[HP] This Evil

Written in the front: It's really embarrassing, I changed the wrong chapter just now, and put chapter 22 into chapter 21...

It was already two days later when Catherine woke up in the medical room. Her clinical patient was the petrified Mary Johnson. She was still curled up and stiff on the bed, opposite Harry, and next to him was the pale Ginny. , they didn't look like they were petrified, but they were badly injured.

The strange thing is that Madam Pomfrey was not as anxious as before, she even had a smile on her face, presumably she already had a solution to petrification, "Son, you're awake." Madam Pomfrey walked towards Catherine. "How do you feel, does your head still hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore." Catherine said, she felt relaxed now, and the groggy feeling before was gone.

"That's good, I was the one who misjudged your situation earlier, and Ginny." Madam Pomfrey said, with a hint of shame on her face.

"Misjudgment? What's the matter with me, ma'am?"

Catherine asked.

"I think it's better to wait for Principal Dumbledore to tell you about this issue. Now you just need to rest well. Don't be afraid, Hogwarts will protect you." Madam Pomfrey said.

Catherine couldn't understand, what was she afraid of?Heir of Slytherin?

In the afternoon, Harry and Ginny woke up one after another. Catherine sat on the hospital bed and greeted Harry. Harry also nodded to indicate that he was fine, and then gave her a sympathetic look.Catherine was baffled, but before she could ask, Harry and Ginny were called away by Professor McGonagall.

An hour later, Professor Snape came to the medical room with complicated eyes and told Catherine Dumbledore that Headmaster was waiting for her in his office.

Professor Dumbledore is back?

Then Professor Snape can't apply for the position of headmaster. He probably looks gloomy for this reason, Catherine thought as she walked behind Professor Snape to the headmaster's office.

"Cold lemonade," said Professor Snape suddenly.

"Huh?" Catherine didn't know why, what was Professor Snape talking about?But then she saw the phoenix sculpture in front of her move, and a spiral staircase appeared in front of her.

"Go up." Snape still looked serious.

Catherine jumped up the stairs quickly, fearing that she would be too late, because this section of the stairs was also moving.After a few seconds, the spiral staircase stopped, and Professor Dumbledore with the white beard appeared.

"Ah, dear boy, are you feeling better?" asked Headmaster Dumbledore, very amiably.

The wall behind him is covered with portraits of successive headmasters and deans, including one of Catherine's great-great-grandfather, Ernest Hugo Colvin Ferrara, wearing a spectacle lens and using a Snape looked at his great-great-granddaughter with more complicated eyes.

"I'm fine, Headmaster. Madam Pomfrey said you'd tell me why I've been feeling unwell all this time," Catherine said.

"Yes, I'll tell you. But don't worry, would you like some Lemon Sherbet?" Professor Dumbledore handed over a few yellow hard candies.

"Thank you, Professor." Catherine took the candy, opened one and put it in her mouth. It was sour and astringent, not as good as the apple jelly that Draco gave her.

"Before you know all this, I must first say that no one blames you, child, no one blames you for this, neither I, Harry, Ginny, or Mr. and Mrs. Weasley will blame you." Deng Bullido whispered.Ernest Ferrara left.

"Professor, I don't understand." Catherine said, did she do something wrong?

"You're missing a memory," Professor Dumbledore explained, and he poured the contents of a small vial into the Pensieve, "Come and see, Ginny's by the way."

Catherine didn't understand why she still had to look at Ginny's memories, but she took a breath anyway and plunged her head into the basin.

Then——she saw herself opening the door of the secret room, and brought out a giant python with yellow eyes, petrified Mrs. Loris, and then wrote "The secret room has been opened" on the wall of the corridor on the first floor.

The picture suddenly distorted, and when Catherine saw the surrounding scene clearly again, she found that she was in the Gryffindor lounge-this was Ginny's memory.

A somewhat familiar Gryffindor girl passed through the portrait of the fat lady, holding the diary that Catherine deliberately left at the door of their lounge, "Ginny, this is your diary, it was just thrown at the door. "

Ginny Weasley took the diary, flipped through it for a long time but couldn't remember when she bought it, but the words "Ginny Weasley" were clearly written on the title page, she hesitated to put The diary was put away.

The picture distorted again, and the scene in front of Catherine began to change rapidly.She saw Ginny open the secret room with the diary, release the giant python, and attack Colin Creevey, Mary Johnson, Hermione Granger... Finally, she walked into the secret room by herself.

Catherine suddenly raised her head from the Pensieve, her face was still wet, she felt overwhelmed, "Professor, I...I didn't...not me..." It was her, it was all because of her.Not only did she open the Chamber of Secrets, but she also framed Ginny Weasley and almost killed Ginny.

