008 The crime of alibi
"This is impossible," Lawrence's decisive answer made Dumbledo stunned.
"...I hope you can understand," Dumbledore said after a moment of silence, and he carefully considered each word, "For...some reasons, Severus could definitely trust it."
"Why can't other professors?" Lawrence asked, but he thought Dumbledore would definitely not give him an answer.
"Don't you ask me what I want to ask you for help?" Dumblido asked with a wry smile.
"To be honest, I'm not very interested," Lawrence replied, "especially I have no reason to trust a dean who supports Pure Blood Academy."
"I can assure you that Severus is not such a person." Dumbledore said,
"But Decora is his favorite student, right?" Lawrence asked sharply, "The family that Voldemort was servile when he arrived?"
"Many things cannot be looked at just on the surface... But, let me say something differently," said Dumbledore. "I hope you can ask him for help if you need it."
"I'm not sure if there is such an opportunity, Professor," said Lawrence, who hurriedly pushed open the door of his office.
"Potter was attacked by a crazy roaming ball, Principal," said Professor McGonagall. "Mrs. Pomfrey gave Miss Weasley some peace potions, and Colin..."
Dumblido said nothing, he raised Colin's old camera in his hand, and then turned it on, a pungent burning smell, and bursts of sour air came out of the camera.
"I will be ready to wait for that thing to attack me," Lawrence stood up, and he ignored Professor McGonagall, who looked shocked, "I hope he won't forget that I am also a descendant of Muggles."
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The next day, everyone knew that Glenfindo's student Colin was attacked and turned into a "petrochemical" lying in the hospital room. Various rumors were circulating in the air. Everyone was moving in groups. They were afraid that they would be attacked if they were alone. Lawrence was helpless to find that he would always be surrounded by people wherever he went. When asked the reason, it was because Professor McGonagall said it was safer to follow him.
"This is to prevent you from doing stupid things." Professor McGonagall said that after a transformation class, Professor McGonagall deliberately left Lawrence behind.
"Uh...at least I can have room to breathe." Lawrence looked helpless, but the protest was ineffective. He shook his head and turned around. Fred and George were waiting for him.
"Maybe you should listen to Professor McGonagall." Fred said briskly.
"We all know you're amazing, but remember you said the three-headed dog from last year?" George reminded, "Even the best Quidditch player will fall from a broom." (Note 1)
"Tsk." Lawrence couldn't refute, "Well, I'll be well prepared this time."
"So you never thought about dispelling your thoughts, right?" Fred rolled his eyes, "Then... maybe you will need our help this time?"
"Ah?" Lawrence looked at the twins in surprise, "But you are pure blood and you won't encounter any danger."
"Oh, don't be stupid," said George. "Seriously, no wizard can claim to be pure blood now."
"Let's talk about it then..." Lawrence was perfunctory, and the twins changed their topic,
"Now a bunch of people are selling some useless body supplies," Fred said. "This is a good opportunity to make money."
"Give up your weapon," Snape shouted, with a dazzling red light, and Lockhart flew out and hit the wall, and the Slytherin's students immediately cheered,
"Okay, everyone sees it," Lockhart stood up staggeringly, "This is a disarming spell, as you can see, I lost my wand - Ah, thank you, Miss Brown. Yes, Professor Snape, this trick was shown to us, and this idea was really wrong, but I must point out that your intention was too obvious, and it would be very easy to stop you, but I think it would be good to let the students know about it -"
"The demonstration is over, and now the two are divided into a group-" Lohart saw Snape's expression of wanting to kill, and hurriedly said, "Professor Snape-please help me."
Lawrence is obviously alone,
"Sorry, Lawrence, we want to promote our products." Fred said,
"Your spell is too strong and will surely break the cloak's defense," said George.
"Uh..." Lawrence was helpless. At this time, Snape had just separated Harry and Decora, and he looked over.
"Oh, see who this is? Let me arrange one for you." Snape said, and he said to a tall and handsome boy not far away, "You are alone, are you Digory."
"Digori is one grade older than you, I hope you don't mind." Snape said maliciously,
"Hello, I've heard of you," the boy named Diggory came over and said with a smile, "Lawrence Rovande of Glenfindo."
"Hello." Lawrence replied awkwardly, "You are...uh..."
"Cedric, my name is Cedric Digory." Cedric said, "Hufflepuff fifth grade."
"Facing your opponent, raise your wand and be ready." Lockhart shouted, "Count to three and disarm the opponent's weapon-I don't want an accident, now, one, two, three."
When Lohat finished counting three, the hall was immediately in chaos. The students had no idea what spell to cast. Some people simply put aside their wands and fought again. Just like Hermione and Millison, Harry and Decora played evil spells against each other. Decora laughed wildly by the spell, while Harry involuntarily danced wildly. Fred and George were even more funny. The two deliberately cast spells on each other without dodging, so the spell rebounded everywhere, but also caused many people to watch. Lawrence and Cedric's duel quickly attracted the attention of most people.
Both sides cast various spells, and careful people found that Cedric looked serious, while Lawrence was at ease, and found that more and more people were watching. Lawrence defeated Cedric with a neat disarming spell, and Cedric fell to the ground due to the impact of the spell.
"The reputation is true." Cedric sat on the ground and smiled bitterly. Lawrence walked over and stretched out a hand to pull him up from the ground.
"No, you're much better than most people," Lawrence smiled, noting the disappointed Slytherins next to him,
"Enough is enough!" After watching the duel between the two, Lockhart woke up from his dream and realized that the scene was a little uncontrollable. Some people exclaimed, and Snape came forward to quickly control the scene.
Chapter completed!