days at Hogwarts

Chapter 98 Saturday, lively night outing

On the second floor of the castle, the school doctor's office.

As the evening approached, the afterglow of the setting sun passed through the transparent glass windows, casting a golden coat on the white sheets of the hospital bed.

At this moment, Ron was staring out the window in a daze.

Thousands of thoughts were flying in his head, worried about his friends being expelled, annoyed that Harry had used the Stunning Charm on him.

And the poison on the dragon's teeth made him ache all over. I really don't know how Charlie endured it.

"Ron, we're here to see you."

Ron turned his head, his eyes puffy from sleeping too long.

Loren looked it over from top to bottom, and it seemed that a little bump was nothing, and the puffiness in the eyes might be attributed to Harry's Stunning Charm.

Ron was also eyeing his friends, who had smiles on their faces and didn't look like they were going to be fired.He was relieved, the situation seemed to be much better than he thought.

Ron greeted happily: "Loren! Hermione! You are here!"

Just not to call Harry by his name. Loren and Hermione were a little amused by such a thoughtful thought.The two sat side by side on the hospital bed next to them, watching the show in silence.

Harry has been influenced by Professor Quirrell for a class, and now he feels that his heart is extremely strong, and this neglect is pediatrics.

He sat on Ron's hospital bed, as if he didn't hear what he just said, and said naturally, "You must not know that Ms. Pomfrey didn't see the fire dragon. I thought I was going to be fired."

Ron still didn't want to talk to Harry: "Yeah, is it? Probably because I told her it was a dog bite."

"Smart!" Harry patted Ron's bandaged hand exaggeratedly.

"Ow~"

Ron was caught in the pain, and couldn't pretend anymore: "Enough Harry, I haven't talked to you about using the Stunning Curse on me."

The three couldn't help laughing, this was the Ron they were familiar with.

Madam Pomfrey heard laughter coming in, and warned: "Don't make any violent movements."

This is to prevent the wound from collapsing. In the magic world, ordinary physical wounds can be healed directly with potions.But Ron's wound has "unknown toxins" and can only wait for natural healing.

Ms. Pomfrey told several people that fortunately, it was delivered in time and the wound did not deteriorate seriously.He only needs to stay in the school infirmary for two days, and he will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow.

Ron counted on his fingers, and he was discharged from the hospital tomorrow, so it was just in time for Snape's Potions class on Friday.

He raised his head and showed a pitiful expression: "Dear Ms. Pomfrey, I feel that not only my hands are hurting, but my whole body is hurting too. Can I stay for one more day to recuperate?"

Upon hearing this, Madam Pomfrey glanced at the three people beside her.

Loren, Hermione, and Harry were sitting upright, their backs straightened, and they all had the same expression of "see what I do, it's none of my business".

I haven't heard of any damage caused by dragging.

Ms. Pomfrey finally nodded in agreement with Ron's request, and looked at the three culprits beside her, "I'll give you another five minutes, and the patient will be resting in five minutes."

After speaking, exit the door.

"Yeah!" Ron cheered, "Stop Potions class with the old bat."

Generally speaking, Hermione would reprimand Ron at this time. It was the end of the period, and he should study hard in class.

But not this time. Hermione followed Loren and praised against his will. It was really a clever move. Maybe it would save Snape from deducting Gryffindor points. credit.

"Fire dragons are really dangerous creatures." The three of them said pretendingly.

The inexperienced little Charmander Noble is eating mice at this time, and he doesn't know that he has already taken a big blame.

Two days passed in a blink of an eye, Friday morning.

After the Potions class, when Loren and the others entered the dining room, they saw Ron already stuffing roasted chicken legs into his mouth, his cheeks bulging.

The bandage on his hand has been removed, and the wound is still covered with purple medicine.

"Little Ronnie, I heard you were bitten by a dog~"

"Are we still going to visit you?"

George and Fred were joking, each of them controlled Ron with one hand, and carefully looked at the wound on his hand.

"It's all right now, I just want to miss two classes." Ron hid it in a panic. He wasn't sure if the twins could feel anything from the wound. After all, both of them had seen the wound caused by the fire dragon on Charlie.

After confirming that there was nothing wrong with Ron, the twin brothers looked at each other suspiciously, let go of Ron's hand, and leaned into his ear and whispered:

"Hey, I advise you to avoid going to the Forbidden Forest in the first grade."

