Chapter 871 Missing
Generally speaking, students at Hogwarts usually don’t get up until very late to have breakfast when they have weekend breaks.
However, today was the day for the Triwizard Tournament warriors to vote, and George got up much earlier than usual.
As soon as he got up, he found that Albert's bed was empty, and realized that the other man might not have come back to sleep last night.
Although this situation has happened before, Albert usually asks three people to help feed the cat in advance and does not come back at night without saying hello to them. Obviously something has happened.
George immediately woke up Fred and Lee Jordan who were still sleeping.
“What the **** are you doing so early in the morning?” Fred complained as he rubbed his eyelids and struggled to open his eyes.
Lee Jordan, who was in the next bed, stretched out his hand to cover his yawn, with an unconcealable sleepiness on his face.
“Did Albert tell you that he wouldn’t be back at night?” George reached out and touched Albert’s bed and asked.
“No, don’t worry, it’s not the first time. I’m probably going on a date with my girlfriend again.” Fred covered his yawn and closed his eyes again, curled his neck and got into the bed, preparing to continue sleeping.
“His girlfriend graduated last semester.” George frowned. If Isobel was still in school, this would be very possible.
“Perhaps, he has hooked up with a new girlfriend.” Fred muttered with his eyes closed: “After all, it’s Albert. He really wants to find another girlfriend. It’s probably faster than us changing clothes.”
“Don’t worry about him, remember to help him feed the cat.” Lee Jordan mumbled and lay back on the bed.
Although he didn't want to admit it, George also knew that his worries were somewhat unnecessary. He cast his gaze on the fat cat Tom who was napping carelessly in the cat's nest. He couldn't help but shook his head. He walked to Albert's bedside table, opened the drawer and took out the box containing cat food, and scooped out a large spoonful of Tom's food. Put it in the food bowl.
After smelling the aroma of food, Tom, who had been dozing with his eyes closed, opened his eyes, slowly crawled out of the cat's nest, lay down in the food bowl and started eating.
As for where the **** scraper went, Tom didn't care at all. Anyway, as long as someone fed him on time every day, he would be fine.
When the three of them went downstairs and passed the foyer, they saw a group of people watching, and some of them were actually eating bread.
“Did anyone throw their name into the Goblet of Fire?” Fred walked up to Zannah and asked.
"All the representatives from Durmstrang and all the representatives from Beauxbatons have already put their names in." Shanna looked away from the Goblet of Fire and glanced at Fred, George and Lee Jordan. , couldn’t help but frown and asked: “Where is Albert?”
“I don’t know.” Li Jordan covered his yawn and said, “I don’t know where I went last night.”
"Which of you is old enough, please go and register his name for him!" Shanna suddenly said, "Lest Albert miss the registration time."
“Can someone help me sign up?” Ron asked in surprise.
"Theoretically, it should be possible. You can even stand outside the age line and try to throw the paper ball into the Goblet of Fire." Fred frowned and said, "But whether you can be selected is another matter."
George gave Fred and Lee Jordan the slices of bread he got from the restaurant, and asked casually, "Has anyone signed up for Hogwarts?"
“Someone saw Wallins from Slytherin secretly throwing his name in early in the morning.” Ron said.
“If those kinds of things could become warriors, Hogwarts would really be doomed.” Lee Jordan said contemptuously.
“I guess he’s just making up the numbers.”
“And Diggory, Hufflepuff’s little butter boy,” Ron continued.
"Digory is very good. Even Albert admits this. They are still good friends." Angelina actually giggled, "The point is that Digory is indeed handsome."
“I thought you liked Albert better,” Lee Jordan said sharply.
“Girls all like Albert, but he has a girlfriend.” Angelina shrugged.
“Digory also has a girlfriend.” Fred said without thinking.
“Who?” Angelina asked.
“Girl from Ravenclaw, take your time and guess.” George continued to ask, “Who else is there?”
“Roger Davis of Ravenclaw also threw his name in just now.” Ron was a little absent-minded. He actually wanted to secretly try the method Fred said.
"Has Albert signed up?" Hermione asked without seeing Albert.
