Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 36
A week had passed since the duel, which belonged to Slytherin's internal strife and was not known to any students from the other three colleges.

Regarding Schelling's serious injury to Gallup, Snape did not publicize it everywhere. After all, he was also responsible for the accident, so Schelling was lucky to escape punishment.

After the little wizards of Slytherin heard Schelling's declaration, the style of the whole college gradually changed among the little wizards of the lower grades.

Every professor at Hogwarts more or less felt the difference between Slytherin and the previous ones—Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall both found that the little snakes practiced harder than before, and the quality of homework also skyrocketed; Professor Sprout also found that the little snakes were more enthusiastic and proactive than before, and often took the initiative to help move flowers and plants in the greenhouse and clean up the venue; They all successfully refined the potion...

In contrast, Gryffindor students are particularly mischievous, Ravenclaw students are lonely and self-admired, and Hufflepuff is hardworking and friendly, but too dull and passive.

Another thing is that on the night after the duel, Daphne quietly went to Schelling's private dormitory alone to find Schelling, and had a candid and detailed talk about Schelling's declaration before the duel.

Daphne is not stupid. On the contrary, as the eldest daughter of the Greengrass family, she has been nurtured by the family since she was a child, and she has long been familiar with the drama of power struggles among pure-blood families.

Ever since she knew Schelling, she had detected that Schelling had great ambitions and hidden ambitions. This 12-year-old boy often displayed a maturity of thought and determination that did not match his age.

With a clear mind, she didn't think that the bold words that Xie Lin said that day were just sensationalism, and it was not difficult for her to infer that Xie Lin intended to build a force to follow her, so she wanted to take the lead in expressing her position on behalf of the Greengrass family to which she belonged, and release the family's goodwill to Xie Lin.

At present, Schelling is still weak and lacks prestige, but Daphne, who has seen Schelling's talent and potential, has no doubt that Schelling will one day be a strong player in the future.

Although Daphne spoke cryptically, Schelling already fully understands the meaning behind Daphne—in Schelling’s own understanding, it is: the Greenglass family is very optimistic about Schelling, but in view of the fact that Schelling’s current strength and prestige are far from enough, the Greenglass family can only give Schelling some limited support, which can be regarded as an investment in Schelling in advance.

After Xie Lin and Daphne reached a verbal preliminary agreement, Xie Lin remembered some of his doubts about the power of blood, and said: "Daphne, I have some questions that I want to ask, which may violate the privacy of your family, please don't be offended... I heard that all the women in Greengrass bear the curse of blood, is it true?"

Daphne does not shy away from this topic. After all, although this matter is not a good thing, it is not a family secret. "Yes. A century ago, the family offended a powerful black wizard and was planted by him. A vicious curse, my mother is the host of the blood curse, and she passed away when I was young. I am lucky, the blood curse was not activated on me, but my sister... oh..."

After a while of silence, she saw Xie Lin looking straight at herself, and couldn't help but ask, "Why are you asking this?"

Schelling said frankly that he was researching bloodline-related magic and hoped to get Greengrass' research notes on bloodline magic. After all, the Greengrass family has been cursed for a century, and they must have made many attempts to solve the curse. The research materials involving bloodlines must be of great reference value to him.

Daphne was suspicious for a while. She had never heard of any blood power inheritance in the Malfoy family, but she still made the decision and agreed to Xie Lin, and would send a letter to the family for him, requesting to send over the family's research materials on blood.

Before Daphne left, she took out a map of the Forbidden Forest from her pocket, because Xie Lin had asked her and Meredith about various gossips about the Forbidden Forest a few months ago. As smart as Daphne, she naturally guessed that Xie Lin had coveted the Forbidden Forest, so she asked the family to spend some money to get this map, and it might be considered as the first meeting gift from the family to Xie Lin.

[Forbidden Forest map obtained! 】

On the first Saturday morning after the Easter break, the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff Quidditch match was called off due to a third attack, this time between Hermione and Ravenclaw sixth-year Penelope Clearwater.

In the Slytherin common room, Professor Snape announced the new measures: "All students must return to their house common room by six o'clock in the evening. No student may leave the dormitory after this time. Every lesson is escorted by a teacher. No student is allowed to use the bathroom without the teacher's company. All Quidditch practice and competitions are postponed. There will be no more activities in the evening."

Immediately after Professor Snape left, the Slytherins began chattering.

Draco wanted to triumphantly mock Hermione, whom he hated, but seeing Sherin's unkind eyes, he could only give up resentfully.

That night, Hagrid's hut was very lively. Firstly, Harry and Ron, who were wearing the invisibility cloak, came to visit, and then Dumbledore and Minister of Magic Fudge came. Fudge represented the Ministry of Magic to arrest Hagrid as a suspect and take him into custody in Azkaban. Just when Hagrid was trying to argue, Lucius Malfoy strode into Hagrid's hut, took out a long roll of parchment, and announced the temporary suspension order jointly signed by twelve school managers, allowing Dumbledore to temporarily suspend Removal of principal.