"We're not sure when the mother's yelling letter will come."

The twins withdrew before Ron had time to react.

Seeing that they didn't entangle his wound, Ron breathed a sigh of relief, and chatted and laughed with the little wizards around him.

Loren tasted the steak slowly, and used a fork to remove the bones bit by bit. He heard what the twins said just now.

The twins are not quiet students. Their reputation for night travel is widely spread among the first-year little wizards, but they have never been caught, and the deductions are mostly due to some pranks.

Harry and Ron used the invisibility cloak to frequently enter and leave the lounge in the middle of the night, and they might have been detected by the twins with the Marauder's Map.

Loren is very interested in the alchemy technique on the Marauder's Map, which involves the magic of names.

It is very interesting that such profound magic and alchemy techniques can be mastered by the "Predator" group in the student days.

Come to think of it, there's also their Animagus, which has a surprisingly high success rate.

There are only 7 registered Animagus in the UK, and all three of them have succeeded, even Peter Pettigrew, who is not very talented.

They may have mastered the advanced theory of human body deformation, which will be of great help to Loren on the path of biological refinement.

Hogwarts Castle, there are always infinite mysteries waiting for people to discover.

Loren wiped the salty-sweet gravy from her mouth, taking this to heart.

On the other side, Seamus told Ron the recent rumors in a deep voice: "According to the portraits in the corridor, a graduated Slytherin wizard sneaked into the castle. He is a cruel and evil dark wizard."

"Always in the middle of the night, in an unknown classroom, torture the abducted body and destroy his soul."

"Actually, something like this has happened before, so Hogwarts forbids little wizards from going out at night."

Loren had dinner with ghost stories, listening with gusto.It turns out that there will be horror stories circulating in magic schools. I don’t know if Hogwarts Castle was built on a cemetery.

At night, Loren routinely came to the basement to do Snape's weekly tasks.

It's been almost a year now.In the beginning, Snape issued a list of books for Loren to read by himself, building up some basic knowledge system of Potions, and understanding some superficial principles of Potions.

Making snake venom and asking him to carefully pick out the stamens is more like a test of heart.

After Snape told him some conjectures about the greatness of potions and the elixir of life, the relationship between the two became much closer during that time. The most obvious manifestation was that Snape no longer used "Mr. "This appellation.

Loren accepted Snape's kindness and also treated him as his teacher.

Occasionally, when Snape behaved viciously, he only complained and didn't take it seriously.

Later, we will start to lay the foundation, learn about the properties of various materials, and the methods of processing various herbal medicines.Occasionally, when Snape was configuring some simple potions, he would ask Loren to help.

Most recent teaching has focused on the handling of herbs, with an emphasis on their rational handling and utilization in a variety of conditions.

Also, the God's Edge Shadowless Curse.

For Loren, Snape was no longer just an NPC.

Pushing the door open, Snape sat behind the desk, looking a little tired, and didn't respond to Loren's entry.

"Professor Snape, what are we going to do today?" Loren asked tentatively.

"I won't deal with medicinal materials today, but I will answer some of your doubts about potions." Snape spoke more slowly than usual, without any waves.

The two asked and answered questions about potions. During this process, Snape's mind gradually turned and he focused on guiding Loren.

After the teaching was over, Loren didn't leave in a hurry, he was surprised by Snape's appearance like this.It's the first time I've seen Snape feel sad, angry, arrogant, and tired like today.

"Professor, what's wrong with you?"

"Tomorrow, Mr. Crabbe will visit Hogwarts with the papers from the Board of Trustees."

"Does it have anything to do with you?"

The principal of Hogwarts is Dumbledore, and the vice-principal is Professor McGonagall. You, a Potions professor, are not good undercover agents. You want to be in charge.The back seems to be really up.

"He's—" Snape stopped here, saying this to a first-year Muggle wizard, he couldn't possibly understand.

After Voldemort's downfall, some Death Eaters cleaned themselves up, and they didn't seem to have done anything bad on the surface.

Or use various means to prevent the Aurors from finding evidence to prove that they have done bad things.There are also some people with clever means, even if they are caught as evidence of Death Eaters, the Ministry of Magic admits their innocence.

These people still lead decent lives in wizarding society.

This group of people believed that Snape was also one of them, and the most successful one. He tricked Dumbledore and became the professor of potions and potions master at Hogwarts.

