"I think we need to get Hagrid to sober up first."

Harley couldn't help but frown as she looked at Hagrid, who couldn't help but start crying.

She drew her wand and pointed at it, and a flash of light flashed.

Hagrid, who was habitually trying to pour flame whiskey into his mouth, suddenly paused, and his movements stopped instantly.

The glass in his hand slipped from his palm, but was caught by Harry's spell and landed firmly on the table.

Hagrid shuddered, feeling as if his brain was soaked in ice, and the strong alcohol was dispelled.

He shook his head vigorously and wrapped his moleskin coat tightly in an attempt to dispel the chill.

Seeing that Hagrid was gradually coming to her senses, Harley casually canceled the magic and slowly lowered her wand.

"Oh, it's you." Hagrid, having regained a few consciousnesses, looked in front of him and muttered.

It seems that when he spoke earlier, he didn't fully realize who he was talking to.

But soon, Hagrid couldn't be so calm.

As the memories of this time slowly came back to his mind, Hagrid's face became worse and worse.

"Harley, Hermione, and ...... And ......" Hagrid stammered after remembering everything.

"Fleur Delacour, just call me Fleur." Fleur smiled, but there was no smile in her eyes.

"Okay, Fleur. Could you please not reveal this? Hagrid's eyes were pleading,

"I don't want Professor Dumbledore to worry about me, it's not a big deal......"

"It's just that I angered Miss Maxim for unknown reasons, and I don't want me to affect the relationship between Hogwarts and Beauxbatons......"

"Oh, by the way, if you can, can you please not tell me I'm a half-blood giant?"

"I don't really care, but this could cause Professor Dumbledore a lot of trouble."

"He's done enough for me, and I really don't want to trouble him anymore."

Harley sighed and walked over to Hagrid's side, propping her hands on the table.

"Hagrid," Harry's voice became cold and serious, her gaze like a whip, making Hagrid subconsciously avoid her gaze,

"I don't think you figured out the point of this, and I don't know why Lady Maxim is angry."

"Uh...... Well...... Truly...... I really don't know. ”

Hagrid scratched the hair on his head like a mess of discarded wires with his big hands, and the confusion in his voice,

"Is it because I said she's a half-blood giant? I don't think it's nice to say, but I'm just telling the truth. ”

Hermione on the side had already covered her face, and Fleur turned her head away.

Now Fleur doesn't hate Hagrid as much as she used to, because she's sure of one fact—

Hagrid didn't mean to point out that Lady Maxim was a half-blood giant, he just couldn't speak, or rather, ...... Don't like to think.

You can hate a bad guy very much, but you can't hate a big stupid guy.

"That's the problem!"

Harley slapped the table hard, shaking the bottle and squeaking the legs.

"Hagrid, don't you know the reputation of giants in the wizarding world? I think you know better than anyone else. ”

"Or don't you know the status of the half-bloods? You should also be well aware! ”

"What half-blood races can be accepted in the wizarding world? It's only a half-breed baby or a half-breed goblin. ”

"Where did the other bloodlines in their bodies come from, besides the wizard bloodline?"

"Originating from magical creatures that have a very high appearance, strong magical strength, or a certain position of power."

"Even so, these half-blood wizards are faintly discriminated against in front of ordinary wizards."

"It's like Professor Flitwick, although he is a half-breed goblin, and he has achieved a very high status and respect through his own efforts, but there will be people behind his back who will insult him."

"Not to mention the half-blood giants like you and Lady Maxim, the word half-blood giants themselves are taboo considering the crimes the giants have committed."

"Ms. Maxim is the principal of Beauxbatons. Although it is not known the specific life experience of Lady Maxim, she must have put in a hundred times more effort than ordinary wizards. ”

"If someone else knows that she is a half-blood giant, have you ever thought about what will happen to Ms. Maxim? All her efforts will be in vain! ”

"Now have you ever figured out why Lady Maxim would refuse to admit that she is a half-blood giant and fall out with you?"

In order to make Hagrid fully understand what she was saying, Harley could speak very slowly, pausing from time to time.

Hagrid slowly reacted to Harry's explanation, and the expression on his face stiffened.

But he still subconsciously said: "But this is Hogwarts, the safest place in the world!" ”

"And there was no one around, who could overhear my conversation with Olim?"

Before Hallie could say anything, Hermione was the first to laugh.

