After leaving the Black Family Home and returning to the Leaky Cauldron, Li Feng held a cup of tea as he leaned by the window, looking up at the crescent moon hanging in the sky. He calculated inwardly: Starting tomorrow night, I'll be learning this world's magic. I probably won't have time to scout Hogwarts over the next few nights. The daytime is freer, but sneaking into Hogwarts then would be much harder.
So I'd better scout Hogwarts tonight. If I'm lucky enough to find the Room of Requirement, that'd be great. Even if I can't find it, I need to locate the entrances to certain secret chambers, such as the passage the Basilisk crawls through. As long as I find the passage, I'll have a way to practice magic beneath Hogwarts. If I use a more concealed Portal to enter and leave afterward, no one will be able to find me.
After pondering for a long time and deciding to act that very night, Li Feng turned and asked, "Kreacher, do you know the Shrieking Shack?"
Kreacher thought for a moment before asking, "Master, do you mean the haunted house in the wizarding village of Hogsmeade? I know where it is."
Great. I was still worrying about where Hogsmeade was and how to get there. Since Kreacher knew the Shrieking Shack, I could just appear inside it.
Come to think of it, didn't shack mean a crude little house? But why did the Shrieking Shack in the movies look like a villa? Was there some kind of misunderstanding here? Did the director think the budget was too large and build a villa for fun, or had the translators translated "villa" as "shack"? Don't tell me English villas had another name—shacks. I might not have read much, but I wasn't