Chapter 32
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Shui Shen Zhi Feng
Chapter 32
For the Christmas banquet, the auditorium looked magnificent.A dozen Christmas trees covered in silver frost complemented the thick friezes of mistletoe and holly that crossed on the ceiling. The sky above the auditorium was enchanted, and warm and dry snow flakes gently fell from the ceiling.
The exquisite and luxurious food made everyone eat with gusto. After the dinner, Schelling took a walk in the corridor in a rare relaxed mood before walking slowly towards the Slytherin common room.
At the entrance of the lounge, Schelling saw Goyle and Crabbe walking back and forth anxiously, as if they were forbidden to enter because they had forgotten the entrance code.
The corner of Schelling's mouth raised slightly, and an interesting plot came. With Schelling's magical eyes, one could tell at a glance that the magic power of the two people in front of them was much more concentrated than that of Goyle and Crabbe. According to the plot, Harry and Ron must have pretended to be these two people with Polyjuice Potion, in order to get inside information about the secret room from Draco.
Another interesting discovery is that Compound Potion can only copy the appearance of a person, but not the soul, magic power and other characteristics of a person-of course it is reasonable, otherwise, wouldn’t the duel between the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix become thirty Voldemorts against thirty Dumbledores?
Schelling walked forward, greeted the two of them, and after saying the catchphrase "Purebred", he pretended to help the two into the lounge and waited for Draco together.The three of them sat in the lounge chatting without saying a word, each with their own thoughts, waiting for Draco's return.
It's not that Harry and Ron didn't think about asking about Schelling directly, but Schelling's inscrutable image all along made Harry hesitate a bit, so he subconsciously overturned this idea.
Not long after, Draco came back from the outside, holding something that looked like a newspaper clipping in his hand.
After he saw the three of them, he approached with a strange expression. In his impression, Xie Lin and the second and second idiots were not friendly, or it should be said that Xie Lin had always been a maverick in Slytherin. Except for Daphne and Meredith, he and the other students always had an invisible sense of alienation.On the surface, Schelling might be approachable, gentle and polite to everyone, but Draco clearly knew that Schelling looked down on them in his heart, especially the pure-blood supremacist students.
Although he felt a little weird, Draco didn't think too much, and approached the three of them excitedly, eagerly handing the newspaper clipping to Crabbe (Ron).
"You'll laugh when you see it," he said.
Crabbe (Ron), eyes wide with astonishment, reads the clipping quickly, gives a very forced laugh, and hands it to Goyle (Harry).
The clipping was taken from the Daily Prophet and it read: Arthur Weasley, Director of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office, was today fined fifty Galleons for enchanting a Muggle car.The enchanted car crashed at Hogwarts earlier this year, and one of the school's trustees, Mr Lucius Malfoy, recently called to demand Mr Weasley's resignation. "Weasley has ruined the reputation of the Ministry of Magic," Malfoy told this reporter. "He is obviously not fit to make laws for us. His ridiculous "Muggle Protection Act" should be repealed immediately."
The subsequent dialogue is exactly the same as that described in the original book, so I will not mention it here.
"Draco, don't talk about Wesley, talk about the Chamber of Secrets and the heir of Slytherin." Goyle (Harry) tentatively said, "You must know something about who manipulated all this."
"How many times do you need me to tell you when you know I don't know, Goyle?" Draco snapped. "Papa won't tell me anything about the last time the Chamber was opened. Of course, that was 50 years ago, and he wasn't born yet, but he knew everything. He said it was all kept secret, and if I knew too much, it would look suspicious. But there is one thing I do know: the last time the Chamber was opened, a Mudblood died. A matter of time... I hope it's Granger," he said with relish.
Schelling looked at Draco with some displeasure on his face, "Brother, Hermione is my friend. Also, I hope you can learn to use language carefully. I don't think it is a wise thing to use the word mudblood in Hogwarts, are you right?"
"Oh, I see." Draco's face was a little embarrassed. Before the start of school, Lucius had specially told him to learn more from Schelling. It was not easy to disobey Schelling on the surface at this moment, but he didn't care about it in his heart.Seeing that Draco's words were insincere, Schelling had to secretly sigh that old habits die hard. The idea of pure blood supremacy instilled in the family since childhood has been deeply ingrained, and it is really not easy to change.
