Volume 6: Summer at Spider's End Alley Chapter 439 Damn Bloodline
In this war about bloodline, the most acute relationship is naturally between the side with bloodline and the side without bloodline.
But in fact, from the beginning to the end, there were conflicts on the side with bloodline, and these conflicts were not small at all.
It's just that many people were deceived by the illusion that Britain was still relatively peaceful, and those who saw the acute problems involved dared not and could not do anything because of Voldemort's personal prestige.
But now it is different in France. This is not Voldemort's territory, nor is it the world of pure blood. There are no Death Eaters and Aurors to support the noble bloodline. The problem between pure blood and half-blood can be completely intensified.
Not only would this allow those half-bloods who covered their ears and eyes, pretending to hear nothing and see nothing, to see the reality clearly, it would also intensify the oppression they usually endured in Hogwarts Castle, comforting themselves that it was justified.
This is indeed the case.
All the students in the Half-Blood Academy in the castle knew about Asiya's incident, but they all thought that the "main culprit" Floyd had been "punished". While many people felt sorry for the passing of such a beautiful life, they also felt fortunate and thought: We are not Mudbloods after all. Even if the purebloods made a mistake against us, they still have to pay the price, right?
But today's trial is a slap in the face of those who thought this way in the past.
The source of this campus violence was actually Flint himself. Not only was this pure-blood student from a larger and more powerful family and with purer bloodline not punished, he was not even included in the internal notification of the Hogwarts Castle.
This made it impossible for the half-blood students, who had originally sympathized with the pure-bloods who were put on the podium for trial, to accept it.
I thought we were all on the same side, but it turns out you never treated us as human beings!
Such things made these mixed-bloods, whose values had only been formed not long ago, look at Flint standing in the middle of the platform in shock. They didn't know what expression they should show.
Should I be angry?
The half-bloods in the castle were only influenced by their education, but they were not really bad. Of course they would feel angry when they heard such an infuriating thing.
But should such anger be expressed?
But...how can half-bloods express resentment and dissatisfaction towards pure-bloods who are more noble than them?
Just as the students in the carriage were clamoring for severe punishment of Flint and the students in front of Hogwarts Castle were still a little overwhelmed, Professor McGonagall regained control of the situation.
"Let the next witness come forward."
Then, under the gaze of everyone, a timid girl with long light golden hair and a slim figure was led by Hermione to the front of the stage.
When they saw the girl's face, all the students in the front castle exclaimed, and Flint stared at her so hard that his eyes almost popped out!
"Impossible! She's obviously dead! You must have hired someone to impersonate her! You must have deliberately hired someone to impersonate her!"
Flint shouted, causing Flitwick to frown and signal to the Weasley twins who were acting as guards nearby.
Then George understood what he meant and immediately stretched out his wand and pointed it at Flint. The next second, a piece of rag blocked his screaming mouth, and his hands and feet were bound in place. His hands were put behind his back and tied up with ropes that suddenly appeared.
"Please introduce yourself, young lady." Professor McGonagall said to the girl next to Hermione.
The girl looked nervous and turned to look at Hermione, who responded with a reassuring look.
"My name is Asiya Conned, and I'm a student at the Half-Blood Academy at Hogwarts Castle."
After hearing her self-introduction, the students who got off the carriages finally understood why the students in the castle exclaimed and why Flint said such words.
The victim of this incident did not die!
"Can you tell me how you survived that incident?"
It was as if she felt that Mag's calm voice did not contain any harsh attitude, but was unexpectedly kind, which also eased the tension in her heart a lot.
"That night, I thought I was going to be cursed with a blood curse, but Hermione and the others saved me. They also helped me modify the memories of Freud and the others, and faked the scene where I had actually committed suicide to prevent my family from being hurt afterwards."
The half-bloods in the castle couldn't help but look at Hermione who was standing next to Asia. None of them had expected that the person who finally saved Asia was the one on the Hogwarts carriage.
Shouldn't there be an antagonistic relationship between them?
Slughorn could clearly see the wisdom in having Althea on the scene, and her rescue would clearly send a message to the other half-bloods.
Dumbledore and his team have never been against bloodline owners. Their own team includes not only Muggle-born wizards but also many half-bloods and even pure-bloods. And now they do not regard all bloodline wizards in Britain as enemies. Instead, they will help the oppressed and only punish the perpetrators.
This is very important, because when dealing with these students brought out of Hogwarts Castle, it is not only necessary to eliminate their ideas of superiority and inferiority of noble blood, but also to prevent them from thinking that the so-called blood theory under Dumbledore will be reversed, with Muggles becoming noble and losers with blood becoming lowly inferiors.
Asiya 's experience is the best proof. When she was helped, Jon had not yet won the Triwizard Tournament. It was also the time when the conflict between the two sides was the most intense. Both pure-blood and half-blood students in the castle treated the students on the carriages as enemies.
It turned out that these "enemies" actually took such a huge risk to sneak into the castle and rescue the half-blood students who were almost bullied to death by the pure-bloods!
The hybrids opened their mouths, their emotions now more complicated.
The empathy that I had felt when I was first brought here together with the pure-bloods who were also brought out of Hogwarts Castle now seemed ridiculous.
But the trial on the platform has not yet ended.
"I know this may reopen your scars, Miss Corned." McGonagall said seriously, "but can you tell us what Mr. Flint and Miss Floyd did to you when you were in Hogwarts Castle?"
