Hogwarts: Dumbledore reigned over the wizarding world

Chapter 51 Ron's Highlight Moment

"The troll has been killed!"

That night, the news spread throughout Hogwarts!
The next day, many little wizards who used to love to stay in bed did not even have time to wash their faces. They ran to the courtyard with everyone, still feeling sleepy.

As November arrived at Hogwarts, the ground was covered with frost.

There was a crackling sound when stepping on it, and the cold wind seemed to blow into the bones.

But this could not stop everyone's enthusiasm.

A headless troll corpse, covered with frost, lay in the courtyard, surrounded by young wizards. Filch nailed a sign in front of the troll's corpse, which briefly described what happened last night.

"...Mr. Vaughn Weasley and Mr. Ron Weasley were deducted 10 points each for violating school rules by leaving the dinner midway. However, after encountering the troll, both gentlemen were brave, fearless, calm, and alert. In the end, Mr. Vaughn Weasley, with his superb spell skills, killed the troll with the help of Mr. Ron Weasley. Therefore, Slytherin was awarded 30 points, and Gryffindor was awarded 20 points!"

These dry rewards and punishments obviously cannot satisfy the curiosity of the little wizards.

But don't worry, today is Halloween and there are no classes, so there is plenty of time to find out.

The lively Gryffindor started preparing last night and held a celebratory "breakfast" in the tower today. The excited twins sent invitations to each house.

They cheered everyone they met:
"It was our brother who killed the troll!"

When the young wizards from other colleges arrived at the tower, Percy, the Weasley elder brother, wearing his shining prefect badge, greeted them with a smile on his face.

"Thank you for coming to my brothers' celebration party."

"Yes, yes, Vaughn and Ron are both great, just like me. We are the pride of the Weasley family."

The Gryffindor Great Hall was cleaned efficiently, long tables were put together, and the Hogwarts house-elves showed their skills and made delicious food.

One of the long tables was filled with people, holding pies and bread in their hands, listening to Ron Weasley, one of the "protagonists" of last night, vividly describe the entire process.

"...it's at least 20 feet... Don't interrupt me, of course I know the troll is only 12 feet, that's just a visual description. I mean, when you see a monster that big, it's easy to misjudge its height..."

Ron's face flushed red, and his eyes sparkled with excitement:

"…Just like this, 'shattered to pieces!', Vaughn cast a crushing curse and blew the troll's club off, and then it broke into pieces, into pieces. The troll's hide, as thick as a mountain, was blown everywhere, and the sky was full of ash. The troll screamed in pain, ah——"

The little wizards were startled, but soon became immersed in the thrilling story.

The senior students were also fascinated by the performance because they were the ones they had learned.

It's just that the effect of the spell Ron dictated is a little hard to imagine.

A young wizard looked at Ron in admiration and suddenly asked, "Ron, what spell did you use?"

"Of course it's a very powerful spell—" Ron remained calm and made up a sentence "The troll suddenly went blind" to highlight his "effect", and then switched to Vaughan using the Explosive Spell again.

In his words, that battle was so intense that the sky was dark and the sun and moon were dim. The giant monster's attack was extremely terrifying. Vaughn went through great pains and finally, with his help, he recited a "powerful spell" to blow the giant monster into pieces with blood and flesh flying everywhere.

As for why the giant monster in the courtyard is so complete now?
Of course it was put together by the professors!

The evidence is that the troll has no head.

Because "the angry Vaughn blew the troll's head into pieces, and the pieces were scattered everywhere and could not be put back together."

Harry and Hermione huddled in a corner until morning, when they returned from Madam Pomfrey's visit, where she had given Harry a large glass of Tranquilizer to soothe any possible aftereffects of the severe headache he had suffered the previous night.

Harry listened with great interest at first, but Hermione told him, "Ron is bragging."

Harry disagreed, looked around to see if anyone was paying attention, and whispered to Hermione:

“You saw it last night too, how powerful Vaughn and that dark wizard were at exchanging spells.” “That’s because Vaughn is so powerful,” Hermione said. “He could never kill a troll like Ron described, with such a close and intense back-and-forth battle.”

Harry finally realized what was happening and lost interest in listening. He munched on his bread silently, touching his forehead with one hand. After a long moment, he suddenly asked, "Hermione, tell me...why did Dumbledore ask us to keep secret what happened on the fourth floor?"

He thought about this problem all night but still couldn't figure it out.

In fact, he had many doubts.

For example, who was that man in the black robe? Why did I get a headache when I saw his back?

When he was beaten by Vaughn and couldn't fight back, who did he call "master"?

Also, why can I sense the thoughts of that man in black robe?
He suspected that he had been beset by some kind of black magic.

But Madam Pomfrey had examined him thoroughly last night and found no signs of dark magic.

Madam Pomfrey thought he was probably hallucinating because he was too scared.

Harry didn't know if she was right.

Hearing Harry's question, Hermione put down the book, thought for a moment and said, "Dumbledore must be worried that the matter will become a big deal, so he wants to investigate secretly."

"why?"

"It's obvious, Harry. If it was a dark wizard who broke in, Dumbledore would definitely ask the professors to search the entire castle for the students' safety, unless he suspected that the dark wizard was a professor!"

Harry was shocked.

That man in black robe is actually a professor?

Although this wasn't a good judgement, when Harry thought about it carefully, it was the only reasonable explanation.

So, which professor is it?
The names of professors flashed through his mind, and then he couldn't help but think of Snape!
He told Hermione, but heard Hermione say firmly: "Impossible!"

"Hermione, you always think your teacher is a saint. Snape never treats you well."

"But last night, Snape followed Dumbledore to the basement. How did he end up on the fourth floor?"

"When Professor McGonagall sent us to find Madam Pomfrey, she said the basement was complicated. They must have been separated. Besides, Snape was the last to arrive at the Headmaster's office."

"Anyway...anyway it's impossible!"

Hermione picked up the book, hesitated, and said angrily:

"Do you remember the spell Vaughn chanted yesterday? Divine Sharpness."

Of course Harry remembered how Vaughan had used it to pierce the black-robed man's Shield Charm in one blow. It was so cool.

Hermione said, "I shouldn't have said that, but Vaughn told me that Snape taught him that!"

After saying that, she packed her schoolbag and was about to leave.

Harry asked quickly, "Where are you going?"

"Go check on Vaughn. One of you is bragging, and the other is doubting the professor, and you haven't even thought of going to check on him!"

Ashamed, Harry quickly grabbed a piece of bread and followed.

(End of this chapter)