[HP] A Brief History of Time

"Tell me your name." The strange hoarse male voice said in the darkness.

"Virginia Crackenthorpe." Submissively without any resistance.

"Do you frequent Potions Master Snape's office?"

"……Yes."

"You know gills grass?"

no answer.

In the dark classroom, the man knocked on the table impatiently, raised his wand and once again cast the Imperius Curse on the girl standing across from him, "Tell me, do you know the cheek grass?"

"……Know."

"Fine, then you must have found it in Snape's office. Where the hell did he hide it?"

Virginia clenched her lower lip with her teeth. The answer was on her lips, but the question was so sensitive that a voice told her not to speak, not to open her mouth.

Fortunately, in order not to reveal his disguised identity, the man in the dark postponed the time to drink the compound soup. If anyone can see his appearance clearly at this moment, they will be shocked.The skin on his face is like a cracked clay sculpture. Two eyes that imply madness are revealed from the cracks. He is playing with a fake eye the size of a ping-pong ball in his hand. Without this fake eye, he can’t see it. The struggling expression on Virginia's face and the gradually sober eyes.

The man heard no answer, and raised his wand again.The moment the white light shone on the tip of his wand, Virginia tried to open her eyes wide, remembering the man's face at this moment.

"No matter where Snape hid the gills, he must get it tomorrow!"

"Okay," Virginia replied meekly.Then, she followed the instructions and walked out of the classroom.The man cursed at her back, and added two curses.

Draco was already standing at the door of Hufflepuff's dormitory, Lettice came out in a hurry and shook his head at him, "Pooh isn't in the dormitory, Annie said she had already gone out. You didn't meet her all the way ?"

Draco's face became serious, "Thank you, Miss Protheroe."

"Do you need me to tell Professor Sprout?" Lettis was a little uneasy by his expression.

"...No need, she's back." Draco passed Lettice's shoulder, and quickly walked towards Virginia who was walking step by step.

Lettice's heart that had just been put down suddenly rose again, because she found that Virginia looked very strange, she was listless, and there was a circle of bloody teeth marks on her lower lip.

Draco saw Virginia's problem at a glance. He suppressed his anger, picked up Virginia and walked to the potions office.Everyone was stunned by his bold move and made way for him one after another.

Lettice trotted behind them worriedly, and everyone she knew stopped her and asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Lettice shook his head, "I don't know."

At the corner, Professor Moody limped towards them. He seemed to notice something unusual, so he quickened his pace, dragged his lame leg, and stopped them with a cane.

"What happened? Let me see—"

"Don't worry about it, Professor Moody." Draco avoided his hand, "Professor Snape will take care of small things for us."

"Snape? Hmph, I forgot that you were originally with him." Professor Moody tapped the ground with his cane unhappily, "Be responsible to others, Malfoy. Snape, hmph, Snape Nepe, he himself is already in danger!" His eyes were fixed on the tooth marks on Virginia's lower lip, and his face was cloudy and uncertain.

"You remind me of a very ridiculous example," Snape's voice sounded sinister, even if the Hufflepuffs around wanted to watch the excitement, they were scared by his usual style and retreated to their "badgers." hole".Snape pushed Moody's arm away with his wand, and added incomprehensibly, "A living example, earlier, he was less conspicuous than you. Well—" He glanced at the German Virginia in Draco's arms, "It seems that Dumbledore is going to be invited. Miss Crackenthorpe has been cast with the Imperius Curse. Draco, take her to the medical wing."

Draco hugged Virginia and followed Snape closely without saying a word.

Within a quarter of an hour, all the professors who heard the news gathered in Madam Pomfrey's medical wing... outside the ward.

"She has been cast with the Imperius Curse more than once, which has a great impact on her brain. She should need a quiet environment." Madam Pomfrey was obviously extremely annoyed. Some students would be harmed by the Unforgivable Curse, "Those foreigners with malicious intentions—they are cunning!" She was furious, and she was extremely rude to Principal Dumbledore, "Those sneaky French Playboys, and those Germans with sullen faces all the time, should limit their range of activities! If there is no restriction, I'm sure such things will happen again! Poor girl, it must be her face to blame."

