Hogwarts Slytherin

Snape was speechless for a moment, not knowing what to say to comfort her. He could only analyze dryly: "Rigi, according to what you and Lily said, I think we should find the MacDonald first, immediately."

"That's right! Sev! Let's go!"

"I...we?"

"No! I'll just go with Severus. If you don't see Mary back after curfew, Lily, you can tell Professor McGonagall then."

The Forbidden Forest was not safe, and what happened to the unicorn cub a while ago made Reggie not want Lily to go with him.

Lily was a little impatient: "Mary is my friend! Or do you think I will drag you down?! Don't underestimate me, my ranking in the Duel Club is not much different from yours."

"That's not what I meant, Lily, it's just that we are more familiar with the Forbidden Forest..."

"What?! But the professor said - don't let me know why you are so familiar with the Forbidden Forest!"

Reggie: "..."

In the end, the group of three turned into a group of four, and they met Anthony walking back at the gate of the castle.

*****

Reggie came to the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest again. There was nothing he could do about it. The frequency of visits during this period was really too high.

As soon as he came in, he felt like he was at home. He was familiar with the roads, which made Lily glare at him several times.

She originally thought that only people like Potter would like to do things that violate school rules!

It seems that Reggie must have visited the Forbidden Forest frequently!

Rui Ji seemed calm, but actually he was panicking inside.

They walked through a narrow path in a small forest. The Forbidden Forest was very quiet at the moment, with no one around.

Rui Ji walked in front, not in a hurry, more leisurely.

After Lily brought Mary's belongings, Reggie cast a complex tracking spell.

When she first knew that Mary was still alive, Lily breathed a long sigh of relief.

After such a long time, she is no longer the innocent and ignorant little witch she was before. She already knows how malicious those people are towards Muggle-born wizards like them!

Following Reggie all the way, it didn't take long for them to find Mary.

This is a gloomy place!

Ruiji is quite familiar with this place, because it is not too far from the Thestral's habitat.

"Mary? Mary where are you?"

Lily called softly, but no one responded. She could only cast doubtful eyes on Reggie.

Reggie frowned slightly when he saw this, there was no way his spell could go wrong.

"Super fluorescent flashes."

"Oh——!" After Lily let out a short scream, Reggie covered her mouth with quick eyes and hands.

The scene in front of them made several people feel chilled.

Mary sat in a clearing, her body covered with colorful snakes.

Her eyes were frightened and covered with red bloodshot eyes.

If it wasn't for sure, Reggie wouldn't have believed she was still alive.

"Help me." Mary's mouth turned, silently begging for help.

The sudden light not only allowed them to see the scene in front of them clearly, but also attracted the attention of the snakes.

Several of them were swaying and approaching in their direction. Although they didn't know what kind of snakes they were, judging from their appearance, they were all poisonous without exception.

Mary's condition looked very wrong, her face was pale and her eyes were almost turning red.

The largest snake wrapped its body around her neck, hovering above her head, and hissed at several people.

I can't tell whether the situation is good or bad.

"sizzle"

When several people heard Reggie starting to make that cold voice again, Lily shivered.

After a while, the snakes retreated in all directions and quickly disappeared.

"Mary! How are you?" Lily rushed forward quickly.

She was very worried about Mary's condition, but she didn't dare touch her for fear of getting any wounds on her body.

After waiting for a long time, Mary made no move, and certainly did not respond to Lily.

"What's wrong with her?" Lily turned to Reggie and asked anxiously.

"Stop the curse."

Mary's body suddenly collapsed to the side.

Finally, several people rushed her to the school's medical wing.

******

"Okay, you are too careless! Let me tell you, you little guys don't understand what love is at all! She is just a little weak at the moment, nothing serious, but it is best to be hospitalized for observation tonight. If there is no problem, Classes can resume as normal tomorrow." Madam Pomfrey complained to several people.

Several people were standing outside the ward, and Mary had already laid down on the hospital bed after drinking the potion given by Madam Pomfrey.