Crabbe (Ron) clenches his big fist.Goyle (Harry) gave him a quick warning look, and said, "Do you know if the man who opened the Chamber of Secrets was caught last time?"
"It is said that he was caught and then expelled." Draco said, "You can check the student directory from 50 years ago. Whoever he is is probably still in Azkaban."
He shifted restlessly on his chair and said, "My dad told me to stay out of publicity and let the Heir of Slytherin move on. He said the school had to be cleansed of all Mudblood filth and not get involved with it. Of course, he has too much to do right now. You know the Ministry of Magic raided our manor last week. Luckily they didn't find anything. My dad has some very valuable secrets. It's a good thing we set up our Chamber of Secrets in—"
Schelling coughed twice, and Draco looked a little terrified. He knew that he almost said some family secrets that shouldn't be leaked. If Schelling reported to Lucius, Draco would definitely be beaten up. Draco immediately showed a flattering expression, "Sherin, we two good brothers, you won't let your brother be beaten, right?"
Suddenly Crabbe (Ron) let out a groan "Ho!" His hair was turning red and his nose was slowly growing longer—their time was up.Ron was turning back into himself, and Harry knew from the sudden, horrified look he was throwing at him that he must be beginning to turn back into himself, too.
They both jumped up at the same time, trying to escape the Slytherin lounge.
Draco hadn't reacted to the sudden action of the two idiots. Sherin shook his left hand, and the wand slipped out of the sleeve pocket and fell into his hand. He stretched out his hand to block the way of Harry and Ron, and showed a sudden understanding expression with superb acting skills. "Two Gryffindor students, sneaked into the common room pretending to be my Slytherin student without consent, and wanted to leave without explaining clearly?"
When Harry and Ron saw their deeds revealed, Harry made a decisive decision and rushed towards him, intending to take advantage of Goyle's tall and strong figure and grab the wand for hand-to-hand combat.Ron was a beat slower than Harry in reacting, but he also rushed towards Draco in a waking moment.
Schelling's wand was in his hand, and he sneered. Although Harry's reaction was quick, it was still weak compared to the quick spellcasting he had practiced day and night. Just when Harry's arm barely touched Schelling, Schelling's casting had been completed - a perfect body-binding spell that knocked Harry down to the ground.
Draco was used to being pampered, and his reflexes were worse than Schelling's. As a result, he was pressed to the ground by Ron and beat him severely, and he didn't even have a chance to draw out his wand.Although Draco's physical strength has increased a lot due to Quidditch training, he is far inferior to Ron in Crabbe's physical condition.
Seeing this, Xie Lin could only shake his head secretly. Draco's reaction is not fast enough, but his adaptability is too poor - if it were Xie Lin, even if he was pushed to the ground, he would have at least ten ways to fight back .
Schelling used Polymorph to turn a stool into a rope, and the rope automatically tore Ron away from Draco, then bound Ron in circles.Draco was rescued only then, but at the moment he had at least three bruises on his face, and a lot of holes were torn on his expensive wizard robes, his hair was disheveled, and he was in a state of embarrassment.
Fortunately, during the Christmas holiday, most of the Slytherin snakes chose to go home for the holiday, and there were only a few men and two women in the lounge at this time, so not many people saw Draco's tragic situation, otherwise the Malfoy family's face would suffer.
Even so, Draco was in this embarrassment, his whole face was burning with shame, every nerve in his brain was flooded with pain and humiliation, his eyes were burning with anger, and Schelling could feel him like a beast that had lost its mind and was about to go rampage.
He pulled out his wand and cast a curse at Ron. It was a shattering curse. If it hit Ron, it would probably cause a serious injury like a comminuted fracture, but the curse just flew in front of Ron and was intercepted by a transparent barrier.
Draco turned his head to look at Xie Lin, his eyes were full of madness and hatred, "Sherin! If you still think of me as your brother, get out of the way now!"
Schelling stood in front of Harry and Ron who were lying on the ground, blocking them behind, watching Draco and shaking his head, "Brother, calm down, you are losing your mind now, they have been captured by me, and they have no power to resist. You will only bring punishment from the school if you cast a curse on them, and I will not let go."
Draco pursed his lips tightly, and was so angry that the hand holding the wand was trembling. Although he was very annoyed at his brother's obstruction, the remaining rationality in his mind also knew that his brother was right, but emotionally he was unwilling to compromise anyway, so he still pointed his wand at Schelling and the two lying behind him.
