Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

This time, Moon said nothing, and Cedric and the other three finally breathed a sigh of relief.

While Lockhart turned around, Cedric secretly turned his head to glance at Moon, wanting to see Moon's current situation.But all they could see was Moon lowering his head, his face completely hidden in the shadows, and he couldn't see anything at all.

No one knew what Lockhart had been up to. In short, after a while, he came to a few people again and put on a beautiful dark red robe. "Follow me, let's go meet." Mr. Filch, let's see what good ideas he can give me. It's too cheap for you to help me answer readers' letters."

Arlin rolled his eyes, tugged on Gal's sleeves, and silently gestured to him, "I would rather go to the black lake and give the giant squid a bath than reply to him some damn reader letter."

Gal laughed silently, and then replied: "Me too, he doesn't think it's a good job to reply to readers' letters, right?"

Relying on years of experience and tacit understanding of bickering and cheating on each other, the two easily completed this silent communication, and later scolded Lockhart from head to toe.

As for Cedric, he was already thinking about how to divide the four people's tasks if Mr. Filch asked them to clean the toilet.

Chapter 73 Chat Confinement

Facts have proved that Cedric was indeed very foresight - just as he expected, the four of them were assigned to clean the toilet.

And there is a whole floor of toilets.

Coincidentally, when being pushed into the empty toilet by Mr. Filch, Cedric kept comforting himself in his heart: It must not be my milk, it must not be my milk.

"Milk", this is a new word that Cedric learned from Moon, although he doesn't know why "milk" can actually mean that "reverse dreams come true, bad things you think of always come true" is so outrageous. The meaning comes.

But it's pretty fun.

If he knew that this word should originally be used as the word "increase blood" or "heal" when playing games, I am afraid he would not understand it even more.

However, although in a sense, Cedric did suffer from the unfortunate confinement of the four of them, but none of the division of labor methods and work plans he had thought about in advance were used.Because he, like Mr. Lockhart and Mr. Filch, all underestimated Moon's level of cheating and his control over the spell.

Not long after entering the toilet, Moon marked the entire bathroom in his mind, and then controlled the mops, rags and other items to soak in the bucket.Then he waved his wand and cleaned the ground in the first two spaces quite cleanly, leaving only some stubborn stains and gaps, and even some water stains on the ground.

After some operations, Cedric, Gal, and Arlin were ecstatic.

"Okay, let's take a rest." Moon shrugged. "I won't change the chairs for you. Otherwise, when Mr. Filch comes over for a surprise inspection later, you may all fall down if your chairs are suddenly removed." on the ground."

Cedric and Arlin nodded with deep understanding. Only Gal asked confusedly, "Will Mr. Filch come to make a surprise inspection later?"

"Of course." Yaerlin put his left hand on Gal's shoulder. "Stupid, think about it, if he doesn't come to make a surprise inspection, wouldn't it be better if we just say "Clean and Fresh" to the toilet?"

Gal also reacted, but for the first time, he didn't sneer at Yaerin, nor did he make a move. It was probably because he was still in the toilet right now.

Five minutes later, sure enough, the awkward sound of Mr. Filch's footsteps, one step faster and one slower, came from the corridor. The four of them quickly picked up their tools and pretended to be working hard.In order to act more realistically, Gal even looked at Yaerlin twice, making himself look bitter and resentful.

Poor Mr. Filch took Mrs. Norris on a wasted trip.

"So, Moon." After Mr. Filch left, Cedric walked to Moon and asked in a low voice: "What is the situation between you and Violet now? Are you still not going to confess? "

"Confession?" Moon was startled, and then looked at the three roommates with a strange look on his face. "What confession?"

Gal was speechless for a while, and Arlin's eyes almost flew to the sky. Cedric curled his lips and said helplessly: "Of course we confessed that we are together, otherwise why don't we confess and go to the Care of Magical Creatures class together? You and Violet stay together every day, but no one confesses your love to anyone. Is it possible that you two have something to hide? Are you already engaged? "

"Huh?" Moon was dumbfounded. "What the hell is this? Why did you even find out who you are engaged to be engaged to? Where did I get my engaged partner?"

"Then why don't you confess your love to Violet?" Gal preemptively asked the most important question again, "Even this idiot Arlin has confessed his love, but you are the only one in our dormitory who has not yet confessed his love."

"???"

