All things are three at Hogwarts

After leaving the Three Broomsticks and Seamus, who was still planning to stay in the bar for a while, Harry and the others finished visiting Hogsmeade Village and prepared to return to Hogwarts without stopping too much.

Harry and his party walked much faster than when they arrived. In their hands, they were carrying Mandrake leaves, pupae of the Grimace Hawkmoth and other related materials prepared for the transformed Animagus that they had retrieved from the Hogsmeade post office. , not wanting too many people to know their actions, they did not choose to let the owl throw things directly on the dining table at Hogwarts in public. In the afternoon, they made an appointment with Sirius to learn Animagus transformation for the first time. They need to place the materials in place that cannot see light.

In addition, in addition to receiving parcels and letters, the Hogsmeade Post Office has at least two hundred owls to choose from, ranging from a great gray falcon to a miniature bard for local delivery only. They all sit on color-coded shelves for you to choose from, and which one you choose depends on how quickly you want your mail to reach its destination.

The wind and snow were still floating in the air, and they walked hard on the snow, struggling to move forward, hoping to return to the comfortable and warm Hogwarts as soon as possible.

"Why don't you start learning Animagus during the summer vacation? The full moon is tonight, and you have to hold the mandrake in your mouth until the next full moon..." Hermione adjusted her pockets Hat asked Ginny, "Recently, starting from Snape, other courses are requiring our sixth grade students to use silent spell techniques. Harry and the others can use this to practice, but Ginny, this will delay your understanding of the new magic." Learn the curse."

"Dumble... maybe Sirius has been free recently?" As Harry said this, he realized that this might be an arrangement made by Dumbledore because he didn't want him to practice more black magic in the ancient magic class. In view of the recent news that Dumbledore had Regarding the conflict between Lido and Allen, Harry made up an excuse for Hermione, not wanting Hermione to tell Allen if she found out, which escalated the conflict between the two people again. After all, in Harry's view, Dumbledore and Allen In this matter, there are only differences in philosophy, and the essence is to make others better.

Ginny's expression looked a little disgusting: "I have to hold this grass in my mouth until the next full moon?"

"Until the next full moon, you cannot swallow the leaf or take it out of your mouth at any time, otherwise the whole process will have to start over, which is really not an easy thing." Hermione recalled the preparation process at the corner of her mouth. She twitched unconsciously. At that time, she couldn't do oral cleaning and care for her teeth for a whole month.

As they moved forward, the voices of the girls arguing not far ahead of them became louder and louder.

"Katie, you don't even know what's in here?" A sharp female voice reached their ears through the wind and snow.

Harry heard Katie Bell, the Chaser on his team, shout in a completely different tone from her usual gentle voice: "This has nothing to do with you, Leanne!"

The snow was falling thicker and faster now, and they had to squint their eyes to look forward. They saw Katie Bell, who was wearing a red coat, holding something in her arms and arguing with her friend Li An, who was wearing a dark green coat.

Harry's glasses had just been blurred by the snow water, and he had to wipe the lenses with his hands wearing dragon leather gloves. At this time, the argument had developed into an argument, and Li An suddenly reached out to snatch the package in Katie's hand. , but as Katie pulled back hard, the package wrapped in brown paper fell to the ground.

Suddenly, miserable screams rang out, and everyone stopped. They saw the two witches in front of them who were having a fierce argument just now. Among them, Katie, who was wearing red, had fallen to the ground, and Li An stood aside at a loss.

After noticing the arrival of Harry and the others, Li An's voice was full of tears and panic: "I warned her, tell her not to touch it!"

Then a change occurred. Katie, who had fallen to the ground, seemed to be pulled by something invisible, swaying from side to side on the snow, like a lifeless rag doll. Suddenly she was pulled high into the air again, with her arms spread wide and her head tilted back, as if something was pulling her back and forth in the air.

