Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

This is not the worst, what is even worse is that Hagrid received a letter from the school board, which said that Lucius Malfoy had formally complained to the school board and the Ministry of Magic about this matter. Made up his mind to get Hagrid fired.

Chapter 81 The Omen of Despair

Malfoy did not reappear at the Slytherin table until Wednesday morning.He entered the Great Hall amid the cheers of the Slytherins, his right arm wrapped in a bandage and hung by a sling around his neck, like a hero surviving some terrible battle.

Seeing him like this, Harry and Ron looked disdainful, but Malfoy himself was complacent, and he made a provocative grimace at them both.

Harry turned his head to the side, trying to restrain himself, as if he didn't see Malfoy's provocation, he found that everyone around him was looking down at today's "Daily Prophet".

"What are you looking at?" Harry asked strangely.

"The latest on Sirius Black!" whispered Hermione, pushing him a newspaper.

Harry saw it read: Black was seen by a Muggle somewhere not far from Hogwarts. When the Ministry of Magic arrived, he had already left and was currently in the process of hunting.

It was speculated that Sirius Black was trying to get into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Harry swallowed, what did Sirius Black do in Hogwarts, is it really the same as what Mr. Weasley said, he wanted to kill himself? !

The thought of being watched by such a lunatic suddenly made Harry lose his appetite, and what made him feel even more disgusted was that he had to rely on the dementors outside the castle for protection.

"It's too bad, he appeared somewhere not far from here!" Ron said worriedly, "This Black, how did he escape the pursuit of the dementors?"

"Maybe it's the Patronus Charm?!"

"That's impossible, he doesn't have a wand, and there are two hundred dementors out there." Hermione said quickly, "Do you know what that means?"

Seeing Harry, Ron, and Hermione whispering, Ivan did not participate in their discussion. The question he needs to consider now is how to control Pettigrew Peter and get in touch with Sirius Black smoothly.

These two things are easier said than done, but fraught with difficulty.

The easiest way is undoubtedly to go to Dumbledore and tell him that Ron's rat spotted was transformed by Peter Pettigrew. With Dumbledore's witty calculations, as long as he gets this information, he will be able to figure out the whole incident.

The problem is, this is the same as dealing with Tom Riddle's diary last year. Ivan doesn't know how to explain to the other party, how he knows that Scabbers is Peter Pettigrew.

Knowing everything but being unable to do anything is a bad feeling.

Ivan sighed. It seemed that everything was still up to him. There was no rush to get to Sirius Black. Let’s find a way to control Peter Pettigrew. He remembered that there was a very useful potion in "Power Potion".

Just as Ivan was concentrating, Malfoy suddenly walked over the long table. He stood behind Harry with a malicious gleam in his eyes.

"Have you seen your mate Hagrid lately?"

No one paid any attention to him, and Harry and Ron clenched their fists tightly, trying to restrain themselves.

"It's a pity, I'm afraid he won't be able to be a teacher again," said Malfoy, with feigned distress. "My dad is not happy about my injury!"

"Get the hell out of here before I beat you to the ground, Malfoy," growled Ron.

"If I were you, I wouldn't be so impulsive. It won't do you or your good friend Hagrid any good, and you'll know soon..." Malfoy's eyes fell on the newspaper in Harry's hand, and he continued, "Well, Potter, do you want to single-handedly try to catch Black?"

"What does this have to do with you?"

"Of course, if I were you..." Malfoy's thin lips curled into a wicked smile, "I wouldn't stay in school and be a good boy, I'd look for him everywhere."

"What are you talking about, Malfoy?" said Ron roughly.

"Don't you know, Potter?" Malfoy's pale eyes narrowed, and he let out a low sneer, "If I were you, I would choose revenge, and I would find him myself."

"What the hell are you trying to say?" Harry said angrily.

"It really disappoints me, you probably don't want to risk your life in the hope that those dementors will deal with him, don't you?"

"Malfoy, if you have anything to say, you can either say it freely, or get out of here." Ron took out his wand.

"Five points from Gryffindor!" Snape walked over without a sound, sneering, "Weasley, put away your wand, I don't want to see you spitting those disgusting slugs everywhere. "

Ron blushed, Malfoy smirked, and followed Snape away.

Harry kept looking at his back, wondering what he was thinking.

"Damn it, why should Snape deduct points? Malfoy was the one who provoked him first, saying some incomprehensible things." Ron said angrily.

"You shouldn't have given him a chance. Snape had been staring at us just now, and he was waiting for you to show his weakness." Hermione whispered.

"He wants to deduct points, so he can find any excuse." Ron picked up his schoolbag, "There are two whole Potions classes this morning, I hope it won't be too difficult."

In fact, third year potions class was almost a disaster, with Harry and Ron cutting up Malfoy's potions for an entire class, and Snape threatening Neville to poison his pets unless he could Cook out the antidote by yourself.

In the end, with the help of Hermione, Neville's antidote successfully passed the test, but Snape still deducted five points from Gryffindor on the grounds that Neville's toad was not dead.

