Hogwarts Scholar System

ps: Happy Lantern Festival to everyone!Also, I have to go to work tomorrow, and with the busy life in the new year, I may not be able to update in time. I apologize in advance and hope for your understanding.Thank you!

"How did she find out?" Harry asked confused.

"What? You know Hagrid is-" Ron's mouth fell open in surprise.

"Hagrid said it himself," Harry said, whispering to Ron that Hagrid had been carried away by love and said that he was a half-giant in front of Madame Maxime last night.

The expression on Ron's face was suddenly very serious. Seeing the expression on Harry's face as if he didn't know the identity of the giant, he wanted to explain it to Harry, but he felt that telling Harry about the ferocity of the giant at this time was a bit too much. Out of place.

After telling Ron roughly what happened last night, Harry turned to Malfoy and snapped: "What do you mean? 'We all hate Hagrid'? What the hell is that!"

Then he pointed at Crabbe, "He got bitten hard by a Flobber caterpillar? They don't even have teeth!"

Crabbe chuckled, obviously feeling very pleased with himself.

"Okay, I think it's time to end this idiot's teaching career." Malfoy said, his eyes sparkling, "Mixed giant, I originally thought he just drank a bottle of oxytocin when he was a child. Parents of students will not agree to this. , they are worried that he will eat their children, hahaha!”

"you--"

"Are you paying attention?"

Professor Graplan's voice reached the boy.At this time, the girls gathered around the unicorn and stroked it.Harry was so angry that the "Daily Prophet" article trembled in his hands as he stared at the unicorn with absent-minded eyes.Professor Grapeland was enumerating the many magical properties of unicorns, speaking loudly so that the boys could hear her.

"I really hope she can stay, this female teacher!" Parvati Patil said, as the class was over and everyone was returning to the castle for lunch. "This is the Care of Magical Creatures class in my mind, like A decent animal like a unicorn, not a monster..."

"What about Hagrid?" Harry said angrily as they climbed the stone steps.

"What should he do?" Parvati said coldly, "He can still be his hunting ground.

Guard, isn't it? "

Parvati had been cold to Harry since the ball.This was indeed Harry's mistake. He threw aside his dance partner and kept stealing glances at Cho Chang.But after all, they were just dance partners, not lovers. She deliberately announced in a high profile that she was going on a date in Hogsmeade with the Beauxbatons guy she dated at the dance, which was a bit mean.

"This class was really good," Hermione said as they entered the Great Hall. "I didn't know half of what Professor Graplan told us about unicorns -"

"Look at this!" Harry shouted angrily, shoving the Daily Prophet article under Hermione's nose.

Hermione read the article, her mouth wide open in surprise.

"How did she find it? Wait," Hermione seemed to have thought of something and asked again: "Harry, did you find a beetle near Hagrid last night?"

"When I think about it, there seems to be one. I remember, it was lying on a stone carving reindeer." Harry said.

"That's right, it really is." Hermione's expression seemed to understand everything.

"What do you know? Tell us quickly?" Ron asked hurriedly.

Hermione was about to speak, but she saw Maple just passing by them. Her face suddenly dropped, and then she quickly walked past Maple with a stiff face, striding forward as if she was very angry.

Seeing Harry and Ron walking past her with sullen faces, Maple smiled bitterly in her heart. It's hard to be a scumbag!

In Harry's eyes, Hagrid was indeed regarded as a relative. After the divination class in the afternoon, Harry pulled Ron and Hermione out of the castle and walked through the snow-covered grounds towards Hagrid's hut.They knocked on the door and heard Fang's deep barking.

"Hagrid, it's us!" Harry shouted, banging on the door, "Open the door!"

Hagrid didn't answer.They could hear Fang scratching at the door and whining, but the door didn't open.They hammered hard for more than ten minutes.Ron even went over and knocked on a window, but still no answer.

"Why is he avoiding us?" Hermione asked, when they finally gave up and walked towards the school. "He doesn't think we mind that he's a half-giant, right?"

However, it seems Hagrid does care.They didn't see him for a whole week.He did not appear at the staff table at mealtime, nor did they see him performing his gamekeeper duties in the grounds.Professor Grubbly-Plan continues to serve as substitute teacher for Care of Magical Creatures.Malfoy gloated every chance he got.

"Miss your half-human, half-demon partner?" Whenever the teacher was around and he was sure that Harry didn't dare to retaliate, he would always whisper to Harry, "Miss that elephant-like guy?"

In mid-January, there was another chance to go to Hogsmeade.Harry, Ron and Hermione left the castle together and walked through the cold and damp grounds towards the school gate.

It's just that Hermione was carrying a schoolbag, which contained a few books she had just borrowed from the library.She hadn't thought about how to solve the problem of breathing underwater, so she didn't forget to bring a few books to read during her rare free time in Hogsmeade.

