Chapter 761 Roast Quail (Sincere Thanks to Leader Ying Lin)

The next morning, when the wind stopped and the snow stopped, Alan returned to Hogwarts and went to the auditorium for breakfast. The whole auditorium was buzzing with the news that Katie had been cursed. The specific details were not known to anyone except a few parties concerned that the target of the opal necklace was not Katie herself, and the school asked the Gryffindors not to talk about it to others.

After asking Hermione a few words, Allen swallowed the last piece of potato fried in duck fat on his plate, walked out of the auditorium, and confessed to the Auror guards around him: "Puppy, let someone take that Bring me an opal necklace."

The Aurors acted very quickly. Not long after Allen returned to his teacher's office, there was a knock on the door, and Pupai walked in wearing dragon leather gloves and holding a box in his hand.

"Sir, there was no delay. Someone in our team happened to be at the Ministry of Magic. I asked him to come over by the fireplace." Pope reported respectfully with a tinge of joy. Allen raised his chin towards the box, Pope gently lifted the lid, and the opal necklace exuded a green light.

Although it was clear from Lucius' report that the candidate for the assassination mission was replaced by Pansy from Draco in the original plot, Alan, who did not know when the other party would act, was also personally and should have been captured yesterday. Ms. Rosmerta, who was controlled by the soul curse, had a personal conversation, but she didn't find any signs of being controlled by the other party. She was a little curious: "Tell me about your investigation."

"We found out that Cheryl, the waitress at the Three Broomsticks, was under the Imperius Curse, and Cheryl used the Imperius Curse to control Katie and let her send the cursed necklace to Albus. ?Principal Dumbledore's hand." Pope lowered his head slightly, his voice was slightly low, "Sir, we have confirmed with Cheryl again and again, but she has no idea who cast the spell on her, we confirmed it through Legilimency The murderer should have cast the curse directly behind her, and he didn't show his face when he gave the order. We didn't say anything but made up the hidden stake in the Three Broomsticks. If the prisoner comes back, we arrest him."

The opal necklace floated in the air and turned around. Suddenly, amid Pupai's exclamation, Allen grabbed the necklace with his bare hands, weighed it casually, and put it back in the box.

"Since it's evidence, I won't lift the curse on it. Be careful yourself." Allen closed the box and handed it back to Pupai who was still a little stunned. A few steps left the room.

Compared with the curse that Voldemort placed on his Horcrux, although the attack method of the necklace is more direct and deadly, if it is to be lifted, the difficulty of magic is much simpler, not to mention Dumbledore, those Gringotts Professional spellbreakers such as Bill Weasley can also take a while to untie him-although they can't just hold it in their hands without breaking the spell like Allen.

I have personally experienced the effect and power of the curse. For Allen, who has read many Nairir scrolls, if he wants to avoid hurting Katie? Recovery is not difficult either.

But as soon as he stood up and wanted to go to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries, he thought of what Luna had asked him before—Alan sat back in the chair, stroked his chin, and thought about the possibility of this matter. room for use. The sound of tapping sounded in the silent room, and Alan's hand bounced rhythmically on the table...

After the snowstorm, there were several days of sunny weather, but the temperature dropped sharply after that.

On the night when the third ancient magic class was over, Allen took Hermione and his sister Emily to push open the door of Professor Slughorn's office, and found that, like themselves, the others who had come to the banquet had chosen ancient magic. The wizards in the magic class all wore the magic robes given to them by Allen. Because they accounted for such a large proportion, the second-year twin sisters Torrance and Emily, who had not yet reached the age of elective courses,

And the ordinary outfits of McLagan and Belby, who didn't join this course, looked very conspicuous instead.

"It's great that you can come, great." Slughorn was wearing a brown suit, the gold buttons on the vest gleamed in the light, but the bow tie made him look like he had no neck. He walked straight out of his seat, shook hands with the Harris siblings and Hermione, and led them to the empty seat next to him.

Draco, who was sitting next to him, immediately forked each of them with a grilled quail on their plates, and the other wizards who stood up when they saw Alan enter also sat down again after the other party nodded in greeting.

