Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 451: Not Pretending
The students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang were quite curious about Hogwarts, and on Sunday morning, the guests saw many students walking towards the greenhouse, and many followed them.

It was just that the Shanghai dolls standing guard at the door stopped the guests, and no one except Erica could enter.

"The greenhouse is Charles Smith's private laboratory. No one is allowed to enter without permission."

The guests all knew the owner of the ruby, Charles Smith, and the students at Durmstrang knew that he was Erica's friend, so they couldn't enter without Charles' permission.

Soon, the guests found another fun place.

When they came the night before, they noticed a place emitting colorful lights outside the castle. When they went over to take a look today, they found that it was a huge garden.

Krum asked a passing Hogwarts student in confusion: "Does this garden glow at night?"

The student replied, "Yes, this is the garden built by Charles Smith. It will be more beautiful at night."

Krum was not familiar with magical plants and felt that Charles was amazing, being able to create so many things related to magical plants. No wonder he could become friends with Erica.

The group walked in the luminous garden for a while and found that the Hogwarts students here were paired in pairs of men and women, and they quickly understood.

The sound of explosions not far away attracted the guests' attention again, and they discovered something even more interesting - a real-life version of Minesweeper.

At the same time, Charles came to the school clinic.

Harry originally wanted to talk to Charles about something, but when he saw him coming, he followed him.

"What are you doing in the school infirmary?" Harry was a little confused. "Are you sick?"

Charles said calmly, "I'll go check on Malfoy."

Harry asked incredulously, "You actually care about Malfoy?"

He also heard that Malfoy was attacked in Hogsmeade yesterday and was seriously injured, and his brain is not working well now.

Charles suddenly stopped and turned to look at Harry with a frown on his face.

Harry was a little scared of him and asked hurriedly, "What's wrong?"

Charles said seriously: "Harry, if you go to Hogsmeade again in the future, you must stay with Ron and Hermione, and you can't go to places where there are few people."

Harry asked in confusion, "Why?"

Charles said, "The Death Eaters who escaped from prison last year have not been caught and are still at large."

"I'm afraid they'll catch you while you're in Hogsmeade and Apparate you away."

This is what he just thought of.

No matter how many schemes and tricks Voldemort had, he had only one goal: to capture Harry and restore his body.

As long as Harry, the source, is controlled, Voldemort will be unable to use any more schemes and tricks.

Harry said evasively, "Ah... that's true... but... but... well... I'll be careful."

Charles narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "You can't date Ginny alone."

He didn't pay much attention to Harry and Ginny. God knows how far those two guys have gone. It would be no fun if they were caught when they were alone.

Charles continued, "Don't forget, I have the power to veto your going to Hogsmeade."

Vernon didn't want to lose his job, so he signed a consent form for Harry to go to Hogsmeade, but later made a patch so that Charles and the old man could veto this consent form.

Harry's face suddenly turned as bitter as a bitter gourd, and he almost forgot about it.

It suddenly occurred to him that even if Vernon's consent was ineffective, he still had a way.

Unexpectedly, Charles said, "If it comes to that, I will have a good talk with Blake. I don't think he wants to put you in danger either."

Having said that, he felt that it would most likely be Black himself who would disguise himself as Harry and use him as bait to lure Voldemort.

Harry felt his last hope shattered.

He said: "I always feel like you've been acting weird since the beginning of the school year. Could it be that you played with the Veela before school started and messed up your brain... Ouch!"

Charles's wand is very useful for hitting people on the head at this time.

Harry rubbed his head and asked, "You mean, Malfoy was beaten up yesterday and it was related to the Death Eaters?"

"But his parents are both Death Eaters. Why would they hurt him?" Charles shrugged and said, "Who knows? Maybe there are conflicts among the Death Eaters themselves."

Harry pinched his chin and said, "Do you think Malfoy is pretending?"

"First they pretended to be attacked, then there was some conspiracy."

Charles nodded and said, "I thought of that, so I prepared a test for him."

Harry asked curiously, "What test?"

Charles replied: "I asked Dobby what Malfoy hated to eat the most."

"Yeah!" Harry clenched his fist and slammed his palm. "If he was really hurt, he definitely wouldn't eat it."

Now he was also interested and wanted to see what Malfoy would look like when faced with food he hated.

The ward was very quiet. No students had been committing suicide recently. Only Malfoy was sitting on the bed, staring out the window with lifeless eyes.

Charles' footsteps were a little loud when he walked into the bedroom, but Malfoy didn't seem to hear them and didn't turn his head.

Harry followed, already wearing his ancestral invisibility cloak.

Charles sat down beside Malfoy's bed and whispered, "Malfoy, how do you feel now?"

Malfoy didn't react at all, just rolled his eyes.

Charles waved his hand before his eyes.

Malfoy didn't react at all.

Charles thought, could it be that the original Malfoy was already dead, and this one must have traveled through time from somewhere and couldn't accept the reality for a while.

It would be fine if it was a time traveler who understood the "plot", but if it was a certain style of writing, I'm afraid Harry's chastity would be in danger.

Charles stopped thinking about it, reached out and patted Malfoy on the shoulder.

Malfoy seemed to be startled and his whole body shook on the bed, but he had returned to his senses.

Charles asked, "Malfoy, do you remember who I am?"

Malfoy turned his head and said very slowly: "Smith."

Charles whispered again, "Where is Voldemort's Horcrux?"

Malfoy was frightened by Voldemort's name, shuddered, and said hurriedly: "You...what did you say? I don't understand."

Charles took out his wand and erased his memory of asking about the Horcruxes.

Judging from this reaction, he should not be possessed by a time traveler.

Charles said, "I brought you something delicious."

As he spoke, he took out a "Look Up and Caress the Stars" pie. In addition to the lamprey sticking out of the pie crust, there were also squid tentacles on it.

Charles put the pie in Malfoy's hand and handed him a fork, whispering, "Eat it."

Harry couldn't help but shudder when he saw Malfoy looking up at and touching the starry pie, then he widened his eyes and watched Malfoy eat it bite by bite.

As the two left, Harry said, "It looks like he's really hurt in the brain."

After a while, Helen came to the ward with an apple pie.

Madam Pomfrey saw her and said, "Oh, someone just brought food to the patient. He may not be able to eat so much."

Helen immediately asked, "Who sent it?"

She didn't expect that someone would come to visit Malfoy and bring him food.

Madam Pomfrey said, "It was Charles Smith's boy. He brought food to Malfoy."

"Smith is the big boss of the Dancing Grass Restaurant. I smell a very nice smell, so it must be something delicious."

Helen was a little surprised. She didn't expect that Malfoy and Smith had such a good relationship.

(End of this chapter)