"Jinny, what's wrong? You've seemed a bit down lately."
On Thursday afternoon's flying class, George smiled and walked over to Jinny, who was sitting by herself with her back against a tree.
Jinny is the biggest fan of flying classes, playing the wildest during each class. However, Jinny has been lacking enthusiasm even in her flight classes recently.
"George, do you think someone can be forgiven if they make a mistake, but it's not a mistake that was made out of their own will?"
Seeing George approaching, Jinny looked somewhat confused and asked.
George thought for a moment and replied:
"Whether or not she can be forgiven depends on how brave she is. Making a mistake is not something to be afraid of, as no one is perfect. Even Dumbledore, the greatest wizard, was said to have made many mistakes in his youth."
"But if she can bravely admit her mistake and correct it promptly after realizing it, then she is definitely forgivable."
"Really? As long as she can promptly correct it, she can be forgiven!"
Hope suddenly shone in Jinny's eyes.
Before the school year started, she discovered a magical notebook among the second-hand books she bought. No matter what she wrote in it, the diary would reply to her and even provide her with very useful advice.
So she became more and more trusting of the diary, chatting with it every day and telling it all her secrets.
Until one day, she discovered her body began to lose control and she even opened the Chamber of Secrets, releasing the Basilisk to attack her classmates.
Only then did she realize that there might be something wrong with the diary, so she secretly threw the diary into the bathroom, hoping it would be flushed down the drain. But Harry picked it up and took it back.
Afraid that Harry would know her secret in the diary and the mistake she had made, she went to steal the diary back from the boys' dormitory.
But recently, she found herself seemingly controlled again, almost releasing the Basilisk that tried to kill her close friend George and Hermione. As a result, Headmaster Dumbledore was suspended from his position.
"By the way, this is a bookmark I bought in Diagon Alley for Christmas. The shopkeeper said it can resist dark magic and prevent curses, and bring good luck to its owner. Here you go!"
George took out a butterfly-shaped iron bookmark from his wizard robe and handed it to Jinny.
Jinny took the bookmark and a smile finally appeared on her face.
"Thank you, George. I really like this bookmark."
"You look cuter when you smile."
George reached out and ruffled Jinny's hair before standing up and leaving.
Jinny watched George's retreating back, touched her own hair, and for some reason, a blush appeared on her cheeks.
That night, in Gryffindor girls' dormitory, Jinny inserted the butterfly bookmark George gave her into the diary she had written in earlier. She hoped that the bookmark could resist the diary's control over her.
"I'll tell Harry and the others everything as early as tomorrow morning!"
Jinny put the diary in the box under her bed and had made a decision. George's words had given her the courage today.
At 2 in the morning, in Slytherin boys' dormitory, George suddenly opened his eyes and sat up. Then he took out his wand and quickly casted three identical spells towards the other three students in his dormitory.
"Stupefy!"
Although the three students in the dormitory did not have the habit of getting up at night, George thought it was better to give them all a Stupefy spell just to be safe.
Quietly leaving the Slytherin dormitory and heading to an uninhabited corner outside the castle, George saw a magic circle flash on his body, expanding his figure from a child to a height comparable to that of a normal adult.
Then he aimed his wand at himself:
"Magic transformation!"
The pajamas, stretched almost to bursting, quickly turned into a night-time robe that only showed a pair of eyes.
The spell he had cast on himself was called the Clothing Transformation Spell, similar to the Serpent Summoning Spell and Bird Summoning Spell. It was one of the extension spells of Transfiguration magic.
He had learned the spell from a magical book called "How to Become a Graceful Wizard" in the library.
The function was simple: as you wished, it could change the clothes you were wearing into any style you wanted, eliminating the need to worry about buying new clothes.
Actually, if you spend more time reading in the library, you can really discover a lot of strange and peculiar spells.
Although they may not be very powerful, they indeed make life very convenient. Those are the spells that wizards created for daily life.
After all this, he simply waved his hand and materialized a flying broomstick out of thin air.
This flying broomstick was bought in Diagon Alley during the Christmas holiday and later placed in a box expanded by the Traceless Stretching Charm, which he brought to Hogwarts.
As his transformation spells finally became more proficient recently, he managed to create a space large enough to hold two magical weapons. So he put the flying broomstick inside.
Why not use the flying spell?
Tonight, he was planning to sneak into the Gryffindor girls' dormitory to steal the diary, so he couldn't afford to show any hint of a flaw.
Riding the flying broomstick, he didn't directly fly to the Gryffindor tower on the eighth floor. Instead, he circled outside for a while, taking over an hour before flying back from another direction.
He wanted to prevent being tracked as much as possible.
Using the magnetic mark he had left on the butterfly earlier, he quickly found the location of Jinny's girls' dormitory.
The staircase of all girls' dormitories in Hogwarts was enchanted with a special spell, so boys couldn't enter.
Therefore, if he wanted to sneak into the girls' dormitory to steal the diary, he couldn't enter through the common room, and had to look for an entrance from the outside of the tower.
However, there was no magic at the entrance staircase of the boys' dormitories in Hogwarts, allowing girls to come and go freely.
Because of this, he often gets into various excuses and mistakes made by girls of his grade and higher, making it difficult for him to study in the girls' dormitories. Now, he reads mostly in the library or in a deserted classroom in the basement.
Jinny could easily enter Harry's dormitory to steal the diary in the past because of this reason.
"Ahura Mesa!"
Extending his wand towards the window and lightly pointing it, he heard a "click" sound and carefully pushed open the window to enter.
"It seems I've come to the right place."
Seeing Jinny sleeping soundly on the bed, George quickly found the exact location of the metal butterfly through his sense.
"As expected."
Carefully taking out the old diary from the box under the bed, a smile appeared on his face.
The words he said earlier today were mainly to make Jinny insert the metal butterfly bookmark into the diary so he could find it easily.
Otherwise, he would have to search around for a while after entering, which would increase the risk of being discovered.
He directly threw Voldemort's diary into the transformation space and quickly left in the original path without any delay.
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