Doomed to be an enemy

Harry's heart couldn't stop sinking.

He had seen too many terrified and desperate wizards, and Trelawney's expression was indeed terrified.

"I think your exams are over—"

When they were kicked out, Harry and Ron didn't react too violently. Harry only reminded Professor Trelawney: "Transcript." Then two pieces of parchment were stuffed into their arms, and the door that always opened The classroom door slammed shut in front of them.

"Harry, do you think she's telling the truth?" Ron swallowed. "Of course, it's not the first time for this old liar. Don't believe her. She'd like us to predict her own death. I'm Say, you are so powerful, you must live longer than anyone else, right?"

"Thanks, but I'm used to it." Harry frowned.He motioned Ron to look at the notes on the report card, "At least this time Professor Trelawney was extra generous." A series of comments were hastily written on the parchment, and a big O stood out in the final result column.

"In a way, this is a really good start." Ron finally smiled.

It was already dark when they arrived in the auditorium, and their approach from the end of the long table full of students almost caused a commotion.Harry remembered the shock of Viktor Krum's presence in fourth year, and it was much bigger now than it was then.Harry walked through the aisle, and a bunch of eyes in the auditorium focused on it. The little wizard in the first year whispered and craned his neck to look at him.There was a sound of chairs rubbing against the floor, and almost no one was paying attention to the plate.

"It's Harry Potter" "He's really here?!"

"Do you think he will sit down?"

Harry heard someone talking excitedly.On the staff table, Professor Marchban and two other professors sitting on the right were talking with the Hogwarts staff, and only noticed the three of them at this moment. Cirili raised her glass slightly and smiled at them.Professor McGonagall, who was sitting in the middle, tapped the metal goblet with a spoon in dissatisfaction, but his voice was immediately drowned out in the discussion.

"Harry, this way!" Hermione stood up and waved her arms.This made the two boys who had received several warm invitations secretly heave a sigh of relief.Ron hurried over, Harry politely declined most of the invitations, and sat next to Hermione with Ron.When Harry sat down, he was facing the long Slytherin table, and he found that it was extremely quiet. Draco Malfoy sat indifferently in the middle of the table, and there was no one around him.

"I almost thought they were going to eat me." Ron whispered with lingering fear, "How can the professors allow this to happen?" He picked up the glass in front of him and took a sip. "Oh! Plum juice—" His expression creased, and a few seconds later, Ron immediately pushed the glass away.

"How did you do on the exam?" Hermione had left bread and chicken legs for them, and now there were desserts on the table.The two boys thanked each other, but no one was polite.Harry lowered his voice and repeated Trelawney's words.

"This is nonsense." Ron picked up a drumstick and began to bite, mumbled. "But Harry did see something." Hermione's expression was not so relaxed, "Don't forget, a month later is exactly the time for the Order of the Phoenix and the Death Eaters to take action."

"That doesn't mean much," Ron muttered.

"That's not a prophecy."

Harry shook his head, interrupting their argument, "I've heard the real prophecy, and the tone of the voice is completely different. It is true that this trip will be more dangerous, perhaps because of this, I saw enough in the crystal ball at that time." The dreaded black mist, of course, does not rule out death, oh, don't look at me like that, just say that, I will be careful." Harry tried his best to keep his tone light.

Hermione nodded reluctantly: "Okay. But finally there is some good news—I mean your grades."

"It's a pity that Aurors don't need divination." Harry said regretfully.

As the students walked out, they also stood up.Next, you have to go to the Astronomy Tower with the team.Harry glanced at the Slytherin table. Draco Malfoy was still alone in the Slytherin team, and no one around him spoke to him.

Astronomy exams are taken in batches.The prefects of each house divided everyone into groups, and it looked like Gryffindor had a new Head Boy and Girl Head after Ron and Hermione left.They were placed in the first group, and when they climbed up the stairs, Harry realized that Professor March had already arrived first.

"Considering your bedtime, maybe it's a good idea to advance a little time." Professor Tofudi sent each of them two star charts. "Your final exam is to draw a complete star map. The time requirement for NEWTs is to calculate the astrological shift for the next full moon."

