Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

"Please note—" Hermione raised her face and corrected Ron sternly, "—Hedwig is Harry's pet, not your pet. You don't have a pet."

"..." Ron, who was stabbed in the heart by an arrow, could no longer resist, and could only forcefully maintain his disgusted expression. Although what Hermione said... was indeed true, but as a human being, you have to be a little persistent, right? .

Harry, who had long been accustomed to the bickering between Ron and Hermione, had no choice but to wait until the two of them had finished speaking, and then answered Moon's previous question, "Actually... I have a question, uh, to ask. Give it a try, Moon."

"Tell me about it?" Moon looked at Harry curiously. He didn't know what the problem was with this little boy who had enjoyed half a semester's happy time, but he actually asked him to come to the school newspaper office to ask himself.

Harry scratched his head, "That's right, Malfoy wants to ask me for a midnight duel, but I haven't mastered a few spells yet... Originally, I wanted to go to Sirius to see if he had any quick duel spells. Yes, but Sirius has no class today and no one is in the lounge, so I came over."

He looked at Munn uneasily, fearing that Munn would reject him.

Ron and Hermione also looked at Munn, but they had different ideas. Ron thought that if Munn agreed, he could also learn from him; Hermione was full of expectations. Moon heard the answer of rejection - in fact, she had vowed to tell Harry and Ron before that Moon would definitely reject this request because she did not believe that the founder of the school newspaper, who had always abided by school rules, would actually take the lead in helping them. Violation of school rules.

"Midnight duel?" Moon looked at the three of them one by one. He did remember that Harry and Malfoy did have a midnight duel in the original book, but if his memory was correct, it should have been before Christmas, which was exactly the same time. In that midnight duel, Malfoy tricked Harry and the others, which allowed the three of them to meet the three-headed dog Fluffy for the first time.

There is neither the Philosopher's Stone nor the big three-headed dog in Hogwarts at the moment. Even Malfoy is much more restrained than in the original book. Moon thought this would never happen again.Unexpectedly, Malfoy and Harry still engaged in this midnight duel. I just didn't know if Malfoy would not go on his own like in the original book, but secretly betrayed Harry and the others to Filch.

Under the eyes of the three people with different thoughts, Moon blinked and closed the book in his hand. "Why are you two first-year students dueling? Are you shooting sparks at each other?"

Harry blushed, Ron couldn't help laughing, and Hermione spread her hands helplessly - it seemed that the three of them thought the same thing.

"I can teach you some spells, but you'd better not go to the midnight duel. I'll find someone to tell Malfoy." Moon waved his hand. "The motto of Gryffindor is to be brave, not to be reckless and stupid. Think about it, Harry, if Filch catches you, you will all be screwed, and your house's Quidditch team may have to lose all the points they have worked so hard to win on the pitch."

Hearing Moon's answer, Hermione was overjoyed. Sure enough, just as she said, Moon did not agree to their stupid midnight duel; Ron was also very happy because Moon agreed to let them learn spells. ask.

Only Harry looked at his shoes dejectedly, then raised his head and tried to resist, "But I am confident that Filch will not find out."

——It seems that Professor Dumbledore gave Harry the invisibility cloak as a Christmas gift.

Moon looked at Harry and suddenly realized, "I know, you have promised Malfoy, so you think it would be very... if you don't go, right?"

Harry nodded helplessly. Just as Moon said, facing Malfoy's provocation, he agreed immediately.

"That's easy." Moon bent his fingers and tapped the table lightly. Hedwig looked at Moon's fingers curiously, and seemed to have the urge to go up and take a bite. "You guys can have a formal duel."

Among the three confused faces, only Hedwig sneaked close to Moon's finger.

"A formal duel?" Harry blinked his big emerald green eyes, "The professors will never agree..."

"They are just two first-year wizards. The professors will agree. I will help you solve this matter, but you have to wait for half a month and come back to the duel at the end of January - just in time you can take advantage of this period. It’s time to learn a few more spells, right?” Moon smiled and said, “How about this proposal?”

