"I didn't find anything unusual. He looked as annoying as before." Ron raised his head and looked across. "He must be planning some kind of conspiracy."
Malfoy was walking out of the auditorium among a group of Slytherin students, and before leaving the door, he deliberately turned his head and gave the three of them a disgusted look, with malice in his eyes.
"I can feel that there must be something wrong with him." Harry said with certainty, "He seldom approaches us now, and it seems that he is afraid."
"Malfoy's scared, it's funny."
"It's nothing funny, Ron!" Hermione put away the note Hagrid sent, and said disapprovingly, "Harry is right, Malfoy is indeed scared. However, he is not afraid of the three of us." , but afraid of Ivan."
"Why is he afraid of Ivan?" Ron asked.
"That's because" Hermione hesitated, not sure whether to tell the truth, she finally said vaguely, "You know, Malfoy wanted to make trouble a few days ago, and Ivan gave him a hard lesson. "
"Just giving Malfoy a lesson and making him scared?!" Harry froze for a moment, "I never knew he was so timid."
"There must be something wrong here, Malfoy won't be easily scared, unless" Ron seemed to think of something, he looked around and made sure no one was eavesdropping on their conversation, then lowered his voice and said, "I think I know why, have you both heard the rumor?!"
"What rumors?" Hermione asked curiously, because she was busy with her studies, she was very busy recently, rarely communicated with other people, and heard nothing.
"Ivan is studying black magic!" Ron's voice became lower and lower, "He must have used black magic on Malfoy to scare him, he's sure"
"Ron, we talked about this issue before, and there is no evidence that Ivan is studying black magic. This kind of thing sounds obviously absurd." Harry said hurriedly, "You don't really believe these nonsense, do you?"
"But Malfoy's reaction, and that rumor," Ron argued.
"That's just a rumor. Aiwen's magical strength has always been very strong, which may have caused other people's misunderstanding. He must have used other methods to scare Malfoy." Harry said, "Remember the basilisk incident last year? At that time, everyone thought that I was a descendant of Slytherin, and those Hufflepuffs even said that I was more evil than Voldemort. They have always been like this, they like to think about things when they are free, and spread things that have no basis in fact. "
Ron visibly shuddered when Harry mentioned Voldemort.
"It's not just as simple as rumors!" He said unwillingly, "I have seen Aiwen's notes with my own eyes, and there is a terrible pattern drawn on it. It is a person with a crazily distorted expression, and his soul is splitting."
"Maybe you are wrong, even if not, a pattern can't explain anything."
"That's his research note. Apart from the painting, there are a lot of esoteric words on it. It can't be drawn casually." Ron panted and said, "Ivan has been researching secretly by himself recently. Something, it must be black magic. I asked Colin, he got up several times in the middle of the night and saw that Ivan was not sleeping, and he was hiding under the covers reading a magic book."
"None of this explains anything," Harry said stubbornly.
"That's why we need to investigate and get more evidence." Ron raised his voice slightly, trying to persuade Harry to let his friend understand the importance of this matter, "Malfoy's reaction can explain the problem, we can This is a breakthrough. Believe me, Aiwen's recent behavior is really suspicious. He may be studying some spells that he cannot master out of curiosity. We must stop him, this is for his own good."
"Don't you want to cooperate with Malfoy to investigate Ivan?!" Harry said in amazement.
"I'm just giving an example, we have to determine what Ivan is doing. If he is really studying black magic, we can tell" Ron said eagerly.
"In the past two years, Ivan has proved that he has nothing to do with the dark wizard. I believe him. Moreover, I don't want to have any connection with Malfoy." Harry said irritably, "Ron, you must also believe that Alvin's, isn't it?"
Seeing Harry staring at him, Ron averted his eyes for a moment, then returned to normal, and whispered, "Yes, I believe him!"
"Very good, since this is the case, then don't think about it anymore. You can watch us for Quidditch training later, and after the training, you can ride a Firebolt." Harry seemed relieved, and turned He turned his head and said to Hermione, who hadn't spoken all the time, "Hermione, you come too. You and Ivan need to relax and breathe some fresh air. You have put too much pressure on yourself recently, and you can't keep going like this."
Hermione nodded subconsciously, still thinking about what Ron had just said.
"I'm going to call Ivan, he must still be reading in the library or sorting out newspaper articles." Harry handed the Firebolt beside him to Ron, and continued, "After you two have breakfast, you can come first The Quidditch field is waiting for us."
After he finished speaking, he turned and left in a hurry, looking a little flustered.
The conversation with Ron just now gave Harry an ominous premonition.
He didn't know how the unfounded rumors of "Ivan is studying black magic" came out, and he was very worried because Ron had discussed this matter with him before. Ron also suggested investigating Ivan at the time, but Harry also did not agree.
He tried to persuade Ron to give up the idea, and Harry wondered if Ron had listened to what he had said.
It made him feel bad to be suspicious of his friends.
Like believing in Sirius, Harry believes in Ivan unconditionally. In the past two years, facing the basilisk, Tom Riddle's diary, Peter Pettigrew, etc., without Ivan, Harry couldn't imagine how bad things would be.
Even if Ivan is really studying black magic as Ron said, Harry believes that he must have good reasons and will not use those black magic to do bad things.
Harry once persuaded Ron in this way, and Ron has never mentioned it since then.
But it didn't take long for this rumor to start appearing in the castle.
This was not a good sign, Harry didn't want to say anything bad.
Since Sirius was proven innocent and became the school's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Harry is very satisfied with the current state of life.
Sirius had said that Harry could move in and live with him during the summer.
Harry couldn't imagine leaving the Dursleys and inviting Ivan, Ron, and Hermione to be guests in his godfather's house without any scruples.
He has never been so happy as he is now, and he doesn't want any accidents to happen. (.)