Chapter 143: Chapter 143: Why Am I Being Told to Drop Out Again?
"The Weasley brothers are really too awesome! From today on, they are my idols!" By the Black Lake, John excitedly said to Link.
And upon hearing this, Link only smiled and nodded slightly.
Although the farce in the Great Hall had already passed for a whole day, the heat among the crowd had not diminished in the slightest.
Many people once again became fans of George and Fred.
"It's just a pity that they were eventually caught by Snape. Really don't know how that big bat Snape is going to punish them."
"Probably he'll make them squeeze one hundred units of dragon dung juice without wearing dragon-hide gloves." Link answered without thinking.
"How do you know that?"
John asked suspiciously, but Link didn't answer him again. He only rolled his eyes at him impatiently.
'Isn't this kind of thing obvious?'
Seeing Link not answering, the completely puzzled John was just about to keep asking when the tall and burly Hagrid suddenly appeared in front of everyone and said, "Students, Professor Kettleburn asked me to inform you all, you can leave class now."
"But… we haven't even started class yet?" A student in the front row asked somewhat dissatisfied.
Recently, all their Care of Magical Creatures classes had passed like this as self-study, which made many students who truly loved the subject feel quite displeased.
In the past, when Professor Kettleburn personally led, they perhaps wouldn't dare voice any complaints, after all, Professor Kettleburn looked quite scary and was going to retire this year anyway, so he didn't care about anything. But facing Hagrid, they dared to ask loudly.
"Ah this..." Hagrid obviously hadn't encountered such a situation before and stammered, "There's some disturbance in the Forbidden Forest. Professor Kettleburn has been busy handling it lately, so please you all..."
Looking at Hagrid, who was being surrounded by the students at the front of the line, Link shook his head and quickly ran back to the castle.
He had no interest in making things difficult for Hagrid like the others. Right now, he had an even more important matter to attend to.
Link ran all the way to the outside of the Slytherin common room. The terrain here was very low, seemingly also an entrance to a basement.
At this moment, a group of Slytherin girls were gathered at the entrance of the common room. They were giggling and discussing something, all holding some pink envelopes in their hands, seemingly preparing to ask the dwarves to help them deliver letters.
And among them, Link soon spotted Pansy.
To be fair, Pansy was actually quite a cute mushroom-headed girl, only it was a pity that due to her family background, her personality was very explosive and nasty.
Link wasn't polite, he directly went up and dragged Pansy aside and said, "Help me call Emily out."
The suddenly pulled-away Pansy had originally been ready to start cursing loudly, but the moment she saw it was Link, she instantly went silent.
In the end, she could only slink off back into the common room.
At the same time, all the girls who had gathered at the entrance also disappeared completely.
They all seemed very afraid of Link, or rather, afraid of Emily.
Not long after, Emily finally appeared.
Today, Emily was still dressed in her usual Slytherin school robes, but her black hair seemed to have changed a bit.
More importantly, she had become even more haggard.
"Oh, Emily, you're finally willing to see me." Looking at the beauty before him, Link said emotionally.
But Emily, upon hearing this, not only didn't reply, she even avoided his eyes, seemingly a little afraid of Link.
This made Link feel very disappointed. In fact, ever since Christmas, he had already tried countless times to find Emily, but whether going to the Victoria mansion or directly to the Slytherin common room, Emily had refused to see him.
This was clearly avoiding him altogether.
Link was also very frustrated about this, he had no idea what exactly he had done to make Emily so angry, to the point she treated him this way.
He only remembered Madam Flamel's teachings about how women need to be coaxed, and so he quickly took out a wooden box from his Seamless Extension Charm pocket and handed it over.
"Happy Valentine's Day, Emily." Link said with a smile.
However, Emily still didn't take it. On the contrary, she even warily took two steps back.
Seeing this, Link took a deep breath, adjusted his emotions a bit, then opened the wooden box toward Emily.
Inside, the wooden box was lined with a thick layer of black silk, on which were inlaid three potions of various colors.
"Emily, listen closely." Link pointed at the potions inside the wooden box and explained, "The droplet-shaped bottle and the diamond-shaped bottle contain Felix Felicis and Polyjuice Potion respectively. I won't elaborate on their effects. As for the remaining bottle, it's a new one I just developed, Blood of Boreas. It can strengthen your agility stat."
As Link introduced, the expression on Emily's face gradually turned to surprise.
But strangely, Emily's gaze had never fallen on the potions; instead, it had been fixed on Link's face the entire time.
However, Link, busy showing off his proud creation, didn't notice this detail and continued, "Recently, the situation at Hogwarts might become even worse. Emily, you've cancelled your extra tutoring with Professor Snape and reduced your outings, this part you've done well."
"But it's still not enough. I hope you'll use these three potions! Especially the Felix Felicis, you'd better wear it around your neck like a necklace. Believe me, it could save your life at a crucial moment." Link spoke with utmost sincerity and once again pushed the wooden box forward.
But this time, Emily still didn't take it.
Instead, Emily slowly reached out her hand, skipped past the wooden box, and directly touched Link's face, like a blind person feeling an elephant, slowly exploring.
At the same time, her eyes gradually welled up with tears. Finally, in a tearful voice tinged with some familiar uncertainty, a sound once again entered Link's ears, "Link?"
"Eh!"
Link instinctively responded and gently held Emily's hand with some heartache.
This time, Emily didn't pull away. "Link! Link! Link!"
Like a valve being opened, Emily called Link's name again and again, her tone shifting from the initial confusion to absolute certainty.
And Link also responded to Emily again and again. They stood at the entrance of the Slytherin common room shouting like two lunatics.
Honestly, though it wasn't raining, it really did have the flavor of a Qiong Yao soap opera.
But this time, Link didn't feel the slightest bit of awkwardness, because the person standing in front of him was named Emily, the person he liked.
The two of them continued like that for a while before Emily's emotions finally calmed down.
She hugged the wooden box tightly and said seriously to Link, "Link, drop out! Let's both drop out! Let's go back to Flamel Castle or go somewhere else, I will take care of you!"
"Uh… can you tell me why?" Link hesitated a bit before speaking.
Right now, the expression on his face was quite marvelous, because Emily was already the seventh person to persuade him to drop out.
He really didn't understand why they all wanted him to drop out.
"Because he…" Emily clutched Link's hand and said emotionally.
But just as she said the first part, she stopped abruptly, and at the same time, her expression suddenly turned to fear.
And Link, startled, realized that Emily's gaze was actually directed behind him.
Which meant, the thing that made Emily react so strongly, was right behind him?
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