Fleur sat in the cave, listening to the shouts outside getting weaker and weaker until they disappeared completely, with the occasional roar making it unclear what was happening.

She held the double/tui, leaning against the corner of the wall behind the fire, her wand still in her arms, which reassured Miss Delacour, who had an argument with Madame Maxim over dealing with the Death Eaters last night, and Madame Maxim was so hot that she wanted to give the Death Eaters a little color, and if Hagrid hadn't stopped her, perhaps the two sides would have fought each other.

"Let's have some hot water."

Raising her head, Fleur's eyes were greeted by Hermione's smiling face under the firelight, she slowly took the small iron cup, which was freshly boiled snow water, Fleur had drunk it, and knew that it was much sweeter than the water conjured by magic, but it was too hot now.

"Well, thank you—" She looked away, not wanting to make eye contact with Hermione, the Headmaster of Ning'an, Fleur had heard a lot from Hagrid and Maxime, and Hagrid seemed to be rather unfriendly to him, and at one point in the conversation classified him as an "evil" guy like the Death Eaters, a dark wizard without a doubt.

Although the Durmstrang had a centuries-old tradition of studying dark magic, and it seemed like nothing to hire a dark wizard to be the headmaster of the school, Hagrid still didn't agree with the guy named Ning'an, he always thought that the other party would easily fall to the side of the mysterious man, but what happened last night made Fleur scratch her head again.

Ning An had saved her from the Death Eaters, and even killed one, and she could clearly see what the charred corpse looked like, making people want to vomit, but at the same time she had seen Ning An skillfully use the Unforgivable Charm.

"You're alright."

Hermione sat down slowly against the wall, beside Fleur, and asked softly, Fleur looked at her strangely, snorted and made a nasal sound, for some reason she didn't like the girl very much.

"It's okay." She opened her mouth and snapped out a few words, "You know—when you were at school—it doesn't seem like that—"

As the memories were carefully picked up, Fleur realized how impressive the girl had been at Hogwarts, and she still had the figure in her mind, the guy pretending to be Krum, and whenever she looked at him, she would find his gaze haunting the other girl—if the girl was there, of course.

"It's you—" Fleur suddenly uttered a thoughtless remark, and Hermione turned her head blankly to look at her.

"What?" She said.

Fleur didn't speak again, and her heart could no longer calmly turn over the monstrous waves, yes, that's right - Krum during the Triwizard Tournament would always focus on this girl, consciously or unconsciously, and he didn't notice it at the time, and now he met Hermione in this snowy mountain, and only then did he sort out and relate the past memories little by little.

Fleur felt that she was faintly grasping something.

"Ah, you're back, Mr. Ning'an—"

The voice of Zancas, who was waiting at the entrance of the cave, came to Fleur to hear the sound of mixed footsteps, and then many wizards walked into the small cave, and Fleur's heart pounded.

Hermione stood up and greeted her, and Fleur watched her and Ning An hug each other, and spun around, feeling uncomfortable somehow, but soon she left these distractions behind because Ning An walked towards him.

"Hello, Miss Delacour......" Ning An nodded politely at herself, but Fleur vaguely saw some embarrassment in his eyes, the two should have met for the first time, why did they give themselves a familiar feeling?

Fleur's brows furrowed tightly, as if thinking about some difficult question, her arms unconsciously clasped to her chest, staring at Ning An, as if she was examining the artifacts that had just been salvaged from the deep sea.

"What are your plans...... I mean, we're leaving, are you going to wait here for Hagrid and them? ”

Ning An's words floated in from Fleur's left ear, and then from her right ear, her mind was not on this at all, Ning An's own identity became extremely interesting, as a witch who believed in her instincts, Fleur thought that her feelings would not be wrong, she must have seen Ning An somewhere.

"Gao Gao Pony will stay here, if you plan to stay here and wait for Hagrid and them, I can ask him to take care of you for the time being......" Ning An said more and more, and the embarrassed expression just now was gone

"But of course, I'm sure you've seen what the giants look like, so I think the most he can do is make sure you're not harassed by the other giants here, but I think Hagrid and they'll be back for you soon, because of last night's riot—"

"Hmmm......"