"Don't be afraid, child, we know it's not you. You are just controlled by this diary." Professor Dumbledore still smiled kindly. He held an old diary with snake teeth on it in his left hand, and handed over a diary in his right hand. There was a candy, but Catherine didn't feel like eating it.She recognized the diary, and at first she firmly believed that it was a prank by the Weasley twins, but now found that she had no proof.

"Son, can you tell me where you found this diary?" Dumbledore asked.

"I don't know, Professor. It... suddenly appeared in my schoolbag." Catherine replied, even she herself felt that this explanation was not reasonable at all, as if she was lying, but Dumbledore believed it without hesitation .

"This diary has Ginny Weasley's name on it, but in fact it's not hers, and she didn't write the name herself, you know?" Dumbledore's eyes looked through half-moon glasses Looking at Catherine.

"I wrote it, Professor." Catherine felt cold all over, and her body was a little unsteady. It is true that she and Ginny opened the secret room because of control, but she deliberately threw the diary to Ginny on her own initiative and on purpose. , she is not innocent in this matter.

But she still wanted to explain that even though she really didn't like Gryffindor, she didn't intend to frame them like this, "I thought...that diary was a prank by the Weasley twins, so I wanted to return it Their family... I'm sorry, professor, these are all my faults, I shouldn't..." Catherine spoke with difficulty, feeling ashamed of her own arbitrariness and stupidity, and feeling guilty for hurting Ginny.

"It's not your fault, child, you didn't know that this diary was endowed with black magic." Dumbledore said gently, "I didn't call you here to accuse you, I just wanted to tell you what happened. You're as much a victim as Ginny."

Catherine couldn't believe it for a while, she did such a terrible thing, and Dumbledore didn't blame her, but comforted her? "Ginny... are you okay?" Catherine asked hesitantly. Ginny's face was still pale in the medical room in the afternoon.

"Just rest for a few more days." Dumbledore handed over another Lemon Oxel, "You should also rest more." Then he hesitated, and continued, "I wanted to contact your parents, but they didn't Went to Japan. You know, England and the wizarding world on the other side of Asia are not very connected, so the owls can't find where they are."

"I understand, professor, thank you." Catherine nodded, feeling disappointed in her heart. Although she didn't want to admit it, she still hoped that her parents or sister would be by her side at this moment, but at the same time she was afraid that they would know.

On the way back to the Slytherin lounge, Catherine met Harry and the Weasley family. Ginny was next to Mrs. Weasley. Her eyes were so red that she must have just cried. Harry stood beside her.Catherine ran towards them, wanted to say "I'm sorry", but stopped halfway, and then she turned away quickly under the puzzled eyes of the Weasleys.

It doesn't work, "I'm sorry" doesn't work.

Everything that should have happened happened. Ginny almost died in the Chamber of Secrets, and Harry was seriously injured. A "I'm sorry" is meaningless. If everything can be solved with "I'm sorry", then Azkaban do what.

Even though Dumbledore kept stressing that this was not her responsibility, she could not accept it. The headmaster was just comforting her, Catherine thought, she hid in the dark corner of the cellar and did not return to the lounge.

Even though it is summer, the cellar is still cold, but Catherine can't feel it. The blood in her body seems to be no longer circulating but gradually solidifies into ice. "I should have been bitten to death by the poisonous snake that day in the fighting club. I deserve to die," Catherine thought. , she did something evil, she couldn't forgive herself, and it was hard to imagine how her parents would react if she knew about it, maybe she would be kicked out of the house.

"Ferrara." Harry came to the cellar at some point, and ran to Catherine with wounds on his face, "Ferrara, Mrs. Weasley asked me to tell you that they and Ginny, and Didn't blame you." Then he paused, "Me and Ron didn't blame you, it wasn't your fault." Harry said sincerely and seriously.

Catherine stared into Harry's green eyes and remained silent. She didn't believe what Harry said. Mrs. Weasley seemed to love Ginny so much, but she almost caused Ginny's death. How could she not blame herself? Dumbledore was just comforting himself.

She also inexplicably remembered that when she was eight years old, she accidentally broke an experimental instrument of her father Alfonso. Her father, who had always been indifferent and quiet, was furious. Catherine even thought he would kill her. Alfonso told her that day, If you make a mistake, you must pay the price, so she was locked in the room for a whole month.

Weasley couldn't possibly forgive her.Catherine thought.

"Are you all right, Ferrara?" Harry noticed that Catherine's face was frighteningly pale, and her golden brown eyes seemed stagnant.

"I'm sorry." Catherine forced a few words out of her throat, but Harry didn't hear her because the voice was too small and indistinct.