"Hagrid!" Hermione crossed her hands on her hips, and she was a professor of McGrid,

"Bad news for you. Last night, when Harley and I went for a walk, we happened to pass by the fountain and saw you and Ms. Maxim. ”

"And you have a loud voice, and you don't hide anything at all. So Harley and I both heard your last words, the one you yourself admit you're a half-blood giant. ”

"Is this called being heard by no one? Luckily, we were the only ones there last night, so what if there were other students? ”

"Who says there aren't anyone else?" Harley immediately retorted,

"The bad news was that I also found out about Rita Skeeter, the Daily Prophet's reporter who likes to fabricate fake news to slander celebrities."

"Looks like she's probably overheard your conversation, too. I guess you won't be without understanding, what does that mean, right? ”

Hagrid's face turned pale from stiffness in an instant.

His lips twitched a few times, but he didn't say anything.

If, as Harley claimed, the conversation between the two was overheard by the notorious Rita Skeeter, then it would be a big deal.

Even if Ms. Maxim doesn't admit it, she and herself will definitely be choreographed by Rita.

And what a strain it would put on Professor Dumbledore!

At this point, Hagrid's face was on the verge of crying.

"Harley, ...... So what to do? Hagrid stammered,

"By the way, I need to inform Professor Dumbledore and not let the professor be implicated."

"Sit down!" Harley lifted her hand above her head and pressed Hagrid's shoulder.

Hagrid was about to get up, but was instantly pressed back into his chair by the terrifying force.

"Rejoice, Hagrid." Harley said angrily,

"I'll help you settle this matter, Rita won't report on it."

"I just hope that you can take a long time through this and remember the importance of keeping secrets."

"Also, I hope you must think more before you speak and do things."

…………

During the rest of the chat, Harley used her rich life experience to guide Hagrid in all aspects, occasionally enlightening and encouraging Hagrid.

Eventually, hope rekindled in Hagrid's eyes and he decided to apologize to Ms. Maxim after a while.

The four of them talked all afternoon, and it was not until Hagrid was about to leave them for dinner that the girls turned pale and hurried to find an excuse to leave.

At first, Fleur didn't understand why Hallie and Hermione were so flustered.

But when Hermione introduced Hagrid's signature slug-jerky goulash, Fleur didn't want to look back at the cabin again, as if some flood beast was hiding there.

The three of them are separated at the intersection, and Fleur has to go back to pick up Gabrielle, so she can go to the auditorium for dinner later.

"Harley, it's good that you chose to use Rita to scare Hagrid." On the way to the Great Hall, Hermin sighed,

"I think Hagrid should be much more sober by now, and think more before he speaks."

Harley gave Hermione a strange look, "You think I made it up?" ”

"Isn't it?" Hermione asked rhetorically.

"Of course not." Hallie nodded, her tone full of affirmation,

"That night, Rita was on the scene, and probably listened to quite a few conversations between the two."

The look of surprise on Hermione's face suddenly turned as pale as Hagrid had been: "But...... But...... There was no one around. ”

"Wait, that's not the point, the point is what to do now? If she did poke it in the newspapers......"

"What are you thinking?" Hallie rubbed Hermione's head vigorously, "I've said it all, I've stopped Rita. ”

"You probably don't know, Rita is an illegal Animagus, and her Animagus form is a beetle."

"I already knew about it, and in exchange for keeping it a secret for her, forbidding her to write me, you, Fleur, or anyone else in the newspaper who had a good relationship with me."

"Otherwise, you'd think she's in the newspapers every day to make a mockery of the famous wizards, and to satirize almost every living Sir Merlin Medal winner."

"But there was never a news of Yin Yang me in the newspaper, and she often wrote articles praising me."

Hermione's face was full of shock, she didn't even know that there was such a situation.

However, Hermione was also faintly happy in her heart, after all, illegal Animagus was very important information.

It's nice that Harley is willing to share this with herself instead of fooling around with it.

…………

The rest of the Christmas holidays were remarkably peaceful, as if everyone had exhausted their excess energy at the Christmas ball.

Only Fred and George are still thinking about researching and selling their various magical items, while the warriors spend their time cracking the secrets of the golden egg.

Harley wanted to go to the Headmaster's office to find Professor Dumbledore and discuss the note in the Christmas present.

Professor Dumbledore, however, was not in the Headmaster's office.

As Hallie walked into the empty Headmaster's office, Headmaster Dalys, who had never liked jokes, told Hallie that Professor Dumbledore had gone to Austria.

I don't know what kept him so busy, he ended the Christmas Ball that night and let Fox take him away in the early hours of the morning.

Harley didn't dare to think about it, and she didn't dare to ask.

After all, Professor Dumbledore has so many peculiar fetishes, so let him be.

…………

Although the students were unhappy, the Christmas break was over.

The little wizards are very distressed by this, and they are going back to the boring life of studying.

