Chapter 601 Rita Skeeter’s Report

On the second day, everyone got up very late.

The Gryffindor room fell silent, and the listless conversations were punctuated by yawns.

Hermione's hair was as messy as grass again. She explained to Fanlin that in order to attend the ball, she used a lot of quick-acting smoothener, but it would be too troublesome if she did it every day. She pushed a curl of hair behind her ear as she spoke.

Fanlin felt that this was nothing. Hermione was still the same Hermione he was familiar with, the girl with messy hair who would worry about house elves.

Hagrid's matter didn't seem to be exposed, which made Fanlin breathe a sigh of relief. At least, there was nothing terrible.

Sirius will be back soon, before the second mission.

His own Apparition was also put on the agenda, and he had to prepare more things, so he naturally ignored Hagrid's matter.

Seeing that February 24th was approaching day by day, Harry could not find any clues from the golden egg.

Whenever he walked into the dormitory, he took the golden egg out of the big suitcase and opened it, looking at it with all his concentration, hoping that he would have some clues. he

I tried hard to think if there were any other sounds besides these thirty musical sounds, but I couldn't hear anything. Helpless, he had to close the egg, shake it vigorously, and then open it again, trying to find out the change in the sound.

He also tried to ask the golden egg loudly, crying and shouting, but it had no effect at all.

He even threw the eggs around the room, although he didn't expect it to help in the slightest.

Fanlin was very happy to help Harry, but Harry didn't want to do this. He still wanted to give it a try himself.

Cedric also gave him a hint, telling him to take the golden egg and take a bath.

But Harry didn't want to listen to him. If he wanted to say anything, he should be more direct, just like he told Cedric about the dragon. Moreover, he hated Cedric. He was just a guy holding Qiu's hand in school. bastard.

Before you know it, the new semester has arrived.

Harry went to school carrying a heavy load of books, parchment, and pens as usual, but the problem of the egg still bothered him, weighing heavily on him like those books and papers.

The snow on the ground is still very thick, and the greenhouse windows are all covered with a layer of water vapor. Looking out from the herb room, nothing can be seen.

Ron did not pay attention to the lesson on Protection of Magical Creatures, but paid attention to the weather.

When they walked to Hagrid's hut, they saw an old witch with thick hair and a protruding chin standing at the front door of the hut.

As they trudged toward her step by step in the snow, the woman shouted, "Hurry up, the bell rang five minutes ago."

"Who are you?" Ron said, glaring at her. "Where is Hagrid?"

"I am Professor Granby Punk," she said briefly, "I am the teacher who will temporarily teach you about the protection of magical animals."

"Where's Hagrid?" Hermione repeated loudly.

"He's not feeling well." Granby. Professor Punk said. A burst of obnoxious laughter reached Hermione's ears. He turned around and saw Draco Malfoy and other Slytherin students walking over.

They were not surprised at all to see Professor Granby Punk, and instead seemed very happy.

"This way." Granby. Professor Punk led them around the small paddock. There were several Beauxbatons horses shivering in the cold. The four of them followed her while looking back at Hagrid's hut.

All the curtains in the cabin were drawn. Is Hagrid in there? Is he sick or is he alone in there?

What Fan Lin was worried about happened. He must have missed some news, otherwise Hagrid wouldn't have reacted this way.

I gave up those magic rune horses and also gave up my teaching job.

"What's wrong with Hagrid?" Harry caught up with Professor Granby Punk and asked.

"Don't worry about that," she said, looking like she found Harry annoying.

"I want to take care of it." Harry said eagerly, "What happened to him?" Professor Granby Punk pretended not to hear, and she led them through the small paddock, where the rune horse was at the edge of the woods. huddled together under a tree to keep warm.

Under another tree, there was a beautiful unicorn tied up.

When the girls saw the unicorn, they all yelled "Wow" and "Wow".

"Ah, how beautiful it is!" Lavender Brown murmured to herself, "How did she catch this unicorn! You know, they are very difficult to catch!"

The unicorn was so dazzlingly white that the surrounding snow looked gray against it. It tapped the earth nervously with its golden hooves, and tossed its horned head back and forth unyieldingly.

"Boys, come back!" Professor Granby Punk shouted, reaching out and grabbing Harry. "Unicorns love it when women touch them. Girls, step up, little one. Come on, take it easy."

She and the girls slowly approached the unicorn, leaving a group of boys standing at the fence of the enclosure and staring. At this moment, Harry turned to Ron and said, "What do you think happened to him? You don't think it was a Blast-Ended Skrewt—?"

"Oh, he wasn't attacked, not as you think." Malfoy said softly, "He was just ashamed of his big and ugly face and didn't dare to show up to see anyone."

"What do you mean?" Harry said sharply.

Malfoy reached into his smock pocket and pulled out a folded newspaper clipping. "Look at this," he said, "I didn't want to reveal it to you, Potter..." He smiled triumphantly.

Harry took the paper, opened it, and read. Fanlin, Ron, Seamus, Dean and Neville all looked over to see that it was an article with a photo, and Hagrid looked very cunning in the photo.

Dumbledore made a big mistake, special correspondent Rita. Skeeter reports - Hogwarts School, a school that cultivates magical talents, has its eccentric headmaster Albus Dumbledore, who has never been afraid to hire some controversial staff. In September of this year, he hired the infamous "Magic Eye" Moody as the professor of anti-dark arts. This decision shocked the wizarding world, because everyone knew that Moody had such a habit: as long as he was present, no matter who suddenly If he makes any move, he will attack that person.

However, when he first accepted the professorship, "Magic Eye" Modi seemed responsible and approachable.