Harry and Hermione were both happy because all their expectations had been met. Harry didn't have to worry about missing the appointment and losing face, and Hermione no longer had to worry about her two friends using "Gryffindor House Points". The disappearing spell".Ron seemed to have thought of something and his eyes widened.

"Merlin's beard, the end of January? Moon, are you talking about..."

"That's right." Moon nodded happily, "That's it, the Hogwarts Four-wizard Tournament. I will arrange an exhibition match for you then. You can invite a teammate - don't look for me. Even if it is an exhibition match, I will I won’t allow anyone from the school newspaper’s office to play.”

Unlike Ron, who was already "ecstatic", Harry and Hermione looked confused. They had never heard of the "Hogwarts Four-wizard Tournament". After all, it was still more than half a month before the start of the tournament. , the young wizards at Hogwarts have not yet begun to discuss the Four Wizards Tournament.

"Ha! I've heard from Percy and the others about the Four-wizard Tournament a long time ago." Ron waved his fist vigorously, "I want to participate this year too! To be honest, I was worried that it wouldn't be held this year!"

Just after he said these two sentences excitedly, Ron, who noticed the confused looks on the faces of his two friends, immediately explained to them what the Four Wizards Tournament was.Seeing that Ron seemed to be in a state of nonsense due to excitement, Moon could only cough twice, "Ahem, I suggest you go back and talk. It's already very late. If you don't go back to the common room, , I'm afraid Mr. Filch will be happy to see you in the corridor."

Ron's chattering stopped abruptly. The three little guys looked at me and I looked at you. They all hurriedly thanked Munn and then rushed out of the school newspaper office together.

Moon smiled and shook his head, then...

"Hiss—! Hedwig!"

The snowy owl flapped its wings and flew out through the open window. Moon helplessly looked at his regretfully injured fingers and sighed.

Stupid owl, no one will feed you next time you go to the owl tower.

Hedwig didn't know yet that she had eaten up a big meal in one bite. Of course, even if she knew, it probably wouldn't care. After all, Harry didn't often forget to feed it like Ron said, but he would still think about it. It's okay to give it some food.

The snow-white owl was like a little ghost, slowly sinking into the depths of the night.

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"I feel like I haven't seen you in the common room for a whole semester." Gal said seriously: "Of course, I know it's actually only less than a month."

After finally calming down the Hufflepuff badgers who cheered in unison to welcome his return, Moon had just sat down on the sofa when he was met with such a strange statement from Garr. He had to hold it in for a long time before spitting it out from his mouth. "Brother, there's something wrong with you."

"Okay." Gal covered his face and leaned on the sofa. "I thought you would be very touched."

"...?" Now Munn also doubted whether he had really not been back to the common room for a whole year. How could this kid Gal become so... gay?

As a result, the next moment he saw Gal standing up in a flash, and took a silver Sickle from the hands of Arlin and Cedric, with a winner's smile on his face.

"You are so thick-skinned, Gal, I really deserve you." Yaerin gritted his teeth and pinched his silver, and he reluctantly let go of his hand after saying this "praise".Cedric also looked helpless, and quietly avoided Moon's questioning gaze.

"Okay, you three, now you have the guts to start teasing me, right?" Moon smiled ferociously, stood up and strode over to Gal, and grabbed Cedric who was trying to escape. "You are so brave! Gal Fuller, I give you half of my stolen money within five seconds, otherwise you won't have any homework to copy before summer vacation!"

Gal put his hand into his pocket, and then took advantage of Moon's unpreparedness to dodge and run away quickly. At the same time, he turned around and said with a laugh: "I can still copy Cedric's! Haha! I was dumbfounded——"

"Bam—"

"Ouch!"

Under the stunned gazes of Moon, Arlin, and Cedric, before Gal could even finish his sentence, he bumped into Demi, who had just walked out of the girls' dormitory, and directly knocked Demi away. He crashed back into the girls' dormitory - and he fell in after him.

Three seconds later, a penetrating shout echoed in the Hufflepuff common room.

“Gal Fuller!!!”

Then?

Then there was no more, at least not for Gal.

Fortunately, it was not all without gain - after all, he still kept the two silver coins he had earned shamelessly.

