Ravenclaw's Sapphire

The news of Padma Patil's attack swept through Hogwarts like a gust of wind. This beautiful Indian girl has a very good reputation in the college. She has many friends and studies well. The conversation is very elegant, she is not the kind of person who will make enemies, at most you don't know or care about her in school, but you can hardly find anyone who hates her.

The joy brought by a hearty Quidditch game quickly evaporated and disappeared, and panic was everywhere.The students now have to look left and right when walking, for fear that a monster will jump out of the corner of the corridor.Madam Pomfrey was even busier. She was not only busy taking care of the patients lying on the bed, but also had to deal with students who were inquiring about the news. She was so exhausted that she finally lost her temper. End the noisy infirmary.

"Parvati..."

Her twin sister was in tears almost every day now, and every chance Parvati would go to the infirmary to see her petrified sister, Lavender comforted her.They also haven't spoken to Hermione since Padma was attacked because she calmed them down and was still speaking for Zoe.

Harry noticed that Hermione was now spending time in the library whenever she had time, with a lot of thick books beside her, so he and Ron also went up to help, although they didn't know what they could do.

"We still have clues." Hermione's voice was a little anxious. "We have to find out who opened the Chamber of Secrets 50 years ago."

"Fifty years is not a short period of time, and they don't record such things in books for people to know." Ron frowned and opened a book covered in spider webs, choking on the face of dust. sneeze.

"But someone must know about it, such a big event, when it happens, there will be riots in the whole school, let me think about it carefully..." Hermione held her head and thought desperately.

"Hey, she really cares about Siegel." At this moment, Ron suddenly came over and whispered to Harry.

"If something like this happened to either of you, I would also be very concerned." Hermione replied bluntly, and Ron didn't want to annoy the irritable her, so he apologized quickly.

"I mean even her friend - the Malfoy guy - didn't move, maybe people don't even care..."

But these words seemed to hit Hermione right on fire. She threw the book on the table with a snap, and Mrs. Pince looked at them condemningly and coughed loudly at the same time.

"It's not a question of whether she cares, Ron!" Hermione frowned worriedly, "Open the Chamber of Secrets and attack innocent students! If this charge is confirmed, I can't imagine how the Ministry of Magic will treat her! "

"You can write down the voice I heard before." Harry said, "It was the voice I heard when we found Mrs. Norris. Maybe that's also a clue."

"That's right, Harry." Hermione quickly wrote the sentence with a quill, "Have you heard them lately?"

"No." Harry shook his head.

"What else can we do?" Hermione rolled her hair with her fingers. "By the way, Harry, Ron! Malfoy! He's from Slytherin, maybe he will know who the Chamber of Secrets is." It was opened—and his father, we may know who opened the chamber 50 years ago..."

"Maybe he opened it. Look at his excited face when he heard the attack. He couldn't tell us the truth." Ron muttered.

"No, at least this time it won't be him. If Malfoy opened the Chamber of Secrets, he would not choose to frame Zoe. No matter how bastard Malfoy is, I don't think he will betray Zoe." Hermione said Decisive.

"Then you can ask Sigir right away, won't we know the truth?" Harry cheered up, as if he had touched it.

Unexpectedly, Hermione flinched suddenly: "No, no. I can't see her now." We are still arguing!She swallowed the second half of the sentence.

No matter how the two boys asked, Hermione refused to let go and go to Zoe. She just said that she probably found a certain method, but she still needed some help, and then walked away vaguely, leaving the two Confused boy.

*****

In such a depressing atmosphere, Gilderoy Lockhart's Dueling Club finally recovered a little bit of life. The students who came to this club did not necessarily want to get Lockhart's teaching, they were more immersed in being able to In the excitement of attempting a duel, the club's advertisement gathered many people, and even quite a few senior students appeared.

Lockhart thought he was jumping out smartly, telling some witty jokes, and promoting his achievements. Harry felt that Hermione was the only one who applauded sincerely, and more people cared about him. A gloomy man with a hooked nose.Snape, a big, greasy bat with malice in his eyes, stood sullenly beside Lockhart.

"He can really talk nonsense." Zooey glanced around casually, mainly to see a conspicuous little brown-haired girl.The view is good as no one is around.She wasn't really interested in the club at all, neither in who taught them nor in what they taught.But she found out that Hermione would be here, so she took a chance and came to the party pretending not to care.

She didn't know how to redeem herself, and she couldn't even take the initiative to talk to her. Obviously, she only needed to say "I'm sorry" or "Thank you" to Hermione, and they would be able to expose this article.But she just kept looking forward and backward, spinning in circles.Hermione really wouldn't meet her, even if she did, she would turn away immediately.

Thinking that they might pass by each other like strangers without even saying hello, Zooey shuddered.

At this time, there was a brief commotion in the front row. Lockhart decided to give the lecture in a practical way. He chose Snape to stand opposite him. Lockhart always had a lot of fluff in his hands, and Snape's eyes were like It was Lockhart who had been sentenced to death.

There was no suspense in the ending, no drama for Snape even winning, just a flimsy "Expelliarmus" - one of the few spells most commonly used by wizards, but it was convenient and efficient, and it was convenient for referees to decide, not like the old In the Middle Ages, it was necessary to cut each other into pieces.

Zoe's eyes lit up, she didn't expect Snape to hide this trick, fast and effective casting has always been one of the criteria for determining the strength of a wizard, seize the opportunity before your enemy casts a spell (or kill him ), you will be invincible.Snape abandoned all pretentiousness, his technique was clean and neat. This professor who spent all day boiling potions in his gloomy office was an excellent duelist.

Rather than wasting time on Lockhart, she preferred to choose Snape - if the other party happened to be a good enough wizard, even better.

But Zoe still needs to observe, she is still very vigilant about this greasy big bat, although Draco often praises him in front of her.

It took Lockhart almost a quarter of an hour to get up from the corner with his teeth bared. Zooey almost thought that Snape had cast a stun spell. He still tried to maintain his demeanor, showing eight teeth when he smiled: "Okay, kid Ladies and gentlemen, this is the end of the demonstration. Let us thank Professor Snape, and of course my cooperation, otherwise it will not have such a good effect... Let us all divide into groups and spend this pleasant time together time."

Zooey hesitated for a while. Seeing that Hermione was going to find a Slytherin she didn't know, she realized that she had no chance to waste, so she walked in Hermione's direction.

But she had only taken two steps, but someone rushed out suddenly, that person had a grim expression and was holding a wand tightly in his hand.

"I, I want to be with you." There was even a little tremor in her voice, but she tried to make herself look more fierce, glaring at Zooey with angry eyes.

Parvati Patil stood in front of her.