School Hospital.

Tonks woke up from the sickbed and touched the white linen sheets. She was confused for a moment.

What was going on?

She remembered that she had gotten rid of the old toad and no one cared about her. She decided to take a good walk around the campus. Things to do included going back to the common room to lie on the soft sofa with yellow and black stripes and going to the kitchen to eat Yorkshire pudding. How did she end up in the school hospital?

"Well, you're awake? I know your name, Tonks, from Professor Felix Heppe." A voice said.

Tonks turned her head sharply and looked at the other side of the bed. There was a middle-aged (?) wizard. His face was still young, but he looked weathered and his hair was mixed with gray. He was looking at her with an apologetic look.

Uh, let me think, what was I doing before I fainted? There were sounds of fighting and quarreling, and I wanted to go over to see the excitement...

"You knocked me out?" she said in disbelief.

Lupin coughed awkwardly. Although Professor Happ suggested that he leave the patient in the school hospital, he decided to stay. At least he should apologize.

"This is an accident..." He suddenly paused. This was the fourth time he had said this today.

Tonks shrugged and jumped off the bed. "Wait, Madam Pomfrey suggested that you observe it again." Lupin said.

"Observe what? The awakening time of the Stunning Spell?" Tonks looked very proud: "I guess it's ten minutes. I have done confrontation training in the Ministry. The best result is seven and a half minutes, but it is usually ten minutes."

Lupin opened his mouth slightly and rationally did not tell her the truth. She was hit by more than one Stunning Spell and was unconscious for more than ten minutes. He hoped that this would be a secret that only he knew. But

"I lay there for two hours?" Tonks looked at Madam Pomfrey in surprise. When she was about to leave, the responsible head nurse stopped her and insisted on checking again.

"What else?" Madam Pomfrey said impatiently, "There are those who sleep all day. If Remus hadn't said that you might have official business, I wouldn't care... It's okay."

She left with a nagging voice. Tonks turned her head to look at Lupin and said again to confirm: "I lay down for two hours?"

"...Yes, I was just about to tell you." Lupin said with a stiff face.

"Oh, forget it~" Tonks said happily: "You are the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts? You are really good..."

"Not me... Well, how do you know I am the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts?"

"What else? One of the things I look forward to most when I go to school is to see what the new professor looks like."

"Miss Tonks"

"Call me Tonks, I haven't formally introduced myself yet, Nymphadora Tonks, but don't call me by my name," she muttered "Silly Mom" ​​in a low voice. In English vocabulary, "Nymph" is a not very elegant word.

"Hello, Tonks, my name is Remus Lupin."

...

Gryffindor common room.

Harry was fiddling with his new ghostly book. Ron curiously reached out and touched it. The surface of the book was like water. When he touched it, lightning-shaped lines suddenly appeared.

Hermione asked worriedly, "Do you really want to learn Apparition?"

"Yes," Harry said decisively, "I think it's the best for me. Listen, Hermione. I've been thinking about it for two hours, and now I still think my choice is right."

Coming back from Classroom 7, or rather being escorted back by Percy, he was originally indignant. He had the urge to put on his invisibility cloak and go to Professor Lupin's office to take a look, but two seats away was Percy Weasley, who had been following Professor Hepp's instructions to stare at him, or to protect him.

Especially since he was attacked yesterday, and now the whole school knew that Sirius was obsessed with him, just like the thousands of rumors and legends in the school, which were not true.

He had to give up this tempting idea and turn to studying the duel competition reward given to him by Professor Hepp. He told Ron and Hermione his thoughts: "I had this idea when I was writing the duel paper. Professor Flitwick said that we should find what we are best at and make full use of our advantages. What am I best at?"

"It's Quidditch," Harry whispered, "and Professor Happ told me privately that he once envied my reaction ability..."

"Hiss~" Ron smacked his lips, "You mean you can also swish in the future?" He gestured with his hands randomly, imitating the action of continuous Apparition.

Harry said, "This is what I expect..."

"Hermione!"

The twins came in from outside, and Fred was holding a ginger cat in his hand. "Crookshanks has been lingering at the door. I think it brought you a gift." He said with a smile. Hermione

lowered her head, "Crookshanks, come here."

The ginger cat had something in its mouth. She just hoped it was not a big spider, otherwise she would have to clean it up again. Crookshanks jumped lightly onto the table and spit out the thing in his mouth.

"This is..." Hermione's eyes widened.

"It's the magic puppet that Professor Hep brought with him today," Harry said affirmatively. He fiddled with it. "It looks like the armor in the castle. He even said hello to me at that time."

Hermione patted the big cat's head. "Why did you take the professor's things? We should return them to the professor."

"That's right," Harry immediately agreed. He especially wanted to ask about Professor Lupin's situation. If there was a legitimate reason, Percy would not stop him, right?

The knight on the table, or Sirius, looked depressed. He was thrown out by Lupin, and knew that he could not help. Staying would only cause trouble, so he hurried to find Felix. He went to

classroom 7 first, but there was no one inside; then he went to his office, avoiding the dirty claws of the little wizards all the way, and knocked on the door hard, but there was no response. He barely climbed up the window, only to find that there was no one inside.

He didn't know what to do for a moment. Maybe finding Dumbledore would be a good choice? But he didn't know the password at all. When he came out of the office, he met Crookshanks.

Crookshanks was his ally and provided him with a lot of information about the castle. He was always grateful. The cat was smart enough to not only tell that he was a human, but also whether he was good or bad.

This time was no exception. Crookshanks recognized him and tried to communicate with him, but he was under a spell and could not speak unless he got rid of the candy armor on his body.

He could only gesture, but unfortunately, although Crookshanks was smart, he was obviously not smart enough to this extent.

After some ineffective communication, Crookshanks carried him to the common room.

Ron looked at him with interest, "Can you talk? Hey! Percy has a talking one." He lifted one of the knight's feet and swung it, "What can you do?"

"Ouch!"

Sirius angrily stabbed Ron's finger with the knight's sword. Ron felt the pain and let go of him, letting him fall on the table, hitting him dizzy.

"Don't make trouble, Ron!"

Sirius heard a heavenly voice. What was the name of this little girl? She was also Crookshanks's owner. What a good person.

Hermione picked up the knight, "Let's go, let's return it to the professor."

They walked all the way to the door. Harry stared at Percy nervously, but he didn't stop him. Maybe he felt that two hours was beyond Professor Happ's expectations?

Harry was glad to see that he lowered his head again, fiddling with the advanced magic puppet, and the twins were circling around him.

"You should let us have a look, maybe add some new features, like suddenly taking out a dung bomb and smearing it on someone's face?"

Harry closed the door of the common room, shutting out the quarrel between the Weasley brothers behind him. Two senior students walked towards them excitedly: "Have you heard? A little girl from Slytherin has caused quite a mess..."

"What happened?" his companion asked with great interest.

"You would never imagine that she released a giant snake in the Slytherin common room!"