[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-hp-i-am-sherlock-holmes":3,"chapter-hp-i-am-sherlock-holmes-hp-i-am-sherlock-holmes-chapter-326":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","HP: I AM SHERLOCK HOLMES",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1880066,2495,"Chapter 326: 0326 Bad Thoughts","hp-i-am-sherlock-holmes-chapter-326",326,"\u003Cp>\"Don't touch Harry, don't touch Harry, please don't touch Harry!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get out of the way, you foolish woman, move aside—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't touch Harry, please, kill me instead—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sense of déjà vu came over him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he'd only looked down for a moment, Harry felt as if he'd plunged into endless darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distant voices gradually became clearer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he first encountered a Dementor on the Hogwarts Express, Harry had heard terrible screams and panicked pleas from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at the time, he didn't know whose voice it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, when he told others about it, they all said they hadn't heard any voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this time, when over a hundred Dementors approached the pitch, Harry heard the screams and pleas again in his unconsciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He finally knew whose screams they were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was his mother!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was his mother's voice in her final moments, her desperate begging to Voldemort to spare him as an infant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he came to, he found himself in tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking around, he found himself lying in the hospital wing, surrounded by a circle of people all watching him with worried eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice was hoarse: \"What... what happened to me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Over a hundred Dementors came!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You fell off your broom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone was terrified!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As everyone spoke at once, Harry finally understood what had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His expression immediately turned very unpleasant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gryffindor had lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Sherlock left with Dumbledore earlier, though he'd heard Hufflepuff captain Cedric Diggory's voice requesting a rematch, he hadn't paid attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only now did he and Harry learn the match's outcome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Harry fell from his broom, Hufflepuff Seeker Cedric Diggory successfully caught the Golden Snitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the natural result. He'd spotted the Snitch before Harry anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without Harry as competition, no one could stop him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Cedric truly was an honorable person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he caught the Snitch and saw Harry fallen on the ground, he immediately proposed to Madam Hooch that it didn't count and they should have a rematch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But referee Madam Hooch refused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her view, though the Dementors' appearance was indeed unexpected, if Harry couldn't overcome their influence, that was his own problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were both Seekers, why was Cedric unaffected?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, of all fourteen players combined, only Harry Potter had fallen from his broom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the others were affected to varying degrees, none so obviously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similarly, the little lions weren't petty people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They accepted the result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Wood, desperate for victory, agreed Cedric had won fair and square, without controversy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the opponents acknowledged it, a rematch became meaningless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, the match ended 150-50, with Hufflepuff victorious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite his teammates' consolations, Harry couldn't accept the result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of him, Gryffindor had lost another match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two years ago, because he was in the hospital, Gryffindor lost the most crucial match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last year, the remaining matches were canceled due to the Chamber of Secrets incident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, before this match, Gryffindor had won every game he'd played in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, though he'd actually played, they'd still lost to their opponents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Wood said, Diggory had won fairly and honorably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had nothing to say. But that was exactly why it hurt more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only consolation for Harry was that they hadn't completely lost their chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hogwarts Quidditch Cup used a point system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each team had to play against the other three house teams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following combination rules, there were six matches per term, exactly two per year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant if Hufflepuff lost to Ravenclaw in this term's second match, and Gryffindor defeated both Ravenclaw and Slytherin, they still had a chance at the championship cup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, since Gryffindor lost to Hufflepuff by 100 points in this match, they'd need to calculate goal differentials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the mathematically-challenged Wizards, such calculations were rather complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the heated discussion, Madam Pomfrey, who had just returned to the hospital wing, firmly drove them all out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ron wanted to stay, but Madam Pomfrey, annoyed by his earlier loudness, drove him out too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After they left, Madam Pomfrey closed the door, looking quite displeased at the muddy tracks left on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only ones remaining in the hospital wing were the five who'd stayed quiet: Sherlock, Hermione, Luna, Cho Chang, and Ginny.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry didn't want to relive the match's defeat or his mother's heartbreaking pleas, so he hastily changed the subject:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By the way, who has my Nimbus?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought this was a bland enough topic to distract himself and escape his despondent mood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sherlock had left the pitch with Dumbledore, so he didn't know what happened afterward and looked at the four girls along with Harry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hermione, Cho Chang, and Ginny quickly exchanged glances but didn't speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's wrong?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry looked at the three, somewhat puzzled. Was this question difficult to answer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Luna said straightforwardly: \"It broke.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\" Harry froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just tell him,\" Sherlock placed his hand on Hermione's shoulder. \"Trust Harry. He can handle it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He'd seen the bag at Cho Chang's feet and heard the girls' words, he'd already deduced the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I really appreciate your confidence in me!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Sherlock's words were effective. Hermione, who'd been hesitating, spoke directly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, Harry—when you fell, it got blown away by the wind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And it just happened to crash into the Whomping Willow,\" Ginny stammered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just now, Professor Flitwick brought it over,\" Cho Chang said in as gentle a voice as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, it just broke,\" Luna confirmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Cho Chang bent down to pick up the bag at her feet and slowly tipped it over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dozen wooden splinters and twigs fell onto the bed, the remains of Harry's Nimbus 2000, which had brought him victory after victory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, Harry was completely stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Am I Harry Potter or Draco Malfoy?