Chapter 240: Trivial Matters
"Your clothes?"
Hearing Sean's words, Luna looked somewhat bewildered at the thin robes on her body, as if just now realizing she was cold. She couldn't help but shiver, then said somewhat confusedly: "I woke up late today. Because I was rushing to watch the match, I forgot to put them on."
How could she forget that...
Looking helplessly at Luna, who was shivering but didn't seem to care at all, Sean took out a notebook from his person, tore off a sheet of paper, and tossed it toward Luna. The paper quickly expanded, gently wrapping around Luna's body. When the paper completely covered most of her body, it rapidly transformed into a long blue coat draped over Luna.
"The Transfiguration should last for a while. As long as Gryffindor and Ravenclaw don't go into a prolonged battle, it should hold until you get back to Ravenclaw's common room. The weather's gotten cold. Don't forget to wear a coat."
Looking down at the coat on her body, Luna really liked the color of this coat, so she said to Sean: "Thank you, I like it very much."
"No need to thank me."
Throughout the entire match, Sean and Luna sat together quietly watching. Their silence while watching the game was so complete that it made it difficult for Blaise to get excited.
Just as the match entered a critical phase, three very crudely disguised fake Dementors suddenly appeared at the side of the pitch, looking like they wanted to intimidate Harry, only to be repelled by Harry's somewhat unpracticed Patronus Charm.
Sean looked at Malfoy and his two companions, who were clearly quite frightened by Harry's Patronus, and sighed helplessly.
"These three people. They're in third year now, couldn't they be a bit smarter?"
Compared to Sean's helplessness, Luna simply ignored it and continued watching the match, while Blaise said angrily: "That Malfoy guy, as Slytherin's Quidditch Seeker, actually does this kind of thing. He's completely disgraced Slytherin!"
In Blaise's view, Malfoy had lost all face for the Slytherin Quidditch team and even Slytherin House. In fact, this was indeed the case. Malfoy was too childish and foolish in many matters. Although he later grew to be more reliable, so far his words and actions really didn't quite fit the definition of Slytherin, except for being pure-blood.
Of course, this also showed from the side how well protected Malfoy had been since childhood. He had none of Slytherin's cunning at all. You should know that even Sean's waste of a brother, Millicent, now knew to keep a low profile. Sean's existence had not only given Borrell enormous pressure but had also dealt Millicent quite a blow.
The match ended quickly.
Gryffindor won.
Seeing the result, Luna didn't react much. She just clapped slightly, said congratulations to Gryffindor, then turned to bid farewell to Sean and left the stands.
Sean and Blaise also left quickly.
When they returned to the common room, they heard news that due to the behavior of Malfoy and his two companions during the Quidditch match, Slytherin had been docked fifty points.
Hearing this news, Sean immediately knew that Harry and his two friends were going to have bad luck in Potions class.
When it came to deducting points from Gryffindor, his Head of House never had any bottom line.
Saturday evening, seven o'clock.
Sean met his teacher again.
As soon as they met, Sean told Antonius the message Dumbledore had conveyed.
Hearing Sean's words, Antonius hesitated slightly, then nodded: "I'm already a ghost, yet I think about more things now. I have nothing left to lose, don't I?"
"So teacher, you mean...?"
"Then let's meet. I just don't know when he wants to meet."
"It shouldn't be this week anyway. They wouldn't have time to come over."
"Alright, then we'll discuss this matter next time. No wonder there was no letter this time. He probably wants to save what he has to say for when we meet face to face."
With the matter settled, Antonius immediately entered teaching mode. He was very attentive to his student Sean. With only two hours of communication on Saturdays and Sundays each week, Antonius cherished this time greatly.
8:50 PM. He always stopped at this point in each lesson. The remaining ten minutes were either for letter-writing or for the teacher and student to chat about various things. Generally, it was Sean telling Antonius about outside events, and Antonius always listened very seriously.
"Sean, you learn very quickly. You've almost finished studying the books I had you bring out last time. Next week's lesson will require some new books, so next week you'll need to go to Gringotts again to retrieve some books. The password is [Philosopher's Stone]. Just tell the goblins at Gringotts directly."
"Yes, teacher. Then I'll tell Professor Dumbledore that you agree to meet."
"Mm, then we'll see each other tom..."
Before he finished speaking, the time had reached nine o'clock.
Antonius stood up stiffly and disappeared at the doorway.
Watching Antonius disappear, Sean frowned slightly. His teacher's condition, even for a ghost, definitely couldn't be considered normal. But Antonius always kept mum about his own affairs, so Sean could only gradually find ways to help.
Leaving the classroom, Sean packed all the books into his Undetectable Extension Bag. Today he didn't plan to return immediately. Walking through Hogwarts' corridors, Sean cast a Disillusionment Charm and silently left Hogwarts castle, following the secret passage under the Whomping Willow to Hogsmeade.
Emerging from the Shrieking Shack, Sean took a large gulp of Polyjuice Potion and transformed into a blonde man in his early thirties, walking directly into the Three Broomsticks.
He walked straight to the innermost table of the Three Broomsticks. At this time, a middle-aged witch sat at the table. Sean knew this was Marlowe, but he was somewhat puzzled. This guy had been using Polyjuice Potion to transform into witches recently. Could this fellow have awakened some special preference?
Sitting across from Marlowe, Sean asked directly: "How have things been recently? How is the plan progressing?"
"Master, we've recently begun preliminary cooperation with the target. The target has recently had conflicts with foreign smuggling groups, and his dark wizard subordinates have suffered severe losses, so he urgently needs a large number of people to supplement his fighting strength in the short term.
We took this opportunity to cooperate with him and have now preliminarily infiltrated his organization. However, he doesn't completely trust us either. He always keeps that Auror with him. Unfortunately, the other party always wears a mask, so we can't identify who it is."