Who Is The Problem

Above Sherlock's head, the portrait of a thin old man muttered a few words in dissatisfaction, then disappeared from the headmaster's room.

Ginny came very quickly. She walked into the headmaster's room with a blank face. She was obviously very nervous when she saw the four professors and Malfoy standing inside.

"Don't be too nervous, Miss Weasley, we just want to ask you something," Dumbledore said softly.

His voice was very kind, and the expression on his face was also very soft, slightly comforting Ginny who was frightened like a frightened rabbit.

"Have you come into contact with anything strange after coming to Hogwarts?"

Dumbledore's blue eyes looked at Ginny's, and Sherlock, who was standing aside watching, wondered maliciously in his heart whether Dumbledore would, at this time, treat a young woman who completely trusted him.

Hearing Dumbledore's question, Ginny's head shook like a rattle, she said cautiously.

"Nothing professor, I haven't encountered anything strange."

Dumbledore's brows furrowed again, and Malfoy's reaction was much more violent.

"You're lying!"

Ginny was frightened by his sudden shout, and she defended herself with a blushing face.

"I didn't..."

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 find you soon."

Hearing Dumbledore's words, Ginny's mood was obviously more stable, she nodded quickly, and trotted out of the headmaster's office.

After Ginny left, Dumbledore looked at Malfoy calmly.

"She didn't lie about this, she really doesn't know anything, and there are no other signs of contamination with other magical items on her body."

Malfoy was obviously a little unacceptable to this result, he kept talking.

"Impossible, she can't be without problems..."

Dumbledore just stared at him like this, and after a few seconds of silence, he suddenly asked coldly.

"What problem should she have?"

"She should..."

Malfoy suddenly shut up, his face was gloomy, and his eyes were looking at Dumbledore like a pool of stagnant water.

"What do you mean," he said nonchalantly, "I told you there might be something wrong with that little girl, it's just my guess. Your question is very similar to these things that happened in Hogwarts, and I'm about the same."

Dumbledore didn't speak, but Professor McGonagall, who had been listening, couldn't help it at this time.

"If it had nothing to do with you, how would you know that the problem was with Weasley!"

"I said that was my guess!" His words were cold, in stark contrast to the way he prayed to Dumbledore just now.

"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 cultivated in the school." Dumbledore said calmly, "When this batch of herbs matures, those students who were attacked will return to normal."

"In that case, I have to leave first. Narcissa is still waiting for my news."

Malfoy turned around and walked out of the headmaster's room. 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 Malfoy?"

Dumbledore did not shy away from her question.

"It was just my guess at the beginning. After all, there are only a few who 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.

"Then why didn't you force him to tell everything he did? His son was also attacked. In order to save his son, he should..."

Dumbledore interrupted her by shaking his head.

"You still don't know these people well enough, Minerva."

"He won't say it. If he does, then the consequence is that he will hand over his control to us. If something goes wrong, then his power, his wealth and his 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 his 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 himself knows that things haven't reached that stage yet, 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.

"And that's really the only information he can provide. At first, the target he was going to interfere with was actually Miss Weasley, but for some unknown reason, there was an accident in the middle. Miss Weasley was not the one who did it.

While Dumbledore was thinking, Sherlock was also thinking.

He was thinking that in the plot of the original book, the person who opened the chamber might be Ginny.

But I don't know what went wrong, causing an error in the middle.

What is this question?

"Sherlock, can you help me call in Miss Weasley who was waiting outside the door? I think she should be in a hurry too."

After hearing Dumbledore's instructions, Sherlock walked out of the headmaster's 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.

"Want a snack? Miss Weasley."

Ginny obviously doesn't have much desire to eat now, she shook her head.

"I just had dinner, Professor."

"I know it's not good to disturb your rest at this time." Dumbledore clasped his hands. "However, I still have some small questions that I want to ask you about."

"When was the last time you met Malfoy's dad?"

After Malfoy left, Ginny's mood relaxed a lot. Of the professors in the headmaster's room, except for Snape, who was a little afraid, the other three she felt very kind.

Hearing Dumbledore's question, the little girl pondered for a moment.

"Professor in August, when my parents were taking our family to Diagon Alley to buy things for the beginning of the school year. At Flourish and Blotts, we met Malfoy and his father, and then... .."

Speaking of which, she turned to look at Sherlock.

"My dad had a conflict with Mr. Malfoy, they got into a fight, and Professor Forrest was there at the time."

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