Chapter 82 Sequelae
The consequences of the Weasley brothers' night out are beginning to show.
Filch seemed to be sure that the students who went out that night were from Gryffindor. Every time a Gryffindor student passed by him, Filch would always stare hard at the passing student. The Gryffindor student seemed to want to find out whoever was playing tricks on him that night.
Filch's strange behavior made all the Gryffindor students feel puzzled.
Compared to Filch who had no clue, Snape had obviously found the culprit of that night outing.
During the Potions class on Friday, Albert dared to pat his chest and promised that he heard Snape talking about night walks and confinement to the Weasley brothers.
Obviously, Snape had confirmed that the students who tricked both him and Filch that night were the twin brothers in front of him.
For this reason, Snape made a casual excuse, deducted five points from Fred and George, and cleared their potions scores for today.
There was no other way. Neither of them could resist "Snape's gaze" from behind. The potion they brewed to treat scabies was full of mistakes. One sip would probably kill someone half to death.
Before get out of class, in addition to normal homework, Snape asked Fred and George to write an extra report on the preparation of the potion to treat scabies, which was no less than five inches long, on the grounds that they were terrible at preparing the potion to treat scabies. .
The students in the classroom all cast sympathetic glances at the Weasley twins, because the Weasley twins were not the only ones who were terrible at mixing potions.
"How did Snape know?" George was very puzzled. They were sure that Snape had determined that they were the students who wandered in the castle that night.
There was probably no evidence and no one could be caught, so Snape resorted to this deliberately disgusting method to punish the Weasley brothers for their night parade.
"Perhaps, he can read minds." Albert said without hesitation: "There must be magic that can see through other people's minds. Snape might use it at will. Don't you think he can see through whether others are lying?"
Of course Albert knew very well how Snape could see through their minds, but he would not tell Fred and George directly, otherwise he would not be able to explain it to them.
“Can this kind of thing really be done?” Lee Jordan expressed doubts.
“I don’t know, but I think it’s possible!” Albert reminded. "In the past few days, you all should calm down. I heard that Filch will be patrolling the castle all day and night, eager to catch students wandering at night and hang them from the ceiling to cool into dried salted fish.
"You are the only one who will become a dried fish." Fred rolled his eyes angrily, but he still agreed with Albert's kind reminder and stopped going out for night swimming for the time being. Committing a crime against the wind is obviously asking for death, especially when It's never a good thing to directly provoke Filch.
However, the two of them firmly believed that next time they went on a night out, Filch would not be able to force them into the same embarrassing situation as last time.
“By the way, when did you discover this secret passage?” Lee Jordan asked in surprise as he followed the Weasley twins through the secret passage.
“Of course I found it that night.” Fred attributed the discovery of the secret passage to his last night trip.
Albert naturally knew the reason, but he would not reveal it. He just silently remembered the location of the secret passage.
On the way back to the common room, Fred suddenly remembered something and said to Albert with a serious face: "Lend us your last paper on potions to treat scabies."
However, when Snape returned the treatise on the potion to treat scabies to Albert, he did not forget to warn him not to try it in Potions class, otherwise he would be threatened with confinement. "
Of course, Albert completely ignored Snape's threats and verbally promised that he would not do anything.
“I heard that Snape never gave Gryffindor students an O (excellent) for their homework.”
"It's normal. Snape is the master of potions. The potions we make must be terrible in his eyes." Albert didn't care at all. Before giving the parchment to George, he did not forget to remind: "Don't copy it directly. , otherwise even I will be unlucky too."
Fred took the parchment handed over by Albert and said with a smile: "We will pay attention."
“By the way, what are the ratings?” Li Qiaodan suddenly asked.
"If the result is qualified, it will usually be O, E, and A, which correspond to excellent, good, and passing respectively." Albert thought for a while and gave a simple explanation to Li Qiaodan, "If it is unqualified, it will be P, D, or T. …”
"If you get a T on your homework, be careful about being expelled from school." Fred interrupted Albert and said mysteriously.
“Why?” Li Qiaodan was even more puzzled.
“T is extremely bad.”
"No, T stands for troll, which means your brain is almost the same as that of a troll." George said seriously: "You know, Hogwarts does not admit troll students."
Albert couldn’t help but rolled his eyes and said, “By the way, I’m going out for a night out that weekend, remember to call me.”
“Are you going to go on a night outing too?” Li Jordan seemed to have heard something incredible.
"Yes, I'm going to go shopping too. As you know, students are prohibited from entering the restricted book area." Albert said mysteriously: "If you want to borrow books from the restricted book area, you need to use special means."
“What book do you want to borrow?” Fred asked curiously.
“The Book of Spells by Miranda Gorshak.”
“Why, I always feel that the title of this book is very familiar?” Fred murmured.
“Idiot, the book we use in our Charms class is "Standard Spells, Elementary" written by Miranda Gorshak." Li Jordan said angrily.
“Fred is indeed an idiot.” George said with a sure expression.
“Then you must be a fool too. Who made us twin brothers?”
"Both of them are idiots." Li Qiaodan muttered, "Isn't this set of books the textbooks we use? How come they are in the restricted book area?"
"The "Standard Spells" series we are using now is actually a castrated version. There are seven books in this set, one for each semester. In fact, the original name of this book is "The Book of Spells."" Albert explained, " The books we use now have had part of the spell removed. I once wrote to the owner of Flourish and Blotts, but he told me that the book was no longer available because it had been discontinued decades ago. The only one sold is the revised version we are using now."
(End of this chapter)