Sherlock Holmes at Hogwarts.

Chapter 145 The Girl Who Gave Up Her Reservedness

After Harry resumed normal correspondence with his friends, Hedwig was exhausted every day.

Every time it came back from delivering a letter, not only were its feathers disheveled, but its wings were also drooping, barely able to hold up their wings.

For this, it pecked Harry on the head several times.

"Oh, Hedwig, please spare me!"

Harry also felt a little sorry for his pet, and it took him a long time to coax it into calming down.

Even so, Hedwig refused to work overtime at such an intense rate.

My little master is really going too far!
Capitalists would cry after hearing this!
However, just when Harry was at a loss as to what to do with a stack of letter papers to be mailed, things took an unexpected turn.

The turning point came from Aunt Petunia.

This was a complete accident.

Since last Christmas, Penny has noticed a change in the relationship between her nephew and the rest of the family.

Whether it was hair growth products or weight loss pills, they had real effects on her husband and son.

This is undoubtedly a good thing for her.

After Harry indirectly helped Uncle Vernon win that big order, even Uncle Vernon liked Harry much more.

Not to mention that she is directly related to Harry.

Seeing Hedwig getting angry with Harry, Aunt Petunia, out of gratitude, went into the kitchen and made a good meal for Hedwig.

I never expected that from then on, things would get out of control.

Hedwig had been eating the cat food that Harry prepared for her, and only occasionally flew out to hunt at night and catch some prey such as mice as a snack.

but.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

After tasting Aunt Petunia's cooking once, Hedwig's taste was completely spoiled.

Next, no matter how patiently Harry persuaded it, it closed its eyes, turned its head to the side, and sneered at the cat food that was offered to it.

What's even more exaggerated is that without Harry's reminder, Hedwig flapped her wings and flew straight into Aunt Petunia's bedroom to ask her for food.

When Aunt Petunia was awakened again and again by Hedwig's flapping wings and saw her big round eyes, she couldn't help but recall the fear she once felt when she was dominated by the owl.

Preparing food for the wizard's owl was nothing new to her.

Thinking back to the time when her younger sister Lily was studying at Hogwarts, she had already done this kind of thing.

But even Lily's owl wasn't this annoying!
The conclusion is, neither this mother nor this son is an easy person to deal with!
Although she was unhappy, Aunt Petunia still prepared food for Hedwig while cursing.

As a result, Hedwig was finally willing to deliver letters for Harry again.

In the past, it often ate cat food, but eating it three times a day was not only unpalatable but also very troublesome.

But ever since he tasted Aunt Petunia's cooking, one meal is enough for three meals. His waist and legs no longer hurt, and his wings are stronger.

Fly fifty miles in one breath, effortlessly!

After reading the letter Harry wrote to him, Sherlock looked at Hedwig who had delivered the letter.

Well, I am indeed a little fatter than before.

Hedwig now looks like a fat, round-faced Scottish chicken.

Fortunately, this did not affect its flying speed.

This also made Sherlock start to consider whether he should let Watson take a letter to Harry and let it taste Aunt Petunia's cooking?
But he didn't do that in the end.

After all, my mother’s cooking skills are not bad.

Besides, for wizards like him and Harry who came from Muggle families, it was obviously more convenient to communicate by phone.

It's just that Harry identified more with his identity as a wizard, and he also wanted Sherlock to see the fat Hedwig, so he deliberately let it fly.

For Sherlock, communicating with Harry only took up a part of his time, and a very small part of it.

He also spent his time on other people.

One of them is Hermione.

Hermione finally saw it clearly now.

Sherlock's pure attitude is one of not taking the initiative, not refusing, and not taking responsibility.

She wrote a letter and the other party replied.

She doesn't write, and the other party doesn't write either.

After thinking this through, Hermione simply let go of her reserve and started using the dual methods of owl mail + phone calls to strengthen her contact with Sherlock.

Sure enough, under this circumstance, she finally got the answer she was satisfied with.

What surprised Sherlock was that in addition to Hermione, Gemma Farley, the Slytherin prefect, had also increased her communication with him during this period.

It is said that he and Gemma Farley had no previous intersection.

Harry was the one who had known her earlier.

When she was hospitalized due to the Quirrell and the Philosopher's Stone incident, Gemma Farley visited her on behalf of Slytherin House.

However, when Harry told Sherlock about this, Sherlock realized one thing.

That witch...is not simple.

This is a true Slytherin.

