Harry: The Half-Blood Prince Is My Dad?!

The fire in the Divination Classroom took twenty minutes to be extinguished.

It's really not William's fault for not providing adequate rescue efforts.

To distinguish herself, Professor Trelawney had the room suspended in mid-air, accessible only by a narrow, retractable staircase.

After the three escaped from the classroom, the staircase malfunctioned, unable to extend, and the entrance was blocked.

The room also contained a large amount of her stockpiled goods accumulated over the past sixteen years:

Over a hundred pounds of moldy tea leaves; seven large bags of homework assignments; and various miscellaneous flammable daily necessities.

Most terrifyingly, the room also contained a large quantity of liquid sherry, known as "liquid grenade sherry," stored year-round.

This thing caused a serious secondary explosion.

So, the whole room was like a time bomb, finally detonated by a single Mars.

The loud noise startled all the students at Hogwarts.

Everyone initially thought it was Death Eaters coming to their door, but it turned out to be a major teaching accident.

Up to this point, no one had made the connection to Trelawney.

After all, this is just Divination, not a nuclear power plant project, so how could it explode?

The only places in the entire school most likely to explode are the Potions Class cauldron and the Muggle Studies.

The explosion occurred in the North Tower, so Potions Class ruled it out.

The Muggle Studies classroom happened to be located here, and everyone believed that Professor Burbage's experiment had gone wrong.

During the first week of school, he claimed that he would teach the young wizards how to make lightsabers for Muggle to use for self-defense.

It's said that this thing is better than a magic wand.

Previously, he also taught everyone how to make Dyson spheres, prism towers, and weather controllers.

Anyway, they completely fooled those young wizards.

After graduating from Claydon University, this guy likely worked for a period of time at the Muggle Strategic Intimidation Bureau.

At noon, the young wizards learned that the explosion had come from the Divination Classroom.

Trelawney's former die-hard fans formed a group to visit her, hoping to get firsthand information.

Trelawney took Lavender's hand and told her:

"When I used my Inner Eye to see the future, I saw something terrifying."

I attempted to change history, but was met with a backlash from the lower reaches of the river of time...

This is so Trelawney.

She must have worked for the Wizarding Strategy Deception Bureau, specifically targeting Professor Burbage.

However, Trelawney, who has crossed the river of time, has already moved into the school campus.

Although I wasn't physically injured, I'm emotionally exhausted.

Professor McGonagall also visited her and said that she would continue to receive her salary as usual so that she could focus on her recovery.

The room was ruined, but Professor McGonagall was overjoyed. She had long wanted to thoroughly clean the Divination Classroom, and now she finally had the chance.

She did not leave the remaining cleaning work to the House-elf.

Even assigning a lot of homework can't stop students from gossiping and spreading all sorts of rumors, which just gives them something to do.

And so, another rumor began to circulate. Someone, I don't know who, spread it, said that Trelawney left a message before being hospitalized:

"Want my treasure? You can have it all. Go find it! My gold is all in the Divination Classroom!"

Quidditch World Cup, the Big Three of William, McGonagall, and Trelawney won by a large Galleon.

This is common knowledge.

They reasoned that even with Trelawney's extravagant spending, there should still be a considerable amount of gold left, right?

As a result, everyone believed the rumor.

A group of students rushed into the badly damaged Divination Classroom and thoroughly cleaned every corner of the room.

The era of the Great Witch Thief has begun.

Professor McGonagall discovered that this trick worked quite well.

Just then, Pomona complained all day that no one was loosening the soil in the greenhouse... those lovely magical plants were living in terrible conditions.

Next time, she could pretend to drop a diamond into the greenhouse soil.

The students will definitely be eager to loosen the soil.

After Trelawney was hospitalized, her classes were not transferred to Firenze.

The professors unanimously agreed that since this is wartime, there's no need to teach so many useless classes.

For example, Professor Flitwick.

