Five-Person Team, Depart

The group arrived outside the office. "Tonight, tonight, Snape is also curious about Quirrell. The guy helping Voldemort is about to go through the trapdoor.

The conditions for his actions are all met, and Dumbledore has been sent away."

"No, what's going on, and what does Professor Snape have to do with it?" Up until now, Draco only knew that someone might try to steal the Philosopher's Stone.

Bing Huan looked at Harry. "Harry, didn't you tell him?"

Harry shook his head. "I thought Ron would have."

"I thought Hermione would have."

"I thought Huan would have."

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"I thought Harry would have."

Draco: "... I'm leaving now, okay? I'm leaving now!" 😠

The group came to the edge of the small lake outside Hogwarts and, in a flurry of words, told Malfoy all the current clues and speculations about the incident.

"It can't be Professor Snape. Although he's been mean to me since I was little, he would definitely not steal things. As for Quirrell... I really can't tell he's on the Dark Lord's side. This is difficult~" Malfoy mused, stroking his chin.

The group walked outside while thinking of countermeasures.

"Good afternoon." Snape appeared behind them. "Such fine weather, and a group of Gryffindor students gathered here, pulling along a Slytherin. Others might think... you're up to no good." He gave Harry a deep look before turning and walking away.

Draco, Ron: "So scary."

Hermione: "We almost got discovered."

Harry: "Did he glare at me again just now?"

Bing Huan: "Does his cloak have a leaf blower in it?"

Harry, as if making a decision, said to the group, "It doesn't matter who it is anymore. I'm sneaking out tonight to get the Philosopher's Stone myself."

"Are you crazy, Potter! You'll be expelled. Do you want to go back to that Muggle home where they bullied you?"

"Don't you understand yet, Draco?!" Harry shouted. "If Voldemort gets the Philosopher's Stone, he'll come back. Hogwarts will be finished then, and whether we're expelled or not won't matter. I have to go tonight, don't try to stop me. He killed my parents."

"You're right, Harry." Seeing Harry getting more agitated, Hermione quickly said in a soft voice.

"I'll use my invisibility cloak. Fortunately, it's been recovered."

"But the invisibility cloak can't cover all five of us, can it?"

"Five--five people?"

"Oh, you thought we'd let you go on this adventure alone?"

"Don't even think about leaving us behind." Hermione pulled Bing Huan. "We'll go check the books. Hopefully, we can find something useful..."

"Don't think about being a hero alone, Potter. Such a big event can't be done without this young master." Draco put his hands on his hips and looked at Harry playfully.

"Aren't you guys... afraid of being expelled?"

"Like you said, if Hogwarts, where we all live together, is gone, then being expelled or not doesn't matter."

"Besides, Professor Flitwick said I scored 120 points, so he wouldn't be willing to kick me out," Hermione said resolutely.

Ron, Harry, and Draco were practicing spells, while Hermione discussed with Bing Huan how to pass the challenges. "Spells, potions, herbs, Dark Arts Defense. If nothing unexpected happens, the challenges will be in these areas."

"And flying," Bing Huan added. Ron poked his head over. "It's not good for flying in the basement, you can't even properly maneuver the Golden Snitch."

"My impression is that there are no classrooms below that room, and it's likely been enchanted with an extension charm, otherwise, it wouldn't be able to accommodate so many challenges set by the professors."

"We can figure out those things. The biggest problem now is how we're going to get past Fluffy. He's not like Fang, who shrinks back with just a scare. Potter ran too fast last time, and we didn't get the method to calm him down from Hagrid."

"Leave Fluffy to me. I'll suppress him then, and you can enter the trapdoor. Bing Huan closed the book and looked at the group.

"No!" x4

The group rejected Bing Huan's suggestion. Fluffy had injured even Snape so badly and still didn't let him through. Wouldn't Bing Huan be seeking death?

"Don't you remember how I beat the troll? Fluffy is a hurdle we must get past. Besides, I don't need to fight him for long. As soon as you enter the next stage, I can break free and catch up. Fluffy can't fit through that small opening."

"But..." Hermione started to say something, but Bing Huan took her hand.

"I promise to come back safely and won't fight unnecessarily. Trust me."

"Then you keep your promise, or else... or else I'll spank you." Hermione understood that this was the only way now and no longer objected. The group dispersed and returned to their dormitories, awaiting the arrival of night.

Thanks to the 150 points deducted earlier, even with the Savior's halo, the Gryffindor students weren't very inclined to pay attention to Harry and the others. At least, in terms of saving the Wizarding World, those 150 points were enough to go down in history.

ennnm... -150 points for saving the world?

On Draco's side, his previous 50 points, combined with a recent shift in his ideology, "no longer being arrogant because of bloodline, but needing to bear more responsibility because of nobility."

This ideology was considered heresy by the faction deeply poisoned by extreme pure-blood ideology. Even Pansy Parkinson, who had always clung to him, no longer felt favorably towards him. Goyle and Crabbe even showed signs of defecting to a new master.

Regarding this, Draco naturally went along with their wishes, lest they bite the hand that feeds them if kept around. However, as the number of people from extreme pure-blood families decreased, more Slytherin students began to wonder if their previous path had been flawed.

Draco even directly stated, "Salazar Slytherin founded the noble Slytherin House; he deserves all our respect, but that doesn't mean we can't surpass him. Time has proven that his ideology is not entirely correct.

Ambition, shrewdness, honor – these are what he gave us. What we should do is return him a true Slytherin, a noble Slytherin."

However, the pure-blood faction remained powerful, even with the Malfoy family as their backing. For the sake of others, they had been promoting their ideology in secret until now, expanding their allies.

And today, he, Draco Malfoy, was going to fire the first shot to make a name for himself at Hogwarts for his supporters. After nightfall, he avoided everyone's eyes and went to the meeting point to wait.

In the Gryffindor common room, the crowd was gradually thinning. Harry and the others nodded at each other, preparing to leave, when a toad's croak sounded.

Ron: "Trevor, hurry, you shouldn't be here!"

"You shouldn't be here either," Neville said, emerging from behind the sofa. "Are you planning on going out and causing trouble?"

"No, Neville, we're not going out. You should go to bed." Harry glanced at the time; they were running out of it.

"You'll get Gryffindor into trouble, I... I'll stop you!" Neville raised his fists, ready to physically block them.

"Huh? What's that?" Bing Huan's gaze suddenly fixed on something behind Neville. As Neville turned, Bing Huan lightly chopped the back of his neck with a hand. After placing the sleeping little lion on the sofa, the group left the common room and met up with Draco.

They arrived outside the corridor on the fourth floor. The door was no longer locked. Through the crack, they could see the resting Three-Headed Dog, its snores mingling with the sound of a harp.

"It seems the first trial has already been passed, and that person even left Fluffy intact for us. It's not too late to regret this; I can give you the invisibility cloak." Harry still didn't want his friends to take the risk.

Bing Huan reached out and grabbed Harry by the neck. "Still pretending with me, huh?"

Ron added from the side, "Don't say foolish things."

"Let's go together."

"You can't do it alone, Potter."

As Harry pushed the door open, the music abruptly stopped. It was replaced by deep, furious barks. Fluffy's three heads began to twitch wildly, sniffing, trying to locate the intruders.

Bing Huan attacked first, sliding under Fluffy and landing a heavy punch on its belly. Fluffy yelped in pain and jumped back, revealing the trapdoor beneath it. "Now, go down!"