Fleur reluctantly responded, she was also a little undecided, if she stayed here and waited for Hagrid and Madame Maxime, it would mean letting Ning An and them leave, but Fleur always felt a little unwilling, she was very sure that she had seen Ning An, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it.

"What if I don't wait for Hagrid." Fleur asked, "What is Mr. Headmaster going to do if I don't wait for Hagrid and Madame Maxim?" ”

"Uh......" Ning An seemed to be somewhat stunned, he seemed very reluctant to say the second plan, but Furong actually took the initiative to ask, and he had to answer slowly:

"Then maybe we'll let you go back to Durmstrang with us...... Leave a note for Hagrid here, and the tall horse can give it to them...... Then you go back to France. ”

Ning An rubbed his forehead and said a little hesitantly: "After all, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang are friendly schools to each other, and this place is deserted, it is inconvenient for the illusion to transfigulate, and you are injured again-"

Fleur glanced down at her ankle, which had been sprained last night, and she didn't notice it in a panic, and she only felt pain when she entered the cave, and by now, it had been relieved.

"Have we seen each other somewhere?"

Fleur stared at Ning An with wide eyes, and simply asked him directly, which made Hermione on the side flash a thick suspicion in her eyes, her eyes roamed back and forth between Ning An and Fleur, looking at Ning An's sneer, a trace of dissatisfaction slipped on her face.

"You may have mistaken someone, Miss Delacour, we've never met before."

Hermione looked at the two of them, and remembered what Ning An confessed to herself, he pretended to be Krum to participate in the Triwizard Tournament, which means that the two have really met, and there have been a lot of exchanges, but Fleur didn't know that Krum was Ning An at that time.

How could she remember her feelings about Ning An so clearly—why was it so accurate?

Thinking about the Triwizard Tournament, it seemed that Krum and Fleur did have a lot of alone time at the time.

Hermione's face sank, and her two thick eyebrows were curved into a figure of eight, crossed on her forehead, and her gaze became sharp.

"Let's go to Durmstrang together, it's easier to go back to France from there." Taking a step forward, Hermione stared at Fleur's face and whispered.

Her attitude this time was far less gentle than just now, although she was still smiling, but the spikes in her voice made Fleur feel like she was about to turn into substance and pierce herself.

Why did Hermione suddenly become hostile to herself? The faintly close conjecture in her heart made Furong's heart beat uncontrollably, and then looked at Ning An, only to feel that he and a certain shadow in his heart gradually coincided, gradually coincided, and became a person-

It should be him!

Fleur took a deep breath, and the cold wind outside the cave was no longer looking for an opportunity all the time, invading the entire cave, and the icy cool air entered the lungs, making people sober for a while.

"Then allow me to visit Durmstrang once, I am indeed curious about it."

Looking at the cunning in Furong's eyes, Ning An sighed in his heart, he had a bad premonition, and he always felt that there was big trouble coming.

The group walked out of the cave, and Chetty's deer cart was parked in the depression below the valley, and the giants, led by Kakus and the tall horses, sat on their knees, and some of the giants who had fled into the cave halfway up the slope were driven out one by one.

When Fleur came down the mountain, she was surprised to see so many giants tied up in chains, the snow on the ground was dyed red, and it was needless to say how fierce the battle was last night.

As for how these wizards tied up the giants, Fleur didn't know.

Seeing the two giants kneeling at the head, one of them was the giant Gugo they had visited before, and remembered that Hagrid had said that his name was Kakus, this lazy and irascible giant, now like an obedient hound, without the slightest look of displeasure on his face, but looked at Ning An obediently.

And from the eyes of the other giant, Fleur saw a thick fear, in addition, the arms of the two giants as thick as legs/zhuang, there were two more eye-catching tattoos, which were coiled black snakes, faintly shining in the morning light, and when the cold wind blew, it seemed to spit out snake letters.

"Please get in the car......" Zancas opened the door of the deer cart, and Fleur slowly got into the car, seeing Ning An talking to a wizard who was slightly bowed and covered in black robes and hoods.

