HP Polar Night

This year's Halloween is also not peaceful.The performance of the Skeleton Dance Troupe was wonderful, the decoration of the auditorium was extraordinarily beautiful, and even the food at the dinner was exquisite and delicious.But when the banquet was over, all the students who left the auditorium witnessed an accident: Mrs. Norris, Filch's cat, was hung upside down on the torch holder, stiff and wide-eyed.A line of words was written in blood-red fonts on the wall.

The chamber of secrets was opened.

Those who are enemies of the heir, be vigilant.

The most important thing is that at the scene of this terrible crime, there are three little wizards who shouldn't be here.Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger.They stood alone in the middle of the corridor, in front of Mrs. Norris.

The originally lively and lively conversation disappeared in an instant, and the corridor was eerily quiet.

At this moment, Draco pushed the person in front of him and walked out.He looked at the writing on the wall, and said with a sneer, "Those who are enemies of the heir, be careful! The next one is you, Mudblood!"

"Draco!" Agares sternly stopped him.

The boy looked like he wanted to add more oil and vinegar, but he swallowed it back amidst Agares' serious expression.

Before Harry could utter an explanation, Filch, attracted by the movement, pushed his way through the crowd, trying to find out.But when he saw the cat hanging upside down, he let out a loud scream.

Helplessly, Harry was regarded by him as the chief culprit for this phenomenon.And Agares, Filch firmly believed that the two of them had learned his secret, so he held them back and refused to let him go.

Agares had to be taken to Lockhart's office by Dumbledore and other professors for questioning, along with Harry and the three of them.

"It's not dead, Filch." After checking, Dumbledore made a judgment.

"It's not dead...then why is it so stiff, like it's frozen." Filch asked, choked up, and he couldn't help looking at his cat through his fingers.

"It was petrified, but exactly how, I don't know yet."

"It must be him!" Filch pointed at Harry angrily.Dumbledore shook his head: "It is impossible for a second-year student to do this. It requires quite advanced black magic."

"Then it must be him! Everyone knows, I've heard all about the little tricks Blake played on him at school, and the students privately commented on him, thinking that he would achieve great things in the future, even with that name. The person who said it is the same! The mysterious man is best at black magic! He must be too!" Filch's anger turned to Agares who was aside.

It was the first time for Agares to hear the former students' evaluation of him in private. As for Filch's accusation, he didn't care.

Dumbledore glanced at him, the half-moon glasses reflected the light from the wall lamp, which made him unable to see the old man's eyes clearly.But soon, Dumbledore denied Filch's words: "No, Filch, no one can make such serious accusations against a student. We will find out the truth. Before that, there is no Any student should be charged with this crime."

Snape stood aside and sneered, looking eager to convict Harry, but since the accused suspect also had a Slytherin, he remained strangely silent.

"They did it, they must have done it! You saw the writing on the wall, he saw the... saw... the letter in the office, he knew I was a - a - Squib!" Filch's face It turned purple, saying that word seemed to embarrass him very, very much.

Agares raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, which made Filch, who was staring at them closely, jump up as if he had caught the handle. "He must have told you! Black! Your family has never produced any good people. Who doesn't know that the Black family is a loyal supporter of the theory of pure blood!"

Agares' expression remained unchanged: "Oh? Sorry, but this is the first time I've heard of this."

Harry retorted from the side: "I haven't said anything to Agares about you! I don't even know what a squib is!"

"Nonsense!" Filch didn't trust Harry and Agares at all. He kept staring at them with fierce hatred, as if he had decided that they were the murderers.

Snape finally stood up and said with a sneer, "Perhaps Potter can explain why they didn't show up at the Halloween banquet, and why they showed up in the corridor above at that time." His suspicious eyes kept falling on Harry.

The boy and Ron and Hermione scrambled to explain that they had been to Nearly Headless Nick's Deathday party, but that didn't explain why they were in that hallway out of nowhere, since neither the Deathday party nor the Halloween party were there. held locally.

Harry couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation, and his vagueness gave Snape reason to doubt him.

But in the end, Dumbledore gave the final decision. He believed that if he was not proven guilty, he was innocent.Now there is obviously no evidence that these children petrified Mrs. Norris, so he asked Agares and the others to go back.

As for the petrified cat, after the mandrake planted by Professor Sprout matures, an antidote can be prepared to bring Mrs. Norris back to life.

From the beginning to the end, Lockhart was trying to show off his poor knowledge, but it was a pity that no one wanted to talk to him from the beginning to the end.

After leaving Lockhart's office, Harry took Agares to find an empty classroom and hid in it, followed closely by Ron and Hermione.

There was a light in the dark classroom, and Agares used a fluorescent spell.

The three Gryffindors looked at him with different expressions. Among them, Harry was tangled. Generally, if he did or encountered any strange things and was not sure whether to tell him, he would show this expression .Hermione and Agares became friends during the summer vacation, so it was okay at this time.Only Ron, as a child who grew up in the wizarding world, was born in a Gryffindor family for generations, and he knew the surname Black.So he is the one who has the most wariness and doubts about Agares.

