Chapter 56 Punishment

Professor McGonagall wasn't in her office, and Filch sat in their chairs with Harry, not saying a word. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Wearing the Cloak of Invisibility, Al also slipped through the crack in the door into the office.

It took a long time for Professor McGonagall to return, but instead of Malfoy, she was followed by Neville!

Al looked at Neville suspiciously, wondering what he was doing in the middle of the night, and he was unlucky enough to be caught by Professor McGonagall.

"Harry!" Neville blurted out as soon as he saw Harry, "I've been looking for you to give you a heads-up, and I heard Malfoy say he's coming to get you, and he says you have a dragon!"

Harry waved his hand desperately, trying to keep Neville from saying more, but Professor McGonagall saw it.

Professor McGonagall approached Harry and Neville, and seemed more likely to erupt in fire than Noble.

"I can't believe it, Potter, Filch said you went to the Astronomy Tower, don't forget it's one o'clock in the morning, explain it yourself. ”

Professor McGonagall's expression was serious, as if she was not lightly annoyed.

Filch sat in his chair and looked at Harry and Neville coldly, his face gloating as he watched the joke leisurely.

Harry stammered, unable to find any excuse for himself to stare down at his shoes, motionless like statues.

"I think I totally understand what this is. "You don't need to have a lot of brains to figure it out. ”

"You made up a lie to tell Draco Malfoy that there was a dragon or something, trying to trick him out of bed and unlucky him. ”

"As you expected, I've caught him, but I didn't expect Longbottom to hear this lie and believe it, I guess you think it's funny, right?"

Harry's face flushed, but he knew he couldn't tell the truth, so he had to keep his head down and not say a word.

The whole office was so quiet that it seemed that even a needle could be heard clearly when it dropped on the ground.

Al caught Neville's gaze, and he looked surprised and aggrieved, as if he genuinely believed that Harry had made up a lie to deceive them.

Al sighed, and it took a lot of courage for poor and reckless Neville to run out in the middle of the night to find them, trying to give them a heads-up.

"I was angry. Professor McGonagall continued, "Three students didn't sleep in one night! I had never heard of such a thing before!, Mr. Potter, I thought you valued Gryffindor honors, but now!"

"Both of you are going to be locked up. Seeing Neville's shocked face, Professor McGonagall nodded, "Yes, and you, Mr. Longbottom, no matter what happens, you don't have the right to wander around the school in the middle of the night, it's very dangerous...... Gryffindor will be deducted fifty points for this. ”

"Fifty?" Harry felt his breath run for a moment.

"Fifty points for everyone!" Professor McGonagall said, her long nose gasping for air.

Al gasped, Professor McGonagall was really ruthless, she deducted 20 points for Malfoy in Slytherin, and 100 points for the students of her own house!

Harry's face changed dramatically, and he pleaded, "Professor...... I beg you ......"

"You can't ......" Neville was about to cry, his throat shaking, his face sweating profusely.

"I don't need you to tell me what I can and can't do. All right, Potter and Longbottom, go to bed, I've never blushed for a Gryffindor student like I do now. ”

Before Professor McGonagall could find out, Al took a step ahead of Harry and returned to the Gryffindor common room.

In the lounge, Hermione was sitting in an armchair by the fireplace, reading intently at a book, and when the portrait door opened, she hurriedly stood up.

"Why did you come back so late, is everything going well?"

Al took off his cloak of invisibility and sighed.

Hermione was surprised to see that Al was alone under the invisibility cloak, and she frowned and asked, "Why are you alone, Harry?"

"Well, he was captured by Filch and delivered to Professor McGonagall. Al shook his head helplessly.

"Oh my God!" Hermione covered her mouth in surprise and looked at Al in disbelief, "Aren't you wearing an invisibility cloak? ”

"We forgot about it when we returned, and by the time I got back to get the Cloak of Invisibility, I found out that he had been captured by Filch, and even worse, Neville had been caught. ”

"Neville, what is he doing out there?"

Al told Hermione everything that had happened, and after hearing this, Hermione shook her head repeatedly.

"We lost the lead, and after deducting that 100 points, Gryffindor slipped to third, just a few points ahead of Hufflepuff in last place. ”

At that moment, the portrait door to the common room opened again, and Harry and Neville walked in with their heads bowed.

Hermione looked at them, trying to comfort them, but didn't know where to start.

"Harry... Neville...... Are you all right?"

"Sorry...... Hermione, I'm not in the mood right now...... Let's talk about that another day. Harry said weakly, then ignored Al and walked up the stairs with his head down.

Neville sobbed, and Harry followed him up the stairs.

When they left, only Al and Hermione were left in the common room, and when they looked at the time, it was almost two o'clock in the morning.

"You go and rest first, and I'll go up and see how they're doing. Al said to Hermione, and after seeing Hermione nod, he returned to the boys' dormitory.

The dorm room was lifeless, and Neville lay on his pillow and cried for a long time.

Al really didn't know what words to use to comfort him.

Harry was lying on his bed, his eyes fixed on the ceiling, and he saw Al enter the bedroom, and before Al could speak, he preemptively said, "Al, you don't have to say anything, this time you can only blame me for being careless, and I can't blame anyone else." ”

Al let out a long sigh.

The next day, the Gryffindor students thought something had gone wrong as they passed the huge hourglass that recorded the house score.

How could they suddenly be a full hundred points less than yesterday, and then the news slowly spread, it turned out to be the famous Harry Potter, the hero of two Quidditch matches, who had caused them to lose so many points.

Harry had been one of the most popular and admired figures in the school, but now he was suddenly the target of public criticism.

Even the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students didn't give him a good look, as they had always wanted to see Slytherin lose the House Cup.

Now wherever Harry goes, people point fingers at him, and even when he says something insulting to him, he doesn't lower his voice.

On the other hand, whenever he walked past the Slytherins, they always applauded, whistled, and cheered.