Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

After getting down from the observatory, Zhang Xu went directly to the cafeteria. It was already dinner time, and if he didn't go, he would have nothing to eat.Then he finally made it to the cafeteria before the end of meal time, and filled his stomach after wolfing down a meal.

At this time, the news that Ron made a fuss in the common room after eating a cake mixed with a love potion this morning has spread among the four colleges, but everyone still doesn't know the news of his second poisoning. When he appeared, everyone thought he was shy and hiding.

Ron ran into the common room early this morning, and recited non-repeating sonnets for 10 minutes in front of a girl whose face turned pale with fright.

Ron would probably have been able to talk until dinnertime if Ginny hadn't caught him starting to read his poem to Harry and then fought his way through the wall of onlookers before bringing him down.

As for Harry and Neville, when they were discovered by the students in the dormitory next door, they were under the petrification spell and kept stopping Ron.

In the end, Harry, who still lifted the petrification spell, let down Ron, who was tied up into rice dumplings and hung upside down on the ceiling of the common room doing pendulum movements, and brought him to Slughorn.

After dinner, Zhang Xu returned to the dormitory, and then plunged into the sea of ​​questions in the study.

There are still more than 120 days before the college entrance examination, and there is not much time left for him, so he needs to hurry up and review.

As for the very tempting thing of using a time-turner to go to the future to buy a copy of the real college entrance examination questions over the years, he gave up after struggling for 5 minutes, because the risk of doing so was too great.

For a student, the college entrance examination is an all-round tempering, and it is the first opportunity for many people to control their own destiny with their own hands, and take responsibility for their own future with their own actions.Anyone who is interested in taking a further step in life will not give up such a rare opportunity.

At 11:30 in the evening, Zhang Xu finished checking the answer to the last question on the test paper and heaved a sigh of relief when he found that the answer was correct.

What he did tonight was the one-model math test paper for the college entrance examination that had just been sent. It seemed that his grades were not bad, reaching the expected level.

After tidying up the test papers and stationery on the table with a wave of his magic wand, Zhang Xu walked to the window sill with the tea mug in his hand, and stretched out his hand to open the window. The cold wind in the late night of early spring made him shiver.

He closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, the cold air penetrated into his lungs, awakening his drowsy head.

A narrow waning moon hangs in the sky without a trace of cloud. Without the interference of moonlight, the stars in the night occupy the entire stage.

The great triangle in winter is still hanging in the zenith, and the five emperors of Leo in the great triangle in spring have climbed to the sky above the mountains in the east.

The tail of July is the constellation Leo, and the tail of Leo is this five emperors one 36 light-years away from the earth.

Zhang doesn't know anything about watching the sky at night.In his previous life, he thought about learning some astronomical knowledge to use when picking up girls, but in the city of the 21st century, don't expect to see many stars at night. If you want to see stars, you can only go to the suburbs where there is no light pollution.But if a girl is willing to go to the suburbs with you in the middle of the night, it seems that this knowledge is not needed.

After staring at the stars for a while and thinking wildly in his mind for a while, Zhang Xu's tense mind began to relax.

After drinking the tea in the mug, Zhang Xu felt a little hungry, so he planned to make some supper in the kitchen.

With Dobby making such a fuss today, he can't be expected to continue delivering food.

Meanwhile, Harry, Hermione, and Hagrid emerged from the ward, leaving it to the Weasleys.

Walking in the corridor leading to the foyer, the topic of the three of them naturally couldn't be separated from the incident of Ron's poisoning.

"Another child has been seriously injured, and Dumbledore is very worried," said Hagrid worriedly.

"Is there anything he can do?" Hermione asked anxiously.

Although it is normal for students in Hogwarts to be injured for various reasons, for example, two girls with furry ears on their heads are helping a boy with ivory in his mouth, but this Compared with the serious injury that almost lost his life, it is not the same thing at all.

"Although he has all kinds of tricks to fill his clever head, he doesn't know who sent the necklace and poisoned the wine. No matter how many ideas he has, it won't work." Hagrid said worriedly, "And the school board will definitely be dissatisfied with this matter. They think Hogwarts is a safe haven, but now this place is not safe, they might arrange the students to a safer place."

"Where?" Harry asked in surprise.

"Student's house." Hagrid replied with a bitter face.

"They're going to close the school," Hermione exclaimed in surprise, "but it's not safe for students to go home now, and there are news of Death Eater attacks in the newspapers every day."

"Keep your voice down," Hagrid, who was startled by Hermione, said to Hermione in a rare and severe voice, "But the school trustees think their home is safe, at least there will be no murders."

"This matter has put a lot of pressure on Dumbledore, so he may make some compromises in exchange for the support of the school board."

"What compromise?" Harry asked.

"Let the Aurors enter Hogwarts secretly." Hagrid whispered to Harry and Hermione with difficulty in his loud voice, "You must not talk about this matter, it will cause unnecessary trouble .”

Harry and Hermione nodded quickly to promise not to say anything.

"Now Dumbledore is under a lot of pressure, and it's the first time I've seen him quarrel with two people twice in a row." Hagrid said with a frown, "Dumbledore looked angry at that time. Yeah, it's the first time I've seen him like this with Bligh."

The next moment, Hagrid suddenly realized what he was talking about, and shut his mouth nervously.

"Dumbledore and Black were arguing" Harry's eyes widened in surprise, as if he wouldn't stop until his eyes were bigger than his glasses.

