Chapter 228 Rita's refusal, the vague whispers in the documents, and the investigation of Dobby

A smile tugged at the corners of Rita's lips.

It seemed like she hadn't smiled for a long time, which made her smile look a little strange.

"No, Lin Xia, you can discuss it with Professor McGonagall. After I started working, I rarely delved into transfiguration. My theory may not be as strong as yours."

Lin Xia said: "How come? The older you get, the stronger your understanding of the art of transformation becomes.

The senior sister once won the Most Potential Newcomer Award. She was the strongest in that session, and she must have a lot of unique understandings. "

Professor McGonagall had a thoughtful look in her eyes.

She said in a deep voice: "Rita, just stay and discuss it with us. It just so happens that I also want to see if you have lost any knowledge of the transformation technique after working for so many years."

Rita felt that the smile on her lips was getting a little stiff.

During her student days, Professor McGonagall had been strict.

But she also won the Most Promising Newcomer Award that year under the guidance of Professor McGonagall.

There is no problem in discussing the Animagus, but it is very problematic in discussing the second issue.

Rita was not confident that Professor McGonagall would not notice anything strange.

Her unusually calm personality worked, and it only took a few seconds to find the key to breaking the situation.

Rita said regretfully: "I also want to discuss it with you, but unfortunately, I will be leaving Hogwarts later and I still have a lot of work to do in the afternoon."

Professor McGonagall nodded: "In that case, I won't disturb your work. By the way, you are looking for Lin Xia -"

Rita smiled: "I'm just asking a few simple questions, asking how Lin Xia usually studies."

She just interviewed Lin Xia in front of Professor McGonagall.

The questions she asked were just as she said they were.

After the interview, just ten minutes later, Rita immediately looked down at her watch and said, "Professor McGonagall, I'm leaving first."

Lin Xia watched her gradually walk away until she disappeared.

She smiled softly and said, "Professor, I feel that this senior Rita is different from what I imagined. I heard that she is a reporter for the gossip section, and I thought her questions would be more bold."

Professor McGonagall said calmly: "Rita's behavior is indeed great. She has an unusually calm mood and a smart mind, and knows how to assess the situation.

Every question she asked was carefully calculated and worth asking in her eyes. "

Lin Xia glanced at Professor McGonagall and suddenly felt that Professor McGonagall was not as easy to fool as she thought.

She specifically pointed out Rita's character, probably to remind her to be wary.

But even if the professor didn't say that, Lin Xia would be wary.

After all, Rita's reputation is not very good in the wizarding world.

Lin Xia came to her office with Professor McGonagall, took the information and read it.

What was more unexpected was that before reading the information, Professor McGonagall also prepared the Leaf of Awakening for her.

Lin Xia asked in confusion: "Professor, what is this?"

Mag said with a serious look: "Since the appearance of the evil god's murmur, wizards will be babbled when reading important documents, not only banned books."

Lin Xia expressed understanding.

She took the Lucid Leaf without taking it. With her physique, she should be able to resist the babble.

This is also true.

After Lin Xia watched for about five minutes, a vague and faint singing sound sounded in his ears.

The song was like a siren's temptation, tempting her not to read but to hum along.

At this time, her body warmed up slightly, automatically dispelling the singing voice ringing in her ears.

Lin Xia continues reading.

After about half an hour, she put down the material and said, "Professor, I have finished reading."

Mag was a little surprised, "Your reading speed is much faster than I thought."

Lin Xia thought for a while, "Maybe it's because I have a special physique and I'm not too disturbed by vague murmurs."

Mag pondered for a while, "Maybe that's the case. Do you still want to continue studying Animagus?"

Lin Xia nodded without hesitation.

"I plan to practice Animagus in the third grade, and study in advance to lay the foundation in the second grade."

Mag said: "Although I don't know what kind of Animagus you want to become, I am happy to help you in this regard."

She paused and said, "If you are free, come to my place every Wednesday to read some information on transfiguration."

