Chapter 759 Opal Necklace

Leaving the Three Broomsticks and Seamus, who was still planning to stay in the bar for a while, Harry and the others finished their tour of Hogsmeade Village and prepared to return to Hogwarts without staying too long.

Harry and his party walked much faster than when they came. They carried the Mandrake leaves prepared for the transformed Animagus, the chrysalis of the ghost-faced hawkmoth and other related materials retrieved from the Hogsmeade post office. They didn't want too many people to know about their actions, so they didn't choose to let the owls throw things directly on the Hogwarts dining table in public—the afternoon was the time when they made an appointment with Sirius to learn the transformation of Animagus for the first time Now, they need to place the materials that cannot see the light in it.

In addition, in addition to receiving parcels and letters, the Hogsmeade Post Office has at least two hundred owls to choose from, ranging from great gray falcons to pocket bards (local delivery only). They're all perched on color-coded shelves for you to choose, depending on how quickly you want your mail to get to its destination.

The wind and snow were still fluttering in the air, and they walked on the snow with difficulty, struggling to move forward, wanting to return to the comfortable and warm Hogwarts as soon as possible.

"Why don't you start learning Animagus during the summer vacation? Tonight is the full moon, and you have to keep the mandrake in your mouth until the next full moon..." Hermione straightened her pockets The hat asked Ginny, "Recently, starting from Snape, other courses are requiring our sixth graders to start using the silent spell technique. Harry and the others can use this to practice, but Ginny, this will delay your understanding of the new magic spell." learned the curse."

"Dumbledore...Maybe Sirius is only free recently?" Harry realized that this might be an arrangement made by Dumbledore who didn't want him to practice more black magic in the ancient magic class. The conflict between Lido and Allen, Harry made up an excuse for Hermione, and he didn't want Hermione to tell Allen after knowing, which escalated the conflict between the two. After all, in Harry's view, Dumbledore and Allen In this matter, there are only differences in ideas, and the essence is to make others better.

Ginny looked a little disgusted: "I have to keep this grass in my mouth until the next full moon?"

"Until the next full moon, you can't swallow the leaf or take it out of your mouth at any time, otherwise the whole process will have to start all over again, which is really not an easy task." Hermione recalled the process of preparing for it. She twitched unconsciously—she hadn't been able to clean her teeth for a whole month.

As they walked forward, the voices of the girls arguing not far in front of them became louder and louder.

"Katie, you don't even know what's in here?" The shrill female voice came to their ears through the wind and snow.

Harry heard Katie Bell, his team's Chaser, call out in a completely different voice than his usual soft voice, "It's none of your business, LeAnn!"

The snow was falling more densely and urgently at this time, and they had to squint their eyes to look forward, only to see Katie Bell in a red coat holding something in her arms and arguing with her friend Li An in a dark green coat .

Harry's glasses had just been blurred by the snow, and he had to wipe the lenses with his hands wearing dragon leather gloves - at this time the quarrel had developed into a quarrel, and Leann suddenly reached out to snatch the glasses from Katie's hand. Pack something, but as Katie pulled back hard, the package wrapped in brown paper fell to the ground.

Suddenly there was a miserable scream, and everyone stopped in their tracks. They saw the two witches who were still arguing fiercely just now. Among them, Katie in red had fallen to the ground, and Li An stood beside him at a loss.

Noticing Harry's arrival, Li An's voice was full of cries and panic: "I warned her, don't touch it!"

Then a change occurred, and Katie, who had fallen to the ground, seemed to be pulled by some invisible thing, swinging from side to side on the snow, like a lifeless rag doll. Suddenly she was pulled high into the air again, with her arms spread out and her head thrown back, as if something was pulling her back and forth in the air.

Harry and the others were frightened by the sudden change and took half a step back. Immediately after reacting, Hermione drew out her wand and took a step forward, pinning Katie, who was still flying erratically, in mid-air.

Katie's eyes were wide open, and her long black hair fluttered wildly in the wind. Harry and the others hadn't let go of their suspended hearts when they saw her eyes suddenly opened, her mouth opened wide, and she let out a silent scream of horror, as if she was suffering some terrible pain.

Such a terrifying scene stunned the wizards standing below. The hideous Katie opened and closed her mouth and kept screaming but couldn't make a sound. When she finally lost consciousness, she fell from the sky.

Hermione quickly applied another shock-absorbing spell to slow down the rapid fall, allowing Katie to slow down her falling momentum, and she slowly lay down on the snow with the movement of her wand.

Ron gasped, and saw Katie lying on the snow, opened her eyes but her whole body was twitching and shaking completely unconsciously.

Then Harry and Ginny wanted to go over to help, but Hermione, who noticed their actions, immediately stopped them loudly: "Harry, stop and don't get close! The things that hurt Katie may still be dangerous .I'll go and have a look first."

"What happened?" Hagrid's rough voice came through the wind and snow, and he strode over, and the wind and snow painted his hair and eyebrows with spots of white.

