Chapter 055 Adventures in the Headmaster's Office

This beautiful circular room is filled with all sorts of funny little sounds. On the table with slender legs, there were many strange silverwares, spinning and belching small puffs of smoke. The legs of the huge table in the room were claw-shaped, and the Sorting Hat was on a shelf behind the desk.

Harry hesitated, he looked warily at the sleeping headmasters, he was a little flustered by the rumors that had been circulating lately, and he wanted to make sure it had placed itself in the right house.

Harry crept around the table, picked up the hat from the shelf, and slowly snapped it over his head. The hat was so big that it slipped down to cover his eyes, just like he had when he first wore it.

"Something, Harry Potter?" The Sorting Hat's whisper rang in his ears.

"Oh yes." Harry whispered indistinctly, "Oh-sorry to bother you-I wanted to ask-"

"You've always wondered if I put you in the right college." The Sorting Hat said smartly, "Yes...... Your position is particularly difficult to pinpoint, but I stick to what I said—" Harry's heart pounded—"you'd be a good fit in Slytherin, just like Catherine." ”

"Catherine? Wait a minute—" Harry exclaimed, "Is it because we're all snake-tongued people that you think we'd be a good fit in Slytherin?" ”

"Yes!" The Sorting Hat moved, "It's very rare, there are two snake men in a single grade, not even in the heyday of the Slytherins. "To tell you the truth, I should have sorted you all into Slytherin the first moment I found out that you were all snake-skinned, but you weren't as pure as Catherine, so I had to consult you, like fifty-four years ago, but he chose to go and you chose not to go." ”

"He—is—who?" Harry asked hesitantly.

"Tom Riddle! Of course he doesn't call that name anymore—"

"Where else can he go?" Harry interrupted the Sorting Hat's memories.

"Ravenclaw!" The Sorting Hat's voice suddenly became agitated, "I should have separated him in the first place, he obviously inherited Rowena's madness. ”

"Oh-" Harry replied, grabbing the top of his hat and putting it back on the shelf, before hearing a strange suffocating sound behind him.

Harry jerked around and saw a bare, bird or chicken, standing on a tall gilded perch behind the door, suddenly on fire.

Harry screamed in horror and slammed backwards into the table, looking around anxiously for a glass of water or something, but he didn't see it. At the same time, the bird had turned into a ball of fire, and it screamed and then vanished, leaving only a pile of ashes on the floor that had not been completely extinguished.

The office door opened, and Dumbledore walked in, looking very relaxed.

"Professor," Harry gasped, "your pet - I can't help it - it suddenly caught fire—"

To Harry's great surprise, Dumbledore burst out laughing.

"Great, it's finally nirvana!" Dumbledore walked over to the pile of ashes and crouched down, "Fawkes was dying, but Severus plucked its fur so that it could only delay this nirvana. ”

"Snape plucked its hair?" Harry was surprised to walk up to Dumbledore and see a small, crumpled chick poking its head out of the ashes, still ugly, but much better than before.

"You should add the Professor, Harry!" Dumbledore took out a bird's nest from the cabinet next to him, carefully picked up Little Fawkes and put it in, then grabbed the ashes and sprinkled them lightly around it, "Phoenix feathers are very rare potion materials, Severus has been coveting them for a long time. ”

Harry shuddered, he thought of Catherine's bracelet, it was obvious that her pet Bluebird had been murdered, and Snape's current pet, the millennium basilisk Douglas, was unlikely to be spared, but it had to be used to confuse Voldemort who was making waves at Hogwarts for the time being.

"It's a shame that you had to see it on Nirvana Day." Dumbledore clapped his hands lightly and carefully slapped all the ashes down in the nest, Fawkes clearly liked the ashes and kept burrowing through them, "It was very beautiful most of the time, with stunning red and gold feathers all over its body. The phoenix is really a very strange and fascinating life. They can carry extremely heavy things, their tears are healing, and they are especially loyal pets. ”

"It's amazing!" Harry exclaimed, seeing that Dumbledore was about to get up, he hurriedly reached out to help him.

"Thank you, Harry!" Dumbledore patted the boy's hand and walked towards the fireplace with a sturdy stride, "I think they should be in a hurry!" ”

With a loud bang, the office door was slammed open, and Hagrid rushed in, his eyes swelling with rage, a woollen helmet hat covered with snowflakes on top of his black, unkempt head, and a dead rooster shaking in his large gloved hand.