Lin Xia said gratefully: "The student has thanked the professor in advance. If there is anything you need my help with in the future, please feel free to ask."

You can think of it with your toes. Mag said this because he intended to provide her with some exclusive and confidential documents.

Otherwise, she would not have asked her to come to the office, but would have directly asked her to look for it in the secret key to outstanding students.

Although reading literature is not as rewarding as reading forbidden books, it does not mean that it is not helpful to wizards.

Forbidden books can help wizards delve into the true meaning of the world.

The strings of data summarized in the literature by predecessors can help wizards better understand the world.

After leaving Professor McGonagall's office, Lin Xia just walked a few steps and suddenly felt a certain acupuncture point on her body becoming loose.

This is……

The body sensed positive changes in the outside world and automatically opened an acupuncture point?

Lin Xia smiled softly, what a pleasant surprise!

…

"Lin Xia!"

When we first arrived at the laboratory, Ron, Harry, Hermione and Draco were all there.

As soon as they saw her, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Hermione smiled and said, "If you don't come back, I'll go to Professor McGonagall and call for help."

They were all waiting for Lin Xia here, not for anything else, but to leave Hogwarts together.

Last week, Hogwarts issued a lifting order, and the young wizards could choose to return home or stay.

A group of wizards chose to leave.

It was also at that time that Draco made some progress in his investigation of avoiding the house-elf.

The collateral family assigned to Dobby, under the urging of Draco's letters, finally revealed that Dobby was sold to another family.

That family, in fact, is also related to the Malfoy family.

Originally, it belonged to the collateral family, but something happened thirty years ago, and Malfoy expelled that family and removed it from the list!

The collateral family revealed that the family had been actively contacting him three years ago, wanting a house-elf to help with things.

As long as they were willing to give up the elf, they would be given a generous reward.

There are two house elves in the side branch. Usually, one can maintain everything, so it is no problem to sell one, so a deal was made with that family.

After receiving the letter, Draco wanted to visit the side branch family in person to continue to get the name of the family that bought Dobby.

Somehow, this news was known by Hermione, and Hermione told Harry.

Harry thought that this was a good channel to understand Dobby's motives, so he found Draco and asked to go together.

Dobby couldn't ask him to leave Hogwarts for no reason.

It's unlikely that Dobby was hostile to him.

Harry could feel from the bottom of his heart that Dobby thought he was a hero from the bottom of his heart.

But it firmly believed that Hogwarts had a conspiracy against him... Where did Dobby know this news?

It is very likely that the family it serves knew it!

As long as he finds that family, he may know all the truth.

Harry knew the news, and Ron naturally knew it too. Harry did not hide anything from Ron.

After some discussion, Harry, Hermione and Ron all told Draco that they wanted to go together.

It happened that Hogwarts was unsealed, so it was easy for young wizards to leave, and it was not so strictly controlled as before.

Draco simply found Lin Xia and asked her if she wanted to go together.

Lin Xia agreed without hesitation.

She asked Draco to investigate Dobby, the house elf.

Now that there was a key progress, she had to investigate.

Lin Xia said: "There is no time to lose, let's go quickly!"

They first left Hogwarts Castle and walked towards the school gate.

It was the weekend, and the school gate was very lively.

Not only were there senior wizards coming and going, but there were also junior wizards who were restricted from going out in the past, but now they were running wild like wild bulls.

Lin Xia and others were still thinking about whether to use the invisibility spell to go out.

As a result, seeing that everyone was playing at the school gate, they looked at each other and walked out openly.

Harry ran into the Weasley twins, who not only saw him, but also Ron next to him.

George began to drawl out his tone: "Who did I see? I saw my brother who got angry with me because he was not selected for the Gryffindor team!"

Fred echoed: "You are so pitiful. How long has he not spoken to you?"

George: "At least half a month!"

Fred: "If it were my brother, I would definitely hang him up and beat him up. How could he not understand his brother's good intentions?"

George: "Alas, if you don't have that talent, don't think too much. I just want to tell him this."

