Vol 2 Chapter 761: Roasted quail (sincere thanks to the leader Ying Lin)

The next morning, when the wind stopped and the snow stopped, Allen returned to Hogwarts and had breakfast in the auditorium. The whole auditorium was filled with news that Katie had been cursed. For the specific details, no one knows except for a few parties that the target of the opal necklace is actually not Katie herself. The school asked several Gryffindors not to talk about it to other people.
After asking Hermione for a few words, Allen swallowed the last piece of duck-fried potato on his plate and ate it, walked out of the auditorium, and confessed to the Auror guard next to him: "Puppie, let people take that Bring me an opal necklace."
The Aurors moved very quickly. Not long after Allen returned to his own teacher's office, the door was knocked, and Poppy walked in wearing dragon leather gloves and holding a box in his hand.
"Sir, it didn't take much time. Someone in our team happened to be at the Ministry of Magic. I asked him to come over by the fireplace." Pupai respectfully reported with a hint of joy. Alan raised his chin to the box, and Poppy gently opened the lid of the box, the opal necklace exuding a green glow.
Although it is clear through Lucius’ report that the candidate for the assassination mission was replaced by Draco in the original plot, Pansy, but it is not clear when the other party will act on Allen, who was personally and should have been taken yesterday. Ms. Rosmerta, controlled by the soul curse, had talked in person, but she did not find any signs of being controlled. She was a little curious: "Tell me about your investigation."
"We found out that Cheryl, the waitress at Three Broomsticks, was used Imperium, and Cheryl used the Imperium to control Katie and asked her to send the cursed necklace to Albus. ? Principal Dumbledore’s hand.
Poppy lowered his head slightly, and his voice was slightly low.
Sir, we have confirmed with Cheryl, but she has no idea who used the spell on her. After this incident, the murderer should have cast a curse directly behind her, and he did not show his face when giving the order. We did not say anything but made up a secret stake in the Three Broomsticks Pub. If the prisoner will come back, we Can arrest him."
The opal necklace floated in the air and made a circle. Suddenly, in the exclamation of Poppy, Allen grabbed the necklace with his bare hands and slapped it randomly, then put it back into the box.
"Since it's an exhibit, I won't lift the curse above, you guys should be careful." Allen closed the box and returned it to the stunned Pupai. The other party was stunned for a long time before bowing slightly, holding the box back. A few steps left the room.
Compared with the curse Voldemort placed on his Horcrux, the necklace's attack method is more direct and deadly, but if it is to be lifted, the magic difficulty is much simpler, not to mention Dumbledore, those Gringotts Professional curse solvers such as Bill Weasley can also take a moment to solve him-although they can't do it like Allen is so puzzled and just hold it in their hands.
I personally felt the effect and power of the curse. For Allen, who has read too many scrolls of resistance to color, if you don’t want to hurt Katie Bell and ensure her safety, just lift the curse on her and let her quickly Rehabilitation is not difficult.
But as soon as he stood up and wanted to go to the St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Injuries, he thought of the request Luna had made to him before—Allen sat back on the chair again, stroking his chin, thinking that this matter was possible Room for use. Da da da percussion sounded in the silent room, and Allen's hand flicked rhythmically on the table...
After the blizzard, it was sunny and good for several days, but the temperature dropped sharply after that.
On the night of the third ancient magic lesson teaching, Allen took Hermione and his sister Emily and pushed open the door of Professor Slughorn’s office. They found that, like themselves, others had come to the banquet and took the ancient The wizards in the magic class all wore the magic robes that Allen gave them. Because they accounted for a very large proportion, the second-year twins Torrance and Emily, who had not reached the age of the elective class, and did not join this The ordinary dresses of McLagen and Bellby in the course looked very conspicuous.
"It's great for you to come, great." Slughorn was wearing a brown suit, the golden buttons on the waistcoat gleaming in the light, but the bow tie made him look like he had no neck. He walked straight out of the seat and shook hands with the Harris brothers and sisters and Hermione, and led them to the empty seat beside him.
