Chapter 268: Spoilers
"Hurry up and decide, Harry." Hermione looked at Harry's hesitant expression, knowing in her heart that he was resistant to riding in Durmstran's carriage.
"We don't have much time, and if Umbridge has any conspiracy, maybe flying away is a good way to get rid of her, but there's no guarantee that they won't catch up, maybe she's already leading someone to get here."
Ron also looked at Harry nervously, looking back from time to time, for fear that the people from the investigation team would suddenly come out.
"Alright......," Harry agreed, gritting his teeth, "but how are we going to get Durmstrang's pullers to carry us-"
"Leave it to me." Hermione laughed, revealing her white teeth, "I'm familiar with them. ”
Harry suddenly forgot about Hermione's relationship with Ning An in a hurry.
"Yo, where are you going in a panic? Why didn't I see you in the afternoon exam? Porter? ”
There was a strange shout from the venue, and Harry looked up, his face immediately sank, damn it, he didn't expect to run into this group of people at this time.
"Get out of the way, Malfoy, I don't have time to talk to you right now."
It had been a long time since Harry had clashed with Malfoy, and for a while he even thought that he had disappeared from Hogwarts, and even in the cafeteria and corridors, he rarely saw Draco Malfoy, the boy who had always taken pleasure in going against him, and who had not even joined Umbridge's investigative team or Slytherin's Quidditch team.
"Hey, Hermione, you're there too?"
It was a beautiful blonde girl standing next to Malfoy, Harry recognized her, Daphne Greengrass, Durmstrand's student, who was also Harry's classmate, but in Slytherin student, a girl who looked younger and looked like Daphne was a real Slytherin student, one level younger than Harry, Daphne's sister, Astoria Greengrass.
Harry's gaze followed Astoria and looked behind him, Eric Hohenzollern, Slytherin House, a short guy from Germany, Dominic Walker, with a timid expression on his face, who was also a Slytherin student.
Looking at these people in front of him, Harry suddenly remembered that there was such a group of ghostly beings in the school, their close-knit and unique little circle was so special, they rarely interacted with the students of other houses or even his own house, and they were strictly careful to recruit others into the core, and in the mouths of the students of Hogwarts, it was even a name that did not want to be talked about.
Snake Letter – The organization where the man stayed.
"Where are you going?" Astoria also had a licorice wand lollipop in her hand, and she took a bite of it and looked at it curiously.
"Astoria went to Hogsmeade today, we just finished the exam and made an appointment to meet here, by the way, Hermione, why didn't you go to the exam? I didn't see you. ”
Daphne looked at the group suspiciously, her gaze lingering on Hermione for a moment, and then drifting back to Harry.
They talked, but they didn't get out of the way, Eric and Dominic would stand in front of the five of them, and Harry was even more anxious, and was about to say something, when he saw Daphne's gaze move away from him and behind him.
Harry was startled, thinking that Umbridge had brought someone here, and his hand almost subconsciously twitched his wand and pointed back.
"Ahh......h
Qiu Zhang took a step back in fright, and Luna, who was beside her, raised her hands, stared at Harry, and shouted, "Oh, relax, relax friends—we just saw a lot of people gathered here, thinking something was going on—"
"It's really hilarious, but I think Mr. Porter has to explain the reason to us."
Malfoy looked at Harry with some smugness, he rarely embarrassed Harry anymore, because after setting his role model target as Ning An, Malfoy felt that such a childish battle was really difficult to achieve, and he gave up after feeling bored, and turned to practice his magic level according to Ning An's words, hoping that one day he could really do something "big things" for him.
But that didn't mean he didn't like to see Harry deflated, and since he happened to meet him, it was also Malfoy's pleasure to embarrass the old rival.
"Get out of the way, Malfoy, it's none of your business here." Ron shouted angrily, as if he had gone back to the old days.
Malfoy didn't answer, just looked at Daphne, who looked at Hermione as if to see something out of her.
"Are you going to the carriage?" Daphne asked softly as she looked at the quiet grazing carriage not far away, and the subject of the question was Hermione.
“…… Be. Hermione nodded hesitantly.
"What is there to hide from us?" Daphne said sharply.
"I don't think I need to report everything to you, do I?" Hermione jerked her head up, stubbornly staring at Daphne.
"You didn't tell Ning An either?" Daphne didn't seem to care about Hermione's attitude and continued to ask.
"It's none of your business." Hermione was angry, she walked forward angrily, Eric and Dominic got out of the way in a flash, but when Ginny and Ron tried to follow a few people to block them, they were blocked by the two of them.
"With a carriage, of course Hermione can—but you Gryffindors, I'm afraid not." Daphne smiled easily and looked at Ginny and Ron defiantly, which made Ron grit his teeth angrily, eager to pull out his wand and give her a curse, and Ginny had already put her hand into her arms, looking ready to put her brother's ideas into action.
At the same time, Malfoy and Astoria, Eric and Dominic also put their hands in their pockets, and the air was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder, which would explode if he was not careful.
"Wait a minute, what the hell do you want." Hermione turned around and looked at Daphne as she asked, she was asking you, but it seemed like the question was for Daphne alone.
She had already thought clearly, Ning An was not there, and her deterrence against these people was really limited, Malfoy and the others could say that Daphne's mood, as smart as Hermione, how could she not understand, no matter how kind she was to herself in front of Ning An, but in her heart, I am afraid that she has never regarded herself as a true friend, but I am afraid that she will regard it as an opponent.
"It's simple, wherever you're going, take us with you." Daphne squeezed her slender eyes narrowly, smiling happily at Hermione.
"Impossible!" Harry rushed over and stood beside Hermione and yelled, "Don't try to do anything, it's none of your business!" ”
"Well, please go back, Durmstrang's carriage will not be borrowed." Daphne spread her hands.