The man and two women in the lounge witnessed the whole incident. They first saw Draco who was beaten badly, and then saw Schelling's demeanor of easily cleaning up the two of them by himself. At this moment, the two brothers who were watching the confrontation were at a loss as to what to do.Until Schelling greeted and broke the tranquility, "Hey, who can help me, inform Professor McGonagall or Professor Snape to come over, there are imposter infiltrators in our college!"
When one of the girls heard about it, she hurried out of the lounge to find the professors.
It was Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape who came over, and they also found the stunned Goyle and Crabbe in the cabinet in the hall.
After understanding the whole thing clearly, Professor McGonagall turned blue with anger, "It's unbelievable, Potter and Weasley, you two concocted prohibited potions, stunned your classmates, pretended to be classmates, sneaked into other people's colleges, and attempted to beat him after the incident—no, for a vile attack on Malfoy, Gryffindor deducted [-] points, you two have to go to see the principal with me!"
Although Draco had intended to cast a curse on Ron, firstly he failed to cause harm, and secondly because he was overwhelmed by anger at the time, so he was not punished. Instead, Professor McGonagall looked at Schelling who calmly resolved the conflict and gave Slytherin fifty points.
After Professor Snape gave Sherin a meaningful look, he followed Professor McGonagall, Harry, and Ron to the headmaster's office; while Draco, Goyle, and Crabbe were sent to the school hospital by the three in the lounge of Sherin and Slytherin.
Later, I heard that in the principal's office, Snape suddenly burst into anger and strongly demanded the expulsion of Harry and Ron. Professor McGonagall strongly opposed it, but she obviously lacked confidence. After all, Harry and Ron violated at least a hundred serious school rules this time, and some classmates were hurt by it.
The two argued for a while, and finally Dumbledore, who was eccentric, made the final decision, exempting Harry and Ron from the punishment of being expelled, and only giving them two weeks of confinement. But after seeing Snape's extremely gloomy face, he also promised to give some compensation to Slytherin House. After haggling with Snape, Snape left angrily.
Thank you Zhu Tianjun for the 4 recommendation tickets; Xiangsheng Sidie for the 4 recommendation tickets!Thank you so much!
(End of this chapter)
For the Christmas banquet, the auditorium looked magnificent.A dozen Christmas trees covered in silver frost complemented the thick friezes of mistletoe and holly that crossed on the ceiling. The sky above the auditorium was enchanted, and warm and dry snow flakes gently fell from the ceiling.
The exquisite and luxurious food made everyone eat with gusto. After the dinner, Schelling took a walk in the corridor in a rare relaxed mood before walking slowly towards the Slytherin common room.
At the entrance of the lounge, Schelling saw Goyle and Crabbe walking back and forth anxiously, as if they were forbidden to enter because they had forgotten the entrance code.
The corner of Schelling's mouth raised slightly, and an interesting plot came. With Schelling's magical eyes, one could tell at a glance that the magic power of the two people in front of them was much more concentrated than that of Goyle and Crabbe. According to the plot, Harry and Ron must have pretended to be these two people with Polyjuice Potion, in order to get inside information about the secret room from Draco.
Another interesting discovery is that Compound Potion can only copy the appearance of a person, but not the soul, magic power and other characteristics of a person-of course it is reasonable, otherwise, wouldn’t the duel between the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix become thirty Voldemorts against thirty Dumbledores?
Schelling walked forward, greeted the two of them, and after saying the catchphrase "Purebred", he pretended to help the two into the lounge and waited for Draco together.The three of them sat in the lounge chatting without saying a word, each with their own thoughts, waiting for Draco's return.
It's not that Harry and Ron didn't think about asking about Schelling directly, but Schelling's inscrutable image all along made Harry hesitate a bit, so he subconsciously overturned this idea.
Not long after, Draco came back from the outside, holding something that looked like a newspaper clipping in his hand.
After he saw the three of them, he approached with a strange expression. In his impression, Xie Lin and the second and second idiots were not friendly, or it should be said that Xie Lin had always been a maverick in Slytherin. Except for Daphne and Meredith, he and the other students always had an invisible sense of alienation.On the surface, Schelling might be approachable, gentle and polite to everyone, but Draco clearly knew that Schelling looked down on them in his heart, especially the pure-blood supremacist students.
