The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

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"Is the poison in the wine?" Fred asked softly in the corridor in front of the school hospital. Ryan had come out of the office with the Weasleys. Now, the Weasleys were accompanying Ron at the bedside, while the others came to the corridor in front of the school hospital.

"Yes," said Harry quickly. He could think of nothing else right now, and was glad to have the chance to revisit the subject. "Slughorn took it from -"

"Could he have put something in Ron's cup while you weren't paying attention?" George asked.

"It's unlikely." Ryan shook his head. "Because after checking, all of our drinks were poisoned. It can be confirmed that the poison was put into the bottle. Ron was poisoned because he drank too fast. I didn't have time to call him -"

"It seems that the original target was most likely Slughorn, but who would want to kill a peaceful potion master?" George shook his head. After working for a year, he also clearly knew the true value of a potion master. He didn't think Voldemort would kill Slughorn simply because he came to Hogwarts to teach, not to mention that Slughorn was a noble pure blood, and killing him was not in line with the Death Eaters' habits.

"Dumbledore thinks Voldemort wants to win Slughorn over. It's hard to say what the Death Eaters will do in this case," said Harry. "Slughorn has been in hiding for a year before coming to Hogwarts. And..." He thought of the memory that Dumbledore had not yet obtained from Slughorn, "Perhaps Voldemort wants to get rid of him, thinking that he might be valuable to Dumbledore."

"Just now when Professor Slughorn was in the school hospital, he seemed to say that he planned to give this bottle of wine to the headmaster, so the poisoner's target might also be Headmaster Dumbledore." Ginny said after recalling.

"Then the poisoner didn't know Slughorn very well," Hermione put in. "Anyone who knew Slughorn well would know that he probably kept all the good food for himself."

Just at this moment, heavy footsteps were heard in the corridor. Everyone looked up and saw Hagrid striding in, with rain on his hair, his bearskin coat flapping behind him, a crossbow in his hand, and footprints in the mud as big as dolphins on the ground.

"I've been teaching Grawp to speak English in the Forbidden Forest since I got up. As soon as I got back and was about to have breakfast, I heard Professor Sprout telling me about Ron! How is he?"

"It's fine," Harry said. "They said he'd be fine."

After looking through the glass window at Ron, who was accompanied by his parents, Hagrid sat down and asked in a low voice, "Do you know why someone attacked Ron? I couldn't believe it when I heard the news."

"It's not just Ron." Harry said as he sat next to Hagrid. "If Ryan hadn't discovered the poison in the wine in time, I estimate there would be five people lying here instead of just Ron. But other than that we don't know the purpose of this attack. We were still discussing this issue before you came over."

"Is someone trying to pick a fight with the Gryffindor students?" Hagrid said worriedly. "First it was Katie, now Ron and you..."

"Probably not, because our visit to Professor Slughorn today was a very accidental event, and no one could have predicted it in advance." Hermione said softly. "But this poisoning should be related to the last cursed necklace attack."

"How do you know that?" Fred asked.
"First, both attacks should have been fatal, but they weren't, although that was pure luck. Second, the poison and the necklace didn't seem to harm the intended victims. Third, Ryan and I were present during both attacks and rescued people." She pondered, "It seems that the person behind this is more sinister, because they don't seem to care how many people they kill in order to attack the real target. At the same time-"

Hermione paused for a moment, then looked at everyone and said, "At the same time, Ryan and I are the most likely suspects. After all, the chances of us being at the scene twice and rescuing people are too small."

"I trust you two." Harry said firmly. "Because if you two really want to hurt others, you will never resort to such stupid methods, not to mention that you usually have many opportunities to be alone with me and Ron. If you really want to take action, you don't have to choose these two methods with low success rates now." "Thank you for your trust." Ryan said to Harry with a smile. "But we still have to-"

Ryan had just said half of his words when the door of the school hospital opened and Madam Pomfrey called out to them, "At most four more people can come in to visit the patients. Who of you wants to come in?"

Ryan and Hermione got up and left together so that Ron could stay with his family. After returning to the common room, more than ten minutes later, Harry also came back, and Ryan learned from him that he knew from Hagrid that Dumbledore and Snape had a quarrel, and the headmaster asked Snape to increase the inspection of Slytherin students.

Ryan thought that Dumbledore probably knew that they came to the school to kill him, and now the headmaster was actually warning Malfoy not to attack innocent people like this again. After all, as a headmaster, Dumbledore didn't want any more students to be hurt for any reason.

After what happened just now, Harry seemed very tired, so he wanted to sit in the common room to rest for a while. However, before he could rest for long, Cormac McLaggen came in from outside and started to discuss the Quidditch game with Harry. Seeing the tired Harry and the chattering McLaggen, Ryan and Hermione quickly packed up their things and went to the library to read, leaving Harry, who was staring at the two of them with pitiful eyes, in the common room.

The news of Ron's poisoning spread quickly the next day, but everyone seemed to think that it might be an accident because he was in the potion teacher's room at the time and took the antidote immediately, so he was fine. Ryan heard from these rumors that Slughorn made the antidote. It seems that Dumbledore erased Ryan's contribution for some reason. But Ryan thought it was good now, which just met his requirement of hiding behind the scenes.

The next day Ryan went to the school hospital to visit Ron. Ron was much better now. He could even half-lye on the pillow and kiss Lavender Brown who came to take care of him. After seeing Ryan, they separated in a panic.

Although Lavender is just an ordinary girl, she is definitely not the kind with a problem in IQ. The fact that she seems to be a bit of a nympho in the original text is purely due to insecurity. Because at that time Ron only used her as a tool to demonstrate to Hermione, so at that time she just did everything possible to really win Ron, so naturally she would be more exaggerated in doing things.

Now that Ron was truly in love with her, she naturally didn't need to be so neurotic. At least according to Ryan's observation, Lavender and Ron behaved very normally together, and there was definitely no exaggerated feeling of sticking together all day long.

Ryan learned from Lavender that Ron now had to drink 20 ml of rue essence every four hours, and he would be discharged from the hospital in about two weeks. According to Madam Pomfrey, although Ron's injuries were not serious due to timely rescue, it would be better to detoxify little by little if he wanted to be cured without sequelae. However, Ron was obviously not satisfied with the current treatment speed.

"Ron, Madam Pomfrey said that the antidote you gave me was a master-level one, so do you have any medicine that can make me get better quickly? I really can't accept having to stay in the hospital for a week and miss the Quidditch game." Ron asked with a bitter face.

"You should know that rue essence is the most suitable medicine for you right now. It is the best tonic product for your internal organs damaged by the poison. The medicine I made is fine for first aid, but when it comes to post-treatment, it is really not as good as this most basic and traditional potion. If you don't want to have any sequelae, you'd better lie in bed for a few days. As for the Quidditch game, you don't have to worry. Harry has found McLaggen as your substitute. I saw that his level was not as good as yours during the selection match that day, but he should be able to be used."

"I'm worried because it's McLaggen." Ron seemed a little agitated, but fortunately he calmed down after Lavender held his hand. "You and Hermione are the same, you don't understand Quidditch at all. McLaggen is not in the same league as the rest of the team, it's better not to have a goalkeeper when he plays -"

After more than ten minutes of persuasion, Ron finally agreed to stay in the hospital until he was fully recovered before being discharged. But after hearing what he said, Ryan was also full of pessimism about the next Quidditch game.

(End of this chapter)