time at hogwarts

186.The purpose of the basilisk

"Headmaster, Lucius Malfoy and Cornelius Fudge are looking for you." When Aragog left Hagrid to wonder what happened to him, Professor Flitwick suddenly appeared.

"I'll be right over," Dumbledore said.

"No need, we're already here." Lucius's voice sounded immediately, and then two more people appeared out of thin air.

"Cornelly, my friend, do you have any business coming to Hogwarts at this time?" Dumbledore greeted him with a smile.

"Don't you know something? Dumbledore." Lucius said proudly.

"Oh? What should I know?"

"Don't you think the two missing students in the school are very similar to an incident 50 years ago?" Lucius looked at Hagrid next to Dumbledore with a malicious look on his face.

"And if I'm not mistaken, a terrifying magical animal seemed to have appeared here just now."

"Are you planning to destroy the evidence?"

Hagrid opened his eyes wide and prepared to retort that Aragog could not and had not hurt anyone.After Dumbledore pulled his finger, he realized the meaning of what Dumbledore had just said and suppressed his words.

Lucius was a little disappointed. If Hagrid admitted that the big spider he had just disappeared, not only would he be in trouble, but Dumbledore would not be able to escape his involvement.Look, Dumbledore let the man-eating spider go.What a good reason.

Speaking of spiders, Lucius couldn't help but think of the basilisk that appeared around his house early this morning. He didn't expect that Voldemort would actually use it to contact him. The sudden appearance of the basilisk frightened him.He did not expect that Voldemort, who had not heard from him all this time, would ask him to cooperate with his plan, which was still aimed at Dumbledore. At that time, he fearfully thought that Voldemort knew that he wanted to distance himself from him and came to punish him.

"Albus," Fudge's voice made Lucius end his memory.

"Things are very bad. I have to come here immediately. As you know, the disappearance of two pure-blood wizards has made the pure-blood family panic. They no longer believe in the school and require the Ministry of Magic to severely punish the wizards who did such things. .”

"Do they suspect that I was responsible for the missing students?" Hagrid couldn't hold back and asked loudly.

Fudge remained silent and acquiesced.

"Cornelly, I must declare that Hagrid has never done anything like this, and I already have clues." Dumbledore said.

"What is your clue? Dumbledore, everyone knows that Hagrid follows your lead, and your reason is not valid at all." Lucius said unceremoniously.

Fudge asked Lucius to hold his tongue.

"What clues have you found? If they are useful, you can ask Aurors to investigate. But no matter what, we must take Hagrid away. You have to know, Albus, Hagrid's records are very unfavorable to him. Without conclusive evidence, We can't let him stay here any longer until there's proof that he didn't do it."

"Where are you taking me?" Hagrid's voice was a little excited.

"It can't be Azkaban. No, I'm not going anywhere." Hagrid shouted.

"Where is Azkaban?" Harry asked curiously when Magos and the other three who had just arrived heard the term.

Ron looked at Lucius and Fudge with some horror, "That's a prison. It's rumored that people who enter there never come out again."

"How could that happen?" Harry's eyes widened.

"Hagrid didn't do anything."

"I will not agree to your unwarranted behavior." Dumbledore looked at Lucius and Fudge with a serious face.

Fudge looked at him awkwardly, "I'm afraid your opinion is useless."

"Why, can't the headmaster of Hogwarts vouch for his teachers?" Dumbledore said loudly.Flitwick also looked up at them, the wand in his hand pointing faintly at them.

Lucius turned a blind eye to Flitwick's actions. "Due to your recent incompetent behavior, the board of directors and I agree that you are no longer capable of assuming the position of principal." He took out a roll of parchment from his robe and handed it over. .

"This is a suspension order! It includes the signatures of 12 directors."

Dumbledore's expression suddenly froze.

"Especially because the pure-blood family jointly believes that you can no longer control the situation in the school. If you are allowed to continue to lead, I am afraid that there will not be a single pure-blood wizard left in the school. And my son is also in the school. I don't feel comfortable letting him. You go and protect him.”

"You can't drive Dumbledore away. You don't know the situation in the school at all. Once he leaves, there may still be students missing in the school." Hagrid said loudly.

"Calm down, Hagrid." Dumbledore stopped the angry Hagrid.

"They actually want Principal Dumbledore to resign?" Harry looked at this scene in disbelief.

"My father will definitely rush into the minister's office in anger if he finds out." Ron also murmured.

Magos looked at this scene, and an invisible sense of urgency came from all directions. He was originally planning to find something out of the diary, but he no longer thought about it. What he wanted to do most now was to tell Dumbledore quickly. Lido's information about the secret room would not hesitate even if it was suspected.Because if Dumbledore really left Hogwarts, he couldn't imagine whether he could still happily learn magic knowledge here as he does now.

"The directors asked me to resign, so I had no choice but to step aside."

"Headmaster Dumbledore," Flitwick shouted hurriedly.

Stopping Flitwick's next words, Dumbledore walked up to Lucius.

"But at Hogwarts, if anyone asks for help, it will be given."

Lucius pretended to be moved and glanced at him,

"It's really touching." Then his face changed, "You can leave now."

Dumbledore calmly glanced at where Magos and the others were, and walked towards the school expressionlessly.

"Hagrid." Fudge looked at the giant, "Let's go."

Hagrid glanced at the hut for a while, then followed Fudge and left in a daze.

After a while, Magos and the three were the only ones left next to Hagrid's hut.

"How could this happen?" Harry looked at the direction Hagrid left at a loss.

"Don't worry yet," Magos said quickly, "Principal Dumbledore just took a special look at us. Could it be that he has discovered us a long time ago and asked us to find him?"

"It's possible." Ron agreed immediately, although he didn't notice Dumbledore looking at them.

Harry had hope again in his eyes, picked up his cloak and put it on,

"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry over."

But when they arrived at the door of the principal's office, they had no choice but to stop. They didn't know the password to open it.Dumbledore didn't leave the door open for them either.

"What now?" Harry looked at Magos.

Magos thought for a moment, "Wait."

As soon as he finished speaking, the stone monster in front of him jumped to the side as if it had come alive.

Magos was stunned. Is the spell just waiting?

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