Chapter 071 should not be saved

Catherine looked down and saw the entrance to the secret passage, forming a spell with the smallest foam: "Dissendium!" ”

"Thank you very much!" Catherine immediately put away the map and rushed to the statue of the One-Eyed Witch on the fourth floor, she took out the map and looked at it carefully, and after making sure that there was no one around, she tapped the statue with her wand and said, "Dissendium!" ”

The statue's hunchback immediately opened, revealing a large hole large enough for a slightly thinner person to enter, and Catherine hurried into it, feeling the floor like a stone slide, and it had been a considerable stretch of the way before she touched the earth.

"Lumos (fluorescent flash)!" Catherine shouted with her wand raised.

Then she saw a very narrow and low passageway, and she walked along the winding, uneven passage for a long time, until Catherine began to get impatient, and a broken stone staircase appeared.

Catherine ran up at once, she thought it was almost there, but the stone steps were long, at least two or three hundred steps, and at last she saw a floor door, which she gently pushed open, and it was indeed a cellar, full of wooden chairs and crates.

"Transform into a phantom!"

Catherine first asked Tracey to prepare, then took a deep breath and slowly stretched out her left hand, nothing happened, she slowly stretched out her right hand again, and when her fingers crossed the floor door, her body immediately felt a violent pull, her breathing suddenly disappeared, and her heartbeat suddenly stopped.

"Smack!" Catherine fell back onto the stone steps and returned to the tunnel with her right hand, her breathing and heartbeat immediately resuming.

She lay on her back on the cold stone steps, staring at the faint light from the edge of the floor door, and there was no movement for a long time.

Tracey landed next to her head and rubbed Catherine's face gently, but the girl still didn't respond, trying to get someone to help, but couldn't even open the floor door, let alone open the entrance to Hogwarts.

Tracy fluttered her wings in a hurry, and the girl's hair was blown away by the breeze, revealing the necklace around her neck, and it thought of the origin of the necklace, and quickly lowered its head and pulled it out of Catherine's collar with its beak, and a faint scent of moonlight flowers permeated the small space.

"Professor!" Catherine thought it was Snape, but when she looked around, she saw that there was no one around, only Tracey looking worriedly at her.

"I'm sorry! Makes you worried! Catherine reached out and stroked her pet's head and said apologetically, "I'll go back now!" ”

She braced herself up, struggled to get up from the ground, staggered down the stone steps, stumbled through the passageway, and swayed back to the entrance of the passage with magic.

She stopped, stunned for a while, before remembering what she should do, she took out the map of the living point, observed whether anyone was passing by, cleaned up the traces on her body, and walked out when she was ready.

It was already dark, the castle lights had been lit, and the aroma of food had spread to the corridor on the fourth floor, but instead of going to the auditorium, she turned into a dark empty classroom next to it, and continued to be in a daze, until the voice of Peeves suddenly sounded in the corridor outside.

"Fool Neville Longbottom! What are you doing here? Lost again? ”

"Nope! I'm not lost! Neville's panicked voice only made Peeves even more rampant.

"Don't worry! It's okay to get lost! I'm going to take you - where you least want to go! ”

"Don't!" In a panic, Neville burst into the classroom where Catherine was staying, and Peeves flew in, grabbing the round-faced boy by the collar and dragging him out.

"Let go of me!" Neville shouted in horror when he suddenly spotted the red-haired girl, "Help! Catherine, help me! ”

“Water!” A water balloon suddenly appeared above Catherine's right hand, and she flipped her right hand and pointed at Peeves, and the water balloon immediately flew towards Peeves.

"This?!" Peeves sensed the energy contained in the water balloon, and he didn't dare to test it, so he could only quickly dodge it, but the water ball seemed to have tracking magic added to it, and no matter how he dodged, it would always circle back and continue to fly towards him.

"You're fooling!" Peeves cursed Catherine and flew out of the classroom, and the water balloon flew out unhurriedly.

"Thank you! Catherine! Neville patted his chest with apprehension and hurriedly got up to thank him, but the red-haired girl just glanced at him and continued to look out the window blankly.

"Catherine?" Neville shouted hesitantly, but received no response. "What's wrong with you?" He walked over and waved his hand in front of the girl's eyes, only to find that she seemed to be a sculpture. "Don't scare me!" He tried to shake the other party, but as soon as his hand touched her shoulder, she grabbed him. "It hurts!" The cold sweat and the round-faced boy's head popped up, and for the first time he realized that Catherine's strength was so great.

"I'm sorry!" Catherine hurriedly let go of his hand and gave Neville a simple treatment.

