Chapter 034 The weight of the two interests is the same

As soon as it saw Catherine, it lunged at her, and the red-haired girl punched it in the chest, causing the gargoyle to shake and fall to the ground.

"I wondered why there were only seven?" Catherine threw out the box containing the remains of the other gargoyles, "It turned out to be late. ”

"Whatever!" "I think they deserve to be punished, they completely disregard the safety of their classmates and ...... at will"

"I know it all, Severus!" Dumbledore pressed his temple and weakly interrupted Snape, "I only have one question, Catherine, if you can tell Draco to inform Severus, why didn't you alert Harry and Ron?" ”

"I tried to break through the blockade and got hurt." Catherine said with a straight face, "Besides, I don't think Harry's owl will be able to send his letter for help, after all, they have gone to great lengths to prevent him from contacting the wizarding world. ”

"Looks like this is a tough opponent!" Dumbledore said earnestly, and Catherine almost couldn't help laughing, "We need to be cautious, but on the surface we'd better pretend it's nothing." ”

"You're going to let them go, aren't you?" Snape glared, "Just like then—"

"Severus!" Dumbledore suddenly raised his voice to interrupt Snape, "They are only children, children will always do wrong things, we must forgive and guide them to the right path." He was expecting something to Catherine.

"Don't point to Sang and scold Huai!" Catherine complained dissatisfiedly, "I wasn't the one who made the wrong choice, they were already flying in the sky when I was able to speak, if it weren't for me, I really don't know if they would end up in that ravine, the car's landing gear was broken down by Mr. Weasley, so even if they could make it to Hogwarts, they would fall from the sky, whether they would hit the castle, or fall into the lake, or if they were lucky enough to fall into the tree, and maybe avoid breaking their necks, oh, except for the beating willows, of course." ”

"How dare you drive this broken car against seven gargoyles." Snape growled.

"First of all, I'm familiar with its structure and know how to avoid its shortcomings;" Catherine calmly replied, "Secondly, I am the only one of the three who has a car and helicopter driver's license. ”

"Bring it!" Snape suddenly stretched out his hand.

"Driver's license?" Catherine asked hesitantly, "It's all in Butterfly Manor, and I didn't think I'd ever use them in the wizarding world. ”

Snape fell silent.

"That's it! Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley will be locked up, so let's deal with this matter—" Dumbledore got up and walked over to the fireplace, "I have to go to the Ministry of Magic now." ”

"And what about the newspapers?" Catherine still sat in her chair, "I don't think the flying car will go undetected after they broke the stealth device, I'm just glad that the Muggle Expulsion Charm on it didn't fail before landing, otherwise it would not only be the gargoyles, but also the Muggle Ministry of Defense anti-aircraft missiles." ”

Snape and Dumbledore were stupid, years of living in the wizarding world had made them even less aware of how the Muggle world would react to a car that could fly into the sky, and finally the Sorting Hat on the shelf summed up the matter.

"The weight of the two benefits is the heavier, and the lesser of the two evils."

That's right, everything in the world can never go as planned, there will always be times when you are in a dilemma, and just like this, you can only avoid the important and trivialize, otherwise if someone uses a gargoyle to track Harry, it will definitely cause a huge uproar.

Therefore, although the "Prophet Evening News" made headlines about the speeding car incident, it did not point out who was in the car, let alone mention the gargoyle, but only faintly pointed the finger at Arthur.

The students naturally knew that Harry and Ron were in the car, after all, the four brothers and sisters Hermione and Weasley found the back of the car with great fanfare, and even attracted many first-year onlookers, so the Gryffindor table was very lively from the moment the students arrived at the school, but the two boys who were bombarded by Lockhart all afternoon had no energy to coax their classmates.

As for the Slytherins, they were much better informed, and the train already knew what was going on before it arrived, so it was naturally told what to do.

But when Draco, who was most anxious, hurried to the Great Hall and saw Catherine, who was leisurely drinking tea and reading the newspaper, he suddenly sat quietly opposite her and drank tea, so the other Slytherins were stupid.

They had hoped to use Draco's mouth to get some information, but after a summer vacation, this young Master Malfoy actually learned to hang people's appetites, which couldn't help but make everyone grit their teeth with hatred.

The problem was that the entire second year was super united in keeping silent, even Crabbe and Goyle pretended to drink their tea, and the Slytherin of the other years had to hide their faces until Ixissi's arrival.

"Looks like you're having a good summer! Catherine! Ixissi walked straight up to Draco, and Brace gave up his place next to the Earth King.