The greedy guy wants to use this to make friends and make some not-so-glamorous deals.

According to Snape's thinking, he would not talk to these people at all.But for Dumbledore's so-called mission, for what might happen in the future, he had to make plans.

Snape thought it was a little funny, what did he say to Loren, and then sent Loren away.

Those bedbugs always have to pay for their minds.He has to think about how much to increase the price of this batch of potions, or add some delicious ingredients to it.

Loren couldn't hear the thoughts in Snape's mind, but it seemed that Snape should have figured it out later, and there was no major problem.

His alchemy circle was coming to an end, and he was starting to draw the third pair of runes.Loren had an intuition that the third pair of runes would go more smoothly than the previous two.

Harry's long-awaited Saturday finally arrives

The weather on this day was not good, the sky was drowsy, the wind was whistling, and the sky was covered by thick clouds.

Apparently, the night light will be blocked at night.If today was Wednesday, Loren's stargazing report would be tortured by Hermione again.

But today, Saturday, Harry and Ron thought it would be fine weather for their actions.

During the day, they pretend to be reviewing in the library.But only Hermione was studying seriously, and Harry and Ron were fidgeting.

Harry repeated in his mouth, "The twelve known uses of dragon's blood include oven cleaner, spot remover, wart treatment..."

The twelve known uses of Norbert's blood in Ron's mouth include...

"Hermione, where did Loren go?" Harry couldn't recite the book, so he found something to say.

"Finding with his gadgets, remember, I told Hagrid." Hermione paused, a little annoyed again, "He really should study hard, the exam is coming soon."

She had practiced the Untraceable Stretching Curse with Loren before, and after catching up with Loren's progress, she hadn't practiced it because of the regulations of the Ministry of Magic, but Loren seemed to really plan to practice it.

Every time Hermione advised him, she always repeated the phrase "Are you going to report me?"

Abominable.

Harry didn't listen at all, he thought of dragons when he heard Hagrid's name, and repeated mechanically: "Yes, yes little bauble"

"Look, Professor McGonagall." Ron pointed to the door.

Hermione looked up, and Professor McGonagall and several faculty members accompanied a tall man to visit the library.

This man was wearing an ill-fitting gown, trying to straighten his back, like a bear trying to be a gentleman, his appearance was very funny.

Seeing the restricted area blocked by the rope grid, the man showed a disgusted expression and shouted loudly: "If you want me to say, Hogwarts shouldn't have these books about black magic."

Madam Pince, the librarian, suddenly appeared next to a group of people. She didn't care about it at all, and angrily waved a feather duster and shouted: "Get out! Get out!"

The people on the side hurriedly persuaded Mrs. Pince.

The man looked sullenly and looked at Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall frowned: "Mr. Crabbe, you know the rules of Hogwarts, and they haven't changed over the years. I still have some work to do. You can visit it yourself."

"If you want to visit Professor Snape, he's in his office." After speaking, he left with a few faculty members.

Seeing that Madam Pince was about to lose her temper at any moment, the man withdrew too.

"Who is this?" Harry lowered his head and asked Ron in a low voice.

They had important things to do today, and a stranger suddenly came to the school, which made him a little uneasy.

"One of the sanctimonious ones, Mr. Crabbe, the father of Malfoy's squire."

Ron educated Harry and Hermione on what sanctimonious people (those whitewashed Death Eaters) are.

Harry showed a disgusted expression. He already knew that his parents died because of Voldemort and his Death Eaters: "Such a person wants to visit Snape. Snape is really not a good person."

"Why didn't Dumbledore send them all to Azkaban?"

"Actually, it's complicated..."

At this time, in the Room of Requirement, Loren has already sketched and broken more than a dozen boxes.

Looking at the box in front of him that was burnt through by the alchemy circle, Loren rested his chin on one hand, thoughtfully, "It's definitely not the magic circle, I can draw the magic circle with my eyes closed now."

Just last night, he had completed the outline of three pairs of runes.In the alchemy laboratory, a space box was created using Flamel's imaginary suitcase and unicorn hair.

I came here early this morning to verify in the real world. The Room of Requirement can only provide suitcases, and the unicorn hairs it conjures are the hairs of some unknown animals.White, but not magical.

He had to use the unicorn hair that Hagrid had given him. It was a big ball, and there were countless numbers, but it was enough to cause him trouble anyway.

