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The furnishings in the house are very similar to a utility room, and all around are piled up with various objects, many of which are even covered with dust.
In the corner of the room, there is a mirror that reaches the height of the ceiling, and the mirror is covered with old sheets, so that it cannot reflect any image.
And on the ground next to the mirror, there was a silver-gray password suitcase.
Luna recognized this thing, it was Harry's box before.
"Everyone, welcome to the Room of Requirement."
Hearing the familiar voice, Cedric and Neville hurriedly looked back, and found that it was indeed Harry who appeared behind them, and he seemed to be holding a special cloak in his hand.
As for Luna, she wasn't surprised at all, after all, she already knew that Harry was walking behind her~
Chapter 150 Seven Tasks Need to Be Divided
Dumbfounded, stunned, dumbstruck...
This was the entire reaction of Neville and Cedric when Harry took the three of them into his suitcase.
Harry's suitcase has another world in it, and he's got Bowtruckles, Mooncrackers, Birds and Snakes and more!
Even in the grove where the Bowtruckles are, Cedric actually saw a unicorn swimming alone!
Of course, Harry didn't lead them too deep, lest some guys who shouldn't be seen be exposed in advance, but even so, it was enough to startle the jaws of the two boys.
But in comparison, Luna seemed quite calm.
After all, although she has always had a surprised face on her face, there is nothing in this world that can really surprise her...unless Harry really finds the trumped-up Snork.
"Come and take a look, this is what I need to ask you."
Harry led the three of them to a greenhouse that was kept bright and warm by weather spells for a long time, where several mandrakes that were growing happily were swinging the leaves above their heads comfortably.
"Mandrake... You brought this out of the third greenhouse in advance? Great!"
Cedric was stunned for a moment, but then he showed surprise, apparently figured out the origin of these mandrakes.
Of course, he would not be so stupid as to regard Harry as the criminal who destroyed the third greenhouse, so now he was very convinced that Harry must have known the criminal's plan in advance, so he saved these precious seedlings first.
"It's true that the seedlings have been saved, but the trouble now is that I can't come and take care of them often." Harry sighed solemnly, "Lucius Malfoy, and the heads of other pure-blood families, they He is Principal Dumbledore's political enemy, and the purpose of taking over the school this time is not to protect the safety of the students, but to prevent the truth of the Chamber of Secrets incident from surfacing!"
"As for Slytherin's chamber of secrets and heirs, I have already investigated some clues, but Hermione and I are now being targeted by those people, and our future actions may be greatly restricted, so these seedlings can only be entrusted to you Come and take care!"
"I have no problem. I have practical knowledge of the whole process of mandrakes from seedlings to mature grasses. I know their cultivation methods very well, and I will definitely take care of them with all my heart." Cedric swore immediately, He even took out his wand for this, "I swear by my wand and my surname that I will definitely succeed in cultivating a mandrake that can save everyone, and I will definitely keep this secret!"
"Thank you very much~" Harry nodded in relief, thankful that he was right after all.
The more a wizard has a family background, the more he values the honor represented by his surname, so swearing by his surname is often a very solemn oath.
Moreover, the core of the wand used by Cedric is also unicorn tail hair. Harry can clearly hear the wand's evaluation of his master from the voice of magic power, and knows that he is definitely a person who keeps his word.
Although it sounds harsh to say this, there is one fact that is beyond doubt... that is, in this emergency situation, Cedric, who had only met Harry before, was more powerful than the five Weasleys in the school. Be reliable together.
"This, such a big thing... I don't know if I can do it well, but if Harry really needs it, I can try my best..."
Neville seemed a little apprehensive, but everyone knew that he was not afraid of getting involved in this matter, but worried that he would not do well.
"Neville, you just need to turn over the soil and repot them in time as you did in class." Harry patted Neville on the shoulder encouragingly, "Believe in yourself, you can definitely do well!"
Classmate Longbottom, who has always been dull, actually didn't know it himself. Since the second grade, he has gradually shown his unique talent in the class of herbal medicine.
Especially in the first few times of taking care of the mandrake, Neville has always been very handy, and Professor Sprout gave the Lion House extra points for this.
In fact, if Harry hadn't run into Cedric by chance, he'd have been prepared to let Neville do the bulk of the mandrake care in the first place.
Harry's only concern was that Neville hadn't actually seen a mature Mandrake, and with Cedric's help, this problem was obviously solved.
"Then... if that's the case, I'll make an oath too, in the name of my grandma..."
Seeing Neville trembling all over, it was clear that he was more afraid of his grandma than his family name.
"What about me, besides excluding surveillance, is there anything else I can do?"
Luna is a very smart girl, and she already knew what she was going to do before Harry assigned her a task.
