After coming down from the observatory, Zhang Xu went directly to the cafeteria, it was already dinner time, and if he didn't go, he wouldn't have anything to eat. Then he finally arrived at the cafeteria before the end of the meal and filled his stomach after a wolfing meal.

At this time, the matter of Ron making a fuss in the common room this morning because of eating a cake mixed with aphrodisiacs has spread in the four academies, but everyone still doesn't know the news of his second poisoning, and he hasn't appeared yet, everyone just thinks he is shy and hides.

Ron ran to the common room early this morning and read a non-repeating sonnet line poem for ten minutes in front of a frightened girl.

If Ginny hadn't found out that he had started reading the poem she had written to Harry and struggled to squeeze through the crowd of onlookers and bring him down, Ron would have made it to dinner time.

As for Harry and Neville, when they were discovered by their classmates in the next dormitory shortly after, they were still holding back Ron despite being under the petrification spell.

Eventually, Harry, who had lifted the petrification spell, let Ron loose and took him to Slughorn after he was tied up and gagged and hung upside down from the ceiling of the common room.

After dinner, Zhang Xu returned to the dormitory, and then plunged into the sea of questions in the study.

Now there are more than one hundred and twenty days left before the college entrance examination, and there is not much time left for him, so he needs to hurry up and review.

As for the extremely tempting thing of using a time turner to buy a copy of past college entrance examination papers in the future, he struggled for five minutes and then gave up, because it was too risky.

The college entrance examination is an all-round tempering for a student, and it is the first opportunity for many people to take control of their own destiny and take responsibility for their future with their own actions. People who are interested in taking the next step in life will not give up such a rare opportunity.

At half past eleven in the evening, Zhang Xu finished the answer to the last question on the test paper and was relieved to find that the answer was correct.

Tonight, he did the math test paper of the college entrance examination that he had just sent, and it seemed that his grades were not bad, reaching the expected level.

After waving his wand to tidy up the test papers and stationery on the table, Zhang Xu walked to the windowsill with the tea jar, and after reaching out to push the window open, the cold wind in the middle of the night in early spring made him shiver.

He closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, the cold air burrowed into his lungs, and his somewhat drowsy head became clear.

A narrow waning moon hung on the edge of the sky without a trace of clouds, and without the interference of moonlight, the stars at night occupied the entire stage.

In winter, the triangle still hangs in the zenith, and in spring, Leo's Five Emperors has climbed above the mountains to the east.

The tail of July is Leo, and the tail of Leo is the one of the five emperors 36 light-years away from Earth.

Watching the sky at night or something, Zhang doesn't know anything. In his previous life, he had thought about learning some astronomical knowledge to use when he was picking up girls, but in the 21st century city, he didn't expect to see many stars at night, and if he wanted to see the stars, he could only run to the suburbs where there was no light pollution. But if the girl is willing to go to the suburbs with you in the middle of the night, it seems that she won't need this knowledge.

After looking at the stars for a while, after a burst of cranky thoughts in his mind, Zhang Xu's originally tense brain began to relax.

After drinking the tea in the tea jar, Zhang Xu felt a little hungry, so he planned to go to the kitchen to get some supper.

Today, Dobby is like this, and he can't be expected to continue delivering takeaways.

Meanwhile, Harry, Hermione, and Hagrid emerge from the room, leaving it to the Weasleys.

Walking in the corridor leading to the foyer, the topic of the three of them was naturally inseparable from the matter of Ron's poisoning.

"Another child has been seriously injured, and Dumbledore is worried." Hagrid said worriedly.

"Is there anything he can do?" Hermione asked, a little anxiously.

While it is not uncommon for students at Hogwarts to get injured for a variety of reasons, such as two girls with furry ears on their heads who are now passing by and helping a boy with ivory in his mouth, this is not the same thing as a serious injury that nearly cost his life.

"He has all sorts of clever tricks to fill his clever head, but he doesn't know who the person who sent the necklace and poisoned the wine is, and no amount of thought he has." "And the school board will certainly be unhappy about this, they think Hogwarts is a safe haven, but now that this place is not safe, they may be able to put the students in a safer place." ”

"Where?" Harry asked, surprised.

"Student's home." Hagrid replied with a bitter face.

"They're going to close the school?" Hermione shouted in surprise, "But it's not safe for students to go home now, and the newspapers are full of Death Eater attacks every day." ”

"Be quiet!" Startled by Hermione, Hagrid said to Hermione in a rare stern voice, "But the school directors think their homes are safe, at least there won't be murders. ”

"This matter is putting a lot of pressure on Dumbledore, so he may make some compromises in exchange for the support of the school board."

"What compromise?" Harry asked.

"Let the Aurors secretly settle at Hogwarts." Hagrid whispered to Harry and Hermione in his loud voice, "You must not say anything about this, it will cause unnecessary trouble. ”

Harry and Hermione nodded hurriedly and promised not to say anything.

"Dumbledore is under a lot of pressure right now, and it's the first time I've seen him fight two people in a row in a week." Hagrid frowned and said, "Dumbledore looked angry then, and this is the first time I've seen him ...... Bligh like this."

The next moment, Hagrid suddenly realized what he was talking about, and then closed his mouth nervously.

"Dumbledore and Black arguing?" Harry's eyes widened in surprise, as if he wasn't going to stop until he widened his eyes bigger than his glasses.