"Professor Alan Harris, of course, there should be no one here who does not know the deeds of Professor Harris. The British magic world can now have such a stable situation, thanks to the efforts of him and the Ministry of Magic." Slughorn complimented After finishing, he picked up a tablecloth and placed it on his lap, and conveniently inserted a piece of food in front of him into his mouth, "It's really pleasant, a chance to get to know you all better."

The banquet officially began, and as everyone's plates began to be filled with food, Slughorn turned his attention to Cormac McLaggen on his left: "Tell me, Cormac, have you had any Meet your uncle Bellus?"

"Some professors, I should actually go hunting with him, Betty Higgins, and Rufus Scrimgeour this holiday." McLaggen held his chest high, showing good table manners.

"Don't forget to say hello to them both for me." Slughorn put a grilled quail on McLaggen's plate with a smile on his face.

"Where's your uncle Damocles, Marcus?" Slughorn looked at the fat, white Marcus Belby. He then introduced to everyone on the round table: "In case anyone hasn't heard of it, let me introduce Marcos' uncle, Damocles Belby, a very good wizard, very good, he is the one who invented Wolfsbane Potion He definitely deserves the Order of Merlin." He turned to Marcos again, "What is he up to now? Do you see your uncle often, Marcos?"

Unfortunately, Marcos had just eaten a big mouthful of quail, and in his eagerness to answer Slughorn's question, he swallowed so quickly that his face turned liver-colored and he was choked up for words.

"An cough." Slughorn pointed his wand at Belby, and said calmly, Belby's trachea seemed to be unobstructed all of a sudden.

"No . . . not seeing him much," gasped Belby, choking on his tears.

"Yes, of course, I dare say he must be very busy," said Slughorn, looking at Belby questioningly. "Is he inventing some new potion?"

Marcos seemed afraid to eat quail anymore, but he turned his attention to the dessert in front of him, and replied without raising his head: "I heard that he accepted the invitation to join Umbrella Company? But I don't know the specific situation. He Didn't get on well with my dad, probably because my dad said potions were rubbish."

Slughorn never expected that the other party would say such a thing in front of himself, the potions professor, nor did he expect that the other party had a bad relationship with the potions master uncle. Horace frowned and leaned back, wrinkling his nose. It's just that all this was not noticed by Marcos who was binging on the dessert.

Marcos continued: "He said the only potion that would work was to go home and take a few sips of strong liquor."

Slughorn's face turned cold, and then he turned around with a smile on his face again: "Speaking of the umbrella company of Professor Alan Harris' family, I don't know if everyone is clear, the Hermione in front of you ?Miss Granger is at the helm of it, and in the years I have been teaching, she is the second witch who has been rewarded with my Felix Elixir, which is very outstanding."

Hermione, whose identity was exposed again, was not as flustered as the first time, she just responded with a smile and didn't make a sound.

"So, Miss Granger, where are your parents in the Muggle world?" Slughorn asked Hermione pleasantly, leaning on the table with his arms folded in front of him.

Hermione was slightly taken aback, but she said confidently to her who was very proud of her parents: "My parents are both dentists."

Except for Draco, who turned pale because of bad memories, most of the pure-blood family students here either don't know what the profession of dentist is, or they still stay at the dentist as a part-time job of hairdresser. .

Just like the twin sisters in the second grade, they looked at Hermione with gloomy eyes at the same time. Although it was not discriminatory, they were puzzled and waited for her further explanation.

"It's so interesting, is this profession dangerous?" Slughorn echoed blankly, his forehead wrinkled together as he was still trying to understand, and McLaggen next to him looked as dazed as he looked.

"Not really." Hermione paid attention to the reactions of everyone on the table, and Harry, who had been living in the Muggle world before entering Hogwarts, couldn't help laughing because of these pure-blooded silly expressions— — Sirius' Animagus teaching didn't immediately require them to hold a single leaf of Mandela in their mouths for a month, he had to give the children enough theoretical knowledge to let them mess themselves up Ask questions in a clear place before they can start preparing. He doesn't want his godson to encounter an accident that only half of his body is changed during the transformation, or he turns into some animal and can't return to human form.

