duel day at hogwarts

If he were alone, Sean would definitely investigate the inside of the Forbidden Forest along the direction Hagrid came back. But now he was not the only one here, so Sean just watched Hagrid leave the Forbidden Forest with his teeth without taking any action.

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As the night gets darker, the music and laughter coming from Hogwarts Castle gradually weaken.

Sean jumped down from the tree with Luna, and the two returned to Hogwarts Castle arm in arm, where they parted ways.

"Sean, I will return these clothes and jewelry to you tomorrow."

Shaking his head, Sean smiled and said: "No, you can keep it. It's a gift from me."

"In this way..." Luna thought seriously for a moment, then nodded slightly and said, "Okay, then I will accept these things."

"Well, good night, Luna."

"Bye, Sean."

The Christmas holiday was not long, and there was also the Triwizard Tournament, so Sean only wrote a letter and did not choose to go home.

The papers previously submitted for "Animagus" also need to be reviewed after the holidays, so Sean is not in a hurry to check whether they have passed the review. Anyway, Hogwarts will start school on January 3rd, and the Wizengamot will also start.

The work has almost started, and by then the results of the paper review will have been responded to.

Early the next morning, after the Yule Ball, Hogwarts suddenly became less crowded.

Most of the students chose to go home, and many of the guests who came to Hogwarts also went back, causing the noisy Hogwarts in the past to suddenly become quiet.

Of the four Seans, Andy and Jason both went home.

On the contrary, Brace, who usually went home often, chose to stay in school.

Sean knew that Brace and Rowena wanted to spend more time with each other during the holidays, and Andy originally didn't want to go home, but his father sent many letters urging him to do so, so Andy had to change his plan to go home for Christmas.

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Andy also made it clear to Sean that he knew that his family's sudden interest in him was for the sake of his relationship with Sean. They had even hinted that Andy would give him the operating rights to the new mental recovery potion that Sean gave him.

Leave it to the family, but after Andy experienced being betrayed by his friend, he was very clear about this, so he didn't talk about it at all, and the matter fell into place. Now Andy has become a full-fledged man, and Morgan

The family can't control him at all.

Of course, from the perspective of the Morgan family, Andy has become a bitch-hearted now, but they don't realize that they only regard Andy as a dog, so how can they blame Andy for being a bitch-hearted?

At noon on the second day of the Yule Ball, Sean and Brace had lunch together.

The two were chatting, and suddenly an owl flew in and delivered a letter to Sean's hands.

When Sean saw the letter, he suddenly realized who had sent the letter, so he read it very cautiously, covering Brace's sight without leaving any trace, and quickly glanced at it.

, and then put the letter away.

"Sean whose letter is this?"

"Something happened at home. I may have to go back temporarily in the afternoon and evening. I will come back tomorrow morning. If someone from school asks about me then, you can help me cover it."

"Is it something important? Do you need my help?"

"No, it's just some minor matters. Just go back in the evening." Having said this, Sean changed the topic without leaving any trace and said, "You and Rowena have no activities today?"

Speaking of his girlfriend, Blaise immediately put other things behind him and said with a smile: "Of course we have other activities, we are preparing to go to Hogsmeade today, and then..."

Sean listened to Blaise's plan with a smile.

By the time the two of them finished eating, Blaise had forgotten that Sean had received the letter and was leaving temporarily.

After lunch, Sean returned to the Slytherin common room. After resting for a while, he cast the Disillusionment Curse and left the common room. He left Hogwarts and went straight to Hogsmeade, where he found the three people waiting for him. Marlowe from the Broomstick Bar.

This time, Marlowe still used Polyjuice Potion to transform into an intellectual witch in her thirties. Now Sean is very sure that Marlowe must have awakened some unique quirk.

"Master~ you are here~"

"..."

There’s no need to even imitate the tone!

You are a dark wizard who once served under Voldemort!

You became like this as soon as you joined my army. How can you be seen by others?

"Well, Marlowe, let's get down to business."

"Master~I..."

"What's going on? Let's be a little more normal?"

"Master~ I just want to imitate the transformed witch from the inside out. I think it will be harder to be discovered this way."

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, because just now, when Marlowe was speaking, he gave him a wink!

"Marlowe, I'm right here, you don't need to worry about being discovered."

"Okay, I understand Master."

Looking at Marlowe who was back to normal, Sean asked: "The words in your letter were unclear. Did something big happen?"

"That's right, Master. In recent times, I have listened to you and worked for Howard wholeheartedly. In addition, there have been a group of werewolf wizards in Knockturn Alley recently who are ruthless. I have actually had several incidents with Mr. Howard's men. The conflict caused Boss Howard to suffer heavy losses, and we people finally caught his eye.

Since half a year ago, he has been trying to win over us many times and secretly divide us. I also pretended to let the people Howard approached pretend to betray me and agreed to the other party's win over. In the past six months, we have had superficial conflicts. It's getting more and more serious, and it's reached the point where fire and water are incompatible.

At this time, Howard was persuading us on the surface, but at the same time he was secretly trying to win over the several parties we were divided by. Recently, we have been pretending to be won over by him. Currently, Howard has taken us under his command. Some of them were even taken in as confidants, and what happened this time was the news sent by those people who were taken in as confidants.”

After hearing Marlowe's words, Sean immediately realized that the opportunity he had been waiting for had arrived.

Sure enough, Marlowe continued: "Howard is going to seek help from the Aurors in the Ministry of Magic who support him tonight to negotiate. His recent losses to his men have been too serious, and the werewolves who were killed midway are still eating away at Howard's power bit by bit. , so he can only seek help from the Aurors who support him."

"The wait has finally come." After muttering to himself, Sean looked at Marlowe and said, "Now that the opportunity has arrived, it's time for us to take action and let them prepare."

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