Days Approaching Halloween

The reason Scott Trollope observed Ginny Weasley was to gauge the extent of the influence the Horcrux currently had over her.

He hoped to use this to roughly determine when the 16-year-old Tom Riddle inside Tom Riddle's Diary would begin his move.

However, after observing her, Scott found that Ginny Weasley's current state was actually quite good.

At the very least, she looked quite energetic when she was hitting people.

Likewise, he could not detect any abnormalities in his perception of her magic.

Scott felt a bit disappointed.

If he could have discovered a clue from Ginny Weasley's magic, he could have ended the "Chamber of Secrets incident" right now—all he would have needed to do was inform the professors.

There was no reason Dumbledore wouldn't be able to perceive the same anomalies he could.

What a pity.

However, although it was a pity, Scott was not overly surprised by this.

After all, it was Voldemort's Horcrux controlling Ginny Weasley; such a level of Dark Magic artifact was clearly beyond what Scott's current level could fathom.

Although, if it were Dumbledore, he might have been able to see the abnormality in Ginny Weasley right now, but unfortunately, Dumbledore did not usually have close contact with young wizards.

Except for Harry Potter.

Dumbledore, who held several positions in the wizarding world, was too busy and was often not even at school.

And Scott had no reason to guide Dumbledore to check on Ginny Weasley's condition.

Generally speaking, he would consider his own safety and position before doing anything; he would not do anything that might have a negative impact on himself.

The three Weasley siblings stopped after bickering for a while.

It was just that Ginny Weasley's expression still looked rather unpleasant.

Scott crouched down to pick up her books and took the initiative to apologize, "Sorry, Miss Weasley."

"Oh! Thanks! Just call me Ginny, Scott."

Ginny Weasley thanked him generously and reached out to take the books.

Scott took the opportunity to perceive her magical state at close range, while saying, "Sorry, Ginny."

Ginny sighed with a rather mature air, a comical look of world-weariness appearing on her youthful face.

"Fred and George have been this mischievous since we were little." She glared at the twins again, "I'm already used to it."

George continued to say with a grin, "Oh! Ginny! I'm serious, you're more like Mom now!"

"Since we were little, always this mischievous." Fred shook his head, mimicking the way Ginny spoke, "That's what Mom often says to us!"

"You guys are dead!"

Ginny raised a book and chased after them again.

The three of them ran off quickly, chasing and fleeing.

Scott watched their backs, narrowed his eyes, and suddenly raised his wand to wave it forward.

In the distance, the Raven Woodcarving held in Fred's hand immediately came to life again, broke free from his grip when he was caught off guard, and flew back to Scott's side.

Scott reached out to catch the raven and smiled gently at the few first-years who were still somewhat stunned, "Hey, are you guys okay?"

"N-no, we're fine!"

A thin, grey-haired boy snapped out of his daze and looked at Scott with an amazed expression.

"Oh! Amazing Transfiguration! And, Ginny just called you Scott, you're Scott Trollope!"

The boy had a camera hanging around his neck.

This reminded Scott of his identity—a fanatical admirer of Harry Potter, and one of the students petrified by the Basilisk in the "original story."

"You know me?" Scott nodded at him in a friendly manner.

"Oh! I'm Colin Creevey from Gryffindor first year!" The boy took the initiative to state his name, still somewhat excited, "A few days ago on the Quidditch pitch, they said it was you who used Transfiguration to save the Ravenclaw Quidditch player!"

"That was nothing; I believe you will be able to do it too in the future."

Scott reached out and patted his shoulder, offered a casual word of encouragement, said goodbye to the few young wizards, and walked past them toward Ravenclaw Tower.

Just now, by handing over the books, he had perceived Ginny's magical state at close range again, and this time he finally sensed a trace of disharmony.

However, this feeling was very subtle, and it was hard to put into words.

If he hadn't known the premise that "Ginny is in contact with Voldemort's Horcrux," he might have subconsciously ignored this feeling.

As such, he still could not use this as a discovery to report to the professors.

But this was not entirely a bad thing.

At least this feeling was enough for him to judge the state of Tom Riddle inside the diary.

In the "plot" that Scott still remembered, Riddle manipulated Ginny through the diary, absorbing her life force to allow himself to appear in front of others as the 17-year-old Voldemort.

But this required a relatively long process.

From Ginny's state, Scott judged that Riddle was likely not ready yet.

This meant that Riddle would most likely not take action ahead of schedule. It also meant that this period of time was basically safe.

Therefore, the possibility of Scott succeeding in his planned course of action had reached its peak.

This made Scott's mood improve once again.

Although, strictly speaking, his deduction might not be one hundred percent correct, this discovery still allowed Scott to relax the nerves that had been gradually tightening since before.

Sure enough, in the days that followed, aside from a widespread flu outbreak caused by a sudden drop in temperature, no other incidents had occurred within Hogwarts.

In the Care of Magical Creatures class, Scott and the others successfully used the Painless Severing Charm to help that little Crup perform its tail-docking surgery.

The only interesting thing that happened during this time was the Flying Broomstick that the Turpin family gave to Roger as compensation.

It was a second-hand Nimbus 1700, exactly the same as the old broomstick Roger had previously had destroyed.

This left Roger, who had been looking forward to owning a new broomstick, incredibly disappointed.

Eddie felt that this was because the Turpin family was on the verge of bankruptcy after paying Lisa Turpin's ransom. They could only afford to buy a cheaper second-hand item to compensate Roger.

"Fine, at least this saves me the time of breaking in a new broomstick," Roger consoled himself.

The key was that the broomstick the Turpin family provided was the same as his original one, leaving him with no choice but to accept it.

As Halloween approached, November 1992 was about to arrive.

For Quidditch players like Roger, November also meant that the new school year's Quidditch house tournament was about to begin.

During this time, the Quidditch teams of all four houses began training frantically, regardless of wind or rain.

Although Roger often complained in the dormitory that Bruce was being too inhumane with their training, Scott felt that he was clearly enjoying it himself.

He even dragged Scott and his other roommates along more than once to help him analyze just how high the chances were for the Ravenclaw team to win the championship this school year.

Although Scott and the others would encourage him each time, they were actually not very optimistic about the Ravenclaw team winning the championship.

After all, the Slytherin team now had the latest model of Flying Broomstick, the Nimbus 2001, for every member; their advantage was simply too great.

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