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"Professor, what are you doing..." Kyle muttered: "The exam is coming soon, and poisonous tentacles are a very important subject."
Snape didn't care so much, and went to a place far away from the greenhouse before asking coldly: "Where is Slytherin's locket? Hand it over!"
"What?" Kyle blinked.
"Don't act stupid." Snape narrowed his eyes, "I know you have that thing in your hand, now give it to me.
"As Head of Slytherin, I have the right to keep what Mr. Salazar left behind."
Kyle turned his head and whispered: "Then you should go find Professor Dumbledore..."
"Are you trying to say that you gave that thing to the principal?" Snape sneered, "Coincidentally, he was the one who told me that the locket was with you."
Kyle stopped talking. He didn't expect Dumbledore to be such a big mouth and talk about everything. That was Slytherin's locket. How could he tell Snape... This is different from carrying a piece of steak. What's the difference between going to Yaya.
"Hurry up and hand it over." Snape stretched out his hand.
"Sorry, Professor..." Kyle said calmly: "It's not that I don't want to part with it, but I really don't have the locket here. I gave it away."
"Giving it away?" Snape seemed to have thought of something, and his voice suddenly became sharp, "Damn it, don't you know how dangerous that thing is!"
"I gave it away because I knew it," Kyle said. "After all, in the magical world, only Nicoléme can solve the problem of the locket without destroying it."
"Nicholas Flamel?" Snape was slightly startled and said subconsciously: "So you didn't give the locket to..."
At this point, he suddenly closed his mouth.
"Ah, to whom?" Kyle asked.
"Shut up, five points from Hufflepuff," Snape said.
However, after learning that the Horcrux was not in the school, he breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the castle, leaving only Kyle behind.
He couldn't help but glance at a window at the highest point of the castle... Dumbledore was back? Or did Snape go find him?
Also, judging from Snape's tone just now, it seemed that he had already seen Horcruxes.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that the only Horcrux that has not been found yet is the Resurrection Stone.
The main reason is that he really doesn't know where the thing is. Whether it is in the Hogwarts library or the private collection of Sirius's family, there is no record of Gaunt's old house.
He even asked Dumbledore in a roundabout way, but the other party didn't seem to know.
Kyle frowned.
When Dumbledore left school this time, could it be that he was looking for that stone?
And that Bob Ogden...seems to be a key figure as well.
Kyle glanced at his arm... He didn't know if the magic contract he had made before was useful. It should be of some help...
It's a pity that Dumbledore hasn't come back yet.
Kyle shook his head, didn't think about it anymore, and prepared to go back to the greenhouse to continue the class.
But Snape suddenly mentioned Slytherin's locket today, which made him subconsciously think of Ravenclaw's diadem.
Since he last returned to Hogwarts from Nicolas Flamel, the only Horcrux that has been repaired so far, and the magical crown that also contains part of Ravenclaw's consciousness, has disappeared.
Also missing was the ghost Lady Grey, Helena Ravenclaw.
They seemed to have hid in a corner of the castle, spending time together in a long-lost world. After all, mother and daughter had not seen each other for more than a thousand years, so naturally they had a lot to say.
Kyle also tried to find them, but to no avail.
Before, Ms. Gray's name, like other ghosts, would appear on the Marauder's Map, but now she has disappeared.
Kyle also wondered if they were hiding in the Room of Requirement, but when Harry and the others had a DA party, the Room of Requirement was still in normal use.
Of course, it is not ruled out that there are more hidden rooms there. After all, even the Room of Requirement was built by Ravenclaw, so it would be too easy for her to leave a back door for herself.
If that was the case, Kyle would naturally not be able to find them.
When Kyle returned to the greenhouse, Professor Sprout was instructing everyone to put on dragon skin gloves.
"Poisonous tentacles are a very dangerous plant. Although what we see is only a seedling, it will not be fatal if it is stung, but it is enough to make you lie in the school hospital for a month... If you miss the exam by then, Don’t blame me for not warning you.”
This is also the reason why Poison Tentacle is placed in the sixth grade, because there are no particularly important exams in the sixth grade, so even if you miss it, it won't be a big problem.
Kyle opened the door and returned to his original position after receiving Professor Sprout's consent.
Connor next to her asked curiously: "What does Professor Snape want from you?"
Mikel and Ryan also looked over.
Snape had just barged in aggressively, startling them, and some even speculated that Kyle had blown up his private storage room and was discovered by him to settle the score.
"Nothing." Kyle shook his head, "He wanted to ask me for Slytherin's locket."
"Slytherin's snuff bottle?" Mikel blinked, "What is that?"
"Idiot, it's a locket!" Ryan corrected: "It's something left by the legendary Big Four. Each college has one. Gryffindor's is an indestructible sword, and Ravenclaw's is The crown that brings wisdom to people, as for us Hufflepuffs, is a golden cup.
"But these things have been lost for centuries, and no one has actually seen them."
"That's cool..." Mikel's eyes lit up, and then he looked at Kyle doubtfully and asked, "But if that's the case, why would he come to you to ask for it?"
