[HP] Noble

Scorpius thanked Dumbledore for at least being fair to every student—instead of just ignoring him as a young second grader, the old headmaster took time even in the midst of the chaos, squatted down and patiently He temporarily lent his ears to this special—the only Slytherin present.

Dumbledore later whispered to Scorpius that he was grateful to Merlin for letting him do it.

When Scorpius uttered that strange code word in the ear of the old principal with an embarrassing face, he was not impatient as expected. He clearly saw the principal's blue eyes gliding quickly A moment of astonishment, and then Scorpius himself was astonished—

The old and the young looked at each other in silence and surprise for a moment.

Soon Dumbledore realized from Scorpius' surprised eyes that the young Slytherin in front of him didn't understand the meaning of the words he said. He blinked and pulled Scorpius away Crowds—no one noticed them, and now the old headmaster decided to give him all of his time for a while.

"So it was Mr Malfoy who sent you to come to me, didn't he?" said Dumbledore kindly.

"That's not the point." Scorpius looked depressed. "The point is that he asked you to go to the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office."

"That's one of the key points, Mr. Great." There was a flash of surprise on Dumbledore's face - Scorpius almost thought he was dazzled, and when he fixed his eyes clearly, he was also sure that he was dazzled. After a while, because now Dumbledore has regained his previous fatigue and age, "Maybe you don't understand," the old man said slowly, "but this means a lot to us."

Scorpius had no idea who the headmaster was referring to as "we".

But certainly not him and Dumbledore himself.

"——I sincerely beg you to promise me that you will not mention the words you just said to a third person until a certain gratifying opportunity that I have been looking forward to for a long time comes." Dumbledore blinked , "Can it be done?"

"Yes, as long as you hurry to the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office." Scorpius looked helpless, he couldn't understand a word of what Dumbledore was talking about, so he kept emphasizing his theme, "Professor Dumbledore —and allow me to stress again: Professor Moody is with Potter, and Draco looks anxious."

This sentence is very ambiguous and has many ways of being understood - but since this is a very serious occasion, let's put it aside for a moment and not analyze it too much.

When Dumbledore found Sirius, he was staying with Snape. There was a strong smell of gunpowder between the two, and there seemed to be a quarrel—but when Dumbledore explained his purpose, Sirius was stunned——

"Moody said you asked him to take Harry away," Professor Black said with a confused face, "Why? Isn't it?"

This time, even Dumbledore frowned gradually: "Unfortunately, Sirius, in fact I didn't let him do that."

The one who answered Dumbledore was the dog professor who jumped up with a growl and ran towards the castle with four legs.

As if realizing something was wrong, Professor Snape, Headmaster Dumbledore, and Professor McGonagall took a second-year Slytherin and left the field in a hurry—there was still chaos, but apart from Digory For the couple, most people's emotions have stabilized for the time being. The Hufflepuffs surrounded their former classmates and still refused to leave, and no Auror stepped forward to drive them away.

The headmaster's departure was hardly noticed.

When they arrived at the door of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office as quickly as possible, the inside was already in a mess.

The door had been blown in half by some sort of crude spell - since Professor Black had only just arrived, one could guess with his toes that it was Draco's work.

"Destroying the school's public property is enough to deduct twenty points from Slytherin." Professor Snape muttered, of course, he didn't really do it - he said that there was a reason for his partiality, and he almost never gave Slyther Lin deduction of points, at most one or two symbolic visits in a semester, and each time it is an insignificant one or two points, Scorpius believes that if possible, in the matter of deducting points for his own college, he is right Lanffindor, who has always been generous with deductions, is willing to deduct one point in two.

There were constant explosions in the office.

And Draco's angry taunt—

"If you can only use the goddamn stunner - silly baby Potter! Get the hell out of here and call someone who can use other spells - Colloportus!"

"To hell with you, Malfoy!"

Potter's scolding back was accompanied by violent explosions in the office, and Scorpius glanced awkwardly at Professor McGonagall.

"It's touching." Professor Snape complained and drew out his wand, kicked open the door half-hung on the wall, and rushed in with his wand in hand. Sirius followed closely behind him, and Scorpius hesitated After a while, he took out a spell from his waist and stepped into the office - all the desks in the office were turned over to one side, one was blown to pieces, glass bottles were scattered all over the place, and the books that were originally placed on the bookshelves were also scattered Everywhere.

