Chapter Fifty-Seven: Attack on Malfoy
Filch was in his small office, a place that most students would not want to enter, a dimly lit room with only an oil lamp hanging from the ceiling to provide a meager amount of light, a windowless room, and the constant smell of fried fish. In this respect, Filch has captured the essence of the dark cuisine of the British Empire.
Several large wooden cabinets leaned against the wall, the gray wall was dotted with the files of the students who had broken the rules, and against the cabinet there was a fur-covered chaise longue covered in cat hair, and in a conspicuous place behind the desk, a heavy shackle hung from which everyone in the school knew that Filch often begged Dumbledore to allow him to hang his students upside down from the ceiling.
Of course, Dumbledore would never say yes unless he was insane.
Filch also liked to threaten students with the need to lock them up in the basement dungeons of Hogwarts, and he treasured a pair of nine whips, a tool of whipping that Muggle Catholic ascetics loved to use as a self-abuse tool, and some church schools also used it to discipline students, whipping and corporal punishment.
Malfoy glanced at him in disgust, and he said in a gruff voice, "A smell of cats!" ”
"Clean up!" He didn't use his wand, just lowered his fingers slightly, and with a strong pump, the air in this room was pulled away and replaced with fresh air. Goyle and Crabbe's two henchmen were still following him, but after a period of training by Malfoy, they were much more obedient and a little more conscious.
"Let's wait here for Filch to come!" Malfoy sneered sarcastically, pulled a letter from his bosom and said to the two henchmen, "Well done, Goyle...... If you hadn't found out, I wouldn't have known Filch's secret! He looked down and read the words written on the envelope: "Quick Spell Beginner Correspondence Course for Magicians." ”
Malfoy raised the letter in his hand and announced loudly to his henchmen: "Our janitor, Argus Filch, is a despicable, disgusting Squib!" A squib that is even cheaper than the mudbloods! ”
"No wonder I've never seen him use magic!" Malfoy laughed.
Goyle and Crabbe laughed along, and Crabbe flattered Malfoy by saying, "A Squib...... In our family, if a squib is born, it will bring shame to the whole family. My father will definitely dispose of 'him', even the wizards who follow Dumbledore, they will banish the Squibs from the house...... But Dumbledore had the audacity to take in a Squib at school. ”
"What if I told my father that I knew about it...... He's going to kick Filch out of school with Dumbledore, he's the director of Hogwarts, and he has that power! Malfoy said reflexively, but he quickly woke up from this childlike cruelty and ostentatious mentality, he subconsciously tightened the black-covered magic book in his arms, and whispered to the two followers: "When Filch returns, you will go to the door to guard." ”
Malfoy remembered what he had learned from that book, how to dominate his subordinates, how to wield power, how to control great, subtle magical powers, and he reflected on his recklessness and naivety, and deepened.
Goyle and Crabbe saw Malfoy become silent and deep, and they both shrunk their heads and hid behind Malfoy, for some reason they were most afraid of Malfoy now.
Malfoy didn't have to wait long for the door to open, and Filch walked in with a triumphant smile on his face.
"Harry Potter won't be able to get any advantage this time!" Filch excitedly said to Mrs. Norris, "I finally caught his tail!" Although Peeves didn't say it, the fact that he was so afraid of Harry Potter now only showed that it ...... He was the one who made the trouble that night! His eyes turned to the house, and he saw the three Malfoys.
Filch jumped up like an old cat and shouted, "Malfoy? Now is not the time for you to walk around...... Looks like I'm going to teach you a lesson......"
Filch stopped, his pale face turned brick-red, and a bitter mouth that had just been doing his duty was as weak as a dead fish, and the vitality of Filch, driven by meanness and jealousy, seemed to be sucked away from him in an instant, and made him a little lost.
He hobbled over to the Malfoy trio, trying to snatch the letter.
But Malfoy put it away like lightning, and he made a color for Goyle and Crabbe, and Crabbe hurriedly pulled Goyle to the doorknob.
"Disturbing Spell!" Malfoy closed Filch's office and used the spell on them, he didn't trust Goyle and Crabbe, and after using the spell, they couldn't hear anything even if they were lying on the door and eavesdropping.
"Filch." Malfoy remembered some of the things he had learned in that book and decided to give it a try on Filch today, he sat down in Filch's chair, crossed his hands on his knees like a big man, and whispered to Filch: "Dumbledore keeps the secrets very well, and no one expected that the janitor of Hogwarts, a member of its glory, would actually mix in a squib in this glorious, great school, in an inconspicuous corner!" ”
"No...... No! Filch stammered and explained, "It's not mine...... It's for a friend...... Maybe it seems...... But ......"
