Hogwarts becomes host

The next day, Daphne pestered Elaine as usual, as if nothing happened yesterday.

This was true on the surface, but privately, Elaine found that Daphne was pulling her harder and harder, and before she left for class or returned to the dormitory, she would always pinch Elaine secretly in the blind corner of her sight, holding her flesh between her fingers. The 180-degree twist was excruciatingly painful.

According to Daphne, it was so that Elaine could remember her.

No matter what method or words she used, Daphne was determined to follow them, which made Elaine very distressed.

Yes, distress.

If Elaine is a simple victim like Harry and Hermione, then Daphne's insistence on not leaving her and her plan to face danger together with her will probably make her very touched, but the problem is that Elaine is the mastermind behind the scenes.

She planned to let the basilisk kidnap Hermione, chase after her alone with Harry and Ron, and then sell the three of them to Riddle.

Otherwise, how can we gain trust and obtain the inheritance of Slytherin?

Now we only know the entrance, but we haven't figured out the protective magic inside yet. We need to get more clues from Riddle.

Therefore, Elaine sincerely hopes that Daphne will stop pestering her. If this continues, she will most likely be seriously injured or petrified, or even die when the basilisk attacks Hermione.

If nothing happens, it will be even more difficult. In that case, Daphne will definitely chase the basilisk with Elaine, Harry, and Ron.

The question is, what will Daphne do when Elaine reveals her true face?

Should he fight side by side with Harry and others against Elaine and the Basilisk, or help Elaine and Riddle do evil and execute the Iron Triangle?

Thinking of this, Elaine almost went crazy.

No matter which one Daphne chooses, it will be difficult for her.

If she chooses to help him, Riddle may accept her because of her pure-blood origin, but he will definitely ask Daphne to do some dirty things as a reward. Will Elaine really let Daphne do it? If she stops Daphne, will it happen? Will make Riddle suspicious

Moreover, all of Elaine's actions were reported to Dumbledore, but Daphne did not. If she so simply surrendered to the Dark Lord for Elaine, would the old headmaster think differently of her? In the future, Harry, Ron, and Hermione How is Min going to get along with her?

If she chooses to help Harry, the situation will not be much better. Seeing the person she likes step by step into darkness, she will have to kill her relatives. Elaine can roughly imagine how painful and desperate Daphne will be by then.

Even if it is unimaginable, when Daphne and Hermione find out that it is all a scam, the two of them will definitely join forces to let Elaine taste the pain and despair.

No excuses or explanations are of any use, girls are unreasonable.

Elaine shuddered.

In short, he must definitely stop Daphne from continuing to pester him.

But things didn't go well at all. Even if Elaine threatened to put a curse on Daphne or tried to persuade her that she was worried about her, Daphne refused to leave.

"I know it's dangerous for me to act with you, but so are you." She said decisively, "It doesn't matter if I get injured or die. I will only regret it if I can't face the threat with you."

This made Elaine collapse. Please, you are my biggest threat.

I have everything planned here, but I just found that getting you involved will make things worse and make things difficult for both of us, so I want you to leave, okay?

Unlike Hermione, you can obviously avoid this disaster, so why do you have to hit me head on and die with me?

What a basilisk and what a Voldemort, in my opinion, neither of them are as dangerous as you.

However, Elaine couldn't say anything on the surface, and she couldn't blame Daphne for getting in the way, because Daphne was stronger than Ron. If Elaine thought Ron could stay by Harry's side and share the difficulties with him, Daphne could naturally stay too.

It wasn't until Daphne told the four that she had obtained the Christmas concession that Elaine finally couldn't help but explode.

The crime forecast at the Halloween party made the students panic, but it was not enough to trigger Hogwarts to activate the highest alert. After all, the other party only released snakes, and the only victims were Elaine and Lockhart, and Elaine was already jumping lively. , there are still students and parents who believe that this is just a personal behavior directed at the Shafiq family or Lockhart.

The skull that resembles the Dark Mark actually reduces the possibility of Voldemort causing trouble. The more the Ministry of Magic deduces, the more it leads to the conclusion that the murderer is a worshiper of the Dark Lord. If it is Voldemort or a Death Eater, they should directly bear the Dark Mark. Therefore, the perpetrator must not be very old, and may not even have seen the real Dark Mark.

Well, Elaine is also a little speechless. She seems to have overlooked that even if it is the same person, the things he draws when he is seventeen years old and when he is fifty years old are likely to be different.

Therefore, the school just announced that all Quidditch competitions, training, and club activities will be suspended until after Christmas. Students must return to the common rooms of each college after 8 pm, and try to act as a group and not be alone.

This Christmas license is the permission to stay in school during the Christmas vacation. After Elaine revealed that the opponent was a basilisk, the professor and the Aurors made a plan to eliminate the snake and prepared to implement it during the Christmas vacation.

In order to prevent the basilisk from spreading to other people, it was natural to clear out the students first. After all, it was a bit troublesome to see who was glaring at the snake eyes. At the same time, they also suspected that the basilisk was controlled by the students, so they asked all the students to leave. This also meant that the murderer was excluded. The snakes controlled by someone were Being strange and being uncontrolled are two different things.

As long as the basilisk is eliminated, a single heir of Slytherin has nothing to fear. The professors and Aurors are very confident. They will first spend a week playing roosters to weaken the basilisk, and have a day off on Christmas. Then spend the rest of your vacation rummaging through the castle, finding the weak basilisk and killing it.

Of course, they did not tell the students what to do, they only said that they would catch the troublesome monsters, so they hoped that students would not stay over Christmas to avoid being affected. Students without special permission would be forcibly sent home.

If someone is found sneaking back to school, they will be treated as a suspect.

Harry and Hermione are exceptions. As designated targets, the Aurors and professors decided to keep them close to Hogwarts for protection, while Ron was allowed to stay because of Elaine, and letting him accompany Harry was actually To be sold to Riddle together.

Logically speaking, Harry, Hermione, Elaine, and Ron should be the only students staying at school this time. Even if the Weasleys go to Romania to visit Charlie, Percy, Ginny, George, and Fred will also He will be sent to Shafik's house to be taken care of by Lupin, not to mention other students.

How could Daphne also get permission? What was Dumbledore thinking?

Elaine was also involved in the snake elimination plan. It was her idea to eliminate all the students. The purpose was to leave Daphne and prevent her from getting involved.