"You guys are really not friends enough. I was pinned down and beaten by Demi for at least 10 minutes, and you didn't even say to come up and help me..." After returning to the dormitory, Gal rubbed himself and felt dizzy from being hit by the sofa cushion. head, and said angrily: "You are even still smiling there!"

Moon, who had a reasonable reason, was still laughing, and he said righteously: "What are you doing? Have you forgotten that it was you who disgusted me first?"

Gal ignored it and turned to look at Cedric and Arlin. Unexpectedly, the two people said in unison: "You won money, be satisfied!"

"Damn - there are only two Yinxicos!" Garr's face was filled with sadness. "Just two! Yinxicos!"

"Just tell me if you won my money." Yaerlin made a face at Gal. "Besides, it's not like you didn't see Demi's expression of wanting to beat you into a ghost. How dare we go up?" Stop her."

Gal's lips opened, and finally they closed weakly. After a long while, he leaned against the bedpost and said angrily: "Demi is too fierce, she is simply a dominatrix... Of course, she looks so good. She's cute, I mean she acts like a dominatrix, I don't think she'll be able to get married in the future."

"Pfft..." Munn and the other three were all amused by his angry words. Arlin shook his bottle of pumpkin soda and said half teasingly and half seriously: "Indeed, I think you want her to marry Not going out yet."

Gal didn't answer, and sat there feeling angry for more than ten seconds. Then he pulled the pillow off the bed and put it between his head and knees. He buried his head and muttered, "She won't be able to get married." , she is so good-looking and has a cheerful personality.”

Seeing that Gal had become like this again, Cedric and Arlin both shrugged helplessly. Only Moon looked at the two of them incomprehensively and asked "What's wrong?"

Cedric picked up the paper and pen from the bedside table, dipped in ink and quickly wrote a line of large words "Demi didn't give him a Christmas gift!"

When Moon saw the answer, his face was full of disbelief - he didn't think Demi would not give Gal a Christmas gift. After all, Demi's affection for Gal was real, but... Judging from Gal's behavior and just now Judging from the mix of emo and jealousy, what Cedric said is obviously true.

There is probably some misunderstanding.

Moon nodded to Cedric, indicating that he understood, and then temporarily gave up the idea of ​​comforting Gal.

When thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys have emotional problems, it is difficult for others to comfort them. Even if Gar listens to Munn, he will probably go back to bed and continue emo after being comforted by Munn, without being able to Immediately relieved, he stopped making excuses and ran to Demi to ask the reason.

But this matter can be easily solved. Just ask Violet tomorrow. Gal made it clear that he is actually having trouble with himself now - there is no doubt that he is very disappointed because he did not receive Demi's Christmas gift. I don’t want to ask Demi, and I’ve probably even been avoiding Demi for the past two days.Cedric and Arlin should have obviously tried to persuade Gal, but in the end they were probably not only rejected by Gal, but were even dragged around by Gal every day, asking them not to ask Demi.

To put it bluntly, Gal was afraid that Demi really didn't like him and didn't give him a Christmas gift. He was afraid that he would be too embarrassed and depressed after knowing the reason.

It’s not Gal’s fault, most people are like this. Once they fall in love, they become entangled and slow.

Moon smiled lightly, and then felt something was wrong.

He rubbed his hair and read the article in the Evening Prophet again.

As expected, the Evening Prophet was still adamant. First, it scolded the Nova and the Weekly News without hesitation, and then criticized the Hogwarts school newspaper by name, maintaining the image of itself and the Ministry of Magic——

According to the description of the Evening Prophet, the werewolf riot was a premeditated large-scale crime organized by dark wizards. It had nothing to do with the Ministry of Magic's decree. Instead, it proved the necessity of the new Ministry of Magic decree and proved that werewolves were all Extremely dangerous, wizard-hating.Moreover, the Ministry of Magic has searched the offices of the two newspapers, Nova News and Weekly Curiosities, but both buildings were empty.Therefore, there is no doubt that both newspapers have colluded with werewolves and dark wizards.