"Who knows..." Kyle put on his dragon leather gloves and shrugged, "Maybe someone told him something."
"That person must want to frame you." Mikel said angrily, "It's really bad."
"Yes, I think so too." Kyle nodded in agreement.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 682 Final Exam
On the first Sunday in June, Dumbledore finally returned to Hogwarts after disappearing for a long time.
During dinner in the evening, he walked into the auditorium with a group of old wizards and witches.
And these sudden visitors immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding students.
"who are they?"
"I guess it's the examiner..."
"I know, that's Professor Marchiban...the most senior employee of the Wizarding Examination Authority of the Ministry of Magic."
There was a buzz of discussion in the auditorium.
Kyle immediately laid his eyes on Dumbledore's hand...
Fortunately, although the hands were still dry and full of wrinkles, looking like straw wrapped in a layer of skin, they had not turned black, and there were no weird rings on the fingers.
Kyle breathed a sigh of relief and then looked at the wizards who came with him.
Professor Tofty, an old wizard who walks tremblingly, looks the oldest, but his actual age is just over a hundred years old. He is considered a young man in this group. Last year, he proctored Kyle's spells and herbal medicine exam.
There is also Professor Marchban. She doesn't seem to have changed much. It may be that there are already enough wrinkles on her face, like a layer of spider webs, and even two more wrinkles will not be visible.
But she seemed to be in good condition, talking and laughing with Dumbledore.
"It was a pleasant journey. We have been here many times before..." She looked at Dumbledore and said in a loud voice: "I heard that you wanted to compete with Connelly for the ministership, right?"
"I think you must have heard wrong." Dumbledore said, "My only wish is to be the Headmaster of Hogwarts, and I don't have the energy to take on other jobs now.
"To be honest, just the things at school have made me a little overwhelmed. Sometimes I am even glad that I quit the International Federation of Wizards... This decision allows me to sleep two more hours every day."
"Albus, you are still young, you can't always think about being lazy..." Professor Marchban said dissatisfied.
The expressions of the people around him suddenly became wonderful.
Although there is nothing wrong with Professor Marchbaby's age of more than 130 years old, most people still find it strange when they hear it, especially after seeing Dumbledore's gray beard. I was speechless for a while, not knowing what to say.
"You are right." Dumbledore nodded repeatedly, "How about a cup of tea, or maybe you would like something to eat."
"Just tea, we already had it on the way..." Professor Marchban said.
"it is good."
Dumbledore accompanied them to the staff room.
But the students in the auditorium exploded. The appearance of people from the Wizarding Examination Administration gave them an indescribable sense of crisis.
This night, everyone did not have a good rest and wanted to seize every moment to review their homework. This also caused the lights in the college common room to stay on until early in the morning.
The next morning, the first exams for fifth and seventh grade students began.
While eating breakfast, Justin sat there holding a book, muttering to himself. Not far away, Susan and Hannah were asking each other questions about the contents of the "Standard Spells" to see if there were any mistakes in what they had memorized.
"What's your test on the first day?" Kyle walked over and sat down next to Cedric.
"Charms," Cedric said.
The exam was coming, and even Cedric looked very nervous. The jam he spread was almost thicker than the bread.
"Come on." After breakfast, Kyle patted Cedric on the shoulder and went to class.
Sixth grade exams are a week later than fifth and seventh grade, which is just enough time for everyone to finish their exams on the same day.
However, in order to prevent anyone from cheating on behalf of the fifth-grade students, the professor was very strict with them and called their names three times in almost every class to ensure that no one would leave the classroom.
Especially students with excellent grades like Kyle and Connor... After the entire Transfiguration class, Professor McGonagall almost sat next to them.
After class, part of the corridor leading to the OWL examination room was blocked directly, and there were lines drawn with a wand on the floor. Once someone crossed, they would know it immediately and rush over.
In just one morning, three students were punished, and each was deducted twenty points... If they were sixth grade students, the points deducted would be even higher, and they might even be put into solitary confinement.
In the following days, Kyle's treatment remained the same, and professors would come to him specifically during every class.
In order to make sure that Kyle was not transformed by someone else using Polyjuice Potion, they would also assign a lot of tasks to check whether his spell level had changed.
"They are obviously taking the exam, so why do I feel like I'm sitting in the exam room?" Kyle couldn't help but muttered after the last Transfiguration class on Friday.
During this week, he had to perform a large number of difficult magic spell demonstrations every day in class. He almost reviewed the knowledge he had learned before, and some of them were even not in the textbooks.
For example, in the Transfiguration class just now, Professor McGonagall asked him to demonstrate the three-stage transformation magic. Even a seventh grader only learned the second transformation.
"If I were a professor, I would do the same thing." Kangna glanced at him and said seriously: "To prevent you from secretly helping someone in fifth grade take the OWL exam."
"Who can I help..." Kyle shrugged, "It can't be Harry and Ron. They can't afford my appearance fee."
"So you really want to go over and help." Kangna raised her eyebrows.
"How is that possible? It's just talk."