Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

In mid-air, Ivan turned his broomstick and flew towards Gryffindor Tower.

He flew into the window of the corridor outside the tower, and his body jumped out of the flying broom.

Aiwen transformed into an Animagus in mid-air, turned into a black cat, and quickly ran to the lounge.

Because of the roar of the werewolf Fenrir Greyback, everyone in the entire castle was completely awakened. Although there was no one in the corridor in front of him, Ivan heard the sound of fighting coming from the main staircase in the distance, rumbling With the sound of loud noises and the sound of chanting spells, the guards of the Order of the Phoenix and the teachers of Hogwarts were already fighting the intruders.

At this time, there was also a girl's yelling in front of him. Ivan was a little anxious. He couldn't hear whose voice it was. If Greyback met a student...

It shouldn't be Elaine, but if it's Hermione...

He picked up speed and turned a corner.

Finally, Ivan saw Hermione, Ginny, and a group of pale-faced junior students in the hall outside the lounge at the end of the corridor, and five Death Eaters standing opposite them.

The most striking one is the one among the five.

He was long-limbed, with matted gray hair and whiskers, and the black Death Eater robes clenched uncomfortably around him.He was raising his head and roaring loudly, his voice was weird, it was a hissing and piercing roar, ferocious and terrifying!

Added to this was a strange, pungent smell coming from him, a mix of earth, sweat, and, no doubt, blood.

He held a wand with long yellow nails on dirty fingers.

It's the werewolf Fenrir Greyback...

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The stalemate and silence on the Astronomy Tower continued, even though the battle below had reached a fever pitch, even though Dumbledore no longer had a wand, even though he was actually so weak that he could no longer use a simple spell, Malfoy kept on hesitate.

He stared at Dumbledore blankly, and Dumbledore smiled inconceivably.

"Draco, Draco, you are not a murderer."

"How do you know?" Malfoy asked immediately, as if he'd been waiting for the question.

Apparently, he also seemed to realize how childish that sounded, and under the green light of the Dark Mark, Harry saw him blushing.

"You don't know what I'm capable of." Malfoy said, his tone became fierce, which made it look a bit bluffing, "You don't know what I've done!"

"Oh, of course I know." Dumbledore said kindly, as if discussing a small homework problem with Malfoy, "You have done a lot in the past year, for example, you almost killed Kay Ty Bell and Ron Weasley. Of course, there have been many failed murder plans. You've been trying to kill me all year, and you're getting more and more desperate. Forgive me for saying this, Draco, but What you did was lame, it was so lame, I doubt you put your heart into it. To be honest, this is not the level that a Hogwarts student entering an advanced class should have..."

Chapter 1512 Talk to Dumbledore

"Of course I put my heart into it!" Malfoy argued excitedly. "I've been working on this all year, and tonight..."

At this moment, somewhere in the castle below came a muffled cry.

Malfoy froze, turning his head hastily to look behind him.

The trembling wand in his hand was deflected. If Dumbledore rushed over at this time, no, Harry felt that as long as Dumbledore walked over, Malfoy would not resist at all, but Dumbledore did not move. Leaning all his body weight on it with the double snake staff, he said with an easy-going attitude, "Someone is struggling to resist, we just talked about... By the way, you finally succeeded in letting the Death Eaters enter my school, I admit, I I thought it was impossible...how did you do it?"

But Malfoy didn't answer, he was still listening to what was going on below, and he didn't even look back at Dumbledore.

He seemed as frozen as Harry, unable to move.

"This is not okay, Draco, this is not okay, maybe you should do the job alone." Dumbledore advised him, "Although you have many people here tonight, if your backup Defeated by my guards? I'm afraid you've also discovered that there are still many members of the Order here tonight, not as few as you think. You don't need help anyway. Look, I don't have a wand at the moment, There is no way to protect yourself."

Malfoy turned back again, just staring at him blankly.

Then, his eyes moved to the staff of the twin snakes that Dumbledore was leaning on.

He looked at the two green pythons in front of him, his expression gradually frightened, as if he had just noticed them.

"Don't pay attention to them, you can regard this scepter as an ornament. Please believe me, this scepter will not cause you any harm." Dumbledore said gently, he saw Mal Fu neither acted nor spoke, and nodded slightly, "Ah, I understand, you are afraid of what you are going to do, and you have to wait for them to come up before you dare to do it."

"I'm not afraid!" Malfoy immediately roared fiercely, like an angry cat, but he still didn't hurt Dumbledore. "It should be you who is afraid!"

