Chapter 341 When to follow the plot?

Chapter 341 When to follow the plot?
And now Peeves was floating over their heads, singing:

Oh, Potter, McGuffin, you two bastards...

"Stop messing around, Peeves!"

Professor McGonagall roared, and Peeves giggled, burrowed into the ground and disappeared.

"Who can tell me what is going on?"

Dumbledore asked calmly against hundreds of curious eyes.

"Principal Dumbledore! I know, I know what's going on!"

Percy raised his hand high, spoke loudly, squeezed out from the crowd again, thrust his chest out (with the bright male student representative badge highlighted), straightened his hair with his hand, and stood in front of the professors.

"Principal, what did Peeves say... MacGuffin Albert killed a dementor! It's not true... is it! How can he be a little wizard, sure that McGuffin offended the dementor in other ways..." Percy said.

"Peves is right! It's true!" Dumbledore replied quietly and softly.

Hundreds of breaths of cold air were almost inhaled into the lungs at the same time.

There was no sound in the hall of the auditorium, and then it immediately boiled.

Dumbledore's words seemed to detonate a powerful bomb, turning the little wizards on their backs. They hurriedly turned their heads and looked at McGuffin.

"Albus!" Professor McGonagall said softly reproachfully, she didn't understand why Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, would tell the news in such a way.

"Okay, now students above the third grade can go to Hogsmeade village again!"

Professor McGonagall hastily used a spell to amplify his voice, and announced the news.

The news that was enough to make the young wizards jump up and down was suddenly silenced, and even the noisy atmosphere that had been boiling down suddenly cooled down.

"Why, I thought you would be very happy!"

Dumbledore said with a smile, "Don't worry about the dementors, Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, and other professors... will accompany you. The dementors will not be close to the school. The Ministry of Magic will send people to deal with this matter in a while. Don't worry, everyone, enjoy the Halloween banquet when you come back!"

"By the way, since what just happened, you'd better buy some chocolates from Honeydukes, it will make you feel better."

But the little wizards were still a little scared, and no one moved.

"Okay, it's okay! It's okay! Get out of here, our professors still have to decorate the decorations for the party... Pumpkin lanterns, bats, those have to be installed one by one..."

Professor McGonagall had already begun to issue the eviction order, and in the end the twins were joking, imitating Percy's speech, and leaving here.After Percy chased them angrily, the other little wizards were also led away from the auditorium.

then……

McGuffin and the others planned to mix in at the end of the crowd and get out of here.

But apparently Professor McGonagall had not forgotten the two of them.

"Potter, McGuffin, you two stay!"

"Ron, Hermione has nothing to do with you two, you can leave and go to Hogsmeade village with the others."

Professor McGonagall said.

McGuffin and Harry signaled the two to leave, there was no need for them to accompany them.

"Don't worry about me and McGuffin." Harry seemed very casual. "We'll meet again at the dinner party and have a better time. After all, dementors are disgusting."

"We'll bring you both lots of sweets from Honeydukes."

Hermione, Ron stared at the two very worriedly, but still retreated slowly under Professor McGonagall's stern gaze.

When only McGuffin and the professors were left in the auditorium, Dumbledore stared into the eyes of the two of them and said, "I'm glad to see that you two have gradually mastered your own brain under the guidance of Professor Lupine and Snape, and you can initially cast the [Patronus Charm]... to get rid of the influence of the dementor."

"But I think you two also understand that the situation just now...we won't allow you to go out again, at least until the dementors withdraw,"

"But I..." Harry yelled, and then stopped. He wanted to say why he couldn't go to Hogsmeade, and it was McGuffin who offended the dementors, but then he realized that it seemed too hurtful to say so.

And compared to McGuffin, Professor McGonagall's attitude...as if he is the last person who should not be in Hogsmeade.

Harry tried his best to pretend not to care, but in fact he was in an extremely bad mood, and he became even more curious about the reasons behind all this.

"Okay, that's it, see you at the dinner later, I hope to see that you will be very happy to participate in the banquet tonight!"

Dumbledore raised his hand, indicating that the two can leave.

Then he discussed something with Professor McGonagall on the side.

When Harry and McGuffin went out and came to the front hall.

The little wizards were queuing up to go out one by one, and Filch was standing there, staring at them one by one, comparing the list in his hand.

As if one of them was Sirius.

McGuffin and Harry glanced enviously, and then hurriedly stepped up the marble stairs and left here before DeLS Malfoy and her sister groups sneered.

At this time, there were a lot fewer people in the corridors of Hogwarts Castle.

The two walked aimlessly for a long time, not knowing where they were going.

"Or go back to the lounge!" Harry suggested.

"There must be only first and second year wizards there, Harry, do you want to spend a day with Colin?" McGuffin asked.

Harry shuddered and shook his head.

"Why don't we go see Professor Lupine and ask him to teach us the [Patronus Charm]... practice [Occlumency]. If we master these two spells, Professor McGonagall will allow us to go to Hogsmeade!"

McGuffin suggested that, in fact, what he was thinking in his mind was that Sirius might be wandering around the Gryffindor common room right now, and it would be troublesome if Harry and the two of them ran into each other directly.

Although this plot does not seem to have a serious impact on future development, it is already like this now. If the plot development direction is not reversed and allowed to develop freely, who knows what will happen in the future?

And he remembered that Harry wandered into Professor Lupine's office at this time... In short, it is always right to let it develop according to the original plot.

"All right!"

The two walked along the corridor and soon came to the door of Professor Lupine's office.

- bang bang bang!

Knocked on the door.

"Come in!" came a weak voice from inside.

Harry and McGuffin walked in.

Professor Lupine was wrapped in a blanket, and the fire was burning brightly, lying in an armchair nearby.

It looks very bad.

