The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 239 A biting dog never barks
The next day, Ida got up early and went to the Owl Shed alone to deliver a letter. Ida contacted a wizard she knew at the Leaky Cauldron, who could help Ida find a buyer for the venom of the giant spider.

The Leaky Cauldron is a mixed bag of people. If you are careful enough, you can find talents from different industries here. Private detectives, curse breakers, bodyguards, thieves, or middlemen... As long as you pay enough attention, you can find most of the professions you can think of.

Being a signboard girl is not just there to look good. Ada also has to communicate with the customers and try her best to get along with them.

As a fake-smiling girl, Ada was quite successful in the Leaky Cauldron. She met many seemingly useless wizards, but on an unknown day, these useless people could provide her with some unexpected help.

The wizard that Ada sent the letter to was a middleman named Scott Warren. Warren usually made a living by reselling or matchmaking, so Ada thought of him first.

As for why she let Warren, the middleman, make the difference, it was because Ada didn't want to bother with the trouble and didn't want to expose herself.

The venom of the giant spider is very precious, and this ferocious and brutal spider is not allowed to be raised by humans (Hagrid is breaking the law again). Therefore, when the venom in Ada's hands flows into the market, someone will inevitably ask her about the origin of these giant spider venoms and ask her this and that.

It would be better to just leave the venom trading to Scott Warren, leave professional matters to professionals, let Warren bargain with the buyers, and you just wait to collect the money.

As a professional, Scott Warren, who has been walking in the gray area for many years, keeps confidentiality as his professional ethics. He doesn't care where the venom in Ada's hands comes from or whether it is legal or not. As long as the venom belongs to the Acromantula, it is enough.

Warren will also keep Ada's secrets and not disclose Ada's personal information, which will save Ada a lot of trouble. For people like them, keeping the seller's identity secret is a common thing and the foundation of their lives.

The difference between the buyer and the seller is the hard-earned money of people like Warren, and also their hush money to keep them shut. If these price differences fail to shut them up, then they can only shut them up forever. The dead are the best at keeping secrets.

The owl flapped its wings and flew high, and Ada didn't leave the owl shed until it disappeared from her sight. She believed that Warren would bring her good news soon, and she would also receive a large sum of gold soon.

As for whether Warren would rob the thieves, Ada would rather he did so. In this way, Ada could not only get a sum of gold, but also sell the venom of the giant spider again. Why not?

I really hope Scott Warren can have some foresight and play some thief-on-thief game with me, so that I can experience the darkness of human nature and the sinisterness of society.

After leaving the shed, Ada met up with the twins and they returned to the castle together.

While having breakfast in the Great Hall, Ada discovered that Hermione was missing, and she also did not see her in the common room after breakfast. So Ada and the twins stopped Ron and Harry to ask what happened.

Fred and George, like two gangsters, pressed Harry and Ron into the armchairs in the lounge. During the Christmas holidays, there were not many people in the school, so even if they talked about something private in the lounge, no one would eavesdrop.

"It was you three who stole the Boomslang skin and the Bicorn horn, right?" Ada sat cross-legged across from Harry and Ron. These two naughty brothers had made her take the blame for several minutes!

Under the hold of the "evil" twins, Harry and Ron nodded in agreement.

"Is the Polyjuice Potion delicious?" Ada asked again, "Isn't the taste something you two will never forget?"

Ron's facial expression began to twist, as if he remembered the disgusting smell of the Polyjuice Potion again. Harry blurted out: "How did you know we were making Polyjuice Potion?"

George, holding Harry's shoulders, said, "Harry, before you came to Hogwarts, Ada could distinguish potions by smell alone, and she could make Polyjuice Potion with her eyes closed." Although George's words were a bit exaggerated, Polyjuice Potion was really child's play for Ada now. Moreover, there were not many potions that could be made with both African brush snake skin and bicorn horn as materials, so a simple process of elimination would be enough.

"Tell me, what did you do with the Polyjuice Potion?" Ada said, "We can exchange information with each other."

Harry and Ron thought for a while, then told Ada and the twins about the conversation in the Slytherin common room last night, with Harry giving the main lecture and Ron supplementing it.

Last night the two tried to extract information from Malfoy and find evidence that he was the heir of Slytherin.

But Malfoy disappointed Harry and Ron. He was not the heir of Slytherin at all, and he didn't know who the heir was. He only knew that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened fifty years ago and a Muggle-born child died at that time.

"He also hopes that at least one person will die this time," Ron thought about his words, and then continued, "You, or Hermione, it would be best if both of you ..."

Ada did not take Malfoy's curse to heart. If it was Lucius Malfoy who said this, Ada would definitely have a friendly argument with Mr. Malfoy, but Draco Malfoy was not worthy.

"You two actually thought Malfoy was the heir of Slytherin," said Fred, laughing. "With the way he looks, haha..."

George continued with great joy, "He has brought shame upon Slytherin. If he were the heir of that old monkey, Slytherin's coffin might not even be able to hold it down!"

The twins let go of Harry and Ron, and the two brothers held their stomachs and laughed. They hadn't heard such a funny joke in a long time.

"What's so funny about that!" The twins' unbridled laughter made Ron very angry. "Think about it, Malfoy is the student who hates Muggle-borns the most in the school. Our suspicion of him is completely reasonable!"

Harry nodded and agreed, "He talks about Mudbloods all the time, and he's always full of hostility towards Muggle-born students."

From Harry and Ron's perspective, there was nothing wrong with their ideas, but the problem was that they saw things too narrowly, they were blinded by Malfoy and their judgment was affected by hatred.

"Ron, Harry, there are many people in this school who are just like Malfoy. They also hate Muggle-born students. They discriminate against and exclude Muggle-born students. It's just that they never say it out loud." Ada said earnestly, "Ron, Harry, remember this: the dog that bites doesn't bark."

There are many pure-blood students in Hogwarts, and a small number of them are friendly to Muggle-born students like Weasley, Longbottom, and Macmillan. Some of them remain neutral, neither having too much contact with Muggle-borns nor discriminating or ostracizing them.

As for the remaining pure-blood students, they had similar ideas to Malfoy, most of them were Slytherin students. They were influenced by their parents and families, which was why they followed Voldemort in the first place. They were willing to be used by Voldemort.

The barking dog never bites. The Malfoys, who only bark wildly, are not to be feared. The most frightening are the hidden killers, who hide in the dark, waiting for a chance to bite you, and this bite is enough to make you fall into the bottomless abyss.

"Where's Hermione?" Ada asked again, "Why isn't she with you?"

Harry and Ron were silent. They didn't know whether they should tell Ada about Hermione. This was Ada. If she knew about Hermione, how would Hermione face her in the future?
Thanks to the book friend Luoyue Ruzheng for the reward
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