It's totally different from Malfoy, Flint and the like.

When Harry Potter, a new student, was just known as the "Savior of the Wizarding World" in name only, without the necessary skills to match, she simply paid him attention. But after Harry demonstrated his abilities, she boldly intervened and expressed her friendship.

For a kind-hearted person like Harry, it was natural that he accepted her kindness easily.

When she came to him specifically for Flint's matter, Sherlock rejected her, but he became more aware of Gemma Farley's purpose.

Not only Harry, she cares about herself as well.

As a prefect, this is understandable.

Percy and Penelope both did this.

It's just that Farley's approach is more in line with the Slytherin style, a true Slytherin.

However, the most important thing for Sherlock is that the content of the communication between him and the other party is indeed what he is interested in.

As a witch from a pure-blood family and a witch with both good character and good academic performance, Farley naturally knows more about the magical world than Hermione.

Surprisingly, her knowledge of the Muggle world is not inferior to Hermione's.

In her first letter, she began discussing magical crimes with Sherlock.

It also specifically points out the differences between crime and detection in the magical world and the Muggle world.

Some of her ideas even gave Sherlock inspiration.

Under such circumstances, Sherlock would naturally not refuse to communicate with Farley by letter.

In addition to these things, Sherlock is also keeping a close eye on the follow-up of the Dobby the Elf incident.

After Professor Snape's research, the result was just as Sherlock had speculated before, that the elf Dobby was indeed a member of the Malfoy family.

However, their chrome-plated young master classmate in Slytherin could only be considered Dobby's little master at best.

On the other hand, although it was Snape who took Dobby away and interrogated him, it was Dumbledore who gave Sherlock the follow-up news.

Firstly, Snape himself was unwilling to have long-term contact with Sherlock.

Secondly, it was Dumbledore who reached an agreement with Sherlock.

Thirdly, the information he got from Dobby was not suitable for him to continue communicating with Sherlock.

It all started with a name.

Lucius Malfoy.

Draco Malfoy's father.

The Malfoy family, like the Weasley family, the Longbottom family, and the Abbott family, all belong to the Twenty-Eight Sacred Pure-Blood Families.

According to Dumbledore, Lucius Malfoy's father, Abraxas Malfoy, had a bad reputation.

When Lucius Malfoy was 14 years old, Nobby Leach, the first Muggle-born Minister for Magic in history, was forced to resign due to a mysterious illness.

There are rumors that the mastermind behind this incident is Abraxas Malfoy, who likes to promote the theory of pure-blood superiority.

After Abraxas Malfoy died of dragon pox, this rumor became even more widespread.

Because people generally believe that this is retribution.

Later, Lucius entered Hogwarts and was sorted into Slytherin house.

In his fifth year, Lucius was elected prefect and became good friends with the new student Severus Snape.

He later married Narcissa Black, another member of the pure-blood Twenty-Eight families, and had Draco Malfoy.

So when he pried open Dobby's mouth and learned from it that this thing was indeed the Malfoy family elf, Snape's face became particularly interesting.

Then he threw the matter to Dumbledore without hesitation.

Although Dumbledore was helpless, he still accepted it because the matter was of great importance.

After getting more detailed information from Dobby, he simply Apparated to Sherlock's house.

In addition to discussing this matter with Sherlock, he also decided to accept Sherlock's advice and go to Dr. Granger for a periodontal examination.

After all, relying solely on the tooth-strengthening potion seems a bit insufficient.

When the principal of their son's school came to visit, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes naturally wanted to give a warm welcome.

With the experience of the vice principal coming to their home last year, the two of them were quite familiar with the process.

Dumbledore took a sip of the tea that had been prepared for him.

The taste is good, but too bland.

Looking at Sherlock's parents, there was a hint of nostalgia in his eyes.

Once upon a time, I was also a person with a happy family.

pity……

There is no need to mention the past.

After a brief greeting, Dumbledore and Sherlock went to his bedroom to talk about the follow-up matters regarding Dobby the elf.

"Lucius Malfoy will be inserting a dark artifact left behind by Voldemort into Hogwarts at the beginning of this year's school term."

The first sentence alone touches upon Sherlock's blind spot in knowledge.

He also did not hesitate to ask the question:

"Why would they have Dark magic items left behind by Voldemort in their house?"

"Because Lucius Malfoy was once a Death Eater."

Sherlock couldn't help but frown, realizing that things were not that simple.

(End of this chapter)