Chapter 48 Showdown
It has been nearly a month since the last sudden disaster. After this incident, the entire magic world was in an uproar. Many students were forcibly taken home by their parents, and then went through the transfer procedures to study at Beauxbatons or Durmstrang. This time, no matter what Dumbledore said, he could not stop these parents who were worried about their children's lives.
In this month, Harry found that there were fewer and fewer familiar people around him. A small half of the Ravenclaws from the first to third grades had left. The same was true for Slytherin, where many people also left, including the annoying Draco Malfoy. Gryffindor was the college with the most people left, followed by Hufflepuff.
Because so many people left, many people woke up and found that their good friends had disappeared after leaving a farewell letter. Large areas of vacancies began to appear on the long tables of the four major colleges. Under such circumstances, a strange calm atmosphere appeared in Hogwarts. Everyone no longer sat on the long tables dedicated to the college, but chose to sit with people they were familiar with. For example, Ron, Hermione and Neville sat next to Harry and the others.
"There are too many Gryffindors, let's sit over here." Ron sat next to Vincent carelessly, grabbed a pie from his plate, and ate it in big mouthfuls, ignoring Vincent's glare and Hermione's eye roll.
"A lot of people left each college, and basically everyone is blaming Dumbledore for his negligence, thinking that he didn't protect Hogwarts well," Hermione said, "but this accident came out of nowhere. I looked through a bookshelf with history of magic, but I didn't find anything similar."
"My mother has been very nervous recently, and she has sent several letters to ask about Ginny and me," Ron said while eating, "From her appearance, she seemed to want us to go home directly, but fortunately my father persuaded us."
"My grandmother also had this idea." Neville said on the side, "She said that the most terrifying thing in the magic world is these strange and unprovoked things."
"Slytherin has the most people leaving, even Malfoy has left, and it is said that he is going to transfer to Durmstrang." Vincent also said the news he got, "In the past, when something happened in Hogwarts, his father always jumped the most, but this time there was no movement at all."
"By the way, I never thought that one day I would miss Malfoy a little bit." William said.
"Cough! Cough!" "Poof!" Several people who were eating choked, and William's brother Richard, who was sitting opposite him, was holding a cup and drinking pumpkin juice. When he heard this, all the pumpkin juice in his mouth sprayed out, pouring all over William's head and face.
"You are abnormal!" Harry calmed down his breathing and came to a conclusion. Everyone glared at William, almost dying in this guy's mouth. William saw that he had offended everyone, so he had to smile awkwardly and wipe the pumpkin juice all over his head.
"Dry it up quickly!" Hermione took out her wand and tapped William's body, and all the pumpkin juice on his body disappeared, although he could still smell the smell of pumpkin juice.
"Thank you, Hermione!" William looked grateful. "Potions class is coming soon. I don't have the courage to go back to the dormitory to change clothes. If I'm late for Potions class, Professor Snape will put me in a crucible." Neville trembled when he heard this. The professor he feared most was Snape, although Snape was probably afraid of him because he would break one or more crucibles in every Potions class, and was nicknamed "Crucible Killer".
After breakfast, Harry and Vincent came to the Potions classroom to prepare for class. In the past month, I don't know if it was because Slytherin had the largest number of people leaving, Snape's face was dark all day long, but he rarely troubled Harry again, which was a good thing!
Snape shook his black robe as usual and walked into the classroom aggressively, but when he saw many empty tables and chairs in the classroom, he paused slightly and then started the class.
At this time, Sherry had also completely recovered from nearly a month of recuperation. He had completely cleared out the impact of the world's malice on his soul, and completely absorbed and mastered the growth and gains brought about by this incident. Sherry summarized that his growth mainly included the following aspects. The first one was the complete mastery of the first-level magic of the two major factions of enchantment and spell. So far, the spells that Sherry was proficient in included the first-level system that he analyzed, the illusion system brought about by devouring the Mirror of Erised, and the spell and enchantment system brought about by devouring the Ravenclaw Diadem. When he had analyzed all the first-level magic, he could be said to have truly mastered the first layer of the magic network.
The second is that Sherry no longer has to follow Harry closely, and has a certain amount of free space, which also facilitates many things. In addition, he can now use the energy of the magic network to condense an illusion for himself. Although it is essentially just a ball of light and energy, it looks a bit like a ghost, but at least it is in human form.
