[HP] Being a problem student at Hogwarts

Christmas vacation is coming, and the hearts of all students are flying. The night before the holiday, students packed their bags excitedly and waited to take the Hogwarts Express home early the next morning.

But this joy was broken by a frightened scream when the sky dimly lit up.

A Hufflepuff student who got up early specially planned to sneak to the kitchen to pack snacks for the road. On the way, he bumped into the almost headless Nick - not a milky white, light, normal ghost, but a black and smoky ghost. , like a broken semi-solidified statue, suspended motionless six inches above the ground. His head, which was almost completely separated from his neck, was half drooped, and his crooked face showed a twisted and horrified look - if he hadn't been a ghost, it was hard to say whether a living person's facial muscles could be twisted to this extent.

The student was frightened. According to his description, there was also a strange smell of water at the scene, and some kind of intuition kept warning him of a sense of threat.

So he knelt down with weak legs. It was even more frightening to look up at the ghost that exuded fear in every inch from below. The student had to keep his eyes closed and shed tears until he felt as if nothing was wrong, and then rolled away. He crawled to the ground and fled back to the auditorium. Only when he saw other living classmates did he burst out crying.

So the students in the auditorium ran to watch, spreading the word and frightening others. Soon all the students in the school knew about it, and everyone was panicked.

"A petrified ghost that can still float in mid-air!" Tom also ran to see it after hearing about it. After reading it, he couldn't help but think.

"Does petrification have little effect on its density?" Tom then thought, a little regretful that he couldn't study it carefully.

He secretly tried to read the memory of the almost headless Nick, but was pushed out by a violent black mist. If he hadn't had great experience in controlling the untamable magic that was released, the magic would have backfired immediately.

The clawing black mist also tried to follow his magic power to contact him - seeing that the magic power that touched the black mist turned into a strange black smoke-like thing, Tom quickly exploded the magic power.

"What's wrong?" Hermione couldn't help but ask when she heard a "crack" sound in front of him.

"Nothing," said Tom.

After a while, he asked Hermione thoughtfully: "Did Malfoy also choose to stay in school this year?"

"That's right." Ron stepped in and said, "Ha, last year he said that only those who have no family choose to stay in school." Ron's face showed an expression of annoyance and pleasure, "I'll ask him in person later. he--"

Tom was noncommittal.

He only said to Hermione: "If it's convenient, also keep an eye on Malfoy - I saw him appearing in a panic on the eighth floor a few days ago."

"You suspect-" Hermione's eyes fell on the almost headless Nick.

"I don't know." Tom said frankly, "It's just that Malfoy was acting strangely. The last time I saw anyone who could emit such black smoke was him."

"But he wasn't petrified," Harry pointed out.

Tom shrugged, indicating that it was just a thought that suddenly occurred to him, maybe it was just a coincidence.

"We'll keep an eye out," Hermione said.

At this time, the professors finally received the news. Professor McGonagall hurried over and screamed at the students watching to disperse.

"Don't you want to go back?" Professor McGonagall scolded, "Why don't you go pack your things and have breakfast? I can tell you that the Hogwarts Express will leave in two hours - you have to get on the train half an hour early. ——The train doesn't wait for anyone! If anyone misses the train, just wait and cry! I won't help him find a way!"

The students immediately dispersed with a "hoo!"