Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

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Chapter 37 Message from the Half-Blood Prince

Moon gently stroked the last page of the book, and a look of understanding gradually appeared in his eyes.

This page is not completely flat. When you touch it, you can feel some slight undulations and bumps.

As he walked to a place with direct sunlight, he slightly changed the angle of holding the book twice - sure enough, some traces of writing were faintly revealed on the originally completely blank paper.

He suddenly realized that it seemed that there should have been writing on this page, but someone cast a spell on those writings, so they disappeared, leaving only the marks left when writing on the page. keeping it.

Seeing that there was no one around and making sure that he would not disturb anyone, Moon quietly took out his wand, pointed it at the page, and whispered: "Aparecium!"

Lines of writing began to appear on the blank page. The more Moon looked at it, the more familiar the writing became. Until he saw the 's' at the end of one of the words, he finally made up his mind and wrote on the last page of the book. The person who wrote these words must be Professor Snape:

"The fundamental starting point for creating potions is wrong. From the formula and casting steps, you only think about 'changes' instead of using these 'changes' as a 'tool'. This is the fundamental reason for the mistakes in potions. The reason - 'change' has changed from a means to an end. The actual meaning of your magic potions has quietly changed from 'let people obtain some kind of power through these organs and parts' to 'let people obtain these organs. , parts'."

"Moreover, in order to successfully achieve this effect, the spelling methods you used to combine when brewing the potion were too strong. When the two were combined, all the potions were combined by you to create a powerful curse. No Wrong, what ultimately prevents your potions from working properly is that each of your potions is a curse, a curse that allows humans to successfully grow animal-like organs with complete effects."

"Unfortunately, apart from turning the potion into a curse, there is almost no way to make your potions work as you want and achieve the full, powerful effect you want. So there's probably no room for improvement."

At first glance, these words may seem like Professor Snape’s comments, but if you look closely, it seems a bit like Professor Snape is having a conversation with the author of this book. People can’t help but think about the relationship between the two. Relationship.Moreover, Moon also discovered that after the above text appeared, there was a line of handwriting one size smaller appearing on the side at the bottom of the page.

"But for a few of these potions, perhaps I can try to reproduce them with milder formulas and spells. If it works, I will let you know. - Your loyal friend, Half-Blood Prince, 1979.11.16."

This is the last paragraph that appears on the last page of the entire "Guide to the Preparation of Twenty Powerful Animalistic Potions".

When he saw this sentence, Moon couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

To say that Moon had no feelings at all would be a lie.

He had reason to believe that with Professor Snape's carefulness and clever mind, he could definitely guess that he could discover the hidden content of this last page;

He had more reason to believe that Professor Snape must also know that he could recognize it with the handwriting on it. These words were all written by Professor Snape himself.

Unfortunately, the signature of this message is not "Severus Snape", nor the abbreviation "S·S", but "Half-Blood Prince" - a nickname that Professor Snape rarely uses outside the home.

what is this?Trust him?Or do you simply think it doesn't matter?

Moon had the urge to contribute to global warming, so he quickly took a breath of cold air, and then waved his wand to hide the writing on the last page again.

If the book is to be borrowed later, Mrs. Pince will definitely check it in detail.If these handwritings are still left, I feel a little sorry for Professor Snape.

Hmm... I wonder if Mrs. Pince would take this book and smash Professor Snape's office door if she reported him for scribbling on the book.

Of course, Munn obviously only dared to think about this kind of thing in his mind. If he really put it into practice, I am afraid that before he can kill the basilisk, Snee learned the truth from Mrs. Pince. Professor Pu will come first and kill him.

Compared to watching Mrs. Pince get into trouble with Professor Snape, if you think about it carefully, it would be more tempting to live for two more years...

Moon rubbed his hair and looked to both sides with a guilty conscience, as if people passing by could hear his thoughts.It wasn't until he was sure that he was completely "safe" that he closed the book and walked towards Mrs. Pince.

The process of borrowing the book was not very smooth, just as Moon thought at first - after seeing the internal situation of the book, Mrs. Pince was absolutely unhappy.Even though she knew that the situation in the book was not caused by Moon, Mrs. Pince's book-loving character still made her mutter beside her for a long time before she finally handed the book into Moon's hands.

