Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

I don’t know when the drizzle began to fall outside the window, and the little white flower on the ground that was just willing to bloom yesterday was swaying gently, as if to remind everyone in this way:

Winter is over.

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During Monday's Herbology class, the third-year wizards from Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw were somewhat casual.While they were tending to the plants at hand, they focused all their thoughts on the finals of the Final Four that just ended on Saturday.It was not until Professor Sprout assigned them an assignment that increased the quantity without increasing the price that the situation was finally alleviated.

In fact, this can't be entirely blamed on the little wizards. The next class is Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and almost all of them can't wait to hear what the professors think about Saturday's game.In fact, yesterday many people were looking for assistant coach Black who sneaked away before the game was over, but he didn't know where he went and no one could find him.

It can be said that this morning's Defense Against the Dark Arts class has given everyone all their hopes.

As it turns out, the person who came to give them this lesson was Professor Greengrass.

Professor Greengrass, who had long since become a man, could see everyone's depression at a glance, so he simply took some time out with a smile to tell everyone about the duel between Gavin and Perrus. ——The content is similar to the analysis published by Moon in the school newspaper. Of course, the professor's account is more in-depth.

In any case, everyone's curiosity was finally answered (although Munn had actually answered it in the school newspaper before), so as if reciprocating a favor, the little wizards contributed 120% of their enthusiasm in this class, which made The course progressed extremely smoothly, and they almost finished learning all the vampire content.

Originally, their course schedule was supposed to take two months to learn vampire-related knowledge, and they would not be exposed to the werewolf content until April. However, judging from the current situation, April may not be needed. They can experience the werewolf course taught by Assistant Lupine.

Regarding this, in fact, ever since Assistant Lupine publicly revealed his identity as a werewolf, the young wizards have been full of expectations.

During lunch, Gavin Travers, who had been in the campus hospital for nearly two days, finally showed up.

To be honest, the enthusiasm of his classmates shocked him. At first, he thought it was Moon or Harry coming in behind him, and he was still wondering if there was another sensation during the two days he was hospitalized. sexual events.

It wasn't until someone called his name and even whistled that he realized that these people were cheering for him.

For a moment, Moon felt as if he saw Gavin Travers blush.

But when he saw Gavin grinning innocently at Gemma and Ashley after returning to the Slytherin table, he confirmed that it must be his illusion.

That's right, it's an illusion.

Gal, who was sitting next to Munn, looked at Gavin with envy. While saying with emotion, "I don't know when I will receive such cheers," he poked Munn's elbow and signaled to Munn's gang. Get yourself the jar of salt.

Ya'erlin pretended to think for a while, and finally came up with an answer: "I don't think you can do it, and you probably have no hope in this life."

Then the two started fighting again, and it wasn't until Gal threatened him with next month's share of Coke that Yaerlin finally shouted loudly, "Me neither! Me neither!"

This unique way of begging for mercy... is very kind of Yaerlin.

But this can’t be blamed on Yaerlin. After all, Gal now receives a small box of Coke or Fentiman soda [Note 1] from his mother every month, and Yaerlin likes Coke very much.But if you think about it with your toes, you know that Arlin's mother will never buy these Muggle drinks for Arlin - so unless Arlin can accept only pumpkin soda to drink every day, otherwise he can only use this blackmail. Please beg for mercy under 'miserable'.

While everyone was enjoying lunch, talking and laughing (and making noise), an owl stumbled in and flew straight towards the Hufflepuff table.

In fact, when he first saw this owl, Moon thought it would fly towards Ron on the Gryffindor table. After all, this guy's flying posture was really... a bit hard to describe, very much like the Weasley family. That Errol.Last Christmas, Mrs. Weasley used Errol to send greeting cards to him and his brothers and sisters. As a result, the old owl almost crashed and died on the gate of Shafiq Manor.

However, this guy finally flew to Alma's side, and despite the scary posture, he still landed smoothly, and the package was accurately thrown into Alma's hands - at least it didn't step on Alma's hand. In Ma's drink cup.

"Oh, thank you, apple pie~" Alma opened the package while teasing the old owl with her fingers.

Milton, who was sitting diagonally across from her, showed a strange expression, "Hey, Alma, your owl calls Apple Pie? What a strange name..."

"It's a little strange." Alma shrugged, holding the apple pie with her arms, and pushed the old owl upwards, so that it could flap its wings and fly away again. "This is my grandma's owl, and I also I don’t know why my grandma gave it that name.”

"Sometimes the pets at home are given these strange names." Kelly said with a smile: "I once had a dog at home. Although my mother and I disagreed, my father insisted on naming the dog It’s a hard-to-pronounce Arabic name, which is why I still can’t figure out the name of that dog.”

