HP meets at Hogwarts

Chapter 156 Opal Necklace

As soon as Ann and Hermione came out of the literati's quill shop, they saw Fanny, Ron and Harry walking towards them with their heads covered.Fanny looked in a bad mood, Ron was stern, and Harry was stern.

"What's the matter with you?" Ann and Hermione asked in unison.

Fanny and Ron looked at each other, and quickly separated again. "Hmph, let's go back!" Fanny grabbed Ann's arm.

Faced with Fanny's obvious anger, Ann had no choice but to look at Hermione helplessly.Hermione nodded understandingly.

Tightening the scarf tightly, An glanced at the small snowflakes falling from the sky and said in agreement, "The weather will only get worse, let's go."

After Fanny and Ann took a step, Ron, Hermione, and Harry followed.Just after leaving the entrance of Hogsmeade Village, without the obstruction of buildings, Ann realized the bad weather today.

The howling wind, mixed with snowflakes, immediately melted into cold water when it touched the exposed skin of the person, causing the local people to shiver.A thin layer of slush had already accumulated on the main road, making it slippery with every step.

The saddest thing is that they need to walk against the wind.

"It's such a bad weather!" said Ann, who was blown out of the wind through the scarf, and Fanny had to keep out the wind with one arm. "Let's go later!" An said, reaching out and struggling to find an umbrella from her schoolbag. After opening it, she cast a silent strengthening spell on it.

Pulling Hermione to hide in, the wind was blocked by the umbrella, it was much better now, at least I could keep my eyes open instead of squinting.

An Wang looked at the two boys who were walking firmly with their heads buried against the wind and snow, and finally took out an umbrella from their schoolbag and threw it over.Fanny just snorted in dissatisfaction.

Harry and Ron gave Ann a grateful look and opened their umbrellas.But the umbrellas of the two were blown to this side by the wind, and they almost fell out of Harry's hands.

"Hey, Hermione, put a strengthening spell on their umbrellas." Ann reminded.

"Not only is the EQ low, but the IQ is also low." Fanny muttered.

Hermione and Ann glanced at each other.

An just wanted to ask a question, but there was a nearly right-angle turn ahead, and the wind direction changed for them, so An had to go to Hermione's left and let Hermione stand in the middle, holding an umbrella to block the wind.

Harry and Ron who followed hurriedly followed suit.

Turning the corner, Ann realized that there were two people walking in front of them, two people wearing Gryffindor robes.However, the two people in front of them didn't seem to be getting along very well, arguing about something.

"It's Katie and Lini in seventh grade," said Hermione in surprise. "They seem to be arguing."

That's right, as the steps advanced, the shrill quarrel between the two gradually entered the ears of the three.

The two girls appear to be arguing over something one of them is holding.

"It's none of your business, Lini!" said Katie.Ann, Fanny and Hermione all heard the words clearly.

As soon as the words were finished, Lini suddenly reached out to grab the package in Katie's hand.Katie yanked back hard, and the package fell to the floor.

All of a sudden, Katie rose into the air, her posture was very graceful, her arms were stretched out, as if she was going to fly.However, there was something weird about her, something was wrong... Her hair was blown about by the fierce wind, but her eyes were closed, and there was no expression on her face.Hermione, Ann, Fanny, Harry, Ron, and Linny all stopped and stared at her blankly.

Then, six feet above the ground, Katie let out a horrific scream.Her eyes snapped open, and what she could see or feel clearly caused her terrible pain.She screamed one after another.Lini cried out too, grabbing Katie by the ankles, trying desperately to drag her back to the ground.

At this moment, Katie suddenly fell and hit Lini, but she twisted violently and screamed.

Hermione rushed over immediately, and at the same time, Harry and Ron dropped their umbrellas and ran over.

"Ah, hey! Don't be impulsive—" Ann's words didn't help, and the three of them ran away without looking back.

Ann had no choice but to put the umbrella into Fanny's hand, "Fanny, take it." After speaking, she ran over.