Harry and the others were frightened by this sudden turn of events and took half a step back. Hermione, who reacted immediately, took out her wand and took a step forward to freeze Katie, who was still flying around randomly in mid-air.

Katie's eyes were round and her long black hair was flying wildly in the wind. Before Harry and the others could let go of their suspenseful hearts, they saw her eyes suddenly open, her mouth wide open, and she let out a silent scream of terror, as if she was suffering from some extremely terrible pain.

Such a terrifying scene stunned the wizards standing below. The ferocious-looking Katie opened and closed her mouth and kept screaming but could not make any sound. When she finally lost consciousness, she fell from the sky.

Hermione quickly added another shock-absorbing spell to slow down her fall, allowing Katie to ease the momentum of her landing, and slowly lay on the snow with the movement of her wand.

Ron gasped and saw Katie lying on the snow. When she opened her eyes, her whole body was twitching and swinging completely unconsciously.

Then Harry and Ginny wanted to go around to help, but Hermione, who noticed their actions, immediately stopped them loudly: "Harry, stop and don't get close! Things that hurt Katie may be dangerous. .I’ll go over and take a look first.”

"What happened?" Hagrid's rough voice came through the wind and snow. He strode over, and the wind and snow painted his hair and eyebrows with dots of white.

"Hagrid, something happened to Katie. Go back to the castle and tell the professors to go to the school infirmary. We will be there shortly." Hermione calmly directed Hagrid to go back to school and inform the professors that Katie's situation was still unclear. Hagrid has always been careless and careless, and it would be bad if he hurt Katie again with his rough hands.

Hagrid opened his mouth and wanted to say that he was also a professor, but seeing Hermione show off the aura of female prefect and umbrella president at this time, he unconsciously obeyed the other party's arrangement and walked forward without saying a word. He took a few steps to pass the crowd and ran towards the castle.

But several Aurors rushed over soon after. Hermione walked up to them and gave them a few words. Then Katie walked over, and the other three Gryffindor little lions quickly got out of the way. .

Everyone followed her a little further away with their wands in hand, and Hermione leaned over to inquire about Katie's situation. Then she walked towards the kraft paper and things scattered nearby, squatted down, and used her wand to hold down the kraft paper that was blown by the wind, revealing a box that fell to the ground and cracked. In the box, a gorgeous opal necklace exuded a faint green color. In the light, oval-shaped opals one after another are wrapped in silver metal. It looks like a sun with a halo and a long pendant hanging below.

"Oh, no, it's a cursed item. I don't know as much about this as Allen does, so I don't dare to break the curse on her directly. We have to take her back to Madam Pomfrey quickly. Maybe Dumbledore can solve it." Min lowered her head and looked at the green light emitted by the opal necklace. She raised her head and said to the Aurors, "I will deal with the necklace. Gentlemen Aurors, please use the levitation spell to get Katie back to school first."

The Aurors who could be assigned to Hogsmeade were naturally Harris's people. In fact, many of them had another identity as the armed forces of the Red Umbrella Department, and those who knew the relationship obeyed Hermione's arrangements.

The Aurors used their wands to direct Katie's body, making her float in front of everyone. Katie lowered her head, her long black hair fell down to cover her face, and started walking towards Hogwarts Castle. It was only a professional habit that Luck went a little too far, making Katie look like she was being arrested and escorted by an Auror.

However, the arrival of the Aurors also relieved Harry and the others. It was not an easy task for students like them to continue to maintain the levitation spell on a snowy day.

And Hermione used her wand to carefully control the exposed opal necklace, causing it to float back into the box. Then she took a look at the dragon leather gloves on her hands, which had no damage, and wrapped them in the brown paper with her hands. lived and stuffed it into his pocket.

When they rushed to Hogwarts despite the wind and snow, Professor McGonagall hurriedly came down the stone steps to greet them. She looked seriously at the unaware Katie who had been floating in front of the Aurors, thanked the Aurors, and then pointed her wand at Katie, who floated behind her.

