It's just a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Chapter 400 Going Out (Two in One 4K)

After Christmas, the entire wizarding world became somewhat quiet.

The Death Eaters no longer carried out operations as frequently as before. They began to shrink their power. Although they would occasionally commit some atrocities, they rarely clashed with Aurors head-on.

Such a situation naturally made Scrimgeour take the opportunity to publicize it, claiming that this is a strong proof that the Ministry of Magic has won a partial victory. Even if the mysterious man returns, his power will not be as good as before. Coming soon.

As for how many people believe his words, this is an unknown.

At least in Hogwarts, Sherlock and Dumbledore are very clear that the actions of the Death Eaters are just the extension of Voldemort's consciousness, and the strength or weakness of this force depends entirely on Voldemort's own personal strength.

As for the so-called stability, if Voldemort does not die for a day, such stability will not come.

But so far, the Ministry of Magic has not even produced a wizard who can stand up to him, let alone understand how to make him die.

In the castle, Sherlock has never given up on this work.

Pushing open the door of the Room of Requirement, he came out disappointed once again with nothing.

After "digesting" the locket, Sherlock's overall strength has also increased a lot. The most notable part of this is that in the area of ​​control, the effect distance of the previous radius of 10 meters has been doubled to reach 20 meters, and the strength of control and the method of directly using control magic to cast spells are also visible to the naked eye.

Without using a wand, he can already use more than 80.00% of the magic with bare hands, and the remaining ones are just too demanding, and the whole is still a great enhancement for Sherlock.

But even under such circumstances, Sherlock still couldn't find the one he had sensed before from the Room of Requirement, which was most likely the Horcrux crowned by Ravenclaw.

And just as he was staring at the wall in front of him, wondering if he had missed some room, a curious voice sounded behind him.

"Professor Forrest, what are you doing here?"

Sherlock turned to look at the owner of the familiar and no longer familiar voice. Harry was standing at the corner of the stairs panting heavily, looking at him suspiciously.

Seeing Harry, Sherlock couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

"Oh, you just got back from a run, Harry?"

"No, it's Quidditch training." Harry sat directly on the stairs, trying to breathe evenly as he said, "The team's previous captain, Wood, graduated, and Angelina will take over this semester. She is as strict as Wood and wants to lead us to the Academy Cup this year, so the usual training is also very hard."

Sherlock nodded, he was fine with Harry having a bit of a hobby.

There are really not many sports that wizards can go out to, and Quidditch is one of the most popular.

At this moment, Sherlock stared at Harry, seemed to think for a moment, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

"Harry, maybe you can do me a favor."

Harry, who was rubbing his shoulder hit by the Quaffle today, raised his head in a daze.

"What are you busy with?"

Sherlock took his arm and led him to the wall of the Room of Requirement.

"There's a door here."

Of course Harry didn't think Sherlock was trying to make fun of him with the empty wall, so he just asked with a wink.

"Is this door hidden by magic?"

"The meaning is almost the same. There is a magical room behind this door called the Room of Requirement. As long as you stand in front of the wall and think about the room you need and walk three steps back and forth, the door will appear, and behind the door is what you need. that room."

Harry looked surprised, it was the first time he had heard of such a place in Hogwarts.

The Room of Requirement has always been circulated in various school history secrets in the form of legends, but Harry doesn't usually pay much attention to these books. If it was Hermione, she would definitely know about the Room of Requirement.

"I'm looking for something, Harry, and that thing is hidden in the Room of Requirement, but no one knows exactly what kind of room it is in. But if I'm alone and time is limited, there's no way I'll be there all the time." I am screening here, so I want to ask you to help me find a crown in this room when I have free time."

"A crown? A form of a crown?" Harry asked.

"Yes, that's a crown with jewels inlaid in the middle, and the whole is in the shape of an eagle."

Sherlock described to Harry what the Ravenclaw diadem looked like, information that Dumbledore had obtained from Mrs. Grey.

"There is also a motto engraved on the base of the crown - 'Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.' ('Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.')."

This semester was a little too ordinary for Harry. Except for a dementor attack during the summer vacation, everything from the beginning of the semester seemed to have returned to ordinary campus life, but the people in the Order of the Phoenix And Sherlock and Dumbledore seem to be busy with many things again.

This made Harry feel like he wanted to help but was powerless. Now that Sherlock could assign him a task, he naturally accepted it happily.

"Leave it to me, Professor Forrest, I'm sure I can find it for you."

Harry smacked his chest swearingly, and Sherlock patted him on the shoulder with a smile, officially handing over the task to him.

Back in the office, Sherlock hadn't sat down for 2 minutes when there was a knock on the door.

It was Draco.

Since he came to ask for advice on Christmas, Draco has visited the door several times, without any other actions or small movements during the period, as if he was simply asking for advice on Defense Against the Dark Arts.

But he didn't come here this time on his own initiative, but Sherlock specially asked someone to call him here from Slytherin House.

"Professor Forrest, you are looking for me."

Even when facing Sherlock at this time, Draco still looked very awkward and unworthy of a beating, but he at least called him a professor when it came to addressing him.

After seeing him walk in, Sherlock got up again, took a coat from the hanger beside him, and put it on his body.

At this time, Draco realized that Sherlock was not wearing a traditional wizard robe, but jeans, and a thick trench coat over a dark green sweater. Compared with a wizard, this outfit was more like Muggles.

