Hogwarts: Harley from the Witch Path

Chapter 314 It wasn't your fault, why did you run away?

After reading Rita's article, Karkaroff broke into a cold sweat.

He wanted to yell and announce to everyone in the auditorium that Rita's article was a vicious slander, a blatant slander, and that he was going to sue Rita at the Ministry of Magic.

But Karkaroff always felt that his legs were weak and he could not stand up.

His voice also became hoarse inexplicably, as if it was blocked by something, and he couldn't spit out a word.

Because more than 80.00% of what Rita wrote in the newspaper was true.

He was indeed a former Death Eater, he did have no remorse, and he did get away with betraying his former colleagues.

Most of the news in this newspaper is true, and only two pieces of news are false——

The news that accused him of being a core member of the Death Eaters was fabricated, and he was just an insignificant young man back then, not even a squad leader;
Another fabricated accusation is that the article believed that Karkaroff threw the two pieces of parchment into the Goblet of Fire.

But Karkaroff also knows that he is guilty of these two fabricated slanders, especially the interference in the Six Wizards Tournament, and the malicious input of two notes against Hogwarts and Harry Potter. .

There are so many pieces of information in the entire article that are true. If I insist that these two are false, who would believe it?
Based on the simplest logical inference, with so much real information in front of me, I have full motivation and ability, and there is no way to clear my name.

Even if the Ministry of Magic really pursues him for this matter and finds out that no evidence can be found, ordinary wizards will not believe it.

After all, he couldn't produce any evidence.

Karkaroff couldn't help but glance at Professor Snape, but Professor Snape was sitting far away and seemed not to want to pay attention to him at all.

He turned his head, but happened to meet Professor Moody's gaze.

For the first time, Professor Moody's magic eyes didn't move around, to guard against someone attacking from behind, and looked in the same direction as his normal eyes——

Both eyes stared at Karkaroff at the same time, fixedly staring at Karkaroff.

The sky-blue magic eyes are cold and stiff, they should have no emotion, but now they look more ferocious;

Professor Moody's normal eye was shining with excitement.

A terrifying smile appeared on the corner of Professor Moody's incomplete mouth, and he nodded towards Karkaroff.

Then he gestured to Karkaroff with his jug-shaped hip flask without moving his lips, but Karkaroff understood what he meant.

"You're done! This pot of wine is for you, and I wish you a happy journey."

Karkaroff trembled, his face turned pale, and he subconsciously touched that special spot on his left arm. There was a hint of gloom in his eyes, but more of it was deep fear.

The Dark Mark is becoming more and more visible, which means that the former master he betrayed is gradually regaining his strength;

Snape looked confident and unwilling to reply to him at all;
Now this thing happened again...

At this moment, Karkaroff made up his mind.

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After breakfast that morning, Karkaroff disappeared.

According to reports from Durmstrang students, Karkaroff was supposed to teach them a lesson, and even Krum, who had the right to study the competition events by himself, was called away by him.

But before the class started, Karkaroff sneaked out of the classroom on the pretext that he had a stomachache.

But his goal was not to use the bathroom, but to get away while no one was paying attention to him.

The news seemed to have grown wings and spread throughout Hogwarts throughout the morning.

And the next morning, the "Daily Prophet" directly wrote about Karkaroff's escape, and he was not afraid of Karkaroff's sudden appearance and slapped himself in the face.

Rita struck directly while the iron was hot and began to intensify Karkaroff's strength from the news headline——

"Shock!A certain Durmstrang Death Eater headmaster escaped early in the morning, leaving his students behind!Is it the distortion of human nature or the loss of morality? 》

In the report, Rita wrote the much-talked-about Rita formula:

"Before you were there, the previous tournaments were safe. After you came, this tournament was not safe. After you left, the next few tournaments will become safe again."

"So the question is, whose problem is it that the competition is not safe? I won't go into details here, but I think readers have a strong idea in their hearts."

Durmstrang's classmates were almost indifferent to this matter. After all, Principal Karkaroff's reputation in Durmstrang was not good.

He has always despised those classmates from ordinary families, and often criticized them harshly, even insulting them or using magic spells to punish them.

On the contrary, Karkaroff is very much after those wizards who come from pure-blood noble families, or from ordinary families like Krum, but who are famous.

This caused ordinary Durmslan students to hate him, and students of noble birth to look down upon him.

Regarding the principal's escape, everyone simply sent a long-distance letter to the school and their homes, without any thought of making emergency contact.

But the matter did not end here, something that caused headaches for the Durmstrang students happened.

It wasn't until night that they discovered that Karkaroff had shamelessly taken away all the funds Durmstrang had prepared for the Six-wizard Tournament before escaping.

