"You say, how could Sirius get hurt. Ron asked idly, and the few of them stepped back into the snow.

In fact, on days when the weather is unpredictable and playful, it's obviously not a pleasant thing to travel, and even worse, the longer they stay, the worse the weather becomes.

They tightened their cloaks again, retied their scarves, put on their gloves, and walked out of the bar and back down the road after Katie Bell and one of her friends. They trudged back on the frozen snow on the ground, and Harry's thoughts drifted to Ginny.

They hadn't touched her, Harry thought, no doubt because she and Dean were cosy hiding in the Pardiff's teahouse, the place frequented by happy couples.

He frowned, hung his head in the swirling sleet, and walked on.

"I don't know, but Tonks said it was an attack, and apparently, news of the Order of the Phoenix operation had been leaked. Van Lin frowned, holding Hermione with one hand.

In fact, if nothing unexpected about the leak of the operation, it should have been related to Professor Snape's mission.

They always have to pay some price in order to be able to succeed.

However, Van Lin did not rule out that Mundungus betrayed the Order of the Phoenix, but the probability is really a bit low, and Mundungus should not have that guts......

Van Lin frowned, thinking about the possibility between the two, as for the other possible factors, Van Lin could not doubt Lupin and them. After a while, Van Lin suddenly heard the voices of Katie Bell and her friends, and their voices became higher and louder, and they reached Van Lin's ears with the wind.

Van Lin narrowed his eyes at the two blurred figures. The two girls were arguing about something, as if it had something to do with what Katie was holding in her hand.

"It's none of your business, Lynn!" Van Lin heard Katie say. They turned into an alley.

"What's wrong with them?" asked Harry, trying to see what was going on, but the sleet was getting heavier and hauling Harry's glasses. Just as he raised a gloved hand to wipe the lenses of his glasses, Lynne snatched Katie's package, which she tugged back and dropped to the floor.

At that moment, Katie rose into the air, not hanging upside down comically like Ron, but very gracefully and slowly, her hands outstretched as if they were about to fly. However, there seems to be something wrong, something strange...... Her hair was blown up by the wind, but her eyes were closed and there was no expression on her face.

For a moment, everyone froze there, staring at her. Katie then screamed in horror in mid-air, six feet above the ground. She opened her eyes, but it was clear that everything she saw and felt was in great pain. She kept screaming, and Lynn started screaming too, grabbing Katie's ankles and trying to pull her back to the ground.

Harry, Ron, Van Lin, and Hermione rushed to help, but as soon as they touched Katie's legs, she floated over their heads, and Harry and Ron tried to hold her, but she writhed so hard that it was impossible to control it. They lowered her to the ground instead, where she lay screaming and making noise, as if she didn't know any of them anymore.

"What's going on?" Van Lin cried, holding Katie's shoulders with both hands, "Harry, get someone to help!"

"Stay here!" Harry shouted to the others in the howling wind. "I'm going to find someone to help!"

He ran in the direction of the school, he had never seen anyone with Katie's symptoms, and he couldn't think of what caused it, and he sped down the alley, but it felt like he had hit the hind legs of a giant bear.

"Hagrid!" Harry gasped as he climbed up from the nearby hedgerow.

"Harry!" Hagrid, with snow on his eyebrows and beard, was wearing his rough beaver fur coat. "Just went to see Glopp, he's doing so well, you wouldn't-"

"Hagrid, there's someone there, or they've been attacked by a spell, or something—"

"What?" Hagrid said, bending down to try to hear Harry in the wind. "Someone's been attacked by a spell!" Harry roared. "Attacked by a spell? Who's being attacked by a spell - it's not Ron, is it? Van Lin? Hermione?"

"No, it's not just a few of them, it's Katie Bell - this ......" They ran back down the alley together. It wasn't long before the four of them were spotted surrounding Katie, who was still writhing and screaming on the ground, and Ron, Hermione, and Lynn were trying to quiet her down.

"Back off!" Hagrid exclaimed. "Let me see her!"