"Here...... Over to you...... Gram...... Inform me......" After a vague overview, Fleur boarded the deer cart, and the door was slowly closed, and she realized

"Won't Mr. Ning An come with us?"

Zancas shook his head and said, "Mr. Headmaster has other things to do—"

Fleur was suddenly surprised, no wonder Hermione didn't get into the car, she had a feeling of irritability and depression in her heart, and her guess was not confirmed, so she was even more depressed, listening to Zancas's words, but it was not good to be angry with him for no reason, so she had to sit by the window and look out the window, nearly half of the giants led by Kakus slowly stood up and walked towards the exit of the valley, looking like they were going to leave here.

"Where are they going?" Fleur asked in surprise, but Zankas smiled and shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.

The carriage shook suddenly, and then Fleur felt the scenery outside the window suddenly turn horizontally, and then it became smaller and smaller, and then it became more and more down, and then the giants, the depressions, the lakes, Ning'an, all were gone, only a few leisurely white clouds emitted a pale golden light in the morning light, and the car flew up.

She looked down, and the mountain-like giants all turned into clear little black dots at this moment, and half of the small black dots could be clearly seen from the air, separated from the group, and slowly moved in another direction.

Fleur understood, the giants here seemed to be divided into two groups, and the group of giants led by the former Gugo and Kakus was about to leave the valley.

Where are they going? Fleur thought to herself, but she was out of sight, and the deer cart soon flew up to the clouds, away from the high valley surrounded by mountain peaks.

****

"If Voldemort sends someone again, I'm sure you'll understand what to do—" Ning An patted Crouch on the shoulder and instructed:

"When I get back, I'll talk to Jung and Fabian about making a detailed plan."

"Okay," Crouch nodded, his tone a little tired, but full of anger, much stronger than when he was bent on dying last night

"I think I can build four small towers on four peaks and use magic to wipe them off the map."

"You mean to cover it up so that it is not mapped?" Ning An slapped his palm, as if reminded, "You're right, Barty, this is a good idea, we may really do it, but I still have to discuss it with the others, if we really plan to do it, then it's better to be ready to do it." ”

"Of course that's the best," Crouch coughed twice, glancing at the giants being escorted away by the Sami people, "are you really going to get them into the forest of Durmstrang?" ”

Hearing this, Ning An glanced back at the giants and chuckled, "Can't you?" Don't you think that the forest is so big but a little lifeless, I think that it is more than enough to live for dozens of giants, and besides, there is a valley that surrounds the castle, which can be a paradise for these giants. ”

"You can get to Durmstra......ng from here," Crouch looked worried for the first time on his face hidden under his hood, "the Norwegian Ministry of Magic is also a problem, if they find out that we organize giants to migrate like this-"

"It's going to be a bit of trouble on the road," Ning An rubbed his hands and laughed dryly, which was also a problem he was worried about, "It would be much better if we had a big enough invisibility cloak, but unfortunately, these guys are too tall, and if they are discovered by the Muggles, it will be very troublesome......"

"Mr. Headmaster—" The last of the giants also walked out of the valley, and Pani shouted Ning'an in the distance, "We should go-"

"Soon—" Ning An shouted at Pani, and finally looked at Crouch and said to him, "but we try to choose to take some remote paths, where there are few people, with Pani and Linus in them, it should not be a problem, it is best to expel in advance, in case it is discovered, there is still a forgetting charm to make up for it." ”

He quickened his words, for the last giant had already gone far and would be out of here in a moment

"As for the Norwegian Ministry of Magic, you don't need to worry, they don't care about that, or rather, those people probably can't think of anything else interesting other than to play around and live a leisurely life...... Anyway, that's it, Barty, I'll leave it to you for this time, and I'll be notified as soon as there's something to do—"

After Ning An's last words, the people had already left with Hermione, and Crouch watched the group walk out of the valley before turning to look at the giants behind him, there were still a few wizards and Sami people left here, he sighed, it seemed that there was still a lot of work to be done.