Chapter Thirty-Seven: Harry's Enlightenment!
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"Don't you think it's a little strange?" Harry hurried down the grassy slope as he said, "Hagrid wants a dragon more than anything else, and a stranger happens to have a dragon egg in his pocket?" How many people walk around with dragon eggs all day long? You know, that's against the laws of wizards! Don't you think they're lucky to find Hagrid? Why didn't I think of this before? ”
Liu Jiecao narrowed his eyes, feeling the help that Voldemort's remnant soul on Harry had brought to this guy, and now Harry's thinking circuit has also begun to favor Voldemort, and his IQ has improved a lot compared to the original, and he finally figured out what even Hermione hadn't figured out.
"What the hell do you want to do?" Ron asked, but Harry didn't answer his question as he sped across the field, toward the forest.
Hagrid sat in a chair outside the hut, his trousers rolled up high, facing a large bowl, busily peeling pea pods.
"Hello." He smiled and said, "The exam is over?" Got time for a cup of tea? ”
"Okay, thanks." Ron said, but Harry interrupted him.
"No, we're in a hurry. Hagrid, I have one thing to ask you. Do you remember the night you won Noble by playing cards? What does that stranger you play with look like? ”
"I don't know." Hagrid said nonchalantly, "He won't take off his cloak." He saw the consternation on the faces of the three children, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in surprise.
"What's so strange about this, the pig's head pub - the one in the village, always frequented by some quirky guys. That guy must be a dragon peddler. I never got a good look at his face, he was wearing a hood. ”
Harry sat down next to the bowl of peas.
"What did you tell him, Hagrid? Did you mention Hogwarts? ”
"Maybe I mentioned it." Hagrid frowned and recalled, "That's right...... He asked me what I do, and I told him I was the hunting ground keeper here...... He asked me a little more about the animals I was looking after...... So I told him...... And then I said I had always wanted a dragon so badly...... Afterward...... I don't remember exactly. He kept buying me wine to drink and make me think again...... By the way, he later said that he had a dragon egg in his hand, and if I wanted, we could play cards and gamble...... But he had to find out if I was capable of dealing with the dragon, and he didn't want the dragon to run out and cause trouble...... So I said to him, I can even manage Lu Wei obediently, a dragon is nothing......"
"Does he seem—seems to be interested in Lowe?" He asked, trying to keep his tone calm.
"Yes—interesting—how many dogs with three heads can you meet, even near Hogwarts? So I told him that Lowe was actually very easy to deal with. All you need to know is how to calm it down, play some music for it, and it will fall asleep right away—"
Hagrid's face suddenly showed a look of horror.
"I shouldn't have told you this!" He blurted out, "Forget what I said!" Hey, where are you going? ”
Liu Jiecao was completely speechless at Hagrid, shook his head and left after the other three.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione didn't exchange a word along the way, and ran into the foyer before stopping. Having just entered from the outside field, the foyer was particularly cold and dark.
Liu Jiecao could feel the coldness in the hearts of the three of them, and knew that what they were most afraid of had happened. If Voldemort really took the opportunity to seize the Philosopher's Stone, he would really be resurrected by the way. They simply can't imagine it.
"We must go to Dumbledore." Harry said, "Hagrid told a stranger how to subdue Lowe and that the cloak was either Snape or Voldemort - he just had to get Hagrid drunk." It's easy to get out of his way. I only hope Dumbledore will trust us. If Bane doesn't come out to stop him, Ferenze will testify for us. Where is Dumbledore's office? ”
They looked around, as if expecting to see a sign pointing them in the right direction. No one had ever told them where Dumbshador lived, and they didn't know who had been taken to see the Headmaster.
"We're just—" Harry didn't finish. Suddenly, a voice rang out from the other end of the hallway.
"What are you three doing in the house?"
It was Professor McGonagall, with a large stack of books in her arms.
"We want to see Professor Dumbledore." Hermione said. Harry and Ron thought she was very brave.