"Very exciting! Ixesi senior. "Catherine didn't have a zài when Ixissi, after all, Slytherin was a house of status, and she had to give it enough respect.

"I heard there are seven of them?" Ixissi sat down and asked curiously.

"There's a late one." Catherine smiled.

"So," Ixissi lowered his voice, "I can know how you-" He blinked deliberately.

Catherine smiled brightly, and reached out her right hand to Ixissi, her thumb, index finger and middle finger pinched together, and rubbed her fingertips at him.

For a moment, all the Slytherins they saw were dumbfounded, they knew very well the meaning of this action, and they never thought they would see it in a Slytherin.

"Catherine, are you short of money?" Draco couldn't help but ask.

"I spent a third of my property over the summer." Catherine sighed helplessly.

The Slytherins had all heard of Catherine's fortune, and knew that it was a huge number, and a third of it was also very staggering, and all Slytherin gasped at the thought of it, because they knew that the red-haired girl was blackmailing.

Why? Because Gringotts, under the collective pressure of the magnates, was forced to tell the amount of money that Catherine spent during the summer vacation, although it is impossible to trace the exact whereabouts, it is obviously far from the figure of one-third of his total wealth.

But even if they knew that Catherine was blackmailing, the Slytherins did not dare to be too expensive, because in the past five hundred years, the powerful people of the wizarding world have tried all means to obtain the slightest information about the "DMCC", although a large part of this is due to the inaction of Harry's ancestors, but there is no doubt about it, it's just-

"Can it be cheaper?" Ixissi asked cautiously.

"Of course!" Catherine smiled even brighter, "As long as you make a choice." ”

Ixace frowned slightly and said, "I need to think carefully. ”

"Time is running out." Catherine put away her smile and said with a straight face.

Ixacey nodded and got up to her seat, where the second-year all looked at Catherine with a strange expression, but she watched the sorting ceremony with relish as if she hadn't noticed.

Apparently it was a tradition in the British wizarding world not to tell the details of the sorting ceremony, and the first-year students followed Professor McGonagall into the auditorium with trepidation, and it was only after listening to the new song of the Sorting Hat that they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Halfway through the sorting ceremony, Catherine discovered a strange phenomenon that the four little girls she met at the Blotted Bookstore during the summer vacation might actually be divided into four houses.

Asteria was the first to be called, and the Sorting Hat hesitated before sorting her to Slytherin; The second one was called the black-haired, black-eyed girl she met at the top of the staircase, her name was Megan Jones, and as soon as the Sorting Hat touched her hair, she shouted "Hufflepuff"; The third was a blonde girl looking at Egyptian Mythology upside down, her name was Luna Lovegood, and she had very hazy silver-gray eyes, and the Sorting Hat thought for nearly a minute before deciding to let her into Ravenclaw; Ginny was the last girl Catherine knew, and because of her family's last name, she naturally went to Gryffindor to join her brothers.

After the sorting ceremony, Dumbledore began his speech, followed by an introduction to Gilderoy Lockhart, the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor this year, before Lockhart began his speech.

The Slytherin second-year seats were closest to the entrance to the Great Hall, so the cold wind that poured into the castle was always the first to care for them, and in previous years there were always complaints, but this year they were glad that it was the farthest from the professorship, and they didn't have to face Lockhart like everyone else, and the body of the senior effectively helped them block the view of the speaker.

Fifteen minutes later, Lockhart temporarily stopped his nonsense, raised his goblet and drank water to moisten his throat, Dumbledore took the opportunity to announce the start of dinner, and everyone's ears were freed, but after dinner, they were once again destroyed, hundreds of versions of the school song were sung, which was a noise pollution that even Lockhart dwarfed, Catherine quietly added a "closed earbud to listen" to avoid the storm.

When they returned to the common room and listened to Snape's lecture, the Slytherins came alive in an instant, with Kensault still leading the first year back to rest, and Ixissi began to set up the scene for the "Chief Competition".

"I think you can't wait to get started." Standing in the middle of the common room, Ikossi said to the surrounding Slytherins, "However, I'm going to re-announce the rules for the sake of the new second year." ”

All the tables and chairs in the common room were magically pushed by the seniors to the surrounding walls, and the serpents carved into the massive stone pillars were activated by the Serpent Ring by Ixissi, and they crawled and circled in a circle to form an enchantment to challenge.

This is the full version of the Serpent Enchantment, which has more protection than the one Catherine saw last year, which can ensure that the participants will never accidentally injure the audience, and also has more powerful repair power, which is why Slytherin dared to hold the main competition without the presence of the professor.