"And last year I saw a senior sister in school who had a very beautiful bird, which was emerald green. She called the bird 'Debra'. I thought she was calling it 'Debra' at first. Where are my classmates?"

Moon, who was eating lunch quietly there, suddenly turned his head when he heard Kelly's words, and asked with interest: "A green bird? Is it about the same..."

He raised his left hand and made a rough gesture, "...it's about this big, right?"

Kelly nodded excitedly, "Yes, yes, a very beautiful little bird, it seems to be shining in the sun."

"Do you remember that senior sister?" Moon asked, "I have seen that little bird before, but I have never seen its owner."

"Remember, that senior is from Gryffindor, and she was our former teaching assistant in the Transfiguration class, Sonia Philoris." Kelly answered in one breath. "It was quite a coincidence at the time. I was originally going to Quebec. I was looking for someone at Diqi Stadium, and when I passed by the lawn, I happened to see Philolis talking to her little bird there, and I even went over to touch that beautiful little guy."

"Thank you, thank you so much." Moon nodded thoughtfully.

If he remembered correctly, Professor Dumbledore had mentioned before that Rodriguez once called one of his dark wizards 'Debra' when he took people to the Ministry of Magic.

He didn't think all this was a coincidence.

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On Tuesday night, Moon came to Professor Snape's office as usual, but was rejected by the professor - Professor Snape seemed to be in a particularly bad mood, and did not even tell Moon the reason.

It wasn't until he was about to walk back to the dormitory that he learned the reason for Professor Snape's bad mood from the passing Gryffindor ghost, Sir Nicholas.

"Yes, they had a very fierce quarrel. I heard that Assistant Black and Professor Snape almost stuck their wands into each other's heads." Sir Nicholas sighed: "Of course, if If you ask why, it’s actually because of you.”

"Because...me?" Moon's mind was filled with questions. "Uh, I don't quite understand."

Sir Nicholas adjusted his collar and said in a tone of voice, "Of course you don't understand, because you are just the topic of their quarrel - they have been quarreling for a while, and this is the first time, let me think about it. Ah. , I’m sorry, my memory has declined obviously in the past two years, it’s been a while.”

"..." Moon looked at Sir Nicholas speechlessly, and finally chose to bow to him politely, "Thank you... for clarifying my confusion."

"You're welcome, Mr. Fox." Sir Nicholas put his hands behind his back. "You know, although I don't know you very well, the relationship between me and the fat monk has always been good. I also submitted gossip to your school newspaper before, but you didn't do it once Not used."

While expressing his apology, Moon complained in his mind - it's strange that it can be used. The gossips given by Sir Nicholas are all about quarrels between portraits and quarrels between ghosts. The little wizards don't know how to do it at all. Why is there any interest in this, because everyone can see portraits and ghosts making noises almost every day.

But now he understands a little bit, Sir Nicholas... maybe he likes to hear people quarreling.

"Okay, Mr. Fox, if you don't have anything else to do, I'll go back to Gryffindor Tower first. I heard that the Fat Lady is going crazy. If I get there in time, maybe I can give you something tomorrow. Submit a new piece of gossip." Sir Nicholas bowed to Munn with a weird posture. It seemed that he was afraid that his head would suddenly fall off and scare Munn, so he deliberately paid attention to his movements.

"Of course, Sir, please." Moon stepped aside to get out of the way. He waited until Sir Nicholas walked through the wall and disappeared into the corridor before he continued walking towards the common room.

Chapter 116 Another new decree

The peaceful and beautiful little days continue.

The spring rain, which is as expensive as oil, falls every day. Fortunately, although the rain is dense, the total amount of rainfall has not exceeded the standard.Therefore, under this irrigation, green grass sprouted out one after another on the lawn, and the scattered little flowers suddenly became the big stars among them. Even the usually reckless little wizard passed by. When walking, you will also pay a little attention to avoid stepping on them.

After the rain, the mushrooms began to grow freely.In the herbal medicine class on Friday, Professor Sprout once again took everyone out to pick mushrooms and tested everyone's identification of various herbal medicines - of course, Professor Sprout himself said that the focus was to test everyone's Herbal identification, picking mushrooms is just a matter of convenience.

However, judging from the results, Professor Sprout only asked three questions during the entire class. On the contrary, almost everyone picked a big basket of mushrooms.

At the end of get out of class, Gal received extra points from Professor Sprout because he was the only one who did not pick poisonous mushrooms.Among the remaining people, even Moon, who performed best, had a mushroom in his basket that was too 'honest' and was too deceptive, but actually contained a trace of poison.