During summer vacation, I went to the Koldovstoretz School of Magic in the neighboring Russian country to learn about their advanced teaching methods.

He noticed that the teachers for "physical education" classes, or other miscellaneous and unimportant classes, were often sick.

Snape could no longer agree.

He believes that in recent years, due to the laissez-faire attitude of some incompetent principals, more incompetent teachers have infiltrated the teaching profession.

Students' current level in Defence Against Dark Magic is far below the international average.

We need to add more classes.

For example, we could compress the Ancient Runes and allocate them all to Defence Against Dark Magic.

William immediately started arguing with him.

Snape was just a lowly substitute tutor, yet he dared to be so presumptuous in front of the noble professor.

In mid-October, the long-delayed trip to Hogsmeade finally opened to the public.

Given the increasingly dire domestic situation, coupled with the attack on the express train, the Ministry of Magic Education Department's position is:

The school should be shut down for a year or two.

Students can tolerate a lockdown for a week or two, but now they're planning to lock them down until Christmas. Who can stand that?

Moreover, if even Hogsmeade is in danger, then there really is no safe place in the United Kingdom.

So it's unclear who it was that started the chants of "lifting the lockdown" in the dorms, and then the slogan quickly spread throughout the entire school.

The last time they made such a fuss was on Valentine's Day, when the little wizards all sang Loken Deus's Singles Song.

This song is very popular among single people and topped the music charts for many consecutive weeks.

Dumbledore also believed that the area around the school was safe enough, and there was no need to continue keeping the students locked up like they were in prison.

Only in this way can permission be granted for the first trip to Hogsmeade.

In the morning, a strong wind blew outside, and the weather suddenly turned cold.

Filch was among those who were staunchly opposed to opening up.

So he stood at the oak gate, his eyes warily checking the names of the students who had been granted permission to go to Hogsmeade.

This inspection was more cautious; Filch used his Secrecy Sensor to repeatedly test everyone.

William and Hermione, wearing matching scarves, stood there waiting for security to go through.

Anne, Luna, and Cho were chatting nearby. Akali's Mystery Shop had opened in Hogsmeade, and they wanted to check it out.

Cedric will be coming too; Qiu hasn't seen him for a month, so it'll be a good opportunity for them to spend some quality time together.

Harry stood a little distance away, holding the book "Advanced Potion-Making" in his hand, seemingly reading, but his eyes couldn't help but glance at Cho.

He pondered for a long time, trying to figure out exactly where he fell short of Cedric.

Both are Quidditch prodigies and both play the Seeker position.

One is the king of Sanya, the other is the king of two Ya... they're evenly matched.

As for looks... Harry thinks he's about average.

But Ron told him he was more handsome and more manly.

Harry believed it... so he had a slight advantage.

The only difference then is academic performance.

Harry is now trying to project an aura of academic excellence in order to attract Cho's attention.

He has indeed become a "pseudo-academic star" in Potions Class recently.

Anyway, thanks to the Half-Blood Prince's tips and shortcuts, Harry's Potions skills improved a lot.

Unfortunately, with Hermione around, all of Slughorn's praise goes to her.

Everyone else seemed so ordinary compared to them.

So, while investigating Eileen Prince, Harry was also trying to learn the book.

He was trying to get Slughorn's attention so he could complete the task Dumbledore had given him.

Harry did indeed like the book.

Because the blank spaces in the book were filled with many creative little curses and spells.

Judging from the scribbles and corrections, Harry concluded that the Prince had invented all of these things himself.

What excited Harry the most was that he suddenly discovered several spells that his father had also used while he was looking through his memories.

He had checked the books and found that Potter's ancestors had intermarried with the Prince family.

Could it be that the Half-Blood Prince is... his father?!

(Thanks to the three generous donors "Deep Sea Turtle", "The Person Under the Moon Has Passed Away", and "Qingkong Zhiqian" for their generous donations.)