Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

Why didn't he really want to keep an eye on himself before?

Moon played with his wand, glanced at Violet who was practicing magic spells not far away, and then turned back and asked softly: "When I fell down the stairs earlier, I actually wanted to ask you, are you like this?" I firmly believe that my uncle is not a good person, and he even refuses to admit that you are suspected of throwing dirty water. Is it possible that you know the details of the secret mission that you did not participate in? "

Ekel sneered, "I don't know the inside story, and I don't want to talk about this topic with you again. From this moment on, you don't have to think about making any small moves anymore. I won't ask any of your questions that have nothing to do with my surveillance of you." Won’t answer.”

Moon felt bored and used the wand to control the handkerchief to fly high, but he had already made a judgment in his heart.

Ekel Weaving sincerely resisted that incident, and when he mentioned Uncle Edgar, he was really full of confrontation, and even had a hint of undetectable murderous intent.In other words, something did happen back then, and what he said at that time was not a lie.

Then everything is obvious. If he didn't keep an eye on himself before, he probably wanted to lure out Uncle Edgar through himself. In other words, his sudden change in attitude and mood was probably related to Uncle Edgar.

Things have changed with Uncle Edgar...

Blame yourself?pain?Why is this emotion?It was impossible for him to feel remorse and pain for Uncle Edgar's death, unless he changed his view of Uncle Edgar, but he obviously did not at the moment.Therefore, Uncle Edgar is not dead, but alive and well, and this news has been passed on. At least the Aurors have probably determined that Uncle Edgar is not dead.

But this alone is obviously not enough to make Ekel Weaving feel guilty and painful. There must be other things mixed in.

"Boom!" With a sound, everyone in the classroom looked towards the direction of the sound - the initiator, Kelly, looked down at the hole made by the stone on the table, and covered her face with her hands in embarrassment, "Sorry. , Professor, I accidentally turned my handkerchief into stone."

Professor Flitwick sighed helplessly and walked over to help clean up the mess.

Moon smiled and looked away, but he happened to meet Violet's eyes. Violet used the blind spot in Ekel Weaving's sight separated by Moon's body to secretly point with her free hand. Pointing to the corner of her desk, Moon looked over and found Violet's potion textbook and notebook there, with a note sandwiched between them.

Munn, who understood, quickly looked away and continued to toy with the handkerchief in front of him with his wand.

When class was about to end, there was a knock on the door of the Charms classroom again.Professor Flitwick said loudly, "Please come in," and then the classroom door was pushed open. Sirius poked his head in, smiled and said to Professor Flitwick: "Sorry, Professor, I want to borrow Moon. Soon, It only takes about two or three minutes.”

"No problem, Moon, you go ahead." Professor Flitwick waved his hand casually, indicating that the two of them could help themselves. Moon stood up in response and walked towards the door with some doubts.Naturally, Ekel Weaving would not stay in the classroom and walked out of the classroom immediately.

"Is this the Auror who is responsible for monitoring you?" After walking out of the classroom and closing the door, Sirius looked at Ekel Weaving up and down and asked curiously.

"That's right." Moon nodded.

Ekel Weaving's expression softened a bit when he was dealing with Sirius, probably because he had a good impression of Sirius's loyalty. He took a step forward and stretched out his hand towards Sirius, "Sirius Black, right? Hello, I’m Ekel Weaving.”

Sirius also shook hands with him. "I have seen you - when I was in Azkaban, I once saw you escorting prisoners."

Sirius's words suddenly made Ekel Weaving feel a little embarrassed. He smiled bitterly and said in a low voice: "It was true that you were imprisoned in Azkaban without trial. It's the Ministry's fault, I'm sorry."

"Ha." Sirius laughed briefly, and did not continue chatting about this embarrassing matter for everyone. Instead, he turned to look at Moon, "Hey, Moon, it's like this. I have a small matter. I want to ask you a favor - I just found out when I was sorting things out, I don’t know if it was last week or the week before last, but I probably lost a bunch of keys somewhere. Someone over there has sent similar lost items. Have you passed?"

