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"What Malfoy said at that time was that no one could help him... and that someone was going to kill him."
"Who wants to kill Malfoy?"
"I don't know." Harry shook his head, "That's when I heard this, and then I was discovered by Malfoy in the mirror. You must not know that Malfoy wanted to use the Cruciatus Curse on me at that time."
"This is impossible!" Hermione shouted: "That is an Unforgivable Curse. If it is used on other wizards, the consequences will be much more serious than violating school rules."
"I know, but he did." Harry recalled the scene at that time, "If I hadn't interrupted his spell with the repelling spell in time, I would have been hit.
"But now that I think about it, I should have let him finish the spell. As you said, if he used the Unforgivable Curse, even Snape would definitely not be able to protect him."
Withstanding the Cruciatus Curse once could lead to Malfoy being expelled. In Harry's opinion, this was a very good deal.
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Hermione scolded: "That's the Unforgivable Curse. Just look at Katie Bell. She was only hit by the Imperius Curse once and was treated at St. Mungo's for several months."
"Don't be so nervous, Hermione, I was just joking." Harry said hurriedly.
Seeing that Hermione was still unyielding, he could only change the subject and said, "By the way, where did you meet Kyle."
This trick really works.
"On the sixth floor, he was wandering around in the castle." Hermione said, "You should be lucky that Kyle is not far from the seventh floor, so he could rush there as soon as possible to separate you and Malfoy, otherwise you would never have thought of leaving standing. school clinic.
"Exploding Curse and Crushing Curse, what do you think, are you going to kill each other?"
Hermione began to scold Harry again, saying that he shouldn't be so impulsive and should go to the professor immediately.
Harry didn't refute this time, and he was actually a little lucky, because he knew very well that he couldn't dodge Malfoy's blasting curse at that time.
Speaking of this, Harry could not help but think of the scene where Kyle turned their magic spells into ravens with a wave of his hand.
He had never heard of that kind of magic.
"Hermione, do you know what spell Kyle used?"
Hermione, who was chatting incessantly, suddenly became quiet. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but Harry noticed that she seemed a little embarrassed.
"I, I don't know," Hermione said hesitantly.
In fact, at that time, because she couldn't bear to see Harry's blood splattered on the spot, she subconsciously closed her eyes and didn't even see what magic Kyle used.
But she didn't want Harry to know this, so she could only bite the bullet and said: "It should be some kind of magic that Kyle found in the library.
"He hasn't gone to class in the past month or so. He must be reading in the library. It's not surprising that he has learned some strange magic."
"Then do you know which book it is?" Harry asked.
He was too curious. He could dissolve the opponent's spell with a wave of his hand. This kind of magic was even more elegant than the Disarming Spell. There was no reason for Harry not to be tempted.
He even thought that after he learned that magic, he would play a trick on Malfoy when he faced him again.
"If you want to learn, just go to the library and look for it yourself. Don't ask me everything!" Hermione said angrily, "And what you should be thinking about now is not the curse, but how to face Principal Dumbledore. Don't let He fired you!"
"I told you, Malfoy was the one who struck first. I can't just stand still and let him hit me."
Facing Hermione who suddenly became angry again, although Harry couldn't figure it out, he could only spread his hands and said:
"If Professor Dumbledore fires me because I want to protect myself, then there is nothing I can do."
……
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 757 Punishment and Confinement
During dinner, Dumbledore, who had disappeared for a long time, appeared on time at the teacher's desk.
He looked dusty, and his silver hair and beard had become dull. Although he tried hard to hide it, if you looked carefully, you could still see the exhaustion on his face.
"He must be very busy recently." Kangna glanced at the teacher's desk and said.
"Yeah." Kyle nodded.
Although he was at Hogwarts, he could also know from the recent "Daily Prophet" that most of the current morale against the Death Eaters outside was due to Dumbledore.
So in order to deal with the increasingly rampant Death Eaters, he had to leave Hogwarts and allow himself to appear outside frequently.
After all, everyone in the wizarding world knows that what Voldemort fears most is Dumbledore. Only when he takes action can others see hope.
This is why Dumbledore has been increasingly busy recently.
"Right." Connor seemed to have thought of something. She spread jam on her slice of bread and asked, "I heard that Potter and Malfoy had a fight in the bathroom?"
"Yeah..." Kyle nodded subconsciously, but he was stunned for a moment, "Wait, who did you listen to?"
He remembered that Kangna had been doing homework in the common room in the afternoon, and he didn't seem to find a chance to tell her about it.
Then how did she know? It couldn't be Snape...
"Oh, it's Mikel." Kangna said casually: "In order to stay up all night to catch up on homework, he went to the school hospital in the afternoon to get some pick-me-up, and happened to hear some.
"Nearly all of Hufflepuff knows now, and he said you were involved."
"Tsk." Kyle smacked his lips.
It must be said that Mikel was born to be an Auror, and he has never disappointed anyone when it comes to gathering intelligence.
"This is indeed the case." Kyle said: "And the two of them are serious about it, and they are determined to fight until death."
"What about you, why did you get involved?" Kangna asked.
This is what she doesn't understand the most.
