Chapter 214: Attack in the Common Room

"Are you telling a joke?" Ron glanced at Harry suspiciously and touched his forehead with his hand stained with cake cream. "You must have a fever, Harry, to suddenly say such incomprehensible words... this You don’t have a fever either?”

"It's not that I want to hear a joke, it's Professor Dracula." Harry knocked off Ron's dirty hand that was still stained with cream on his forehead, and said weakly, "I have to find a funny joke to make Dracula laugh. Professor Gula’s mood has improved…”

Harry told Hermione and Ron about today's visit to Hagrid, about Buckbeak's troubles, and also told them about his experience of seeking help from Professor Dracula, but couldn't help but annoyed the professor with his bad words. .

"Hmm... It's really rough." Ron commented with a complex expression.

"How could the people from the Dangerous Creatures Committee do this!" Hermione loudly complained for Hagrid. "Those people must be trying to please Malfoy and dare not give Dumbledore face, so they can only do this to a poor animal. Take action!"

"Yes, that lesson was clearly about Malfoy disobeying Hagrid and insisting on provoking Buckbeak." Harry agreed, "How else could Buckbeak, such a docile Hippogriff, do this? Attack him for no reason?"

"Alas, the first lesson on Care of Magical Creatures was the only one that was interesting." Ron also sighed, "Hagrid seems to have been hit in the back. In every lesson, he only dares to let us go to those disgusting, slimy lakes. Feeding the Flobber caterpillars in the lake is so boring!”

Saying this, Ron suddenly seemed to think of something and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Yes, I thought of a particularly interesting joke!" He slapped his thigh heavily and said loudly.

Harry and Hermione both looked at him expectantly.

If Ron can really come up with a good joke to impress Professor Dracula, then Harry's problem of doubling his homework after class and Buckbeak's complaint problem should be solved!

"Ahem." Ron cleared his throat very solemnly and said seriously:

"The joke is this - there is a Slytherin graduate who joins the Death Eaters, and Malfoy's father, Lucius Malfoy, is responsible for teaching him the rules and some knowledge of the Death Eaters.

Lucius Malfoy asked: 'Young man, what do you want to learn from us? ’

The Slytherin graduate said: 'I want to learn from your inconsistency, your talk and your talk, your head and the rat's head. On the one hand, he was extremely submissive to the Dark Lord and flattered him, wanting to kneel down and lick his toes; on the other hand, he kept donating money to the Ministry of Magic and deceived the officials of the Ministry of Magic into saying that he joined the Death Eaters because he was controlled by the Imperius Curse. Actually loyal to the Minister of Magic! "

Lucius Malfoy said angrily: 'What are you talking about? I, the Malfoy family, all abide by integrity, stick to the end, and are willing to do whatever it takes for the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord trusts us very much. How could we have such a bad habit? ’

The Slytherin graduate was overjoyed and said excitedly: 'Yes, that's what I want to learn! ’”

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After Ron told the joke, he turned to look at Harry and Hermione and asked confidently: "How is it, is it funny enough?"

Harry and Hermione looked at each other, and then they couldn't help it anymore, they lay on the table involuntarily and laughed loudly.

"Hahahaha... I can't do it anymore, Ron, you are such a genius!" Harry laughed so hard that tears came out, and he took off his glasses and wiped the corners of his eyes, "Hahaha... Professor Dracula must hear this joke. Upon hearing this, Buckbeak is saved!"

Hermione was a little more reserved, but no better than Harry.

"Pfft... You are too shameful, Ron!" She covered her mouth, her eyes were crooked, and her messy hair was jumping with laughter, "If Malfoy hears it, it will definitely kill your heart. Got it."

"Luckily, I happened to think of this joke just when I was about to scold Malfoy." Ron said modestly, but his eyebrows were almost raised to the sky.

The joke might not be that funny to others, but the fact that the main character of the joke is their arch-nemesis Malfoy makes it quite interesting.

Harry, Ron and Hermione smiled forgetfully, causing the other Gryffindor wizards around them to come over and ask them what happened to make them so happy.

Ron reworked his joke without hesitation and told it to all the little wizards who came over with joy.

Soon, this joke about Malfoy spread all over the Gryffindor table, including the Ravenclaw table next door, and even the little ones at the Hufflepuff table far away. Some of the wizards have heard about it.

Just as the three little wizards gradually stopped laughing, an uninvited guest came to the Gryffindor table.

"Potter! Come here Wes! I knew it was you two bastards again!" A familiar voice sounded in the ears of the three of them, "I'm going to kill you!"

Harry and Ron stopped laughing and turned around, seeing three very tall "dementors" wearing black cloaks and turbans standing in front of them.

The leading "dementor" wore shoes with high heels to show off his height. He was looking at them angrily and pulled out his wand from his cloak.

