Chapter 212: The Dispute over the Beating Willow
"What's going on?"
Inside Hogwarts Hall.
The little wizards sat in their own places under the arrangement of the prefects, ready to usher in the House Cup award, but at this moment the professors were all gathered in the corridor, watching the Aurors go to the eighth floor one by one.
It wasn't until the Aurors were gone that the professors returned to the faculty as if nothing had happened.
Professor McGonagall looked worried, "Sit down."
Seeing that the little wizards below were still talking in a whisper, she immediately said sternly, "It's the academy cup time soon, sit down, don't let other things disturb you, you'll know tomorrow."
There was news from Hogsmeade Village that werewolves and dark wizards tried to enter Hogwarts through the passage there, but the passage was blocked by the Ode family in advance, and now the dark wizards and werewolves are surrounding the Ode family, and the whole Hogsmeade is fighting fiercely.
So the Ministry of Magic brought a large number of Aurors and some Dementors to support, while the Professors were responsible for protecting the young wizards at Hogwarts.
"Ugh." Professor McGonagall sighed to herself, she thought it was going to be a stable year... As she looked, at the Gryffindor table, Harry had disappeared with Ron and Hermione.
Is this Dumbledore's new arrangement?
Professor McGonagall couldn't help but think like this, she looked at Dumbledore, but Dumbledore was bowing his head and didn't respond to her gaze in the slightest, which made Professor McGonagall's brows furrow, and she couldn't relax, and she had a bad feeling.
"A sorcerer's premonition is more interesting than divination." Professor Trelawney on the side made a strange remark, causing Professor McGonagall to look at her, but only to see a face red from stealing alcohol.
"Crazy woman." Professor McGonagall pursed her lips, she just couldn't get used to Trelawney's chattering look, but the uneasiness in her heart grew heavier.
"Dumbledore, I think we should name them so that the children don't have an accident."
Dumbledore seemed to be paying attention to Professor McGonagall, and he said slowly, "Of course, children don't like to stay in one place all the time."
Professor McGonagall wasn't in the mood to laugh with Dumbledore, she said directly, "Potter and Wes left the dinner with Granger, I think I need to leave for a while."
"I'll go, Professor McGonagall." Snape stood up with a cold eye, he had just talked to Dumbledore about Lupin, and he hadn't even started Harry's adventure!
"These little trolls must have lost their brains full of sagebrush again."
With that, Snape snorted coldly, looked at Dumbledore dissatisfied, and walked straight out of the hall, of course, before leaving, he glanced in the direction of Brie, who was still outside the windowsill, and Luna and Yana were talking to him beside him.
"Brie, the moon is so cold tonight, and it's glowing red." Obviously, at this time, the moon is not visible here, but Luna gives a very accurate description.
"It's like devouring Hogwarts, just waiting—" Luna said, pointing to the distant sunset, "The sun goes down, and darkness covers us."
Luna had a strange smile on her face.
"But I think everything can get better."
Strange words, but Brie could understand them. ….
"Do you see anything, Luna?" Brie asked, and before Luna could answer, he said, "There won't be a moon at Hogwarts tonight."
"Didn't Dumbledore use magic to cover the sky in the hall, and the moon couldn't shine in."
"Oh, yes." Lupin stared into the hall, and sure enough, he saw the original appearance of the ceiling of the hall, which was full of pictures.
"That's the history of Hogwarts, and you can find it in the library...... Well, *** district."
Brie explained, and Yana, who had been silent for a long time, stared at the Forbidden Forest in the distance, and her heart became uneasy.
"Brie, I feel like werewolves are approaching Hogwarts."
Brie followed Yana's
Looking at it, the Forbidden Forest tonight is very quiet, and from a distance, there is an abnormal aura, it is killing intent, standing in Hogwarts, it is like being targeted by a wild beast.
"What's that?" Luna spotted something and pointed to Ryana next to the Forbidden Forest.
"Look, is that Potter, they seem to have found something interesting?" Luna excitedly said, "Hey, that's not fair, why wouldn't it be better for us to just stay at the boring final dinner party and play hide and seek together in the moonlight?"
Brie looked at the three dots that had been colored by the dusk, and said to Yana and Luna beside him, "Stay in the hall and watch out for the werewolves."
