In this Hogwarts without a savior

Chapter 383. 381. The Man Forgotten by the Castle

Coming out of the dilapidated classroom, Freud returned to the dormitory with a happy smile on his face.

Behind her, the two servants had worried faces on their faces.

"Is it really okay for us to leave her here? I saw her just now and felt that something might go wrong later"

The smile on Floyd's face turned cold.

"What's wrong? What else do you think could go wrong with her?"

The follower explained in a panic.

"I'm not sympathizing with her, I'm just afraid that if you say that she will think about it later, yes, she will be herself."

"suicide?"

"Yes, if it's just a curse, then we can still suppress it, and we won't get into any trouble, but if she dies, the professor will definitely find someone to hold her accountable, which violates the blood law."

Floyd sneered disdainfully.

"If she really had the guts to endure it until today? Don't worry, I know Konrad. Even if you lend her a hundred more guts, she won't be able to commit suicide."

What she said was so swearing, the two followers who followed her could only let go of the worries in their hearts.

However, that night, after the curfew patrol in the castle began, the Aurors suddenly began to search various locations in the castle.

Floyd was woken up from the bed in the middle of the night. Her eldest lady had a bad temper. When she was woken up, she kept yelling that she would definitely use her family connections to make these desperate Aurors look good.

Then she met the pure-blood Lucius Malfoy, who had been stationed in Hogwarts Castle, the immediate boss of the Aurors all over the UK.

"Miss Freud, I heard that you were the last person to see Asia Conrad."

After seeing Lucius, Floyd panicked.

Even among pure bloods, there is a difference in status, and a person like her and the new pure blood family that has only accumulated ten years of background behind them are not worthy of carrying shoes for others in front of the Malfoy family.

"Her, what happened to her?"

"Has anyone ever taught you to answer the questions others ask you before asking others?" Lucius looked at Floyd with undisguised contempt and disdain, just like It's like looking at a bumpkin who just came to the city from the countryside.

Such gaze made Floyd feel humiliated, but she didn't have the courage to lose her temper.

"I, I have seen her, she offended me, so I just want to use a little trick to frighten her, other than that, I didn't do anything to her!"

"Use a little method to scare her? What method?"

The old god Lucius was sitting on the chair. The case about the mixed race should not need him to intervene in person, but what is special is that this happened in Hogwarts castle or at this special time. , In order to prevent this matter from being involved with Dumbledore's side, that's why he is needed.

Floyd's eyes wandered.

"Just a... little cursing for fun."

"We found the traces of your spellcasting on the sixth floor of the castle. It's obviously not a small curse." Lucius' eyes were full of indifference, just like Floyd's indifference when looking at Mudbloods, "Blood curse, do you know that the magic law clearly stipulates the consequences once someone is found to have used this kind of spell?"

"First, sir, there is no record in the blood law."

"So your family only taught you to read the law of blood?" Lucius' contempt was not concealed at all, "Do you know that some laws are above the law of blood?"

In front of Lucius, the quill that was recording himself on the desk suddenly paused. He looked down at the content on the parchment, and then continued to ask.

"The last question, Miss Floyd, is also the most critical one. I hope you can think it through before answering me. This is related to what kind of crime you will be sentenced to in the end."

Floyd's body tensed up.

"Did the blood curse you cast on Miss Conrad succeed in the end?"

The scene suddenly fell silent, Floyd was stunned, but soon she swallowed nervously and asked tremblingly.

"Mr. Malfoy, I remember that there is a regulation in the blood law. No matter in any interrogation, without Mr. Principal's consent, it is not allowed to use Veritaserum and Legilimency, right?"

Lucius said casually.

"Since you are familiar with blood law, you still need to ask me to confirm this kind of question?"

"No! I just wanted to scare her! I put on a blood curse posture, but I didn't really use the blood curse to cast a curse on her!"

Floyd's sudden high-pitched voice was firm and unquestionable, as if she had settled on something.

After hearing her answer, Lucius didn't intend to waste any more time here, and directly tapped the parchment on the table, and the parchment full of interrogation records rolled up by itself, and flew into the into the pocket of his robe.

"You should stay here until the final result comes out."

After speaking, he turned and left the temporary interrogation room.

In addition to him interrogating Floyd himself, there were other Aurors interrogating her two attendants with the same problem. Lucius did not stop after the interrogation, and came to the crime room again. Abandoned classroom, here, Aurors are already processing the scene.

He held a small transparent bottle in his hand, which contained some white ash.

"Director, it has been determined that she drank the dead fire potion and caused her final death, but it is still open to question whether she committed suicide."

"Is there any trace of the activities of the fifth person collected at the scene?"

"No, we only found four people, that is, the three suspects and one victim himself who have been identified."

"Any news from the other people who investigated and collected evidence from the surrounding students?"

"Some of the classmates around the victim are willing to confirm anonymously that the three suspects and the victim do not get along with each other in daily life, and they often use violence against them, and the trend has recently intensified. We also called the victim's information in the library. From the borrowing records, we found that she has recently borrowed and read several books about introducing blood curses. We also found the record list of her purchase of materials for preparing dead fire potion from her package receipt records."

While looking at the documents in his hand, Lucius listened to his subordinates' reports, and finally threw the confession about Floyd to his subordinates.

"Since everything has been investigated, what are you waiting for? Let's close the case. The result is obvious. This student thought he had been cursed with blood and committed suicide."