As they passed Durmstrang's ship moored on the lake, they saw Viktor Krum walking from the cabin onto the deck, wearing only a pair of swimming trunks.He was indeed very thin, but he still looked quite strong. He climbed up to the side of the ship nimbly, stretched out his arms, and dived into the water with a splash.

"He's crazy!" Harry said, looking at Krum's black head floating in the middle of the lake, "It's January now, it must be freezing!"

"It's much colder where he comes from," said Hermione. "I think it's quite warm here for him."

"But there are giant squids in the lake!" Ron said worriedly. He also wanted Krum's autograph, but he didn't want anything to happen to him.

"He's really nice, you know," Hermione said. "Although he's from Durmstrang, he's not at all what you think. He told me he prefers us here."

Not long after they left—

"what!"

"Victor!" Durmstrang's students rushed over to rescue Klum and asked, "What happened?"

"Big squid! Tangle me and I can't swim up!" Krum pointed at the black lake and said with lingering fear.

After Krum was helped back to the cabin by others, a figure gradually appeared dozens of meters away. . .

As he wandered the streets, Harry kept an eye out for Hagrid.When he was sure that Hagrid was not in any shop, he proposed to sit in the Three Broomsticks Tavern.

The tavern was crowded as usual, and Harry's eyes quickly scanned all the tables, but Hagrid was not found.With a heavy heart, he walked to the bar with Ron and Hermione and bought three butterbeers from Mrs. Rosmerta.

"Does he never go to the office?" Hermione whispered suddenly, "Look!"

She pointed to the mirror behind the bar, and Harry saw the reflection of Ludo Bagman sitting in a dark corner with a group of goblins.Bagman was lowering his voice and speaking quickly to the goblins. The goblins all crossed their arms and looked menacing.

Maple didn't want to expose his relationship with Bagman in front of the goblin, so he just gave Bagman some money to pay back to the goblin first and canceled the bet with the goblin.

But these goblins were just trying to get away with it. After Ludo Bagman wanted to cancel the bet, they forced the coward to pay a lot of liquidated damages.

But now when the weather is cold in winter, Acromantulas gather in caves to hibernate, which is not suitable for catching. Naturally, Maple will not help Ludo Bagman pay off his debt for free.

Maple only gave Ludo a small amount of money to deal with each time he encountered a goblin.But the money Maple gave was less than one-tenth of what Ludo owed, which naturally did not satisfy the goblins.

This time Ludo Bagman was blocked by goblins again, and the two sides had a fierce quarrel, and the three of them happened to be bumped into by Harry.

This immediately made Harry and the others suspicious. Today was the weekend, there was no Triwizard Tournament, and there was no need for a referee. How could Bagman appear in the Three Broomsticks Tavern?

Ludo Bagman glanced at the bar, saw Hermione, and was about to stand up.Suddenly he thought about the rumors among the students that his sponsor seemed to have broken up with this girl, and then sat down again.

After seeing Harry and the others, Ludo Bagman seemed to become a little smarter, and he immediately had an idea.

"You don't want the students at Hogwarts to know about my debt and expose it. If it's the same as now, I can still get some money to pay you back, but if you want to break up, Then you will never be able to recover the remaining debt."

The goblins stopped and thought for a while, then threatened Ludo Bagman again, then stood up and left angrily.

Seeing that the goblins were finally gone, Bagman breathed a sigh of relief and could wait a while longer.

Then he stood up and did the finishing work. He didn't want the three Harrys, who were full of suspicion after seeing this scene, to spread the unpleasant experience he had just had with the goblins to other people's ears.

"Harry, Miss Granger is here, and I want to congratulate you again on your outstanding performance in dealing with that hornet." Bagman said, "It's great!"

"Thank you." Harry and Hermione said briefly, but there was not much enthusiasm on their faces. It seemed that they had doubts about what just happened.

"It's an absolute nightmare, those goblins!" Bagman said in order to let them clear up their doubts. "They don't speak English well. It's like going back to the Quidditch World Cup, tangled up with those Bulgarians. , but at least the Bulgarians can still make gestures so that people can understand.

These guys kept mumbling and talking in their turkey talk, of which I only knew one word.Bradva means 'knife, sword'.I was reluctant to use the word for fear they would think I was threatening them. "

He gave a low, short laugh.

"What do they want?" Harry asked.

"Well, well, that's right," Bagman thought, and then a perfect excuse suddenly occurred to him, "They, well, they were looking for Barty Crouch. Yeah, that's it!"

"Why are you here looking for him?" said Harry. "He's at the Ministry of Magic in London, isn't he?"

"Well, to be honest, I don't know where he is." Bagman said, "He, he suddenly stopped coming to work. It's been two weeks now." His assistant, young Percy said He's sick. It seems he keeps sending owls with instructions. But don't tell anyone about it, okay, Harry? Because Rita Skeeter is asking everywhere, and I dare say she She would probably add fuel to the fire to Barty's illness and make it look like a catastrophic event. She would probably say that he disappeared like Bertha Jorkins."

