94 hp Diagon Alley

"They guessed it wrong!" Gwen muttered softly.

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes on the map yesterday," George whispered, "I would have come to the same conclusion as they did—you can't expect me to have any hope of humanity under Snape's abuse." ..."

"Fifty points from Gryffindor - for eavesdropping on classroom doors and insulting the professor." There was a hissing sound behind them.

Gwen was so scared that she almost confessed that she was in the corridor on the fourth floor.

Fortunately, when they turned around, they found that the pretender was Sirius who had been wandering around Hogwarts castle recently.

He pushed the backs of both of them away from the door of Harry's classroom where they were.

"Mr. Black, what are you doing?" Gwen was puzzled, "We're looking for Harry—"

"I'm afraid not, my dear children." His tone sounded joking, but his eyebrows were drawn tightly. "Let me ask a question first, is the Marauder's Map on you?"

Gwen and George were silent for a moment, and then George asked, "How's Moonface?"

"Your old professor has been busy with his little furry problem recently." Sirius raised his eyebrows recklessly, "I appreciate your prudence, George."

George breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, here I am." Then they were half pushed and half protected by Sirius and brought them to the familiar stone beast on the eighth floor.

"Headmaster Dumbledore would like to speak to you," Sirius told them from the spiral staircase, before reading the password aloud: "Fruit Pie in Syrup".

Gwen looked at her boyfriend with question marks on her face, and then buzzed with a mosquito-like voice: "Our respected principal has really good taste."

George was observing the gargoyle at the door with great interest: "You said we had a date here before, can they see it?"

The gargoyle-shaped stone monster jumped aside after hearing the correct password, yawned and answered George's question: "Yeah, we saw it from beginning to end, boy."

Sirius climbed the spiral staircase two steps at a time. "Come in," Dumbledore called.He reached out to push the door, but the door was pulled open from the inside. Apart from the headmaster, Snape, who had no class at this time, was also standing there.

"Please sit down, Mr. Weasley and Miss Ollivander." Dumbledore's soft voice came slowly, and Gwen, who was a little nervous when he saw Snape, suddenly calmed down.The great old man was looking at them through his half-moon eyes, and after a moment he seemed relieved. "Severus told me about some of your interesting discoveries."

Sirius felt a little irritable when he saw Snape's tightly wrapped black robe, as if he could rush up and take a bite if anyone didn't pull him.When Snape snorted coldly, he really couldn't sit still.

Dumbledore noticed his movement, and immediately stretched out his hand to signal him to sit down, "Why don't you tell me yourself?" He looked at Gwen and George with encouraging eyes.

Under the watchful eyes of the three adult wizards in the office—all of whom seemed powerful to her—Gwen began to stammer, "This starts at the beginning of school, seeing Professor Moody for the first time, I feel very unknown…”

"Come to the point, Ollivander." Snape raised one upper lip, successfully intimidating Gwen with only two teeth showing.

"The point is, we think the current Professor Moody is a fake: first, his wand is not his own; second, he sneaked into Professor Snape's private storage room several times to steal medicine; third, the Crouch family was released The elf saw him, but was bound by contract not to testify; at last..." Gwen babbled it all down, until the last point, and she wasn't sure if she could show it to the Headmaster.What if the Marauder's Map is confiscated?

George, on the other hand, looked calm, and pulled out the Marauder's Map from his robe, "I solemnly swear that I have no good intentions."At that moment, the expressions of other people in the office were very exciting.Professor Snape's face was as green as the bile of an armadillo, Sirius proudly nostriled him, and Dumbledore looked at the dense parchment with interest.

"Finally," George pointed his wand at the two names in the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office on the third floor, "We believe the intruder posing as Professor Moody was Barty Crouch."

Snape flung himself down on the table, his nose nearly touching the parchment.He seemed unable to believe his eyes, and as for Sirius, while he was busy digesting the information about the explosion, he wanted to drive Snape away to see for himself the Marauder's Map he made and improved.

Gwen sensed that the three old guys (?) were waiting for them to hand over the map, and then they were probably plotting something that the students shouldn't know, and shouted nonsense decisively: "Professor, but we don't think Mr. Crouch There is no reason to sneak into Hogwarts!"

