Vol 2 Chapter 448: Focus of eyes

"No, I'm not happy at all!" Mr. Argus Filch yelled, but his words were completely inconsistent with the triumphant look on his face: "You are in trouble! The principal has made a rule. With permission, you are not allowed to walk around at night... right!"
While talking, Filch looked at the parchment roster in his hand: "By the way, you are Draco Malfoy, right? I show that you submitted your application to go home during the Christmas holiday, but the result was not Allowed to return to school early... Ha, one more charge!"
"It doesn't matter, Argus, it doesn't matter!" Professor Horace Slughorn waved his hand nonchalantly, "It's Christmas, it's not a sin to want to participate in the party... This time, forget it, let's not take it as an example... Laco, you can stay."
Filch's expression of indignation and disappointment was beyond words, but he finally chose to let it go.
Malfoy looked relieved, he quickly sorted out a smiling face and thanked Professor Slughorn for his generosity.
At the same time he couldn't wait to find something in the crowd.
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"It's Draco, how come he is back to school!" In the small group of Slytherin, Blaise Chabini frowned and said to himself.
Gregory Gore on the side also looked surprised, and he was hiding something in his pocket.
When Draco Malfoy left school not long ago, he warned Gore that if something "unexpected" happened on campus, he should be contacted through their unique contact information.
So when he was surprised that "brother" Christopher Patrick returned to Hogwarts, Gore also quickly passed the news to Malfoy.
But what he didn't expect was that Malfoy hurried back to Hogwarts from Malfoy Manor after only a quarter of an hour; even he was caught by Fair when he sneaked into Slughorn’s Christmas party. Mr. Qi was caught.
"Draco, hurry up, sit down..." Seeing Malfoy come to his side, Gore quickly gave way to a space.
"Merry Christmas, Draco..." Blaise Chabini said lukewarmly: "I heard that your father escaped from Azkaban. Congratulations!"
Malfoy ignored him, but got close to Gore's ear and asked in a low voice, "You said Christoph was back to school? Where is he now?"
"It's on that table!" Gore quickly pointed to the long table next to the podium: "Did you see..."
Staring at Christophe's familiar face for a moment, Malfoy asked in a low voice, "Who is the old man next to him, the one who looks very rude..."
"That's Winston Vance, the principal of Durmstrang..." Gore grinned and said with a smile: "The principal of Durmstrang came to Hogwarts to celebrate Christmas. It's weird. One thing, isn't it..."
"The principal of Durmstrand..." Draco Malfoy's face was calm and terrifying, and his tightly clenched fists became a little trembling.
"What are you trying to do, Draco!" Watching Malfoy's move to rush over there, Crabbe quickly hugged him from his side.
"I'm going to see Christophe... very important thing..." Malfoy said hoarsely.
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"Wait a minute, that table is full of Slughorn's distinguished guests... If you offend them, maybe Slughorn will kick you out again!" Gore explained quickly: "And in a quarter of an hour, the prom will begin. It's not too late for you to find him if there is anything..."
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"It's three more who want to break into the party, running around the school at night!" Outside Professor Slughorn's office, Filch said excitedly: "This time, I think the professor I won’t be gracious anymore!"
"We want to find Dumbledore," Ron Weasley shouted loudly.
But his sister Ginny quickly stopped him, and then she took out an invitation letter from her pocket: "We have Slughorn's invitation!"
"Me too!" Harry Potter also took out an invitation letter from his pocket.
After confirming that the two invitation letters were okay, Filch's expression became extremely disappointed again.
He glanced at Ron one last time, who had not shown the invitation letter.
"He is my dancing partner!" Ginny said calmly on the side: "Okay, can you let us in?"
After finally passing Filch’s level, the three rushed into Slughorn’s office
At this moment, the party was eagerly going on; not many people noticed the three intruders.
The three quickly spotted Hermione Granger and Neville Longbottom sitting next to the door, and quickly touched them quietly.
"Harry... Ron... and... Ginny!" Hermione said in surprise, "How is this possible... Didn't you say that you will spend Christmas in Grimmauld Place, why... "
"Grimaud Square was attacked by a group of mysterious people... The Order of the Phoenix suffered heavy losses, and we were transferred to Hogwarts!" The two boys were already exhausted, and Ginny explained. : "We heard about Professor Dumbledore at Slughorn's Christmas party, so we came over to inform him..."
Hermione looked startled, but she quickly calmed down again: "Is it an attack by a Death Eater..."
"No, it's not like Death Eaters... It seems to be a more mysterious group of people... Where is Professor Dumbledore, I have to inform him..." Harry said, panting.
"Dumbledore has left, as early as an hour ago, when the party had just started!" Hermione shook her head.
"It was the time of the attack!" Harry clenched his fists and said firmly.
But his voice seems a bit loud
"Look who's here! Oh, Harry, my child!" Slughorn shouted loudly, "I thought you refused my invitation. I didn't expect you to be late... Welcome, very Welcome, my little troublemaker!!!"
Horace Slughorn could not help but walked over and took Harry Potter's hand: "Come on, let me show you the other guests in this party!"
"At the same time, you are also welcome, Miss Weasley, the'Bat Curse' you used on the train, I am still impressed."
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When Slughorn nodded towards Ginny and Ron successively: "Of course you are also welcome, Wetherby!"
Hermione took a deep breath, then stood up and walked over to Harry.
"Say I'm your dancing partner, Harry!" She said in Harry Potter's ears in the smallest voice, and she cast an apologetic look at Neville Longbottom.
"Miss Granger?" Slughorn was slightly surprised.
"Hermione is my dancing partner!" Harry said quickly, knowing it.
"Oh, that's the case, come with me!" Slughorn smiled again, he seemed to forget that Hermione Granger came here with Neville Longbottom an hour ago. Of it.
...
Both people sat in the last two empty seats of the long table closest to the podium.
"Harry, I want you to meet Elder Walper, my former student and the author of "Blood Brothers: I Live Among Vampires"..."
"...And this one, Barnabas-Gufe, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet, and also my former student..."
"...Of course there is Gwenog-Jones~EbookFREE.me~ the captain and seeker of the Holyhead Hobbi team..."
Horace Slughorn introduced the VIPs on the long table to Harry Potter one by one.
Harry listened absently until Slughorn's attention shifted from him.
"Hermione, what's the matter?" He lowered his head and asked in a low voice.
"Look at the two people on the front right." Hermione's voice was solemn.
Harry looked up, and was stunned: "Wait... the young man... he is... Christophe!"
Harry was still impressed by the mysterious exchange student Christopher Patrick.
And just now Slughorn introduced all the VIPs on the entire long table, but intentionally or unintentionally missed Christoph and the old man beside him.
"Christopher... how could he..."
"Not only Christopher, but Winston Vance next to him, the principal of Durmstrang!" Hermione said with a trembling voice.
"The headmaster of Durmstrand?" Harry just felt that his brain wasn't enough.
"He is not only the principal of Durmstrang, he is also...one of Gellert Grindelwald's most loyal believers!" Hermione took a deep breath again:
"Harry, don't tell me, you don't know the news of Grindelwald's escape!"
"Grindelwald..." Harry was actually not familiar with the name, but from the tone of Hermione's words, he could already feel the fear conveyed by the name.
"I have to talk to him... Christopher Patrick, talk to him!" Hermione Granger seemed to have regained her courage: "Take advantage of the time when the Christmas ball begins!"