The scene was a bit embarrassing for a moment, and Allen, who was getting some candied pineapple for his sister, asked his girlfriend to help him out: "Similar to our therapists, Muggles are actually more detailed in medicine. You can treat dentists It is understood as a therapist who specializes in treating teeth, and Muggle barbers would not pull teeth and amputate hundreds of years ago, even if you don’t take Muggle studies courses, you should read related books.”

"I think it's dangerous..." Draco muttered, clutching his teeth that Hermione's father had treated at the time, and the sound of the electric drill in the frightening memory gave him phantom pain.

"It's just a boy named Robin Sunk who bit my dad," Hermione said, laughing too. "It cost him ten stitches."

Marcos also stopped the knife and fork that he was stretching towards the dessert. All wizards who have lived in the magic world since childhood are a little confused - what does it mean to have ten stitches, they can't judge the injury, let alone being bitten Need to sew ten stitches, what kind of concept is this? Zabini coughed softly and couldn't help touching his nose, pretending to be embarrassed and disdainful.

"Zabini, you are so talented...in terms of posturing..." An angry female voice came from the other side of Horace, because Zabini scorned the way he saved his father, Ginny couldn't help but sarcastically road.

Slughorn glanced at Hermione and Allen in a panic and found that they didn't show any obvious displeasure. He breathed a sigh of relief, then turned his head to look at Ginny who had spoken just now... Ginny was standing across Slughorn. Horn's big belly glared at Zabini, and he had to jokingly try to lighten the mood: "You've got to watch out, Blaise! I just happened to witness this young lady do a really good bat-sprite before." Curse! Don't want her if you don't want to have huge bats on your face!"

Blaise Zabini didn't respond to Ginny's sarcasm at this time. He glanced at Hermione apologetically, feeling a little annoyed that he had unconsciously applied the way of looking down on Muggles to Hermione's story—— Fortunately, this level is not enough to cause the other party's displeasure.

Seeing that the pure-blood students around were still skeptical about this, Ginny, who had saved her father's life with this technology, immediately spoke up to justify it. "After my dad was attacked last year, the snake's venom prevented his wounds from healing. St. Mungo's Hospital used the combination of suture technology and witchcraft healing obtained from Muggles under the umbrella to make my dad heal. .”

"Ah, so I was talking about this new method. I went to St. Mungo's Hospital to observe it myself. Although it looks a little scary and looks like a centipede... I have to say that it is good for some difficult-to-heal wounds caused by magic or toxins. It works very well. Miss Weasley, please eat more desserts, otherwise Belby will eat them up soon." Slughorn's gaze stayed on Ginny next to Harry for a moment, He began to share a small plate of pies with a smile on his face again, and for some reason missed Max Belby.

After asking everyone and complimenting Harry, Slughorn began to rambling off topic, reminiscing about the past, the rest of the banquet time, except for taking care of some students In addition, Slughorn began to recount anecdotes about many of the brilliant wizards he had taught during his time at Hogwarts, describing how they all readily joined the organization called the Slug Club, which was a truncation of part of his surname.

The founder of the Slug Club, Professor Horace Slughorn's obvious discrimination is seen by the little wizards with a little political makeup. Everyone who sits here must have some aspect He was invited only when he felt that it might be worthy of a relationship.

But after inquiring, he found out the details. Obviously, some people's names had been eliminated from his list. For example, Max Belby, who has a bad relationship with his uncle who is a potion master, after talking with countless people, Slughorn's resistance to him is obviously a bit excessive.

And Lucius Malfoy did not reveal his identity in the Ministry of Magic incident at the end of last semester, so Draco was praised by the other party many times in this banquet, and Draco's follower Blaise Zabini Also entertained by Slughorn, Zabini's mother, a beautiful witch who had been widowed seven times and left her a large estate after each of her husbands died unexpectedly.

However, Slughorn's attitude towards Allen is quite intriguing. He entertained him warmly, and kept bringing some dishes to Allen, asking each other by describing the background of the special dishes and constantly complimenting but not much at all. His attitude revealed that he didn't want to have a deep friendship with Alan in his heart.