The cold wind blows in from the Astronomy Tower over the skirt wall. There are rusty black iron chains hanging from the ceiling, and four candle lamp holders are hung. Straight - Harry thought it must be enchanted.

Soon he didn't have the mind to pay attention to this.After they took the test papers, they each came to a telescope.Harry adjusted the angle and began to observe the starry sky.

The sky is rare and cloudless, and the stars in the astronomical telescope are clearly visible.Just like when Voldemort explained the astrology to him not long ago, when he magically turned the ceiling and walls of Enfield 24 house into transparent, it was amazing.He still remembered the languid expression on Voldemort's handsome face - he had never known that Voldemort cared so much about the Arcatraz circle on the wall of the house.

Harry couldn't help smiling, those astronomical formulas seemed to pop up in his mind one by one, he quickly calculated the angle on the draft, filled in the image of the calculation, and he completed a test paper in an hour.Calculating the offset took some time, but it all ended in two hours and 10 minutes.

The seventh-year students at Hogwarts were not so relaxed. With the Ministry of Magic examiners watching, almost no one dared to speak.

"Mr. Potter, do you want to hand in the paper?" Harry had just put down the quill when Cirily came over and asked softly.

"Yes, Professor Dai Na."

Cirily accepted his test paper, hesitated for a moment, and said, "It's really cold, Mr. Potter, would you like some black tea?" Harry saw Draco Malfoy glance over with an unknown expression. His gaze seemed to say: Look, I'm right. "No, I'd better go down and wait." Harry shook his head.

He followed the stairs to the stone platform in the middle of the tower. At this time, there were very few people waiting for the exam.Harry guessed that they must have asked the specific content of the exam from the mouths of other people who came down - some people muttered calculation formulas in a low voice, and the atmosphere seemed a little tense.This just happened to give him a quiet environment. Harry took out his wand and summoned the magic clock. The bright green characters showed ten past nine, and the curfew would probably be postponed today.

He waited for a while before Hermione and Ron came down one after another. "Oh, I may have miscalculated an intermediate value." Ron said, looking annoyed, "I only found out when I checked last, but it's too late." "Oh, I just want to sleep now. Hermione looked tired, and cast a Warming Charm with a flick of her wand.Harry immediately felt that the air was much warmer, and there was no one on the stone platform at this time.

"Shall we go now?" Ron yawned.

Harry shook his head, "I have to send Draco Malfoy back to the Slytherin common room." Ron's expression seemed to be struggling for a while between the alluring bed and sending Malfoy back to the dormitory with his best friend , scratching his head and said, "Why don't I send Hermione back first."

"Come on, our dormitory is only separated by a flight of stairs." Hermione broke his words rudely.Harry couldn't help laughing, "You guys go first, when I came down, I saw that Malfoy's test paper was only half done, and he should have to wait for a long time. There is still an exam tomorrow."

Hermione hesitated: "To be honest, we should be with you."

"I heard that girls who don't sleep well have bags under their eyes..." Ron whispered, and Hermione gave him a choking look before saying, "Okay, Harry, see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow."

As the footsteps of the two good friends went away, only the sound of the cold wind whistling on the stone platform remained.The air broke away from the warming spell and became cold again.Harry took his wand out of his sleeve, trying to clear his head in the freezing temperature.In such an environment, the male and female wizards who came down and wanted to strike up a conversation with him left without saying a few words.It wasn't until Professor Maggie Bend, Professor Tofty, and Professor Cirily walked down together that Draco Malfoy's platinum-blond hair appeared behind them.

Probably he was the last student.

"Oh, Mr. Potter, it's almost curfew at this point." Professor Tofty was a little surprised.

"I'm waiting for someone, Professor," said Harry politely.His emerald eyes looked at Draco Malfoy, who was standing motionless on the high place, who pursed his lips and came down reluctantly.

"It seems that young people have their own affairs. Let's go have a few drinks before going to bed. It makes me feel a little uneasy here." "Good idea." Cirily smiled, Maggie Ben The professor nodded, "Then, goodbye, Mr. Potter."

"Goodbye, Professor."

