Whether it was Matthew or Hermione, the expressions on their faces suddenly changed when they saw the message on the note.

"Let's get over there!" Hermione shoved the note into her pocket.

"Hmm. Matthew nodded.

Then the two of them ran like the wind towards the garden.

......

Since it was Valentine's Day, the decoration in the garden was even more excessive than in the corridor.

The stone-paved paths are lined with roses, fresh rose petals can be seen everywhere in the meadows, and a small heart-shaped sun hangs in the middle of the garden......

Matthew and Hermione didn't have time to worry about that, though, and stopped a couple on the side of the road and asked what had happened to them.

Those couples were clearly very disgusted by being disturbed.

Of course, they didn't know exactly what was going on.

The two walked past low bushes, huge stone statues, and roses. Finally, when they reached the center of the garden, near a huge fountain—

Several couples sat on the openwork benches, and Matthew could hear the splashing of water.

Matthew noticed that the couple next to him looked a little frightened.

He hurriedly leaned over and asked, "Hello, what happened here just now?"

The senior girl, whom Matthew didn't know, looked pale: "Corpse...... There was just a corpse...... There is still blood ...... on his body."

"Corpses?" Hermione was almost startled.

"It's not a corpse. Next to him, the girl's boyfriend hurriedly explained: "It's a first-grade boy, and his body has just appeared on the side of the fountain...... Extremely suddenly!"

As he spoke, he pointed straight ahead.

"The boy was bitten by something on the neck, and it seems to have been poisoned, and the injury is very serious......"

"Is he Neville?" asked Hermione, worried.

When the couple heard Hermione's words, they looked a little confused.

"What does that wounded boy look like, do you know him?" Matthew hurriedly stopped Hermione, who was excited, and continued to ask.

"We don't know each other. The couple replied, "And Mr. Pringer arrived very quickly, forbade us to watch, and took the boy to the school hospital." ”

Neville ...... Will he ...... Something happened......" The couple had just walked away, and Hermione said quickly, her voice a little incoherent.

Ravenclaw and Slytherin students are in need of herb classes this morning, but Gryffindor students like Neville have no classes this morning...... Hermione was worried if he had come to the garden, noticed something unusual, and then been attacked.

"Don't worry, we'll look around the garden now, and if not, we'll go to the school hospital!" Matthew said calmly.

But they hadn't gone a few steps before the vicious Professor Pringer appeared in front of them.

"You guys!" said Mr. Pringle, gesturing at the two of them, "Get out of here!"

"We're just coming in and shopping...... Matthew quickly argued.

"It's not okay to go shopping. Mr. Plinger improvised, then kicked the two out: "Junior students are not allowed here!"

Hermione also wanted to go over to Mr. Pringer and ask him who the boy who had been attacked was.

It's just that Matthew grabbed her in time and shook his head at her at the same time.

......

"Where are we going now, going to the hospital?" Leaving the garden and back into the castle, Hermione looked a little ashen.

"Don't worry just yet. Matthew remained calm, "There are at least a dozen boys in Gryffindor and Hufflepuff combined, not to mention the fact that the seniors often mistake us with the sophomores, so it wasn't necessarily Neville who was attacked." ”

"Then we ......"

"Let's go to the auditorium first. Matthew continued, "Wait over there, Neville will definitely come to the auditorium if he's okay." ”

"We should go to the school hospital......"

"As I said, it wasn't necessarily Neville who was attacked, and even if we went to the school hospital, Madam Pomfrey wouldn't let us in!" Matthew said sternly.

Eventually, Matthew Wakefield persuaded Hermione Granger to dismiss the idea of going to the school hospital.

The two of them came to the auditorium, and since it was not yet lunchtime, there were not many people inside.

They sat at the Gryffindor and Slytherin tables, Hermione looking like she was going by, and Matthew was thinking about something.

......

As it turned out, Matthew was right.

Just ten minutes later, Neville Longbottom appeared in the auditorium.

Although he also looked very pale, as if he was seriously ill.

The three of them left the auditorium one after another, and then entered the history of magic classroom where there was no one else.

"Neville, what's going on?" Hermione nervously asked as soon as the door closed, "Are you alright?"

"We were discovered. Mr. Neville Longbottom's first words were somewhat astonishing: "Professor Rozier has discovered us!"

"What ......" Now the pale man is Miss Hermione Granger's turn.

"Yes, it was discovered...... Neville continued, "Professor Rozier just called me into the office, and she warned me, and you...... She said that if she found us sneaky around her again, she would fire us all. ”

"This vicious woman!" After a brief moment of panic, Hermione clenched her fists in anger.

"Then why are you using an owl to contact us?" Matthew continued to ask with a serious face, "Surely it's not because of Professor Rozier?"

Matthew didn't think that when Rozier called Neville to her office, Neville still had time for the owl to deliver two letters, because of something else going on.

"Someone has been attacked in the garden!" Neville said as if remembering something:

“...... No, in fact he disappeared more than ten days ago......"

"Justin Finchrie?" asked Matthew.

"Yes......"

Neville was only halfway through his sentence when he was interrupted by Hermione's screams, "Is he really dead?"

"No, no, no. Neville hurriedly shook his head: "Justin is not dead, just a little thinner than before, nothing else...... His body was also very sudden, and I don't know who threw him on the lawn on the left side of the hot spring, which caused a lot of commotion at the time......"

“...... In the midst of the commotion, all I saw was him convulsing and bleeding from his neck...... It was almost exactly the same as the attack on Ron Weasley!"

"And what about the wound on his neck?" Matthew continued, "Is it the same as the wound on Weasley's neck?"

Neville shook his head, "Sorry, I was too far away to see it. ”