Looking at Hagrid's pitiful appearance, Evan sighed.

He didn't know what politics was, but he knew he had to do something, and he couldn't just watch Buckbeak get his head cut off, and Hagrid would definitely fall for it.

"Listen, Hagrid!" said Aven, "you can't give up, you need to prepare a defense, Harry, Ron, and Hermione can prove that Barco Beeck is innocent, and I can help you get the word out in the papers." ”

"Evan is right, I'm sure I've read about a Hippogriff attack. Hermione mused, "In that case, the Hippogriff was fine, and we can take a closer look at what was going on." ”

"Yes, we'll help too. Harry and Ron hurriedly followed.

Despite all the words, the job ended up almost falling to Evan and Hermione.

Harry and Ron, after holding on for a while, seemed to have completely forgotten about it.

They weren't to blame for that, first of all, Harry, who had been so busy lately.

In late November, the Ravenclaws defeated the Hufflepuffs. It was a refreshed Wood experience, and Gryffindor still had a chance to play, even though they couldn't afford to lose another game.

He now asked his players to train day and night, and Evan had seen Harry fly around in the bitter cold of December several times.

Thankfully, since the last incident, there has been no sign of the Dementors on campus. The lessons learned last time and Dumbledore's anger seemed to have completely confined them to their posts at the entrance to the school.

In addition to his Quidditch training, Harry also learns the Patronus Charm from Professor Lupin.

He'll need to cast his full Patronus as soon as possible to make sure there are no more accidents in the next match.

As for Ron, he has been getting worse and worse lately.

He didn't communicate with almost everyone right now, and he wasn't near Evan and Hermione. When Harry was training, he was walking around the city alone.

In order to guard against Crookshan, he put Blob in his shirt pocket wherever he went.

On several occasions, they were out of range of the tracking potion and didn't know where they went.

Evan didn't bother with Ron and Peter Pettigrew either, as he and Hermione spent almost all of their time in the library and nothing else.

Let Peter Pettigrew get away for a few days, and in another twenty days, by the time of the Christmas holidays, his plan will be implemented. At that time, the castle was the least crowded, and Sirius Black could be lured out and the whole incident could be solved in one go.

Now the more urgent thing to solve is to find a way to save Buckbeak, and he and Hermione have found a lot of materials and files in the library, referring to the famous cases recorded above, and preparing Buckbeak's defense. The titles of these dossiers are: "Summary of Fantastic Beast Cases", "Hippogriff's Psychological Handbook", "Poultry or Monsters", "Hippogriff's Winged Beast Savagery Research", etc., each of which is very thick.

"Look at this, Aven," Hermione whispered, placing a dusty dossier in front of Aven, "This is the case of a human-headed sphinx manticore in 1926 who killed someone, only to be acquitted. ”

"It's because everyone is scared and no one dares to approach it. Evan frowned and looked at the dense small print on the dossier.

"yes, you're right. Hermione tossed the thick file aside in disappointment.

Evan picked up the dossier and continued to read it, and the following is a brief introduction to the amazing creature called the human-headed sphinx.

The Sphinx Scorpiontail is an extremely dangerous magical creature with a human head, a lion's torso, and a scorpion's tail, and is very rare, and it is known for its gentle humming as it devours its prey.

According to reliable literature, the skin of the human-headed sphinx repelled almost all known spells. Anyone stung by it will be killed instantly.

Created by wizards and elves, these terrifying creatures were once all the rage when they were used to guard belongings or important forbidden places. However, since the implementation of the "Prohibition of Animal Breeding Experiments" decree, the number of sphin-headed manticores has gradually decreased.

In recent decades, it has disappeared.

Ai Wen put the file aside, judging from the text on it, compared to the human-headed sphin-like manticore, the danger level of the eagle-headed horse-body winged beast was not known how many times lower.

If Buckbeak had half the power of a sphin-like manticore, they wouldn't have to sit here and worry.

In the next half month, in addition to assisting Hermione in perfecting her defense, Evan also wrote several defense articles.

He had intended to use public opinion to put pressure on Lucius Malfoy and the Committee on the Disposal of Dangerous Organisms, but things did not go as smoothly as originally thought.

The Daily Prophet refused to publish the articles written by Aven, arguing that the matter was meaningless. The whole event is, at best, a trivial incident at Hogwarts that does not arouse interest in reading.

Although Evan eventually published these articles in the Hogwarts Wizardry and Wizardry newspaper, the effect was limited.

Mr. Barnabas Gufe, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet, is right, the vast majority of readers don't care about the life or death of a winged beast, especially since the young wizards already know what happened.

Compared to this, they are more interested in things related to Blake and Dementors.

Evan wasn't entirely without supporters, as Colin, Ginny, and Luna all made it clear that they supported his views, and Luna even convinced her father to publish the articles written by Evan in Contradictory Tunes, replacing the original article on scimitar-horned snoring beasts as the new front-page headline.

That didn't do much, though, and Contrarian isn't selling as much as Hogwarts Wizardry and Wizardry.

As the days passed, Christmas was getting closer, but Evan and Hermione didn't make much progress.

Although they had written a full ten parchment defenses, Evan was skeptical that they would do much more than make people drowsy.

Not to mention whether or not the officials of the Committee on the Disposal of Hazardous Organisms would adopt this defense, it was doubtful that Hagrid would be able to write them all down, and with his ability, it would have been difficult to read them aloud.

"It's useless, Hermione!" looked at Hermione, who was sitting across from him, and Evan sighed heavily.

Hermione was still struggling with the boring files, she was often the last to leave the common room at night, and the first to the library the next morning, the heavy load of schoolwork, the invisible pressure of Ron, and the preparation of Buckbeak's defense, all of which had combined to cast a shadow over her eyes like Lupin.

"What did you say?!" Hermione looked up from the profile.

"We seem to be thinking wrong, whatever the reason, Buckbeak did hurt Draco Malfoy, didn't it?" Evan said slowly, "We can't defend Buckbeak's innocence, as long as Lucius Malfoy bites on this, Hagrid's chances of winning the case are slim." ”

"So what are we going to do, like Harry and Ron, and do nothing?!" Hermione looked a little agitated, "Watching Buckbeak get killed, and then waiting for Hagrid to collapse?!"

"No, I mean, we should think differently. Aven's eyes fell on a copy of Newt Scalmande's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and he was greatly inspired by the author's experience.