"Didn't I ask you to do me a little favor before? Today happens to be Saturday, and it's about time I need your help, Draco. Come with me now."

Draco looked at Sherlock's posture as if he was about to go out, he was stunned for a while, and then quickly reacted, his immediate reaction was to resist.

"I do not want to go out!"

Sherlock stopped and looked at him, shrugging.

"Are you worried that I'm going to kill you? Don't think of me so dirty. If I really had such a thought, I would have taken action on the first day you came to me. Why wait until now. "

Although he said so, Draco also felt that the possibility of Sherlock's black hand on him was very low, but he was still very vigilant.

"If I insist on not going, will you not let me come to you for advice in the future?"

"Of course not. I told you from the beginning that I will not force you to do anything. It is my duty as a teacher to answer your doubts about your studies, not a deal between me and you."

Draco could tell Sherlock wasn't lying to him.

He was a little tangled at this time, and he didn't dare to look directly at Sherlock, so he struggled for a long time with his head down.

Sherlock didn't urge him either, just waiting for him to make a decision.

"I can go with you," Draco said reluctantly, "but you have to keep me safe!"

"Even if you don't say it, I will do it. I took you out, and of course I am responsible for your safety."

While Sherlock was talking, he walked out of the office, and Draco followed him nervously with a cold expression.

Today is the third Saturday after the Christmas holiday, and the students have already returned to the normal class order.

And Sherlock took Draco all the way from the third floor to the first floor without any cover-up. Many students saw this scene, including just coming out of the library, holding a large stack of books in his arms and preparing to Back to Hermione in the Gryffindor common room.

Seeing the two of them together, Hermione was as surprised as Snape inviting Harry to the Three Broomsticks for a butterbeer.

She temporarily changed her target, and followed Sherlock and Draco first, until she saw the two of them walk out of the gate of Hogwarts, and then returned to the Gryffindor lounge with a shocked face.

Ron was playing wizard chess with Seamus in the lounge, and Harry hadn't come back yet, so Hermione could only share the news with Ron alone.

Ron also had a look of disbelief.

"The last time we saw Malfoy take the initiative to find Professor Forrest, it was enough to make people unbelievable. Today, the professor actually took that bastard Malfoy out of school?"

"I also think it's hard to believe the eyes." Hermione murmured, "I remember that at the beginning of this semester, we overheard Malfoy speaking ill of Professor Forrest behind his back, and now they They went out together."

What they had seen the last time on Christmas Day had made them feel weird enough, and Sherlock and Draco's relationship now only made them feel more weird.

Harry didn't come back until near noon.

He was very concerned about the task that Sherlock gave him, and he searched in that room of responsiveness for a whole morning, but he still had nothing to gain.

"Didn't we finish training early in the morning? Why did you come back so late?" Ron asked with some doubts at first.

When Harry was about to pull them into the corner of the living room and whisper to them about the Room of Requirement, Ron continued to tell him what Hermione found today.

Harry was also stunned for a moment.

"You mean that Professor Forrest took Malfoy out today?" He just asked Ron's question in interrogative sentences, and then asked himself, "How is it possible? If you say that Snape invited Forey Maybe I can still believe that Professor Ster went out to drink, after all, they have a good relationship."

Seeing Harry's disbelief, Ron turned his gaze to Hermione, who said seriously.

"I saw this with my own eyes, not just me, there were quite a few people in the corridor and the hall, and some of them even greeted Professor Forrest, who was indeed the one who brought Malfoy out of the school. "

She was so sure that Harry couldn't believe it.

"The professor just gave me the task this morning, and then he went out with Malfoy? What would Professor Forrest go out with him for?"

Ron and Hermione shook their heads.

"If we knew, we wouldn't discuss it with you."

Harry felt a little twisted in his heart. Although he was 16 years old this year, the sudden feeling that the teacher and friend whom he had always respected had a good relationship with his deadly enemy made him subconsciously feel a sense of frustration.

But he still found an explainable reason.

"Maybe it's Professor Forrest who wants to get information about the Death Eaters from Malfoy. We all know that his father is a close friend of the mysterious man."

After listening to what his Harry said, Ron also felt that this possibility was very high.

"We all saw before that it was Malfoy who went to Professor Forrest first, and even we could see that his behavior was wrong, and the professor must have figured it out, so he must have used his tactics. It's not convenient to use things like Veritaserum in Watts, but it's not necessarily the case outside."

Both Harry and Ron felt that this was the most likely possibility, and they had even begun to talk about the bright future where Malfoy might be out of all his memories now, and he would be expelled from school when things were over.

It's just that Hermione obviously had a different idea.

According to their characters who have been with Sherlock for so many years, anyone who is familiar with him knows that he would not use such despicable means to deal with his students.

In fact, the two of Harry and the others must have thought of this, but they were caught in another beautiful fantasy at this time, and they were unwilling to admit it.

And while Harry and the others were talking in the Gryffindor lounge, Sherlock walked out of Hogwarts with Draco.

"Since you came out with me, you have to listen to me no matter what happens in the future, Draco, otherwise I don't rule out that I will use coercive means against you, understand? Draco."

Draco seemed to be very dissatisfied with this commanding tone, but he was still a little in awe of Sherlock instinctively, he didn't dare to meet Sherlock's eyes, and just said "hmm" in a voice not much louder than a mosquito With a sound.

(End of this chapter)