Chapter 169 Hagrid Is Missing (Updated)

Harry's life has not been going well since school started. He had spent the entire Christmas holiday having fun and still had no clue about the second clue to the competition - the golden egg.

On the first day of school, the ground was still covered with thick snow, and the biting cold wind made the little wizards shiver in class.

In the Slytherin common room, the little wizards were not looking forward to the upcoming Care of Magical Creatures lesson at all, and were all complaining in low voices. After all, in such weather, no one wants to go outdoors to take care of magical creatures classes, and at the same time have to face the harsh weather and the extremely disgusting Explosive-tailed Skrewt.

At this time, Draco stood up with a proud smile on his face, "Everyone, don't worry, today's lesson will not be given to us by that stupid guy."

"Ah -" Pansy asked: "I mean, this is indeed a good thing, but why -"

Draco raised a folded newspaper in his hand. It was a report by Rita Skeeter from the Daily Prophet, with the title "Dumbledore's Big Mistake."

The little wizards each used a copying spell to make a copy and read it carefully.

The report not only criticized Dumbledore for hiring Mad-Eye Moody, a neurotic lunatic, as a professor, but also revealed Hagrid's identity as a hybrid giant, and accused him of using a series of terrifying animals to scare his students, which resulted in the death of many students. was seriously injured, but Dumbledore turned a blind eye.

It has to be said that Rita is a woman who is really smart. She only overheard Hagrid's identity as a hybrid giant in the rose bush, but even the identity of Hagrid's mother, the giant Friedwafa, was given to her by her. After checking it out, it seems that this woman also has her own unique intelligence network, and it is a very sophisticated and extensive one.

A flash of light flashed in Xie Lin's eyes. He had been looking for the talents he needed to establish and host an intelligence network for him. In fact, the answer was already told to him in the original book.

After reading the report, Pansy said with some disbelief: "I didn't expect that Hagrid was actually a giant, let alone that Dumbledore would hire him! Isn't he worried that Hagrid would suddenly become crazy one day and eat him? student?”

"What's so strange about this," Draco snorted coldly, and said, "That old man with a white beard is simply an old fool. He has nothing to lose. Our pure-blood family has paid so much and finally finally The wizarding world has come to this day, but he only cares about the rights of Muggles and those lowly species!"

Daphne held her chin with her hand and said calmly: "With this report, I'm afraid Professor Hagrid will not be able to teach in the short term. Parents of students will not agree to a mixed-race giant being a professor. Now Dumbledore needs It’s probably not easy to explain this matter to parents, the media, and the public!”

"Don't worry!" Schelling said calmly: "Although I don't really like Professor Hagrid's teaching style, Dumbledore won't let anything happen to him. At most, it will just let him avoid the limelight temporarily. With Dumbledore Lido's current reputation, even if Rita writes flowers, it is impossible to shake his foundation."

Nott interrupted: "So, who will teach us today? Schelling, you are on the faculty appointment committee. Do you have any news there?"

Schelling replied: "It's Professor Wilmina Guerra-Plan. She is a very powerful magical zoologist and comes from the Guerra family and the Pulan family..."

"Ah, I know her," Daphne said: "The Pulan family has a lot of contact with my family. When my father added a unicorn department to the magical animal farm, he even consulted her opinion. It seemed that it was in the unicorn field. expert."

Slytherin's little wizards are generally quite knowledgeable about well-known figures in the wizarding world. They may not be able to think of them when they first heard their names, but now they suddenly realize it.

Pansy asked: "Are the two families you are talking about the Pulan family, which is famous for breeding unicorns, and the Guerra family, which is famous for breeding magical owls? Is this professor a descendant of these two families?"

Xie Lin nodded and said, "Yes, that's her. The Owl House in Diagon Alley is her family's property." Then Xie Lin showed a smile, "I have a hunch that today's class meeting It’s the unicorn that you girls are most interested in. Let’s go! There are only ten minutes left before class, let’s not be late.”

When they came to Hagrid's hut, there was an elderly witch standing at the door. Her gray hair was cut short and her chin was very prominent. Daphne recognized her, it was indeed Professor Guerra-Plan.

"Hello, Miss Greengrass, you are really getting more and more beautiful." Professor Greengrass greeted the little wizards with a smile, and even teased Daphne.