"Want to see Professor Dumbledore?" Professor McGonagall repeated, as if it was very suspicious that they had such thoughts. "Why?"
Harry swallowed - what so? "It's a secret." As soon as the words came out. He immediately wished he hadn't said that, for Professor McGonagall was angry, her nose fluttering.
"Professor Dumbledore left ten minutes ago." "He received an urgent letter from the owl from the Ministry of Magic," she said coldly, and immediately flew to London. ”
"He's gone?" Harry said anxiously, "At this time? ”
"Professor Dumbledore is a great wizard, and his time is precious—"
"But it's very important."
"Is what you're going to say more than the Ministry of Magic, Harry?"
"That's right." Harry said, throwing his caution out of the clouds, "The professor - it's about the Philosopher's Stone—"
Professor McGonagall hadn't expected this to be the case anyway. The book in her arms fell to the floor with a thud, and she didn't pick it up.
"How do you know—" she stammered.
Liu Jiecao's heart moved, and he immediately realized that Professor McGonagall was obviously kept in the dark by Dumbledore, and she didn't know Dumbledore's arrangements and calculations at all.
Harry said, "Professor, I think - I know - Snee - someone is trying to steal the Philosopher's Stone. I must speak to Professor Dumbledore. ”
Professor McGonagall looked at Harry with a mixture of consternation and suspicion.
"Professor Dumbledore will be back tomorrow." She finally said, "I don't know how you found out about the Philosopher's Stone, but rest assured, no one can steal it, it's heavily guarded, and it's safe. ”
"But the professor—"
"Potter, I know what I'm talking about." She said impatiently, and bent down. Pick up the book that has fallen on the ground. "I suggest you go outside and soak up the sun."
But they didn't.
"Tonight." When Harry was sure that Professor McGonagall was too far away to be heard, he quickly said, "Snape is going through the trapdoor tonight." He'd got everything he needed, and now he'd tricked Dumbledore out of school. He must have sent the letter, and I'm sure the Ministry of Magic would have been taken aback to see Dumbledore suddenly appear. ”
"But what can we—"
Hermione took a sharp breath of cold air. Harry and Ron turned.
Snape stood there.
"Good afternoon." He said in a sleek tone.
They stared blankly at him.
"You shouldn't be inside in such weather." He said, his face twisting into a whimsical smile.
"We were in—" Harry said, not knowing what he was going to say.
"You need to be careful." Snape said. "Wandering around like this, people will think you're trying to do something bad. Gryffindor can't afford to drop any more points, can they? Harry blushed.
They turned and walked outside, but Snape called them back. "A word of war, Potter - if you wander around in the middle of the night again, I'm going to fire you myself.
Have a nice day. ”
He strode in the direction of the faculty lounge.
Liu Jiecao was completely convinced by Snape, obviously heard Harry's words, and knew that Harry doubted him, but he didn't defend himself at all. Just silently protecting Harry, and the school.
Snape's words were purely to warn Harry that he wanted to make Harry retreat in this way during the Philosopher's Stone incident. I want to protect him, maybe he still doesn't know about Dumbledore's plans.
Originally, Liu Jiecao thought that Snape should know at this time, but unfortunately he didn't have it at all. You can hear it by the words before.
It seems that Dumbledore has hidden from everyone, and he is truly a wizard that even Voldemort fears.
No wonder. Quirrell and Voldemort's letter from the tiger to the mountain couldn't fool Dumbledore at all, and the old guy just pretended to leave, and didn't he suddenly appear at the most critical time in the original plot?
Obviously, everything was carried out under his arrangement, this terrible old fellow......
After Snape left, as soon as the four of them reached the stone steps outside, Harry said to Liu Jiecao, Ron, and Hermione, "Well, we have to do this now......"
He whispered eagerly, "Someone is in charge of keeping an eye on Snape - waiting outside the staff lounge, and if he comes out, follow him." Hermione, this is best left to you. ”
"Why me?"
