Chapter 601: Rita Skeeter's Report
By the next day, everyone was up late.
The large room of the Greenffindor was silent, and the lethargic conversation was punctuated by a yawn from time to time.
Hermione's hair was messy like grass again, and she explained to Van Lin that she used a lot of fast-acting smoothers to attend the prom, but it would be too much trouble to do it every day. She said as she pulled a curl of hair behind her ear.
Van Lin felt that it was nothing, Hermione was still the Hermione she knew, those messy hair, the girl who would worry about house-elves.
Hagrid's affair didn't seem to be exposed, much to Van Lin's great relief, at least, nothing worse.
Sirius was coming back, before the second mission.
His own apparition was also on the agenda, and he had to prepare more things, so naturally he didn't bother with Hagrid's affairs.
As February 24 approached, Harry couldn't find the slightest clue from the golden egg.
Whenever he walked into the dormitory, he took the golden egg out of the large suitcase and opened it, and looked at it intently, hoping that he would have a clue. he
I tried hard to remember if there were any other sounds other than these thirty musical-like sounds, but I couldn't hear anything. In desperation, he had no choice but to close the egg and shake it vigorously before opening it, trying to find out the change in sound.
He also tried to ask the golden egg loudly, crying and shouting, but to no avail.
He even tossed eggs around the house, though he didn't expect it to help in the slightest.
Van Lin was happy to help Harry, but Harry didn't want to do it, he wanted to try it himself.
Cedric also gives him a hint to take the golden egg and take a bath.
But Harry didn't want to listen to him, and if he had to say anything, he should be direct, just like he told Cedric about the dragon, and besides, he hated Cedric, he was just a bastard holding Autumn's hand in the school.
Before you know it, the new semester is here again.
As usual, Harry carried a heavy load of books, parchment, and pens to school, but the question of the egg still haunted him, weighing on him as heavily as the books and papers.
The snow was still thick on the ground, and the windows of the greenhouse were covered with a layer of water vapor, and there was nothing to be seen from the herb room.
Ron didn't pay attention to the lesson on the protection of magical creatures, but paid attention to the weather.
As they reached Hagrid's hut, they saw an old witch with thick friendly hair and a protruding chin standing at the front door of the hut.
As they walked towards her step by step in the snow, the woman shouted loudly, "Hurry up, the bell rang five minutes ago." ”
"Who are you?" Ron glared at her, "Where's Hagrid?"
"I'm Professor Granby Punk," she said briefly, "to teach you the teacher of magical animal protection for the time being. ”
"Where's Hagley?" Hermione repeated aloud.
"He's not feeling well. "Granby. Professor Punk said. An annoying laugh reached Hermione's ears, and he turned to see Draco Malfoy and the other Slytherin students walking towards her.
They weren't surprised to see Professor Granby Punk, but they seemed happy.
"Go this way. "Granby. The punk professor led them around the small paddock. There were a few Beauxbatons shivering with cold. The four men followed her as they looked back at Hagrid's cabin.
All the curtains in the hut were drawn. Is Hagrid in there? Is he sick or is he alone in there?
What Van Lin feared had happened, and there must have been some news he had missed, otherwise Hagrid wouldn't have reacted in this way.
Gave up those rune horses, and at the same time gave up teaching.
"What's wrong with Hagrid?" asked Harry, catching up with Professor Granby Punk.
"You don't have to worry about that. She said, looking like she found Harry annoying.
"I'm going to take care of it. Harry said eagerly, "What the hell is wrong with him?" Professor Granby Punk pretended not to hear, and led them through the small paddock, where rune horses were huddled together to keep warm under a tree at the edge of the woods.
Under another tree, a beautiful unicorn is tethered.
When the girls saw the unicorn, they all screamed "whoa" and "whoa".
"Ah, how beautiful it is!" muttered Lavender Brown, "how did she get the unicorns?
The unicorn was so white that the snow around it looked gray in contrast. It tread nervously on the earth with its golden hooves, its horned head flailing unyieldingly.
"The boys are back!" shouted Professor Granby Punk, reaching out and grabbing Harry. "Unicorns like women to touch them, and girls come up and be smaller. Come on, don't be nervous. “
She and the girls slowly approached the unicorns, leaving a group of boys standing by the fence of the paddock staring. It was at this point that Harry turned to Ron and said, "What do you think happened to him? You don't think it's a ——?."
"Oh, he wasn't attacked, not as you think. Malfoy said softly, "He's just ashamed of his big, ugly face, and afraid to show up." ”
What does that mean? Harry screamed.
Malfoy reached into the pocket of his blouse and pulled out a folded newspaper clipping. "Look at this," he said, "I don't want to reveal it to you, Potter......" he smirked.
Harry took the paper, opened it and read it. Van Lin, Ron, Seamus, Dean, and Neville all poked their heads to see that it was an essay with a photograph in which Hagrid looked cunning.
Dumbledore made a big mistake, special correspondent Rita. Skeeter reports that the eccentric headmistress of Hogwarts School, a school that trains magical talents, has never been afraid to hire some controversial staff. In September, he hired the notorious "MONOCULUS" Moody as a professor of anti-black witchcraft classes, a decision that took the wizarding world by surprise, as everyone knew that Moody had a habit of attacking anyone who was in the spotlight whenever he was there.
However, when he first accepted the professorship, Modi "The Magic Eye" seemed to be somewhat responsible and approachable.
Hagrid, the school's teacher, who had admitted to being expelled as a student until his third year, had been offered a position by Headmaster Dumbledore.
