Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

"I know, I know -" Ron sighed resignedly, and then muttered at the last moment before walking out of the big classroom: "Okay, just think of it as gaining experience, I hope Munn can be more merciful next time , His pile of broken gloves really hurt me..."

To be honest, Harry really found Ron's behavior a bit funny. He seemed to have forgotten all the things he had just said about Malfoy.

However, considering that it was best to save some face for his friend in front of the people outside, Harry finally chose to walk out with the same sad expression on his face.

Well, just pretend that he didn't pass it himself.

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Monday's school newspaper once again raised the topic a lot - although it has always been very popular, to be honest, it has been a while since the school newspaper caused widespread discussion among the little wizards due to any positive school events. .The two major events that happened one after another this past weekend: the Quidditch preliminary round and the first official assessment of the Duel Club will undoubtedly dominate the headlines among young wizards for some time to come. .

In fact, in terms of topicality, the latter should be able to show an overwhelming advantage.After all, when the game is over, it is over. As everyone chats, it will inevitably turn to the next game that will start in half a month.The duel club's assessment is different. What just passed was just the first official assessment, and the upcoming first duel is the real big deal.

But it turns out that the power of fans is still great after all. The two young photographers in the school newspaper office failed to take a picture of Harry's last heroic moment, but it was taken by Colin Creevey. Simply beautiful.

After Colin ran to the school newspaper office and stated that he wanted to publish this photo in the school newspaper, Nash immediately pulled Quaid and ran up to Colin for advice.Unfortunately, the result was a bit disappointing - the luck factor in this photo was far greater than the technical factor. The reason why there was such a perfect killer photo was because Colin spent almost the whole game taking pictures of Harry alone. There was no distraction at all to shoot any other person or ball.

But Nash and the others obviously couldn't do this when taking photos.

However, the fact that they did not obtain the scriptures did not disappoint them too much.

What does this prove?It proves that there is specialization in the art industry!It seemed that if any photos of Harry were missed in the future, they could go to Colin for help and maybe find some unexpected gains.

With the help of this photo, the "topic" of the first Quidditch match was so high that it finally subsided a little until Wednesday morning.

According to Ron's own words, after discovering that everyone's topic had started to change, Ginny felt very sorry and immediately cut out Harry's photo from the school newspaper at noon that day and stuck it on her On the diary.

Poor little Ginny, she thought there would be no one in the Gryffindor common room during lunch time, but unexpectedly she was bumped into by her brother who had a stomachache.

When Ron mentioned this matter, as the other "protagonist" of the story, even though only one photo participated in the interpretation of the story, Harry still wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.

The buzz about the Quidditch match dropped, but the buzz about the Duel Club's first official duel naturally returned to its peak. Many young wizards were excitedly imagining who would be the first to be chosen for the duel. Who - some people felt that Harry was definitely one of them, but it soon became clear that there were too few people who could serve as his opponents.

Young Master Malfoy was whipped again.

Some people also speculated that it would be Cedric - he is handsome, he also plays Quidditch very well, and he is also a key member of the school newspaper office, Moon's roommate and good friend. No matter how you look at it, he is very suitable to be the number one. One of the candidates for the duel.

Of course, there are also many opponents of this speculation. In the opinion of some young wizards, Cedric's grade is still a bit low. If you want to really ensure that the first duel is exciting and beautiful, it is best to Two seventh-grade wizards can be chosen.

While everyone was talking about it, Moon himself was actually thinking hard about this matter.

Unlike other young wizards, he doesn't care much about the candidates - in fact, grade cannot be the best criterion for judging the number and proficiency of spells, not to mention that the duel club itself has its own list of spells that are allowed to be used. After more than a month of initial training, this undoubtedly reduced the influence that the young wizards could have due to their own grade.

What really made him think was how to provide some entertainment for the little wizards in the club.

In other words, how to continue to strengthen the practical significance of these duels in the duel club, and at the same time make the duels themselves more interesting - there must be strict and well-behaved duels, which can be entertaining and entertaining, and allow everyone to have fun. There must be a happy duel and a duel where you can learn some practical skills. Otherwise, it will deviate from his original intention of founding the duel club.

To be honest, he has been thinking about this for two days.

Of course, there were times when I was thinking about other things, such as the reorganization of the Four Wizard Tournament, the situation of Hermione and Lockhart, when Professor Dumbledore would come back, etc...

Maybe it came from what he was thinking. Just when he started running around for the countless times and thinking about all these messy things, someone suddenly knocked on the door of the dormitory.Then, the next moment, a house elf walked through the door.

