Chapter 101: Memory and Faith
There was no one in the dark common room, and Connor and Cedric's confinement didn't seem to be over yet.
Kyle didn't turn on the light, just sat quietly on a couch and thought about something.
There's been so much going on tonight that he's going to have to take care of it.
First of all, Kyle was sure that the person they saw during the night tour was Hagrid, and it couldn't be someone else's fake.
Even if one could imitate it with a polyjuice potion, then the tooth that was with him at that time could not be an Animagus.
After all, polyjuice decoction doesn't work on animals.
But if Hagrid was himself, then why would he say that he had never been to the Forbidden Forest at that time?
And Dumbledore's words.
Memory, Forgetting Spell?
Or is it ...... The venom of the Winged Demon.
Kyle pulls out a small piece of corroded wood from his pocket and rubs it in his hand.
He had secretly cut it from the trunk of the tree while Hagrid was not looking.
In the moonlight, the wooden block also glowed with a light blue fluorescence.
The color was correct, but Kyle remembered that the Winged Demon's venom wasn't corrosive, could it be that he was mistaken?
Just as he was thinking, the door to the lounge was opened again, and two figures walked in one after the other.
"Kyle, you're here."
Cedric lowered his voice and said, "Filch just left and came back in a rage, he was looking for you." ”
Kyle put away the block and nodded, "I did see him when I came back." ”
"What did you do to make him angry like that." Cedric asked curiously.
"It's not me, it's Hagrid." Kyle shook his finger and said, "He's deflated from Hagrid." ”
"No wonder Filch was so angry, I remember him and Hagrid at odds."
Cedric continued: "By the way, what is your confinement, I thought we would come back before you.
Fred told me that the five of us were rubbing the prize room together, which had never been done before, and it was so easy.
But Filch felt the same way, so he made us wipe it three times before agreeing to end the confinement. ”
"I'm pretty much the same." Kyle said, "I was taken to the Forbidden Forest, and I went inside with Hagrid to find something. ”
"To the Forbidden Forest, or at night?" Cedric was stunned.
He had thought of countless possibilities before, copying books, cleaning classrooms, wiping armor, etc., but he never thought that Kyle's confinement was actually going to the Forbidden Forest.
This is about the same, it's obviously too bad, okay!
Anyway, are they really locked up for the same thing?
Don't look at them once in the Forbidden Forest at night, but it's only in the outermost part of the world, and even at night it's not dangerous.
But looking for something with Hagrid can't just be a walk outside.
"You're not hurt, are you?" Connor asked, a little nervously.
"Of course not, if I had been injured I would have been in the infirmary by now." Kyle laughed, "I told you, I saw centaurs in the Forbidden Forest......"
Kyle recounts what he saw in the Forbidden Forest, and Cedric and Connor are stunned as they listen.
Their expressions have gradually changed from worry at the beginning to envy.
They also want to go to the depths of the Forbidden Forest......
The sky gradually brightened, and the three of them stopped talking after they became sleepy.
Back in the dormitory, Kyle couldn't sleep in bed, so he took out his parchment and quill and wrote a letter in the moonlight.
He then packed the letter, wrote down the address, and placed it in front of Ratton.
"I'm going to have a hard time making your trip." Kyle whispered, "Send the letter to Newt tomorrow morning, and if he hasn't returned, you can put the letter on the biggest tree in the doorway."
There's a tree guard pot there, and it will help keep the letters. ”
Kyle decided to go to Newt anyway, in case the venom of the Winged Demon was indeed corrosive, after all, it was a magical creature, and it was not uncommon for it to mutate.
I just don't know if he's back at this time......
It's best to come back, it doesn't matter if you don't.
Anyway, Dumbledore already knew about it, so he naturally didn't have to worry about the rest.
Raton opened one eye and placed his paw on the envelope.
Kyle gets back into bed, and this time he quickly falls asleep.
……
After that, neither Dumbledore nor Hagrid looked for him again, and Kyle was happy to relax, suppressing his curiosity and concentrating on preparing for the final exam.
With exam week approaching, the castle seemed to change overnight, and you could see little wizards walking and practicing wand movements everywhere.
Hogwarts Castle at this time is also the most dangerous time of the year, because there will always be little wizards who subconsciously recite incantations when waving their wands.
And there are quite a few such people, Kyle just walked from the lounge to the auditorium, and he already saw two unlucky people who had been accidentally injured by the spell.
Fortunately, all of them are levitation charms and repair charms, and they don't need to go to the school hospital.
Kyle carefully dodged the Assassins hiding in the crowd and made his way to the Great Hall without danger.
The professors also knew about it.
No way, almost every guest has two or three young wizards who are absent because they were sent to the school hospital, and it is difficult for them to even think about it.
In Transfiguration class, Professor McGonagall strictly forbade young wizards from practicing wand movements in the hallways.
"What did you do earlier?"
Professor McGonagall pursed her lips and said, "If you want to practice in the future, find a classroom where no one is empty, and if I see anyone who can't take care of his wand, then he will wait to be locked up for a week." ”
Snape's approach was more direct than that of Professor McGonagall, telling everyone that if anyone was absent from Potions class because of this, they would be sorry, whether they were absent or the one who started it, their final Potions grades would be invalidated.
It's that unreasonable.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but Kyle always felt that Snape was glancing at him when he said this.
Under the explicit prohibition of the professors, it was only less than half a day later, and the castle assassins were soon all gone.
By the time it was time for dinner, Hogwarts had regained its former calm and peace, as if nothing had happened.
At the table, Kyle is absentmindedly slicing the steak on his plate.
He wasn't worried that Snape would sneak up on him, but he was worried about Ratton.
Five days have passed since the letter was sent, and Raton has not returned.
From Dorset to Hogwarts in five days, you can make several round-trips by train.