"She's hit something!" Lynn whimpered. "I don't know what-"

"Be careful, Hagrid, Katie has been cursed. Van Lin said, releasing magic through item contact, and Van Lin couldn't think of any magic other than a curse.

Hagrid stared at Katie for a second, then picked her up without saying a word and ran towards the castle. Seconds later, Katie's shrill screams dissipated into the roaring wind.

Hermione walked quickly over to Katie's friend, still crying, when Hermione put an arm around her.

"Your name is Lynn, isn't it?" the girl nodded. "Did it happen suddenly, or did it ——??"

"That's when that package was torn open," Lynn sobbed as she pointed to the soaked brown package, which had cracked open and glowed green. Ron bent down and held out his hand, but Van Lin pulled his hand back.

"Don't touch it. Van Lin crouched down. A delicate opal necklace emerges from the wrapper.

"I've seen this before," Van Lin stared at the thing. "A few years ago, the Borgin Burke store used to show it. The label above says that the necklace is cursed. Katie must have touched it. ”

He looked up at Lynn, and she began to tremble involuntarily.

"How did Katie get this?"

"Well, that's what we just argued. She had this when she came out of the bathroom with three broomsticks, and said that it was a surprise for someone in Hogwarts, and that she was going to deliver it herself. She looked weird when she said it...... No, oh, no, I bet she must have been controlled by the Imperius Curse, I didn't realize it just now!"

Lynn began to sob again. Hermione gently patted her on the shoulder.

"Didn't she tell you who gave her this package, Lynn?"

"No...... She wouldn't tell me...... I told her to be stupid and tell her not to bring this to school, but she just wouldn't listen...... And then I want to grab it...... And then—and then—" Lynn burst into tears of despair.

"We'd better hurry back to school," Hermione still put her arms around Lynn, "so we can see how she's doing." Come on......"

"Wait a minute!" Van Lin drew his wand, the ice and snow around him quickly melted, and then the transparent water wrapped the necklace, "We'll have to show this to Madam Pomfrey, this curse is troublesome, we have to find out what Katie has hit." ”

They followed Hermione and Lynn towards the school, Harry's mind racing. When they walked to the school playground, he finally couldn't help but say what he thought.

"Malfoy must know about this necklace. Four years ago, it was kept in a small box at the Borgin Burke shop, and I hid to see him take a closer look at the necklace. That's what he bought the day we followed him! He remembered it and came back and bought it. ”

"I-I don't know, Harry," Ron said. "Many people have been to Borgin Bock...... And didn't the girl say that Katie was found in the bathroom?"

"She said she had it when she came back from the bathroom, and she didn't necessarily get it in the bathroom—"

"Professor McGonagall!" Ron warned. Harry looked up. Sure enough, Professor McGonagall walked briskly down the stone steps and walked towards them in the swirling snow.

"Hagrid said you four saw what happened to Katie Bell - come to my office right now! What are you holding, Van Lin?"

"That necklace, Katie was cursed because she touched it, and I think Madam Pomfrey might need it. ”

Professor McGonagall looked at Van Lin nervously, and without hesitation, grabbed the ice cube into her hand.

"Very well, let's go. Professor McGonagall said quickly, "No, no, Filch, they're going to follow me!" Professor McGonagall said quickly as she saw Filch rushing eagerly from the foyer with his probe in high hands. "Send this necklace to Professor Snape right away, don't touch it, the ice won't melt, will it?"

"Oh yes, in general, so there's no problem, Professor. ”

Van Lin watched as Filch went to Snape, and they followed Professor McGonagall upstairs to her office. The windows splashed with rain and snow creaked constantly, and although there was a fire in the house, it was still cold. Professor McGonagall closed the door and walked over to her desk, facing Harry, Ron, Van Lin, Hermione, and Lynn who was still answering questions.

"So?" she said sharply. "What happened?"

Lynn tries to control her crying as she intermittently tells Professor McGonagall how Katie came out of the bathroom with three brooms with an unmarked package in her hand, how strange Katie looks, and how they argue about the wisdom of passing an unknown item, and their argument turns into a dispute over the package, which is torn open. At this point, Lynn could no longer control herself, she couldn't say a word.

