Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 47: Mystery
Matthew Wakefield couldn't believe his good luck.
But there is no doubt that he succeeded in his original goal, which was to get Horace Slughorn to invite him to join his "Slug Club".
And after only the first try, it worked.
He originally thought that he could win Slughorn's favor with at least a few more efforts.
But in any case, this is good news.
……
Matthew took a pile of potions class supplies, walked through the corridor in the basement, and returned to the door of the Slytherin common room again.
After touching the big green snake's head, he whispered the password for the past two weeks: "Higher than glory!"
The giant snake let go of the tail it was biting, squirmed slightly, and opened the stone door.
As soon as he entered the common room, Matthew saw two big men, Crabbe and Goyle, who looked particularly conspicuous.
The two were sitting in armchairs by the fireplace, writing and writing.
Speaking of which, these two unlucky children have hardly stopped experiencing accidents since the start of school... They were "attacked" twice and were sent to the school hospital. They spent almost more time in the school hospital than in the rest of the castle combined.
Sometimes, Matthew even felt a little sympathetic to them.
He walked over quickly, and then sat down in a soft armchair beside him.
Due to the incident with Nott that happened before, he deliberately kept a certain safe distance from Crabbe and Goyle.
Then Matthew took the initiative to say: "Hi... Crabbe, Gore!"
Both boys looked up and glanced at him.
Among them, Crabbe responded slowly: "Wakefield, what's the matter?"
"What are you guys busy with?" Matthew asked "curiously".
"We are writing a paper for astronomy class, which will be handed in later in the evening." Gore replied.
In the evening they need to go to the Astronomy Tower and take astronomy class from Professor Sinistra. Professor Sinista is very strict. If she fails to complete the homework she assigned before, the consequences may be disastrous.
"It's too late!" Matthew looked at his watch, pretending to be surprised.
It is indeed too late, the astronomy class will start at seven o'clock in the evening, and it is almost five o'clock in the afternoon now.
"Yes!" The two boys nodded together, and were about to bury their heads and continue to write: "We have to work harder!"
"Hey, wait!" Matthew said again.
They raised their heads again, with puzzled expressions on their faces.
"Do you need a little help?" Matthew said unhurriedly: "Maybe my thesis can be used as a reference for you!"
"Really?" Crabbe and Goyle immediately beamed with joy.
"Of course, just don't be too similar, or Professor Sinistra will find out!" Matthew raised a hand while talking:
"In addition... I have another condition..."
"No problem! Who do you want to beat up? As long as they are not above the fourth grade, we can help you!" Gore said with a naive face.
"Of course not beating anyone." Matthew quickly shook his head: "I'm just a little interested... About the day when Ronald Weasley of Gryffindor was attacked in the prize showroom, what happened? What happened?"
Crabbe suddenly showed embarrassment, and he whispered with some embarrassment: "Professor Rozier...she...she won't let us tell this matter!"
"Forget it then!" Matthew looked a little dispirited. He stood up and turned to leave.
"Wait, wait!" Gore shouted in a panic.
It attracted the attention of some senior Slytherin students around.
"Huh?" Matthew turned around again.
Gore quickly waved his hands at the senior students, then lowered his voice, and said to Matthew: "But you must never tell others..."
"Naturally!" Matthew nodded without thinking.
"The situation at that time was like this..." Gore looked around for a while, and then whispered:
"We were in charge of polishing the medals, medals and trophies in the prize showroom. Weasley complained there while wiping; Leaving the prize showroom?"
"Leaving?" Matthew frowned: "Where did you go?"
"I don't know." Crabbe shook his head and continued, "Mr. Tang followed him soon, leaving me and Gore to continue wiping things there."
"What about the back..." Matthew asked with some seriousness: "Have Weasley and Mr. Tang come back?"
"I don't know what happened later. Crabbe and I fainted for some unknown reason, and we were already in the school hospital after waking up." Gore said again.
"Oh, yes, thank you!" Matthew nodded thoughtfully.
"So, Wakefield... a paper for astronomy class?" Crabbe said expectantly.
"Wait a minute, I'll get it now!" Matthew was thinking ~IndoMTL.com~ while walking towards the bedroom.
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According to Crabbe and Gore's description, it seems very likely that the location where the attack took place was not the prize showroom?
Where did Ronald Weasley go at that time, then bumped into the "murderer" and was attacked by the "murderer"...
... Then the "murderer" was discovered by Mr. Tang, who attacked Mr. Tang and made him go crazy, and at the same time sent Weasley back to the prize showroom.
So where did Weasley go?
Perhaps only he himself and the murderer know this question!
Besides, why did the murderer take the trouble to bring Weasley back to the trophy room?
Many mysteries are circling in Matthew's mind.
While handing the astronomy course papers to Crabbe and Gore, he also asked:
"Since Principal Rozier won't let you tell about this matter, you'd better not tell others about it, and don't say that I know about it too!"
"Naturally!" Crabbe and Goyle nodded.
Just as Matthew was about to go back to the dormitory again, a panting senior girl walked up to him.
"I'll give this to Matthew Wakefield," she said, and handed over a roll of parchment tied with a purple ribbon.
"Okay, thank you!" Matthew took the scroll with his name on it.
This looks like an invitation.
He gently opened the scroll, and there was only a short paragraph written on it:
"Matthew:
I would be very happy if you could come to my office and have dinner with me this Sunday night.
You are faithful
Professor H.E.F. Slughorn"