Chapter 823: The Stubborn Madam Pointer
The sun was rising, and the warm morning light shone over Hogwarts Castle, rousing the students who were still sleeping in.
In the Headmaster’s office on the eighth floor, Kyle, who hadn’t slept all night, set down his quill and tidied the thick stack of parchment in front of him.
It documented his experiences over the past two weeks—starting with being forced to impersonate Dumbledore at the beginning of the term, deciding to go to France, traveling to Beauxbatons, meeting with Professor Viktor, and talking with him...
Per Professor McGonagall’s request, Kyle had spent the entire night painstakingly recalling everything, trying to pin down the exact time of each event—down to the hour, even the minute.
Of course, there were bound to be some inaccuracies. After all, it wasn’t like he checked the time before doing every single thing. But Kyle figured it didn’t matter much, as long as the key events lined up properly.
As he wrote, the portraits of past headmasters behind him watched the entire time—pulling an all-nighter alongside him. Not that they needed sleep, of course. They were in much better shape than Kyle.
"Wait, let me see page seventeen of the parchment again."
Just as Kyle put down his quill, a voice suddenly spoke up behind him.
It came from a witch dressed in medieval garb. She looked unfamiliar—Kyle was certain he’d never seen her before.
That was hardly surprising. There were over thirty portraits in the Headmaster’s office, but not all the former headmasters lingered here like Armando Dippet and Phineas Black...
Roughly half of them typically stayed in portraits elsewhere, only showing up when something major happened at Hogwarts.
The current headmaster, Dumbledore, being trapped in a time loop certainly counted as major.