The Christmas holiday passed quickly.

During this period, so many little wizards came home, but there was no attack in the magic world, which was reported in Hogwarts.

It was obvious that Dumbledore used some means behind the scenes to temporarily close the news.

After the holiday, the students returned to the castle, making the school lively again.

On the day the students returned to school, Harry and Ron met Hermione who had been away for a holiday in the common room in Gryffindor.

Hermione's face was very bad, and her long fluffy hair was gone, replaced by simple shoulder-length short hair.

Ron looked at Hermione, who seemed to have become a different person, and asked incrediblely.

"What happened to you at home? Why did you cut your hair?"

Hermione sat down on the bench in the lounge in a depressed mood, saying miserably.

"I didn't cut my hair, it was burned."

Harry's eyes widened.

"Why did you get a fever?"

“I thought I was careful enough at home.”

Hermione said helplessly.

"Since I got home, I hid in the room and even asked my mother to send her to my room for dinner. But as a result, I accidentally sprinkled the salad on the bed. The quilt was too heavy, so I could only ask my mother to help me change it. When I came out of the bedroom, I tripped by the chair that fell to the ground. The direction of the fall was exactly the fireplace in my house."

"Originally, the opening of my fireplace was not with the floor, so there would be no big problem. But for some reason, a small piece of wood burst out from the fireplace and fell on my hair."

She plucked her fluffy short hair and said with a frown.

"Then, it's what it is."

Harry and Ron looked at each other, they could imagine the fun scene, laughing together, and then they comforted each other.

"Relax, Hermione, think about it from another perspective, it's really good for you to have short hair, at least it's much easier to take care of it."

"It's right, and it's just that my hair has become shorter, so I'd better not have any other unlucky things."

But their comfort did not seem to have any effect. Instead, the more she said that Hermione's face became more painful.

"Who said that this is the only thing I have experienced! The others are just that I don't want to recall them anymore."

Then she said seriously.

"When facing Professor Forrest in the future, be careful and careful! If he wants to express greetings or blessings to you, don't hesitate! Be sure to distract the topic immediately! interrupt his blessings!"

Harry and Ron nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. They all knew they were amazing. Now they didn't dare to test Sherlock's crow's mouth with the same playful mentality as before.

Hermione was very satisfied with their attitude.

Although they encountered danger in the test of studying the Sherlock Crow's mouth, they also made them understand the horror of Professor Forrest.

As long as you avoid it in time, you can avoid many bad luck in the future.

"How are the potions in the bathroom? Did Malfoy and the others do anything unusual during the holidays?"

Hermione moved the topic to the main topic, but she had not forgotten that the matter of Sherlock Crow's mouth was still secondary. The main thing they had to do this semester was to catch the Slytherin successor who opened the secret room.

Harry shook his head.

"On the potion, Ron and I said when you left, we will observe every three days whether the fuel under the crucible was exhausted. Everything is normal now, as for Malfoy..."

Ron followed Harry's words.

"We didn't notice anything unusual about him recently, and there were no attacks in the castle recently."

Hermione analyzed calmly.

"He is very smart. He probably knows that continuous crimes will inevitably lead to a lot of excuses, so this time he deliberately made a long time apart, and then waited for everyone to gradually forget about this matter and start attacking again."

"Then can we use compound decoctions now?" Ron asked excitedly, he was about to reveal Malfoy's true face.

Hermione got up from the bench: "I want to check the preparation of compound decoction first."

The three of them walked out of the Gryffindor common room, came to the corridor on the first floor, and then took advantage of the fact that there were no people around them, and walked into the abandoned girls' bathroom together.

"What are you here to do? You have been brewing this potion that bubbles every day for almost a month. When will you clear it away?"

Myrtle, who was stationed in this bathroom, said with resentment when he saw Harry and the others.

Ron responded dissatisfiedly.

"This is not your place, why can't we cook potions here?"

"You yell at me!" Myrtle covered her face aggrievedly, "Yes, you are disgusting me, you are all disgusting me, wuwu..."

She drifted into another compartment crying.

Harry and the others didn't care about Myrtle's current state. Everyone knew that Myrtle was like this, and her tears seemed to never be able to shed.

Hermione carefully observed the situation of the compound decoction and finally said with satisfaction.

"Very good. The pot of potion was made very successfully, but it was still one last step away from its completion."

“We also need something about the people we want to become.”

She said lightly, as if she was sending them to the supermarket to buy laundry detergent.

"If you can get anything from Crabbe and Gal, that's the best. They are Malfoy's best friends and he will tell them everything. We also need to make sure that when we interrogate Malfoy, the real Crabbe and Gal must not be allowed to break in."

"I've planned everything at home," she said in one breath, ignoring the stunned expressions on Harry and Ron's faces.

Hermione lifted two chocolate cakes.

"I put ordinary hypnotics here, you just need to make sure that Crab and Gole discover them. You know how greedy their mouths are, and you will definitely eat them. When they both fall asleep, they will pull out a few of their hair and hide them in the broom cabinet."

Harry and Ron looked at each other's faces, and they had never noticed that Hermione was so bold.

They opened their mouths, and were about to say if this was a bit inappropriate. Hermione's eyes were shining with a tough iron light, which was quite similar to Professor McGonagall's eyes.

"You want to interrogate Malfoy, right? The compound decoction is only one last step away. If you want to become Gole and Crab, you must get what they have!"

In terms of being brave, the three of them are actually comparable. Harry and Ron were just shocked by Hermione, who usually acted like a good student, who would be so bold and arrogant at some point.

Harry and Ron finally agreed to Hermione's plan, and they did want to confirm that Malfoy was the successor of Slytherin.

They walked out of the bathroom together, and were about to look for Gole and Crab in the castle, when a harsh scream suddenly attracted them, including everyone in the castle.

Harry and the other two looked at each other, no longer thinking about finding Gole and Crab. They hurried to the second floor corridor where the sound was heard, and desperately squeezed into the blocked crowd of people, and then saw the third victim who was attacked.

The one who fell to the ground was a blonde boy. Even if his familiar face was twisted by fear, it would not prevent Harry and the others from recognizing him.
Chapter completed!