Gal is not stingy about teaching his skills to everyone - as a cooking enthusiast, he has been picking mushrooms with his mother outside since he was a child, and he was even hospitalized for eating poisonous mushrooms when he was a child.

It was crushed by pure experience.

Also at the dinner table on Friday, a piece of bombshell news was announced in the newly released Evening Prophet.

"Hey! Moon! Look!" Cedric quickly handed the copy of the "Evening Prophet" in his hand to Moon. "The new law on werewolves has been officially announced!"

Moon hurriedly put down the pie in his hand and leaned over to read the detailed contents line by line.

Although he was actually very clear about all the contents of the new law, now that it was officially announced, he still had to confirm it again to avoid any further changes made by the Ministry of Magic in the past ten days.

Fortunately, Minister Amelia Bones proved her reliability with practical actions. All the details published in the newspaper were exactly the same as those negotiated by Moon and her when they were finalized, and they had not been changed word by word.

Generally speaking, this decree actually covers several aspects:

First, the illegitimateness and errors of the past "Werewolf Code of Conduct" and related laws were acknowledged, and the characterization of werewolves was revised to remove werewolves from the "Magical Creatures Hazard Classification" so that they were no longer regarded as a "XXXXX" "Dangerous creatures.

Second, a new "Werewolf Management Regulations" were introduced, requiring all werewolves in the UK to arrive at the Ministry of Magic within one month, register their werewolf status, and arrive at a designated place specified by the Ministry of Magic on every full moon night. There are several locations for transformation. Among them, a werewolf who has taken wolfsbane potion does not need to be restrained by chains.

But at the same time, all registered werewolves can receive a monthly subsidy to help them bear part of the financial pressure of wolfsbane potion.Moreover, the identities of these werewolves will be recognized by the Ministry of Magic. If they cannot find a boss who accepts them in the outside world and cannot get a legitimate job, they can go to the departments and cooperative institutions under the Ministry of Magic (Hogwarts, The Shafiq family, the Daily Prophet newspaper) were inaugurated.Unless there is a problem with your own character, you no longer need to worry about your livelihood.

Third, it is confirmed that "lycanthropy" is a major disease that needs to be solved urgently. All inventions of spells and potions that can help treat lycanthropy and reduce symptoms of lycanthropy can receive a grant from the Ministry of Magic. bonus.

Fourth, for all werewolves who have not come to the Ministry of Magic to sign a new decree and register their identity within one month, the Ministry of Magic will begin to arrest and imprison them one month later.

In addition, in this article of the "Evening Prophet", many photos of the werewolves who participated in suppressing the werewolf riot in Diagon Alley were posted, and these fighting heroes were once again publicly commended.More importantly, Ms. Amelia Bones personally admitted in the interview that inappropriate publicity, discrimination, and misunderstandings have caused great harm to some well-intentioned werewolves over the past hundreds of years. , these situations will be corrected and alleviated bit by bit by her in the future.

"Ha, it seems that the lives of werewolves will be much easier now." Cedric laughed. "This is definitely a major reform that can be recorded in the history of magic textbooks."

"Don't worry..." Moon shook his head and pushed the newspaper back to Cedric. "This is a good start, but with just such a decree and an article, people who have suffered thousands of years of improper discrimination will be The werewolf turned over, it is simply wishful thinking."

Seeing the other little wizards around him looking over, Moon explained, "Minister Bones and I have fully confirmed the content of the decree more than ten days ago. Why was it not released until today? It is conceivable that even if it is Within the Ministry of Magic, there is also a certain degree of obstruction. In addition, although many people have changed their views on werewolves this time, just like you, they have gradually realized that there are good and bad werewolves, good and evil. But there are also some People, they can’t change their senses right away.”

"Not to mention that some people's brain capacity is too small. Their way of looking at problems is always biased and one-sided, and they are most willing to knock down an entire group with a stick."

"The promulgation of this decree will definitely be accompanied by great quarrels. Some people are optimistic and some are negative. And every time a werewolf comes out to do evil in the future, some guys with rusty brains will jump out and say, 'All werewolves are Dangerous'. It is conceivable that the quarrels will only continue again and again. Unless when lycanthropy can be cured, the cost of wolfsbane potion decreases, and the effect increases - by then, the werewolves Only then can our lives be truly improved to a greater extent.”

"So, this is a good start, but it is only a beginning. The werewolves' lives will get better, but they will not be able to sit back and relax from now on, and completely wash away the 'notoriety' they have carried for thousands of years."