"Unfortunately, no." Moon shook his head, looking helpless.

"Damn it - it must have been picked up by Peeves." Sirius patted his forehead wordlessly. "It's best not. Anyway, can you send me a copy of the lost and found items? In next week's school newspaper superior."

"No problem, just describe to me what that bunch of keys looks like." Moon said with a smile, "Don't worry, I'll remember it, just tell me."

Sirius took out a piece of folded parchment from his pocket, "I've already written it, just follow this and send it out."

As he spoke, he handed the parchment to Munn. As Munn was about to pick it up, Ekel Weaving had already taken the parchment in his hand first. "Sorry, out of duty, I have to take a look first." Look at what’s on this.”

Sirius frowned, with obvious dissatisfaction on his expression. Fortunately, Moon said immediately: "Of course, no problem, just take a look."

After saying that, he comforted Sirius again, "You also said that he is here to monitor me. It is reasonable to check the folded parchment. Just like what he said, it is his duty."

Ekel Weaving completely filtered out Moon's words. He would never forget that he had been tricked by this kid before. From now on, he would always be firm in whatever this kid says, does, and expresses his attitude. I can't believe every word.

The parchment folded into a square shape was unfolded by Wei Wen. He looked at the writing inside and read this passage from beginning to end:

"A bunch of lost keys, including 1 medium brass keys, 4 small tin key, 1 large brass key and 1 golden thumb-sized disc. The large key has a title printed on it. The tail snake circle symbol with the number '1' engraved on the disc. Anyone who finds it should contact the school newspaper office, Gar Fuller."

After confirming again and again that this was indeed a lost and found item, Ekel Weaving folded the parchment and put it into his pocket, and then said to Moon: "I will make a copy of the above content later. for you."

Sirius asked unhappily: "Hey, do you want to reveal your true form directly to that piece of parchment?"

Ekel Weaving nodded silently towards Sirius, and his slightly softened expression became dull again. "I'm sorry, this is my duty."

He did not retort to Sirius' question, partly because of his slight affection for Sirius, and partly because the Ministry of Magic had indeed wronged Sirius before - but not retorting did not mean that he would continue to maintain a soft attitude.Therefore, after saying this, Ekel Weaving directly opened the door of the Charms classroom and said, "We should go back. Your lost and found items will not be delayed, Mr. Black."

Moon smiled apologetically at Sirius, and followed Ekel Weaving helplessly back to the classroom.

After sitting down again, he glanced at Ekel Weaving and became even more curious about the truth back then.

It has to be said that Ekel Weaving fully demonstrated his double standards as a human being - on the one hand, he clearly did not know the truth at all, but he labeled Edgar as a sinner in his heart; Sirius was truly sorry for the injustice he had endured.Moreover, when we first met, this middle-aged Auror behaved silently and calmly, but over the next few days, he gradually revealed his complicated side: he was hiding malicious intentions, fabricating his own identity, and now he has really decided to start guarding against all odds. .

It is true that human nature is complex and changeable, and it is inevitable that it will be gradually revealed bit by bit through contact. It is never like the characters on the stage who wear a single mask.

But the complexity displayed by Ekel Weaving now is obviously inseparable from the events of that year, Edgar, and the dead Eric Lee.

So...what exactly happened that year?

Chapter 75 The chaotic school newspaper office

After class, he returned to the school newspaper office. Elijah Lee never showed up again. Moon asked Ken O'Gorman with some curiosity, but O'Gorman only said that Li had other tasks and was transferred away. .Moon felt that he was hiding something intentionally, so he did not continue to ask questions and began to sort out the submissions in the submission box at the door.

After a while, after Ken O'Gorman left the school newspaper office to pick up dinner, Ekel Weaving walked over silently, put a note on Moon's desk, and gave it to him. Showing the parchment handed over by Sirius, "I need to withhold this temporarily. You can read the contents. I copied the details on the piece of paper for your use."