"Hagrid, something happened to Katie, go back to the castle and tell the professors to go to the school infirmary, and we'll be there soon." Hermione calmly instructed Hagrid to go back to the school to inform the professors—Katie's condition is still not clear. Clearly, Hagrid has always been careless, and his subordinates have no importance, and it would be bad if they hurt Katie again if they have rough hands and feet.

Hagrid opened his mouth and wanted to say that he was also a professor, but seeing Hermione showing the aura of a female prefect and umbrella president at this time, he unconsciously obeyed the other party's arrangement and walked forward without saying a word. After a few steps, he passed the crowd and ran towards the castle.

But then a few Aurors rushed over, Hermione stepped forward to explain a few words to them, and then Katie walked, and the other three Gryffindor lion cubs quickly moved out of the way .

Everyone held their wands and followed her a little farther away, and Hermione bent down to inquire about Katie's situation. Then she walked towards the scattered kraft paper and things, squatted down, and pressed the kraft paper blown by the wind with her magic wand, revealing the box that fell to the ground and cracked. Light, one oval-shaped opal after another is wrapped in silver metal. It looks like a sun with a halo, with a long pendant hanging below it.

"Oh, no, it's a cursed item. I don't know as much about it as Alan, so I dare not undo it directly. We have to take her back to Madam Pomfrey, maybe Dumbledore can solve it." Min lowered her head, looked at the green light from the opal necklace, looked up to the Aurors and said, "I'll fix the necklace, Mr. Aurors, please use the Levitation Charm to bring Katie back to school first."

The Aurors who could be assigned to Hogsmeade were naturally Harris's people--in fact, many of them had another identity as the armed forces of the umbrella Red Umbrella Department, and they knew their relationship and obeyed Hermione's arrangement.

The Aurors used their wands to direct Katie's body together, making her float in front of the crowd. Katie lowered her head, her long black hair fell down to cover her face, and she started to head towards the Hogwarts castle. Luck - the only thing that goes a little too far is a professional habit, which makes Katie look like she's been arrested by an Auror.

However, the arrival of the Auror also made Harry and the others breathe a sigh of relief. It is not an easy task for students like them to maintain the Levitation Charm all the way in a snowy day.

And Hermione carefully controlled the exposed opal necklace with her wand, allowing it to float back into the box again. Then, she glanced at the undamaged dragon leather glove in her hand, and wrapped it in kraft paper. Hold it and put it in your fanny pack.

When they rushed to Hogwarts in the wind and snow, Professor McGonagall hurried down the stone steps to meet them. She looked seriously at the unknown Katie who had been floating in front of the Aurors, thanked the Aurors, then pointed her wand at Katie, and Katie floated behind her.

"Follow me." Professor McGonagall walked quickly to the school infirmary. Probably, Professor McGonagall had already explained to Filch and the Aurors. Seeing this situation, instead of stopping them, they directed the students to get out of the way quickly so that they could rush to the school infirmary as soon as possible.

"Hagrid reported the situation to me. Miss Granger's actions are very appropriate." Dumbledore walked out of the school infirmary, his eyes swept over Katie floating in the air, "Poor girl."

Snape with a gloomy face followed behind him, his eyes swept over Harry, Ron and the others unkindly. Madam Pomfrey took Professor McGonagall into the ward and signaled Professor McGonagall to put Katie on a hospital bed.

Hermione took out the opal necklace together with the box and the brown paper and put it on the table in the ward. Dumbledore brushed his hand over Katie's head and looked again at the necklace on the table. Asked Snape, "What do you think, Severus?"

Snape walked to the hospital bed, lowered his head to carefully observe Katie, who was in a coma and showed pain from time to time, and then used his wand to peel off the kraft paper to make the necklace float. He looked at the opal necklace: "Mighty Cursed Item, Deng Not much. In fact, Miss Bell is not dead now, but is still lying there alive. Her good luck has already surprised me very much."

"She's wearing a woolen glove. Maybe it's just a little touch. Let me try it first." Dumbledore used his good left hand to draw out the Elder Wand, bowed and let the tip of the wand move slowly towards Katie's whole body. , some black and green magic energy was pulled out from the opponent's body by Dumbledore with his wand, but as Katie's expression became more and more painful, Dumbledore finally had to give up and continue to break the curse.

Dumbledore took out his fuchsia handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his brow, and ordered Madam Poppy Pomfrey, the school therapist. "It's a very vicious curse, but for Miss Bell's safety, I only lifted part of it and didn't forcefully undo all of it. Bobby, you should transfer her to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries for a more conservative treatment, poor thing." The girl will be there for at least three months."

"Now, can any of you tell me what happened?" Straightening up, Dumbledore faced the group of young wizards, and then glanced at the Aurors who followed, "I think Mr. Aurors They will need some clues to help them investigate, and I remember Mr Hotchner being very serious and responsible when he was at school."

The oldest of the Aurors seemed quite happy because his headmaster remembered his name, and he squeezed out a smile on his tense and serious face: "Thank you for your cooperation and help, Dumbledore headmaster."

