Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

"Well, I didn't go with him to confirm the root, so I came here to find it. But I guess it's four." Moon took the soda, but because he hadn't finished chewing the pie in his mouth, he could only hold it aside for the time being. Liwei taught Sou to be so happy, if it weren’t for——"

"What if not?" Violet looked at Munn who was suddenly stunned with some confusion. She raised her hand and waved it twice in front of Munn's eyes in confusion, thinking that Munn was in a trance.

In fact, Moon just suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind.

He suddenly thought of a lost and found submission he had just read - from a second-year Hufflepuff wizard. She claimed that the book she left behind in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom had mysteriously disappeared. I hope someone who saw it or picked up the wrong book will contact him and return the book to her.

If there is nothing strange about this, then the strange thing will come next.

According to the list of books provided by the little wizard, it included "Standard Spells Level [-]" and "A Year with the Tibetan Snowman"...

There were also two class notebooks she had borrowed from fellow Gryffindor girls.

And Hermione happens to be in second grade this year.

Chapter 24 Help from “The Sun”

Things started to get weirder and weirder.

It would be great fun if Tom Riddle's diary really was in Hermione's hands.But it was hard for Moon to imagine how that silly diary could seduce Hermione - in the original book, the diary relied on Ginny's admiration for Harry to successfully induce Ginny deeper and deeper into the world.What about Hermione?

Oh……

Moon seemed to have gotten something strange. On the day when the Duel Club recruited new members, did Harry and Ron say that Hermione dreamed of being in the same grade as him, and then turned herself into a defeated opponent in terms of academic performance? ?

Don't tell me, if the diary realizes this and uses it to provoke little Hermione, it might actually have a miraculous effect.

But then again, the problem isn't big, it's just a broken diary. Even if Munn throws it aside, the diary can't hurt anyone in a short time.In contrast, the basilisk stuffed in the secret room was the big problem.

But it's not difficult to solve. At least Munn has figured out how to kill it. He just needs to wait for a suitable time to activate it.Although I don’t remember when the basilisk first hurt someone, there is no doubt that it definitely did not happen in the first month of school.The bewitching of the diary always takes a while, so naturally his time is not that urgent.

After thinking for a moment, he put the book in his hand aside, turned off the light, and lay down on his bed contentedly.

Gal, who was in the next bed, started mumbling in his sleep again. It didn't sound very real, but you could roughly tell that he seemed to be talking about ice cream or something like that.

Anyway, Gal's sleep talking is almost always related to eating.

In this way, under the double consonance of the sound of rain outside the window and Gal's sleep talking, Moon gradually fell into sleep.

…………

The fourth-grade courses have become somewhat more difficult, with Transfiguration being the most obvious, because they must officially begin to master cross-species transformation - this is a huge difficulty for young wizards, and many people will not. Stumped here.In this way, by next year, those little wizards who have failed in cross-species transformation will not be able to get passing scores in OWLs, and thus will lose the qualification to continue studying Transfiguration.

The more I listen, the more it sounds like the professors did it on purpose.

If there is any course that Moon and the others have this year that is more difficult than Transfiguration, it is obviously the History of Magic.As more and more content needs to be reviewed, all kinds of eras, names, places... are all being crammed into his mind. Moon has no problem in this regard, but since October, Gal no longer knows How many times have I said that I want to give up the history of magic and bid farewell to Professor Binns completely.

There is no way, he hasn't even fully understood the new goblin rebellion this year, and he has almost forgotten the previous things. Even if he doesn't plan to say goodbye to Professor Binns, after next year's OWLs, Professor Binns won't either. Will make him come to class again.

In October this year, the weather has turned particularly cold. Except for a few teenagers and girls who like to show off their good figures, most people have already put on thick autumn clothes and scarves.In fact, most people have a relatively easy time, because as long as they hide in the castle and don't go out, they won't feel very cold most of the time.But for those little wizards who participated in the Quidditch academy team, they did not have such generous treatment-especially the Gryffindor players, because their captain gave them every year. The bloody Oliver Wood.

In fact, Oliver's idea makes sense. They just won the Quidditch championship last year. If they can't win it again this year, wouldn't their championship become a flash in the pan?At that time, some people may say that last year's championship was just a matter of luck.