"But why? I don't think you're going to kill me, Draco, it's not as easy as people think... Well, while we're waiting for your friends, you and I Tell me...how did you sneak them in? It seems like it took you a long time to figure it out."

Malfoy seemed to be trying desperately not to yell or throw up.

He swallowed, took a few deep breaths, stared fiercely at Dumbledore, and pointed his wand straight at Dumbledore's chest.Then, seemingly involuntarily, he said, "I had to fix that broken disappearing cabinet that hadn't been used for years, the one Montague locked in last year and couldn't get out of."

"Ah!" Dumbledore's sigh was like a moan, and he closed his eyes for a while, "It turns out that this is why you spent most of your time in the Room of Requirement. It's a very clever idea... I remember that the cabinet has two one, isn't it?"

"The other one's in the Borgin-Bock shop!" Malfoy said. "They made a passage between the two cabinets, and Montague told me he couldn't move when he was locked in the Hogwarts cabinet. But sometimes you can hear the movement in the school, and sometimes you can hear what is going on in the store, as if the cabinet is running around in these two places, but no one can hear him... Finally, he finally Escaped by Apparating, even though he failed his exam, his Apparating almost killed him. Everyone thought it was a very funny story, only I realized the meaning, not even Borgin You know, I'm the only one who realizes that as long as I fix that broken cabinet, I can enter Hogwarts through the two Vanishing Cabinets."

"Very well," murmured Dumbledore, "so that the Death Eaters can enter the school from the Borgin-Bock shop to help you... a clever plan, a very clever plan. And, as you say , right under my nose..."

"Yeah!" said Malfoy, who strangely seemed to take courage and comfort from Dumbledore's praise, "yes, that's it!"

"It's very ingenious, but I have to correct you. You are not the only one who knows. In fact, Ivan has reminded me of this many times in the past year."

"What?!" Hearing these words, Malfoy's newly aroused courage disappeared instantly, and his expression was already quite terrified, as if he had been greatly frightened, "You, you mean, Mason already knows? ! He, he knew about the disappearing cabinet in advance?!"

"You must have noticed that Harry has been trying to follow you into the Room of Requirement to find out what you're doing, and he's failed, but he's not alone."

"May, Mason followed me in?!" Malfoy said in horror.

"Not at the same time, but he should have guessed that you went to that room." Dumbledore said gently, "In the past few years, he has been using that room, and no one is more familiar with the Room of Requirement than him. Yes, he guessed where you went, went in to check after you left, and found the disappearing cabinet..."

"It's impossible!" Malfoy said incredulously, "There are so many things in that room, I'm always careful, it's impossible for him to know the secret of the disappearing cabinet, it's impossible..."

"Magic is actually not as simple as you think, Draco, you still have a lot to learn. In fact, I still say that, what you did is too obvious and lame, even without Ivan's reminder , I'll find out it's you too. I guess you weren't sure you'd fix the disappearing cabinet, so you took some clumsy, ill-conceived measures like sending me an enchanted necklace , in fact, it will definitely fall into the hands of others... and poisoning the mead, in fact, the possibility of me drinking that wine is very slim..."

"You have no way of knowing who planned these things," Malfoy said.

"But I already knew." Dumbledore said, taking a step back and leaning against the wall, obviously his legs and feet had lost strength, "I knew you did it."

"Impossible, it's impossible for you to know, it's impossible, it's impossible! If you found out everything, why didn't you stop me?" Malfoy asked loudly, his frightened speech getting faster and faster, "Why did you let it go?" I do those things?!"

Chapter 1513 The Conversation Continues

Malfoy stepped back as he spoke, seemingly in disbelief of the fact.He thought Dumbledore didn't know about the plans he had been brewing, the things he did, but now, Dumbledore told him that he knew everything...

Fear, disbelief, anger, all kinds of strange emotions blended together.

They were brewing inside Malfoy, and he felt a strange humiliation.

Dumbledore knew everything, but he did nothing!

Malfoy gripped his wand tightly, and his whole body was shaking, whether it was fear, anger, or both, he couldn't tell.

He's going to kill this man, he's going to kill him!He is going to kill him!

"I tried to stop it, Draco, but I can't just expose you, send you to Azkaban, or just tell you not to do that, Voldemort will not forgive your mistakes, I have to protect you." Dumbledore still said calmly, "Professor Snape has been watching you at my command..."

