Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

Ekel Weaving pursed his lips tightly and stared at Moon for a long time. Finally, he took a deep breath and walked out of the school newspaper office silently.

Ken O'Gorman shook his head helplessly and followed him out. As soon as he went out, he heard a portrait scolding Ekel Weaving, "You have no quality! You actually ordered it in a school full of children." cigarette!"

Weiwen lit up the cigarette as usual, then glanced at O'Gorman and nodded lightly.

"Ha, if I didn't come out with you, I'm afraid you wouldn't even bother to nod your head, right?" O'Gorman leaned on the railing and raised his eyebrows, "As for that? Even if you hate Edgar, it's a big deal. There’s no need to do this to a 13-year-old wizard... right?"

"It's my duty to monitor Moon Fox." Wei Wen stood under the candlelight and hid his face in the shadow of the light.

"I admit that I did let it go." O'Gorman sighed. "I found out that Professor Greengrass was teaching the Defense Against the Dark Arts class here, so I wanted to go over and see if Professor Greengrass happened to be in that class. Yes, but all I think is that it’s better for me to go than for you to go. At least if I go, that kid can relax a little bit. If you go, you will definitely sit next to him with a straight face for the whole class."

"But that time with Elijah, I really wanted to use this method to make Elijah retreat. The reason I told you at that time for letting Elijah go was my sincerity. Even if you let me drink a bottle of vomit The real agent says it again, and I say the same thing.”

"Then what?" Wei Wen's voice was still low, "Why are you saying this all of a sudden?"

Chapter 76 Night Battle

With only a little dim light, Ken O'Gorman could only see the calmness of an ancient stagnant lake on Ekel Weaving's face.

He suddenly became speechless.

"...Nothing, just talking casually."

Ekel Weaving did not continue to reply. He smoked the cigarette held between his fingers one after another. In the windless corridor, the smoke spread freely, completely covering Weaving's face.

After a long time, until the entire cigarette burned to the end, Wei Wen shook the remaining cigarette butt in his hand, and the dim light on the cigarette butt was completely extinguished. He finally spoke again, "They must have conveyed the news. I think they used that The girl's painting probably took some time to write something on the painting, and then covered it with new paint - guess, who are the girl's accomplices? Those two little wizards from Hufflepuff? Or the Weasley twins?"

"If I had to choose one of these two, I guess it would be the Weasley twins. When the two roommates from Fox came in, the girl was really curious." O'Gorman put his hand on the handrail of the stairs. He rubbed it boredly, "Unless every 13-year-old wizard here is like the Moon Fox who is staying inside now, otherwise, that expression doesn't seem to be fake."

"But when the Weasley twins were throwing snowballs, the Shafiq boy got up before us and walked to the window first." Weaving held the cigarette butt and walked out from under the candlelight.

O'Gorman stood up straight and said with a wry smile: "So I think you are thinking too much. The girl probably didn't send any news to Moon Fox at all."

"I don't think so." Wei Wen said the last words softly, then turned around and walked to the door of the school newspaper office, pushing the door open and entering.

Munn is still reading, and even his posture has hardly changed. Compared with when the two left, the only two things in the room that have changed are the number of pages turned in the book in Munn's hand, and the body of Munn. The angle between the table and the table was a few degrees smaller. I guess I adjusted my sitting posture slightly midway.

Wei Wen stared at Munn for two seconds. Seeing that Munn seemed to have no intention of choking him, he returned to his seat and sat down.

On the other side, Sirius was staring at the note sent by Violet in his hand, and was quickly deciphering the code book in front of him.

He didn't like Moon's weird way of delivering messages from the beginning. If Professor Dumbledore hadn't strongly praised it, he wouldn't have wanted to make everything so complicated.For him, just being able to use a few code words in the key information in the letter was already a very difficult task.

Fortunately, he has never been a mother-in-law person. Since he decided to use it, he still worked hard to think about this thing.

"Let...the leather shop...transfer...the word is, uh, it should be Golov. Then...use, Friday, werewolf." In the past two months, he has been pulled bald. The quill was thrown aside by Sirius. He closed the ink cap with satisfaction and tore the note in his hand in half, leaving only the last undecipherable short line below - that was to be handed over to The leather shop was the intelligence network of the Shafiq family. He was really too lazy to copy the contents above again. Anyway, the secret letter originally said to be forwarded.

