Chapter 41: The Most Dangerous Summer Vacation

Tang Dun has a special magic. When Harry returned to the luxurious aristocratic life surrounded by servants, he almost never came into contact with anything related to magic, except for reading books occasionally. After all, the school also had a ban, not allowing them to cast spells during the holidays.

One day in late July, Harry learned that a "strange" guest had come to visit him. When he walked into the reception room, he discovered it was Zhang Qiu. She was wearing a white wizard robe with Heavenly Dynasty characteristics (it is said that people of the Heavenly Dynasty call that Hanfu) and was also carrying her sword. What made Harry feel strange was that she seemed to have grown much taller.

"Harry, why didn't you reply to my letter?" At the first sight of Harry, Zhang Qiu asked directly.

"Letter?" Harry was a bit confused. "I never received any letters?"

Under Zhang Qiu's surprised and puzzled gaze, Harry also suddenly reacted. He hurriedly said: "This matter is a bit fishy. I ignored this oddity before: it's been almost a month since the holiday started, there's no reason my friends wouldn't send a single letter!"

"That's right." Zhang Qiu said. "Master divined that you would fall into a crisis on your birthday, and plus I hadn't seen any reply, so I came to take a look. Clearly, someone deliberately intercepted your letters; you may have fallen into some conspiracy."

"Conspiracy?" Harry quickly thought of the various dangers he encountered last semester. "Death Eaters?"

"It is very likely." Zhang Qiu said. "Deng Buliduo mentioned that he insisted on you living in the home of some Muggle relatives because of the spell your mother cast, which can protect you from the Mysterious Person's harm until you are seventeen. In other words, the effect of this spell should be 'to prevent the Mysterious Person from entering or attacking the house of the Muggle relatives who adopted you'."

"I know, could it be that you are saying they want to lure me out?"

"I suspect that someone is currently opening the letters we sent you, learning the tone of our letters. Then, this person might imitate Luo En's tone, write a letter inviting you to play at his house, and you might very well happily agree, and then step into a trap that has been set..."

Harry suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

"And that person also has to consider another thing, which is the reaction of your friends. I came from the Heavenly Dynasty after I found something was wrong, but what about Luo En? I believe Luo En also wanted to find you, but something stopped him. I remember Luo En's dad works at the Ministry of Magic. If someone in the Ministry of Magic is also involved in this conspiracy, then things would be even more terrifying!" Zhang Qiu said very seriously.

"That's right." Harry also thought of this point and added, "And Deng Buliduo, they will definitely use the Ministry of Magic to contain Deng Buliduo, and only the Ministry of Magic can do this."

"I knew it, the Ministry of Magic is not trustworthy at all." Zhang Qiu said indignantly. "It seems the conspiracy surrounding you is even more terrifying than I imagined. According to my Master's divination, a special event will happen on your birthday, which is very likely their attack. However, since you are prepared, plus they don't know about my arrival, perhaps we can counter-attack the attackers. If we can make him confess, then the enemies in the Ministry of Magic will have nowhere to hide."

"Alright." Harry said. He didn't think they had the certainty to catch any attackers, but with Zhang Qiu's help, at least he didn't have to worry about encountering terrible danger.

In the following days, Zhang Qiu stayed in the guest room at Tang Dun. Harry sometimes discussed magic with her, but she spent more time reading books and taking notes by herself. Her notes were all written in Chinese, and the books were also Chinese books taken out from a small bag that had been cast with an Undetectable Extension Charm, which Harry couldn't read a single word of.

On his birthday, they held a birthday party as usual. Harry received chocolates from Ivy, and Zhang Qiu gave him a book about magical creatures. Harry was also quite interested in the magical creatures of the Heavenly Dynasty, but he really couldn't understand the Chinese characters on it and could only barely look at the pictures.

When Harry finished the dinner party and returned to his room, he found an uninvited guest on his bed. It was a humanoid creature with large, bat-like ears, bulging green eyes the size of tennis balls, and wearing a pillowcase with holes cut in it.

As soon as it saw Harry, the little thing slid off the bed, bowed deeply to him, and then said in a high-pitched voice: "Harry Potter! Dobby has long admired your name, and Dobby comes to visit you uninvited. Dobby wants to tell you a big thing... a very important thing... Dobby doesn't know where to start..."

Seeing it incoherent with excitement, Harry waited for Dobby to calm down, but it kept sobbing, occasionally hitting its head on the floor, and it was difficult to say any useful information intermittently.

So Harry could only ask: "It's okay, Dobby, take your time. Why don't you introduce yourself first, and then tell me what happened to you?"

Dobby was finally able to clear its thoughts. It chattered a lot of things. Harry automatically ignored the meaningless things like punishing itself by catching its ears in the oven, and finally roughly understood the ins and outs of the matter.

"You mean, because I defeated the Dark Lord, you admire me very much. Then, recently you heard a terrible conspiracy from your master's house, so you came to warn me, is that right?"

"That's right!" Dobby screamed. "Harry Potter must never return to Hogwarts again, a terrible conspiracy, aimed at Hogwarts. And Harry, too kind, too dangerous, you cannot, oh, bad Dobby! Bad Dobby!"

Harry fell into deep thought. Undoubtedly, he still had to return to school. And what really caused his confusion was, if what Dobby said was a conspiracy aimed at Hogwarts, then Dobby's master might not know about the things around him, which meant there were two completely different conspiracies...

Just as he was hesitating, seven sheets of yellow paper flew out of the wardrobe. They formed a strange magic array together, tightly binding Dobby in the center of the array.