"Thank you." Moon glanced up at the writing on the parchment, then at the Uygur-written content on the note, and then nodded, "You can keep the parchment as a souvenir."

"..." Ekel Weaving glanced at Munn sideways, put the parchment away with a cold expression, and went back to sit down.

Moon smiled silently, lowered his head and quickly memorized the key contents of the lost and found items. Then he casually stuffed the note into the pile of manuscripts like other manuscripts.

Ouroboros Mark, Metalwork, Gar Fuller, Lost.

Parchment is something that doesn't matter. If Ekel Weaving likes it, Munn can give him a few more bundles - the lost and found items on it are what Munn really needs.

Since being entrusted as the contact between Sirius, the Shafiq Family Intelligence Network, and Professor Dumbledore, Moon has relied on the school newspaper to create a set of codes for transmitting confidential information.After a period of use, this set of passwords, which are completely using Muggle methods and do not use any magical means, has completely proved its reliability.

Because after wizards intercept letters and messages, the first thing they think of is always to use a wand to remove the possible magic on them in order to see the real information hidden.In the entire British wizarding world, it would be difficult to find another person who used such complicated Muggle methods to conceal the true message.After all, most wizards know very little about the Muggle world, and in this case, Muggle methods work wonders.

In fact, the lost and found article that Moon asked Hesper to publish in the school newspaper was also the same "fake news" used to convey news, although there was almost no similarity between that lost and found article and this one. ——This is because the two messages are delivered to different people, so they use two completely different codebooks.

First of all, the real lost and found items can be contacted by everyone in the school newspaper office, but since he created this password, Moon has made a distinction in private.He removed himself, Gal, Arlin, and Cedric from the lost and found contacts. In other words, if the lost and found items were really posted by classmates and professors, then the contacts would only be people other than Mu. Apart from the four people in En's dormitory, only the secret information released through the school newspaper will leave their four names.

In this way, as long as they see the contact name on the lost and found property, Sirius and the others will know whether it is a password.

Then, Moon's name represents the "announcement message", that is, the message that needs to be viewed by everyone; Gal's name plus the text with numbers represents the message sent by Sirius. If there are no numbers, it will be It means a message to be sent to Sirius; similarly, Cedric's name corresponds to the Shafiq family's intelligence network, and Arlin's name corresponds to Professor Dumbledore.

In addition, except for Munn himself, the other three parties only have part of the codebook they need. All messages are encrypted and handed over to Munn for interpretation. They are then re-encrypted in the corresponding way, and then re-encrypted through lost and found items or school newspaper articles, How the letter is sent - which one is used depends on the length of the message.

The metalwork means that the third code book under the name "Gar Fuller" is used for interpretation, the Ouroboros mark represents the method of encryption use, and the loss means that it needs to be interpreted in reverse order...

Moon took out a notebook from the drawer and started flipping through it slowly.

The message he asked Hesper to send out at that time was to tell the intelligence network to temporarily pass the follow-up message to Sirius and to pay attention to the message from his uncle Edgar.And the first word in the news delivered by Sirius was Edgar Shafiq.

It seems that this news has more weight than he thought...

About half an hour later, Ken O'Gorman returned to the school newspaper office with two large boxes of food. What was unexpected was that Violet was following him, and Violet's hands were also wet. He was carrying a very familiar snack box - if Moon remembered correctly, it seemed to be one of the set of food boxes in Gal's dormitory for "getting" midnight snacks from the kitchen.

"I just happened to meet him on the road. This little girl said she wanted to come over to paint, so I asked her to come with her." Ken O'Gorman said to Ekel Weaving while glancing at Moon and Weir. Li Te, with an inexplicable understanding smile on her face, "So I let Fox take her share of the meal directly. They must know what Munn likes to eat better than us."

Wei Wen glared at O'Gorman, then strode to Moon's desk, and said in a deep voice to Violet, who was obviously a little nervous: "Open the food box - open every layer."

Violet looked at Munn at a loss, and when she saw Munn nodded, she pulled out the food boxes layer by layer and placed them flat on the table.

