Chapter 165 This pot is big and round

"If, I mean if!" Hermione emphasized again, looking at the two of them seriously: "What if we turned into Draco and went to the Slytherin common room to ask him, would he not hide anything? Tell us about the secret room."

"It's possible." Ron nodded, "Malfoy is his best friend in Slytherin and a pureblood among purebloods. Aaron will definitely not hide it from him."

"But I'm not trying to hit you, Hermione." Harry said with a grimace, "Your idea is very good, but that level of transfiguration may only be taught by Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore at Hogwarts. They It will definitely not help us.”

"Without their help, all we need is a little Polyjuice Potion, as Professor Snape mentioned in class.

Properly brewed Polyjuice Potion can transform the user into another person for a certain period of time. "

"That's too cruel." Ron said with a surprised smile, "Then we will turn into Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle and ask him, and Aaron will tell him everything."

"But there are a few small problems." Hermione looked at the two people's expectant faces and had to dampen their enthusiasm, "First of all, this is difficult, very difficult, and very dangerous.

I'd never prepared Polyjuice Potion before, and we were probably breaking nearly fifty school rules. "

"To hell with school rules!" Ron said nonchalantly, "It's not like we haven't done this before."

"Secondly, the recipe for Polyjuice Potion is in a book called 'Powerful Potions', which is in the Restricted Section."

"I'll go to Lockhart and ask for the approval slip. I can get it done today." Harry volunteered. Lockhart didn't know that his bones had grown, so he would definitely feel guilty when he saw him.

In addition, he knew Lockhart quite well. As long as he complimented him a few words against his will and made up a random reason, it was not easy to go to the restricted area.

"The third issue is materials. Configuring a potion of the same complexity requires a variety of materials.

We can simply figure it out ourselves, but what about those rare materials? "

Ron hesitated for a moment, then slowly looked at Harry, and met a pair of blue-green eyes.

"It seems we want to go together."

Harry nodded and said solemnly: "Snape's office is definitely the richest storage room in the entire Hogwarts. It has all kinds of materials."

"Use the invisibility cloak. As long as we can be sure that he is not here, we will take action immediately." Ron said, "In short, there is no password for his office."

"That's what I said about possibly violating the fifty school rules." Hermione rolled her eyes, "And there's also time. It takes at least a month to prepare a powerful potion."

"What?" Harry immediately lost his composure, "A month?

If Aaron was really the heir of Slytherin, one month would be enough for him to clean up all the Muggle-born wizards. "

Hearing this, Hermione gave him an ugly smile, "Finally, and the most serious question, what if Aaron is not the heir of Slytherin?

We have already let him down once last year. If we wrong him again this time...

Have you ever thought about the consequences? Even if we lick our faces to apologize, he may not forgive us. "

Harry was silent for a while, "Why don't you go, Ron and I, the two of us..."

"Don't be ridiculous, Harry.

How did you become like Draco and the others? A trace of bitterness appeared on Hermione's face, "He is very smart. Even if you don't think of it at first, you will always think that I helped you prepare the polyjuice potion."

In other words, I couldn't stay out of it even if I wanted to. "

"Um...are you two thinking too much?" Ron chuckled, "We are using Malfoy's identity, so even if he is wrongly accused, he can't burn us.

And it might not be a bad thing if we wrongly accuse him, at least it can prove that he is innocent and not the heir of Slytherin. "

"You're right." Harry breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Hermione firmly, "Let's prepare the Polyjuice Potion first!

If the school finds the heir of Slytherin within a month, then abandon the plan. If there are no other suspects, then..."

Harry didn't finish his sentence, but both Ron and Hermione understood what he meant.

But this may be the only thing they can do at the moment, so they can't waste their time in vain!

They were very efficient, and Harry got the approval slip in the afternoon, but it still took him a long time to check at Mrs. Pince's place before he could borrow the book.

It's just that there is only a limited time for borrowing a batch of approval slips. They have to get a few more approval slips from Lockhart before the potion is finished, otherwise they won't be able to keep the book.

