As the Christmas holiday came to an end, the students gradually returned, and the castle became lively once more.
Most students were making the most of the last bit of their holiday, playing around in the snowball fields.
And so, a piece of news instantly spread throughout the school—
That famous first-year Harry Potter and his Weasley companion had stayed up late at night and tried to break into a professor's office!
They had been caught by that professor's protective magic and trapped there for an entire night!
In the end, they were naturally caught by the early-rising Professor McGonagall. Fifty points were harshly deducted from each of them, wiping out a large portion of the points Gryffindor had only just managed to gain.
As for the professor whose office they had nearly broken into, it was none other than the highly praised Professor Fawley!
Twer looked strangely at the door to his office.
The protective magic placed on it had already been removed by Professor McGonagall. Otherwise, the two boys would not have been able to leave.
"I found the two of them when I came by this morning," Professor McGonagall said helplessly. "They had been frozen all night, shivering in here."
It would have been one thing if two Gryffindor students had merely been wandering around at night, but they had actually tried to force their way into a professor's office. She had never heard of anything like it before.
Especially when it came to a professor like Twer, who had come from another school—they had practically disgraced Hogwarts!
"Did you ask Harry and Ron why they wanted to break into my office?" Twer asked, deeply puzzled.
He had indeed been paying less attention to Harry lately. According to the story, they should have been investigating Nicolas Flamel.