Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

"Taking this opportunity, he caught the Golden Snitch!"

Lee Jordan shouted, "Let us congratulate Slytherin! They successfully won this game with a huge score advantage!"

The little wizards either clapped and cheered, or felt downcast and disappointed. The team members from the two colleges slowly fell to the ground following Mrs. Hooch's whistle, and began to shake hands and encourage each other.

So far, the first three games of this school year have ended - Gryffindor won the first game and Slytherin lost; Hufflepuff won the second game and Ravenclaw lost. Now in the third game , Ravenclaw lost to Slytherin again.

Judging from the scores, Ravenclaw, who has lost two games in two games, is destined to miss this year's Quidditch championship. Gryffindor and Hufflepuff each have one victory and the best hope; Slytherin has one win. Win and lose, unless something happens later, such as Hufflepuff losing to Gryffindor and Slytherin, and Gryffindor losing to Ravenclaw, they are obviously unlikely to win. Won the title again.

The captains of the two teams who did not play today looked at each other across half the stadium, with strong fighting spirit in their eyes.

Of course, they couldn't see each other.

This year has become undisputed and the most promising year to overthrow Slytherin. Both Hufflepuff and Gryffindor are full of longing for the championship.

The two sides in the next game are precisely the two houses Gryffindor and Hufflepuff.

Fred poked George's waist, then raised his chin and gestured to Oliver Wood at him, and whispered: "I bet you, Wood must be planning to take up time to go to Hogsmeade next week. Come on. Give us extra training.”

George looked at Oliver, hesitated for three seconds and then nodded, "Five Sickles?"

"Five Sickles."

Sure enough, just as the other Gryffindor wizards began to leave the field one by one, Wood stopped the members of the Gryffindor House team and loudly said, "There are still half a month until the next game, Hufflepah." Everyone knows the strange new Seeker, Cedric Diggory. That guy's talent is no worse than Harry's. We have to train harder. I remember that none of us seemed to have made it to the top of the Four-Wizard Tournament. Three-wheeled guy, so we’re going to need it this weekend and next weekend, and you, Harry, especially, have to be there!”

Harry didn't care much, and he couldn't go to Hogsmeade.The other team members rolled their eyes - Oliver did this every time. This guy's enthusiasm for the championship was almost the highest in Hogwarts.

George, who was standing at the far end, shrugged, took out five Silver Sickles from his pocket, and patted them into Fred's hand.

"Thank you~" Fred smiled happily and kissed the silver coin in his hand.

Compared with Oliver's seriousness and strictness, the situation in Hufflepuff is obviously much better. Although they also need to practice more, it does not take up everyone's Hogsmeade time, which also makes Cedric breathe a sigh of relief. .

He also planned to visit the newly opened tavern with Qiu.

…………

The last day of February happened to be a Saturday. In order to avoid the trip to Hogsmeade scheduled for Sunday, the third round of the Four-wizard Tournament chose to start early.

There are a total of six teams entering this round, including Penelo and Percy's Clearwater Team, Ron's Flash Team led by Slaston, and Gavin's newly formed Troll Team. There were also three teams with no familiar faces at all - Neville's team was carried away by the Clearwater team in the second round, and Milton's team was also defeated by the Trolls team.

As a result, in the next treasure hunt competition, Team Flash's luck was completely wiped out. After the whole game, they only found two treasure cards in total. On the contrary, Gavin's Troll Team probably learned from last year's lesson. This year's effort was very strong, and a total of seventeen treasure cards were harvested, only three short of half of the total treasure cards.

The Qingshui team also performed well. The sixth-grade Slytherin girl in their team was very familiar with the school and contributed six treasure cards to the team. In addition to the three found by others, the total number of treasure cards ranked was nine. second.

The remaining twelve cards were evenly distributed among the other three teams. Each team had a neat four cards, which was considered very even.

Therefore, there is no doubt that the final champion will be between the Clearwater team and the Trolls team - however, almost everyone believes that the Clearwater team is about to win. After all, Percy is a prefect, and Penello will also be LaVine next year. The popular candidate for Prefect Crow, plus there is a sixth-year Slytherin on the team, it is not something that the Trolls can win in a duel.

Even Fred and George gave up on the opening offer, because there was no doubt that the vast majority of young wizards would buy Clearwater to win, and Fred and George had no doubts about this.

