"Yes.. Professor, theoretically we should be in the dorm room right now. Harry swallowed hard as Professor McGonagall watched.

"But in practice, it will always lead to different results." 

Professor McGonagall's face suddenly darkened, and Harry, who noticed that something was wrong, quickly added.

"It means that Ron and I heard the news of the trolls at the banquet, and remembered that Ivan and Hermione were still here, so we rushed here because we were worried."

Ron gritted his teeth, and was about to open his mouth to tell the story of saying bad things behind his back, causing Hermione to cry and hide in the girl's bathroom.

"That's right, they're coming for me!"

However, Hermione interrupted them with a sudden remark, and then turned to McGonagall.

"Professor McGonagall, I just came to the troll, thinking I could deal with it, you know, I've read in books about how to deal with this creature..."

"I didn't expect the trolls to be more powerful than I imagined, and if Ivan hadn't arrived in time, I would have died."

"As for Harry and Ron, they must have been worried about us, so they came here secretly..."

The first time Hermione lied, she seemed a little uncomfortable, and her delicate little face flushed, but fortunately, she soon became more and more smooth, and successfully came back.

"How can you think that? Silly girl, you're only in the first grade, how can you possibly deal with trolls? Professor McGonagall reproached.

"Ahem.." Ivan coughed lightly and reminded Professor McGonagall that there was a first-year wizard here who had successfully singled out the troll.

Ivan's straightforward performance made Professor McGonagall a little unable to get off the stage, but fortunately, Dumbledore, who had been invited by Filch, arrived in time to alleviate the embarrassment.

The moment Dumbledore appeared, his eyes were fixed on the iron thorns scattered around him and the corpses of the trolls, especially the conical spikes that pierced through the troll's head for a moment.

"It's a great Transfiguration Charm, and I'm afraid no one has used it better than you among the young wizards I've seen my age. If it had been in class, I think Professor McGonagall would have given Gryffindor ten points for that. Dumbledore made no secret of his admiration.

"Albus, what we should be talking about now is the fact that these kids are going to find trolls in private." McGonagall nodded, she was also a little surprised by Ivan's Transfiguration Charm level, but now was clearly not the time to discuss this.

"In that case, so be it—" Dumbledore muttered for a moment, then looked at the crowd.

"Miss Granger will be deducted ten points from Gryffindor House because of her recklessness, although Potter and Weasley have violated the school rules, this friendship is worthy of recognition, so there is no punishment for the time being."

Harry and Ron breathed a sigh of relief, while Hermione bit her lip, the deduction was still a bit unacceptable to her.

"As for Hals—" Dumbledore paused, and Hermione's hearts rose again, but Dumbledore suddenly turned to a relaxed tone.

"Because of your actions, I'm going to add twenty points to Gryffindor!"

Hermione's heart finally let go completely, and she looked at Ivan with a happy face, and even diluted the impact of the deduction.

Ivan also hooked the corners of his mouth, because just when Dumbledore said that he would give him extra points, the system also gave him twenty grade points at the same time, which was worth his days of hard work.

"Wouldn't that be a little too lenient." Professor McGonagall frowned, feeling that Dumbledore's approach might have encouraged Ivan and the others to take risks.

"Not every little wizard can successfully defeat the trolls not long after entering school." Dumbledore shook his head in rejection.

"By the way, Professor, this troll doesn't need me to compensate, does it?" Ivan, who was in a good mood, asked casually.

"Of course not, but.." Dumbledore smiled at Ivan, "Can you come to the Headmaster's office later?" I'm interested in your victory over the trolls, and maybe, once I'm done with this here, we can have a good talk. ”

Ivan's smiling face froze instantly, and he opened his mouth but couldn't speak... Can he say no?

Ivan was depressed for a while, he knew he shouldn't have talked too much!

......

I was so stupid, I knew that I should have read "Occlumency" a few times when I went to the forbidden book area... I'm so stupid....

On the way to the principal's office, Ivan inexplicably turned on Lin Xiang's repetition mode, and regretted over and over again that he had not learned Occlumency in advance.

Of course, he can't be blamed entirely for this.

In order to be able to complete the challenge task more smoothly, almost all the grade points obtained were smashed into Potions and several key spells, and there was no extra grade point for the study of "Occlumency".

As for learning Occlumency on your own without using an experience card?

Ivan thought it was better to forget it, he still clearly remembered the talented savior Harry, who had not been able to learn under the guidance of a master of Occlumency like Snape, and Ivan felt that it was not a nightmare to learn on his own.

However, this also reminded Ivan of a feature of the original book of Soul Confermantion, which is that the caster can only read the memories that are being recalled in the mind of the caster.

If you want more, you must use a more powerful Soul Evoke to force the caster to recall more.

This is also why in the original books, when Snape reads Harry's memories, he causes Harry to replay those memories in his brain.

With these speculations, Ivan was a little relieved, as long as he thought about useless things when we talked later, Dumbledore would not forcibly search his memories, right?

Ivan walked to the headmaster's office with trepidation, guarded by a huge stone beast of great ugliness, when Ivan said the code given to him by Dumbledore, the stone beast slowly spun upward with a dull sound, and finally revealed the staircase hidden behind.

Ivan walked up the stairs, where there was a large circular room, and the old walls were covered with portraits of the former Headmasters of Hogwarts, and the names of the Headmasters and the time they had been in charge of the school were clearly marked underneath the portraits.

What interests Ivan the most are the meditation basin on the side table and Dumbledore's pet Phoenix Fawkes.

The meditation basin was Ivan's dream, and as long as he learned to take the soul, he could use the power of the meditation basin to sort out his memories.

The phoenix blood is an important medicine that can be used as a bloodline fusion potion, and it is also the top-level kind.

If it weren't for the lack of tools, and the possibility that Dumbledore could return at any time, Ivan would have wondered if he should take this opportunity to take a tube of blood first...

If it is said... He hit Fox's words....