"Follow me." Professor McGonagall walked quickly to the school doctor's office. Probably Professor McGonagall had already told Filch and the Aurors that when they saw this situation, instead of stopping them, they ordered the students to get out of the way quickly so that they could get to the school doctor's office as soon as possible.

"Hagrid reported the situation to me. Miss Granger's approach was very appropriate." Dumbledore walked out of the school doctor's room and glanced at Katie floating in the air, "Poor girl."

Snape, with a gloomy expression, followed behind him, his eyes scanning Harry and Ron unkindly. Madam Pomfrey took Professor McGonagall into the ward and signaled Professor McGonagall to put Katie on a bed.

Hermione took out the opal necklace, the box and the brown paper and placed them on the table in the ward. Dumbledore brushed his hand over Katie's head and looked at the necklace on the table. Asked Snape: "What do you think, Severus?"

Snape walked to the hospital bed, lowered his head and carefully observed Katie, who was in a coma and still showed pain from time to time. Then he used the wand to peel off the brown paper to make the necklace float. He looked at the opal necklace: "Powerful cursed item, Dun It’s not very good. In fact, Miss Bell is not dead now, but is still lying there alive. Her good luck has made me very surprised.”

"She was wearing woolen gloves. Maybe she just touched her a little bit. Let me try it first." Dumbledore used his intact left hand to pull out the Elder Wand, bowed and moved the tip of the wand slowly towards Katie's body. , some black and green magical energy was pulled out of the opponent's body by Dumbledore with his wand, but as Katie's expression became more painful, Dumbledore finally had to give up and continue to break the curse.

Dumbledore took out his purple-red handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and gave instructions to the school therapist, Madam Poppy Pomfrey. "It's a very vicious curse. I've only lifted part of it. But to ensure Miss Bell's safety, Poppy, you'd better transfer her to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries for more conservative treatment. The poor girl, at least until Been there for three months."

"Now, can any of you tell me what happened?" Standing up, Dumbledore faced the group of young wizards, and then glanced at the Aurors who were following him, "I want you gentlemen Aurors to They will need some clues to help them investigate, and I remember Mr. Hotchner was a very serious and responsible person when he was in school."

The eldest one among the Aurors seemed quite happy to have his name remembered by his principal. A smile appeared on his tense and serious face: "Thank you for your cooperation and help, Dumbledore." headmaster."

Then, under the stern gaze of Professor McGonagall and the gloomy expression of Professor Snape, Li An stammered and began to explain what happened: "We had just entered the Three Broomsticks Bar. Katie went to the bar to order something and I went to She occupied a seat, but as soon as I sat down, I saw her entering the bar toilet, and when she came out, she was holding it in her hand."

"Use your poor memory to think about it. Are you sure Katie Bell didn't bring this with her when she entered the Three Broomsticks pub?" Snape's cold tone made the person who had just made a mistake in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class get reprimanded. Li An became even more nervous.

"I'm sure we were never separated from the dormitory to the Three Broomsticks pub." Li An recalled it carefully, and then replied affirmatively, "She said she wanted to send this package back to Hogwarts, and she left directly Bar, I had to catch up.”

"Did she say who it was given to?" Snape continued to ask.

"Katie and I have played Quidditch for many years and I know her very well. Outside of the Quidditch pitch, she wouldn't even hurt a fly and would only blow them away." Harry defended Katie, and then The thought that the main pursuer he had worked with for many years would not be able to play for at least three months gave the new Gryffindor Quidditch captain a headache.

"I asked her who gave it to her, but she refused to tell. She only said that it was to be given to someone at Hogwarts. Her expression was very strange when she spoke... Oh no, oh no, she must have been hit. The Imperius Curse was cast, and I only paid attention to that damn package at that time, and actually ignored her abnormality at that time." Lean cried out, trembling all over, and wiped the tears on his face with his sleeves randomly, Hermione gently Patting her shoulder.

