Chapter 656 Confusion spell and dance partner (two in one)
"Professor..." In Dumbledore's office, Harry looked hesitant to speak.
Dumbledore didn't look impatient. He looked at Harry gently and gave him an encouraging look, hoping that he could continue talking.
After being encouraged by Dumbledore's eyes, Harry finally plucked up the courage: "My scar started to hurt again some time ago..."
He gave Dumbledore detailed feedback on the scene he had seen some time ago. Then Harry closed his mouth and looked at Dumbledore expectantly, hoping to get some response from him.
Dumbledore crossed his fingers and seemed to be deep in thought. After a while, he said softly: "You said he flashed several places in his mind in order to treat his injuries?"
"That's right."
"Can you describe to me the features of those places in as much detail as possible?"
"Of course!" Harry agreed while racking his brains to recall the scenes he saw that day. Listening to Harry's description, Dumbledore's expression gradually became serious.
"Harry," after Harry finished speaking, Dumbledore looked at Harry and said seriously: "There are countless unknown connections between you and him - don't worry, the Killing Curse is enough to rebound the Killing Curse.
The magic of love is an extremely mysterious power, and no one can explain the secret behind it. Under the influence of such magic, it would be strange for your relationship with him to be the same as that of ordinary people."
Dumbledore tried hard to get Harry to accept his differences.
"But this is also a double-edged sword. You can see his memories, and he may also see yours. You need to find a way to protect your brain. I will tell Severus-"
"What? What does this have to do with Snape...Professor?" Hearing Snape's name, Harry couldn't help but interrupt Dumbledore. But he still needed to give Snape something in front of Dumbledore.
To save face, he reluctantly added the word professor.
"Professor Snape is the best Occlumency master at Hogwarts. Even Voldemort can't see through his heart. I think he is the most suitable person to be your teacher." Dumbledore knew very well about Harry and Snape.
The relationship between Snape and Snape was very tense, so he told Harry about Snape's advantages as a teacher.
It's just that Dumbledore underestimated Harry's dislike of Snape. Even if he gave a hundred suitable reasons, Harry could always come up with an excuse to object.
The name Snape was the reason for his objection.
Harry felt that it would be better to choose someone with a lower level of skill than Snape as his teacher.
"Where are the others? Is there anyone else who knows this spell? Tom can do it, right?"
"Occlumency is a very advanced magic. With all due respect, although Yodel knows this spell, he only has a superficial grasp of it and is not enough to be your teacher." Dumbledore looked at Harry with a smile.
It seems that Yodel's Occlumency is barely enough for himself, and he is not qualified to teach others.
"Okay." Harry agreed with a frown. He only agreed for Dumbledore's sake.
In fact, he really wanted to ask, how good is your Occlumency professor, but considering Dumbledore's busy schedule, he didn't feel comfortable saying so.
Seeing this, Dumbledore nodded with satisfaction and let Harry leave. The reason why he insisted on letting Snape be Harry's Occlumency teacher was because Snape was the expert in this field and he was
There is a successful precedent. Therefore, in the whole Hogwarts, including Dumbledore himself, no one is more suitable to be this instructor than Snape.
However, the shortcomings of letting Snape be a teacher are also obvious - this person is not suitable to be a teacher at all. Snape, who can modify the teaching materials and optimize the experimental process in the sixth grade, is a talented player. Such a person should be a teacher
It is often a disaster for himself and his students. Coupled with his character problems, Harry may not be well off for a long time in the future.
Shortly after Harry left, Dumbledore welcomed a new guest. His office was like a bustling food stall, with an endless stream of visitors.
After hearing the news brought by Tom, Dumbledore's heart became heavy again.
Voldemort's power has increased again!
Now he began to feel lucky that he had previously mobilized members of the Order of the Phoenix and severely damaged the Death Eaters' power. Otherwise, the alliance between the Death Eaters, Japanese wizards, and the Purifiers would have been extremely difficult.
