Hogwarts Advanced Guide

Chapter 421 Phineas: I won't do that.
"I think Draco Malfoy gave Katie that necklace, Professor."

Ron on one side of Harry rubbed his nose in embarrassment, while Hermione on the other side slipped her foot on the ground, as if eager to keep a certain distance from Harry.

Hera slapped him on the face, but Harry still hasn't changed a bit. Does he have any evidence?Can anyone prove it?But I have to admit that the Draco in Harry's mouth is indeed very suspicious. After all, he is Malfoy. Voldemort sent him back to school to monitor Hera. If Voldemort let him attack Hera, it is entirely possible.

It's just that Draco obviously won't leave evidence so easily.

"This is a very serious accusation, Harry." Professor McGonagall paused in astonishment, and said, "Do you have evidence?"

"No," said Harry, "but I saw Malfoy at Borgin's once, and he asked Borgin to fix something for him, and then he said he wanted Borgin to keep another thing for him. There must be some conspiracy between them."

His words obviously confused Professor McGonagall. In fact, Hera was also confused.Draco wanted Borginbock to help him fix something, and he wanted him to help preserve an item, so what did that have to do with the opal necklace?Although Hera clearly remembered that this opal necklace was placed in Bojinbok shop.

Hera hadn't recalled where she'd seen the opal necklace before Harry told about Draco's conversation with Mr. Platinum, but he had no doubt remembered it.And now he can finally remember where he saw it.

Right here in Borginbock's shop, I vaguely remember writing on the card under the necklace: "WARNING: DO NOT TOUCH!——Cursed—Nineteen Muggles have died so far for possessing this." Probably so.

But now I'm afraid to add, 'There is another wizard who suffered from it'.

"Malfoy took something to Borgin Burke's for repair?" Professor McGonagall asked suspiciously.

"No, Professor, he just wanted Borgin to tell him how to fix one thing, and didn't take it with him. But that's not the problem. The problem is that he bought something at the same time, and I think it was the necklace—"

"You saw Malfoy leaving the shop with a package like that?" Professor McGonagall demanded gravely.

"No, Professor, he asked Borgin to keep it in the shop for him—" Harry looked a little nervous, but he spoke fluently, but Hermione cut him off: "But, Harry, Borgin asked him if he wanted to take it away, and Malfoy said 'no'—"

"Because he didn't want to touch that thing, so what!?" said Harry angrily.

"That's enough, Harry," Hera interrupted Harry in a deep voice, "thank you for the 'useful' information, but we can't just blame Mr. Malfoy for visiting the shop that might have sold this necklace. There were probably hundreds of people who went to that shop—"

"That's what I said too," muttered Ron.

"That's right, Potter," said Professor McGonagall angrily. "Besides, we've tightened up our security measures this year. I don't believe that necklace could have entered this school without our knowledge—"

"But—" Harry still tried to struggle.

"One more thing," said Professor McGonagall in a firm tone, "Mr. Malfoy didn't go to Hogsmeade today."

Hera looked at the dazed Harry and remained silent. He already had a guess in his mind, but he definitely couldn't tell Harry.

"How do you know?" Harry asked finally, stiffly.

"Because he's in confinement with me, he hasn't completed his Transfiguration homework twice in a row. Well, Potter, thank you for telling me your doubts." Professor McGonagall pointed in the direction of the door.

Harry and the others left the office dejectedly. The moment they held the doorknob, the door was pushed open first, and Snape strode in, followed by Penello.

"I heard that our Mr. Potter encountered another accident—" Snape looked at Harry with gloomy eyes, as if he saw something extremely dirty, he let out a cold snort, quickly passed Harry and the others, walked to Hera, and took the brown paper bag in Hera's hand.

Harry gave Snape a hard look, and was dragged out of the office by Hermione and Ron.

Professor McGonagall looked at Snape in deep thought, and she tugged on Penelope's cuff, "How about we go to the school hospital to see poor Katie? I'm really worried about her."

Penello looked at Hera, and after getting Hera's nod, he left arm in arm with Professor McGonagall.

"It's that thing, the one from Borgin's, isn't it?" Hera asked as soon as they left, sure Snape knew what he meant.

Snape carefully placed the opal necklace on the table, nodding grimly. "That's right, it's the one from Bojinbok's store."

"Did Malfoy do it?" Hera asked softly.

Snape shook his head, "I have no information, but it may be that the Dark Lord secretly instigated him. He almost completely lost his mind, and Dumbledore's death fueled his madness. Your situation——"

"So, it's very likely that this is exactly what Harry said." Hera said in a deep voice, with a serious expression on her face, "There is one more thing, Harry said that Malfoy was asking Borgin how to fix something, what do you think it might be?"

Snape was silent for a while, then shook his head stiffly, "It's hard to say, but you must be careful."

"There's nothing more reassuring than a visible undercover agent, isn't it?" Hera suddenly smiled. "And he's only a sixth-grade student. I think you'll keep an eye on him for me, right?"

"I'm not your guardian, there's no reason—"

"But we are all eager to win." Hera interrupted Snape, and the air suddenly froze.

After a while, Snape nodded slowly, "I will keep an eye on Malfoy for you, but we need to pay more attention to what the Dark Lord is going to do. Malfoy is just a nobody, just a scapegoat who was pushed out as punishment for Big Malfoy."

"I think it's probably because he doesn't want to keep me anymore." Hera sighed, and said slowly, since he learned everything from Ms. Gray, he knew everything about it. Voldemort certainly couldn't tolerate another person in the world who had the same Slytherin blood as him, even if that person was Slytherin himself.

