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"By the way, doesn't he know about the relationship between Connor and Snape?"
"Obviously not," Kyle said, "but it would be a nice break from those boring dinner parties."
If Connor didn't want to go, she could even be kept in solitary confinement for the entire semester, even if Dumbledore asked, let alone Slughorn.
"Ron..." George turned his head and said meaningfully, "I noticed that he didn't invite you just now. Is it a coincidence? Or an oversight."
Ron's face turned red again.
In fact, Slughorn had never paid any attention to him, and he only talked to Harry every time they met, as if he was an insignificant decoration.
"I envy Ron." Harry said from the side: "His parties are simply a kind of torture."
"Yeah." Hermione nodded beside her, "This is really not a pleasant thing."
Ron's expression improved a little, and he mumbled something under his breath, but no one heard what he said.
Afterwards, everyone chatted for a while, and after drinking butterbeer, Kyle and Connor were ready to go back.
Harry and the others had the same idea.
The weather outside was getting worse, and rather than staying outside, it would be more comfortable in the warm common room.
They got up and walked towards the door.
At this time, two Gryffindor girls on a table not far away also stood up.
"Wait a minute, Kyle."
they shouted from behind as they walked out of the bar.
"What's the matter?" Kyle turned around and asked.
He recognized one of the girls as Katie Bell, a Gryffindor and member of the Quidditch team.
"This is for you." Katie came over and handed over a package.
Kyle was a little confused. He didn't seem to remember any friendship between him and the other party.
But when he set his eyes on the package, he frowned suddenly.
The same goes for Fred and George next to them.
Having worked in a department that hunts down dark magic items and counterfeits for so long, they could see immediately that there was something wrong with the package.
The reaction of black magic here is too obvious, and there is no cover-up. You don't need to think about it to know that there is definitely something fatal inside.
The two were about to say something when Kyle stopped them.
He shook his head slightly, then looked at Katie.
"Who gave this to me."
Katie didn't speak, but nodded slightly stiffly, her movements unnatural.
"The Imperius Curse!" A terrible idea suddenly popped into Fred's mind.
Damn it, someone used the Imperius Curse on a Hogwarts student!
Meanwhile, Kyle, after a moment's hesitation, slowly began to reach for the package.
Fred's heart immediately jumped. He wanted to remind Kyle, but quickly realized that it was not necessary, and immediately ran towards Tonks who was following them not far away.
George stayed there and watched nervously, his hand already in his pocket, ready to pull out his wand at any moment.
However, just when Kyle's fingers were about to touch the package, a gloomy voice suddenly came from behind several people.
"Get out of the way, you disgusting mudblood!"
It was Malfoy, who also seemed to have just come out of the Three Broomsticks and, unusually, without any followers.
Then, to everyone's surprise, he pushed Hermione who was standing in front of him very harshly.
Hermione didn't react for a moment, and her body stumbled into Katie's body.
Katie was hit by her and the bag in her hand fell to the ground.
……
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 726 Opal Necklace, Kyle’s Decision
"Malfoy, you bastard!"
Harry and Ron didn't know what happened, and they didn't see anything wrong with the package. After seeing Hermione almost being pushed down, they walked over directly, ready to give Malfoy a look.
Now that the two big lackeys beside Malfoy were gone, two against one, they had a good chance of winning.
Then before they could take two steps, they were pushed back by a huge force.
"Stand there and don't move!" Tonks shouted not far away, still holding the wand in her hand that she had not put down in time.
But Harry soon understood that she had nothing to do.
Because it was soaked by the rain, the brown paper bag broke as soon as it hit the ground, and the contents just fell on Katie's shoes.
In just an instant, Katie flew into the air uncontrollably, looking very weird... She stretched out her hands, and her hair was blown around by the strong wind, but her eyes were closed tightly, and there was no trace of her face. No expression either.
Soon, her eyes opened suddenly, as if she had suffered some great pain, and she began to scream heartbreakingly.
"I'm going to find the professor!" Hermione immediately ran to school.
But at this moment...
"All curses end!"
With a shout, Harry turned his head subconsciously. He noticed that Kyle's wand suddenly had a layer of orange light, and then Kyle pushed it forcefully into the stone path.