However, the alliance between these three parties is also extremely fragile. Not to mention anything else, the Purifier's fundamental goal of eliminating wizards prevents the three parties from becoming true allies and can only use each other.
After receiving the news, Dumbledore just sighed in the end: He actually had no effective way to prevent the merger of Voldemort and the Purifiers. All he could do was to send a letter to the Magical Congress of the United States of America, reminding them to prepare in advance, and then quietly
Just waiting for Voldemort to make his move.
After the Death Eaters were severely wounded, Voldemort took measures to break them up and dispersed his subordinates and hid them in every corner. This allowed him to regain the initiative, because he was the only one who knew all the Death Eaters.
hiding place.
This caused a lot of trouble for the Order of the Phoenix's subsequent elimination work. You must know that most Death Eaters have very respectable identities on the surface, and they cannot be convicted without clear evidence. And those who were captured before
All of the Death Eaters have been executed by dementors. As the saying goes, "death" has no proof.
However, Voldemort's actions at least brought about one benefit, that is, on the surface, peace was restored to the British wizarding world.
Tom couldn't feel Dumbledore's troubles. He was discussing with Hermione whether to continue traveling.
"Of course not. We have missed several days of classes. If this continues, our final exam results will definitely be very 'splendid'!" Hermione flatly rejected his proposal. She wanted to say something else, but
Then she saw something interesting.
"Tom, look!" Hermione pointed to a corner in the courtyard downstairs as if she had discovered a new world.
Tom followed her gaze and found that it was Harry and Tom's senior sister in Ravenclaw, Qiu Zhang.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, what do you think they are doing?" Hermione's eyes flashed with gossip.
"Harry is probably inviting her to be his dance partner." Tom knew Harry's purpose very clearly. After all, he had asked him to deliver the message before, but because this operation was so outrageous, Harry himself gave up the idea in the end.
This is as unreliable as asking a good friend to confess your love for you! If you can even confess your love to others, the girl will think about whether you are responsible? Then you are not far from being cool.
Fortunately, Harry thought clearly in the end, but it was a pity that it was useless to think clearly. A good girl will always have suitors around her, and hesitating and hesitating will only result in nothing.
After Harry left Dumbledore, he originally planned to go back to his dormitory to discuss Occlumency with Ron, but as luck would have it, he happened to meet Cho Chang coming out of the Transfiguration classroom.
At the moment they met, Harry's breathing almost stopped, and then a wave of hot blood rushed into his brain, causing Harry's vocal cords to make an uncontrollable sound: "Qiu Zhang, can I say something to you?
Words?"
As soon as he said the words, Harry regretted it, because he heard the harsh giggles of Qiu Zhang's best friends. To make matters worse, he vaguely saw Professor McGonagall. The Head of Gryffindor was
Standing at the door of the classroom, he stared at Harry with a mixture of ambiguity and gossip.
Her eyebrows were raised, obviously she wanted to finish the good show in front of her before she would give up.
Don't do this! Harry screamed in his heart. He felt from the bottom of his heart that no one should be allowed to giggle in Hogwarts, and professors should not be allowed to linger in the classroom after the class was over.
Now that the blood had subsided, Harry felt as if his heart had been pinched. Fortunately, Qiu Zhang did not laugh out loud and quickly gave a positive answer.
At this time, Harry's hands and feet were cold, and his stomach was churning. He steeled himself, and walked to the courtyard of the castle with Qiu Zhang, avoiding the laughter of Qiu Zhang's friends and the eyes of Professor McGonagall.
Qiu Zhang's friends were very measured and thoughtful enough to leave enough personal space for the two of them. However, Professor McGonagall maintained her identity and could not eavesdrop on the students' conversations, so she could only turn around with regret.
leave.
"Hmm..." Looking at Qiu Zhang's face, Harry suddenly became entangled in his heart, but as the saying goes, the arrow was on the string and had to be fired. At this time, Harry had no way out.
