Silently light a candle for Rita and leave it if she doesn't give it away.

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King of Swords (upright): A trustworthy elder. 、

Hogwarts Room of Requirement

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The next two weeks were no different for Harry than they had been some time before.

But what to say...... Maybe it's because he's used to it, so even after hearing the disdain of others, Harry finds himself really calm.

As for why it is calm...... Perhaps, as Hermione said, there is a sense of superiority when there is contrast.

Compared to Harry, who has become accustomed to it, those who are familiar with Opal can find that she has been really irritable lately, and even staying by Riddle's side can't completely soothe her. In fact, it's not just Opal, but even Riddle and Draco have been experiencing some inexplicable low air pressure lately.

Cause?

Just look at the letter that was enough to drown the recipient and signed Opal every morning - it was a letter of all kinds, courtship letters, roaring letters.

[I'm going to have to find a chance to throw Rita's bastard into Azkaban!] ]

Just listening to this complaint, you can see how crazy Opal is about it, [look at what this is all about, bastard!] ]

Her family's Hades were on the verge of quitting work because of such boring letters.

"Calm, Opal. You have to be calm. ”

Pansy sat on the couch with a pillow on her face, "That proves you're charming, isn't it?" ”

[You want you to take it!] ]

In this regard, Opal threw away his eyes and grinded his teeth at the same time, [Isn't this adding to the chaos!] God knows I'm already so busy that I can't wait to split one person into two people! ]

In the final analysis, it was Rita Skeeter's article about the Triwizard Tournament that was to blame.

It seems that because of Opal's obstruction, Rita vented her resentment at not having time to interview Harry. However, there seemed to be some concern, and Opar and Harry each occupied two pages in the entire article, and a large part of the first page of the newspaper was occupied by a photograph of Harry, and later a detailed description of Harry's experience. And Opal was more or less mixed up to the point of being published in a photo, and the content was what Pansy and Blaise jokingly called the "Honor Display", which listed Opal's wizarding grade test results or something. And the names of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang were squeezed into the last page of the article, and they were misspelled.

It's just that what is infuriating is that Rita uses "according to the interview" to bring Opal and Harry together, and describes Opal as a black viper with ill intentions for the "Golden Boy", tricking the "Savior" who is not deeply involved in the world to trust her very much, and makes Hermione, who has a good relationship with Harry and has a crush on him, so heartbroken that she is injured and admitted to St. Mungo's Hospital......

One of the immediate consequences of the newspaper was that Opal had been bombarded with letters for the last ten days or so, but perhaps because of the photo published in the newspaper, the number of roaring letters was not very large.

Although, in some ways, it was Opal who had turned Harry on the wrong path, but the wording ...... How do you feel like Harry's guy is completely white sheep?! God knows how long it has been, in a sense, Harry's guy has been successfully trained to become a lion's skin snake, where did that hellish "pure goodness" come from?!

Pan Qian couldn't laugh at this: "I'm not a warrior, so I don't have a problem if I want this treatment...... But Opar, did you really decide to just let this woman go? ”

And she felt that Opal's reaction at the moment was already well-educated, and if it were her, she would definitely be about to break Rita's body into pieces as soon as possible, where would she just complain in the room like Opal.

[Riddle says he'll do it, I can't rob him of it.] ]

Opal also felt a little disgusted by this.

She really wanted to fix the babbling Rita, but Riddle read the newspaper and smiled and said he would take care of it - she could never say a "no" to Riddle's request.

So although there has been no movement at all in the past ten days, and he has been harassed and a little upset, Opal has not really done anything.

Incidentally, it seems that because of the photo of Opal leaning under a tree reading a book published in the newspaper by I don't know who provided it, Opal has received a lot of letters of love in recent times - but she has selectively ignored them.

"No wonder you haven't seen that fiancé of Opal these days......"

Harry, who had just entered the Room of Request, had a look of sudden realization.

