"Aha! Look, who did I find? ”

A thin, rickety man appeared at the corner of the corridor, and Lady Loris, crouched at his feet, and approached Ash step by step with a lamp, and said in a gloomy voice:

"Mr. Black, I think you should be well aware of the school rules, students can't leave the common room in the middle of the night. I'm guessing you didn't expect to be caught by me, it's a pleasure! Let me think about it, how am I going to punish you? ”

Ash looked at the person who came and said unhurriedly:

"Actually, Mr. Filch. I didn't sneak out in the middle of the night, I just woke up early. ”

Argus Filch, Hogwarts caretaker, a Squib from a wizarding family.

Obviously, this is not a good birth.

On the one hand, the entire wizarding world is ashamed of having Squibs in the next generation, and Filch's parents are probably no exception, so it's not hard to imagine how bad his childhood really was.

On the other hand, as a Squib, he can't perform magic, but being born in a wizarding family allows him to understand all kinds of magic in the wizarding world, which makes his heart extremely unbalanced. Coupled with the bullying of other wizards of the same age around him, he gradually created an extremely distorted personality - it is appropriate to describe it as envy, jealousy and hatred, of which hatred and jealousy should occupy the vast majority.

As a result, he did not leave the wizarding world as an adult, but instead applied to become the administrator of Hogwarts.

Because this is the only place where he can legitimately take revenge on wizards, even if they are just children.

He hates Ya and Wu because of his experience and is keen to punish his students.

And the students of Hogwarts are extremely disgusted with him because of his meanness.

Coupled with Filch's terrifying appearance, he was scrawny, pale, with saggy, collapsed cheeks, vertical veins, and a pair of violent light-colored eyes, so many students secretly compared him to an ugly ghoul.

And the more disgusted and hostile the students became, the more eager Filch became to punish them.

It's a cycle.

Filch almost laughed at his excuse:

"You wake up early at four o'clock in the morning?"

Ash shrugged, he didn't expect a word or two to convince Filch.

So, he reached into his pocket.

Filch's eyes showed a look of fear and anger, and he shrieked:

"What do you want to do? You're going to cast a spell on me? You think that's going to make me let you go? No! I swear it won't end! I'm going to ...... hard."

Filch's voice stopped abruptly as he realized that instead of a wand, Ash had pulled out of his pocket, but a bottle of green potion.

"Fiercely what?" Ash held the boosting potion in his hand and looked at Filch with some confusion.

“……”

Filch's eyes were still extremely vigilant, and he said coldly:

"What's in your hand?"

Ai Xu shook the potion in his hand and said calmly:

"A commonly used therapeutic agent."

"You're hurt?"

Filch's expression changed slightly, he took a step back, and said in a deep voice:

"I didn't do it! The ghosts can bear witness to me! ”

He wasn't worried about Ash's injuries, he was worried about himself.

Hogwarts allowed him to physically punish students, but he would never be allowed to injure students in serious harm. If this really happens, the student will be fine, but he will definitely be expelled from Hogwarts, which is absolutely unacceptable to Filch!

So he almost instinctively felt that Ash was trying to threaten him with this.

"No, Mr. Filch."

Ash slowly walked up to Filch, handed him the potion, and said with a smile:

"I'm not hurt, this bottle of potion is for you, I think this should cure you."

"Me?"

Filch subconsciously looked into Ash's eyes, his gaze falling on his face.

His nose, to be exact.

Filch subconsciously touched his nose with his protruding palm, and he knew that his nose was not normal because he had the flu.

It's a regular thing.

As a Squib, his body is not as good as that of a wizard.

Coupled with the fact that he has been working night shifts at Hogwarts for the past twenty years, the long-term reversal of day and night will undoubtedly further devastate his body.

So Filch also knew that he did need some treatment.

But the wizards would not help him, and some of them even wished he was dead.

But if he were to go to the human world and get treatment in places called hospitals, it would be unacceptable to Filch.

Because it would most likely cause him to not be able to return to the wizarding world and lose his job forever, but not being able to physically punish a student is worse than death for Filch!

So he would rather not receive treatment and let his health deteriorate day by day, but also stay at Hogwarts just to punish some more students!

And now, Ash, who was clearly going to be punished by him, suddenly courted him and gave him a bottle of healing potions......

Filch's eyes immediately sharpened, and he asked sharply:

"You poisoned the potion?"

It's not the first time a wizard has poisoned him, but he definitely won't be fooled again!

Ash shrugged his shoulders and said casually:

"You can ask Professor Snape to test it for you, I don't think he will refuse."

In fact, before he came out of the secret passage, he knew that Filch had been waiting around the corner.

But that doesn't mean Filch has discovered the One-Eyed Witch's secret passage, which can only be opened by magic. And Filch is a Squib, and he will almost always discover this secret passage.

This shows that someone deliberately asked Filch to wait here just to catch him.

The only one who had reason and ability to do this was Dumbledore.

And his attitude towards Filch also determines Dumbledore's attitude towards him to a certain extent.

"Meow~"

Mrs. Loris screamed suddenly, and she stepped forward and rubbed Ash's trouser leg in a gesture of affection.

Then he squatted to the side and looked at Filch with a meow, and the people who watched were soft-hearted.

"Do you believe him? My dear. ”

Filch's eyes softened, and he finally took the potion, but his tone was still vicious:

"I will, but don't think I'm going to let you go so easily!"

If the potion was fake, he swore that he would torture Ash severely!

With a smile still on his face, Ash was not upset by Filch's threat, but asked:

"Mr. Filch, can you tell me where the kitchen is?"

Filch frowned:

"What are you doing in the kitchen?"

Ash said calmly:

"I need some food."

"Huh."

Filch sneered, "In the basement, the kitchen is right next to the Hufflepuff common room, if you can find it." ”

He warned with a gloomy voice:

"Also, you'd better get back to the break room before I get caught!"

Threatening, he took a few steps back vigilantly and disappeared around the corner of the hallway.

Ash watched him leave with Lady Loris, who had turned back three times, and his smile was still there.

In fact, in many cases, things are not as complicated as people think.