Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 71 The Goblin Rebellion
The next day, Wednesday, was History of Magic in the morning.

Professor Binns finally finished teaching the contribution and advancement of the Medieval European Federation of Wizards to the European magical world from the 13th to the 15th centuries.He moved on to the next topic - goblin rebellion.

The goblin rebellion is a series of rebellious movements launched by goblins to fight against wizards' discrimination and prejudice against them. This movement has occurred frequently in history, but there are only three times with the most historical significance.

The first time it happened in Hogsmeade Village in 1612, when the Three Broomsticks Bar was picked by goblins as the headquarters of the rebel army. This riot lasted for a long time and had a huge impact on the merchants and residents of Hogsmeade Village.

The second rebellion occurred in 1752. This time, the rebellion had a greater impact, and the two ministers of magic even stepped down because of it. At the beginning of the rebellion, the then minister of magic, Albert Bout, didn't take it seriously and chose to do nothing. After all, in the environment at that time, no one thought that it would be so troublesome for a goblin who seemed to be deceptive to be really vicious. Later, things became more and more serious, and he could only take the blame and resign because of his poor handling.

His successor, Basil Fleck, was not much better than him. He only served for two months, making him the minister with the shortest time in office until now.

It was not until Hesphaestus Gore, then Chief of the Auror Office, who succeeded him as Minister of Magic, that the rebellion was successfully suppressed.Gore had gained a great reputation at the time, but he advocated the use of tough measures against aliens and rejected the proposal to implement a werewolf rehabilitation program, which made later historians believe that his style would only lead to more rebellions.

Historians' predictions were correct, and later in the late 18th century, goblin rebellions emerged one after another—a goblin named Wagget died in 1762, and another fairly famous rebellion was the Sloppy Lala incident.

Sloppy Lara is insulted by a young wizard and has his head thrown into the village pond, where he is released until he nearly suffocates.Angry and unwilling, the sloppy Lala set off another goblin rebellion and became the leader of this bloody rebellion.

Today, the "Guidelines for the Treatment of Non-Wizards and Half-Humans" has been established, and the basic rights of goblins have been guaranteed. Although they are still not allowed to hold magic wands, their living conditions are much better than in the past, and goblin rebellions have gradually become rare.However, there are still many rumors that in the dark, the goblin subversive group is still secretly operating, planning to overthrow the rule of the Ministry of Magic.

Schelling, who has a lot of inside information, knows that these rumors are not groundless.

Schelling raised his hand in a rare way.His actions quickly attracted the attention of many young wizards—except for the time Hermione asked in the second grade, I had never heard of anyone who would ask a question in a history of magic class.

Professor Binns on the podium was explaining the goblin rebellion in 1612 very boringly. He looked up and looked very surprised.

"You are--"

"I'm Malfoy, Professor. I have a question. You just said that the headquarters of the rebellion at the time was in the Three Broomsticks, but the scale of the rebellion obviously didn't match the size of the Three Broomsticks. Besides, the location of the Three Broomsticks is too obvious. It's not an exaggeration to say that it is surrounded by enemies, and it lacks all kinds of natural barriers that are good for defense. I really can't imagine how incompetent the Aurors at that time had to be to be unable to break in and let this rebellion last for so long?"

Draco had been staring out the window with his mouth open just now, and suddenly he woke up from his trance; Daphne's head was raised from his arms; Pansy's elbow was lowered from the table; and another student who was originally concentrating on listening to the class and taking notes - Murray's eyes flashed with admiration and admiration.

Professor Binns blinked.He said dryly: "Student, what you said is very reasonable. The current consensus among historians is that the Minister of Magic at that time was a little hesitant. He was still hoping that the goblin would surrender voluntarily, so he didn't strictly order the Aurors to attack. However, there are many loopholes in this inference... There is also a deduction similar to rumors, that is, the goblin actually established a secret base somewhere underground in Hogsmeade Village. That secret base stored weapons that made the Ministry of Magic use their weapons. After the rebellion, the goblin kept it secret. The so-called secret rooms and secret weapons were destroyed before the evacuation—of course, this is only one of the inferences, we must make bold assumptions and carefully verify the facts by studying history..."

"I see! Thank you, Professor!"

Sure enough, as Xie Lin guessed, the crypt space leading to the secret passage on the fifth floor is actually the goblin's secret room, and the so-called "holy fire" rune is obviously the core inheritance of the goblin royal family in the legend - the goblin holy fire.The goblin flame is condensed and extracted from the goblin fire extracted from the depths of the earth by Ragnuk the First, one of the kings of the goblin royal family. He even created the famous "Sword of Gryffindor" with this flame.

Gryffindor's sword also has the ability to improve itself because it absorbs the "pursuit of knowledge" characteristic of the holy fire, and can absorb everything that can strengthen itself, such as the venom of the basilisk.This shows how powerful the weapons made by the holy fire are.

It seems that the goblins at that time did not succeed in forging their secret weapons, and in the process of their hasty withdrawal, they could not completely eliminate the traces of the holy flame, so they left behind that rune.Of course, the goblins at that time probably never thought that there would be a wizard who could notice such an inconspicuous crack on the cracked stone wall.

(Note: The character of Ragnac I comes from the chapter "The Sword of Gryffindor" in Pottermore. In the original text, it is the goblin king, indicating that there was a goblin kingdom in the eleventh century)
The afternoon class is Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Professor Lupine finished teaching Boggarts, Red Hood, Kabbah, Grindylow, Hinkpunk, and finally began to teach more dangerous dark creatures.

The definition of dark creatures is very broad. It generally refers to creatures that are bloodthirsty in nature, or creatures that are born with black magic abilities. Currently, the most standard definition is: species that will actively enter the world of wizards and attack wizards.

