Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 55 That's So Logical!
"Then tell us... do you admit to Malfoy's accusation?" Snape snatched Professor McGonagall's right to speak, came to McGuffin's side, and looked him in the eyes.

McGuffin tried hard to look at the other person without blinking, trying to appear sincere and decent.

"No, I just heard about it!"

"Okay, it seems that from your point of view, you have never had anything to do with this matter, have you?"

"Maybe Peeves did it, but it wasn't me!"

McGuffin naturally didn't have a good face when facing this professor who somehow wanted to drive him out of Hogwarts.

"Then, Malfoy, tell me what you know!" Snape raised his voice and called out his first 'witness'.

Malfoy stood next to McGuffin with an excited face, and glanced at him.

"When we got off the Hogwarts train and crossed the Black Lake, we were sitting on the boat, and McGuffin suddenly went mad, and grabbed my collar fiercely, and made an appointment with me to have a wizard duel, and almost strangled me..."

"I..." McGuffin wanted to interrupt Malfoy's nonsense impatiently.

"Quiet!"

"McGuffin Albert! Don't make me say it a third time, and I'm not allowed to answer until you're asked. Do you understand?"

Snape roared loudly, and the sound echoed throughout the hall, as if casting the 'loud voice' spell.

Startled everyone.

McGuffin looked at Snape coldly, without saying a word.

Malfoy went on to say that he accused MacGuffin of conspiring to instigate the students of the two colleges to fight a duel, but he himself revealed the news to Filch instead of going to the trophy room as agreed.

"Okay, Malfoy, stand over there! Let Mr. Filch come over!"

Snape interrupted Malfoy's attack on McGuffin as a lunatic, calling out his next 'witness'.

Filch held the oil lamp, brushed his thinning hair to both sides with his right hand, followed by Mrs. Norris, with her chest up and her head high, walking forward.

He came to stand beside McGuffin, and gave him a very perceptive smile with a wrinkled face.

Filch pulled a crumpled little note from his pocket.

He unfolded it, held it up high and turned it left and right, so that everyone could see the pattern on it in the middle of the bottom of the scroll under the light of the magic flame.

It's a red velvet background, a golden frame, and a badge that looks like a lion.

That's the logo of Gryffindor House,
— This piece of paper comes from the Gryffindor common room.

"On the left hand side of the fourth floor, the trophy showroom"

"At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the students will have a duel!"

Filch held the note in front of his eyes, and complacently read the words written on it, carefully deciphering it from time to time.

Listening to Filch's voice, the Slytherins whispered happily, as if McGuffin had been fired.

And Gryffindor's dormitory, Seamus Ganeney and Dean Thomas, glared at McGuffin angrily.

"It seems that one of our 'kind, just, house-abiding' Gryffindors has given Mr. Filch some very important news." Snape said suddenly, his eyes sparkling, and he stood up straight.

"I didn't see anyone hand this note in through the crack of the door," Filch continued.

"Of course it's some Gryffindor who knows that there will be a 'party' tonight." Snape walked from the left to the right of the McGuffin and immediately took over the topic and said mockingly.

The two exchanged a hug, and the words and expressions during the conversation seemed to almost nail McGuffin to the pillar of guilt.

"Test! This is completely inferred according to Malfoy's 'script', looking for evidence, and convicting myself!"

Next, of course, the two people who felt betrayed and wanted to vent their anger—Seamo and Dean Thomas, who lived in the same dormitory, came to McGuffin to testify against him.

"He knows the news - you go to duel Slytherin in the trophy room."

"Of course he knows about the MacGuffin," said Dean Thomas.

"We discussed it right next to him!" Seamus said angrily.

"Why doesn't he go with you?"

"McGuffin said it was a Slytherin conspiracy, and Filch will definitely come."

"Oh, really? Surely Mr. Filch will know the news?" Snape emphasized.

Snape then didn't ask the two of them to speak further, and it was enough for him to make it clear that McGuffin did know the news.

"What more can you say, Mr. MacGuffin Albert!"

"Don't you admit it even now?"

Snape's sallow face was full of malice, and he leaned forward and looked into McGuffin's eyes.

C... This is very logical!
—Are these guys out of their minds?Who on earth attacked them and opened the Halo of Jiangzhi!

McGuffin watched Professor McGonagall remain silent in disappointment. Has she also been demoted?

Now I can see clearly that these guys are just acting recklessly based on their own feelings. If this continues, Snape will be kicked out of Hogwarts by himself!
That's all he can say now.

"It's a misunderstanding!..." McGuffin said deliberately vaguely.

"Misunderstand?……"

Snape sneered coldly, as if he wanted to watch the little wizard's sophistry.

"Continue-talk-talk..." A stammering voice came from the high platform above.

Professor Quirrell stood up on the stage, as if he had some interest.

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!!!∑(Дノ)ノ

Vojnishams!
McGuffin's heart trembled twice, and he almost peed.

He tried hard to keep his face deadpan, not to put on a look of fear that would make others feel guilty, or worse - raise Quirrell/Voldemort's suspicions.

Test!Such a thing, how did it arouse this guy's interest!Anyway, say that as smoothly and confidently as originally planned.

Otherwise this guy will be suspicious! !
"To fully understand this, Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape, do you still remember what Malfoy said in the staff lounge before the opening ceremony?" McGuffin said.

Snape seemed to have remembered something, his face darkened suddenly.

"I'm going to have a wizard duel with McGuffin..." McGuffin said in a drawn-out voice imitating Malfoy's tone vividly.

"Yes, it was Malfoy who first agreed with me to have a duel."

"McGuffin, this is not what Malfoy said..."

"No, Professor Snape! It's Malfoy who misremembered."

Snape, who was interrupted, looked stiff and livid, and McGuffin with bad eyes.

"When the school started, most of the freshmen knew that Malfoy once made an agreement with me to have a wizard duel!"

Professor McGonagall also remembered such a thing at this time.

"Is it not only clear now? Malfoy once had an agreement with me for a wizard duel. This morning, he was the one who wanted to have a duel with me, and it was tonight, in the trophy showroom. But I didn't agree. I thought it would be illegal and unsafe to go without a teacher or at night, so I didn't go."

Malfoy had a grim expression on his face, and he wriggled his fingers with a little anxiety, watching McGuffin's 'performance'.

"According to your logical reasoning - Draco Malfoy is more likely to be behind this incident."

Professor Snape walked off the stage with a cold face, stared at McGuffin and said, "Then what happened to that Filch note? Only Gryffindors can get such a parchment with the college logo."

"It seems that among all the people who know the news, you are the only one who didn't go. They, these little wizards, will not report themselves! Didn't you disclose it to Mr. Filch?"

Filch straightened up beside him.

　Only this update today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)