Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 81: Tragedy

Whether it was Matthew or Hermione, when they saw the news on the note, the expressions on their faces changed suddenly.

"Let's go there quickly!" Hermione stuffed the note into her pocket.

"Yes." Matthew nodded.

Then the two ran towards the garden like the wind.

……

Since it is Valentine's Day, the decoration in the garden is even more excessive than that in the corridor.

Around the stone-paved path, there are roses; fresh rose petals can be seen everywhere on the grass; there is a small heart-shaped sun hanging in the middle of the garden...

However, Matthew and Hermione had no time to take care of this. They stopped couples on the side of the road and asked them what happened.

The lovers clearly dislike being disturbed.

Of course they don't know what happened at all.

The two walked through low bushes, huge stone statues, and rose bushes. Finally, when they arrived at the center of the garden, near a huge fountain—

Several couples were sitting on carved benches, and Matthew could hear the sound of splashing water.

Matthew noticed that a couple next to him seemed to be in shock.

He hurried over and asked, "Hello, what happened here just now?"

The senior girl, whom Matthew didn't know, looked pale: "A corpse... there was a corpse just now... there was blood on it..."

"Corpse?" Hermione was almost taken aback.

"It's not a corpse." The girl's boyfriend next to him quickly explained: "It's a boy in the first grade. His body just appeared at the fountain... very suddenly!"

While speaking, he pointed to the front.

"The boy was bitten by something on the neck, and he seemed to be poisoned, and he was seriously injured..."

"Is he Neville?" Hermione asked worriedly.

The couple looked confused when they heard Hermione's words.

"What does that injured boy look like, do you know him?" Matthew hurriedly stopped the excited Hermione, and continued to ask.

"We don't know each other." The lovers replied: "And Mr. Pringle arrived soon. He forbade us to watch and took the boy to the school hospital."

"Neville... Could something... happen to him..." The couple had just walked away, Hermione said quickly, her voice was a little incoherent.

Ravenclaw and Slytherin students need herbal medicine class this morning; but Gryffindor students like Neville don't have class this morning... Hermione is worried, will it be He came to the garden, found something strange, and was attacked.

"Don't worry, let's look in the garden now; if it doesn't work, then go to the school hospital!" Matthew said calmly.

But they didn't take a few steps before the vicious Professor Pringle appeared in front of them.

"You!" Mr. Pringle pointed at the two of them and shouted, "Get out of here!"

"We just came in for a stroll..." Matthew quickly argued.

"You can't even go shopping." Mr. Pringle temporarily set a school rule, and then kicked the two out: "Students in lower grades are not allowed to enter here!"

Hermione also wanted to go to Mr. Pringle and ask who the boy who was attacked was.

However, Matthew held her in time and shook his head at her at the same time.

……

"Where are we going now, to the school hospital?" Leaving the garden and returning to the castle, Hermione looked a little bewildered.

"Don't worry." Matthew remained calm: "There are at least a dozen boys in Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, not to mention the senior students who often confuse us with the second-year students. ; Therefore, it may not be Neville who was attacked."

"Then we..."

"Let's go to the auditorium first." Matthew continued, "Wait there. If Neville is okay, he will definitely come to the auditorium to find us."

"We should go to the school hospital..."

"I've already said that it may not be Neville who was attacked; and even if we went to the school hospital, Madam Pomfrey might not let us in to visit!" Matthew said sternly.

In the end, Matthew Wakefield persuaded Hermione Granger to give up her idea of ​​going to the school hospital.

The two came to the auditorium. Since it was not lunch time, there were not many people inside.

They sat at the long table of Gryffindor and Slytherin respectively. Hermione seemed to be living like a year, but Matthew had been thinking about something.

……

As it turns out, Matthew was right.

Only ten minutes later, Neville Longbottom appeared in the auditorium.

Although he looked very pale, as if he had suffered a serious illness.

The three of them left the auditorium one after another in a tacit understanding, and then entered the history of magic classroom where there was no one else.

"Neville, what happened?" As soon as the door was closed, Hermione asked very nervously, "Are you okay?"

"We have been discovered." Mr. Neville Longbottom's first sentence was somewhat surprising: "Professor Rozier has discovered us!"

"What..." Now the pale-faced person, it's Miss Hermione Granger's turn~IndoMTL.com~Yes, it was discovered..." Neville continued: "Professor Rozier just sent I called to the office, and she warned me, and you... that if we were caught sneaking around her again, she would fire us all. "

"This vicious woman!" After a brief panic, Hermione clenched her fists angrily.

"Then why did you use an owl to contact us?" Matthew continued to ask with a serious face: "It must not be because of Professor Rozier?"

Matthew didn't think that when Rozier called Neville to her office, Neville still had time for the owl to deliver two letters; it must be because of something else that happened before.

"Someone was attacked in the garden!" Neville seemed to remember something, and said hastily:

"...No, in fact he disappeared more than ten days ago..."

"Justin Finlaye?" Matthew asked.

"Yes..."

Neville was only halfway through when he was interrupted by Hermione's scream: "Is he really dead?"

"No, no, no." Neville quickly shook his head: "Justin is not dead, but he is a little thinner than before, and nothing else is different... His body was also very sudden, and I don't know who threw him into the hot spring On the lawn on the left, there was a commotion..."

"...During the commotion, I only saw him twitching non-stop, with blood bleeding from his neck... That miserable appearance was almost exactly the same as the one when Ron Weasley was attacked. !”

"What about the wound on his neck?" Matthew continued to ask: "Is it the same as the wound on Weasley's neck?"

Neville shook his head: "Sorry, I was too far away and didn't see it."