Chapter 920: The Bones Family
"My aunt, Amelia Bones, is very disgusted with the undead... She was against me coming to study. Susan shook her head and muttered in annoyance, so much so that the big golden braid that the ruddy-faced girl was dragging behind her back shook violently, "Professor Harris didn't take those items, the protective robes, the textbook, and the training wand for us to keep, just like everyone else... Why are we embarrassed to continue to use it?"
Susan's voice was low, and Hannah, the Hufflepuff witch with two braids, who was also ruddy, had no choice but to help her friend: "Ginny, don't blame her, she can't help it, her aunt Amelia Bones heard in the newspaper that we were learning necromancy, and in addition to writing letters to the school to complain, necromancy also sent an owl to deliver a letter almost every day asking her to quit the ancient magic class. โ
"I don't think I'm going to say yes, I'm afraid she'll have to mail me a screaming letter. Susan said weakly, "She was a little against teaching dark arts before, but because the wizarding world is not peaceful, she herself was almost attacked by the Death Eaters last summer, but luckily the Aurors arrived just in time... So she acquiesced in the end, and then Professor Harris's lecture at the Ravenclaw Temple made her disagree... You know..."
"I've seen your aunt in the newspapers, she's the one who works in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and almost became the head boss, right? Short gray hair, wearing a pair of monocles, and an intimidating expression on his face..."After Flegg finished speaking, he seemed to feel a little rude and quickly changed the subject, "When I first entered the school, my sister thought that I could resurrect skeletons like a wizard in a horror story, but she was disappointed when I answered no... I have to scare her when I go back from vacation this time. โ
"It's not surprising that Susan's uncle, Edgar Bones, one of the founders of the Order of the Phoenix, was the mainstay of the fight against Voldemort in the early days of the First War, until Susan's grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins were eaten to death..."
"It's okay Harry. Susan squeezed out a smile to comfort Harry, "I can feel what it's like to be Harry Potter Harry, and we're the focus of attention in the hallway when people talk about the victims..."
"I'm sorry Susan, but he's been with me for too long, and his speech is influenced by my brother's mind..."Ginny comforted Susan.
"I don't really like necromancy myself..."Susan's fingers touched the small skeleton on the table, and the little thing immediately swayed and turned, making her feel that the bulging skeleton in front of her was still a little cute, "But Ginny, you are not scary." โ
"Well, maybe like Harry said, it's cuter to give it a color..."Ginny stared at her velvet skeleton for a moment, then waved her hand at the others and pulled Harry, "See you later, Harry and I will go back to the common room to color Arnold first, you can continue to practice first." โ
A long time after Harry and Ginny returned, Flegg heard a commotion in the field of practice, and he turned his head to look, only to realize that it was Slytherin's Millicent Persted who had succeeded in summoning out of thin air a tattered humanoid skeleton wielding a rusty sword.
This made a lot of young wizards who practiced to surround him, this thin skeleton appeared out of thin air and landed in the middle of the crowd, twisting his neck stiffly, the hollow eye holes seemed to be looking for the object he wanted to attack, he raised the rusty long sword in his hand high, and the wizards around him couldn't help but exclaim, and unconsciously retreated backwards, giving way to the open space in the middle.
Seeing the appearance of the people around him, Millisen, who was tall and strong, stretched his fat chin forward triumphantly.
"Millison, he looks a little small, let me try to make him bigger?" said a female Slytherin in a normal school uniform standing beside Millicent.
"Please, Daphne. Millicent moved his stout body away and held out his hand in an inviting gesture.
This Slytherin witch is Daphne Greengrass, she comes from the old pure-blood family Greengrass, her brown curls are all combed back of her head, revealing a smooth and full forehead, she straightens her back and walks out, her steps are light and graceful. (Author's note: In the Harry Potter VII and the Deathly Hallows film Nineteen Years Later, Daphne's sister Astoria and Draco pass by their son Scorpius Malfoy as they drop off their son Scorpius Malfoy, played by Malfoy's girlfriend at the time.) ๏ผ
Daphne quickly pulled out her wand from her waist and pointed at the skeleton in the middle of the field: "Grow bigger!"
Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the skeleton had more than doubled in size, but it seemed to be enraged, its bony jaws were closed, its empty eyes flashed with fire, and his huge rusty sword held in both hands was raised high, and he frantically swung at Susan Bones, who was watching the bustle next to it.
"Ahh I can't control it!" Millicent's gruff voice rang out after a few seconds of unexpected exclamations from the wizards around her, who deliberately screamed loudly, waving her wand and swaying her muscular body.
The sound of the shutter clicking was heard again, and the scene of the skeleton hurting and the panicked expressions of the wizards around him were captured one by one - Theodore Knott craned his neck, excitedly looking for various angles to capture. His arms holding up the camera and leaning his neck slightly forward, combined with his wide eyes, made him look more like a praying mantis.
Caught off guard, Susan Bones was slashed by a sword. The scars on her back were almost bone-palpable, and blood gushed out, instantly staining her back red.
Seeing that Susan was cut down by the skeleton he had summoned, Millicent, who had been preparing, stretched out his wand and preceded the little wizards who had already drawn their wands after the initial accident and were ready to shoot, and before they could make a move, he used the anti-summoning spell on the skeleton he had summoned, and the skeleton fell to the ground in a pile of bones before pretending to say loudly: "I'm sorry! I was so panicked that I forgot!"
Alan came out of the shadows, ignoring Millicent, who had just been complacent and couldn't help but shrink a little when he saw him, and walked straight to Susan Bones who was lying on the ground.
"There's a lot of rust on that iron sword, Susan, bear with me, the healing may take a little longer than usual. Alan leaned down, his palm dangling above Susan's wound, and the rust was sucked out with his movements as the wound moved slowly in Ellen's palm, and the cleaned wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Professor McGonagall!"
"Get out of the way, what's going on?" a serious voice came as Professor McGonagall, the head of Gryffindor, trotted over from the lawn.
As soon as McGonagall arrived at the scene and saw that Alan was treating Susan, Professor McGonagall, who did not bother, looked at the wizard onlookers, and she saw Fleger standing in front of her indignantly, "Mr. Brown, please tell me what happened." โ
Flegg came out under the gaze of the dean of his own academy and told what had just happened, but Flegg did not stop talking, he said with a serious face: "Professor, I suspect that Millison Persted and Daphne Greengrass teamed up to deliberately let themselves summon undead creatures to hurt others out of control!"
"Mr. Brown, do you have proof?" Professor McGonagall pushed her glasses upward.
"No... I didn't.. Professor. Flegg lowered his voice, and then said unconvinced, "But it must have been these wizards from pure-blood families who did it, they deliberately hurt me in the illusion shift class, and now they want to make trouble in the ancient magic class." โ
Millicent sneered - they did it on purpose, it was the task that the anti-Harris pure-blood families had given them to their descendants.
As Susan and Hannah returned to their places to concentrate on practicing, Millicent looked for the right opportunity and deliberately approached Susan Bones as a casual pretenceโa well-known member of the Bones family, Susan herself was a half-blood, and she didn't wear the kind of protective robes she had given her from the ancient magic class today, which was the perfect target.