"What the hell?" Ron looked at the three guys in confusion, "Have the dementors already sneaked into Hogwarts?"

"Ron, have you ever seen any Dementor holding a wand!" Hermione rolled her eyes at Ron and revealed the true identities of the three "Dementors", "These must be Malfoy and his two followers. , I’m afraid they’re dressed like this to scare Harry.”

After hearing Hermione's explanation, Harry carefully looked at the three "dementors" in front of him.

To be honest, when he first saw this outfit, he was actually a little scared, because the psychological shadow caused by the dementors before was really serious.

However, the three "dementors" played by Malfoy and his two followers did not give him the unique dark feeling of dementors, nor did they cause him to fall into coma or hallucinations, so it is actually easy to judge. It's not really a dementor.

Harry raised his head and saw hundreds of jack-o'-lanterns hanging in the Great Hall, as well as a group of fluttering bats and many orange streamers that breathed flames. They were floating lazily under the ceiling, like brilliant water snakes. .

He then remembered that tonight was Halloween, and at the dinner party many little wizards would dress up as elves and ghosts to scare others.

It seemed that Malfoy wanted to pretend to be a dementor to scare Harry, but he happened to hear a joke about his family, so he was so angry that he directly exposed his "identity" and immediately pulled out the weapon. The wand is ready for a duel with Harry.

"Is there anything wrong with the joke we told?" Harry looked sideways at Malfoy, who was wearing a turban and a black cloak, and asked provocatively, "Isn't this how your family behaves?"

Malfoy was shaking with anger and blurted out a curse:

"Flipendo at full speed!"

Harry also drew his wand at the same time, preparing to fight back.

However, the next moment, another red-haired figure stood in front of him.

"Protego."

A transparent barrier blocked Malfoy's repelling spell, and behind the barrier was the serious face of Percy Weiss.

"Draco Malfoy violated many disciplines by using magic in the auditorium during non-dueling club time, disrupting the order of the dinner party, and sneak attacks on classmates...Draco Malfoy violated many disciplines, and Slytherin deducted ten points!" Percy said solemnly.

"They were the ones who scolded me first!" Malfoy shouted unconvinced, "Come on Wes, you are favoring Gryffindor!"

"If you are not convinced, you can ask your prefect to come to me." Percy raised his head proudly and wiped the Student Union President badge on his chest with his hand, "Just tell them that the Hogwarts Student Union President wants to talk to them!"

No matter how confident Malfoy was, he would never think that he and his two followers could defeat the seventh-year student union president, so he left the scene bitterly.

Before leaving, he said harshly as usual, "Just wait, I will definitely let my father take care of you!"

However, before they had gone far, they saw two twins wearing pumpkin heads and dressed as pumpkin-headed knights walking towards them, telling another joke——

"George, why do I feel like I have a stomachache?" Fred Pumpkinhead asked another Pumpkinhead.

"Just sit down and have something to eat," George said. "Your stomach hurts because your stomach is empty. Eat something and it will feel better."

"So that's it," Fred nodded in realization, "Then it seems to me that Mr. Malfoy has a headache. Why is that?"

"Of course the headache is because his head is empty," George said with a smile, "Put something into the empty head and it will get better!"

"Hey, don't say that, George." Fred waved his hands in a strange way, "If water is put in the head, wouldn't it mean that the brain is flooded?"

"Ah, I didn't think carefully." George blinked, "Thank you for reminding me, Fred."

Then, the two of them looked at Malfoy together, laughing and looking very unbeatable.

Malfoy was about to cry with anger, but because the student council president next to him was a member of the same family as these two troublemakers, he could only glare at them fiercely again, and then ran back to Slater as if he was running away. Lin's seat.

After solving Malfoy's problem, the twins wearing pumpkin heads jumped up to Percy with cheers, and each of them patted Percy on the shoulder.

"Percy, great job! You're definitely the most handsome we've ever seen today!" they shouted. "We didn't know you could have such a lovable day."

"I'm not partial to Gryffindor, I just fulfilled my responsibility as the student council president." Percy's face seemed a little red.

He straightened his collar, which was messed up by the twins, and changed the subject: "You two are not going to eat yet, why don't you hurry up and get rid of these two silly pumpkin heads!"

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The food at the Halloween dinner was as sumptuous as ever, and with the little interlude in between, Harry had a great time eating it.

Although Hermione and Ron had already filled their bellies in Hogsmeade, they still couldn't help but order two portions of every dish. Finally, they stopped until they could hardly walk and returned with Harry. Gryffindor common room.

The three of them made an appointment to tell the joke to Professor Dracula the next day, and said goodbye to each other at the entrance of the steps on the side of the common room.

"Good night, Hermione." Harry and Ron waved to Hermione.

"Good night, Harry. Good night, Ron." Hermione yawned and waved lazily.

At night, Harry had a rare good dream after meeting the dementors.