In addition, the Evening Prophet also criticized the school newspaper and Moon, questioning the meaning of Moon and the Shafiq family to which Moon belongs. It even bluntly wrote that "his uncle Edgar... Shafik seems to have left his post without permission during his Auror mission and failed to report what he knew." The central idea is self-evident.

The picture accompanying the article shows Cornelius Fudge standing majestically in front of the camera. His eyes are firm and he repeats the same sentence over and over again: "For this riot, all those involved will be severely punished by the Ministry of Magic." !”

After casually folding the newspaper in half and putting it aside, Moon couldn't help but shake his head.

The rebuttal was so good and so upright.

How do you say that line in "Peach Blossom Fan"?

Seeing him get up from the Zhu Building, seeing him banqueting guests, seeing his building collapsed.

It has been a full day since the two Aurors, Elijah and Clancy, left, but the Ministry of Magic still has not sent additional personnel to Hogwarts to guard Moon, Hesper, and Quaid.And judging from the letter sent by Mom An, there are only two Aurors left guarding the area around Shafiq Manor.

why?The reason is obviously that the Ministry of Magic has used all available manpower to capture werewolves and dark wizards from the Crow Party.

In this situation, Fudge still needs to cover up, but how long can he cover up?Moon can guarantee that the real "ultimate move" of the Crow Party's black wizards and werewolves has not yet been launched. They are definitely waiting for the arrival of the full moon - which is January 1th.

Moon could see it, and the smart people in the Ministry of Magic could definitely see it, and even Fudge himself could see it, but the minister obviously planned not to cry until he saw the coffin.

What can be done then?

Cover it up, continue to cover up, continue to call a deer a horse.

Next, what he has to do is to overcome the difficulties that will come later, publish his next school newspaper on time next week, knock the midfield hammer of this public opinion war, and then watch Fudge himself die in front of his own eyes The Zhulou that he built by himself was finalized after the full moon, nailing the tombstone of Fudge's ministerial career.

And before that...

It seems that he can still catch up on a few quiet days - at least he can help Gal solve the small "stumbling block" on his emotional road.

Chapter 89 The final silence

"Do we really want to publish this article?" Cedric looked at Munn. For the first time, he did not immediately support Munn's decision, but expressed his doubts. "You will be in big trouble, Muen." kindness."

Not only him, but the remaining 22 people in the school newspaper office except Munn all disagreed with Munn's decision. They all hoped that Munn could think about it again and then give up on publishing this article, which can be said to be a report between Fudge, the Ministry of Magic and the Dark Wizards. , articles dancing on the foreheads of everyone on both sides of the werewolf were posted, and even Hesper and Quaid had the same view.

After working in the school newspaper office for so long, even this group of young wizards can roughly understand the repercussions that Moon's article will cause after it is published.

"Of course we won't publish this article." Moon looked at everyone, his eyes paused on Gal and Demi who were standing next to each other, and then showed a smile, "What we are going to publish is this article. Interview with Professor Flitwick."

"So, you should go."

A few people had not yet reacted, and they immediately breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Moon's words, but the remaining people, whether it was Violet, Cedric, Gemma, Ashley, or Gabrielle Well, their eyes looking at Munn all became more worried.

"You want to change the manuscript yourself and make us all 'uninformed people', right?" Gabriel sighed and said with a wry smile: "I don't understand, Moon, you are only a third-year student. Hogwarts student, why do you have to do such a dangerous thing? The Ministry of Magic will definitely find you in trouble, and may even ban the distribution rights of the school newspaper. No matter how much you value justice and fairness, you can't do this Blatantly fighting the Ministry of Magic."

"Yes, Moon. The Daily Prophet has been satirizing you in the newspaper almost every day since Wednesday. Obviously, it has no patience with you." Garforth also tried to persuade Moon, "Your last article has been You have made many people stand on your side, and the impact of the werewolf riots is happening around them. People in my family sent me a letter two days ago, telling me that the Daily Prophet is no longer credible. If you continue to put this If an article is published, the Daily Prophet will be completely annoyed. The Nova only published one issue of the newspaper in four days, and the Weekly Oddities may not be much better, but at least they can still run. If the Ministry of Magic and the Prophet The daily newspaper accuses you of being a dark wizard, so where can you go?"