"Well," Professor McGonagall said mildly, "please go to the school hospital, Lynn, and ask Madam Pomfrey to give you some medicine for your fright." ”

After Lynn left the office, Professor McGonagall turned to look at Harry, Ron, Van Lin, and Hermione. "What happened to Katie when she touched that necklace?"

"She rose into the air," Harry said before everyone else. Then he started screaming, and the whole thing collapsed. Professor, may I meet Professor Dumbledore?"

"The Headmaster isn't here, I'll be back on Monday, Potter," Professor McGonagall looked surprised.

"Not here?" Harry repeated angrily.

"Yes, Potter, not there!" Professor McGonagall said scathingly. "But I'm sure if you think anything about this terrible thing, you can tell me!"

Harry hesitated for a moment. He was not very confident in the presence of Professor McGonagall, and Dumbledore, though more frightening in many ways, seemed unlikely to laugh at other people's opinions, no matter how crazy they were. But it was a matter of life and death, and Harry couldn't afford to be ridiculed.

"I think the necklace was given to Katie by Draco Malfoy, Professor. Ron, who was standing next to him, rubbed his nose, looking embarrassed, and Hermione, who was standing on the other side, moved her foot to the side as if to keep a certain distance from Harry.

In fact, Harry had found the truth, but he had no proof.

Van Lin looked at Harry with some headaches, Harry has always been like this since he was a child, doing things by feeling......

"That's a very serious charge, Potter," Professor McGonagall paused in shock, is there any evidence?

"No," Harry said, "but ......"

He told Professor McGonagall about their tracking of Malfoy to the Burkin-Burke store, as well as the conversation they overheard between him and Burkin. After he said this, Professor McGonagall looked confused.

"Malfoy brought something to the Borgin Burke shop to fix it?"

"No, Professor, he just wanted Borgin to tell him how to fix it, and he didn't bring it. But that's not the point, the question is what he bought at the same time, I think it's the necklace—"

"Did you see Malfoy leave the store with a similar package in his hand?"

"No, Professor, he asked Bokin to keep the thing for him—" "But, Harry," Hermione interrupted, "When Bokin asked him if he had taken it, Malfoy said 'no'—"

"Because he doesn't want to touch it, obviously!" Harry said angrily.

"He actually said, 'What am I going to do with this thing in the street?'" Hermione said.

"Well, he looks a little silly with a necklace," Ron interjected.

"Oh, Ron," said Hermione disappointed, "it could be wrapped up so he wouldn't have to touch it, and it could easily be hidden inside the cloak so no one could see it! I think the thing he had deposited in Borgin Burke was either noisy or big, and he knew that carrying it on the street would attract attention—but anyway," she said aloud before Harry interrupted, "I asked Borgin about the necklace, don't you remember?" I went in and tried to find the thing that Malfoy had kept in his custody and saw it there. And Bokin only quoted a price, and he didn't say it had been sold or anything—"

"But you're too obvious, it only takes him about five seconds to see what you're trying to do, and of course he won't tell you - either way, Malfoy can ask him to send it over—"

Hermione looked angry, and was about to retort when Professor McGonagall said, "That's enough, Potter, I appreciate you telling me this, but we can't blame Malfoy just for patronizing the store that sells necklaces." Many people went there like him—"

"—that's what I meant—" Ron muttered.

"—and anyway, we've put in place strict security measures in appropriate places this year, and I don't believe this necklace can sneak into the school without even noticing—"

"-But-"

"—Also," said Professor McGonagall, with the majesty of ending the conversation, "Mr. Malfoy has not been to Hogsmeade to-day. Harry looked at her dumbfounded, deflated.

"How do you know, Professor?"

"Because he's locked up with me. He hadn't completed his Transfiguration class twice in a row. So, thank you for telling me your suspicions, Potter," she strode past them, "but I'll have to go to the hospital to see Katie Bell." Good morning, everybody. ”

She opened the door to her office. They had no choice but to walk out without saying a word.