Chapter 23: punishment
At twelve o'clock at midnight, Harry and Hagrid led Norbert to the shadow of the tallest tower under Charlie's request. When they appeared, Charlie was already waiting for them.
Harry looked at Charlie and said, "Charlie, shall I not go up now?" Charlie looked at the entrance of the tower and said, "We are going in later. Just now Professor McGonagall seems to have gone in. We will wait for her to come out before we go in!"
And Malfoy on the roof looked at the empty roof, not only wondering if he was being tricked, "Wait a little longer, if they haven't come, I will go!" Malfoy thought about it and couldn't help it. He sneezed, "Hi, the wind is so cold! Ow!"
"Who is there?" Malfoy knew it was bad when he heard the voice. "This is McGonagall's voice. If she finds herself here in the middle of the night, she will definitely be punished!"
But McGonagall walked cautiously from the only exit on the top of the tower and did not give Malfoy a chance to slip away. In desperation, Malfoy could only walk out of the hiding place and say "Professor McGonagall is me!"
The expression on McGonagall's face instantly turned gloomy after seeing Malfoy. She said in an angry tone, "Malfoy, why are you here? Your behavior caused Slytherin to deduct 50 points!"
Malfoy tried to persuade McGonagall with his own reasons, "Professor McGonagall, I caught Harry Potter here, he will be here soon, he has a dragon... Ah!"
Before Malfoy finished speaking, Professor McGonagall twisted his ears and said, "In order to avoid punishment, you told such a stupid lie. Go, I will take you to see Professor Snape!"
Ron, who was a little impatient while waiting downstairs, said dissatisfiedly, "Charlie, did Professor McGonagall really go up? Why haven't gotten down for so long? I didn't expect it to be really cold this night!"
After watching the exit, Charlie said quietly, "Stop talking, they are out!" After hearing Charlie's voice, Ron, Harry and others raised their spirits and looked towards the exit of the building.
I saw Professor McGonagall twisting Malfoy's ears out, and Malfoy screamed, "Professor McGonagall, I was wrong, forgive me! Don't screw it up, I can go by myself!"
Professor McGonagall let go of Malfoy's ears and walked ahead, Malfoy rubbing his ears on the spot.
"Why, you can't go by yourself, do you?" McGonagall's voice suddenly came in front of him, and Malfoy shook his body and quickly caught up with Professor McGonagall.
Harry and Ron laughed happily after watching Malfoy and Professor McGonagall go away and said, "Haha, I didn't expect Malfoy to have this day too. Seeing his embarrassment is just happy, I want to sing a song happily. !"
Even Hermione, who didn’t say a lot of laughter, couldn’t help but laugh when he saw Malfoy. Charlie waited for them and said, "Let’s go! If you don’t go, you may miss Ron’s brother Charlie!" The hiding place came out.
Harry and the others followed Charlie into the tower holding the box containing Norbert. After a while they came to the top of the building and waited for Ron's brother to arrive.
Since they haven't arrived yet, Harry and Ron laughed and talked about Malfoy, and after a while, four magic broomsticks suddenly landed in front of Harry and them.
They took out the rope that bound Norbert and tied the box containing Norbert, then rode on the broomstick and disappeared into the night sky with Norbert. Hagrid wiped his tears and waved to their backs and said, "Noble, take care of yourself!"
Harry and Charlie breathed a sigh of relief after sending Norbert away. After all, Norbert's existence is a big hidden danger. When they separated from Hagrid and entered the corridor, a hoarse voice rang from behind them." Ah! See who I caught? You naughty students are still hanging out in the corridor so late, I think you are in trouble!"
Filch took the four of Charlie to Professor McGonagall’s office and told her how he met them. Then Filch left the office to continue his inspection.
Professor McGonagall looked at the four people standing in front of her and said angrily, "I didn't expect Miss Granger, a good student who always loves to study and does not violate school regulations, would leave her dormitory to hang out in the middle of the night!
And Mr. Elvis, I have always thought that you are a mature child. I am very satisfied with the Christmas gifts you gave me. Sometimes I even envy Flitwick that his college has such an unpleasant one. Students of, I never thought that you would follow Harry and them to do such unreasonable things! "
McGonagall looked at the four of them and took a deep breath. The stimulation given to Professor McGonagall tonight is more than the stimulation experienced in a month combined. After she calmed down, she said to Harry again, "I have you three." Such a student is simply embarrassed. Each of you will deduct 50 points. The follow-up punishment will be discussed in a few days. Now, immediately roll back to your own dormitory to rest!"
Harry and others looked surprised but did not refute. Ma Erfu had already learned about Professor McGonagall’s power, so they did not refute and left McGonagall’s office dejectedly. Charlie heard Professor McGonagall’s punishment without any 'S reaction followed Harry and left.
Harry, when they returned to the Gryffindor lounge, Harry said annoyedly, "If only I had brought the invisibility cloak at the time! Alas, now I have been deducted 150 points, what can I do!"
The next morning, when the Gryffindor students saw the scores of their college, they thought they had read it wrong. The score of their college disappeared by 150 points overnight. They all started talking, and the three Harry listened. They felt extremely ashamed of their discussion, so they hurriedly finished breakfast and left.
Slytherin and Ravenclaw students also found that their college scores were deducted by 50 points. Only Hufflepuff’s students were surprised to find that other colleges had deducted points and their home college did not deduct them. This is simply a bonus. His home college added 50 points.
In the next two days, everyone learned the truth about the deduction. Harry and the others would be criticized by others no matter where they went, so they now come to the library to study whenever they have time, because the library needs to be quiet , Where they can get the greatest silence.
know that one morning they received a note saying "Your punishment has been out, go to Filch at 11 o'clock in the evening, and he will arrange the rest!"
The depressive life of the three Harrys these days almost made them forget that they have another punishment. They came to Filch's office at eleven o'clock with speculation about the unknown punishment.