They decided to prepare the polyjuice potion in the bathroom where Myrtle lived, and the materials needed were exactly as they expected.

They can get simple things like grasshoppers, leech, sapweed, and amphiphilus, but rare materials such as powdered from the horns of bicorns and the skin of African tree snakes can only be found in Snape's office. Only then.

But this is not a big problem. It is really easy to sneak into the office when no one is around with an invisibility cloak.

Everything went smoothly, and most of the Polyjuice Potion was completed by the second week of December, but the last ingredient made them feel particularly embarrassed.

Because the final materials are the things on the person you want to turn into, such as hair, nails, blood, skin epidermis fragments, etc.

But they usually have little interaction with Draco and his two followers. Even when they meet, they are sarcastic and can't find any opportunities for a while.

The three of them were puzzled by this. Harry and Ron even wanted to find a reason to fight with the three of them so as to get what they had on them. After all, it is normal for hair to stick out during a fight.

Although it may violate school rules and cause Gryffindor to be deducted ten points, at least he can achieve his goal.

But luck always comes at the right time. On Saturday, there was an extra piece of parchment on the bulletin board.

"Duel Club?" Ron looked at the notice with some confusion, "It seems to be useful, at least when facing monsters, you won't just run away.

But which professor organized this? "

"I don't know, it didn't say on the notice," Hermione said, "But I guess it's Professor Flitwick. He was a dueling champion when he was young."

"This is also our opportunity." Harry mused, "It would be great if we could get Malfoy's hair during the duel."

"Just right, teach Malfoy a lesson in an honest way." Ron picked up his wand. Although it was still wrapped with a thick layer of tape, he had figured out how to use this wand these days, at least it hadn't happened recently. problem.

"By the way, how is Aaron doing these days?" Hermione looked at the two of them and asked nervously: "There's nothing unusual about him, right?"

Harry's expression became a little complicated, and Ron hesitated to speak.

"You guys are talking!"

"Originally we were just suspicious." Harry said with some difficulty, "But now we are basically certain.

Aaron takes Abe around every day, as we both learned, and he is asking about the families of the students in the four colleges. "

"And especially Slytherin," Ron added.

"But what does this mean?" Hermione asked puzzledly.

"Merlin!

It's so obvious, can't you see it? Ron rolled his eyes, "He's picking a target, the next target of the monster in the secret room." "

"No way!" Hermione frowned, "If it's about selecting targets, then why are you still investigating Slytherin?"

"This is called rigor." Old Ron said firmly, "You know him. Since he has decided to take action, he must investigate the situation in his own backyard!"

"That's it, Hermione." Harry shrugged, "I know this news is hard to accept, but it's the truth."

After hearing what the two said, Hermione was not as confident as she was at the beginning. She took a long breath and took a while to react.

"If we get what Malfoy and the others have, if everything goes well, we can prepare the polyjuice potion before Christmas."

"Great." Harry said excitedly, "Tonight I challenge Malfoy, and you two challenge Crabbe and Goyle. They will definitely not refuse."

At eight o'clock in the evening, the students gathered in the auditorium.

The four long tables disappeared and were replaced by a long ring in the center.

There were rows of torches on both sides of the wall, and the firelight and hundreds of candles hanging from the ceiling illuminated the auditorium particularly brightly.

Aaron held Abe in his arms and looked at the crowd around him from time to time.

To be honest, he didn't want to come in the first place. Investigating the secret room was much more important.

But he visited almost every part of the castle without finding the secret room, and he had no clue about the investigation of Slytherin's heir.

Since Colin was petrified, the heir seems to have become more vigilant and has not shown his face.

It cannot be said that there was no gain at all. At least a lot of places and people were eliminated, and the scope of the investigation was greatly reduced.

But after working hard for more than a month, it would be a lie to say I’m not tired.

I just took the opportunity to enjoy the duel event tonight, which can be regarded as a disguised form of relaxation.