Isn't Kyle supposed to be in the Room of Requirement? Why did he suddenly run to the seventh floor and get involved with Potter and Malfoy?
"It's a coincidence that I just decided to take a day off, and something like this happened again, so I tried to persuade him to start a fight." Kyle briefly recounted what happened before, including overhearing the explosion and rushing to the scene. He went to the seventh floor and pulled Harry and Malfoy away, saving them from being carried to the campus hospital.
"So you've learned it, right?" Kanna's eyes lit up, and she said excitedly, "The method that Professor Lagor said... the method of using magic words to change the essence of magic power."
Lagor is the Charms professor in the Room of Requirement who looks exactly like Old Tom from the Leaky Cauldron.
Connor had attended Kyle's classes several times before. Although she didn't understand them, she still remembered some of his key points.
And what impressed her most... was using magic words to change the magic power. To put it simply, it was to invalidate the magic power.
The main reason was that Kyle was scolded the most in that class. Fifty-five minutes of the one-hour class was spent being scolded, and it was difficult for her to forget it.
But Kyle naturally didn't know what she was thinking.
"I guess I've learned it." He thought for a moment and said: "Another reason is that the spells used by Harry and Malfoy are not particularly complicated and relatively difficult. It would definitely not work if they were replaced by two professors. ”
"That's pretty good," Kangna couldn't help but laugh, "At least Professor Lagore won't scold you anymore, right?"
"It's hard to say." Kyle rubbed his forehead. Thinking of the grumpy old professor gave him a headache, and this wasn't the only thing he wanted to learn.
After dinner, everyone stood up and left the table, preparing to return to the common room.
Kyle did not move, but sat there and waited for a while. He felt that there was a high probability that he would be called to the principal's office. Waiting here would save him a lot of walking.
But after he waited for more than ten minutes, everyone in the auditorium was gone, and no one came to ask him to go to the principal's office.
During this period, Nearly Headless Nick came over, but he was not looking for Kyle, but Harry and Malfoy.
Kyle stood up awkwardly.
"It seems that you guessed wrong." Connor said with some humor: "Professor Dumbledore didn't want to find you as the person responsible for breaking up the fight."
"That's because I guessed wrong." Kyle shrugged indifferently, "It's just a pity... I think I can add at least fifty points this time."
"It doesn't matter, Hufflepuff doesn't lack the fifty points now." Connor said.
In this year's house rankings, Hufflepuff has been occupying the first place since Christmas, and its score is more than 80 points higher than the second place Slytherin.
And Gryffindor is still the well-deserved number one. Ravenclaw should have been number one, but a few days ago Harry was deducted 50 points and took the lead.
The two returned to the common room.
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At the same time, in the principal's office on the eighth floor. Dumbledore steeled himself and said to the two people in front of him.
"Don't worry, I won't fire you, Mr. Malfoy, but you must recognize your mistakes."
"So I will deduct 100 points from Slytherin, and confinement is also necessary. Professor Snape will be in charge. As for the time... it will be from eight to eleven every Saturday morning until the end of the school year."
"Okay." Malfoy raised his head and looked at Dumbledore, his eyes constantly changing.
But the next second, a person came in front of him, blocking this gaze.
It's Snape.
"No problem, Principal Dumbledore." He said, "If there is nothing else, why don't we go back first."
"Of course." Dumbledore nodded and said softly: "Professor Snape, I hope you can make Malfoy realize his mistake today, otherwise, I will have to hand him over to Professor McGonagall. ”
"Don't worry, I will..." Snape said, still standing in front of Malfoy.
Then he turned around and pushed hard. Malfoy seemed not to have expected him to do this, and his body staggered and almost hit the table next to him.
He angrily turned his gaze to Snape, but it seemed that because Dumbledore was beside him, he said nothing. He just took a deep breath, opened the door and strode outside.
Snape followed soon after.
Soon, the two came to the corridor outside.
"Do you know what you just did!"
As soon as they left the scope of the principal's office, Snape chased after him and said coldly: "Looking at Dumbledore with that look, are you afraid that he won't know your ulterior motives? If it weren't for me, you might have already was discovered."
"Yeah, that's really causing trouble for you." Malfoy's voice was also cold. "I guess you must be regretting it now, for agreeing to protect this stupid student like me."
"Yes, you are indeed stupid," Snape said.
Malfoy became even more angry and kicked the armor next to him hard.
"Hey, boy, what do you want to do? Challenge me to a duel?" a knight said loudly in the portrait.
But neither Malfoy nor Snape paid attention to him.
"You think you are great, don't you?" Malfoy suddenly showed a sneer, "You protected me in front of Dumbledore, so I should be grateful and tell you all the plans?"
"I didn't think so." Snape frowned. "But I must remind you that it is best to put away all your thoughts in front of Dumbledore, let alone show your ambitions and goals. Otherwise, it will be easy to see through."
"You don't need to meddle in other people's business!" Malfoy said, "Bella taught me Occlumency during the holidays, and Dumbledore couldn't see through what I was thinking."
"Really?" Snape sneered, "Do you think you can stop Dumbledore after hastily practicing Occlumency for a month? Not only do you overestimate yourself, you also underestimate Dumbledore."