Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 329 Hermione's Challenge

When McGuffin opened his eyes, he didn't expect that the first thing he saw was...

-Lucius Malfoy and his 'daughter' de LS Malfoy.

Gan!
This combination is like forcibly distorting McGuffin's brain cognition.

- Brain pain!

In addition, the excessive blood loss and the sequelae of taking the blood-enriching potion are still working on him.

A burst of cold, a burst of heat, even made his body wobble once in a short period of time.

"Ah!...Are you okay!" Lucius said hoarsely.

McGuffin didn't know what Malfoy and his family were doing... Anyway, after he calmed down, it was very embarrassing to face De LS now.

When he learned that this guy actually came to apologize, he felt even more so.

But even more awkward than McGuffin was a pair of father and daughter of the Malfoy family, especially Lucius Malfoy. He knew very well that the little wizard in front of him knew the truth about his 'daughter', and he had to come over immediately to apologize and clean up the mess.

After all, according to Dumbledore, the magic on Dels Malfoy is still maintained by the two little wizards, McGuffin and Harry, not to mention that after knowing this, he learned about the situation at that time in detail, and was almost fainted by the idiot behavior of Dels Malfoy.

Although this magical ritual will change people and cause some personality defects in the recipient, I didn't expect it to be like this...

In the newly recovered memory, Lucius knew that De LS had some kind of personality defect similar to that of a sniff or a dragon, eager to occupy the shiny and beautiful things in front of him.

But he thought that according to the wealth of the Malfoy family, it would be enough to make De LS Malfoy calm down, but it was obviously not the case.

——No matter how she thinks about it, when De LS sees something she wants, she will lose her mind and rush directly, especially when she sees something novel for the first time.

Perhaps it was right not to perform the magical ritual...

This thought turned in Lucius's mind and then he put it behind him. He would never allow the Malfoy family to bear the label of incompetence-to actually let his next successor be 'cursed', and it cannot be reversed.

And if Draco Malfoy really knew the truth about this matter, it would probably ruin him.

Lucius knew that his son could not bear that kind of 'truth'.

Now this situation... can bear it... can bear it!
"It's still bearable!..." Lucius unconsciously said all the words that were moving in his heart.

"Mr. Malfoy! Sir!" cried the McGuffin, raising his voice.

"Father!" Even DeLS Malfoy, who pretended not to see the McGuffin, had to wake up his father with a dead face.

Lucius looked at MacGuffin who was looking at him strangely, his face froze, "——hmm!"

He snorted forcefully in his throat, and then continued, "The main reason I came this time is to ask De LS to apologize to you!"

"De LS! Apologize!"

"Father, but he...!"

"No but!" Lucius said firmly.

"He... this Muggle-born insulted me... humiliated the Malfoy family! You should have heard it in the Forbidden Forest, he almost killed me..."

De LS screamed.

"Shame! You still say such a thing!"

"The reputation of the Malfoy family has been insulted by you, and now I'm just here to clean up your mess, hurry... apologise!" Lucius said word by word.

But DeLS Malfoy still screamed and refused to apologize.

Lucius' face immediately turned down, and he directly pressed De LS in front of McGuffin very forcefully, forcing her to bend down and apologize reluctantly.

This made McGuffin very uncomfortable.

This scene... especially De LS's appearance as a little witch in front of MacGuffin made him very uncomfortable.

After all, part of the memory in his brain still belonged to Dracora Malfoy.

"After all, this matter was caused by De LS. It caused you a lot of harm. I hope this matter can be put to an end, and you can no longer trouble him... In exchange, I won't trouble your big stupid friend Hagrid Rube, or at least this guy can lose his professorship because of this matter!"

Lucius used "he" to emphasize De LS in his conversation, implying that MacGuffin must keep the identity of De LS a secret in order to maintain the existence of magic rituals.

De LS, who wanted to leave here with all his heart, did not pay attention to the small problem in his father's words.

But McGuffin immediately reacted and understood the meaning, "Of course, Mr. Lucius, I will follow the instructions of Headmaster Dumbledore."

He made it clear to Lucius Malfoy that he would follow Headmaster Dumbledore's instructions to keep that secret.

MacGuffin and Lucius looked at each other knowingly.

