A Hogwarts dissertation guide

"Sure enough, I can't hide anything from you." The beetle made a sound, and at the same time, her shape began to change, and she jumped under the table.

She became Rita Skeeter, a special correspondent for the Daily Prophet.

She is an unregistered animagus!

Animagus is undoubtedly a very difficult transformation magic. It takes several years to practice Animagus, turning a person into the most suitable animal for him, but he may also fail, so transformation also requires courage. .Therefore, there are only seven registered Animagus in the 20th century - of course, there are many others who have not been registered.

For example, James and Sirius's four robbers, and another example is Rita Skeeter in front of her.

Her grades in school were so average that almost no one would think that Rita could become an Animagus.

Besides, there is no need for this. She is already a big reporter and can earn a lot of money just by writing articles. Why bother to learn Animagus?

However, she persisted with great perseverance.

Maybe that's why she always gets the scoop - after all, who would suspect a beetle crawling on a leaf?

She only needs to sneak up to the person involved to get first-hand information, which is absolutely worth it - but all other reporters don't have such perseverance.

This is one of the reasons why Edward has always been very optimistic about Rita. She has always been very perseverant and professional, even a little too strong - the way she obtained first-hand information is a bit too shameless, but overall , she can be regarded as a competent reporter, if it were not for the fact that sometimes she would deliberately choose some exaggerated headlines in order to attract the audience's attention.

But basically, we can still respect the facts.

"I'd like to know what's going on, why are you in Hogwarts?" Edward snapped his fingers, and two cups of hot cocoa appeared beside the table, raising his hand to signal Rita to help herself. .

"Thank you for your consideration," Rita smiled, picked up the cup of hot cocoa and blew on the hot air, "I just heard that the Christmas ball has a warrior as the opening dance, and I thought it would be a very exciting topic. I want to Bring some sales to the paper.”

"It seems you found it." Edward smiled and said, "Whether it's the Beauxbatons little guy or Hagrid's matter, I think it's a good topic."

"Indeed," Rita forced a sly smile, "but I don't want to completely offend the French. If I dare to publish those... sloppy things in the newspaper, I'm afraid Maxim and the Delacour family will want to Block me, so..."

"Do you want to publish it?" Edward's tone was still unhurried, which made Rita confused about his attitude for a moment.

"If you don't want this matter to be known to everyone, I will reconsider it. In fact, there is a lot of material at the Yule Ball, and it is not just about Hagrid..."

"No, just publish the news about Hagrid."

Rita looked a little surprised, and the hot cocoa in her hand almost fell to the ground. If she hadn't hurriedly held the cup with both hands, it would have splashed on Edward.

After about dozens of seconds, Rita pulled the broken hair around her ears and smiled softly: "If this is what you mean, I probably understand."

On the second day of Christmas, almost everyone got up very late, and many students did not return to their dormitories to rest. It was rare that Filch did not look for students who were wandering at night in the castle. He was even in the auditorium himself. Sitting in the corner for a whole night, he was drunk by several students - especially the Weasley twins and their friends, who always gave Filch several glasses of wine whenever they saw him.

So, the next morning, almost everyone who saw them seemed very grateful...

However, the common room was still much quieter than the previous days. People were chatting away, interrupted from time to time by yawns.When Hermione got up, Harry and Ron were already sitting in the Gryffindor common room.

Harry was surprised to find that Hermione's hair was matted again, and Hermione had to confess that she had sprayed her hair with a lot of Smoothing Spray in order to attend the ball - this was the Potter family's industry.

"But it's too much trouble to do it every day." Hermione said very realistically. "If I wasn't going to the ball, how could I waste time on my hair."

Ron and Hermione seemed to have reached a tacit agreement, and they both kept silent about their quarrel, not even mentioning the discussion last night.Now they are all friendly to each other, but their politeness seems a bit unnatural.But Harry was already content, at least the three of them were together again.

As soon as Christmas passed, February 2th suddenly seemed much closer, and neither Hermione nor Harry thought carefully about how to survive in the Black Lake for an hour.They wasted too much time before the ball, but Hermione already had some ideas. She planned to use a partial transformation spell or a head-bubble spell, which would be slightly less difficult.

Even Harry once thought about whether to really follow Hermione's suggestion and buy a diving suit from the Muggle world. For this purpose, he specifically asked James and Sirius, but after consulting the Muggle clerk, They all advised Harry to give up this unrealistic idea.

Muggle diving suits require at least several months of training, and you must have the help of a professional instructor to get started.And trying to dive into the Black Lake, an icy lake hundreds of feet deep, is almost impossible, regardless of the loss of temperature or oxygen, or the pressure at the bottom.

Harry has absolutely no solution now, but no matter how whimsical he is, maybe there will be a solution on the day of the game?

Therefore, Harry did not think about the second project at all this Christmas holiday.

Hermione has made some progress, her transfiguration has improved to a certain extent. She can now conjure underwater breathing gills for a mouse, which allows it to breathe underwater, just by applying this to herself. It still takes some time.

Therefore, on the first day of the new semester, apart from classes, Hermione spent most of her time in the library, so much so that she completely ignored the Daily Prophet that was delivered to her at breakfast.

So when they came outside for their Care of Magical Creatures class, they were surprised to find that the teacher had turned into an elderly witch. Her gray hair was cut very short and her chin was very protruding.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! The school bell has been ringing for five minutes." She said sharply to the students.

They walked through the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, struggling towards her.