Chapter 174 Do You Dare to Accept It?

The professors searched the castle all night, opened all the doors, looked through every secret passage, and almost turned Hogwarts upside down, but until dawn, they still didn't find any trace of the troll.

So Quirrell became the target of public criticism.

Facing the professors' questioning eyes, Quirrell huddled in a corner and sobbed, "I might have... seen it wrong.

You know... the underground classroom is very dark... it might be armor... or a stone statue or something..."

"There are no such things in the underground classroom!" Snape said coldly with a gloomy face: "Besides, I don't think any normal person would mistake armor for a troll."

"But... but, I don't... no..." Quirrell stammered and couldn't speak.

He really didn't know what happened. The troll was released by him personally, how could it suddenly disappear!

A troll more than ten feet tall just disappeared out of thin air, and there was no movement at all... Has Hogwarts become so dangerous?

"Perhaps you have too many things to think about recently, and you may have hallucinations."

Snape suddenly said sinisterly: "I suggest you drink some potion. How about tomorrow, I will personally deliver it to you, and I guarantee that you will be full of energy."

"No... Severus... No need..."

Quirrell shook his head repeatedly and said: "I have potion... I won't bother... you..."

He didn't dare to drink the potion given by Snape. Who knows if there is truth serum or something like that in it.

"It doesn't matter, it's just a refreshing potion, no trouble." Snape didn't intend to let Quirrell go, and said again.

It seems that he just likes to help others.

"Really... No need..."

Looking at Snape's gloomy face, Quirrell sweated coldly, fearing that he would force himself to drink the medicine.

Fortunately, at this time, Professor Flitwick suddenly asked: "Minerva, what should we do now."

Quirrell immediately retreated to the back of the crowd as if he had been pardoned.

Professor McGonagall looked at him unhappily, and then said: "Notify the prefects and ask all the students to come to the hall. This farce should be over."

...

Soon, the students came to the hall under the leadership of the prefects.

The professors were already waiting here in advance, except for Snape.

He was bitten by Fluffy last night, and only relied on a little white fresh essence to barely walk around the castle for a night. Now he has returned to the office.

In the hall, Professor McGonagall stood at the front and told everyone that the troll was no longer in the castle.

The crisis was resolved.

The little wizards cheered immediately.

"I told you a long time ago...there is no troll at all.

At the Gryffindor table, Ron said excitedly: "To be honest, I have to go through such a scam at least twice a week, and you still don't believe me!"

But everyone was busy celebrating, and no one cared about what he said.

Only Harry patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I have to apologize to you, my friend. "

Although Hermione also heard it, she did not tell the two the truth, but stood on tiptoe and tried to look towards the Hufflepuff position.

There, Kyle was clapping like everyone else, and there was nothing unusual at all.

"Is this person really the youngest winner of the Special Contribution Award to the School? "Hermione fell into self-doubt again.

Kyle naturally didn't know what Hermione was thinking, and of course, he wouldn't care even if he knew.

As long as Hermione could keep it secret, it would be fine.

For a period of time afterwards, Kyle would take some time every day to come to the box and try to tame the troll.

Although the troll was stupid and dumb, and didn't know magic, its combat effectiveness was still good. With thick skin and flesh, plus its brute force, it would definitely be no problem to put it in the front row as a meat shield.

And stupidity also has its advantages, which means that it doesn't have too many ideas and it will be easy to command.

For Kyle, this is not difficult to do.

Every time he came, as long as the troll showed any aggressive behavior, he would beat the troll without hesitation.

Kyle was very measured when he took action, not heavy, but it would make the troll feel painful, and then give it some food before leaving.

The troll soon became honest with the stick and sweet dates, and when he saw Kyle again, he no longer had any aggressiveness and would only smile foolishly.

…

I don’t know who spread the news, but within a few days, everyone knew that it was Professor Quirrell who was too timid and mistook the shadow of an unknown thing for a troll, which caused a joke at the Halloween dinner.

This made Professor Quirrell, who was already unpopular, become the laughing stock of everyone.

It was the first time they had seen such a timid professor, and they didn’t know how he dared to be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Fred and George even made a bet to guess when Professor Quirrell would leave Hogwarts and what his final fate would be.

Originally, they just wanted to have fun, but they didn’t expect so many people to participate. The little wizards didn’t seem to mind spending a few Knuts or Sickles to have some fun.

After a few days, the money they received added up to almost a dozen Galleons.

This unexpected success soon made the twins forget themselves. During a meal, they said to Kyle excitedly:

“This makes money much faster than selling things!”

Fred patted his jingling money bag, "It's just like picking up money."

Kyle raised his head and asked, "How many people are participating now?"

"There are currently 129 people." George blurted out, "There are people from all four colleges."

"So many..." Cedric said in disbelief.

He had thought that there would be at most 20 or 30 people.

"Professor Quirrell is very popular now..." Fred said, "Any topic related to him will always attract attention."

"What about you, do you want to participate too?" Fred shook his money bag and asked.

Cedric and Connor shook their heads at the same time. They were not interested in this kind of thing.

But Kyle touched his chin thoughtfully.

"It sounds interesting." He asked, "What are the rules for this one?"

"It's very simple..." Seeing Kyle's interest, Fred smiled even more happily.

"Two choices, the time when Professor Quirrell left Hogwarts, and his final ending. As long as you guess correctly, we will return double the money."

"How about it, isn't it very conscientious?"

Kyle nodded.

"Yeah, then which one do you want to guess?"

"I guess all." Kyle took out a handful of Galleons and slapped it directly on the table.

"Here are a total of 20 Galleons. Do you dare to take it?"