The Mightiest Badger at Hogwarts

Although she spoke words of comfort, the expression on Hermione's face was filled with relief and joy.

Link's failure to successfully release the Patronus Charm made her originally nervous mood much less tense.

The generation of this feeling has nothing to do with the nobleness or inferiority of personality, it is just a normal reaction that normal people will have.

Normally, Link would have noticed Hermione's change in expression that she simply forgot to conceal.

But at this moment, Link had no time to pay attention to these things.

Because his hand holding the wand is still shaking, and his twisted and gloomy face is covered with cold sweat.

During the process of releasing the Patronus Charm just now, the first half was obviously fine.

But at the moment when the curse was about to be completed, Link's eyebrows felt a strong sense of soreness and pain.

It felt like someone was holding a sharp object against his forehead.

This is the body’s instinctive warning when facing danger!

It was this sudden feeling that forced Link to forcibly interrupt the release of the Patronus Curse at the cost of the curse explosion backfired on himself.

Withdrawing his wand, Link slumped in his chair and wiped the sweat from his face with his still trembling hands, and then took out a bottle of calming potion and drank it.

Although he didn't know the source of the danger, Link knew very well that if he forcibly released the Patronus Charm, he would definitely die!

This situation was obviously abnormal, but Link was surprisingly not surprised after it happened.

Because this is most likely still caused by the special features of his body.

At this time, Hermione also discovered something unusual about Link.

The vague feeling of joy in her heart dissipated instantly. Hermione leaned down and asked with a worried look:

"Link, are you injured?"

Under the influence of the calming potion, Link's mood relaxed a lot.

He took a deep breath and said as calmly as possible:

"It's nothing serious. It's just that I probably won't be able to learn the Patronus Charm."

"Oh! Come on, you have only failed once. It is impossible for a normal person to successfully release the Patronus Charm for the first time!"

Hermione was still comforting Link, but looking at Link's expression, her expression quickly changed and she said, "Wait! Are you serious? Why?"

"Phew! I don't know why, but I just can't learn it. In other words, I can't let it go."

Link concealed the abnormalities in his body and sighed.

Hearing this, Hermione couldn't understand.

But soon she thought of Link's reaction just now and Professor Lupine's warning to her.

This gave her a very bad guess.

The Patronus Charm can be said to be a true form of white magic.

In order to release it, in addition to positive emotional energy, you also need to have a pure and kind heart.

If a person with a dirty mind casts the Patronus Charm forcibly, he or she will encounter misfortune and die.

Based on this characteristic, ancient wizards often used it to distinguish black wizards and white wizards. This is why the Wizengamot, a noble organization in the wizarding world, will have a physical patron saint as a threshold for membership.

Subsequently, some scholars discovered that although some dark wizards used black magic, they had killed people and done bad things.

But they still maintain the purity and kindness of their hearts, can cast the Patronus Spell, and even have a physical Patronus.

Scholars used this discovery to force the Ministry of Magic to cancel this official method of identification.

However, among the people, this method of identifying patron saint spells has always been very popular.

Because it can at least prove whether a person's heart is kind.

As for this characteristic of the Patronus Charm, an example is clearly recorded in the history of magic textbook "The Lost Past".

It was a dark wizard named Razidean.

He encountered strong resistance when he directed an attack on a wizarding village by a dementor, a rat-like entity called the Patronus unleashed by an underage wizard.

The competitive Razidean planned to retaliate against him, so he also cast the Patronus Curse.

As a result, the moment the curse was completed, countless insects emerged from his body and swallowed him whole at an alarming speed.

Link's recently revealed traits have many similarities to Razideon.

Does this mean that Link is really an evil dark wizard?

As thoughts raced in her mind, Hermione's face instantly turned pale, and she instinctively took two steps back, moving further away from Link.

"Hermione, are you feeling unwell?"

Seeing Hermione's abnormal behavior, Link frowned and asked with concern, and stretched out his hand as if to support Hermione.

And his move shocked Hermione.

Hermione quickly took a few steps back. After realizing that she had overreacted, she stammered and explained:

"Ah, yes, I'm a little uncomfortable. But it doesn't matter, I'll just drink more hot water and it'll be fine. Well, it's getting late now, so I'll go back and rest first!"

After saying that, Hermione ignored Link's reaction and ran out of the Hufflepuff lounge with an ugly look on her face.

Because she finally knows now that Professor Luping's conjecture is true!

Looking at Hermione's hurried away figure, Link also raised his eyebrows.

He knew that Hermione was definitely thinking of something bad again.

But now that he was in a bad mood and had just been slightly bitten by the Patronus Curse, Link really didn't have the energy or thought to catch up and explain.

He just sat in the empty Hufflepuff lounge, closed his eyes silently, and started Occlumency.

The afternoon passed like this, and it wasn't until evening that Link opened his eyes.

But at this time, his face was full of annoyance.

Because the efficiency of his Occlumency training was greatly slowed down.

Normally, fully immersive Occlumency training would provide him with 1 point of experience in less than half an hour on average, but he had just trained for 4 hours, and his Occlumency experience had only increased by 5 points.

Naturally, there was the unsettling effect caused by the backlash of the Patronus Curse, but the more reason was that today's events made him even more eager to know the secrets of his body.

This urgency even reached the point where Link felt impatient.

The mouse Scabbers, also known as Peter Pettigrew, has obviously been returned to Harry and Ron. During the recent Christmas, Hogwarts was sparsely staffed and its defenses were weak.

Why hasn't Sirius Black infiltrated Hogwarts again until now?

After rubbing his frown away little by little, Link fortunately stopped thinking and walked out of the Hufflepuff lounge.

It's not appropriate to continue practicing today, so just eat something and have a good sleep.

……

A week later, the Christmas vacation ended and everyone returned to campus.

