Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures

“Of course I did!” Malfoy argued excitedly, "I've been busy with this all year, tonight...”

At this point, a dull cry came from somewhere in the castle below.

Malfoy was frozen and hurried to look back.

The wand that trembled in his hand was deflected. If Dumbledore rushed past it at this time, no, Harry thought Dumbledore would walk past it and Malfoy wouldn't resist at all, but Dumbledore didn't move, and he leaned on his whole body weight with his two serpent wands in his hands, and his attitude was like, "Someone is struggling to resist, as we were saying... By the way, you finally managed to get the Death Eaters into my school, I admit, I didn't think it was possible... how did you do it? ”

Malfoy did not answer, however, and he still listened to what was going on below and did not even look back at Dumbledore.

He seemed as settled as Harry and immobile.

“That's not gonna work, Draco, that's not gonna work, maybe you should do it alone.” Dumbledore gave him an idea, "although you've got a lot of people here tonight, what if my guards beat your backup? And I'm afraid you've noticed that there are still a lot of Phoenix members here tonight, not as small as you might think. You don't need help anyway. Look, I don't have a wand right now, I can't protect myself. ”

Malfoy turned around again, just staring at him.

Then his eyes moved to Dumbledore's twin snake wand.

He looked at the two green pythons in front of him and his expression grew scared, as if he'd just noticed them.

“Don't worry about them, you can think of this scepter as a decoration. Believe me, this scepter will not do you any harm.” Dumbledore gently said that he saw Malfoy nod slightly, unable to move or speak, "Ah, I see, you are afraid of what you are going to do, you have to wait for them to come up. ”

“I'm not afraid!” Malfoy immediately roared ferociously, as if he were a furious cat, but he still hadn't done anything to hurt Dumbledore, “you should be afraid! ”

“But why? I don't think you're going to kill me, Draco, it's not as simple as the average person thinks... OK, just tell me while we wait for your friends... how did you get them in here? You seem to have taken a long time to figure this out. ”

Malfoy seemed desperate to restrain himself from screaming or vomiting.

He swallowed his pharyngeal spit and took a few deep breaths, his eyes staring hard at Dumbledore, his wand pointing straight at Dumbledore's chest. And then he seemed to be forced to say, “I had to fix that broken cabinet that nobody had used for years, the one that Montague couldn't get out of last year. ”

“Ah!” Dumbledore sighed like a groan, he closed his eyes for a while, "Turns out you spent most of the time on the reason you had to be in the house, it was a smart idea... I remember there were two cabinets, right? ”

“The other one's at the Borkin-Bork store!” Malfoy said, "They built a tunnel between the two cabinets, and Montaign told me that when he was locked in that cabinet in Hogwarts, he couldn't move, but sometimes he could hear the movement in the school, sometimes he could hear what was happening in the store, as if the cabinets were running around in both places, but nobody could hear him... Finally, he escaped through phantom shaping, even though his exams failed, and his phantom shaping almost killed him. Everyone thought it was a fun story, only I realized what it meant, not even Borgin, and only I realized that if I fixed that damn cabinet, I could get into Hogwarts through two vanishing cabinets. ”

“Very good," Dumbledore murmured, "so that the Death Eaters can enter the school from the Borkin-Bork store to help you… a clever plan, a very clever plan. And, as you said, right under my nose..."

“Yeah!” Malfoy said, oddly enough, he seemed to get courage and comfort from Dumbledore's praise, "Yes, that's it! ”

“It's clever, but I have to correct it, and you're not the only one who knows, in fact, Ivan has reminded me of this many times over the past year. ”

“What?!” When Malfoy heard this, the courage that Malfoy had just raised disappeared in a flash, his expression was already quite frightened, and he seemed greatly frightened, “you, you mean, Mason already knew?! He, he knew about the vanishing cabinet in advance?! ”

“I'm sure you found out that Harry always wanted to follow you into the Must-Sees house, figure out what you were doing, and he failed, but he wasn't the only one doing it. ”

“Mason and Mason followed me in?!” Malfoy said in horror.

“Not at the same time, but he should have guessed you went to that room.” Dumbledore gently said, "For the past few years, he has been using that room. No one is more familiar with the Bing Bing house than he is. He guessed where you went, went in to check it out after you left, and found the vanishing cabinet...”

“It's impossible!” Malfoy said unbelievably, "There's so much stuff in that room, I'm careful every time, he can't know the secret of disappearing cabinets, it's impossible...”

“Magic is actually not as simple as you think, Draco, you have a lot to learn. In fact, I'm still saying that, what you did was so obvious, so lame, even without Ivan's warning, I'd find you. I think you weren't sure you would fix the vanishing cabinet at the time, so you took some clumsy, ill-considered measures, such as giving me a necklace that was magical, but it would definitely fall into the hands of someone else... and poisoning the honey wine. In fact, I have very little chance of drinking that wine...”

“You can't possibly know who planned these things.” Malfoy said.

“But I already knew.” Dumbledore said, leaning back against the wall, obviously his legs and feet were weak, "I know it was you. ”

“Impossible, you can't know, impossible, impossible! If you find out everything, why don't you stop me?” Malfoy asked out loud that his panicked speech was getting faster and faster, "Why did you let me do those things?! ”