"Protect me, Snape?!" Malfoy froze for a moment, as if he thought Dumbledore's words were funny, he laughed out loud, and his voice became more and more thoughtful, "This is what you call a measure?! Ridiculous, Snape He didn't follow your orders, he promised my mother..."

"Of course he would tell you that, Draco, but..."

"He's a double agent, you stupid old man, he's allegiance to the Dark Lord, he didn't work for you at all, you were kept in the dark!"

"Let's just disagree, I happen to trust Professor Snape a lot."

"Hmph, you're losing control of him!" Malfoy sneered, he seemed to have regained his confidence, and he looked crazy, "You know everything?! It's ridiculous to try to protect me. You can't do anything now By the way, you probably don't know this yet, Snape keeps offering to help me because he wants to take the credit. He's always trying to get in on something and ask me what I'm doing? Said you made that necklace , so stupid, it will expose everything, but I see through his thoughts, I didn't tell him what I was doing in the room of request, he doesn't know anything, when he wakes up tomorrow morning, things He's done, he's no longer the Dark Lord's favorite, he's nothing, nothing, nothing compared to me!"

Malfoy yelled the last sentence with all his strength.

Say the important thing three times, Malfoy hopes to use this method to vent his inner anger and find some confidence in himself.

If he wanted to kill Dumbledore, he needed it so badly.

There was another moment of silence, and the only sound on the observatory was the louder and louder fighting sounds below.

Harry was trying to break free of his restraints, but to no avail.

"How comforting." Dumbledore said gently, "It goes without saying that we all want to be appreciated for our hard work...well, since you don't believe I asked Professor Snape to protect you , let's talk about something else, like you must have an accomplice, someone in Hogsmeade, who can give Katie that, that..."

Dumbledore's pained expression appeared again, he shook and closed his eyes.

This made Malfoy more confident, and Dumbledore was very weak. Harry saw the eyes of the two giant pythons on the staff of the double snakes slightly opened their eyes, and then closed them again. Focus on the Double Snake Staff and you won't notice it at all.

Damn, Dumbledore has no time, where is Ivan? !

Harry remembered that Dumbledore had said that his time was precious now and that he needed to see Snape before he left, and he saw no need to continue this stalemate with Malfoy here, but Dumbledore didn't seem to intend to end their relationship. Talking, he intends to continue in-depth, with great interest.

"Needless to say, needless to say, Draco...it's Rosmerta, how long has she been under the Imperius Curse?" Dumbledore said slowly, his voice low.

"Haha, you've finally figured it out, haven't you?" Malfoy sneered.

There was another cry from below, louder than the previous one.

Malfoy looked away again uneasily, then back at Dumbledore.

"Obviously," continued Dumbledore, "poor Rosmerta had to hide in her own toilet and slip that necklace to any Hogwarts student who went to the toilet alone? Poisoned mead... of course Rosmerta can mix poison in that bottle for you and sell it to Slughorn thinking it's going to be my Christmas present. Yeah, very clever , poor Fell would never have thought of inspecting the liquor sold by Mrs Rosmerta..."

"That's right!" Malfoy grinned. "The idea of ​​poisoning mead came from Mudblood Granger. I heard her say in the library that Filch didn't recognize the potion..."

"Please don't use that insulting word in my presence," said Dumbledore.

"Haha!" Malfoy let out an ugly laugh, "I'm about to take your life, do you still care if I say something about Mudblood?"

"Yes, I do!" said Dumbledore, his feet beginning to slip and he had to hold on to the staff with even greater strength.

"It's ridiculous, pointless persistence, even if you already know everything, what can you do? Look at how weak you are now, and you are still counting on Mason to save you!"

"Oh, I think he'll be there."

"And that was after I killed you too! All he saw was your body." Malfoy roared.

"Perhaps, Draco, a lot of things did happen tonight, but in fact the changes are not as great as you think." Dumbledore said, "In my opinion, compared with being a Death Eater, You should have stayed at Hogwarts to finish your studies."

"Shut up, I don't care to stay here, I will become the Dark Lord's favorite!"

"What a disappointment, I was hoping for some bigger ambitions from you. Closer to home, Draco, it's been a few minutes since you were going to take my life, and there's no one else around, and I don't have any Wand, no magic power, you would never have dreamed of such a good opportunity, but you still didn't do it, what are you waiting for..."

Malfoy's lips twisted involuntarily, as if he was tasting something very bitter, and his already confident expression began to feel uneasy again.

"What's wrong with you?" he asked stammeringly.

