Chapter 247 Ron Reasoning
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Shui Shen Zhi Feng
Chapter 247 Ron Reasoning
Old Batty had already made a decision in his mind.
At this time, he didn't know that Barty Jr.'s memory had also been modified by Schelling. Barty Jr. thought he had killed the damned father, and he had already relaxed his vigilance. In addition to the injuries he had suffered in the previous battle, he fell asleep drowsily after taking the medicine.Fortunately, the compound decoction he took was not the version prepared by Hermione in the second grade, but the version modified by Voldemort himself. The effect can last for eight hours, enough for him to maintain the transformed state until he wakes up.
So, even though this is Hogwarts where Dumbledore sits, Old Barty still can't feel at ease.
He didn't know how little Barty got into Hogwarts, and he didn't know how little Barty accurately intercepted himself in the Forbidden Forest. He just had a feeling that he was still not out of danger.
So he tidied up his clothes, touched his bosom, took out his wand, and was about to leave the school hospital secretly.
During the days when he was under control, except that he was allowed to retrieve his wand when he went to work at the Ministry of Magic, he would be locked up in the basement when he returned home from work, under the supervision of Peter Pettigrew. Generally speaking, the timid and cautious Peter Pettigrew would directly confiscate his wand. However, Peter Pettigrew didn’t know what he was doing in the past few days.
There was a sound of hurried footsteps, Madam Pomfrey was attracted by his movement, she had just entered the compartment where old Batty was, poked her head out to check what was going on, but he cast an Oblivion Curse on her.
In this way, no one except Dumbledore and Schelling knew about him at Hogwarts.Based on his speculation, although Little Barty knew that he was not dead, but he was attacked while insane, there was a high probability that he would flee in the opposite direction of Hogwarts, and it was impossible to guess that he was still at Hogwarts.
Gryffindor common room.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione sat in a remote corner with serious expressions and discussed in low voices.
"So," said Hermione, rubbing her forehead, "a mysterious figure used the dark environment to attack you, Malfoy and Mr. Crouch, and then let you leave safely, and was finally repelled by Malfoy, and Mr. Crouch disappeared?"
"I'm not too sure," Harry said, shaking his head, "but Professor Dumbledore cast a strange spell. He sprayed out a large cloud of golden powder with his wand, trying to deduce the situation at that time..."
"That's a Tracking Charm!" Hermione said sharply. "It can detect traces of magic that happened in that place within a certain period of time, including the footprints of wizards and magical animals, as well as the magic that was cast there. The spell is to reveal traces..."
"Yes! That's the magic. I remember Professor Dumbledore chanting this spell," Harry continued. "Professor Dumbledore deduced from the piece of golden powder that besides Malfoy and Crouch, there was an adult wizard's footprints at the scene, and there were traces of the Whirlwind Curse and the Killing Curse...According to him, the Killing Curse obviously missed the target, and Malfoy also successfully repelled the attackers."
"Death Curse?" Hermione and Ron exclaimed in unison.They had only listened to Harry's brief description before, and they didn't know that such a dangerous spell as the Killing Curse was involved.Only then did they realize that the actual situation was probably much more dangerous than what the two of them had imagined.
"Harry," Hermione stared into Harry's eyes and said in a very serious tone, "Why did you go to the Forbidden Forest alone with Malfoy? What did he say to you?"
Harry thought of the topic about Zhang Qiu, and suddenly hesitated and couldn't speak.Ron raised his eyebrows, as if realizing something, while Hermione continued to look suspicious.
"Malfoy invited you there, and everything that happened later happened in that place," Ron said flatly, "I think it's a bit suspicious, it's too much of a coincidence."
Hermione raised her eyebrows and said coldly, "Ron, don't you mean that there is something wrong with Schelling?"
Ron's pupils quickly flashed a pain and resentment that no one noticed——
Hermione was still the same.She may be a clever, learned little witch, but oh well, she's never going to be a great liar.Ron just hinted slightly, and Hermione couldn't help but directly exposed her inner thoughts——
Hermione, do you know that just now, you inadvertently said the name "Sherling" instead of calling him "Malfoy" like we do.
