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Chapter 444 The Whomping Willow and Interrogation
The next morning, the Ron family and Harry were ready to go to school.

Everything is just like in the book, because someone tampered with it, and after everyone else got in the car, Ron and Harry were trapped outside.

They couldn't get on platform nine and three-quarters.

"Why can't we get through?" Harry whispered to Ron. "I have no idea."

Ron looked around anxiously, and there were a dozen other people watching them curiously. "We're going to miss the train," Ron whispered, "I don't know why the passage has sealed itself." Harry looked up at the clock, and he was a little dizzy, feeling like he was going to throw up.Ten seconds...nine seconds. He carefully pushed the car against the wall and pushed it with all his strength, but the partition wall still remained motionless.

"It's over," said Ron blankly. "The train is leaving. What if Mom and Dad can't come get us? Have you got any Muggle money?"

Harry laughed dryly, "The Dursleys haven't given me pocket money for six years." Ron pressed his ear to the cold partition wall. "Nothing at all," he said nervously. "What are we going to do? I don't know how long it will be before Mom and Dad get back to us." They looked around, and there were some people watching them, mainly because Hyde Vi was screaming non-stop.

"Fang Ze? Fang Ze?" Ron tried to contact the omnipotent Fang Ze in his mind, hoping that he would take care of him, who would become the Dark Lord in the future.

Find out why this platform nine and three-quarters won't let him in.

But he shouted in his mind for a long time, and Fang Ze ignored him.

Now it looks like I can only figure it out on my own.

Ron regretted not making a deal with Fang Ze earlier and learning spells like apparition, so that he could directly reach Hogwarts school.

Of course, you can't directly enter Hogwarts in this way, because Hogwarts is under the anti-apparition protection spell, which is a fact that even children know.

"I think we'd better go back to the car and wait," said Harry, "it's too busy here." "Harry!" Ron called, his eyes lit up, "Car!" Could fly to Hogwarts!" "But I would."

"We're stuck, aren't we? We have to rush back to school, don't we? In a real emergency, little wizards can use magic. No. 19 of the Restriction Regulations.. "

Hearing Ron's words, Harry suddenly turned from panic to excitement. "Can you drive?" "No problem." Ron said, turning the car towards the exit, "Come on, if you hurry, we can still keep up with the Hogwarts Express."

They walked briskly through the curious crowd, out of the station, and back to the old Ford Anglia parked on the side road.Ron clicked a few times with his wand and opened the spacious suitcase.They carried the suitcases in, put Hedwig in the back seat, and sat in the front. "Just to see if anyone's watching us," said Ron, and with another tap of his wand, he started the car.Harry stuck his head out of the window: there was traffic rumbling down the road, but their street was deserted.

"no one."

Ron pressed a small silver button on the dashboard.Their car disappeared, and so did the two of them.Harry could feel the seat vibrating, he could hear the engine, he could feel his hands on his lap, his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and he could see everything.But he himself was left with only a pair of eyes, a few feet off the ground, floating on a dirty street full of parked cars.

"Take off," said Ron's voice from his right.The ground and the filthy buildings on both sides sank.

Ron and Harry were riding in a speeding car. Originally, the two of them wanted to catch up with the Hogwarts express train, but because of a small accident in the middle, the two of them failed to catch up with Hogwarts after all. Express train, but came directly to the school.

"Just ahead!" Harry shouted, and on the dark horizon, on the top of the high cliffs across the lake, stood the silhouettes of the turrets and towers of Hogwarts Castle.

But the car started shaking and gradually slowing down.

"Help," Ron coaxed, and gently shook the steering wheel, "We're almost here, help."

The engine groaned, puffs of steam belched from under the hood.Harry couldn't help gripping the edge of his seat as they flew towards the lake.

The car shook violently.Harry glanced out the window and saw the calm, dark, mirror-smooth water a mile below.Ron's knuckles were turning white as he held the steering wheel.The car shook again.

"Help," murmured Ron.

They flew over Lake Castle just ahead and Ron hit the accelerator.

There was a clang, then a crack, and the engine died completely.

There was a loud sound of metal colliding with trees, they hit the thick tree trunk, fell to the ground, and the car body shook violently.Steam billowed from under the distorted hood.

Just when Harry and Ron were about to get out of the car, a twisted thick branch smashed his car door into a big hole, and countless small branches as thick as finger joints slammed violently like hail, shaking the windshield The glass trembled. A branch as thick as a battering ram was pounding on the roof frantically, and the roof seemed to be dented.

This is the Whomping Willow who guards the school, and every teacher at Hogwarts knows of him.

And not only can he guard the school, but he is also very, very precious.

But Ron didn't know all of this. After encountering danger, he had no time to hide anything. He simply took out his wand from his sleeve, pointed at the branches of the Whomping Willow and shouted Said, "Shenfeng Wuying!"

The powerful black magic spell immediately cut off the branches of the Whomping Willow, and then the Whomping Willow unwillingly met another branch and hit Ron.

But the magic proficiency Fang Ze bestowed on Ron is really terrible. Now Ron uses the newly bought wand to cast the spell faster than Snape, the founder of the magic spell.

After Ron waved his wand a few times in a row, the Whomping Willow never dared to wave Ron and Harry with its branches again, and of course there might not be many left if he waved again.

Seeing this situation, Ron took Harry, who had been dumbfounded for a long time, and started to leave the scene quickly, although Harry was extremely curious about what magic Ron was using and how Ron had a new wand. things, but they were desperate to get to the Great Hall before the party started, and Harry was going to wait until he got back to the dormitory tonight to ask Ron.

But they were still late, and when the two of them arrived, the sorting ceremony had already begun, and the freshmen began to line up, waiting for the sorting hat to sort them.

