Chapter 63: The Secret Chamber Opens
In the next few days, Lu Yunkai deliberately avoided Ginny, and even more so Harry and Ron.
On the surface, it was because of the upcoming Quidditch season opener between Gryffindor and Slytherin, but in fact, Lu Yunkai wanted to avoid contact with Ginny.
However, behind the scenes, Lu Yunkai did not stop trying to solve the notebook. On the one hand, he arranged for Chris to monitor Ginny, and on the other hand, he began to look for relevant information in the book.
Wizards are wizards after all, and spells are more reliable than potions.
When Chris said this before, Lu Yunkai was reluctant to admit it, but now he realized that when facing something like a notebook, spells are indeed the foundation.
So during the break time the next day, Lu Yunkai ran to the library and borrowed a book "Curses and Counter-Curses" written by Windick Winridian. That night, he sat in his "fixed seat" in the lounge and studied it.
Compared to the entire Slytherin College, where few people can do better than him in potions (of course with the help of the red crystal potion bottle), Slytherin has a lot of excellent students in spells, especially those involving curses and dark magic.
Although these students are also happy to give Lu Yunkai some appropriate help, they only make Lu Yunkai realize faster that this book doesn't seem to be very suitable.
But it doesn't matter, at most he can just change the book...
In this way, time soon came to the weekend.
The Quidditch Cup, the biggest extracurricular activity for Hogwarts students, officially opened.
Although Lu Yunkai is really not interested in Quidditch, as Malfoy's first match, his opponent is Harry, he seems to have no reason not to go to the scene.
The stadium was full of people, and the Gryffindor and Slytherin students who have always disliked each other have rarely found an occasion where they can openly curse each other without being warned by the professors, so they will naturally not let it go.
However, Lu Yunkai, who was in the crowd, and Blaise, Daphne and her two best friends beside him, were not so enthusiastic about this kind of occasion.
"Do you still want to watch?" Daphne asked Lu Yunkai with some boredom, listening to the deafening shouting of Goyle and Crabbe next to her.
"Since you are here, take a look." Lu Yunkai smiled and comforted Daphne, "This is the safest place at this time."
"... Yeah." Hearing Lu Yunkai say this, Daphne could only smile and nodded in agreement.
In the past few days, Lu Yunkai has always asked her to stay by his side as much as possible when she is free. Because of this matter, Millicent and Pansy, who didn't know the truth, already had some opinions, thinking that Lu Yunkai was completely a "control freak", and advised Daphne not to be deceived by Lu Yunkai.
Only Daphne knew that Lu Yunkai was worried about her safety, but she was happy to obey Lu Yunkai more and more.
For this reason, Blaise complained to Lu Yunkai one night, "No wonder my mother likes you so much. It turns out that you have the same tricks to deal with the opposite sex as her!"
Lu Yunkai used the excuse of "I'm here" to keep Daphne to watch the game, and did not disappoint anyone. It was indeed an extremely thrilling game.
Excitement is the way Gryffindor won. Although Slytherin relied on the latest Nimbus broom given by the Malfoy family to completely crush the opponent riding the old broom in speed, Gryffindor relied on Harry Potter's personal heroic performance and used the 150 points of catching the Golden Snitch to achieve a Jedi comeback and win.
The thrill is the process of the game, thrilling and dangerous.
During the game, Harry almost fell off the broom several times. This was obviously not a problem with Harry's ability to control the broom, but a problem with the Nimbus 2000 he received as a gift from Professor McGonagall. The broom seemed to have its own consciousness and tried its best to throw Harry off the broom.
But in this situation, Harry still found the Golden Snitch first, which made Malfoy get scolded by Flint after the game.
"It seems that I am unlucky. Flint said that he will start special training for me next week."
That night, Malfoy, with a gloomy face, came to Lu Yunkai who was flipping through a book and whispered.
"Do you want me to prepare some healing ointment for you?" This time, Lu Yunkai didn't have so much teasing when he spoke.
"Okay." Malfoy gritted his teeth and nodded.
Lu Yunkai didn't say much, and directly took out the potion refining equipment from the space bag he carried with him, and skillfully began to make the ointment he had made for Flint last year.
This is why Lu Yunkai is willing to associate with Malfoy even though he knows that Malfoy is a bad-tempered and annoying young man. Malfoy's arrogant look is actually learned from his father. His nature is not that bad. For example, the unwillingness to admit defeat and the fear of hardship he showed at this time are very much to Lu Yunkai's taste.
"But I think you should prepare something for Potter as well. He was in a much worse situation today than I was."