The originally hard stone was as fragile as freshly fried potato chips under the orange light of the wand, and was easily penetrated.
Vaguely, it seemed that a layer of golden flames began to spread around. When it came into contact with Katie in mid-air, a layer of black smoke appeared out of thin air on her body, which was quickly burned away by the golden flames.
The screams stopped abruptly.
The unconscious Katie fell from the air and was caught by Tonks.
At this time, a small group of people heard the noise and ran over. They stood around curiously, pointing and saying something to the unconscious Katie.
"What the hell is going on!" Tonks asked sharply, especially the girl with Katie.
Because she could see very clearly that all of this was because of that package. If an impolite bad boy hadn't suddenly appeared just now, I'm afraid the person lying on the ground would have turned into Kyle.
"I...I don't know." The girl who was traveling with her had not recovered from the shock just now, so she said in a whimpering voice.
She pointed to the torn brown paper bag on the ground, "We were just going to Mrs. Puddifu's Teahouse, but she picked up this package from somewhere and said it was for Kyle and she had to deliver it. Transfer..."
"Oh, by the way, her expression was very strange when she spoke. It was exactly the same as Professor Snape's description of the person who was under the Imperius Curse... Oh, shit, why didn't I realize it at the time!"
The girl slapped her head in frustration and started crying again, this time because she blamed herself.
If she had discovered something was wrong with her friend sooner, Katie might not have suffered.
Kangna walked over and patted her shoulder gently.
"It's not your fault...I remember you were Lini in seventh grade, right."
The girl nodded.
"So do you know who gave her the package?"
"I don't know." Lini sobbed. "I forgot something at Honeydukes. I was separated from her for a while, and it was there when I came back."
"Is that so?" Kangna looked back at Kyle.
"It doesn't matter." Kyle stared at the opal necklace on the ground and said softly: "Let's solve the matter at hand first."
"You're right, we have to go back to school quickly." Tonks looked at more and more people around her and immediately ran to school with the unconscious Katie.
At the same time, she did not forget to remind: "Fred, George, please put that thing on the ground away, and don't let anyone else touch it again."
"Leave it to us." Fred said. He waved his wand skillfully, and the stone on the ground immediately turned into a box. He rewrapped the opal necklace, and then used the wand to direct the box to float forward. .
During this process, the box is far away from everyone.
Harry and the others looked at each other and quickly followed.
"By the way, what kind of spell did Kyle use just now?" Ron asked curiously: "The problem was solved in one fell swoop."
"Every curse ends," Hermione said. "It is an advanced curse. You can think of it as an enhanced version of Curse Stop. Its function is to eliminate all traces of magic within a certain range."
"Can even the effects of dark magic items be eliminated?" Harry asked.
"Of course." Hermione said a little impatiently, "If you listen carefully to Professor Snape's class, you will know that the so-called dark magic items are actually things with curses.
"And curses are also a type of magic."
"Listen carefully to Snape's lessons?" Harry opened his mouth. This was too difficult for him.
It wasn't that he didn't want to, but Snape always had a way of making him so angry within ten minutes that he couldn't listen even if he wanted to.
Several people walked all the way into the school grounds.
Ron looked at Kyle next to him and seemed to suddenly think of something.
"Tell me, Malfoy saved Kyle once."
"Huh?" Harry was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "Yes, if Malfoy hadn't pushed Hermione and knocked over the brown paper bag, Kyle might have touched that thing."
"Ha, I didn't expect that Malfoy actually did a good thing." Ron said, "It's just that he may not be very happy... Hey, where are the Malfoys?"
He glanced around and saw that Malfoy was no longer nearby, which made Ron feel a little strange.
According to Malfoy's character, he would definitely emphasize his contribution next to Kyle, or go to the professor to ask for extra points or something. How could he not follow suit?
Kyle also glanced behind him, but said nothing.
In fact, when Tonks rushed over just now, Malfoy had already quietly blended into the surrounding crowd and disappeared.
Several people quickly returned to the school grounds.
"Do you think it was him who did this?" Ron guessed.
Although there is no evidence, it has become a habit of him to blame Malfoy for all bad things, and there is no need for evidence at all.
"I don't know." Harry said thoughtfully, "But I seem to have seen that opal necklace before."