Chapter 1054 Harry's Exam and Hagrid's Attack

In fact, because of Hagrid's aloof tone, and so that they wouldn't have to worry about Grawp, Harry decided to do well in Tuesday's Care of Magical Creatures exam to keep Hagrid away.

However, Hagrid's teaching was as unreliable as ever.

The practical exam was arranged in the afternoon on the lawn beside the Forbidden Forest, where the students were asked to identify the shapeshifters among a dozen hedgehogs (they coaxed them by giving them milk in turn: the shapeshifters are very alert) , its hedgehog-like bristles have many magical uses. They are usually very violent and will poison everything they see); then demonstrate correctly how to handle a Bowtruckle; Feeding and bathing a fire crab with severe burns, followed by a multiple-choice question to choose from a wide range of foods that should be given to a sick unicorn.

Well, in fact, Harry didn't understand why he had to bathe those guys who were on fire. In Fanlin's words, high temperature is the most perfect sterilization...

Well, bacteria…

Harry could see Hagrid looking worriedly through the window of his cabin. When Harry's examiner, a plump and slightly diminutive witch, smiled at him and told him he could go, Harry gave Hagrid a quick thumbs-up sign in front of the castle.

The astronomy theory exam was on Wednesday morning and went fairly well. Harry wasn't sure he had the names of all the moons of Jupiter right, but at least he was confident it wouldn't be too bad.

They had to wait until evening to test their practical skills in astronomy; the afternoon was replaced by divination. Even if Harry's Divination had always been poor, this exam was absolutely terrible.

He might as well look at the moving images in the blank crystal ball; because when he was testing the knowledge of tea leaves, he felt that his head was completely missing. He predicted that Professor Marchbank would soon meet a fat, ignorant, and wet person. A stranger, and the icing on the cake was that he completely confused the lifeline and wisdom line in her palm, and informed her that she should have died last Tuesday.

…

Cursing a professor's death is probably the worst answer of all.

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"Well, we usually always fail one of them," Ron said dejectedly as they walked up the marble stairs. He had just told how he had told his examiner that he saw in his crystal ball an ugly man with a tumor on his nose, and it was only when he looked up that he realized it was his examiner in the crystal ball. The reflection made Harry feel a little better.

"We shouldn't have studied this stupid subject in the first place," said Harry. "Still, at least we can give it up now."

"Yes," Harry said. "We don't have to pretend we care about what happens when Jupiter and Uranus meet."

"And from now on, I won't care if my tea leaves mean death, Ron, death - I just threw them all back into the box where they belong." Harry smiled, this was what he had always dreamed of. However, when Qiu passed by, Harry still became cautious.

"How did the exam go?"

"I think it's okay..." Qiu said happily, while Harry and Ron both breathed a sigh of relief.

"Looks like we'll be getting our horoscope charts soon before dinner."

When Harry Point arrived at the Astronomy Tower, they found 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 Marchbank gave the order, all began to fill in the chart of the constellations to which they had been sent.

Professors Marchbank and Sinistra wandered among them, watching to see if they had found the correct positions of the stars and planets to which they should be aware.

Except for the rustling of parchment, everything was so harmonious. Occasionally, there was the sound of the telescope adjusting its angle and the sound of a quill taking a close-up. Half an hour passed, and then an hour passed, and the golden light reflected from the castle windows above the small platform gradually dimmed and disappeared.

But as Harry completed the constellation of Orion on his parchment, beneath where Harry stood, the front of the castle suddenly opened up, so that the light leaked through and formed a narrow path of light across the lawn.

This made Harry very curious. Strictly speaking, this kind of interference would not normally occur.

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 the lawn was once again as dark as the sea. . Harry drew his eyes back to his telescope and refocused it, now looking at Venus.

He stared at his constellation chart to determine the positions of the planets, but something disturbed him; he paused his quill on the parchment, and squinted at the shadows on the ground to see half a dozen figures moving about. on the lawn. If they hadn't moved, the moonlight wouldn't have shone on their heads, and it would have been impossible to tell which road they came from.

At such a distance, Harry couldn't look too lightly, but Harry still vaguely felt something.

