Chapter 57: Growth
While Hermione, Harry, and Ron were planning to brew a polyjuice potion and mix it into Slytherin, they didn't know that Slytherin House was already in an undercurrent of turmoil.
Malfoy's recent mood is really complicated to say.
This holiday, at his request, the deep-pocketed Lucius? Malfoy purchased the latest Halo 2001 broomsticks for Slytherin's Quidditch team.
Malfoy also joined the team through this connection, becoming Slytherin's youngest Seeker.
This should have been worth showing off and rejoicing about for a whole semester, but since Halloween, many Slytherin students have no intention of paying attention to Quidditch, and I am afraid that no other house can understand the changes that Slytherin has suffered.
Pierre? Trudeau and his two henchmen were stripped naked and hung in the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom, and after being subjected to such a humiliating prank, all three of them turned down on the professor's help, saying that it was just a joke between classmates, which also showed that they couldn't wait to settle the matter.
Malfoy didn't know what kind of oppression they had suffered, so they didn't even dare to tell the truth, but secretly all the Slytherins had already guessed who would do it.
More than once, they had seen wizards mysteriously gathered around the dining table, who had been on the fringes of the academy but were now gathered together.
And every time they pass by a person, they bow down.
"Ning'an ......"
Malfoy unconsciously muttered a name, a name that made him feel incredibly complicated at the moment.
Perhaps the worst offender Pierre at Hogwarts was Ning An and his mysterious little organization, who had publicly laughed at those people more than once, and now, well, he had been taught a lesson.
Everyone understands that this is a revenge, and this is only the beginning.
Sure enough, after that, people continued to be mischievoked, and these people were people who had bullied those who seemed to be members of Ning'an's organization.
The pranks have intensified, and they will only get worse, and in order not to be implicated, many of these people's friends have begun to alienate them, as if they have completed the role reversal overnight, and the students who once bullied others in the academy have become isolated and bullied in the blink of an eye.
This is especially true in Slytherin, where the shrewd students know how to judge the situation, and they are smart enough to see that the house is about to change.
The message went viral among the students, with one saying that "the name of this group is said to be "Snake Letter", and the members all have black markings on their arms that resemble those of Death Eaters. ”
It was said
"I've seen that mark—a serpentine wizard in the bathroom with his arms exposed"
He unconsciously showed a timid look
"—it was a terrible black snake."
In the Slytherin lounge, the chandelier chained to the ceiling casts a soft green glow and the shimmering waves oozing from the transparent semicircular arc.
Malfoy reclined on the couch and shifted his body towards the fire, as if to dispel a chill in his heart. Crabbe and Goyle sat next to each other, munching on the cream cake they had brought back from the table, and it was no wonder that the two henchmen were always eating all day long, no wonder they had grown so tall.
"How about we join the snake letter."
Not sure whether he was talking to himself or asking for advice, Malfoy looked at the burning fireplace and whispered something like this.
This also made Crabbe and Goyle stunned, and put down the cake in their hands. Goyle was speechless, sucking awkwardly on his fingers, which were still stained with cream, and then stopped moving.
Crabbe rolled his eyes and said in a rough voice, "That's not bad... They've been pretty imposing lately—" and then rubbed his head vigorously, but couldn't think of anything else.
Malfoy didn't expect the two idiots to come up with any ideas.
"Alas" he sighed secretly, even if he wanted to join, Ning An might not be willing, how could he forget the conflict with Ning An a year ago, until recently, this has become more and more of a nightmare for him, sometimes Malfoy even feels that the next person to be retaliated against will be his turn.
At first, he didn't think that he would also unite with some people to deal with Ning An, but the experience of others really gave Malfoy the most terrible warning.
Unwilling to be retaliated against, he united with several students and told Professor McGonagall about his deliberate bullying. Professor McGonagall, who has always been known for her strict adherence to school rules, is furious, and she severely punishes several of the snake letter members involved.
Not only did they deduct points from Slytherin, but they were also given a month's imprisonment, and their respective families were notified in the hope that they would be reprimanded.
Of course, this greatly hit the prestige of the snake letter, and the few students who were retaliated against also looked turned over, raised their eyebrows, and the snake letter seemed to be about to fall down and everyone pushed it, and it collapsed.