Harry, a straight guy, was completely unaware of the rich inner drama between his two friends, and said to himself, "What Ron said is not unreasonable. Malfoy called me to such a remote and uninhabited corner suddenly. I thought there was some important private topic, but he came to talk to me—" His face flushed, and he quickly said the following words, "It turned out that they were all unimportant and inconsequential topics, as if...he had already expected what would happen there..."
"Aha! Could it be so," Ron said excitedly, as if he had just caught an important inspiration, "Malfoy directed and acted all of this, but he was actually the one who attacked Harry and Crouch!"
"He was next to Harry, how could he attack himself?" said Hermione coldly.
"Malfoy knows so much black magic, what's so surprising about knowing a magic that can divide himself in two?" Ron retorted not to be outdone.
"Then what do you mean he did this?" Hermione said angrily, "Just to scare Harry?"
The corners of Ron's mouth twitched slightly, and he tilted his head forward, bringing himself closer to Harry and Hermione, and then said in a deep voice, "To make witnesses—Harry is his witness. And Mr. Crouch is his target."
He lowered his voice again, and there was a trace of austerity in his tone, "He first created a scene where someone wanted to kill Crouch, and Harry acted as a witness, and then tried to distract Harry, and he only attacked Crouch after Harry left the scene."
Harry kept nodding his head.Ron's reasoning is very detailed and reasonable, otherwise it really can't explain why Xie Lin asked him to go to the Forbidden Forest alone to talk about Zhang Qiu's topics.
Hermione was a little unconvinced, she wanted to refute, but couldn't find any flaws in Ron's reasoning.After a long time, she said: "When something like this happened, even if Schelling didn't go to Professor Dumbledore, do you think Professor Dumbledore would not go to him? If Schelling really killed Mr. Crouch..."
Hermione couldn't help shivering at her conjecture, she was still a naive little witch who had never seen death, she couldn't accept the conjecture that Schelling killed someone, even if it was just a conjecture.
She went on to say: "If that's the case, do you think Professor Dumbledore can't see it? I don't believe that Schelling, a fourth-year student, can kill a grown-up wizard without using a wand, and then be able to hide it from the most powerful wizard recognized as the most powerful wizard in this century. If even Dumbledore thinks he's fine..."
(Note: Hermione's meaning of not using a wand is because the wand can use the flashback spell to check the magic that has been cast)
"I agree with what you said. If Malfoy kills someone, it is really impossible to hide it from Professor Dumbledore, but—" Ron's eyes flashed a shrewd light, and he said coldly: "Malfoy is more cunning than his Death Eater father and sand sculpture brother... He is not a Death Eater, and indiscriminate killing is definitely not his style. It should be said that for a utilitarian person like him, all things that harm others and benefit himself will never be his style..."
"Attacking Crouch, killing Crouch, that's what Death Eaters would do..." Ron narrowed his eyes slightly, his eyelids flickering with a confident look, "Who is Crouch? He is the head of the Ministry of Magic and has a high position. Sirius also said that he once ran for the Minister of Magic, which shows that he also has a strong prestige and circle of supporters in the Ministry of Magic."
"If I were Malfoy, killing him would undoubtedly be the stupidest decision... Only by controlling him and making him work for me can I maximize the benefits of the whole thing..."
Hermione's face turned pale, and she looked at Ron's familiar face in disbelief. She couldn't believe that these words came from Ron's mouth, and suddenly felt that Ron had become a little strange.
Harry didn't think too much about it. He thought for a while, frowned, and said, "You mean the Imperius Curse that Professor Moody said? Malfoy is just a fourth-year student like us. Is he capable of casting this magic? Even if he really has this ability, Crouch is not an ordinary person. He works in the Ministry of Magic and often meets with many powerful wizards. When he shows up again, is it possible that Malfoy's spell will not be seen through by others?"