Draco, who was sitting next to them, immediately skewered each of them a roasted quail on their plate, and the other wizards who stood up as soon as Alan entered, also nodded and sat down again after taking their seats.
"Professor Alan Harris, of course no one here is ignorant of Professor Harris's deeds. The British magic world can now have such a stable situation, but thanks to his and the Ministry of Magic's efforts." Slughorn complimented. After that, I picked up a tablecloth and put it on my lap. I inserted a piece of food in front of me and put it in my mouth, "It's really pleasant, a chance to learn more about you all."
The banquet officially began. As everyone’s plates began to be full of food, Slughorn turned his attention to Cormac McLagen on his left: "Tell Cormac, have you recently Meet your uncle Belous?"
"Some professors, I should actually go hunting with him, Betty Higgins, and Rufus Scrimgeour this holiday." McLagen held his head up, showing good table manners.
"Don't forget to say hello to the two of them for me." Slughorn smiled and clamped a roasted quail into McLagen's plate.
"Where is your uncle Damocles, Marcos?" Slughorn looked at the fat Marcos Belby. He also introduced to everyone at the round table: "In case anyone hasn’t heard of it, I’ll introduce Marcos’ uncle, Damocles Bellby, a very good wizard, very good. He is the one who invented the wolf poison potion. , His Merlin Medal is absolutely well deserved." He turned to Marcos again, "What new invention is he doing recently? Do you often see your uncle, Marcos?"
Unfortunately, Marcos had just eaten a big mouthful of quail. He was eager to answer Slughorn's question, swallowing too fast, his face turned into pig liver all of a sudden, and he was speechless.
"An cough disappear." Slughorn pointed at Bellby with his wand, and said calmly, Bellby's trachea seemed to be clear all at once.
"No... I don't see him very much." Bellby gasped, and his tears were choking.
"Yeah, of course, I dare say he must be very busy." Slughorn looked at Bellby questioningly and said, "Is he inventing any new medicine?"
Marcos didn't seem to dare to eat quail anymore, but he put his head on the dessert in front of his attention and replied without looking up: "I heard that he seems to have accepted the invitation to join the umbrella company? But I don't know the specifics. He The bad relationship with my dad may be because my dad said that potions are all rubbish."
Slughorn never expected that the other party would say such a thing in front of his own potion class professor, nor did he expect that the other party had a bad relationship with the uncle of the potion master. Horace frowned and leaned back and wrinkled his nose. It's just that none of this was noticed by Marcos, who was immersed in the dessert.
Marcos continued: "He said the only useful potion is to go home and drink some strong drinks."
Slughorn's face became cold, and then he turned around and his face was full of smiles: "Speaking of the umbrella company of Professor Allen Harris's family, I don't know if everyone is clear, this Hermione in front of you Miss Granger is its helm. In addition, since I have been teaching these years, she is the second witch to be rewarded with my blessing potion. She is outstanding."
Hermione, who was identified again, was not as flustered as the first time, she just responded with a smile without making a sound.
"So, Miss Granger, where are your parents taller in the Muggle world?" Slughorn asked Hermione with his arms folded on the table, hands folded in front of him.
Hermione was taken aback for a moment, but she confidently said to her parents who was very proud of her parents: "My parents are both dentists."
Except for Draco, whose face turned pale because of bad memories, most of the pure-blood students here either don’t know what the profession of dentist is, or they still stay in the part-time job where dentist is a barber. .
Just like the twin sisters in the second grade, they looked at Hermione at the same time with gloomy eyes. Although there was no discrimination, they were puzzled and waited for her to explain further.
"It's so interesting, is this profession dangerous?" Slughorn lowered his head blankly to add, and the wrinkles on his forehead that he was still trying to understand were squeezed together, and McLagen next to him looked a little confused as he looked.
"No." Hermione's gaze caught the reaction of everyone on the table. Harry, who had been living in the Muggle world before entering Hogwarts, couldn't help laughing because of these pure blood silly expressions— — Sirius’s Animagus teaching did not immediately ask them to hold Mandela’s single leaf in his mouth for a month. He had to give enough theoretical knowledge to the children first, so that they could not mess with themselves. Only after asking the questions clearly can they start preparing. He doesn't want his godson to encounter the accident that his godson only changed half of his body or turned into an animal that could not return to a human form.