She was just a first-year student, she didn't have high magical powers, and of course she didn't know how to take care of mandrakes, so it was easy for her to think that what Harry needed was her eyes.
Luna, who has sharp eyes and a near-circular perspective, is the best candidate for stalking. As long as she is there, Cedric and Neville don't have to worry about being stalked when they are in action.
It's just that Luna may feel that the task Harry assigned her is too simple, and she is not particularly satisfied with it.
"Well... then tell me about it yourself, is there anything you'd like to do that you're interested in doing?"
Luna's question made Harry a little bit difficult, because he really didn't know what else Luna could do to help besides stalking.
This is actually a question about wisdom and knowledge before. Luna is indeed smart, but after all, she is still inexperienced, and this smartness cannot be turned into practical knowledge in the first place.
"How about them?" Luna pointed to the magical animals not far away, "If you can't come here often, I think I can help you take care of them."
"You want to help me take care of magical animals?" Harry was taken aback when he heard this. "It's very hard to take care of them. In addition to feeding and watering, you also need to check their bodies regularly. There are some special magical animals, such as the ones you just saw. The moon idiots, their dung is the key fertilizer that can help the mandrake grow quickly, so while taking care of them, you have to be responsible for shoveling their dung..."
"It's okay, just leave it to me. At least this job is much easier than finding the Bubble Snot Monster."
Luna agreed without hesitation, and didn't feel that shoveling shit for the moon idiot was an unacceptable job at all.
Regarding this girl's sudden madness, Harry can only lament that she is really a god~
But Harry also thought at the same time that if Luna was really interested in magical animals, he could hire her as an assistant when the dust settled.
Hmm, it is said that Scamander seems to have hired a beautiful assistant when he was young, so it really is "men and women match, work is not tiring"~
Although she was fired by Tina in the end...
"It's settled like this. Neville and Cedric are responsible for taking care of the mandrakes. Luna is responsible for letting the wind out and taking care of magical animals such as moon monsters, all the equipment needed, water sources, and fertilizers required for cultivation such as dragon dung. , I’m all prepared here.”
After the discussion, Harry finally told the three of them: "I will give Luna the password of the suitcase, and I will tell you how to enter the Room of Requirement later. Today's affairs must be kept secret, and must not be disclosed to anyone other than us. Anyone mention it! Also... for safety reasons, please do not trespass in the deep area inside the suitcase!!"
"Good."*3
Seeing the three nodded in response, a stone in Harry's heart was also relieved.
The Mandrake, which is related to the recovery of all the victims, finally doesn't have to worry about it anymore.
Chapter 150: Sijiao is actually very good at acting
The Headmaster's room in Slytherin was as dark and dank as the common room in the Snake Court and the Potions classroom, so that Harry always felt that Snape should be given a pair of long johns with fleece as soon as possible.
Working and living in this environment all year round, it is easy to get rheumatism and old cold legs. In addition, as a teacher with a heavy workload, Si Jiao not only hurts his bones for a long time, but also easily gets varicose veins. Occupational diseases, so you must protect your legs.
Many of the above, were tips that Harry had appended to the Potions paper, so how much did he care about Snape?
In order to ensure the safety of Sri Lanka's knees, Harry even wrote paper homework for the first time~
Of course, the reason he did the potions homework was because it was one of the few ways he could safely communicate with Snape.
Harry himself was closely monitored by Lucius and others, and Snape had a close personal relationship with the parents of those pure-blood families. He also had a lot of entertainment these days, and there was a constant stream of people in the office. Absolutely.
If Harry went looking for him carelessly like before, he would be caught by his opponent in minutes.
Therefore, he can only use homework to communicate with Snape, and write down his urgent need for drugs to extract a confession in a paper paper, hoping that Snape can help provide some...
Veritaserum.
That's right, after Harry's repeated thinking, he finally determined that the key to breaking the situation is Veritaserum!
It is said that as long as three drops, people can fully explain the secrets hidden deep in their hearts. Veritaserum is much more effective than scopolamine used for anesthesia.
However, the day after handing in the homework, when Harry was waiting for a response, the Potions Professor came unexpectedly with a face full of anger, and rudely removed Harry from his seat in front of Professor Flitwick who was in class. Pulled up.
"Professor Snape, what are you doing?" Flitwick hurried forward upon seeing this, "What's wrong with Harry, you want to do this to him?!"
"Of course he committed a crime!" Snape didn't want to give Flitwick any face at all, and kept grabbing Harry's lapel vigorously, "Two days ago, the school manager Greenglass was in the abandoned bathroom on the third floor. He was attacked, not only was he stunned, but he was also hit hard on the back of the head! After investigation, I confirmed that this incident was done by a stubborn student, Granger!"