School teacher Hagrid, who once admitted to being expelled from school in his third year, had been offered a position early on by Principal Dumbledore.

However, last year, Hagrid used the principal's influence to obtain the position of professor of "Care of Magical Creatures", completely ignoring the many more qualified applicants at that time.

With his new powers and his menacing appearance, Hagrid terrorized his students with monsters one after another.

So far, multiple students have admitted that Hager maimed many of their classmates during class. Dumbledore turned a blind eye to these situations.

"I was once attacked by a Shippigli baboon, my friend Wilson. Cleber was bitten severely by a Furbout." Draco Malfoy.

A fourth grader said, "We hated Hagrid so much, but we were so afraid of him that we didn't say anything."

Hagrid had no intention of stopping his campaign of intimidation. Instead, in a conversation with a Daily Prophet reporter last month, he admitted to raising "blast-ended snails with fire-tailed tails," a highly dangerous animal that's a cross between a mantis and a fire crab.

There is no doubt that the breeding of new breeds must be carried out under the strict supervision of school departments to ensure the control and regulation of legal animals.

However, Hagrid seems to think he can transcend these controls. "I'm just interested," he said, quickly changing the subject.

As if these were not enough to prove that Hagrid was not a pure-blood wizard, the Daily Prophet has now made more and more evidence public to expose Hagrid. He's not a wizard, or even a real human being.

His mother, we can say with exclusion, was nothing more than a giant named Friulfa, and no one knew her whereabouts.

These bloodthirsty, cruel giants are now on the verge of extinction due to civil wars in the last century. The rest are nameless, thugs responsible for their massacres during the tyranny.

Many giants in the service of 'The One' were killed by Aurors, but Flirfurfa was not among them. She may have fled to other mountains and joined other giant groups.

However, judging from Hagrid's violent behavior during teaching, it seems that Fliurfa's son has inherited her cruel nature. Hagrid, on the other hand, and the author of You Know Who's Going Down were close friends. This provided a protective umbrella for his mother to hide. Maybe Harry. Potter was unaware of this unpleasant fact about his giant friend. ——But Albus Dumbledore has the responsibility to ensure Harry. Potter and the other students understood the dangers of being around this half-giant.

After Harry finished reading, he looked up at Ron and Fanlin. Harry found Ron's mouth wide open.

"How did you find her?" Ron whispered. But that wasn't what Harry cared about.

"We all hate Hagrid, what do you mean?" Harry spat at Malfoy. Then he pointed at Cara and said: "Look at these garbage - they were bitten hard by a 'Furbout'! They don't even have teeth."

Clara chuckled to himself, it was obvious that he was very satisfied with his masterpiece.

"Great, I think this is the end of this idiot's teaching career." Malfoy said with gleaming eyes. "The half-giant - I guess he must have drank a bottle of Scourge when he was young. No parents would If you like this, they will worry about him eating their children, haha..."

"Are you watching carefully?" Professor Granby Punk's voice came over. The girls are now surrounding the unicorn and kissing it. Harry's hand holding the paper trembled. He turned around and looked at the unicorn. In fact, he could see nothing.

And Professor Granby Punk was counting the magic properties of the unicorn loudly so that the boys could hear him.

"I hope she will stay and teach us, that woman." When the children went back to the castle for lunch after class, Paviti Patti said, "The Care of Magical Creatures class she taught was much better than I expected. This There should be corresponding animals in the breeding class, such as unicorns, not monsters.”

"What about Hagrid?" Harry said angrily.

"He?" Paviti said stiffly. "He can continue to be his gamekeeper, can't he?"

Ever since the ball, Paviti had been cold to Harry. He thought he should have taken more care of her, but she looked like she was having a lot of fun. She was happily telling others how she had arranged a date with the Durmstrang boy the following weekend.

"This was a wonderful lesson," said Hermione. They walked into the hall. "Before Professor Granby Punk told me, I had no idea about the Unicorn..."

"Look at this," Harry interrupted, holding the article up under her nose. Hermione read the article and had the same reaction as Ron.

"How did that horrible Skeeter know that? You don't think Hagrid told her, do you?"

"No." Harry walked over to the table and sat down in his chair angrily. "He didn't tell us that he told her, right? I guess she must have been mad because Hagrid wouldn't tell her about me, so she went to search Hagrid's information to get back at him."

"Maybe she heard the conversation between him and Mrs. Maxim at the ball." Fan Lin said calmly.

"That's impossible, she can't come to school anymore. Hagrid said the headmaster has banned her..." Harry said.

"But we really haven't seen Rita Skeeter anywhere." Hermione said, "Or are we not aware of it?"

"I can confirm that there was no one around at that time." Fan Lin said, "Judging from the reaction the next day, it seems that no one else knew Hagrid's identity except us, otherwise This kind of news will break out in an instant.”

Fanlin frowned, "Besides, Madam Maxime will not let such a thing happen. If someone from Beauxbatons hears it, there is no need to worry..."

"Then how did this news break out?" Hermione asked, "The Disillusionment Curse?"

"Unless I hid the past very early, there's no way I wouldn't have discovered it..."

"That's not necessarily true?" Ron whispered.

"No one would be so bored as to eavesdrop on this news," Fan Lin glared at Ron.

"Then there are two possibilities, that is the invisibility cloak and the Animagus..."

"Animagus should not be registered with the Ministry of Magic. Rita is a reporter. She should..."

"So, for the sake of convenience, if she masters the Animagus, wouldn't it be more helpful to her career? Of course, there is also the invisibility cloak. However, that possibility is smaller. The invisibility cloak is easy. It was discovered that she couldn't have gotten a cloak like Harry's when the teachers were patrolling..." (To be continued)