Harry Potter: The Path of Destiny

After coming out of Firenze's Divination classroom, Nydia planned to go directly back to the Gryffindor common room, but just as she passed the third floor, Draco suddenly appeared in front of her in a hurry.

"Is that D.A. Potter having a meeting tonight?" Draco asked eagerly as soon as he walked up to Nydia.

"I heard from Michelle that there is, and they should have started by now!" Nidia was a little confused, but she still answered Draco's question truthfully, "What happened?"

Draco was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Is there a Ravenclaw girl named Marietta Acmore among their group?"

"Marietta? Ravenclaw?" The name was a bit unfamiliar. Nidia carefully recalled the scene at the Pig's Head Bar, "There seems to be someone... who often walks with Qiu Zhang."

"Damn it..." Draco cursed under his breath.

"What's going on?" Nydia asked in confusion, looking at Draco's frown.

"No, it's nothing!" Draco shook his head. He didn't want Nydia to get involved. "It's just a small matter. Go back to your college!"

"Are you sure it's just a little thing?" Nydia remained suspicious of Draco's words.

"It's really okay!" Draco rubbed Nitya's head lovingly, "Good boy, hurry back and I'll contact you later."

"All right!"

Since Draco didn't say anything, Nydia stopped asking further. After returning to the Gryffindor common room, she sat alone on the long table by the fireplace and wrote the paper assigned for today's ancient runes class. By the time it was almost nine o'clock, her paper had been completed. It was almost done, and Nidia decided to leave the remaining finishing parts until tomorrow.

When she started to pack up her books and prepare to return to the dormitory, the portrait of the Fat Lady was opened, and a large group of people hurried in.

"What happened?" Nidia asked Michelle who followed the crowd in. Only then did she notice that the people who came in seemed to be members of D.A.

"Thank you so much for reminding me!" Michelle said breathlessly.

"What?" Nitya asked in confusion? She didn’t seem to have reminded Michelle of anything today!

"Yeah! If it weren't for you, we might all have been caught by Umbridge!" Ron collapsed on the sofa nearby.

"Dobby came to report but couldn't explain clearly. Fortunately, your patronus appeared in time. Ron recognized it as your patronus, and we realized something was wrong." Hermione came over and patted Nettie. Ya's shoulders.

"We didn't believe it at first, but you, the patron saint of Gryffindor, were actually a snake! We thought Ron was joking with us!" George, the twin brother, said.

"But we didn't expect that our two patron saints were actually magpies! It just so happened that what we were practicing today was also the patron saint spell." Fred winked at Nydia.

"Fortunately, you discovered Umbridge's plan!" Ginny also sat down next to Ron and let out a long sigh of relief.

Several other people who came in also thanked Nidia one after another, which made Nidia even more confused. She didn't know what the patron saint they were talking about was about, but from what they just said, she probably figured it out. I understand what happened.

"You are saying that Umbridge went to catch you when you were gathering tonight. She knew the time and place of your gathering! Then Dobby and my Patronus reported to you in time, so you were able to escape. Mrich's arrest! Is that so?" Nitya asked as she looked at the crowd.

"Why are you talking like you don't know about this?" Michelle asked.

"Because I really don't know! I pieced together the result from your conversation." Nidia shrugged, her expression full of helplessness.

"Nonsense! If you didn't know, how could you have asked the patron saint to come and notify us?" Ron sat up.

"Are you sure that's my patron saint?" Nidia asked Ron, and then before Ron could answer, she waved her wand, and a silver-white snake spurted out from the tip of the wand, "Are you sure you guys Is that what you saw?"

The people around him fell silent. Everyone looked carefully at the silver-white snake in front of them, their expressions gradually becoming confused.

"They seem to look different...even though they are all snakes..." Michelle said.

Ginny nodded and said in agreement, "The snake in Nidia has spike-like scales on its body, but the snake that came to inform us has smooth skin!"

"This..." Ron didn't know what to say. The last time he saw Nidia's patron saint was at night, and in that situation, he had no time to carefully observe the appearance of the patron saint. The only thing he remembered was It’s that Nydia’s patron saint is a snake.

"If that is not Nydia's patronus, then whose is it? It not only knows the location of our meeting, but also knows Umbridge's plan." Hermione thought.

"I guess it's Draco! His patron saint is also a snake." Now it seems that Draco came to me after knowing Umbridge's plan.

"This is impossible!" Ron shouted, "How could it be Malfoy! There must be someone else whose patronus is also a snake!"

Nydia frowned and wanted to refute Ron, but another voice beat her to it.

"The Patronus who came to inform us is indeed Malfoy." Harry walked in from the passage where the Fat Lady's portrait was, and he was the last person to return to the lounge.

"You're finally back, I'm starting to worry!" Hermione said with a sigh of relief.

"What do you mean? How can you be sure that it is Malfoy's patron saint?" Ron still didn't want to believe that Malfoy helped them.

"I waited until everyone left before leaving. It was a little too late and I almost got caught by Filch." Harry glanced at Nydia, "It was Malfoy. He showed up in time to help me. Otherwise I might be caught by Filch and taken to Umbridge."

"But this is a bit strange. How did Umbridge know the time and place of our meeting?" Hermione said.

"Did Marietta Acme of Ravenclaw attend your gathering tonight?" Nydia remembered that Draco had asked her about Marietta Acme before.

Everyone looked at each other and then shook their heads.

"You mean Marietta Acamo betrayed us?" Harry asked with a frown.

"I'm just guessing, because Draco asked me before if there was this person among your members. I think it is very likely that she went to complain to Umbridge. You were almost arrested tonight, and she And it just so happens that I didn’t go tonight...it’s very possible!” Nitya said.

"We'll know if it's her when we see her tomorrow...or we can go directly to the hospital to see if she's there!" Hermione said angrily. "If she really did this, she would definitely not be feeling any better now!"

"Why don't we go and take a look now!" After learning that one of them had tipped off Umbridge, Ron stood up angrily.

"Please don't be impulsive! It's not a wise choice to go to her now!" Hermione scolded Ron.

"Okay!" Ron muttered unhappily and sat back on the sofa.

At this moment, the portrait of the Fat Lady was opened again. Everyone turned their heads to look towards the passage, and the person who appeared in front of them made everyone take a breath.