[HP] Aunt of the Savior

Harry was falling asleep when Dobby came to find him.Having gone through such thrilling adventures during the day, and discussing so many things before going to bed, all the tiredness hit Harry in an instant as soon as he collapsed on that lovely four-poster bed, and he felt his eyelids heavy. I can't lift it anymore.

However, Dobby suddenly appeared in the middle of the night again, looking very excited, and said that he had something very important to tell Harry first.

This time, Harry decided to wake Ron and Neville - they'd both said they were curious about Dobby tonight.And in this way, he wasn't the only one who was woken up, Harry thought wickedly - it's a pity he couldn't go to the girls' dormitory at night to find Hermione and come to see Dobby together.

Now the three of them, Ron, Harry and Neville, plus a house-elf, were huddled together in Harry's four-poster bed, listening to Dobby talk about that very important event.In order not to disturb Dean and Seamus in the same dormitory, they also lowered the bed curtain.However, Neville hugged the bedpost and nodded vigorously. Ron sat between Harry and Neville, leaning on Neville's shoulder, as if he might slip to the ground at any moment. Harry had to grab Ron's arm and I kept yawning.

But even such three listeners made Dobby very happy. His grateful and admiring gaze made the three drowsy boys more or less refreshed.

"Harry Potter and his friends are willing to listen to Dobby." Dobby wiped his tears excitedly. "Dobby is so touched, and Dobby's friends are all great and kind wizards... Dobby wants to be the first to tell Harry Potter that Dobby got the clothes from his master, and Dobby is free! "

Ron and Neville, who were dazed at first, were blushed by this kind of praise, but the elf's words really surprised them, and now they were fully awake.

"Dobby, you said you're free?" Ron looked at Dobby in disbelief. "But who would want to chase away a house-elf?"

"Uh, like the Malfoys?" Neville said uncertainly.

"Oh, is it because you hurt Draco Malfoy, Dobby?" Ron asked interested.

Dobby shook his head, his voice suddenly lowered, "Dobby can't say it, Dobby shouldn't say it, bad Dobby, bad Dobby!"

Using the Seeker's reflexes, Harry stopped Dobby from hitting the bedpost just in time. "No, Dobby, we didn't mean to force you to tell the secret. But you said you were free, didn't you?"

"Yes, Harry Potter," Dobby sniffed, "Dobby is just not used to it yet...but Dobby will get used to it. Dobby has a home now, a family..."

"Congratulations, Dobby." Looking at the excited elf, Harry suddenly understood Dobby's mood.It was the same feeling he had felt when he first saw Aunt Jody—he had family at last.Not like the Dursleys, but a family that really cared about him and loved him.

"Thank you, Harry Potter." Dobby wiped away tears, "Dobby is sorry for what happened before, and Dobby will not do that again in the future, and Harry Potter is safe and will not There is no more danger..."

"Thank you," said Harry, really relieved when he heard this. "By the way, Dobby, now that you are free, can I ask you something? Why are you so scared about that diary before? Who is that Tom Riddle? Why did he open the secret room? He..."

Ron and Neville looked at Harry worriedly, already knowing what he would ask next.Tonight they've been discussing what happened in the Chamber of Secrets.Harry offered a guess without explaining to them why he thought so.

Both Ron and Neville still remembered that when they broke into the secret room, they heard a shrill scream.The sound was obviously made by humans, but apart from Harry and the others, a basilisk, a phoenix, and a hat, there was no one else in the room at all, which was really strange and terrifying.And the sudden appearance of Professor Snape-according to Hermione, when she went out to find the professor for help, she didn't see Professor Snape until Fox brought her out of the underground passage.In terms of time, this should not have happened.

Of course, Harry knew exactly what was going on about Professor Snape.But combined with that scream, it was obvious that Professor Snape had also hidden something from him.Moreover, he did not follow Professor Snape's instructions at the time, but took Malfoy away.

"Is that... Voldemort?" Harry asked, taking a deep breath.

Dobby blinked in horror at the name and nearly backed away under the bed.He hasn't admitted yet, but his expression says it all.Finally he murmured for a while, and nodded slightly, "Harry Potter guessed it..."

"Oh, my God..." Ron and Neville gasped in unison.Draco Malfoy was controlled by Voldemort at that time!This is simply too scary! "So, Malfoy, I mean Draco Malfoy doesn't know?"