"Professor?" Harry asked suspiciously.

Lupine paled.

"Oh, is that Harry and MacGuffin? What can you do?"

"We want you to teach us the [Patronus Charm]...do you know what happened today?" Harry said, he just remembered that he didn't see Professor Lupine down there, and he probably didn't know about the dementor riot.

"what's up?"

Then Harry hurriedly explained what had just happened.

"Really? It seems that Dumbledore's worries are not unreasonable... The Ministry of Magic is no longer able to suppress monsters like dementors. Harry, McGuffin, you two should really learn the [Patronus Charm], at least summon your own Patronus, otherwise... Going to Hogsmeade is too dangerous."

After finishing speaking, he pulled down the blanket covering his body, stood up bent over, and seemed to be preparing to teach the two of them another lesson, teaching the [Guardian Charm].

He was coughing and looked very weak and very ill.

Harry hastily declined, "Professor, no need, you have a good rest, McGuffin and I can practice on our own,... are you okay!"

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside, and a high-pitched voice came from, a little familiar.

"Professor Lupine, your luggage has arrived!"

"Professor, sit down, let's do it!"

Harry hurriedly dragged McGuffin to the door, pulled it open... and saw a wooden box floating in front of him.

"Please get out of the way, sir! The little elf Dobby delivered the thing as soon as he signed for it."

"More than!"

Hearing Harry's exclamation, the box quickly moved upwards, first revealing the pair of thin short legs like hemp sticks, then the small body covered with a Hogwarts tea towel, and finally the big carrot-like nose and tennis-ball-like eyes.

It froze for a moment, and then immediately exclaimed cheerfully, "Harry Potter, sir! Dobby didn't expect to meet you here! How wonderful!"

"Dobby, is that the Grindylow I want?" Professor Lupine's soft voice came from behind.

"Yes, sir!"

McGuffin pulled Harry quickly out of the way, allowing Dobby to enter.

It shrank the wooden crate and floated in the air before bringing it in.

"Okay, let's put it in that vacant corner of the office!" Professor Lupine said, pointing to Harry and the others.

After Dobby snapped his fingers, the large wooden crate moved into the corner and looked at Harry expectantly.

"Mr. Harry Potter! Hello! Dobby hasn't seen you for a long time!"

As the number one Harry fan, Dobby was flapping his two big bat-wing ears and staring at Harry with big eyes.

"Sir, didn't you go to Hogward? Did you? Why didn't you go? If you want, you can come to the kitchen. All the elves will treat you well, and you can taste the delicacies of tonight's banquet in advance..."

"Thanks, Dobby!"

Compared to Colin Creevey's fanatical look on the face of the second fan, Dobby was even more irresistible to Harry.

It wasn't because Dobby was as enthusiastic as that little wizard in the lower grade.

It's because of Dobby that it always reminds Harry of that little witch in DeLS now.

Both of them were changed by Snape's potion to become what they are today.

The point is that the two of them don't know it yet.

It made it impossible for him to face... watching them was always distracting and embarrassing.

Harry dealt with Dobby, promising himself he'd visit her in the kitchen.

Dobby thanked him again and left.

Afterwards, Professor Lupine waved his magic wand, and the wooden boards on the wooden box in the corner of the office spread out in all directions and were automatically stacked beside it, while a slightly smaller square glass water tank was displayed on the spot.

There are some messy, dark green aquatic plants floating in the water tank.

The water inside was still a cloudy dark green, as if it had been drawn directly from the Black Lake.

Harry stared at the water tank strangely, never expecting that suddenly a green guy stuck his strange-looking head on the glass.

Startling Harry, he took half a step back and almost bumped into the McGuffin.

That little monster has small horns on its head, wrinkled face, very strange appearance, and its whole body is green and faint. It can easily hide in the water, and people will ignore it if you don't pay attention.

The guy grinned, grimaced, and kept slapping his slender claws against the glass.

Sick, but menacingly menacing for the MacGuffin, Harry, and both.

Perhaps Harry took a step back from himself, feeling a little ashamed, and hurriedly asked Professor Lupine to cover up.

"what is this?"

"Oh, this is a Grindylow for our next class." Seeing that Harry was puzzled, Lupine continued to explain, "It is what people usually call a water monster...I asked the mermaid to catch it from the Black Lake."

"Although we can't get the magical aquatic creature unique to East Asia - the kappa, at least we can make you understand the difference between this kind of thing and the Kabbah (water monkey). If you notice, can you see his unusual claws? They rely on this to attack the drowning Muggles."

"But its weakness is also obvious. The strongest part is also its weakest... Harry, if you fall into the water and encounter such little monsters, slam their claws hard, and they won't dare to approach you."

Lupine pointed to Grindylow in the water tank and said to the two that he cheered up when he talked about this.

"These monsters often dive into the bottom of the water, hiding in the water plants until the Muggles fall into the water, then grab the victim's ankles and drag them into the water until they can't breathe..."

"They often act in groups, but as I said, these guys have weak wrists and low courage. If you face them, catch a blow, and they will automatically retreat..."

As Lupine spoke, he motioned for the two to sit down, and then waved his wand, and the kettle burning on the fireplace flew towards him automatically, whining and puffing out a puff of white gas.

Two cups of scented tea were automatically poured out in front of the two of them.

Harry didn't want to bother Professor Lupine a little bit. He didn't look well and needed a good rest.

McGuffin remembered that tonight was the night of the full moon, which meant that Professor Lupine was likely to transform into a werewolf... These days, due to the existence of dementors, every day is covered with thick fog, and he has forgotten about it.

"Okay, let's drink some. You don't seem to be in a good mood. The tea will be cold in a while." Professor Lupine said after talking about the water monster.

At this time, the door was knocked again, and someone came in.

It was Snape.

(End of this chapter)