Minerva was a little helpless, she naturally believed in Tabor's strength.

In fact, Professor Prince often led students to deal with dangerous magical animals during Defense Against the Dark Arts classes, but each time there were no serious casualties.

"Don't worry, I've had a lot of time since handing over the professor's job. I will be present throughout this competition."

On this day, all the students in Hogwarts knew that an intra-school competition was about to be held.

"Have you heard? This competition was personally planned by Principal Prince, but you have to find students from other colleges in the same grade as partners."

“It’s written all over the bulletin board!”

"But, I've never spoken to a Gryffindor, and I don't have any Hufflepuff friends."

"Why isn't it a confrontation between colleges? Isn't it good to fight those self-righteous guys?"

.........

The chatter among the students did not affect Tabor, and he stayed in the Forbidden Forest for the entire day.

The simple idol in the centaurs tribe is very good, and it has accumulated a lot of faith during this period of time.

Therefore, Tabor broke into Aragog's territory directly and used the Imperius Curse to move most of the spiders deeper into the Forbidden Forest.

A small part stayed in place.

However, all the venom in these Acromantulas that were left behind had been drained away by Tabor. Apart from being slightly larger than ordinary spiders, they could no longer pose a threat to the centaurs.

After doing all this, Tabor realized that it was almost dinner time.

In today's auditorium, both faculty and students were particularly present.

Even after the meal was over, no one left.

"Okay, everyone must know what happened tonight, so I announce: the auditions for the first Hogwarts Collaboration Competition have officially begun."

As Taber waved his magic wand, the long tables in the four colleges seemed to have grown legs and ran to the corners.

In front of the professor's chair rose a half-person-high platform, with a burly figure wearing armor on it.

Tabor walked up to the high platform: "I think everyone should know the rules. Students of the same grade from four colleges form a team to defeat this alchemy puppet.

Of course, I don’t require you to actually dismantle it. You just need to deal enough damage and ensure the safety of your teammates, and you will be able to pass the level.Each group only has one chance to challenge. Which group wants to try it first? "

The students in the audience were quiet, and no group was willing to take the initiative to come on stage.

In one day, even if we could find all four people from four colleges, there would be basically no tacit understanding.

"No? Let's start with the first graders."

Tubbo's eyes swept over Severus and the still weak Remus, and finally rested his eyes on Lily.

"Well, how about Miss Evans giving a demonstration first? Don't worry, this time it doesn't count as a formal competition."

"Okay, Mr. Principal!"

Lily has a lively and generous personality, so she naturally doesn't suffer from stage fright.

"So have you chosen your team members!?"

Lily shook her head in distress, she and Severus were friends.

The two often stayed together after school, which also resulted in Lily not making any friends from Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff in half a month.

"Perhaps you can invite your favorite partners on the spot."

Tabor patted Lily on the shoulder, his tone full of encouragement.

Lily glanced at the students in the audience, and first looked at Severus.She knew that as long as she asked, Sifu would never refuse.

"Severus Prince, are you willing to team up with me?"

Facing the gazes of all his classmates and professors, Severus seemed a little uneasy, but he still used Occlumency and walked onto the stage pretending to be calm. . . . . .

"Of course, I would."

Tabor rubbed his forehead without leaving a trace, and suddenly felt that a two-player match was very good. Why did he want to make it into a four-player match?

In the end, Lily invited two Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws who performed relatively well in class.

The four of them are a veritable first-year academic group.

"The next step is to fight the puppets. Because first-year students learn fewer spells, the puppets' movement speed and the magic power required to defeat them will be much lower."

After Tabor finished speaking, he walked to the edge of the field.

At the same time, the puppet surrounded by four people also started to move.

Because of Lily and Severus, this 'exhibition match' ended quickly without any surprise.

The little eagle and little badger in the same group successfully won.

"As an audition, this round is the easiest among the three rounds, but that doesn't mean that the next two rounds will follow the same routine. So, does anyone else want to try it?"

This time, a group of seventh-grade students took to the stage.

As the students who have spent the longest time together, they have a somewhat tacit understanding even if they are not assigned to the same college.

Compared to the first grade who only had a few spells to go back and forth, their spell-casting skills were obviously much more advanced.Presumably, the four of them are among the best among the graduating seventh grade students.

Soon, the alchemy puppet fell to the ground again.

"Okay, today's two games are over. Both groups have successfully advanced and will be able to participate in the second round after Halloween."

After Tabor finished speaking, he asked the deans of the four colleges to organize the students back to their own lounges.

He returned to the principal's office.

"Tub, your idea is great, but it seems a little too easy."

"Well, as for the audition, as long as the young wizards are on the passing line of each grade, they can pass. This will allow more students to participate, instead of just being spectators."

(Someone asked me today why I have to divide four thousand words into two chapters. It’s better to write one chapter from beginning to end, so I don’t have to think about sending it in the middle of writing. It makes sense when you think about it!)