"Wait," Harry whispered to Ron, "there's an empty seat on the teacher's bench, where's Snape?"

"Maybe he's sick!" Ron said casually.

"Maybe he's gone," said Harry, "because he didn't teach Defense Against the Dark Arts again!"

"Maybe," said a cold voice behind them, "he's waiting to hear from the two of you why you didn't come by the school bus."

Harry turned around to find Severus Snape standing in front of him, his black robes shaking in the cool breeze.He was thin and sallow, with an aquiline nose and greasy black hair that fell to his shoulders.The smile on his face at the moment told Harry that things were going badly for him and Ron.

"Come with me," Snape said.

Neither Harry nor Ron dared to look at him, and followed Snape up the steps into the empty, echoing hallway lit by torches.The smell of food wafted from the Great Hall, but Snape led them away from the warmth and light, and down the narrow stone staircase to the dungeon.

"Go in!" he said, opening a door in the cold corridor and pointing inside.

They walked into Snape's office shivering.The walls were dark, and on shelves along the walls were large glass jars floating with all sorts of disgusting things whose names Harry didn't want to know at the moment.The fireplace was empty and dark.Snape closed the door and turned to look at them.

"I was inspecting the garden and found that a very valuable Whomping Willow appeared to have suffered a lot of damage." Snape said, looking at Ron and Harry. "Which of the two of you did it."

"Professor, it was the Whomping Willow who attacked us first," Harry said to Snape.

"Shut up." Snape didn't care about these things at all, his main problem now was to find out who used the Shadowless Curse to injure the Whomping Willow.

You must know that the Shadowless Curse is his unique technique, and it is also one of his Snape marks.

Not long ago, a wizard was killed in the wilderness with the Shadowless Curse, and the Dark Lord's mark was still on the body.

This incident brought great trouble to Snape, and even the Ministry of Magic suspected that it was Snape's doing, and wanted to take Snape away for investigation.

Finally, relying on Dumbledore to testify to Snape, Snape was saved.

Now that the magic spell had appeared again, and it was in the school, Snape was eager to find out what was going on.

Faced with this situation, the 12-year-old little Harry obviously had no intention of taking the blame for others, so he said timidly, "Ron did it, and he also did it to protect me."

"Ron?" Snape looked at Ron curiously, wondering how the youngest son of the Weasley family had learned all the magic spells he had.

"Ron, just how did you learn these magic spells." Snape asked Ron directly.

Although Ron also knew that he would definitely say that he destroyed the Whomping Willow when the time came, but it took a while for him to say it, and another for others to say it.

Ron kind of hated Harry telling him about using magic to seriously wound the Whomping Willow.

But now Ron didn't think he could defeat Snape, who had been famous for a long time, so he lied honestly and explained, "I learned it from a book I picked up."

"In a book?" Snape immediately thought of his previous notebook. If Ron somehow discovered this notebook and learned magic spells, Snape thought it was nothing.

But Ron's next words made Snape frown.

"Yes, I learned it from a book called Encyclopedia of Magic." Ron had no idea that the man in front of him was the founder of the magic spell.

"What magic did you learn in this book?" Snape asked Ron.

"That's the only one," said Ron to Snape. "A house-elf came and snatched the book after I learned the spell and left."

"House-elf?" Snape was even more confused when he arrived, what a mess.

Ron, who was only 12 years old, was quite reliable in his words, so Snape believed Ron's statement for the time being.

He originally wanted to punish these two people, but now that Sudden got this information, Snape's first reaction was to tell Dumbledore, and then discuss it to see if this was a plot by Voldemort.

Snape quickly called Professor McGonagall to take care of Ron and Harry, and he hurried to find Dumbledore.

"You'd better go to the infirmary, Weasley, you're bleeding," said Professor McGonagall, looking at Ron.

"It's nothing." Ron quickly wiped the wound on his eyes with his sleeve, "Teacher, I want to see my sister's sorting ceremony."

"The sorting ceremony is over," said Professor McGonagall. "Your sister is also in Gryffindor."

"Oh, great," said Ron.

"Speaking of Gryffindor," said Professor McGonagall sternly, but Harry cut in: "School hadn't started when we got in the bus, so—so no points should be deducted from Gryffindor, yes." No?" He finished, looking at her eagerly.

Professor McGonagall gave him a stern look, but he thought she seemed to be smiling a little.Anyway, her lips were no longer pursed so tightly.

"I won't deduct points from Gryffindor," she said, and Harry felt much relieved, "but I'm keeping you here."

It was better than Harry had expected.As for Dumbledore's letter to the Dursleys, that was perfectly fine.Harry knew they would only regret that the Whomping Willow hadn't beaten him.

After a while, Snape came in and motioned for Harry to leave, and Ron followed Snape to Dumbledore's office.

In the office, although Dumbledore was friendly when facing Ron, Ron knew that Dumbledore was eager to know who taught him the magic spell of "Shen Feng Wu Ying".

Ron couldn't tell the existence of Fang Ze, so naturally he couldn't explain the origin of the spell.

After more than three hours of chatting and interrogation, Dumbledore waved his hand wearily to indicate that Ron could go.

When Ron reached the door, he could even hear Snape arguing with Dumbledore.

Snape thought that he could not let Ron go so easily, and should use some illegal magic to punish him.

After all, because of Shenfeng Wuying, Ron sent someone to send Snape to prison.

"It's dangerous." Ron said as he walked out of Dumbledore's office, patting his chest. "I'm lucky."

"You really think you're lucky?" Fang Ze suddenly appeared in Ron's sea of ​​consciousness, and began to mock Ron.

"Do you know what price I paid to prevent you from being hacked by Dumbledore and telling everything?"

(End of this chapter)