"By the way, sir, what will happen to the Hippogriff?" Before Lucius was about to pull Malfoy away, McGuffin asked casually.

But in fact, this matter is the most important thing to him.

"That should be a matter of the Ministry of Magic... The Malfoy family won't pay much attention to it, but they should at least be expelled from the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts!"

After Lucius briefly answered McGuffin's question, he pulled the unwilling LS Malfoy away from the school hospital.

……

McGuffin was not released from the hospital until Thursday morning by Madam Pomfrey.

During this period, although Hermione came to see him, the notes she brought helped McGuffin a lot - allowing him to keep up with the classroom rhythm of this semester.

But in this semester (third grade), in addition to those new elective courses, there are also courses that were delayed last semester to make up.

The professors even stepped up and began to force-feed duck education at a faster speed.

The problem is that magic is not a precise knowledge, but more like a craft (art) that gradually accumulates experience by relying on the body and brain to perceive magic power.

A large part of its learning is based on personal talent and the accumulation of time.

This is especially true for the three courses of Charms, Transformation, and Potions.

In order to catch up with the course progress of the little wizards, the professors of these three courses have crazily increased the amount of homework from the first week to speed up the knowledge and information imparted in the classroom.

McGuffin's third graders are not bad, but the students in the fourth and fifth grades, and the third grades in the sixth grade are almost driven crazy by the professors.

Even the twins who originally planned to 'walk' in the Forbidden Forest no longer have that leisurely mind.

Every student in these three grades is almost buried in the vast volumes of the library to deal with those endless papers and homework.

Under such circumstances, coupled with Hermione's goal of mastering all subjects, McGuffin, who knew the truth, was too embarrassed to interfere with her study plan.

Although Madam Pomfrey's wounds on McGuffin's body were healed in just one night, but Dumbledore actually spoke in person, saying that McGuffin should rest for a while to calm down...

That's what he said, but when McGuffin talked with Harry and the others in private, he thought it might be a little more leeway and time for Dumbledore and the Ministry of Magic to deal with Hagrid's affairs.

(There is no accurate news until now...)
By the way, after learning from Lucius that the hippogriff was probably just expelled from the Forbidden Forest, McGuffin had given up on letting Sirius leave Hogwarts on Buckbeak the eagle-headed beast.

It is also possible to prepare a broomstick of your own invention in advance... don't be limited to any means of transportation.

Anyway, it is God, who cares what kind of method.

Speaking of God...

DeLS Malfoy, it seems that the lesson he taught her last time was not enough!
Now, it turned out that he would not be happy to give McGuffin back.

(McGuffin is now taking a double potion class with Slytherin in the underground classroom)
They are making a new potion today: shrink potion.

DeLS Malfoy deliberately placed his cauldron in front of the McGuffin with anger in his eyes.

And the idea of ​​Hermione deliberately teaming up with the McGuffin, to help him, completely messed up the guy.

(McGuffin looks perfectly fine now, but occasionally when his arm bears heavy weight for a long time, his shoulders will become sore and numb)
"Sir," cried de L.S., "Sir, I've come to help McGuffin cut the root of the daisy, and it looks like his shoulder isn't quite healed yet!"

"Excellent character... De LS, you are so noble!"

"Two points for Slytherin!" Snape exclaimed.

This caused the little wizards of Gryffindor to roll their eyes. Snape, as the head of Slytherin, would give his house extra points whenever he had the chance.

But I didn't expect him to be so shameless.

Especially Hermione, who knew exactly how the McGuffin was injured, crushed the fig directly and stared at Malfoy with gritted teeth.

Originally, Hermione and De LS were at odds... Now they are even more together, the eyes between the two little witches can almost emit 'gamma rays'.

McGuffin was sandwiched between the two, and he could even feel the air in front of him becoming hot, which made him very uncomfortable.

Especially because of the apologizing incident in the Forbidden Forest some time ago, De LS ignored Hermione and vented all his anger on him.

For example... the roots of the cuts for the MacGuffin vary in size and shape.

The fig she peeled for the MacGuffin was even more messy and incomplete.

The juice from cutting the caterpillar splashed all over the MacGuffin.

Hermione finally couldn't stand it anymore, she stood up directly after preparing her materials, raised her hand and yelled at Snape.

