Hogwarts Crawler.

In a moment of silence, Adam spoke first:

"Why don't we go back first? Even though we are deep in the forbidden forest, the noise we made is still a bit too loud."

"agree."

"Agree."

……

"May I ask why you chose to cast the Unforgivable Curse in front of us?"

In the evening, Adam deliberately postponed his shower time, and Bernard tacitly made the same choice. At this time, there were only the two of them in the bathroom.

Of course, because the topic being discussed was somewhat sensitive, Adam also used a silence card to block their voices, so that these words could not reach the ears of a third person, not even a portrait, a ghost, or Peeves.

"It was a matter of life and death at that time, so of course I used whatever I knew."

Bernard was lathering on Adam sideways.

"Eugene and Uther both said at the time that they had means to deal with it, and the situation was far from as dangerous as you said."

Adam was not fooled:

"Although you know the Unforgivable Curse, if you are careful and practice it secretly, you can still conceal it. Why do you want to expose it?"

"…Then why did you cover for me before?"

Bernard turned his head and met Adam's eyes:

"Those who cast the Unforgivable Curse are unforgivable. You said so yourself... This is not the first time you have seen me cast the Unforgivable Curse, is it?"

"The last time I cast the Cruciatus Curse, it was not for the purpose of self-protection. So why did you turn a blind eye to my behavior...Adam?"

Adam closed his eyes.

The last time I saw Bernard cast the Cruciatus Curse...it was in an abandoned classroom. Adam grew a few pots of mandrakes in the abandoned classroom at the end of the corridor, where the sunlight was good enough.

But when passing by a classroom, he discovered the fluctuation of magic power, and heard the sound of "heart-wrenching" before he opened the door.

It's a familiar voice.

Adam didn't open the door. He stood at the door for a while and then continued walking forward. He didn't expect Bernard to know about it, so...

"You really did it on purpose."

"I did it on purpose. Your movements are not hard to guess if you observe carefully."

Bernard shrugged his shoulders and tilted his head back, letting the hot water flow down through his eyes, mouth and nose.

"What do you want to do? Don't you know that this is dangerous?"

"Where is the danger?"

As soon as Bernard opened his mouth, hot water rushed into it, making his words a little slurred.

Adam made some foam and put the soap aside, then looked straight at Bernard:

"Whether it's me or Eugene, if any of us reports it to the Ministry of Magic, a flashback curse will force you to stay in Azkaban and live next to Dementors for the rest of your life. Do you expect your parents to go to the Wizengamot and sue the Ministry of Magic?"

"Dementors, Wizengamot, I've learned a new term."

"Bernard!"

"..."

Bernard wiped his face from his chin up and looked at Adam:

"Look, I'm fine now, right?"

"…You think this is funny?"

Adam looked puzzled.

"No, I just want to try and see if our friendship is really that strong."

This time, Adam looked at Bernard with a look of concern in addition to confusion.

Or you should go to a mental hospital.

“Do you know what it’s like to be a lawyer, and the child of two lawyers?”

Bernard's eyes were blank, as if he was lost in his memories:

"Marriage, debt, finance... My parents didn't actually allow me to look at their documents, but as a kid... the more you're not allowed to do something, the more interesting it is for you to do it."

"So when others were listening to fairy tales since I was a child, I was exposed to many more real stories in my life. Other children saw princesses and princes living a happy life, but what I saw was a woman who was betrayed and stored the body parts of the scumbag in the freezer..."

Adam swallowed.

"So I've been wondering, are the emotions between people really that strong? Are the emotions between people really that sincere, pure, and beautiful? Or is everyone just wearing a hypocritical and beautiful mask, using words like love and friendship to cover up the entanglement of interests? This curiosity has always been with me. In fact, I'm very grateful to Hogwarts for giving me this opportunity, otherwise I think I would do something not so good in the future."

Adam couldn't help asking:

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"Don't your parents have a good relationship?"

"I actually didn't find anything wrong with their relationship. Although there were frictions, they were just small disagreements in normal life. But maybe I just didn't see the problem - I couldn't test their feelings, and there was no way to try."

"So you're using your own future to test our relationship?"

Adam opened his mouth:

"We're just roommates who have only known each other for a year!"

"But you have to admit that although our personalities are very different, we surprisingly get along well, don't you?"

Bernard spread his hands:

"Among all the dormitories around, there is no other dormitory where the relationship between the five people is as good as ours. Although there have been some frictions between us, they have all been resolved well. This roommate relationship is as perfect as the marriage between my parents."

“…I still can’t understand it.”

"It doesn't matter. It's impossible for one person to fully understand another person's thoughts. It's good to seek common ground while reserving differences, just like what we have been doing for the past year."