Only the members of the Trolls team still maintained their momentum. Gavin even found Professor Snape and allocated an empty classroom to practice dueling with the other three members of his team.

"If you ask me, it's pretty good for them to get No. 2. After all, Gavin didn't even make it to the finals last year."

In the school newspaper office, Ashley was flipping through the article about Quidditch that Qiu had just written, and said: "The members of the Clearwater team have crushed them in terms of hard power, including Percy and Penello. The best in the same grade, plus that stupid woman Sinckler - although I don't really like that grinding guy, her strength is indeed pretty good, not much worse than Gemma and I."

"Gavin, as the strongest one in their team, can probably beat Penelo Crevat among the three."

"But they are very motivated." Burt retorted: "Maybe a miracle will happen."

Ashley curled her lips and turned to look at Munn. "Unless they can bring Munn into the team and win a guaranteed win, I really don't think they can pull off any miracles."

"Moon, what do you say?" Bert also turned to look at Munn and asked, "Is it possible that Gavin and the others really have no hope?"

The shorthand quill wrote the last stroke of the annotation on the paper, then fell back into the ink bottle.Moon waved his magic wand and controlled the manuscript filled with revision comments to fly back to Leanne's desk. Then he nodded slightly, the fatigue in his voice becoming more and more obvious, "There is no hope, Ashley is right, they The gap in hard power is too big and cannot be reversed by tactics and efforts in less than a month."

"However, with this effort alone, they have proven themselves. The Four Powers Tournament is just a game, and the final prize is far less useful than the momentum and unity they have gained now."

"Larian, you should write the key part of the spell in a more understandable way, instead of writing the notes you copied in class intact - so that people who really need it can't read it. got it."

La Ruien nodded thoughtfully, picked up the quill and began to revise the manuscript.But just after she made two moves, she looked at Munn just like everyone else.

"Hey, Moon, are you... okay?" Ashley looked at Moon in confusion, "I always feel like you're about to die of exhaustion."

Arlin shrugged and added: "It's not like he's about to die of exhaustion, but he's really about to die of exhaustion."

"Don't talk nonsense, Ya'erlin, I'm fine, I just haven't slept well these days." Moon rubbed his temples and waved to everyone, "Don't worry, I'm fine."

"Then you have to go to bed early tonight. You are going to Hogsmeade tomorrow." Qiu, who was sitting next to Cedric, said with a smile, and then saw Cedric shaking his head at him.

Before Qiu could understand what Cedric meant, Moon replied with a smile: "I won't go to Hogsmeade tomorrow, but you can go to the newly opened Werewolf Night Tavern and the first two drinks are free. "

Demi bumped Violet's elbow and cast a doubtful look at her. Violet did not answer, but smiled softly at her friend to reassure her.

As a result, not only Moon, but also Violet did not go to Hogsmeade the next day.

"So, what's happened to Moon recently?" Demi looked at Gal curiously and asked her doubts. "I feel that his condition in class is a bit bad. He always looks tired. He doesn't even smile as much as usual. More. I asked Violet after I went back last night, but Violet didn’t seem to be particularly clear."

While looking at the colorful candies on the shelf, Gal muttered: "He actually smiles a lot outside. During this time, he has almost no movement in the dormitory. If we don't talk to him, he will He didn't say a word all night, and he only slept for two hours almost every day. If he didn't have to hold the Four Power Tournament, prepare for the school newspaper, and attend classes, I feel that he could spend 21 hours a day sitting in bed and reading. "

Demi was startled, and asked hesitantly after a while: "Is it possible that Moon is... addicted to black magic?"

"Addicted to black magic?" Gal looked at Demi blankly, "What does that mean?"

Facing the same problem, Cedric and Gal had completely different reactions - after all, he, who was born in a wizarding family, obviously understood the meaning of this problem better.

"I don't think so." Sitting in the corner of Mrs. Puddifu's teahouse, Cedric had to slightly increase the volume to prevent Qiu from hearing his words. "He is not the kind of person who has no self-control and will be affected by black magic." Tempting people.”

"But he is only in the third grade, and he can already participate in a battle as big as the Werewolf Riot." Qiu said worriedly, "I'm worried that he might have to learn about black magic because of that battle, and then I accidentally slipped and fell in..."

When Qiu said this, Cedric was suddenly a little unsure. Just like Qiu said, although Moon has always seemed mature and powerful, it was after all a battle at the level of a werewolf and a dark wizard, and the number was even higher. That’s it.

