Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 73 The Decisive Battle with Lupine
Under the seemingly tough and thick fur is a strong humanoid body with bulging muscles. You can see that it effortlessly climbs the window sill with one hand and hangs on the outer wall, stepping on the wall bricks and jumping to the roof of the nearby building. The hidden power is absolutely explosive.

Under the support of pure physical strength, the figure jumped high and fell heavily, leaping non-stop on the spiers of the castle, and jumped straight towards Schelling.

When it got a little closer, even its face could be seen clearly - it was a ferocious and terrifying wolf's head, and it roared from time to time.

Schelling sighed, and regardless of Black's reaction, he ran straight to meet the werewolf.Normally, a werewolf would not attack animals, so its target was obviously itself.

While running, Xie Lin was running through all kinds of spells and tactics, his eyes did not forget to observe the surrounding environment, and he kept all the environmental factors firmly in his heart - today the full moon is cloudless, the light is sufficient, and there is no cold wind in the air. The location is close to the Forbidden Forest, and the grass is covered with black clay, which is suitable for plant growth...

When the distance between the two was less than three feet, the werewolf jumped up. The jumping power of the werewolf was no joke, the distance of three feet was reached in one leap.Xie Lin raised his wand unhurriedly, pointed at the werewolf and said, "clear water is like a spring", a jet of high-pressure water sprayed out from the tip of the wand like a water gun from a fire hydrant, and hit the werewolf's body head-on, shooting the werewolf who had nowhere to rely on in mid-air!

The werewolf fell on the grass a few feet away, and when he wanted to stand up, he found that what was pouring on him was not pure water, but a viscous liquid similar to a strong paste-this is the "slime curse" created by Schelling by adjusting the viscosity of the liquid in the water-making spell!
Xie Lin performed the next combo without stopping. He aimed at the ground and cast the transformation technique. The grass is covered with black clay, which is suitable for using the transformation technique to turn it into a swamp!

The werewolf was trying to break free from the paste, but found that its body was sinking rapidly, and the more it struggled, the faster it sank. It let out a long howling sound, bent its body up, slowed down the sinking speed, and tried to grab the surrounding dry land and crawl out of the swamp.

But Schelling wouldn't give him the chance.I saw the wand in his hand shaking rapidly. The black clay was also suitable for the growth of plants. One after another vines suddenly appeared on the swamp, as thick as a human arm. Under Schelling's control, the vines tied up the werewolf round after round until only one head of the werewolf was left exposed.

Poor werewolf, he can't even move a finger.

Xie Linda knew from the beginning that the werewolf's skin had a strong anti-magic effect, so he didn't plan to cast a spell on the werewolf directly, but used the transformation technique to physically bind it. Now it seems that this tactic is really effective.

Schelling turned his head to look in Blake's direction again, only to realize that the black dog had disappeared at some point.

The commotion caused by this battle was actually not big, after all, Schelling did not use any powerful magic.Although the howling of wolves was loud, it failed to attract the attention of the professors. After all, it was no secret that there were wolves in the Forbidden Forest.

After Xie Lin fired a red spark into the sky, he cast the invisible illusion spell and rushed to Hagrid's cabin secretly.He also passed Hagrid in the middle. Hagrid probably saw his signal and rushed to check what happened.

Outside Hagrid's hut, Sherin saw Buckbeak chained to a pole, and Sherin followed the way taught in class to gain Buckbeak's trust, and then turned him into the suitcase space.

Schelling also sneaked into the hut, first made a mess in the hut, creating signs of burglary, and then took away all the unicorn tail hairs that were hanging on the wall and used by Hagrid as bandages.

[Unicorn tail hair obtained! 】

(Note: There is a bug in the original book. Slughorn said that a piece of unicorn tail hair is 10 Galleons, but the wand made of unicorn tail hair is only sold for 7 Galleons, so the price of unicorn tail hair is changed to 10 Galleons, which is about 5 pieces.)
It is estimated that at this time, the professors who saw the red sparks had all rushed to the location of the werewolf. Sherin was not confident that his invisibility magic could hide from Dumbledore—in order to avoid Dumbledore who might find him, Sherin made a special circle, returned to the castle through another secret passage, and then quietly returned to the dormitory without disturbing anyone.

