By this time, Hermione had already returned to the common room, and Harry and Parvati, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly greeted her.

"All the best! Hermione, your plan is perfect! As we went upstairs, we saw Mrs. Loris, who was staggering downstairs from us as if she had drunk—Parvati kicked her, and I was terrified! Harry said cheerfully, "I didn't expect it to react at all, we watched it go in the direction of the first floor, what did you feed her?" ”

Parvati was also on hand to help.

"And Filch! He ran around the castle to find his cat! We heard his roar when we were almost at the Astronomy Tower, and thought you had been caught, but guess who? ”

Hermione replied disheartenedly. "You're talking about Malfoy......"

"Yikes! Hermione, you're a god! She sighed in surprise, "You can even guess this?" But there was bad news, Neville didn't know where he heard about our actions, and he ran out to warn us for fear that something would happen to us. Outcome...... We saw him while we were waiting for you in the common room, dejected, as if he had been caught by Professor McGonagall. By the way, what about the Brandi, still looking for that one out there? Also, how does the robe you wear today feel so big? ”

Harry and Parvati, who were chattering, shouted for a long time, and finally realized that it was not a short time for Hermione to return, but Brandi never got through the doorway. And Hermione's expression is really not very good-looking now......

Some bad thoughts couldn't help but pop up in their hearts.

"We seem to be a little too loud......" Hermione muttered, staring down at her leather shoes, motionless like statues. Professor McGonagall was waiting at the Gryffindor Lounge intersection to catch someone when she heard a voice. ”

"You've been caught?!" The two exclaimed, "But why are you ......?"

Hermione slowly looked up, and they noticed that her eyes were already red and she was crying.

Brandi, he pushed me down the hallway...... He left me to hide. She sobbed intermittently, "Professor McGonagall grabbed him, and cast a flashback charm on his wand. In order not to confess me, he took everything on the rest! ”

She sat in her armchair in pain, hiding her face and weeping. "Brandi he's... He'll probably be expelled! ”

There was an eerie silence in the common room for a moment, and then Harry staggered to his feet and was about to walk out of the cave.

"What are you going to do!" Parvati grabbed Harry's sleeve.

"What else can I do! This is something that we all do together! Harry roared angrily, "Why should we sit here in peace and let Brandi take the blame for us alone!" I'm going to Professor McGonagall! I'm willing to be punished with him, even if I'm expelled! ”

He clenched his fists, "I'll pack up my things and move out of the Dursleys, even if it's better to wander than to stay in that kind of place!" ”

Parvati stared blankly at Harry's resolute expression, and then she let go of Harry's sleeve. "Then I'll go with ...... too"

"You're crazy! Especially you, Parvati! Hermione was taken aback by the surprise, and she screamed to stop them, tears still hanging down her face. It's not like you don't know what's going on in your home! If you're also expelled, what will Padma lose to you?! Sit down! At the very least, we'll have to wait until Brandi returns. ”

"But what's the use of waiting here, maybe by the time Brandi comes back, he'll no longer be a Gryffindor student!" Harry yelled at Hermione, "It's not like you don't know who Professor McGonagall is!" She can't rub a grain of sand in her eyes! Look at Neville, who's been deducted fifty points just for going out late at night! If you change to Brandi, you will also have to deceive your classmates and disrupt the castle! ”

"But what if you go? Is there any benefit to the Ravenclaw match other than having one more Seeker in Gryfin lose again? ”

"This ............" Harry was momentarily speechless, he was really just a momentary enthusiast, and he didn't think about what effect it would have on the entire Gryffindor if he was punished. So he should hold back his anger and sit back in his place sullenly, before he could speak—

The doorway to the lounge was opened. Brandi came in from the outside with a heavy heart, and he looked at the crowd who hurriedly gathered around, and his tone was indescribably strange. "I'm in big trouble?"

……………………

The next day, the Gryffindor students would subconsciously drop their jaws as they passed by the hourglass next to the foyer to record the house scores, rubbing their eyes, suspecting that they were blind for a moment. And what about the gems in their hourglass? The red gem, which was already a hill similar to Slytherin, became a fine layer of sand at the bottom of the hourglass overnight. They lost two hundred and fifty points!

