#241 - Indifferent College

After quietly observing the scene for some time, Anduin silently departed.

During the remaining two months of his fourth year, after finishing his own tasks each day, Anduin would set aside some time to cast a Disillusionment Charm and observe the goings-on of the Slytherin students.

This allowed him to reacquaint himself with these fellow students, and he recorded a large number of names and corresponding evaluations on his clipboard.

Sometimes, like a stalker, he would silently follow several Slytherin students, quietly observing their daily lives, the people they interacted with, and who they spoke to.

During this time, he quietly witnessed many scenes that he found quite interesting.

For example, he watched the entire process of two couples engaging in courtship.

He also observed some withdrawn Slytherins who spent their entire day attending classes, reading in the library, returning to the common room to do homework, and then resting. Some of these students didn't say a single word all day, which Anduin found unbelievable.

He even watched an internal card and board game competition held by a group of lively Slytherins. The level of competition was, to put it mildly, terrible but enthusiastic.

At the same time, there were also scenes of a group of combative Slytherins playing pranks on other houses. Most of these were pure-blood wizards, but there were also some half-bloods mixed in.

These included pranks on students from other houses, being pranked by students from other houses, two private duels, and a large, prank-filled brawl with Gryffindors. Their outcomes were generally unfavorable, with few managing to escape without being caught. As a result, Slytherin lost over a hundred points, and Anduin even witnessed Snape reprimanding them with a livid face.

Through all this, he discovered that Slytherins weren't just focused on Gryffindors; they also had conflicts with other houses. Or rather, it couldn't simply be categorized as conflicts between houses, but rather conflicts between individual students.

It was just that some Slytherins had more conflicts with Gryffindors, which led to animosity between the two houses. Then, some Gryffindors would go and prank Slytherins they didn't know and who weren't involved in the disputes, and vice versa.

This easily led to escalating conflicts, and many Slytherins and Gryffindors who weren't interested in fighting were forced to join the fray, eventually causing the snowball to grow larger and larger.

After being caught, they would quiet down for a while, but then start up again.

He even personally witnessed the drama of two students, one sorted into Slytherin and the other into Gryffindor, who had been good friends on the same boat to Hogwarts, but became enemies due to the conflict between the two houses. Book 69 new

Internal cold violence within the house was even more prevalent. The biggest divide was still between pure-blood and half-blood wizards, mainly due to Anduin's deliberate efforts last year. But their conflict didn't ease with the departure of Yaxley and Travers; instead, their mutual animosity grew, and there was no trust between them.

And within them, further divisions emerged. Among the pure-bloods, the divisions mainly stemmed from differing ideologies. Some pure-bloods didn't like causing trouble and always complained about other pure-blood Slytherins dragging them into trouble and conflict.

Among the half-blood wizards, the divisions stemmed from differences in personality. Slytherin itself was different from other houses. Because Slytherin had many dorm rooms in the dungeons, basically everyone had a single room, and there was little interaction between them. Then, it was difficult for lively and introverted people to interact in daily life.

Coupled with the 'everyone for themselves' atmosphere within the house, and the Slytherin students' tendency towards selfishness and self-preservation, they became increasingly distant from each other.

In fact, Slytherin didn't entirely consist of single dorm rooms; it mainly depended on the number of students in the house.

And the total number of students at Hogwarts was generally between 400 and 800, so the number of people in each house was 100 to 200.

However, due to the war with the Dark Lord a few years ago, there was a large migration of wizards, with the local British wizarding population decreasing and fleeing to Europe. So, the number of students at Hogwarts was naturally even smaller. In Anduin's year and the few years before, the total number of students at Hogwarts was basically around 400.

Even after the Dark Lord disappeared two years ago, the number of new students didn't increase significantly due to the Death Eater unrest.

It was only from this school year that the number of new students began to increase significantly.

This also reflected, from the side, that Minister Baudrillard's various measures and effective publicity did increase the confidence of wizards from Britain and had attracted many wizards back to the country.

And Slytherin students have always been the fewest of the four houses, now totaling just over 100, basically ensuring that each student has a single dorm room. If there were 200 Slytherin students, there would be a large number of multi-person dorm rooms.

So, in the face of this atmosphere of mutual distrust within the house, it was difficult for them to find friends in the house, except for the students in the same year who often attended classes together. These small groups were mainly divided by year, in addition to blood status and personality.

Anduin briefly summarized why Slytherin house had become like this.

First, no one stood up to rally the people and guide the students to unite. This was not surprising, as Anduin alone had removed three prefects last year.

Yaxley, as the most important leader, went down the wrong path and then ran away. Wilkes and Millie themselves didn't have the makings of leaders. Coupled with Anduin's suppression, they were as timid as quails and had no intention of focusing on the house. Now, even daily patrols and school-wide activities were rarely attended.

With the prefects not caring, the students were naturally extremely lax, and the trend was intensifying.

Secondly, there was a lack of communication channels between the students. Due to the previous malicious management of the Pure-Blood Committee, the older students had lost trust in students they weren't familiar with. They were too lazy to care about the younger students, and they didn't want to care.

And the younger students, without the help of older students and prefects, found it difficult to integrate into school life and could only huddle together for warmth, so various small groups appeared.

This could easily create a vicious cycle, and this kind of indifference was contagious.

Because if there were conflicts among the people in these small groups, no outsiders would come out to mediate. If the conflict escalated, it could lead to increasing division.

In fact, there was such a trend now. Anduin recently discovered that among the first-year students who often played together, two groups seemed to have had a fight, and then one group split into two, each doing their own thing and completely ignoring the other.