Moon blinked, suddenly reacted, and challenged several people suspiciously, "No, how do you know that neither Violet nor I confessed our love to each other?"

"Demi told me."

"Qiu told me."

"Milton told me."

Good guy, Yaerlin is the only one who doesn’t fit in.

Wait - how come even Milton knows this? !

Moon had a pissed-off expression on his face, "What the hell are you going on with every day? Why do you care so much about this when you have nothing to do..."

Cedric swore that since he met Moon, this was the first time he felt that Moon could be so slow and stupid.

"I said, Moon, have you really thought it through or are you just pretending? We don't want to care about this kind of thing, but Violet even drew the two of you together with the mistletoe in the picture album she drew by herself! You, a boy, should show some expression, right?"

Moon felt 1 grievances in her heart. She hadn’t expressed her grievances yet, but she had expressed her feelings a long time ago!

With a pocket watch that can see his location and behavior in real time, and a parchment that can "send text messages" to himself, he almost launches a satellite into the sky to shine on him all the time and pass the content to Violet.

How else to express this?

Seeing Moon's expression, Cedric immediately realized that Moon had not even thought about "confession → officially announcing that they were together".He rubbed his hair in disgust, and even Gal and Yaerin started to go a little crazy.

"You have to confess! Moon! Confess! Do you know what confession means?" Yaerlin patted his chest. "Just like I did to Emma, ​​hold her hand and tell her 'Hey! How about we officially start dating', got it?"

"We're all still too young for a formal date. I haven't really planned to take that step yet." Moon shook her head. "We have to wait until we are at least two years older, otherwise it will be considered puppy love."

“Puppy love???”

Arlin, Gal, and Cedric learned a new word from Moon.

"What's so early..." Gal couldn't complain anymore. "Moon, do you know that just in the last week alone, Violet received at least five date invitations? Although it's a little less than what you received. , but this means that more and more people are competing with you, so you don’t actually like Violet, right?"

"That's nothing. It's just an invitation to Hogsmeade." Moon waved his hand, "It's just a small thing."

Cedric held his forehead and sighed, "You don't think Violet can wait for you forever, do you? Everyone is already in the fourth grade. At least half of the students in the same grade are officially in love. The remaining half You still can’t find a suitable love partner. Do you plan to wait until sixth grade before confessing your love to Violet? Just because you don’t like to go out and accept other people’s invitations doesn’t mean that Violet will always refuse. Someone else..."

Moon's eyelids twitched - not because he was worried that Violet would run away with someone else, but because he was frightened by the data revealed by Cedric. "Uh... are there so many people in fourth grade falling in love?"

"Do you even want to make a fuss about this?" Yaerlin said silently: "Do you know that even Milton has a real girlfriend?"

"What the hell?" Moon suddenly said a curse word that no one could understand, "Milton? Is it true or false?"

"Of course it's true. She is a Slytherin girl who is a little chubby. Milton only confessed her love two weeks ago." Gal gave more detailed information. "He told me, and I told Arlin. Erling told me again... Anyway, I don't know why Milton thought I could help him keep such a secret."

Cedric scratched his chin, "I think he knew you wouldn't keep a secret for him, so he told you. And - Moon, you actually heard about this. There were people at the dinner table two days ago. You said something, but you probably didn’t listen carefully.”

"It's...possible." To be honest, after being bombarded by several roommates in this way, he suddenly started to feel a little guilty.

Of course, he would not think that Violet would really go out to date someone else, just like Violet would not think that the relationship between them needed to be promoted by some act of coquettishness.

However, he couldn't help but wonder, could it be that he had been thinking too much?

Thinking about it carefully, I've been here for so long and I haven't heard anyone mention premature love...

As Moon thought, he toyed with the mop in his hand with some embarrassment. "Ahem, okay, I understand. Anyway, don't be anxious. It's useless to be anxious anyway..."

Seeing how Moon suddenly fell into deep thought, Cedric and the others thought he had finally figured it out.What I didn't expect was that after waiting and waiting, I still only got such a useless answer.

As a result, Moon received three boos in unison.

"Hey, okay, okay, don't mention this matter. You can always gossip about other things." Moon became angry. "You keep prying into other people's love lives like this, be careful of getting the eye of a needle."

"eye of a needle?"