At the same time, she did not forget to remind Munn several times not to leave any writing or dirt on the book, otherwise she would definitely make Munn suffer a lot.

Moon naturally agreed to this. He had never had the habit of scribbling on books anyway, let alone such a very special book.

In fact, the reason why I wanted to borrow the book was because based on what Professor Snape said later, it was obvious that he could indeed use these so-called "powerful animalistic potions".

Judging from the production process and time, the most exaggerated one only requires three moonlit nights to be made, which means that if there is a period of relatively clear weather, three days is enough.And the potion he needed that allowed him to use the sonic perception of bats could be brewed in just two ordinary afternoons.

This is probably one of the reasons why Professor Snape mentioned this book to Moon. No matter what Moon wants to do, such a short production time is probably enough.

As for another reason...

Although it is not yet certain whether the modification steps to the potion proposed by Professor Snape have really completely eliminated the curse of the "bat" part of the potion.But even if not, this book is actually very practical for Moon.Because he has an extremely strong ability to dispel such long-term curses. Although it may not be effective against some particularly weird curses, it is obvious that the curses contained in the potions in this book are probably still in the Moon. Within the range that can be dispelled - at least in the eyes of Professor Snape.

In other words, Professor Snape obviously believed that he was absolutely capable of dispelling the curse left by the potions in the book, so he told him about the existence of this book.

So, if he could successfully make the "bat" potion before setting off to the secret room, his dependence on Debbie would be much less.After all, Debbie's performance...at least judging from the progress last night, Moon doesn't dare to say that it will be able to successfully handle the arduous task then.

It's always good to be prepared, if possible. In fact, Moon didn't really want an ordinary stupid owl like Debbie to put herself in danger.

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In the next two days, Moon once again entered an exaggerated state of rotation - not only had to write letters and mail orders for the ingredients needed to brew the potion, but he also had to arrange the Halloween dinner on Saturday and take into account the How to take Harry to the Chamber of Secrets.You can't relax in the extra training with Debbie in the evening. Before the magic potion is successful, you can't miss any of the preparations.

This resulted in him not being able to have a heart-to-heart talk with his good friend Tom Riddle for two nights in a row. It was not until Wednesday evening that he finally had time to take out the familiar diary and start talking nonsense with Tom. 】

How should I put it? Well, Tom is really a very patient person, and Moon really feels like she wants to cry to death.

Yes, the soul fragment in the diary is still trying to trick 'Daniel' and let him send Hagrid to Azkaban and kick Professor Dumbledore out of Hogwarts.

In fact, the diary is not completely without suspicion. After all, unless you are as stupid as Debbie, you will feel that something is a little wrong - several days have passed by now, if the basilisk is really released came out, and if Hogwarts had not closed its doors, then the castle would have been filled with blood and panic. Even if the school wanted to continue to open, most of the young wizards would not dare to stay here to attend classes.

In this regard, the explanation given by 'Daniel' is that Professor Dumbledore personally came out and took turns patrolling the campus with several deans in the school every day. Therefore, there have been no attacks in the past few days. Maybe the person in the secret room The monster had sensed the danger and hid temporarily.

Although this was just 'Daniel's' guess, the diary easily accepted this statement, because it felt that it was not impossible: the basilisk hidden in the secret room might not be aware of danger or not. However, the unknown person who opened the Chamber of Secrets was obviously aware of it. After all, Dumbledore was so famous that it was almost impossible for a basilisk to be solved. It was perfectly normal for the person who opened the Chamber of Secrets to be afraid of it. but.

What's more, Diary still retains absolute trust in his ability to detect people's hearts.

Ever since, just like that, the diary almost completely believed what 'Daniel' said, and in turn continued to use this incident to persuade 'Daniel'.After all, the general meaning of the words is nothing more than "Even if no one continues to have accidents, the accidents that have occurred will still lead to the closure of Hogwarts. You have to pour dirty water on Hagrid. Only after Gwartz can 'solve' this matter on the surface can the students' minds be settled, and only then can you have a chance to take revenge."

'Daniel' felt that what his good friend Tom said was very right, so he made a promise to Tom that he would make this extremely important matter directly public to the public on Halloween Eve, under the spotlight of the banquet, so that everyone would know the truth. Albus Dumbledore, who didn't care about him, was unlucky together with the ugly and stupid Rubeus Hagrid, and the bastard Moon Fox who mocked and insulted him every day.He wanted to announce that it was Moon Fox who was cooperating with Rubeus Hagrid to open the Chamber of Secrets!The monster in the secret room was released!Let the monsters slaughter Hogwarts at will.