"Yes." Dobby began to feel uneasy. "The little master doesn't know anything, so Dobby wants the little master to leave that diary..."

"No wonder that Bludger also attacked Malfoy." Ron suddenly realized.

After Dobby finally regained his composure from the panic and left, Harry couldn't fall asleep like he did just now for a long time.He heard Ron and Neville snoring already in the room, but he couldn't fall asleep anyway.Dobby's words, as well as some speculations and doubts in his heart, made him decide to talk to Professor Snape tomorrow.He had a stomach full of questions to ask now - thinking about it, Harry forced himself to sleep, even though he didn't sleep soundly at all.

At dawn, Harry was the first to get out of bed, put on the Invisibility Cloak and went to the Potions Master's office in the cellar.

"Harry." Snape put Harry Potter into his office.He wasn't particularly surprised by Harry's early visit.Jody guessed last night that Harry would definitely come to find Snape for his self-assertion in the secret room, so today she went back to her room before dawn.Sure enough, Harry did come.

"Professor Snape, yesterday... I'm really sorry." Harry glanced at Professor Snape anxiously, and found that his eye circles seemed a little dark, and he didn't seem to sleep well, which made his heart Feel a little guilty.He should have imagined that the basilisk's eyes could not have been blinded that easily - luckily he had covered it up with Fox, and Hermione, who was most attentive, hadn't been there.

"Explain, Harry." Snape sat down behind his desk, tapping his fingers on the surface, his black eyes fixed on Harry. "You know my arrangement, why did you take Draco out of the secret room?"

"I just think that if I stay, I might be in danger..." Harry's cheeks flushed. "I... I don't want to..."

"You don't want to see Malfoy get hurt by the basilisk? Or..." Snape's voice was so low that it made people feel chills all over his body, which was completely different from the gentleness of last night. "Afraid I'd hurt Malfoy?"

"No, I don't think the professor will hurt Malfoy, but..." Harry hesitated for a while, but still asked bravely: "Why do you have to let Malfoy stay in the secret room?" He and his professor looked at each other , bluntly asked his inner question: "Is it because of... Voldemort?"

Snape's expression stiffened visibly.

"Professor," Harry asked persistently immediately, "Tom Riddle is Voldemort, isn't he?"

"Why do you think so?" But Snape had returned to his usual self, and even his voice showed no emotion.

"Because... Tom Riddle is a Parseltongue. I checked the previous newspapers, and there were reports that Voldemort was also a Parseltongue. He still considered himself a descendant of Slytherin." Harry bit his lip, his face A disgusted look appeared on his face.He couldn't believe that the Daily Prophet would publish such a disgusting report in praise of Voldemort - would they have imagined that this man would brutally kill innocent people all over the wizarding world just a few years later?

Harry's expression caught Snape in a daze.The look in Harry's eyes just now is very similar to Lily's when she saw these reports back then.Harry had indeed inherited Lily's intelligence, and Snape was very pleased that Harry could figure it out on his own.He didn't hide it, and nodded frankly, "Yes, Tom Riddle is the former name of the Dark Lord, but very few people know this, you'd better not say it everywhere."

"So, professor, you already knew that the diary belonged to Voldemort, so..."

"Yes, I knew how dangerous and evil it was from the moment you brought it to me. Now you see, why did I have to make sure that Malfoy was no longer under the control of that diary? I want to make sure of that, Also make sure that destroying the diary is not dangerous to Malfoy. If you destroy the diary rashly or allow the diary to continue to control Malfoy, there may be serious consequences, such as..." Snape glanced at Haha with threatening and warning eyes Lee, "The Dark Lord will be resurrected. You should be glad you didn't cause any trouble for your own initiative."

Harry unknowingly tensed up nervously, he swallowed subconsciously, unable to speak.

"Besides, your sympathy for Malfoy...is stupid. Draco Malfoy is a Slytherin. I can tell you with absolute certainty that he will not simply accept your favor, or even change his relationship with you because of it." ——This is the difference that Gryffindor must understand." Speaking of Gryffindor, Snape saw the uncertainty in Harry's eyes, and waved his hand impatiently. "I know you're thinking about Parseltongue, but you're a Gryffindor, and maybe I should ask Joe to find you a history book about that sword in the Sorting Hat - it's said that only real Only Gryffindor can pull out the sword from that hat. You should remember that in "A Piece of Hogwarts School History", the sorting hat was originally Godric Gryffindor's hat, right? "

Harry nodded, a knot in his heart was finally untied.But he quickly frowned at Snape's words.Indeed, Draco Malfoy hadn't been overtly grateful since last time.