"Mr. Moon Fox~" The house elf looked at Moon with wide eyes and said in a sharp voice: "Headmaster Albus Dumbledore asked Kuku to bring you a message. He said that he I have returned to Hogwarts, and I have also brought back some very important news. I hope to see you tomorrow night in the school hospital, right next to Miss Hermione Granger's bedside."

"Okay." Moon responded, and watched as the house elf snapped his fingers, and his body gradually faded and disappeared into the dormitory.

Professor Dumbledore is back?

This is great news. If nothing else, at least he might be able to bring back some ways to save Hermione and Lockhart - ancient and off-beat magics like the Dreamweaver Curse are the most annoying, except for Dungeon. Apart from Professor Bullydo, who is very knowledgeable and has extensive knowledge, Moon really couldn't think of anyone else who could find a way to solve the curse.

Hmm... maybe Nick Flamel has to be ruled out?

Forget it, if you think about it carefully, maybe there will be a bunch of people to eliminate again.

He laughed dumbly and rubbed his hair. In any case, it was always a good thing that Professor Dumbledore was back.

In order to celebrate, why not be lazy for a while and do some leisure and entertainment activities while thinking.

With this in mind, Moon estimated the approximate time when his roommates would come back, then blew out the candles, returned to the bed, and lowered the bed curtains at the same time.

Cedric and the others will probably be back soon, so it's better to be careful.

One minute later, Moon's Horcrux pen pal came online again.

"Hey, Tom? Are you there?"

"Well, I'm here."

The flashback of the diary made Moon feel warm in his heart. Such a cold society full of dark wizards could cultivate such a licking diary. If it weren't for the fact that a piece of Voldemort lived in it. , Moon almost couldn’t bear to burn it in the future.

Before Moon could write any more words, the diary was the first to say: "Daniel, have you finally made up your mind to do those things? Or have you decided to give up?"

The heart of the diary is very tired, and it is becoming more and more tired. Daniel is always like this, he feels distant from it, sometimes near and sometimes far away.You can't seduce him by avenging him, and you can't attract his attention by using powerful black magic.

Diary began to feel that he was almost at his wits end.

However, the next moment, the news that 'Daniel' was back almost set the diary on fire.

"No, Tom, I have a surprise for you - I've already done it."

? ? ? ? ?

At this moment, Diary couldn't help but start to wonder if he had read it wrong.

finished?What's the meaning?What's done?You drove away Hagrid and Dumbledore? !

If you are lucky enough to live in China for a period of time in the future, maybe the diary will immediately open its voice and sing "Today is a good day" to the world, especially if it determines that the sentence "Daniel" has even the slightest When there is no element of lies.

Unfortunately, it couldn't sing, so it had no choice but to ask patiently, "What have you done?"

"Of course, after I finished what you taught me, the Basilisk went wild in the school and killed another person. I took the opportunity to attack and reported Hagrid. Then, Hagrid was imprisoned in Azka Ben - ha, I still can't forget the look of horror on that big man's face. He kept justifying that he had never opened the secret room or killed anyone, but no one believed him except Deng. Professor Bullydo."

"And I suspect that Professor Dumbledore may think that the matter of the Chamber of Secrets is related to me."

"But don't worry, Tom, even Dumbledore can't do anything to me. As you said before, after Hagrid was sent to Azkaban, Professor Dumbledore was also driven away After leaving school, he is no longer the headmaster of Hogwarts - but it seems to be only temporary. Is there any way you can do to prevent him from ever coming back?"

In the diary, young Tom Riddle became increasingly happy, not only because 'Daniel' actually accomplished those things.More importantly, it felt that 'Daniel's' mental defense was actually breaking down bit by bit.

What is this called?This is called double happiness!

Therefore, it can almost be said that it can't wait. As soon as 'Daniel' finished writing, he immediately replied: "Dumbledore is just a bad old man. As long as he is driven away, I will have my own way for the rest of the matter." .Daniel, now is the time to learn magic from me and avenge yourself!"

Chapter 52 Professor Dumbledore’s Experiment

Faced with Tom's sincere invitation to teach him new magic spells, 'Daniel' naturally agreed without any hesitation.

There is no way, who can make Tom still have this little thing left. If 'Daniel' doesn't agree, I'm afraid Tom Riddle in the diary will really go crazy.

However, promises come true, and it has been proven thousands of times that things that are too easy to obtain will not be cherished.In order to make Tom know how to cherish 'Daniel' more, Moon took advantage of this opportunity to quickly adjust some conditions.

"Tom, I'm happy to learn those magics from you. The spell last time benefited me a lot. If I hadn't met Professor McGonagall, I would have almost succeeded in using that spell to teach the person who bullied me before a lesson. I'm an idiot." Moon controlled the shorthand quill and left these words on the pages of the diary. "However, learning new magic is important, but I think what I need more urgently is a spell that can deal with the basilisk. .”