All the little wizards in Gryffindor thought that they could tolerate Snape to the extreme, but this was obviously not the limit that Snape could do.

Soon, everyone experienced for themselves what despair is, and this may be the third omen.

It happened in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the afternoon of the third grade. Professor Lupine found a Boggart for everyone. This is a dark creature that can transform. s things.

Ivan didn't know what other people were afraid of, but it was obviously Snape that Neville was most afraid of in the world.

With Lupin's encouragement, Neville cast a spell to turn "Snape" into a comical figure: he was wearing a long, lace-embroidered dress, and a tall hat with a A moth-eaten old vulture specimen, dangling a huge scarlet handbag.

This story spread like wildfire on campus, and spread fast.

The Gryffindors laughed all night long, and the laughter quickly died down in Snape's ensuing storm of revenge.

Now as soon as Professor Lupine's name was mentioned, Snape's eyes flashed a threatening light; he bullied Neville even more than before, and Ginny secretly told Ivan in the Potions class the next day that she At noon, I saw Neville secretly wiping tears.

Aiwen sympathizes with what happened to Neville, but they are in danger now.

In Potions class of the second year, Snape walked around, looked at every student of Gryffindor College with a gloomy look, and found all kinds of reasons to deduct points for them.

In less than an hour, he deducted more than 50 points from everyone, and successfully made three girls cry.

In this class, except for Ivan, no one successfully completed their potion.

Snape glared at Ivan, but ignored him.He satirized the others severely, and assigned so much homework that it was almost impossible to complete.

As for the poor Boggart, it was said that Snape used a spell to blow it into thousands of wisps of smoke and completely disappeared.

Ivan felt very sorry for this, and he wanted to see what he was most afraid of.

Chapter 82 The Beginning of Fear

Propelled by several events in succession, Hogwarts fell into a strange and depressing atmosphere at the beginning of the new semester.

Ai Wen had a feeling that the people around him were gradually collapsing.

First up was Neville, who was completely intimidated by Snape.

In the second Potions class of his third year, Snape had given him two full months of confinement for throwing figs into the cauldron instead of peeling them.But in fact, everyone knew what was going on, Snape was taking revenge.From there, Neville couldn't help turning pale and sweating whenever he saw Snape.

Next came Hagrid, who seemed to have lost his confidence.

Now in Care of Magical Creatures, students learn lesson after lesson how to care for a Flobberworm: a disgusting, ten-inch-long, round, dark brown, wriggling worm.The existence of this creature is almost completely meaningless, and they are always left alone to do nothing except eat.

It was Harry again, who was now increasingly dreading his divination lessons.

Professor Trelawney always stared at him with big teary eyes, and the ominous prophecy spread almost throughout the school, no matter who, no matter when, as long as they spoke to Harry, their voices became soft Yes, as if he had been mortified in bed.

Besides, he had to worry about going to Hogsmeade himself, and Professor McGonagall rejected his application.This meant that he was likely to be the only third year student staying at Hogsmeade Visiting Day.

Even more worried than Harry were Colin and Ginny.

They completely believed Professor Trelawney's death prophecy, and in their eyes, Ivan and Harry might fall down at any time.Therefore, the two collected a lot of things that were said to be able to ward off evil spirits and break curses and wanted to give them to them. Most of them were popular items in the castle during the basilisk rampage last semester.

As for Hermione, she was also getting more and more neurotic.

This is mainly because she has taken too many courses, and her body and mind have been overloaded for a long time, and she has reached her limit.Ai Wen saw that her schoolbag contained more than ten magic books every day, and he wondered if Hermione would faint if this went on.

Finally there was Ron, who had been paranoid lately.

After Crookshanks tried unsuccessfully to attack Scabbers several times, he was always on guard against the cat.He showed Banban to everyone, it is now skinny and skinny.

From Ivan's point of view, the reason why Banban became like this has nothing to do with Crookshanks at all.

Peter Pettigrew must know that the real reason for Black's escape from prison is to seek revenge for himself, after all, he betrayed the Potters back then.He was afraid, and as Black got closer to Hogwarts, panic gradually took over his brain.

He wanted to run away, but he didn't know where to go.

Hogwarts Castle is currently the safest place. After all, there are so many terrifying dementors guarding it outside.It stands to reason that there is no reason for Black to break in, but since the other party can escape from Azkaban, it seems that it is only a matter of time before entering Hogwarts.

The mental torment made Peter Pettigrew extremely haggard.

In fact, not only a few of them, Ivan was also very busy during this time.

Aside from preparing newspaper articles, he devoted most of his energy to brewing the potion, which he prepared especially for Peter Pettigrew.A tracking potion he found on "Powerful Potion". As long as Peter takes this potion, he can use special magic to sense its location within a certain range.

In this way, there is no need to worry about him turning into a mouse and escaping.

