Chapter 62: The Upward Journey (Part I)

At nine o'clock in the evening, there were no clouds in the sky, and the stars were shining in the deep blue clear sky. The Milky Way resembles a ribbon adorned with countless broken diamonds, wrapping around a large silver platter next to it.

There's nothing like this weather for astronomical observations.

Led by Professor Sinista, the freshmen of the four houses gathered in the auditorium, and then streamed out, slowly marching towards the location of the Astronomy Tower with the large group.

Brandy's five men hung at the back of the group, and Harry and Ron were still bothered by Hagrid's.

"If you want me to say, even if Hagrid really plans to raise that little dragon, he should at least take it to the Forbidden Forest. It's too dangerous to be inside the hut. "Even though he had already eaten dinner and was in the break room to catch up on his homework for a while, Ron was still terrified when he remembered what had happened before he left." You must not have noticed, but by the time the little dragon finished nibbling on that drumstick, we were all out the door, and it was burping! That fireball was at least the size of a basin! What's even more terrifying is that this guy was born just 24 hours ago! ”

"In fact...... We've all noticed," Parvati walked at the front, seemingly without a hint of distress or panic. "Let me think about it, that's at least the sixth chicken, this guy can eat it! And I haven't seen its belly bulge yet, and I don't know where everything it eats has gone......" With that, she lowered her head and began to caress her flat little belly with mixed feelings.

"Eat, eat, eat... Parvati, you know how to eat ...... in a day," Ron was obviously dissatisfied, "You can't think about more important things?" Like a burning hut and a stolen philosopher's stone? ”

"Isn't it important to eat?" Parvati wrinkled her nose at Ron, who stopped to wait for Ron to catch up, and then gestured ill-intentionally above his head, who seemed to be a little shorter than Parvati. "At least make me taller than you~"

"Okay, okay~" Just as the two of them unconsciously began to argue about height, Harry interrupted the quarrel between the two with a helpless expression. "Don't you think it's strange?"

"What's weird?" The two tilted their heads together and asked curiously.

Harry didn't speak, he snorted at the side in an incomprehensible manner. Where did the eyes of the two people look—

Brandi and Hermione look particularly strange...... They walked very slowly, very slowly, like old ladies in their seventies and eighties. The two of them craned their necks and looked around with serious faces, and the more inconspicuous the place, the more carefully they looked at it. Occasionally, they would come together with their heads together, and they would say something in a low voice.

If it weren't for the fact that the two were students who had been at Hogwarts for more than half a year, they might have been seen as spies who had infiltrated the school.

"What are these two people doing, talking about something?" Ron followed their gaze curiously, but all he could see was those dark corners, dead ends, or lifelike false doors on the walls. Within a few seconds, he gave up in a huff.

"Hah!" At this moment, Parvati jumped to his feet excitedly and slapped his face. "I know! It must be Brandy, he-"

"What's wrong with Brandi?" Harry and Ron hurriedly stepped forward, their heads blinking.

Not......

Parvati reacted suddenly, she didn't know if it was a leak...... So she hurriedly covered her mouth, and her big panicked eyes rolled in her sockets. She wanted to tell a lie to round it up...... But it seemed like a little too specialized for her - the single-threaded clumsy brain was still desperately thinking about lies, and as a result, she seemed to forget that she was still climbing the stairs.

And so—

"Yikes!"

Parvati was somehow able to step into the air, leaning forward, and falling on top of Brandi, who subconsciously reached out and grabbed Brandi's robe. Brandi couldn't break free—

"Poof" with a dull sound of flesh hitting the ground. Brandi collapsed face down on the last staircase, his head battered, and he was pressed against a silly girl weighing nearly 80 pounds with an innocent face.

Hermione, visibly taken aback, hesitated. "Parvati? Are you alright......"

"Huh......? Oh, it's okay, I'm not afraid of pain~" Parvati was so frightened that she forgot to think about lying to Harry Ron for the time being, she patted her chest full of vitality, "I was scared a little." ”

"Nonsense - of course you don't hurt!" A muffled voice came from beneath Parvati, "You idiot get up from me...... My old waist is about to be crushed by you! And Hermione - you should have asked me if I was okay first......"