He can't say that he's here to challenge the Ravenclaw team, right? There's no Quidditch match this year!
"Will you stay with me, please?" In panic, Harry uttered a sick sentence.
However, in this context, even if Qiu Zhang is not a native English speaker, he can easily understand what Harry means, not to mention that Harry corrected his speech immediately.
"I mean, can you, um, come to the Halloween dance with me?"
Harry accidentally referred to Christmas as Halloween, but it didn't affect Cho Changli's understanding of what he meant.
She blushed first, and then showed an apologetic look: "I'm sorry, I already agreed to go with another person. I'm really sorry... Of course, if there is a dance on Halloween next year, I will seriously consider it.
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The second half of the wisecracks were more like polite words to support the scene. Seeing Qiu Zhang say this, Harry felt that his internal organs were like a big bucket of eels that suddenly slipped into the valley and flowed away. Listening to Qiu Zhang's words, he couldn't help but feel
A hint of regret: If I had invited her earlier, would she have agreed?
When I invited her, she blushed too!
Harry had an illusion - of course, given his conditions, this might not be an illusion, but who knows? The fact is that he has already lost, completely.
The two people stood in the courtyard, the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
"By the way, have you not found a dance partner yet? I know a few very good girls who are also worried about dance partners. Do you want to get to know them?" Qiu Zhang tried to ease the awkward atmosphere, but she
His words made the atmosphere between the two even worse.
When a girl decides to introduce you to someone, the possibility of you and her becoming a couple is infinitely close to zero. So when he heard Qiu Zhang say such words, Harry knew that he had sent it.
"No need." He said numbly.
"Okay," Qiu Zhang said with a stern expression, "That's it -"
"Okay." Harry said immediately.
"Okay, bye!" Qiu Zhang's face was red. Just as she was about to turn around and leave, Harry stopped her.
"May I know who your dance partner is?" Harry regretted asking this question.
"Cedric, Cedric Diggory." Cho Chang answered.
"Oh." Harry knew that his face must be stiff. He no longer regretted asking the question. He now regretted asking the question very much.
"Are they done or not?" Upstairs, Hermione's heart was being burned by the fire of gossip.
"Of course it's a failure. I can smell the embarrassment between the two of them right here." Tom could understand just by looking at the reactions of the two of them that Harry had completely failed.
"A dog's nose is really good." Hermione muttered, "I really didn't expect that Harry actually wanted to invite Qiu Zhang to be his dance partner, but I didn't expect that she actually refused."
There are so many things you didn't expect! Tom cursed.
"Who do you think Harry will invite as his dance partner in the end?" Hermione didn't want to let go of the topic. When she mentioned the dance partner, her heart moved slightly: Someone seemed to have never invited her to be his dance partner?
"Who knows? What I'm sure of is that Harry will definitely invite a beautiful girl to be his dance partner." Tom knew Harry's character very well. This guy is a face-controller, and he falls in love with every girl.
Campus beauty level.
Tom and Hermione chatted while walking up the stairs to the Great Hall. It was almost lunch time, and the Hogwarts Great Hall was always crowded with people. If something happened here, it would spread throughout the castle in less than half a day.
As I walked through the foyer, Fleur suddenly appeared.
"Yordel, why haven't I seen you at all these days?" She smiled and put her hands behind her back.
"It's a bit of a personal matter." The crowd around him suddenly became denser, and several Beauxbatons girls hurriedly squeezed past him, separating him from Hermione and pushing him in the direction of Fleur.
"That's it, right..." Fleur seemed to want to say something else, but her purpose was not as simple as speaking. Her wand appeared in her palm.
"Will you come to the Yule Ball with me? Confuse the audience!" At the end of her words, Fleur suddenly cast a confusion spell on Tom.
Theoretically, Tom had no defense, and Fleur could definitely hit it with one hit. But when the spell flew in front of Tom, a transparent shield instantly appeared in front of him, and the spell was easily deflected.
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Two chapters in one of four thousand words are presented!
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