"This matter is a long story, you can understand that I cast a spell and suffered an extremely serious backlash, which made me temporarily lose my magic power and become weak, but I still came back, barely back! Dumbledore murmured softly, he almost lost the strength to speak, "It's just what you want, isn't it? You must have known from Rosmerta that I left Hogwarts, she saw me leave Yes, that's why you decided to set a trap and wait for my return."

Chapter 1514 The Trap in the Trap

"That's right, we decided to hang the Dark Mark over the tower, forcing you to hurry back and see who was killed." Malfoy said, "This method really works!"

"Not necessarily..." Dumbledore said, considering Malfoy's words, "Then, can I understand that no one has been killed so far?"

"Someone's dead," Malfoy said immediately, his voice suddenly rising an octave, "one of yours, I don't know who it was, it was too dark, I couldn't see clearly... I stepped over the corpse Come here, I should wait for you to come back up here, it’s all because you guys from the Order of the Phoenix came out to block the way..."

"Yes, that's right," said Dumbledore.

"And Fenrir Greyback, that rude werewolf, he took his men to the Gryffindor common room, he's sure to bite a lot of people." Malfoy said vengefully, he As if irritated by Dumbledore's expression, "This is..."

He stopped again, turned his head and looked back.

There were crashes and shouts from below again, louder than before.

From the sound, it seemed that someone was fighting on the spiral staircase leading to Dumbledore, Malfoy and Harry.

"Letting a werewolf into the castle was the worst thing that could have happened tonight. If Greyback did bite a student, it would be the worst disaster. I don't want that to happen, Draco, and I know you don't either." " Dumbledore said, "Okay, we don't have much time, what to do, let's discuss your options."

"My choice!" Malfoy exclaimed, panting violently. "You can't do anything. I'm not as fragile as you believe. I don't care about the safety of those Mudbloods, or who the werewolf bites! Now, I take Stand here with a wand, and I will kill you!"

"That's enough, my dear boy, let's stop playing. If you really wanted to kill me, you'd do it after disarming me just now, instead of stopping to talk merrily about the measures and methods." .”

"No, I..."

"You're not a Death Eater, you're not that corrupt!"

"But... I have no choice!" said Malfoy, turning as pale as Dumbledore's. "I must! He'll kill me! He'll kill my whole family!"

"Yes, I understand your situation!" said Dumbledore. "It goes back to the previous question of you asking me why I knew everything and kept doing nothing. As I said, I did Trying to protect you, otherwise why didn't I meet you before? It's not a good idea, but I had to because I knew if Voldemort found out that I was suspicious of you, you would be assassinated of."

As if thinking of the terrifying scene, Malfoy twitched in fear.

"I know you accepted that mission, yes, I know the full content of that mission, but I dare not talk about it with you, for fear that he will use Legilimency spell on you." Dumbledore continued, "Now we can finally talk openly... As far as I know, you have not caused any damage or hurt anyone so far. You are very lucky. Those who were accidentally injured by you survived, and tonight There will be no greater casualties... I can help you, Draco, trust me!"

"No, it can't be!" said Malfoy, his wand hand trembling terribly. "No one can help me, no one...he told me to do it, I have to do it, Otherwise, otherwise he will kill me, I have no choice."

"I understand, but you have a choice, get back on the right track, come on, Draco, we can hide you in absolute safety, safer than you can imagine. And, tonight, I can Send members of the Order of the Phoenix to hide your mother as well. Your father is not in danger in Azkaban right now, and we will protect him when the time comes. Come on the right path, Draco, are you not A murderer, you can't do that..."

Malfoy stared blankly at Dumbledore, as if he couldn't believe the werewolves.

"But I've come this far, haven't I?" he said slowly. "They thought I'd die before I was done, but I'm still alive, and I've let the Death Eaters in..."

"This is also a trap, a trap I set up." Dumbledore said, interrupting Malfoy, "As I said, I knew you would come tonight, and I deliberately chose to act and leave this evening." Hogwarts, and let Rosmerta see it. The defenses of Hogwarts tonight are not as weak as you think. You and those Death Eaters have no chance of success. Instead, you will be wiped out by the Order of the Phoenix. "

"But..." Malfoy murmured, "Greyback and the others went to Gryffindor..."

"I have to say, it was really beyond my expectation, but if you look closely, every house in the school has been assigned the guards of the Order of the Phoenix, and Greyback and his minions don't have any Cheap." Dumbledore said softly, "What's more, Ivan also rushed over, I don't think Greyback will have any chance."