Time passed.
Voldemort had made a comeback and Snape was in peril, but the days passed as they should.
Classes, reading, practising magic ... Andy spent a calm and peaceful month just like this.
During this month, Andy occasionally used the Marauder's Map to check Snape's movements.
Snape was honest though, other than still not treating Andy well, Snape didn't seem much different from his usual self.
Harry and Ron had also used the invisibility cloak to make a few nighttime strolls, but again, they had come up empty-handed.
The uneventful days left Andy content.
Andy also seized this rare peaceful time and frantically absorbed all kinds of magic knowledge.
The books in the Slytherin chamber, the books collected by Dumbledore in his office, coupled with Professor Flitwick's backdoor access, Andy also obtained permission slips for the restricted book section...
A wide variety of magic books makes Andy feel rich, indulging in the sea of knowledge every day.
At this stage, the lessons at Hogwarts were no longer of much help to Andy.
Other people's progress was too slow, and Andy's progress was too fast, the content taught in the classroom was like a high school student studying a primary school textbook for Andy.
The good thing was that the professors were aware of Andy's progress and didn't hesitate to give some personal guidance.
If there was any other class that could be helpful to Andy, it would probably be the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
In the Defence Against the Dark Arts class, there were a lot of practical exercises, and Professor Leddy would bring in some dangerous magical creatures for the young wizards to try to confront them.
This kind of practice is a valuable experience that can't be learned just by reading a book, not to mention the Defence Against the Dark Arts class also teaches the young wizards how to deal with the dark arts.
In particular, Professor Leddy would sometimes talk about his experience of travelling through the magic world ... about the customs of various countries, the gathering places of dark wizards, and the classic battles of the Aurors who raided the strongholds of dark wizards.
This also greatly expanded Andy's horizons.
Whenever this happened, Andy would be glad that he had driven away Quirrell and Lockhart, or else he would have wasted two whole years of his life.
Under 'King of Grind' Andy's tireless efforts, on the day of the 5th of February, Andy finally saved up five more [Potential Points] and was able to carry out a new round of adding points.
According to the previous plan, Andy raised his [Thinking] attribute to five points, further improving his memory, logic, learning ability, and the activity rate of his brain.
[Thinking: 5]
The powerful thinking ability allowed Andy's memory to directly catch up with a certain Miss Know-it-all, this amazing change made our Miss Know-it-all cry out: this is not scientific, nor is it magic.
Hermione dragged Andy into a competition for this.
The result of the competition was that the two used the same amount of time to memorise a one thousand-word essay.
On top of that, the five-point [Thinking] attribute had also drastically improved Andy's learning ability. Those magic books that used to look a bit dull were now understandable.
Of course, the [Thinking] attribute helped Andy much more than that.
In addition to his learning ability, Andy's magic ability was also improved to a certain extent.
First and foremost was Transfiguration.
The powerful thinking ability allowed Andy's brain to construct objects and creatures that he wanted to transfigure in a split second, thus completing the transfiguration.
This kind of improvement, even Professor McGonagall felt that it was a little less scientific.
Although a person's thinking ability could be enhanced through growth and learning, except for geniuses, an ordinary person's thinking ability would not be improved too much.
It was something that relied purely on talent.
Although Andy had always acted like a genius, this geniusness had never been reflected in his memory or thinking speed.
On top of that, Andy's application of magic had also been improved to a certain extent.
The speed of thinking, to a certain extent, also represents a person's reaction speed and adaptability. In other words, Andy could finally use his excellent reflexes in battle like Cedric.
Dueling strength was strengthened!
Now that, he looked at his attributes again, although they were still both high and low. But at least it wasn't like when he had just obtained the system, where all the attributes were despairingly low.
The steady increase in strength gave Andy the thrill of playing a progressive game.
And this visible and tangible strengthening made Andy fall in love with this feeling even more. It was reflected on the outside through Andy studying even harder.
Becoming stronger was indeed a joy, but there was one thing that still made Andy feel the storm coming.
Dumbledore was gone.
Or rather, Dumbledore left Hogwarts.
Back at the beginning of the school term, Andy had planned to seek out the old headmaster to ask his doubts - and Andy had a lot of questions prepared for that.
But when Andy approached Professor Flitwick to ask for the password to enter the Headmaster's office, he was informed by Professor Flitwick that Dumbledore had gone out on an errand.
During this month, Dumbledore had been out on and off, occasionally showing up at Hogwarts in a flash.
Andy also determined from this that Voldemort had indeed secretly returned to the British magical world - otherwise Dumbledore would not have left Hogwarts.
Since it wasn't Hogwarts that was in trouble, Andy didn't have to worry about it.
As for Snape ... there was still Harry keeping an eye on him.
Besides, Andy would occasionally take out the Marauder's Map to check it out and make sure that his learning environment would not be disturbed.
Most importantly, Andy didn't feel that he would be in danger either.
Because Andy had never confronted Voldemort's main soul, even if Andy was a bit famous now, he wouldn't be regarded seriously by Voldemort.
Just keeping an eye on Dumbledore and Harry had drained Voldemort's energy - after all, he wasn't in a good state right now.
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Just when Andy thought he was going to get through the second half of the second year in peace, trouble finally found him.
It was another Monday, and again there were still two Potions classes in a row.
Just as Andy sat down, he saw a white spot sticking out from underneath the cauldron. After slightly moving the cauldron, he realised that it was a note.
Andy did not show much emotion on the surface, pretending to chat with his classmates while glancing around towards the surroundings.
No one revealed anything different.
That's right, we are all classmates, if you have something to say, you can just say it face to face, this kind of small action is not in line with the persona of the young wizard.
A simple little note wouldn't be appropriate for a love letter, either.
It would have to be Snape then!
Andy raised his eyebrows, he wanted to pretend he didn't see it, but he was curious about the contents of the note - what if there was some important information?
And since Snape had been begging for help, there was no reason for Andy to pretend he hadn't seen it.
With this thought in mind, Andy reached his restless little hand to the small note under the cauldron.
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