Harry Potter: Dark Alchemy

"Get out of here quickly!" Percy said without waiting for the trio to reply, and walked quickly towards the trio. He even opened his arms in a driving gesture, "You are so shameless! Everyone else is eating in the auditorium, but you came here..."

"Why can't we come here?" Ron said angrily, "Listen, we are not here to do evil as you think, but to look for clues! Understand? We didn't touch those two cats at all. A finger!"

"Ron..." Harry, who was standing aside, said softly. He also tugged on Ron's sleeve, trying to calm him down.

Harry had realized this as early as this summer when he lived at the Burrow.

Among the Weasley family, the only one who behaved very differently from others was Percy. He regarded his prefect medal with an incredibly fanatical attitude. As early as the summer vacation, Fred, George and Ron had teased Percy for a long time about this matter.

Even the books Percy read were boring as hell books like How Prefects Gained Power.

But no matter what, this is school, and Percy is also Ron's biological brother. Harry doesn't want or want to see the two of them quarreling so much over trivial matters.

However, Harry's actions seemed to have only a little effect on Ron. Although Percy noticed his move, he didn't seem ready to stop.

"I say the same to others! I keep explaining to others every day that my brother never did anything to those two cats!" Percy showed no sign of weakness. He glared at Ron and said loudly, " But the students are all disturbed by this incident, and so is Ginny. You should think about our family more!"

"You don't care about our family at all!" After hearing Percy's words, Ron was so angry that he threw away Harry's hand. His ears were a little red, "You are just worried that I will ruin your life as a boy. A bright and promising future for the Student Union President!”

…

That evening, in the Gryffindor common room.

Harry, Ron and Hermione sat together in a corner of the common room, as far away from Percy as possible. This was not just because Percy found the three of them entering the women's bathroom together during the day, but also because Percy showed a great reaction to Ron's subsequent sarcasm. He even directly deducted five points from Gryffindor. College points!

This may be the first time that a Gryffindor prefect has deducted points from Gryffindor himself!

After the three of them finished all their homework, Ron's anger seemed to have completely dissipated. If you ignore his ink-stained homework paper, the quill with its hair torn to pieces, and the crumpled Just the corners of textbooks and so on.

"Who will cause the attack? Open the secret room, graffiti on the wall, and petrify the two cats." Hermione closed the "Standard Spell, Level 2" in her hand and whispered, "Who wants to kick Squibs and Muggle-borns out of Hogwarts?"

"Let's think about it," Ron said in a very poor way, looking confused. "Who thinks Muggle-borns are trash?"

"If you mean Malfoy..." Hermione was a little skeptical.

"Of course Malfoy!" Ron said without hesitation, and he even imitated the vicious words Draco said to Hermione before, "'You stinking little Mudblood'!"

"Actually, as long as you think of his face, you will know that there is no one else in the school who can do such a hateful thing except him." Ron said.

"It's just..." Hermione was still a little skeptical. If nothing else, she didn't believe that Draco had the power to perform advanced black magic that even Dumbledore couldn't solve.

"Hermione, think back to Malfoy's family." Harry agreed with Ron's statement, "Their whole family is from Slytherin, and Malfoy often uses this to show off to others. It is very possible that their family is the descendant of Slytherin!”

"Just think about it, Lucius Malfoy alone is evil enough!" Ron said. "The Malfoy family may hold the key to the school's secret room, and have held it for centuries. Generations down. Pass, from grandfather to father, from father to son..."

"What you two said is not unreasonable." Hermione frowned. She once again thought of the arrogant and indifferent Lucius Malfoy in Flourish and Blotts Bookstore. That fight was a huge blow to her and her. The parents created a very bad impression.

However, out of caution, Hermione still did not agree directly. Instead, she still said with a bit of uncertainty: "I think what you two said is still possible."

"Actually, what's the use of discussing this here?" Harry suddenly felt frustrated for some reason, "We are not the principal, and we don't have the ability to talk to Dumbledore at any time like Wright. What we are talking about here is These inferences cannot be confirmed at all.”

