Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 437 Miscellaneous Things at the End of the Semester

Time flies.

Cornelius Fudge was lucky, except for MacGuffin, Harry and the others who were present, no wizard recognized the chubby hero on the page—in fact, he was Sirius Black, the wanted man.

He dealt with this matter very quickly and forcefully.

Immediately after the photo was published, Fudge went on about how he led the Ministry of Magic Aurors to arrest Death Eaters.

This is in line with Fudge's usual style, and no one suspects that it is tricky.

And Rita Skeeter's series of reports on [Death Eaters] caused a sensation and diverted everyone's attention...

Especially the news of Bellatrix turning into a ghoul (Wendigo), and the fire dragon fighting the alien dementor... It added a bit of mystery to the story that happened that night.

As for McGuffin's 'out-of-the-box' performance that night... Maybe it was too outrageous. The wizards present at the time never mentioned that matter.

Dumbledore and Fudge probably also played a big part in it.

Of course, McGuffin didn't need to guess and knew that Cornelius Fudge was afraid that he would be exposed for taking credit for the little wizard.

As for Dumbledore, since the chat that night, he stopped wondering what the old bee was thinking.

Fortunately, the next morning, Dumbledore didn't mention this matter again when he was examining McGuffin's body.

This made him breathe a sigh of relief.

By the way, the magic healer and Dumbledore of [St. Mungo's Hospital for Magic and Magic] tested McGuffin's body and magic power that morning...and did not draw any useful conclusions.

They just said that that level of magical transformation had little effect on the McGuffin's mind, and would only cause negative emotions such as gloomy rage for a period of time. It did not cause serious abnormal changes to the body, and the absorbed dark magic power did not infect its own magic power. It's just that the little wizard's magic power grew rapidly in the next year, and it was easy to lose control.

Also, the [Blood Curse] on McGuffin was not exposed in front of Fudge.

I don't know if Dumbledore intervened secretly...

In fact, Fudge is not unreasonable to worry that what happened that night will be twisted by people.

In the few short days left of the semester, what happened that night was among the Hogwarts students... many versions, but none of them came close to the truth...not even close.

For example, there were rumors that Harry and the Death Eaters conspired to invade Hogwarts;

Moreover, the werewolf Lupine is a traitor, and rumors of malicious discrimination that he contacted the Death Eaters to attack the school are also spreading:

(De LS Malfoy even swears that she saw a werewolf wandering around in the school corridors. She tried her best to prove this before leaving school... But with the endorsement of the Ministry of Magic and Dumbledore, even Slytherin rarely believed her words...)
As for the rumor that the MacGuffin is the [Dark Lord II], it is no surprise that the MacGuffin is commonplace;

But this kind of news... is far less surprising than the 'big melon' that appeared in the last few days...

Severus Snape... the cold-blooded and ruthless Potions professor with the old bat monster title,

It is said that there is
--Boy friend.

--puff!

--puff!

When Percy Weasley announced the news with certainty, McGuffin immediately squirted out the milk and fruit soup that was in his mouth.

"what?"

"What did you say, Percy?"

McGuffin and Harry patted their chests, coughed for a while, and then recovered, and asked this guy in surprise where he heard the news.

The twins will not believe this kind of bullshit news.

But it came from the mouth of Percy Weasley,

——This is a little more believable.

Because this guy is more inclined to talk about the 'werewolf code of conduct' and things like [Death Eaters Invading Hogwarts] that exposed the defense loopholes of the Ministry of Magic compared to this kind of gossip and chat.

He always has a lot to say on such boring topics... Of course the only person who is willing to listen to him is his girlfriend Penello.

In short, Percy's sudden announcement of the news really made everyone present 'shocked'.

McGuffin's scalp was also numb from the shock.

He remembered that Snape liked Harry's mother Lily,

How... when?
For a moment, McGuffin's brain was churning wildly, and all kinds of thoughts that should or should not come out.

"Who? Who is Snape's...boyfriend? You can't make it up!"

Percy announced the answer only after Ron's repeated urging.

"Have you seen Professor Snape these two days?"

"...Professors at Hogwarts, due to the end-of-semester and next-semester arrangements, and dealing with the lingering effects of what happened that night...in such a busy situation...have you seen Professor Snape?"

Percy asked repeatedly.

"No……"

People thought about it and shook their heads to show that they hadn't seen it.

"That's right~" Percy said with great certainty as he hammered his palm.

"I accidentally overheard at the door of the common room yesterday afternoon... Minister Fudge was discussing Professor Snape's cohabitation with a wizard with Mr. Crouch..."

"who is it?"

"Who is Snape's friend?"

Dean and Neville competed to ask, which greatly satisfied Percy's vanity.

"It's the fat wizard who saved Harry!" said Percy.

McGuffin and Harry let out a long sigh of relief——that's what it is.

It's Blake!
—Scared them to death!

Hermione also heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, and then persuaded, "Percy, you're overthinking. They should...should be just friends, right? Don't spread rumors... After all, it was Professor Snape and that boo...fat wizard who saved Harry."

--so close!
Hermione almost slipped her tongue.

Thanks to her own timely response, the matter was rounded up.

Percy looked at Hermione strangely, and retorted, "I'm not the group of guys like George and Fred talking nonsense... I have a clear and reasonable logic."

"Think about that night...why did the two of them find Harry at the same time and save you..."

"Night! Think about it...it's still in a place that no one knows..."

"Isn't that... just a tryst!"

--puff!

Percy spoke plausibly, and McGuffin and Harry spat again.