It would be unrealistic to say that the Gryffindor players were not infected at all by his encouragement.But this infection is really not that much due to the ravages of cold weather.

In comparison, the Hufflepuff players are in much better condition. Although they still have to train hard, usually as long as it rains heavily outside or the temperature drops too much, they will honestly return to the public. In the lounge, they would at most talk about tactics, and then they would disband on the spot.

From Cedric's point of view, he prefers this training method and feels that this training method is better than Gryffindor's - it's not that there is anything wrong with training hard, but that several Gryffindor players are almost He was trained by Oliver to the point of complaining.Several times in the school newspaper office, Cedric really wanted to talk to Oliver, but as an outsider (at the college level), he really couldn't say anything, so he could only hope that Oliver would do it on his own. Change of heart.

Apart from these big and small things, overall, the little wizards at Hogwarts have lived a very comfortable and leisurely life in the past month or so since school started.

Even in Defense Against the Dark Arts classes.

Gilderoy Lockhart never behaved like a monster again after suffering such a tragedy.Moreover, he also took the initiative to reduce the number of his scheduled classes and gave more opportunities to Sirius and Remus. Even in the few classes he had, he would only talk a few words. Then, before the little wizards couldn't bear it anymore and began to ridicule him, he officially started his performance-based teaching.

That's right, performance-based teaching means finding a few young wizards to play various characters in his book and cooperate with him to reproduce the scenes in the book.

People don't like Lockhart playing the protagonist very much, because his performance is really exaggerated. On a few occasions, in order to show his bravery, he deliberately swung his wand very hard - as a result, his wand turned out to be directly He threw him away.

It was a third-year Ravenclaw class. When Qiu Zhang told Moon and the others about the incident afterwards, she, who had always been gentle, almost laughed to tears.

But I have to say that Lockhart's writing is really good, at least there are many wonderful scenes in it.As long as you ignore Lockhart's exaggerated body movements and lines, everything will become very beautiful.

On October 10th, the little wizards in the fourth grade Care of Magical Creatures class were wrapped in thick coats and hurriedly arrived at the class location.

Although the weather is cold, the little wizards have no complaints at all about going out to class, especially the girls. After a few weeks of getting along, many of them have been able to have more intimate contact with the unicorns.As for the boys - although they can't play with the unicorns like the girls, but if they just lean next to them and touch their manes from time to time, there is no problem at all.

As before, at the beginning of class, Professor Kettleburn first told them some knowledge about caring for unicorns. Recently, they have learned how to properly check for injuries, clean and feed unicorns. is the correct way to rescue a lonely little unicorn.After the professor has finished teaching the necessary knowledge points, they can continue to hang out with the unicorns.

Seeing others gathering around the unicorns again, Moon found a tree close to where the unicorns were. Using the blind spots covered by other students, he happily sat down on the ground and took out his backpack. Got the book.

It was getting cold, and Professor Kettleburn didn't like to move around much anymore, which just gave Moon the opportunity to be lazy and do what he wanted to do secretly.

For example, read a book or look at the Marauder's Map.

It seemed to Moon that things were starting to get weirder.

It has been a month and a half since the start of school. Logically speaking, if Hermione or someone else really got hold of Tom Riddle's diary, they should at least start sneaking out of the common room at night to summon snakes. Are you prepared?

But he still found nothing.

Until last night, on the Marauder's Map, he could still only see Professor Snape staying up late into the night from time to time, Professor Dumbledore walking around in his office, and Filch patrolling the entire castle over and over again... ...There was nothing unusual about anyone. The only students who would sneak out of the common room in the middle of the night were Fred and George. It was not that Moon had not suspected them, but these two people ran outside the castle every day. Otherwise, just look for new secret passages.Signs of a summoning basilisk?No, they only summoned Mr. Filch, Mrs. Norris, and Hagrid.

Oh, no, once they were both caught red-handed by Professor McGonagall and sent to help Mr. Filch wash the floor for three days.

Not to mention Hermione and Ginny, not even Gilderoy Lockhart, who Violet said something was wrong that day, was hanging out in the middle of the night.

outrageous.

At this point, Moon had to wonder—did Lucius Malfoy not put that diary into the hands of a certain Hogwarts wizard at all?