Many students, including Krum, even noticed that the layout in their dormitory seemed to have been tampered with.

Combined with the fact that there were no signs of damage on the door of his cabin.

It was obvious that Karkaroff used his authority as principal and captain to easily invade their dormitory, trying to make more money before leaving.

Fortunately, taking into account Durmstrang's own atmosphere of the jungle and Principal Karkaroff's usual teaching of "please keep your valuables on your own, students will not be held responsible if they are lost in school."

Therefore, the students of Durmstrang have always been very vigilant, and they basically carry their valuables with them.

I don't know if Karkaroff will get so angry when he gets nothing, and he can't wait to go back to the past and give a big mouth to his former self who didn't want to take responsibility.

In order not to discover his bad behavior, Karkaroff also deliberately restored the layout of the student cabin to its original state as much as possible.

He even cut off the emergency contact between Durmstrang's school and the ship, so as to delay himself for more time.

Durmstrang's classmates could only go to Professor Dumbledore together, and after finding that Professor Dumbledore was not there, they turned to look for the vice-principal.

When he received a request from Durmstrang students for help in contacting Durmstrang's main school, Vice Principal McGonagall's face was full of disbelief.

Could this be something the headmaster of a famous magic school could do?It's appalling!

But then I thought about Karkaroff's identity, and it seemed reasonable.

It can only be said that he deserves to be the original Death Eater!
There is no doubt that Karkaroff's behavior added fuel to the fire. Now it was not just the British wizards who scolded him, but also the magical newspapers and ordinary wizards in the Nordic countries.

After all, the reporter only doubted you in the newspaper. The evidence hadn't been produced yet, and the official didn't say anything, so you just ran away.

And before he left, he deliberately took the money away, and even wanted to steal some money from the students, but unfortunately he failed to steal it.

You say you are fine, who will believe it?

Durmstrang Magic School urgently published a statement in the magical newspapers of various Nordic countries, stating that the school's board of directors jointly fired Karkaroff from his position as principal.

He is also wanted by the Ministry of Magic in several Nordic countries for "violating his own pledge, re-engaging in terrorist activities, framing students from other schools in the Six Wizards Tournament" and "stealing information from Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry" Money and property”.

Newspapers from various countries are covering the news overwhelmingly, eager to let the whole world know about it.

"Karkarov will take the blame for this."

Hallie was alone in the Room of Requirement, reading the latest issue of newspapers from various countries that she had specially ordered.
"Ever since he escaped, he has been unable to take off the pot."

Hedwig was watching Rita's emotions more carefully than Harry, but she was mainly studying Rita's emotional manipulation techniques.

"Did you learn anything?" Harry asked after finishing reading the entire article while helping Hedwig comb her feathers.

"I feel like I have a deeper understanding of the psychology of ordinary wizards."

Hedwig narrowed her eyes, raised her neck, exposed the feathers under her beak, and deliberately used it to rub Harry's free hand.

"There is a big mountain of prejudice in people's hearts. When a wizard has a bad impression of Karkaroff, no matter what other people throw dirty water on Karkaroff's head, ordinary wizards will think that this is the truth."

"After all, Karkaroff has done so many bad things as a Death Eater, and returning to his old profession now fits well with people's inherent impression of him."

"I have to say that wizards are really intrigued and have complicated relationships. They are not as simple as our owls." "No way, this is human beings, this is wizards." Harley stood up,
"It seems that you have a better understanding of the complexity of the human heart, and the psychiatrist's potion has almost been digested."

"When the auxiliary materials ordered from the potion shop arrive, I will start preparing the Sequence Six Hypnotist's potion for you."

"Are you going back to the common room now, or are you staying alone in the Room of Requirement?"

"Hermione's Arithmancy class is about to end, and we are about to go to the Ancient Runes class."

"Go to the Owlery." Hedwig flew off Harley's body,

"I want to continue to practice the various abilities of a psychologist and enlighten other owls."

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As the calendar pages turned over, it was almost two weeks since school started.

Professor Dumbledore is finally back.

When Harry received the parchment from Professor Dumbledore and rushed to the principal's office, Professor Dumbledore was leaning on his chair and meditating with his eyes closed.

"Good morning, Professor. Are you back from Austria?" Harry took the initiative to say hello, while looking at Professor Dumbledore up and down.

Unexpectedly, Professor Dumbledore didn't see much change.

Is this the state that an old man who has been with his old lover...friend for three weeks should be in?

This is not reasonable!

Putting aside all unreasonableness, there is only one explanation for this phenomenon.

But Harry didn't dare to ask or think about it.

She is just an innocent, pitiful and weak ordinary little girl. How can she have the ability to care about the rich and fantastic emotional life of the greatest white wizard in the world?