“No, he ran away somewhere last night and didn’t return to the dormitory. We can’t find him now.” Lee Jordan explained.
"I think someone doesn't want him to participate in the Triwizard Tournament." Zannah said to George: "You'd better register him in advance to prevent Albert from missing the warrior selection."
The three of them looked at each other, and after some discussion, they finally decided to wait until the afternoon. If Albert still didn’t show up, they would find a way to register him first.
While having lunch, Albert still didn’t show up, as if he had disappeared out of thin air.
"I heard from the girls in Ravenclaw that their prefect Katrina is also missing. She didn't even go back to the dormitory to sleep last night." Zannah brought some breaking news to the three of them, "Someone said Katrina Lina seems to want to use a love potion on Albert to steal her away from Isobel, and many Ravenclaw girls are discussing this matter."
After saying that, Shanna stared at Fred and George, and she knew where Katrina's love potion came from without even thinking about it.
“Do you really think Katrina would do that?” Fred asked with a frown.
“Stealing my sister’s boyfriend?” Li Jordan thought this sounded incredible.
“I remember Katrina actually bought us a bottle of love potion,” Fred said to George.
"This should be impossible. Albert himself is a magic potion expert and is very wary of love potions, not to mention that he carries the antidote to the love potion with him." George did not think that Albert would be tricked and shook his head, "I think This thing is more of a smoke bomb.”
“It depends on who the person is wary of,” Lee Jordan said with excitement. “Maybe Albert wanted to get the sisters, so... maybe he was poisoned by Katrina’s love potion on purpose.”
"It's unlikely. I would rather believe that Albert hid it himself and prepared to amuse everyone." George shook his head, and Lee Jordan's words were just a joke. If Albert was really carefree, he would have been surrounded by a bunch of beautiful girls already, why do he still need to wait until now?
"I think someone took the opportunity to attack them while they were talking, temporarily knocking them out and hiding them." Fred speculated.
“Do you believe this?”
All three of them have played against Albert and know how difficult it is to sneak attack him.
“In what way?”
Looking at the parchment with "Albert Anderson - Hogwarts" written on it, the three of them discussed it together and decided to take the first approach. Anyway, they have taken a lot of age-enhancing drugs, so they have to try it themselves!
“Who’s drinking?” George asked.
“Let’s go together, it’s a rare opportunity.” Fred took the age-enhancing drug.
“Don’t drink too much, we only need to grow up for a few more months.” George reminded, “One or two drops is enough.”
“Together!” After Fred finished taking the age-increasing drug, he handed the bottle to George. “When Albert wins the championship, we must let him treat us to a big meal.”
“Want to come together?” George handed the potion to Lee Jordan.
"I'll forget it. I won't steal your limelight." Li Qiaodan shrugged and refused. He always felt that using age-enhancing drugs was unreliable.
“I’ll leave it to you to register.” With that, Lee Jordan handed over the note addressed to Albert.
“If you succeed, the age-enhancing drugs will definitely sell well.” Fred and George walked shoulder to shoulder towards the edge of the golden age line.
"I'm sure Dumbledore will take this into consideration." Hermione was not optimistic about the twins signing up in this way.
When the Weasley twins stepped into the golden wire, they saw them flying backwards and falling painfully on the marble floor ten feet away.
Not only that, the two men also had white beards sprouting from their chins.
"What are you doing?" Professor Moody walked out of the auditorium on crutches, bent down to pick up the parchment on the ground and said, "You want to sign up for Anderson?"
"After Albert went out last night, we don't know where he went now. We suspect that someone is trying to prevent him from registering for the Triwizard Tournament, so we want to register for him to prevent Albert from missing the registration time." Lee Jordan He quickly walked over to help Fred and George up, and asked expectantly: "Professor, can you help throw that note into the Goblet of Fire? You know, Albert originally planned to sign up for the Triwizard Tournament. "
"Stop it, who wants to stop it? Who does he think he is? Does he really think he is a warrior?" A senior Slytherin student sarcastically said, "I think Anderson is just afraid that he will not be elected as a warrior, so he found an excuse to hide. Woke up."