However, within a few days, Serpentine came with more fierce revenge.
The students who organized the group to complain to Professor McGonagall were dragged out of their dormitories at night.
It is said that several of his roommates were awakened, the students were dragged out of the dormitory screaming, and many wizards in black hooded cloaks stood in the dorm room, their wands pointed at the other roommates, and they did not dare to do anything superfluous.
No one knows what the student went through, but what is confirmed is that he suffered great, intense, terrible pain.
He later confessed to Professor McGonagall that he had framed the Serpentine students out of jealousy, and begged Professor McGonagall to revoke her punishment.
This made McGonagall furious, she thought that the Slytherin students were teasing herself, and the snake students had admitted to their prank in the first place, and now the victim said that it was a frame-up?
In the end, McGonagall did not revoke her punishment, but instead locked up the Slytherin students in the incident at the same time, and played fifty boards on each side.
What she didn't know was that this incident had set off a strong undercurrent in Slytherin, and the power of the snake letter had once again reached a new level, and many ambitious or inflammatory-oriented people wanted to join the snake letter one after another.
Savvy Slytherins know that if you run into a strong opponent you can't fight, give up and join them.
Even the students who have been retaliated against are hoping that when they have paid for their past mistakes, maybe they will be lucky enough to join them?
In this way, a huge shadow loomed over Slytherin House like a sea monster lurking in the water, it was still very immature at first, but it was growing at an alarming rate, no one knew what the future would hold, but the most sensitive Slytherin could definitely smell the opportunity to satisfy their ambitions.
When three or four years later, the members of this organization have graduated, and they have penetrated into all levels of the wizarding world, how great will it be?
Picking up a cup of black tea on the small round table, Malfoy took a bitter sip, and the words that his father Lucius had said to him somehow came to mind:
"Draco, if everyone likes one person, you don't pretend to like it - it's very unwise."
Clenched his fists in regret, Draco? For the first time in his life, Malfoy felt that he had made a very serious mistake. Now not everyone likes Ning An, but everyone is afraid of him and snake letter.
The more they feared, the more they wanted to join in, which made the snake letter swell extremely quickly.
But what kind of role can you play? Having offended Ning An, he was still the first to clash with him, Malfoy is now very distressed, he doesn't know where to go next, if he is not careful, he may be ruined in Slytherin, although the pure-blood twenty-eight families are ancient and worthy of glory, they are not feared by wizards.
Not to mention Malfoy's distress, there is another person in Slytherin who also has a headache, but it is not a student, but the head of Slytherin, Snape.
Snape was a delicate man, and he was keenly aware of what was wrong with the House. As if on Halloween, a clutch suddenly surfaced, and the situation changed like a storm, and he found that he could no longer see Slytherin House clearly.
The first name that came to mind related to this was Ning An.
It was a student who had mixed feelings, and the first time they had met, Snape had never felt that any student looked so much like himself.
Lonely, deep, with a touch of gloom and ambition, and even more remarkable was his unrivaled magical talent that even Snape had to admit, far surpass himself.
As they became more familiar, Snape found more in common between the two, and even their curiosity and pursuit of dark magic were almost terrifyingly similar.
This upset Snape, who had been a Death Eater when he was younger, so what about Nymph? Maybe last year, when Ning An was only a first year, Snape didn't think about it so much.
But now, the sudden change in reality caught him off guard, Calydora's disappearance, the mysterious small organization, Shafiq's mansion, Dumbledore's speculation, and the recent Halloween prank, the secret room has been reopened-
There were more and more mysteries on Ning An's body, and they were even more incomprehensible, and even a dementor like him couldn't get a trace of information from Ning An's spirit.
The student suddenly became something he didn't know at all, or rather, he just revealed the true face hidden beneath the surface.
The gloomy eyes were complicated, Snape sat quietly in the office, the room full of chills seemed to fit his mood, he couldn't wait like this, he should do something, because he always had a hunch that all this, sooner or later, would involve Harry? Potter's head.
His body trembled unnaturally, and Snape gently closed his palms together, clasping them together, and he closed his eyes, his breath as if softened at this moment
"Lily......" An indescribable sigh rang out in the dark office.