Chapter 1054: Harry's Exam and Hagrid's Attack
In fact, because of Hagrid's lonely tone, and because they didn't have to take care of any Glopp, Harry decided to perform well in Tuesday's Conservation Magical Creatures class exam to keep Hagrid out of the way.
However, Hagrid's lectures were as unreliable as ever.
The practical test was arranged on the lawn at the edge of the Forbidden Forest in the afternoon, where the students were asked to identify the shapeshifters among a dozen hedgehogs (they tricked them into taking turns drinking milk: the shapeshifters were vigilant, their hedgehog-like fur had many magical uses, and they were usually very violent and poisoned what they saw); Then there is a proper demonstration of how to handle a tree guard, then a fire crab is fed and bathed without being badly burned, followed by a multiple-choice question to choose what to give to a sick unicorn from a wide range of foods.
Well, in fact, Harry didn't understand why he was bathing those who were on fire, and in Vanlin's words, heat was the perfect sterilization......
Well, bacteria......
Harry could see Hagrid looking apprehensively through the window of his cabin. When Harry's examiner, a plump slightly diminutive witch, smiled at him and told him he could go, Harry gave Hagrid a quick thumbs-up gesture in front of the castle.
The theory exam in astronomy took place on Wednesday morning, and it went well. Harry wasn't sure he had got Jupiter's moons right, but at least he was confident it wouldn't be bad.
They had to wait until the evening to test their practical skills in astronomy, and the afternoon was replaced by divination. Even if Harry's divination had been at a very poor level, the exam was definitely terrible.
He might as well look at the moving images in the blank crystal ball, for he felt that his head was missing when he tested his knowledge of tea, and he predicted that Professor Madbanker would soon meet a fat, ignorant, wet stranger, and even more so that he had completely messed with the lifeline and wisdom thread in the palm of her hand, and informed her that she should have died last Tuesday.
......
Cursing a professor's death is probably the worst of all the answers.
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"Well, we usually always have a failing grade. Ron said in frustration as they walked up the marble staircase. He had just told him how he had told his examiner that he had seen an ugly man with a tumor on his nose in his crystal ball, and it was only when he looked up that he realized it was his examiner's reflection in the crystal ball, which made Harry feel a little better.
"We shouldn't have studied this stupid subject in the first place. Harry said. "Still, at least we can give it up now. ”
"Yes. "We don't have to pretend we care about what happens when Jupiter and Uranus conclude." ”
"And from now on, I don't care anymore if my tea means death, Ron, death - I just threw them all back into the box where they were supposed to be. Harry smiled, it was something he had always dreamed of, but as Autumn passed by, Harry became reserved.
"How's the test?"
"I think it's okay......" Autumn said happily, and both Harry and Ron breathed a sigh of relief.
"Looks like we'll have our horoscope sooner than dinner. ”
When Harry Point reached the Astronomy Tower, they found it to be a perfect starry sky with no clouds. The ground was sprinkled with a layer of silver moonlight, and there was a slight chill in the night sky. Each of them set up his or her telescope, and when Professor Horse Bank gave the order, they all began to fill out the constellation map they had been sent to.
Professor Horse Bank and Professor Sinista walked among them, observing if they had found the correct positions of the stars and planets they should be looking for.
Everything was harmonious except for the rustle of parchment, with the occasional sound of telescopes adjusting their angles and the sound of quill capitalization close-ups. Half an hour passed, and then an hour passed, and the golden light that had only flashed from the castle window above the small platform gradually dimmed and vanished.
However, when Harry finished Orion on his parchment, beneath where Harry was standing, the front of the castle suddenly opened, so that the leaking light was transmitted to form a narrow path of light on the lawn.
This made Harry very curious, and strictly speaking, this would not normally be a disturbance.
As Harry made some adjustments with the regulator of his telescope, he glanced down and saw five or six elongated shadows moving across the lawn before the door closed, and then the lawn was as dark as the sea again. Harry pulled his eyes back into his telescope and refocused the focus of the exam, now taking the Venus exam.
He stared at his constellation to determine the position of the planets, but something was distracting him, he stopped his quill on the parchment, and he squinted at the shadows on the ground to see half a dozen figures on the lawn. If they hadn't moved, the moonlight wouldn't have shone above their heads, and it would have been impossible to tell which way they came from.