In fact, Ekel Weaving's feeling tonight was not wrong - there was indeed a problem with Violet's arrival, and one of the two chaos was indeed problematic, but other than these two points, he had almost everything Everything was wrong.

There was a transfer of information in the school newspaper office tonight, but it was not from Violet to Moon, but from Moon to Violet.

In the Charms class, Violet did point to the note between the two books, but that was not what Violet wanted to say to Moon - in fact, no matter how she thought about it, It was almost impossible for Violet to have any news to pass on to Moon, because Sirius had already made the trip himself.Therefore, the actual meaning of that action was that Violet wanted to tell Munn that she would come to help Munn pass on the information.What's more, just as Munn thought, Violet was not stupid enough to deliver a message to Munn in front of the Aurors in a stupid way that could be easily detected by the Aurors.

And this is Violet's cleverness. Through Moon's disappearance and the angry arrival of the Auror, she thought that Munn might have tried to escape from the Auror's surveillance in order to communicate with the outside world, and then quickly He realized that under the conditions that it was just Tuesday, Moon, who could not rely on his friends in the school newspaper office, would find it difficult to convey information to the outside world.

So, she first signaled Moon with a blank note in class, and then found the Weasley twins - it was obviously not surprising that these two pranksters would do something like smashing snowballs against the windows. .And their appearance can not only attract the attention of the Aurors, but also allow Moon to move legitimately, so that he can make some small moves.

Of course, there are loopholes in this. Obviously, if the Aurors have to check the food box again when they leave, the secret will be revealed.This is why Violet went to find Gal and Arlin again. In order to ensure that she would not make mistakes due to poor acting skills, she specifically told Gal and Arlin to make any trouble, as long as they did not Just tell yourself their plans.

Yes, the curiosity is real, and the want to laugh is also real. Violet honestly did not expect that Gal and Arlin were so bold, knowing that there were several Aurors in the school newspaper office, but they still rushed in sullenly.In fact, this link came from the joint discussion between Cedric, Garr, and Arlin. The three of them decided to fake it, so Cedric was responsible for the fire, and Garr and Arlin had a serious confrontation. They started scolding each other. Anyway, the two of them were in a good state, as long as Yaerlin fully displayed his poisonous tongue.

In addition, Violet also deliberately pointed the drawing board at Moon when drawing, and made sure that she looked up at the two Aurors from time to time. All of this was to create a good relationship between the two Aurors. An idea - this little girl is trying her best to whisper to Moon Fox.

If she had already accomplished this step, but the two Aurors still planned to check the food box again when she left, she would have no choice but to leave the rest to Moon.

Fortunately, the Aurors did not check the food box again. Of course, it was useless to check, because it was not until when she was packing up her painting supplies that Violet finally discovered that Moon did not use the food box to convey the message, but He used a magical method to leave two lines of code words on his backpack strap that were completely confusing [Note 1].

Thus, this piece of information was passed to Sirius.

When Ekel Weaving was full of guesses, Moon took advantage of Violet's visit to fool him again.

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Also on this night.

In a remote forest near the coastline in Devon, an old crow was looking quietly into the distance on a tree branch.

This place is inaccessible, and usually very few people would go deep into the woods throughout the year - but today was an exception.

With a slight explosion, a figure first appeared under the tree, followed by two more explosions, followed by two figures, and suddenly appeared behind the man.The old crow was obviously frightened. After croaking twice, it immediately flapped its wings and flew into the sky.

The leading man raised his wand, but was stopped by one of the two people who appeared later. "Don't be impulsive, Mad-Eye, that's not a watcher."

Dedalo Dige, who was standing aside, breathed a sigh of relief and stopped trying to recite a spell. However, he still held the wand tightly and looked around nervously. "Mad-Eye, are you sure it's just you and me?" Is three people with Ephias enough?”

"I'm sure, you idiot." Alastor Moody glared at Di Ge and said in a rough voice. At the same time, he waved his wand and shot down the crow. "It's not a watcher, but there are It might disturb the watcher, Ephias."

