Chapter 19: Unfortunate Harry and Ron
At this time, Harry and Ron were completely absent from the joy of the day.
Whether the entire Hogwarts students have any admiration for them, they don't know.
But when Snape caught them, he expressed his admiration for them gloomily.
"Sure enough, it's Harry Potter, who is very capable, and Ron Weasley, who doesn't give his family peace of mind. Do you think you can avoid punishment by doing this?"
Harry and the others look really miserable now.
The clothes on the two of them were all tattered, almost torn into rags.
Ron's wand was broken into two pieces, with only some wood strands remaining, making it a complete one.
His arm was also bent in an irregular shape. The pain of the fracture made his face pale, his lips trembled uncontrollably, and a small moan could not be avoided in his throat.
Harry was supporting Ron by the side, and he wasn't doing too well.
Blood dripped from his head all over his face. From the appearance alone, he looked even more serious than Ron.
The car suddenly lost control as it approached Hogwarts, taking the two of them into the hitting willow tree behind the castle.
The magic willow tree seemed to feel that its life was threatened, and attacked Harry and Ron sitting in the car as if going crazy.
Although the two of them escaped by luck, they also turned into the miserable appearance they are today.
Harry now only feels dizzy and nauseated in his stomach.
The injury on his head wasn't the battering willow tree, but when the car hit it, the force hit his head on the front windshield.
He said weakly.
"Professor, I think we now..."
"To shut up!"
Snape cut in coldly what he wanted to continue.
"Wait here for me! Don't go anywhere!"
He settled them in a small cubicle next to the auditorium, and then walked out in a hurry. Before Harry and the others waited, Snape came back with two potion bottles in his hands.
"Drink it!"
He put two bottles of potion in front of Harry and Ron respectively.
Seeing that it was the potion he handed over, Harry instinctively doubted and resisted.
But looking at Snape's stance that if he didn't drink the bottle of medicine immediately, he would pry open his mouth with pliers and pour himself into his mouth, and he had to overcome his own psychological barrier.
Closing his eyes, he blew out the bottle of potion in one breath.
The potion took effect very quickly. Harry's originally pale lips turned red after drinking the potion, his mind was no longer dizzy, and the wound wasn't so painful.
Seeing that even Harry had drank Snape's potion, Ron stretched out his intact arm and poured the medicine into his stomach tremblingly.
Soon, the pain on his body subsided, but the broken arm still hadn't grown back, but the overall situation was better than before.
After Harry and Ron found out that Snape was actually helping them, they felt a rare sense of gratitude towards him.
However, this kind of gratitude hadn't just appeared, and Snape's next words made them think that their brains were being eaten by dogs, and they would be grateful to him.
"Come to Hogwarts in an illegally modified car, seen by countless Muggles on the road, in today's paper, and damaged a very precious beating willow at school. Not bad! Potter!"
"It's a pity, you are not students of my college, and I have no right to make a decision to expel you. But I will go and find someone who really has this pleasant privilege. You wait here for me!"
Having said that, he left the compartment with a satisfied smile, leaving only Harry and Ron looking at each other.
"That willow tree is really crazy! It's trying to kill us!" said Ron.
Harry was carefully wiping the blood from his face with the cloth strip on his body.
"It's not that it wants to kill us, it's that it thinks we want to kill it."
"Why are we so unlucky today? There was a problem with the platform wall, the car also had a problem, and I was almost killed by a willow tree!"
"You left one more thing, and we are likely to be expelled from Hogwarts next."
Speaking of this, both of them fell silent.
They have already desperately guessed in their hearts, this time it seems that they really made a big mistake, and even Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore will not forgive them.
Of course Dumbledore wouldn't fire either of them.
After he came to the cubicle and learned what happened from their mouths, he handed over the power to punish them to Professor McGonagall.
And he himself took Snape back and continued to attend the opening dinner that was not over yet.
In the auditorium, the students had already filled their stomachs, and Sherlock also ended the chat with Professor Flitwick.
Said it was a small talk, but in fact, most of the time, this little professor was rambled to teach him how to deal with the experience of the skinny children at Hogwarts. Sherlock just nodded and agreed.
"I know that you are already very tired at this time, and you really want to go back to the warm lounge for a good night's sleep, but I would still like to allow this annoying old man to nag a few more words."
Dumbledore stood up, and his voice spread to every corner of the auditorium.
"Happily, we have a new teacher joining our team this year. Professor Forrest, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com He is glad to fill the vacancy of the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor and will teach you from tomorrow. relevant knowledge.”
The applause from the audience was not warm, but it was also not thin either.
Sherlock's excellent appearance made him the first impression of many girls at Hogwarts.
As the headmaster, Dumbledore doesn't actually have that many long speeches.
After a brief introduction to Sherlock, he emphasized a few things that are emphasized every year, and announced the end of the dinner.
The students chatted away from the auditorium and returned to the lounges of their respective colleges, while Sherlock was led by Filch, the castle keeper, to his future residence and office at Hogwarts.
"Professor Forrest, I still remember you. When you didn't graduate, I thought you were the most promising student at the time. Sure enough, now you have become a professor at Hogwarts."
Filch's words were filled with compliments, but Sherlock didn't show any emotion and said lightly.
"I said when I graduated that I would return to this castle, and now I'm just fulfilling my promise."
Then, he asked again as if inadvertently.
"Are you still patrolling the castle tonight?"
Filch usually only dared to show his prestige in front of students, but as a real professor, he became the most polite person in the entire castle.
"On the first night of the new school, sometimes some disobedient students will come out and run around, so after sending you to your residence, I will do a brief inspection in the castle."
Sherlock nodded lightly, he said casually and plainly.
"I'll take a walk in the castle with you later. It's been three years since I left here. I want to get acquainted with the environment here again."