In a peaceful and beautiful dream, he seemed to see his parents smiling at him, and he was flying around a cradle on a small broomstick.

Then……

"Ahhhhhhhhh-! No no no no no no no-!"

The sweet dream was interrupted when Harry was suddenly awakened by screams. He rubbed his brows, still thinking about the beautiful dream from before.

It was pitch black all around, and he was completely disoriented. He could only fumble with the curtains around the bed.

There seemed to be other movements around, and the voice of another roommate, Seamus Finnigan, came from the other end of the room.

"What's the matter?" he asked.

Harry heard the sound of the bedroom door being closed and wondered who had gone out.

Then, he finally found the opening of the bed curtain and pulled it open. At the same time, another roommate, Dean Thomas, lit the lamp.

Ron sat up on the bed, a look of extreme horror on his face.

His bed curtains were pulled aside, and the bed was turned over in a mess, as if there were a few holes in the mattress.

"Black! Sirius Black! With a knife!" Ron shouted incoherently.

"What?" Harry opened his mouth.

"Right here! What just happened!" Ron shouted, "He cut the bed curtains! Woke me up!"

"Are you sure you're not dreaming, Ron?" Dean Thomas asked.

"Look at that bed curtain! Let me tell you, he was here just now!" Ron's expression was still very panicked. "He turned over my bed while I was sleeping and poked several holes in my bed!"

They woke up immediately and climbed out of bed quickly.

Harry was the first to come to the dormitory door and ran downstairs at full speed in his pajamas. At the same time, the doors behind them opened one after another, and many sleepy voices asked them questions.

"Who was yelling just now?"

"Ouch, what are you doing?"

The common room was illuminated by the dim glow of the fireplace. There was no one in the room and no sign of Sirius Black.

"Are you sure you're not dreaming, Ron?" Hermione poked her head out of the stairs in her pajamas, lost in the lake, "Oh, Crookshanks, come to me."

She saw her mixed-breed cat Nizi walking towards the common room door from the doorway, probably wanting to go out and run around at night.

"I'm telling you, I saw him!" Ron shouted forcefully, "I'm absolutely right, such a big figure standing in front of me, it's definitely the Sirius Black printed in the newspaper!"

"What are all the noises for?"

"what happened?"

Several more girls came down the stairs, wearing dressing gowns and yawning.

The boys also appeared one after another, and everyone was woken up by Ron.

"Awesome, little Luoluo, do you want to host another Halloween dinner?" Fred said cheerfully.

"Everyone go back upstairs!" Percy glared at Fred.

He hurried to the common room, pinning his Head Boy badge to his pajamas as he spoke.

"Percy! Sirius Black!" Ron shouted almost hoarsely. "In our dormitory! With a knife! Woke me up!"

There was silence in the common room.

"Nonsense!" said Percy, who also looked frightened. "You ate too much, Ron, and you had nightmares..."

"I tell you--"

The two quarreled. One firmly refused to believe that Sirius Black had ever been in the common room, while the other wanted to use various methods to prove that he had actually seen the notorious wanted criminal.

A few minutes later, Professor McGonagall was also alerted and entered the common room through the doorway.

As soon as she entered the lounge she slammed the portrait door behind her and looked around angrily.

"I can hear your noise from the second floor. Do you want to rebel by staying up late at night?" Professor McGonagall said loudly and looked at the student union president, "Percy, I was expecting you to perform better. !”

"I certainly didn't let them do this, Professor!" Percy said angrily, "I'm telling them all to go back to bed! My brother Ron had a nightmare..."

"It's not a nightmare!" Ron shouted at the top of his lungs, "Professor, I woke up and Sirius Black was standing in front of me, holding a knife!"

Professor McGonagall looked at him with wide eyes, "Don't make people laugh, Wes. How could he pass our portrait?"

"Ask him!" Ron pointed at Sir Cadogan's portrait with a trembling finger, "You can ask him if he saw it!"

Professor McGonagall glanced at Ron suspiciously, walked over and turned the portrait over so that Sir Cadogan faced the common room.

The entire common room held its breath.

"Sir Cadogan, did you just let a man enter Gryffindor Tower?" Professor McGonagall asked.

"Of course, ma'am!" Sir Cadogan said matter-of-factly.

The Gryffindor students were speechless in shock, their eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

They felt a sense of fear, and the little wizards who were in the same dormitory as Ron were even more trembling.

If Ron wasn't having a nightmare, and the person standing beside his bed was really Sirius Black, the murderous wanted criminal, does that mean that all of them had a brush with death?

"You...did you really open the door?" Professor McGonagall broke into a cold sweat and asked sternly, "But...but what about the password for the common room? How can you let people in and out without a password!"

"He has a password!" Sir Cadogan said confidently, waving his knight's sword. "That man has a password for the whole week, madam! It was read from a small piece of paper!"

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