At such a distance, Harry couldn't see too lightly, but Harry still had a faint sense of something.
The only people who could do this were the men sent by Fudge to take over Umbridge's job, and poor Umbridge was still being held in the tribe by the centaurs.
Just as Harry was distracted, someone coughed behind him, and he remembered that he was still in the middle of the exam.
He completely forgot where Venus was. Pressing his eyes to the telescope, as he once again discovered the position of Venus on his chart, he heard the distant sound of a knock echoing through the deserted field, followed by the sound of a large dog covering it with a cloth. He looked up, his heart pounding.
Hagrid's window was lit up, and his silhouette suggested that he thought of fighting the crouching people on the lawn. The door opened, and he clearly saw six figures flash in. The door closed again and fell silent.
Harry was very upset. He swept around to see if Ron had noticed what he was seeing, but then Professor Horsebank walked up to him, as if Harry was peeking at someone else's work. Harry hastily filled out his constellation map, then pretended to add something more, and looked curiously at the railing at Hagrid's hut.
The figure was now moving in the window of the hut, and the lights were flickering on and off. He could feel Professor Blockbank's eyes staring at his head and neck, and he forced his eyes to turn to his telescope once more, staring intently at the moon, and although he had marked its position an hour earlier, as Professor Blockbank continued on his way, he heard a roar coming from the direction of the hut, echoing through the darkness to the top of the Astronomical Tower.
Several people around Harry moved their binoculars away from them, staring in the direction of Hagrid's hut. Professor Sinista coughed dryly again.
"Now concentrate on it, lads and girls. He said softly. Most of them returned to their binoculars. Harry looked to the left and Ron was staring blankly at Hagrid's cabin.
"Uh-huh-I'll hand it over in 20 minutes. Professor Sinista said.
Ron came to his senses and immediately turned his attention back to his horoscope, and Harry looked down at himself and noticed that he had mistaken Venus for Mars. He hurriedly corrected it.
There was a loud bang on the field. Several people shouted, "Ouch!"
They were all too eager to see what was going on down there and stabbed themselves in the face with the end of their telescopes. Hagrid's door slammed open, and by the light leaking from the hut they could clearly see a burly figure roaring and waving his fists, entangled by six men, all of whom, by the subtle signs of the red light they were shooting in his direction, seemed to want to stun him.
Some of the timid girls let out a rapid exclamation, but this only drew Professor Sinista's indignation.
"My dear!" said Professor Sinista indignantly, "this is an exam!"
But no one cares about their horoscope anymore. The red light still spewed from Hagrid's hut, but for no reason, they seemed to be testing him.
Hagrid still stood straight, and Harry tried to see the battle as clearly as he could. Echoes of surrender and shouting passed through the field, and a man shouted, "Be sensible, Hagrid!"
Hagrid roared, "Damn sanity, don't you just take me, Davash!"
Harry could vaguely see the blurred outline of his teeth, and he was trying to help Hagrid, jumping around the wizards until he was hit by a stun spell and fell to the ground. Hagrid let out a furious roar, and he grabbed the man from the ground and threw him out, and the man appeared to have flown ten meters and never got up again.
Harry turned his head to see Ron looking at him as well, his expression terrified. No one had ever seen Hagrid on such a fire.
"Look!" screamed Pawadi, leaning against the railing and pointing to the ground floor of the castle, where the front door was open again, and more light leaked into the dark lawn, through which a long black shadow was now crossing.
"Now, really!" Professor Sinista said anxiously, "you know! There are only ten minutes left!"
But no one paid attention to him: they were watching the man run towards the battlefield next to Hagrid's hut.
"How dare you!" shouted the figure as he ran, "How dare you!"
"That's McGonagall!" someone whispered, the figure too easy to recognize
"Leave him behind! I said stay!" Professor McGonagall's voice pierced the darkness, "how could you attack him in this place? he didn't do anything, no reason-"
Both Pawadi and Lavender screamed. Approximately four of the figures in the cabin hit Professor McGonagall. On the way from the castle to the cottage, the red light struck her, and for a moment she seemed to glow a terrible red, and then she fell down on her back, and did not move again.
"A bunch of beasts!" cried Professor Sinista, who now seemed to have completely forgotten about the exam, "no warning!