Fred: "But some people just don't realize that they don't have talent."

Seeing Ron's face getting redder and redder, as if he was about to explode, Lin Xia immediately said: "Seniors, what are you doing at the school gate?"

George: "We are selling prank toys to students. Do you want to see them? There is a very popular one recently."

Lin Xia glanced at the things in their hands and said: "Give me a caterpillar toy, a recording screaming chicken toy, and a black smoke bomb."

Fred immediately handed the three things to Lin Xia.

Lin Xia said, "How about you help me deliver it to the lab? I'm going out without any gold galleons."

George: "As our VIP customer, you have the right to special credit."

Fred put the things directly into Lin Xia's arms and said with a smile, "Take them directly. Maybe these things will be helpful to you in the future."

Lin Xia bought the things, and George and Fred left.

After they left, Ron said with a frustrated look on his face, "Lin Xia, don't buy things from them in the future.

I have observed the prices of the toys they purchase, and they can all be bought for less than 1 silver Sickle in Diagon Alley.

But their cheapest prank toy costs 1 silver Sickle.

From the perspective of business theory, they are definitely profiteers."

Lin Xia spread her palms.

Just as Fred stuffed the things into her arms, he also stuffed a small note into her arms.

Lin Xia read the contents of the note, her eyes flickered, and she immediately said:

"We have to hurry up, Hogwarts will close the school gate in another hour."

She left quickly, and the others followed closely behind.

Although Hogwarts was unsealed, Hogsmeade Village was still not open to junior wizards.

So they could only take the magic bus to another village further away than Hogsmeade.

This is not the first time Lin Xia has come to this village.

During the summer vacation, she went out to run errands at the school several times, always going to Diagon Alley through the village's fireplace.

After getting on the magic bus, Lin Xia passed the note to them.

Finally, the note reached Ron.

When Ron saw the content above, his cheeks immediately turned red again.

He was ashamed of his previous thoughts!

He thought his brother really only sold toys at the school gate, but he didn't expect that he was selling news.

I saw the note saying——

[At 5 p.m., the gate of Hogwarts will be closed and will not be opened again today.

Students cannot go out, and people from outside cannot come in either.]

Ron couldn't help but said: "How do they know that the school gate will be closed at five o'clock in the afternoon? Have they been squatting at the school gate these days?"

Harry: "Well, I guess so, Ron.

Several times I passed the supersensory spell and saw George and Fred running towards the school gate when they had something to do. "

Draco patted Ron on the shoulder and said sincerely: "Although your two brothers are venomous, they are indeed smart.

Do you think that on the surface they are selling toys, but they are actually selling information to other wizards? "

Ron nodded.

Draco asked: "But do you know that they were actually selling toys, but they turned to selling information to Lin Xia when they saw her?"

Ron was startled.

"You mean, they did it on purpose?"

Draco raised his eyebrows: "Of course, otherwise why would they go out of their way to greet us?

Haven't you seen that the little wizards who really want to buy toys take the initiative to buy them? "

Hermione said bluntly: "Ron, your brothers are smarter than you, just listen to them."

Ron frowned and said after a long while: "No, I don't think so."

I don't know if he doesn't think Ron is smarter than him, or if he doesn't think it's right to listen to them.

Lin Xia put the note away with a slightly serious expression.

"Now, we have an important thing to consider. Once Hogwarts closes its doors, the wizards inside will not be able to get out, and those outside will not be able to get in.

This means that after we finish talking to the collateral members of the Malfoy family, we still have to solve the housing problem. "

Draco interrupted: "Don't worry about this, I have investigated the side industry, and they also live in the manor.

Although it's not as big as my house, it's more than enough for a few little wizards to live in, so I asked them to vacate the room. "

Hermione wondered: "Is it unsafe?"

Draco said matter-of-factly: "They are descendants of the Malfoy family, and I am the heir to the Malfoy family. They don't dare to do anything to me!"

Lin Xia suddenly said: "Draco, Uncle Lucius only has one child, do you understand what I mean?"