The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 215 The clown is actually me

Persecution delusion is a chronic and systematic and organized delusion. Patients with this disease always believe that some individual or group of individuals want to harm themselves.

Patients tend to become extremely cautious and defensive. An ordinary little thing in life will be magnified infinitely by them and become the core of delusion. They regard this incident as a sign that someone is going to persecute them.

Ada's behavior seemed to be somewhat similar to this disease, and her past experiences were enough to cause her to have this disease. Perhaps the other party just glanced at her casually, or looked at her a few times, and she was suspicious and thought that he was following her or monitoring her.

After all, Ada is not the sun, the earth will not always revolve around her, and the magical world will not play with an ordinary little witch like her.

But Ada could swear to Merlin that the surveillance of these three people was not her own delusion or conjecture, but was real. She had silently observed these three people for a long time, and she could confirm their surveillance behavior, but she really could not explain why they suddenly disappeared.

Ada could only think that the other party might have realized that she had discovered their surveillance, and in order to avoid conflict and dispel Ada's suspicion, they temporarily gave up following her.

Or maybe the other party has already obtained the information they want and no longer needs to waste resources on Ada.

Of course, it is also possible that the other party has replaced his eyes with more advanced ones and continued to secretly monitor Ada, but she did not notice it, so there is the current vacuum period.

After realizing that she was being followed, Ada tried to analyze who sent these three people, but the result of the reverse analysis did not satisfy her.

The first thing that comes to mind is the Welfare family behind Benedict Welfare. This pure-blood family from Hampshire has amazing wealth and enviable connections, but they live a rather low-key life.

Apart from Benedict, there is no record of anyone else in this family following Voldemort.

In Ada's first year, Benedict tried to attack Ada, and was defeated by Dumbledore and sent to Azkaban, so the Foley family had a motive to monitor her. A year later, the Auror Hart who wanted to bring Ada back to the Ministry of Magic for trial, wasn't he a lackey of the Foley family?

Ever since Benedict was imprisoned, the Foley family has been using their connections to try to reduce Benedict's punishment, but because of Dumbledore, Cornelius Fudge has not relented.

It was inevitable that the Welsh family would feel resentful as they had not achieved success. They could not afford to offend Dumbledore, so it was not impossible that they set their sights on the weak Ada.

Secondly, there were the parents of students that Ada had offended at school, such as Avery, Flint, and possibly Malfoy. In the past three years, because of her own personality, Ada had offended many people at school, and she had offended all the pure-blood Slytherins.

Although Ada thought it was a shame to report her parents, the Slytherins, who had always been suppressed by her, had no other way to punish Ada except to report her to their parents.

Seeing their child being bullied, they would not care what caused the conflict between their child and Ada. It is not impossible for them to find a few people to keep an eye on Ada and teach her a lesson.

Besides, Ada knew clearly what these families used to do. They all followed Voldemort, so it was unlikely that they would go after a child.

These families were the main suspects of Ada, and she had conflicts with them, big or small. In the eyes of these families, the lonely Ada was like a stronger ant. They didn't care about the life of the ant, and it was just a matter of moving their hands to crush the ant that appeared in front of them.

Compared with these ancient pure-blood families, the current Ada is indeed not good enough. They have many ways to deal with Ada. Unless she has a fearsome strength or a strong background, otherwise, they can deal with Ada anytime and anywhere as long as they want.

They could also be relatives or friends of the people killed by Ada. Although the Daily Prophet did not report Ada's name, so many Aurors knew about this matter, so it was not difficult to get Ada's name.

This was a matter of life and death, and I wanted to find out Ada's background so that I could take revenge. This reason and motivation were sufficient. However, Ada could not confirm whether these "relatives and friends" really existed or what their strength was. Ada knew nothing about them and could not analyze them.

Ada did not doubt Dumbledore. Although in her eyes the relationship between the two was not as good as before, there was no reason for the headmaster to do such a thing.

Ida also had doubts about the Ministry of Magic. After all, those Aurors were from the Ministry of Magic. But the motives and reasons of the Ministry of Magic were not sufficient. Ida could not think of a time when she had offended the Ministry of Magic. On the contrary, she had helped them catch the Death Eaters hiding among the people.

Instead of giving Ada the medal of the Order of Merlin, who had helped them, they sent people to follow her. Considering the current situation, isn't it a bit unreasonable?

Unless Cornelius Fudge thought that exposing Benedict Foley's identity as a Death Eater was asking for trouble, and he was very unhappy with Ada, so he sent people to monitor Ada to prevent her from causing trouble for him again.

But the Minister of Magic, who is high and mighty, would not care about a poor student like Ada. It is not worth it to do such a small thing.

This is the mastermind that Ada can think of for the time being. She can’t think of any other suspects for the moment. If she thinks any more, it would be a paranoid delusion.

After counting, Ada found that in her short three-year wizard career, she had made countless enemies. She had previously said that Marcus Flint was too jumpy, but it turned out that the most jumpy person was actually herself.

No matter which company sent these three people who were following her, none of them took advantage of Ada when she was alone. This was Ada's biggest confusion. It made Ada unable to confirm their attitude. Was it just to collect her information?
He shook his head to dispel the thoughts in his mind. No matter what, life had to go on. He couldn't stop living a normal life just because of this stalker who suddenly appeared and disappeared inexplicably, right?

A blacksmith must be strong himself. As long as you have enough strength, you will not be afraid of any tricks, as they are just paper tigers that will break at the slightest touch.

At night, Ada was walking alone on Charing Cross Road. Her clothes were not weird, but rather a little eccentric, so she did not attract the attention of Muggles on the street.

Ada didn't disappear into Charing Cross Road until she reached a street corner where no one was paying attention to her. Still, no one jumped out to attack her. It seemed that the other party had really given up monitoring her.

Ada, who was sleepy, hungry and tired, appeared on the small road in St. Catchpole Village. No one would follow her here. The Burrow was not far away, and no one would be stupid enough to take action here.

When Ada returned to the Burrow, it was time for dinner. The whole family was sitting around the dining table, looking very lively.

Ginny's face was not as red as before, but she still didn't dare to look at Harry openly. She could only look at him secretly. Ginny's shy look made Ada feel very amused.

Ginny, who has always been generous, cheerful and quick-talking, has become like this. The power of the male god is indeed strong.

The family happily enjoyed a sumptuous dinner. Harry's plate was piled high with food, all of which was served to him by Mrs. Weasley.

Ada did not feel annoyed by Mrs. Weasley's double standard behavior, but focused on the steak on the plate. If she didn't eat more, these steaks would either go into the stomach of Ron, the glutton, or appear on Harry's plate.

The twins chattered and complained to Percy. They wanted to borrow Percy's owl, but Percy refused to lend it to them, saying that he wanted to keep it for himself.

The warm atmosphere in the shack can always dispel Ada's fatigue. Here Ada will forget all those disturbing troubles, and only the laughter from her family will linger in her ears.

As the night deepened, Ada and Ginny both fell into a deep sleep, both dreaming.

Ginny's dream was of Harry, so the little girl smiled sweetly even in her sleep.

Ada's dream was a bit strange. She first dreamed of the witch who had monitored her. She had never seen this witch before, but Ada felt familiar with her. Then, Ada dreamed of another woman, a strange woman she had never seen before.

(End of this chapter)