Although he felt a little weird, Draco didn't think too much, and approached the three of them excitedly, eagerly handing the newspaper clipping to Crabbe (Ron).
"You'll laugh when you see it," he said.
Crabbe (Ron), eyes wide with astonishment, reads the clipping quickly, gives a very forced laugh, and hands it to Goyle (Harry).
The clipping was taken from the Daily Prophet and it read: Arthur Weasley, Director of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office, was today fined fifty Galleons for enchanting a Muggle car.The enchanted car crashed at Hogwarts earlier this year, and one of the school's trustees, Mr Lucius Malfoy, recently called to demand Mr Weasley's resignation. "Weasley has ruined the reputation of the Ministry of Magic," Malfoy told this reporter. "He is obviously not fit to make laws for us. His ridiculous "Muggle Protection Act" should be repealed immediately."
The subsequent dialogue is exactly the same as that described in the original book, so I will not mention it here.
"Draco, don't talk about Wesley, talk about the Chamber of Secrets and the heir of Slytherin." Goyle (Harry) tentatively said, "You must know something about who manipulated all this."
"How many times do you need me to tell you when you know I don't know, Goyle?" Draco snapped. "Papa won't tell me anything about the last time the Chamber was opened. Of course, that was 50 years ago, and he wasn't born yet, but he knew everything. He said it was all kept secret, and if I knew too much, it would look suspicious. But there is one thing I do know: the last time the Chamber was opened, a Mudblood died. A matter of time... I hope it's Granger," he said with relish.
Schelling looked at Draco with some displeasure on his face, "Brother, Hermione is my friend. Also, I hope you can learn to use language carefully. I don't think it is a wise thing to use the word mudblood in Hogwarts, are you right?"
"Oh, I see." Draco's face was a little embarrassed. Before the start of school, Lucius had specially told him to learn more from Schelling. It was not easy to disobey Schelling on the surface at this moment, but he didn't care about it in his heart.Seeing that Draco's words were insincere, Schelling had to secretly sigh that old habits die hard. The idea of pure blood supremacy instilled in the family since childhood has been deeply ingrained, and it is really not easy to change.
Crabbe (Ron) clenches his big fist.Goyle (Harry) gave him a quick warning look, and said, "Do you know if the man who opened the Chamber of Secrets was caught last time?"
"It is said that he was caught and then expelled." Draco said, "You can check the student directory from 50 years ago. Whoever he is is probably still in Azkaban."
He shifted restlessly on his chair and said, "My dad told me to stay out of publicity and let the Heir of Slytherin move on. He said the school had to be cleansed of all Mudblood filth and not get involved with it. Of course, he has too much to do right now. You know the Ministry of Magic raided our manor last week. Luckily they didn't find anything. My dad has some very valuable secrets. It's a good thing we set up our Chamber of Secrets in—"
Schelling coughed twice, and Draco looked a little terrified. He knew that he almost said some family secrets that shouldn't be leaked. If Schelling reported to Lucius, Draco would definitely be beaten up. Draco immediately showed a flattering expression, "Sherin, we two good brothers, you won't let your brother be beaten, right?"
Suddenly Crabbe (Ron) let out a groan "Ho!" His hair was turning red and his nose was slowly growing longer—their time was up.Ron was turning back into himself, and Harry knew from the sudden, horrified look he was throwing at him that he must be beginning to turn back into himself, too.
They both jumped up at the same time, trying to escape the Slytherin lounge.
Draco hadn't reacted to the sudden action of the two idiots. Sherin shook his left hand, and the wand slipped out of the sleeve pocket and fell into his hand. He stretched out his hand to block the way of Harry and Ron, and showed a sudden understanding expression with superb acting skills. "Two Gryffindor students, sneaked into the common room pretending to be my Slytherin student without consent, and wanted to leave without explaining clearly?"
When Harry and Ron saw their deeds revealed, Harry made a decisive decision and rushed towards him, intending to take advantage of Goyle's tall and strong figure and grab the wand for hand-to-hand combat.Ron was a beat slower than Harry in reacting, but he also rushed towards Draco in a waking moment.
Schelling's wand was in his hand, and he sneered. Although Harry's reaction was quick, it was still weak compared to the quick spellcasting he had practiced day and night. Just when Harry's arm barely touched Schelling, Schelling's casting had been completed - a perfect body-binding spell that knocked Harry down to the ground.