When writing these words, Moon was particularly excited. He even made up two large paragraphs of dirty information about himself, focusing on describing how he treated 'Daniel' inhumanely, how he encouraged others to isolate him, humiliate him, While giving him a nickname, I also wanted him to embarrass himself in front of his beautiful classmates...

If it were normal times, I'm afraid Tom in the diary would just applaud Moon and sing praises loudly.Because there is no doubt that for Diary, this Moon Fox is simply a God-given opportunity. The more he bullies 'Daniel', the easier it will be for Diary to control 'Daniel' who has become mentally distorted. .

But right now, what 'Daniel' said almost broke the diary's mentality.

Dao is confused, do you understand?

The diary feels like the whole diary is in bad shape.

Gan Linliang, the reason why I asked you to accuse Hagrid wrongly is because Hagrid has been wronged before and has some dirty information on him. You just need to use your brain to frame him!Who the hell asked you to drag others in?If you involve others in this, won't the probability of success plummet?Coupled with your stubborn mind, it's amazing that you can do this well!

In the end, Hagrid was not sent to Azkaban, Dumbledore was fine, and you happily took me to bow with the dementors, right?

Are you really polite? I'm doing my best for you. Is this really polite?

Unfortunately, there are always things that people cannot say, so Diary had no choice but to try his best to persuade him, and even did not hesitate to show 'Daniel' a piece of his own memory: that was when he stood aside and watched the orphanage coldly when he was a child. It depicts the scene of a stupid kid who wronged others and was punished.

Of course, his own disgust and hatred for the orphanage and his contempt for everyone around him at that time were all clearly seen by Munn, without missing a beat.

In this way, after some earnest words and memory display, 'Daniel' finally gave up staring at the Moon Fox who appeared out of nowhere, and confessed that he might indeed be unable to handle these things, and let the diary He also contributed a detailed frame-up process book.

While the diary was lamenting that the child had finally grown up and become more sensible, he also worked hard to design the entire process as perfectly as possible.

Moon, who returned outside, was also very satisfied with the result. You see, this time the diary can show him the memory fragments of Voldemort's childhood. Then next time, he can find a way to get more private footage. Have you seen it?

Even if you can't see anything about Voldemort's sleeping... well, it's probably a fragment that doesn't exist. Of course, he's not that greedy to begin with (BT), as long as he can see if Voldemort has had any contact with other dark wizards before But, if so, what kind of contact would it be?

In short, the exchange between the two people ended with a happy ending as always.

Seeing that the diary was so "hard-working and accomplished", Moon also completely determined the follow-up process - as soon as Halloween is over, 'Daniel' will become the chief of Hogwarts little by little under the training of the diary. The big devil "opened his heart" to the diary bit by bit, creating an illusion for the diary that was completely different from the real Hogwarts.

Stepping on Muggles!Punch the professor!Get rid of Albus Dumbledore!Restore the glory of pure blood!It is our duty to do so!

Give Tom Riddle's diary a little 21st century shock!

What does it mean to be really good when everyone is good?

That's it.

Seeing that the time was almost seven o'clock in the evening, Munn finally put away the diary, changed his clothes, and left the dormitory in a hurry.

When passing by the common room, Gal, who had been looking around at the small table, suddenly jumped up and pulled Munn to ask about the Defense Against the Dark Arts homework assigned by Assistant Teacher Lupine, until Munn handed over his homework It's not over until you hand it over.

He asked a few questions curiously, and then he learned that Garr saw that Moon had been busy in the dormitory, so he planned to copy Cedric's homework directly. However, the Hufflepuff Quidditch team suddenly made an impromptu call tonight. After extra training, it was said that he came up with some new tactics, so Gal had no choice but to turn the target of his help back to Munn - if Munn didn't come out again, he had already planned to rush into the dormitory to ask for help.

