Chapter 59: This 1 must be a curse!
The little episode of meeting Harry and Ron did not disturb Sherlock's mood to go out to relax.
Every year until around Christmas, because the temperature drops low enough, the surface of the Black Lake will form a thick layer of ice.
From the upper floors of the castle, it will give people the feeling that a mirror is embedded in the snow.
When Sherlock came to the lake, there was a desire to take a walk on it.
But there are still a few students around in twos and threes. In order to maintain the character, he can only try his best to restrain this desire.
When he strolled around the lake to the beater willow that was smashed by Harry and Ron when school started, he suddenly heard that there seemed to be a quarrel among the students ahead.
"What are you doing here, Weasley?" A sarcastic and frivolous voice sounded.
It was Draco Malfoy, and he was accompanied by two sidekicks who would always be by his side, Goyle and Crabbe.
And the person he provoked was the third son of the Weasley family, Percy Weasley.
Percy looked extremely indignant at Draco's words.
"You need to show some respect to the prefect!" he said. "I don't like your attitude!"
Draco smiled disdainfully.
"You are the prefect of Gryffindor, you don't need to hold me down with this status."
His voice was suddenly lowered, with joy in his tone.
"You should already know that your father was fined 50 Galleons for your idiot brother. This must be all your family's possessions, right? It's pathetic, so what is your mother's Christmas present for you today? A cold sandwich? Haha!"
Goyle and Crabbe also laughed in agreement.
Looking at Percy's face contorted with anger, Draco was much happier now.
Since he was punished by Sherlock and cleaned the toilet on the first floor of the castle until January 1st next year, these days have not had a good day at all.
Even if he went to Snape and begged him to come forward to avoid his punishment, Snape just said indifferently that he deserved it, which made Draco's mood even worse.
A few days ago, because of Harry and Ron driving the flying car to Hogwarts, the Ministry of Magic finally punished Mr. Weasley under the operation of Draco's father Malfoy.
Although they did not satisfy their father and son's wish to be fired, they also punished Mr. Weasley 50 Galleons (almost three months' salary).
Plus meeting Percy today, Draco couldn't help but bring this up, and humiliated Percy severely to vent his anger.
"It's a pity that the Ministry of Magic didn't dismiss your father, otherwise your whole family would have to drink the Northwest Wind!"
Draco vented all the anger he had been feeling these days into vicious words, and cursed at Percy.
"The thought of the Slytherin descendant should also change, not only to clean up those **** filthy scumbags at Hogwarts, but also to clean up you pure-blooded scum, you and your four Stupid brother and sister, they all deserve to die!"
Percy's face was flushed to the extreme, and he couldn't bear such humiliation even with his conventional temper. He raised his wand angrily and aimed it at Draco.
"Dizzy!"
A red light beam burst out from his wand, swaying and shooting towards Draco at a speed that the naked eye could not observe in the air!
Draco never thought that Percy would attack so suddenly, looking at the curse flying towards him, a look of horror appeared on his face, and he didn't have time to dodge.
But fortunately, Crabbe on one side grabbed him by the shoulder and led him to the right, evading Percy's curse.
The Stunning Charm passed Draco's ear, and finally hit a piece of glass on the outer wall of Hogwarts Castle, with a crisp cracking sound.
"How dare you cast a spell on me!"
Draco's voice sharpened with disbelief.
Everyone knows that Percy Weasley's character is the most well-behaved among the Weasley brothers and likes to do things by the rules, that's why Draco dares to provoke him like this.
But I don't know if his words went too far, or because Percy was in a bad mood recently, he actually violated the school rules and attacked Draco first.
After reacting, Draco, Goyle, and Crabbe pulled out their wands with ghastly faces.
Although Percy was three years older than them, there were so many people on Draco's side that he wasn't afraid of him when the spell was shot.
Seeing that Percy was about to collapse, a cold voice rang from the side.
"What do you want to do?"
Hearing that familiar voice, Draco and the three of them suddenly froze when they raised their sticks. They looked angrily at Sherlock, who was walking slowly, with an indifferent face, and the wicked complained first.
"Professor! That guy Weasley attacked us first! You will deduct his points! You will also punish him for cleaning the toilet!"
"Are you teaching me to do things?"
Sherlock's voice was cold, like the ice on the Black Lake, as cold as if it could freeze a person to death.
Draco was immediately frightened by his aura, pursed his lips, and dared not speak any more.
Sherlock watched this conflict from beginning to end. He didn't show up when Percy cursed Draco just now, just to want Percy to teach him a lesson.
It's a pity that the spell didn't hit, and Sherlock came forward to help Percy out of the siege.
According to the school rules, Percy was the first to shoot. If he punished Draco, Percy would definitely not be able to run.
So after that, Sherlock just said something coldly.
"What are you still doing here? You want me to deduct points for Gryffindor and Slytherin!"
Draco gave Sherlock a vicious peek, and then walked towards the castle with his two followers.
Percy also left in the direction of the castle in a depressed mood. When passing by Sherlock, he thanked him in a low voice.
"Thank you, Professor Forrest."
Sherlock nodded and said nothing.
Looking at the backs of them leaving, he finally shook his head helplessly.
As a fully closed boarding school, there are not many conflicts between Hogwarts middle school students, and there are also signs of school violence from time to time.
But Sherlock had just arrived at the castle for less than half a year, so he couldn't do much. He could only help the persecuted party at the right time.
He raised his head and narrowed his eyes, looking at the place where Percy's Stunning Charm was last hit, which was a window on the eighth floor of the castle.
From the location, it seems like...
Dumbledore's Headmaster's Office!
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Putting down the quill in his hand~www.NovelMTL.com~ The elderly Dumbledore relieved his body, which had become somewhat stiff from sitting for a long time.
He frowned and looked at the desk and thought about it for a long time, but he didn't come up with any official document that he should make. He squeezed out a Bibi Duo Bean from the candy box on the side and put it in his mouth.
"Bah!"
Before he chewed it twice, he spat out the multi-flavored bean with a painful expression.
This is the 7th time. The box of multi-flavored beans selected by the old man seems to be all pepper-flavored and ear-wax-flavored, but few of them have normal flavor.
Dumbledore's luck began to decline today since he finished opening the Christmas presents in the morning.
First, when he went downstairs, he fell down, and when he returned to the office, he received a lot of official letters from the International Federation of Wizards.
On Christmas day, there are a lot of messes waiting for him to deal with!
Needless to say, the candy he ate didn't taste right. There was even a real cockroach that climbed into the candy box Sherlock gave him, and he almost ate it!
Just when the unlucky old head Deng got up from his chair and was about to take a walk in the office.
"boom!"
A bright red spell suddenly shattered the glass on his window!
Dumbledore stood in front of the broken window like a clay sculpture, and the cold wind from outside the window slapped his wrinkled face, as if bad luck was mocking him.
With a dignified face, he pulled out the Elder Wand and carefully examined his body.
Something was wrong today, maybe someone cursed him!