Chapter 174: Do you dare to take it?
Chapter 174 Do you dare to accept it?
The professors searched the castle all night, opened the doors of all rooms, looked at every secret passage, and almost turned Hogwarts upside down. However, they never found the giant monster until dawn. trace.
So Quirrell became the target of public criticism.
Facing the questioning gazes of the professors, Quirrell huddled in the corner and sobbed: "I may have... seen it wrong.
You know...the underground classroom is very dark...it might be armor...or a stone statue or something..."
"There are no such things in the underground classroom!" Snape said coldly with a gloomy face: "Besides, I don't think any normal person would regard armor as a troll."
"But...but, I don't...no..." Quirrell hesitated and couldn't speak.
He really didn’t know what happened. He had released the giant monster himself, so why did it suddenly disappear?
A giant monster more than ten feet tall just disappeared out of thin air without any movement...Has Hogwarts become so dangerous?
“Perhaps you have too many things to think about recently, and it’s not necessarily a hallucination.”
Snape suddenly said in a sinister voice: "I suggest you drink some magic potion. How about tomorrow? I will send it to you personally. I guarantee that you will be more energetic."
“No…Severus…no need…”
Quirrell shook his head repeatedly and said: "I have the magic potion there... I won't bother... you..."
He didn't dare to drink the potion given by Snape. Who knew if there was anything like veritaserum in it.
“It’s okay, it’s just a refreshing potion, nothing to worry about.” Snape said again, not intending to just let Quirrell go.
It seems like he just likes to help others,
“Really… no need…”
Looking at Snape's gloomy face, Quirrell broke out in a cold sweat, fearing that Snape would forcefully feed him the medicine.
Fortunately, at this moment, Professor Flitwick suddenly asked: "Minerva, what should we do now?"
Chiroru was granted amnesty and immediately retreated to the back of the crowd.
Professor McGonagall gave him a displeased look, and then said: "Inform the prefects and ask all students to come to the auditorium. This farce should end."
…
Not long after, the students arrived at the auditorium led by their prefects.
The professors are already waiting here in advance, except Snape.
He was bitten by Lu Wei last night, and he could barely walk around the castle all night with only a little white essence to support him. Now he has returned to the office.
In the auditorium, Professor McGonagall stood at the front and told everyone that the troll was no longer in the castle.
The crisis is resolved.
The little wizards immediately cheered.
“I told you before…there are no trolls.”
At the Gryffindor table, Ron said excitedly: "To be honest, I have to go through scams like this at least twice a week, and you still don't believe me!"
But everyone was busy celebrating, and no one paid attention to what he said.
Only Harry patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I have to apologize to you, friend."
Although Hermione also heard it, she did not tell the two of them the truth. Instead, she stood on tiptoes and tried to look at Hufflepuff's position.
There, Kyle was applauding like everyone else, and there was no difference at all.
"Is this person really the youngest recipient of the Special Contribution Award to the school?" Hermione fell into self-doubt again.
Kyle naturally didn't know what Hermione was thinking. Of course, even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
As long as Hermione can keep it a secret.
For a period of time afterwards, Kyle would take some time to come to the box every day and try to tame the giant monster.
Although the troll is stupid and stupid, and does not know magic, its combat power is still good. With its rough skin and thick flesh, coupled with its brute strength, it would be no problem to put it in the front row as a human shield. And being stupid also has the advantage of being stupid, which means that it does not have many ideas and will be easy to command.
For Kyle, this is not difficult to do.
Every time he comes, if the troll shows any aggressive behavior, he will beat it up without hesitation.
Kyle was very measured when he struck, not too hard, but it would make the troll feel pain, and then give it some food before leaving.
With the big stick and sweet dates, the troll soon became obedient. When he saw Kyle again, he no longer had any aggression and could only smile innocently.
…
I don’t know who spread the word. Within a few days, everyone knew that Professor Quirrell was too timid and mistook the unknown shadow for a troll, which led to the joke at the Halloween dinner. .
This made the already disliked Professor Quirrell directly become the laughing stock of everyone.
This is the first time they have seen such a timid professor, and they don’t know how he dares to be a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
Fred and George even started a bet to guess when Professor Quirrell would leave Hogwarts and what his final outcome would be.
Originally they just wanted to have fun, but they didn't expect that there were so many people participating. The little wizards didn't seem to mind spending a few Nats or Sickles to have some fun for themselves.
After a few days, the money they received added up to almost a dozen galleons.
This unexpected success soon made the twins get carried away. During a meal, they excitedly said to Kyle:
“This is much faster than selling things!”
Fred patted his jingling money bag, "It's like picking up money."
Kyle raised his head and asked: "How many people are participating now."
"There are currently one hundred and twenty-nine people." George blurted out: "There are people from the four colleges."
“So many…” Cedric said incredulously.
He had thought that there would only be twenty or thirty people at most.
"Professor Quirrell is very popular now..." Fred said: "As long as the topic is related to him, it will always attract attention."
"What about you, do you want to join in?" Fred asked, shaking his money bag.
Cedric and Connor shook their heads at the same time. They were not interested in this kind of thing.
But Kyle touched his chin thoughtfully.
“Sounds interesting.” He asked, “What are the rules for you guys?”
"It's very simple..." Seeing Kyle's move, Fred smiled even more happily.
“Two options, the time when Professor Quirrell leaves Hogwarts, and his final outcome, as long as you are right, we will return double the money.”
“How is it? Isn’t it very conscientious?”
Kyle nodded.
“Yeah, then which one do you want to guess?”
“I’ll guess it all.” Kyle took out a handful of Galleons and slapped it directly on the table.
“There are a total of twenty Galleons here, do you dare to take it?”
(End of this chapter)