Chapter 43: Bathroom Chat, Bernard's Doubts

Following Uther's actions, Eugene and Cologne also looked at Bernard. Apparently there was more than one blind student who had just noticed Hua Dian in the chaos.

"Bernard, you just..."

"Yes, it's the Cruciatus Curse."

Bernard admitted this frankly and looked at the roommates in front of him:

"Are you going to report me to the Ministry of Magic?"

In the previous popular science, he already knew that casting the Unforgivable Curse would lead to entering Azkaban, the wizard's prison.

"..."

Everyone was silent for a while.

"Those who cast the Unforgivable Curse cannot be forgiven..."

Adam, who had already put away the tree sign, suddenly spoke,

"But Bernard just cast the Cruciatus Curse to protect us."

Wizards' laws do not include emergency provisions, but the reason why such laws exist is because people need them, and from the perspective of general morality, they believe that such behavior should not be punished.

Obviously no one can do anything to report Bernard's behavior of using the Unforgivable Curse to protect everyone.

After a period of silence, Adam spoke first:

"Why don't we go back first? Although this is deep in the Forbidden Forest, we are still making a lot of noise."

"agree."

"Agree."

…

"Can I ask why you chose to cast the Unforgivable Curse in front of us?"

In the evening, Adam deliberately postponed his bathing time, and Bernard made the same choice tacitly. At this time, there were only two of them in the bathroom.

Of course, because the topic discussed was a bit sensitive, Adam also blocked their voices with a silent sign, so that these words could not reach the ears of a third person, even if it was a portrait, a ghost, or Peeves.

"It was a matter of life and death at that time, so of course I used whatever I knew how to do."

Bernard turned to Adam and lathered himself.

"Eugene and Uther both said at the time that they had the means to deal with it, and the situation was far from as dangerous as you said."

Adam was not fooled by him:

"Although you know the Unforgivable Curse, if you were more careful and practiced it secretly, you could still hide it. Why would you take the initiative to expose it?"

"...Then why did you cover me before?"

Bernard turned his head and met Adam's eyes:

"Those who cast the Unforgivable Curse cannot be forgiven. You have said so yourself... This is not the first time you have seen me cast the Unforgivable Curse, is it not?"

"The last time I cast the Cruciatus Curse, it was not for self-protection, so why did you turn a blind eye to my behavior...Adam?"

Adam closed his eyes.

The last time I saw Bernard casting the Cruciatus Curse... it was in an abandoned classroom where Adam had raised several pots of mandrakes at the end of the corridor, where the sunlight was good enough.

But when passing by a certain classroom, I noticed the fluctuation of magic power, and heard the "heart-breaking" sound before opening the door.

It's a familiar voice.

Without opening the door, Adam stood at the door for a while and then moved forward. Unexpectedly, Bernard actually knew, so...

"You really did it on purpose."

"I did do it on purpose. Your movement trajectory is not difficult to guess as long as you observe carefully."

Bernard shrugged, raised his head and let the hot water flow down, flowing over his eyes, mouth and nose.

"What on earth do you want to do? Don't you know it's dangerous?"

"Where's the danger?"

Bernard opened his mouth, and hot water poured into his mouth, making his words somewhat slurred.

Adam finished lathering up the soap, put it aside, and looked directly at Bernard:

"Whether it's me or Eugene, if any one of us reports to the Ministry of Magic, with just a flashback spell, you will have to stay in Azkaban and be neighbors with dementors for the rest of your life. Do you expect your parents to threaten you?" Is Sangamo going to court with the Ministry of Magic?"

"Dementors, Wizengamot, learned a new term."

"Bernard!"

"..."

Wiping his face from his chin up, Bernard looked at Adam:

"Look, am I okay now?"

"...You think this is fun?"

Adam looked incomprehensible.

"No, I just want to try to see if the friendship between us is really that strong."

This time Adam looked at Bernard with a look of concern in addition to incomprehension.

Otherwise, you should find a mental hospital.

"Do you know what it's like to be a lawyer and the child of two lawyers?"

Bernard's eyes were blank, as if he was lost in memories:

"Marriage, debt, finance... My parents actually don't allow me to see their documents, but as a child... the more I'm not allowed to do something, the more interesting it becomes."

"So when I was a child, when others listened to fairy tales, I was exposed to many more real stories in my life. Other children watched the princess and prince living a happy life, but what I saw was a certain emotional relationship. The betrayed woman stored the broken body of the scumbag in the freezer..."

Adam swallowed.

"So I have been thinking, are the emotions between people really that strong? Are there really such sincere, so pure, and so beautiful emotions between people? Or is everyone carrying a hypocritical and beautiful attitude? Mask, using words like love and friendship to cover up the entanglement of interests? This curiosity has always been with me. In fact, I am very grateful to Hogwarts for giving me this opportunity, otherwise I think I will do something wrong in the future. Very good thing.”

Adam couldn't help but ask:

"Do your parents have a bad relationship?"

"I actually don't find anything wrong with their relationship. Although there are frictions, they are minor differences in normal life. But maybe I just don't find the problem - I can't test their feelings, and there is no way. Able to try.”

"So you put your future to the test of our relationship?"

Adam opened his mouth:

"We've only known each other for a year!"

"But you have to admit that although our personalities are very different, we get along surprisingly well, don't we?"

Bernard spread his hands:

"There are so many dormitories around, and the relationship between the five people in any dormitory is as good as ours. Although there have been some frictions between us, they have been resolved very well - this relationship between roommates is simply perfect and that between my parents. The marriage between them is exactly the same.”

"...I still can't understand it."

"It doesn't matter. It's impossible for one person to completely understand another person's thoughts. It's good to seek common ground while reserving differences, just like we have been doing this year."

It can be said that they are very different in various aspects such as living habits and personalities, but they can live together well and respect and accept each other's differences.

"So back to that question..."

Bernard looked at Adam again:

"Why didn't you report me when you first found me casting the Unforgivable Curse?"

"...Because I saw it."

"What?"

"I saw the person you cast the Unforgivable Curse on..."

Bernard's eyes widened slightly:

"How did you do it... Clow Card?"

"The magic of the Xian Pai can recall the past scenes. After that, I returned to your classroom at that time."

Adam looked at Bernard and said:

"I saw... you were using Cruciatus on a stone."