Hearing that someone might be suspected of using the Unforgivable Curse, Auror Hotchner ordered a black bearded colleague beside him: "Derek Morgan, you catch up with Madam Pomfrey and help her send Miss Bell there. If she When she wakes up, ask her what she remembers, and remember not to delay her for too long and hinder the patient's rest."

"Then how did she touch the necklace?" Snape's cold gaze made Li An flinch.

Thinking of the process at that time, Li An began to sob again. She trembled her lips and tried to describe the matter as clearly as possible: "I didn't know that something like this would happen. I told her that she must not take this thing to school, Filch." The Aurors and I would never allow such unknown things to enter Hogwarts. But no matter how much I tried to persuade her, she just wouldn't listen, so I wanted to grab the things from her hands and throw them away. Knowing that she was possessed and refusing to let go, the package tore apart... and something happened to her."

"Katie must have accidentally touched it while fighting with you. Fortunately, she didn't hold it directly in her hand..." Professor McGonagall said softly. She patted the shoulder of Li An, who was almost emotionally broken. "When Madam Pomfrey comes back, you may need some medicine to calm down the shock."

Then, Professor McGonagall turned his eyes to the four Gryffindor wizards and sighed a little helplessly: "Why is it that every time something happens, you are always there?"

Several Gryffindors stood in silence in front of her, and Ron was helpless. He shook his head and said, "Believe me, Professor, I've been asking myself this question for six years."

Harry was a little embarrassed and uneasy next to him, but then he said calmly: "It might have been Pansy Parkinson."

Ron, who was standing on one side of him, was rubbing his nose awkwardly; Ginny, who was standing on the other side of him, started to put her hands on her forehead, and Hermione was sliding her feet on the ground, as if she wanted to keep a certain distance from Harry.

McGonagall pursed her lips and faced Harry. "Potter, this is a very serious allegation."

"Mr. Potter, except for Aurors who have permission to use it under certain conditions, anyone who uses the Unforgivable Curse on other wizards will be sentenced to life imprisonment." The Auror has already begun to take out his notepad to record his testimony. "Mr. Potter, did you witness the crime with your own eyes?"

"Indeed." Snape stared at Harry with a serious face, "What evidence do you have?"

"I just know." Harry replied and then glanced at Dumbledore who was silent next to him. He was very annoyed to find that when he talked to Dumbledore last time, he had read the memories and memories about the mysterious man. In his excitement about being able to learn about Animagus, he completely forgot about Alan's suggestion that he tell Dumbledore his suspicions...

Auror Hotchner was so impatient that he put down his notepad: "Mr. Potter, your behavior is..."

"You just... know?" Snape interrupted the Auror with an annoyingly exaggerated tone. He began to imitate Harry to highlight how retarded his previous answer was.

Harry opened his mouth but didn't expect any words to support his words, so he could only nod again.

"Your gift of prophecy is truly amazing, Potter. This kind of talent is something most mortals would never dream of possessing." Snape tilted his head and stared at Harry and said sarcastically, "How great, I didn't know you, the savior, were here. Did you get better grades than Alan Harris in the divination class?”

Professor McGonagall came to the rescue for his students: "I suggest that each of you go back to your dormitory and have a good rest, everyone."

Auror Hotchner also opened his mouth like Harry. He also wanted to pursue the serious accusation that the other party had just made without evidence, but gave up the plan when Hermione shook her head to stop him.

Dumbledore glanced at Hermione with a smile, and said kindly: "Minerva, Severus, and Miss Granger stayed calm this time and handled the emergency correctly and appropriately. Thirty more people should be added." points; Harry, Ron, Ginny and Li An can assist Hermione in sending Katie back, and each of them will receive fifteen points."

Snape snorted dissatisfiedly, but when his eyes met Harry's green eyes full of joy, he thought of the old bat who had talked with Dumbledore, and swallowed back the sarcasm he was about to blurt out.