Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

"Strictly speaking, it shouldn't be considered as 'beating' into the Ministry of Magic." Moon leaned on the bed, thinking about the last difficulty of the Wail Chorus spell in his mind, and responded: "At that time, the Ministry of Magic sent all the The Aurors were all sent out, leaving almost no defense force in the ministry. They even vacated the main hall. However, this was a way to avoid some damage. Otherwise, without the Aurors, those dark wizards would probably He will kill a lot of people with great pain."

"Of course, if they hadn't vacated the main hall, Professor Dumbledore probably wouldn't have been able to confront the dark wizard there directly. Fudge must have been very unwelcome to Professor Dumbledore at that time."

Cedric threw a Bibi's multi-flavor bean to Moon, and then stuffed one into his mouth. Judging from his expression, it probably tasted good. "I heard from my dad that Fudge is probably going to step down." It’s pretty tragic, after all, he’s only been in office a little over a year.”

"I think he deserves to step down." Arlin held the candy bag and muttered: "Look what he has done since he took office? Any other Muggle would be better than him."

Moon stuffed the Bibi's multi-flavored beans that Cedric had just thrown into his mouth, and immediately spat them out. He put down the book with a hiss, picked up the water glass and poured water into his mouth - damn, he thought that one The dark green beans would taste like seaweed, but they actually taste double as mustard.

"That's not necessarily the case." Gal finally discovered that his candy was missing and snatched the bag of candy back from Arlin. "There are also bad Muggle prime ministers."

"Hey, why did you take it back again? I haven't had time to eat it yet!" Yaerlin protested and rushed over, starting a battle for candy with Gal.Cedric, who noticed the good opportunity, picked up his wand and cast a summoning spell, and the owner of the bag of sizzling honey candy instantly became him again.

But neither of the two people who were having a good fight noticed this.

"So, everything is settled, right?" Cedric threw a piece of sizzling honey candy into his mouth, and then handed the candy to Moon.

Moon stuck out his tongue and quickly took a piece of candy in his mouth - as a result, the two of them floated up from the bed one after another [Note 1].

"I hope so." Moon replied, then picked up the book he had just put down and continued reading.

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Early on Wednesday morning, the dark wizards of the Crow Party finally made another effort. "New Star" and "Weekly Weird News" published two identical newspapers, obviously in order to achieve the maximum publicity effect.Moreover, there is only one article in both newspapers:

"The Secrets Moon Fox and the Werewolves Have to Tell"

The moment he saw the title of this article, a lot of question marks suddenly emerged in Moon's mind - in the previous public opinion wars, these dark wizards were obviously not that thoughtful about naming the article. Hip-pulling.

What the hell is "Moon Fox and the Secrets the Werewolves Have to Tell"?Why not just replace it with "Moon Fawkes and the Crows", "Moon Fawkes and the Dark Wizard", "Moon Fawkes and Cornelius Fudge"?

Wait, there seems to be something wrong with that last one.

Fortunately, although the name is not very popular, the content of the article is exactly what Moon expected.He just said that he fought against the dim Fudge and the Ministry of Magic throughout the whole process, had insight into the dark wizard's plan, single-handedly destroyed the dark wizard's conspiracy, defeated the dark wizard and more werewolves with the help of the power of werewolves, and so on.

Those who didn't know thought it was Moon who accepted their exclusive interview.

The rest of the chapter went straight to boasting, but they didn't throw dirty water on it particularly clearly, and they didn't compare Munn to those famous dark wizards in the past.But the words used to praise people are very intriguing, such as "deep scheming", "cunning like a 13-year-old", "insightful of people's hearts", "using many strange and powerful magics"...

Every word seems to say, "Look, everyone, this kid is a dark wizard!"

A group of dark wizards were promoting how their enemies defeated them, and at the same time they also said that their enemies looked very much like dark wizards. By the way, they also didn't forget to curse the Ministry of Magic - no matter how you look at this, it makes you happy.

At the end of the article, this group of people did not forget to promote those werewolves who bravely participated in the battle. Of course, the focus of the description was "cruel bite to death", "bloody", "ferocious expression"...

It does not seem that straightforward, but it seems that there is no attempt to hide it at all.

Come to think of it, the Ministry of Magic has long said that the people in "New Star" and "Weekly Weird News" have been kidnapped by dark wizards, not to mention one of the few articles they published in the previous public opinion war. One article, in detail, is no different from self-reporting one’s family background.Everyone knows that these two newspapers are now conveying the words of dark wizards, so naturally they don't have to hide anything and can just write whatever they want.

Anyway, their main goal is to put Moon on the podium and let Moon push them off the limelight.

This article is completely adequate.

Moon folded the newspaper handed over by Cedric and put it aside. Then he ignored the shocked looks of almost all the little wizards around him and drank a whole glass of milk.

