[HP] Liar

Ep.48

"I'm asking you something."

The cold sweat on her forehead was quietly sliding down Viola's white cheeks, and fell drop by drop onto the marble floor.

Facing Theodore Nott's confusion, she still lowered her head and said nothing.

"What's going on?" Nott reached out and rubbed his short golden-brown hair, "Did I meet a dumb person?"

what to do?What should we do now?If Nott recognized her and handed her over to the two Carlo professors, she would most likely die.However, according to Nott's reaction at this time, it is not difficult for Viola to deduce that Theodore Nott actually doesn't know her at all, and it is even more impossible to know her bloodline without being reminded by others.

Viola secretly thought about the solution in her heart, and subconsciously clenched her wand with her right hand.

If things really got to the point of no return...then, a girl like her who has always been timid, timid and inferior can only cast a curse on Theodore Nott.

"Forget it." Seeing that Viola didn't speak for a long time, Nott seemed to give up asking Viola, "I thought I was the only one who would skip that boring meeting, but I didn't expect that besides me, Someone else. What shocked me even more...was the other guy being a Ravenclaw? Still, that's so un-Ravenclaw, isn't it?"

After hearing Nott's words, Viola secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed that Theodore Nott didn't think much about it, but simply regarded her as a student who skipped class.

"Not."

Just when Nott and Viola were in a stalemate, another deep voice suddenly sounded from behind the two of them.And it was completely different from Nott, Viola was really familiar with that person's voice and couldn't be more familiar with it.How could she have forgotten?How could she forget Draco Malfoy's voice after all that she'd been through?

"Oh, bad." Nott spat softly, then pretended to be calm and turned his head to look at the Slytherin prefect standing behind him, "It's you, Draco, what a coincidence."

"What are you doing here?" Facing Nott's teasing, Draco had no intention of joking with him, but asked straight to the point, "Now you should appear in the auditorium, shouldn't you?"

"I almost forgot, Draco—you're still the prefect of our house."

"I'm not kidding you, Nott."

"For Merlin's sake," Nott yelled helplessly, "I know you, like me, thought Carlo's meeting was extremely boring, didn't you? Besides, we're still good friends, so just let me go." This time, okay?"

After hearing this, Draco just bent his lips contemptuously.

"Remember what you told me before, Nott?" he asked back, "Slytherins don't have permanent friends, only permanent interests. And now, as a Slytherin prefect, I'm afraid I'll have to be with you for a while." End that fake 'friend' relationship, Nott."

……

During the entire conversation between Draco and Nott, Viola only dared to hide herself in the darkness, and she was unable to make any sound due to the great tension and anxiety.Draco had probably recognized her already.No, she could be sure that Draco must have recognized her by now.

But even so, what would he do?

Will she be handed over to Carlo directly?

still is……

"Then what about her?" Just as Viola was standing there thinking wildly, Nott suddenly pointed at her body, and looked at Draco with a few playful eyes, Viola also conditioned reflex He raised his head as if, and happened to meet the cold gaze in Draco's eyes, "What about her? She also skipped the meeting like me, so what are you going to do with her, Malfoy?"

Inside the auditorium.

"I really don't know about this... Please..."

In the middle of the empty auditorium was a red-haired girl wearing a Ravenclaw robe. The girl's pale arms were tightly pressed against the ground, and her five fingers had been deeply embedded in the floor due to severe pain. It left harsh marks on the wooden floor.

Seeing this, the Ravenclaws standing behind gasped in fear.

At this moment, the Quidditch captain Roger Davis finally stood up unbearably, and sharply objected: "I can assure you, Professor Carrow—Nancy must have nothing to do with this matter."

"Irrelevant?" Carlo sneered ferociously after hearing this, "But that's not what my prefect told me. She told me that the Mudblood who sneaked into Hogwarts happened to be this Miss Jones' good friend."

After speaking, he twirled the wand in his hand as if enjoying himself, and came to Nancy step by step.

Immediately afterwards, under everyone's gaze, Carlo stretched out his rough arm, clasped Nancy's chin firmly with his thumb, and turned her sweat-soaked face to his own eyes.

"Oh, I know you." His tone gradually became smug, "Round face, blue eyes, red hair... No, to be precise, I don't know you, Miss Jones. But I know your Father - Jack Jones from the Auror Department. Not only that, but we are old acquaintances. I just didn't expect that I have such a relationship with your family. After going around, your family was defeated by me after all. .”

"You have no right to mention my father!"

Unexpectedly, Nancy, who was already weak, would burst out with unprecedented anger at this moment.She threw Carlo's arm away vigorously, then supported her body with her elbows, and while panting, she still cursed: "My father is a hero in the magic world, and you...you are just a Cowardly and cowardly wretch! What qualifications do you have... You have no qualifications to say his name at all."

Nancy's overreaction seemed to instantly irritate Carlo, who was originally in good spirits.After listening to Nancy's words, he suddenly widened his eyes, making the eyeballs that were a bit abrupt on his face even more frightening.

"Looks like you haven't learned your lesson, Miss Jones." He raised his wand again. "Crucio!"

……

It hurts.I have never experienced such severe pain.It was as if all the internal organs of the body were crushed at this moment, and every rib in the body was broken mercilessly.

Nancy didn't know how shrill she screamed to make some Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs standing behind shed tears of fear.

Conscience and reason kept tearing apart in her mind.Reason told her that she should give in to Carlo at this moment and tell her the whereabouts of Viola Clearwater.If she didn't do this, even if she was a pure blood, she might die here.

She questioned herself in her heart: Hasn't she always disliked Viola the most?

Strangely, as Viola's first "friend" since entering school, Nancy has no definite reason for her dislike of Viola.If she had to give a reason, the first word that came to mind was "lazy".Yes, she had always looked down on Viola's laziness.

Nancy Jones is a hopeless perfectionist. She was born into a well-known pure-blood Auror family. Since she was born, she has an arrogance that many people don't have.As a child, her Auror parents always held her to the highest standards, to the point that she was number one in her class as soon as she entered school.

She is undoubtedly a Ravenclaw, and her thirst for knowledge and truth makes her a pure Ravenclaw.In her mind, Ravenclaw is the best house in Hogwarts.However, shortly after Nancy entered school, she met Viola Clearwater, the girl who broke all her previous understanding of Ravenclaw.

Contrary to Nancy, who pursues excellence, Viola is always idle.In class, she never takes notes, but scribbles and draws on the parchment in the textbook.In her spare time, she never reviews her homework. Whenever the deadline for homework submission is approaching, she will only come to her with a pitiful look, begging Nancy to show her hard work to finish it. homework.

She never seemed to care about ranking and fame.Obviously Ravenclaw is the most competitive school in Hogwarts, but Viola Clearwater, who is a member of Ravenclaw, has turned herself into a useless Muggle .

In fact, when it comes to Viola's character and character, Nancy thinks it is beyond reproach.She is kind-hearted, sincere and loyal. Apart from those small shortcomings on her body, she is indeed a good friend.

But in Nancy's eyes, it is those "little flaws" in Viola's body that prevent the two of them from becoming true friends forever.

Her existence made Nancy feel that her hard work and hard work had become extremely ridiculous.It was also because of her that Nancy began to doubt the qualities in herself that she was most proud of, qualities that Viola Clearwater would never have.

but……

However, even so, she never imagined that Viola would die.

And her conscience told her: if she told the truth, her friend, her friend who made her feel both disgusted and envied—Viola, would only die.