They have huge differences in living habits, personalities and other aspects, but they can live together well, respecting and accepting each other's differences.

“So back to the question…”

Bernard looked at Adam again:

"Why didn't you report me the first time you caught me casting the Unforgivable Curses?"

“…Because I saw it.”

"what?"

"I saw the one you cast the Unforgivable Curse upon..."

Bernard's eyes widened slightly:

"How did you do that... the Clow Cards?"

"The magic of the sword can rewind the past, and after that I returned to your classroom at that time."

Adam looked at Bernard and said:

"I saw it... you were using Cruciatus on a rock."

Chapter 44: End of the school year agreement

The reason why the Unforgivable Curses are unforgivable is because the emotions required to cast them are extremely extreme.

The extremely determined desire to kill someone, torture someone, and control someone, to have such an idea and put it into reality, this is the real reason for casting the Unforgivable Curse and going to Azkaban.

Therefore, it is normally impossible to cast a spell like the Cruciatus Curse on a stone, unless a person has a firm desire to torture the stone.

Adam looked at Bernard who was suddenly embarrassed and said calmly:

"If you had found a cockroach or a flobberworm, I wouldn't have trusted you so much."

He even allowed himself to have the idea of ​​torturing a stone rather than looking for a living thing...

"I...I was leaving myself a way out!"

Bernard's neck stiffened:

"If you had reported me at that time, you would have used the flashback spell to find out that I never used the Cruciatus Curse at all!"

The flashback spell will reappear the object of the spell, and stones are obviously not one of them.

"Then why didn't you leave yourself a way out this time?"

Looking at Bernard who was speechless, Adam smiled slightly:

"You want to make this kind of test. After all, it's you who developed such pure emotions first, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't care so much and use such a costly way to test our friendship with you. You could have used a way that wouldn't affect you..."

Seeing that Bernard was about to get angry, Adam immediately changed the subject:

"Your method of 'keeping a way out' is actually still based on the legal system of ordinary people. Muggle police have limited ways of collecting evidence. But wizards not only have truth serum, they even have a Pensieve that can restore memory - there is one in our principal's office - don't think of using similar methods in the future, or you will get into trouble."

Bernard was stunned and nodded:

"By the way, what are these Dementors and Wizengamot you mentioned earlier?"

"Dementors are the jailers of Azkaban, a kind of..."

Because they were so engrossed in the conversation, they felt awkward when they looked at their wrinkled fingers while getting dressed.

Back in the dormitory, just when his roommates were curious about why they took so long to shower, Bernard took the initiative to talk to everyone about what happened during the day.

His roommates all showed expressions similar to Adam's when he first heard the reason.

I don’t quite understand, but…

I want to say it can be forgiven, but Bernard's use of the Cruciatus Curse to fight and protect them during the day doesn't seem to be something that needs to be forgiven.

"Don't do such exciting things next time."

Uther sighed helplessly:

"Don't use the Unforgivable Curse unless it's a life-or-death situation."

Adam's eyes changed slightly when he looked at Uther. Good boy, why do you sound like you want to be punished?

No one mentioned the incident after that day, and in the blink of an eye it was the end-of-year dinner of the school year. During this period, the only news about Harry was that he missed the final Quidditch final, resulting in Slytherin winning the Quidditch Cup.

Considering the house points that Gryffindor had lost because of Harry and the others, there is no doubt that this year's house cup will fall into the hands of Slytherin... right?

"Don't be sad yet, how about a taro pie?"

Professor Dumbledore was announcing the scores of the four colleges at the teacher's table, while Adam was distributing snacks. After distributing them to his roommates, Adam stuffed one into the hands of Cedric, who had a look of regret on his face. It was hot and looked like it had just been baked.

Delicious food should not be missed. Cedric took a bite while it was still hot. The dense taro paste filling and the crispy outer shell complemented each other, which made him feel much happier.

Delicious, I recommend it.

Before he could give feedback to Adam, Cedric saw Professor Dumbledore's performance.

"Yeah, yeah, well done, Slytherin."

Professor Dumbledore applauded the temporary top scorer of the house and continued with a kind smile as the Slytherins gradually began to have a bad feeling:

"However, several recent events must also be taken into account..."

"…50 points for Gryffindor!"

"…50 points for Gryffindor!"

"…60 points for Gryffindor!"

"…Ten points for Gryffindor!"

……

During the dinner, the Slytherins were a little dazed, especially because the golden and red decorations around them were too dazzling under the candlelight.

"In the end what happened?"

A Slytherin couldn't help but ask.

"Damn Dumbledore, he is blatantly biased!"

His classmate angrily thrust his fork into the ribs in front of him.