Although Tom Riddle's diary has a few flaws, it still has a lot of action.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, he sighed and seriously read the book about Horcruxes in his hand.

If he still doesn't find any movement after another week, then he will start to implement his plan and kill the basilisk first.

Maybe Merlin also noticed the difficulties that Munn encountered, or maybe it was just that the human crow's mouth would always become more effective. In short, just a few hours later that night, at nearly eleven o'clock in the evening, Munn finally As soon as I unfolded the Marauder's Map, I almost jumped out of my bed with excitement.

How did you say that?Huang Tian paid off, and finally he saw someone other than Fred and George wandering in the corridor.

Isn’t this name just right?

Neville Longbottom?

...? ? ?

It's just that confusing, right?

Moon frowned, put away the Marauder's Map with a strange expression, cast an invisibility spell on himself, and then quietly left the dormitory.

As confusing as it is, you have to go out and take a look. If it is really Neville, things will actually be much easier to handle.

All the way out of the common room, avoiding a few ghosts who were not sure whether they were sleeping or closing their eyes, Munn followed the Marauder's Map and went up to the sixth floor - according to what he saw on the map , Neville was on the fifth floor just now.

In fact, at this moment, although he hadn't seen Neville yet, Moon had begun to think that Neville was simply lost.Because he knew very well that the entrance to the secret room was in the bathroom occupied by Myrtle, and the location of that bathroom was on the second floor.After all, Myrtle is a famous ghost. Just ask around Hogwarts and you will know which bathroom she likes to shed tears in.

In other words, if Neville was really bewitched by the diary, he should have walked down after leaving Gryffindor Tower, not up.

Sure enough, he had just reached the sixth floor and turned a corner when he saw Neville in his pajamas standing in front of a set of stairs that had been moved away. His expression was unusually dazed, as if he had seen a ghost punching a wall.

Moon, who has mastered Legilimency, can tell at a glance that it is not the confusion controlled by the diary, but a... confusion with clear stupidity.

Good guy, this kid has been at Hogwarts for a year, hasn't he remembered that the stairs to the seventh floor will be moved away for 10 minutes every hour?

Moon glanced down at the Marauder's Map. The people patrolling the castle tonight were Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall. No matter which one bumped into Neville, he would not suffer the consequences.What's more important is that Filch is on the fourth floor now and may be coming up soon.

He dispelled the invisibility spell on himself and deliberately took a step forward, making a heavy sound of footsteps to attract Neville's attention.

Sure enough, Neville heard the voice, and immediately his eyes widened. Half in surprise and half in surprise, he opened his mouth and shouted, "Hey! Moon! Help me!"

Fortunately, the kid at least knew to keep his voice down in the hallway at this time.

Moon deliberately pretended to be surprised, as if he didn't know Neville was here. He walked quickly towards Neville and asked in a low voice: "Neville, why aren't you in the common room?"

"I was staying up late doing homework on the history of magic." Neville answered honestly: "But Leif suddenly disappeared. Fred told me that Leif had slipped out and was probably still at the door, so I hurried out to look for him. .Then Leifu ran away again, so I chased him..."

He spoke softer and quieter, and his chubby face turned red, but he did not forget to take out a toad from his pajamas pocket to prove his words.

Moon didn't know what to say. He glanced at the toad in Neville's hand, dumbfounded, and quickly waved to Neville, "Come on, I'll take you back to the Gryffindor common room."

Neville felt like he was being pardoned and quickly put away the toad and nodded vigorously, "Thank you, thank you very much. I think I forgot to feed Leif again today, so that's why he ran out."

As he spoke, he followed Munn to another staircase on this floor. It was not until he stepped on the stairs that he finally realized what he was doing and asked Munn doubtfully: "By the way, Munn, how could you do this?" in the corridor?"

"I can't sleep, so I came out for a walk." Moon said casually: "Gall talks too much in his sleep and makes a lot of noise."

"Oh..." Neville didn't doubt him, and glanced at Moon sympathetically, "Then you'd better go back to the common room early, otherwise if you are caught, points will be deducted."

Moon responded with a smile and sent Neville all the way back to the Gryffindor common room. It wasn't until he saw Neville ducking through the Fat Lady's portrait that he turned around and went downstairs, taking another item from his pocket. He took out the Marauder's Map.