Sherry, who has fully recovered, put away his previous cautious and cautious mentality, and turned into a kind of confidence and determination. He plans to negotiate a business with Dumbledore, a business that concerns the entire wizarding world. After making up his mind, he said something to Harry who was brewing potion, and he invisible left the classroom and flew to the house where the owl stayed.
He used the public owl to write a letter to Dumbledore, which only had one sentence, that is - "Do you want to kill him completely and forever?" Sherry did not write a specific name, but he knew that Dumbledore must know who he was talking about.
The owl quickly brought back a reply, which also had only a short word, "Zizzi Bee Candy". It seems that Dumbledore's love of using his snacks as a password is true. Sherry flew invisibly over Hogwarts and soon arrived in front of the monster under Dumbledore's office.
"Sizzle, honey bee!" Sherry said to the monster. Although his current body was fragile and illusory, he still had no problem with his five senses and conversation. After hearing the correct command, the monster rotated and rose, pulling out a staircase, and Sherry stood on it.
When the staircase stopped, Sherry came to a brown wooden door with a lion-shaped door knocker on it. Sherry could hear the fierce quarrel in the house, he raised his hand and knocked three times in the air.
"Knock knock knock!" The rhythmic knocking sounded, and the sound inside the door stopped all of a sudden.
"Come in!" Dumbledore's voice came out, Sherry raised his hand and pulled, opened the door and walked in slowly.
"What is this? A ghost?"
"How can a ghost have such a strong mobility? And didn't you see that his light is silver? Isn't it pale? Think long!"
When Sherry, who was emitting a faint silver light, walked in, the portraits of the headmasters who were pretending to be asleep opened their eyes wide and kept guessing about Sherry's origins. And Dumbledore was obviously surprised. When he received the letter, he thought it was a prank and didn't want to pay attention to it. But when he found that the owl that delivered the letter belonged to the public owl shed of Hogwarts, he changed his mind and decided to meet this person. He had also thought about the identity of this person. Maybe he was an Auror who had been tracking the Dark Lord for a long time, or a former Death Eater who suddenly woke up. But no matter how he guessed, he would never have thought that this mysterious person would look like this.
In Dumbledore's view, this was a person with a very strange appearance, let's call him a person! Apart from the silver light around him, there were too many unusual things about this person. From the appearance, this person obviously has an Asian face, but his hair is silver-white and exudes a faint luster. This person is also very tall, almost two meters tall, which is different from most Asians.
"Good day, Professor Dumbledore!" Sherry bowed his head slightly and performed a respectful ceremony.
"Good day, sir, I wonder what your name is?" Dumbledore quickly calmed down. After all, his experience is there, and few things can surprise him. Sherry is a very unusual situation.
"Call me Sherry!" Su Yun said.
"Well, hello, Mr. Sherry," Dumbledore obviously knew the name structure of Asians, and he asked: "I don't know, Mr. Sherry, can you answer a question for me first?"
"Tell everything you know, and say it all." This time, he came to Dumbledore to show his cards and to negotiate a business deal with Dumbledore. Sherry also roughly knew what questions Dumbledore wanted to ask.
"So Mr. Sherry, when did you meet Harry?" The portraits around him also stared at Sherry. Even when they were alive, they had never met such a mysterious person. They were all waiting for Sherry's answer and wanted to know his origins.
When did you meet Harry? Sherry's ears seemed to ring the child's plea again, "Save me, no matter who it is, please save me!" Then Sherry was brought to this world by this simple and strong wish.
"That was almost four years ago, one day when Harry was nine years old and on summer vacation." Sherry replied, "At that time, he was beaten badly by others. I met him and saved him. I have been following him until now."
"So Mr. Sherry, who are you? What is your purpose in following Harry? What is the method you mentioned to kill him completely?" Dumbledore quietly held his wand. Sherry could feel that the whole room had been blocked by magic. Even if Sherry wanted to leave, it would not be so easy.
"Who?" Sherry shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I am no longer a human being!" Indeed, since he was completely swallowed by the magic net and his soul became the spirit of the magic net, he could no longer be considered a human being. Sherry, a former college student, was just the past after all.
"As for the purpose of following Harry," Sherry said, "I like Harry very much. I want him to be my student. There is no other purpose." (To be continued)