"Professor Snape, LS Malfoy deliberately cut up the roots of MacGuffins in various ways, Professor!"

Hermione was emphasizing the last two words very forcefully, apparently wanting Snape to take on a bit of the professor's responsibilities.

Ron, Harry's eyes widened - looked at Hermione like a madman.

Over the past two years, the two of them had the only correct understanding of Snape: this professor was not a reasonable person.

Sure enough, Snape raised his head, looked at the materials in front of the trio, and sneered at Hermione, "I think you cut it very neatly and neatly...Is that right? Miss Know-it-all!"

"I'll give you a chance to show off. You gave Malfoy the potion ingredients you cut, and McGuffins the ingredients Malfoy prepared. As for the McGuffins... Miss Know-it-All from Gryffindor, you can try them to see if you can complete a potion correctly."

"If it's done...you'll get an honor, five points from me to Gryffindor."

"Yes, I know what you guys are talking about behind my back? Partiality, selfishness... But don't say I didn't give you this chance now..."

"Of course as your punishment for not observing classroom discipline..."

As he said that, Snape took out a green translucent vial from the side of the podium, shook it and continued, "You must drink the potion you have prepared yourself. If it is really useful, this antidote will correctly release your shrunken state, and I will give you extra points. If it doesn't work..."

Snape sneered, almost making all the Gryffindor wizards shudder.

"Don't! Don't, Hermione!" Ron and Harry kept persuading in whispers, looking anxious.

"Hermione...Miss Know-It-All, don't you want to be the first in everything? Why are you afraid?"

The slightest mention of De LS's outdated aggressive method made Hermione's eyes blaze.

Hermione directly took the daisy root of the McGuffin, as well as the fig peel, some chopped caterpillars... and a lot of potion ingredients that could be counted as garbage.

"Ha! Looks like our Miss Know-it-All has courage?" Snape walked into their table, staring at them coldly with his hooked nose.

From time to time, he lectured Harry and Ron next to him at the table, and laughed wildly at Neville Longbottom's potion.

"Son...stupidity is no excuse for making mistakes over and over again."

"Didn't I make it clear just now? Just a little leech juice, and a drop of mouse bile... I won't say more!"

"Before get out of class ends today, I'll give your toad a few drops of the potion you brewed... maybe this will make you feel better!"

Neville was so frightened that he simply stopped moving, staring at all the Gryffindor students around him pitifully.

It's a pity that they couldn't protect themselves. Snape stood here as if to make it more difficult for Hermione to prepare potions out of thin air. He kept being vitriolic and pointing out the problems of other Gryffindor students.

This obvious cheating method made Harry and Ron tremble with anger.

And Hermione, whom Neville usually relied on, had no time to take care of him now, not to mention that Snape stood here like a pillar, and there was no way anyone could help him.

"Very good! Look at what LS Malfoy has done, the perfect color! That's right... two points for Slytherin!"

While Snape was praising his proud disciple, McGuffin also finished his potion, but Snape just ignored him coldly, turned around and went to trouble Harry again.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, McGuffin stepped over to directly help Neville deal with the amount and sequence of his potions...

Especially according to the amount of magic power contained in the potion ingredients,... to judge the amount of a little, a handful, a little, what is written on the potion formula.

Most potions textbooks contain such vague descriptions.

(Because the amount of magic power contained in each potion material is different, and the nature is different. When brewing potions, you can only rely on your own induction of magic power to respond immediately. This is why most potions in the magic world have not been able to be industrialized, and the reason why potion masters are extremely precious.)
Although Snape's character is very mean and twisted.

But even Harry and the others had to deny it.

— This guy is an unscrupulous potions master,

Snape was able to plan in detail, or redesign, every potion formula in a subject that was vague and could only be operated with experience and feel, according to his own understanding.

The various tips and methods he taught have greatly improved the brewing steps...and increased the success rate, even allowing a little wizard to successfully brew potions for the first time.

"Sir, MacGuffin Albert will secretly help Longbottom again."

De LS made a small report with a long tone.

Snape turned around abruptly, and by this time McGuffin had quickly retreated to his seat.

(He used the levitation spell to imitate the light work in his memory, and stepped back silently with one step.)
(End of this chapter)