Hermione looked at Ariana in confusion for a long time, but in the end she said nothing and turned and ran away.

This behavior confused Ariana and Draco. They had no idea what she meant by running away after talking for a while.

Draco looked at her back angrily, then turned to Ariana and asked, "Did you know her before?"

Lies are ninety percent true and one percent false. Try not to tell lies if you can, so Ariana did not hide her experience with Hermione.

"Professor McGonagall took us to Diagon Alley to buy school supplies. I knew I wouldn't get along with her after just a few minutes of meeting her. She kept talking about her elementary school grades. Even after knowing that I got full marks in elementary school, she actually questioned whether the exams in London were easy. Don't you think people like that are annoying?"

In order to prevent Draco from worrying about Muggle issues, Ariana could only find a way to divert his attention.

As she expected, Draco's focus immediately shifted to this issue: "Indeed, even if she is a pure-blood wizard, she can't make friends with this kind of personality. I heard that people in Gryffindor can't stand her." Draco commented viciously.

Although Ariana didn't like Hermione's personality, she still had to say a few fair words for her.

"You were right about the start-of-term dinner. All the idiots went to Gryffindor. Hermione's personality is annoying, but she loves to study. How could such a person be welcomed in Gryffindor? If she had gone to Ravenclaw, she might have been in a better situation."

Since the mysterious man, Slytherin's situation has not been very good, but it is not without friendly houses.

Maybe it's because they think they are all smart, or maybe it's because the number of students in both houses is small, but the relationship between Slytherin and Ravenclaw is quite good.

"Impossible. Ravenclaws are very self-centered. They won't welcome someone who loves to show off like Granger." Draco said in support of Ravenclaw.

Ariana didn't want to argue with Draco over such a trivial matter, so she shrugged and said, "Well, you know the wizarding world better than I do, so your standards will definitely prevail."

Draco was very proud of winning the debate and said with a smile, "Of course. There is nothing in the wizarding world that I don't know."

Hearing his arrogant remarks, Ariana reminded him quietly: "So you lied to me that your dad wanted to buy my villa because I didn't know anything."

When Draco heard Ariana bring this up, he thought for a long time before coming up with a perfunctory excuse.

"We get along so well, which shows that we have similar tastes. You said yourself that you care a lot about face, so I'm sure I am the same." He smiled awkwardly at Ariana.

Ariana opened her mouth, but couldn't find any reason to refute.

She had clearly analyzed before that there were only more than 10,000 wizards in the UK, and no matter how big their business was, they couldn't be very rich.

But he didn't consider that Draco's family couldn't have that much money to buy a villa worth more than 1000 million.

At the time, she seemed to think that even with the Statute of Secrecy, the business of these families in the magical world could not possibly not involve the ordinary world at all.

Thinking of this, Ariana curiously asked Draco in a low voice, "Does the business of wizarding families really not reach the Muggle world at all?"

After a week of getting along, Draco already knew Ariana's business knowledge very well. The more he talked about it in front of her, the more he would expose his ignorance.

"I told you, I haven't received any management education in the family business yet. How would I know whether the family business has expanded to the Muggle world?" Draco was helpless.

"How about asking your dad?" Ariana suggested.

"Is this question important?" Draco looked at her doubtfully.

Ariana reminded him silently: "You are the heir of the family. Don't you need to know what assets your family has and how big it is?"

Draco thought it was nothing and replied as a matter of course, "But I'm only 11 years old, and my father is only in his 30s. Inheriting the family business is still a long way off."

"I'm only 11 years old now," Ariana retorted.

When Draco heard Ariana mention her age, his self-confidence was hit hard again. He had not forgotten that Ariana could easily buy a villa worth more than 200 million.

"Can I come to your house for Christmas?" He felt the need to visit Ariana's house.

Seeing Draco's resentful eyes, Ariana immediately understood what he meant and made an OK gesture to him.

"Of course, maybe you can bring your mom and dad along. I'll show you that £1325 million villa. Maybe your dad will be so tempted by it that he'll buy it right away."

Ariana still hopes to make this deal. She will stay in Hogwarts for 7 years, and she will also be active in the wizarding world in the future, so earning some gold Galleons is a must.

Seeing Ariana promoting her villa again, Draco said helplessly, "Didn't you say that there are only so few wizards in the wizarding world? If you want to make that much money, you'll probably have to expand your business into the Muggle world, but the Statute of Secrecy won't allow that."

Ariana had long had a doubt about this situation.

