Amazing magic.
Brought amazing results.
The world twisted and spun amid a piercing crack. Hermione felt as though an invisible hand had viciously clenched and released her stomach, while the scene before her became like a muddied watercolor painting—the dark green shadows of the Forbidden Forest melted into a blur, then suddenly reformed into Hogwarts' familiar stone walls and torches.
Hogwarts at night was quiet and mysterious. Moonlight filtered through stained-glass windows onto the corridor, casting mottled shadows. Yet that tranquility was shattered by an unusual sound.
The two of them had been transported directly into a corridor within Hogwarts Castle—yes, directly inside the castle, not onto the lawn outside it.
"What is going on!?"
The first-year young witch's knees gave way, and she staggered against the corridor wall. The cold touch of the stone wall proved this was no illusion—they had truly been moved from deep within the Forbidden Forest to a fourth-floor corridor in the castle in an instant.
Such an experience.
Had completely crashed Hermione's mind.
After all, this was utterly impossible.
It was different from the information she had learned in the Hogwarts Library and her extracurricular books—Apparition was forbidden at Hogwarts, an ironclad rule that even Dumbledore had to obey.
"This completely defies magical common sense!" Hermione murmured. Her head felt as if it had been struck by a heavy hammer, and the contradiction between knowledge and reality had thrown her mind into genuine chaos.
There were restrictions!
Even powerful wizards could not Apparate, much less move two living people directly here! What was going on? Hermione's mind remained frozen.
"Granger—"
A teeth-grinding voice came from above her head.
It was Snape. Seeing that Hermione was ignoring him, he assumed the young witch was doing it on purpose. Hogwarts' Potions Professor had always been fond