Chapter 191: Questioning

Chapter 191: Questioning

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Chapter 191: Questioning

The next morning, the castle was in disarray. Classes had been canceled for the day. The professors were seen walking around frantically, over a dozen Aurors had entered the castle, and the entire Slytherin house was missing.

The students assembled in the Great Hall were staring with curiosity at the empty Slytherin table.

"What do you think happened?" Neville asked.

"Who knows?... Professor McGonagall would only say that there was some incident at the Slytherin house," Seamus answered.

"Maybe the snakes started fighting among themselves. We can only hope it was really bad." Ron smirked.

"Ron, that's not nice!" Hermione gave him a disapproving look.

"Don't give me that!" Ron snapped.

"Two of those snakes attacked my sister yesterday. Why should I care if something happened to them?"

Hermione lowered her head, not having an answer for that. By now, they all knew about the four second-year girls who were attacked by two Slytherin seniors. And they were apparently saved by the Head Boy.Diiscover new stories at novelhall.com

"Maybe some senior students went to teach those two a lesson," Parvati suggested.

"That would not explain why the entire house is missing," Lavender said.

"And besides, we don't even know their names, right?" She glanced at Lyra.

"No... we don't know their names," Lyra admitted.

"I'm sure at least one of them is on the Quidditch team," Ginny added.

"And we did give their description to Professor McGonagall."

"Harry..." Lyra tugged on his robes.

He looked at his sister.

"Do you know something?" She got closer and whispered.

"Dawlish, I would like to speak with my son alone for a minute," James told the other auror next to him.

"That's fine, James. But don't take long." Dawlish went to address the other students.

"You boys sit there; we will be calling you one by one."

Harry saw the Headmaster and Snape waiting next to an open door, waiting for the students to come in.

"This way," James led him to what looked like an unused office.

He closed the door behind him and placed several security charms.

"You really made a mess this time, son..." James said. It was hard to tell by his tone if he was angry or just frustrated.

"How are you so sure it was me?" Harry asked.

James raised an eyebrow.

"Weren't you?..."

"Of course I was, but I doubt you have much evidence of that." Harry shrugged.

"This is serious, Harry. Four boys are in the hospital!" James snapped.

"I'm usually serious... But to make your statement more accurate... four Death Eater recruits are in the hospital, two of them attacked your daughter yesterday, and one of them tried to use the Cruciatus curse on her."

"What did you say? The Cruciatus?!" James was taken aback. He already knew of the attack but had not heard anything about an unforgivable curse being used.

"She probably didn't notice it. It was a good thing I was there to stop him."

"You were there?!" James exclaimed.

Harry gave him an impassive glare.

"Of course I was. I have an eye on everything that happens in this castle now. Hogwarts is not as safe as Dumbledore likes to say. But don't tell her that... I don't want Lyra to think her brother will always be there to save her."

"If you were there, why didn't you intervene sooner? They could have been hurt!" James asked.

"I told you. She has to learn how to fend for herself. Because one day, there may be no one there to help her."

"Harry, she is only twelve..." James stated.

"So?... I had to learn that lesson when I was eleven."

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