That was the first time Scorpius saw Professor Snape use "Levicorpus" neatly, and he threw Moody into the air so easily, and then the flagon he always carried in his robe fell When he reached the ground, there was a muffled sound, and Dumbledore sullenly used a stun spell to finish him off.

After making sure Harry was safe and sound, Sirius started blathering with the Potions Master about how he hated him using the spell.

Professor Snape didn't look ready to answer him, and at the moment, the Potions Master was busy teaching his godson - "Rude! Reckless! Presumptuous self-righteousness - I'll tell you exactly what Father! Draco! How dare you-"

Draco lazily flicked the ashes on his sleeves, and stood up straighter: "When I came in, Professor Moody was about to give Potter a Cruciatus Curse."

Snape was silent for a moment, then said, "Fifty points to Slytherin for helping a classmate avoid the Three Unforgivable Curses."

Scorpius: "..." He just said something.

"Even tonight we have a deeper understanding of the relationship between the Hogwarts houses - but in fact, Mr. Potter, I think you should have a ceremonial thank you to Mr. Malfoy." Will Mu As Dumbledore tied Dee to the chair, Dumbledore said kindly, "He did help you, anyway."

So while Professor Snape was busy pouring the truth potion into Professor Moody, Harry whispered a quick "thank you" to Draco.

Draco didn't seem interested at all.

"I'm tired of hearing you say that word this term, Potter," he said wearily. "Please don't have any chance of saying it to me next term."

Scorpius wanted to remind Draco that Potter had a bad night—in fact, he could have acted less meanly, but after thinking about it, Draco should be sympathetic to Potter's mood, and the sky should fall It's not going to happen - so after struggling for a moment, he was relieved, and then decided to shut up.

Next he stared dumbfounded at a hoax that had been going on since the first day of term—

Professor Moody is not really Professor Moody.

In fact, Scorpius only ever met the real Professor Moody at the dinner on the first day of school - and only once.The whole time, it was Barty Crouch Jr.—a Death Eater who used Polyjuice Potion—in that hip flask that Moody carried around, and pretending to be Moody, he put the real The Defense Against the Dark Arts professor tucked into a box in the basement, giving him a Cleansing Charm every now and then - because he needed to use his hair or something as one of the ingredients for Polyjuice Potion.

Under the influence of Veritaserum, he confessed everything, while declaring his allegiance to the Dark Lord in a high-profile way.When Dumbledore calmly told him that his father was completely insane in St. Mungo's, he froze for a moment, then laughed wildly, and everyone present frowned slightly.

"I'm not his son—not long ago."

In the later time, Barty Crouch Jr. kept repeating this sentence, and at that time, the effect of Veritaserum had passed, and no one knew whether he was telling the truth or not, and only he himself Only then did I know it well.

"This is a night with too much information." After briefly talking about his memory with Dumbledore, Scorpius said with a headache, "I regret that I didn't hear the appearance of that person. I remember before We had a long conversation, but—"

"The traces of magic are too deep, and it should be impossible to remember." In the principal's office, the phoenix Fox disappeared, replaced by a crumpled chick with a head popped out of a pile of burnt ashes.The headmaster of Hogwarts sat behind his office, folded his hands, and calmly said to the second-year Slytherin who seemed puzzled after describing everything, "I don't even doubt that you can remember all this That person expected it, or rather, he did it on purpose."

"It's a Durmstrang," repeated Scorpius.

"Yes, a Durmstrang—but until your memory is fully restored and you have the hard evidence, I regret that tomorrow we will be powerless to see Durmstrang go—even if Karkaroff Already ran off, announced which side he was on. But Durmstrang didn't, and they're leaving Hogwarts with Krum and Dilja Brest at the helm."

Scorpius laughed dryly, and wanted to tell Dumbledore that he felt that Renault Dilgabreast was the most suspected, not one of them.

But he finally said nothing and left the principal's office.

……

Scorpius didn't go back to his dormitory that night, but ran to Mr. Draco Malfoy's room for the night.Draco showed very obvious dissatisfaction with having one more person grabbing the bed with him out of thin air——

Facing the disgust of the platinum nobles, the second-year Slytherin acted very confidently.

"Come on, buddy!" Scorpius scrambled onto Prince Slytherin's soft bed with his bare feet, "you can't do this, after you marry a wife, you can't sleep in a separate room—your Sooner or later, half of the bed will be released, I am letting you get used to it in advance."