Chapter 64: Problem In This Way |
Above Sherlock’s head, the portrait of an old man muttered a few words in dissatisfaction and disappeared.
Ginny came quickly. She walked into the principal’s room with a confused face. She was nervous when she saw the professors and Lucius inside the office.
“Don’t be nervous, Miss Weasley. We just want to ask you something.” Dumbledore said softly.
His voice was kind, and his expression was soft, slightly comforting Ginny, who was frightened.
“Have you come into contact with anything strange after coming to Hogwarts?”
Hearing Dumbledore’s question, Ginny shook her head and said cautiously, “No, professor. I haven’t encountered something weird.”
Dumbledore furrowed again, and Lucius’ reaction was much more violent. “You’re lying!”
Ginny was frightened by his sudden shout and defended, “I did not…”
Dumbledore nodded gently to Ginny, “I believe you, Miss Weasley. Can you wait at the door of the office? Don’t worry, it won’t take too long. I’ll meet you soon.”
“She didn’t lie about it. She really doesn’t know anything, and there are no other signs of contamination with other magical items on her body.”
Lucius was obviously a little shocked by this result; he continued, “That’s impossible; she should have something with her.”
Dumbledore just stared at him like this, and after a few seconds of silence, he suddenly asked, “What is that something that she should have?”
“She should…” Lucius suddenly shut up; his face was gloomy, and his eyes looked blankly at Dumbledore.
“What do you mean by that?” He said calmly, “I told you there might be something wrong with that little girl. It’s just my guess. Your question is similar to these things that happened in Hogwarts, and I’m about the same.”
Dumbledore didn’t speak, but Professor McGonagall couldn’t help it at this time, “If it had nothing to do with her, how would you know that the problem was something related to her?”
“I only said it was my guess!” His words were cold.
“I will try my best to help hide what happened in Hogwarts, and I hope you can save my son as soon as possible.” He looked at Dumbledore, and Dumbledore was looking at him.
“Some mandrakes are being nurtured in the school.” Dumbledore said calmly, “When this batch of mandrakes is matured, those students who were attacked will return to normal.”
“In that case, I have to leave first. Narcissa is still waiting for me.” Lucius turned around and walked out of the office. Dumbledore didn’t mean to stop him, so he just let him leave.
After he walked out the door, Professor McGonagall couldn’t hold it anymore and asked Dumbledore, “You knew from the beginning that the attack had something to do with Lucius?”
Dumbledore did hide away from her question, “It was just my guess at the beginning. After all, only a few are entitled to have something related to that person, but now I am sure that the source of this matter lies in Lucius.”
Professor McGonagall asked in confusion, “Why didn’t you force him to tell everything he did? His son was attacked. To save his son, he should…”
Dumbledore interrupted her, saying, “You still don’t know these people well enough, Minerva.”
“He won’t say it. If he does, the consequence is that he will hand over everything. If something goes wrong, his power, wealth, and status will all be lost. Even if his son has been rescued, so what is left of the Malfoy family?”
“Lucius does value his family as much as they value their own blood. But they also know that once they lose what he holds in his hands, what they value will also be threatened.”
“Besides, he knows that things haven’t reached the stage that he wants, and confessing everything will not help him save his son.”
Dumbledore looked absently in the direction of the entrance to the office as if he was thinking about something, “That’s the only information he can provide. At first, the target he was going to was Miss Weasley, but for some unknown reason, there was something wrong in the process.”
While Dumbledore was thinking, Sherlock was also thinking. He thinks that in the original book’s plot, the person who opened the Chamber of Secrets was Ginny. But he doesn’t know what went wrong, causing an error in the plot progression.
“Sherlock, can you help me call in Miss Weasley, who was waiting outside? I think she should have something to say.”
After hearing Dumbledore’s instructions, Sherlock walked out of the office and called in Ginny, who was waiting anxiously outside the door.
In the face of students, Dumbledore is always willing to give more patience, “Do you want a snack, Miss Weasley?”
Ginny doesn’t want to eat now; she shakes her head, “No thanks, professor. I just had dinner.”
“I know it’s not good to disturb your rest now.” Dumbledore clasped his hands. “However, I still have some questions that I want to ask you about.”
“When was the last time you met Draco’s father?”
After Lucius left, Ginny relaxed a lot. Of the professors in the room, except for Snape, she felt nothing was wrong with the others.
Hearing Dumbledore’s question, she pondered momentarily, “In August, my parents were taking our family to Diagon Alley to buy things for the beginning of the school year. We met Draco and his father at the bookstore, and then…”
She turned to look at Sherlock, “My dad had a conflict with Draco’s father. They fought, and Professor Forrest was there at that time.”
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