"Why are they arguing?" Harry asked anxiously.

For Harry, Dumbledore and Black were the two best people who could give the same care as their elders. If these two have a conflict, it will be very uncomfortable for him to be caught in the middle.

Hagrid was reluctant to say it, but Harry reluctantly told him about it.

"The necklace was discussed at the meeting that day, and Blake thought it was a student doing it." Hagrid said to Harry.

"It's Malfoy!" Harry said categorically, "I've been suspicious of him. ”

Harry then noticed that Hagrid's face was a little strange.

"Not Malfoy." Hagrid said, "It's someone else. ”

"Huh?" This time Harry was confused, he had never thought there was another suspect.

"The person Blake suspects is Zhang Xu." Hagrid whispered.

By this time, Harry and the others had already walked to the foyer, and it was quiet in the foyer at midnight, which made Hagrid's voice reach the ears of Zhang Xu, who was about to turn and walk down the hallway on the stairs.

Zhang Xu almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood, when Scarlett, who was standing next to him, pulled his sleeve and gave him a funny face.

"Confess and be lenient." Scarlett said to Zhang Xu with a sound transmission.

Then Zhang Xu didn't want to talk to her and rolled his eyes at her.

"No, no, no, it can't be Zhang." Harry and Hermione denied it at the same time.

Hearing that Harry and Hermione trusted him so much, Zhang Xu's heart felt a little better.

"If Zhang wants to do this kind of thing, he doesn't need to make such a big detour." Hermione said, "He has so many ways to kill someone without anyone knowing. ”

Zhang Xu: "......"

You trust me so much, it really touches me, Zhang Xu thought.

Then Harry said, "It can't be Zhang, Blake must have made a mistake." ”

"Black had always thought he was a dark wizard, and he had been in cahoots with the Malfoys before." "And he's a parseltongue. ”

"I'm also a parseltongue, why don't you see anyone suspecting me as a dark wizard?" Harry said angrily, "He and the Malfoy family are just doing business, and the can of basilisk I gave you at Christmas was raised by the basilisk cubs that the Malfoys sold to him." ”

Hagrid was expelled for Voldemort and the Basilisk, and it would be impossible to say that he was angry.

Voldemort he couldn't afford to mess with, so he could only spill his anger on the head of the basilisk for now, and every time he ate the can, he thought the meat in the can was the meat of the thousand-year-old basilisk.

Although the canned food is not as delicious as it was fresh.

At this time, Hermione said with some uncertainty: "Is there any conflict between Blake and Zhang, I found that Blake has been hostile to him." ”

"You don't know?" Hagrid asked, a little surprised, "I thought you all knew." ”

Hermione shook her head, she hadn't been very interested in gossip.

"It's because of Professor Scaret." Hagrid said to Hermione.

At this point, the two parties who were eavesdropping on the side began to pull out their wands.

"What does it matter?" Hermione asked, "Didn't Zhang's father save Professor Scarlet many years ago?" ”

"Hey...... Anyone who knows the inside story knows that this is an excuse, and everyone doesn't say it. Hagrid suddenly laughed and said, "If you think about the two of them on a regular basis, the ghosts often see them alone in each other's dormitories at night, do you still think their relationship is simple?" ”

Hermione and Harry thought for a moment, then shook their heads together and said, "No. ”

"Is it true that everyone else is telling this?" Hermione said incredulously, "I thought the girls were talking nonsense, so I didn't pay attention." ”

"Maybe the girls have a point." Harry thought for a moment, "I've heard that there's something strange between the two of them. ”

Then Harry continued, "I've also heard that Chang likes older women, and I think Professor Scarlett fits that as well. ”

Seeing that the topic shifted from Dumbledore's quarrel with others to gossip news, Hagrid took the opportunity to say goodbye to Harry and Hermione, "It's getting late, you guys should hurry back to the common room." ”

With that, Hagrid turned and strode out of the castle gates, as if fleeing from something.

It was only then that Harry suddenly remembered that Hagrid had not yet told him the details of Dumbledore's quarrel with Black, and who the other person who had quarreled with Dumbledore was.

Harry chased him out of the castle gates and found Hagrid running away.

Harry thought about going to Hagrid's hut tomorrow after Quidditch training to find him and ask him about the matter, and then turned back to the castle.

As soon as he entered the gate, he heard a voice say, "Miss Granger, I think Gryffindor will be deducted ten points for wandering around the castle so late." ”

Harry was stunned for a moment, then saw Scarlett standing in front of Hermione turn his head and say to him, "Where does our 'savior' Mr. Potter leave the castle in the middle of the night, and you will lose thirty points for it." ”

As Scarlett finished speaking, the hourglass placed on the wall of the foyer rang out.

The next day, Sunday, Harry arrived at Hagrid's hut after a very unpleasant Quidditch session.

It took nearly ten minutes of knocking on the hut before the door opened.

Harry saw Hagrid standing behind the door with a small tree-like stick as a cane, looking weak and his legs still shaking.

Harry nervously asked, "What's wrong with you, Hagrid?" ”

"It's fine." Hagrid struggled to turn sideways to get Harry into the room, then slowly walked to the chair at the table and sat down on his trembling legs on crutches, and said, "I've only been sick to my stomach since this morning. ”