Tom in the diary couldn't help sighing after reading this line - it would be wonderful if Daniel successfully used the spell it taught him last time, but it was carefully chosen. As long as it is used once, it will ensure that Daniel will never escape from its grasp.

To be honest, it really couldn't wait to fill Daniel's mind with all kinds of messy black magic, but I had to admit that Daniel was right, the basilisk was really a big trouble right now.

If Daniel accidentally gets bitten by a basilisk...

After all, a basilisk that no one can control may not just focus on killing a young wizard of Muggle descent.

It is still young and has no intention of being shelved and quietly gathering dust for another 50 years.

While cursing in his mind that Albus Dumbledore, this old useless snack, couldn't even take down a basilisk, Tom replied enthusiastically on the page: "A very wise choice, Daniel, I am indeed on this matter. I was a bit negligent, so let me teach you a little trick first. With this spell, as long as you are not directly injured by the basilisk, you can successfully force the basilisk away."

"it is good."

Munn stared at the paper quietly. After more than ten seconds, a transformation spell appeared on it - just as Munn thought, it was not advanced, it could even be said to be an ordinary trick, just teaching people. Just turn any dead thing around you into the shape of a rooster.

Speaking of the effect, it may not be as good as the chicken crow caused by Moon's guest appearance as Little Heizi, but...if it temporarily scares the basilisk, it should still have some effect.

From this point of view, the diary does indeed cherish 'Daniel's' life, which is good.

"What is this spell? I tried it and it turned out to be a rooster? So I have to use the chicken to peck the basilisk?"

"No, Daniel, the basilisk is most afraid of roosters. If it sees a rooster, the basilisk will flee on its own." Tom replied.

"Awesome! Thai pants are hot! Tom! Then let's start learning new spells!"

"Very good, Daniel, keep up this enthusiasm. Believe me, in less than two days, you will be able to really take revenge on all those who bullied you."

Then by the way, I will offer your life to you with both hands obediently...

The two people with different intentions once again reached a happy deal. Then, just like the scene when they learned magic last time, Tom pretended to post two spells, and 'Daniel' said aggrievedly. Pretending that he couldn't understand or learn it, he then slipped into Tom's memory logically.

But soon, Moon discovered that this time Tom Riddle finally revealed a little more about himself.

Because this time, the scene that Moon saw was no longer the young Voldemort alone in the room learning magic, but several teenagers in the same room, exchanging their experiences in learning black magic.

He even heard one of the young men called "Travers" happily showing off his summer vacation experience - this guy used the Cruciatus Curse to send all three Muggles, one big and one small, into the hospital. In the mental hospital, if his uncle hadn't taken the lead, this guy seemed to have been able to kill the old man with a shotgun who refused to admit defeat with his own hands.

There is no doubt that this guy is definitely related to the big man Gavin Travers, but I don't know if he is dead now.

Well, he'd better be dead.

Moon stood aside with a calm face, listening carefully to the discussion of the black magic by the teenagers, while also paying attention to the clues around him.Behind him, another shadow of Tom Riddle gradually condensed, with a somewhat ferocious smile on his face.

Wisps of snake-like black air slowly flowed on the ground, quietly wrapped around Moon's ankles in the blind spot of his sight, and gradually melted into his body.

This is good news, at least for Tom, because it means that 'Daniel's' defense is really gradually disintegrating - although it is much slower than the process of the last Susan Bones, but everything It was difficult at the beginning, but now that we have made a good start, is there still a long way to go?

From Tom's point of view, he undoubtedly has a bright future.

Unfortunately, Moon thought so too.

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On Thursday afternoon, Sirius gave them a new Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson.It has to be said that after getting rid of Gilderoy Lockhart's "shadow", Sirius and Remus's classes became more and more impressive.Because they can completely abandon the syllabus set by Lockhart, put aside all Lockhart's teaching materials, and teach some truly interesting things that interest young wizards.

For example, how to deal with a toilet that sprays water out.

Moon suspected that Sirius might have secretly exchanged a few letters with Mr. Weasley - but this didn't make sense, after all, Mr. Weasley had already been promoted.

Even if Mr. Weasley really likes Muggle products, Moon doesn't think Mr. Weasley will still talk about things like exploding toilets and chewing sofas after being promoted.

Fortunately, Sirius is not just making pranks. In fact, the things he teaches can be said to be very useful - even among adult wizards, there are many people who will be evil to those in their own families. There is nothing you can do about the furniture that is under a spell or the wrong spell. Every little thing has to be reported to the Ministry of Magic, or you have to go outside and ask someone to come back to help solve it.

