In the brightly lit office, Augustine looked nervously at Rick. On the other side, Hermione was thinking about how to apologize to Augustine.

"Alright, you can go back if it's okay. Miss Abbot is still waiting for you in the common room. Don't let her worry too much. Hermione, Ron. The two of you will go too. Thank you very much! ”

After reading Augustine's homework, Rick looked up at the three of them after writing an "O" on it with a quill dipped in red ink.

"Okay, Professor Graves!" ×3

After hearing Rick's words, the three of them said goodbye to Rick. Turned and walked out of the Defence Against the Dark Arts office.

Seeing that the students had left, Rick began to think back to what Headmaster Dumbledore had told him. The Aurors of the Ministry of Magic have been conducting carpet searches in the Forbidden Forest for the past two months, but have never found any trace of the Dark Wizard.

Fudge told Dumbledore that the Aurors would stay at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry until Christmas, and that if the Dark Wizard was not found, they would evacuate Hogwarts.

The reason was that they thought that the Dark Wizard's bone dragon had been defeated by Rick and had sensed that the invasion of Hogwarts was too dangerous and gave up. In the two months that the Ministry of Magic stationed the Aurors in Hogwarts, there were more than a dozen murders in the United Kingdom, and the pressure on the Ministry of Magic was too great to need these Aurors to join the ranks of the criminals, rather than waiting for the ethereal dark wizard at Hogwarts.

Rick was disdainful of the Ministry's decision. Obviously, he couldn't detect it himself, and he didn't find the dark wizard. As a result, it was concluded that the Dark Wizard had left the Forbidden Forest.

However, when I think about it, the British Ministry of Magic was easily manipulated by Voldemort after the rise of Voldemort. Rick also lowered his expectations for the British Ministry of Magic.

"Looks like I'll need to go into the Forbidden Forest one more time by Christmas. My gut tells me that the dark wizard is still hiding in the Forbidden Forest......"

Although there is no evidence, Rick's powerful sixth sense tells him that the dark wizard must have the most important thing to accomplish when he appears in the Forbidden Forest.

And he's also a house-elf. His ideas cannot be understood by the human mind.

Yes.

In the memory of the house-elf girl, the dark wizard was enveloped in a thick black fog, but Dumbledore still judged from his form that it was a house-elf.

When Dumbledore told Rick the news, Rick didn't believe it at first, believing it to be a trick. But according to his own reasoning, he found out that it was really possible to be an elf.

And it's also a house-elf that hasn't been tamed by wizards.

After experiencing a race war in the wizarding world, all the elves became slaves of humans. There is no longer a single house-elf in Britain that has not been enslaved.

And the appearance of an untamed house-elf in the Forbidden Forest is a very abnormal thing.

So Dumbledore suspected that it was an ancient elf that had been sleeping for a thousand years, and that he was looking for his companion. But when he met Yaya, these house-elves in the Forbidden Forest, he found that they were actually enslaved by human wizards.

Enraged, he killed all these traitors. Keeping Yaya is to let her take her into Hogwarts to rescue or kill these people who have been enslaved by humans.

It's a pity that when he took Yaya to Hogwarts, he met Ferenze the centaur.

The appearance of Ferenze the centaur ruined his plan and allowed Yaya to escape. He unleashed the Bone Dragon, intending to make it destroy Hogwarts. But I happened to meet Rick. After the Bone Dragon was defeated, he knew that his strength could not secretly invade Hogwarts, so he hibernated.

Dumbledore told Fudge about his conjecture, but Fudge thought it must be a human wizard's disguise, and he didn't think that an ancient elf would survive until now.

In fact, Rick also reserved his opinion on Dumbledore's conjecture because of the appearance of the "Black Death".

Throughout the wizarding world, the curse of the Black Death has been written since 100 years ago in the United States. If this elf existed thousands of years ago, then there must have been a mention of this curse in ancient books.

But Rick consulted a lot of books, but he didn't find a shred of information about the "Black Death" in the history of thousands of years ago.

"Demon King... Looks like we need to make another trip to the Centaur tribe. Let them do another astronomical divination. ”

Retracting his thoughts, Rick pulled Pandora out from behind him. Today is the semi-monthly senior leadership meeting of the Spotted Game Studio, and the time is almost up. It's time for him to enter the "magic web" and meet his old friends and employees.

......

The snow was falling, and snowflakes the size of goose feathers slapped on the bodies of the three little wizards. In order to prevent the snowflakes from drifting into their necks, the three of them stubbornly covered their necks with their collars. With his head down, he quickly ran towards the dormitory castle.

"Augustine, you wait. Here's your weird bean. Give it back to you! ”

After entering the castle, Hermione hurriedly patted the snow on her body. When she looked up again, she saw that Augustine was already heading towards the Hufflepuff basement. After touching the strange beans in her pocket, she hurriedly trotted to catch up with Augustine in front.

"Ah, you can eat this. I've sent it out. How can you ever come back. ”

Augustine looked back to find Hermione's hand holding the Strange Bean reaching out in front of him. Hermione's little face had turned red from running in the snow just now.

"No, I can't. I have already misunderstood you just now, how can I accept your snacks now. Take it, or I'll be angry." ”

Hearing Augustine's refusal, Hermione's guilt rose again. She pushed the strange bean in her hand into Augustine's arms and looked at him with a feigned anger.

"Huh!"

looked at Hermione's red face, plus the two little tiger teeth that were exposed after getting angry. Augustine suddenly felt his heart beating a little faster. Holding the returned strange beans in both hands, he didn't know what to say for a long time.

"Hermione, hurry! Ginny said, "Harry is waiting for us in the common room!" ”

Hermione turned around and found Ron, who was Ginny Weasley in the first year and Ron's sister.

"Okay! Then Augustine will see you tomorrow! ”

Without paying much attention to Augustine, who was stunned and motionless, Hermione turned around and ran quickly towards Ron and Ginny.

Looking at Hermione leaving, Augustine felt that the strange beans in his hand did not have the strong sense of temptation as before, and he didn't know what the reason was. Augustine shook his head and walked towards the Hufflepuff common room.