For some reason, a coin was caught in the Marauder's Map and fell out. After falling on the ground, it rolled out and finally stopped when it hit the wall on the side of the corridor.

Moon hurriedly walked over and picked up the coin. When he looked up, he realized that there was a portrait right there - several sleeping cows, a vast grassland, and the scorching sun hanging high in the sky.

He vaguely realized something, and reached out from the buckle bag at his waist to take out the deck of tarot cards he had ordered by mail. He did not arrange the array, but just randomly pulled out one card.

Major Arcana - Nineteen, Sun, upright position.

Work goes smoothly, energy is high, noble people help you, and the road is smooth.

Your help?

Moon looked back with interest at the portrait of the Fat Lady not far away, and Neville's figure popped into his mind.

He is Neville's noble person, or... Neville is his noble person?

Gryffindor Tower?

So, the diary is really in Gryffindor Tower?

"Tsk..." Munn put away the tarot cards and coins, applied the invisibility spell to himself again, and then re-expanded the Marauder's Map.

He first glanced at the Gryffindor common room. Neville seemed to have gone back to the dormitory without staying in the lounge, so the Gryffindor common room was empty at the moment.

So he looked down the floors one by one. Everything was as usual. The corridors were empty again. Apart from Moon himself, the only people left in the corridors were Mr. Filch, Mrs. Norris and Snee. Professor Pu, Professor McGonagall.

It seems that what the tarot card wants to say is that he is Neville's noble person.

Moon sighed and walked down the stairs, ready to go back and sleep peacefully.

Anyway, this isn't the first night where I've gotten nothing, so it's not a big problem.

As a result, as he reached the fifth-floor corridor, Mr. Filch's incessant grumbling suddenly caught his attention.

"Damn students, sneaking away in the middle of the night, wandering in the corridors, leaving water stains all over the floor. Ha... I will make you look good if I catch you! Definitely!"

Water damage?Moon was startled, then quickly walked lightly and hurried towards the other end of the corridor where Filch was.

He was sure that there was no water stain on his feet, and neither was Neville - so the water stain was obviously left by someone else.

When he came to Filch, the traces left on the ground further confirmed his suspicion, because not only were there water stains on the ground, but they were not ordinary water stains.

It was a series of small footprints.

Moreover, it extends all the way down from upstairs.

Chapter 25 Susan’s Troubles

Then the question comes-

Since they were water-stained footprints extending from upstairs, and Moon had just sent Neville up and walked all the way down from the eighth floor...

I am the unlucky person controlled by the diary?

This is obviously impossible, after all, Moon and Footprints are not walking the same path at all.He carefully avoided Filch, walked to the stairs, took out the Marauder's Map and checked it quickly.That's right, no students appeared in the castle, and the outside of the castle was even more deserted.

In other words, the person who left this series of footprints probably happened to have a time gap with Moon.If this series of water-stained footprints had been left earlier, the house elves would have cleaned them all even if the water stains themselves had not dried.And if this string of water-stained footprints has not been left for a long time, then there is only one possibility for him/her to avoid being discovered by Moon - after Moon sees Neville and starts taking Neville upstairs. Just appeared on the Marauder's Map.Then he walked all the way downstairs and disappeared into the map before Moon took out the Marauder's Map for the second time.

To be honest, if someone else had come to Munn and told him this theory, Munn would have thought it was a bit nonsense.Even if that person really appeared in the corridor by coincidence just after Moon met Neville, where would there be so many places for him/her to avoid the Marauder's Map?

unless……

Moon followed the footprints all the way up until he reached the eighth floor of the castle, opposite the tapestry where the troll beat Barnabas silly.

Unless the person's starting point is the Room of Requirement, the destination is the secret room where the bathroom is on the second floor, or the Hufflepuff or Slytherin common room.Only in this case and an extremely coincidental time can he/she successfully avoid the display of the Marauder's Map.

Although he probably just missed the person holding Tom Riddle's diary, Moon did not feel depressed at all, but instead smiled.

He was not afraid of anything else, just that the diary would be thrown in a corner and no one would find it. As long as he confirmed that the diary was in Hogwarts and started activities, everything would be easy to handle.

If the broken diary can bring good luck for one night, can it also bring good luck for several nights in a row?

Taking Fu Ling Ling every day can kill people.