Chapter 757 Punishment and Confinement

During dinner, Dumbledore, who had disappeared for a long time, appeared on time at the teacher's table.

He looked exhausted, and his silver hair and beard had become dull. Although he tried hard to hide it, if you look closely, you can still see the exhaustion on his face.

"He must be very busy recently." Connor glanced at the teacher's table and said.

"Yes." Kyle nodded.

Although he was in Hogwarts, he could also know from the recent "Daily Prophet" that most of the morale against the Death Eaters outside was due to Dumbledore.

So in order to deal with the increasingly rampant Death Eaters, he had to leave Hogwarts and make himself appear outside frequently.

The only problem was the Quidditch game.

"So you have learned it, right?" Connor's eyes lit up, and she said excitedly: "The kind of method that Professor Ragol said... to change the essence of magic with magic runes."

The tight pressure almost made Malfoy collapse.

This was also the thing she didn't understand the most.

Especially now it's May, if he can't complete the task before the holiday, that person will definitely not let him go.

He remembered that Connor was doing homework in the common room in the afternoon, and he didn't seem to have found a chance to tell her about this.

"No, I'm talking about another person." Snape said softly, "Nosy Kyle... He does like to meddle in other people's business, but you'd better forget about it and pretend that nothing happened... At least don't bother him before you complete your plan."

Shouldn't Kyle be in the Room of Requirement? Why did he suddenly run to the seventh floor and get involved with Potter and Malfoy.

"I know..." After a long time, Malfoy muttered in a low voice and continued to walk downstairs.

But Kyle naturally didn't know what she was thinking.

"That's my guess." Kyle shrugged indifferently, "It's a pity... I think I can get at least 50 points this time."

Mainly because Kyle was scolded the most in that class. Fifty-five minutes of the one-hour class were spent being scolded. It was hard for her to forget.

"Almost all Hufflepuffs know about it now, and he also said that you were involved."

At the same time, in the headmaster's office on the eighth floor. Dumbledore pulled himself together and said to the two people in front of him.

"I guess you must have had good luck that day." Dumbledore said with a smile, "You have a good friend, and he is very generous."

"Don't look at me like that, I'm just making an analogy." Snape said, "In short, when you face Dumbledore in the future, you'd better put away all your thoughts, let alone look into his eyes."

"I really want to agree to you, Harry, but I can't." Dumbledore shook his head, "You must realize what you did wrong. Missing an activity you like may be more meaningful than simple confinement."

"What?" Dumbledore raised his head and asked.

"Yeah, that really caused you trouble." Malfoy's voice was also very cold. "I guess you must regret it now, regretting that you promised to protect my stupid student."

"How is it, are you okay?" Pansy asked worriedly.

"It seems you guessed wrong." Connor said with some amusement: "Professor Dumbledore didn't want to find you, the person responsible for mediating the fight."

"It doesn't matter. Hufflepuff doesn't need these 50 points now." Connor said.

After another pause, Malfoy said, "I know what to do. You don't need to teach me!"

"Power!"

"Why, do you want to protect Harry Potter?" Malfoy said with narrowed eyes.

"Oh, it's Mikel." Connor said casually: "In order to make himself finish his homework overnight, he went to the school hospital in the afternoon to get some stimulants, and happened to hear some.

And Gryffindor is still the well-deserved last place. Originally, the last place should be Ravenclaw, but Harry was deducted 50 points in one breath a few days ago, and he directly overtook it.

"Hermione helped me a lot." Harry said.

"Professor, I have another thing!" Harry suddenly said: "Maybe it can make up for my mistake this time. "

"It just so happened that I just decided to take a day off, and I ran into this incident again, so I tried to mediate a fight." Kyle briefly recounted what happened before, including accidentally hearing the explosion, and rushing to the seventh floor to pull Harry and Malfoy apart, so that they were not carried to the school hospital.

"I told him that I needed his help, that memory."

Sure enough, his punishment was the same as Malfoy's, both points deduction and confinement, but he needed to find Professor McGonagall.

At this point, Malfoy's face suddenly became ferocious, "If it weren't for that nosy Kyle, I would definitely teach him a lesson!"

"You think you are great, right?" Malfoy suddenly showed a sneer, "You protected me in front of Dumbledore, so I should be grateful and tell you all the plans?"