"What the hell is going on?" Neville asked impatiently.

Since the two met, Catherine has given Neville the impression that she is very smart and capable, and it seems that there is nothing she can't solve, and she will always be calm, except for the "memory ball incident".

But Catherine was just dull and a little lacking in spirit, not at all like she is today, languishing, desperate, and with an aura that would disappear at any moment, which scared Neville very much.

"I—" Catherine hesitated for a moment before speaking, "but something doesn't make sense. ”

"What's the matter?" Neville asked eagerly before realizing he had crossed the line, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to," he explained in a panic, "I know Slytherin is very private, I'm just worried about you, or I'm going to help you find someone, right?" He suddenly thought of a solution, "Who do you want me to call—Professor Snape, Hermione, Malfoy, Harry, or Headmaster Dumbledore—"

"No!" Catherine pressed Neville's shoulder, "I don't want to see them just yet. ”

"But—" Neville tugged at his hair, anxiously thinking of a solution, "you can't stay here like this anymore!" I don't know exactly what happened to you, but—" he said suddenly, patting his chest, "my grandmother said that a man should be responsible, so if you—" his momentum suddenly became sluggish again, "-I-I—can help you if you will, if I can!" His spirits lifted again.

Catherine looked at the round-faced boy quietly for a long time before she spoke, "You can help me." ”

"How can I help?" Neville clenched his fists, his face full of nervousness and unease, he felt that something that even Catherine couldn't solve was definitely not something he could do lightly.

"I have a doubt—" Catherine looked out the window again, her gaze becoming blank again, "if saving a man would lead to a war twenty years later, should that person be saved?" ”

"Of course I have to save it!" Neville didn't expect it to be such a simple question.

"What if that person is—" The red-haired girl looked back into Neville's eyes, "what about Bellatrix Black Lestrange?" ”

Neville froze, and immediately a tall woman with thick black hair, long eyelashes, thick eyelids, and thin lips always appeared with a haughty and contemptuous smile.

But then the madwoman was replaced by the figures of his family: emaciated, haggard, with a staggering gait, full of gray hair, disheveled, withered, unable to speak, and timid-looking parents; a grandmother who is grief-stricken but strong in the face of life, who treats herself harshly, who always remains noble, and who does not seem to know how to be tired; There are also Uncle Argil, Aunt Ani and others who have always cared for and loved him.

"I want to kill her!" Neville clenched his fists, bit his lip, and screamed in pain, "I've fantasized countless times about how I'm going to kill her!" How to return the cruel treatment that my parents endured on her! Let her taste what I had with my grandmother! But—" He let out a long breath.

"I can't do that!" He said categorically.

"You can laugh at me for being cowardly!" Neville tugged at his head, "But if I'm really happy, it's just going to make my grandma lose her motivation to survive!" Let the Longbottom family completely decline! His face seemed to have lost all vitality, only his eyes still had their brilliance, "Because I am the hope of the future!" ”

"It's not cowardice, it's not cowardice!" Catherine's tone was full of admiration, "This is a kind of bravery full of reason. ”

"Really?" Neville fiddled with his fingers with a flushed face, "Actually, this is what my grandmother taught me, I didn't understand it all along, but now I finally understand." That's right! I remember she saying something like—" He suddenly looked up at the brown eyes.

"Killing people does not solve things, no matter how much hatred, no matter how justified the reason, it is always a coward who chooses to die, and everyone who does something wrong must bear the consequences of his mistakes, and they must atone for their actions!"

"That is......," Catherine hesitated.

"If Bellatrix is going to die, I'll save her, because—" Neville said, looking up, "it doesn't take any reason to save someone!" ”

Catherine was silent.

To save a life, not every time there is enough time to think about the consequences caused by it, so instead of regretting that you didn't save it in the end, it is better to save it and then find a way to make up for the consequences caused by this behavior.

"If saving a man really leads to a war twenty years later," Catherine swore solemnly, "I will do everything in my power to prevent it from breaking out!" Even if you have to pay with your life for it! Sacrifice all! ”

"Catherine—" Neville looked at the red-haired girl in shock, "who the hell are you trying to save?" ”

"A man who almost everyone wants him dead!" Catherine said with a wry smile.

"No, it won't!" The round-faced boy shouted in disbelief, "Aren't you the enemy of all!" ”

"Enemies? Worst enemy! The red-haired girl suddenly looked out the window at the Gryffindor Tower, "That's the real reason, right?" She whispered to the old man who lived there.

"What?" Neville asked, puzzled, but Catherine didn't explain.

"Thank you for enlightening me, Neville!" Catherine smiled again, "How can I thank you?" ”