"Not Harry, Professor Dumbledore!" Hagrid said eagerly, "...... You've caught the wrong person, sir, and I know Harry didn't—"

"Hagrid, I'm fine!" Harry interrupted the giant with a loud shout, "Dumbledore knows I'm not the heir of Slytherin. ”

"Huh?" Hagrid looked at Dumbledore in surprise, and when he saw him nod, his expression suddenly became very embarrassed, "I'm sorry, Headmaster, okay, I'll wait outside for orders." He stamped heavily to the door, the rooster hanging limply at his side.

"Hagrid!" Dumbledore stopped him, "You can wait for me here," the old headmaster pulled out a huge chair out of thin air, "I'll accompany Harry to the medical wing and I'll be back." ”

"It's okay! Go ahead! It's okay to take your time! Ouch! Hagrid tried to reach out and save his head, but forgot the dead rooster in his hand, so he slapped the rooster's beak on the helmet, "It's just that there's something to deal with these poor roosters, it's the second one to be killed this semester, I want to ask you to allow me to do a protective spell!" ”

Hagrid tried to pull the dead off its head, but he used too much force, and instead ripped off its neck, spilling blood, "Sorry! Professor Dumbledore! I didn't mean to! I'll wipe it clean for you right away! He fumbled in his pockets and searched around, the dead rooster with a broken neck on his hand dangling, and the blood on the ground became even more abundant.

"Hagrid! Let go! Dumbledore commanded loudly, Hagrid busily complied, the dead rooster fell to the floor with a "snap", the headmaster waved his wand slightly, and the dead rooster and the blood on the ground disappeared, leaving only its head still nailed to Hagrid's head, "You go back and wait for me, I'll go over the medical wing." ”

"Okay!" Hagrid answered, walked quickly out of Dumbledore's office, and slammed the door shut.

"Let's go! Harry! Dumbledore touched his head and walked into the fireplace first, followed by the black-haired boy.

"Quiet!" As soon as Harry arrived at the medical wing, he heard Madam Pomfrey shouting, and the Hufflepuff sophomores were thrown out en masse.

Harry cautiously dodged Madam Pomfrey, who was still in "rampage mode", and ran into Colin's hospital room, where he found the other six.

"You've left me alone!" Harry yelled angrily at Catherine and Draco, "Why didn't Peeves find you? ”

"I just put a disillusionment charm on myself." Catherine said lightly, and Draco pressed the pin of his tie before he vanished.

"So I have to stay there and be watched!" Harry bit his lower lip with tears in his eyes, his voice full of grief.

"I'm asking Professor McGonagall to come and save you!" Catherine blinked innocently, and Harry felt like an abandoned puppy.

Because of the timely response of the seven children, and the fact that the parties collectively concealed what happened to Nick, the unease only became more tense than deteriorated into panic, but instead of being praised, they had to go to Snape's office and stay in lockdown for ten nights, meaning they had to stay at Hogwarts this Christmas.

The content of the confinement was duel training, and the two trios were broken up by Snape, Draco and Harry in a group, Blaise and Ron in a group, and Pansy and Hermione in a group, all super "wonderful" combinations.

More than a year of hostility forced them to exert all their strength and mind in every training session in order to achieve victory for the day. Because Snape said that the three people who lost the most will be his dueling opponents in the last confinement, and the opponent of the remaining three will be Catherine.

Catherine's duel training always began after the six of them had decided the winner, and it was Snape who accompanied her in training, and the training content benefited the other six a lot, and they were also terrified, and they found that even if it was a group of three, against Catherine or Snape, it was only for the sake of abuse.

Therefore, they had to seize the time to master more magic and familiarize themselves with each other's personalities and habits when they were approaching the holidays, so as not to become a burden to their comrades on the last day, and naturally they had no time to pay attention to the dynamics of other students.

Despite Professor McGonagall's cover, Peeves told him about what he had seen at the time, and the version became more and more bizarre and exaggerated, so most of the students believed the rumors that Harry was the heir of Slytherin.

When Harry appeared, the students in the hallway who had listened to the rumors would immediately hide to either side, as if he would grow fangs and spew poisonous juice at any moment; When he walked by, they all pointed and muttered.

Only Fred and George thought this rumor was ridiculous, and they ran up the hallway in front of Harry, striding with their heads held high, shouting, "Make way for the heirs of Slytherin, the most evil wizards are ......"

Percy was unhappy with this behavior. "It's not something to make fun of." He always coldly scolded his brothers, and Harry understood that it was his concern for him, even though he was more in favor of the twins' approach.