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"Of course not." Cedric shook his head, "Professor McGonagall has confirmed it, it's true."
Ryan was terrified and stood there stiffly, not daring to move.
"Get up quickly, you won't be able to sleep tonight." Cedric continued, "Professor Sprout just came, and she asked everyone to stay in the common room until the professors finish searching the castle.
You guys go quickly, I have to go inform others."
When they arrived at the common room, there were already quite a few people there. Kanna sat on a sofa in the corner and waved to Kyle.
"Did you hear?" she whispered, "that Sirius Black broke into the Gryffindor dormitory."
"Yeah." Kyle nodded, "Cedric just told me everything."
"Do you think he will..." Kanna looked towards the door with a trace of worry on her face.
"Don't worry, it won't happen," Kyle said. "The first requirement to enter the Hufflepuff common room is that you must have a wand... You can't knock open those barrels with your hands."
……
More and more people gathered in the lounge, all in their pajamas, talking about what had just happened.
They couldn't understand how Sirius Black had managed to break into a college dormitory.
"I remember Gryffindor had a password." Someone yawned and couldn't help asking.
"And I heard that Sir Cadogan changes his password very quickly, sometimes two or three times a day. How did Black guess that?"
"Maybe he used some trickery to deceive the portrait... I remember that Sir Cadogan. He looked silly and his brain wasn't working very well."
Everyone gathered in the common room, chatting and waiting for news of Blake's arrest.
At dawn Professor Sprout returned and told everyone that Blake had escaped again.
She asked everyone to go back to bed, but many did not move.
They felt that they would not be able to sleep even if they went back, so they simply stayed in the common room.
There are a lot of people here and there is a warm fireplace, so it feels safer than sleeping in the dormitory.
Ryan was one of them, and Kyle was the only one left in the dormitory.
The next day, security was tightened throughout the castle.
Professor Flitwick found the guard of the castle gate with a large photo of Sirius Black. Filch was also very busy, running around in the corridor to plug the gaps, even the smallest cracks in the wall were not spared, and they were all blocked tightly.
"You will never imagine what happened..."
"terrible……"
At the Hufflepuff table, Fred and George were describing in vivid detail what had happened last night.
"That Black was standing right in front of Ron, holding a knife in his hand..."
"Poor little Ron, he must be terrified..."
"Wait, who were you talking about, Ron?"
At this moment, Cedric suddenly interrupted them and said in confusion: "But, shouldn't Black look for Harry?
Everyone knows that it was Harry who defeated his master."
"His target was definitely Harry at first, there's no doubt about that..." said Fred, "but I think he chose the wrong bed."
George shrugged. "Everyone draws the curtains when they sleep, so Blake can't see anyone, so he can only look for them one by one. Ron happened to be closest to the door..."
"He probably didn't expect that he would be discovered so soon."
"One more thing." Cedric looked up and added some corn flakes to himself. "How did Black get in? Your portrait...did Sir Cadogan not notice it at all?"
Speaking of this, Fred suddenly slammed the table and said angrily, "How come you didn't realize that he was the one who put Blake in there."
"That stupid knight, we thought he was quite interesting, but we didn't expect him to be such a fool."
George said angrily: "He even saw Blake's face, but he didn't care at all and only recognized the password."
"Fortunately the Fat Lady was replaced again..."
"That foolish knight deserves only to stay in the corner of the North Tower."
"Blake knows your password?" Connor asked.
"He even knows all the passwords for this week," George said, "because..."
"Oh!"
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by a cry of surprise.
At the Gryffindor table, Neville ran out of the hall holding a red letter... It was a Howler Letter.
Seeing his embarrassed appearance, the Slytherin table burst into laughter.
Then they heard the Howler explode in the hallway... and Neville's grandmother's voice, amplified a hundred times more than usual, screaming at him for bringing shame to the Longbottom family.
The Slytherins laughed even louder.