Madam Pomfrey has recently been pissed off by several Hogwarts students. After Christmas, they came to the medical wing to ask for love potions-all because of Beauxbatons' overly beautiful boys and girls, After Madam Pomfrey gave those students a hard lesson, she unceremoniously turned her anger on Beauxbaton's students, and even Durmstrang's students who often went in and out of the medical wing due to weather and soil conditions were also punished by Pomfrey. Mrs. Frey made a note.

Dumbledore let Madam Pomfrey scold him with a good temper.He put on his crescent-shaped glasses and looked at Snape, "I'm going to trouble you again, Severus."

Madam Pomfrey rattled off a list of potions Virginia would use.

"This ward in the medical wing has been kept out of the way recently," Professor Dumbledore mused. "I'm worried that someone will sneak into the ward to the detriment of Miss Clarkenthorpe—if she recovers and remembers to cast the spell." people."

"Leave it to me, Dumbledore, none of these cunning people will escape!" Professor Moody said fiercely.

"That's not necessary." Professor Dumbledore looked at Professor Snape, "Severus will stay in the medical wing recently to assist Madam Pomfrey's treatment. Alastor, I have more important things for you to do." Do."

Professor Moody's fake eyes rolled, but he didn't object.

Professor McGonagall asked worriedly, "Do you need to contact Miss Clackenthorpe's parents? After all, she..."

"I've already written the letter." Draco, who was always on the side, said aloud.

"That's really sweet, Mr. Malfoy." Dumbledore glanced at him, "Okay, even if we all gather here and wait all night, it won't help Miss Clackenthorpe's condition. Tomorrow is the top three." For the second round of the Tournament, everyone, go back to rest and prepare."

Madam Pomfrey ruthlessly dismissed Draco's insistence on staying.

Virginia had been asleep for three days before opening her eyes, and Game [-] was over.

Draco and Blaise were sitting in the seats next to her bed.

"Madame Pomfrey said that you will probably wake up today, how about it, does your head still hurt?" Blaise pulled the pillow behind her so that she could lean against the head of the bed.

Virginia still felt that her head was empty and heavy, like a hollow ball of lead.She looked around and looked at Draco questioningly.

Draco understood, and moved his wand, "There is no one around. Can you see who it is?"

Blaise gave him a disapproving look, "Pooh just woke up..."

"It would be better to say some things earlier. I am worried that before I say it, I will lose all the clues because of a forgetting curse." Virginia said, she tried to dig out the story of that day from a blank mind. Memory, "I was recruited on the corridor of Hufflepuff, when the sky suddenly went out - it was a very young voice, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time, his voice was very hoarse, he put I was taken to a dark classroom, I don't know how long it took, and then he started to ask me about the gills, and he seemed to know through some channels that the professor had gills on his hands, and he knew that the gills had recently The grass isn't where it used to be—he thought the professor hid it. Ah!" Virginia straightened up suddenly, "I saw he had Moody's eye in his hand, and he himself was a Blonde hair--short, and I saw it mingled with Moody's black hair, and it stood out in the white light."

Blaise glanced at Draco in shock.

"Whoever it is who is pretending to be Professor Moody, it is absolutely certain that Professor Moody is fake." Draco said, "I will speak to Professor Snape."

Virginia nodded, and something suddenly occurred to her, "How was Harry's game?"

"I suspect he drank the Knockturn Alley potion - I don't know who gave it to him. But Professor Snape's office was turned upside down one night, because he closed the office door several times. There is an anti-theft charm, so he suspects that the only ones who can commit crimes are elves who can apparate in the school." Draco said, "Harry's bottle of potion he got from somewhere and Krum's The Transfiguration Curse has the same effect, but the effect is obviously not very good - I don't know his underwater situation, and it is estimated that the maintenance time is relatively short. In the end, he and Ron floated up together, and both of them passed out. The result is only better than no Fu Rong, who has completed the task, is more than ten points higher."

Virginia didn't say a word, the result of the game has been made like this by their intervention.

Blaise obviously didn't keep up with their rhythm, he listened silently, and waited until they were silent for 2 minutes because of this topic, then he said, "In order to avoid unnecessary harm, Pooh, I still firmly say that you don't remember those things. Things are better, and I will tell others. My aunt has received the news that she and her mother are abroad and are rushing back."

Virginia was silent.