Chapter 257: Professor Graplan's Lesson on Protecting Magical Creatures
PS: Moody's name is not wrong in the original English book, but it is wrong in the Chinese version that can be found, does this mean that the editorial office is learning from the Daily Prophet...... But compared to the Hong Kong version, which simply lost all the names, it should be better.
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There is no doubt that the report was very vicious, with a brazen personal attack on Hagrid, and also piggyback on Dumbledore and Moody, however, Darren found that it had mistaken Moody's name, it was Alasto, not Azto, which was written in the newspaper, but it was not surprising considering that Fleur's name had also been mistaken before, but at least one thing they were not mistaken, that is, the spelling of the letters, it was Alastor.
But this is not the worst, because Darren knows that the contents, except for the tendencies in the wording, are almost all true! It's just that Hagrid has been hiding his secrets about himself, and he doesn't want people to know, although Rita's behavior of exposing other people's privacy will definitely be killed if it happens in the world of ordinary people, but the wizarding world...... Hehe!
"Lies, it's all rumors!" After Darren, Harry took the newspaper and slapped the table angrily when he saw what was on it, however, alas, he was wrong this time, at least most of the time.
At this moment, there was a burst of laughter from the Slytherin table, and Darren subconsciously looked over to see that it was the guy who had never grown, Draco Malfoy, and his two henchmen, leaving the table and walking towards the door of the auditorium.
Harry immediately stood up from the table and stopped in front of Draco, "What do you mean?"
"And what kind of bastard is that," he said, pointing to Crabbe, "to be bitten hard by a Flobbe caterpillar, which doesn't even have teeth!"
Draco and Crabbe laughed at Harry's anger, clearly feeling smug, "Alright, I think it's time to end this idiot's teaching career!" Malfoy said, his eyes sparkling, "Half-blood giant...... I thought he had just drunk a bottle of oxytocin when he was a kid...... Parents of students will not agree...... They were afraid that he would eat their children, haha...... Okay, get out of the way, Harry Potter, I'm going to class, or I'll have the professor deduct your points because you're in my way. ”
Now, even though Harry's face was flushed with anger, he could only watch Draco pass by in front of him triumphantly, "Don't you feel angry?" he yelled at Darren and Ron as they walked by.
"Of course I'm angry, it's just, I'm afraid most of this is true," Darren sighed and told Harry about what he had seen on Christmas Eve.
"No wonder he's so big," Ron said, a little confused, "I thought he was really just a bit stronger, I see." ”
"Actually, I would have thought he must be a giant," Hermione said in a low voice, "but this article is so hateful, it calls Hagrid a monster, and puts together the bad things he's done with giants, what about giants, they can't all be so terrible...... It's a prejudice, like the attitude people have towards werewolves, but, poor Hagrid, I hope he's okay," she shook her head, and then, gritting her teeth again, "That woman who is making trouble, it's so hateful!" Darren nodded, and he thought so too.
The first class of the day was a herb class, I don't know if it was Darren himself, he felt that the Gryffindor students were absent-minded, because the next class was the protection of magical creatures, Hagrid's class.
After class, the students walked through the thick snow towards Hagrid's hut, but soon Darren's heart sank, and she didn't see Hagrid, and there stood in the doorway an elderly witch with her gray hair cut short and her chin very prominent.
"Hurry, hurry, the bell has been ringing for five minutes!" she snapped to the students, who walked through the snow and toward her.
"Who are you?" Ron asked, glaring at her, "where's Hagrid?"
"I'm Professor Graplan," the other said crisply, "and you're protecting the temporary substitute teacher for the Magical Creatures class. ”
"Where is Hagrid?" asked Harry aloud.
"He's not feeling well. Professor Grapeland was reluctant to say more.
When the Slytherin students arrived, Professor Grapeland led them around the makeshift stables in Beauxbatons and into the distance, Darren told Harry, Ron, and Hermione to go first, and he quickly ran to the door of Hagrid's hut and banged on the door vigorously, "Hagrid, it's me, Darren, open the door quickly!"
However, there was no response, and all the curtains of the cabin were closed, and Darren could not see what was going on inside.
"Hurry up, classmate," Darren heard Professor Graplan's voice coming from the distance, and he had no choice but to leave the hut and run towards the others.
The magical creature that Professor Graplan had prepared for them was the unicorn, which was tethered under a large tree, and its beautiful appearance quickly made the others forget about Hagrid, and they gathered around to listen to the professor talk about unicorns.
Many of the girls exclaimed, "Oh, that's beautiful!" when they saw a unicorn, "how did she get it?
The unicorn was dazzlingly white, and the snow around it was a little gray in comparison. It uneasily scraped the dirt with its golden hooves and raised its horned head, which Darren had seen when he had been with Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest, and something strange had happened.
Darren touched the wand in his pocket that used the unicorn's tail hair as the core of the wand, although he couldn't remember the unicorn very clearly, but in the dark, he felt that it was not the one in front of him, and there was a sense of strangeness.
"Boys, stand back!" Professor Grapeland shouted, flicking an arm and slamming Harry on the chest, "Unicorns love women's touches. The girls stand in front, approach it carefully, come here, relax a little......"
She led the girls slowly towards the unicorn, leaving the boys at the stable fence, and Darren looked in the direction of the hut, mainly because the snow was too thick to move, and he was not sure if it would be too late to get to the hut before Professor Grapeland found out.
And even if he could, what could he do? blow open the door with his wand?
Suddenly, Darren heard an exclamation from behind him, it was the girls, he turned his head, and found that the unicorn had somehow broken free and was running, the direction of the boys? Didn't it mean that unicorns like girls, especially sleeping on their skirts? Why, this unicorn has been with Hagrid for a long time, and has changed to like boys?