Snape looked at Hera suspiciously, but he could easily read that Hera didn't want to explain, so he lowered his head and rewrapped the opal necklace in brown paper.

"I think you'd better lock this in the deepest part of the cabinet, lest charming Miss Clearwater touch it by accident," Snape said dryly.

Hera nodded, and carefully stuffed the brown paper bag into her pocket, "Thank you for the reminder, I will pay attention. You also need to be careful not to let Malfoy see the anomaly between us, so as not to bring the matter to the Dark Lord. He obviously no longer trusts me."

"You don't need to teach me." Snape raised his head and said indifferently, then strode away.

Looking at the back of Snape's black robe, Hera sighed deeply, then quickly straightened the cloak, and walked towards the school hospital. As the headmaster, he must comfort the injured students, although he knew in his heart that Katie might never be like before, and the curse on the necklace would cause her impossible harm.

Maybe she will suffer from the curse all her life, but it is enough to believe that Madam Pomfrey will get her life back.

When they arrived at the school hospital, Katie was already lying on the bed quietly, but the situation was not optimistic. Penello, Professor McGonagall, and Mrs. Pomfrey were all anxiously guarding the bed.

"How is the child?" Hera glanced at Katie on the bed. She looked very quiet, as if she was asleep.

"Just fell asleep, and basically stabilized." Madam Pomfrey sighed and said worriedly, "But I can hardly guarantee that this incident will not have a lifetime impact on her."

"Should we transfer her to St. Mungo's?" Hera asked.

Madam Pomfrey closed the bed curtain, turned her head and said, "If possible, I would like to send her to St. Mungo's as soon as possible, before the spell causes impossibly great damage to her. But this requires formalities for approval. Nearly all the beds in St. Mungo's have been taken up recently."

"I don't think this is a problem. I will write to the Scrimgeour department and send the child to St. Mungo's first." Hera turned to Professor McGonagall and said, "Minerva, please send the child to the hospital, okay?"

"No problem, I will send her to the hospital as soon as possible." Professor McGonagall nodded seriously, "But I think we have to find out how the necklace got into Hogsmeade Village."

"I'll talk to Minister Scrimgeour, but I can only say that we'd better not have too many expectations. There have been more and more cases of Muggle attacks recently, and it is difficult for them to spare manpower to deal with them." Hera lowered her head and said sadly. This has to be said to be a sad thing.

Professor McGonagall said sternly, "If the Ministry of Magic can't find a man, then I think we will investigate everything. We must prevent this from happening again."

"Yeah." Hera nodded.

The news that Katie had been cursed quickly spread throughout the castle, but the students didn't know the details. Except for Harry, Ron, Hermione and Lini, no one seemed to know exactly how Katie was cursed.It was even less clear that Katie herself was not the intended target of the necklace.The professors are also very taboo about this and are unwilling to disclose more details.

But everyone secretly stepped up their vigilance. At this time, Hera was glad that the Weasley twins had left the school, so he didn't have to worry about how to prevent students from selling amulets.

However, this incident seemed inevitable. In the morning of the second day, at least [-] owls flew over, and the students bought protective items such as amulets through various channels as quickly as possible. This made Hera and other professors have to reiterate in the auditorium: those amulets are all deceptive and have no effect at all.The really effective way to avoid danger is to try to avoid acting alone, it is best to go together, try not to go to strange places, and beware of strangers.

It seems like it might work, though most of them still choose to wear the amulet around their belts.

In the past few days, Hera has been paying attention to Malfoy, but the result is: Draco is basically a good student except being a Slytherin, he basically takes every class seriously, and he is not bad at mastering spells.

Why say other than he's a Slytherin?

Because Draco had a gloomy face almost every day, with a small pale face and thick dark circles under his eyes, it was hard not to make people wonder what he was doing at night.

But considering that he and his girlfriend, Pansy, Hera thought it was justifiable, they probably spent a lot of time with each other every night.

When the time came to Monday, Hera almost forgot about Mundungus because of the opal necklace. If it wasn’t for him chatting with Phineas, Phineas was very concerned about Sirius’ current situation—he was almost the only normal person left in the Black family. Bellatrix had gone completely crazy, and only her Voldemort was on her mind.

"How dare that mean old bastard steal the Blake family heirloom?" Phineas said angrily, and then strode out of the picture frame. He obviously wanted to visit his portrait at 12 Grimmauld Place, but he missed it, because Sirius cleared all those picture frames early-mainly because Mrs. Black was always noisy all day long, and Sirius couldn't stand it.

"Okay, let me go back and have a look," Hera comforted with a sigh. He felt that he had hardly spent a few days of practical life in the castle after school started, and was running around all day.

Hera rummaged through the large cabinet in the office for a long time before digging out a bag of Floo powder from a corner.

"I hope this thing still works, I don't know if it has expired." Hera murmured with her head down.

Penello raised his head and asked, "Are you going out again?"

"Obviously," Hera said helplessly, "If I don't go back, Phineas will keep nagging in my ears."

"I wouldn't do that," Phineas muttered.

Penello and Hera smiled at each other, obviously Phineas would do that.

"Okay, I'm going out then, I think I'll be back before dinner." Hera threw the floo powder into the fireplace, and the rising flames turned bright green.

"12 Grimmauld Place."

Hera seemed to be sucked into a huge socket hole, his body seemed to be spinning rapidly, the whistling sound was deafening in his ears, he definitely made a big circle in the fireplaces all over England, and a series of furnace doors flashed indistinctly.
(End of this chapter)