His eyes swept over the ignorant little wizards, and he couldn't help but laugh again, "Of course, no matter what, those kind-hearted werewolves at least don't have to live in such poverty and grievance in the future. That's right. .”

As soon as Moon finished speaking, he noticed a wave of joyful and touching emotions coming from behind him. At the same time, Gabriel also gestured behind him.Moon suddenly realized it and turned around. Sure enough, a pale Remus was standing diagonally behind him, with slightly red eyes and a relieved smile on his face.

"Ah, Assistant Lupine." Moon wanted to turn around, but Remus reached out to block him.

Then, Remus adjusted his collar and said solemnly to Moon: "Moon, thank you. Thank you for everything you have done for us."

As he spoke, he took out an envelope from his pocket and handed it to Moon, "Open it and take a look?"

Moon opened the envelope with some confusion. There was no letter inside, only a photo.

The photo was taken in the cave deep in the Forbidden Forest. The place still looks almost the same as when Moon went there before. The only change is that there is an extra statue in the center of the cave.

A statue of Moon.

The sunlight outside the cave passed through the branches and leaves, and dappled it into the cave, falling on the statue of Moon. A total of fifty werewolves stood casually in front of the statue, smiling, facing the direction of the camera. Waving his hands vigorously: Old Man Galvin, Mr. and Mrs. Rubeo, Rideout, Remus... Among them were both these werewolves that Munn was already familiar with, and there were also many unfamiliar faces that Munn had never met before.

Then, they both drew their wands and pointed at the statue.The next moment, giant wolf-like lines suddenly appeared on the statue's robe, faintly revealing a dark blue light.The statue itself also raised the wand high, and the tip of the wand began to glow with a faint light.

"We have made an appointment to go to the Ministry of Magic to sign the new decree tomorrow. Ms. Amelia Bones also knows about this matter, and newspapers will go over to film, interview and report on it. In this way, it will be There will be more werewolves like us who are still hiding around. As long as they see the sincerity of the Ministry of Magic and our actions, they will probably let down their guard little by little."

Remus told the werewolves' plan bit by bit, "After the registration is completed tomorrow, Mr. Galvin and Mr. Rubeo will become Aurors of the Ministry of Magic, and the captains of the first arrest operation will also be composed of Mr. Galvin and Mr. With Mr. Rubeo in charge, they can better find the werewolves and distinguish which of them are just wary and which of them are always doing evil and biting. As you said, this time, the Ministry of Magic has shown enough sincerity .”

Moon solemnly put the photo back into the envelope, put it in his pocket, and then said with a smile: "It sounds really good. Don't worry, Assistant Lu Ping, it will get better and better in the future."

"Of course." Remus hesitated for a moment, but finally chose to extend his hand to Moon and shook his hand. "Your father will definitely be proud of you. You are even better than he was back then. Much better."

When he heard this sentence, Moon felt a little dazed - but only a little, nothing more.

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In fact, Moon still had some reservations in what he said to the young wizards.

The law is good, and the future brought about by the law is also good.However, there are countless problems that may arise:

The cost of wolfsbane potion is not low. As more and more werewolves are registered, the amount of subsidies will become higher and higher. Where will this expense come from?What should we do if deductions occur during the distribution of subsidy amounts?What should we do if some werewolves have a wrong idea and want to claim more than they deserve?

Moreover, a werewolf who can consciously restrain himself and not let himself go on a full moon night can indeed be regarded as a werewolf with a good heart, but having a good heart does not mean that he is excellent in all aspects.What should we do if some werewolves, although they have good intentions, also like to push themselves to the limit, and the subsidies related to Wolfsbane potion are not enough, and they want to directly ask the Ministry of Magic to distribute Wolfsbane potion?

There are many, many more issues like this. Even though Ms. Moon and Ms. Bones have tried their best to think everything through during their discussions and agreed on many additional detailed regulations in addition to the law, they still cannot think that it is enough. Covering everything.There are still many loopholes that will be slowly revealed after actual implementation. After all, werewolves are also human beings, and human nature is always mottled.

Laws and regulations can determine what is good or bad on a macro scale, but when implemented on a micro scale, everything can only be achieved step by step.

A few days after the decree was officially released, a bunch of related news appeared in various newspapers and periodicals.How many werewolves have registered today? What opinions does a certain potion expert have on this? Some wizards have joined forces to boycott werewolves...

Babulababulaba, everyone is talking non-stop. The only good news is that the voices of those who agree are obviously greater than those who resist, and the werewolves who have solved the actual problem are gradually coming from all corners as Remus said. I got out and registered with the Ministry of Magic.

