Chapter Twenty-Six: Sell Hermione for Candy

The explosion frightened everyone, and even Professor Flitwick, who was standing on a stack of books, was so frightened that he could not see anyone. After he got up with his book propped up, Neville, whose face was blackened by the explosion, said sluggishly, "Professor, we should need a feather on our side." ”

Professor Flitwick cleared his throat, "No, you don't need a new feather. ”

Seamus's appearance of exploding whenever he casts a spell has already been ingrained in the hearts of all professors.

"No, I need to!" exclaimed Seamus as he stared at Professor Flitwick.

"Ahem," Professor Flitwick pretended not to hear Seamuth, he wasn't going to give Seamus a new feather anyway, it was too dangerous and too sorry for Neville. He smiled at Dudley and said, "Mr. Dursley, I heard from Ms. Hooch that your float is perfectly used, so you might as well show us how to do it." ”

"Hmm... I guess I don't need to, if the professor needs someone to demonstrate, I'd recommend Harry or Hermione, both of them are perfect for levitation. ”

Professor Flitwick didn't expect Dudley to refuse, but it would be nice to have someone else to demonstrate, and he said, "Then Mr. Potter will show you how." ”

"Professor," called Malfoy, waving and shaking his wand, "float into the air." ”

The feather floated upwards slowly, and he controlled the feather to gently swipe Ron's cheek, and in an instant Ron's face turned red, as if he had been slapped in the face, and then the feather flew in front of Harry, shaking left and right.

Malfoy had changed a bit since the last duel, and although he was still targeting Harry, he began to study in earnest, Dudley could sometimes be seen secretly practicing spells in the woods, and in the last few days he had been pestering Harry to duel again.

Not to be outdone, Harry controlled the feathers and flew in circles in front of Malfoy.

"Good, good, very good," Professor Flitwick grinned, "five points each for Slytherin and Gryffindor." ”

Harry and Malfoy stopped casting spells, their feathers falling vertically, and Dudley wondered if they were exchanging tokens. He shivered and shuddered.

"Now you can try it out on your own, and you must remember what I said. ”

The little wizards took action one after another, some people waved their wands without any reaction at all, and some people only had a slight fluctuation of their feathers after waving them, which was caused by an unstable state of mind and being too happy to see the feathers moving.

Ron at the other table was the first, "Float into the air!" he shouted, waving his two long arms like a windmill, and he looked like King Kong now.

"Stop, stop," Hermione said, making a gesture of blocking the attack, "You're going to poke someone else, and besides, you're reading it wrong." ”

Hermione rolled up her sleeves, waved her wand, and said, "Float into the air!"

Her feather rose from the table and floated four feet above her head.

"That's right, Dudley has taught you many times. ”

"You don't have to worry about my business," Ron growled, "and he only taught us theory. ”

"Ron!" Hermione blushed, she was angry, Ron didn't know what to do, and it wasn't Dudley who only wanted to teach theory, she secretly looked at Dudley, and found that his face hadn't changed so she said, "That's how Harry and I learned, it's obvious that you don't learn it seriously!"

Hermione and Ron didn't speak again for the whole class, Hermione had a small face, and Ron was even more depressed.

"I'm really fed up, no wonder everyone can't stand her. As soon as class ended, Ron ran over and complained loudly, "She's a nightmare, and to be honest, even her roommates don't like her, so Dudley you can put up with her." ”

Ron spoke like a machine gun, and Dudley didn't even have a chance to stop it. After he came into contact with it during this period of time, he found that Ron really had an empty head and didn't speak through his brain, which was his character, no matter who he was.

Hermione slammed to her feet, her hands propped up on the table, her head bowed, her face completely obscured by her unkempt hair.

"Hermione......" Dudley had just called out her name, and she turned and ran out of the classroom without even holding the book.

"Ron, you've really gone too far this time. Dudley stared at him disapprehended.

Dudley's eyes made Ron feel uncomfortable, and he vaguely regretted it, but he still stubbornly muttered, "It's the truth." ”

"She will only say this to you if she treats you as a friend, and use your brain to think about the consequences of what you say before you speak, because once you say it, you can't take it back. Words are like spells, and if used incorrectly, they can turn into terrible and unforgivable spells. Because of a mistake in one sentence, you may lose your lifelong best friend, and you may never see each other again. Dudley patted Ron on the shoulder and sighed.

He went straight to the toilet and saw a beautiful brunette girl coming out of the toilet.

"Parvati Patil, is Hermione in there?"

"Yes, she cried very sadly inside, and she didn't let others comfort her. You're looking for her? Get in, there's no one in there. Parvati Patil covered her mouth and smiled.