However, Professor Dumbledore rolled his eyes without any image:

"Harry, you are talking as if I have always been in Austria."

"In fact, I only stayed in Austria for six days, and I was mainly preparing for the International Wizarding Conference to be held during the summer vacation."

"In the remaining ten days, I went to visit Sirius and the others, and then went to Azkaban for almost a week."

"So I really don't spend as much time with Gellert over Christmas as you think."

"I can see that you have a lot of life experience." Harley's expression did not change at all.
"So Professor, you came to see me tonight. What's the matter?"

Professor Dumbledore coughed twice, and followed Harry's topic to turn things around:

"I heard from Dai Lisi that you came to see me during the Christmas vacation, right."

"Yes, I have been to the principal's office." Harry nodded,
"But didn't you ask me to come? You left a message in the Christmas gift you gave me, telling me to go there when I have time."

"So Professor, what is that special Christmas gift you mentioned on the parchment that can only be given to me by you?"

Professor Dumbledore did not answer immediately, but clasped his fingers together and held his chin.

There was a strange atmosphere brewing in the room. Even Fox, who was eating herbs, noticed what was unusual in the room and poked his little head out of his lair, still holding herbs in his mouth.

After a while, Professor Dumbledore seemed to have made up his mind before he said slowly:

"Harley, do you remember when we talked about the Animagus, the magical form of animals?"

"Of course I remember." Harley raised her eyebrows slightly, "Could it be..."

"Yes, the second Christmas gift I prepared for you has something to do with this."

Professor Dumbledore confirmed Harry's guess,

"And in a way, it's also related to the key location of the second event."

Harry gave Professor Dumbledore a suspicious look, always feeling that this bad old man was going to have some trouble.

As expected, Professor Dumbledore coughed twice:
"In order to match the prompt method given in the second competition event, I won't tell you the answer directly."

"I'm going to give you some key information, and you need to figure it out for yourself."

"I once mentioned that Gellert, Tom and I all have our own unique understanding of 'life' or 'death'."

"But the difference is that Gellert realized his own death rules through certain special items and in the process of chasing certain wizard myths."

"As for Tom, I'm not sure. After all, he has had too many mysterious and dark experiences in his life, and I can't completely trace their origins."

"But I can probably guess that his unique understanding of death is inseparable from his own division of the soul, and it may also involve some secrets deep in Azkaban."

"I went to Azkaban this time to explore those secrets. But I haven't completely cracked it yet, so I won't tell you yet."

"As for myself..."

Professor Dumbledore paused for a moment and then continued,
"Through certain objects and places related to 'death', as well as the phenomenon of Fox's Nirvana, I reversely understood the opposite of 'death', that is, about my own rules in the field of 'life' .”

"You can find that we all relied on some external forces."

"And your understanding of death must also be very special. After all, your own situation is not normal. The fragments of the soul belonging to the Horcrux were broken, which led to you obtaining so many special abilities and special insights."

"So I am going to provide you with the locations I have found, hoping to help you."

"As for the 'death' locations, they completely coincide with the three most important locations in the second event of the competition."

"As for where the key to finding and opening them is, I won't tell you."

"But I have given you the key. You have at least two keys, and each key can open the door."

"When you complete the second project of the competition, you can explore it and see if you can gain anything new."

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Professor Dumbledore is probably used to being the Riddler, so he likes to be secretive at all times.

Harley was speechless about this method. Wouldn't it be better to say it directly?

As for the key that Professor Dumbledore was talking about, Harry also had a guess.

One of the keys is probably a Christmas gift given to him by Professor Dumbledore, which is the former Riddle senior Horcrux and the resurrection stone on the ancestral ring of the Gaunt family.

The other key should be the invisibility cloak that he threw at the bottom of the box for three years.

These two items happen to be two of the three legendary Deathly Hallows. They are related to death. It is reasonable to say that they are the keys to those special places.

After returning to the dormitory, Harley dug out the invisibility cloak that she had kept.

Although it has not been used for three years, the invisible clothes are still spotless, and it feels like a handful of silver liquid in the hand.

Harry took it and the Resurrection Stone in his hands and studied them repeatedly, but saw nothing.

"What is the use of you..."

Just as Harry pulled out the magic mirror and prepared to conduct further research, Hermione's voice suddenly came over:
"Harry, are you in the bedroom?"

Without waiting for Harry to reply, Hermione pushed the door open and walked in:

"Do you want to go to the Black Lake now? We agreed to continue training. Fu Rong has probably been waiting for a while."

"Okay, I'll go right away." Harley put the items in her hands back into her pockets and grabbed the special sportswear on the bedside.

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(End of this chapter)