[HP] The Elegance of the Night

Fox led the way, shining golden light along the corridor, and the little wizards followed behind him. After a while, he found himself standing outside Professor McGonagall's office.

"I guess I should go," Igil said, explaining what happened to the lion cubs enough, and he didn't want to stand around and listen to what happened again.

"Don't go." Ginny held him back and sobbed, her tone full of horror.

Igil didn't speak. He gently wiped away the tears of the little Slytherin witch and nodded, pulling away the tightly held robe.

They pushed the door and entered, with a bit of tiredness and embarrassment. For a while, the surroundings were silent.

"Ginny!" screamed from the office. It was Mrs. Weasley, tears welling in her swollen eyes.Mr. Weasley held out his arms, and they both wrapped their arms around Ginny at the same time, holding her tightly in his arms.

This scene was warm and somewhat dazzling. Harry lowered his head and put the Sorting Hat and the silver sword inlaid with rubies on the table. Igil glanced at Ginny who was still trembling, and put the diary on it as well.

"You saved her! You saved her! How did you do it?"

"That's what we all want to know." Dumbledore walked in from the outside. With a smile on his face, he walked to the side of Professor McGonagall who looked tired standing in front of the fireplace.

"You have worked hard these days, Minerva." Dumbledore said, Fawkes flew past Harry's ear and landed on Dumbledore's shoulder. The old man looked at the group of young people kindly. Students, encourage the little wizards to tell them exactly what happened.

Dumbledore's return to Igil was not surprising at all. The timing of the appearance of the phoenix and the dropping of the diary was just right, and it couldn't be done without someone directing it.

Dumbledore will not leave the school alone, everything is as his father expected.Letting Lucius' joint board of directors drive Dumbledore away before just left him no time to discover traces of another person's manipulation behind the scenes.

Harry told them exactly what happened. He told them for about a quarter of an hour, including Ron and Ellie, who listened very attentively. What happened after they lost consciousness could be written into a legendary novel.

Dumbledore asked questions from time to time, allowing them to quickly grasp the point.

Lockhart listened to Harry's narration quietly, with a hint of complacency in his eyes, and Igil observed him calmly, confirming that he had no doubts.

There is always a discrepancy between what the eyes see and what the ears hear. If Lockhart had seen Riddle's performance at the time, he would not have thought it was just a memory.

Harry Potter doesn't describe Tom Riddle, he just excuses Ginny's actions.The girl didn't stop sobbing.She wrote in the diary for a whole year, and Mr. Weasley was dumbfounded by her behavior.They were not relieved until Dumbledore told her that there would be no punishment.

"Dumbledore," said Mr. Weasley, "I wish the Sorting Hat could re-sort Ginny, you know, we're all Gryffindors, I think Ginny got into Slytherin because of the diary Ben's reason."

"No, Daddy!" Ginny jumped up, her hands clenched in her robes, and she said in a broken voice, each word seemed to take all the courage out of her, "I—I like Slytherins, I've I'm used to life there - they've been very nice to me - I don't feel any discomfort -"

"Ginny! Do you know what you're talking about? How can you stay in Slytherin!" Compared to the performance of the Weasleys, Ron was much more impulsive, "Is it because of him!" Ron pointed at Yi Jill said that this unreasonable behavior made Jill frown deeply.

"You sent him a greeting card on Valentine's Day! Did he confuse you? Slytherins are all in a group, a group..." He didn't say that word in the end, but he already realized Dumbledore's disapproving gaze. Realize how much harm your impulsive behavior will bring to your loved ones.

"Ron, please stop being rude, you have violated my privacy! Even if you are my brother, you can't—you should apologize to Black!" Such a Ginny made the Weasleys feel strange, Mrs. Weasley covered her mouth in disbelief.

Of course Ron would not apologize, and Igil did not expect him to admit his mistake, and the atmosphere in the room suddenly became awkward.

"Resorting, it's almost never happened before," Dumbledore said, his kind and calm eyes comforted Ginny, who was still trembling a little. "The sorting hat is here, I think you can listen to its opinion." Everyone focused on the sorting hat at once, the hat twisted, and a wide slit was split at the brim.

"Any objection to the sorting house? You can let that little girl wear me again," the Sorting Hat hoarsely said, "But I want to declare, just this time, don't doubt me, I have never made a mistake in the thousand years—"

Ginny's robes were crinkled, and she stood nervously, letting the Sorting Hat touch the top of her head.