Mary was silent all the way.

In the end, it was Reggie who made the decision. We can't talk about this matter at the moment. We will wait until Mary recovers and find out the details from her before deciding whether to report it to the professor.

Mary nodded but still said nothing.

That's why Madam Pomfrey is accusing her now - they all use the same voice, claiming that Mary became like this because she was heartbroken and couldn't bear to think about it and had been on a hunger strike for several days.

Fortunately, there were no wounds on her body, and the snakes obviously did not receive the order to attack, but this was even more nerve-wracking.

Mary's current appearance is the best proof.

Her psychological defense has completely collapsed. Fortunately, she is a witch and has stronger mental power than ordinary people. Otherwise, a little girl would encounter this kind of thing - watching a lot of snakes surrounding her, crawling on her body. Crawling back and forth, and being unable to move in the process, he might have gone crazy.

Lily breathed a huge sigh of relief. Before leaving, they obtained Madam Pomfrey's permission and entered the ward to say goodbye to Mary McDonald.

After drinking the potion, Mary's mood became more stable, but she seemed a little sleepy.

Reggie winked at Lily, indicating that now was not a good time to ask questions.

The few people didn't say anything to Mary, but simply said goodbye. Mary didn't say anything more, nodded gratefully to them, and returned to her wandering state.

When several people saw this, they wisely left on their own before Madam Pomfrey opened her mouth to drive them out.

……

"Mary has no memory of why she appeared in the Forbidden Forest." In the library, Lily glanced warily in the direction of Mrs. Pince and said in a low voice.

She went to see Mary early this morning with breakfast. Her condition was much better today, but it only made the mystery more and more complicated.

She doesn't remember anything!

"I don't know why I appeared in the Forbidden Forest. I felt like I had a dream. When I woke up, I found that I was already in the Forbidden Forest. Surrounded by those scary guys, I couldn't move. Oh— —”

Touching those horrific memories, Mary broke down and cried.

Snape's eyelids trembled: "Don't remember?"

Reggie and others looked at each other in confusion. It seemed that Snape knew?

"It sounds like sleepwalking - oh, I'm sorry, Anthony, maybe you don't know, sleepwalking is like a disease in the Muggle world. This disease makes people do things out of their control in their dreams, but in the dream After the situation, they will not be able to remember it at all." Lily said to Anthony Cope, who had a question mark on his face.

Sleepwalking?

how is this possible.

Don't forget that Mulciber and Flint are involved in this matter.

"She was also under a confinement spell - sleepwalking will not cast a spell on yourself." Reggie denied Lily's statement.

"I think I know what's going on." Snape had to raise his voice slightly to interrupt their discussion of the issue.

Of course, this move also attracted Mrs. Pince's attention.

Another glare!

Reggie was a little helpless and showed his signature smile towards his elders. With a faint smile on his face, he looked very gentle and humble.

Of course, yesterday's "hissing" look at the group of snakes was not so gentle.

"Do you know what's going on? Sev, tell me quickly." After Mrs. Pince's attention finally moved away from them, Lily couldn't wait.

"Rigi, Anthony, don't you think Macdonald's state looks familiar?" Snape asked the two of them.

Reggie glanced at him. When did he learn to tell the truth?

Snape was like a roundworm in his stomach. He hesitated for a while and said straight to the point: "Have you forgotten? In Gringotts, when we were in the underground vault, a goblin suddenly appeared, and then that spell You used it."

Lily looked a lot more unnatural. She hesitated and whispered the word: "The Imperius Curse?"

Snape nodded.

Reggie gave him a surprised look.

Mary was under the Imperius Curse?

The possibility is great.

This would explain why Pain unknowingly ran into the Forbidden Forest and couldn't remember anything else.

only……

In this case, Mary will have to suffer the loss!

This matter will probably remain unresolved. Regardless of whether it needs to be reported to Professor McGonagall or not, there is nothing they can do to Mulciber and Flint.