The scene was a bit embarrassing for a while. Allen, who was getting some pineapple compote for his sister, asked her female companion to relieve her: "Similar to our therapist, Muggles are actually more meticulous in medicine. You can ask the dentist It is understood as a therapist who specializes in treating teeth. In addition, Muggle barbers would not mention tooth extraction and amputation 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. The sound of the electric drill in the frightening memory made him feel phantom pain.
"It's just that there was a boy named Robin Senk who bit my dad." Hermione said and laughed. "It made him sew ten stitches."
Marcos also stopped the knife and fork that he was reaching for the dessert. All the wizards who had lived in the magic world since childhood were a little confused-what does it mean to stitch ten stitches, they can't judge the injury, let alone being bitten by someone. I have to sew ten stitches. What is this concept? Zabini coughed softly and couldn't help touching his nose, pretending to be embarrassed and disdainful.
"Zabini, you are too talented... in terms of posing..." An angry female voice came from the other side of Horace, because Zabini's method of saving her father was scorned by Zabini, Ginny couldn't help but ridicule Tao.
Slughorn looked at Hermione and Allen in a flustered look and found that they did not show any obvious discomfort, then he was relieved, and then turned to look at Ginny who had just made a sound... Ginny was standing across Slug. Horn's big belly glared at Zabini, and he had to jokingly try to ease the atmosphere: "You have to be careful, Brays! I happened to witness this young lady perform a wonderful bat spirit before. Curse! Don't want her if you don't want a huge bat on your face!"
Brace Zabini didn’t respond to Ginny’s sarcasm at this time. He glanced at Hermione apologetically, a little annoyed that he unconsciously used the set of looking down on Muggles in Hermione’s story Fortunately, this level is not enough to cause displeasure.
Seeing that the pure-blood students around were still skeptical about this, Ginny, who had saved her father's life by this technology, immediately spoke up for it.
After my dad was attacked last year, the snake’s venom prevented his wounds from healing. The St. Mungo’s Hospital was able to heal my dad with the combination of suture technology and witchcraft that he obtained from Muggles with the umbrella. ."
"Ah, I was talking about this new method. I personally went to St. Mungo's Hospital to observe it. Although it looks scary and looks like a centipede... I have to say that it is good for some hard-to-heal wounds caused by magic or toxins. It works well. Miss Weasley would also like to have more desserts, otherwise Bellby will eat them up soon." Slughorn's gaze stayed on Ginny next to Harry for a moment. I started to smile again and picked up a small plate of pie for everyone~EbookFREE.me~ somehow missed Marcos Bellby.
After Slughorn had asked everyone and complimented Harry with extra compliments, he began to divert the topic endlessly, reminiscing about the past, and the rest of the banquet time, except for some students. In addition, Slughorn began to tell many interesting anecdotes about the outstanding wizards he had taught back then, describing that they all readily joined the organization named the Slug Club by intercepting part of his surname when they were at Hogwarts.
The founder of the slug club, Professor Horace Slughorn’s so obvious differential treatment was seen by the little wizards with a little bit of political makeup. Anyone who sits here must have some aspect. It made him feel that he might be worthy of association before he was invited.
But after inquiring, he figured out the details, and apparently he had eliminated some names from his list. For example, Marcos Belby, who had a bad relationship with the uncle of the potion master, had seen countless Slughorn's resistance to him after talking to him. It was obviously too much.
And Lucius Malfoy did not reveal his identity in the Ministry of Magic incident at the end of last semester, so Draco was praised many times at this banquet, including Draco’s follower Bambres Zabini. Slughorn's warm hospitality was also received. Zabini's mother was a beautiful witch who had been a widow seven times, and every husband left her with a large inheritance after the accidental death.
However, Slughorn’s attitude towards Allen is quite intriguing. He warmly entertained him, and constantly brought some dishes to Allen, describing the background of the special dishes and constantly complimenting but not asking each other much. His attitude showed that he didn't want to have a deep friendship with Allen in his heart.