Hogwarts: My name is the Unforgivable Curse

In this way, the Christmas holiday ended in a storm - of course, it was only the wizarding society that was shaken, but the interior of Hogwarts was decorated with lights, as if another Christmas had passed.

Although the students who left school had already received letters from the school and knew about the basilisk attack, there were still many people - especially Muggle-born students who were a little worried. After all, the continuous attacks and Dumbledore's Lido's departure has greatly damaged the school's image in their hearts.

But when they returned to school and saw the huge basilisk corpse on the ceiling and the smiling Dumbledore on the principal's desk, all doubts and uneasiness disappeared.

At the dinner at the end of the Christmas vacation, Dumbledore appeared in person, explained to all the teachers and students the truth about all the events in the past six months, and comforted the angry students in time before they lifted the ceiling, saying that all the school directors involved had He has been expelled from the school board, controlled by Aurors, awaiting trial, and seriously asked the students not to vent their dissatisfaction with those people on their children in the school.

For this reason, Dumbledore also deliberately told a little lie - he lied that the children of the school directors involved, such as Marcus and Pansy, did not know about their parents' plan, and sadly became the victims of the plan. In order to make the attack more credible, they did not hesitate to attack their own children...

Although I don’t know how the person involved was feeling, these remarks did make the students, who were further shocked by the school director’s ruthlessness, suddenly sympathized with students like Marcus and Pansy who had been attacked during the coma incident. . As for Draco Malfoy and the like, who not only were not attacked, but also jumped during the basilisk's chaos... they can only hope for their own blessings.

And due to the arrest of the former Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Gilderoy Lockhart, the Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the second half of the semester will be taught in turn by Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Professor Sprout and Professor Snape. .

"Oh, by the way, besides that..."

After explaining the ins and outs of the basilisk attack and watching the students gradually regain their composure, Dumbledore clapped his hands again: "As for the behavior of Professor Severus Snape during his temporary tenure as principal, I It also needs some special clarification.”

"During that period, we have maintained close contact. Many of the criminal evidence involved in the school directors were identified and organized by him. Moreover, Professor Snape did his best as a principal when he was the principal. Responsibility and do our best to protect the safety of teachers and students.”

"For example, it was his suggestion to install shields on the eyes of the basilisk. The purpose was to limit the lethality of the basilisk to the greatest extent and prevent students from actually dying. Not only that, the original decision of the school board was to expel the monster directly. All Muggle-born students, it was he who came forward to argue, so that the Muggle-born students were only verbally expelled, but not fully implemented..."

"And in the end, his tacit cooperation also played a decisive role in the process of seducing the dark magic item."

Dumbledore glanced at Snape, who was sitting in his seat with a calm expression, and then turned his head: "So, even though Professor Snape may have said some unpleasant things to everyone before, that's just Forced by the situation. So please don't be biased or dissatisfied with him because of this, and I have also decided to retain Professor Snape's position as Potions Professor and Head of Slytherin House."

There was a commotion among the students below, vaguely mixed with complaints such as "Do you need these reasons to be dissatisfied with him?" However, under the secret leadership of some people hidden in the crowds of various colleges, the auditorium finally There was still a burst of sparse applause.

"Besides that, I have some good news to announce."

Dumbledore suddenly stood up with a happy smile and raised the glass in his hand to the students in the auditorium: "Since we have successfully killed the basilisk and obtained its evil eye as research material, the petrified students The recovery time will be greatly advanced - Professor Snape and Professor Sprout said that an antidote can be developed in March at most, allowing them to fully recover."

"As for the courses they missed, and the exams for fifth and seventh grade——"

He had to raise his voice loudly to suppress the cheers of the students: "We will provide special tutoring for their situation, and the Wizarding Examination Authority has also agreed to conduct an independent Owls or Newt exam for them. , and enter the results into the file according to normal standards.”

"Finally, regarding the capture of Voldemort's dark magic items and the killing of the basilisk, several students have made extremely significant contributions. They have even done more wonderful things than this bad old man like me, and they have to go straight to the root cause. …”

The cheers of the students suddenly fell silent.

"But,"

Looking at the curious eyes of the students below, Dumbledore smiled slyly: "In order to allow everyone to share these wonderful deeds, and to prevent too much attention from causing inconvenience to their daily study and life, I decided to hide it for the time being. Their identities will not be made public until the end of this semester, when all the petrified students are recovered, and when the winners of this year’s College Cup are announced..."

"ah……"

Finally, amid the lamentations of the students, the opening meeting came to an end, and the students all left in twos and threes. However, few chose to return to the lounge immediately, and instead wandered around the castle— —After Filch was petrified, the only thing that kept the students from running around was the potential petrification crisis.

And now that the basilisk is dead, Filch has not yet recovered...

"How does it feel, Dobby?"

In the kitchen next to the Hufflepuff common room, Avada and several other Hufflepuffs were sizing up a house elf, watching him wrap a clean sheet and skillfully clean it with magic. tableware……

"Excellent, sir!"

The elf responded briskly: "Although Dobby has forgotten what life was like in his previous owner, Mr. Dumbledore, who told me his name was Malfoy, but there is an intuition that tells Dobby that now Life is ten thousand times better than before!”

"That's good."

Avada nodded happily, and then asked curiously: "But why did you choose to stay in the kitchen of Hogwarts? Have you never wanted to completely abandon all restraints and live a free life as an independent individual? Are you going down?"

"Dobby is a free elf now!"

Dobby became excited: "Mr. Dumbledore is willing to hire Dobby to work in the kitchen, and is also willing to give me salary and holidays! He also said that if Dobby is not satisfied, he can leave at any time... But Dobby will not! More I love it here!”

"Elf for hire?"

The other Hufflepuffs suddenly became curious: "Is there such a thing?"

"It seems that he was abandoned by the original owner and lost all his memory, right? In this case, there seems to be no other way to find a job other than hiring him."

"But it sounds good..."

"Hey, Dobby, could you please tell me, how much salary and holidays does Dumbledore give you?"

In order to quickly chat with the new elf, some people even rolled up their sleeves and took out their wands to clean the bowls, not forgetting to ask various questions while doing so...

Avada didn't know when she had retreated to the door of the kitchen. She looked at Dobby happily chatting with the students while rushing to live it up again, and raised the corner of his mouth.

‘That’s good. ’

Then he left the kitchen quietly, not disturbing the scene in front of him again.