Then, the news of what happened last night slowly spread: Brandi Barton, who usually seems gentle and polite, and Brandi Barton, who is very popular, and the pride of Gryffindor, who is still standing under the venom spray of Snape for many years in Potions class, actually made them lose so many points in one night! What's even more irritating is that he still wants to maliciously harm his own people, the long-lying and cowardly Longbottom!

Gryffindors can lose points for being reckless and risky, which is not worth being ashamed of after all, but for those sinister villains who like to trick their fellows by tricks, it's a different story.

Brandi fell from heaven to hell in one fell swoop, and he became the target of everyone's attention. Not to mention the Gryffindor who would look at him with disdain and disdain when he saw him, even the students who had been on good terms with him before Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff would now awkwardly avoid him, because everyone wanted to see Slytherin lose the House Cup, but this expectation had been completely destroyed by himself.

Now he enjoyed Harry's previous treatment, and wherever he went, people would point fingers at him, as if they were watching monkeys in the zoo, and occasionally he wouldn't deliberately lower his voice when he said bad things about him. For Slytherin, Malfoy seems to be portrayed as a righteous man who wants to stop Brandi from doing bad things but is miserably deceived.

"Don't pay too much attention to that bastard Malfoy, he's just trying to stir up conflict...... Brandi, we know it's not your fault, don't blame yourself so much. ”

Only a handful of people who really knew the truth were on his side. Harry even got into a big fight with his Quidditch teammates over Brandi's affair, as Wood thought Brandi was a traitor to Gryffindor. It wasn't easy for Harry, and Quidditch was his greatest pleasure at school......

"I know, Harry, I'm glad I wasn't actually expelled." Brandi said weakly that although he had been prepared and tried his best to avoid the crowd, only two days later, his mental stress was already so great that he was about to collapse. "You'd better stay away from me now...... It's not good for your day-to-day interactions, and it's also a hassle to pull Hermione away, so you'd better help me convince her that she's been awkward next to me for two nights in a row. ”

Yes, his mental stress was not from his classmates at school, but from Hermione. He himself had already sensed the information from Dumbledore's previous words that he wanted to take the blame, since the Headmaster meant this and didn't expel himself, so what did he worry about. So he obviously didn't have any opinion on this order...... Although he really didn't expect the power of eyes and words to be so terrifying.

But Hermione had been blaming herself since that night, she had always thought that she should have endured all this with Brandy, so after that day she had become Brandi's ass, she would follow her wherever she went, and even applied to change places with his tablemate Dean in Professor Quirrell's class.

Ouch, my Miss Granger!

I've got this pot on my back, and you still have to run over and rub a layer of ash at the bottom of the pot, what kind of trouble is it! Where did all your IQ go at this time...... Seeing that she herself was left out in the cold in the past two days because she was too close to her, Brandi was simply moved and angry.

Compare that to Parvati! Look at how well people are doing, although they still tearfully stretch out their hands to hug when they see themselves - but after all, they have a sister who is unreasonable~

Every time he saw Padma carrying Parvati towards him, and running away with an expressionless look, Brandi would feel inexplicably want to laugh. Even the grievances and resentments in my heart will dissipate.

Originally, I thought that this kind of life would continue for another ten days and half a month, but Brandi had obviously forgotten about the upcoming exam week, just a week before the exam, and everyone seemed to suddenly remember that it was more in line with the core values of Hogwarts to go to the library to take a good look at the book and review it. So the gossip disappeared completely in a few days, although it would still be met with white eyes and cold reception, but this was obviously great news for Brandy, he could finally leave all his worries behind, quietly return to the small circle of five, and review in the break room until late at night every day, trying to memorize the social composition of elves and giants and the specific date of the fairy rebellion. Hermione told him and Parvati that the puzzle on the stairs had been solved, but they decided not to open it for the time being if they didn't have the right chance—they couldn't afford to lose points anymore.

To their great surprise, however, the opportunity they were asking for seemed to come a little too quickly.

It was an early morning a few days before the exam, and Brandi and Neville, who were eating in the auditorium, received a note, and they were exactly the same:

Your confinement will begin at eleven o'clock tonight. Please go to the foyer and look for Mr. Filch.

Professor McGonagall.

The confinement has begun!