Chapter 242: Saving Buckbeak (Asking for Subscriptions, Asking for Votes, Asking for Recommendations)
When Ryan made his way through a series of obstacles to the place where Hagrid's hut could be seen, he found that it was quiet, and only Hagrid and Buckbeak could be seen from the window. It seems that they came early this time, and the Ministry of Magic personnel are probably still eating in the auditorium. After all, one of the wizards was already very old, and it was only right to eat a little bit.
After I went back to the situation, I told everyone, and Wolf proposed. "Let's go save the poor animal now. ”
"No, I can't. Ryan waved his hand. "If we break in now, let's not talk about how to explain this to Hagrid. The people on the committee would have thought that Hagrid had let it go, so we had to wait until they were sure that the Hippogriff was tethered outside. ”
"How did they tie Buckbeak outside?" asked Hermione, somewhat puzzled.
"After all, the judgment must be in the house, and Hagrid's hut is so big that five people will go in at a moment. They're definitely going to kick Buckbeak out. Ryan calmly analyzed.
After half an hour in the somewhat hot and humid woods, Fudge finally appeared with two members of the Ministry of Magic. As soon as they reached the door of the Haybrother hut, they heard Fudge say, "McNeil, you tie this big creature outside." I don't want him to scratch me for a moment. ”
Later, Ryan heard Hagrid's stammering defense, "Buckbeak is a good boy, he never goes out of his way to hurt anyone." ”
Just as McNeil was tying Buckbeak to the field, a figure approached from a distance. From his chest-down white beard, he knew it was Headmaster Dumbledore. The Headmaster exchanged a few pleasantries with Secretary Fudge and beckoned McNeill to come in. McNeill made sure Buckbeak was tied before heading to Hagrid's hut.
Dumbledore was the last to enter the room, but he winked kindly in Ryan's direction before closing the door.
"Looks like I've been discovered. Ryan thought. He hadn't expected his ordinary illusion charm to slip through Professor Dumbledore's eyes. And with more than a hundred years of Dumbledore's life experience, he could probably guess what Ryan was planning to do here, but it was clear that he had no objection to Ryan's approach.
Ryan had already heard the old Ministry of Magic official inside start to talk about certain laws and regulations weakly, and Ryan quickly ran back to his previous hidden location and told everyone to walk in the direction of Hagrid's hut.
Arriving at the place where Hagrid's hut could be seen, Ryan disguised himself as a vine and slowly approached Buckbeak's location. Buckbeak shook his head uneasily as if he sensed something, and the movement caused the executioner, McNeil, to turn his head and look at Buckbeak through the window, but he didn't notice anything.
"Seducing animals. Ryan used a natural spell at this time, and Buckbeak was appeased. Ryan also sensed that he could now order Buckbeak to do something.
He nodded at the unicorns behind him, and the unicorns led the leader out of the Forbidden Forest and played on the other side of Hagrid's hut. These movements quickly alarmed the people in the house and drew their attention to them.
Right now, Ryan made a gesture, and Xiaoqing immediately climbed onto the rope that tied Buckbeak and made the scales on his tail rougher, and then began to grind the bottom of the rope with his tail repeatedly. Soon his rough scales had worn out the two finger-thick ropes.
Then, under Ryan's call, Buckbeak walked quietly and quickly in the direction of the Forbidden Forest. Soon Buckbeak followed Ryan to where Hermione and Wolf were hiding.
"It worked. The three people present looked at each other and smiled. Wolf pulled a thumb-sized crystal clear leaf out of the hair on his stomach and held it in his front paws against Buckbeak's chest.
"This was given to me by Betty before she left, and with this I can take Buckbeak back to the tribe. At this point, there was the sound of horses' hooves, and the unicorns came running leisurely.
After counting that no one was hurt, Ryan and Hermione said goodbye to the big guys in the Forbidden Forest. Later, he used the illusion charm to blend in with the students who were celebrating the end of the exam by the lake.
For more than an hour, Ryan, who was reading with Hermione against a nearby tree, heard a louder commotion. It turned out that the afternoon exam was over, and the students who had finished the exam joined in the celebration.
At this time, Harry and Ron suddenly ran over, and Harry still had a note in his hand. "Ryan, Hermione, good news. Buckbeak it is free. ”
"Oh, did the appeal succeed?" asked Ryan, pretending to be unaware. Hermione was still looking at the book in her hand, but if she looked closely, she could tell that she was looking down and smiling.
"No, no. But Buckbeak was clever enough to break the rope and run. Originally, the people at the Ministry of Magic wanted to put the blame on Hagrid. Unfortunately, Dumbledore was present at the time, pointing out that Buckbeak was asked by someone from the Ministry of Magic to be chained outside, and someone from the Ministry of Magic was also on a leash. Hagrid didn't have any contact with Buckbeak, so how could the blame be placed on him in that case?"
Harry handed over the letter, "Hagrid didn't seem to know you were done in the afternoon, so he waited until we were done with the exams. ”
Ryan took the letter and found that the tears on it had soaked many words. It seems that Buckbeak's escape did make Hagrid happy. At the end of the letter, Hai Ge invited them to come to him for afternoon tea after the exam.
So the four of them walked together to Hagrid's hut, and as soon as they reached the door of his house, they could hear the sound of cheerful humming coming from the house.
After knocking on the door, there was a pause in the singing in the room, and then Hagrid appeared in front of them with an apron on. "Come in, I've just gone to the woods and seen blueberries ripe early, so I've picked some to make blueberry pies, just in time for you to taste." ”
Once seated, Hagrid recounted what had just happened as he worked in front of the fire. Ryan then learns that after he left with Buckbeak, the executioner McNeil was the first to spot Buckbeak and escaped. At first he tried to frame Hagrid, but failed due to the objections of Headmaster Dumbledore. He also said that someone had been in ambush and had stolen the Hippogriff, and that the unicorn had been summoned by that man for cover.
However, when several people went out to the scene, they found that the rope holding Buckbeak was worn rather than cut, and there were only McNeil's footprints and Hagrid's footprints around them. So Dumbledore pointed out that it was McNeill who was on the wrong leash and caused the Hippogriff to escape, and he was just trying to shirk the blame by saying this now. In the end, the two Ministry of Magic staff had no choice but to go back in disgrace, leaving Minister Fudge to go to the Headmaster's office to discuss something with Dumbledore.
"Gone! gone! Merlin bless it, it's gone! It must have broken free on its own! Vic, how clever you are!" Finally Hagrid said with some excitement. Hermione and Ryan smiled at each other, after all, saving an innocent life was a pleasant enough thing.