Before Hagrid was captured, he left clues for Harry and Ron to follow the spider.Schelling knew that when Harry and Ron really followed Hagrid's clues and followed the spider to the eight-eyed spider's lair in the dense forest, they would find that they would not get any valuable information except for almost being buried in the spider's belly.

Ironically, the really valuable clues are quietly staying in the school hospital at the moment.

While Dumbledore, Harry, and Ron were not in the castle, Schelling used the "Invisible Phantom Charm" to sneak into the school hospital and came to Hermione's ward.

In order to prevent these petrified victims from being completely killed by the attackers, the ward was protected by heavy protective magic - but this obviously couldn't stop Schelling. Schelling's invisibility magic was enough to avoid all detection magic.

Schelling curled his lips in disdain. Wizards' bad habit of looking down on other species has left too many loopholes to be criticized, even Dumbledore and Voldemort are no exception.

Schelling came to Hermione's bed and gently took the note away from her hand - in this case, with the IQs of both Harry and Ron, it would be difficult to guess the fact that the murderer was a basilisk.

Since Dumbledore's departure from Hogwarts, fear had spread more rapidly than ever before, so that the sun that warmed the outer walls of the castle did not seem to penetrate the mullioned windows.Every face in the school looked terrified, and every laugh in the corridors seemed harsh, weird, and quickly stifled.

However, there was one person who seemed to particularly enjoy the atmosphere of terror and suspicion.

Draco strutted around the school like he'd just been named Head Boy.

During a Potions class about two weeks after Dumbledore and Hagrid had left, Sherin was sitting right behind Draco and overheard him boasting triumphantly to Crabbe and Goyle.

"I knew my father would get rid of Dumbledore," he said, not taking care to lower his voice. "Let me tell you, he thinks Dumbledore is the worst headmaster the school has ever had. We'll probably have a decent headmaster now, someone who doesn't want to keep the Chamber of Secrets closed. McGonagall won't stay long, she's just filling in..."

As Snape trotted past, Draco said loudly, "Sir, why don't you apply for the position of Headmaster?"

"Oh, Malfoy," said Snape, but he couldn't help the faint smile on his lips, "Professor Dumbledore has only been temporarily suspended by the Board, and I dare say he will be back among us soon."

"Yeah, that's right," Malfoy said with a smirk. "Sir, if you apply for this position, I guess my father will vote for you. I'll tell my father that you're the best teacher here, sir…"

Snape was strutting up and down the dungeon with a smug smile on his face, and Seamus Finnigan pretended to vomit into his cauldron, but luckily he didn't see it.

In the Defense Against the Dark Arts class that afternoon, Schelling saw the note Harry passed to Ron saying "We will act tonight", so Schelling was sure that these two little brats who loved to die would go to the Forbidden Forest tonight.

That night, Schelling changed into the Supreme Wizard's robe, put on the night star cloak, and brought a magic suitcase with many bottles and cans inside, and waited at Hagrid's cabin early.

Not long after, Harry and Ron appeared, and they led Hagrid's dog Fang into the Forbidden Forest, and Sherin hung behind them far behind—even though he was confident in his own strength, Sherin didn't want to be surrounded by a large group of eight-eyed spiders with them.

After walking for about half an hour, Xie Lin found that they had deviated from the path in the forest, and not long after, Harry, Ron, and Fang were picked up by several large spiders and dragged into the bushes. Xie Lin's invisibility magic was also effective for eight-eyed spiders, and no spiders noticed Xie Lin hiding aside.But the cautious Schelling still decided to focus on safety, and still followed far behind.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Xie Lin finally came to Aragog's lair.

This is the edge of a wide depression, the trees in the depression have been cleared, and the ground covered with fallen leaves is now densely populated with spiders, each of which is as big as a cart horse, with eight eyes and eight legs, black and hairy, like huge monsters.

The giant spider with Harry in its arms made its way down the steep slope towards a misty hemispherical web in the very center of the hollow, surrounded by its companions.When they saw what it was clamping, they moved their claws excitedly and made a clicking sound.

Just when Harry and Ron thought they could not escape the tragic end of being buried in the belly of the spider, Mr. Weasley's Ford speeding car made a brilliant debut-it rescued two people and a dog, ran rampant all the way, knocked countless spiders into the air, and finally sent Harry and the others safely out of the Forbidden Forest.

Schelling followed cautiously, taking fresh venom from the mouthparts of each dead spider.You know, the venom of the eight-eyed spider can be worth 100 gold galleons per pint on the black market, which is very valuable.

At least a dozen spiders were killed by the Ford Speeding car. Although Schelling was under the pressure of being surrounded by spiders, in order to avoid making any noise that might attract the spiders, which caused a lot of waste in the collection process, he still managed to collect 20 pints of venom.Although Schelling was not short of money, he was very happy to have 2000 Galleons easily in his pocket.

[Eight-eyed spider venom obtained! 】

After collecting, Xie Lin left contentedly.

(End of this chapter)