"The Imperius Curse is just one of the possibilities. There are thousands of magics in this world, and there are always some that even Dumbledore has never touched..." Ron said quickly.
"Wait a minute," just as Ron was about to continue talking about all kinds of uncommon dark magic he had heard from his father and other relatives and elders, he was interrupted forcefully by Hermione.
Hermione took a deep breath, and her voice began to turn chilly, "Okay, you two have come to a conclusion so quickly, as if Schelling is really the villain you said... Haven't you considered that it's your preconceived prejudice against him that prevents you from making an objective and accurate judgment on the matter?"
Hearing the dissatisfaction in Hermione's tone, Ron's body seemed to tremble imperceptibly, and he knew that he had touched Hermione's bottom line.He didn't dare to look at Hermione again, but turned his eyes away, looked at the ground, and said softly: "These are just inferences. Hermione, you are too serious."
Hermione snorted coldly and ended the conversation.The three of them went back to their dormitory dormitories respectively, and there was a bit of an atmosphere of unhappiness.
The next day was Tuesday, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione slipped out of the dormitory early in the morning, and hurried to the owl shack to send a letter to Sirius just after dawn.Now they stood looking out over the foggy grounds, all three with puffy eyelids and pale faces from their late discussions about Mr. Crouch the night before.
There they ran into the Weasley twins arguing.The Weasley twins appear to be fighting over whether to send a letter that seems likely to involve blackmail.
Ron's face was very pale. During the days of his cold war with Harry, he was almost mixed with the Weasley twins.It was clear to him that the twins had been preoccupied with making money this term because they wanted to open a joke shop.Originally, when the twins proposed this idea during the summer vacation, the whole family thought they were just saying this to annoy their mother, but they didn't expect them to be serious.
They need money to open a store, and Mr. Weasley obviously can't help them, so they have a sense of urgency for money.Ron worried that they would take risks and do illegal things in order to make money.
Yesterday's chapter was written in a hurry, and it has been revised today, adding 300 words.
(End of this chapter)
Old Batty had already made a decision in his mind.
At this time, he didn't know that Barty Jr.'s memory had also been modified by Schelling. Barty Jr. thought he had killed the damned father, and he had already relaxed his vigilance. In addition to the injuries he had suffered in the previous battle, he fell asleep drowsily after taking the medicine.Fortunately, the compound decoction he took was not the version prepared by Hermione in the second grade, but the version modified by Voldemort himself. The effect can last for eight hours, enough for him to maintain the transformed state until he wakes up.
So, even though this is Hogwarts where Dumbledore sits, Old Barty still can't feel at ease.
He didn't know how little Barty got into Hogwarts, and he didn't know how little Barty accurately intercepted himself in the Forbidden Forest. He just had a feeling that he was still not out of danger.
So he tidied up his clothes, touched his bosom, took out his wand, and was about to leave the school hospital secretly.
During the days when he was under control, except that he was allowed to retrieve his wand when he went to work at the Ministry of Magic, he would be locked up in the basement when he returned home from work, under the supervision of Peter Pettigrew. Generally speaking, the timid and cautious Peter Pettigrew would directly confiscate his wand. However, Peter Pettigrew didn’t know what he was doing in the past few days.
There was a sound of hurried footsteps, Madam Pomfrey was attracted by his movement, she had just entered the compartment where old Batty was, poked her head out to check what was going on, but he cast an Oblivion Curse on her.
In this way, no one except Dumbledore and Schelling knew about him at Hogwarts.Based on his speculation, although Little Barty knew that he was not dead, but he was attacked while insane, there was a high probability that he would flee in the opposite direction of Hogwarts, and it was impossible to guess that he was still at Hogwarts.
Gryffindor common room.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione sat in a remote corner with serious expressions and discussed in low voices.
"So," said Hermione, rubbing her forehead, "a mysterious figure used the dark environment to attack you, Malfoy and Mr. Crouch, and then let you leave safely, and was finally repelled by Malfoy, and Mr. Crouch disappeared?"