"Why are they arguing?" Harry asked anxiously.

For Harry, among the people who can give him the care of his elders

On the surface, Dumbledore and Black are the top two.If the two had a conflict, it would be hard for him to be caught in the middle.

Although Hagrid didn't want to say it, he reluctantly told it after Harry's repeated questioning.

"During the meeting that day, the matter of the necklace was discussed, and Black thought it was done by a student." Hagrid said to Harry.

"It's Malfoy," said Harry firmly. "I've always suspected him."

The next thing Harry noticed was something strange about Hagrid's face.

"It's not Malfoy," said Hagrid, "it's someone else."

"Ah" Harry was stunned this time, it never occurred to him that there was another suspect.

"The person Black suspects is Zhang Xu." Hagrid said in a low voice.

At this moment, Harry and the others had already reached the foyer, and the hall was very quiet at midnight, which made Hagrid's voice reach the ears of Zhang Xu on the stairs who was about to turn and go down the hall.

Zhang Xu almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, at this moment Scarlett, who was standing next to him, tugged at his sleeve, and then gave him a funny face.

"Be honest and be lenient." Scarlet said to Zhang Xu through voice transmission.

Then Zhang Xu didn't want to talk to her, and rolled his eyes at her.

"No, no, it can't be Zhang." Harry and Hermione denied it at the same time.

Hearing that Harry and Hermione trusted him so much, Zhang Xu felt better.

"If Zhang is going to do this kind of thing, he doesn't need to go around such a big detour," said Hermione. "He has too many ways to kill a person without others knowing."

Zhang Xu: ""

I'm really touched that you trust me so much, Zhang Xu thought.

Then Harry said, "It can't be Zhang, there must be something wrong with Black."

"Black always thought he was a Dark wizard, and he's been in cahoots with the Malfoys before," said Hagrid, "and he's a Parseltongue."

"I'm also a Parseltongue, why don't people suspect that I'm a dark wizard?" Harry said angrily, "He and Malfoy's family are just doing business, and the canned basilisk I gave you at Christmas is from Malfoy's family." Raised from a baby basilisk that was sold to him."

Hagrid was expelled because of Voldemort and the Basilisk, and it was impossible to say that he was out of breath.

Voldemort can't afford to mess with him, so he can only vent his anger on the basilisk's head. Every time he eats canned food, he regards the meat in the can as the meat of the thousand-year-old basilisk.

Although the canned food is not as delicious as the fresh one.

At this time, Hermione said with some uncertainty: "Is there any conflict between Black and Zhang? I found that Black has been hostile to him."

"You don't know?" Hagrid asked in surprise, "I thought you all knew."

Hermione shook her head, she was not very interested in all kinds of gossip.

"It's because of Professor Scarlet." Hagrid said to Hermione.

At this time, the two parties who were eavesdropping on the side began to take out their wands.

"What does it matter?" Hermione asked, "Didn't Zhang's father save Professor Scarlet many years ago?"

"Hey, anyone who knows the inside story knows that this is an excuse, and everyone doesn't tell the truth." Hagrid said with a sudden smile, "If you think about how the two of them usually look, the ghosts often see them going to each other's house alone at night. In the dormitory, do you still think their relationship is very simple?"

Hermione and Harry thought for a moment, then shook their heads together and said, "No."

"Is it true what other people said?" Hermione said incredulously, "I thought those girls were talking nonsense, so I didn't pay attention."

"Perhaps the girls have something to say." Harry said thoughtfully. "I've also heard that there is something strange between the two of them."

Then Harry went on to say: "I also heard that Zhang likes older women, and I think Professor Scarlett also fits the bill."

Seeing that the topic had shifted from Dumbledore's quarrel with others to gossip news, Hagrid took the opportunity to say goodbye to Harry and Hermione: "It's getting late, you guys hurry back to the common room."

After Hagrid finished speaking, he turned and strode out of the castle gate, as if fleeing from something.

It was at this moment that Harry suddenly remembered that Hagrid hadn't told him the details of the quarrel between Dumbledore and Black, and who the other person who quarreled with Dumbledore was.

Harry chased out the castle gates, only to find that Hagrid had run away.

Harry thought about going to Hagrid's hut to ask him about things after Quidditch training tomorrow, and then turned around and returned to the castle.

As a result, as soon as he walked through the gate, he heard a voice say, "Miss Granger, I think Gryffindor will lose ten points for wandering around the castle at this late hour."

Harry was taken aback for a moment, and then he saw Scarlet standing in front of Hermione turning his head and said to him: "Where is our savior, Mr. Potter, leaving the castle in the middle of the night? You will lose thirty dollars for it." point."

After Scarlet finished speaking, the scoring hourglass placed on the wall of the foyer made a rattling sound.

The next Sunday, Harry came to Hagrid's hut after a very unpleasant Quidditch training.

After knocking on the door for nearly 10 minutes, the door of the hut opened.

Harry saw Hagrid standing behind the door leaning on a small tree-like stick as a crutch. He looked weak and his legs were still shaking.

Harry asked nervously, "What's the matter with you, Hagrid?"

"It's okay." Hagrid turned sideways with difficulty to let Harry into the room, then walked slowly to the chair by the table with trembling legs on crutches and sat down, and said, "I just started I started feeling sick to my stomach this morning."