[Eagle horse Buckbeak obtained! 】

At breakfast time the next day, Professor Lupine did not appear on the professor's seat. The young wizards talked about it, but no one knew what happened.

On the contrary, there was another incident that aroused the interest of the young wizards. The eagle horse named "Buckbeak" that attacked Blaise was missing. It is said that Hagrid's cabin was burglarized, and the burglar also stole Buckbeak.

The Ministry of Magic specially sent officials to investigate this. They suspected that Hagrid had secretly let it go, but after searching the castle and the Forbidden Forest to no avail, several officials decided to give up and leave. After all, no one really cared about the life or death of a hippogriff.

After Hermione heard about this incident, she knew that it was Schelling who made the move, so she specially sent a thank you card to Schelling. Although there were only two words of thank you on the thank you card, Schelling knew it was because the cautious Hermione didn't want to reveal too much information about the incident in the letter.

Schelling was more concerned with the fact that Professor Lupine had turned into a werewolf.

He knew that Professor Lupine took the wolfsbane potion that Snape had prepared for him every month, so Dumbledore could rest assured that he would teach at the school and would not be a danger to the students.And Banban's early appearance is also very strange.

When the two things are linked together, it is not difficult to guess that Peter Pettigrew had tampered with the wolfsbane potion, and then specially appeared at that spot at a good time to lure Black, so that Black and Lupine who turned into a werewolf had a big fight.

Generally speaking, werewolves will not attack Animagus, but Black should be an exception. With Lupine's hatred for Black, even if he becomes a werewolf, he will attack because of subconscious hatred.Thinking about it this way, the ins and outs of the whole thing became reasonable.

Schelling didn't know what caused the deviation from the original plot, but he didn't care too much about it, because he had already made up his mind to face Voldemort with his own strength - that guy would definitely return, and the result would be the same with or without Peter Pettigrew.

It's just that he needs to remind himself not to rely too much on the benefits of predicting the plot, otherwise something will happen sooner or later.

February is over.

The first Saturday in March is a Quidditch match between Slytherin and Hufflepuff.Hufflepuff, who had no hope of winning the championship, seemed to have lost all fighting spirit in this game, and was crushed severely by Slytherin-Draco caught the Golden Snitch when the team led by 100 points.

This allowed Slytherin to achieve a two-match record, with a net difference of 300 points (against Ravenclaw by 50 points, and against Hufflepuff by 250 points), leading No.2 Gryffindor by 200 points.In other words, if Gryffindor wants to win the championship, he must defeat Slytherin with a score difference of 210. This is an almost impossible task!

Nothing happened in March in the original book.Xie Lin, who had thought that he would spend March in an unremarkable manner, received a letter that surprised him on this day.

There was only one place and time on the letter, and there was no signature underneath, but a scarab was drawn. Schelling had already guessed the identity of the writer.

At midnight, Schelling put an invisible phantom spell on himself, sneaked out of the castle, and met the person who wrote a letter to ask him out on the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest-the 7th grade prefect Gemma Farley.

In the dense forest, Gemma stood alone in the shadow of the tree. In the darkness, Schelling couldn't see the expression on her face clearly, but it was obviously impossible for her to go to such great lengths to ask him to come here in the middle of the night for trivial matters, let alone for a secret tryst with him. Well, the latter sentence is because Schelling thought too much.

Gemma was very vigilant. When Schelling approached, Gemma raised her wand and whispered, "Who?"

"Relax, it's me," Schelling whispered, and Gemma put down her wand. "What's going on? You made yourself so secretive in the middle of the night," Xie Lin rolled his eyes, and on the spur of the moment, he teased her and said, "Gemma, are you really planning to ask me out here for a tryst?"