Fortunately, the suitcase is no problem.There are even a variety of styles, luxurious, exquisite, and crude.

Loren also saw the imprint of the pure-blood family on some suitcases.He wasn't sure whether these were left here by teachers and students in the past thousands of years, or whether the Room of Requirement was magically manifested according to Loren's needs.

On the bottom of the leather-lined box, there are some particles and impurities on the black burnt marks

Loren probably knew what was wrong: in the fantasy book, the virtual materials were all high-quality unicorn hair.Although the magic power was not filled enough to make a wand core, there were no impurities in it either.It will not happen that such impurities cause a similar short circuit within the circle.

In fact, this situation just shows that the magic circle is drawn correctly.The purpose of heating is to remove the impurities mixed inside. Ordinary suitcases also cannot withstand this high temperature and are burned through.

"Ask for fresh unicorn hair that's clean enough, or find a suitcase that can handle this temperature."

Want to make a special suitcase?Loren shook her head.

Who knows what problems will be encountered in the process of making a suitcase, maybe I just wanted to make a space device at first, and finally turned into an alchemy laboratory.

Finding unicorn fur in the Forbidden Forest is definitely not possible.The unicorn only likes pure girls, he can't help it, it's true that there is nothing he can do.

Box, high temperature resistant box.

The box of frozen pears given by Malfoy flashed through Loren's mind. There seemed to be a kind of magic about freezing in it, which might be able to meet his requirements.

Back in the Gryffindor Tower, there are some young wizards spending their weekend leisure time in the lounge, and more little wizards are looking for signs of summer outside the castle.

There was no one in the dormitory, which was exactly what Loren wanted.With a light touch of the finger, a silver light flashed, and the consciousness entered the book of fantasy.

"Flamel!"

He told Flamel about the problem of unicorn hair impurities.

Flammel looked strange: "My negligence, Nico has not used unicorn hair with impurities for hundreds of years. So I didn't consider this issue."

Flammel thought for a moment. "Are you going to learn how to pick out impurities without destroying the unicorn hair?"

"This involves a very classic magic circle. You need to learn about 73 pairs of symmetrical runes and 151 asymmetrical runes."

"At your previous pace, you should be able to do well before you graduate from Hogwarts."

Loren was expressionless, "Do you want to hear what you are saying?"

He talked about his idea of ​​using a box with refrigeration magic, and asked Flamel for his opinion on this,

"You can try it."

After receiving Flamel's affirmative answer, Loren exited the fantasy book and found an empty box from under the bed.

The case is a bit larger than your average suitcase, but not the size of a suitcase.The outer layer is an unknown black leather surface, the wooden frame supports the main body, the lock is gilded metal, and the decorative pattern of the peacock pattern is printed.

Opening the box, there was a burst of icy air, and there was a circle of blue alchemy patterns on the side of the box.Probably the modern alchemy style is mainly decorative, and the coldness is mainly due to the material of the box.

The leather material of the box is made from some kind of snow mountain or magical animal in the polar region, using magic and alchemy to strengthen the effect of constant temperature refrigeration.

Now that the Magical Beasts Protection Law is complete, it should be worth a lot.At that time, Malfoy was such a stinky fart that he directly asked him not to pay it back.I don't know if old Malfoy has dealt with this prodigal son.

Loren came back to the Room of Requirement and started the experiment...

The sky gradually dimmed into a dark, overcast night.

Harry, Ron and Hermione split into two groups.Hermione met at the tower in case they and Charlie's friends missed; Harry and Ron slipped out of the castle and went to Hagrid's cabin to bring Norbert.

The night was dark, and the calls of unknown animals could be heard from time to time in the Forbidden Forest.

Harry and Ron watched as Hagrid packed Norbert into a large crate.

It was a little late when they arrived at Hagrid's hut, because Peeves had been playing badminton against the wall in the hall, and they had to wait for him to leave.

"I prepared a lot of mice for him, and some brandy." Hagrid's voice was dull. He liked this little cutie, like a bunny.

"Maybe I should put his teddy bear in too, so he won't be alone all the way."

Charmander tapped his tail in the box, making the box rattle.

"Look, it thinks so too." Hagrid opened a partition on the box and threw the cloth teddy bear through the opening.

There was a ripping sound from the crate, followed by a flash of fire.Apparently, the teddy bear has been sacrificed.