"Slytherins are very realistic. They will never easily accept any help for no reason. The more you show that you are only thinking of the other party, the harder it is to win a Slytherin's trust." Snape calmly Said in a voice containing any emotion. "From the way you persuaded Malfoy to participate in this plan, you should understand that only when there is no choice can Malfoy compromise with you."

Harry couldn't argue that he had tried other methods first when dealing with Draco, but none of them worked as well for Malfoy as the threat that Snape had taught him in the end.

"If you want to maintain a good relationship with a Slytherin, then timely showing the benefits you can give the other party is the most important and the most convincing. Unless you are sure that you have already made a difference to him In general, otherwise don't trust your friendship with Slytherin easily. I hope you will always remember this when dealing with Slytherin."

"Professor, are you and...you too?" Harry asked suddenly.

"...Yes, there is no difference." After a while, Snape replied.

"Thank you, Professor, I'll remember." Harry nodded slightly, without looking up, and left Snape's room.

After that conversation, Harry never went to see Professor Snape again.He knew what Professor Snape said made sense, but he still couldn't accept the idea.He always wanted to discuss it with Professor Snape again, but he couldn't think of how to express it, so he had to keep this topic in his heart for the time being.

When Easter came, Professor McGonagall informed them that the curriculum for the third grade would be decided by the end of the Easter holiday.

As soon as Hermione got the course selection form, she signed all the courses without hesitation.

"Harry, what course are you going to take?" Ron stared dumbfounded at Hermione's crisp movements.he asked Harry as he studied the timetable.Ron's brothers were eager to help, but he turned them all down.He didn't believe their opinion at all.

"I, like Hermione, choose all of them." Harry had already considered it.He had asked Aunt Jody last summer, when Aunt Jody and Professor Snape had taken all the electives and had eleven OWLS certificates—there was no divination class at Hogwarts at that time.So the idea that Harry would have a chance of surpassing his aunt and professor in the final total of OWLS certificates if he took all the electives was very tempting to Harry.

"Oh, I shouldn't have asked you." Ron muttered to Neville on the other side. "Neville, what about you?"

Neville had just received a reply from his parents, and their suggestion was to let Neville choose his favorite, so that he would be interested in learning.But Neville was not at all sure which subject he would like. Apart from herbal medicine, he was not bad at any subject. "May I choose Muggle Studies? Hermione said that Professor Bubbaji is very nice, and I heard that she doesn't assign much homework."

"Ah, yes, the biscuits she makes taste great too!" Ron marked this course with deep empathy, and then took the protection of magical creatures, which was well received by the students in the school.He and Harry had been looking forward to Lupin's lessons for a long time.

"My grandma suggested that I take a divination class. Which one is easier, arithmetic divination or divination?" Neville didn't have much confidence in contacting those monsters.

"Divination?" Ron said uncertainly, "No need to calculate, just look at the crystal ball or something... Don't worry, Neville." Ron looked at Harry and Hermione, "Anyway, we don't care which one we choose. Classes are attended by others.”

"Then let's go to Divination class!" Neville signed the class selection form.

Except for the course selection, the last period of the second grade was so peaceful that it seemed unreal.Harry attended Quidditch training on time, won the Quidditch matches against Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff beautifully, and helped Gryffindor win the Quidditch Cup (Wood was so happy about this ).Dobby never appeared again, and nothing strange happened. Except that Professor Lockhart was suddenly sent to St. Mungo's because he was experimenting with beauty potions in the office and caused an explosion, everything was calm at Hogwarts.

Harry knew that logically he should feel sorry for Professor Lockhart's misfortune, but even with the extra points that Draco Malfoy got for killing the Basilisk this year, Slytherin still lost Quidditch. Lost the Academy Cup because of the game.

This time, the Academy Cup finally belongs to Gryffindor completely!Moreover, Harry finally got his wish to get the No.1 of the school year, although it was tied with Hermione - such happy things happened together, so that Harry could no longer think about other things at the moment.