Chapter 892

"That evil, lying, perverted old monster!" Hermione finally broke out half an hour later.

In fact, this is terrible. Hermione rarely appears in such a situation, recklessly insulting the teacher?

In my impression, there is no teacher who would make Hermione like this, even our favorite Sybil, Hermione just said that she is an old liar.

"What does she look like to you? It's that half-breed thing about her again - she's trying to make Hagrid look like he's stupid just because he has a giant mother - oh, that's not fair, that It's not really a bad lesson - I mean, okay, maybe it has a devastating ending, but Ye Qi is still good - actually, for Hagrid, they're really good!"

"But, Umbridge said they were dangerous," said Ron.

"Well, like Hagrid said, they can look after themselves," Hermione said impatiently, "I don't think a teacher like Grabbery-Plank would show them to us very often before ordinary wizarding tests. But, well, they're pretty interesting, aren't they? Some people can see them and some can't!"

"Can you?" Harry asked her quietly.

Hermione suddenly looked horrified. "Oh, Harry - I'm sorry - no, of course I can't - that's a really stupid thing to say."

"It's okay," he said quickly, "don't worry."

"I'm really surprised how many people see them," Ron said. "There are four in a class..."

"Yes, Weasley, we were just being weird," a vicious voice came from the quiet snow, Malfoy, Clara and Goyle were behind them to the right. "Do you think if you saw someone die, wouldn't you be able to see it more clearly by watching the Quaffle?"

Then he, Clara and Goyle walked towards the castle laughing wildly, before a chorus of "Weasley is our ace in the hole."

Ron's face suddenly turned blood red.

"Ignore them, just pretend they don't exist," Fan Lin said tirelessly, "They are just ignorant."

With that said, Fanlin took out his wand and used magic to warm the air again, so that he could carve out an easier path from here to the greenhouse from the seemingly unchanged snow.

In fact, it only slightly diverted Hermione's attention.

In fact, Hagrid's class is not that bad. Creatures like Yeqi are also very docile, much stronger than hippogriffs. If it is Buckbeak's ugly temper, it would be a shame not to reward Umbridge with both claws. she.

However, this is bound to change nothing. Umbridge will evaluate all professors. At least, this is still within the scope of authority given to her by the Ministry of Magic.

Compared to Hermione's anger and Hagrid's thoughts, Fan Lin is now more looking forward to what Dumbledore is going to do, or how Umbridge will drive Dumbledore out?

…

December is here, bringing with it more snow and a pile of homework that would melt down a fifth grader.

As Christmas is approaching, Ron and Hermione's prefects' responsibilities have become more arduous. In fact, Fanlin's student union president really has enough free time. This is also Umbridge's instruction. It seems that she directly I skipped Fan Lin, but there was still a female student council president anyway.

When Ron and Hermione were called to supervise the decoration work of the castle, Fanlin showed up and then released the work. This is what Umbridge wanted to see. It was like a plot of power struggle. , but it doesn’t seem very appropriate to put a set from the Ministry of Magic in Hogwarts.

Instead of looking after the first and second years who had to spend their free time indoors due to the painful cold, Ron took turns patrolling the corridors with Fraser, who suspected that the holiday spirit would be reflected in wizards' duels.

In Ron's words, this prefect's mind is filled with shit...

Okay, this is indeed insulting, but if I fantasize about wizard duels all day long, maybe there is something wrong with my brain.

They were so busy that Hermione had even stopped knitting elf hats, annoyed that she was down to the last three.

"All those poor elves who haven't been freed by me yet have to stay here for Christmas because there aren't enough hats!"

Not having the guts to tell Hermione that Dobby had secretly taken everything she made up, Harry bent even lower to his History of Magic.

No matter what, he didn't want to think about Christmas.

For the first time in Harry's school life, he desperately wanted to spend the holidays away from Hogwarts. Between his Quidditch ban and his annoyance over whether Hagrid would be fired, he was very unhappy with the place at the moment.