Fanny glanced over there, shook her head helplessly, turned around and put away the umbrellas left by Harry and Ron, and walked over holding the umbrellas.

When Ann came up, Ron, Hermione, and Harry were trying to calm Katie as she lay writhing and twitching, her jaw chattering.

"Oh, damn it." An An cursed, and glanced at a brown paper bag that fell not far away. The paper bag was torn open, and there was something green shining inside.

"Harry, Ron, you two hold Katie's hands and feet, so she won't move around." Ann said and quickly took off her scarf, "Hermione, I need your help to hold her chin .”

The three of them looked at each other and quickly did as they were told.

Wrapping the scarf lightly around the opponent's neck, Ann tied one end of the scarf into a knot and stuffed it into Katie's mouth to prevent the opponent from biting her tongue.The wand slid out from the right sleeve, and An crisply read a sentence into the schoolbag, "The flower paste is flying inside! The cotton swab is flying!"

A small dark red glass bottle flew out, the lid was opened, and Ann took a cotton swab and dabbed it under Katie's nose.The dark red plaster immediately turned dark gray.

Katie gradually stopped writhing.

"You two boys take turns carrying her," An Yu said quickly, "hurry to the school hospital as soon as possible!"

Ron and Harry nodded immediately, and Ron picked up Katie on his back and walked quickly to the castle.

"Ann!" yelled Hermione, who was helping Linny to her feet as she wept, but one of his arms didn't look normal.

"It's broken!" Ann looked at it and said, "It's okay, Madam Pomfrey can heal you in one afternoon. You're Lini, right?"

The girl wept and nodded.

"I want to ask, did this happen suddenly, or—?"

"An accident happened as soon as the package was torn open." Lini said sobbing, pointing to the soaked kraft paper package on the ground.

really.

When Ann tilted her head to look over, she was taken aback, mainly because Fanny was squatting and reaching out to tear it open.

"Stay still, Fanny," cried Ann hastily.

Fanny held up the umbrella and withdrew her hand. "Ann, here is a necklace set with opals. It looks gorgeous."

Walking over quickly, An took out a paper bag containing food from her schoolbag, put the kraft paper bag and necklace into the paper bag with floating technique, and sealed it.

"I think this should be a powerful black magic." Ann frowned and said, "Let's go back to school quickly, Hermione, you will call Professor McGonagall and tell her to go to the school hospital, Fanny, you will call Si Professor Nepe, give him a brief explanation on this and let him go to the school hospital. I will send Lini to the school hospital later."

After speaking, Ann shuddered.Without the scarf, the wind came straight in from the neck.Ann immediately regretted it, and should have gotten a scarf from Harry and Ron if she knew it.

"Do you regret it?" A warm scarf was wrapped around her, and Hermione helped Anne tie the scarf, "I can tell from your expression, you must be thinking that you should get a scarf from Ron and Harry just now." A scarf, right?"

"Hey," An shyly smiled, "is it so obvious? Then what do you do?"

"It's not obvious, I'm just guessing," said Hermione, "I'm not as afraid of the cold as you are, it's okay."

Ann stretched out her arms and hugged Hermione, "This way I won't be frozen, can I take an umbrella again?"

It was much warmer inside the castle, and Ann accompanied the sobbing Lini to the school hospital.After briefly explaining his first aid measures to Madam Pomfrey, Professor McGonagall, Hermione, Professor Snape and Fanny came in.

"What's going on?" Professor McGonagall said sternly, looking at Katie who was lying on the bed, and then at Professor Snape.Professor Snape also had a gloomy face. He waved his wand and let the opal necklace float in the air.

"I just received a very, very dangerous dark magic item." Professor Snape said grimly, looking around the school hospital.

Lini stammered, pausing several times because she was crying uncontrollably.She told Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape how Katie went to the toilet at the Three Broomsticks and how she came back looking a little weird with the unmarked package in her hand; Because she didn't think Katie should agree to hand over an unknown item; and at the height of the quarrel, the two began to scramble over the package, which was torn apart.At this point, Lini broke down emotionally and could no longer speak a word.