"Here, there's nothing, just meat and meat and meat." Moon came to the bear stall and said, "Are you relieved?"

Wei Wen frowned, suddenly pulled out his wand, and waved lightly at the food on the table, "The secret message is flying!"

The four food boxes lined up in a row stayed there steadily, without even trembling. The pies cut in half were stacked on top of each other with their mouths wide open, as if they were talking to Ekel Weaving. Laughing silently.

"Little girl, go to your seat." Ekel Weaving put away his wand and said, "You two are not allowed to have any other contact tonight unless you greet me in advance and under my supervision."

"Her name is Violet Evelina. If you don't call her 'little girl', you can call her Evelina." Moon sat back in his seat and placed the dinner in front of him. "In addition, you Don't worry, we won't have any other contact tonight - what you said is really strange."

Wei Wenquan pretended not to hear a word. After watching Violet return to her seat, he went over to have a hasty dinner with O'Gorman.

I have to say that Gal's food box is really useful. With the blessing of the Warming and Preservation Charms, this dinner is no different from what he usually eats in the auditorium.The dinner Violet picked was also very good, all the things he usually eats.

It was not in vain that she sat around him at the dinner table every day.

Moon chewed the pie, looked up at Violet who was sitting quietly drawing, and couldn't help but laugh.

The pronunciation of Ekel Weaving's flying curse just now is really not standard - unfortunately, Violet is not that stupid.

Violet two years ago knew how not to cry or make a fuss after being kidnapped, and calmly told all the information she had. She was even more stable than the average third- and fourth-grade wizard. Now Violet How could he use such an idiotic method to secretly convey the message in front of the Aurors?

Just kidding, Violet is very good at killing [Note 1].

He lowered his head and continued to eat the lamb chops and pie. Unexpectedly, his smile just now fell completely in Ken O'Gorman's eyes.

Ken O'Gorman didn't know Legilimency, so he naturally didn't know what Moon was thinking, so the knowing brother-like smile on his face began to turn into a weird aunt's smile.

Childhood sweethearts, so nice...

O'Gorman spit out the bones of the chicken wings to the side, and his own childhood sweetheart came to mind involuntarily - at that time, he and she were both in the first grade, one was Gryffindor, the other was Hufflepuff; It's all about Quidditch and magic, and one of them can't put it down while holding flowers and plants in his hands every day.As a result, because everyone took Potions class together, by the end of the first year, the two of them could already get off the Hogwarts Express hand in hand.

Well, it turned out that as soon as the second grade started, the whole school knew that they were in love, and the professor even talked to him specifically, telling him not to hold hands with others openly in school.

When Ken O'Gorman saw the two little wizards Moon and Violet today, he immediately recalled these youthful past events.

How should I put it, just...fortunately his childhood sweetheart is now his wife, otherwise he would be very envious now.

O'Gorman chuckled, and the pumpkin juice in his hand seemed to have become a lot sweeter.

"Hmm... it tastes really bad." He took a sip of the pumpkin juice and frowned immediately. Well, the feeling was just a feeling after all.He didn't like drinking pumpkin juice when he was at Hogwarts, and he didn't like it even more after graduation.

Ekel Weaving raised his head and glanced at O'Gorman. Without saying anything, he raised his head and swallowed all of his bottle of pumpkin juice.

"Do you think there's a strange smell in this pumpkin juice?" O'Gorman shook the bottle in his hand and squinted his eyes into the bottle. "Has it been drugged?"

Wei Wen gritted his teeth and uttered one word after another, "If someone added a magic potion to this pumpkin juice, it would be someone other than you."

"That makes sense." O'Gorman raised his eyebrows, closed his eyes and tried to imitate Wei Wen in drinking up the pumpkin juice, but as soon as the bottle was brought to his mouth, he put it down again, "Forget it. Just waste it, I really can’t drink this stuff.”

Just when Ekel Weaving was about to say something, there was suddenly a rush of footsteps outside the door, and they were getting closer and closer.The two Aurors looked at each other, each pulled out their wands and stood up, looking warily at the door.