"Actually, maybe I have a way." Hermione lowered her head, quickly glanced at Percy across the room with the corner of her eye, and lowered her voice again, "It's just that it's not easy to do, and it's dangerous. It’s very dangerous, and we may even directly violate fifty school rules.”

"If you have any ideas, just tell me!" Ron said impatiently.

"All we need to do is go into the Slytherin common room and ask Malfoy a few questions without him recognizing us," Hermione said calmly.

"Haha!" Ron laughed out loud. He thought Hermione might have been confused by the book. This was not some Lockhart travel novel. Even Ron would not say that the two eyes on Malfoy's stinky face were just for decoration and that he could not identify who was who.

"This is impossible." Harry shook his head and said.

"No, it's possible," Hermione said, "We just need some Polyjuice Potion."

"what is that?"

"Three weeks ago, Snape mentioned in class..." Hermione said.

"Snape? Merlin!" Ron sighed and directly interrupted Hermione, "In Potions class, besides listening to Snape's lectures, you can't do anything else more interesting. ?"

Hermione rolled her eyes at Ron.

"There's only one question now, do we need to bring Senior Sister Chang Chu in?" Hermione said.

"Of course not!" Ron objected directly.

"I think it should be necessary." After thinking for a while, Harry nodded in agreement with Hermione's statement, "No matter what, the four of us went to the death anniversary party together, and we also discovered the attack together. If we want "We cannot leave her alone to find out who is behind this incident."

"Well, Harry, what you said seems to make sense." Ron scratched his head.

"Then let's not waste time! Let's talk to Senior Sister Chang Chu about this matter tomorrow!" Hermione said directly.

…

The next day, in the library.

"Polyjuice potion?" Chang Chu closed the magic text book in his hand and looked at Hermione and the others with a frown. This was not a magic potion that second-year students would learn in their textbooks.

"Yes, after careful inference, the three of us believe that the heir of Slytherin who caused the attack at that time should be the same person, and he came from the Snake Yard." Hermione said softly, "So in order to avoid being Others are aware that we need to use Polyjuice Potion to enter the Slytherin common room to confirm the authenticity of this matter."

"Senior, do you want to join us?" Hermione asked.

"No problem." Chang Chu nodded, "I'm also very upset with those people! They treat me as a suspect in the attack every day. Didn't you see that Felicia was petrified? I was also a victim. Is it good?"

"That's great!" Hermione said happily, "Now we just need to get the recipe for Polyjuice Potion."

"You have come up with this idea before there is a formula?" Chang Chu was a little hard to accept. She thought she only needed to drink the polyjuice potion and then go directly into the Slytherin dungeon to ask questions.

"Yes," Hermione nodded, "The recipe for Polyjuice Potion is in a book called "Powerful Potions", and this book is placed in the restricted area of ​​the library. We need to borrow books from the restricted area. If so, there is only one way, and that is to get an approval note signed by a teacher. "

"So what we need to do now is to find a valid reason to get a professor's autograph slip?" Chang Chu frowned.

The professors at Hogwarts are not fooled so easily, and this is a restricted book area that ordinary students have no access to. If there is no completely reasonable reason, I believe no professor will be stupid enough to directly sign their approval. strip.

Although Wright said that he had the ability to read books in the restricted area at will, Chang Chu did not want to rely on Wright's power this time. This matter was originally an experience shared by her, Hermione, Harry and Ron.

"Yes." Harry said.

Chang Chu set his sights on Harry.

"Harry, have you been writing fan replies to Professor Lockhart this semester?" Chang Chu suddenly asked.

"Yes, what's wrong?" Harry looked at Chang Chu with some confusion, "Does writing a reply to Lockhart have anything to do with what we are discussing?"

"It's Professor Lockhart," Hermione corrected quietly.

"Yes," Chang Chu nodded, "Will you also sign autographs for Professor Lockhart?"

"Well, sometimes I need to help Lockhart sign his event pictures. In order to try not to be recognized by others, Lockhart also specially taught me how to sign his name..." Harry said As he spoke, he suddenly stopped talking. He had already realized what Chang Chu wanted to say, "Is it what you want, Chang Chu?"

"Yes, let Harry forge Lockhart's signature, and we will make an approval note signed by the professor ourselves." Chang Chu looked at Hermione and Ron calmly and said slowly.

Although he didn't want to ask for help from Wright, it had to be said that the idea that Chang Chu came up with was indeed inspired by Wright's forgery of the signature form two days ago.

"This is against school rules." Hermione opened her mouth, but could only say this dryly.

"Come on! We'll have to break a lot of school rules in the future! Hermione, you said last night that we had to break a total of fifty school rules, and this is just the first one." Ron curled his lips and said, "Let me tell you. , this idea is simply great! ”

"Then let's try it first!" Chang Chu picked up a piece of parchment, took out a pen and handed it to Harry.

Harry sat down, flattened the parchment, took a deep breath, and then wrote Lockhart's name in a big, beautiful squish.

"Wow!" Ron exclaimed in admiration, "Although I don't know if what you signed, Harry, looks like Lockhart himself, but at least you have this kind of momentum. If Colin Creevey and Ginny see If you get to this scene, you might just scream.”

"Ron!" Harry said with some embarrassment.

"Okay, okay, I won't say anything anymore." Ron took the parchment out of Harry's hand and handed it to Hermione, "Hermione, can you look at this handwriting?"

Hermione looked at the parchment and then at Harry, with an expression on her face that she was hesitant to speak.

"What's wrong? Talk." Ron was a little confused.

"What I want to say is, if I hadn't seen Harry write this signature with my own eyes, I would have regarded this piece of paper as Professor Lockhart's autograph and kept it." Hermione said with a complicated expression.

"That's enough!" Ron said, "Brother, you are rich!" He turned his head and patted Harry on the shoulder, "Lockhart's autograph is not cheap!"

"Ron! How dare you!" Hermione looked extremely angry. Even though she had lowered her voice as much as possible, she could still hear some screams in it. "Professor Lockhart's autograph is simply not acceptable." Measured in vulgar money!”

"Okay, okay!" Chang Chu interrupted the quarrel between the two, "Let's write out the signature note now, and then let Harry sign it, and we can get the banned book."

The four of them quickly forged Lockhart's signed approval slip and walked in front of Mrs. Pince.

"'Power Potion'?" Mrs. Pince read out with some suspicion, her sharp eyes looking straight at Hermione who handed the note to her.

"Yes." Hermione said without hesitation. But if that was really Lockhart's autograph, I believe she wouldn't be so free and easy now.

Madam Pince held up the parchment and held it up to the light overhead, as if to test whether they had forged it.

The foursome held their breath nervously.

If Mrs. Pince discovered that they were forging the professor's approval note, the Polyjuice Potion project would be ruined in an instant, and they might even have to get a major demerit.

But fortunately, because Harry's signature was carefully taught by Lockhart, it passed Mrs. Pince's inspection very smoothly.

With one last look at Hermione, Mrs. Pince left with the note.

"I can't believe it at all that we just forged this signature slip and were able to get a book in the restricted book area!" Hermione said in an extremely low voice as she watched Mrs. Pince disappear behind the bookshelf. said.

"I can't believe it either." Chang Chu said. She looked directly at Harry, as if she was seeing a big treasure. "Maybe we can use this method to borrow more banned books in the future."

"Come on, ladies." Ron said a little unreasonably, "Are those thick textbooks not enough for you? Or have you already read all the books in the general area?"

"Although I haven't finished reading it, no one can be too short of knowledge." Hermione maintained the same idea as Chang Chu.

And this is a restricted book area! If you can’t take this opportunity to borrow two more books to read, who knows when the next opportunity will come! And all Harry can write is Lockhart's signature. Who knows how many years Lockhart will stay at Hogwarts?

A few minutes later, Mrs. Pince came back. In her hand was a thick book that seemed to be moldy. There were four big words printed on the shabby cover of the book: "Powerful Potion".