"Needless to say." Ron said, "You can pretend to be waiting for Professor Flitwick. He feigned a high-pitched female voice, "Oh, Professor Flitwick, I'm so worried, I think I might have made the wrong choice B for question 14."
"Bah, shut up." Hermione said, but she agreed to keep an eye on Snape anyway.
Well, Liu Jiecao thinks that Hermione actually wants to keep an eye on Quirrell. However, in recent days, she has been warned by Liu Jiecao and told her some truths, so she feels that this plan is feasible. Perhaps she felt that Snape had been keeping an eye on Quirrell, and that through Snape's actions, she could also infer Quirrell's actions, which was safer than just staring at Quirrell.
"The three of us better stay outside the hallway on the fourth floor." Harry said to Liu Jiecao and Ron, "Let's go. ”
However, this part of the plan was not successfully implemented. No sooner had they reached the doorway that separated Louwe from the rest of the school when Professor McGonagall suddenly appeared, and this time she couldn't help but throw a tantrum.
"I guess you think you're better than a whole bunch of magic spells, right?" She growled and said, "Enough, stop messing around!" The next time I hear you're coming here again, I'll have to deduct fifty points from Gryffindor! Yes, Weasley, deduct fifty points for my own house! ”
Liu Jiecao sighed that Professor McGonagall was too confident, confident that the magic of their professors would be difficult to crack, and even more confident in the last insurance that Dumbledore had arranged, the insurance that was almost foolproof.
Of course, it turned out that the other professors' methods were scum, just the trials that Dumbledore arranged for Harry, and it was still a prop for Quirrell to find a little trouble and delay a little time. And Dumbledore's methods, even Voldemort was helpless, and it was Harry who obtained the Philosopher's Stone through Dumbledore's hints.
Professor McGonagall's anger kept Harry and Ron from looking at each other, and they returned to the common room with Liu Jiecao. Harry had just said "at least Hermione was staring at Snape" when he saw the portrait of the fat lady jerk away, and Hermione got in.
"I'm sorry, Harry!" She whimpered, "Snape came out, and he asked me what I was doing there, and I said I was waiting for Flitwick. Snape went to him, and I ran away. I don't know where Snape has gone now. ”
"Well, that seems to be the only way to go, right?" Harry said.
Liu Jiecao looked up at the sky, while Hermione and Ron both stared at Harry.
Harry's face was pale and his eyes were shining: "I'm sneaking out of here tonight, and I'm going to try to get my hands on the Philosopher's Stone first." ”
"You're crazy!" Ron said. "You can't do that!"
Hermione said, "Didn't you hear what McGonagall and Snape said?" You're going to be expelled! ”
"So what?" Harry exclaimed, "Don't you understand? If Snape gets his hands on the Philosopher's Stone, Voldemort will return! Haven't you heard what it was like when he wanted to dominate the world? If he had succeeded, Hogwarts would not have existed, and it would not matter if he was expelled or not! He will raze the school to the ground or turn it into a school dedicated to teaching black magic! Can't you see that it doesn't matter if you lose points or not! Do you think that as long as Gryffindor wins the House Cup, he will let you and your family go? If I am caught before I can get my hands on the Philosopher's Stone, then I will have to go back to the Dursley house and wait for Voldemort to come and find me. That's just a little later than now, because I'm never going to join the underworld! I've got to go through that trapdoor tonight, and you two can't stop me with anything!" Voldemort killed my parents, remember? ”
He glared at them angrily.
Seeing this, Liu Jiecao thought to himself: "What a deep hatred, it seems that Voldemort's recent strengthening has really begun to affect Harry. Potter's heart. ”
In fact, in the original plot, this aspect has been hinted at, this is a gradual process, under the influence of the plot of the Order of the Phoenix, Harry's temper has begun to appear irritable, and later he was easily controlled by Voldemort to pass on false memories.
At the moment, before Voldemort could resurrect Harry's blood, the benefits of these changes far outweighed the disadvantage for Harry.
"Let me see the first act of this play to the end." Liu Jiecao thought with a faint smile. (To be continued......)