Dudley thanked him and pushed open the door and walked in, and he could vaguely hear Patil outside the door muttering to himself, "I envy Hermione, if only someone could break into the women's bathroom and come to me when I'm sad." He smiled helplessly, is Petyr, an eleven-year-old girl, so precocious, thinking about messy things all day long, he and Hermione are obviously pure revolutionary friendships, and he didn't create it, but walked in openly.

Dudley entered, and heard Hermione's crying, and it was from the middle that he gently pushed the door, which was locked. He glanced up and down, and the bottom couldn't get in, only the top could be turned in, fortunately, this wasn't like the toilet in his previous life was blocked up and down, otherwise he would just stand outside the door and stare dryly.

Dudley half-crouched and strained his legs, and he jumped as high as the edge of the door, and hung on the door with his hands outstretched.

Hermione was sitting on the toilet seat, hugging her legs and crying.

"Hey! ”

Hermione was startled at Dudley's voice, and she followed it to see Dudley smirking on the edge of the door.

"It's... This is... It's the women's bathroom!" Hermione said stably, sobbing.

"Yes," Dudley said with a hippie smile now like a sloth, "I know." Can you open the door first, I'm so tired of hanging like this, or I'll come in!"

Hermione hurried to stop Dudley, and she said, "No, don't, you go down first, I'll come out." ”

Dudley jumped down as soon as he let go of his hands, and then Hermione opened the door and walked out, he stepped forward to pull Hermione's hair and gently wiped the tears from her face, "Look at you, you're crying like a little cat." ”

"No, I didn't cry," Hermione took a few steps back in panic and quickly wiped her face with her sleeve, "How did you get in?"

"You... Crying stupidly? Of course I walked in. ”

"Shhh ”

Hermione's hair was unkempt, "Who's going to the men's bathroom!"

"Let's go, I'll take you somewhere. Dudley smoothed Hermione's hair, grabbed her wrist and ran outside without her permission.

Dudley led Hermione to the middle of the hallway on the fourth floor, where a statue of a hunchbacked one-eyed witch was placed. And this statue is the secret passage to the confectionery shop of Duke Honey in Hogsmeade.

It was a month ago that Dudley woke up very early and went out to wander around with nothing to do, just in time to meet the Weasley twins who had come out of here after returning from a night trip.

To say that Dudley was lucky, he couldn't be detected by the live point map when he lost his magic power, otherwise he wouldn't have bumped into the Weasley brothers, he shamelessly borrowed the live point map to look at it, and memorized most of the secret passages above.

"Take out your wand and say to it to separate left and right. Dudley said.

Hermione obediently took out her wand and pointed at the statue and said, "Left and right separation." Suddenly, the statue's hunchback opened, and the hole was just big enough for a person to burrow.

"What is this?"

"Don't ask, get in. Dudley pushed Hermione straight in, and when Dudley got in, the hole was so small that he wouldn't have been able to get in if Dudley hadn't lost weight now.

Dudley seemed to have slid a long distance down the stone slide when he entered. Then Hermione cried out in pain, "Get up, you're holding me down." ”

Dudley quickly got up and pulled Hermione up.

"Fluorescent flicker!"

Dudley's eyes lit up, and he saw Hermione rubbing her shoulders in pain, "I'm sorry, I didn't know it was going to slip down." ”

Hermione took her wand around and asked, "Where is this?"

"Secret passages, leading to outside the school. Dudley gave a wicked grin, "I made an agreement with a dark wizard to sell you to him, and he will give me a large sum of gold Galleons, and I have been short of money to buy candy lately." ”

Hermione suddenly laughed and then said with a straight face, "Childish!"

"If you don't believe it, go ahead. Dudley said, pointing to a narrow, low dirt passage in front of him.

The passage was very winding, more like a giant rabbit hole, and they walked very carefully, lest they stumble over the uneven ground.

After they had walked for about an hour, the passage began to rise, and some distance further on came a dilapidated stone staircase that stretched out unseen above, and a trapdoor at the top of the staircase.

"Give me a spot and let me go to the front. Dudley stepped forward and put his ear to the trapdoor to listen, but all he could hear was the nervous breathing of him and Hermione, and it was the first time he had walked through this secret passage.

He slowly pushed open the trapdoor and peeked through the crack, it was a cellar full of crates and other wooden boxes, Dudley climbed up and pulled Hermione up, and closed the trapdoor again, it was so integrated with the gray floor that it was impossible to see.

Dudley led Hermione quietly towards the wooden staircase leading to the upper floor.