Not Happy Halloween

"Justin!"

Ron looked at the boy's face and exclaimed.

Hermione hurriedly ran to Justin who was lying on the ground. stretching out her trembling fingers, and probing the tip of his nose.

"He-He-He is dead!"

Hermione said these words with difficulty and then fell weakly to the floor.

With the help of the light of the torch, Harry looked at the frightened face that Justin finally fixed on his face, and swallowed subconsciously, only to feel that he was all over the place with chills.

The boy lying on the ground was Justin Finch Fletchley, a second-year student like Harry and the others, but he belonged to Hufflepuff.

They don't know why Justin appeared in this place while the Halloween feast was going on and why he was killed by someone.

But at this time Ron was already feeling uneasy.

"Let's get out of here quickly."

"Should we try to save—" Harry said, not very fluently.

"Listen to me," said Ron, "we don't want to be found out here!"

But it was too late.

There was a bustling sound of people at the location of the stairs on the third floor, and soon some students walked up to the third floor and found Harry and the others.

The students who were still laughing and laughing all quieted down when they saw the scene in front of them.

Everyone watched this terrifying scene. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were standing in front of everyone's eyes, with Justin lying beside him, like a dead "corpse".

"Enemies of the heir, beware! The next one is you, Mudblood!"

It was Malfoy. With a cold grin on his face, he read out the message on the wall aloud and privately added an unforgivable sentence to the end, but no one was still paying attention at this time.

No, to be exact, there is still one person who is paying attention.

"Twenty points from Slytherin, Mr. Malfoy. It seems that the punishment you received last time was not enough, so let's extend the time for cleaning the toilet to January 1 next year."

An indifferent voice sounded behind the students.

Malfoy's smile immediately froze on his face, and he glanced at Sherlock with a gloomy face.

But Sherlock ignored him because, at this time, the students had made way for him to go in to check the situation.

The three of them also found out about Sherlock's arrival, and they explained it to him in a hurry as if they had seen a saviour.

"Professor, as soon as we got here, we saw Justin lying on the ground!"

"We didn't do it! We just discovered him for the first time!"

"Is he still alive? Professor."

Sherlock stretched out his hand, motioning them to be quiet first, then pulled out his wand and squatted in front of Justin.

All the students around held their breaths, watching Sherlock tap Justin's stiff body twice with his wand.

Although Sherlock's magic level has not yet risen to the level of the original master's strength, it is not the half-hearted one from two months ago.

After passing a simple test and examining Justin's physical condition, he gently opened his mouth and concluded.

"He's not dead."

The three of Harry breathed a sigh of relief, and the other students onlookers gradually eased their nerves.

"But he's not doing well either."

An old voice sounded, and at some point, Dumbledore came here with other professors.

"Bring Justin to your office, Sherlock, it's on the third floor, if I remember. Harry, the three of you will follow."

Professor McGonagall dispersed the students, told them to hurry back to sleep, and instructed Filch to wipe the messy writing on the wall overnight.

Sherlock used the floating charm on Justin, who looked like a sculpture, to make his body float in the air, and then dragged him to his office with Dumbledore, the professors, and Harry.

His office is very simple. Apart from simple and necessary furniture, there are only the most books on the bookshelves.

Dumbledore instructed Sherlock to put Justin on the sofa, and then personally checked his condition.

Harry and the others became nervous again, because Snape began to testify against them, wondering why they didn't attend the Halloween dinner.

They anxiously explained that they went to Nick's death anniversary dinner, so they were absent from the activities in the auditorium.

And Dumbledore, who was more specific about Justin's situation, shook his head to clear Harry and the others.

"It was extremely powerful black magic that petrified Justin. It can't be a second-year student."

But Snape was still aggressive, asking Harry why they didn't go straight back to the Great Hall after leaving the party.

Harry didn't tell them that they went to the third floor due to hearing a strange voice.

They felt that this reason was untenable, and it was not a good thing to spread around.

Sherlock was in a daze while watching Justin's stiff body, not focusing on Snape's interrogation of the three of Harry.

The petrified Justin evoked part of his memory.

The basilisk released from the secret room should have the ability to petrify.

But why did he get the impression that the first victim was a cat?

Why did it become the boy in front of you now?

At this time Professor McGonagall had already called over the little Hufflepuff wizard who was eating with Justin at the Halloween dinner and asked them why Justin left early.

The two of Justin's friends said that Justin had been feeling unwell since this morning. He went to the infirmary in the morning and was diagnosed with a cold by Madam Pomfrey, who then let him drink a potion.

As a result, in the afternoon, he seemed to have eaten something unclean and started to have diarrhea again.

Not long after the banquet started today, he left early and went back to the dormitory to rest.

Finally, he was attacked in the corridor on the third floor.

Dumbledore and the others didn't find any clues from it, and Sherlock was still thinking about when the plot changed.

Ever since he found out that he had come to the world of Harry Potter, especially since he knew that he was going to Hogwarts as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts by accident, Sherlock never thought that the plot could develop according to the original trajectory.

After all, every Defence Against the Dark Arts professor is an important character in each film, and this year just changed a person, and the future development will naturally not be the same as before.

But now even the first attack didn't even affect the same species, so since when did everything change from the original?

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Editor: When the fire nation attacked

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Just when he couldn't think of any clues, Dumbledore's investigation into tonight's incident also ended.

He had Justin sent to Madam Pomfrey and said that Professor Sprout was cultivating a batch of mandrakes recently, and when the herbs matured and made into a potion, he would be cured, and Justin wakes up, they can know the real perpetrator.

Tonight's attack just came to an end.