[Comprehensive] Road to Trench

Quirrell, who was still breathing, was taken to the medical wing by Snape and handed over to Madam Pomfrey for treatment. After all, there were still many questions for him to answer.

Clemmons' retaliation technique is aimed at the user. Although it was Quirrell's body that was holding the wand at the time, it was Voldemort himself who was actually controlling it. Therefore, Voldemort was the only one targeted by the retaliation technique. The soul, or rather, the fragment.

Quirrell was lucky enough to escape, but before Voldemort took over his body, Alex's armor-piercing bullet caused him no less damage than Cruciatus-even if he added armor to protect himself It's just barely staying alive.

It's a pity that the magic Voldemort used seems to be a spell for only one person. If it is a spell for multiple people against the enemy, it will kill two birds with one stone... On the way back to the castle by Professor Dumbledore, Alex is not without regrets thought.

Back in the hall of the castle, Alex, who was sent back by Professor Dumbledore, was quickly surrounded by little badgers, although everyone's face was almost filled with "What happened to Alex, you know ", but after Professor Dumbledore announced the continuation of the dinner, after seeing the silver-haired little girl pounced on the rich meal with shining eyes, everyone who already knew their first-year students silently returned to their own seat:

Don't ask Miss Alexandra Barnes anything when she's indulging in her food.

Because the only answer you can get is the evaluation of the taste and taste of the current food, the production process and suggestions for improvement...

Tacitly did not chat with the curious students around him about the series of thrilling events outside the castle, after Alex rewarded himself with a delicious meal, he drank orange juice and looked at the staff dining table go.

Poor Professor Snape hasn't come back yet, and he probably won't be in time for the dinner!

There was no sympathy in his heart, and Alex's beautiful cornflower eyes met the blue eyes behind the half-moon glasses.

Blinking her eyes, she remembered that before they left just now, Principal Dumbledore seemed to have said that he wanted to talk to her after the dinner.

Uh, is there still time to talk to Uncle Bucky first... I always feel that I will be asked to be a parent.

Recalling the huge pothole on the Quidditch field, Alex thought belatedly.

However, the reality did not give her the opportunity for the villain to sue first (?). As soon as the dinner was over, Dumbledore announced that the male and female prefects of each college would bring the students of their respective colleges back to the common room safely, and immediately took the silver-haired little badger out of the room. Hufflepuff's team.

This time their destination was the medical wing.

While suppressing her anger, Madam Pomfrey scolded Professor Dumbledore for not sending the child to her for a physical examination in the first place, then turned her head and asked the girl to relax with a pleasant face, and the wand swept out various lights —Forgive her for distinguishing different spells only by their colors—swept across the girl's body to check whether there were any injuries on her body other than the bruises from breaking the glass.

By the way, the small wound scratched by the glass had already been healed by Dumbledore's little spell on the way back to the castle.

Dumbledore can still handle such a minor injury with the healing spell.

"...I can't believe it! Albus, you didn't bring this kid to me in the first place!"

Madam Pomfrey was obviously very dissatisfied with Dumbledore's behavior of sending her back to the auditorium first and waiting until the dinner was over to check her body. Stop criticizing Professor Dumbledore's behavior.

Alex felt that he should clear up the grievances of Professor Dumbledore: "Madame Pomfrey, thank you for your kindness...but I was not hurt at all. If it wasn't for Professor Dumbledore's insistence, I might have ended Halloween. The dinner won't be coming to the medical wing either... In fact, Professor Dumbledore wanted to send me here, but... well, I think if I waited for my check-up here before going back, the dinner would be over ,so……"

"..."

The big bat in the cellar that Professor Dumbledore entrusted to guard Quirrell passed by flapping its black bat wings, leaving a cold snort.

Madam Pomfrey finally confirmed that the child was in good health as before, not even the slightest mental trauma... Seeing that there was no trace of panic or even fear of panic on her bright eyes, Her Lady Queen of the medical wing was deeply impressed. I deeply feel that the psychological shadow that Professor Quirrell, who is lying on her bed in the medical wing, brought to this child may not be as good as causing her to miss a sumptuous meal...

Even so, Madam Pomfrey still gave Alex a large piece of chocolate, and this delicious sweet made the latter's eyes light up, and Madam Pomfrey raised "For this child, no matter what What kind of injury, a piece of chocolate can heal, if it can't be cured, then another piece" weird illusion.