Last year, however, Hagrid used the principal's influence to take on the position of professor of "Magical Animal Conservation", completely ignoring the many more qualified applicants at the time.
With his new rights and a fierce look, Hagrid used monsters to terrorize his students one after another.
So far, several students have admitted that Hagrid has disabled many of his classmates during class. Dumbledore turned a blind eye to these circumstances.
"I was once attacked by a Hippygli baboon, my friend Wesson. Kleber was bitten hard by a Furber-Ut. "Draco Malfoy.
One fourth-grader said, "We hated Hagrid, but we were so scared of him, so we didn't dare say anything." ”
Hagrid had no intention of stopping his war of intimidation. Instead, in a conversation with a reporter for a Daily Prophet last month, he admitted to breeding "flaming snails with their tails," a highly dangerous animal somewhere between a praying mantis and a fire crab.
The cultivation of new breeds is undoubtedly carried out under the strict supervision of the school department to ensure the control and regulation of the animals.
However, Hagrid seems to think he can go beyond these controls. "I'm just interested in it. He said, and quickly changed the subject.
As if that weren't enough to prove that Hagrid wasn't a pure-blood wizard, the Daily Prophet now has more and more evidence coming out to light Hagrid. He's not a wizard, not even a real person.
His mother, we may say repulsively, was nothing more than a giant named Fliúfa, whose whereabouts no one knew.
These bloodthirsty, cruel giants are now on the verge of extinction due to civil wars that have plagued the last century. The rest are nameless, and they are all thugs who are responsible for the massacres they committed during the tyrannical period.
Many of the giants who served 'that man' were killed by the Aurors, but Flieúfa was not among them. She may have fled to other mountains and joined another group of giants.
However, judging by the violent behavior displayed by Hagrid in teaching, it appears that this son of Flioufa has inherited her cruel nature. On the other hand, Hagrid was close friends with the author of "You Know Who Is Going to Fall." This time he found an umbrella for his mother's hiding. Maybe Harry. Potter was unaware of this unpleasant fact about his giant friend. - But Albus Dumbledore is responsible for making sure of Harry. Potter and the other students understand the dangers of being with this half-giant.
Harry looked up at Ron and Van Lin after reading it, and Harry noticed that Ron's mouth was wide open.
"How did she find her?" said Ron quietly. But that's not what Harry cares about.
"We all hate Hagley, what do you mean?" Harry spat at Malf. Then he pointed to Carat and said, "Look at the garbage - they have been bitten hard by a 'Furber-Urt'! they don't even have teeth." ”
Kra smirked intently, it was clear that he was very happy with his masterpiece.
"That's great, I think this idiot's teaching career is coming to an end. Malfoy's eyes lit up and he said, "Half-giant—I guess he must have drunk a bottle of Scottrigard when he was younger." There are no parents at all who will like this, they will worry that he eats their child, haha......"
"Are you watching?" came Professor Granby Punk's voice. The girls are now all stroking the unicorn around it. Harry had to hold the paper with his hand trembling, and he turned to look at the unicorn, but he couldn't actually see anything.
Professor Granby Punk is counting the unicorn's demons aloud so the boys can hear them.
"I hope she will stay and teach us, that woman. When the children went back to the castle for lunch after class, Paveti Patti said, "Her magical animal protection class was much better than I thought." This kind of class should have corresponding animals, such as unicorns, instead of monsters. ”
"What about Hagrid?" said Harry, angrily.
"He?" Paveti said bluntly, "he can continue to be his prey keeper, can't he?"
Ever since the ball, Paveti had been cold to Harry. He thought he should have taken care of her more, but she seemed to be having a good time. She was also gleefully telling people how she was going to go on a date with the Durmstrang boy next weekend.
"It was a really good lesson," Hermione said. They walked into the hall. "I didn't know anything about the unicorn ...... until Professor Granby Punk told me."
"Look at this. Harry interrupted her, raising the article under her nose. Hermione read the article, and she reacted the same way as Ron.
"How did that terrible Skeeter know? You don't think Hagrid told her, do you?"
"Nope. Harry walked over to the table and sat down in his chair puffing out. "He didn't tell us that he told her, did he? I guess she must have been mad at Hagrid for refusing to tell her about me, so she went to search Hagrid's information to get revenge on him. ”
Perhaps she had heard him and Mrs. Massim talking at the ball. Van Lin said calmly.
"It can't be, she can't come to school anymore. Hagrid said the headmaster had banned her ......," Harry said.
"But we really haven't seen Rita Skeeter anywhere. Hermione said, "Or did we not find out?"
"I'm sure there wasn't anyone around at all. "Judging from the reaction the next day, it seems that there is no second person other than us who knows Hagrid's identity, otherwise this kind of news would have broken in an instant." ”
Van Lin frowned, "Moreover, Madame Maxim will not let such a thing break out, and if the people of Beauxbatons hear it, then don't worry about it......"
"And how did this news get out?" Hermione asked, "the Illusion Charm?"
"Unless I hid it a long time ago, I wouldn't have been able to find ......"
"Not necessarily?" Ron whispered.
"No one is going to be bored enough to eavesdrop on these news," Van Lin glared at Ron.
"Then there are two more possibilities, and that is the cloak of invisibility and the ...... of Animagus"
"Animagus shouldn't be registered with the Ministry of Magic, Rita is a journalist, she should be ...... herself"
"So, for convenience, if she masters the Animagus, it won't help her profession more, of course, and the Cloak of Invisibility, but it's less likely, the Cloak of Invisibility is easy to spot, and there's no way she'll be able to get a Cloak like Harry's when the Teacher is on patrol......"