Sirius, who was carefully observing the Marauder's Map, was taken aback, but Dumbledore was not surprised, but looked worried.

George continued to discuss, "Whoever pretended to be Professor Moody must have a conspiracy. We think the biggest conspiracy this year is the Triwizard Tournament-maybe he threw Harry's name into the Goblet of Fire. "

Sirius also thought of this, and his face turned pale.

Headmaster Dumbledore did not answer this question directly, but raised another: "I think we can listen to the story of the elves first. I think you are talking about the elves I hired for the school this year. Right? "

Gwen nodded, "That's right. It's called Winky, and it has always felt ashamed and guilty for being expelled by its owner. Dobby often works with it, so I ask them to help me keep an eye on who stole the potion ingredients in the middle of the night."

Gwen swore she'd seen Snape roll her eyes so horribly that she could be sure that after the OWLs she'd never have to deal with the Potions Master again.

"Sparkle saw a wizard open the lock just before Christmas, but it refused to say a word, and kept punishing itself." Gwen carefully recalled the performance of Shining, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came out. in her head. "'Little master needs Shining's help!', it once said 'little master'." After saying this, Gwen herself was a little annoyed. Is this word really useful?

On the contrary, George's eyes lit up, "I don't think the elderly Mr. Crouch should be regarded as its young master."

Come on, now Professor Snape's face is as purple as lionfish spinal fluid.He turned his head to stare at Dumbledore, but refused to say a word.

Even Sirius, who had been jumping up and down, was quiet.Although he and his arch-rival Snape seemed to be at odds with each other by nature, he kept his mouth shut just the same, looking only at Dumbledore.

The old Headmaster's brow furrowed even tighter, but he seemed to be thinking more and further, and immediately decided to let Gwen and George end the discussion, otherwise they would almost guess everything.

"Thank you very much, Miss Ollivander and Mr. Weasley." The benevolent white-bearded wizard changed his face and smiled, "If I can't reveal it now, I really want to give points to Gryffindor..."

"It would be great if we could add back the points we deducted." George immediately hit the snake with the stick.

Dumbledore smiled even more happily, "Ah, young man..." He glanced at Snape quickly, probably knowing why the young couple had been deducted points for what reason, "I would like to, but the person at the door The stone beast complained to me that someone was around..." He smiled wryly and shook his head, "You two little wizards, I think it's time for you to go to lunch. The elf told me that there are very good turkey legs and cranberry pie for lunch today."

Gwen and George didn't want to just leave at first, but it seems that if they don't leave, these professors and parents won't talk anymore.So they could only pretend to understand the principal's hint intimately, and Gwen's stomach even growled in unison.

"Finally," said Dumbledore, crossing his long fingers in front of his chin, and winking playfully, "I hope you will keep it a secret from Harry, my clever children. Curiosity is no sin," he said, "but we are Be careful when you're curious... really..."

George was a little dissatisfied with this, but he didn't say anything when he saw Sirius, he could only frown and lead Gwen down the spiral staircase.

After leaving the principal's office, George still looked serious.Gwen picked his chin with a finger.

"I have a million words to say, let me talk." The little girl tapped her temples with both hands, "Do you think we can eavesdrop?"

George walked away with long legs, "The stone beasts at the principal's gate are about to become spirits, so don't even think about it."

"Second question, why do you look so scary." Gwen was a little afraid to look at George.

George sighed, looked around warily, and tried not to overtly remind his girlfriend: "After you quoted the elf, the atmosphere changed. That's when they were going to kick us out."

Gwen rolled her eyes, "Because the next thing is too dangerous?"

George blinked his eyes in agreement. "I wasn't thinking in that direction. But if it's true, Gwen. Let's stay away, it's not something the two of us can interfere with…"

"Are you really George Weasley?" Gwen squeezed his hand.

"...If the two of us know too much, we will expose too much." He squeezed back hard. "Use your little brain, Gwen. Think of the elf's words, the words on the map, who else is the least likely to be suspected - but if it is really him, the situation is very dangerous."

Gwen hasn't come around yet