With that, Brie jumped off the ledge, leaped forward, and used the Animagus to turn into a cyan strip that scurried through the clouds and disappeared from their sight.
"Hey, Brie doesn't seem ready to take us with him, but we're not a burden, are we?" Luna said.
Yana bowed her head in silence and whispered, "Of course, we didn't see anything, Brie is still in the hall."
At the beating willow, the three hesitant little wizards looked at the beating willow that kept waving its branches, and a big black dog was chasing a big black mouse under its trunk.
"That's Spotted, it's not dead!" Ron was pleasantly surprised, but neither Hermione nor Harry paid any attention to him.
Hermione took Harry's map of the living spots, pointed to it, and said, "Look, those two dark shadows are them."
Originally, Harry and Hermione were going to use the map to find the murderer of Buckbeak, when they found two black shadows on the map and chased after them, but they didn't expect this to be such a scene.
"Oh, we'll have to help Spotted, it's being chased into a tree hole!" Ron was startled, his brain became excited by the feeling of being lost, and he rushed into the range of the branch of the beating willow without hesitation.
"Smack!"
"Hey!" Ron was struck hard by a twig and pulled out.
"Ron, I think you've suffered from it." Harry hurriedly helped Ron up, he remembered the tragic situation when he and Ron were in a flying car in the second year and fell to the beating willow.
"What are you doing here?" The sound of an urn making a breath came, and the three of them shivered in fright.
"Hagrid!" The three of them were surprised.
Hagrid's eyes were red, and wet tears soaked the stubble. ….
"Tell me what you're doing here, it's not a good temper to beat people."
"I, we—" Hermione was a little nervous, she was still a professor now, and she didn't want to lose points on the last day.
"We're here to find the killer of Buckbeak, voila!" Ron pointed to the map in Hermione's hand and said, "It's a magical item that can find strange people who have infiltrated Hogwarts."
"It's in the hollow of the tree where the willow beats!"
"Murderer!" Although he didn't know why Ron was sure, Hagrid's expression immediately became fierce, and he said viciously, "I'm going to catch him!"
Hagrid rushed into the range of the beating willow, not afraid of the branches and whips that were drawn at him, and soon came to the bottom of the beating willow tree with his scars, and reluctantly punched a bump in the trunk.
Soon, the beating willow regained his composure.
Hagrid shouted, "Come on, it's only quiet for a while."
Harry and Ron looked at each other and immediately ran in Hagrid's direction, Hermione's face changed, she didn't think it was the right thing to do, they should go and tell the other professors.
"Snape!" Hermione, who was about to run to Hogwarts to tell the professors, was suddenly startled by someone coming.
"Professor... I'll go back to Hogwarts now..." Hermione hurriedly put the map behind her back and looked at Snape hesitantly, but luckily Snape's point was on the beating willow behind her, otherwise the map would probably have been discovered.
She didn't know if she should trust Snape or tell Harry about it.
"Wait, Granger, where's Potter?" Snape asked coldly, his eyes glancing at the hole where he beat Willow, as a professor at Hogwarts, he naturally knew
The secret of beating the willow.
"Humph!" With a cold snort, Snape was about to enter the inside of the beating willow, you must know that Lupin is likely to be inside, isn't that group of little trolls looking for death when they go in?
"Hurry back to Hogwarts, this is not the place you should be!" Snape's voice rang out, and Hermione stopped.
Comparing Hagrid's strength with Snape, Hermione strangely trusted Snape more, but because Harry and Ron belittled Snape for a long time, and Snape often deducted Gryffindor's scores, Hermione had a very bad sense of Snape.
"Let's go back first, and tell Dumbledore that is the safest way to go." Hermione immediately thought of Hogwarts' most authoritative White Lord.
"Hermione..."
"Brie?" Brie's voice rang out, but Hermione didn't notice Brie at all.
Soon, Brie, who had used Animagus to transform into a small green snake, had reverted to his original form, and Snape had just been there, and Brie was not sure if he could hide from the keen old snake with the illusion charm.
"Brie!" Hermione looked surprised, she exhaled, and said quickly, "We saw a big black dog running after Spotted into the beating willow, Harry and Ron followed Hagrid in, and Snape chased in just now!"
"Spotted?" It turned out that Peter was here, and he was discovered by Blake.