"Am I remembering this wrongly? The Statute of Secrecy requires wizards to hide their magical abilities from Muggles. You don't have to use magic to do business, so this isn't against the law, right?"

"I'd better write a letter and ask my father." Draco didn't know the answer to this question.

Ariana and Draco went to the library and came out in less than half an hour.

Because Ariana read several entry-level alchemy books and found that if she wanted to learn this magic, she first needed a lot of money, because a lot of magic materials were needed for experiments during the learning process.

"You said the Room of Requirement can provide these alchemical materials?" Ariana asked Draco doubtfully.

Before Draco could answer, their path was blocked again.

Two identical red-haired twins pointed their wands at Ariana and Draco and demanded, "You are the ones who bullied us Gryffindor students."

Chapter 21 Two to One

Hermione stopped Ariana and Draco in the library corridor on the fourth floor. There were people coming and going here, and anyone could see them.

Slytherin and Gryffindor are already sworn enemies, and with one person facing two people, this combination attracted even more attention.

After Hermione went downstairs, the more she thought about her situation, the sadder she became. She couldn't help crying, and then she met the Weasley twins who were going upstairs.

Although Hermione likes to meddle in other people's affairs and sometimes makes people feel a little annoying, she is a Gryffindor after all. Now she is crying so sadly, the twins with a strong sense of justice certainly cannot turn a blind eye.

"What happened? Who bullied our classmate Granger who loves to show off?" Fred stopped Hermione with a hint of sarcasm in his tone.

Having just been mocked by Ariana and the others for being showy and annoying, Hermione felt even more heartbroken when she heard the twins say the same thing about her. She cried even harder and couldn't even speak.

Hermione ignored the twins and ran towards the Gryffindor common room.

"Someone actually could refuse the righteous George." Fred looked at his brother beside him in surprise and said exaggeratedly.

"No, Granger clearly rejected the righteous Fred." George, of course, fought back without giving in.

This kind of back-and-forth bickering is a daily routine for the two brothers.

The twins were always curious and were not willing to give up until they got an answer from Hermione, so they followed the direction Hermione went downstairs, intending to ask her what had happened.

Then the students who observed the situation in the corridor on the fourth floor told them about the dispute between Hermione, Ariana and Draco.

"It seems that two Slytherin freshmen had an argument with her. We were standing quite far away and only heard Malfoy from Slytherin call her a 'mudblood'." One of the short wizards described it with certainty.

His friend, not wanting to be outdone, added, "And that Colin who stole the show, told Granger to get out of here and go back to Gryffindor. Both of them were quite aggressive and just yelled Granger away."

"This is really too much, two against one." Fred was very angry after hearing this.

"Then the two of us go find Malfoy and Colin, two against two, isn't that fair?" George agreed and suggested enthusiastically.

"But we are in the third grade and they have only been in school for a week. Isn't this a bit unfair?" Fred hesitated.

George doesn't think so.

Only a few days into school, rumors about Ariana have spread throughout Hogwarts. This is definitely not an easy thorn to deal with.

"But that Colin is quite powerful. She even had a fight with Professor Snape in Potions class this morning. It is said that she knows dark magic." Fred felt that even if he and George joined forces, they might not be able to defeat Ariana.

"He can already use dark magic after only one week of school. Are today's young wizards so powerful?" Fred looked at his brother in shock.

"To boost others' ambitions and destroy one's own prestige is not the tradition of the Weasley family." George completely disagreed with Fred's idea.

"Hey, brother, we are both little wizards too," George reminded Fred.

In view of Ariana's "great achievement" in fighting Professor Snape directly, the twins immediately put aside their concerns about bullying the first-year kids and waited directly at the library door.

Ariana and Draco came out not long after they went in, and the Weasley twins didn't have to wait long either.

The red hair of the Weasley family is particularly representative. Ariana knew the identities of these two people without Draco introducing them.

After hearing the accusation that she and Draco bullied Hermione, Ariana frowned and asked, "Granger said we bullied her?"

Hearing this question, the twins felt a little guilty, because Hermione hadn't said a word from beginning to end, and naturally didn't ask them to question Ariana and Draco.

"She didn't say that, but the classmates in the corridor on the fourth floor saw Malfoy calling her a 'mudblood', and you told her to go back to Gryffindor. Did others wrongly accuse you?" After Fred finished speaking, he felt that the guilty feeling in his heart eased a lot.

Ariana never denies what she has done.

She could tell the two brothers were looking for trouble, and if they explained things clearly, there wouldn't be a conflict.

Unfortunately, she was distracted by the large amount of gold Galleons required for alchemy and had no patience at all.