After they left, the place immediately became deserted. "I thought you'd be a bit more sensible. Not everyone can attend this kind of bedtime party." Draco Malfoy's voice was a little boring.He paced up to Harry, looking at him with icy blue eyes, as if sizing him up.

"No matter what I want to do, I have to take you back to the dormitory first." Harry said calmly.

"Noble character, isn't it? Actually, you don't have to do that." Draco said, "Not many of the Slytherin students dare to mess with me, and this is Hogwarts again." Suddenly, he swallowed the sentence.Looking at Potter who didn't respond to anything, he felt irritated.

Draco Malfoy didn't want to show himself beaten up in front of his sworn enemy of seven years.

"I can go back by myself." He said straightforwardly.

The majestic Hogwarts looks a little gloomy at night, especially the cellar.The light of the torch didn't seem to illuminate much of the darkness, and there was only the monotonous sound of footsteps in the quiet corridor.Draco Malfoy had his wand out, his knuckles clenched tightly, and he looked pale and tense.

"Who?!"

His wand suddenly pointed to a corner, and he stopped vigilantly. "Okay, okay, he's spotted us." After a short laugh, Millicent Burst, Derian Puse, Terrence Higgins... a few Slytherins The students gathered around - they dared not get too close, Draco's wand pointed sharply at them, alternately.

"Look who this is, platinum-blond hair, a Malfoy." Terrence Higgins tapped his wand in his palm, and smiled mockingly, "I'm surprised that you dare to come to Slytherin "Why wouldn't I dare?" Draco Malfoy sneered, "Compared to a useless piece of trash like you, what do I have to worry about? I can take away the position of Seeker in the second grade, What are you capable of standing here now?"

"He's already prepared—"

The tall and strong Millicent Burst uttered uneasily, and she couldn't help but look out of the corridor.Terrence's face darkened, "The savior's eyes are not glued to him, he only has one person now, we have three."

"Then you have to think clearly, if you really want to fight against the Malfoy family..."

Draco Malfoy said dangerously.The wand burst into a series of red sparks from his annoyance.The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and these words obviously made Millicent cringe a little. "Terrence, did that lord really give the order?" "Are you doubting me?" Terrence Higgins snorted, "The Dark Lord has already ordered the arrest of members of the Malfoy family, Derry That's why Ann came back." His gray eyes looked at Millicent Burst, "If you're afraid, go away—"

"Drill the heart and gouge out the bone!"

Draco's pupils shrank——

Obviously didn't realize that the other party would use such a terrible unforgivable spell.Because of this, his movements were delayed a bit, and he dodged away in embarrassment. "Oolong out of the hole!" Draco subconsciously used a black magic, the piebald snake with the thickness of a water pipe rushed out of the wand, landed on the floor and opened its snake kiss threateningly, staring at the prey opposite, the venom hissed The ground dripped and burned small pits on the stone.

——This is no longer the scary magical snake in the second grade.

"Damn!"

Draco found that all this was completely different from what he had imagined. Facing the threat of the snake, the other two Slytherins instinctively raised their wands——

"Torn apart!" "There are many obstacles!"

"Drowsy!" The red light of the spell flashed and disappeared in the darkness, and hit the stone wall of the corridor with a bang.Draco Malfoy didn't have time to see if he hit it - he gritted his teeth to avoid two roaring "blazing flames", the heat made the hair in front of his nose smell like a paste.

The flames fell on the snake's body, and ignited into a whip with a "huh"——

The snake hissed and rolled on the floor.Draco backed away from its thumping tail and found himself surrounded.Derian had cut off his back and was pointing his wand at the back of his chest.

"Except your weapons."

Just as Terrence showed a sly smile, a calm and stern voice split the air.

His face froze.

"Who's there!—" Terrence's angry voice hadn't dissipated, Harry lifted the Disillusionment Charm and the Silencer Charm, and the hollow and cold footsteps echoed in the stone corridor, and finally walked out of the shadows.The firelight warmed the chill in the emerald green eyes, but it couldn't stop the gradually spreading magical oppression that made the heart beat as before and was close to suffocating.

Harry stood there grimly, his holly wand pointed right at them, and let three wands pass him and fall to the floor behind him with a crisp clang.