At breakfast on Monday, Ron wasn't in a good mood at all.

"Where did you go yesterday?" Ron asked again, "I saw you running into the woods. ”

Hermione said impatiently, "I'm saying it again, it's a secret. And what does it have to do with you? ”

"Okay, good." Ron angrily slammed the spoon into the bowl.

"Where the hell did you go yesterday?" Harry whispered to Karthas on the side,

"Trust me, you'll find out in a moment."

The owls flew in, and Hermione looked up eagerly. She seemed to be looking forward to something.

"Do you have a letter?" Karthas said.

"Oh yes," said Hermione, "I ordered a copy of the Daily Prophet. Now that I know everything from the Slytherins, I'm annoyed. ”

"Great idea!" Harry said, looking up at the owls as well, "Hey, Hermione, I think you're lucky—"

A gray owl flew towards Hermione.

"But it didn't bring a newspaper." She said, looking a little disappointed, "It's—"

Unexpectedly, after the gray owl settled on the plate in front of her, four barn owls, a tan owl and a gray forest owl flew next.

"Be careful, Hermione." As he spoke, Karthas pulled his wand out of his bosom and cast a spell on Hermione.

"What is this?" Hermione said as she opened the letter,

"Protective spells." Karthas said.

"Hell, what the hell—" Hermione said, taking the letter from the gray owl and reading it, "Oops, oops! She said angrily, her face flushed.

"What's going on?" Karthas said he took a letter and opened it, and saw that it was not handwritten, but as if it had been spelled out of letters cut out of Wizard's Weekly.

You're a bad girl. Harry Potter deserves a better girl. Go back to your Muggle home.

"It's all these kinds of letters!" Hermione opened the letter one by one and said in despair, "Karthhas would have a crush on a girl like you...... You should be boiled in green algae...... Alas! ”

As soon as she opened the last envelope, a stream of yellow-green liquid sprayed onto her hands, but luckily the spell that Karthas had cast on her bounced the liquid open, and a few drops splashed on Karthas's body, and Karthas's clothes immediately broke several large holes.

"Undiluted Babo tubers have pus!" Karthas said with a frown, looking at his clothes, "This is the second outfit I've changed this semester." ”

Hermione looked at the gaping holes in Karthas's clothes, "I'm sorry for you, Carl. She kissed Karthas excitedly, "Your clothes ......"

"I'll go back and change one later, but fortunately I've prepared a few more for this semester."

Ron snorted, got up and left.

Harry shouted at Ron a few times, but didn't get a response, "What's wrong with him?" ”

"I don't know."

Hagrid had told them in the previous lesson that he had finished his knowledge of unicorns, and he was standing outside the hut waiting for his classmates, with some open cardboard boxes at his feet that they had never seen before. Inside were some fluffy black guys, with long noses and flat front paws, like shovels, which were very peculiar. They looked up and winked at the class, seemingly confused in the face of so many people's attention.

"These are sniffs," Hagrid and the others gathered together, "and they are usually seen in the mines." They love things that are shiny...... No, look. ”

A sniffer suddenly jumped to his feet and tried to bite off the watch on Pansy Parkinson's wrist. Pansy screamed and backed away.

"Very useful little ———

"Sorry, Hagrid, I'm late." Karthhas had just arrived at this time, and by this time he had already changed into a new dress.

"Oh, that's okay." Hagrid said happily, waving his hand at Karthus, "Come on, I've brought you some good stuff today, and you can have fun with them today." See there? He pointed to the large expanse of newly opened land, "I buried a few gold coins. Whoever picks the most gold coins will be rewarded by Sniff. You take off everything you paid for, then pick a sniff, get ready, and let them go. ”

Karthas casually picked up one and sniffed it. It looked at Karthas with wide eyes, and Karthas looked at it for a moment with some amusement.

"Are you okay?" Hermione said as she looked at Kartha's new robes, holding one in her hand as well.

"It's okay, it's just a pity for this dress."

"yes," Ron said in a strange voice, "a piece of clothing...... Isn't it worth it? ”

Karthas looked at Ron, "What do you want to say?" Ron? ”

"It's fine." He turned and walked away.

Aside from this little episode, this lesson was quite interesting. Sniff burrowed in and out of the field as if in water, and each one hurried to the classmate who let them go, and spat out the gold coins into their hands. Harry's harvest was particularly high, and his thighs were soon piled up with gold coins.

"Alright, I'll see how you guys are doing!" Hagrid said. "Count your coins! It's useless to steal it, Goyle," he said, narrowing his sparkling black eyes, "it's the leprechaun's gold coin, and it's gone in a few hours. ”

Goyle pulled out the gold coins from his pocket and looked sad. The end result turned out to be Ron's sniffing victory, and Hagrid rewarded him with a chunk of Duke Honey's chocolate. The bell for lunch rang from the other side of the venue, and the rest of the students left for the castle.

"Alright, let's go eat too." Hagrid said, moving the sniffing cardboard box to the base of the hut's wall, "I'd have to watch out for these little ones, or it would be terrible to let them go."

But Ron frowned and said nothing.

"What's going on?" Harry asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"You too," Ron said a little impatiently, "why don't you tell me about the gold?" ”

"What gold?" Harry asked.