Zhang Qiu took off the Disillusionment Charm on her head, looked at the little elf lying on the ground with disgust, and said disdainfully: "Really full of lies."

"Hmm?"

"Very simple logic, Hogwarts has Deng Buliduo." Zhang Qiu analyzed. "The so-called 'conspiracy' of Dobby's master is just a student's prank in front of Deng Buliduo; and if its master has the ability to threaten Hogwarts under Deng Buliduo's nose, then who its master is can be imagined. Do you really want to believe the house-elf of the Mysterious Person?"

"But, perhaps Dobby just isn't very bright, or doesn't know about Deng Buliduo's greatness." Harry instinctively wanted to defend the little elf.

"Then, what is that bulging thing hidden in its clothes?" Zhang Qiu said. "Pillowcase, come here!"

The unconscious Dobby couldn't stop it at all. The clothes it was originally wearing flew away, and a thick stack of letters hidden in the clothes fell out.

Harry picked up those letters. He quickly noticed that these were all letters sent to him by his friends. Luo En said there was a very interesting guest at his house, Neville said there was already a very interesting guest at his house, Hagrid said he hoped to come to Tang Dun to visit Harry again, and Luo En and Neville also invited Harry to play at their houses respectively.

After Harry roughly browsed through the letters that belonged to him, he found more than a dozen identical letters underneath. The address was written in emerald green ink, and the wax seal was made with the Hogwarts crest. And in the recipient's name field on the envelope, it was written "To Miss Ivy Crowley."

Zhang Qiu sent Dobby away with another long Chinese spell. It is said that it is a spell used by people of the Heavenly Dynasty to drive away magical creatures, and the effect is "to force magical creatures to cast an Apparition themselves and return to their habitat." That's what she said, "Underage wizards cannot cast spells outside school. If Dobby uses magic here indiscriminately, plus there might be ill-intentioned people in the Ministry of Magic, you will be in big trouble. So fortunately I came, my magic sword and Heavenly Dynasty spells are not within the monitoring range of the Ministry of Magic."

Harry approved of Zhang Qiu's approach, because if Dobby really came to warn him out of kindness, then sending this not-so-bright little elf home wouldn't cause anything to happen. And if Dobby was working for Voldemort and intended to lie to deceive him, it didn't complete the task, so it would naturally be punished by Voldemort.

The next day, Ivy learned that she had also been admitted to the magical Hogwarts. She was very happy and begged Harry to take her to Diagon Alley to buy things. At first, Harry was also full of energy and prepared to visit Diagon Alley again, but Zhang Qiu analyzed the oddities of this matter with him again.

If intercepting letters was Dobby's personal behavior, then its words and logic were really incoherent, making it hard to believe. They found it hard to imagine what Dobby's motive was. Even if it was really as it said that it discovered some conspiracy, then it should obviously try to tell Deng Buliduo, instead of coming to find trouble for Harry.

Even if Harry forgave this point, thinking that Dobby was just foolishly drilling into a dead end and believing that it was genuinely out of kindness to want to stop Harry Potter from returning to Hogwarts, intercepting the letters of Harry's friends still had no meaning. Harry would even be more impatient to go to school to ask his friends what was going on.

In Zhang Qiu's view, it was more likely that Dobby was part of a conspiracy. Now the conspiracy formulated around Harry had been half completed. The enemy had learned Luo En and Neville's habit of writing letters, and Dobby was sent by them to make Harry relax his vigilance. Next, when he received letters from Luo En and Neville again, he must be very careful. There might be Portkeys or something in the letters, and it would be best not to even look at them. Just leave any words until school.

Such an alarmist conclusion scared Harry even more, especially since he was not convenient to use magic now. Zhang Qiu's suggestion was for Harry to stay at the relatively safe Tang Dun, and she would take Ivy to Diagon Alley. If they met someone they could trust, they would immediately ask for help. And if they didn't see anyone they could ask for help, then at least ask some people like shopkeepers for some news, and buy a few copies of the Daily Prophet to study.

Zhang Qiu and Ivy dressed up as ordinary Muggle girls and were driven to Diagon Alley by Tang Dun's driver. Fortunately, they didn't encounter any danger along the way, and what was even better was that as soon as they walked into the Leaky Cauldron, they noticed a witch wearing a emerald green robe sitting in the corner, reading the newspaper on the table, adjusting her glasses from time to time.

"Professor McGonagall." Zhang Qiu took off the hood of her hoodie and called out in a low voice.

"Oh, it's you, Zhang." McGonagall glanced at her attire and exclaimed, "Very smart, do you already know something?"

"Are you saying..." Zhang Qiu asked cautiously.

"That person has been resurrected." McGonagall said in a low voice. "It was an ancient ritual. Quirrell helped him obtain the blood of his enemy. Although it is not as useful as the Sorcerer's Stone, he was still resurrected."

"Then the conspiracy surrounding Harry is also related to the Mysterious Person?"

"Although I don't know what happened around Harry, if there is a conspiracy, there is no doubt it must be related to him." McGonagall glanced at Ivy and continued, "He is currently contacting the pure-blood families who supported him in the past, and may not have time to harm Harry. However, to be safe, I will arrange a safer way for him to enter school. You let him wait at home with peace of mind."

Zhang Qiu nodded in deep agreement.

"Alright," McGonagall stood up and looked at the innocent-looking Ivy, "we should accompany the new student to buy school supplies now." ===== CHAPTER 42 =====