Aiwen's plan is to mix this tracking potion with rat tonic, and I believe Ron will let Scabbers drink it.The only problem now is that the brewing step is too time-consuming. Although he has made sufficient preparations, he will not be able to complete the potion until the eve of Halloween at the earliest.

On Halloween, Harry sent Ron and Hermione to Hogsmeade pitifully.

Ivan rejected Colin's suggestion to play wizard chess. He ran to the eighth floor of the castle alone. After seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he quickly walked back and forth three times in front of a wall and entered the Room of Requirement.

The room he requested was similar to Snape's office. The long table in the center was filled with glass products of various shapes, two tin crucibles and a heating device, and the cabinets on both sides were full of potion materials.

All these things were bought by Ivan from Diagon Alley. Since last year, he has been brewing the potions he needs here, reviewing the contents of the potions class in advance, and so on.

Long-term practice has made Aiwen's technique very proficient.

He put the prepared materials into the crucible one by one according to the formula in "Powerful Potion".

After about five hours, he finally finished making the tracking potion. He mixed it with the mouse tonic he made. The potion was dark red, exactly the same color as the mouse tonic that he saw in the magical creature store during the holidays.Aiwen filled the bottle with satisfaction, and when he came out of the Room of Requirement, he found that the Halloween banquet had already started, and he hurried into the auditorium.

Hundreds of jack-o'-lanterns hung in the auditorium, along with a swarm of fluttering bats and many flame-breathing orange streamers that floated lazily below the ceiling like brilliant water snakes.

The food at the banquet was excellent and everyone looked happy.

The tense atmosphere has been swept away since the beginning of school. Harry seems to have forgotten the damn prophecy, and Hermione finally stopped thinking about her studies. After Ivan gave the "rat tonic" to Ron, the other party's mood gradually improved. Don't worry about Banban anymore.

Everything went well, and even Hagrid, who hadn't been around recently, sat happily on the classroom mat.

The dinner ended with entertainment provided by the ghosts, who suddenly appeared from the walls and tables to do a kind of parade slide; the ghost of Gryffindor House, Nearly Headless Nick, managed to recreate the time when he was killed. head condition.

All felt like they had had a good night, but less than 10 minutes after the dinner was over, everything turned around.

The little joy accumulated at the Halloween banquet disappeared, and the atmosphere of panic permeated the castle again.

When the whole thing happened, Ivan, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Colin, and Ginny were slowly returning to Gryffindor Tower along the usual route. Ordered two servings of each food and my stomach was so bloated.

When they came to the portrait of the fat woman, they found that the corridor was full of people.

"What's going on, why didn't everyone go in?" Colin asked curiously.

"Maybe they forgot the password!" laughed Ron.

How is this possible? It is impossible for so many people to forget the password. Aiwen saw Peeves jumping on top of the crowd, looking very happy. He suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart. Peeves could only see the destruction This expression can only be shown in a scene of sadness and sadness. Could it be...

Before they squeezed into the crowd, Professor Dumbledore, who got the news, arrived in a hurry. He hurried to the portrait of the fat woman. The students in Gryffindor House crowded together to let him pass. Ivan and the others leaned closer. Tighten a little, trying to see where the trouble is.

"Oh, my God!" Hermione exclaimed suddenly, and grabbed Ivan's arm tightly.

Before them, the portrait of the fat woman had been vandalized, with portraits, small pieces of canvas strewn all over the floor, and large pieces of canvas completely ripped from the frame.

"Professor McGonagall, please go to Filch at once and tell him to look for the fat lady on every painting in the castle," said Dumbledore quickly.

"You'll be lucky!" Peeves grinned.

"What do you mean, Peeves?" Dumbledore asked calmly.

"Excuse me, Mr. Headmaster!" Peeves' smile faded a bit, he didn't dare to laugh at Dumbledore, he adopted an oily tone instead, "She doesn't want to be seen, she's messed up. I Saw her running past that picture of the fifth floor, sir, hiding among the trees, crying and saying terrible things."

"Poor thing," Peeves added, without any pity for anyone else.

"Did she say who did it?" Dumbledore asked quietly.

"Oh, I said it, Professor Chief!" Peeves looked like he was holding a big bomb in his arms, "She won't let him in, he is very annoyed, you understand. He has a really bad temper, this Sirius Black!"

Chapter 83 Second contact with stray dogs

Everyone gasped when they heard Peeves' words. Sirius Black broke into the castle and even tried to enter the Gryffindor common room.

It was horrible, thankfully it was Halloween and no one was in the tower.

Professor Dumbledore asked all the students to return to the auditorium immediately. In order to ensure safety, the teachers will conduct a thorough search of the castle.Ai Wen hurried downstairs with the others, and everyone discussed in low voices what had just happened.

"Did you say Blake was still in the castle?" Hermione whispered anxiously.

"From Dumbledore's point of view, he obviously thinks so," Ron replied quietly. "If I say it, we are very lucky that he chose to come tonight."

"Yes!" Colin nodded uneasily. He looked around nervously, as if Sirius Black was hiding in a corner, ready to pounce at any time.