[It's back!] ]

Opal nodded at Harry in the cloak of invisibility, [Is there something Hagrid is looking for you?] ]

"He took me to see the playing field, and met Charlie of the Weasleys, and this time the event was exactly like what Opal said earlier, dragons."

After taking off the invisibility cloak, Harry let out a long breath, "I don't know the species of dragons, but I heard Charlie say that there are Hungarian tree bees, Welsh green dragons, Swedish short-nosed dragons, and Chinese fireballs. ”

That day, Siris informed him by an owl that they were meeting at the Gryffindor fire at one o'clock in the morning on the 22nd, but Harry and Opal had discussed it and decided to change the location to the fireplace in the Room of Requirement, with Merlin on it, and Harry didn't want to go back to the noisy Gryffindor Tower. This has also been communicated to Siris through the owl.

Actually, Opal didn't want to come over, after all, it was Harry and Siris's business, but it couldn't compete with Harry's dead face.

"Either way, it's dangerous."

Pansy stood up and yawned, "If you come back, I'll leave first, who told me not to be allowed to stay." ”

She's staying here purely because she's been caught, who has made Opal more in the limelight lately, and she needs someone to cover when she comes out...... Although Pansy is very suspicious that she was actually pulled out in the middle of the night, it was purely because someone was jealous of her ridicule for the past two days that she would catch her as a shield, otherwise who wouldn't know that Opal's strength is a curse in addition to potions and physical skills?!

[Now that you know, let's go.] ]

Opal waved his hand, like chasing flies.

So sure enough, I was angered, right?! Right, yes, yes?!

In response, Pansy put a black line on her head, and carefully decided to swallow the news that Rita was an Animagus.

When Pansy left the Room of Requirement, the flames in the fireplace suddenly lit up, and Siris's head stood upright in the flames.

A smile spread across Harry's face, and he knelt down by the fireplace and said, "Godfather, how are you doing?" ”

Siris was not much different from when he was separated from Harry during the holidays, his hair was short, he looked clean and neat, and his cheeks were plump, which made him look younger, which made Harry feel very happy - indicating that Siris's life had not been as miserable as he had imagined.

"Opal, long time no see."

After greeting Opal who was standing by the fireplace, Siris looked at Harry, "How are you doing?" ”

"I ......"

Harry wanted to say "good", but he couldn't. Before he could stop himself, he had already gushed out.

Speaking of which, he hadn't spoken so eloquently in recent days, except in the presence of Opal and them—he had spoken of the fact that people had not believed that he had not signed up for the tournament, of Rita Skeeter's nonsense in the Daily Prophet, and of the ridicule he had received every time he passed through the hallway......

“…… And just now, Hagrid took me to see the first thing that would appear in the project, which was a dragon. It's ......."

Harry ended his words with that.

Siris looked at him, his eyes full of concern, compared to when he first met Harry, he seemed much more patient, he listened patiently all the time, did not interject, until Harry himself finished speaking, and after the silence, he slowly spoke: "Don't worry about the dragon, Harry, you will definitely have no problem." ”

"How could there be no problem. I'm not Opal. ”

Harry couldn't help but snort.

"I'll come back to that later—I can't last a long time this time. There are a few things I would like to draw your attention to. ”

Siris smiled bitterly and said quickly.

"What is it?"

Harry was a little puzzled, in his opinion, there couldn't be anything more terrible than a dragon, right?

"Karkaroff."

Siris glanced at Opal, "Harry, Opal. He was a Death Eater. ”

"You mean?!"

Harry, who had reacted to the meaning of Siris's words, gasped.

"He was arrested and held with me in Azkaban, but he was released. I'm sure it's for this reason that Dumbledore is installing an Auror at Hogwarts this year - just to be on the lookout for him. Back then, it was Moody who captured Karkaroff and imprisoned him in Azkaban. ”

"Karkarov was released?"

Harry struggled to absorb the sensational news, "Why did they release him?" ”

"He's done a lot of work with the Ministry of Magic."