"Any news on Bertha Jorkins?" Harry asked.

"No." Bagman said, "Of course, I have sent people to look for it, but things are very strange. She must have arrived in Albania, because she met her second cousin there. Then she left her second cousin's house and went to I went to visit an aunt in the south and disappeared without a trace.

I just don't know where she went, she doesn't seem like the type to run away or abscond, but who knows. . .

Heck, what are we doing here talking about leprechauns and Bertha Perkins?By the way, how are you doing with your research on that golden egg? "

"Well, we already have a clue," Harry said.

"Oh, then congratulations to you. Well, I hope you get a good result in your next project! Well, goodbye!" Bagman felt that it was almost the same, so he encouraged Harry and Hermione and said goodbye to them in a hurry. Just left the tavern.

Hermione opened her schoolbag, took out several books and handed one to each of Harry and Ron. She also took one for herself, and they began to rummage through the books to find ways to allow people to breathe underwater.

Harry and Ron had only turned a few dozen pages when an annoying guy walked into their sight——

Rita Skeeter walked in.Today she was wearing a banana-yellow robe, her long nails painted a dazzling pink, and she was accompanied by her paunchy photographer.She bought a drink and walked through the crowd with the photographer toward a nearby table.Harry, Ron and Hermione all stared at her when they saw her.

Rita Skeeter immediately smiled when she saw them. She was worried that she couldn't find any news material. When she saw Harry, the eyes behind her jeweled eyes suddenly widened.

"Harry!" she said, smiling suddenly. "That's great! Why don't you come over and—"

"I wouldn't even come close to you on a ten-foot broomstick!" Harry said angrily. "Why did you treat Hagrid like that?"

Rita Skeeter raised her thickly drawn eyebrows.

"Our readers have a right to know the truth, Harry! I'm just fulfilling my—"

"Who cares if he's a half-giant?" Harry shouted. "There's nothing abnormal about him!"

The whole tavern suddenly became silent.Madame Rosmerta looked over from behind the bar. She was pouring mead into a large flagon. The jug was full to the point of overflowing without her noticing.

Rita Skeeter's smile flickered slightly, but she quickly fixed it back on.She opened her crocodile leather handbag, took out her shorthand pen, and said, "Would you like to tell me what you know about Hagrid, Harry? The humanity behind the tendons? Your puzzling friendship, and the reasons behind it. .Do you regard him as your father?"

Hermione stood up suddenly, clutching her glass of butterbeer as if it were a grenade.

"You annoying woman," she said through gritted teeth, "you don't care about anything. As long as you can get a story, you won't let anyone go, right?"

"Sit down, you silly little girl, and don't talk nonsense about things you don't understand." Rita Skeeter said coldly, and her eyes became cold and fierce when they fell on Hermione.

"Let's go," Hermione said, gathering the books in their hands and putting them back in their bags. "Hurry up, Harry, Ron—"

They left, and many people looked at them.When he reached the door, Harry glanced back.Rita Skeeter's shorthand pen was out, swishing back and forth across a piece of parchment on the table.

"She's going to deal with you next, Hermione," Ron said in a low, worried voice as they hurried down the street.

"Let her try!" Hermione said nonchalantly, but she was shaking with anger. "I'll give her a taste! Am I a silly little girl? Well, I'll make her pay the price. First for Ha Lee, and then for Hagrid..."

"Don't mess with Rita Skeeter," Ron said nervously. "Seriously, Hermione, she's going to dig up some information about you -"

"My parents don't read the Daily Prophet. She won't scare me into hiding!" said Hermione. "And Hagrid won't be hiding anymore! He shouldn't be upset by this. Chaos! Let’s go!” She was now taking long strides and walking very fast, and Harry and Ron had to work hard to catch up with her.

She broke into a run, leading them all the way through the gate guarded by winged boars on both sides, across the field, and arrived at Hagrid's hut.

The curtains were still tightly drawn, and they could hear Fang's squeaking as they approached.

"Hagrid!" Hermione shouted, banging on his door. "Hagrid, that's enough! We know you're in there! No one cares that your mother is a giant, Hagrid! That nasty woman Skeeter, You can't let her succeed! Hagrid, come out quickly, you're not—"

The door opened, and Hermione stopped abruptly, because she realized that the person facing her was not Hagrid, but Albus Dumbledore.

"Good afternoon," he said cheerfully, looking down at them with a smile.

"We - um - we wanted to see Hagrid," Hermione said softly.

"Ah, I've guessed it," said Dumbledore, with a witty glint in his eyes, "Why don't you come in?"

"Oh, um, okay." Hermione said, seemingly annoyed.

She, Ron and Harry walked into the hut, but did not see Dumbledore suddenly blink behind them with a very interesting look on his face.