Effias Dorje sighed helplessly and said nothing more.

The moonlight passed through the leaves on the treetops, reflecting Moody's face - his face looked like it was carved out of a piece of rotten wood. Deep wrinkles and various wounds could be seen everywhere on it, including the corners of his mouth and his eyes. Lips, forehead, bridge of nose...not to mention his two completely different eyes. The eye that belongs to him is dark and small, and his eyes always look a little too urgent; the fake eye that does not belong to him The other one is too huge, with a bright blue color, and it keeps spinning up and down, left and right, and is a bit scarier than the other real eye.

And in fact, even if you ignore these wrinkles and wounds, Alastor Moody's appearance is definitely not good-looking.The lion has a wide mouth and a broad nose, and its face is serious and ferocious, making people feel a little intimidated at first glance.If an ordinary child of three or five years old saw it, he would probably be so frightened that he would not be able to speak fluently.

However, it is this fierce man with gray hair who is the best Auror in recent years - of course, now he is a "former Auror", yes, he has retired.

"We have made a fuss in Cornwall, and we hope to gain more here." Before he started to move forward, Di Ge said again, "But if you think about it carefully, there may be countless people hidden here. The dark wizard of the Crow Party, I can't help but hope that we can defeat him again."

"The dark wizards of the Crow Party are also dark wizards, there is no difference." Moody snorted, moved his wooden prosthetic leg a little, and began to lead the two of them towards their destination.

Di Ge obviously wanted to say something more, but obviously, now was no longer a good time to speak, so he immediately breathed lightly, followed Moody, and paid attention to the movement on the side.

After walking for more than three hundred meters, the wind gradually became stronger. Through the dense trees, a swaying light of fire could be seen in the distance. It looked like a fire lit in the open space.The three Order members immediately became more cautious, and even their steps became slower.

At this moment, a scarlet flash suddenly flashed from not far ahead. Moody quickly swiped his wand, and the air in front of him seemed to form a solid wall for an instant - and then was violently slammed into him the next second. It exploded with a loud noise.

"They found us! They're here!" Dorje shouted, pointing his wand to the side, and a tree that was obviously not young exploded, revealing the figure hiding behind it.

The long black robes were painted with dim patterns that looked like layers of feathers, and there was a real crow feather pinned to the collar. There was no doubt that the people who ambushed them were the dark wizards of the Crow Party. .

"Withstand their offensive! Reinforcements will arrive soon!" Moody waved two magic spells forward and took the time to raise his wand and fired a red spark into the sky.

"Ha! We still have reinforcements?!" Di Ge's behavior at this time was completely different from what he said before - the battle had just started, and he had already thrown out seven or eight explosive spells, blocking the people in front of him. Everything was blown to pieces.

Moody once again held up an air wall in front of him to resist the curse. As the magic eye continued to rotate, he quickly locked onto an enemy and used the air wall to block the incoming curse. The black wizard was knocked away directly. "Of course! You idiot!"

"I have to say it! Alastor!" Di Ge held the wand in one hand and held his wrist tightly with the other hand. His wand suddenly trembled crazily.A long and complex spell sounded, and Moody and Duoji immediately reacted and worked together to form a shining golden shield in front of Di Ge.

Two seconds later, a huge flash of light came on. Moody and Dorje had expected it and closed their eyes. After the flash, violent flying sand and rocks accompanied by air waves swept across a distance of 300 meters nearby. .The crackling sounds of resistance, the sounds of curses, and the screams of the black wizards of the Crow Party were almost completely covered up by the sound of the explosion, making them undetectable.

"This is, uh, the best news I've heard tonight!" Di Ge breathed heavily, raised his hand and forced a dark wizard who had withstood his spell attack back behind the tree.

"Dige, you damn lunatic!" Alastor Moody yelled and cursed loudly. While knocking another dark wizard away again, he was hit by the magic spell swung by another dark wizard from the side of his shoulder. , leaving a scorched black wound. "There are high-level officials from the Crow Party! It's Crow Fire!"