The next moment, the door of the school newspaper office was suddenly pushed open. Garr ran inside like a mad dog. Behind him, Arlin was full of anger. He held his wand in his hand. Without saying a word, he just chased forward. .

"Stop!" Wei Wen frowned and raised his hand to stop the two of them. "What are you doing?!"

Ogman was stunned for a moment, then looked at Violet thoughtfully, only to find that Violet was also looking at Gal and Arlin curiously. When he looked at Munn again, Munn was doing the same. He looked up at his two roommates, but the expressions on their faces were full of helplessness.

"Ahem -" Gal stood still awkwardly, his feet still secretly moving away from Yaerlin "-he ran after me, he ran after me, subconsciously I ran here, sorry .”

Arlin rolled his eyes, "Why don't you tell me why I'm chasing you?"

"Then why are you chasing me?"

"Isn't it because you said I was -" Yalin's words stopped suddenly, and he pursed his lips, "Isn't it because you scolded me first?"

"You chase me after I scold you?" Gal's eyes widened.

"Nonsense, if I scold you, will you chase me?" Yaerlin showed no sign of weakness, his eyes widened even more than Gal's.

Wei Wen looked at the two people with a cold face and said, "You can go out now."

"Ah, let's go now, sorry, sorry." Gal said, walking in a circle towards the door. Yaerlin refused to relax for a moment, keeping a distance, obviously not intending to let Gal go.

The two of them just kept on guard, walked around in a circle and walked out of the school newspaper office. O'Gorman waved his wand and closed the door. When he turned back, Violet suppressed a smile and continued to draw her painting. Moon lowered his head. While looking at his book, Weiwen had already walked towards Violet suspiciously and looked at Violet's painting.

O'Gorman also walked over curiously, only to find that the painting seemed to be a man smoking. From the facial features, he looked a bit like Professor Greengrass, only much younger.

"What are you laughing at?" Weaving turned his gaze to Violet's face and asked in a deep voice.

Violet was startled for a moment, raised her head and replied cautiously: "Well, Gal and Arlin are very funny."

Wei Wen seemed to want to ask something else, but the next moment, a "bang -" sound came from the window of the school newspaper office.The three people in the room turned and looked over together, with only Weaving still staring at Violet.

There was a ball of snow on the glass window. It was obvious that a little wizard who was having a snowball fight had just smashed the snowball over and made a sound.

"It's a snowball." O'Gorman was about to say, "It's not a big problem," when another snowball hit the window of the school newspaper office in front of him.

Moon stood up and strode to the window. O'Gorman patted Weiwen on the shoulder, and Weiwen quickly followed.

In the open space downstairs outside the window, two identical red-haired twins were waving toward the window with playful faces.

"It's Fred and George." Moon said, and then added to the two Aurors: "Weasley children, twins."

After saying that, he opened the window and shouted down: "Don't throw it away! Otherwise I will send a letter to Mrs. Weasley!"

The snowballs that the twins were eager to try were thrown down. The two looked at each other and ran away again laughing.

Moon closed the window and looked back at Wei Wen, who was standing next to him. "You don't think there's something wrong with them just because they threw two snowballs. They both always like to do this kind of thing."

Wei Wen ignored him and turned away from the window with a straight face - he always felt that there was something wrong, but he couldn't find any problem. When the two little wizards rushed in, the little witch named Evelina was obviously I was a little curious, and the Weasley boys really only threw two snowballs and did nothing else...

There must be a problem.

He glanced at Ken O'Gorman who started eating again, turned away unhappy, and decided to just stare at the two little wizards in the room until the little witch left.

However, Moon and Violet actually kept doing their own thing. It wasn't until the time was almost up that Violet packed up the paintings and packed all the bags, then walked over and picked up Munn's already packed bags. food box, and walked out of the school newspaper office under Wei Wen's scrutinizing gaze.

Moon was still flipping through the book. During the following period, he was like a stone statue, sitting there all the time. Except for occasionally turning the pages of the book, he didn't even make any extra movements.