Well, the three of them discovered that the new words they learned today seemed to be more than just 'puppy love'.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore. Anyway, if you don't confess your love earlier, sooner or later you will regret it." Yaerlin said vowedly, and then he poked the mop next to him into the bucket. "Let's go, there's still some left." The last toilet?"

"Yes, it's the last one." Gal nodded with relief, although he had almost no work tonight other than showing off his hard work. "This is the first time I like the toilet in Hogwarts so much. There are no toilets in it." What a stinky smell. If this were a toilet in an ordinary Muggle school, even if we didn't have to do any work, we would probably be stifled - I've been to those ordinary schools, and the smell in the toilets was nothing special. It’s not clean, it’s very scary.”

"Are Muggle schools divided into ordinary and extraordinary schools?" Arlin, who was carrying a bucket, approached Gal curiously. "My father has never mentioned this to me."

Gal nodded and said: "Of course they are divided. Ordinary schools are the kind that anyone can go to. But there are also some schools where only the family with money or the parents' social status is relatively high can send their children to study. "

Cedric also became interested and asked, "What's the difference between the two schools?"

"The difference is quite big, whether it's the various facilities, the environment of the classroom, or the background of the teachers..." Gal counted on his fingers. "Anyway, it's not an exaggeration to say they are worlds apart. But I actually prefer that one." Choose an ordinary school because there is less homework there.”

Several people laughed at Gal, and then arrived at the last toilet to be cleaned tonight, laughing and joking.

After Moon finished his trick, Garr suddenly seemed to remember something and turned to look at Moon, "By the way, Moon, what on earth is going on with you today? Why did you get so heated with Lockhart?" ? To be honest, those few words you said almost scared me in Lockhart's office - I guess Arlin and Cedric must have felt the same way."

He turned to look at his two friends beside him, and sure enough, both Cedric and Arlin nodded quickly.

"Well... it may be a bit complicated to explain this matter." Moon thought for a moment, then said: "You probably don't know that that guy Lockhart has been secretly following me these past few days, just trying to find someone. Opportunity caught me. Almost every day when I walked in the castle, I could feel him watching me from some corner."

"Huh? Lockhart?" The three friends looked at me and I looked at you. They always felt that something was wrong. "Shouldn't he stay in his office every day and happily reply to letters from his readers?"

"If I have to give an explanation..." Moon rubbed his neck and moved his hands and feet a little. "Maybe he hates me too much? Do you remember the day after the Christmas vacation and the beginning of school? You all followed him The day my little girlfriend ran away, I was blocked by Lockhart in front of the castle gate. If Professor Snape hadn't saved me, I might have been taken to solitary confinement by him that day."

"Professor Snape? Help you out?"

From the perspective of Cedric and the other three, the things Moon said were becoming more and more magical.

Lockhart, who almost regarded enthusiastic responses to readers' letters as his life's work, would actually give up the precious time to reply to letters and come out to follow Moon?

Professor Snape, who caught Moon and tortured him in Potions class every day, and who loved to change questions that didn't even appear in Colmun's textbooks, was actually willing to go against Lockhart and save Moon?

"Yes, that's true." Moon shrugged. "Anyway, to put it bluntly, Lockhart is actually deliberately looking for trouble, nothing more."

When he heard the words 'looking for trouble on purpose', Cedric suddenly felt a flash of inspiration in his head. He looked at Munn in surprise and was about to ask, when Munn raised his hand. Pointing to the door.

Sure enough, less than a second later, the strange sound of Mr. Filch's stumbling footsteps came again.

Mrs. Norris then ran into the toilet first, followed closely by Mr. Filch.As soon as he entered here, he immediately began to look around the toilet up and down, left and right, and then said to the four people quite boredly: "Have you done all the work you should do?"

"Yes, Mr. Filch." Moon bowed, "It's all done."

Mr. Filch's lips trembled, and he stared at the corner of the room again, and then finally pressed his dry lips together, and reluctantly spoke: "Okay, come with me, don't think you Once the confinement is over, you can roam around in the castle, and I will keep an eye on you until I send you all back to where you belong."

After listening to Mr. Filch's words, Arlin immediately muttered, "Who wants to wander around the castle?" Cedric immediately pulled him to stop him from continuing.

Sure enough, the next moment, Mr. Filch turned his head and glared at Arlin fiercely, "You'd better not want to! Ha! Causing trouble to others every day! Casting spells in the castle, running around every night , if you don’t sleep well in your dormitory in the middle of the night, it will only make everything messy..."

