Harry Potter: Transmigrated Detective Link

In the corridor, Link led Ron and Harry walking slowly.

At this moment, Harry and Ron were still in a muddled and dazed state. The two of them could only follow behind Link like walking corpses, and the way they looked at Link had already changed from admiration at the beginning to fear.

There was no other way, Link's speech earlier in the Headmaster's Office was truly too shocking.

It simply shattered Harry and Ron's worldview.

Even in their wildest dreams, they had never imagined a scene where a student could, with just a few words, force Dumbledore, the Headmaster of Hogwarts and the greatest white wizard of the 21st century, into submission.

Among them, Ron's situation was still somewhat better.

Growing up in the Weasley family, a wizarding household, he was relatively naïve, and the things Link had said earlier had mostly gone over his head.

But Harry was different. He could still understand some of it, and that made him especially uncomfortable, because it destroyed the shining image of Dumbledore in his heart.

After frowning in distress for quite a while, Harry finally caught up to Link in front, and stammered a bit as he said, "Link, Dumbledore... did he really embezz... that... stuff?"

Link's footsteps paused. He turned to look at Harry's face full of inner conflict and hope, and after a long time, slowly said, "I don't think he did."

As soon as Link said this, Harry let out a heavy sigh of relief as if he had set down a huge burden. His expression also relaxed.

Seeing this, Link shook his head and turned around, continuing to walk toward the common room.

As for whether Dumbledore had actually misappropriated Hogwarts funds, Link himself didn't know either.

On one hand, Dumbledore's noble character made it hard for Link to believe he would do something like that.

But on the other hand, the accounts handed over by the Board of Governors did indeed show various kinds of bad debts related to Dumbledore.

And when you also think about how Dumbledore had an armed organization under his command called the Order of the Phoenix...

But no matter what, the situation of Hogwarts professors padding accounts and being wasteful definitely did exist.

It doesn't take much to understand this if you put yourself in the situation.

Right now, all the governors were former Death Eaters and dark wizards, and out of fear of Dumbledore's prestige, didn't dare to scrutinize the accounts too hard.

So those professors in Hogwarts who called themselves white wizards and victims naturally had no psychological burden when it came to taking funds.

Maybe the more they took, the more pleased they felt. After all, in a way, they could even be said to be representing justice by punishing the Board of Governors.

And precisely because this fact did exist, Dumbledore had so readily agreed to Link's proposal.

Otherwise, if the Board of Governors really pursued the matter, not only would everyone lose face, but their wallets would also be tight.

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One night passed without incident. By the next morning, Link had just arrived at the Great Hall when he found the place already in chaos.

A small group of Slytherins were crowding around Snape, chattering noisily about something, and seemed emotionally agitated.

Snape in the middle had a gloomy expression and was on the verge of an outburst.

And not far from them was layer upon layer of students from the other three Houses crowding around.

Among them, the Gryffindors were so happy they were almost going crazy.

Link guessed that if Snape weren't still there, they would've jumped on the tables and started celebrating already.

Seeing this, Link already had some suspicions in his heart, but he still patted a nearby Hufflepuff and asked,

"What's going on?"

The Hufflepuff who was patted was clearly startled when he saw it was Link.

But his strong gossip instincts and sense of schadenfreude still overcame the fear, and he said excitedly,

"This morning Dumbledore suddenly raided the Slytherin common room on the grounds of receiving a report, and he found a ton of contraband inside! Malfoy and a few other Slytherins have already been taken away by him!"

The Hufflepuff grew more and more excited as he spoke. By the end, he simply threw caution to the wind, directly raising his voice and pointing in a direction as he shouted,

"The most satisfying part is, Dumbledore deducted 300 points from Slytherin! This is absolutely amazing!"

Link turned his head to look in the direction the other was pointing, and sure enough, he saw that the Slytherin gem hourglass, which had nearly been full, was now more than half empty. The remaining gems were so few that the bottom of the hourglass was clearly exposed.

This formed a huge contrast with the hourglasses of the other three Houses nearby.

Link nodded slightly. Dumbledore's efficiency was still very high, and he very cleverly used the pretext of searching for contraband.

That way, even if nothing came of the search later, it wouldn't cause a major stir.

And at this moment, Snape, who was being "mobbed" by the Slytherins, finally lost it. With a blinding flash of lightning shooting from the tip of his wand, a loud bang exploded in the air.

The Slytherins retreated with miserable expressions, and the students nearby who had been watching the scene fled the Great Hall like it was on fire.

Only a very few death-defying Gryffindors like George and Fred stubbornly remained under Snape's killing glare.

As the direct cause of Slytherin's House points hitting zero, Link naturally didn't stay in the Great Hall.

That morning, the Hufflepuffs had Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Link went straight with the crowd to the classroom. This time, Lockhart didn't arrive last-minute like before. He was already standing at the podium early.

Unfortunately, this didn't earn him much respect. In the eyes of all the boys, his image had hit rock bottom after the red cap incident.

The Hufflepuffs were a bit better, at least they gave him some face and barely maintained an atmosphere of respecting the teacher.

But the Ravenclaw boys no longer cared about anything. They directly started studying on their own right in class.

Link felt the only reason Lockhart could still stand on the podium right now was because the girls still had some enthusiasm left for him.

But that enthusiasm probably wouldn't last long either. Because Lockhart's current class content really left Link speechless.

If anything, Lockhart still followed a practical teaching style. After all, every class he used some scene from one of his books as an example to explain how to deal with those monsters.

That would've been fine. But the only problem was Lockhart's overwhelming desire to perform, which made him want to demonstrate everything himself every time.

And after being scared half to death by the red cap incident, he didn't dare to do it himself, so he could only make students play the role of the monsters from his books for him to demonstrate on.

Under this kind of teaching method, the Defense Against the Dark Arts class now felt more like drama class.

Naturally, the Ravenclaws, who couldn't learn anything, looked down on Lockhart even more.

At the same time, the Hufflepuffs also began to complain about Lockhart. Because this guy understood the principle of "bullying the soft," and he always chose actors from Hufflepuff.

"Students, take out your 'Travels with Ghouls', class is starting! Today we'll be learning methods for dealing with vampire-type ghouls!"

Lockhart said this in a weird, monotone recitation voice.

After seeing there was no reaction below, he awkwardly coughed twice and smiled as he looked in the direction of the Hufflepuffs and said, "John! Come up quickly! I need your help!"

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