Seeing that others were still trying to persuade them, Munn raised his hand to stop everyone from continuing.

"That's why I said you should leave. In fact, you don't have to think of me so righteously. I am indeed dissatisfied with the Ministry of Magic's sloppy behavior, and I hope to alert more people. But at the same time, I also have selfish motives for doing this. , my uncle was quite hurt in this matter, and I posted this article actually to retaliate against them." Moon said lightly, "Apart from justice and justice, this matter to me, There are also personal vendettas involved. That’s why I don’t want you to get involved at all.”

"I'm not hiding it from you because I have something to tell you - I hope that when someone comes to see me tomorrow, you won't incite my classmates, and don't rush out for another issue of the school newspaper to speak out for me. This will affect you. myself, and I don’t want to see that happen.”

"After all, are you determined to publish this article?" Arlin passed Cedric and walked to the front.

"Well, I will definitely publish the article." Moon nodded candidly.

Everyone in the school newspaper office looked at me and I looked at you, and they suddenly made a decision. Gal was the first to shout loudly, "Then let's send it out together. Don't think about leaving us to do it alone!"

Everyone nodded heavily.

Moon looked at the group of friends and suddenly felt his nose was a little sore. He lowered his head and looked at the manuscript on his desk. After a few seconds, he slowly shook his head, "I'm very touched, but, no."

"Not to mention that some of you have family members who work in the Ministry of Magic. This matter will not only implicate you, but also your family members. The matter itself will also make your family members worried. , after all, this is not a trivial matter. I know you regard me as a good friend and want to share the joys and sorrows with me, but even if you don’t think about yourself, you should also think about your family, and you can’t act out of emotion, you know? "

Saying that, Moon took a deep breath and said, "Okay, stop talking. Remember, what we are going to publish in today's school newspaper is an interview with Professor Flitwick."

Gal wanted to say something more, but Cedric held him back, and Gabriel also raised his hand to hold his shoulders.Ashley looked at Moon, and after a while she said, "Come on," and then turned around and left the school newspaper office.

After Ashley, everyone said "come on" to Munn one by one, and left one by one. In the end, only Violet was left standing in front of Munn's desk.

"Moon, my parents want to be guests at your home." Violet pursed her lips and tried to show a smile. "I think Easter vacation is good, what do you think?"

Moon put his hand on top of the gloves on the table. "Okay, then it's Easter vacation."

Violet exhaled. Munn understood her expectations, and she also understood Munn's assurance - this was enough.

After Violet was the last to leave the school newspaper office, Moon picked up the manuscript he had written and read it again.

This will be the last article in the school newspaper before the dark wizards of the Crow Party launch an attack with the power of werewolves. It will also be an article that tears apart the fog and explains everything clearly.With this article, the school newspaper can win the trust of most people and make them realize that the school newspaper is indeed the only newspaper that truly stands on the side of justice and ensures fairness.

Of course, this will also be the most expensive article.

Fortunately, he is the only one who has to pay the price. The pressure on Hesper and Quaid will be shouldered by Professor Dumbledore, and there is no need to worry too much about the pressure on the family.

Tomorrow is Monday, and Fudge still hasn't sent anyone to keep an eye on him. At first glance, this is a good thing, but in fact, it indicates Fudge's madness - he is waiting for Mu En to post this article, waiting for Mu En to post this article, and waiting for Mu En to post this article. Enda was a dark wizard and poured out the dirty water that he couldn't pour on Edgar.

This is Fudge's calculation. He cannot "come to his senses" or "turn back". Once the public opinion war begins, it cannot end and can only fight to the end.

So, since Moon's first article cannot prove the charge of "colluding with dark wizards", Fudge has no way to really force the school newspaper to stop publishing. Once he cannot occupy the most superficial sense of justice, Then Moon will definitely try his best to get the school newspaper published.

Therefore, Fudge chose not to send anyone to interfere, but waited for Moon to publish the school newspaper, and then decided to take action based on the articles in the school newspaper: