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Chapter 310 A Little Help

"But so is Cedric, why don't you help him?" said Harry.

The expression on Bagman's face showed some impatience, and he emphasized it again.

"As I said, Harry, I'm only optimistic about you alone. I really admire your performance in the first event with the broomstick to get the golden egg, because I was a professional Quidditch player before, so I like it." Your technique, because of this, I can give you a little help without other people knowing."

But Harry couldn't accept his behavior.

In the first project, he had unknowingly accepted Hagrid’s cheating in revealing the information to him in advance, but at that time he also told Cedric that the warriors from the other two schools had all learned from him through different channels. knew.

If everyone cheated, the game would still be fair.

But now that Bagman's behavior was only providing convenience for himself, Harry's inner justice made him resolutely refuse.

"I'm sorry Mr. Bagman, but I think I can solve the puzzle of the golden egg on my own. I don't need anyone else's help."

After speaking, Harry turned around and left, which made Bagman, who was stunned, a little annoyed at Harry's ignorance of good and bad.

Harry didn't keep it a secret, and he told Hermione about it when he returned to the Gryffindor common room.

"He's the referee! How could he do such a thing!"

Hermione was also very dissatisfied and said that according to their thinking, as a referee, she must be fair and just.

Balmain didn't occupy their conversation for long, and soon Hermione was talking about her other discoveries.

"That annoying reporter seems to have disappeared."

Harry had a look of excitement on his face.

"That's a great thing! But are you sure she really disappeared?"

"I'm not sure, but it should be." Hermione frowned and said, "You have never paid attention to these things. When the Triwizard Tournament was just announced to be held this year, it was reported in the Daily Prophet. Rita Skeeter is the exclusive reporter for this event, which means that she is responsible for all the coverage of the game, but she has not been in the castle since the last ball, which is very strange."

Harry didn't think about it so much. For him, what happened to Skeeter, as long as she doesn't bother him anymore, and those nonsense reports don't involve him, that's a good thing.

While they were chatting, Ron came out of the boys' dormitory. As soon as Hermione saw him, she turned coldly and walked upstairs.

"I'm going back."

Ron also waited for her to leave before sitting next to Harry.

"You two really shouldn't be like this." Harry said with a headache, "I really don't think Hermione and Krum are any threat to me getting along."

"That's why you haven't seen the essence of the matter! Harry." Ron said stubbornly.

Harry didn't refute his words anymore. He felt that Ron was the only one among them who really didn't see the essence of the matter.

But since reconciling with Ron, Harry has been careful not to want their newly repaired relationship to fall apart again.

Just when the three of Harry were entangled with each other because of emotional problems, Dumbledore's office.

Sherlock, Snape, Dumbledore and Moody gathered here.

"He has found me more than once." Snape said indifferently, "After the Christmas ball, he found me privately once, he told me he was scared, he wanted to run away, and asked me what I thought. "

Sherlock didn't show much nervousness, but looked at Snape with interest.

"Then what do you say?"

"I said, it's his business if he wants to escape, I will stay at Hogwarts!"

Snape's tone of reply was not friendly, but that was the nature of his relationship with Sherlock.

Dumbledore motioned for Snape to continue, and he continued.

"Yesterday, he came to my office again, but this time his question was very strange."

Moody stared at him, subconsciously adopting the stern tone he used to use when he was an Auror.

"What did he say."

Snape said coldly.

"He asked me, if that person really wanted to come back, what would I choose, whether to fall to Dumbledore's side, or to return to his side."

The other three people immediately frowned.

"I asked him what he meant by that, which side I chose in the end, and what it has to do with him."

"He didn't continue talking, but just looked at me and said, there are some things that I need to think about more clearly. He is about to escape, but he is also thinking about things for me. After all, we are grasshoppers on a rope."

After Snape finished speaking, the office fell into silence at first, and everyone began to think.

In the end it was Moody's hoarse voice that sounded first.

"Karkaroff's question is a bit strange. Logically speaking, he felt the call of the mysterious man from his black mark, so he should not be in the mood to care about other people right now. I caught it with my own hands. He, I know his character very well, he is an extremely selfish villain, he will never care about others except his own interests and safety."

Dumbledore tapped his knuckles lightly on the table.

"The disappearance of old Batty has caused a lot of trouble. The Ministry of Magic is sending a large number of Aurors to look for his whereabouts. After all, it is not a trivial matter for a director to disappear for no reason. According to our previous speculation, the attack on Xia Locke, the person who secretly signed up Harry for the Triwizard Tournament should be old Barty who was controlled by someone with the Imperius Curse, and now if Karkaroff also has problems, what is his purpose?"

"As we said before, there is basically no possibility of Karkaroff returning to the ranks of Death Eaters." Sherlock touched his chin and continued, "He not only betrayed Voldemort, he also betrayed countless Companion, even if Voldemort is willing to forgive him for some things, those who were betrayed by him cannot simply let go of their hatred."

"Of course, these are just speculations made by us. If for some reason unknown to us, Voldemort and Karkaroff have reconnected and are willing to return to his command again, then what he said to Snape These words, I think, are likely to be a kind of temptation.”

"He was testing whether Snape, Voldemort's most loyal subordinate, really wanted to stay by Dumbledore's side now, or that his loyalty to Voldemort had never changed, and he had been dormant, waiting for the time to return .”

(End of this chapter)