Soon, the Christmas vacation at Hogwarts came to an end, and when the students of Hogwarts got on the train and prepared to return to Hogwarts, Cassandra took the initiative to find Wentworth.

But when Wentworth and Cassandra met in the library, Wentworth was startled by Cassandra.

Although Cassandra wore light makeup today, it was still difficult to hide the dark circles under her eyes, so much so that when they first met, Wentworth thought Cassandra had put on smoky makeup.

Just as Wentworth was about to ask what Cassandra had been doing these past two days, Cassandra threw a thick notebook to Wentworth and said, "This notebook records all the fireplaces in Hogsmeade that are connected to the Floo Network. The names behind each fireplace are the wizards who have entered and exited Hogsmeade through the Floo Network in recent times."

After hearing Cassandra's words and looking at her slightly pale face, Wentworth was moved. He could not help but grab Cassandra's hands and said emotionally:

"Thank you, Cassandra. Leave the rest to me!"

Hearing Wentworth's words, Cassandra calmly pulled her hand back from Wentworth's hand and said, "No need. I have already screened them for you. I can tell you confidently that among these people, there is no wizard you are looking for."

Hearing Cassandra's words, Wentworth couldn't help but frown and glanced at the thick notebook. After a long time, he slowly asked again: "So, is there any fireplace in Hogsmeade village that is illegally connected to the Floo Network?"

Hearing Wentworth's question, Cassandra shook her head without hesitation and said:

"The so-called fireplaces that are illegally connected to the Floo Network refer to those fireplaces that use magic to connect to the Floo Network without reporting to the Ministry of Magic."

"Unless no one has used a fireplace like this, it will definitely be detected by the Ministry of Magic."

"I don't know if there are any fireplaces in Hogsmeade that are illegally connected to the Floo network, but during this period of time, no wizards must have come to Hogsmeade through such fireplaces that are illegally connected to the Floo network."

Hearing Cassandra's answer, Wentworth's brows deepened, and he murmured in disbelief: "That doesn't make sense! Didn't they come to Hogsmeade through the Floo Network? Could they have Apparated?"

At this point, Wentworth shook his head and objected:

"Impossible. Not to mention that Hogsmeade is so remote, and because of the existence of Hogwarts, Hogwarts prohibits Apparition. To use Apparition around here, you must have very advanced Apparition skills and a huge amount of magic to support it."

Seeing Wentworth lost in thought, Cassandra seemed to want to say something, but she held back and remained silent.

But this scene was discovered by Wentworth, who couldn't help but ask curiously: "Cassandra, do you want to tell me something?"

After hearing what Wentworth said, Cassandra thought for a moment, and then slowly said, "Wentworth, there is something I don't know whether I should tell you."

Hearing this, Wentworth smiled and waved his hand, saying nonchalantly:

"Cassandra, if it's something inconvenient to talk about, you don't have to tell me. Don't force yourself."

Cassandra shook her head slowly, and finally said, "Actually, it's not something that is inconvenient to talk about. It's just that there is a slightly special place in Hogsmeade Village. The fireplace there is not regulated by the Ministry of Magic. Therefore, even my father does not know the usage of that fireplace."

"Oh? There is such a special place in Hogsmeade? You know, even the fireplace in the Hogwarts campus has to be supervised by the Ministry of Magic if it wants to connect to the Floo Network. I'm curious, who in Hogsmeade is so powerful that he can avoid the supervision of the Ministry of Magic."

Facing Wentworth's questioning, Cassandra just looked into Wentworth's eyes quietly, and then slowly said a name, a name that Wentworth was very familiar with:

"Gringotts!"

When Cassandra mentioned Gringotts, Wentworth was stunned for a moment, because this answer was really beyond Wentworth's expectations, but when he thought about it carefully, this answer was not surprising.

You know, when the goblins rebelled, the goblins, as losers, were forced by human wizards to make many concessions, such as: goblins were absolutely forbidden to own and use wands! The importance of wands in the magical world needs no further explanation, especially for humans.

You know, before the invention of the magic wand, human wizards were often at a disadvantage in a duel with other magical creatures of equal numbers. Humans often used the advantage of wizard numbers to fight against other magical creatures.

But all this changed after the invention of the magic wand.

In order to ensure absolute control over wands by human wizards, the International Confederation of Wizards has specially promoted a legislation, the so-called wand legislation, which legally deprives many intelligent magical creatures, including goblins, of the right to use wands.

As soon as this legislation was introduced, it was strongly opposed by many magical creatures, including goblins, among which the goblins were the most strongly opposed.

Opposition grew, culminating in a massive goblin rebellion in the eighteenth century.

However, the goblins' rebellion was eventually suppressed by wizards.

However, when the war was nearing its end, in order to speed up the end of the war and reduce the casualties of wizards, the wizards and goblins started negotiations and granted some conditions that were not important in the wizards' eyes but could reflect the dignity of the goblins.

One of them is that the Ministry of Magic of each country will not monitor the fireplaces of goblins.

Knowledge about goblins is a very important test point in the compulsory course History of Magic at Hogwarts, so after a brief recollection, Wentworth remembered this content.

At the same time, more memories appeared in Wentworth's mind, such as the goblins that appeared in the Hog's Head Inn that day, and Gringotts that suddenly appeared in Hogsmeade village for no apparent reason.

Thinking of this, Wentworth made a bold guess, but he said to Cassandra:

"Don't tell anyone about this!"

(End of this chapter)