They looked at this guy dumbfounded, not to mention... the logic is very reasonable.

"You forgot that Professor Lupine was here!" George retorted unconvinced.

"He saved Harry too!" Fred went on.

"No, that was a smoke bomb deliberately released to cover up the tryst between the two...After all, when people knew that Hogwarts was under attack, the two 'heroes' originally went on a date instead of rescuing the little wizard...This is too detrimental to the propaganda of the Ministry of Magic...And you think that night was a full moon night...A werewolf, even if he drank the [Wolf's Potion]...would it be possible to wander around Hogwarts and Hogsmeade in the form of a werewolf?"

"Professor Lupine will be in serious trouble if someone reports it to the Ministry of Magic."

"Nobody with any sense would do that."

"Besides... Rita Skeeter's report didn't mention Professor Lupine...I guess as a colleague, Professor Lupine deliberately came out to confuse the public in order to cover up Professor Snape's secret boyfriend."

After listening to Percy's logically closed-loop, extremely self-consistent and reasonable explanation,

There is only one word in McGuffin's mind,

--Clothes!

Percy's genius logic made Harry and the others unable to say anything to refute this.

However, when Percy Weasley was asked about it again later, he always wanted to add his own views on the magical law aspect of the matter... which was very annoying.

So soon the dominance of this topic fell to other little wizards, especially the little witches in the lower grades...

This also led to the fact that before Snape returned to Hogwarts, the original discussion about what happened that night began to turn into the topic of cohabitation life that Snape and his 'boyfriend' had to talk about.

Especially among female students - 'best seller'.

Say Sirius,

Hagrid was very sad about Padfoot's disappearance for no reason. He firmly believed that this loyal and lovely guy was killed or taken away by those vicious and cruel Death Eaters.

Harry and Ron had to stay with him awkwardly in Hagrid's hut on the edge of the Forbidden Forest in the last few days... scolding those Death Eaters together.

On the other hand, Hagrid also severely criticized Harry and the others for sneaking out of Hogwarts.

By the way, the so-called Hogwarts underground magical candy trade between twin brothers George and Fred... Naturally, it was clearly laid out in front of everyone because of this matter.

Although the twin brothers' apparent punishment was suppressed by Fudge and Dumbledore because they knew the 'truth' of what happened that night.

But Mrs. Weasley didn't let them go, and for the rest of the school day, the dining room could always be echoed with her furious growl, coming out of the little red envelope.

This made the two of them disgraced... always hiding outside the castle, avoiding everyone.

But according to what Charlie said before he left school, the twin brothers seem to be doing some kind of research... Developing those mischievous magic things.

Apart from these things,

The few Quidditch matches that Hogwarts did not hold this year were also concentrated in the last few days and held together.

However, due to the influence of the alien dementors a few days ago, Gryffindor... no, it should make the Quidditch players of the four colleges all in poor condition.

While Wood showed extraordinary ability to handle the new broom in the competition, others did not perform so well.

Even those club managers who came to watch the game, or members of the World Quidditch Council... didn't pay much attention to it. It was more like they came to discuss with Fudge how to hold this year's [Quidditch World Cup], as well as the arrangements for security measures.

What happened at Hogwarts really terrified them.

However, Wood finally agreed to Ludo Bagman's invitation to the Hornets.

It is said that in the World Cup qualifier two days later, all the staff of the Hornets club had promised him to play as a substitute and could play for one or two minutes.

Because of this, even the most caring Wood was afraid of injury and did not dare to arrange too dangerous game tactics. It is conceivable...the remaining few games...Although it can't be said to be hasty, but compared to the last game, it looks very boring, and it doesn't show the performance of the new broom at all.

Fortunately, in order to give Wood a good parting gift, Harry used the magic broom 'drift' technique to catch the golden snitch beautifully and won the last match with Slytherin.

—End of the third-year Quidditch competition.

This also means
——Gryffindor has won the Champions Cup for three consecutive years even without Dumbledore's extra 'cheat'.

Also, on the last day of term, the school releases the exam results.

McGuffin, Harry, Hermione Ron passed every subject.

Among them, except for the Divination class that Hermione gave up automatically...all the other courses have achieved excellent results.

The same is true for McGuffin, but...he didn't expect that he also got an 'excellent' in the divination exam.

He wondered if Trelawney had changed the grades under Dumbledore's intervention.

Because from the last time I saw Trelawney staring at McGuffin, the double-faced old hag... looked like she didn't want to see him again.

In addition, what is even more surprising is that Harry's Potions class also got a good grade or above.

This is very scary.

The probability of this happening is almost negligible.

For a moment Harry almost believed Percy Weasley's crap about Snape and Black becoming 'boyfriends'...

It was his godfather Black who 'shot' meddling in Snape's mind.

... Uh, I can't think about it anymore.

This... is getting more and more outrageous.

Also about the Senior Wizarding Certificate Exam, which was a disaster this year... so many people are said to have failed and had to retake the exam.

Percy naturally passed the most advanced NEWTs, and he also got an internship qualification to the Ministry of Magic's Law Department by the way.

(Mr. Arthur Weasley and Fudge are said to have made a deal because of the events of that night.)
In addition, even Fred and George have collected a handful of OWLs, some of which are good.

(It seems that Charlie's training played a key role, which also prevented Mrs. Weasley's yelling letters from continuing to arrive on the last day of term)

One more thing... Although it is still impossible for Professor Lupine to remain as the professor of the Dark Arts class in the end, he was guaranteed by the Ministry of Magic because of what happened that night... At least he can now attend the [final banquet] as a professor.

(End of this chapter)