Madam Pomfrey hurried forward, patted Lini on the back comfortingly, and persuaded her to drink some tranquilizer.

"Okay," said Professor McGonagall softly, "what's next? What happened after Katie touched that necklace?"

"She went up in the air," Harry said quickly, "and started screaming, and then she fell and hit Lini. We saw it and went to help, and then gave her some emergency measures and shouted We took Katie to the school hospital."

Madam Pomfrey gave An an encouraging look, "I have to say, Ann, your emergency measures are very good."

Professor Snape glanced at Ann, then asked Lini coldly, "Do you know who she plans to give this necklace to?"

Lini shook her head in panic, "No...she refused to tell me...I said she was in a daze and she must not take this thing to school, but she just refused to listen. Then...then I wanted to take the thing to school. Snatched from her...and then—" Lini let out a desperate scream.

"I've seen it before," Harry said suddenly, gazing at the opal necklace floating in the air. "It was on display at Borgin & Bock's a long time ago. The label says it's enchanted. Katie must have come across it." It's gone."

After that, Harry turned to Professor McGonagall and asked, "Professor, can I meet Professor Dumbledore?"

"The Headmaster is out and won't be back until Monday, Potter," said Professor McGonagall, looking surprised.

"Out?" Harry repeated angrily.

"Yes, Potter, out!" said Professor McGonagall sharply, "but I think you can tell me what you have to say about the dreadful business!"

For a split second, Harry hesitated.He seemed to have difficulty confiding in Professor McGonagall.And Dumbledore, intimidating as he is in many ways, seems unlikely to have sniffed at an idea, no matter how outlandish.However, this is a matter of life and death, and there is no time for ridicule.

"I think Draco Malfoy gave Katie that necklace, Professor."

Ron, on one side of him, rubbed his nose awkwardly; Hermione, on the other side, slid her foot on the ground, as if eager to keep some distance from Harry; Ann and Fanny exchanged glances , staring at Harry.

"Oh?" Professor Snape said in a mocking voice, "This is a very serious accusation, Harry, do you have any proof?"

"There's no direct evidence," said Harry, "but I saw him walk into Borgin and Bock's over the summer."

Snape snorted and looked at Professor McGonagall with a look of excitement.

"Okay!" said Professor McGonagall. "Thanks for telling me that, Potter, but we can't just blame Mr. Malfoy for visiting the shop that might have sold this necklace. Been there." There were probably hundreds of people in that store—”

"That's what I said..." Ron muttered.

"Also, this year we have tightened our security measures, and I don't believe that necklace could have entered this school without our knowledge—"

"But--"

"One more thing," said Professor McGonagall in a firm tone, "Mr. Malfoy didn't go to Hogsmeade today."

Harry stared at her blankly, suddenly discouraged.

"How do you know, Professor?"

"Because he's in solitary confinement with me. He's missed his Transfiguration homework twice in a row. Well, Potter, thank you for letting me know your doubts," said Professor McGonagall. I will tell the principal about my thoughts at that time. The three of you should go back now."

Professor Snape glanced at Ann and Fanny lightly, "You two should go back too. Don't stay outside, just go back to the dormitory."

"Uh, yes, professor." "Okay, professor."

When leaving the gate of the school hospital, Ann had no choice but to say goodbye to Hermione with her eyes.

"Ann, who do you think Katie is going to give that necklace to?" Fanny asked Ann, as they went downstairs to the common room.

"I don't know, but it's hard for anyone to escape. As long as you open the package, you will touch the necklace. Katie is lucky, she just touched it with gloves on. Otherwise, she would probably die. "

Fanny took a breath, "But who would want to kill someone in Hogwarts?"

Ann shook her head.

"Then why do you think Harry doubted Malfoy?" Fanny continued to ask.

"You can ask him at night, but I suspect he thinks Malfoy's father is a Death Eater, so maybe his son is a Death Eater as well."

"How is that possible?" said Fanny. "Malfoy is only seventeen? What would Voldemort want him for?"

"You just asked me why Harry suspected Malfoy, as for the rest, I don't know—"

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