Harry Potter and the Obscurus

Chapter 31 The Arrogant Guy and the Broken

"Aguamenti." (Clear water like a spring)

With a spell from Harry (Mo Ran), Malfoy's pig-like screams echoed once again from the Room of Requirement.

"Aaaaaah! I'm a pureblood! You can't kill me! My whole family graduated from Slytherin! If you kill me, my father will never let you get away with it!"

"When did I say I was going to kill you? Didn't you take the diary? How could you not know what the weapon used to attack your classmate was?"

"I already told you Dad told me to throw it away, and that thing isn't even with me now!"

"Where did you throw it! When did you throw it?"

"It was thrown onto the lawn outside the castle right at the beginning of the school year."

"..."

Although Mo Ran had a very unhappy life in his previous life, he was not a psychopath. Now that he saw a twelve-year-old child almost wetting his pants from fright, he felt embarrassed to threaten the child again.

"Okay, you stand up first."

Sitting on the ground, Malfoy saw Harry (Mo Ran) extend a hand to him. He instinctively flinched back, but after confirming that Harry truly meant him no harm, he staggered to his feet and angrily cursed:

"What the hell are you up to now, you damn scarred guy?!"

This 'forgetting the pain once the wound has healed' behavior directly drew a furious glare from Harry (Mo Ran). He didn't want to bully a little kid, that was true, but that didn't mean he could let Malfoy insult Harry.

“If you speak disrespectfully to me or my friends again, Malfoy, I won’t hesitate to make you look like a victim who died in the attack.”

Regardless of character or personality, Draco, who had often traveled with his father to broaden his horizons since childhood, possessed a keen ability to discern subtle signs than his peers. Having already realized that Harry (Mo Ran) had no intention of harming him, he raised his chin and said with a disdainful expression:

"Oh, so vicious? You do have a bit of the Slytherin heir's look! I advise you to kill me here... 'Broken't, or I'll report you the first thing I do when I get out!"

"Ugh... Can't you be a little more mature? You're supposed to be the son of a top-tier wealthy family, with so many good resources lying around, and all you do is waste your time on useless things!"

Malfoy, who had always considered Harry his rival, broke down after being berated by his nemesis, and loudly defended himself:

"How could I have wasted my time! If you want to brag about the results of the last Quidditch match, don't forget who it was who clarified the matter of the Blink and the Golden Snitch with the Professor!"

"Oh! So I should praise you then? Praise you for wasting tens of thousands of Galleons for your dad, and still losing to me in the end? You clearly have the ability to join the team based on your skills, so why do you always think about doing those underhanded things?"

"you!"

Malfoy's pale face turned red. He pulled out his wand and pointed it at Harry, but after saying "you," he couldn't utter a single spell.

Harry (Mo Ran) also lost his temper. In front of Malfoy, he put his wand back in his waistband and then made a very provocative beckoning gesture.

"Come on! Come on! Attack me with the most powerful spell you learned from that lousy diary! You really think I used my full strength against you at the dueling club?"

Faced with Harry's (Mo Ran's) provocation, Malfoy's wrists and lips trembled slightly, and he shouted:

"Sectumsempra!" (The Unseen Blade)

Harry (Mo Ran) was shocked and thought to himself, "Holy crap!" Then, before the spell could hit him, a cloud of black mist took the dangerous attack in place of his body.

Malfoy's jaw nearly dropped. Even though the raging black mist in front of him didn't attack him, he still managed to convincingly make the shy expression from the movie "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban."

"No! Don't kill me!"

Because the attack happened so suddenly, Mo Ran only had a fraction of a second to transform. Therefore, the attack, Divine Sharpness Without Shadow, struck Mo Ran's body squarely. Overwhelmed by the pain, he couldn't care less about maintaining his composure and rushed directly to Malfoy the instant he transformed back into human form.

"You learned this move from Snape, and the upside-down bell move on the dueling ring before, right?"

Malfoy was so frightened by Harry (Mo Ran) that he kept whimpering and nodding with his eyes closed.

In the books *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*, both Levicorpus and Liberacurpus were spells invented by Severus Snape in his youth. However, since the movies didn't describe this in detail, Mo Ran simply assumed it was a spell Malfoy learned from his diary. Luckily, he wasn't foolish enough to forget the Divine Sword of Shadows, or he would have suffered a real loss.

Realizing he had truly wronged Malfoy, Harry (Mo Ran), panting heavily, grabbed Malfoy by the collar and yelled:

"Ha...you fucking bastard! You're really ruthless, aren't you? So it really wasn't you!"

Draco Malfoy was so flustered and scared by Harry (Mo Ran) that he was even losing his mind.

"It's me... Ah! It's not me! It's not me!"

"What utter nonsense!"

Harry (Mo Ran) released Malfoy, who was trembling like a leaf, and said angrily:

"I'm asking if you were the one who opened the secret room using the diary!"