"Hey, some people." On the other side of the common room, Yaerlin deliberately stared away and said with an exaggerated expression: "I didn't copy yesterday, and I didn't copy the day before yesterday. You will start copying when you have to hand in your homework tomorrow afternoon. Why don't you just wait until noon tomorrow to copy it? Or just copy it in front of Assistant Teacher Lu Ping, huh."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but loudly stuff the homework he had placed in his backpack into his backpack.

Anyone else might have found this scene confusing, but Moon could see clearly at a glance: Yaerlin was resisting.

It is estimated that Gal was not willing to copy his homework and had to copy his own or Cedric's homework.

That's right, Gal is the kind of person who copies homework but also pursues excellent quality.

Unfortunately, his pursuit was limited to the quality of the homework to be copied. He really had no pursuit for the time he had to copy the homework.

Because of this, after Yaerlin said those sour words, Gal's eyes finally lit up as if he had just woken up from a dream, as if he saw light, he patted his forehead and said: "Aha! That's right! Defense Against the Dark Arts class is tomorrow afternoon, and there isn’t much homework anyway, so I can just copy it during lunch break tomorrow!”

Chapter 38 Final preparation time

"..." There seemed to be a flock of crows flying over the common room, and the room where there were many voices immediately fell silent.

After a moment, I don’t know who laughed first.Then, amid the roar of laughter, Gal raised his head and said, "What's wrong! What's wrong! Don't you know that I am a 'boy without determination'?!"

Some people shouted loudly, expressing their praise for Gal's honesty. Compared with this, Yaerlin's repeated emphasis that Gal was already a "teenager" seemed somewhat insignificant.

Moon suppressed a smile and didn't bother to ask for his homework back. It would have been the same with Gal anyway.He took advantage of the quiet time to say hello to a few people, and then quietly slipped out of the common room.

I originally wanted to take a look at what Violet was doing, but it turned out that the little girl was not in the common room at the moment, but her other two roommates except Kayla were there. It was probably because they were beaten by Si again. Professor Plaut dragged them away to draw some mysterious album of theirs.

There was no conversation along the way, and when they arrived at the small forest, Hagrid was already waiting there.Looking at the black cloth hanging around Moon's neck, he scratched his head and pondered for a long time, and finally took out a bag from his thick otter fur coat. "Moon, this is for you."

Moon took the bag and weighed it gently in his hands.Although this bag looks a bit bulging, the weight is surprisingly not heavy.He curiously opened the bag and took a look inside, only to realize that the bag contained a set of joint protective gear sewn with thick fur and a lightweight wooden helmet.

They all look quite ugly, and have a very strong "made by Hagrid" feel, but I guess the quality and functionality should be good.

"I saw how embarrassed you were last time, so I went back to get you some protective gear, thinking you might need it." Hagrid nodded towards Munn, and then felt a little embarrassed. He said: "Maybe it's a bit ugly. I'm really not very good at sewing these things, but anyway, you're using it in this forest, right. I guess no one will see it except your owl and me." Ha ha."

"Cool~" Munn smiled gratefully at Hagrid. He really forgot that he could also buy some protective gear to wear. There were too many things in his mind, leaving no room for basic common sense. Crowded.

At this time, outside the castle, except for one or two shouts from the Quidditch pitch, there were basically no people left.Moon simply took out the knee pads, elbow pads and helmet from the bag and put them on one by one——

Well, to be honest, once you get on it, you will find that these things don’t just look ugly, they are really ugly: the shape of the helmet is not only not full, but weird, it looks more like a polyhedron with weakened edges and corners, okay The weight is still balanced;

Things like knee pads and elbow pads were also sewn crookedly. Probably in order to make the sutures tighter, Hagrid also specially used two different threads and reinforced them twice, which made the stitching marks extremely obvious. , like the sutures on the head that had just been hit by a beer bottle.

The good news is that apart from being ugly, this set of things has not exposed any other significant shortcomings for the time being.

"Oh, it's not bad. It's light, warm, and fits well." Moon tugged on the elbow pad on his left arm. "Well, if you make it more beautiful, I think Hagrid you can open a small shop and sell it. "

"Ha, as long as you like it." Hagrid breathed a sigh of relief. "Huh, I was always worried that it would be too big and too ugly, making you unwilling to wear it and embarrassed to reject me. Guess Why, just taking out these things has made me hesitate for a long time."

Moon stood on the spot and jumped up twice to make sure that these things on his body would not fall off, and then said with a smile: "There is nothing to hesitate about. If I care about this kind of thing, how can I become friends with you? ?Right? Ah, right."

