Chapter 172: Old Grievances at Hogwarts (13)

For days after talking to Hermione in the library, Leah had been a little depressed, and she even wondered if she shouldn't have joined the history interest group in the first place, which was for people with real ambitions, and she felt like an ordinary person who was content with the status quo and couldn't afford such responsibilities and burdens. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Leah didn't know how to go this way in the future, and the confusion ahead was for her, which made her very depressed and annoyed, but fortunately, Halloween was coming. It wasn't because of the holiday, which was a fun one, but because they were able to go to Hogsmeade the weekend before Halloween. It's not like she hasn't been there, she was taken by her father to the only pure wizarding village in Britain when she was a child, but this time it's obviously very different. When she went there, Lia was only seven years old, and she was still a little girl who didn't know anything, and she was firmly chained by her father's side, just looking at it casually, and many places she was interested in were forbidden to enter, such as the screaming shack and the pig's head bar, she was quite interested, but she was sternly warned by her father that good children should not go there. Six years later, she has become a third-year student at Hogwarts, and she can finally go to Hogsmeade as she wishes, and after getting her father's signed permission, Leah decided to have a good time there, and go to some places that she is curious about, but has never had the opportunity to go.

On Saturday, Leah woke up early, prepared carefully, and set off with enough gold gallons. When she came to Hogsmeade, where the pure wizard-style architecture made her feel at home, she was always a wizard, a pure-blood wizard. It's not about how noble and powerful a pure-blood wizard is, it's about her habits of mind. She grew up in a wizarding family, and although her parents often took her to ordinary cities to attend various art exhibitions and concerts, wanting to explore the artistic talent of her only daughter, she was really interested in magic, powerful and fascinating. Professor Kate has been teaching them some of the tricks of ordinary people, and Leah admits that there is great wisdom in the books that have survived for a long time, but she would have preferred to learn powerful magical knowledge from Professor Kate. As the heir to an ancient family, Professor Kate seemed to have mastered many magical techniques that had been lost, which she had heard from Professor Flitwick during a chat, and she hoped to learn them.

Yes, what I really like is magic, and I am always a pure wizard.

Walking on the country roads of Hogsmeade, Leah slowly cleared her mind, although the road ahead was still unclear, but she at least had a general direction in mind, and when she returned, she would discuss it with Professor Kate, she would definitely be able to give her the right guidance.

A lighter heart, Leah let go of her worries and began to wander around the small village with a strong wizarding atmosphere, and her thoughts were the two fathers who warned "good boys should not go", screaming at the shack and the pig's head bar.

The Screaming Shack is a haunted house, and somehow, it is rumored to be the scariest haunted house in the UK, although Leah firmly believes that it is just a rumor, but it is a bit of a shame for her to go there alone, she needs more information, go back and ask her dad what the hell is going on with the Screaming Shack, no, you can't ask him, doesn't asking him indicate that she wants to explore there? You can ask Professor Kate, she should know a little bit about it.

That's the difference between Ravenclaw's curiosity and Gryffindor's bravery, if Hermione were to find out if this happens, she'll just go and see if it's haunted or not? But Leah was a little more cautious.

I can't go to the Screaming Shack, but I can go to the Pig's Head Bar, which is a bar no matter how terrifying it is, a place to receive guests, and Leah knows that some of the senior students and Hogwarts professors sometimes go back to the Pig's Head Bar to sit, and she has even been to Tumbledown Alley, and she is afraid of a bar that opens in the village?

Leah found the Pig's Head Bar on the corner of the main road in Hogsmeade, and as soon as she entered, she smelled a strong and disgusting smell, as if she had brought a piece of rotten lamb to her nose, and the fishy stench made Leah feel a little sick to her stomach, and she was about to vomit.

Leah stood in the doorway for a while, the smell was still faint, and she needed to get used to it first.

The bar was a small room, covered with a thick layer of dust and dirt on the windows, floors, and even the tables, and there were few people in the bar, but everyone wore hoods, as if they were afraid of being recognized. The owner of the hotel was a tall, thin old man with long gray hair and a beard. The old man's personality didn't seem to be very good, and he was sitting behind the counter at this time, scanning the whole bar with a pair of sunken eyes, like a lone wolf in the wilderness.

A lone wolf? Liya felt a little strange how she could think of this. Feeling that she was running out, she walked over to the counter and asked for a butterbeer. Leah walked around the bar for a while with a beer, but she didn't see a slightly cleaner stool, so she had no choice but to endure her nausea and choose a place that didn't look particularly dirty and sat down. It's just that it looks like this dress will inevitably have to be washed well when I go back. Ria picked up her glass to see if the beer had any special flavor, but she put it down when she saw the broken notch in the glass and the unknown black dirt attached to the inner wall. Forget it, I don't particularly like to drink anyway, and the wine is not clean when you look at this bar.

Lia sat quietly in that corner, looking around curiously, feeling the mysterious and somewhat terrifying atmosphere here, the pig's head bar is still quite interesting, like the scene in the movie, wandering in the gray area between darkness and light, she has never seen it so big.

The guests in the bar were all talking in low voices, and they were deliberately lowered, as if everyone was discussing some shady conspiracy, but Lea could clearly hear the two people sitting at the table next to her complaining about how boring the divination class was, how difficult the Transfiguration class was, and just looking at their sneaky appearance as if they were planning to blow up the Ministry of Magic.