"Slytherin—" the Sorting Hat shrieked.

"Merlin—" Except for Ginny, the Weasley family was dumbfounded.

"I said I can't make mistakes," the Sorting Hat said proudly, "Even if it was affected by something before, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this girl being a Slytherin now!"

Igil smiled, Ginny Weasley——When the girl was troubled, but still had the courage to contend with her family and said she wanted to stay in Slytherin, Igil accepted her because the girl already had a A heart that belongs to Slytherin.

After consuming too much physical strength, Ginny was a little unsteady. The vitality she had absorbed by Riddle hadn't fully recovered. Fortunately, she was still young and would recover quickly.

"I think Miss Weasley should go to the hospital wing immediately, Madam Pomfrey will take care of her," suggested Dumbledore.Mrs. Weasley led Ginny out immediately, followed by Mr. Weasley, still looking very shocked.

"Minerva, I think such things deserve a banquet to celebrate. May I ask you to inform the kitchen?"

"Gidero, I think you'd better go take a shower and change."

Dumbledore easily dismissed the two teachers, leaving only four 12-year-old wizards.

"I remember that I seem to have told you that if you violate the school rules again, I will have to expel you." Dumbledore's eyes circled around the little lion, skipping over the boy in the Snake Court.

Igil didn't take it seriously, he didn't think Dumbledore would really do this, give the little lions a date after a club, just to make the little lions thank Dade?

Dumbledore's words didn't have much effect on the little wizards, Harry wasn't thinking about it at all, and Tom's deception hit him too hard.Ellie wasn't worried at all, she knew the plot, only Ron opened his mouth wide in horror.

"It shows that even the best of us sometimes have nothing to say. The four of you have all won awards for special contributions to the school," Dumbledore continued with a smile, "and —Let me see—by the way, you each earned two hundred points for your house."

Ron's face suddenly turned bright pink. He had never scored so many points.Yigil smiled, with coldness hidden in his eyes.

On the surface, everyone has rewards, but Gryffindor added 600 points at once, and Slytherin's seven consecutive years of the House Cup were ended here.

Tom's father's Horcrux gave the Gryffindor-born headmaster this opportunity, and Igil could only accept it even if he was unwilling.

But, Dumbledore, have you calculated the price Slytherin will have to pay?Guarding weaknesses is not a Gryffindor specialty...

"Ron, you should tell your brothers the good news of Ginny's escape."

"Ellie, Madam Pomfrey was distributing the Mandrake potion just now, and Hermione might wake up at any moment,"

"Igil, I think you should go back to the Slytherin common room and tell the students the news."

Dumbledore wanted to leave Harry Potter to be educated alone, and the little wizards left wisely. For the healthy growth of the savior, this old bee took great pains.

Passing through the empty Slytherin common room, Igil pushed open the door of the dormitory. The platinum-haired boy was lying on the bed, and the green curtains on the four hanging pillars had not been lowered.Igil flicked his wand lightly to break the spell, so that Draco would not sleep so soundly.

He didn't call his roommate but knocked him out, which was a bad feeling, but it was so important that it had to be.Hogwarts Castle resounded with Professor McGonagall's voice amplified many times by magic. His roommate opened his eyes in confusion, not knowing what happened.

With a hint of apology, Igil walked into the bathroom before Draco was fully awake.The shadow cast by the dark, slimy pipes cannot be removed by a "cleaning up".

Why did he provide so many clues, but what the little lion found was Baslisk's pet-only channel!

Igil was soaking in the bathtub, thinking that he had also drilled the pipe like them, and was tangled...

"Harry, you can speak Parseltongue because Voldemort can speak Parseltongue." In the office, Dumbledore gave Harry psychological counseling earnestly, "He is the last of Salazar Slytherin. Heir, if I'm not mistaken, he transferred some of his own spells to you the night he scarred you. He didn't mean to, I'm sure..."

"Voldemort transferred a part of himself into me?" Harry's hand, hidden under his robe, clenched into a fist, and there was a tingling pain in his palm.

"Obviously so," said Dumbledore.Dumbledore said a lot more afterward, but Harry didn't listen.His mind was now full of Tom, the man he had lived with for seven years.No, the man had been lodged in his head the night his parents had died protecting him, and the solar eclipse seven years earlier had only exposed him early.

Tom, you liar...

Harry felt the sharp pain when he drank the purification potion returned. The facts were in front of him, and even the hypotheses he had made up to convince himself seemed pale at this moment.

