186. The purpose of the basilisk
"Headmaster, Lucius. Malfoy and Connelly. Fudge is looking for you. As Aragog left Hagrid wondering what was going on with him, Professor Flitwick suddenly appeared.
"I'll go over here." Dumbledore said.
"No need, we're already here." Lucius's voice rang out, and then two more people appeared out of thin air.
"Connelly, my friend, is there anything you have to do with your visit to Hogwarts at this time?" Dumbledore greeted him with a smile.
"Don't you know what? Dumbledore. Lucius said smugly.
"Oh? What should I be clear? ”
"Don't you think the two missing students at school are similar to an incident from fifty years ago?" Lucius looked at Hagrid next to Dumbledore with a malicious look on his face.
"And if I'm not mistaken, there seems to be a terrifying magical beast here."
"Are you going to destroy the evidence?"
Hagrid's eyes widened and he was ready to retort that Aragog would not hurt and would not hurt. Dumbledore pulled his fingers, reacted to the meaning of Dumbledore's words just now, and held back his words sullenly.
Lucius was a little disappointed, if Hagrid admitted that it was the big spider he had just disappeared, not only would he be unlucky, but Dumbledore would not be able to escape the involvement. Look, Dumbledore let go of the man-eating spider. What a good reason.
At the mention of spiders, Lucius couldn't help but think of the basilisk that appeared around his house in the early hours of this morning, he didn't expect Voldemort to use it to contact him, and the sudden appearance of the basilisk at that time frightened him. He didn't expect that Voldemort, who had been silent, would ask him to cooperate with his plan, or against Dumbledore, and at that time he was trembling and thought that Voldemort knew that he wanted to dissociate himself from him and punish him.
"Albus," Fudge's voice caused Lucius to stop remembering.
"It's very bad, I have to get here immediately, you know, the disappearance of the two pure-blood wizards has caused panic among the pure-blood family, who no longer believe in the school, and demand that the Ministry of Magic must punish the wizards who do this."
"They suspect that I did the missing student?" Hagrid couldn't hold back, and asked loudly.
Fudge didn't speak, acquiescing.
"Connelly, I must state that Hagrid definitely didn't do such a thing, and I already have a clue." Dumbledore spoke.
"What's your clue? Dumbledore, everyone knows that Hagrid is looking at you, and your reasons are not valid at all. Lucius said unceremoniously.
Fudge told Lucius not to speak,
"If you find any clues, if it is useful, you can let the Aurors inquire about it, but no matter what, Hagrid must take it away, you must know that Albus, Hagrid's record is very bad for him, and we cannot let him stay here until there is solid proof that he did not do it."
"Where are you taking me?" Hagrid's voice was a little agitated.
"It won't be Azkaban. No, I'm not going anywhere. Hagrid exclaimed.
"Where is Azkaban?" The three McGoths, who had just arrived here, happened to hear this term, and Harry asked curiously.
Ron looked at Lucius and Fudge with some horror, "It's a prison, and the people who rumored to have gone there never came out again. ”
"How so." Harry's eyes widened.
"Hagrid, he didn't do anything."
"I'm not going to agree with your unwarranted behavior." Dumbledore looked at Lucius and Fudge with a serious face.
Fudge looked at him awkwardly, "I'm afraid your opinion is useless." ”
"Why, can't the Headmaster of Hogwarts vouch for his faculty yet?" Dumbledore said loudly. Flitwick looked up at them as well, his wand pointing faintly at them.
Lucius turned a blind eye to Flitwick's actions, "Due to your recent incompetence, the Board of Directors and I agree that you are no longer capable of taking on the position of Headmaster. As he spoke, he took out a roll of parchment from his robe and handed it over.
"This is a suspension order! Includes 12 sensible signatures. ”
Dumbledore's expression froze suddenly.
"Especially the pure-blood family jointly thinks that you can no longer control the situation in the school, if you continue to lead, I'm afraid there won't be a pure-blood wizard left in the school, and my son is also in the school, I don't worry about letting you protect him."
"You can't get rid of Dumbledore, you don't know what's going on in the school, and once he leaves, there may be students missing from the school." Hagrid exclaimed.
"Calm down, Hagrid." Dumbledore stopped an enraged Hagrid.
"They're going to let Headmaster Dumbledore leave?" Harry watched in disbelief.
"My dad will definitely rush into the minister's room in anger when he finds out." Ron muttered as well.
McGoth watched this scene, an invisible sense of urgency came from all sides, he was about to take something out of the diary, he didn't think about it anymore, what he wanted to do most now was to quickly tell Dumbledore about the secret room, even if he was suspicious. Because if Dumbledore did leave Hogwarts, he couldn't imagine that he would still be able to learn magic as happily as he did now.
"The directors asked me to leave, so I had to step aside."
"Headmaster Dumbledore." Flitwick hurriedly shouted.
Stopping Flitwick from speaking, Dumbledore walked over to Lucius.
"But remember, at Hogwarts, whenever someone asks for help, it's guaranteed to be helped."
Lucius pretended to be moved and looked at him,
"It's really impressive." Then his face changed, "You can leave." ”
Dumbledore glanced at where Magos and the others were, and walked towards the school with a blank face.
"Hagrid." Fudge looked at the giant, "Let's go." ”
Hagrid glanced at the hut and left with Fudge distracted.
After a while, only the three of them were left next to Hagrid's hut.
"How so?" Harry looked blankly in the direction Hagrid had left.
"Don't worry yet," McGoth said quickly, "Headmaster Dumbledore just took a special look at us, could it be that he had already spotted us and told us to go find him?" ”
"Possibly." Ron immediately agreed, though he didn't even notice Dumbledore looking at them.
Hope regained in Harry's eyes, and he picked up his cloak and draped it on.
"Then what are you waiting for, hurry over."
But when they arrived at the door of the principal's office, they stopped helplessly, and they didn't know the password to open it. Dumbledore didn't leave them a door either.
"What now?" Harry looked at Magos.
McGoth thought for a moment, "Wait. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the stone monster in front of him jumped to the side as if it had come to life.
McGoth was stunned, could it be that the spell was just waiting?
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