Chapter 123: Hagrid's News
"Harry, I'm afraid I know Hagrid's whereabouts. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" Ron said with a serious face.
"What?" Harry exclaimed, startled by the news, drawing a sharp look from Mrs. Pince, the librarian, which was full of warning.
They don't have to study hard in the library now, and the semester is coming to an end now, but they haven't fully mastered the various courses, and there are various reasons for this, such as the Gryffindor team training a lot to win Quidditch, which took up a lot of their extracurricular time, and Sirius's invasions that made the students panic, these are objective reasons.
Needless to say, except for a few extremely self-disciplined students, who hasn't had a time when they were crazy to study before the deadline, like dancing on the tip of a knife, and the efficiency before that was always extremely high.
Just as Harry was desperately trying to memorize the recipe for the "Shrinking Potion" he had learned this semester, Ron interrupted him and brought him news of Hagrid.
"What's wrong with him, where is he?" asked Harry, closing his textbook.
"My dad's letter to me mentions him unintentionally. Ron said, lowering his voice as Mrs. Pince stared at them with deep sunken eyes, as if they had seriously broken the order and committed some great mistake.
"He said he saw our big friend. Ron whispered to Harry as he handed over the letter he had gotten.
"But he didn't know how worried we were about him. Ron sighed, Arthur Weasley had only mentioned a little bit of information about Hagrid in the letter, which seemed to him to be inconsequential, incidentally, because he didn't know what was going on at school, and Ron was too embarrassed to tell him that he might have been involved in the trouble.
"Ron, haven't you finished reading your letter?" Harry's face changed suddenly.
"What else did my dad write later, at the end of every letter he would always preach to me and ask me to learn from my brothers or something, of course he wouldn't mention George and Fred, they always bothered him more than I did, so I didn't usually read it. ”
"But maybe this time he said something else. Harry's tone was a little chilling, and he handed the letter over again.
Ron then read the letter thoroughly, and it reads:
"Although Dad doesn't want to complain to you about work, I still want to tell you that if you don't want to be angry at work in the future, then you have to work hard now, so that you can live without looking at other people's eyes in the future. You may never have imagined that Fudge actually pulled Lucius into the Ministry of Magic, I can't believe that he would become my colleague, supposedly in the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures and the Department of Magical Beasts Management and Control, God knows how much money he went to donate, but luckily we weren't in the same department, otherwise I really don't know what would have happened between us when we went to work every day. ”
"It's not a nice thing to do. Ron's tone fell, and the image of the man came to mind—pale blonde hair, cold gray-blue eyes, and a pale, pointed face. The few meetings with him were not pleasantly memorable.
"Look again, Ron. Harry said eagerly, then pointed to the lines on it.
"Names on both the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures and the Department of Magical Beasts Management and Control?" Ron read again, and this time he finally understood.
"Probably he's targeting Hagrid!" Ron said with a wave of his fist, full of indignation.
"Last semester he even wanted to impeach Dumbledore from power, but it didn't work, this time he just seized this opportunity, we all know, Hagrid is Dumbledore's person, not long after he cleared his name, as long as Hagrid was caught again, then it would definitely be a blow to Dumbledore's image, then he could make a big fuss about it. Harry spoke quickly, and immediately analyzed the possible situation.
"Hermione, where is she? she must have a way!" Ron said, it was Hermione's successful intervention that ended Lucius's plan last time, and Hermione was the one of the three who knew the wizarding terms best, and if she was here, she might be able to think of a way.
"She's not here, I haven't seen her this month except for class. Harry shook his head and said, she seems to be busier, I have accidentally seen her class schedule, in the same time period, her itinerary actually has two classes written on it, is there any magic that can be separated?"
"Then if I learn to use one to go to class and one to play, she will use both bodies to go to class. ”
Ron said jealously, as if he had already decided that Hermione had learned this magic.
"Anyway, we should go to her now and discuss what to do. Harry said.
And the person the two of them are looking for now is concentrating on boiling a pot of potions in the girls' bathroom on the second floor of the castle.
"Today is the last day. Hermione said in her heart, forcibly controlling her trembling hand to rest still, this time she had no helper, all on her own.
Well, to be exact, there is no one to help, and the ghost may still have one.
The crying myrtle was sitting on the toilet, watching Hermione's skillful movements intently, she had been here to watch Hermione boil potions for almost a month, this girl would always praise her in a different way, which made her very happy, so she also decided to keep it a secret for the girl in front of her, she still remembered that in the second grade, this girl also broke into the place she feared for her classmates without hesitation.
Maybe she's in trouble now, Myrtle is a sympathetic, kind ghost who will keep secrets for her.
"Next is the addition of the juice of wormwood. Hermione had a word in her mouth, and she thought that talking to herself from time to time would help her make potions more steadily and avoid the next mistake.
Watching the dark cyan potion that was still boiling violently just now in the crucible gradually calmed down, it was like the raging waves had exhausted its emotions and was willing to return to silence. The pungent smell subsided, and even the color slowly changed to a transparent and colorless state.
Colorless and tasteless, this is a major characteristic of the elixir, and it seems that the purpose of the person who invented the elixir was to quietly obtain the secrets of others.