The only thing he looked forward to was the DA meeting. Like Fan Lin, he put most of his energy into DA meetings because of his free time.

But what's really bad is that they have to stop practicing during the holidays, which is when almost everyone in DA goes on vacation with their families.

Hermione was going to go skiing with her parents, and Mrs. Granger also extended an invitation to Van Lin. In fact, it was a sport that Ron found very ridiculous. He had never heard of Muggles wearing narrow straps on their feet before. Wooden bars to slide down the mountain.

Broken arms and legs were simply innocent in Ron's opinion, and neither Harry nor Fan Lin had any idea of ​​​​explaining to Ron.

Ron now plans to go home. Harry endured a few days of envy before Ron told Harry; when Harry asked Ron how he was going to go home for Christmas, Ron responded, "But you're coming too! Didn't I tell you?" A few weeks ago, mom wrote to tell me to invite you!"

This is almost a certainty. In fact, there is no doubt that Harry will go to Sirius to spend Christmas, but Harry has never been there, and the Weasley family has almost all lived at Sirius's house. , which facilitates the activities of the Order of the Phoenix.

But Harry's emotions were heightened: the idea of ​​spending Christmas with Sirius was really pleasant, but he felt a little regretful that he hadn't been informed by Sirius himself.

He wondered if he could persuade Mrs. Weasley to allow Sirius to have more contact with him, even if he doubted that Dumbledore would allow Sirius to do so. It was too dangerous, being watched by Umbridge? Or, secret communication?

He had not contacted Harry since Sirius' last appearance in the fire. Although Harry knew that it would be rash to try to contact him due to Umbridge's continuous surveillance, he did not want Sirius to be alone with him. Mother's old house, even with Kreacher's company, no one would find it a pleasant thing.

Contacting him was exactly what Umbridge was looking forward to.

In fact, this is what Fanlin told him. It can be said that the two of them are the key objects of observation, especially things like secret communication. Umbridge will definitely characterize it as rebellion.

Although this is not a fatal thing, it is not what Harry wants to see, but it brings trouble to Dumbledore. As time goes by, Harry becomes more and more reluctant to have anything to do with Dumbledore. .

But Fan Lin was very surprised by Voldemort's calmness, as if there was nothing left now except Umbridge, Voldemort, vampires, and the historical legacy that Fan Lin always had a headache?

Anyway, it was a bit strange to be quiet, including Dumbledore, and Fan Lin had not received any useful information from the Order of the Phoenix for a long time.

…

In fact, Harry had arrived at the Room of Requirement early for the last DA meeting before the holidays, and was very glad he had done so, because when the torches came on, he saw Dobby already decorating for Christmas.

He could tell that the elves had done this, because no one else would hang a string of hundreds of golden trinkets from the ceiling, each reflecting a picture of Harry's face and bearing the slogan, Pass A very merry Christmas!

Harry just managed to remove the last sign before the door creaked open and Luna walked in as dreamily as ever.

"Hello," she said vaguely, looking around for the remaining ornaments.

"These are beautiful, did you hang them up?"

"No," said Harry, "that was Dobby the house elf."

"Deparasitism," Luna said dreamily, pointing out the large cluster of white paddles that had been placed almost on Harry's head. He jumped out from under it.

"That's a good idea," Luna said very seriously. "Elves often inhabit it."

And Harry was still busy cleaning it up, because it was really a bit shameful, but Harry found that after Fan Lin came in, these photos magically transformed into photos of Fan Lin.

This was Dobby's preparation, but it was only for the two of them, a master and the person he admired the most.

But it’s a bit difficult to put it in front of so many people...

The arrival of Angelina, Attila and Alia relieves Harry from asking what the elf needs. All three of them were panting and looking very cold.

"Well," Angelina said glumly, taking off her cloak and throwing it into a corner, "we replaced you."