Before his plan is completed, it is definitely better to stay as far away from the other party as possible.

"So what's the reason." Snape came to his side, "No matter what you want to do, you should try to reduce your presence as much as possible now, why go to Potter for trouble. "

What impressed her the most was... using magic words to change magic power, in simple terms, it made magic ineffective.

"That's pretty good," Connor couldn't help laughing, "At least Professor Ragol won't scold you anymore, right?"

"Really?" Snape sneered, "You think you can stop Dumbledore by practicing the brain block for a month? You not only overestimate yourself, but also underestimate Dumbledore."

Crabbe and Goyle wanted to go over, but seeing him like this, they stopped, looked at each other and went somewhere else.

A huge snake statue swam over from the side and formed a door with its body.

"Everything went smoothly after that. I took a bottle of wine to Slughorn's office. He was very happy and drank a lot.

"That's it." Harry took out a small glass bottle, "I got Slughorn's memory."

"What about you, how did you get involved?" Connor asked.

"So I have to deduct 100 points from Slytherin, and detention is also necessary. Professor Snape is in charge. As for the time... it will be from 8 to 11 every Saturday morning until the end of the school year. "

Harry stood there nervously, waiting for his punishment.

Soon, the two of them came to the corridor outside.

"I guess I have learned it." He thought for a moment and said, "Another reason is that the spells used by Harry and Malfoy are not particularly complicated, and the difficulty is relatively low. If it were two professors, they would definitely not be able to do it. "

Malfoy grabbed his hair and struggled again.

Ragor was the professor of Charms in the Room of Requirement who looked like Old Tom from the Leaky Cauldron.

Hearing the name of the Dark Lord, Malfoy stopped in his tracks, his body trembling uncontrollably, cold sweat dripping down his forehead.

"Don't worry, I will..." Snape said, still standing in front of Malfoy.

On the other side, after Malfoy and Snape left, only Dumbledore and Harry were left in the headmaster's office.

He angrily turned his gaze to Snape, but it seemed that because Dumbledore was beside him, he said nothing, just took a deep breath, opened the door and strode out.

During this period, Nick, who was almost headless, came over, but he was not looking for Kyle, but Harry and Malfoy.

It was not difficult to hear from Harry's words that he did not drink ordinary pumpkin juice in the morning, but pumpkin juice with Felix Felicis.

After dinner, everyone got up and left the table one after another, ready to return to the common room.

"Yes. "Harry nodded and said, "After the first week of vacation, she gave me a glass of pumpkin juice at breakfast and asked me to find Slughorn.

"This is really exciting news." Dumbledore was no longer sleepy. "That's great. I knew you could do it."

Then he turned around and pushed hard. Malfoy didn't seem to expect him to do this. He staggered and almost hit the table next to him.

Kyle stood up awkwardly.

"It's hard to say." Kyle rubbed his forehead. When he thought of the grumpy old professor, he had a headache, and he didn't have to learn only this kind of thing.

"In that case..." Snape said sarcastically: "Then why do you think you can deceive Dumbledore?

"Tsk. "Kyle smacked his lips.

But at this time, he felt a lot more relaxed than before. After all, even Malfoy was not expelled, so he certainly didn't have to worry.

It was Snape.

He didn't even dare to think of that name, so how could he hide his thoughts in front of him?

It has to be said that Mikel was born to be an Auror. He has never disappointed people in terms of collecting intelligence.

This is also the reason why Dumbledore has been getting busier recently.

Malfoy became even angrier and kicked the armor next to him hard.

"Okay, you should go back to sleep now." Dumbledore rubbed his eyes and said.

"Draco, you're back." A group of people immediately surrounded him.

So no matter what, he couldn't stay out of it. The stronger Kyle was, the more irritated he felt.

"Of course." Dumbledore nodded and said softly: "Professor Snape, I hope you can make Malfoy realize his mistake today, otherwise, I can only hand him over to Professor McGonagall. ”

After all, everyone in the magic world knows that Voldemort is most afraid of Dumbledore. Only when he takes action can others see hope.

Although he has thought of a plan, he suddenly regretted it when he was about to implement it.

"By the way." Connor seemed to have thought of something. She spread jam on her bread slices and asked, "I heard that Potter and Malfoy had a fight in the bathroom?"