"Yes, Draco did say that, and I told her to get lost. Is there a problem?" Ariana crossed her arms over her chest, looking at the two red-haired brothers in front of her as if it was a matter of course.

George and Fred were also furious when they saw that she had done something wrong and was still so self-righteous.

"You actually asked us if we had any problems? Don't you know how bad it is to call someone 'Mudblood'? And I heard that before school started, you went to Diagon Alley with Granger to buy things, and you actually told her to get lost!" Fred looked at him angrily.

The two brothers really couldn't understand why the little girl in front of them was so mean to Hermione, who was also a little girl.

Ariana crossed her arms over her chest, sneered at the other party and asked, "That's what we said, then what are you going to do?"

The twins felt that Ariana's character was so bad that it seemed almost impossible to ask her and Draco to apologize to Hermione.

So he drew his wand, intending to force them to apologize.

"So we have to teach you a lesson so that you know you can't bully others casually." Fred spoke first.

Everyone else had drawn their wands, so Ariana certainly wasn't willing to be outdone.

And unlike the twins, Ariana didn't have to find a reason to attack. With a wave of her wand, she directly used the disarming spell.

The twins didn't expect Ariana to move so quickly.

At this time, George's wand had already flown into Ariana's hands.

When Fred saw that his brother's wand was confiscated, he subconsciously wanted to use the Disarming Spell on Ariana.

Draco next to him was no pushover either, and he used his best tongue-locking curse on the other party.

He had learned this spell at home, but he was not very proficient in it. This week, under Ariana's "training", he finally became proficient in it.

Fred was alert, so Draco's spell didn't hit him and he dodged it.

This gap gave Ariana an opportunity. She directly surrounded Fred and George with blazing flames.

Other people's Fire Spells all launch a single column of flame, but Ariana has been able to use this spell in many ways.

In the Room of Requirement, she can shape the flames into various shapes. This ring-shaped flame is what she is best at because it can be used for both offense and defense.

The dispute took place in the corridor outside the fourth floor. The noise was so loud that Madam Pince in the library on the fourth floor must have heard it.

When she ran out, she saw Ariana using the blazing fire spell. Her face turned red immediately, and she was obviously very angry.

"Who told you to fight outside the library? Besides, on the day of the opening dinner, Headmaster Dumbledore solemnly announced that the use of spells is not allowed in the school corridors." She shouted at the four people.

Ariana knew in her previous life that whoever seizes the initiative first will have the right to speak, so she certainly couldn't let George and Fred speak first.

"It was the Weasley twins who drew their wands on us first. We were just defending ourselves." She said this with complete confidence because it was the truth.

How could George and Fred accept this accusation?

George immediately retorted, "Although we were the ones who pulled out our wands, the two Slytherin brats cast the spell first, and my wand is still in Colin's hand."

It is an undeniable fact that George's magic wand is indeed in Ariana's hand.

Ariana sneered and threw the wand in front of him.

"If we hadn't taken action, you would have my wand in your hands now." She looked at George defiantly.

Seeing his brother's wand being treated like this, Fred was so angry that he raised his wand again.

Madam Pince walked over quickly and immediately stood between the four people. She shouted angrily, "That's enough. Now follow me to Professor McGonagall's office."

At this time, Professor McGonagall had just returned to her office. Seeing Ariana following behind Madam Pince, she couldn't help but feel a headache.

Fred and George, two troublemakers, also came along. It goes without saying that these two brothers must have had a conflict with Ariana.

"What on earth happened?" Professor McGonagall said with a stern face, trying to make these troublemakers behave themselves.

Madam Pince briefly described what had just happened, and then said viciously, "This Colin actually used a raging fire outside the library. If the fire spreads to the library, the damage that would occur is simply unimaginable."

Ariana disagreed with Madam Pince's words and immediately retorted, "I am very confident in my control of spells. Not to mention that Blazing Blaze is just an ordinary fire spell, even Fiendfyre is something I can control very well."

When Ariana mentioned Fiendfyre, the office immediately fell into silence, and even the Weasley brothers took a few steps back to the door in fear.

The brothers didn't want to really anger Ariana. If she used Fiendfyre for no reason, it would be no joke.

They are not like Ariana, a newbie from the Muggle world. Everyone in the magical world knows that Fiendfyre is difficult to extinguish. If anyone gets a little bit of it, they will probably end up with no remains left.

"Have you learned the Fiery Curse?"

Professor McGonagall stared at the lawless little wizard in front of her with astonishment and anger in her tone.

Chapter 22 It’s Better to Get Expelled

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