It turned out that Mr. Filch's hearing was always unusually good when it came to hearing such confrontational words.Moreover, when trying to teach a young wizard who confronts him like this, he can always talk for a long time.

It wasn't until they were almost in front of the common room door that Mr. Filch finally ended his long and lengthy complaint and pulled Moon and the four of them to stand still in the corridor.

"Hmph, listen, Professor Lockhart told me that your behavior this time was particularly bad. Therefore, for the next week, you will have to report to me every night to clean up all the toilets on each floor of the castle. Clean it up. If any of you are not here at seven o'clock tomorrow evening, I will tell Professor Lockhart and ask him to give you another month of confinement."

When he said, "I'll give you another month of confinement," Mr. Filch's eyebrows were almost raised to the sky. Even Mrs. Norris, who had been lingering at his feet, rubbed his calf and followed. Meowing twice.

"Okay, hurry up and go back to the common room. I'll keep an eye on you. If any of you dare to turn around and sneak out... humph..."

None of the four little wizards spoke, they all responded with dissatisfaction, turned around and walked back to the common room.

It wasn't until he passed through the common room door and saw that he was far away from Mr. Filch and Mrs. Norris that Arlin muttered what he had said before, "Hey, who wants to wander around in the castle? There’s nothing to do, do you think everyone is as restless as Fred and George?”

Moon, who was following him, was suddenly stunned when he heard this.

Yeah...is anyone as idle as Fred and George?

The problem is that Fred and George are not idle this year. At the first game of the semifinals, he also chatted with Fred and George. The two of them had dark circles under their eyes and proudly showed off their photos. Their latest research results, while crying that it had been a long time since they had visited the castle at night.

If this is the case, then who is this person who "runs around every night" in Mr. Filch's words...?

Chapter 74 Isn’t this “scientific”?

Humans are inherently curious animals, and for Moon, this issue is obviously very important.

After all, this person sneaking around the castle in the middle of the night might just be an ordinary little wizard at Hogwarts, but there is also a possibility - this person's identity is not simple.

Right now, there are indeed several issues lingering around Moon that have not yet been resolved.Therefore, no matter what, Moon felt that he needed to see who this guy who hung out every night was.

What if he really is a key figure?Anyway, it was just a matter of staring at the Marauder's Map for a few days - he was already experienced in this kind of work.

Moon was sitting on the bed, chewing gummy candies, and slightly adjusting the angle of the pillow, trying to make herself more comfortable.

In his ears, Gal's sleep talking and Arlin's snoring gradually came to his ears. Even Cedric, who had always snored the least, joined in this "symphony".Moon smiled and shook his head, slowly unfolded the Marauder's Map, picked up his wand and tapped it lightly on the map.

"I solemnly swear that I will do no evil."

The ink began to smear on the parchment, and gradually turned into thin lines one after another, outlining the floor plan of Hogwarts school layer by layer.

"Let me be healthy..." Moon, who had no pen at hand, simply used his wand as a pen, pointed at the Marauder's Map, and looked over bit by bit.

Fred and George stayed in their dormitory, but they hadn't slept yet. They were probably doing research or discussing some messy things;

Hermione, Harry and Ron didn't know why they didn't go back to the dormitory, but had been sitting in the common room. According to Moon's understanding of the three people, they were either endorsing Hermione or helping Harry and Ron. En, copy the homework - there is basically no other reason anyway;

It was rare that Professor Dumbledore did not move around in the office tonight, but stayed in one place motionless, not knowing whether he was sleeping or reading;

Professor McGonagall is inspecting the castle and is still lingering in the upper floors. However, there is only a wall between Peeves and her. Maybe Peeves has done something ridiculous again and is being hunted by Professor McGonagall.

Who else……

From top to bottom, Moon's eyes scanned layer by layer until he saw a person's name.

Severus Snape.

Professor Snape was the only person other than Professor McGonagall who was not in the room so far, but the problem was that he was now standing outside Lockhart's office door, and it was obvious that he was spying on Lockhart.

And more importantly, judging from Professor Snape's habit of coming and going without a trace and making no sound, Moon did not think that he would be the person Mr. Filch said was wandering outside every night.Because if that person was really Professor Snape, it would probably be difficult for Mr. Filch to detect it—even if Mrs. Norris was included.