184. Departure

Dumbledore didn't sleep all night, he thought the basilisk would attack the students again, or return to its hiding place, but it did nothing, i.e. did not attack the students and did not return to its hiding place, and finally left Hogwarts instead.

Dumbledore's brows furrowed, he didn't suspect that the basilisk came to Hogwarts from the Forbidden Forest, not to mention whether there was a powerful magical animal like a basilisk in the Forbidden Forest, Hagrid alone couldn't pass the level, and when encountering this kind of unruly magical animal, Hagrid would not be as easy to talk as usual. Taking a step back, even if it could hide from Hagrid, the magical enchantment around the school wasn't a joke. And he didn't think that the basilisk really just left the school, judging from the fact that he didn't alarm Hagrid and the magic enchantment, it should be an internal creature of the school, which reminded him of a legend and the events that appeared 50 years ago, which made him sure that it would come back.

"And why did it leave Hogwarts?" Dumbledore, who was touching the Elder's wand, couldn't understand the enemy's behavior.

When McGoth woke up in the morning, he immediately looked at the diary that was sandwiched in the middle, and began to get dressed when he saw that it was still there.

On the way to the restaurant, they met Lockhart, who offered to go to breakfast together, and unlike Hermione, who was excited, and Harry Ron, who resisted, McGoth felt that he was waiting for them. Sure enough, Lockhart first chatted for a while about yesterday's duel, and then seemed to inadvertently mention that he had lost an old notebook, and I don't know if any of them saw it. McGoth was a little glad he hadn't had time to tell them about the journal yesterday and today, otherwise Lockhart's psychic magic skills would have been able to detect something wrong with Harry. As for him, after being kidnapped by Voldemort last year, is it possible to have mood swings when picking up something?

Lockhart, who couldn't get a clue from them, was a little disappointed, and forced a smile to make it to the dining room so that they could separate.

"Why do I feel like he's disappointed?" Ron looked at Lockhart's back and whispered, "Is that notebook important to him?" ”

"Of course it's important to have a notebook with you." Hermione said angrily. Ron thought of her note-taking madness and felt that what she said made sense, and he really couldn't argue with it.

After breakfast, they were confronted by the first-year Gryffindor students. Colin saw that they didn't say a word, and he was respectful first.

After the click, McGoth could finally understand Harry's distress, because Colin felt that he was also one of the leaders after taking him to a secret meeting that night, although he was not as famous as Harry, but at least he had been on the magic newspaper, so he took a photo of the two of them, and took a photo with them alone, to be honest, if it wasn't for Lockhart's character who likes to show off and love to show off, he really wouldn't be suitable for Colin's eagerness. Even if he's just in passing.

"We're going to have a Defence Against the Dark Arts class with Ravenclaw today, and I don't know which of his adventures Professor Lockhart will talk about in this class, I'm really looking forward to it." Colin shook his camera and left with his companions.

"Big Star Harry Potter." After Colin left, Ron said in a tone that was half teasing and half envious, he had faced trolls last year, and even Headmaster Dumbledore praised him as a real Gryffindor, and he had also been on the magic newspaper, why didn't he have Harry's treatment.

Harry was a little unhappy with Ron's joke and said in a slightly heavier tone, "Don't make this kind of joke, Ron, you know I don't like that. ”

"Maybe." Ron replied in annoyance and left.

Harry looked at Ron's back with some annoyance, "Why is he angry, it's obvious that he provoked me." ”

Looking at the two conflicting little kids, Magos shook his head, not only didn't care about it, but also thought about it with some nostalgia, the lost childhood.

The conflict between the two little friends was unprecedented, and the class was not over in the afternoon, and Harry invited him and Hermione to Hagrid's for afternoon tea, but Ron was not invited, and Ron angrily packed up his books and left first. In order not to provoke Ron, McGoth and Hermione politely declined Harry's invitation, and hoped that he had better invite Ron again, otherwise the conflict would only get bigger.

It wasn't clear if Harry had listened to their McGoth and Hermione, but they hadn't gone to the library or investigated anything this time, but instead walked around the school side by side.

McGoss, who was a little preoccupied because of the diary, looked at Hermione's side face and slowly relaxed, he reflected on why he was worried about this and that now, and he didn't have a mission to come over, wouldn't it be better to enjoy a new and different life, why think so much, the sky is falling anyway, there is a tall man on top, is it necessary for him to have the heart to save the world when he was a teenager. Thinking about it, he couldn't help but laugh, he remembered that his original dream seemed to be to make this somewhat serious school more dynamic, rather than thinking about everything else all day.

Hermione's face was a little red from what McGoth had been looking at, and when he laughed again, she glared at him fiercely and ran away with a flushed face.

McGoth was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted, smiling even more cheerfully, it's good to be young. It's just that the little girl in the foreign country is a little too mature, and soon she looked at it for a long time and laughed, thinking about something.

It was not until dinner that McGoth saw Hermione again, and she seemed to have forgotten about the afternoon escape, and talked and laughed with him, but when he looked at her for a long time, she couldn't help but turn her head to talk to the others, and her face was slightly red.

After teasing Hermione a few times, Harry and Ron came over with a smile when she couldn't help but get angry, and it seemed that they had reconciled.

Two hours before dinner, Professor Flitwick hurried to the rector's office.

"Another student is missing." As soon as he saw Dumbledore, he spoke.

Dumbledore's face changed.

"Who?"

"First-year freshman in our house, Luna Lovegood."

"When?"

"It should have been last night, I found out something was wrong when I was in class this afternoon, because she didn't have a good relationship with her classmates, so her disappearance didn't attract the attention of others, and it wasn't until I asked them that there was one less person." As he spoke, his face suddenly became a little ugly, "I inquired, they had a class in the morning, it was Professor Lockhart's Defence Against the Dark Arts, but he didn't find out that there was a student missing, which is too much, especially now is a special period." ”

Dumbledore's face also changed, he didn't expect Lockhart to have any ability, it was originally to make up the numbers, but he didn't expect him to be sloppy to this extent, which made him wonder if he had done something wrong by inviting him here.

Let Professor Flitsch leave first to stabilize the young wizards of the Academy, and try not to advertise anything nonsense. After Professor Flitwick left, he picked up the Elder's wand and was a little angry, he didn't expect that the basilisk had captured a student before leaving, he decided to catch it as soon as it returned, and no longer observed whether it would return to its hiding place, it didn't matter if he didn't talk about it, he knew who would, and let Harry have a good conversation with it when the time came.

(Battlefield Literature)