Then, under Professor McGonagall's stern gaze and Professor Snape's gloomy expression, LeAnn stammered and began to explain what happened: "We had just entered the Three Broomsticks, and Katie went to the bar to order something. Occupied a seat, and as soon as I sat down, I saw her go into the bar toilet, and when she came out, she was holding it in her hand."

"Using your bad memory, are you sure that Katie Bell didn't bring this with her when she entered the Three Broomsticks?" Snape's cold voice made him be reprimanded for his mistakes in Defense Against the Dark Arts class. After a meal, Li An became even more nervous.

"I'm sure we haven't been separated from the dormitory to the Three Broomsticks." Li An recalled it carefully, and then replied affirmatively, "She said she would send the package back to Hogwarts, so she left directly Bar, I had to catch up."

"Did she say who to give it to?" Snape continued to ask.

"I've played Quidditch with Katie for many years, and I know her well. Outside of the Quidditch pitch, she doesn't even want to hurt a fly and just blows them away." Harry defended Katie, and then Thinking that the main suitor who has cooperated for many years will not be able to play for at least three months makes the new captain of Gryffindor Quidditch very painful in the head.

"I asked her who gave it to her, and she refused to say, only that it was to be given to someone at Hogwarts. She had a strange expression when she spoke... oh no, oh no, she must have been hit The Imperius Curse, I only paid attention to that damned package at that time, and I ignored her abnormality at that time." Li An cried out, trembling all over, and wiped the tears on his face with his sleeve indiscriminately, Hermione gently Patted her on the shoulder.

Hearing that someone might be suspected of using the Unforgivable Curse, Auror Hotchner ordered a black mustache colleague beside him: "Derek Morgan, you catch up with Madam Pomfrey and help her send Miss Bell there. When she wakes up, ask her to see what she still remembers, remember not to delay her for too long and hinder the patient's rest."

"Then how did she touch the necklace?" Snape's cold gaze made Li An flinch.

Thinking of the process at that time, Li An began to whimper again, she trembled her lips, trying to describe the situation as clearly as possible: "I didn't know that such a thing would happen, I told her she must never take this thing to school, Filch It is absolutely impossible for the Aurors to allow such unknown things to enter Hogwarts. But no matter how much I persuade, she just won't listen, so I want to snatch the things from her hands and throw them away. Knowing that she was obsessed and refused to let go, the package was torn... something happened to her."

"Katie must have been fighting with you and accidentally touched it, but luckily she didn't hold it directly..." Professor McGonagall said softly. She patted Li An's shoulder, who was about to collapse emotionally, "When Madam Pomfrey returns, you may need some medicine to suppress the shock."

Afterwards, Professor McGonagall turned his gaze to the four Gryffindor wizards, and sighed a little helplessly: "Why are you always present every time something happens?"

Several Gryffindors stood in front of her, and Ron was also very helpless. He shook his head: "Believe me, Professor, I have been asking myself this question for six years."

Harry was a little embarrassed by the side, but then he said calmly, "It might be Pansy Parkinson."

Ron, on one side of him, rubbed his nose awkwardly; Ginny, on the other side of him, began to put her hand on her forehead, and Hermione slid her foot on the ground, as if eager to keep some distance from Harry.

McGonagall pursed her lips and turned herself to Harry. "Potter, this is a very serious allegation."

"Mr. Potter, except for Aurors who have permission to use it under certain conditions, anyone who uses the Unforgivable Curse on other wizards will be sentenced to life imprisonment." Auror has already begun to take out a notepad to record testimony "Mr. Potter, did you witness the crime process with your own eyes?"

"Indeed." Snape also stared at Harry seriously, "What proof do you have?"

"I just know." After Harry replied, he glanced at Dumbledore who was silent by the side. He was very annoyed to find that when he talked with Dumbledore last time, because he read the memories and Excited to learn about the Animagus, let himself completely forget about Alan's suggestion that he tell Dumbledore his suspicions...

Auror Hotchner was so impatient that he put down the notepad: "Mr. Potter, your behavior like this is..."

"You just... know?" Snape interrupted the Auror with obnoxious exaggeration, and he began to imitate Harry to emphasize how stupid his answer was.

Harry opened his mouth but didn't expect anything to support his speech, so he nodded again.

"Your talent for prophecy is really amazing, Potter, a talent that ordinary people would never dream of having." Snape tilted his head and stared at Harry sarcastically, "How great, I didn't know you, the savior, was here The grades in divination class are better than Alan Harris?"

Professor McGonagall relieved his students: "I suggest that each of you go back to the dormitory and have a good rest, everyone."

Auror Hotchner also opened his mouth like Harry. He wanted to pursue the serious accusation that the other party had just had no evidence, but he gave up this plan when Hermione shook his head to stop him.

Dumbledore glanced at Hermione with a smile, and said kindly: "Minerva, Severus, Miss Granger has not messed up this time, and handled the emergency correctly and properly, you should add thirty 10 points; Harry, Ron, Ginny and Leanne can help Hermione bring Katie back, plus 15 points each."

Snape snorted dissatisfiedly, but when his eyes met Harry's delighted green eyes, he thought of the old bat talking to Dumbledore, and swallowed back the sarcasm he was about to blurt out.