There was a hesitation on the subordinate's face.

"But if she wants to commit suicide, why does she have to drink the dead fire potion and burn herself to death?"

"It's not a very simple reason. She thought that she was under a blood curse. If she simply ended her life, the activated beast soul would completely occupy her body, making it impossible for her to maintain human life even after she died. Instead of showing such an ugly image that her family can't accept, it's better to drink the dead fire potion directly to save a little face."

Lucius said casually, he seemed to have no interest after making sure that no one from Dumbledore was involved, and it was just a simple school bullying case.

But his subordinate still didn't get rid of the puzzlement in his heart, he continued to ask.

"But the fact is really like what Freud said in his confession, she was just scaring this, this, Conrad, but she didn't mean to put a real curse on her at all. Did Conrad scare himself? The runes and remaining potions we found at the scene can prove that she has actually made complete preparations, so how could she deliberately fail in the end?"

Lucius suddenly turned his head and looked at him indifferently.

"Then how about you go and apply to that gentleman to use Veritaserum on Floyd?"

The Auror's body tensed suddenly, he stood at attention and lowered his head.

"My subordinates dare not."

"If you don't dare, don't let me talk so much nonsense, close the case immediately, notify the victim's family, and report the final result to Snape and Crouch, let them decide how to deal with the three suspects , this matter must be settled for me within three days, you know when it is now, a half-breed bastard committing suicide for such a boring reason cannot affect the subsequent games!"

After speaking, Lucius turned around and left without looking back, leaving only the Auror holding Floyd's confession and Asia's ashes standing there silently, and finally let out a long sigh.

All the evidence is sufficient, and there is no similarity or difference in the confessions of the three Freuds. They all killed them in one bite. They did not really cast a blood curse on Asia, but simply wanted to frighten her. The mixed-race student committed suicide The case was quickly closed.

The treatment of the three of Freud also came down immediately. The principal criminal, Freud himself, was punished to postpone his graduation for one year, and went home for self-examination until the next semester. The two followers of the accomplice were sentenced to two months of confinement .

This kind of punishment, which is better than nothing, did not cause much trouble, because according to the news reported by the Aurors, Floyd and others only carried out some "insignificant" pranks, and the main reason was that Asia's own psychological endurance was fragile. , a glass heart, which led to her suicide in the end.

Coupled with the special status of pure blood, such small punishments and major punishments did not cause any disturbances or public opinion among the students, and everyone's attention was mainly focused on the upcoming Christmas ball. Usually, the suicide of a mixed-race student, whom no one paid much attention to, hardly caused much topic.

In this way, Asia was quickly forgotten by everyone in the castle as if she had never appeared in the castle.

And this matter was quickly blocked in the castle, and when the students in the castle had nothing to talk about, it was even less likely to spread outside the castle.

In other words, until the day before Christmas, Jon was still a little surprised that the mixed-race girl who had been looking for Hermione before hadn't appeared again recently.

"Is there any conflict between you two?"

During dinner, Jon and Hermione chatted.

The expression on Hermione's face was calm, and she shook her head.

"No, it's not that we have conflicts, it's that the school she is in is sick."

Jon couldn't help complaining.

"I always feel like you're trying to talk like me."

Hermione's eyes narrowed into crescents.

"If you can feel it, it means that I am very similar, doesn't it?"

"How is what you and Professor Dumbledore have been working on going? Is there anything else I can do for you?"

"You can invite me to the dance together, which is already the greatest help to me." Hermione said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Jon couldn't help shrugging.

The current Hermione is obviously different from the cautious little girl he brought back from the castle two years ago. She has more self-confidence, and as she experiences more and knows more, she also becomes more and more confident. The less she looks like a 15-year-old girl, compared with Jon's original psychological age, she is really young and mature.

For this ball, Snape, as the current temporary head of Hogwarts Castle, also formally invited Dumbledore and his party who were always stationed outside the castle.

In addition to the warriors who lead the dance and their dance partners can enter the castle, other students who are willing to participate in the dance can also relax in the auditorium, but they can only do activities in the auditorium or the temporary garden outside the castle. Other areas of the school are for them Still locked down.

In the end, Dumbledore and Rozier asked the students to voluntarily decide whether to go to the dance or not. Except for Jon and Diane who had to go and their respective dance partners, most of the students who signed up were not interested. .

After all, this kind of behavior in the castle was more like charity than respect, and there were only eight students who finally decided to participate in the dance.

On Christmas Day, it snowed again.

It's just that the snow wasn't very heavy, and it didn't have the oppressive feeling of heavy snow. It seemed that the sky was adding some embellishments to the upcoming dance party.

As usual, every student in the carriage received a Christmas gift of their own, because some of Durmstrang's students were also in the carriage this year, and all Hogwarts also thoughtfully expressed their gratitude to them. Prepared one, which made every student very happy during lunch. Even today's tense competitions did not affect their festive atmosphere.

In the evening, Rozier led Jon Diane and other students who were going to the dinner party tonight into the Hogwarts castle, and Dumbledore stayed in the carriage to spend time with the rest of the students. This Christmas this year.

The Hogwarts auditorium has already been grandly decorated, and many students from the castle have gathered here, and when Jon and the others arrived, they also attracted the attention and pointing of many students.

Jon didn't pay attention to others as soon as he entered the auditorium, but quickly glanced at the figures in the auditorium, but he didn't find the person he wanted to find.

(End of this chapter)