"Okay, okay, look back. If you keep like this, I won't even dare to go to class with you." As soon as Moon finished speaking, Fred and George had already gathered around him.

"Hey, Moon, tell me honestly, who are you?" This was Fred.

"Even if you tell us now that you are Merlin's son, we both fully accept it." This is George.

"Son of Merlin, Moon, how did you do it?" This was Ron who followed quietly from behind.

Moon sighed and pulled out the wand from his pocket, which shocked everyone - yes, there were many people running here. If they hadn't been unable to stand, they would have been killed. Most of the people in the auditorium have to come here.

"Use this!" He shook his wand.

"Add this!" Then he pointed to his head.

"And then it was done - of course! What's more!"

He turned around, faced everyone, and said with a helpless smile: "If you continue to surround me, not only will I be late for class later, but I will also think carefully about whether to ask for leave and go home - if I really If you go home..."

"There will be no Hogwarts Final Four this year."

Chapter 1 Joys and sorrows

The Four-wizard Tournament can only make everyone stop putting down their knives and forks when eating and surround Moon, but it cannot make everyone ignore the articles in "New Star" and "Qiwen Weekly".

Moreover, what is even more regrettable is that the Four Powers Tournament cannot control the professors.

In the first Charms class on Wednesday morning, Professor Flitwick insisted that Moon demonstrate the correct way to cast the Happy Charm in front of everyone, and then started to inquire about the contents of the newspaper. reality.Of course, even though he did not take up the time to give lectures to the young wizards and had this chat while everyone was doing individual exercises, Professor Flitwick still gave Hufflepuff twenty points.

Later, because Professor Kettleburn took a day off for unknown reasons, their afternoon Care of Magical Creatures class was switched with tomorrow's Defense Against the Dark Arts class.As a result, in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Professor Greengrass completely gave up on the content of this class that he had originally planned, and instead asked Moon to tell everyone about the battle on Sunday night - in Professor Greengrass's words , Moon’s experience is obviously more exciting and more resonant for the little wizards than his.

Facts have proved that Munn does have two skills when telling stories. Although he hid a lot of content, such as the specific spells he cast, and the fact that he killed four dark wizards, the rest of the content was still revealed. What he said was colorful and dangerous.All the students in class listened very carefully.

This lesson not only brought another twenty points to Hufflepuff, but also caused many young wizards from other grades and other houses to shout that it was unfair after learning about it, insisting that Professor Greengrass and Sirius invited Moon over and told them again - there were some inaccuracies in what he read in the newspapers (even the young wizards at Hogwarts knew that those two newspapers had been in the possession of dark wizards). under control), how could it be as satisfying as Moon’s own words?

This caused a problem for both Professor Greengrass and Sirius. Moon's weekly class schedule was full, and he couldn't be allowed to miss other classes to serve as a guest assistant in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

The two of them discussed sadly in the staff room all night, but in the end they could not agree on a date. It was not until Remus returned to Hogwarts on Thursday morning that he gave them a good suggestion: go directly. Find Moon.

A simple sentence made the two of them suddenly enlightened. They had previously planned to go to professors of other subjects for help if they couldn't. Obviously, it would be easier to go to Moon than to other professors.

At this time, Moon was being bombarded by Professor Snape.

"Mr. Fox..." Professor Snape, wrapped in a wide and thick black robe, stood in front of Moon's desk, slightly raising his head and glaring fiercely with the two nostrils under his iconic aquiline nose. Moon "Answer me, there is an herb in the Living Hell Decoction that has not exerted its main effect at all... What herb is that?"

"..." Moon looked at Professor Snape speechlessly, "Good guy, here we go again. Isn't this a third-grade class?"You're also asking about content that only advanced students can learn, right?

"Sorry, Professor, I don't know."

"Then answer me again, why do you need to prepare an ointment that can accelerate bone growth? Akiva Stove chooses to use a single animal fat, but Rachel Vince uses a 3:7 ratio. Mixed with tallow?”

"Sorry, Professor, I don't know."

"Oh? It seems that you only think about how to be a hero, but you haven't considered how to be a student, right? Let's try it one last time - when formulating a lotion with dragon's blood as the main ingredient , how can we neutralize the harmful factors in dragon blood without causing side effects of the lotion?"

"...Sorry, Professor, I don't know."

"Obviously, you have perfectly proved that my point just now is very correct, and, Milton Gravers! If I were you, I would not throw what I am holding into the crucible, unless I want to let this A pot of shrinkage potion turns into a pot of fig soup!”

The professor turned his head and glared at Milton, then quickly turned back and looked at Moon coldly. "So, why don't we talk about what you know? Do you know how to be a hero? Or do you know how to rush yourself to death as quickly as possible?" ?”

