Hagrid sat at the table with two large teacups in front of him. He looked very embarrassed. His face was spotted, his eyes were red and swollen, and he went to the other extreme when it came to hair: he no longer tried to get his hair neat, and they were now a bunch of tangled wires.

"Hello, Hagrid." Harry said.

Hagrid looked up.

"Okay." He said in a very hoarse voice.

"Let's have some more tea." Dumbledore spoke, closing the door behind Harry, Ron, and Hermione, pulling out his wand and fiddling with it, and a spinning teatray and a plate of cake immediately appeared in the air.

Dumbledore magically caused the teatray to fall on the table, and everyone sat down. After a moment of silence, Dumbledore said, "Hagrid, did you hear Miss Granger shouting those words?" ”

Hermione's face was slightly red, and Dumbledore smiled at her and continued, "Judging from the way they tried to break through the door just now, it seems that Hermione, Harry, and Ron are still willing to make you a friend. ”

"Of course we're willing to make friends with you!" Harry looked at Hagrid and said, "Do you think that Skeeter's cow—I'm sorry, Professor." He said quickly, turning his eyes to Dumbledore.

"I was deaf for a moment, I didn't hear what you were saying, Harry." Dumbledore said a little mischievously. He toyed with his two thumbs and stared at the ceiling.

"Well—well," Harry said awkwardly, "I mean—Hagrid, how do you think we're going to care about that—woman—writes?" ”

Two round tears flowed from Hagrid's dark eyes and slowly seeped into his tangled beard.

"Hagrid, this just proves what I just said." Dumbledore said, still looking intently at the ceiling, "I've shown you countless letters from parents who themselves went to school here and were very impressed with you. They said to me very firmly, if I fired you, they would not give up—"

"Not everybody," Hagrid said hoarsely, "not everybody wants me to stay. ”

"Honestly, Hagrid, if you want to wait for the support of the whole world, I'm afraid you're going to have to stay in this hut for a long time." Dumbledore said, his gaze staring sternly from behind the half-moon lenses, "Ever since I became the headmaster of this school, at least one owl has sent letters every week criticizing the way I have run the school. What do you think I should do? Shut yourself in your study and refuse to talk to anyone? ”

"But—you're not a half-blood giant!" Hagrid said hoarsely.

"What's wrong with being a giant, Hagrid!" Harry said angrily, "You're more like my family than my uncle's family used to be!" ”

"Oh, Harry!" Hearing Harry say this, Hagrid was moved to tears again.

"Come back to teaching, Hagrid." Hermione whispered, "Please come back, we really miss you." ”

Hagrid choked up. Many tears rolled down his cheeks and seeped into his unkempt beard.

Dumbledore stood up. "I don't accept your resignation, Hagrid, and I want you to come back to class next Monday."

He said, "You come to the auditorium at half-past eight and have breakfast with me." Don't find excuses. Good afternoon to all of you. ”

Dumbledore walked towards the door, only to pause and scratch his teeth' ears before leaving the cabin. When the door closed behind him, Hagrid buried his face in the palm of his hand, the size of a garbage can, and began to weep bitterly. Hermione kept patting his arm, and finally, Hagrid finally looked up, his eyes red, and he said, "What a great man, Dumbledore, what a great man... ”

"yes, he's amazing." Ron said, "Can I eat a piece of cake, Hagrid?" ”

"Eat it," said Hagrid, wiping his eyes with the back of his hand, "well, of course, he's right, you're all right, I'm so stupid!" My dad will blush for me if I do that," and the tears came out again, and he wiped them away vigorously, and said, "I haven't shown you my old daddy's picture yet, have I?" Over here... ”

Hagrid stood up and walked to the closet, pulled open a drawer, and pulled out a picture of a short wizard with the same dark eyes as Hagrid's, narrowed into a slit, and he sat on Hagrid's shoulder and smiled merrily. Judging by the apple tree next to him, Hagrid was seven or eight feet tall, but his face was young, full, smooth, and beardless, and he looked to be eleven years old at most.

"I took it shortly after I entered Hogwarts," Hagrid said hoarsely, "and Dad was so happy that he thought I couldn't be a wizard, you know, because of my mother." Alas, don't mention it. Of course, I haven't been very open to magic, but at least he didn't see me expelled. He died, just when I was in second grade... ”

"After my father died, it was Dumbledore who protected me. I got a job as a game ranger, and he trusted people. Always giving people a second chance, this is what sets him apart from other headmasters, as long as he has talent, Dumbledore accepts him to Hogwarts.

He knows that even if a person is not from a good background, he will be successful. Alas, this practice is quite respectable, but some people do not understand this. Some people always discriminate because of your origin.

Some people even pretend to say that they are big bones, but they dare not boldly tell the truth, I am me, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. 'Never be ashamed,' my old dad used to say, 'someone will discriminate against you for this, but they don't deserve your trouble.' He was right. I'm so stupid. I'll never bother with that woman again, I assure you. Big skeleton, I'm going to let her taste my big skeleton! ”

Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked at each other uneasily. Harry would rather take fifty snails for a walk than admit to Hagrid that he had eavesdropped on his conversation with Madame Maxime. But Hagrid was still talking, apparently unaware that he had said something inexplicable.

"You know what, Harry?" Looking up from the picture of his father, his eyes were very bright, he said, "When I first met you, you reminded me of myself." You both died and you were worried that you wouldn't fit in at Hogwarts, remember? You don't believe you're really capable, but look at you now, Harry! Warriors of the school! ”

"And Hermione, who was born in Muggles, but was always the oldest, and their self-proclaimed noble wizards couldn't invent spells that Hermione couldn't learn." Hagrid paused for a moment, then said to Harry and Hermione, "Harry, Hermione, you're going to win." Let them all know that the bloodline of a wizard does not speak for everything. There is no need to be ashamed of your origins. This would make them all see that Dumbledore's point was correct, and that a person should be allowed to enter the school as long as he had magical talents. How's your golden egg doing, Harry, Hermione? ”

"Very well," Harry lied, he still hadn't thought of how to breathe underwater, "it's really good. ”

A wet smile bloomed on Hagrid's sad face. "Really my good boy, let them see, Harry, let them see. Defeat them all. ”

"Aren't you going to go in?" Dumbledore said, obviously without Moody's magic eye, but Dumbledore still accurately judged Maple's location, and the illusion charm seemed to be useless in front of him.

It also reminded Maple that it would be naïve for him to rely on the Manifestation Charm to sneak up on a supreme wizard like Voldemort. At the same time, Maple also felt the need to exercise his perception of magic power, so as not to be cursed by others. His current magic acuity is not yet able to detect the approach of invisible enemies.

"No need." Maple said.

"Come back with me!" Dumbledore said.

"Okay." Maple agreed.

"Maple, you've always been a very good student, and I'm a little surprised by how good you are. Sometimes being with you is like being in front of an adult. It's just that you do it."

"There's something wrong, I know it, but I really don't want her to risk it!" Maple said.

"But is it really fair for you to do this?" Dumbledore said.

"Like you did to Harry?" Maple asked rhetorically.

"You notice," Dumbledore said meaningfully, "yes, we can't replace them, we have to give them a chance to grow!" ”

"You're right, if it weren't for the fear that Professor Trelawney's prophecy would come true, I'd like to let it go." Maple sighed.

"Professor Trelawney's prophecy?" Professor Dumbledore was stunned.

"yes." Maple then told Dumbledore about Professor Trelawney's prophecy several times, "If Harry hadn't told me about Professor Trelawney's true prophecy, I would have thought she was a liar like everyone else." Then I looked up some of the prophecies that Professor Trelawney had taught before, and the prophecies that made the students think she was a liar came true.

Many of her prophecies had different meanings than they were, and I don't think Professor Trelawney himself knew what his prophecies were pointing to. The results of prophecies can be large or small, and sometimes they come true in a matter of months, while others take years to be verified.

Regardless, these prophecies have come true in some unforeseen way and outcome.

Knowing this, I started to get scared. The scene that Boggart presented in front of me, I really didn't want to see it happen. ”

"Professor Trelawney's prophecies aren't the real ones she made, and I think they can be changed!"

"Did you ever think that if you stopped Hermione, the danger foretold by Professor Trelawney's latest prophecy might point to Cedric?" Dumbledore said.

"Fate is really unpredictable, sometimes desperately struggling, but it seems to fall into a deeper whirlpool of fate. But even if it's a needless struggle, I'm going to stay the course. Maple said slowly, the confusion in his eyes faded away, replaced by a resolute look, "Either don't do it, or don't regret it!" ”

Time sped forward like a clockwork alarm clock, and the days of consulting library materials day after day drew closer and closer to the start of the second project.

Cedric's bubble head charm, its effect was not discovered by the public, but it was the students who liked to play pranks who first developed its wonderful use. After injuring each other with large dung eggs, the bubble head charm can avoid the smell of dung eggs.

After casting the spell, it is like a large bubble on the head, and as long as enough air is stored in the bubble, it can easily move underwater.

It was a very secluded spell, and Hermione searched through the books in the library and even went to the forbidden book section to find a single word of the spell.

While Maple was feeling at ease, Hermione had already mastered the Bubble Head Charm. Fred and George, the two guys who often carry a big bag of dung, must know about the bubble head charm, but Harry and Hermione don't ask them for help, but they also have a Fred and George's predecessor by their side, Sirius Black.

The underwater environment is not as good as that on the ground, not only is it difficult to aim, but the power of many spells is also greatly reduced. While Hermione was considering what spells to use in underwater combat, Harry was still practicing the Bubble Head Charm.

I don't know if Hagrid was trying to make up for his mistake in the snails, if it was because there were only the last two snails left, or if he wanted to prove that Professor Grapeland could do it, and he Hagrid could do it too. Anyway, when Hagrid returned to class, he continued Professor Graplan's lecture on unicorns. As it turns out, Hagrid knows no less about unicorns than he knows about trolls, though he apparently finds it disappointing that unicorns don't have fangs.

Today, he actually caught two unicorn cubs. Cubs differ from adult unicorns in that they are pure gold. Parvati and Lavender went crazy with joy when they saw them, and even Pansy Parkinson had to desperately hide himself so as not to reveal how much he liked them.

"Cubs are easier to spot than adults," Hagrid told the class, "and they turn silver around two years old, and emerge when they're about four years old." It doesn't turn pure white until adulthood, which is around the age of seven. When they are younger, they tend to be credulous and don't have much aversion to boys. Come here, come closer, pat them if you want, and give them a few pieces of these sugar cubes... ”

"Have faith, Harry?" Hagrid asked in a low voice as everyone gathered around the unicorn cub.

"It's okay." Harry said that he had finally mastered the Bubble Head Charm, but he was not confident in defeating Hermione, who had practiced a lot of spells underwater.

"A little nervous, huh?" Hagrid said.

"Sort of." Harry said.

Harry's performance in the first game was excellent, but compared to Hermione's strength, Harry's performance was not so impressive.

Hagrid saw Harry's concern, and after a few words of encouragement to Harry, he was able to say, "Harry, do your best not to leave yourself with regrets!" ”

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