Leah stared at the glass of butterbeer she bought, pricking up her ears and eavesdropping, I have to say that it was quite interesting to eavesdrop on other people's conversations, and the feeling of snooping in the shadows made Leah feel very excited. The two Hogwarts students seemed to be full of grievances, and they complained about all the teachers next to each other, even Professor Lupin, who had always been popular with the students.

As Leah listened, a man suddenly sat down next to her and said, "Why did you get here?" ”

Because she was too focused before, this sudden voice startled Lia, in fact, she really almost jumped up, but fortunately, Liya heard the owner of this voice in time, she stroked her chest and said, "De...... What are you doing, you're going to scare me to death. The guy who frightened Leah was Draco Malfoy, and although she was a little frightened, she realized in time that it was not appropriate to say Draco's name here.

Draco was dressed in a wide black cloak with a hood that covered his entire face, and Leah hadn't noticed that there was an acquaintance of her in this filthy bar.

Draco looked at Leah, whose face was pale, and asked, "What were you doing, staring at a glass of beer so intoxicated?" ”

Liya couldn't say that she was eavesdropping on someone else's conversation, she responded vaguely: "I didn't do anything, I was just thinking about something, what are you doing, and you are dressed like this, looking sneaky." ”

Draco looked around, and they were talking a little louder, causing many of the guests to look at them.

Draco lowered his voice and said, "Let's go, talk somewhere else." With that, he stood up and walked outside.

Leah pursed her lips, but she followed, and after walking out of here, she muttered to herself: That's how it is at the Pig's Head Bar, it's not as interesting as Tumble Alley.

Draco walked briskly ahead, and Leah took a few steps to catch up with him, but seeing that he had picked up speed, Draco had also sped up, and it was clear that he didn't want people to see the two of them together. Leah quickly understood Draco's intentions, and she followed more than a hundred meters behind him.

Draco walked out of Hogsmeade Village, straight towards the desolate suburbs, the two of them walked one after the other for more than half an hour, and came to a large wilderness, surrounded by withered yellow artemisia grass, more than half a man tall, I don't know if there was something hidden in it or because the wind was blowing, and suddenly there was a burst of artemisia grass, which was much more exciting than in the pig's head bar.

Seeing that there was no one around, Draco stopped.

Leah walked over through the deep artemisia grass and complained, "How do you remember this place! Just now, a small animal that did not know whether it was a rabbit or a mouse flew past her feet, and the frightened Lia almost screamed, this time she came to Hogsmeade, although she did not go to the screaming shack, but she was frightened "screaming again and again".

Draco said, "What's the matter, this place is very good, there are no people around, unlike at the Pig's Head Bar, and you have to worry about someone eavesdropping on the side." ”

Not sure if it was a coincidence or if it really meant something, Draco glanced at Leah as he said his last words.

Did he find out he was eavesdropping? Liya muttered in her heart, but there was no reaction on the surface, and said, "What are you bringing me here for?" By the way, you haven't said it yet, it's mysterious to dress like this and meet someone at the pig's head bar. ”

Draco said, "I'm going to meet a Death Eater at the Hog's Head Bar, and of course I'm going to need to disguise myself. ”

"Death Eaters?" Leah was surprised and said, "How did you deal with them?" ”

Draco smiled and said, "I'm a Slytherin, and if I want to have my own place in this house, I'll have to deal with Death Eaters, and that's inevitable." ”

"But......," said Leah, "are very dangerous fellows. "Her dad was the head of the Law Enforcement Division, known for his dedication to hunting down Death Eaters, and Leah had heard of many of the horrific crimes committed by Death Eaters when she was a child, and she had the impression that Death Eaters were vicious, brutal, heinous, and that Draco was too dangerous to deal with as a third-year student.

Draco shrugged his shoulders and said, "I said, it's inevitable, I'm in this position, it's inevitable. ”

Also as a member of the history team, Liya still said with concern: "Then you have to be careful, those guys will not be afraid of blood on their hands." ”

Draco said, "It's okay, I'll take care of it, by the way, I'll ask you personally, okay?" ”

Leah said, "Who? ”

Draco named it: "Igor Karkaroff." ”

Leah thought for a moment and said, "Who is this, it sounds familiar." ”

Draco said, "He's the headmaster of Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a former Death Eater, and more importantly, a Death Eater who betrayed Voldemort. ”

It dawned on Leah and said, "Oh, I remembered, once I went...... When traveling......" The latter sentence of Liya was very vague, and she realized that she couldn't just talk about it when she had already said it.

Draco said, "You know, I'd like to ask if the Ministry of Magic has given up on prosecuting him entirely." ”

Karkaroff was a Death Eater who followed Voldemort and was captured by Moody "The Mad-Eyed" and sent to Azkaban after a six-month pursuit. Karkaroff was on trial after Voldemort's downfall and was about to face life imprisonment for Azkaban, but he made a deal with Carl Pratt, the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Leah's father, to confess the names of the other Death Eaters to the Magical Law Council as a condition of his release. This guy is also quite a person with a lot of means, after successfully evading the punishment of the law, he went abroad to avoid the limelight, and as a result, he also became the principal of Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the same as Hogwarts in Europe, and he is very capable of becoming the principal of such a school. Although it seems that he has become a bit of a success, Kakulov is still a little uneasy, he made his current life by betraying the Death Eaters, I don't know how many Death Eaters who are still loyal to Voldemort want his life, and because he is now the headmaster of Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, it is relatively safe to hide in the school. In addition, he knew that Carl Price had other undisclosed evidence about him, which meant that he could be prosecuted again at any time. Oppressed by both sides, Karkaroff wanted to make a change. (To be continued.) )