A day at Hogwarts

Mr. Malfoy, who paid for the whole store at the communication notebook store, then invited his classmates to the Dancing Grass restaurant next door for a big meal.

After leaving the restaurant, the Slytherin students went to play on their own. Malfoy did not take the main street, but went back through the residential area.

He was thinking whether to rent a house here first, which would be easier than staying at his aunt's house.

Suddenly, a red light hit him from behind.

Malfoy felt a pain as if his whole body was torn apart, and he fell heavily to the ground.

He was about to scream, but another spell locked the sound in his throat.

Two people rushed out from behind and kept releasing the Cruciatus Curse at Malfoy for five minutes before stopping.

The two gangsters quickly disappeared from the scene, not noticing that someone behind a window in the distance saw the scene through the gap in the curtains.

Malfoy lay on the ground, motionless, and it was unknown whether he was dead or alive.

It was not until an hour later that a local resident passed by and found him.

At this time, Fudge was talking to Dumbledore in the Dancing Grass Restaurant. He received the news as soon as he rushed to the scene of the crime.

On the other side, Charles was asking the witness: "Are you sure it was the Cruciatus Curse?"

Eleanor said with certainty: "I know this spell and I won't make a mistake."

Charles was not surprised that she knew the Cruciatus Curse. He pinched his chin and thought: "Two students from Durmstrang used the Cruciatus Curse on Malfoy. I feel weird."

Eleanor shrugged and said: "Who knows when he offended someone."

Charles thought so too and said: "It may be a family feud of hundreds or thousands of years."

"Forget about him. Do you have time to teach me the Cruciatus Curse?"

Eleanor asked in surprise: "You don't know the Cruciatus Curse?"

She felt that with Charles's hard work, he should know all the three unforgivable curses.

Charles shrugged and said: "I don't have time to learn."

Eleanor came here today to take away the supplies collected by the centaurs. There was nothing else to do, so she was naturally free.

Charles brought her to the mirror space and began to study seriously, preparing to use the Horcruxes to deal with Voldemort.

The Cruciatus Curse was not difficult for Charles, and he learned it in more than an hour.

He said to Eleanor: "Give me a Cruciatus Curse and try it."

Eleanor tilted her head and asked: "Is there something wrong with your brain?"

She had never seen anyone take the initiative to be hit by a Cruciatus Curse.

Charles said: "I guess there is a spell that may be able to resist the Cruciatus Curse."

He really wanted to try whether Voldemort's special anti-magic Shield Charm and "End of All Curses" could defend against the three unforgivable curses, but the only person he knew who could use it and could discuss it was the old man, which was a bit beyond the scope.

Eleanor was just right, not ridiculously strong.

"Okay." Eleanor raised her wand, "Don't blame me if you get hurt."

"Crucia!"

"End of All Curses!"

The two red spells collided with each other, emitting a dazzling light.

Eleanor's Cruciatus Curse was not powerful and was quickly defeated.

Charles nodded with satisfaction, took out the saber, put the wand in it, and then attached "All Curses End" to the knife, which looked like a burning flame.

Eleanor cast a spell again, and this time the Cruciatus Curse was dispersed by Charles's knife.

She asked: "When did you learn to attach spells?"

Attaching some projectile spells to an object is an unpopular practice, not very practical, rarely used, and few people study it.

Charles replied: "I learned it from a friend some time ago."

"One more time."

He said, and cast a special anti-magic armor spell on himself.

The Cruciatus Curse hit the armor spell, and it bounced off with a "bang", and Charles staggered and almost fell.

From the experimental results, the armor spell has limited defense against the Cruciatus Curse. Eleanor's Cruciatus Curse can barely defend it, but Voldemort and others probably can't do it.

When Charles went back, there were still a few people gathered at the crime scene, discussing Malfoy's attack in twos and threes.

Charles had just stood still in the distance when someone came over.

He recognized this girl from Durmstrang, who seemed to be called Helen something. Krum didn't pronounce it correctly when he introduced her to him, so he didn't remember.

"Hello." Helen greeted Charles politely, "Excuse me, are you Charles Smith, the owner of the ruby?"

Charles nodded. The ruby ​​was much more famous than him in Durmstrang, so he casually said a few words to greet him.

He was thinking, could it be that the accomplice of the perpetrator came back to see the scene?

Helen asked Charles: "Are you friends with the injured student?"

Charles said in a deep voice: "Not really, but making trouble next to Hogwarts is not giving Hogwarts face."

Helen said: "I also hope that the murderer will be severely punished."

"Draco... Malfoy is the first friend I met in Hogwarts. I don't know who he has offended recently."

Charles shrugged and said: "He has offended a lot of people."

There is not much excitement to see here. Charles returned to the castle to prepare for dinner, and Helen went with him.

The two chatted casually along the way, all about boring topics like life in Hogwarts.

Charles felt that Helen's conversation was mature beyond her age.

Not far from Hogsmeade, Hermione and Ginny came back together and greeted Charles from a distance after seeing him.

Charles just turned back to respond, but Helen left quickly.

He didn't care and asked Ginny if it was fun to go to Hogsmeade for the first time.

Ginny took out her newly bought communication notebook and wanted to add Charles as a friend.

There were many people who thought the same as her.

Before dinner that day, the students who bought communication notebooks were busy in the cafeteria expanding their friends. The sound of "adding friends" did not stop when the dishes were served.

Charles set his purple notebook to busy mode, and automatically replied "eating" to anyone who sent a message, and then started eating.

Erica picked up a crispy roast pork elbow for him and said, "Can you take me to the owl room later? I want to send the notebook to Marlene."

Charles nodded and agreed. It was a small matter.

But after he took Erica to the owl room, he was pulled to Erica's dormitory.

"Do you live alone?" Charles remembered that the guests were all in a room with several people.

Erica said indifferently: "Yeah, no one wants to live with me, I'm used to it."

"That's just right, no one disturbs us."

She licked her lips.

Charles said: "It's enough for us to know about this matter, don't tell anyone else."

Erica nodded and said: "I know."

More than an hour later, Charles left the room. Erica was drunk and slept soundly.

He didn't walk far and heard a low voice coming from the corner of the corridor in front.

Helen, who met in the afternoon, said in English: "I warned you!"

Followed by two sneers.

Karkaroff's voice came from there: "What are you doing? Do you want to attract Dumbledore?"

Helen snorted coldly and said nothing.

Then Karkaroff, Helen and two Durmstrang students, a man and a woman, came from there and returned to their respective rooms.

Charles used the invisibility technique to hide on the ceiling and found that the man and woman were the murderers who attacked Malfoy as Eleanor said.

This situation made him suspicious and felt that there was some secret.