The only ones who can do this are the people sent by Fudge to take over Umbridge's work. Poor Umbridge is still detained in the tribe by the troops.

When Harry was distracted, someone coughed behind him, and he remembered that he was still in the exam.

He had completely forgotten the location of Venus. Pressing his eyes to the telescope, as he once again discovered Venus' position in his constellation chart, he heard a distant knocking echo across the deserted field, followed by the sound of a large dog using cloth to The muffled voice. He raised his head, his heart beating violently.

There was light from Hagrid's window, and his silhouette suggested that he was thinking of fighting the men crouching on the lawn. When the door opened, he could clearly see six figures quickly rushing in. The door closed again and it was quiet.

Harry felt very uneasy. He glanced around to see if Ron had noticed what he was seeing, but then Professor Marchbank walked up to him, as if Harry was peeking at someone else's work. Harry filled out his horoscope hastily and then pretended to add something more while looking curiously at the railings over Hagrid's hut.

The figure is now moving constantly at the window of the hut, and the lights are flickering on and off. He could feel Professor Marchbank's eyes staring at his head and neck. He forced his eyes to turn to his telescope again, staring intently at the moon. Although he had marked its position an hour ago, As Professor Marchbank moved on, he heard a roar coming from the direction of the hut, which echoed through the darkness to the top of the astronomy tower.

Several people around Harry removed their telescopes and stared in the direction of Hagrid's hut. Professor Sinistra coughed again.

"Concentrate now, boys and girls," he said softly. Most people returned to their telescopes. Harry looked to his left and saw Ron staring blankly at Hagrid's hut.

"Hmm - due in 0 minutes." Professor Sinistra said.

Ron came to his senses and immediately returned his attention to his horoscope; Harry looked down at his own and noticed that he had mistakenly mistook Venus for Mars. He quickly corrected it.

There was a loud bang on the field. Several people shouted: "Ouch!"

They were all so eager to see what was going on below that they stabbed themselves in the face with the end of their telescopes. Hagrid's door was thrown open, and through the light leaking from the cabin, they could clearly see a burly figure roaring and waving his fists, entangled by six people, all of whom shot through them in his direction. There were subtle signs of red light, and they seemed to want to stun him.

Some timid girls let out a burst of hurried screams, but this only earned Professor Sinistra's indignation.

"Dear!" Professor Sinistra said angrily, "This is an exam!"

But no one cares about their horoscopes anymore. The red light was still spraying out in Hagrid's hut, but for no reason, they seemed to be testing him.

Hagrid was still standing upright, and Harry tried his best to see the battle as clearly as possible. Echoes of surrender and shouts passed through the field; a man shouted; "Be sensible, Hagrid!"

Hagrid roared; "Damn your sanity, you can't even think of taking me away like this, Daivas!"

Harry could vaguely see the blurry outline of Fang. He was trying to help Hagrid and kept jumping around the wizards until he was hit by a stun spell and fell to the ground. Hagrid let out a furious roar. He picked up the man from the ground and threw him out. The man seemed to fly ten meters and never get up again.

Harry turned to look at Ron and saw him looking back at him, his expression horrified. No one had ever seen Hagrid so angry.

"Look!" screamed Parvadi, leaning on the railing and pointing towards the ground floor of the castle where the front door opened again; more light leaked into the dark lawn and a long black shadow was now crossing lawn.

"Now, really!" Professor Sinistra said anxiously, "You know! There are only ten minutes left!"

But no one was paying attention to him: they were watching the man run towards the battlefield next to Hagrid's hut.

"How dare you!" The figure shouted while running: How dare you! "

"That's Mag!" someone whispered. This figure was too easy to identify.

"Leave him! I said stay!" Professor McGonagall's voice pierced the darkness, "How can you attack him in this place? He has done nothing, there is no reason-"

Parvati and Lavender both screamed. About four of the figures in the hut hit Professor McGonagall. On the way from the castle to the hut, red rays of light hit her together. For a moment she seemed to glow with a terrible red color, and then she immediately fell to the sky and did not move again.

"A bunch of beasts!" Professor Sinistra shouted. He seemed to have completely forgotten about the exam now. "No warning! Barbaric behavior!"

