"This is absolutely crazy!" Professor McGonagall stood by the floor-to-ceiling window in the headmaster's office, gazing outside. It was the tallest spire in the Hogwarts Castle complex.
Stretching out as far as the eye could see was an endless sea of clouds. Bathed in the morning sunlight, they glowed with a hazy radiance and looked especially beautiful.
Her hands trembled uncontrollably, itching to do something. Merlin's beard, she couldn't forget the astonishing sight she had just witnessed—a stone knight, as tall as a towering mountain, carrying the school on its back above the sea.
And it wasn't just the castle complex. Looking out through the window, she could see the Quidditch Pitch, Black Lake, Cabin, the Forbidden Forest... Just thinking that all of it was resting on a knight's shoulders filled her with excitement.
Oh, it was exactly like the magical school she had dreamed of as a girl.
I want to try something like this too! Ahhh...
Compared to the other professors, who were shouting in amazement, Professor Snape looked completely out of place. Then again, he always did.
"Anthony Weasley..." Snape gazed at the figure sitting primly in the high-backed chair and narrowed his eyes. "You obviously think this is cool, but have you considered the consequences? For instance, that the location of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is now completely exposed to everyone."
Looking down from the outer wall encircling the castle, a wall that people usually paid little attention to, they could even see a brilliantly glowing spatial gateway standing in the sea, with rows of curious faces gazing up in astonishment from beyond it.
As head of Slytherin House and Anton's personal mentor, Professor Snape had always been exceptionally strict about anything outside the classroom.
Even if the grinning, irreverent boy named Anton often