"I'm sorry, Professor, it's my fault." Moon took the blame honestly. Professor Snape made it clear that he wanted to take the opportunity to teach him a lesson, instead of using this kind of deliberately difficult question. Trap him.

Sure enough, seeing him admitting his mistake frankly, Professor Snape didn't even deduct points. He just snorted coldly, then turned around and went to hit Milton on the head - because Milton not only put in too many shrunken figs, but also I also forgot to slice the caterpillar.

What was now in Milton's cauldron was indeed a real pot of fig soup, the kind with unsliced ​​caterpillars, mouse spleen, and leech juice.

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"Although Professor Snape is much better than before, to be honest, I still feel a little speechless." At the lunch table, Gal stuffed a crepe into his mouth and said vaguely, "He asked I’ve never even heard of that stuff.”

"Actually, it's normal that you haven't heard of it. I bet you have probably forgotten the swelling potion you learned last year." Yaerlin first gave Gal's 'comment' a 'dislike' , and then agreed with Gal's point of view, "But Gal is right, because I haven't heard of those things at all."

The people next to him were all amused by Arlin's double-standard behavior. Cedric even almost spit out the pumpkin soda he just poured into his mouth.

Moon also couldn't help laughing for a while, and then explained: "If I remember correctly, the Living Hell Decoction should be something that can only be learned in the sixth or seventh grade. I have heard it mentioned by senior students before. .The remaining two...I don’t remember very clearly.”

Yes, I heard it mentioned by senior students - referring to JK Rowling.

"What the hell, Professor Snape asked you about your Hell Decoction in class?" Gabriel was startled, and the pie he was about to put into his mouth stopped mid-air. "Good guy, Professor Snape, what's going on?" How much I hate you."

Moon didn't know how to explain that this was actually Professor Snape's awkward way of caring, so he simply gave up the explanation and said while chewing the stewed beef: "It's not a big problem, I'll wait for you later." Gabriel, please make a list of your textbooks for grades [-], [-], [-] and [-], and I will buy them back and read them one by one."

Hearing this, the little wizards looked at me and I looked at you, none of them knew what to say.

How should I put it... Although this method of solving the problem is outrageous...

But it does seem very Moon?

Before anyone could comment on this, Sirius suddenly walked in briskly from outside the auditorium and stopped behind Moon. After squeezing Gal away, he sat down next to Moon.

"Hey, Moon, I have something to discuss with you."

Looking at the curious eyes of others, Sirius smiled and picked up a cup of pumpkin soda from the long table, and clinked the cup with Moon. "I guess you should have heard about it. Many little wizards from other classes and grades want to hear about you." Let’s talk about the battle in Diagon Alley on Sunday night again. Professor Greengrass and I don’t know how to solve it, so I’m here to ask your thoughts.”

"...?" Moon looked at Sirius in surprise, "Can't you tell the story yourself? It's not like you didn't go to the war."

Moon had no intention of covering up this matter, because after the Ministry of Magic's public trial is over and a complete official statement is issued, everyone will know sooner or later, and there is no point in covering it up.

The little Hufflepuff wizards around were naturally startled again, and Sirius said helplessly, "I can tell you right, but everyone would prefer to hear what you say, and I don't know as much as you do." .”

"Okay, then let's arrange everything together on Friday night." Moon sipped the juice, thought for a moment, and quickly gave the answer, "Here in the auditorium, after Professor Dumbledore has announced the matter. "

Sirius patted Moon's shoulder hard and said, "Sure enough, you still have a way." Then he was about to stand up and leave when he suddenly realized something and looked at Moon blankly. "Professor Dumbledore announced Something? Announce something?"

"You will know when the time comes." Moon blinked, indicating to him that this matter was not suitable to be explained clearly in the auditorium. Sirius understood what Munn meant, and nodded and said hello to the other young wizards. Left the auditorium again.

As a result, as soon as he walked on his front foot, a large number of little wizards on his back foot looked at Moon with bright eyes, "Did Assistant Coach Blake also participate in the battle on Sunday night?"

"Oh my god! Why have you never said that before?"

"How about it? Assistant Black is always very brave and majestic when fighting?" This question was asked by a fifth grade girl.

"Well, I participated. It's very brave and super majestic." Moon responded to everyone's questions with a helpless expression, and at the same time thought to himself, isn't that super majestic? The majestic Remus wanted to bite him to death several times. he.

The fifth-grade girl immediately held her face in her hands and stared at Sirius's back. She took a moment to react. She turned around and added to Moon, "You must be very majestic and handsome, Moon, but You are too young~"[Note 1]

When the girl said the first half of the sentence, Violet raised her head very vigilantly. However, after hearing the second half of the sentence, she immediately relaxed her vigilance and continued to eat the pudding with peace of mind. Go take a look at Moon.