Hermione also rushed out of the hall, apparently wanting to comfort Neville.
"Just as you can see."
Fred shrugged. "Neville wrote down the week's passwords on a piece of paper and lost it..."
"Blake must have picked this up somewhere..." George said, "and then he came to the tower and read it out."
"Professor McGonagall was furious and forbade Neville to go to Hogsmeade again, and she also forbade anyone to tell him the password."
"Poor Neville, he can only go back to the common room if he is taken by someone else."
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Chapter 410 Confinement
Because he lost the note with the password, Professor McGonagall forbade Neville to go to Hogsmeade again.
Maybe he was afraid that Neville would lose something again... She had always suspected that Sirius Black had picked up the note that Neville had lost in Hogsmeade.
So when another visiting day came, Neville watched the others leave the castle happily, then turned around and went up the stairs silently.
Neville didn't complain in his heart. Instead, he felt that Professor McGonagall was right to do so.
He was always losing things and screwing up everything, and it might be better if he didn't know the password since he couldn't remember it anyway.
Although this would certainly make things very inconvenient and he wouldn't be able to enter and leave the dormitory as he pleased, at least he wouldn't have to worry about getting into any more trouble.
To be honest, after learning that it was because of him that Sirius Black broke into the Gryffindor common room and almost killed Ron, Neville's blood ran cold and his whole body was shaking uncontrollably.
He had nightmares for several days after that.
Ron became Gryffindor's new ghost, and also had a new name... Nearly Headless Weasley.
There was no other way, since Neville was most familiar with Nearly Headless Nick, he naturally put Ron's face on it.
In the dream, Ron kept questioning why he wrote the password on a piece of paper and gave it to Sirius Black.
Every time Neville was awakened in the middle of an explanation, his shouting and screaming scared everyone else, including Ron.
To be honest, in Ron's opinion, Sirius Black didn't scare him even half as much as Neville did.
I don’t know since when, the dormitory seems to have turned into another divination classroom.
He hadn't had a good night's sleep for several days. Every time he closed his eyes, he would hear Neville shouting beside him the next second... Ron, I didn't mean to kill you.
or it could be,
"Almost Headless Weasley, please let me go. It was Black who killed you..."
The problem is that he is still alive and well, he can eat, sleep, and do his homework...
Also, what was Nearly Headless Weasley? He couldn't remember any relation between him and Lord Porpington.
It's okay once or twice, you can just bear with it, but who can stand it every day... It's too scary.
Even though he had told Neville more than once that he forgave him, it was still useless.
If Ron hadn't been reluctant to leave Harry, he would have wanted to change dormitories.
This situation has not improved until recent days.
Neville didn't want what happened in his dream to become real, so he didn't want to know what the password was.
As long as Black doesn't know the password, he can't use him to enter the Gryffindor common room...
Ok?
Thinking of this, Neville was suddenly stunned.
He turned around and looked at the empty staircases around him, and thought seriously about a question...
Now almost everyone has gone to Hogsmeade, and he doesn't know the password, so how can he get back?
Although there were definitely some senior students still in the common room, the castle's soundproofing meant that no matter how loud he shouted, no one inside would be able to hear him.
"Oh, how could I forget this!" Neville thought in annoyance as he wandered aimlessly in the castle.
When he turned into a corridor on the fourth floor, he suddenly noticed that there was an extra person in front of him.
"Harry!" Neville cried in surprise, "I forgot you weren't going to Hogsmeade either!"
He was really happy... Now he could finally go back to the common room.
"Hey, Neville." Harry quickly moved away from the statue of the hunchbacked witch and said as if nothing had happened, "What are you doing here?"
"Nothing to do," Neville said. "Want to play some Exploding Explosions? I've got a new deck in my dorm."
It was really cold outside, and he missed the warm fireplace in the common room so much.
"Well... not now..." Harry said hesitantly. He just wanted to find a reason to get rid of Neville so that he could go to Hogsmeade through the secret passage.