Soon, though, everyone won't get bored.

Because on the first day of the holiday, a depth charge was dropped into the calm waters of Hogwarts.

It's not that another student has come up with some new prank trick that has made Professor McGonagall angry.

Rather, it was the first Daily Prophet after the Christmas holidays with an article written by Rita herself.

Over the course of more than a month, Rita has been yin and yang in all angles, believing that he is targeting other schools, especially the warriors of Hogwarts.

Rita also carefully analyzes why this is in an inquiring tone.

At the beginning of the Christmas holidays, Rita exposed in the newspaper three notes with Hallie's name spit out of the Goblet of Fire at the selection ceremony for the Six Wizard Tournament.

To this day, Ritatu is desperate and directly links the two, accusing Karkaroff of doing all this.

As for why is that?

Rita said that she dug deep and discovered a big secret -

Karkaroff used to be a Death Eater!

"After many searches, the author tried his best to find a large number of parties involved in the year, and obtained a shocking news."

"Igor Karkaroff, the current headmaster of the Nordic magic school Durmstrang, was a Death Eater who followed the mysterious man."

"And he was captured by the former Auror, the current Hogwarts Defence Against the Dark Arts professor Professor Alastor Moody."

"After being caught, Karkaroff confessed to a large list of Death Eaters in the courtroom."

"Of course, he did not give these lists because of the discovery of his conscience, nor did he want to show remorse for the evil he had done and the people he had killed."

"He was just hoping to sell out his equally notorious friends in exchange for a chance not to be imprisoned in Azkaban."

"Clearly, he got his wish. Karkarov managed to escape the trial and went straight abroad. ”

"And he used to be one of the central figures in the Death Eaters, which is why there are so many Death Eater lists."

"As one of the Death Eaters who was once closest to the mystery man, he learned a lot of vicious black magic with ease, and made it to the scene in Durmstran."

"I think it's a phenomenon that people feel disgusted from the bottom of their hearts—"

"The Ministry of Magic can make a deal with the evil party, and tolerate the evil party just leaving England and continuing to enjoy the life of Youwo in a foreign country."

"This is a betrayal of the British wizarding community, and the author believes that the British Ministry of Magic should reflect on ......"

Rita's words were extremely sharp and detailed, as if she had witnessed it herself.

And in the early stage, the wizards of the British wizarding world already thought from the bottom of their hearts that Karkaroff was not a good thing, and that he was a despicable person who deliberately targeted the Hogwarts warriors.

Now that a large section of black material has been thrown, it seems to be reasonable, and the wizards naturally believe this statement.

And the hat that Rita gave Karkarov and maliciously threw two extremely vicious parchments into the Goblet of Fire in the Six Powers Tournament was also accepted by the wizards.

You see, Karkaroff was a former Death Eater, but was forced to flee abroad because Harley defeated their master.

He must have a grudge against Harley, and wanted to use these methods to discredit Harley and Hogwarts, and even assassinate Harley through the Six Wizards.

It all seems very plausible, logical, and without any loopholes.

So, Karkaroff fell into bad luck.

After discovering that Rita had been orchestrating herself for a long time, but that she was unable to do anything about it, Karkaroff simply turned a blind eye and was not bothered by it, and stopped reading the Daily Prophet.

And Karkaroff's temper, and the occasional use of black magic to physically punish Durmstrang students, meant that no one wanted to tell him about it this morning.

The only thing that could possibly tell him was that Krum was still secretly sad about the Ball, and had no interest in reading the newspaper.

As a result, when he went to the Hogwarts Great Hall for dinner, Karkaroff was unsuspectingly bombarded with various yelling letters, including one with the severed branch of the poisonous tentacles.

If it weren't for Karkaroff's quick reaction, he would probably be lying in the school hospital at Hogwarts or the St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Illness.

And the other professors also looked at it coldly, after all, no one had a good attitude towards Death Eaters.

In fact, the professors at Hogwarts have received a number of letters demanding that Karkaroff be expelled from Hogwarts, and even from England.

And Dumbledore's headmaster's office was piled up with a lot of letters, and he didn't stop shouting letters all morning.

After all, this is England, where Voldemort once wreaked havoc.

No one in this part of Britain would welcome a Death Eater.

It's a pity that the other professors are not Headmaster Dumbledore, nor Minister Fudge, so they don't have this right.

And Professor Flitwick was kind-hearted, and finally gave Karkaroff a copy of the Daily Prophet to make him understand.

This is more or less compassion.

……

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(Thanks to the "Nine-Tailed Yanhu" boss for the reward!) ）

(End of chapter)