Chapter 1582 Chat with Dumbledore 1
"Of course I put my heart into it!" Malfoy argued excitedly. "I've been working on this all year, and tonight..."
At this moment, somewhere in the castle below came a muffled cry.
Malfoy froze, turning his head hastily to look behind him.
The trembling wand in his hand was deflected. If Dumbledore rushed over at this time, no, Harry felt that as long as Dumbledore walked over, Malfoy would not resist at all, but Dumbledore did not move. Leaning all his body weight on it with the double snake staff, he said with an easy-going attitude, "Someone is struggling to resist, we just talked about... By the way, you finally succeeded in letting the Death Eaters enter my school, I admit, I I thought it was impossible...how did you do it?"
But Malfoy didn't answer, he was still listening to what was going on below, and he didn't even look back at Dumbledore.
He seemed as frozen as Harry, unable to move.
"This is not okay, Draco, this is not okay, maybe you should do the job alone." Dumbledore advised him, "Although you have many people here tonight, if your backup Defeated by my guards? I'm afraid you've also discovered that there are still many members of the Order here tonight, not as few as you think. You don't need help anyway. Look, I don't have a wand at the moment, There is no way to protect yourself."
Malfoy turned back again, just staring at him blankly.
Then, his eyes moved to the staff of the twin snakes that Dumbledore was leaning on.
He looked at the two green pythons in front of him, his expression gradually frightened, as if he had just noticed them.
"Don't pay attention to them, you can regard this scepter as an ornament. Please believe me, this scepter will not cause you any harm." Dumbledore said gently, he saw Mal Fu neither acted nor spoke, and nodded slightly, "Ah, I understand, you are afraid of what you are going to do, and you have to wait for them to come up before you dare to do it."
"I'm not afraid!" Malfoy immediately roared fiercely, like an angry cat, but he still didn't hurt Dumbledore. "It should be you who is afraid!"
"But why? I don't think you're going to kill me, Draco, it's not as easy as people think... Well, while we're waiting for your friends, you and I Tell me...how did you sneak them in? It seems like it took you a long time to figure it out."
Malfoy seemed to be trying desperately not to yell or throw up.
He swallowed, took a few deep breaths, stared fiercely at Dumbledore, and pointed his wand straight at Dumbledore's chest. Then, seemingly involuntarily, he said, "I had to fix that broken disappearing cabinet that hadn't been used for years, the one Montague locked in last year and couldn't get out of."
"Ah!" Dumbledore's sigh was like a moan, and he closed his eyes for a while, "It turns out that this is why you spent most of your time in the Room of Requirement. It's a very clever idea... I remember that the cabinet has two one, isn't it?"
"The other one's in the Borgin-Bock store!" said Malfoy. "They built a passage between the two cabinets, and Montague told me he couldn't move when he was locked in that cabinet at Hogwarts. But sometimes you can hear the movement in the school, and sometimes you can hear what is going on in the store, as if the cabinet is running around in these two places, but no one can hear him... Finally, he finally Escaped by Apparating, even though he failed his exam, his Apparating almost killed him. Everyone thought it was a very funny story, only I realized the meaning, not even Borgin You know, I'm the only one who realizes that as long as I fix that broken cabinet, I can enter Hogwarts through the two Vanishing Cabinets."
"Very well," murmured Dumbledore, "so that the Death Eaters can enter the school from the Borgin-Bock shop to help you... a clever plan, a very clever plan. And, as you say , right under my nose..."
"Yeah!" said Malfoy, who strangely seemed to take courage and comfort from Dumbledore's praise, "yes, that's it!"
"It's very ingenious, but I have to correct you. You are not the only one who knows. In fact, Ivan has reminded me of this many times in the past year."
"What?!" Hearing these words, Malfoy's newly aroused courage disappeared instantly, and his expression was already quite terrified, as if he had been greatly frightened, "You, you mean, Mason already knows? ! He, he knew about the disappearing cabinet in advance?!"
"You must have noticed that Harry has been trying to follow you into the Room of Requirement to find out what you're doing, and he's failed, but he's not alone."
"May, Mason followed me in?!" Malfoy said in horror.
"Not at the same time, but he should have guessed that you went to that room." Dumbledore said gently, "In the past few years, he has been using that room, and no one is more familiar with the Room of Requirement than him. Yes, he guessed where you went, went in to check after you left, and found the disappearing cabinet..."
"It's impossible!" Malfoy said in disbelief. "There are so many things in that room. I'm always careful. It's impossible for him to know the secret of the disappearing cabinet. It's impossible..."
"Magic is actually not as simple as you think, Draco, you still have a lot to learn. In fact, I still say that, what you did is too obvious and lame, even without Ivan's reminder , I'll find out it's you too. I guess you weren't sure you'd fix the disappearing cabinet, so you took some clumsy, ill-conceived measures like sending me an enchanted necklace , in fact, it will definitely fall into the hands of others... and poisoning the mead, in fact, the possibility of me drinking that wine is very slim..."
"You have no way of knowing who planned these things," Malfoy said.
"But I already knew." Dumbledore said, taking a step back and leaning against the wall, obviously his legs and feet had lost strength, "I knew you did it."
"Impossible, it's impossible for you to know, it's impossible, it's impossible! If you found out everything, why didn't you stop me?" Malfoy asked loudly, his frightened speech getting faster and faster, "Why did you let it go?" I do those things?!"