Gemma seemed to have lost her joking mood, and instead of responding to Schelling's teasing, she looked serious.She frowned, seeming to organize her words, and then said, "Xie Lin, I wonder if you've heard of the student organization 'Ghost Club'?"

Xie Lin pondered for a while, then shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of it, what's the matter?"

Gemma explained: "And - what about the 'Knight of Walpurgis'?"

Xie Lin has always had a calm expression on his face, but at this moment he also had to frown: "Could you be talking about the predecessor of the Death Eaters?"

Gemma nodded, "That's this organization. Most people think that this organization was founded by a mysterious person in his student days, with the purpose of recruiting soldiers in Hogwarts, and he could join the Death Eaters after graduation. But, in fact, the name Walpurgis Knights has a longer history, and it can be traced back to the time of another Dark Lord Grindelwald... This is an organization similar to the fanatical belief in 'Pure Blood Supremacy'. It has a somewhat religious nature. Its members come from various European countries. The Blood Family, when Grindelwald was in trouble, this organization sent people to join the Saints, and strengthened the Saints..."

Schelling made an inference, "So, when Grindelwald fell, the Walpurgis Knights went back to hiding in the dark again, and sent people to join the Death Eaters again until the mysterious man rebelled? So, the two Dark Lords were used as guns?"

Gemma nodded solemnly, and the two remained relatively silent for a moment.

Xie Lin swallowed, moistened his somewhat dry throat, and then asked: "So——what does this Walpurgis Knights have to do with the ghost society you want to talk about?"

"When the mysterious man recruited soldiers in Hogwarts, he used the name of the Walpurgis Knights. Perhaps he felt that this name did not match his terror, so after graduation he gave his force another name of Death Eaters. However, the name of the Walpurgis Knights has been handed down in Hogwarts and has become the code name of a mysterious underground student organization. After experiencing the suppression of the two principals, Armando Dippet and Albus Dumbledore, this organization seems to be in vain. The smoke went out, but it survived privately, but it was renamed the Ghost Club, and the whole style became more low-key and mysterious."

"So, you can also understand that the Knights of Walpkiss is the predecessor of the Ghost Club. However, the Ghost Club has a smaller number of people and is more strict about confidentiality. As far as I know, they only recruit students who are above grade 5, and only students with top academic performance and pure-blood families can receive invitations... Joining the Ghost Club will receive personal guidance from the leader and powerful power..."

(Note: The Knights of Walpkiss is an official setting, which was mentioned by Rowling in an interview with Newsnight on June 2003, 6, but the author felt that the Knights and Voldemort’s student organization really did not match, so it was renamed the Ghost Society)
Schelling nodded to express his understanding. To put it bluntly, it is a student organization that specializes in the study and dissemination of black magic. It uses the powerful power of black magic to lure students to degenerate and walk on the path predetermined by the organization, such as quasi-saints, quasi-Death Eaters, and so on.

However, for some reason, a bad premonition suddenly appeared in Xie Lin's heart. Gemma asked herself to say these things, which meant that she was definitely related to her. When she thought of her style of attracting half-blood wizards and Muggle wizards in the past two semesters, it was not difficult to imagine that the Ghost Club, which is fanatical about "pure blood supremacy", wanted to deal with her.

Just when he was about to open his mouth to confirm this point, he suddenly realized something was wrong, and the ominous premonition in his heart became stronger, "Gemma, since this organization is as mysterious as you said, how did you know about it? Could it be..."

Gemma finally showed a bit of bitterness on her face, she nodded, "You guessed right, I am a member of the Ghost Society. What you did in Slytherin has violated the interests of pure-blood diehards. Someone invited our leader and sent someone to deal with you, and that person is me!"

　After discussions with several readers, Aberforth Dumbledore's translation was decided not to change, and the official translation continued to be used.The biggest reason why the author wanted to change it earlier was that the names of the brothers Aberforth and Albus were too close, so it was easy for the author to make mistakes and readers to mispronounce them.

　　
　
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