"But you have no evidence!" Flitwick protected Harry without giving in. "Mr. Greengrass was attacked, maybe it was just an accident, maybe the murderer was the heir of Slytherin...uh~"
While talking, Professor Flitwick hesitated.
Greengrass is a pure blood of the Snake Academy, and the heir of Slytherin should not attack him anyway.
"Hmph, you can't protect him now, can you?" Snape sneered smugly, "It's always been Granger's behavior to use such a despicable method to sneak up on him. Sneaking into the women's restroom... Last year, some students reported that he was yelling at the door of the women's restroom, and when the troll attacked, he happened to be in the women's restroom!"
"Stop it, I'll go with you~" Seeing a hint of complacency in Snape's eyes, Harry immediately rolled his eyes at him.
Nima, Si Jiao must have been addicted to his mouth before, and he actually used things about the women's restroom to arrange himself.
Harry knew that Snape must have read his message, and the reason why he barged into Professor Flitwick's classroom aggressively was purely acting.
It's just... saying that spying on the women's restroom has a criminal record, isn't this clearly persecuting his own image?
"Professor Snape, as a teacher at Hogwarts, I hope you can at least be fair!"
Seeing that Harry had agreed, Flitwick couldn't continue to insist, but he still threatened Snape seriously: "Harry is my student, if I know that he has suffered even a little bit of injustice, I will I definitely want to ask you for an explanation!"
"I know that some people are blatantly doting on Harry Granger." Snape snorted disdainfully, "But now that Dumbledore has left office, the so-called doting can only be doting~ "
Shaking off the taunt, Snape pulled Harry by the skirt and walked away, leaving only Flitwick with a livid face worried in the classroom.
It was Slytherin's dean's room again. This time, besides Snape and Greenglass who had been smashed before, Harry also saw Crabbe and Goyle's father at the same time.
A total of four people interrogated him, and Harry didn't even have a chance to defend himself, and he was directly labeled as an unwarranted hat by the other party.
Of course, this is not unfounded, after all, the brick was really taken by him~
But even so, Harry was still not intimidated by the four Slytherin bear parents, and he just gritted his teeth and refused to admit it.
"His injury was not caused by me, and I never went to the women's bathroom on the third floor that day. Besides, isn't there a ghost of Myrtle in that women's room? Why don't you just ask her?!"
"Don't try to quibble! It's because you hold a grudge that you sneak up on me from behind. That damned Myrtle is also with you!"
Greengrass pointed at Harry's nose and yelled at him, but he just snarled because he really couldn't produce any evidence.
After the incident happened, Lucius and other pure-blood parents questioned Myrtle, but they insisted that they did not know, and these pure-blood parents had nothing to do.
Besides, Harry had just taken a Charms class, and even if he used the Flashback Charm on his wand, there was no reason for it at all.
As for the brick that beat Greengrass to blood, it was lying in Harry's space ring, and it was even more impossible for these guys to find it.
Therefore, there is no evidence for this matter at all, and Greenglass can only bite people like a mad dog.
"Harry Granger, you have been so stubborn. I really can't do anything about you for the time being, but don't think that this matter will be exposed easily." Snape came to Harry with a cold face, holding He held up an empty small medicine bottle, "The thing in this bottle is Veritaserum, but it's empty now, otherwise, with just a few drops, I can fully pry into your secret."
"You are very lucky, because the veritaserum is extremely difficult to make, even for me, it takes nearly a moon cycle to make it, and you have to read the recipe before refining; but you are also unlucky, because the vomit I happen to have all the ingredients for the real potion, and when I successfully refine it, let’s see if you still dare to speak hard in front of us!"
"So what you mean by this string is that you have no evidence at all now, so you have to let me go?"
Harry didn't care about Snape's threats, and still had a nonchalant attitude.
"get out!"
After consulting the opinions of the other three pure-blood parents, Snape could only impatiently wave his hand and drive Harry out of the office.
...
"Sijiao, well done~"
Harry couldn't help laughing out loud after leaving Snape's office.
In the scene just now, on the surface, the four Slytherins had nothing to do with Harry because they had no evidence.
But in fact, Snape had already revealed the most important news to him.
Unfortunately, the veritaserum is used up now, and it takes a moon cycle to refine it, and all the materials and formulas are in the office!
Chapter 150 Nine
In the headmaster's office of the Snake Court, after Snape and the three pure-blood parents left talking and laughing, a small crack was quietly inserted into the originally closed door.
At this moment, less than an hour had passed since Harry was interrogated by four Slytherins at the same time.
Actually, Harry didn't want to be so nervous, but he really didn't have time right now, so he could only take a risk and carry out the theft immediately after Snape gave the news.
"The recipe is indeed here!"
Cloaked in an invisibility cloak, Harry rummaged through Snape's desk for a while, and Harry easily found a brand-new formula that was written on the spur of the moment among the pile of homework.