Chapter 178 The Longbottoms
Chapter 178 The Longbottoms
Bill saw the curious eyes of Fred and George in front of him, and then secretly glanced at the old Mrs. Longbottom and her grandson who were some distance away from them.
"I also heard about it when I was a child, and I'm not sure what the specific situation is." Bill lowered his voice cautiously, "The current old Mrs. Longbottom, her son and daughter-in-law joined the Order of the Phoenix more than ten years ago and fought against Voldemort. But after they were captured by the Death Eaters, they were tortured for a long time with the Cruciatus Curse.
"Although they were rescued in the end, they can only live in St. Mungoire. They have no memory, and they don't know their friends who once resisted Voldemort together." Bill fell silent after finishing speaking, noticing that Mrs. Longbottom She stood up and left the sixth floor with her grandson.
"I heard that the sons of the Longbottoms live with the old lady. Now it seems that they may be them." Bill sighed as he said.
After listening to Bill's words, Fred and George have been controlling themselves not to think about the possibility that their father was injured and could not be rescued.Are they going to be like Longbottom and have to come to St. Mungo's to see their dad?Even, never see it again?
"Who could it be?" Ron's voice rang above their heads.
The four of Halia looked up and saw Ron, Harry, Hermione, and Ginny, who had walked to them at some point.
"Mom and Dad had an argument downstairs, and we also want a cup of tea." Ginny looked at her brothers and shrugged.
Bill stretched out his wand, conjured up four chairs at their table, motioned for Ginny to sit down, and at the same time beckoned to the waiter to give them four orders.
"Who were you talking about just now?" After sitting down, Ron still asked his brothers.
"It's you, our brother, little Ronnie." Fred blinked at Ron, not wanting the four of them to find out that he was emotionally abnormal.
Halia noticed that Harry and Hermione were also in a low mood, and they didn't seem to want to ask questions, nor did they want to chat with them.
"We just ran into Neville and his grandma downstairs." Ginny's tone was very depressed, and she raised the teacup in front of her, "I just found out that he is the child of the 'Longbottom couple' that mother said. God, How did I not think of it, they were all named 'Longbottom'."
As Ginny said, she couldn't help turning her head away, trying not to let others notice that she wanted to cry.Bill was sitting right next to Ginny and patted Ginny on the shoulder.
Ron sighed, and told his brothers that they had just met Professor Lockhart in the ward downstairs, and Neville, who was visiting his parents.
Again a terrible silence spread among them.
After a while, it could be a long time.
Harry smiled wryly and said, "At least Neville's parents are still alive. Mrs. Longbottom even handed Neville candy wrappers before Neville left."
After hearing Harry's words, Hermione and Ron both patted Harry on the shoulder.Harry woke up as if from a dream: "What? Did I just talk? Sorry, I didn't mean to say what I thought. — I might be better off by myself for a while."
Harry stood up as he spoke, trying to find an empty table.But at this moment, Bill stood up suddenly and told them that their mother was calling them back.Everyone went downstairs again.
Halia stared at Harry's back, feeling something was wrong - Harry seemed to mention his parents too often.But Halia wasn't sure, she hadn't spent much time with Harry before.
In addition, in the novel, Harry had a vague affection for Qiu in the fifth grade, but now, because Cedric is still alive, it is certain that Harry has no vague feelings for Qiu— —Is that why you miss your parents because of the loneliness in adolescence?
Halia thought wildly, without speaking all the way.Fortunately, not only Halia, everyone was silent all the way because of what happened to the Longbottoms, especially the children of the Weasley family—their fathers were likely to face similar dangers.
After Mrs. Weasley took the children back to Black House, she finally noticed the dull atmosphere among the children.Just as he was about to ask, he heard Sirius' voice.
Sirius didn't come along for this Christmas visit to Mr. Weasley because he was looking for Kreacher at home.
"Leah, is it convenient for you to come over here?" Sirius smiled at Halia, and found that everyone else was staring at him.
"It's not just Leah, we can also go there conveniently." Fred said to Sirius.
Sirius shook his head helplessly: "I found Kreacher, and I want to thank Leah for reminding me, you guys came here, do I still need to thank you?" Sirius said, rubbing Fred's hair.
"However, it was Hermione who found out that Kreacher was missing this morning." Ron pointed to Hermione, while Harry and Ginny nodded.
"I'm talking about another reminder. Hey, forget it, anyway, thanks, Leah." Sirius was a little helpless with these half-grown children.
When Mrs. Weasley saw this and gave them new domestic work, there was a groan from everyone.
"Mom, today is Christmas." The children of the Weasley family spoke in a melodious tone.
Sirius smiled gratefully at Mrs. Weasley. He walked up to Halia and whispered, "Kreacher was indeed trying to leave Black House, and he probably succeeded. When I found him, he was in the Punish yourself, bang your head against the wall. But not much," said Sirius, grinning sarcastically.
Sirius continued: "But now that I've found out, Kreacher won't leave here. Fortunately, he didn't reveal too many secrets. I don't want to say it in front of everyone. I'm just worried about causing panic. Yes, Hermione, you know." Speaking of Hermione, Sirius laughed again.
"Anyway, thank you for your reminder, otherwise I would be at the Ministry of Magic during the day, so I wouldn't know what Kreacher was doing at home." Sirius seemed very grateful for Halia's reminder.
"It's nothing, it's also a possibility that I accidentally thought of." Halia was embarrassed, she just knew a little more about the plot, thinking of this, Halia asked again, "Siris, you said you were in the Ministry of Magic, then Harry The dementors you met during the summer vacation, have you checked the records of Azkaban? Is there any record of the dementors being called out of Azkaban that day?"
After hearing what Halia said, Sirius had a strange expression: "I checked, but the record of that day is gone."
Halia blinked in confusion after listening to Sirius' answer.Then it occurred to her that with Umbridge's authority, she could indeed do it.Halia saw Harry on the side looking at her and Sirius, and remembered Harry's previous speculation about the "weapon".
Halia smiled at Sirius: "Harry may also have something to tell you."
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