"I can see through people like you at a glance, this is the ability of our Malfoy family, every Malfoy family can see through those lowly ...... Lying mudbloods and squibs. Malfoy sneered.
"Look at your eyes, don't you notice the jealous bloodshot and greedy ugly expression you look at every day at those noble purebloods, even the lowly mudbloods? Argus Filch, I don't know that you are a disgrace to that pure-blood family, but you must have been swept away by your family, because of your family's softness, negligence, etc., to let you survive such a disgrace. ”
"The reason why you hate the sorcerers who have made mistakes so much is because when you see them, your heart is like a poisonous snake gnawing at them, the breath of youth, the laughter of joy...... And magic, all like a mirror reflecting your ugly heart...... So you are so jealous and resentful, you enjoy the feeling of torturing them, you are born a rebel! ”
"We all know why the shackles and whips in your house were prepared, and how you look forward to sending the wizard's child to the dungeon...... I swear that if I told my father about this, then he, who cares so much about the growth of the little wizards, will call the school board and let the noble pure-blood wizards get you out of here, out of this school! ”
"I didn't think about it that way." Filch said in fear, "Master Malfoy, I never dared to think like this, if I were such a person, Dumbledore would definitely kick me out." ”
"It doesn't matter what Dumbledore thinks!" Malfoy scolded, "What matters is what my father and I think. ”
"You should know that legend, if the Dark Lord knows about you...... A Squib dares to kill you where he once studied...... It was as if Dumbledore was demonstrating. They don't do it to the students because their kids are in there, they don't do it to the mudbloods because it drives those mudblood parents crazy. But what about you? Filch, who cares about a squib? ”
"Dumbledore will protect me." Filch spoke incoherently.
"He was too busy to take care of himself...... And, Filch ...... Squibs are the original sin, dirty and lowly things. It's a shame for the wizards, a shame for the family...... I know, Filch. No one wants to be a Squib, and look at Neville who almost became a Squib, thanks to his uncle, who forced Neville's small potential. ”
"From then on, Neville's future is worlds apart, a Squib Neville, no wizard wants to marry his daughter to him, a wizard Neville, but he can study at Hogwarts." Malfoy scoffed, "So you're still praying for these deceitful lies." He tore up Filch's letter, and Filch was excited to get it back.
"The hand of the chokehold!" Malfoy roared, and Filch immediately felt a large invisible hand choke his throat, and the strength of that hand was amazing, like a troll, lifting Filch into the air, and he could only helplessly break the invisible hand, his pale face was red, and his legs were weakly kicking in the air.
"Recognized? Our difference? ”
"I'm a wizard, a powerful, noble pure-blood wizard, and you're just a squib...... Even a Squib that is inferior to the Mudbloods, you have to be glad that you live in this chaotic era, if you still live in the glory of the purebloods, you will be drowned at the age of eleven! ”
Filch looked at the cold Malfoy in despair, but felt the big hand in his throat loosen, and he fell.
"But you're lucky, I'm not your average wizard, and even in purebloods, I'm more glorious. I have a power that the previous wizards could never have dreamed of, my power can subvert everything, as a squib, the humble you have a new choice, to live as a wizard, instead of dying like garbage in the future reckoning. ”
Malfoy smiled, "I can give you magic again." Although magic is rooted in noble bloodlines, the Mudbloods have proved that they do not have to have noble bloodlines to degenerate into pure bloods to grasp the mysteries of magic a little. It was the pure-bloods who bestowed their power on their servants, so that Muggles could also have magical powers. ”
"But unlike purebloods, the magic of the mudblood comes from magical creatures, from house-elves, from the blood of those magical animals."
"I learned the secret, and mastered the magic of re-bestowing magic on Muggles, blood-modifying magic, which can inject that stinky, lowly blood into your veins, so that you and your descendants will have lowly magic. But you have to remember that the magic of pure-bloods is noble, while the magic of mudbloods is derived from beasts and is naturally lowly. People nowadays confuse these ...... I will make them remember it again. ”
Chen Ang observes all of this through a magic circle on Moon Inoue that monitors the entire earth and the magical world, and his "Wizard Blood Transformation and Magical Origin Biochemical Experiment" accurately records the data collected on Filch's body.