Chapter 883 Cat and Mouse

As expected, Hagrid's first class went wrong, and it was Malfoy from Slytherin who was asking for trouble. He had no respect for people, let alone animals.

Feeling provoked, the Hippogriff pecked Malfoy's arm. Although it was a minor injury, it was still injured.

Hagrid was still calm and sent Malfoy to the infirmary, but Malfoy said that he would not let the animal go. He would let his father put pressure on it and kill it.

Duran also put pressure on Lucius, telling Lucius through the diary not to focus on his son's indifferent anger, but to prepare for Voldemort's return. At the same time, he told Lucius that if you don't take care of your child who likes to make trouble, Voldemort will personally discipline him when he comes back.

This scared Lucius. He knew that Voldemort's soul was angry. If Voldemort really hurt his son after he came back, it would be terrible.

So Lucius told Draco that as a father, he couldn't do anything about it, and he shouldn't meddle in school.

Draco was furious. He didn't expect that even his father didn't love him anymore.

Hagrid survived the crisis without any danger. I hope he can learn from his mistakes. Duran can't help him all the time.

"Dad, you won't believe it." Today, Hermione came to the top floor of the right tower with excitement and wanted to share her joy with her father.

"Did you get an O in the exam?"

"No, there are no exams at the beginning of the semester." Hermione said, "It's our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, his class is really great."

"You mean Professor Lupin?"

"Yes, after three years, finally, finally there is an excellent Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, his class is really interesting, he doesn't follow the textbook mechanically, he teaches us in his own way." "Today we learned how to deal with Boggart."

"You mean the kind of Boggart that likes to hide in dark places and becomes the most feared thing in people's hearts?"

"Yes, it's very interesting, it turns out that all students are afraid of something." Hermione rolled her eyes smartly, obviously having some bad ideas: "Dad, if you face a Boggart, what will the Boggart become?"

"Do you want to know what I fear the most?" "Maybe losing the motivation to drive myself to move, I am afraid of myself who knows everything." Knowing everything, what is the difference between that and death?

It was such a boast that Hermione got goosebumps. She didn't expect her father to say that he was afraid of himself, who was omnipotent. How could there be someone in the world who was omnipotent? It was shameless.

But Duran was very serious.

"Let me guess what you are most afraid of, failing the exam?" Duran guessed correctly. Hermione was afraid that she would fail and could not continue to study in the wizard school.

Hermione nodded: "The only thing I can't tolerate is that I will never mess up my grades." "But there is one thing I don't understand. When Professor Lupin protected Harry at the end, the Boggart turned into the moon. I think it was the moon. I don't understand what's so scary about the moon."

That's because Lupin is a werewolf. If he sees the moon on a full moon night, he will transform. If he doesn't see the moon, it's not a big problem. So he is most afraid of the full moon, which will make him transform.

"Fear comes from two possibilities, one is the unknown, and the other is harm." Duran enlightened.

"Unknown? Not likely. Wizards believe that stars are just embellishments of the night sky and are compasses that indicate fate. Wizards understand stars, and the moon should be the same." "But if it is harm, it is not right. Who will the moon harm?" Hermione couldn't figure it out.

"It is not necessarily that the moon has directly harmed anyone. It is also possible that the moon has indirectly caused irreparable harm to him."

"Werewolf?" The only thing Hermione could think of was this: "The full moon will make the werewolf transform and lose his mind." Professor Lupin is a werewolf? This bold guess made Hermione unbelievable.

Sure enough, he was smart: "It seems that you already know the answer. But don't worry about Professor Lupin. He has been restraining his animal nature and will hide on the night of the full moon."

Hermione was stunned. She didn't expect that the gentle professor would transform into a brutal and bloodthirsty werewolf. Vampires and werewolves are alternatives in the wizarding world and are unwelcome.

"But how could it be?" Hermione still didn't believe it.

"The spread of werewolves is biting people. The bitten person will become a werewolf, and his child will also become a werewolf. Either Lupin's ancestors were bitten, or he was bitten. There is no reason."

That's right, there is no complicated reason, that's all.

"But everyone knows the danger of werewolves. Why did the headmaster invite Professor Lupin to teach? It is impossible for a werewolf to control himself when seeing the full moon, no matter how kind he is in human form."

Maybe he hopes that he will stop Sirius because they used to be friends.

"The headmaster has his own considerations, so you don't have to worry about it. Since you like his class, enjoy it. Learning more defense against the dark arts spells will be good for you." Duran knew that his daughter was not serious about fighting spells, and she was not good at fighting.

Hermione left with a secret in her heart. She finally chose to believe Lupin. She could feel Lupin's kindness and care from the professor's course. Besides, turning into a werewolf was not voluntary, so it could be forgiven.

Harry didn't understand why Professor Lupin helped him, which made all the students think he was a coward. Even Neville could face his fear, but Lupin took away his chance to prove himself.

In fact, Lupin was afraid that the Boggart would turn into Voldemort and scare other children. However, Harry was really afraid of the Dementors, not Voldemort.

At night, Peter Pettigrew, who had turned into a mouse, continued to change his hiding place. Tonight he planned to hide in the Gryffindor girls' dormitory. Sirius had come, and he could feel it.

Just when the mouse was about to enter the dormitory, he didn't dare to move, because it was locked by a murderous intent. Peter was able to hide all the time, in addition to turning into a mouse, and also because of his anticipation of danger. Pettigrew knew that he was in crisis, a huge crisis.

"Oh oh oh~" Crookshanks exclaimed, and walked slowly towards the mouse with an elegant cat step: "Look, I have a mouse guest."

Peter was scared. He didn't know that wizards could speak human language after turning into animals. Animagus only allowed wizards to retain magic power after turning into animals, and they couldn't speak.

Crookshanks came to the mouse proudly and looked at the dirty gray mouse with contempt: "My mouse friend, it seems that you are lost."

Peter didn't dare to move, because the other party was not an ordinary cat. Not only could he speak, but his eyes were sharper than Voldemort's and more terrifying. Peter believed that if he moved, he would be beheaded.

However, Crookshanks would not take action immediately, because he had a lot of complaints, and at least he had to finish speaking before taking action. Anyway, it was night time and no one would notice that the big yellow cat had started talking.