The classification system for dark beings is also different from that of magical biology - which classifies species according to their habits as alien, beast, ethereal, and non-existent.Dark creatures classify species into Demon, Evil Spirit, and Living Dead.

(Note: The People’s News Agency translated Demon as a demon, but in the author’s mind, a demon should be a humanoid species with double horns, bat wings on its back, and a trident in its hand, similar to Diablo. It should be Devil in English. Demon is a category, so the author here translates it as a monster.)
Monsters are generally solid beasts or aliens, with an abnormal desire for human blood or human flesh. Common examples include red hats, Kabbahs, Grindylos, horse-shaped water monsters, etc., while piggies, basilisks, orges, hags, and werewolves who are born with the ability to curse also belong to this category.

Evil spirits are the general term for demonized ghosts. Generally, wizards or Muggles died with great resentment and unwillingness during their lifetime, so the resentment persisted and transformed into evil spirits. For example, the Banshee was transformed from a murdered woman, and the Shinkpunk was transformed from a traveler who accidentally fell into the mud and died tragically.

The undead are a very special category. Like evil spirits, the undead have lived before and are resurrected after death. However, the undead can still carry part of their memories and consciousness, and even have entities and thoughts—rather than dying once, it is better to say that they have mutated into a new species due to the power of a curse related to death.

In this category there are vampires and inferi in Europe, mummies in Egypt, living zombies in Africa and South America, and zombies in China.Among them, Chinese zombies are the most mysterious.

Zombies are also known as flying zombies. They are generally refined by a group of black wizards called "corpse keepers". They are covered with white hair, their eyes are red like cinnabar, and their teeth are like sharp blades.

(Note: Infernal corpses are a special case, they have no mind, no soul, they are actually a walking dead puppet)
(Note: The mummy is not invented by the author. It appears in the chapter of Boggart, which is the Boggart form of Parvati. The zombies in China are really invented by the author.)
Professor Lupine has already dabbled in the first two categories of dark creatures, and what he is going to teach today is the category of the living dead.Of course, it is impossible to teach about zombies with Lupine's abilities.The protagonist of today's lesson is the most common vampire in Europe.

Of course, the goal of this class is not to teach young wizards how to hunt vampires (in fact, hunting vampires is illegal after the "Code for the Treatment of Half-Humans of Non-Wizards"), but what to do when you encounter a vampire alone.In human terms, when you encounter a robber, how to escape, prevent, or ask for help, rather than teaching you how to bring down the robber.

A vampire is a humanoid creature that feeds on fresh blood, especially human blood.They are easily recognizable, generally with horribly pale faces, thin and gaunt, with long sharp fangs clearly visible when opening their mouths.

Professor Lupine told everyone that vampires don't really need to drink human blood, they just crave the taste of blood. Most vampires in modern society will raise some small animals and drink their blood.He digresses as he talks, telling everyone about events from his travels, such as using a bloody lollipop to take down a hungry vampire.

At present, most vampires and werewolves will be registered with the Ministry of Magic, but it does not mean that there are no fish that slip through the net.Therefore, there should be a sense of vigilance and prevention, especially young women or underage boys and girls, who are the favorite objects of vampires.

In addition to trying not to go out alone at night, especially in the deserted wilderness, another way to prevent being attacked by vampires is amulets.Vampires hate the smell of garlic very much, so chewing a few pieces of garlic in their mouths during night travel can effectively prevent vampire attacks. Those who don’t like garlic can also wear garlic-flavored amulets, such as necklaces and scarves. Even buying a bottle of garlic oil and applying it on the neck will also have an effect.

The vampire's fangs have a cursed power. Once bitten by a vampire, there will only be three kinds of consequences: death due to being unable to withstand the cursed power; being completely deprived of reason by the cursed power and becoming a blood slave who only knows how to suck blood; successfully suppressing the cursed power and transforming into a new vampire.No matter which one ends up being extremely bad, vampires, like werewolves, have been discriminated against in the wizarding world, and life is very difficult.

Another thing to note is that every vampire is a natural Animagus, they can transform themselves into a bat without learning. In the bat state, the vampire can still appear during the day, and the fangs of the bat state still have the power of the vampire curse, so it is also very important to identify a vampire disguised as a bat.

This was a purely theoretical class, so after Professor Lupine had finished talking about vampires and left a paper on how to use garlic to prevent vampire attacks as homework, the get out of class was dismissed.

The next day, Friday, Hagrid set off for London early in the morning with Buckbeak.This time he was going to testify before the Commission on the Disposal of Dangerous Animals.

Although Schelling and his group were not accompanying them, it did not prevent them from getting together and waiting for the result of the hearing—Brace had a double-sided mirror, and as soon as the result came out, he could know it from his mother.

The outcome of the hearing was within Schelling's expectations.

At the hearing, as soon as Mrs. Chabini gave her testimony, the entire committee immediately sided with him.And Hagrid's clumsy tongue was a complete waste of Hermione's painstaking efforts to prepare his testimony. Not only did he fail to speak well, but his notes kept falling down, and he couldn't even remember the date.

After the trial, the committee fixed the execution time of Buckbeak's execution - June 6, but in fact, Buckbeak still has the opportunity to appeal.

Hearing this news, the little wizards of Slytherin were very happy. It just happened that the next day was Hogsmeade Visiting Day, and the group made an appointment to celebrate at the Three Broomsticks, and the generous Bryce paid for the treat.

　Wagt is an important foreshadowing, provided that readers know its true identity, it represents that the wizarding world is not what most wizards imagine, and the Ministry of Magic hides a lot of truth (just like the US intelligence agency hides aliens)
　　
　
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