[HP] Aunt of the Savior

"First of all, welcome back to Hogwarts and welcome new students to join us." Dumbledore was wearing a dark blue robe and a wizard hat of the same color today.His expression was solemn, not as cheerful as usual. "Before today's dinner starts, I have some words that must be explained to all of you."

The principal, who was always smiling, managed to maintain the tense atmosphere created by the Sorting Hat just now with his rarely serious look. Many students could not help but straighten their waists and swallow nervously.

"Our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Mr. Kerr Caron, died in a vicious and brutal murder during the summer vacation this year. I think many of us students know about it. He is a A brave and kind wizard, and a serious and responsible professor." Dumbledore's blue eyes flashed with calm mourning. "Before the dinner begins, let us observe a moment of silence in memory of his passing."

The auditorium was solemn, but there were murmurs of discussion on the long Slytherin table. Jody heard Avery and Mulciber muttering words like "Mudblood", obviously mocking Professor Cuaron lineage.In the quiet auditorium, the commotion was conspicuous.But when Dumbledore's eyes turned to the long Slytherin table, those guys immediately shut their mouths, and didn't open them until the dinner began.

After the silence was over, everyone picked up their knives and forks and began to eat.Although the atmosphere tonight has been a bit depressing, the tempting aroma of the food can still make the little wizards forget the dull and tense feeling just now.By the time the dinner party came to an end, the delicious food stuffed into their stomachs had replaced the depression just now, and the faces of most of the students had returned to the usual look of anticipation and excitement for welcoming the new school year.

"Okay, after we are all full of wine and food, I have some notices to explain to everyone, I hope everyone can maintain enough energy to listen to me." Dumbledore finally recovered a kind expression on his face. Smile. "The first thing to tell the first-year freshmen is that students are not allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest. Of course, some of our senior students should also pay attention to this."

Jody noticed that when the Forbidden Forest was mentioned, Dumbledore's eyes seemed to be looking in the direction of Gryffindor James and Sirius, which made her frown involuntarily.It seemed like her brother was doing more dangerous, school-rule violations without her knowing it.

"In addition, our administrator, Mr. Filch, asked me to remind everyone to check the rules he posted on the office. Violations of the rules will be punished. Then, our teaching team has new changes this year. The Aurora Mr Marlin Newell will be temporarily in charge of our Defense Against the Dark Arts course for this school year."

The identity of the Ministry of Magic's Auror made the students a little excited, but Professor Newell didn't look like an Auror at all, his smile was very reserved, and he was even excited in the face of the welcome applause from the students. A little blush.

"The application for Quidditch players still starts from the second week after the start of school. Mrs. Hooch will be very willing to help every student above the second grade to participate in the selection of the college team. In addition, this year it is time to hold the Christmas ball again. I I believe everyone is already looking forward to it, but the Christmas Ball is still only open to students above the fourth grade—of course, if you want, you can also invite students from lower grades to join you.”

"Prom?" Jody finally showed a surprised expression, she had completely forgotten about it.

Doris, who was full of excitement about the news, immediately looked at her with disbelief: "Oh, Jody, did you forget to prepare the gown and gown? The Christmas ball only happens every three years! We only have This is your chance to participate!"

Several senior Slytherin girls giggled, wondering if they heard the conversation here.

"Ah, no...no." Jody was rarely embarrassed.Fortunately, Mrs. Potter had already prepared dress robes for the twins, otherwise she would definitely forget about this—there are too many things in her mind, and for this thing that makes all the girls excited and looking forward to it, she Instead, I completely forgot about it.And to be honest, she is not in the mood to look forward to this now.

Crouch had been staring at Jody since Dumbledore had mentioned the Yule Ball.He is a third-year student, and he would not have had the chance to attend this dance without an invitation from the senior class.Snape snorted heavily and muttered under his breath. "He's looking at you."

"Who?" Jody, who was in embarrassment, didn't pay attention to this at all, and asked subconsciously.

Jody's answer satisfied Snape so much that he snorted without answering.And Crouch had already retracted his gaze, staring down at the golden spoon in front of him with a flushed face, as if it could invite him to the Christmas ball.

On the other side of the long table in Gryffindor, Sirius felt uncomfortable from the enthusiastic gazes of the girls. He decided in his heart that even if he didn't have a dance partner, he couldn't pick a girl who only knew how to look at his face and giggle.And his good brother James also got quite a lot of attention. He looked at Lily triumphantly for this, and wanted to invite her when Lily noticed how popular he was, but Lily didn't look at him at all.

The news of the Yule Ball made the atmosphere of Hogwarts extremely lively, and students became more fond of wandering in the corridors than staying in the library or common room in their spare time.But doing so didn't seem to help the Yule Ball a few months later, other than giving Filch more opportunities to punish the students.

Most of the professors at Hogwarts are already very experienced in dealing with this situation, so the normal class order is still guaranteed.

Professor Newell's Defense Against the Dark Arts class is a bit ridiculous in comparison. Although his strength does not seem to be inferior to that of the previous Professor Cuaron, the beauty and standard of casting spells in the class are undoubtedly impressive. It is suspected that the focus of his lectures has seriously deviated.What's worse is that when he was instructing the students how to deal with Boggarts, Boggarts turned into a beautiful girl in front of him and swayed at him, which made him lose face and became the biggest joke of the year at Hogwarts .