Ron shivered as if feeling the same, feeling a dull pain in his right hand.

Harry's scalp was numb, hell, there must be some kind of dark magic in the dragon egg, otherwise why would he have been obsessively supporting Hagrid to hatch it in the first place.

After Hagrid said good-bye to Norbert, Harry lifted the crate with the Levitation Charm and made it follow behind him and Ron.

As soon as the invisibility cloak was covered, the two people and a large box disappeared out of thin air.In the darkness, no one knew they were smuggling the fire dragon.

Up in the tower, Hermione was alone in the dark night.

She knows the lighting spell, the fire spell, and there are hundreds of ways to illuminate this place in her mind.But no, that would draw someone's attention.

"Damn Loren, he's not here at a time like this." Hermione tightened her robe, which brought her some comfort.

She forced herself to sort out the knowledge she reviewed, but her mind was always distracted.Finally give up and choose to focus on scolding someone.

When Hermione 1 arranged some unreliable guy, the bodies of Harry and Ron emerged from the bottom up, and they merged smoothly.

Although Hermione has many shortcomings and is not easy to get along with, Harry and Ron both felt at ease the moment they saw Hermione.

The Levitating Charm is very worry-free to use, except that Norbert loses his temper from time to time, everything is going well.

"It's lucky that there are no obstacles on the road, and maybe we can see the stars," said Ron.

No one responded to Ron's cold joke, and the three guarded the box, waiting for Charlie's friend to arrive.

Summer has not yet come, and there is still some coldness remaining in the night, and this coolness is more obvious in the dark.

After an unknown amount of time, a blond figure suddenly appeared at the door of the tower.

"Malfoy! What are you doing here?"

The three wands pointed at Malfoy at the same time, surging magic power surged in the wands.

"Idiot, I'm here to help you." Malfoy glanced back, as if worried that someone was following him.

Harry and Ron exchanged glances, gritted teeth, the guy who had been scaring them for almost two weeks.

"It's better to give him a binding spell and untie it tomorrow."

"A stun spell would be more appropriate."

Only Hermione was not dazzled, and Malfoy's appearance showed that their plan had been leaked.

She needs to know more details: "Be clear."

"Let's go first, talk as we go." Malfoy was a little anxious.

Harry said quickly, "Why should I believe you?"

"I really want to report you, I should bring the professor with me now." Malfoy wanted to curse, "Come on, Crabbe and his father are coming."

"Death Eaters!" This sentence made the three of Harry panic for a while.

Hermione refloated Norbert's crate, Ron pulled Malfoy into the cloak, Harry's wand kept pointed at Malfoy.

They returned to the corridor and listened carefully for the movement from the stairs below.

Downstairs came the sound of crackling armor falling to the ground, followed by Sir Nicholas' hearty laugh.

Harry was the first to react: "Headless Nick is helping us."

Sir Nicholas was on good terms with Loren, though he always frightened them.

Although with the help of ghosts, the voice below was getting closer and closer, and they didn't dare to breathe.

"We have invisibility cloaks, they may not be able to find us," Ron said.

"Meow!" came a meow, and it was Mrs. Norris.

The Crabbes bought Filch!

"Noble's smell must not escape the cat's nose." Harry's mind turned rapidly, trying to find a way out of such a predicament.

"Follow me." In a panic, Hermione thought of a place they couldn't find.

Harry and Ron immediately pulled Malfoy to follow.

"Where are we going?" Harry asked, they were now stuck upstairs.

"Go to Loren."

"What do you mean?"

Loren should be in the dormitory right now, did he go out at night again?

"Just follow me."

Hermione didn't want to take them to the Room of Requirement.

It was where Loren gave her for her birthday, like a birthday present from Loren.The pair spend many weekends at the Room of Requirement, a secret base known only to the two of them.

But now the situation is critical, and only a few people can be brought there.

Several people followed Hermione lightly.

Malfoy began to tell the whole story: "When Mr. Crabbe visited the school infirmary, he found a book with a letter written by Charlie Weasley to you."

Ron's hand holding his wand was shaking, "I forgot, I put the letter in the book."

"Fool." Malfoy was happy to whip Ron's self-blaming heart.

It was a coincidence that Harry and Hermione didn't blame him.No one would have guessed that people from outside the school would suddenly visit Hogwarts and go to the school infirmary.