Pansy and several little girls couldn't wait to ask: "Professor Guerra-Plan, I heard that you are an expert in the field of unicorns, so are we learning about unicorns today?"

"Yes," a smile appeared in Professor Guerra-Plan's eyes, "It seems that some of you are quite well-informed!" After saying that, she gave Xie Lin a thoughtful look.

"But you have to wait first, the Gryffindor students haven't arrived yet." She looked at her watch with a somewhat impatient expression, "Really, it's already been 5 minutes. Gryffindor Too much discipline is really bad. It seems that I need to talk to Minerva about this matter."

At this moment, the little wizards of Gryffindor arrived, led by Harry. Unlike the Slytherin students who had expected it, they did not see Hagrid. Instead, they all showed surprised expressions when they saw a strange witch.

Professor Guerra-Plan saw them still walking slowly over, and suddenly couldn't help but sternly said: "Hurry up, hurry up, the class bell has been ringing for five minutes."

"Who are you?" Ron asked, glaring at her, "Where's Hagrid?"

"I am Professor Gulla-Plan," she said simply, "I am the temporary substitute teacher for your Care of Magical Creatures class."

"Where has Hagrid been?" Harry asked again loudly.

"He is not feeling well." Professor Guerra-Plan did not want to say more.

A malicious chuckle suddenly sounded in Harry's ears - it was Draco and several Slytherin wizards looking at him with mocking eyes.

"What happened to Hagrid?" Harry asked as he took a few steps to catch up with Professor Gulla-Plan.

"Just leave it alone," she said, as if she thought he was being nosy.

"I want to take care of it," Harry said excitedly, "What's wrong with him?"

"Enough! Mr. Potter, is this the attitude you should have towards a professor?" Professor Gla-Plan finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted: "Because of you, Gryffindor will deduct ten points! Now, follow me immediately! "

She ignored Harry and led the students past the stables, where the huge Beauxbatons horses stood, leaning against each other to protect themselves from the cold. They walked towards a big tree at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, under which a beautiful big unicorn was tied.

Many girls gasped in admiration when they saw the unicorn.

"Oh, it's so beautiful!" said Lavender Brown. "How did she get it? They say unicorns are hard to catch!"

This unicorn is so dazzlingly white that the surrounding white snow looks a bit gray in comparison. It paved the soil with its golden hooves restlessly and raised its horned head.

"Boys, stay back!" Professor Guerra-Plan shouted sharply, "Unicorns like women's touch. Girls, stand in front, approach it carefully, come here, relax..."

She and the girls walked slowly towards the unicorn, while the boys stayed by the stable fence and stood watching them. Harry saw that Professor Grapeland had moved so far that he could no longer hear him, so he turned to Ron and said, "What do you think happened to him? It couldn't be a Blast-Ended Skrewt—"

"Oh, Potter, if that's what you're worried about, I can tell you that he wasn't attacked," Draco said softly, "No, he was just too shy to show his big ugly face. "

"What do you mean?" Harry asked sharply.

"I don't need to tell you," Draco's face turned cold, and he ignored Harry and watched the interaction between the girls and the unicorn, leaving Harry to sulk. This kind of angry feeling is the most painful for people like Harry. He would rather pull out the wand and have a fight with Draco, but with Sherrin here to take charge, this allowed him to regain a little sense. , he didn’t want to be pressed to the ground and rubbed in one round. That's embarrassing.

When the girls finished their unicorn petting trip, Professor Guerra-Plan also called the boys over.

"Now that the unicorn's emotions have been calmed down, you can go over and try to pet it, but don't get too close. If it feels offended, it may still get angry and hurt others." Professor Guerra-Plain said , "Now, which of you comes first?"

Several boys looked at each other in shock when they heard that they might be injured.

"I'll do it!" Xie Lin stepped forward.

Professor Grubbly-Plank's English name is Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank. As mentioned earlier, this is a double surname that only appears when both parents' families are equally strong. Grubbly is the surname of her maternal family, and Plank is the surname of her paternal family.

In the original book, her first class was about unicorns, and the students thought she knew a lot about unicorns. Similarly, in the fifth part of the original book, she also cured Harry's owl, and she is obviously very good at owls.

In contrast, for more dangerous creatures such as Thestrals, she clearly expressed her admiration for Hagrid, which was equivalent to admitting that she was not as good as Hagrid in this regard.