Dense black lines began to spread along Moody's injured left arm. The old Auror couldn't help but snorted and poked his own wound with his wand. As a faint white light lit up, his forehead A lot of cold sweat broke out instantly.

Duoji waved his magic wand and with a heavy blow, he turned all the broken and fallen trees around into shields and began to circle around the three of them. "How many people are there? Twenty or thirty?" ?I’m worried that there’s more than one high-level person here!”

As soon as he finished speaking, an extremely dark black light flew out from the right side of Moody. Fortunately, the spell was blocked by one of the wooden shields - in just one second, the wooden shield completely turned into a It was pitch black, its size shrunk by more than half, and it fell to the ground slumped.

"So where are our reinforcements?!" Di Ge used his wand to deflect a cutting spell, but was cut into a deep wound on his face by another cutting spell, and even took away his high top. Hat "Ephias is right, there are at least thirty of them, and even now there are at least nearly twenty! But there is definitely only one high-level person——"

Under the cover of the wooden shield, Di Singer pointed his wand straight forward and used more than a dozen wooden thorns to push back the two dark wizards who were constantly advancing and launching an offensive. "Otherwise, the three of us would have been doomed long ago. Got it!"

"Bang -" Moody cast a barrier spell with a large range, sweeping away everything in front of him. At the same time, he also shook away several dark wizards who had approached. He faced the most people here, and the attack He is also the most powerful. If he hadn't been strong enough, he would probably have had more than just a wound on his body by now.But the problem is that, weighed down by the wounds caused by Crow Fire, he is starting to feel a little powerless now.

After once again freezing a Crow Party black wizard with a freezing spell, a swift black light suddenly went straight to Moody's forehead. Dorje noticed this with his peripheral vision and quickly blocked Moody with his last wooden shield. .But the wooden shield that had successfully blocked the crow fire was almost defenseless in front of the black light this time. It was pierced by the black light in an instant. Moody did not dare to raise his eyebrows. He shouted "Short body" and then took the lead to attack He ducked down and managed to avoid the powerful black light.

At the same time, Di Ge quickly lowered his head and went down. As a result, at this moment, someone in the direction he was facing screamed: "Avada Kedavra!"

Di Ge was horrified for a moment, and all the hairs on his body stood up. He quickly rolled to the side, and at the same time, he waved his wand upwards, raising a wall of mud to block the position where he was standing.

The green light shone, and the invisible god of death flew along the low altitude. The next moment, the earth wall was blasted open, and large chunks of solid earth accompanied by the impact of the explosion blew both Moody and Dorje away. .

This is the best result. If Di Ge hadn't used the transformation technique to shape this wall, the death curse would have taken away the life of Effias Dorje.But this result was obviously not good enough, because the explosion obviously caused both Moody and Dorje to temporarily lose their ability to resist attacks.

Just when Di Ge was in a panic, a bright cry rang out, followed closely by an eagle falling from the sky, landing right between the three of them, and transformed into a witch with bright red hair.

Before Di Ge could recognize who the witch was, she had already waved her wand and used a beautiful armor spell to deflect the two crushing spells coming straight towards Moody.

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[Note 1] From the Moon Book page. Sketch utility in magic trick spells. Sketch, the noun can be translated as sketch and sketch, and the verb can be translated as overview and brief description.This effect can leave a two-dimensional image on the surface of an object or any entity. The effect lasts for one hour and has a maximum casting range of 3 meters.

Chapter 77 Salvation

The night was closing, and the moonlight had been obscured by clouds. Di Ge looked at the unfamiliar red-haired witch in front of him, and was a little confused for a moment - he didn't recognize who this person was, but he had some suspicions in his heart.

Just when he was helping Duoji withstand the attack and was about to ask, the red-haired witch had already stepped forward to help Moody and said loudly: "I am Nora Shafik, Golov Shafik My wife, on the way here just now, I saw a few people coming here, they should be your people, please work harder! Hold on! Edgar is not here, you can do whatever you want!"

"Thank you--" Moody, who had just been helped up, quickly left Nora's side, and while he hurriedly thanked Nora, he still kept a vigilant look at Nora, and by the way, he threw out a bright fire and exploded. Killed two enemies.