"Coward!" Hagrid roared; his voice reached the top of the tower clearly, and several lights inside the castle lit up, "Raedoo Coward! Do this - do this -"

Hagrid angrily gave the nearest attackers two firm blows; it seemed that they were finished immediately, they had fainted. Harry saw Hagrid fall down. He thought that he was finally subdued by a spell, but on the contrary, Hagrid immediately stood up again, and suddenly there was a cloth bag on his back.

Then Harry realized that Fang was being carried on his shoulders.

"Get him, get him!" screamed one of the Ministry men, but the remaining help seemed reluctant to do so within the reach of Hagrid's fist; indeed, he retreated so quickly that He tripped over one of his unconscious colleagues and fell.

Hagrid had already started to turn around, put Fang on his neck and ran away quickly. The others fired a final stun spell behind him but missed, and then Hagrid, sprinting out of the door, disappeared into the night.

There was a long silence as everyone stared at the field with their mouths open. Then Professor Sinistra said feebly, "Well, guys, it's due in 5 minutes."

Although Harry's exam paper was only two-thirds full, he desperately wanted it to be over. When he was done, Ron forced their binoculars back into their owner's hands and hurried down the spiral staircase.

None of the students went to bed; they were all at the bottom of the stairs talking loudly and excitedly about what they had witnessed.

"Oh, damn, how could they do this? Umbridge hasn't come back yet."

"Fudge is worried about everyone." Harry tried to think with Fanlin's thoughts, but this still couldn't stop his anger.

"She obviously wants to avoid a situation like Professor Trelawney," Ernie MacMillan said wisely, squeezing over to join them.

"Hagrid did a great job, didn't he?" said Ron, looking horrified. "How come those spells bounced off him?"

"That's because of his giant blood." Harry said reluctantly, "It's difficult to knock out a giant. They are like trolls, really strong. But poor Professor McGonagall was hit by four stun spells. Hit in the chest and she's really not young anymore, is she?"

"Terrible, terrible," Ernie said. He didn't know how to describe his mood. He could only wave his hands helplessly, "Okay, I'm going to bed. Good night, everyone."

The people around them had also moved away, but were still talking excitedly about what they had just seen.

"At least they didn't capture Hagrid in Azkaban," said Ron. "I think he went to join Dumbledore, didn't he?"

"Maybe...he will do this, but Professor McGonagall..." Harry was a little irritated. He wanted to pull out his wand and rush off the observatory.

"Oh, this is terrible, I really thought Dumbledore would be back soon, but now we've lost Hagrid again." They walked slowly back to the Gryffindor common room to find it full. The commotion outside the venue had been quelled by several people already rushing to revive their friend.

Seamus and Dean were walking ahead of Harry and Ron, already telling everyone what they had seen and heard from the top of the Astronomy Tower.

"But why is Hagrid carrying a bag now?" Angelina Jackson asked, shaking her head, "He is not like Trelawney. He taught better this year than in previous years!"

"Just like Umbridge, people in the Ministry of Magic don't trust half-humans." Colin said, "Fan Lin told me that because of blood issues, many mixed-bloods have no status at all in the Ministry of Magic, and... …”

"And what?"

"Dumbledore..."

"Dumbledore is wanted, and Hagrid is a staunch supporter..."

Everyone was silent for a moment. The team they originally discussed should also bring Fan Lin and Hermione, but stood...

"Okay, and they think Hagrid put Boggarts in their office..." Katie Bell continued.

"Oh, ah," said Lee Jordan, covering his mouth, "I put the boggarts in her office. Fred and George left me a pair before they left; I've let them float in their windows.”

"Anyway, they fired him," Dean said. "He was so close to Dumbledore."

"That's true," said Harry, sinking into 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 go through the dormitory windows."

"She didn't look good," Colin Cleavage said.

"Madam Pomfrey will cure her," Alicias Pinnet said firmly, "She never fails."

The common room emptied out at 4am, and Harry felt wide awake; the image of Hagrid running into the darkness kept playing in his mind; he was so angry at the Ministry that he couldn't think of what to do. The punishment is worthy of them. (To be continued)