Draco was used to being pampered, and his reflexes were worse than Schelling's. As a result, he was pressed to the ground by Ron and beat him severely, and he didn't even have a chance to draw out his wand.Although Draco's physical strength has increased a lot due to Quidditch training, he is far inferior to Ron in Crabbe's physical condition.
Seeing this, Xie Lin could only shake his head secretly. Draco's reaction is not fast enough, but his adaptability is too poor - if it were Xie Lin, even if he was pushed to the ground, he would have at least ten ways to fight back .
Schelling used Polymorph to turn a stool into a rope, and the rope automatically tore Ron away from Draco, then bound Ron in circles.Draco was rescued only then, but at the moment he had at least three bruises on his face, and a lot of holes were torn on his expensive wizard robes, his hair was disheveled, and he was in a state of embarrassment.
Fortunately, during the Christmas holiday, most of the Slytherin snakes chose to go home for the holiday, and there were only a few men and two women in the lounge at this time, so not many people saw Draco's tragic situation, otherwise the Malfoy family's face would suffer.
Even so, Draco was in this embarrassment, his whole face was burning with shame, every nerve in his brain was flooded with pain and humiliation, his eyes were burning with anger, and Schelling could feel him like a beast that had lost its mind and was about to go rampage.
He pulled out his wand and cast a curse at Ron. It was a shattering curse. If it hit Ron, it would probably cause a serious injury like a comminuted fracture, but the curse just flew in front of Ron and was intercepted by a transparent barrier.
Draco turned his head to look at Xie Lin, his eyes were full of madness and hatred, "Sherin! If you still think of me as your brother, get out of the way now!"
Schelling stood in front of Harry and Ron who were lying on the ground, blocking them behind, watching Draco and shaking his head, "Brother, calm down, you are losing your mind now, they have been captured by me, and they have no power to resist. You will only bring punishment from the school if you cast a curse on them, and I will not let go."
Draco pursed his lips tightly, and was so angry that the hand holding the wand was trembling. Although he was very annoyed at his brother's obstruction, the remaining rationality in his mind also knew that his brother was right, but emotionally he was unwilling to compromise anyway, so he still pointed his wand at Schelling and the two lying behind him.
The man and two women in the lounge witnessed the whole incident. They first saw Draco who was beaten badly, and then saw Schelling's demeanor of easily cleaning up the two of them by himself. At this moment, the two brothers who were watching the confrontation were at a loss as to what to do.Until Schelling greeted and broke the tranquility, "Hey, who can help me, inform Professor McGonagall or Professor Snape to come over, there are imposter infiltrators in our college!"
When one of the girls heard about it, she hurried out of the lounge to find the professors.
It was Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape who came over, and they also found the stunned Goyle and Crabbe in the cabinet in the hall.
After understanding the whole thing clearly, Professor McGonagall turned blue with anger, "It's unbelievable, Potter and Weasley, you two concocted prohibited potions, stunned your classmates, pretended to be classmates, sneaked into other people's colleges, and attempted to beat him after the incident—no, for a vile attack on Malfoy, Gryffindor deducted [-] points, you two have to go to see the principal with me!"
Although Draco had intended to cast a curse on Ron, firstly he failed to cause harm, and secondly because he was overwhelmed by anger at the time, so he was not punished. Instead, Professor McGonagall looked at Schelling who calmly resolved the conflict and gave Slytherin fifty points.
After Professor Snape gave Sherin a meaningful look, he followed Professor McGonagall, Harry, and Ron to the headmaster's office; while Draco, Goyle, and Crabbe were sent to the school hospital by the three in the lounge of Sherin and Slytherin.
Later, I heard that in the principal's office, Snape suddenly burst into anger and strongly demanded the expulsion of Harry and Ron. Professor McGonagall strongly opposed it, but she obviously lacked confidence. After all, Harry and Ron violated at least a hundred serious school rules this time, and some classmates were hurt by it.
The two argued for a while, and finally Dumbledore, who was eccentric, made the final decision, exempting Harry and Ron from the punishment of being expelled, and only giving them two weeks of confinement. But after seeing Snape's extremely gloomy face, he also promised to give some compensation to Slytherin House. After haggling with Snape, Snape left angrily.
Thank you Zhu Tianjun for the 4 recommendation tickets; Xiangsheng Sidie for the 4 recommendation tickets!Thank you so much!
(End of this chapter)