"Calm down, Harry." Hermione tugged at Harry's sleeve and motioned for him to calm down.
"Let's find another way to go to the Ministry of Magic." Harry gasped and whispered irritably, "There's always a way, they won't lend it to us at all, and how can you take Malfoy to the Ministry of Magic, he will definitely try to destroy it, I will never allow him to mess with this, it is about Sirius......"
"Can you name another way to get to the Ministry of Magic?"
Harry had nothing to say, he couldn't think of any other way to get to the Ministry of Magic, and he was a little resentful of why he didn't apparate.
"I guess that's probably a good idea," Hermione cautiously tried to explain to a few of them, when Ron, Ginny, and Neville gathered around, Hermione glanced at them and said as slowly as she could:
"Your opinion of Malfoy may be one-sided, Harry, I admit that he is still against you, but I can assure you that they will at least never be on the side of the Dark Lord, I know Ning An, he is by no means one of the Dark Lord's gang, if you know what he has done, you may find that he may be the one who has done the most damage to the Dark Lord's forces."
"What if he lied to you?" Harry said impatiently, looking left and right, as if expecting something to help him fall from the sky, "I might be able to go back and get my firebolts......
"Of course, but what if you get caught again, or if you lose a lot of time?" Hermione interrupted him mercilessly.
Time passed little by little, but in fact it was only a few minutes, the sunset sank a few centimeters obliquely, and there were more clouds in the sky, as if a heavy rain was brewing, and a nameless wind rolled up in the grass, whirling to blow the broken grass seeds into the sky, and took them farther away, the pegasus tethered in front of the carriage snorted, and the discussion between Harry and the others ended at this moment.
"Okay, you guys...... You can come together, but only for a maximum of two people. Hermione held out two fingers and looked at Daphne.
"That's great, I'll go with Draco." Daphne slapped her palms and laughed happily, then said to several people, "But I still have one condition. ”
As she spoke, she pointed to Qiu Zhang, who was standing at the back and couldn't figure out the situation, and Luna, who was holding a carrot earring and looking at the sky and counting the clouds, and said slyly:
"Take both of them with you."
"What!?" Harry cried out in rage, his impatience almost reaching its peak.
"Yes." Hermione nodded in agreement, "Then let's go now." ”
As he spoke, he glanced at Harry, in fact, it didn't matter if there were one or two more people at this time, it was a big deal to put the two of them down after arriving in London, although I don't know what Daphne was calculating, but at least these two people would not be Voldemort's helpers and they could reluctantly accept it.
"Me?" Qiu Zhang flickered his eyelashes a few times in confusion, and asked puzzledly, not understanding what all this had to do with him.
"Well, it's up to you whether you want to go or not, but maybe we can meet Ning'an, I guess so, yes, Hermione?" Daphne also blinked, glanced at Qiu Zhang, and then turned and walked away.
Several people ran together to the carriage not far away, and Luna lowered her head with a happy smile on her face.
"I guess they've found the scimitar-horned snorkel, and if you want to be the first to find it, you can't argue, I must go, it's going to be a big discovery."
After Luna finished speaking, she ran away briskly, and caught up with Hermione and Daphne and the others in a few steps, Qiu Zhang looked at a few people, looked back at the clock tower of Hogwarts Castle, and muttered, "It should be...... Can you come back before dark...... Maybe Hogsmeade ......"
In a few seconds, Qiu Zhang felt as if a long time had passed, she bit her lip and finally made up her mind, and resolutely ran to follow, she would not come back very late...... Certain......
It wasn't long before the carriage parked at the edge of the Hogwarts grounds took off, and two Pegasi arrows rushed into the sky, gliding through the treetops, skimming over the castle, and flying into the fiery sunset, and in an instant they became a small black dot.
Just as the carriage took off, two black-robed shadows appeared at the edge of the field, dragging two flying broomsticks, looking at the black spots that were gradually fading away in the sunset.
"Do you think it's really possible to trace the owner's news from these people?" Samantha asked her partner suspiciously.
"Investigate it anyway, these are the people and things that the owner is concerned about, maybe the previous disappearance has something to do with them." Walter replied hoarsely.
"That's right, hehe, I didn't expect Daphne to happen to be here too, do you want to remind her to leave? Harry Potter and they went to the mysterious man to save people, and the danger was not small, not an outing to Hogsmeade. ”
"Find a chance to tell her, let's follow first." After Walter finished speaking, he cast the illusion charm on himself and the broomstick, disappeared, and then kicked the ground with both feet, and flew up on the broomstick, Samantha sighed, sniffed hard in the air with her nose, and muttered, "What a strange smell, I'm used to staying in Durmstrang, I can't stand it......"
While muttering, he also used the illusion spell to re-complete the invisibility, and the two of them both disappeared at the edge of the field, only the grass that was crushed to the side showed traces.
A tall, but emaciated figure, revealed shortly after Samantha and Walter left, looked gloomily at the sky, shook off the black robes and cloak he was wearing, and his sallow skin looked even more bloodless in the setting sun.
"Sure enough, there is a problem...... Dolores ......"
Snape glanced at the castle with indifferent eyes, and pulled a thumb-sized glass flask from his bosom, the transparent potion glowing orange-yellow in the sunlight.
As soon as he raised his head and drank the potion, Snape swung his wand a few times, and also made himself invisible with the illusion charm, and in his invisible state, his cloak seemed to be filled with wind pressure, like a pair of black wings, and then, the next second, he rose from the ground, like a black bat skimming the void, and followed the trajectory of Samantha and Walter's departure.
Fly over the grounds of Hogwarts, over Hogsmeade, fly among the mountains and valleys, and the day begins to shine, passing through small villages until the lights of Muggle towns begin to shine.