Because the biggest problem with controlling spells is that they are difficult to trace after they are lifted.

The Imperius Curse is one of the three unforgivable curses and can be regarded as the most iconic control curse.

Later, after Voldemort's fall, many Death Eaters claimed that they were under the Imperius Curse and had no idea what they were doing.

It's because after the Soul-Impering Curse was lifted, it was impossible to confirm whether it happened as the person involved claimed!

Unless the caster's wand is checked with a flashback spell, even if Dumbledore comes, there is no way to confirm whether MacDonald has been hit by the Imperius Curse.

As for checking the wand - Reggie believed that after doing all this, Mulciber's gang had already cleaned away the traces of spells on it.

"But - the Imperius Curse is the Unforgivable Curse, and they will be captured in Azkaban for this!" Lily questioned, her tone hesitant.

Anthony kindly corrected her: "There is someone beside you who is still good."

Lily looked at Reggie subconsciously, and when she met his gaze, she immediately dodged away as if she was being stung.

Macdonald was indeed unlucky.

Even though many people in Gryffindor would be bullied by those guys, they would rarely use such methods.

Most of the time it's just a few curses behind his back or loud taunts.

"If it is really the Imperius Curse! Then we should report this matter to Professor McGonagall. They can't do this to Mary!" Lily made a decision.

However, Reggie immediately denied this and told her the relevant knowledge of the Imperius Curse.

To put it simply, from the moment Mary woke up, they could not prove that the other party was under the Imperius Curse.

"And Lily, we can't explain why we appeared in the Forbidden Forest in the middle of the night. Of course, we all know that Reggie found it, but we are explicitly prohibited from entering the Forbidden Forest, especially when Principal Dumbledore starts school this year. Emphasis on this," Snape analyzed.

After hearing what he said, Lily glanced at Reggie with some disapproval, but the latter's eyes seemed to be caught by the cover-up book on the table, and he did not look at her at all.

"Is that the end of it? If they are not punished this time for the Imperius Curse, what about next time? Or, even if I watch Mary in the future, what about the others?"

Lily's words left several people speechless.

It is better to rely on yourself than to rely on others.

Only a thousand days of being a thief, how can there be a thousand days of preventing thieves.

In the final analysis, it is still a flaw in the school rules, or wizards are simply difficult to discipline.

Magic has pros and cons.

A little wizard, as long as he holds a magic wand in his hand, he has the right to harm others.

Of course, not everyone will do this.

But they have the ability to do so.

"Don't get excited, Lily. What's more, all this is just our speculation at the moment. Should we go directly to Professor McGonagall, tell her that we went to the Forbidden Forest to find Mary, and then suspect that someone cast the Imperius Curse on Mary?" Reggie calmly said road.

"This sounds completely unconvincing. What's more, how do we conclude that Mary may have been under the Imperius Curse? You know Professor Prewett never taught us this."

Do you want him to grin in front of the serious professor and say, "Hey, Professor McGonagall, it's like this. I've used this spell, more than once."

Lily seemed to be disturbed by his rhetoric and seemed a little shaken.

Indeed, they have no evidence!

Moreover, she felt ashamed of her despicable thoughts, and she did not want Reggie to risk it.

But Mary.......

Although the relationship between the two is now much more distant than the close relationship they had at the beginning of school, they are still classmates. No matter which classmate encounters something like this, she will not sit idly by and watch!

What's more, this was her former friend.

Lily felt a breath suffocating in her chest, which made her very upset: "Then there is no other way? If you do good deeds, you should be known, and if you do wrong deeds, you should be punished. Those guys, just take what they have." Method?"

"Of course." Reggie was not as bored as she was. Seeing that Lily was finally no longer stubborn, his tone became more relaxed, "But that has nothing to do with you, leave it to us."

"What do you want to do?" Lily looked at them warily.

Reggie looked away.

Anthony blinked innocently.

Finally she looked at Snape.

Snape slowly lowered his head to look at the Potions textbook, letting the hair that had become greasy again cover his face.