"Harry, don't doubt yourself, only the real Gryffindor can make the Sorting Hat hand over Godric Gryffindor's sword." Dumbledore noticed Harry's distraction, the kid probably needs to go take a break.After finishing the main point, he hurriedly ended the conversation.

Harry stood up and walked towards the door. He had just grasped the handle when the door was slammed open with a loud thump against the wall behind him.

"Good evening, Lucius."

"Okay!" Lucius Malfoy stood at the door, looking furious, his cold pale gray eyes fixed on Dumbledore, "You are back. The board of directors suspended your duties, but you still returned to Huobi on your own initiative." Gwartz."

"Oh, that's right, Lucius," Dumbledore smiled calmly, "Today, the other eleven directors have all contacted me, and they heard that Arthur Weasley's daughter was killed , they all hope that I will be here immediately, they seem to think that after a long time, I am the most suitable for this job."

"So—did you prevent those attacks?" Lucius asked sarcastically. "Did you catch the killer?"

"We got it." Dumbledore answered him with a smile.

"Oh, so who is it?" Dumbledore's answer caught Lucius off guard, who had apparently rushed over to hear the news that Dumbledore was back at school.

"Lucius, I want to give you a piece of advice. Stop distributing old things from Voldemort's student days. If these things fall into innocent hands again, at least Arthur Weasley will be able to find out whether they are From you."

They fought tit for tat, and finally Dumbledore ended with this sentence.Angrily, Mr. Malfoy took away the diary with a big hole in the middle, and left Hogwarts.

The return of Dumbledore, the greatest White Mage of the century, brings light back to a school haunted by the horrors of an attack.

All petrified people recovered, the school held a grand banquet in the auditorium, and Professor McGonagall announced in public that the school decided to cancel the exam in order to entertain everyone.

Except for Professor Snape's black face when he saw Gryffindor's soaring score, everything seemed to be calm again.The little snakes also warmly celebrated for Ginny's safety.

"Merlin's underwear, why can't the graduation exam be cancelled!" At the end of the semester, Slytherin Quidditch captain Flint smiled and encouraged his teammates after reading the announced exam results: "Next semester, as the captain, I , must lead you to defeat Gryffindor!"

"..." Yes, he repeated the grade.

In addition, a wizard who had already graduated from Slytherin also had the same tragic mood - Gilderoy Lockhart resigned, and he was not used to the nine-to-five life of the school because he was accustomed to taking risks.

Of course, it was actually Dumbledore who fired him. They talked for a long time in the office. Afterwards, Lockhart voluntarily resigned, waved his sleeves gracefully, and left decently.

The justifications of intentionally attacking the students and not saving him are enough to discredit him, not to mention the quality of teaching. Dumbledore can find [-] reasons for dismissing him.

The night before Lockhart left, Harry Potter came to see him.The blue-eyed boy was more haggard than happy at defeating the heir.

"I want to know how to find your master..." The boy's words made Lockhart show his first smile after resigning.

On the day Lockhart left, all the teachers and students of the school came to see him off. The little witches were crying like rain. This charming blond boy said goodbye to everyone. He gave Professor Snape the bag of the Untraceable Stretching Curse. It contained the freshly shed skin of the basilisk.

Then an accident happened!

While Professor Snape lost his mind when he saw the precious potion ingredients, Lockhart kissed the soft lips he had been coveting for a long time.

"Merlin!" More than half of the witches fainted, their crying changed, and they became utterly miserable.

Taking advantage of it, Professor Snape took out a small bottle of potion with a sullen face, and opened the cork with his fingernails.

"This is……"

"Love potion!"

"Sev...you don't need this kind of thing, you've already made me intoxicated."

"..."

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Until a long time later, the little wizards of Hogwarts still remember the day when Professor Lockhart left. After being fed a small tube of potion, this charming blond boy turned into a kissing maniac and molested the dark gray haired man. Mrs. Norris, Hagrid's lovely hound Fang, all the elves in the Hogwarts kitchen, and almost ran into the Forbidden Forest to tease thousands of eight-eyed spiders.

In the end, Professor Lockhart madly kissed the Whomping Willow's trunk under constant urging...

At the end of the semester, the little wizards went home on the Hogwarts Express train. Igil sat in the compartment of the train thinking, always feeling like he had forgotten something.

[It's going to be a holiday, why hasn't Yigil come to pick us up]

In the secret room, the red-eyed handsome man and the basilisk stared at each other in the portrait, speechless for a long time...