174. Chapter 174 Being beaten for the first time in life
Chapter 174 Being beaten for the first time in life
The common room was quiet, and most of the Gryffindor students had gone back to the dormitories to sleep. Only Charles was still sitting in front of the fireplace, studying Aberforth's notes carefully, and Ruby was sleeping on the long table.
Aberforth lived under the light of Lao Deng all his life. Although he was a little self-defeating and seemed rude, his knowledge was still good.
Animal transfiguration is a very unpopular branch of transfiguration. If done accidentally, it will cause great pain to animals. Humans can also be used as experimental materials, so they are rejected by the mainstream of society.
Charles couldn't help but wonder if Aberforth wanted to make some achievements to prove that he was no worse than his brother, so he chose this unpopular direction.
Aberforth's attempt to use goats as waiters ultimately failed because he found that they could only be made to work well by using the Imperius Curse, and it was not worth living in a private room in Azkaban for this purpose.
Charles is not very interested in animal transfiguration. He is really interested in human transfiguration, so he is very concerned about the application of transfiguration in biology and has been studying this aspect for a week.
When he came to his senses, it was already early morning.
Charles stretched out in the chair and pinched his belly. He couldn't go out at night recently, so he didn't exercise enough, and he started to have fat on his body.
There was an iron pot beside the fire in which honey and milk were being heated, and Ruby drank half of it.
The crackling of the fire in the fireplace and Hermione's whimpering made the common room feel eerily quiet.
Charles asked without any emotion: "Go to the restricted area?"
"Do you know what you are doing?" He kept poking Hermione's head with the feather duster, "Do you know the consequences of doing this?"
Hermione's face looked a little better, she picked up the pot and drank it all. Not only did she not leave any for Charles, but before leaving, she wiped Ruby's head and glared at Charles.
During this period, he did not want anyone to be killed by the basilisk, so he did not hesitate to take risks and scrawled on the wall imitating the previous handwriting to make people more vigilant.
"Go back to sleep."
After a while, Hermione sat at the long table with her head lowered. Harry's invisibility cloak was placed on the table, her hands nervously holding the robe, not daring to breathe.
Charles took a deep breath and subconsciously searched in the bag, finding no hangers or feather dusters.
After more than half an hour, Hermione stood up, holding Harry's invisibility cloak and walking back to the dormitory, looking very angry.
Charles's face was so dark that he didn't expect Hermione to be wandering alone at midnight at this time. He was so angry that he almost pushed her down on the table and spanked her just now.
Under almost tangible pressure from the side, Hermione confessed in a low voice to seek leniency: "I went to the library tonight."
Hermione went into a defensive state with her head in her arms.
Hermione kept lying on the table, crying louder than before.
Not because today is Saturday, but the first Quidditch match of this school year is about to begin, Gryffindor versus Slytherin.
Ruby woke up in a daze, just looked up at him and continued to sleep.
The source of the basilisk incident was Lucius Malfoy, but Dumbledore had no reason to take measures against Lucius until Dobby appeared and told the cause.
She was very courageous. Among other things, not many people dared to burn Snape's robes on the Quidditch pitch last year, but she still did it.
It's better now. I don't know when Hermione ran out. Running around the castle alone at this time, if she encounters a basilisk, there is no difference between death.
Charles turned the guy over, scratched the soft fur on its belly, and went back to sleep.
Charles took a few deep breaths to calm himself down, then sat aside and said, "Before doing anything in the future, you must think about the consequences. I don't want Mr. and Mrs. Granger to come and ask me why you came home with a corpse."
He adjusted his glasses and patted the seat next to the long table with a solemn expression.
"Part of the books in the restricted area are dangerous because of the knowledge recorded in them, and the other part is that the books themselves are very dangerous."
"The murderer who attacked Mrs. Norris has not been found yet. New words were discovered two nights ago. The patrolling prefects and ghosts heard strange noises in the middle of the night."
These are the two most talked-about teams at Hogwarts this year. First, the Malfoy family, a wealthy family in the British wizarding world, sponsored a batch of the latest broomsticks for the Slytherin team, followed by the wealthy Gryffindor team.
I also bought a batch of broomsticks for my college that are said to have better performance.
Ruby patted Charles' head with her wings, shook her head, and continued to sleep on the table.
Hermione lay on the table holding her head, twitching and crying.
Just kidding, if it had been Harry tonight, he would have been spinning like a top.
Charles sat quietly aside, squinting and thinking about something.
A night of silence.
At this time, Ruby climbed up from the long table, called out, went over and put the pot of hot milk on the fireplace next to Hermione, and patted her with her wings, signaling her to drink before going to sleep.
Not to mention I don't know how Ginny managed to run out of the dormitory without being discovered. If she was caught by a patrolling prefect or Filch, the punishment would not be light.
The next morning, the Gryffindor students were very excited.
She blushed and nodded.
But this time, she thought Charles would help with this matter, but she didn't expect to receive the first beating in her life.
Charles looked at her leaving figure and frowned. Was this girl just waiting for him to comfort her?
"If you think you are smart enough, know enough things, and are strong enough, I can help you register for next year's Ultimate Wizarding Examination, graduate from Hogwarts, and then arrange a professorship for you at Hogwarts.
OK?"
Hermione just lay on the table holding her head and sobbing softly, with no intention of getting up.
Charles had just gotten up and wanted to go over and drink some hot drinks before going to sleep. At this time, the door to the common room opened and closed again after a while. No one was seen entering or leaving.
Hermione was more familiar with the library than her own dormitory. There was no other explanation for going there in the middle of the night other than the restricted area.
Charles used quite a lot of force, and he was really angry this time.
But he can transform into a feather duster with a quill, which is a piece of cake.
This game was not only a competition between two academies, but also a collision between two broomstick manufacturers. The Daily Prophet even wanted to send a reporter to interview, but Dumbledore declined.
At the dinner table, Harry was a little nervous and didn't want to eat, while Ron and Hermione forced themselves to eat.
Charles glanced in their direction, and Hermione rolled her eyes back at him.
I've been very busy lately. First, I started working on a new construction site, and now I have to write several work summaries for job evaluation.