The battle is still going on, although just having one more Nora cannot make them switch from defense to offense, but no matter what, as a powerful witch, Nora has indeed relieved a lot of pressure for them.And more importantly, Nora's arrival became a signal, a signal that they could no longer try to capture these three people.Therefore, the dark wizards of the Crow Party began to deliberately slow down their offensive and seemed to be preparing to evacuate.

This is undoubtedly good news for Moody and others. On the one hand, they can take advantage of the momentum to pursue them. On the other hand, the dark wizards actively reduced their offensive and began to retreat in all directions, which also greatly eased their pressure - in the recent In the explosion, Moody and Dorje were somewhat injured.

Tens of seconds later, just as Nora cooperated with Di Ge to tie up a black wizard of the Crow Party with a rope conjured by a spell, a silver goat patron saint rushed to the three of them and opened his mouth: "Eh. Deqa Shafiq is not here, we will be there soon.”

The expressions of Moody and others were refreshed. The dark wizards of the Crow Party completely realized that there was nothing they could do. The spells that had been flying from time to time stopped at this moment, and then, there were loud explosions one after another.There is no doubt that this group of people all chose to leave quickly through apparation one after another.

Except for Nora, who arrived late, among the remaining three, Moody was the most seriously injured, but he still wanted to catch up and leave a few people behind.Fortunately, the state of Duoji and Dige still made him stop and did not continue to pursue.

Di Ge let out a long breath, grinned and sat on the ground, took out the white essence from his waist and applied it to the wounds on his body; Duoji also panted heavily. He was the least injured, but after all, he was a little old. At this moment His physical condition is not much better than Moody's.

Nora looked at the three people, thought about it, and decided to stay here for a few more minutes until the owner of the goat patron saint came over before leaving.

"You are from the Order of the Phoenix, right?" Nora looked at the three of them, and finally set her sights on Alastor Moody. "Alastor Moody?"

"Hmph -" Moody snorted in response. His magic eye stared at Nora's face for three seconds before finally turning elsewhere. At this time, Moody finally spoke: "What happened to Golov Shafiq's leg?"

Nora frowned, and then realized that Moody was probably still confirming her identity.She sighed helplessly in her heart at the former Auror's excessive caution and paranoia, and answered, "He was cursed when he was a child. Two dark wizards with the highest magic power wanted to kill Gorlov's mother in revenge for her accusation. Golov, although he narrowly escaped, but the curse of one of them still made him a cripple forever."

Moody nodded slightly, then took out his curved wine bottle from his waist and took a sip. "Dumbledore said you won't be able to come back until at least tomorrow."

"The situation has changed." Nora flipped up her long fiery red hair and shook out some dead leaves with floating snow - all of which fell from the trees into her hair during the brief encounter just now. I met a few acquaintances and they managed to give me a ride, saving me the boring time of waiting for and taking the boat.”

"Did you break into the country illegally?" Moody raised his eyebrows. "Oh, no, you probably reported it before."

"Of course." Nora smiled, and just when she was about to speak again, two more people were already running over from the other side of the forest: a man and a woman. The man running in front had a long hair that made him look very tough. She has long gray hair that looks like wire, is tall and thin, and wears a pair of glasses on the bridge of her nose. The blue eyes behind the lenses are full of impatience and helplessness.The woman following behind looked much gentler. Her long dark brown hair was simply tied up behind her back, as if to prevent messy hair from running around. She even wore a simple black headband.

"Aberforth, how's the situation?" As soon as the two people rushed over, Moody strode over with a prosthetic leg. Di Ge and Dorje also stood up to follow. Nora thought for a while and headed over there as well. She took two steps closer, but stopped halfway - after all, she was not from the Order of the Phoenix. If a few people wanted to say something private, she was obviously not suitable to surround them and listen.

However, the newcomers Aberforth Dumbledore and Emmeline Vance seemed not to deliberately hide anything. After confirming Nora's identity to Moody, Aberforth immediately said bluntly: "Over there -" he pointed to the north "-I received some news that Edgar Shafiq has been rescued, but to be honest, he and I both felt that Edgar was probably rescued. He just threw it away because he was hit by some evil curse and he is half-dead now. By the way, he seems to have been tortured by the Cruciatus Curse for a long time, of course, there is nothing surprising about this."