This is no longer a matter of confidence in Moon, but a question of whether Moon may be in danger.

The two looked at each other, and the worries in each other's hearts immediately became heavier.

At the same time, Ashley, who was hanging out with Gemma, had the same idea.

"Do you think we should ask the professors to help us take a look..." Ashley said with a wry smile: "I think it may be difficult for us to persuade Munn. Although Munn has a strong willpower, but black magic is Things, no matter how strong your willpower is, you may not be able to stop it..."

Gemma thought for a while and finally nodded, "Indeed, asking professors for help may be the best choice."

In the school newspaper office.

As always, Moon was still holding a book and reading, and Violet sat opposite him, drawing and looking at Mun for a while, feeling quite contented.

However, after a while, she found that Munn's face, who had just turned a page in the book, suddenly became extremely ugly.The next moment, Moon put the book on the table with a livid expression, stood up, walked to the window and looked outside.

"Moon, are you okay?" Violet put the drawing board aside and asked softly, and at the same time came behind Munn.

Moon did not answer, but raised his hand to hold the window sill, but the slight trembling of his palm completely revealed the turmoil in his heart.

He saw what he had dreamed of in the Grimoire - but it should have been his dream two months ago.

Now?The emergence of that spell has become an invisible irony.

Advanced recovery techniques.

If it had been two months ago, before Uncle Edgar drank the potion prepared by Professor Snape, using this spell, he could have lifted the complex curses mixed together in Uncle Edgar's body, allowing Uncle Edgar comes back to life.

But now, even if he uses advanced restoration techniques to remove the curse that has been suppressed by the magic potion in Uncle Edgar's body, there is still no way for Uncle Edgar to escape from the shadow of imminent death.

Because the thing that really determines Uncle Edgar's life and death has changed from a curse to the bottle of magic potion.

Under the powerful properties of the potion, the curse in Uncle Edgar's body was completely restricted, allowing Uncle Edgar to wake up from his coma.However, the poison in the potion determined that Uncle Edgar's lifespan was completely limited to three months.

Unfortunately, he did not believe that the poison in the potion could be removed through advanced restoration.

Admittedly, it was not his decision alone to let Uncle Edgar take the potion.But at this moment, he still couldn't help but start to wonder if it would be a better choice not to let Uncle Edgar drink the potion.

How could he not doubt it?Especially when, after a long search, you end up with a key that was once useful but is probably useless now.

He could feel the anger rising in his chest, and he even began to have the urge to vent his negative emotions by destroying something.

Violet did not continue to ask. She looked at the boy's back, hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and gently hugged Moon from behind.

Moon's body, which was trembling slightly, suddenly stiffened.

He no longer trembled, but Violet became a little overwhelmed because of her shyness.

But the girl still gently clasped her hands together, and leaned her face on Munn's back.She didn't say anything or make any unnecessary movements. She just stood in front of the window with the boy and kept quiet.

Moon closed his eyes and exhaled softly. The headache that had been lingering due to fatigue for a while seemed to have been relieved a lot at this moment.

So until a few minutes later.

"Thank you, Weier." Moon opened his eyes again. The previous self-blame and sudden anger had disappeared, replaced by the familiar tiredness and the return of calmness.

No matter what, he must first learn the advanced restoration techniques as soon as possible.If the poison of the potion was not, as he judged, unable to be dispelled by advanced restoration techniques, then everyone would be happy.Even if the poison really cannot be dispelled by advanced restoration techniques, after lifting the curse on Uncle Edgar, maybe Professor Snape can find a way to control the poison and further prolong Uncle Edgar's life, or even simply Directly remove toxicity.

What's more, there is still nearly a month left before the March period. As long as he learns advanced restoration skills quickly enough, who can guarantee that the spell he finds on the next page will not be a spell that can dispel the toxins in magic potions. Woolen cloth?

"Hmm..." Violet responded in a low voice, but forgot to release her interlocked hands.

Moon lowered his head slightly and patted the back of Violet's hand gently.

The girl reacted immediately. She pursed her lips, let go of her hand and took two steps back. There was a hint of blush on her face, but her lowered eyebrows were full of joy and tenderness.

The two of them were very close to each other just now. Even if she didn't know Legilimency, she could still fully notice that after she hugged Munn, Munn's mood gradually became relaxed and peaceful.

