Chapter 34: After the Fact

It was a long time before they gasped and sat down on the couch, not moving or talking.

"What the hell are they trying to do, lock up such a thing in school!" Finally, Ron said, "If there's one dog that needs to be trained, it's this one." ”

"It was because he was guarding something, the three-headed dog was standing on a trapdoor with a chain around his neck, obviously being put there to guard something. Seamus said slowly.

"Trapdoor?" Harry guessed. "I didn't look at its feet, I looked at its head. ”

Hermione's breath evened out, but her bad temper returned, and she said angrily, "It's standing on a trapdoor." It's clearly guarding something. ”

She stood up and glared angrily at Harry and Ron, "I want you to feel proud of yourselves, we all almost got bitten to death, or worse, expelled from school. ”

Then he turned his head and glared at Seamo: "And you, also messing around together, do you think you are more powerful than the three-headed dog." ”

Seamus also stood up and patted Hermione on the shoulder comfortingly, "Don't be so angry, you go to sleep first, I'll explain to you tomorrow, you're tired of running tonight." ”

Hermione didn't say anything more, glared at Seamus fiercely, and then turned to leave and go back to the bedroom.

Ron was furious, "What's this called? It's like we want to meet that three-headed dog." ”

I did want to meet the three-headed dog, and I could even say that I went to the three-headed dog. However, the experience was indeed somewhat thrilling, and despite knowing that something could not happen, the three-headed dog was also chained. But in the face of such a huge difference in size, the low roar generated by the resonance of the huge chest cavity made him panic, as if he were a small boat tossed and undulating in the waves.

"You mean it's guarding something?" Harry spoke again, not at all afraid.

It turns out that I'm far from a big nervous bar, look at these two people, one is still immersed in anger at Hermione, and the other is already thinking about the guards.

I just experienced a life-and-death crisis, and it was less than 10 minutes, and I left it behind, which is the nerve of the serious eight classics.

"Yes, I just don't know what I'm watching. Although Seamus knew what was inside, he couldn't tell them.

"I probably know what's hidden inside. Harry thought for a moment, "On July 31st, Hagrid and I went to Gringotts to pick up a small package, and he said that Professor Dumbledore told him to get it. ”

What did Hagrid say, if you want to hide something, Gringotts is the safest place in the world, except for Hogwarts, presumably.

It seems that Harry has figured out the whereabouts of that filthy little parcel in Vault 713.

Ron couldn't help but wonder, "What's in that package?" Why did Professor Dumbledore put it in Hogwarts? ”

"It's either particularly valuable or dangerous. Ron made his own guess.

"Or both. Harry said.

Seamus was in no mood to care about the discussion between them, it was almost dawn, and he was very tired from this night's travel, so he had to hurry up and go to sleep, "Go to sleep, don't think about it so much." ”

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Early in the morning of the second day, Hermione had completely stopped caring about the matter and was no longer talking to Harry and Ron, and although it had made Seamus's efforts for so long come to naught, Harry and Ron were very happy.

Because Hermione didn't treat them like she did towards Seamus, always with a commanding attitude.

They only wanted to find out what the three-headed dog was guarding now, but the only thing they knew for sure about the mysterious object was that it was two inches long. Without more clues, it's impossible to guess what it is.

Seamus wasn't in a hurry, anyway, depending on how leaked Hagrid was, they would always find out about it.

Sometimes Seamus wondered if Professor Dumbledore had deliberately asked Hagrid to fetch the Philosopher's Stone, and then leaked a little bit of information from time to time to train a new generation of saviors.

But the most important thing now is to comfort Hermione, after waking up this morning, Hermione glared at him as soon as they met, and didn't want to talk to him at all.

There was nothing to be done, and when she was eating breakfast in the Great Hall, Hermione was sitting far away from him. Seamus could only sit next to her with a dead face, and ate breakfast quietly, after all the food on the table disappeared, before Seamus could speak, Hermione couldn't help but speak.

"I'm going to the library now, please don't follow me. ”

It seemed that Hermione was very dissatisfied with his behavior last night, and Seamus hurriedly said, "Hermione, come with me, find a place and I will explain to you." ”

With that, he turned and walked out, leaving the auditorium and walking towards the back of the castle, a place that was not often visited. In this season, there is only a courtyard covered with fallen leaves, and a bell tower that is not cleaned, and at most at night, there are couples who go to that place.

Hermione didn't want to go along, but she couldn't hold back her curiosity and went with her.

They came to the upper floor of the bell tower, next to which was a huge clock dial, with light shining through the glass, and three huge hands casting shadows on it.

"Hermione, come here. Seamus looked at Hermione, who was several meters away from him, and raised his hand to beckon her to come closer.

"It was an accident to meet the three-headed dog last night, and I followed them just to prevent them from having problems, because with Malfoy's personality, I had long thought of this kind of thing. Seamus said slowly, "But now that we have discovered such a terrible thing, although there is a professor to protect us, we still have to strengthen our own self-protection ability, and we can't be like those two people who have no sense of security, and we haven't gotten up until now." ”

As she spoke, she took out a book that read "18th Century Self-Defense Charms", which Hermione had seen when they were shopping together in Diagon Alley, but unfortunately had to give up because it was too expensive.

Now that she had seen the book again, Hermione put all the questions behind her at once, took the book at once, turned the title page, and prepared to start reading here.

Seamus also breathed a sigh of relief, whether it was burying Harry and them, or using books to seduce Hermione, this matter was finally over, anyway, there was no problem for friends to sell them once in a while.

However, I still have to thank the wizarding world for setting the price of books so expensive, probably because there are few people who buy them and the number of products produced is not much, which leads to high costs. The price of textbooks is still in an acceptable range, but for some relatively niche books, the price is sky.

"Hermione, don't worry, I haven't learned all the magic in this book, and we may have to find a place to practice together in the future. ”