"Oh, by the way, the person who 'picked up' Edgar Shafik is a member of the Shafiq family, but he has probably been taken away by Aurors now."

Hearing this, Moody and Dige couldn't help but look back at Nora. Seeing Nora nodded slightly, they understood that it was because Nora knew this that she told them about Ed. Plus not here.

"So, why are you here?" Duoji rubbed his waist and asked curiously, "Shouldn't you go back to Shafiq Manor directly?"

"When I learned that Edgar had been found, I also learned that people from your Order of the Phoenix were looking for traces of Edgar in Devon County. So after having a general understanding of your search area, I I rushed over immediately to prevent you from encountering any danger or missing out again." Nora explained, "Fortunately, everyone is fine. Thank you very much for Edgar's incident."

"No thanks." Aberforth waved his hand, "Sirius' matter was completed so smoothly thanks to the help of your family, not to mention that Edgar Shafiq seems to have a lot of secrets. , even if there is no such relationship, we will try our best to find him to avoid any problems."

Nora smiled politely and nodded, and then said to a few people: "Anyway, everyone doesn't have any big problems, so I'll leave first. I'm afraid there are still many things at home waiting for me to help deal with them. "

"Yes." The five members of the Order of the Phoenix nodded together, watching Nora apparate away from here, and then began to discuss how to clean up the mess here.

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"Hey, wake up, wake up!"

Moon slowly opened his eyes and looked at Ken O'Gorman in front of him with confusion. Then he picked up the pocket watch on the chair next to him and looked at the time - three o'clock in the morning.

"Your uncle was found by a couple in Somerset County. He has been sent to St. Mungo's by Aurors. You quickly get dressed and I will send you to St. Mungo's now." O'Gorman's expression was different. It doesn't look good, and there is hesitation in his eyes.Moon looked at him, nodded slowly, and then began to put on his clothes silently.

Ekel Weaving stood by the door with an indescribable look on his face, not knowing what he was thinking.He held an unlit cigarette between his fingers. At this time, he had kneaded it over and over again, causing a lot of broken tobacco leaves to scatter on the ground. The paper roll was almost a quarter empty.

"Where are Hesper and Quaid?" After putting on his clothes, Moon picked up his backpack and asked calmly, "Will they be sent back by other Aurors or will they be brought here to go with me?"

"They should be on their way over. Professor Dumbledore has opened the permissions. We will use the portkey to go to St. Mungo's together later." O'Gorman hesitated for a moment and then said: "Your uncle's state... seems... It’s not good, I hope you can try to calm down later.”

As he spoke, he glanced at Ekel Weaving by the door, and the meaning of his words was obviously very obvious.

"Don't worry, I won't vent my anger on others." Moon shook his head, then sat on the edge of the small bed he had been using temporarily for the past few days and began to think.

The news he sent to Sirius through Violet's hand in the evening asked him to help deliver the information to the leather shop, and finally asked Uncle Golov to tell him what exactly happened that year, because it was obvious that no matter Ed What happened to Uncle Jia's disappearance? Something must have happened in the process. What happened in the process was probably related to what happened back then, and it also caused Ekel Weaving's inexplicable pain and self-blame. The true source of emotion.

But obviously, things don't always go as planned. Now, all this is no longer needed. When he gets to St. Mungo's, he can personally ask Uncle Golov what happened back then.

However, this does not mean that everything before was wasted.

From Professor Dumbledore, he learned the content and reasons of the conversation between Professor Greengrass and Uncle Edgar; during the period of being monitored by Aurors, he also learned about an incident that had happened that year Son, led to the death of Ecker's friend, Eric Lee, and gave birth to Ecker's hatred for Uncle Edgar.

And with the new news from Sirius, he even learned that the person who captured Uncle Edgar was the dark wizard of the Crow Party - what happened to Uncle Edgar and the Auror named Eric back then. the root of.Without the surveillance of the Aurors, he might be able to learn this information faster and more smoothly, but it might also become more difficult, and he might even miss some information, especially related to Ekel Weaving. of those.