"The gold I gave you at the World Cup," Ron said angrily, "the gold of those leprechauns, I used to trade them for my panoramic telescope." On the top floor of the box. They're gone, why didn't you tell me? ”

"Oh......" Harry seemed to remember at last, "I don't know...... I didn't even notice they were gone. I'm only thinking about my wand, am I? ”

Ron suddenly burst into a sentence, "There is too much money to count, and I didn't even notice that a bag of gold coins was missing." Then he walked away quickly, and no matter what Harry called him, he wouldn't respond.

Harry frowned as he looked at Ron's back, "What the hell is wrong with him?" ”

Karthas thought thoughtfully, but did not speak.

Over the next week, Hermione continued to receive malicious letters that exploded on Gryffindor's desk, screaming insults for the entire auditorium to hear. Even those who don't read Wizarding Weekly know the relationship between Harry and Hermione and Karthus.

Harry kept explaining to Karthas,

"No need to explain, Harry." Karthas said.

This incident seems to have hurt Hermione so much that she has been frowning all the time.

"Don't think about it," Karthhas said to Hermione, "there's no point in thinking about it so much. ”

"I wonder how she can overhear someone's private conversation!" Hermione said angrily, "I'm going to look into this." ”

"I'll take care of this on my own, Carl." Hermione saw that Karthas was a little haggard, "You don't have to worry about this kind of thing. ”

Karthas sighed helplessly, "Okay. ”

Time came to the last week of May, and after the Transfiguration class ended, because Professor McGonagall had left Harry behind, Karthas and Hermione were ready to return to the Gryffindor Tower.

For some unknown reason, Ron has been drifting further and further away from them lately. Especially Karthus, after the two of them met, they became completely like strangers.

Almost everyone noticed this anomaly, and people kept coming to him to ask him what was going on.

First of all, the Weasley twins, "Carl, what the hell happened to you and our stupid brother?" I don't know if it's George or Fred asked.

"I don't know," replied Karthas, "I didn't do anything, so why don't you go and ask him?" ”

Another Weasley said, "We asked, and he wouldn't say." ”

"Then I don't know."

Hagrid also knew their conflict, "Carl, why can't you talk to Ron about it?" ”

"It's not that I don't want to say," Karthas explained, "it's that he doesn't listen to me at all. ”

When Karthhas and Hermione returned to the common room, Ron was having a good time chatting with others. But as soon as he saw Karthus come in, he immediately stopped talking, and his face became stiff.

Hermione tried to go up and talk to her, but was chased away by Ron.

"———yes." Ron exclaimed, "Why don't you go and ask your Carl?" ”

"Good." She walked away without looking back.

Hermione came over to Karthas and sat down, "What do you say is wrong with Ron?" ”

Karthas chuckled, "He's just a kid, he'll understand." ”

At this time, the silvery-white, translucent phoenix rushed into the Gryffindor common room, and it honked a few times over Karthas's head before disappearing.

"I've got to get out of here," said Karthas, "and be careful not to go out." ”

Despite Hermione's confusion, he nodded.

As Karthas walked out of the common room, he suddenly remembered the aisle on the right. It occurred to him that maybe he could try it himself? So he searched carefully, and finally found a tapestry of a troll stick beating the stupid Barnabas.

He looked across the side, and it was a wall.

Karthas thought about it and decided to give it a try.

I need a place to hide things for me

I need a place to hide things for me

I need a place to hide things for me

When he opened his eyes, he saw a door appear in the wall that had been empty.

Sure enough, he walked in. It was found that there was a large space inside, with rows of shelves on which there were all kinds of things that Karthas had never seen before, a large moldy black cauldron, a skeleton of an unknown animal, and all kinds of strange and twisted objects. Eventually, he found a crown in a corner, and this was it, right? Karthas thought.

When he came to or spoke to the gargoyle, Karthas found that he did not know the password.

So he wandered there, trying every way to do it.

Just as he was at a loss, a cold voice said, "You're late, Mr. Falck, the Headmaster is waiting for you, and you're hanging out here?" ”

Karthas saw that Snape didn't know when he was standing behind him.

"I don't know the password, Professor." Karthas said.

Snape walked up to the gargoyle and said, "Cockroach pile." ”

Then the gargoyle jumped aside, and Karthas walked up the steps.

As soon as he entered, Karthas saw Dumbledore spinning back and forth with his hands behind his back, and when he saw Calthas's arrival, his originally serious expression returned to his kind forehead, "You're a little late, kid." ”

"What happened?" Karthas asked him

So, Dumbledore thought he had told him about Crouch.

Sitting in his chair with his hands crossed and his chin propped up, after listening to Dumbledore's narration, Calthus said, "So he's dead?" ”

"That's right, I really don't know what to do." Dumbledore said.

"Then we can only take one step at a time——— I've already done that thing." ”

Hearing this, Dumbledore was visibly surprised, "You're better than I thought. He wiped his glasses, "Are you really going to do this?" This can be dangerous. ”

Karthus smiled, "That's all I can do to help Harry, isn't it?" After all, I'm one of your deepest hidden pawns and can't be exposed at such a time. ”

"You can't say that, child," replied Dumbledore at once, "you are one of my best students, and I must protect your life. ”

Karthas chuckled and did not answer. Instead, he took out the crown, "I've got something for you to see." ”

"This is ......" Dumbledore looked at the crown carefully, "I see...... Carl, you are indeed one of my best students, no one. ”