"Then we talked about the love potion last time. Although he didn't want to mention it, he still told me his guess that someone wanted to use him to deal with someone in the school. He guessed it was me.

Kyle didn't move, but sat there and waited for a while. He felt that he was likely to be called to the principal's office. Waiting here would save him some distance.

The two returned to the common room.

"Yes, you are indeed stupid." Snape said.

"I guess not." Snape said.

"Do you know what you just did!"

"So Horace gave you the memory?" Dumbledore asked.

Malfoy did not argue, because what Snape said was true.

While Harry was talking, he had already stood up and strode to the cabinet with the Pensieve with Slughorn's memory.

...

"Or have you forgotten that Dumbledore is the person the Dark Lord fears the most."

There was another silence, until they came to the first floor hallway, Malfoy finally spoke:

"No, I found him, I didn't see that much."

Malfoy raised his head in horror, as if he didn't expect Snape to say such... treasonous words, although he was telling the truth.

"Don't worry, I won't fire you, Mr. Malfoy, but you must recognize your mistakes."

"That scarred head!" Malfoy said viciously. "He followed me and found out my secret!"

"Oh? Miss Granger?"

How did she know that? It couldn't have been Snape...

"Yes." Harry said with a smile, "He gave it to me."

"Professor, can I change the time?" He stammered, "There will be a Quidditch match on Saturday morning next month. Can I go to Professor McGonagall in the afternoon? It doesn't matter even if the time is doubled."

"Okay." Malfoy raised his head and looked at Dumbledore, his eyes constantly changing.

As soon as he left the principal's office, Snape chased him and said coldly: "Look at Dumbledore with that look, are you afraid that he doesn't know you have ulterior motives? If it weren't for me, you might have been discovered long ago."

"That's true." Kyle said: "And both of them are serious, and they are determined to fight to the death."

Because this plan will affect too many people, many innocent students will be involved, he doesn't want this,

It is precisely because of this that he is on the verge of collapse under great pressure, goes to the bathroom to vent, and is seen by Harry.

Malfoy walked straight in and then closed the door hard.

"No problem, Principal Dumbledore." He said, "If there is nothing else, should we go back first?"

But Dumbledore didn't care too much about these, or it was not the right time.

But this is easy to say. In addition to dealing with Dumbledore, the task that man gave him was to kill Kyle.

It was also because of this that he could find Slughorn when he wanted to drink and successfully get what he wanted.

"Don't mind your business!" Malfoy said, "Bella taught me the art of brain occlusion during the holidays. Dumbledore can't see what I'm thinking at all."

At this time, the two had already arrived at the door of the Slytherin common room, and Malfoy said the password.

Harry had no objection to the detention, as long as he didn't go to find Snape, he could accept it.

Snape followed him.

"You'd better give up this idea." Snape said lightly.

Don't go to trouble Kyle... Yes, he just waved his wand and easily controlled himself, and there was also that strange magic that could turn the blasting curse into a raven.

"What can I do." Malfoy said perfunctorily, he pushed Pansy away and walked to an armchair in the corner and sat down.

"Hey, kid, what do you want to do? Challenge me to a duel?" A knight shouted in the portrait.

Of course he knew what Snape meant.

But he waited for more than ten minutes, and everyone in the hall had left, and no one came to ask him to go to the principal's office.

But the next second, a person came in front of him and blocked this gaze.

But neither Malfoy nor Snape paid attention to him.

"I haven't thought about it." Snape frowned. "But I must remind you that it's best to put away all your thoughts in front of Dumbledore, and don't show your ambitions and goals. Otherwise, it's easy to be seen through."

Connor had attended his classes with Kyle several times before. Although she didn't understand, she still remembered some of his key points.

Malfoy was obviously still a little unconvinced.

"Then let me put it another way." Snape glanced at him, "Do you think you can hide your secrets in front of the Dark Lord?"

"Secret?" Snape frowned and said, "Did he see your plan?"

In this year's college rankings, Hufflepuff has been in the first place since Christmas, and its score is more than 80 points higher than Slytherin, which ranked second.

"Yeah..." Kyle nodded subconsciously, but soon he was stunned, "Wait, who told you that?"

"Now." Dumbledore put the Pensieve on the table and poured the memory in the bottle into it, "We are finally going to see the truth of the matter, Harry, come on..."

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