Hearing this, Hermione and the few Hufflepuffs who were watching curiously in front of them finally snorted and laughed. Parvati hurriedly jumped off Brandi's body. Everyone couldn't help laughing, and they rushed up and pulled Brandy, who was stumbling, from the ground. The staircase was filled with lively air for a while.

Interrupted by this, Harry and Ron seemed to have forgotten to ask Parvati about it for a while. Of course - just seemingly.

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The space above the tower was not particularly spacious, and everyone had brass telescopes, so there was a confusion in the initial selection of a location. For a while, no one could be found, which gave Brandi a good excuse for them to separate from Harry Ron. He clutched Hermione and Parvati's robes firmly, squeezing his way through the crowd with difficulty, occasionally tiptoeing and looking around.

It's really good to be glad that Brandi's stature is outstandingly tall among the freshmen...... It wasn't long before he spotted Padma in a daze at the edge of the tower. She still looked expressionless, but her face didn't seem to be good, could it be that she was hiding something on her mind......?

The three of them squeezed towards it. Along the way, Brandi could hear Hermione behind her repeating her reasoning to Parvati - they intended to put the credit on Parvati so that Padma could look at her a little differently. Parvati, however, seems to be a little resistant to doing something that hurts her conscience...... From the fact that she couldn't remember Hermione's words, it could tell—

They finally stood in front of Padma, and the two grinned, and then pushed Parvati in front of her. "Padma, let's listen to it, your sister has made a very important discovery."

Padma looked up slowly, the moonlight shining on her face, and she couldn't be seen. Without waiting for Parvati to speak in embarrassment, Padma spoke first, her voice as monotonous as ever, but if you listened closely, it seemed that you could hear some strange emotion. It's just that the three of them obviously didn't notice this.

"I contacted Oliver Humbe's guardian......"

"Oh?" Brandi and Hermione were in their spirits. "She's still alive in this world—huh? Wait, guardian? ”

The two of them paused for a moment, not quite understanding what this sentence meant.

"Well, she's still alive." Padma paused, as if unwilling to continue, but she opened her mouth in anticipation of three pairs of eyes. "But it's hard to live—"

"She went crazy twenty years ago."

………………

I don't know who saw something new through the brass telescope, and not far away came the man's excited shout.

"No...... No," Brandi stammered, "what's wrong with her, I mean—the guardian?" Why does she need such a thing? What about her family? ”

Padma turned to him with a blank face, "She died before she went crazy, her parents, her husband—and her children. ”

The three of them looked at each other in horror, and when they connected with Padma's strange tone and eyes, they vaguely had bad thoughts. For a moment, the atmosphere was extremely stiff, and the people around them had already begun to look up at the stars for their astronomy homework, so at the urging of Mrs. Sinista, they sat down mechanically like marionettes and pretended to focus their telescopes.

"How did they all die?" After a while, Parvati finally broke the silence, and she asked with a white face and anxiety. "Was it murdered?"

"Probably can't say that." For her sister, Padma's tone seemed to be a little softer. "I asked from Knocker and Professor Flitwick about Oliver's graduation date, and then used the owl to consult with other Ravenclaw students who graduated in the same class as Oliver. One of them, who seemed to be from the same town as her, sent me a long letter. Of course, she's Oliver's guardian now. ”

There was no emotion on Padma's face, but that was what made Brandi even more uneasy.

"It's an accident, all sorts of inexplicable accidents. Car accidents, serious illnesses, accidental falls, etc.—all in all, in the three months before Oliver went crazy, her family died one after another. A few days later, the senior sister said that she vaguely saw a guy in a black cloak enter Oliver's old mansion - it happened to be the most brutal period under the rule of the Dark Lord, and she was afraid that she was a Death Eater, so she did not dare to go over to investigate, and her guess was not wrong, and the Dark Mark rose over Oliver's house that night. By the time the next day, when the senior sister dared to go to Oliver's house, she was already crazy. ”

"And that black cloak you spoke of......" Hermione let out a low, low-voiced exclamation. Could it be—"

“…… It's what you think," Parvati said. "Oliver's family are all pure-bloods, and they usually act cautiously and do not take sides. Voldemort shouldn't have been so brutal against her. Unless ......"

Parvati stopped talking, but even Parvati could understand it by this time. All four of them didn't look very good.

"The man who can't even name - that's Wright's mysterious companion!"