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Malfoy broke his leg during practice, and his Nimbus 2001 got smashed to pieces by the Whomping Willow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He fell off his flying broom during an actual match under Dementor influence, and his Nimbus 2000 was also smashed by the Whomping Willow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That Whomping Willow had gone absolutely berserk, hadn't it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sherlock picked up one of the fragments and examined it for a moment, then shook his head. \"No possibility of repair.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at Sherlock somewhat resentfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Mate, could you stop rubbing salt in my wounds?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he saw Luna nod. \"Yes, absolutely no way to fix it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry: (T_T)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cho Chang beside them quickly tugged at Luna.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop talking, stop talking.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Pomfrey easily convinced the despondent Harry to stay in the hospital wing for the weekend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he insisted on keeping the Nimbus 2000's remains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew he was being foolish, that it was meaningless, as Sherlock and Luna had said, with the Nimbus 2000 in this state, it definitely couldn't be fixed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he did it anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, he even felt a sense of shared suffering with Malfoy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That weekend, visitors to see Harry came in an endless stream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone was trying to cheer him up in their own way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most people acted normally, though some methods gave Harry a headache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like Hagrid, who quietly brought a bouquet of thistles that Harry felt looked more like yellow cabbages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ginny, blushing furiously, worked up the courage to give Harry a homemade get-well soon card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, it kept singing shrilly, so Harry had to press it down with the fruit bowl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By Sunday afternoon, the Gryffindor Quidditch team members all arrived again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, even captain Wood came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't come last time because after the match, he'd stayed out in the rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he saw Harry, he said it wasn't Harry's fault at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The words were sincere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problem was, hearing him say this in such a hollow, dull voice made Harry feel even worse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hermione, Ron, and Cho Chang only left Harry's bedside in the evenings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone cared for Harry in their own way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Harry's best friend Sherlock's behavior shocked everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for the day of the Quidditch match when he'd accompanied Headmaster Dumbledore in bringing Harry to the hospital wing, he hadn't appeared since.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Hermione and Ron didn't know where Sherlock had gone that weekend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Harry didn't particularly mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lost match, the damaged broomstick, the fall from great height—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These things only occupied half his worries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other half was the \"Grim\"—the large black dog he'd seen in the stands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry hadn't mentioned the \"Grim\" to anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even to Ron, Hermione, and Cho Chang, who'd stayed with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he knew Ron would panic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hermione would scoff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Cho Chang, Harry didn't want her to see his weak side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was fine that Sherlock hadn't come, he didn't plan to tell Sherlock about it yet anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry recalled the first Defense Against the Dark Arts class, when the Boggart had reached him, but both Sherlock and Professor Lupin had stopped him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made him feel neither of them believed he could handle a Boggart alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps they both meant well, thinking he'd faint again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, they were right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facts spoke louder than words, he really would faint again upon seeing Dementors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now whenever Harry thought about Dementors, all he felt was disgust and humiliation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, Dementors were terrifying, everyone who'd seen them said so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But only Harry had fainted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, when others saw Dementors, they didn't hear the voices of dead relatives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, for two consecutive nights, Harry drifted hazily, sometimes falling into dreams, sometimes waking with a jerk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each time he fell into dreams, he'd see those cold, clammy, rotting hands and hear his mother's heartbreaking pleas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this dejected state, time finally reached the new week.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sherlock, where were you this weekend?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they saw Sherlock again in the Great Hall, Ron couldn't help asking: \"Every night when we went to sleep, you hadn't returned to the dormitory.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ron, by the time I returned to the dormitory, you were already asleep.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know that. Neville said you wake him up for morning training. But after training, you always have him return to the dormitory alone while you disappear somewhere.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ron said somewhat glumly, \"You didn't even go see Harry. Too mysterious.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry beside him quickly said, \"I—I don't mind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sherlock smiled slightly: \"Dear Ron, if I told you, could you keep the secret?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course!\" Hearing this, Ron immediately patted his chest in assurance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well then, so can I.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long moment, Ron finally realized what Sherlock's words meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sherlock, you tricked me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ron, I promise when the time is right, I'll tell you everything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sherlock's gaze swept over the bulge in Ron's pocket, then turned to Harry, saying to his surprise: \"Do you still have that Sneakoscope?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I left it in the dormitory. Why?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'd like to borrow it for a while. May I?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course. I'll give it to you when we get back after class today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Noticing that Sherlock treated him exactly as he had before the Quidditch match, Harry suddenly felt much better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, that week's Defense Against the Dark Arts class arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking toward the classroom, Ron suddenly elbowed Harry. \"Mate, help check who's inside.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's wrong?\" Harry asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If Snape's teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts again, I'm skipping!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ron said huffily, \"I'd rather lose dozens of points than see his ugly face again!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Ron so adamant, Harry was somewhat speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, just as he was about to peek at the classroom door, the little lions who'd reached there were already cheering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Professor Lupin's back!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You can read more than 40 chapters on:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>patreon.com\u002FMikeyMuse\u003C\u002Fp>",1920,"2026-06-10T06:27:24.274Z",1,"novelbin.me","8fc3d997f5541312825cbccf6ffc1e7fa1564e077715afb81af35cd2a343290a","hp-i-am-sherlock-holmes-chapter-327","hp-i-am-sherlock-holmes-chapter-325",637,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhp-i-am-sherlock-holmes-cover.jpg"]