After confirming that Alex was fine, Dumbledore greeted the Queen of the Medical Wing, and took Alex, who was still eating chocolate, to the principal's office.

There, Snape and McGonagall were already waiting.

The job of guarding Quirrell was temporarily handed over to Professor Flitwick. Although the dean of Ravenclaw seemed to be easily agitated and fainted, he was also a fighting champion when he was young, and he was trustworthy in terms of fighting power.

"I'm sorry, child, although I think this may be a bit cruel to you, but I still hope that you can repeat the matter from beginning to end, can you?" The voice of the silver-haired old man was very sincere.

Alex nodded obediently, and began to talk about how she was fascinated by reading in the common room and forgot the time. When she came back to her senses, she found that the dinner party was about to start, so she hurried out, but happened to see Professor Quirrell going away from the hall .She followed it out of curiosity, and when she saw the troll, she was ready to retreat. However, by coincidence, the message from Susan rang at that time... After that, they would knew.

After she finished speaking, the principal's office fell silent for a moment.

"Miss Barnes," said Professor Snape in his standard low hiss, "can you tell me why the last man's spell bounced back?"

"It's not a rebound." Alex corrected this statement first, and then said, "I only did one thing at the time, that is, when he swung his weapon, the top of the weapon would be turned towards the user, so his spell would be released. He came out and hit himself directly."

There are two elements in the Retaliation Technique. First, the target weapon is a wooden handle. Second, the weapon will turn around and attack the user when it is swung.The attack here refers to the wand itself, not the spell issued by it. Logically speaking, a wizard's wand is so slender and small, even if it is hit, it is nothing. However, the problem is...

All wizards' spells are fired from the tip of the wand.

And when the wand is hit by the repulsive spell and turns around to attack when swinging, the tip of the wand, naturally, rushes straight at its own user...

"As for why I can do this..." The little girl with long silver curly hair curled her hair hanging in front of her in distress, "I seem to know what to do by nature, just like I know what to do when others are born It’s the same as letting others know what I want to say to them.”

"Born to know what other people are thinking?" Snape immediately grasped the point, born with Legilimency?

"That's right," Alex nodded, "For example, Professor Snape, you are now thinking about how to deduct fifty points from Hufflepuff, the reason is that you are in the castle at night... why is there no ?”

The little girl shuddered at the suddenly blank gaze of the Potions professor.

Snape maintained his Occlumency, but his expression became rather terrifying.

"Severus, don't scare Miss Barnes." Dumbledore said softly.

Professor Snape was silent for a while, then said in a low voice, "I don't feel the power of Legilimency."

He didn't even realize his mind was being read...until she said it.

"Professor, you should have such a strong idea. I heard it just by feeling it?" Alex tried to clear himself of unwarranted charges, "If it is not so strong, for example, Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore What Professor Lido is thinking now, I need to listen carefully, and once I do, you will soon notice... I have encountered this situation before."

The wizard next door when she just woke up, didn't she notice her thought-reading behavior later?

"And I usually control myself so that I don't feel what the people around me are thinking!" She didn't forget to reiterate this matter, Uncle Bucky said that this matter is very important, and it cannot be misunderstood, "Uncle Bucky said Privacy is very important, so I will not deliberately read other people's thoughts unless they have murderous intentions towards me and other thoughts that will naturally let me know... I just gave an example." The professor's face so dark that it dripped ink, she added.

"Miss Barnes, what happened to the Muggle weapon you took out earlier?" Professor McGonagall finally digested the huge amount of information and asked.

"Uncle Bucky gave it to me. He said that Hogwarts might not be safe, so I had to wear a self-defense!" Alex explained everything very simply, including the Death Eaters they met while camping before school started. (Uncle Bucky said it must be), and this incident caused Bucky's attitude to change.

By the time everything is said and done, it's getting late.

Holding his black tea full of syrup, Dumbledore felt sadly that even his favorite Honeyduke toffee could not soothe his wounded heart this time...

"Severus, I'm afraid Miss Barnes won't be able to come to your Potions class tomorrow." Dumbledore said.

He decided to take Miss Barnes to talk to her guardian tomorrow.

Although, given the special environment of Hogwarts, there is no precedent for inviting parents here, especially Muggle parents, but...

Well, teacher home visits are also possible.