"Replaced me?" Harry said blankly.

"You and Fred and George," she said impatiently. "We've got another manhunter!"

"Who?" Harry said quickly.

"Ginny Weasley," Fan Lin said without hesitation, and then he put the clothes on the stool beside him.

Harry opened his mouth wide and stared at Fanlin in shock. In fact, Ginny was very good, but Harry never thought that one day he would be replaced.

"Yeah, I know," Angelina said, taking out her wand and flexing her arms, "But she's actually quite nice. Not above you, of course," Angelina said, throwing it to He gave a complaining look, "But when we can't have you..."

Harry bit back the retort he so desperately wanted to utter: had she ever thought for even a second that she felt a hundred times more regretful about his expulsion from the team than she felt about it?

"How are the others?" he asked, trying to keep his voice calm.

"Same old thing," Liia said without interest, "Compared to Fred and George. Neither of them are outstanding, but compared to the idiots on other teams..."

The arrival of Ron, Hermione and Ginny ended this dull discussion.

In fact, Angelina is such a dynamite on this issue that there are only four people left in the team...

"Okay," Fan Lin said loudly, telling everyone to quiet down. "Tonight I think we should just go over the spells we've learned so far, since this is the last meeting before the holidays and there's no point in learning anything new before three weeks off-"

"We're not going to learn anything new?" Zamasu said, whispering unhappily loud enough across the room.

"If I knew this, I wouldn't have come..."

"Then we're all sad that Fanlin didn't tell you." Fred taunted loudly. Some snickered.

Harry saw Cho's smile and felt that familiar sinking feeling in his stomach, as if he missed a step when going downstairs.

"-We practice in pairs," Fanlin said. "We will practice the Disarming Charm first, and in ten minutes we can take out the mats and try the Levitation Charm again."

Everyone obeyed and divided into groups of two.

Harry was paired with Neville as usual. The room soon filled with intermittent shouts of "Expelliarmus!" and while people stayed there for a minute or so, their partners would look aimlessly at the other groups practicing around the room, then come to their senses and take turns casting spells. .

In fact, Neville's progress exceeded everyone's imagination. After a while, when Harry had broken the spell on himself three times in a row, he asked Neville to join Vanlin and Hermione's group again so that he could walk around the room and see how others were doing. .

In fact, this was the liberation of two people at the same time. Fan Lin and Harry continued their patrol as usual.

And when Harry passed Cho, she smiled at him; Harry resisted the temptation to pass in front of her again and again.

After another ten minutes, they placed the mats on the floor and began practicing the Levitation Charm again. Space constraints prevented all of them from practicing together; half watched the other half practice for a while, and then switched practices.

Fanlin looked at all of them and felt his pride gradually swell.

Sure, Neville did stun Angelina instead of Colin, his target, but it was closer to success than usual, and everyone else showed huge improvement.

This is a good start, a prototype, the protective power of Hogwarts students, and most of them have basically reached Fanlin's expectations and can successfully cast spells, instead of before...

Flicking the wand randomly?

At the end of the hour, Fanlin made a stop.

"You're getting better now," he said, smiling cheerfully at them. "When we get back from the holidays we can start working on some big stuff - maybe even a Patronus charm or something like that."

There were murmurs of excitement in the room. People began to leave the room in twos, twos and threes; most wished Verlin and Harry a "Merry Christmas" as they left. Feeling happy, Harry gathered the mats and stacked them neatly.

Ron and Neville left together, while Hermione and Fanlin did not bother and left before Harry. After all, no one is blind.

Harry was slightly hesitant because Cho was still there and Harry was hoping to receive her "Merry Christmas" wishes.

"No, you go first," he heard her say to her friend Merita, and Harry's heart jumped as if it was about to jump out of his throat. He pretended to straighten the pile of cushions. He was pretty sure they were alone now, and he waited for her to speak.

Instead, he heard a heavy intake of breath. (To be continued)