Malfoy went on to talk about the follow-up of the matter. A letter alone is not enough to win the trust of Professor McGonagall. The Crabbe and his son intend to get the stolen goods, so they went to the tower to arrest them after the lights were turned off.

"Once you are discovered together with the fire dragon, just like that stupid big man, you will all have your wand broken and expelled from Hogwarts." Malfoy said later, and began to gloat.

"Fired!"

"Hagrid's wand is broken!"

Hermione and Harry had different concerns, but they picked up the pace at the same time.

"Why are you helping us?" Hermione asked.

"Ha! It's just that you are pitiful."

Since the last bleacher incident, Crabbe had been at odds with him, not obeying his orders as before.

Malfoy felt that he was just trying to sabotage the slave's plot and teach him a lesson. The great Malfoy family would never allow betrayal.

As for Harry, it was just luck.

He was actually not in a hurry, even if he was caught, the Crabbes and his sons would not do anything to him.As much as Crabbe dared to defy him, his father certainly wouldn't dare defy another Malfoy.

Malfoy regarded this as a unique adventure, eyeing the cloak with interest, thinking maybe he should buy one too.

On the other side, Sir Nicholas' gag sounded up layer by layer, and Filch was approaching with them.

The footsteps kept moving, and the hanging picture of Silly Barnabas was just behind that corner. Hermione was full of unspeakable thoughts, and her feet became weaker the closer she got there.

But the movement behind them forced them to get closer.

"Honestly, I am very surprised that you are acting together with Malfoy."

A joking voice suddenly came from the front, and Loren was standing in front with a box.His eyes were bright blue and he had a playful expression on his face.

"Loren!" Hermione let go of the big stone that had been weighing on her heart, and rushed to Loren, wanting to say something, but couldn't.

Harry and the others came up to them and informed Loren of the current situation.

No one noticed a problem, how Loren found them under the cloak.

Sir Nicholas' voice grew louder and clearer, as if beating on their hearts.

"I didn't expect it to come in handy so soon." Loren opened the box that released blue ice crystals. There was a pattern of white hexagrams on the bottom of the box, and there was a symbol on each corner.

The silver light that circulates from time to time adds a bit of mystery to this magic circle.

Loren dragged the floating crate, struggling to push it towards the circle.Like a black hole, the crate gradually became smaller after touching the magic circle, and slowly got into it.

Close the box, the little box bounced a few times on the ground and became quiet.

Harry and Ron watched, their mouths open enough to fit a fist.No wonder Hermione said she wanted to find Loren. Although Loren was deceived by Snape, it was too reliable at other times.

"This is the box I gave you!" Malfoy said excitedly.

Of course he has seen the Untraceable Stretching Curse, but this box definitely didn't have this effect before.That's cool, Loren is nothing like those stupid Gryffindors.

Hermione was a little conflicted, this violated the regulations of the Ministry of Magic, but it was more important not to be expelled now.

"It's just been completed, and now I can only put one crate." Loren spread his hands, unable to stuff people in, and the punishment of night travel still cannot be escaped.

He is quite satisfied with this box and will continue to improve it in the future.

With the fire dragon hidden, the rest is not a big deal.Points will be deducted if you are caught traveling at night. If you are lucky, you don't even need to be confined.

As for avoiding it completely, it is not realistic.With Mrs. Norris around, the invisibility cloak won't work.They were able to fool Filch last time, but they may not be able to fool the Death Eaters this time.

It's also not a good idea to let the smell disappear in front of the door of the house of request.

They plan to go back to the Tower and hand Norbert over to Charlie's friends.It's all night out, and it's not a big deal to meet people outside the school privately. It's normal to give a small box to a friend outside the school.

As long as the fire dragon is not found on the spot, deducting points is better than breaking the wand and being fired.

In just a few minutes, the appearance of Loren changed the situation.The few people walked back to the tower openly as if they were taking a walk.I have never been so comfortable to swim at night.

"Honestly, Malfoy, I thought you were dying for Harry to be fired." Loren teased.

"Actually, I really do think so, this time it's just for revenge on Crabbe." Malfoy raised his head proudly, "Malfoy cannot be betrayed."

Ron curled his lips, but this time he was indeed thanks to Malfoy's help, and the sarcasm on his lips could not be said.

8k, one change away, try again tomorrow.