"Agares, I really didn't do what happened to Mrs. Norris." Harry said sullenly.

Agares nodded: "I believe you, aside from that profound black magic, your character would not do such a thing." He habitually rubbed the boy's messy hair.

Harry breathed a sigh of relief, the feeling of being trusted by his friends was enough to ease his tension a little.

"But you haven't told me why you ran to that corridor. Isn't the Deathday party held in the classroom in the basement?" Although Dumbledore didn't ask Harry to explain just now, Agares felt that Snape The question is still questionable.

"I heard a strange voice," Ron called from the side, "Harry!" But the green-eyed boy didn't stop talking, "That voice said, tearing...killing you...hungry Broken...for a long, long time...to kill...I ran after the sound, and saw Mrs. Norris hanging there. After that, you all know."

Hermione added: "When we came out of the Deathday Party, Harry said he heard something. We followed him from the basement to the third floor, but the strange thing was that only Harry heard it, and Ron and I both heard it." No."

Agares pondered for a moment.At this time, a bell sounded from nowhere.He came back and saw that the three Gryffindors in front of him were all looking at him with the same expression, as if they believed that he would tell them what happened right away.

He smiled helplessly: "Hey, it's useless for you to look at me like this. I can't tell you the answer in such a short period of time that even the principal doesn't know. Well, I promise you , if I find out anything, I will tell you."

He used a time display spell, and it was twelve o'clock at midnight.

"It's time for you to go back to bed. By the way, there's this. I guess you'll have nothing to eat when you go to the Deathday Party. Take it home and eat it. The temperature can last for three hours." He handed a food basket to Harry.

Both Harry and Hermione cheered. Although Ron on the side was still on guard against Slytherin, his eyes turned to the food from time to time, revealing his true inner thoughts.

When they made their way out of the empty classroom, Ron and Hermione went ahead, Harry and Agareth trailed behind.

Harry asked in a low voice, "Do you think this is the same thing as what Dobby said?"

Agares narrowed his eyes. "I don't know either, but I'll look it up. If it's the same thing, I'm afraid I chose a wrong approach before. But don't worry, Harry, Headmaster Dumbledore and the professors will investigate thoroughly. "

Harry nodded, but still worried.After all, Dobby said back then that not even Dumbledore could resist it.

They separated from Agares at the head of the stairs, three going up and one going down.

After returning to the Slytherin common room, Agares was surprised to find that there were still many people not sleeping, but sitting on the sofa, in front of the fireplace, on both sides of the long table.Before Agares came in, they were talking in low voices, some with excitement on their faces, especially Draco, if he had a tail, he might have been up by now.

Seeing Agares come in, everyone stopped their movements and voices for an instant, and the sudden silence made the atmosphere extremely unusual.

It was still Draco who broke the silence. This child who grew up under the doting of his parents has always had courage beyond ordinary people and the courage to do whatever he wanted.Or maybe his impression of Agares was still that of his amiable and responsive cousin, so that when the other Slytherins were a little afraid of Agares, he still dared to pounce on him.

"Agares! You must tell me, did you do what happened just now? Did you open the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets?" More than one person in the lounge gasped for Draco's words. Take a breath.

Agares looked around and saw that many senior students who were usually proud of him looked away or lowered their heads, he chuckled lightly: "Of course not, Draco, when the incident happened, I was with you." You guys are going to dinner together in the auditorium."

But his explanation apparently didn't convince anyone.

Draco said again: "But you don't need to do it yourself, you just need to open the secret room, right?"

Agares guessed that many people in the lounge at the moment had this idea. Although the status of the heir of Slytherin was very good for him to control Slytherin, he didn't bother with it.So he denied this statement again: "I am not the heir. After all, the ancestors of the Black family did not seem to have intermarried with Slytherins, and the Durant family did not."

Despite the denials, the Slytherins were only dubious.It was perfectly normal for them to say that if there was one heir of Slytherin, it was Agareth Black.As for Agareth's usual geniality towards those Muggle-born wizards, oh, that's probably just a disguise, isn't it?

Dismissing a group of Slytherins who were obviously still doubting that he was the heir, Agares dragged Draco back to the room.Regarding the boy's various immature behaviors tonight, as his cousin, it is very necessary for him to help Narcissa discipline him.

Let's start with that "Mudblood" title.

I don't know where Draco got the word from, since even Lucius and Narcissa would never use this undecorous word to describe a Muggle-born wizard.Judging from Draco's performance, he was obviously used to it.No wonder at the beginning of school, he also heard from Harry that Ron and Draco almost had a fight because Draco insulted Hermione.

Presumably Draco also used this word at the time. Harry may not have known what a mudblood meant when he grew up in the Muggle world, but Ron who grew up in the wizarding world must have known it.

From this point of view, Ron Weasley still has some advantages in treating friends.

The author has something to say:

Draco had said the word Mudblood to Agares before, but Agares didn't know what it meant then.

Draco: Uh huh, I hear someone wants to challenge me as a cousin?Want to be my cousin and steal Agares from me?bring it on!