Malfoy was thrown to the ground by Harry (Mo Ran), letting out a pained "Ouch!" before finally replying, somewhat aggrieved, after a long pause:

"I never even opened that diary. I threw it away the day after I got to school, so it couldn't possibly be... wait? You're saying that thing can open the secret room? How did you know? You wouldn't actually be..."

Harry (Mo Ran) was too lazy to explain to Malfoy. He clutched his back, as if he had a stitch, and said:

"Oh yes, yes, I am the heir of Slytherin, and I now order you, little Slytherin, to retrieve the diary."

"But I really did throw it away!"

"Where's the evidence?"

……

About twenty minutes later, Draco Malfoy, who had been given the poison by Harry (Mo Ran), returned to his dormitory and took out his letter to his father, Lucius Malfoy.

Night had fallen, and the corridors and stairwells were deserted. Draco, who was hiding under the Invisibility Cloak with Harry (Mo Ran), looked around and said:

"Can you give me the antidote now? Or can we go somewhere safe first... I mean, the secret room has been opened, isn't it a bit unsafe to stand in the hallway?"

Harry (Mo Ran) looked at letter after letter from home, and without looking up, said:

"That's a Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean, it tastes like earwax, that's why it tastes like poison."

Malfoy:

"vomit……"

Hey! Don't spit on my invisibility cloak!

……

Draco Malfoy must have indeed thrown away the diary. In a letter dated September 4th, Harry (Mo Ran) saw Draco's attempt to deceive his father, which was then exposed by Lucius.

"Dad, I found something interesting at school. It's a completely blank diary with only a title. You know what? It can even talk to me! I want to keep it."

—Draco, I need you to find a secluded place and throw it away right now! Remember, a secluded place! Don't let any professor find it! After you throw it away, reply to me immediately using 'True Word Ink'—

"I've noticed that sometimes your brain really doesn't work very well..."

Harry (Mo Ran) lectured Draco like an old father:

"Even if you don't realize how dangerous a diary that can talk to you is, aren't you curious why your dad made you throw it away?"

Having learned that he wasn't poisoned, Malfoy regained his confidence and, after completing another set of sit-ups, shouted:

"Stop lecturing me, Scarface! Do you even have a family? What my parents do is none of your business!"

Harry (Mo Ran):

"..."

Malfoy:

"..."

"Is it too late for me to apologize now?"

……

Twenty minutes later, when Hermione and Ron saw Malfoy in the Gryffindor common room, their eyes widened in surprise.

“Harry, this is…”

"Hermione, Malfoy has something to say to you."

After saying that, Harry (Mo Ran) patted Malfoy on the shoulder and said:

"Tell me quickly."

"Ahem... Miss Granger, I'm sorry, I'm the rude 'Arrogant Guy - Horse Dung,' I apologize for calling you 'Mudblood' before..."

"anything else?"

“Mr. Weasley, I’m sorry, I will never call your family poor country bumpkins again.”

Hermione and Ron's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets; what they had just witnessed was even more unbelievable than seeing Malfoy in the Gryffindor common room. But before anyone could ask what was going on, they heard Harry (Mo Ran) chuckle and pat Malfoy on the shoulder with satisfaction, saying:

"See? Isn't this simple?"

“Ron, Hermione, let me introduce you to this reformed Malfoy. He will help us find a crucial diary. That diary is not only related to the Chamber of Secrets, but it will also help us find the culprit who directed the Basilisk attacks on our classmates at school.”

Ron was the first to shout:

“You can’t trust him, Harry! He’s a Slytherin, and he might be the one who released the Basilisk! Think about it, his family has been Slytherins for generations! All bad wizards started as…”

"Shh! Keep your voice down, Ron! You'll wake everyone else up!"

Hermione, noticeably calmer, interrupted Ron, then said to Harry:

“But Harry, Ron is right, he might be lying to you.”

Harry (Mo Ran) shook his head and said:

“We cannot generalize and make sweeping generalizations; that would be very foolish. But we certainly cannot change his title from ‘classmate’ to ‘friend’ yet.”

Draco Malfoy glanced at Harry (Mo Ran) and said with slight displeasure:

"You and I will never be friends, you 'broken'!"

"Tch, whatever. I wonder who was the one who came up to me and shook my hand when school started more than a year ago."

“Ahem… Let’s get down to business. What ‘Bro’ is looking for this time is a black diary signed—Tom Marvolo Riddle. I brought it to school and then left it on the lawn outside the castle.”

……

After a series of brainstorming sessions, Harry, Moran, and the other two helped Malfoy recall the approximate time and location when he lost his diary—that is, on his way to the greenhouse outside the castle for his first herb class after the start of the school year.

Since only first and second-year students had Herbalism class that morning, the pool of potential suspects was significantly narrowed. (Malfoy noticed the diary was missing on his way back to the Slytherin common room after class.) Subtracting the students who were present the night Mrs. Norris was attacked, the suspect pool was reduced to just a few individuals.

"So, the people who might have a diary are Lavender Brown, Hannah Abbott, Vincent Crabbe, and... well, Ginny Weasley."