"Coward!" Hagrid roared, his voice clear to the top of the tower, and several lights lit up inside the castle, "Reedu Coward!
Hagrid angrily gave the nearest assailants two strong blows, and it seemed that they were done in no time, they had fainted. Harry saw Hagrid fall, and he thought he had been subdued by a spell, but, on the contrary, Hagrid immediately stood up again, and suddenly a cloth bag was added to his back.
Then Harry understood that the tooth was on his shoulder.
"Catch him, catch him!" one of the Ministry of Magic screamed, but the remaining helpers seemed reluctant to do so under Hagrid's Fist's sphere of influence, and indeed he was retreating so fast that he tripped and fell over one of his unconscious colleagues.
Hagrid had already turned around, put his teeth on his neck, and ran as fast as he could. The others fired one last stun spell behind him but missed, and Hagrid, at full speed, burst out of the gate and disappeared into the night.
When everyone looked at the venue with their mouths open, it was a long silence. Then Professor Sinista said weakly, "Well, big guy, there's five minutes left to pay." ”
Although Harry's exam paper was only two-thirds full, he was desperate to see it over. When he was done, Ron forced their binoculars back into their master's possession and quickly rushed down the spiral staircase.
None of the students went to bed, and they all talked loudly and excitedly at the bottom of the stairs about what they had witnessed.
"Oh shit, how could they do that, Umbridge hasn't come back yet. ”
"Fudge is not at ease with everyone. Harry tried to think in terms of Van Lin's thoughts, but it didn't stop his anger.
"She clearly wanted to avoid a situation like Professor Trelawney. Ernie McMillan wisely said, squeezing in to join them.
"Hagrid did a great job, didn't she?" Ron said, looking deeply frightened, "how did those spells bounce off him?"
"That's because of his giant blood. Harry reluctantly said, "It's hard to stun a giant, they're like trolls, really strong." But poor Professor McGonagall was struck in the chest by four unconscious charms, and she's not young anymore, is she?"
"Terrible, terrible," Ernie said, not knowing how to describe it, he had to shake his hand helplessly, "Alright, I'm going to sleep." Good night everyone. ”
The people around them had also walked away, but they were still talking excitedly about what they had just seen.
"At least they didn't capture Hagrid in Azkaban. Ron said, "I think he's going to join Dumbledore, isn't it?"
"Probably...... He would, but Professor McGonagall ...... "Harry was a little irritated, and he was tempted to pull out his wand and rush down from the observatory.
"Oh, it's scary, I really think Dumbledore will be back soon, but now we've lost Hagrid again. They slowly walked back to the Gryffindor common room and found it full. The commotion outside the venue has been quelled by several people, who are already in a hurry to revive their friends.
Seamus and Dean walked ahead of Harry and Ron, already telling everyone what they had seen and heard from the top of the Tower.
"But why is Hagrid carrying a bag now?" asked Angelina Jackson, shaking her head, "He's not like Trelawney, he's teaching better this year than ever!"
"Just like Umbridge, the people of the Ministry of Magic don't trust half-humans. Colin said, "Van Lin told me that many of the half-bloods have no place in the Ministry of Magic because of their blood, and they ......."
"And what?"
"Dumbledore......"
"Dumbledore is wanted, and Hagrid is a staunch supporter......"
For a moment everyone fell silent, and the team they were discussing should have taken Van Lin and Hermione with them, and stood ......
"Well, and they think Hagrid put the Bogg......art in their office," Katie Bell continued.
"Oh, ahh Fred and George left me a couple before leaving, and I had let them float through their windows. ”
"In short, they fired him. Dean said, "He's so close to Dumbledore. ”
"It's true. Harry said, drowning in a chair next to Ron.
"I just hope Professor McGonagall is okay. Lavender said sadly. "They took her back to the castle and we watched them walk through the windows of the dormitory. ”
Colin Litwick said, "She doesn't look good. ”
"Madam Pomfrey will heal her," said Alicias Pinnat firmly, "she has never failed. ”
By 4 a.m., the common room was empty, Harry was sober, the image of Hagrid running into the darkness kept coming to his mind, and he was so angry with the Ministry of Magic that he couldn't think of any punishment worthy of them.