Moon turned back, feeling Violet's wandering thoughts, and couldn't help but raise his hand to rub her long golden hair, chuckled and said again, "Thank you, Violet."

The girl responded again. She raised her head cautiously and found that Moon was just as she thought, staring at her with a smile.

The moment their eyes met, Violet immediately looked away. She endured the chaos in her heart and quickly turned around and walked to her seat, pretending to be busy with something.

Moon smiled and shook her head. It was obvious that she had picked him up by herself, but she was the one who was more shy now.

However, sometimes being shy, sometimes brave, constantly wandering between striding and cautiously testing, isn't it an explicit expression of love?And isn't he himself the same?

He also walked back to the table, calmed down again, and picked up the Grimoire.

It's not the end yet.

There is still hope.

and so……

We cannot allow ourselves to feel sorry for ourselves and sink into sadness and self-blame.

The school newspaper office has returned to the same silence as before. The boy is reading and the girl is drawing. It seems that nothing has changed.

It seems like everything has changed.

Chapter 1 Turning Point

At night, most of the little wizards who went to Hogsmeade returned to school one after another, and Cedric and the others were no exception.However, they did not go back to the common room directly. Instead, after saying goodbye to the other students who came back with them, they went straight to the school newspaper office.

"I said, do I have to carry this thing?" Ron fiddled with the colored paper tips on his head bitterly, and complained: "Harry, you definitely bought a smaller size on purpose. I think this hat Makes me look even more stupid."

"Don't talk nonsense, Ron, you are just stupid." Fred and George said in unison, then raised their hands and gave a loud high-five.

At this moment, the door of the school newspaper office was pushed open, and Cedric, Arlin, Gal, Demi and others walked in together.

"We're not back late, are we?" Cedric asked as he handed the gift box in his hand to Ron. "Here, happy birthday, Ron."

Ron accepted the gift with a smile on his face and thanked everyone happily. Moon sat aside holding a book and glanced at the wall clock in the office, "It's not too late. Gemma and Ashley haven't come back yet, Harry." They haven't finished training yet. I think Oliver probably doesn't want to let Harry go, and Angelina said they are training alone."

Seeing everyone's looks, Cedric said helplessly: "Merlin's beard, Oliver shouldn't be like this. If this continues, I'm really afraid that Harry will get sick from exhaustion before the game even starts." .”

As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, Wood and Harry, who were sweating profusely and didn't even have time to change their clothes, strode in from the door.

"Don't worry, even if Harry is really sick, Madam Pomfrey will definitely be able to cure him quickly. And Harry is not that fragile, right." Wood picked up a bottle of pumpkin soda, soaking it in tons. Holding his hoarse throat and dry lungs as if they were on fire, "We must win next week's game. This year is our most promising year."

Feeling the burning fighting spirit in Wood, Cedric handed Harry a drink and said, "Well, it seems we must also increase the amount of training."

Garforth tilted his chin and curled his lips, "I really envy you that you still have the chance to compete. Ravenclaw has missed the chance to win the championship again this year."

Nash nodded in agreement and agreed with Garforth's point of view.

Everyone chatted happily and waited for a while. It was not until Gemma and Ashley returned from outside that Ron's birthday party officially started.

Then, less than half an hour later, Ron regretted inviting Percy.

This is not only because Percy gave him an old book called "The Power of the Student Union" as a gift, but also because Percy almost every once in a while scolded Fred and George for their unruliness, which made them angry. The atmosphere between the four brothers became the lowest point among everyone.

Fortunately, after discovering this, Gabriel immediately pulled Percy away and ran to the side with him to discuss matters between prefects. Otherwise, Ron felt that he would sweat nervously and become dehydrated.

Besides Ron, the second most uncomfortable person in the room was Moon.

In fact, everyone was fine at first.But after a while, he found that most of the people in the school newspaper office looked at him from time to time, and their looks were quite strange.

It wasn't until an hour later, when everyone had finished playing and started leaving one by one, that he learned the truth from Cedric and Qiu.

"...I appreciate your concern, but don't worry, I have not encountered this kind of problem." Moon rubbed his eyes and said in a dumbfounded voice, "If I am really addicted to black magic, let alone Professor Dumbledore." , Professor Snape will not let me go. Or do you think the professors will not notice my abnormality?"