He slapped his forehead and remembered that he still had something serious to say. "This year's Halloween dinner will probably be a costume party, and everyone is most vocal about this. The news has been announced tonight, and I will find a way to invite people from the Weird Sisters to come." There shouldn’t be much extra preparation required for the performance, Hagrid, just make some small decorations like pumpkins as usual.”

"No problem." Hagrid agreed without delay. This kind of thing he did almost every year was not difficult at all.What's more, he had already cast the pumpkin's puffing spell a long time ago.

Seeing that the time was getting late and everything that needed to be said had been said, the two of them did not continue to chat anymore. Instead, they each did their own thing - one was playing with the dog outside and checking the tools and equipment. , and the other was having some intimate contact with the big trees in the forest that no one could see.

It wasn't until two hours later that Moon dragged his tired body back to the common room, and the forest became quiet again, waiting for the two people to come again tomorrow.

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At noon on Thursday, Gal was chewing his lunch and lying on the long table in the auditorium, writing hard. At the same time, he was still able to argue with Milton about the correct way to make carrot cake.It seems that the homework in Defense Against the Dark Arts is really not that much.

For the rare moment, Arlin did not participate, nor did he ridicule Garr for not starting to copy homework until now, because he was discussing with Keira and Cedric what to do in this year's Quidditch game. Something to cheer you on.Cedric always thought the flags were pretty good, but Arling insisted on doing something new, as if that wasn't enough to prove that he was an avid supporter of the Hufflepuff House team.

Keira didn't have any opinions of her own and could only waver between the two. Sometimes she felt that Cedric was more right, and sometimes she felt that Arlin's proposal was indeed very interesting.

Moon slowly divided the large pieces of meat steak on the plate. He had no choice but to intervene in the topics on both sides. Of course, he was too lazy to interrupt.I haven’t finished the book I have on hand yet, and the mail-order materials for the “bat” potion have also arrived in the morning. I have to review the entire process of brewing the potion a few times.The custom-made tarot cards he bought last time were also delivered this morning. He had to think about how to inspect and place the things that were most likely to be contraband.

Although Hogwarts does not control knives, it is not something that ordinary young wizards can reasonably carry with them.

So, things like carrot cakes and cheering flags that they talked about...

It's too boring, it's more important to do the right thing, and put other things aside first.

2 minutes later, Violet ran into the auditorium at a trot, and then quickly sat in the specially reserved seat next to Moon. "Ah, I'm starving. Professor Sprout told me her thoughts for a while - —What are they talking about?"

Moon closed the book he had been reading, and at the same time exchanged the plate full of food in front of him with the empty plate in front of Violet. "On the left, there is a carrot cake." The production process, the one on the right is about whether to make a cheering flag or a cheering torch for the Quidditch game, here, eat it quickly."

Seeing countless plates of food suddenly appearing out of thin air in front of her eyes, Violet's little face immediately turned two shades red.Fortunately, she came running, and her face was already slightly rosy, but now others can't really see it.

She looked around with a guilty conscience. She didn't know what she was looking at. She looked at several people but didn't feel anything. Anyway, after looking at it twice, she thanked her in a low voice and started to enjoy it. stand up.

That timid yet taken-for-granted look was almost shattered by the teeth of several little girls who secretly had a crush on Moon.

"Hmm... have you thought about what you want to dress up as for the masquerade party on Halloween this year?" Violet didn't notice that she was doing something that made people jealous, and she wouldn't notice it anyway. Just care.While she was finishing her lunch, she turned her head to look at Moon and asked curiously.

"Speaking of this..." Moon held the chicken leg in his mouth and blinked. "Actually, I haven't thought about it at all. Besides, I may not be able to participate in this year's masquerade. There may be other things to do."

"In this way..." Violet nodded thoughtfully, "Then I have an idea and let you know. If you can't come then, I will go find Hesper."

"Okay." Munn grinned stupidly, which stunned several other junior wizards who were looking here secretly and observing and learning from the senior seniors' ways of getting along with each other.

"Ahem - do you think Fox and Evelina are boyfriend and girlfriend?" A little witch asked her friend in the same dormitory in a low voice, with the word 'gossip' written brightly in her big eyes.