"He said he recognized his mistake, and then he said many names...... He threw a large number of people into Azkaban to take his place...... I can tell you that he's very popular there. As far as I know, he's been teaching dark arts to his school students since he got out. So beware of that Durmstrang warrior at the same time. ”

"Okay."

Harry gathered his thoughts, "You mean it was Karkaroff who threw my name into the Goblet of Fire?" If he did it, then he is really good at acting. He seemed to be so angry about it that he wanted to stop me from competing. ”

"He's always been good at acting."

Siris said, "He persuaded the Ministry of Magic to release him, didn't he?" Also, I've been keeping an eye on the Daily Prophet, Harry...... Well, I'm sure there's a clean slate between you and Opal. ”

As he said this, Siris glanced carefully at Opal, who was silent on the side, and got a big roll of his eyes.

"Can you not say this?"

Harry was a little embarrassed by this.

Moody was attacked the night before he arrived at Hogwarts. This is the news in the newspapers. ”

Sirius said quickly, as if he was racing against the clock, "I think someone is trying to stop Moody from coming to Hogwarts." After all, Moody is the best Auror the Ministry of Magic has ever seen. ”

"Karkaroff wants to kill me?"

Harry asked slowly, "Because of Voldemort?" ”

[This is the only possible one.] ]

The person who spoke this time was Opal, [Bertha Jorkins, the witch disappeared before the Quidditch World Cup, and she was a member of the Ministry of Magic, so she must know the news of the Triwizard Tournament.] ]

Sirius hesitated.

"Not bad at all...... She disappeared in Arnia, where legend has it that Voldemort was breathing. ”

In response to Opal's words, Siris replied in the affirmative, "I know Bertha Jorkins. She was here when I was at Hogwarts, a few years older than your dad and me. She's a goofy guy. It's very nosy, but it's easy to fall into traps for people who are completely mindless. ”

"Okay...... Indeed......"

Rubbing his temples, Harry thought it was terrible news, "If anyone wants to poison me and make everything look like an accident, then this Triwizard Tournament is the perfect opportunity - they just need to stand aside and leave the matter to the dragons." ”

Merlin is on top, and that's definitely not good news.

"By the way—those dragons!"

Siris said, at this point he spoke very quickly, "There's a trick, Harry. Don't be tempted to chant a stun spell - dragons are infinitely powerful, and they have very powerful magical powers, they can't be defeated by a single stun spell, and it takes six or seven wizards to chant spells at the same time to subdue a dragon......"

"yes, I know, I just saw that."

Twitching the corners of his mouth, Harry wondered if his godfather was thinking too much of himself.

"But you can handle it alone."

Siris said quickly, "There's a trick you need to cast a simple spell - you just need to use the 'Flying Charm'!" ”

"Flying Spell?!"

Harry blinked, "What am I going to summon with it?" ”

"Listen ......"

Just as he was about to continue saying something, Siris's face suddenly changed, "Someone is coming, I have to go!" I've already said what I can say, Harry, think about it yourself! ”

"The Godfather?! Godfather?! ”

Harry scrambled twice, but Siris's face had disappeared from the fire.

[No need to shout, the connection has been severed over there.] ]

Seeing Harry desperately stick his head into the furnace, Opal couldn't help but roll his eyes, [So why the hell am I being dragged by you to listen?] ]

"Although the godfather said to use the Flying Charm, what exactly am I going to summon?!"

Holding his head, Harry sat on the carpet and smiled bitterly

[You think slowly, I'll go back first.] ]

Opal was not sympathetic to Harry's state at all, [after all, I still have a bunch of papers to deal with, so I'll go first.] ]

"Oh......"

Harry replied absent-mindedly.

Although it is certain that Opal must have a way to deal with those dragons, the problem is that Opal's strength is obvious to all, and the methods she can use may not be able to use herself.

Damn, if only there was a little more time, Siris would have finished the answer.

Distraught, Harry, who had no clue at all, thought discouragedly.