As if recalling those days, Asiya's face turned a little pale, but Hermione, who was standing beside her, held her hand tightly and whispered in her ear.
"It's okay. If you don't want to say it, just tell Professor McGonagall. It's okay."
However, her words not only did not make Asia retreat, but instead made her take a deep breath and muster up all her courage.
"F-Floyd started bullying me when she first entered the castle. At first, she just insulted me and called me a bastard in private. Later, she started practicing evil spells on me, saying that those Muggle students were only fit to be experimental subjects in Muggle Studies classes, and that a half-blood like me was more suitable as her target..."
"She threatened me at the time and told me not to tell these things to other people, otherwise my whole family would suffer. At first it was just a poisonous curse, but last year, she began to experiment with evil curses on me... At first it was just the kind of black magic that was invisible and sharp, but later, she began to ask me to help her learn the Unforgivable Curse..."
After hearing her story, everyone present couldn't help but hold their breath.
Seeing the fear in Asia's eyes when she talked about these memories, everyone knew that these things would become a shadow that she would never forget.
Her story also made some of the castle's half-blood students quietly lower their heads.
What Asiya had experienced before was definitely not an isolated case. Such bullying of half-bloods by pure-bloods must have occurred quite frequently in the castle.
"Is it true that you never once tried to ask anyone for help?" Mag asked.
Asiya pursed her lips.
"Last year, Professor Carlo encountered Freud using me to experiment with evil spells, but she did not stop them at the time. She even told them that they were doing a good job..."
The students in the carriage were suddenly in an uproar!
They had tried their best to imagine the professors and students in the castle to be bad enough, but in reality the evil that had occurred there was far beyond their imagination.
The students in the castle, on the other hand, did not react much. The first thought that came to their minds was that this was something that the Carlo brothers and sisters would do!
However, Asia's story is not over yet.
"Fortunately, Freud is not proficient in the dark arts. Her Cruciatus Curse will only make me uncomfortable for a day or two at most. If I endure it, there will be no more pain."
Her tone was full of relief, relief from the bottom of her heart, but the people listening to her story couldn't share the same relief as her.
"But after school started last year, Flint noticed me because of Freud. He found me privately and said he liked me and wanted to be friends with me..."
As she spoke to this point, Asiya shuddered uncontrollably. The students in the carriage could not understand why a simple request to be friends made her so scared, but the students in the castle knew it very well.
The hierarchy of bloodlines is orderly and the realms are clear, so there is no need to think that anything might happen between different bloodlines.
Except for some who have wild ideas and believe that there might be pure-blood young masters who are willing to risk their lives for them, the rational half-bloods don't even dream of gaining any favor from the pure-bloods. What's more, Floyd, who has been torturing and bullying Asia, is Flint's fiancée!
If she knew about this, one can imagine what would happen to Asia.
"I, I mustered up the courage to reject him at that time, saying that the principal would not allow it, and he already had a fiancée... But he said that there was no condition for me to refuse. My parents worked in the magic company below his family. If I didn't listen to him, he would make my whole family homeless, and he would continue to let Freud torture me until I was tortured to death. Then he would report me to the professor, saying that I seduced him..."
Now everyone in the audience looked at Flint with even more hostility. The more they listened, the more they felt that this guy was a piece of scum!
"I could only beg him to give me some more time. I couldn't accept such a thing in such a short time. He was very impatient, but he agreed. But for some reason, Freud heard about it the next day. She began to torture me more severely than before. Until Christmas, she began to plan to turn me into a blood-cursed orc and let me suffer this curse forever. Then... Then Hermione rescued me."
After Assia finished her story, there was a brief silence below the platform, and then all the students in the carriage stood up from their chairs in anger. They raised their wands high in anger towards Flint, demanding that he be executed on the spot!
Fortunately, there were some teachers who were newly recruited after arriving in France and were maintaining order, otherwise these students would probably have cursed Flint on the spot!
As for the mixed-race students in the castle, many of them had sad expressions on their faces.
It was sympathy for Asia 's experience, resentment towards the pure-bloods who dared not speak out, and anger at his own stupidity in deceiving himself in the past.
Their emotions were extremely complicated, and they felt like there was a fire burning in their hearts. However, this fire was so strong that it reached their throats, but they just didn't know how to vent it.
At this moment, a figure among the mixed-race students suddenly picked up a piece of mud from the ground and threw it towards Flint on the podium!
The mud was thrown accurately and hit him right on the head, and all the mixed-race students in the castle saw who had thrown the mud.
That was one of them, Cedric Diggory, a half-blood student known for being a good guy!
At this moment, he had lost his usual gentle and calm demeanor. His face was flushed, and he was breathing heavily as if he was angry. It seemed that even after throwing away the piece of mud, the fire in his heart could not be extinguished!
"Why should there be such distinctions between the noble and the humble!" he shouted, "Why should people be bullied to the point of being unworthy of being human!"
"Damn blood!"
These words were like the spark that lit a fuse, causing a huge explosion in the minds of all the mixed-race students in the castle!
They finally knew how to vent the extremely uncomfortable fire in their hearts, and they also knew why and who they should explode at!
Like Cedric, they picked up the mud on the ground and threw it madly at Flint on the platform, shouting at the same time.
"It's all this damn bloodline!"