Of course, this kind of sentence added at the end is not so pleasing.
But what Malfoy said was also true. Harry did win the Quidditch match against Slytherin, but he was completely defeated in the "war" against the out-of-control broom.
The broom finally succeeded in throwing him off it. Harry caught the Golden Snitch and was also seriously injured.
Now he is lying in the infirmary.
Lu Yunkai had already visited the sleeping Harry before dinner, and met Ginny there who was still holding her notebook. Ginny's anxious and distressed expression made Lu Yunkai immediately think of Daphne...
This made Lu Yunkai understand that if he didn't care about Ginny, Harry would definitely lose his friend!
A pair of healing ointments is no longer a problem for Lu Yunkai now, without using the red crystal bottle. While chatting, reading, waiting, and asking for advice from the bored seniors who came over to say hello, a box of ointments was ready. .
Then without saying anything about giving money, Malfoy happily took the plaster and left.
Lu Yunkai didn't say anything. Anyway, the plaster wasn't worth much, so Lu Yunkai regarded it as a gift for his mother when she bought the necklace...
In this way, a rather colorful weekend passed in a lively and peaceful manner. After the first week of adjustment, the new school year at Hogwarts was on the right track.
For Lu Yunkai, eating, attending classes, checking and practicing spells in the lounge during breaks, and occasionally accepting potion making "commissions" from classmates and seniors, earning some pocket money and making friends at the same time, besides always I was worried that Ginny would be completely controlled by the notebook, but everything else was business as usual.
But whatever you worry about will come.
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"Meow! What are you doing! Take it off for me!!"
"Put it on for me! Otherwise, you are not allowed to go out!"
Lu Yunkai's voice was louder than Chris's. He roared and put a collar around Chris's neck.
His mood was tense.
And this nervousness is not unique to him.
"Yun Kai, you don't have to be so scared, right?"
Blaise, who was watching Lu Yun's development in the dormitory, looked worried, but still gave him some advice.
"This wretched cat runs much wilder than Filch's cat. God knows when we will encounter this kind of wretched cat. I don't want to bury it one day!"
Lu Yunkai stared at Chris fiercely.
With an aggrieved look on her face, Chris pawed at the collar around her neck.
It knew very well that this collar was not cheap. Lu Yun spent tens of thousands of gold galleons to buy it from the system. According to the introduction of the system, this is a pet version of a stand-in doll, which can block the wearer from malicious intent. Spell attack.
Well, the ones used for pets are dozens of times more expensive than those used by humans, so there’s nothing wrong with that.
Of course, more importantly, it was sleeping in the dormitory when this incident happened, and Lu Yunkai had just dragged it out of bed. Chris, who had always felt that the entire Hogwarts was under its nose, suffered a big blow this time.
"Filch's cat deserved it. He stared at the students like mice all day long and was finally retaliated against." Blaise complained fiercely.
"This was not done by students..."
"Obviously." Blaise shook his head.
"Okay." Lu Yun smiled, "I'm going to the lounge for a while. Do you want to go out?"
"I don't have Daphne who needs my company." Blaise teased Lu Yun with a smile.
"..." Lu Yunkai glared at Blaise, but still left the dormitory and returned to the lounge.
The lounge was buzzing with people, and students from all walks of life were talking about the sensational incident that happened in the school during dinner today.
Filch, the school administrator, discovers that his cat, Mrs. Norris, has been petrified.
But that's not all. On the wall next to it, there is a row of words written in the blood of an unknown animal.
The angry Filch, of course, thought this was a prank by a certain student, and angrily asked Dumbledore to conduct a thorough investigation into the matter. However, Lu Yunkai, who was dining in the restaurant at the time, saw a familiar reaction in Dumbledore's expression.
Just like when he told him that Quirrell drank unicorn blood.
That was definitely not a normal reaction, but he still insisted on telling Filch to calm down, and then arranged for McGonagall, Snape and Lockhart to go check it out.
It is said that only a few people, including Dumbledore, knew about the situation at the scene. After the investigation was over, Dumbledore used a spell to clean up the words written on the wall.
Almost all the students didn't know what the row of bloody words specifically said.
However, the petrified cat is paired with a row of blood characters. Even if you don’t know the content, just think about it, it must be revenge! So now the students in the lounge are discussing enthusiastically who did it to Filch's cat.
To be honest, Filch, the administrator of Hogwarts, is the second least popular person, so no one is the first. The list of people who would take revenge on his cat can easily be long. string.
The reason why Lu Yunkai came to the lounge in a hurry was to find out whether this incident was really just a revenge.
If not, that's a problem...