citrus hogwarts

After Kate got the first 5 points reward for Slytherin, she immediately ran away.

She had noticed in class that Malfoy was looking at her strangely again.

She waited at the gate of the castle for a while, and then saw the Hermione trio coming from the herb shed just after class.

"Look at the disheveled looks of these two gentlemen. It seems that you suffered a lot from the professor yesterday."

She said jokingly, and waved her wand by the way, cleaning all the dirt off the three of them.

"The next class is Transfiguration class, let's talk as we walk." Kate said calmly, taking Hermione by the hand.

Along the way, she listened to the three little guys complete everything that happened yesterday.

After being locked outside the walls of King's Cross Station, the two brothers drove over in a flying car without authorization, and were whipped off by a moving willow tree at Hogwarts, and finally entered the school.

However, even though they arrived at Hogwarts, they were quickly interrogated by Snape, Dumbledore and McGonagall, and were finally fined and confinement.

It's miserable, but it deserves it.

But any adult with a normal mind knows how dangerous it is to let two minors drive a magical item like a flying car from the station to Hogwarts.

No wonder even Dumbledore became so serious in Harry's description.

You must know that, as a well-known contemporary educator, the image of Lao Deng shown in front of the children is mostly kind and kind.

This kind of risky move of theirs, presumably even the White Demon King who is good at planning has not thought of it, but even so, it is necessary to protect the two of them from being punished too severely for this kind of thing.

Kate guessed that Dumbledore must have lost a handful of hair yesterday.

"Professors are so angry, Mrs. Weasley also sent a Howler letter, you really have it." She said, and just found a seat near the front of the classroom.

There are still 5 minutes before class starts, and the classrooms are beginning to fill up with students.

Ron sat in the row behind her distressedly: "Stop making sarcastic remarks, we still have to be locked up."

"Do you need me to give you some tutorials?"

She was imprisoned last year more than these two people combined, it is true that she was imprisoned out of experience.

"...No, thank you." Harry propped his head on one hand, and refused helplessly.

The class started soon, and when Professor McGonagall walked in, he took a special look at the two of them, and the hatred in his eyes almost overflowed.

Today's class was about turning beetles into buttons, and Kate unsurprisingly scored another 5 points for Slytherin.

She found that in the corner of the classroom, the gaze from Malfoy was more obvious.

Why does this little girl keep looking at her?

She hasn't messed with Malfoy lately, has she?

Kate felt very baffled, but when she turned her head to meet her gaze, she saw Malfoy look away with a nonchalant expression.

This deliberately ignored her demeanor, which intensified Kate's confusion.

But now she didn't have the time to think about what Malfoy's little thought was going to do.

After finally getting out of class, Kate declined the invitation to go to the auditorium for dinner with Hermione, and went to the principal's office on the eighth floor alone.

When she got up this morning, she took a special look at the diary, only to find that it was a good book, but the outer skin suddenly cracked as if it had been scorched by flames.

She was so scared that she quickly checked it with various inspection spells, but she didn't find any problems.

Originally, she wanted to check the situation and pick a suitable time to hand over the diary to Lao Deng, but now that there is an unknown situation in the diary that she can't detect, she has to throw the blame in advance.

"Lemon sherbet!" Saying the command to the gargoyle, Kate quickly stepped up the spiral staircase.

She walked quickly to the door of the office, looked at the box in her hand hesitantly, and then raised her hand to knock on the door: "Professor, can I come in?"

Not long after, the door opened slowly in front of him, and Dumbledore sat at the desk, looking at her with some surprise: "Kate, is there anything you want to tell me?"

"Yes, Professor." Kate went straight in and put the box in her hand on the table, "This is something I got by accident recently."

She opened the box, revealing the burnt surface of the diary: "Before opening it, please allow me to introduce you to its origin and why I decided to give it to you."

Kate knew very well that even if she didn't say anything, Dumbledore would definitely ask, so she might as well bring it up to save trouble later.

Dumbledore's blue eyes looked at her kindly: "Please tell me, I will listen carefully."

"Where should we start..." Kate considered for a while, and decided to start from the beginning, "You should remember that during the summer vacation, the Ministry of Magic raided black magic items, right?"

Of course.

Dumbledore's eyes were a bit weird. If it weren't for this incident, Kate would not have come to him during the summer vacation, and "accidentally" almost blew up several walls.

Then, Kate gave a slightly revised account of getting the diary.

The main part of the modification is that she didn't get the diary on purpose, but accidentally saw the diary in the textbook when she was paying the Weasleys at the bookstore.

In the spirit of never losing money, she originally wanted to return the book to its owner, but when she opened it, she found that there was not a single word on it.

So she took the diary home, found a box and put it away.

But soon, she found traces that the diary had been inexplicably burned, and realized that something was wrong with it, so she wrote a few words on it.

"Then... I saw my handwriting disappear, and a new line appeared."

She swallowed hard, and took out the diary with trembling fingers.

"It said it belonged to Tom Riddle."

Dumbledore's originally kind eyes suddenly changed.

Kate pretended not to notice his eyes, and was still telling her own half-truths and half-fake stories in a trembling voice.

"I didn't know who this Riddle was, so I went to search for relevant information, and then I found out...I found out that he was the one..."

As she spoke, her little face gradually turned pale, and her lips trembled unconsciously.

"He's the one who killed my whole family..."

"Enough, boy."