The joke didn't keep people entertained for long, though, as murder stories in the Daily Prophet were apparently on the rise.If the murder of Professor Cuaron during the holidays still made most people lack a sense of reality, then the reports during this period were like hailstones that hit Hogwarts directly, making everyone sober from escapism.

Gryffindor's sixth-year Japp dropped out of school because his parents were killed; Belcher, a Ravenclaw boy in the same grade as Jody, never came back after being called out in potions class one day; Akmo, of Hufflepuff, was at the dinner table on Monday morning when he received letters from home saying his uncle's whole family had vanished like thin air.

At this tense moment for everyone, the ominous nagging of Sybill Trelawney, who claims to have inherited the blood of Cassandra Trelawney, at the long table made everyone even more upset.

The Ministry of Magic insisted in the report that the murders did not seem to have any obvious connection at present, but to everyone's amusement, every photo of the scene published in the newspaper showed a black skull floating in the air Mark, the skeleton's mouth is open, and a snake crawls out of it.

What the snake represents is clear to everyone who has attended Hogwarts.And no one in Slytherin has a victim in their home so far, which seems to confirm the correctness of this guess.

More and more students are afraid of dealing with Slytherins, and in the lessons with Slytherins, everyone keeps a considerable distance from them.Lily has even been kindly reminded more than once to stay away from her two Slytherin friends, because they must also be "evil dark wizard seedlings" and are bound to be unable to accept those "muggle-born wizards".

When Lily faced Boggart in Defense Against the Dark Arts class before, Boggart turned into Penny who pointed at her nose and called her a monster, which made her depressed for a long time. The failure of the magic spell is even worse.It wasn't until Lily's antidote was praised by Professor Slughorn, and she was invited to join the slug club, that her mood improved.

Apparently, Professor Slughorn, as head of Slytherin, did not discriminate against Lily because of her blood, which made Lily feel that the "Slytherin evil theory" of her classmates was too biased.She even told Snape these things as a joke.

"Obviously not everyone can guarantee you have so much reason and a clear mind." Snape said disdainfully, but he secretly rejoiced that Lily didn't know about the Slytherin society and the dark arts.Jody had kept her dark arts studies well hidden, and Lily hadn't noticed it at all when she visited the Potters.

"However, I guess it will be difficult for Slytherin to invite someone from outside the school as a dance partner for this year's Christmas ball." Lily hinted jokingly when she found that Jody was rarely present. "There must be many people who want to invite Jody."

Snape's mouth twisted unnaturally.Lily's meaning couldn't be more clear, but the problem now is that he can't figure out what Jody is thinking-after she just deliberately got rid of herself today, it is even more difficult for him to ask her to join him as a dance partner at Christmas prom.

After discovering the Potter family's use of the fertility potion, their positions had reversed, and he had shared her biggest secret, which he had been secretly delighted with.He felt they were close enough, but the truth was that Jody didn't seem to trust him as much because of the situation as he did in the first place.

She took on many things alone without telling him, which made him feel very disappointed. He completely forgot that he had not confessed all the secrets in his heart unreservedly.Slytherins have never possessed a quality called unreserved.

Jody had really made a point of getting rid of Snape, otherwise it would have been hard for her to hide something from a brilliant friend with whom she was almost inseparable.In fact, it wasn't the first time she had done this kind of thing. After that quarrel, she always seized the opportunity to leave Snape and Lily alone time.She didn't think this time was any different from before, even though she was planning to do something very important to her alone.

"Miss McGonagall." After the conversation in the first grade, although Jody had visited Professor McGonagall's private office, it was the first time that she actively used this title in school. "I believe you have received my letter before."

"Oh, Jody." Jody's address made Professor McGonagall look confused for a moment. "Although I am very glad that you can think of me for help when you encounter problems. I thought that as a Slytherin student, you should still consider Professor Slughorn instead of me when you have something to do?"

"Miss McGonagall, I'm asking you because I don't want too many people to know about it." Jody said hesitantly, "Even Professor Slughorn is the same—I hope that I can talk to Deng Talk to Professor Bullidow."

"But Professor Dumbledore is very busy. As we all know, he is a great wizard. If you have any questions or troubles, maybe I can..." Professor McGonagall's voice was a little harsher, and she obviously felt that a fourth-year Students should not have anything important enough to communicate with the principal.

"No, Miss McGonagall, I want to talk to Professor Dumbledore... about the Order of the Phoenix." Jody tried to maintain a calm and mature attitude in order to persuade the serious and rigorous Professor McGonagall to help . "I...I can only turn to you for help. I know that too many people should not know this."

But Jody obviously thought too much. In fact, the name of the Order of the Phoenix was enough to make Professor McGonagall unable to refuse her proposal.

Professor McGonagall gasped. "What are you... well, Jody." She scowled, more worried than angry. "I'll take you to see Dumbledore, and then I'll ask Cysia, how did you know..."