"Walins, even if Albert doesn't sign up in the end, it won't be your turn to be a Hogwarts warrior." Lee Jordan said contemptuously.
Walins seemed to want to say something else, but Professor Moody gave him a sharp look and shut up.
"I will handle this matter. It seems that there is a despicable guy trying to prevent Hogwarts from winning the championship. I have to go to Dumbledore first." Professor Moody walked into the auditorium holding the note.
At this moment, Professor Moody was angry on the surface, but actually he was in a good mood. The disappearance of the mudblood meant that his plan had been successful.
"Even Professor Moody thinks that Albert can help Hogwarts win the championship. As for you..." Li Jordan made a rude gesture towards Wallins and accompanied Fred and George to the school hospital.
“This thing is indeed a bit strange!”
On the way to the campus hospital, Fred stroked his beard and said: "With Albert's vigilance, he will definitely not be easily tricked."
“Last night...Katrina seemed to have something to stop him.” Lee Jordan reminded.
"She has no reason to do that!" George shook his head, "Unless she is controlled."
“The Imperius Curse?” the three of them said in unison.
“Professor Moody?”
"It's very possible that if he is an impostor, he will definitely not sign up for Albert." George speculated, "If Professor Moody is really optimistic about Albert, he should just throw the note into the flames." Cup, help him register instead of going to Dumbledore, because Professor Moody must know that Dumbledore will not allow him to help Albert cheat."
“Then what should we do?” Lee Jordan asked.
“Go to Angelina first. I remember she celebrated her birthday a while ago and ask her to sign up for Albert.” Fred suggested.
"It can only be this way."
When they entered the school hospital, they saw several students with white beards waiting for treatment. Lee Jordan discovered that two of them were girls. The white beards might be a punishment given to them by Dumbledore.
"I'm afraid you have to stay here for a while. The potion to eliminate your beards will take a while." Madam Pomfrey was very unhappy when she saw two more students with white beards. "I hope Professor Snape brewed it." There are enough potions.”
Fred and George suddenly had a bad feeling. They soon noticed that the old men with white beards next to them were casting hostile glances at them. These people had obviously changed after drinking the age-enhancing drugs they sold. It looks like this now.
Lee Jordan quietly distanced himself from the two of them to avoid being innocently affected.
When they cured Whitebeard and left the school hospital, Fred, George and Lee Jordan were blocked by a group of people outside the school hospital and beaten severely.
“Why should I also be unlucky?” Lee Jordan complained about the unforeseen disaster and applied anti-swelling ointment to himself in annoyance.
“That’s not very good,” Fred said with a smile.
"Stop making trouble, let's go and ask Albert if he has signed up. If you still can't find someone, let Angelina sign up for Albert." George said and walked quickly towards the foyer.
“What if he becomes a warrior but disappears?” Lee Jordan suddenly asked, “Don’t forget Professor Dumbledore’s warning.”
The three of them stopped and fell into a brief silence.
"I don't think Albert will disappear inexplicably." George said firmly, "You go to Angelina, and Fred and I will go to Professor McGonagall to discuss countermeasures."
“Do you really want to do this?”
"It's more reliable to ask a professor for this kind of thing. I always feel that this is a bit unusual. Obviously someone doesn't want Albert to become a warrior." George said firmly.
After the three reached a consensus, they immediately split up.
When Fred and George knocked on the door of Professor McGonagall's office, they found that Professor Moody was also here.
"Mr. Weasley, what's the matter?" Professor McGonagall looked at Fred and George standing at the door in confusion.
"Professor, Albert is missing, we suspect..." Before George could finish his words, he was interrupted by Professor McGonagall.
"I already know about this." Professor McGonagall looked at the Weasley twins and asked, "So, you want to sign up for him?"
"Yes, Albert will definitely not want to miss the Triwizard Tournament because of this kind of thing." Fred said firmly.
"We should find Anderson first instead of worrying about registration." Professor McGonagall obviously disagreed with the twins' approach. In her opinion, Albert's safety was obviously much more important than the **** Triwizard Tournament. It's just a game, if you lose, you lose.
(End of this chapter)