Chapter 36: Let it go
In Amosta's office, Fred was honestly explaining why they had broken into the office, while George lay on Amosta's bed, moaning quietly in a daze, but his nosebleed finally stopped after taking Amosta's concocted restorative with poisoned tentacle seeds.
"Professor McGonagall did warn me to be wary of you--"
Amosta sat in his office chair, smiling and crying in the face of Fred's explanation.
"But she just told me that if I caught you wandering around the castle in the middle of the night, don't be too shocked, but she didn't mention the possibility that you would break into my office...
I have to say that you two are very lucky, because considering that the person who opened the secret room is most likely to be a minor wizard, the magic I have reserved in this house is mainly confinement, if according to my habit when I worked outside,"
Amosta solemnly looked at the ghost-looking Weasley brothers and warned in a very stern tone,
"Maybe it's time for Headmaster Dumbledore to write a funeral letter to your mom and dad!"
Even if Amosta didn't warn him, Fred and George themselves realized that their actions this time were indeed too reckless, knowing that Amosta Bryan was not a professor at the school, and they should not have recklessly broken into Brian's office without understanding his temperament.
Because of the blood he had left, George looked emaciated and seemed to die at any moment, but after hearing Amosta's warning, he still forced himself to sit up from the bed, looking pitiful,
"Teach... Oh no, Mr. Blaine, for the sake of our lessons, could you please not mention this to Professor McGonagall, we assure you, this will be the last time! ”
Fred nodded in agreement,
"Please, Mr. Bryan, when we were trapped here just now, George and I have already discussed, we plan to wash our hands of gold, and from now on be a little wizard who loves to learn and obeys the rules, see if you can let us go!"
Amosta rolled her eyes, almost amused by the pair of living treasures, did he look so stupid?
"Well, anyway"
Amosta didn't give them an immediate affirmative answer, he leaned back in his chair, crossed his fingers on his knees, and looked at him with a smile.
"You've already figured out my secret, haven't you?"
As soon as he heard this, George did not have that expression of dying or alive, and Fred was not pretending to be a change of heart, his eyes flashed with reverence, and he couldn't wait to offer his compliment to Amosta.
"You're the most gifted wizard I've ever seen, Mr. Blaine, and even Headmaster Dumbledore can't compare to you," Fred of the twins exclaimed Amosta's intelligence, "the way you monitor the school is something we could never have dreamed of!" ”
"In order to understand your greatness more deeply!"
The two brothers made eye contact for a split second, and George respectfully pleaded, "Can you explain to us in detail how that thing works?" ”
"Don't even think about it!"
Amosta rolled his eyes even more, thinking of Bill, who was both good at character and learning, and Charlie, who had an outstanding talent for Quidditch, he couldn't figure out how the Weasleys could have come up with these two... Well, Amosta has to admit that Fred and George are actually quite interesting.
At the moment of Amosta's rejection, George lay back on the bed with a grunt, looking deeply hurt, he stretched out his hand weakly to his brother, and his voice was extremely weak,
"It seems that my last wish will not be fulfilled, Fred, if you can figure this out one day, remember to tell me at my grave..."
In the end, Amosta didn't tell the twin brothers about the production principle of this monitoring system, not that he cherished it, but that this thing was indeed not something that could be explained clearly in one or two sentences, it involved many esoteric transformation magic and alchemy principles, and even if he said it, the twins couldn't understand it, let alone make it themselves.
However, he was very generous in deciding not to hold Fred and George accountable for breaking into his office, after all, he had nothing to do with the Chamber of Secrets.
"Remember to keep what you see a secret, two little ones!"
Before kicking the Weasley brothers out of the office, Amosta squinted, and the coldness in his voice made Fred and George sway,
"If you let me know you're leaking secrets, or if I find out you're sabotaging the surveillance ports I've set up in the castle... Two Mr. Weasleys, if I make up my mind about who I'm going to deal with, even Headmaster Dumbledore probably won't be able to stop them! ”
"We can swear by Percy's prefect badge, sir, we will never say a word to anyone else!" The twins reassured in unison.
"Let's hope they keep their promise--"
The thought crossed Amosta's mind before lying on the bed and resting with her eyes closed.
In fact, Amosta knew in his heart that it was impossible for the Weasley brothers to keep a complete secret, at least, he would definitely tell Harry, and Harry would definitely not forget to share it with his two good friends, but other than that, it was unlikely that they would spread the word about their surveillance of the little wizard everywhere.
There's no way there's a problem with the trio of protagonists, and the Weasleys can be trusted - it's because of Amosta's preconceived misconceptions that he has to go the extra mile when he could have discovered something quickly.
That night, Harry and Ron, who had returned from the hospital hospital, were pulled over by Fred and George as soon as they entered the lounge, and he dragged Harry to the stairs near the girls' dormitory, where there were few people to facilitate their communication.
As the two of them spoke, Harry's expression became more solemn, while Ron's mouth opened wider and wider, and his face was shocked in disbelief.
No one noticed that at the staircase of the girls' dormitory, there was a pale figure who stood silently for a long time before quietly retreating into the gloomy shadows.
"Wait for me here, Ron."
Harry figured things out and ran to the dorm without looking back, he was going to get his invisibility cloak, and it was expected that he and Ron would be in the hospital for a while more tonight.
It wasn't curfew yet, and there were still a few little wizards roaming the castle, but Harry and Ron had already donned that wondrous cloak of invisibility, and as they walked along the way, their eyes swept across the ceiling of the corridor from time to time, as if a pair of hidden eyes were staring at them.
"What do you think about this, Harry?"
Strangely, Hermione didn't rush to express her opinion after hearing about this shocking incident, she sat on the bed with her arms crossed, and spoke in a tone that sounded cautious.
Harry kept his head down and didn't speak, his emerald green eyes flickering with hesitation, and it wasn't until a long time later that he said in an uncertain tone,
"I think... It's not hard to accept..."
"Are you crazy, Harry!" Ron, who had been holding back his opinion, looked at Harry in surprise,
"Or maybe you didn't hear what Fred and George were saying... That Brian was spying on everybody without prior notice, and if this violation of liberty shouldn't have been stopped, then I can't figure out what meanness is, and by the way, I think it's very likely that Fred and George have been controlled, and they actually think it's funny? ”
"There's so much more you can't figure out, Ron," Hermione retorted unceremoniously, "why can't you just put yourself in Harry's shoes?" ”
From Harry's point of view?
Ron's eyes flashed with Strange stupidity, he looked at Hermione who was not angry, and then looked at Harry, who was embarrassed, and suddenly felt that his IQ could not keep up with the average level of the team,
"Is there anyone who can be kind enough to explain to me?"
Half an hour later, Ron, who still hadn't been able to wait for someone to give an opinion, muttered unhappily.
"Needless to say, Ron?" Hermione read the black hair on her face with her fingertips--- this is her new fetish lately,
"It's not noble to monitor the daily movements of all young wizards without prior notice, and it's even against the law, but Ron, you can't deny that it's a very effective way to do it, can you?
As long as he can catch the heir of Slytherin, all the rumours that Harry is now carrying will be shattered, and he will never have to face all the stupid accusations... And, without the permission of Headmaster Dumbledore and the Headmasters, do you think Mr. Bryan would have used this method? ”
"At least, the next time someone is attacked, this kind of thing will at least prove my innocence," Harry muttered, ashamed of his selfishness,
"I really don't want anything to do with this anymore..."