"Poison in the wine?" Fred asked softly in the hallway in front of the school hospital. Ryan had already come out of the office with the Weasleys by this time. Now, the Weasleys were accompanying Ron at the bedside, while the others were in the hallway at the entrance of the school hospital.

"Yes. Harry said immediately. He couldn't think of anything else right now, and he was glad to have the opportunity to revisit the topic. "Slughorn took it from—"

"Could it be that he put something in Ron's cup while you're not looking?" asked George.

"It's unlikely. Ryan shook his head. "Because all of us had poison in the wine after the fact, it was certain that the poison had been put into the bottle. Ron was poisoned solely because he drank so fast that I didn't have time to stop him-"

"So it seems likely that the original target was Slughorn, but who would want to kill a Potions Master who has no quarrel with the world?" George shook his head, and after a year of work, he also knew exactly what a Potions Master was really worth. It doesn't seem that Voldemort's side killed Slughorn simply because he was teaching at Hogwarts, not to mention that Slughorn was a noble pureblood, and killing him was not in the habit of the Death Eaters.

"Dumbledore thinks Voldemort wants to pull Slughorn over, and it's hard to say what the Death Eaters would do in that case. Harry said, "Slughorn had been hiding for a year before coming to Hogwarts. And......" he thought of a memory that Dumbledore hadn't gotten from Slughorn yet, "maybe Voldemort wanted to get rid of him, thinking he might be valuable to Dumbledore." ”

"Professor Slughorn seems to have said that he was going to give this bottle of wine to the Headmaster when he was in the hospital just now, so the target of the poisoner may also be Headmaster Dumbledore. Ginny recalled.

"Then the poisoners don't know much about Slughorn. Hermione chimed in, "Anyone who knows Slughorn knows that he's probably keeping all the good food for himself. ”

Just then, heavy footsteps were heard in the hallway, and everyone looked up to see Hagrid striding in, rain in his hair, a bearskin coat flapping behind him, a crossbow in his hand, and a muddy footprint the size of a dolphin on the ground.

"I've been teaching Grope English in the Forbidden Forest since I got up, and as soon as I got back for breakfast, I heard Professor Sprout tell me about Ron!

"It's all right," said Harry, "and they say he'll be fine." ”

After looking through the glass window at Ron, who was accompanied by his parents, Hagrid sat down and asked in a low voice. "Do you know why someone would attack Ron? I couldn't believe it when I heard the news. ”

"It's not just Ron. Harry said, sitting down next to Hagrid. "If Ryan hadn't discovered the poison in time, I'd guess there were five people lying here now, not just Ron. But we don't know what this attack was for, and we were still talking about it before you came here. ”

"Isn't it possible that someone is having trouble with the Gryffindor students?" Hagrid said worriedly, "first Katie, now Ron and you ......."

"Probably not, because our visit to Professor Slughorn's today was a very fortuitous event, and no one could have expected it in advance. Hermione whispered. "But this poisoning should be linked to the last Cursed Necklace attack. ”

"Where did you see that?" Fred asked

"First, both times it should have been fatal, but it wasn't, even though it was pure luck. Second, neither the poison nor the necklace seemed to harm the intended person. Third, Ryan and I were present in both attacks, and both came to the rescue. "Then the people behind the scenes are even more insidious, because they don't seem to care how many people they kill in order to attack their real targets." At the same time—"

At this point, Hermione paused for a moment, then looked at everyone and said. "At the same time, Ryan and I are also the most suspects, after all, the chances of being on the scene twice and saving people are too small. ”

"I trust both of you. Harry said firmly. "Because if you two really want to hurt others, you will never need this kind of stupid approach, not to mention that you usually have a lot of opportunities to be alone with me and Ron, and if you really want to do it, you don't have to choose these two methods with a low success rate now. ”

"Thank you for your trust. Ryan said to Harry with a smile. "But we're going to—"

Halfway through Ryan's words, the doors of the school hospital opened, and Madam Pomfrey called out to them. "Now there are up to four more people in there to visit the sick, which of you is going to come in?"

Ryan and Hermione got up and left together so that Ron could stay with his family. Ten minutes after returning to the common room, Harry also returned, and Ryan learned from him that he knew from Hagrid that Dumbledore and Snape had quarreled, and that the Headmaster had asked Snape to increase the inspection of the Slytherin students.

Ryan thinks that Dumbledore actually knew that he had come to the school to kill him, and that the headmaster was actually warning Malfoy not to allow him to attack innocent people like this again. After all, as a principal, Dumbledore didn't want any more students to be hurt for any reason.

Harry looked tired after the incident and wanted to sit in the common room for a while. However, it didn't take long for Cow McLagan to sneak in from outside and start discussing Quidditch with Harry, looking at a tired Harry and a chattering McLagan. Ryan and Hermione quickly packed up their things and went to the library to read a book, leaving Harry, who was staring at the two men with pitiful eyes, in the common room.

Word of Ron's poisoning spread quickly the next day, but everyone seemed to think that it might have been an accident, since he was in the Potions teacher's house and was taking the antidote immediately. What Ryan heard from these rumors was that Slughorn was dispensing an antidote. It seems that Dumbledore erased Ryan's contribution for some reason. However, Ryan felt that it was good to be like this, just enough to meet his request to be hidden behind the scenes.

The next day, Ryan visited Ron at the school hospital, and Ron was now much better, and could even kiss Lavender Brown, who had come to take care of him, half-lying there on a pillow, and the two of them parted in a panic after seeing Ryan.

Although Lavender is just an ordinary girl, she is definitely not the kind with a problematic IQ. In the original text, it seems that some are forced out purely by insecurity. Because Ron just used her as a tool to demonstrate to Hermione at that time, she was just doing everything possible to really get Ron at that time, and she would naturally be more exaggerated in doing things.

And now that Ron is really in love with her, naturally she doesn't need to be so neurotic. At least according to Ryan's observations, Lavender and Ron behaved normally together, definitely not the exaggerated feeling of sticking together all day.

Ryan learned by asking Lavender. Ron now drinks 20 ml of rue every four hours and can be discharged from the hospital for about two weeks. According to Madam Pomfrey, although Ron's injuries were not serious this time because of the timely rescue, it is best to detoxify a little bit if he wants to cure the sequelae without leaving sequelae, but Ron is obviously not satisfied with the current treatment speed.

"Ryan, Madam Pomfrey said that the antidote you gave me was master, so do you have any medicine that will make me get better faster? I can't afford to be in the hospital for a week and miss a Quidditch match. Ron asked with a wry face.

"You have to know that rue is the most symptomatic medicine for you right now, and it is the best tonic for your internal organs that have been damaged by poison. The medicine I made is fine for first aid, but when it comes to this kind of after-the-fact conditioning, it is really not as good as this most basic and traditional potion, if you don't want to leave sequelae, you should honestly lie in bed for a few days. You don't have to worry about Quidditch, Harry has now found McLagan as your replacement. I saw that his level was not as good as yours at the time of the tryouts that day, but he should be able to barely use it. ”

"It's just because it's McLagan that I'm not at ease. Ron looked a little agitated, but luckily Lavender regained his composure after holding his hand. "You, like Hermione, don't know anything about Quidditch. McLagan is not from the same place as the rest of the team, and he might as well not be a goalkeeper when he plays-"

After more than ten minutes of persuasion, Ron finally agreed to stay in the hospital until he was completely healthy before being discharged. But hearing him say this, Ryan is also full of pessimism about the next Quidditch match.