Brie raised an eyebrow and said, "Let's go, let's go in and have a look." This spot is a bit of an eyesore... It's a lot of trouble, but it might be useful.
Brie looked at Beater Willow, which was the place leading to the screaming shacks of Hogsmeade, and Peter should do it rather than let Tom risk telling the secret passage. ….
Hermione saw Brie stepping into the range of the beating willow, and immediately chased after her, of course, Hermione completely trusted Brie.
Entering the inside of the beating willow, Brie and Hermione soon heard the arguments inside.
"Blake, what do you want to do, you can't hurt Harry, you stay away from us!" Hagrid's voice sounded first, and it was obvious that Blake, who wanted to get close to Harry, slowly retreated under Hagrid's voice.
"Peter is dead!" Harry let out a hoarse voice and shouted, "Blake killed him twelve years ago!"
"It's not Peter, it's Spotted!" Ron also argued.
"It's Animagus, child—" Blake's voice came out, and he tried his best to prove it, "Like me, I can be a black dog, and he can be a mouse!"
"Siris, is it really Peter?" During the argument, Lupin's voice appeared from the depths of the beating willow hole with questioning, surprising everyone present.
"Professor Lupin?" Harry wondered.
And at this time.
"Ahem, I think you should stop arguing, werewolf, and... Fugitives from Azkaban!"
"And, of course, this rat who wants to escape!" Snape's voice was unbridled with hatred, and his anger could be felt even by Brie outside.
"If what you just said is true, and it was this rat who betrayed Lily, then..."
"Squeak!" The sound of the rat's struggle was heard.
"Ah, damn it, Spotted, you bite me!" Ron crished in pain, and the sound of the rat landing on the ground followed.
"Quick, catch it!" Blake was shocked.
"Waste, I can't even hold a rat!" Snape roared, and then, "Hurry up!"
Got sided!
"Meow!"
Strike!
"Ah, Crookshan!"
Hermione heard the sound of a cat meowing and immediately recognized that it was Crookshank, the flat-faced lion cat she had raised.
"Let's go, go in." Brie Dao.
Walking into the tree hole, Brie soon saw the blob that was suppressed by Crook Mountain, and Ron was pulled by Harry to prevent him from coming forward to help, but when Brie appeared, Harry immediately let go of the hand holding Ron, and said in surprise, "Ode... You're here!"
"Bang!"
"Meow!" Ron didn't stop for a moment and fell
On the ground, frightened by Crook Mountain, Spotted takes the opportunity to flee.
"Quick confinement." As soon as Brie pointed at it, vines surged up on the ground, trapping Spotted.
"It's easy to prove it." Just lift the Animagus spell on Madara's body.
The rest of the people understood this, but it was not simple magic, Blake learned the Animagus through talent and luck, and Peter, who had learned it with hard work, understood it better than he did.
"Do you have a solution, Ode?" Harry looked at Brie expectantly, in fact, he had a faint guess in his heart, Blake was indeed not a murderer, after all, if he wanted to attack him, Blake had every chance, and for this semester, Blake had just turned into a big black dog and looked at him from time to time, and that kind of look was very ...... Uncanny.
Close relatives... Godfather... Guilty......
Harry couldn't help but look at Blake, who was wearing long, dirty hair, and his eyes shone brightly in the sockets that were covered by his hair, and he couldn't help but tremble with hatred and excitement, and his sallow skin was clinging to his bones like a skeleton.
"Quick, little one, I know you have a way!" Blake bared his yellow teeth and stared straight at Brie.
"You've already found me, haven't you?"
Hearing this, everyone looked at Brie, and Snape snorted a few times, remembering the little black dog that Brie had brought with him when he had made trouble and let the little wizards sleep in the hall, saying that it had been a transfiguration mistake and turned into a cat...... His eyes were sharp as he looked at Blake, and the wand in his hand flashed with a stream of magic.
"Don't talk nonsense, you're going to get my students in trouble."
"Oh, sorry, then I must have guessed wrong." Blake grinned and lowered his head secretly.
Harry moved his lips, but didn't say anything, he wanted to ask Brie why he didn't tell him, but he clearly understood that he and Brie weren't even friends.
With Dumbledore in his presence, perhaps Brie will only grow further and further away from him, the savior trapped by the shackles of fate.
Large cyan flowers