The news that Harry got a Firebolt for Christmas quickly spread throughout Hogwarts, which made Cedric and the Quidditch captains of the other two houses very worried.

Like Cedric and Cho Chang.

According to John, even the topic of the two people's dates has become 'what if they defeat Harry Potter who has the Firebolt'.

You must know that although this custom-made tournament-level broomstick has been confiscated by Professor McGonagall for inspection on the grounds of 'unknown origin' and 'possible danger'.

But anyone with some knowledge and brains actually knows that Professor McGonagall will still take out the broom for Harry to use when the game actually comes.

Because Professor McGonagall cares about the honor of Quidditch, this can be seen from the fact that she recruited Harry to the Quidditch team in the first grade and gave him a Nimbus 2000 as a gift.

On the other side, Link and Emily once again devoted themselves to retreat practice.

After training some time ago, not only did Link's Occlumency experience bar skyrocket, Emily also relied on her outstanding talent and basic knowledge to successfully learn the Shadowless Curse of the Divine Edge, and continued to learn Occlumency. I have a preliminary understanding.

In comparison, Link's progress was stuck, because throughout the Christmas holiday, Black still showed no sign of sneaking into Hogwarts again.

Instead of relieving his unsettling symptoms, this made him more serious.

But this was only temporary, because Link quickly figured out a way to force Black to sneak into Hogwarts as soon as possible.

Since Black saw the mouse Scabbers in the form of Peter Pettigrew on the Daily Prophet.

Then wouldn't it be enough to let him see it again and make him feel that Harry's safety was threatened?

So, on the third day after the Christmas vacation, Link went directly to Harry's little fan, Colin, and asked for a photo of Harry lying in a coma on the hospital bed.

Then he returned to his dormitory and wrote a commission letter stamped with the Foley family crest overnight. He sent the letter, photos, and a Gringotts check for 200 gold galleons to a person who was specially dedicated to people like Link. Daily Prophet reporter Rita Skeeter, who writes articles for people who appear in the newspaper.

This female reporter Link is no stranger. She has appeared in the original work and is famous for her ability to twist other people's ordinary words into extravagant and unrealistic sentences.

Judging from the original work, she should be a typical villain, because not only does she look unpleasant, but she also likes to write dark manuscripts about Dumbledore and Harry Potter.

But when facing people with money abilities like Link, Rita Skeeter is a very reliable tool.

The other party was so reliable that he finished the manuscript on the same day he received the commission letter. After handing it over to Link for review, it was directly published on the front page of the Daily Prophet the next day through connections.

Ever since, all the wizards in the magic world of the country have seen such a report.

[Hogwarts’ poor pet vetting is poisoning our children! 】

...We all know that the admission notice to Hogwarts clearly states that students can only bring three pets: owls, cats, and toads.

The purpose of this rule is to prevent students from bringing aggressive or infectious animals into Hogwarts, thus affecting the safety of other students.

There is no denying that this is a good policy.

But in actual implementation, Dumbledore and other managers did not pay attention to it.

The reality is that many students sneak around this rule and bring other pets.

As a direct result, our children are in unimaginable danger.

There was such an incident at Hogwarts recently.

The famous savior Harry Potter was bitten by a pet rat carried by one of his roommates, and was infected with dragon plague syphilis and almost died!

We need to...

There are also two photos printed in the middle of the entire report. One is naturally a picture of Harry Potter lying in bed provided by Colin, and the other is a close-up of Scabbers, the mouse, Peter Pettigrew.

As soon as this report appeared, the entire Hogwarts Great Hall exploded.

First of all, everyone who had gathered around Harry and Ron dispersed as if they were running away.

Because dragon plague syphilis is an infectious disease that can cause all kinds of strange acne scars to appear on people's skin and even kill people, and it also specializes in the third party when it happens, many wizards treat it as a sexually transmitted disease.

However, this infectious disease generally only appears in humans, which means that it is impossible for rats to transmit dragon disease syphilis to wizards.

Of course, the panicked students would not be attentive enough to pay attention to these things.

Just the words "dragon plague syphilis" frightened them.

After all, no one likes big, green pustules underneath them.

Harry and Ron were also stunned. When they reacted, they stood up and explained hurriedly.

However, no one was willing to listen to what they had to say at this time, and even their best friend Hermione secretly left the auditorium.

Looking at the chaotic crowd, Link smiled and snapped his fingers.

Emily, who was sitting next to him, looked slightly relieved when she saw this.

As someone who has been training with Link, she has certainly seen all of Link's recent abnormalities.

It is not difficult to guess that Link must have encountered some problem that is difficult to solve.

Emily was originally going to find a suitable opportunity to ask Link, but she didn't expect that Link's mood suddenly improved today.

Tilting her head, Emily asked tentatively:

"Your mood has become very good. It seems that the problem has been solved?"

"Yeah, in this case, it should be no problem."

Link said calmly, but his eyes remained on the window, as if he wanted to see the truth directly through the winter snow and fog.

At the same time, in Hogsmeade village, a dirty big black dog was walking on the snow-covered streets.

It slowly came to the alley beside the Owl Post Office and grabbed the trash can very skillfully.

It is a very common sight for stray dogs to look for food in trash cans, and no one would suspect it at all.

But the strange thing is that after knocking over the trash can, the big black dog showed no interest in the leftovers that fell out of it. Instead, it stared at a crumpled Daily Prophet.

This is today's latest Daily Prophet, and there is never a shortage of this in the trash can next to the post office.

Because many residents will throw them away directly after reading the newspapers they buy from the post office.

Looking at the blurred ink text on it and the two photos, the big black dog's expression became ferocious.

After a while, the big black dog finally raised its head. It stared at the outline of Hogwarts Castle in the distance, its scarlet eyes full of madness.