Dumbledore stood up at once, appeared behind her, hugged her gently, and comforted her in a gentle voice: "If you can't say it, you don't need to say it."

"I'm sorry, Professor, I seem to be a little out of control." Kate turned around and buried herself in his arms, her body still trembling slightly.

If there is no adult soul, it is not surprising that a 13-year-old girl who has witnessed the murder of her relatives has such a behavior.

As for what happened at the end of the first grade, theoretically speaking, she didn't face Voldemort's remnant soul in person.

"There's nothing to apologize for," Dumbledore continued to reassure her, "It's not your fault."

After a while, Kate gradually calmed down, lowered her head and wiped her tears, took a step back, and looked at the diary on the table again, her eyes were extraordinarily complicated.

"I didn't talk to it again, but I thought that since it was a diary left by a mysterious person, it should be harmful, so I hesitated for a long time before taking it over."

In fact, she discovered the anomaly and was eager to throw the blame away.

But even if it is to blame, you have to find a better reason, otherwise it will be troublesome if Lao Deng suspects it.

Dumbledore looked at her with relief: "You have done a good job when you find the problem and think calmly. Give it to me."

He took out his wand cautiously, and used a few detection magics, but there was nothing abnormal, so he couldn't help frowning.

Seeing this, Kate quickly gave him a hint: "I think this diary also has the ability to think independently. Do you think it is a magical item like the sorting hat?"

When the Sorting Hat on the side heard it, it immediately stiffened its tattered body and denied it loudly: "No! How could such an evil thing be like me!"

evil?

Dumbledore glanced at the Sorting Hat thoughtfully, then turned to look at Kate, and explained gently: "The Sorting Hat is a hat that has been infused with the thoughts of the four founders of Hogwarts before it became angry. Normal magic items are different."

In other words, ordinary magic items can't talk and think like the sorting hat.

Kate was acting no different from an ordinary little girl at the moment. She scratched her head in a somewhat dull manner, walked under the sorting hat, and apologized to it with her head raised.

"Sorry, I made a mistake."

The Sorting Hat opened its big mouth happily. Seeing that it was about to sing again, Dumbledore shut it up with a silence spell.

"We shouldn't be in the mood to hear it sing right now." Dumbledore winked at her.

In fact, he can probably guess what this diary is, but it's really hard to say in front of Kate.

The evil concept of Horcruxes may not be suitable for a little girl to know.

but……

He took another look at this child who bowed his head and stood shivering, who didn't look like a child from a show in any way.

Perhaps starting from this opportunity, she can gradually understand her thoughts?

Chapter 7 Dumbledore's Invitation

Kate stood still and kept her mouth shut.

She had done what she had to do, and when she got out of this door, she could have a good and fulfilling Voldemort-free school year.

She waited happily for Old Deng to let her go, but in the next second, she heard Dumbledore say slowly, "Kate, are you willing to figure out the secret of the diary together with me?"

Kate was stunned, her eyes widened.

Letting an ordinary second grader work with you on Voldemort's Horcruxes?

Old Deng, can you play your cards according to the routine?

"I...I can't!"

She hurriedly waved her hands back, "Professor, you have strong magic power, and you know a lot of powerful wizards, there is no need to find a weak child like me!"

After speaking, she ran away without waiting for Dumbledore to answer.

No one should try to push her into the fire pit!

Even Dumbledore was a little startled by her reaction, and he didn't have time to stop her, and he shook his head until Kate fled in a hurry.

Turning around slowly, he looked at the diary on the table, moved his eyes down, and then fixed on the black box that contained the diary before.

If he remembered correctly, he had seen this box at the place of his old friend Nicole Flamel decades ago, and he had heard how to use it.

He stretched out a finger, and a bit of magic power slowly flowed out from his fingertips and poured on the box.

I saw the ordinary golden pattern of the box seemed to be revived suddenly, spreading and wandering on the surface of the box, and finally frozen into a brand new image.

Seeing this simple line drawing, Dumbledore couldn't help frowning slightly.

That old guy, who had only met once, actually gave Kate such things.

No wonder the case of the diary was so badly damaged.

But soon, a smile appeared on his old face, and then he put the diary back into the box.

This little gadget is just right for temporarily holding Voldemort's Horcruxes.

"Yes, and Severus has to come over to discuss how to deal with it."

His muttering was heard by the portraits on the wall, and a female headmistress couldn't help asking: "The child in the Safik family seems to have been frightened a lot, aren't you going to comfort him?"

"Scared?" Dumbledore smiled slightly. "She's not a child who would be scared by a diary."

Even if Kate doesn't know the existence of Horcruxes now, she must be aware of how tricky this diary is, otherwise she wouldn't have visited his office so easily.

A gleam flashed in Dumbledore's blue eyes.

The girl who can become his successor is not that simple.

……

Kate ran all the way to the auditorium. At this time, most of the students had finished their meals and left. She could only pick up the remaining sandwiches and eat while walking to the lounge.

She couldn't understand why Dumbledore would suddenly involve her in this matter.

Logically speaking, it would be great if she, an innocent, weak and poor little wizard, could be the initiator of the incident. After handing in the diary, she should not have any part in the scene.

Even if Dumbledore doesn't necessarily know that the diary is a Horcrux, it is something related to Voldemort, and he will not treat it carelessly.

Then in turn, the person who can be drawn into the diary research project by him must be someone he trusts very much.

Snape was definitely one.

But she herself...

Kate hesitated a little, is she someone trusted by Dumbledore?