"I'm not too sure," Harry said, shaking his head, "but Professor Dumbledore cast a strange spell. He sprayed out a large cloud of golden powder with his wand, trying to deduce the situation at that time..."
"That's a Tracking Charm!" Hermione said sharply. "It can detect traces of magic that happened in that place within a certain period of time, including the footprints of wizards and magical animals, as well as the magic that was cast there. The spell is to reveal traces..."
"Yes! That's the magic. I remember Professor Dumbledore chanting this spell," Harry continued. "Professor Dumbledore deduced from the piece of golden powder that besides Malfoy and Crouch, there was an adult wizard's footprints at the scene, and there were traces of the Whirlwind Curse and the Killing Curse...According to him, the Killing Curse obviously missed the target, and Malfoy also successfully repelled the attackers."
"Death Curse?" Hermione and Ron exclaimed in unison.They had only listened to Harry's brief description before, and they didn't know that such a dangerous spell as the Killing Curse was involved.Only then did they realize that the actual situation was probably much more dangerous than what the two of them had imagined.
"Harry," Hermione stared into Harry's eyes and said in a very serious tone, "Why did you go to the Forbidden Forest alone with Malfoy? What did he say to you?"
Harry thought of the topic about Zhang Qiu, and suddenly hesitated and couldn't speak.Ron raised his eyebrows, as if realizing something, while Hermione continued to look suspicious.
"Malfoy invited you there, and everything that happened later happened in that place," Ron said flatly, "I think it's a bit suspicious, it's too much of a coincidence."
Hermione raised her eyebrows and said coldly, "Ron, don't you mean that there is something wrong with Schelling?"
Ron's pupils quickly flashed a pain and resentment that no one noticed——
Hermione was still the same.She may be a clever, learned little witch, but oh well, she's never going to be a great liar.Ron just hinted slightly, and Hermione couldn't help but directly exposed her inner thoughts——
Hermione, do you know that just now, you inadvertently said the name "Sherling" instead of calling him "Malfoy" like we do.
Harry, a straight guy, was completely unaware of the rich inner drama between his two friends, and said to himself, "What Ron said is not unreasonable. Malfoy called me to such a remote and uninhabited corner suddenly. I thought there was some important private topic, but he came to talk to me—" His face flushed, and he quickly said the following words, "It turned out that they were all unimportant and inconsequential topics, as if...he had already expected what would happen there..."
"Aha! Could it be so," Ron said excitedly, as if he had just caught an important inspiration, "Malfoy directed and acted all of this, but he was actually the one who attacked Harry and Crouch!"
"He was next to Harry, how could he attack himself?" said Hermione coldly.
"Malfoy knows so much black magic, what's so surprising about knowing a magic that can divide himself in two?" Ron retorted not to be outdone.
"Then what do you mean he did this?" Hermione said angrily, "Just to scare Harry?"
The corners of Ron's mouth twitched slightly, and he tilted his head forward, bringing himself closer to Harry and Hermione, and then said in a deep voice, "To make witnesses—Harry is his witness. And Mr. Crouch is his target."
He lowered his voice again, and there was a trace of austerity in his tone, "He first created a scene where someone wanted to kill Crouch, and Harry acted as a witness, and then tried to distract Harry, and he only attacked Crouch after Harry left the scene."
Harry kept nodding his head.Ron's reasoning is very detailed and reasonable, otherwise it really can't explain why Xie Lin asked him to go to the Forbidden Forest alone to talk about Zhang Qiu's topics.
Hermione was a little unconvinced, she wanted to refute, but couldn't find any flaws in Ron's reasoning.After a long time, she said: "When something like this happened, even if Schelling didn't go to Professor Dumbledore, do you think Professor Dumbledore would not go to him? If Schelling really killed Mr. Crouch..."
Hermione couldn't help shivering at her conjecture, she was still a naive little witch who had never seen death, she couldn't accept the conjecture that Schelling killed someone, even if it was just a conjecture.