As a result, the implementation of the law finally went smoothly.

In early April, shortly after the twins' birthdays, the little wizards in the third year and above of Hogwarts got another chance to go to Hogsmeade.This also allowed Munn to finally go to the Werewolf Night Bar in person - after their last trip to Hogsmeade, Cedric and the others who rushed back were full of praise for the place, but it was Munn who owned the bar. Until now, no one knew what the bar looked like.

Frankly speaking, the Werewolf Night Bar does not look very luxurious from the outside, and the decoration style is very different from other shops and houses in the village.But when he walked in, Moon discovered that the Rishis had brought over the idea of ​​the bar they had previously run, and had also made upgrades.

The Werewolf Night Bar not only has two floors above ground, but also has three floors underground.Although the soft furnishings and decorations in the bar cannot be said to be expensive, the materials available are all first-class, and a lot of thought has gone into them.For example, students like to stay on the ground floor and underground floor, so they make the spaces on these two floors as open and spacious as possible, so that the little wizards can not only have enough comfortable rest space, but also enjoy the excitement atmosphere of.Moreover, a lot of small sofas and rattan chairs are used, which are not only comfortable to sit on, but also convenient for everyone to move around.

On the second floor above ground, which the professors prefer, the tables were replaced with fine wood, and the chairs were all comfortable and beautiful armchairs and large soft sofas.Moreover, half of the space was specially set aside and turned into an independent private room with excellent soundproofing, so that professors could discuss some private matters and receive their friends in it.

As for the second and third floors underground, the third floor is completely closed to students and only adult wizards are allowed to enter. Not only does it provide a variety of spirits, but the entire decoration style has been changed to that of the Richeys' previous tavern. , the main theme is casualness.The second floor is a special private room - the one with the lowest price. The layout is not the best, but the most expensive, and the tone and decoration are taken to the extreme.

In fact, the Rishis originally had no intention of building the second or third underground floors. If they were just a family of three, they would obviously not be able to handle making the bar so big.But no one expected that Rideout and Mrs. Rubeo would also be arranged here by Golov, and two other female werewolves would also follow.This gave the Riches enough manpower and confidence. Little Rich and Rideout were responsible for the two floors for the little wizards. Mrs. Rich ran to take care of the second floor above ground, while the second and third floors below fell to In the hands of Mr. Rich, Mrs. Rubeo and the two female werewolves, the entire bar happened to be occupied.

"Ha! Moon!" Rideout was standing at the bar, well-dressed. He was originally there to entertain other little wizards, but when he saw Moon, he almost jumped out of the bar with excitement. come out.

"Rideout." Moon walked to the front of the bar, looked at Rideout up and down, and was about to introduce them, but Rideout called out several names first - such as Seth Derek, Cho, Arlin, etc. Even when Professor Flitwick walked through the hall, he didn't forget to say hello.

Moon then remembered that many people from the school newspaper office had already been here, and Rideout had also been in the newspaper, so the little wizards would definitely recognize him.

"Cough-" Moon coughed awkwardly and patted his forehead. "What a mistake. I just wanted to introduce you to each other."

Rideout and the little wizards all laughed, making Moon blush. He raised his hand to rub his hair and ordered a drink, hoping to relieve the embarrassment.As a result, Gal suddenly rushed up and tugged on Munn's sleeve, muttering in a low voice: "Moon, this is your home anyway, can you order me a drink? I've been curious about that thing for a long time."

Moon rolled his eyes, pulled his sleeves back, and whispered angrily: "Don't even think about it. If you get drunk here, I will have to be dragged by Professor Sprout tomorrow." Training in the office all day."

Gal sighed, lowered his head and returned to Demi. Five seconds later, Demi made him laugh like a donkey, startling all the little wizards in the bar.

In Hogsmeade in March, the trees have already sprouted new buds and bloomed leaves. The little Hogwarts wizards who rarely come out to relax walked past the window of the Werewolf Night Bar in groups, chatting and laughing. As he headed towards his destination, Moon, who was sitting by the window, held a warm teacup in his hand and looked a little lost for a moment.

"What are you thinking about?" Violet turned her head and asked with a chuckle, "It feels like your mind has traveled far away."

"No." Moon stroked the teacup, leaned back on the rattan chair with the same smile, and shook the stool and said, "I'm thinking, it would be great if I could do this every day."

Violet nodded thoughtfully, then took a sip of her cup of black tea and glanced aside as if unintentionally, "Well, Easter is coming soon."

Moon was startled for a moment, then agreed happily: "That's right, so, Miss Evelina, are you ready to be a guest at my house?"