Chapter 213 Traditional Customs of Mermaids
Principal's office,
After listening to Harry and Ron's explanation, Professor McGonagall didn't say anything, she sat on the chair dumbly, didn't even make a movement of pursing her lips... just sat there with a blank expression.
Both Harry and Ron lowered their heads, not daring to look directly at Professor McGonagall. It would be better if she yelled loudly, but this silence... made them even more scared.
Professor McGonagall didn't speak, but Professor Snape would not let go of such a good opportunity to taunt, he swayed around and smiled maliciously.
"So, if I understand correctly, you two think that Malfoy opened the Chamber of Secrets to poison him on purpose, don't you?"
Harry and Ron were speechless for a moment, what kind of understanding is this.
"Professor Snape, we never thought of poisoning Malfoy. Chicken belly mushrooms are not poison, at most they will cause diarrhea." Harry explained again:
"We just want to take advantage of Malfoy to go to the toilet, and then stop him from inquiring about the secret room."
"Oh, I see!"
Snape stopped in the corner, half hidden in the shadows, looking eerie, but the expression on his face was very strange, as if he was desperately restraining himself from laughing.
"Then do you know that feeding poisonous mushrooms to classmates is a violation of school rules or even illegal, Potter?"
"We..." Harry was at a loss for words, and after thinking about it, he still argued: "We just want to catch the person who opened the secret room. Malfoy is very suspicious."
"Oh my god, my god, Potter, is there something wrong with your mind again?" Professor Snape expressed his shock in an exaggerated tone.
"You think Malfoy is very suspicious, so you want to investigate like this? And you want to catch the person who opened the secret room... Who do you think you are?
Headmaster of Hogwarts... Head of the Auror Office... or Minister of Magic? ! "
"Potter, do you think the murderer can't be caught without you? We're all going to be killed?"
"I don't think so!" Harry exclaimed.
"But what I've seen is the truth. You're always overly self-aware. I don't know where you got this problem." Snape sneered and said:
"Last semester, you suspected that I wanted to steal the Philosopher's Stone, violated school rules with Weasley, went to the restricted area on the fourth floor to steal the Philosopher's Stone, and then met Quirrell... It's only been half a year since this happened?"
"Half a year, I thought you would have a longer memory, but I didn't think about it, and I started to doubt Malfoy!"
"Who should you suspect next? Professor McGonagall, or Dumbledore?" Snape sneered:
"Arrogant, arrogant, stupid, self-righteous...how do you look so much like your father, Potter? He is also extremely arrogant...you two are terribly alike."
Harry's eyes widened, glaring at Snape.
"Stare again? Believe it or not, let me help you change places and save your eyes?!"
Snape stared intently into Harry's eyes, his thin face full of malice.
"Potter, take a look at how much trouble you have caused since you entered school, the Sorcerer's Stone, the flying car, letting your classmates eat poisonous mushrooms... why is it always you!"
Harry opened his mouth. Although he was very upset, he didn't seem to find any reason to refute.
"My suggestion is to send it to the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Magic next door." Phineas, the headmaster portrait on the wall, gloated:
"With the scourge of Potter and Weasley, at least the educational evaluation ranking of that school will be lowered a lot!
Send a few more such thorns to other schools, and within two years, Hogwarts' ranking will return to the first place! "
"..."
"Professor McGonagall, what else do you want to say?" Snape turned his head and asked.
"I have nothing to say, Professor Snape." Professor McGonagall said calmly:
"If you do this kind of thing, you should be expelled according to school regulations. Let's see how Professor Dumbledore will decide when he comes back."
"Professor McGonagall, don't fire us!" Harry and Ron were anxious, they begged desperately.
"Teach me again and again! How can I forgive you?" Mag said softly:
"Is it that difficult to learn to abide by the school rules in a year? Maybe it's because I'm not good enough. I don't know how to educate you two anymore..."
"You can transfer to Slytherin House." Professor Snape said with a smirk, "but only if the headmaster gives me the permission to punish me, I will train Potter well, maybe he still has a chance to become a model student!"
Harry almost nodded, he would rather go to Slytherin to accept Snape's insult than be expelled from Hogwarts!
At this moment, Professor Dumbledore pushed the door and walked in, and the expression on Snape's face became even more cheerful.
Professor McGonagall got up and asked, "What's the matter, Professor Dumbledore?"
"Malfoy and Mr. Crabbe are both fine, but Mr. Goyle has been seriously injured. Like Filch, he needs to rest for a while."
Both Harry and Ron breathed a sigh of relief. It was a blessing in misfortune that no one died.
"Professor Dumbledore, what should we do with them?" Snape said:
"Last semester it was the Sorcerer's Stone, a few months ago it was the Flying Car, and now it's feeding poisonous mushrooms to the students, causing them to be singled out and in danger..."
"If any other student is changed, they will be expelled, at least they must be punished with an indefinite suspension of study... If you continue to indulge and do not impose severe punishments, Potter and Weasley don't know what they will do in the future Horrible thing!"
Dumbledore's expression was extremely serious, and he looked down at Harry and Ron along the bridge of his nose. After a long silence, he said softly:
"There's no need to suspend school. Give him probation. Gryffindor will also deduct two hundred points because of the two of you."
Dumbledore paused and said, "If you behave like this again, I can only expel you."
Snape curled his lips, seemingly a little unconvinced, but he didn't say anything. After all, this punishment is better than a point deduction.
"Principal, where is Professor Lockhart?" Professor McGonagall asked again, "Can you save him?"
"Not yet." Dumbledore shook his head and said:
"I just negotiated with the mermaid leader Mercus, and she refuses to let her go."
"Why?"
"On Christmas Eve last year, someone caught a mermaid in the Black Lake and beat her unconscious with a stick."
"What does that have to do with Professor Lockhart?" McGonagall was stunned and said, "He didn't come to Hogwarts the year before last, and Professor Quirrell was in charge."
"That's where the problem comes in!" Dumbledore said with a headache, "Professor Lockhart must have said that the beaten mermaid did it."
"What is the purpose of the other party?" Professor McGonagall asked strangely: "Are you asking for compensation?"
"That's not true." Dumbledore said with a strange face:
"According to the mermaid tradition, when they go on a blind date, they beat the mermaid they like with a stick to unconsciousness, and then drag them back to their own cave... As long as they succeed, they are considered husband and wife.
The mermaid thought that Lockhart had knocked her unconscious, and she demanded to marry Lockhart before releasing him. "
"Then we must respect the traditional customs of mermaids!" Professor Snape said hastily.
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(Chapter 2 will be posted later, at one point.)