She went on to say: "If that's the case, do you think Professor Dumbledore can't see it? I don't believe that Schelling, a fourth-year student, can kill a grown-up wizard without using a wand, and then be able to hide it from the most powerful wizard recognized as the most powerful wizard in this century. If even Dumbledore thinks he's fine..."
(Note: Hermione's meaning of not using a wand is because the wand can use the flashback spell to check the magic that has been cast)
"I agree with what you said. If Malfoy kills someone, it is really impossible to hide it from Professor Dumbledore, but—" Ron's eyes flashed a shrewd light, and he said coldly: "Malfoy is more cunning than his Death Eater father and sand sculpture brother... He is not a Death Eater, and indiscriminate killing is definitely not his style. It should be said that for a utilitarian person like him, all things that harm others and benefit himself will never be his style..."
"Attacking Crouch, killing Crouch, that's what Death Eaters would do..." Ron narrowed his eyes slightly, his eyelids flickering with a confident look, "Who is Crouch? He is the head of the Ministry of Magic and has a high position. Sirius also said that he once ran for the Minister of Magic, which shows that he also has a strong prestige and circle of supporters in the Ministry of Magic."
"If I were Malfoy, killing him would undoubtedly be the stupidest decision... Only by controlling him and making him work for me can I maximize the benefits of the whole thing..."
Hermione's face turned pale, and she looked at Ron's familiar face in disbelief. She couldn't believe that these words came from Ron's mouth, and suddenly felt that Ron had become a little strange.
Harry didn't think too much about it. He thought for a while, frowned, and said, "You mean the Imperius Curse that Professor Moody said? Malfoy is just a fourth-year student like us. Is he capable of casting this magic? Even if he really has this ability, Crouch is not an ordinary person. He works in the Ministry of Magic and often meets with many powerful wizards. When he shows up again, is it possible that Malfoy's spell will not be seen through by others?"
"The Imperius Curse is just one of the possibilities. There are thousands of magics in this world, and there are always some that even Dumbledore has never touched..." Ron said quickly.
"Wait a minute," just as Ron was about to continue talking about all kinds of uncommon dark magic he had heard from his father and other relatives and elders, he was interrupted forcefully by Hermione.
Hermione took a deep breath, and her voice began to turn chilly, "Okay, you two have come to a conclusion so quickly, as if Schelling is really the villain you said... Haven't you considered that it's your preconceived prejudice against him that prevents you from making an objective and accurate judgment on the matter?"
Hearing the dissatisfaction in Hermione's tone, Ron's body seemed to tremble imperceptibly, and he knew that he had touched Hermione's bottom line.He didn't dare to look at Hermione again, but turned his eyes away, looked at the ground, and said softly: "These are just inferences. Hermione, you are too serious."
Hermione snorted coldly and ended the conversation.The three of them went back to their dormitory dormitories respectively, and there was a bit of an atmosphere of unhappiness.
The next day was Tuesday, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione slipped out of the dormitory early in the morning, and hurried to the owl shack to send a letter to Sirius just after dawn.Now they stood looking out over the foggy grounds, all three with puffy eyelids and pale faces from their late discussions about Mr. Crouch the night before.
There they ran into the Weasley twins arguing.The Weasley twins appear to be fighting over whether to send a letter that seems likely to involve blackmail.
Ron's face was very pale. During the days of his cold war with Harry, he was almost mixed with the Weasley twins.It was clear to him that the twins had been preoccupied with making money this term because they wanted to open a joke shop.Originally, when the twins proposed this idea during the summer vacation, the whole family thought they were just saying this to annoy their mother, but they didn't expect them to be serious.
They need money to open a store, and Mr. Weasley obviously can't help them, so they have a sense of urgency for money.Ron worried that they would take risks and do illegal things in order to make money.
Yesterday's chapter was written in a hurry, and it has been revised today, adding 300 words.
(End of this chapter)
