Chapter 17: Blatant Provocation
The common rooms of the four colleges were all located in different places, but Connor could only see a general direction along the way.
For example, the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw common rooms were upstairs, and Connor saw their prefects leading them up the shifting stairs, while the Slytherin and Hufflepuff common rooms were underground.
Because of this, they walked together for a while, but there was a small episode in the middle.
"Look who I found, the Bones kid...... It's really pitiful, the outbreak that had been thriving with great difficulty now seems to be not only withered, but the only girl has entered Hufflepuff. ”
As the two houses sat side by side, a shrill voice came from Slytherin.
And this instantly caused a flurry of laughter - almost all of them full of sarcasm and malice.
Connor was the first to react, but he didn't show any other emotion, just narrowed his eyes.
The Slytherin guys can't stop?
Emotional?
No, this is obviously looking for trouble.
And after hearing this, Susan, who was still talking and laughing with Hannah, suddenly turned her eyes red.
"You...... You guys. ”
She looked a little overwhelmed, her mind blanked, and she didn't know what to do with the situation.
As for Hannah, she was furious all at once:
"How dare you say that!"
Usually mild-mannered, she now looks like an angry lion.
"You want to fight, don't you?"
And Ernie had rolled up his sleeves and looked like he was going to fight.
A group fight seemed to be on the verge of breaking out, but before the badgers could pour out any anger, someone stepped in to stop it:
It's Hufflepuff's female prefect: Georgina Smith.
"Calm down."
She wasn't as flamboyant as Gabriel, but quietly in the middle of the crowd.
"Gabry, don't get into any big fights, it's clearly a Slytherin trap, you know, their usual tactics."
"I know ......"
With a gloomy and ugly expression, Gabriel couldn't help but clench his fists.
Then, with a sigh of relief, he stopped the Slytherins in their path.
"So, that's how you discipline the people in your house? Flint, Farley. ”
Gabriel stared at the two Slytherin prefects at a glance:
Marcus Flint and Gemma Farley.
Flint was mocking with fear, while prefect Gemma Farley just squinted her eyes like a snake.
"I'm sorry about this, I'll take care of it."
But the words were clearly just words, and the nonchalant attitude further stimulated the self-esteem of the little badgers.
"What, that attitude."
"Isn't there a basic apology?"
"Who the hell was talking before?"
"Be quiet."
Eventually, it was Gabriel who quieted down the other students.
"Cedric, take the others back, Georgina, take care of the freshmen."
"Hmm."
Connor then saw Gabriel pull his wand out of his sleeve.
"Farley, Flint, let the person who spoke before come out and apologize, I don't want to make things stiff."
The Hufflepuff prefect is a temper temper after all, and it is obviously impossible to swallow it in the face of such a sullen loss.
"Come out and apologize, then this matter can be revealed, and if you want to make a big deal about it...... Trust me, you wouldn't want to do that, the Ravenclaw prefect from two years ago has taken a detour to see me so far. ”
"Can I see this as your provocation to Slytherin? Gabriel? ”
At this point, the two Slytherin prefects certainly couldn't be silent.
They also walked out of the crowd, quite a-for-tat flavor.
"Whatever you think, whether it's a snake, an eagle, or a lion, I've never been afraid, and I only ask for an apology now!"
For a moment, the atmosphere was a little tense, and Hufflepuff and Slytherin formed an extremely stiff confrontation atmosphere.
But the confrontation didn't make any sense to Connor.
What exactly is the purpose of Slytherin?
Then, the sound of short footsteps around the corner caught his attention.
It was a pitch-black figure:
"It's curfew time, what are you doing standing here?"
It was Severus Snape, and he arrived at the scene as if he had pinched the spot.
"Professor, Mr. Gabriel, who is now Hufflepuff, is still blocking us from returning to the common room."
Flint grinned, and the smile was completely mischievous.
And this time he provoked Gabriel, who was not very good-tempered.
"Less nonsense! I now ask for an apology! ”
However, in the face of Gabriel's obvious anger, Snape turned a deaf ear.
"It's time for the curfew, you should go back to your respective break rooms, and after that, the prefects should complete their night patrols."
"But they ......"
"That's the school rule, Mr. Truman."
It looked like they were playing fifty boards each, but anyone could tell that the greasy bat was indeed pulling the shelf.
Faced with Professor Snape's slow, almost suffocating tone, almost all Hufflepuff students had difficulty breathing.
What happens when the professor proposes to put an end to this matter once and for all?
Prefects are just students after all......
"Dismount?"
"yes, that's the dismount."
Also staying awake was Cedric.
After hearing Connor's emotion, he couldn't help but speak:
"Because it's about family tragedy, it's not a show-off capital, and Gabriel can't use Bones's family tragedy as a weapon of debate, which will definitely hurt Susan even more."
"But if you just hold back, the next day the school will be full of rumors against Gabriel, saying that he, as a prefect, can't protect the students of his house."
Cedric nodded.
"Well, if it's serious, even the academy will be dissatisfied...... And if we investigate too much, maybe there will be news that we are bullying the new Slytherin students or taking the lead in stirring up a group fight or something, and in serious cases, we will even be deducted points...... Well, I guess that's what they're for. ”
"New Life...... Speaking of voices, the person who spoke before should not be very old. ”
"Yes, that's the trouble, in fact from the moment Professor Snape showed up, there was no chance of us fighting back......"
"And what about going to Professor Sprout now?"
"It's useless, the contradiction has happened, the problem is not with the professor, but with Gabriel."
"But Professor Snape is here too, and we ......"
"Everyone in Hogwarts knows that Professor Snape is biased, and that's what Slytherin relies on."
Cedric was there, but Connor frowned.
He realized the cause, the process, the result of the whole thing, and he couldn't say it thoroughly, but he firmly grasped the word 'privilege'.
And everything is based on that shameless attitude.
"So even if this matter was provoked by a Slytherin student, wouldn't the professor care?"