It's not that they are useless, they can't even cast an ordinary "Spell Stop" (this can indeed effectively solve the effects of many not-so-powerful spells), but if you are not completely sure that your toilet is What's going on? If you try to solve the curse rashly, you will have to be brave enough to be an expert and don't care much about this toilet...

Otherwise, you might see your toilet spiraling up into the sky.

And there is a slight chance that you yourself will spiral into the sky along with the toilet.

Look, in comparison, it’s more appropriate to ask professionals to help, right?

Most wizards can use spells commonly used in daily life, such as the "stop spell", the floating spell, and the moving spell, very properly and smoothly.On the contrary, many wizards have almost forgotten all the combat-related spells, such as the Iron Armor Curse and the Imprisonment Curse, within two years after graduating from Hogwarts.

Because they don't use these spells at all in their daily lives, and not everyone will run to confront the dark wizard.Without Hogwarts, the only place where these spells can be used through bullying each other, and without the environment for their use, of course they will all be forgotten in a few years.

"Okay, everyone, do you have any questions? I guess you don't have any." Sirius turned the wand out of the flower, and the half-smile on his face made several little witches smile with joy. "Then class is over. , remember to submit an assignment before next Thursday. The topic... just has something to do with the toilet that sprays water. If I don't come to that class, I will give the assignment to Assistant Lu Ping. That's it. Goodbye~"

Cheers rang out, and the fourth-year Hufflepuff badgers all gave Sirius a burst of applause, because Sirius did not specify a word count when assigning homework, which meant that they just made up the numbers casually. You can hand in your homework.

As a student, who wouldn’t love this way of keeping homework?If the homework for the History of Magic and Astronomy classes were like this, they would be able to give laurel crowns to all the professors in the school tomorrow.

As for whether Professor Binns can wear it... that's not something they should consider.

After having dinner together in the Great Hall, Cedric rushed to the Quidditch pitch with the other little wizards of the Quidditch team.The next game is when they will face Ravenclaw, so the little badgers have also entered a new round of hard work. Although it is still not as good as Oliver's crazy chicken-blooded training, it is still better than the previous period. I studied a lot.

After declining the invitation from his roommates to go watch the training, Moon turned around and went upstairs alone, heading towards the school hospital.

When he arrived here, the kind old man with silver hair and beard was already standing quietly in front of Hermione's hospital bed.

"Ah, you're here. I thought you would be a little later." Professor Dumbledore said as he patted the railing of the hospital bed - Moon keenly felt that something had changed around him. It is estimated that Professor Dumbledore cast a spell to isolate their voices from reaching the ears of the young wizards in other beds.

"I guess you might have arrived early, so you rushed over right after dinner." Moon said truthfully.

"Well, let me take a look..." The professor raised his hand to adjust his glasses, looked at Moon up and down twice, and then raised his eyebrows, "Ha, it's not bad. It seems that the basilisk didn't bring you anything. Trouble, right?"

"Ahem -" Moon blushed, "At least it didn't cause any trouble to the school bathroom."

"Tsk." The old man looked at Moon in surprise. "This is a good idea. It seems that I don't need to have a headache anymore. Why should I give you extra points? Just praise Mr. Moon Fox for not leaving before his principal." He was hereby awarded the second Special Contribution to the School Award for blowing up the school's 'girls' bathroom during this time."

As he spoke, he chuckled himself, leaving Moon embarrassed and speechless.

When you speak, speak politely, and when you tease, joke politely. You have to put an accent on the word "girl" in the girls' bathroom, right?

Who are you to assume the gender of me, Moon Fox!Can't I be a turkey?

"Okay, okay." Professor Dumbledore patted his chest gently. "I have to say, Moon, you are always good at surprising me. The snake that has been buried in the secret room for so long may have been alive for a thousand years. Weird, this is undoubtedly a big trouble for the school - having said that, I don’t think I need to remind you of the dangers of the basilisk. You always say that I don’t trust you enough, and I like to do everything myself first. So this time, did you make the same mistake?"

Moon didn't argue or explain his thoughts. Frankly speaking, he felt a little urgent because of Lockhart and Hermione's sudden fainting, so he didn't want to wait for his lie to be flawless. Without waiting for Professor Dumbledore to return, he took Harry and Ron into the secret room first.

It is true that he knows what is inside and has prepared a trump card. As long as there are no overly exaggerated accidents, he is absolutely sure that he can at least control the basilisk and escape unscathed.But these are the information he has from God's perspective, and he doesn't want to use these things to connect them with his lies to explain everything to himself.

Therefore, it is better to admit your mistake.