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"Hey Moon, your bed is flooded with letters again."

After returning to the dormitory in the evening, Gal, who was the first to enter the room, said without any surprise - since the "New Star" and "Qiwen Weekly" published the articles yesterday morning, in the past two days, Moon's letters have almost Letters came one after another, most of them praising him, praising him and worrying about his safety. Of course, there were also a small number of people who kept raising random questions and curses - this kind of people would never do anything no matter where they go. disappeared.

"Well, you still don't want to read it?" Gal walked barefoot to Moon's bed and pulled out a light pink envelope from inside. "I bet this must be another of your admirers."

"Don't read it." Moon casually put his backpack on the bed, waved his magic wand to fold the letters one by one, and put them in a pile on the bedside table. Then he turned over and lay down on the bed, opening the book.

Gal glanced at Munn, then exchanged glances with Cedric and Arlin, and the three of them sighed silently.

"Okay, let us do it for you." Arlin patted Gal on the shoulder, and the two of them each took a stack of letters, and handed some to Cedric.

It was the same last night. After Munn put away the letter, he lay on the bed and read a book. They took advantage of the fact that there was no homework and helped Munn browse the letter roughly and classify it--keep it. , tear up the ones that are abusive, and put aside those that you feel the need to reply to.

"Ha, this letter is indeed written by an admirer. There is even a photo in it. Let me take a look... Hey, such a beautiful girl, but she looks a bit older. She must be 20 years old." Gal held the pink envelope in one hand and a photo in the other, "It looks like a style you will like, Yaerlin."

Arlin came over and took a look curiously, then curled his lips, shook his head and said, "I don't think so, it's not as good-looking as Emma."

"Okay." Gal stuffed the photo back into the envelope and put it in the 'Kwakwa' pile.

Gradually, the only sound left in the warm bedroom was the sound of Cedric and the others turning over letters from time to time. It was not until a while later that the three people who finally sorted the letters realized that Moon had been silent for a long time.

Yes, it was the same last night. Cedric thought that Moon had fallen asleep for a while, but after opening the curtain of Moon's bed, he found that Moon was still sitting there, staring at the book motionlessly.

The three of them looked at Moon's quiet bed and shook their heads together, not knowing what to say.

After a long while, Cedric finally said, "Moon? We have sorted out the letters you received from readers."

"Okay, thank you." Moon responded, "I'll buy you a drink next time I go to Hogsmeade."

"Uh, it's okay. You're welcome. Well, do you want to go watch the team train together over the weekend?"

The sound of turning a book finally came from behind the bed curtain. After about ten seconds, Moon finally said: "I won't go. You can go. I still...have some things to be busy with."

For some reason, Cedric and the others suddenly felt that Moon's voice seemed to have become a little deeper at that moment...

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[Note 1] This is just for reading pleasure. In fact, this senior said "young" instead of "small"/"tiny". The more appropriate translation should be "but you are too young", so Moon and The people around him didn't have any weird reactions.

Chapter 1 Choice

On Friday morning, a long-lost bulletin board finally appeared outside the school newspaper office, which read:

"Registration for the second Hogwarts Four-wizard Tournament has officially begun. Please write the name, house, and grade of each member of the team on a slip of paper and put it into the wooden box next to it."

This ignited a fire in the hearts of many little wizards - the Qingshui team's championship last year made them jealous, with trophies, badges, a full [-] extra points, and even coupons and gold bonuses. Long......

Honorable and practical, such rewards will naturally make the little wizards very happy. You know, after Penelo Crevat won the trophy and badge last year, he showed off in front of other little wizards.

On the other side, a new notice was posted in the corridor outside the auditorium, saying that after class this afternoon, all young wizards need to go to the auditorium. Professor Dumbledore has something important to announce.

Just when the little wizards were excited and a little confused by the two news in succession, the third bombshell followed closely and also landed.

The Daily Prophet announced in an article that Cornelius Fudge resigned due to multiple mistakes in decision-making. In addition, some officials were also punished in different ways because of their involvement in the werewolf riots. Although the Ministry of Magic did not post a complete list, but mentioned a few people——

Although several officials headed by Umbridge Dolores did not collude with the dark wizards, they will be demoted for repeatedly making wrong statements and suppressing innocent colleagues with different political opinions; headed by George Sargent Several other officials are suspected of colluding with dark wizards, leading and participating in the werewolf riot, and have been suspended from duty and detained.

At the same time, the Ministry of Magic also mentioned in the article that the election for the new Minister officially started last night, and the current popular candidate is Amelia Bones, the current Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement - Bones The support rate of Ms. Wang is now almost overwhelming over other candidates.