Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

"It's been rumored throughout the school that Sirius and Snape had a duel." Hermione whispered, her voice full of concern.

"Duel?!" Ivan was stunned for a moment, "We saw it at the school gate yesterday..."

"It wasn't that time. It happened this morning. The two of them had a fight in the staff lounge. Several passing Hufflepuff students witnessed the whole duel!" Hermione said. When Dumbledore came forward, the two stopped."

Aiwen was stunned, no wonder he didn't see Sirius and Snape in the auditorium this morning, he thought they had finished breakfast early, who would have thought that the two of them would actually have a duel upstairs? !No wonder Snape was so freaking out this morning and treated everyone so badly.

"Sirius is so impulsive. On the first day of school, he has already fought Snape twice..." Hermione said anxiously.

Ivan wasn't too surprised. The duel between Sirius and Snape, no matter how you looked at it, was bound to happen, but I didn't expect it to happen so soon.

If there is no winner, the two of them will definitely continue to fight.

"Since there was a duel, what was the result?"

"I don't know, they were separated by Dumbledore before they got the result!" Hermione continued, "But after class, Sirius told us that as long as he was given a few more minutes, he could defeat Snape." .”

In Aiwen's view, this sentence should be said by Sirius for the sake of face, and Snape should be stronger than him.

More than a decade ago, they might have been evenly matched.But after all, Sirius was imprisoned in Azkaban for 13 years, and his magic power and fighting skills have regressed.And Snape has improved a lot in strength over the past ten years.

If the fight continued, Sirius would most likely lose to Snape.

But in terms of Sirius' fighting style, even if Snape wins the duel in the end, he will definitely pay a considerable price.

All in all, if other external forces and environmental influences are not considered, the result of the duel between the two sides should be a lose-lose.

"Okay, Sirius and Snape got into a fight, so what happened to Malfoy and those Slytherin students?" Ivan asked curiously, "Looking at their appearance, each of them can't wait to Eat us up!"

"Why don't you understand, Ivan!" Harry leaned over, "Since Sirius and Snape are confronting each other head-on, we must support Sirius."

"Support Sirius?!" Ivan was even more confused.

"That's right, we've all made plans. We're going to find an opportunity to fight Slytherin to decide the winner. We're currently recruiting people. Looking at what Malfoy and Slytherin mean, they must think so too, and they all support it." Snape."

The idea of ​​a head-on confrontation between colleges and a winner is really naive enough.

Ivan knew that Dumbledore would never let this happen, and he would definitely restrain Sirius and Snape to prevent the situation from getting worse.

"You also feel ridiculous, don't you?" Hermione asked, and after seeing Ivan nodded, she continued, "But both Harry and Ron think so, how can I persuade them not to listen?" .”

"That's not what we thought, Hermione. After knowing this, many Gryffindors are going to fight Slytherin, and everyone has already wanted to do it." Ron said innocently, "What's more , this time with Sirius taking the lead."

"This is just a private plan of the few of you, Sirius will not agree to such a crazy idea." Hermione said worriedly, "Have you forgotten, this happened once last year, and Professor McGonagall She was mad, she said, if anyone dares to do this again, he will be fired."

"You mean the scuffle on the Quidditch field," Harry recalled. "Fred and George threw a lot of shit, and Malfoy was the focus."

"He deserves it for saying that to Hermione!" Ron added, glancing at Hermione and looking away quickly.

"But none of us took advantage in the end, and everyone was punished in the end." Hermione tried her best to bring the topic back to what she wanted to say, "This time..."

"Okay, Hermione, it's not a punishment to reply to Lockhart's letter. I heard from Harry that you and Ivan didn't go at that time." Ron waved his hand, "I was under Filch's surveillance, Wiped the trophy all night and vomited slugs for over two weeks."

"So, you shouldn't..."

"The situation is different this time, Hermione!" Harry said in a low voice, "Malfoy is obviously planning to attack, the duel between Sirius and Snape was just the trigger, he must be using this as an excuse to plan something, We have to defend."

"If that's the case, we should tell the professor," said Hermione uncertainly.

"My God, do you want us to tell Professor McGonagall that Malfoy may be planning to attack us and hope the school will provide protection?!" Ron waved his fork and refused, "This is too shameful, if it is true Do it, and we'll be laughed at."

"But……"

"Have you forgotten what happened this morning? Malfoy is provoking, and we must fight." Harry said firmly, "There is no other way out, Hermione! This matter is not only for Sirius, but also for ourselves."

For the conversation between the three of them, Ivan felt more and more confused the more he listened.

He didn't know how Harry and Ron raised the duel between Sirius and Snape to a war between the two colleges, and there should be something else that happened in the middle that he didn't know.However, based on the analysis of the results, Malfoy may indeed be plotting some kind of conspiracy, and it is very likely that he will use this matter to stir up trouble.

The necessary defense is indeed necessary, but wouldn't it be too much of a fuss to directly engage in a large-scale melee? !

Chapter 255 The Tranquility Before the Storm

Considering the threat from Malfoy and other Slytherins, Harry and Ron finally persuaded Hermione, and they excitedly invited Ivan to join the war between the two houses.

"What happened in the morning?" Ivan asked strangely, "How is Sirius' Defense Against the Dark Arts going? Didn't something happen?!"

"The course went very well. He showed everyone the Banshee of Death, a very interesting dark creature that always makes a sharp and bleak sound. Although it is a bit unlucky, it did not do anything to hurt others." Hermione explained , "It's mainly Sirius, he made no secret of his dislike for Slytherin students in class, and deducted a lot of points from them, probably more than 100..."

"It's not Sirius' fault, it was Malfoy who took the initiative to provoke him." Harry argued, "He messed up Sirius' class and didn't do what he said."

"I know, but Sirius is still too emotional. He is a professor now, and he should treat every student fairly like Professor McGonagall." Hermione pursed her lips, which made her look very Like Professor McGonagall.

"Oh my God, do you even know what you're talking about?!" Ron exclaimed in surprise, "A professor who favors Gryffindor is the biggest expectation in my life. You're telling me now that I hope he Be fair!"

"What Sirius did is not too much, think about Snape, how he treated everyone before, if it was him..." Harry added.

"Snape deducted at least [-] points from Gryffindor this morning, and even scared a few girls to tears." Ivan recounted what happened in the Potions class this morning.

"I knew it was going to happen, that damned old bat," said Ron in disgust.

All in all, the animosity between Slytherins and Gryffindors is at an all-time high because of Snape's duel with Sirius, their unreserved dislike, and other long-simmering feuds.

In the next week, the students of the two colleges were all cautious.Everyone appeared in the castle in pairs, for fear of any accidents.

Although guarding each other, nothing actually happened.

With the intervention of Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall, management in the castle has been strengthened, and neither Harry nor Malfoy has the chance to carry out the so-called college war.

As time went by, Snape and Sirius also restrained a lot, and the fact that they deducted points from Gryffindor and Slytherin slowly stopped, but Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts classes also became The two subjects that Gryffindor and Slytherin students love and hate each other the most.

Compared with Potions class and Defense Against the Dark Arts class, which were highly differentiated, Hagrid's Protection of Magical Creatures class unexpectedly received unanimous praise from everyone.

At the suggestion of Ivan and Hermione, Hagrid chose the fire monster as the magical creature for the first class of the new semester.He raised a great fire in the field, full of fire monsters, for the entertainment of all, and gathered dead leaves to keep the fire alive, while fire-loving lizards hopped on the splintered, self-heating blocks.

According to almost everyone, this was the best class Hagrid had ever taken.

A week after school started, Ravenclaw and Slytherin played a Quidditch match, and Slytherin won the match, but the score was close.

According to Wood, this is good news for the Gryffindor team.Because, if Gryffindor beat Ravenclaw, it would still be in second place.

This game turned everyone's attention to the Quidditch game. Compared with the illusory house war, they found that it might be more practical to decide the winner in this way.Although Gryffindor lost to Hufflepuff before, they are still the favorite team to win this year because of Harry's Firebolt.

Today, the Gryffindor Quidditch team practice at least five times a week.

In the cold wind of January, Harry had to fly outside for five or six hours almost every day, and he didn't even have time to finish his homework.

Aiwen also felt that he didn't have enough time. He had entered a bottleneck in magic research and needed to invest more time.Ivan has already studied all the guidance given to him by Tom Riddle's diary last year, and he is now doing his best to study the black magic books he took out from No. 12 Grimmauld Place.

These magic books, especially the magic recorded in "Secrets of Cutting-Edge Black Magic" are very esoteric and complicated, and there are many places that Ivan can't understand at all.

He can't take these black magic books to ask Dumbledore or Sirius, he can only conduct research secretly by himself, and he spends more and more time in the library, while the librarian Mrs. Pince looks at His gaze also became more and more strange.

Holding Sirius' approval note, most of what Aiwen borrows and refers to are very old and unpopular magic books, and all of them are books in the restricted area.Not to mention these books are for 12-year-old wizards, even adult wizards rarely use them.

The only person who is busier than Ivan is Hermione, because there are too many courses to choose, and the burden of the courses is finally revealed on her.

Every night now, if she is not studying in the library with Aiwen, she will inevitably appear in a corner of the common room. Various textbooks are spread on the tables in front of her: arithmetic charts, various magic dictionaries, Muggle lifts, etc. Diagrams of heavy objects, and a wide variety of notes.

Except for Aiwen, she rarely talks to others now, and if someone disturbs her, she will speak in a vicious voice.

"What the hell is going on with the two of them?" One night, Ron finally couldn't help muttering to Harry, "I've never seen anyone busier than Ivan and Hermione now, even preparing senior wizards Neither did Percy in the grade exam. The two of them read more books in a day than I do in a semester."

"I don't know!" Harry didn't look up, he was writing a paper on various undetectable poisons assigned by Snape, "How about we borrow Hermione's Potions class homework?"

"Better not, she won't agree." Ron looked up again at Hermione, who was sitting almost out of sight behind a pile of precarious books.

"Hermione is really weird, how could he have so many classes." Ron continued, "This morning, I heard her talking to Professor Victor, who is the witch who teaches arithmetic and divination. Speaking of yesterday's homework, but Hermione couldn't have been to Arithmancy yesterday because she had Care of Magical Creatures with us! And Ernie MacMillan told me that Hermione never missed a Muggle Studies class class, but this class conflicts with the divination class half the time, and she has never missed a divination class."

Of course Harry knew why, but he had to keep it a secret.

He couldn't talk about the Time-Turner, and he had to finish Snape's paper now.

The confrontation between Snape and Sirius, while calm on the surface, was actually still turbulent.Harry had to be more careful, at this moment, if he had any clues that fell into Snape's hands, he would definitely die ugly.

"You said how about I go to Ivan for help, let him borrow my homework for me, Hermione will definitely not refuse him." Harry changed the subject.

"This idea is good, but the premise is that you can find Ivan." Ron said, "Besides Hermione, I also want to know what Ivan has been doing these days. He is in the library every night. The first time I saw him, he was always recording something with a thick magic book that no one could understand."

Chapter 256 The Seed of Distrust

"Yeah, the books he read are indeed profound and complicated, and they have always been like this." Harry said indifferently, "Ivan and Hermione are the most learned little wizards I have ever seen."

"Harry, this is not easy to learn, don't you understand?!" Ron raised his head and looked around, and said eagerly in a low voice, "Ivan is different from Hermione, although I don't understand Hermione Why can we have so many classes at the same time, but at least we know what she is doing, but Ivan can read those magic books..."

"What are you trying to say?" Harry looked away from the parchment.

"What I mean is that all the magic books Ivan read are in the restricted area. He must be researching something behind our backs. I secretly read his research notes a few days ago, and there were some terrible patterns drawn on them. Doesn't look like any decent magic." Ron stammered, "Harry, he might be working on..."

Harry looked up at Ron in surprise, he finally knew what the other party wanted to say.

Neither of the two spoke, and a terrible emotion spread in the uneasiness.

Judging from Ron's expression, he obviously suspected that Ivan was studying black magic.

Harry instinctively wanted to refute, but didn't know how to say it.Aiwen has always given people the impression of being omniscient. He knows a lot of magical knowledge. After Ron was controlled by the Imperius Curse in the past, Aiwen was the first to discover the clues.If Aiwen hadn't studied it, how could he know that those magics were black magic? !

But if it was said that Ivan was studying black magic, Harry didn't believe anything.In his impression, black magic is extremely evil and should be absolutely banned, and those who study black magic are all wizards like Voldemort and Peter Pettigrew.

They are cruel and ruthless, and Ivan cannot be that kind of person.

But for what Ron said, Harry had no way to refute. The fact that Ivan was studying black magic was like a big stone weighing on his heart, making Harry breathless. He felt An unprecedented panic.

"Maybe, he just wants to understand..." Harry said softly after a long time.

His voice was low, and he didn't want anyone to hear about his conversation with Ron.

"Harry, this is not something to joke about. I have been controlled by a mysterious person before, and I know that feeling. Black magic should be absolutely forbidden." Ron also lowered his voice and said anxiously, "We must take action."

"What do you want to do?"

"I don't know, but at least we need to figure out what Ivan is doing first." Ron continued, "If he is really studying black magic, we can tell other people so that everyone knows about it and recognizes his true colors .Such as Dumbledore or Sirius, they will never allow Ivan to do this, he will help us."

There was another short silence, and Ron saw that Harry was obviously hesitating.Strange emotions spread in Ron's body again. After guessing that Aiwen was studying black magic, he was first briefly surprised, followed by a strong sense of unfairness.

He thought of the way other people looked at him, and the rumors in the school.

Ron felt very unfair, he was just innocently controlled by the Imperius Curse twice, and he was also a victim.But the eyes of other people looking at him, the unspoken sense of distrust, as if those bad things really seemed to be what he wanted to do.

Aiwen is studying black magic, which is much more evil than those things he does.But no one said anything about him. The fact is completely opposite. Many people worship him and think he is a hero. Ivan's reputation in the school is even louder than Harry.

In Ron's view, everyone was deceived by Ivan.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case, everyone was blinded by Ivan's appearance, Harry was like this, Hermione was like this, his family members and others were also like this.

Everyone trusted Ai Wen, but he failed everyone's trust.He's researching black magic behind everyone's back, and he's doing very evil things secretly.

A strong sense of mission arose deep in Ron's heart, and he felt that he had an obligation to expose Aiwen's true face and stop the ongoing conspiracy.There was also the strange feeling that had occurred on the Quidditch pitch a few months ago, which was also the main reason for Ron to do this.

"Harry, we..."

"I know what you mean, Ron, but I believe Ivan, there is no evidence that he is studying black magic, he can borrow those magic books from the restricted area, he must have the consent of the professor and the headmaster." Harry After thinking for a while, he continued to persuade, "Ivan is different from those dark wizards. Even if he is studying black magic, he just wants to study it. I believe him!"

"But……"

"If you are really worried, we can talk to Ivan, no matter what he is doing, he will definitely tell us."

"Ask him if he's doing evil black magic research, and who he's going to choose as a victim, that's an interesting topic," Ron muttered softly.

The atmosphere was a little awkward, and the two of them didn't talk about this topic anymore, but the seeds of distrust grew slowly and sprouted invisible.

Harry and Ron didn't bother Ron in the library, nor did they dare to disturb Hermione, who looked a little grumpy, and the two of them finally asked Sirius to help them complete the paper on various undetectable poisons.

Although potions were not Sirius' strong point, the difficulty of homework in the third grade was too easy for him, and he gave Harry and Ron a lot of useful advice.

In all fairness, with the help of Sirius, Harry should at least get a good grade in this paper, but Snape gave him an extremely bad evaluation.But Harry didn't care, he had expected this outcome.

As long as the little wizard's after-school homework and potions that had a good relationship with Sirius didn't get any good comments from Snape.

Ivan was probably the only exception, because he had studied all the homework assigned by Snape and the potion that the second-year wizard was required to brew, and he had come up with the optimal formula and brewing method, even if Snape I can't find any faults.

Snape tried a few times, and even required Ivan to complete the Advanced Wizarding Level Examination before it could involve difficult potions.

But Aiwen can complete it smoothly every time, and the process is more perfect than the textbook.

While his face became more gloomy and terrifying, Snape's attitude towards Ivan returned to the previous one, that is, to ignore him.

If his name must be called, say "Mr. Jack of All Trades" instead.

Ivan is now in the Potions class, and he is the only Gryffindor student who can prevent Snape from criticizing or deducting points from him, which makes others envious.

Chapter 257 Seeds and Germination