Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

Now, among the four people in the dormitory, only Cedric is missing.

Gal brought juice and snacks from home, made by his mother, and asked him to share them with his roommates.Naturally, Munn would not be polite to him. As soon as he sat down, he picked up the juice and poured it into his mouth. He was really thirsty. He practiced spells too late yesterday, so he got up unusually late today. , which resulted in him just stuffing two slices of bread and ham into his mouth in a hurry. He didn't even have time to drink the water. He took the gift he collected yesterday and set off with his family.

I don't know who kept a toad in the car next door, and it kept croaking there like an accompaniment, and the sound was cadenced.Moon and the three of them were still chatting, but after listening for a while, they began to find the toad's cry more and more interesting. In the end, I don't know who laughed first, causing the three of them to laugh together and almost overturned the table. Juice on the table.

"Hmm, did I come at the wrong time?" Violet, who suddenly opened the door of the carriage, looked at the three people in the carriage who were laughing and laughing, and felt a little at a loss for a moment.

Moon was the first to react. He quickly suppressed his smile and stretched out his hand to pull Gal, who was still laughing wildly next to him and probably didn't hear Violet's words at all. "Ahem, cough, no, no, we just... …”

He was only halfway through his words when the toad next door suddenly let out a long "croak~~~————!"

"Pfft..." Gal, who was just about to take a sip of juice to suppress his smile, failed to hold back again. The sip of juice he just put into his mouth sprayed on the face of Yaerlin opposite him, and his smile was ready to burst out. Before Yaerlin had time to laugh, he encountered such an unreasonable disaster. He was immediately furious. He stood up and lay on the table and held down Gal's head.

The two quarreled again and became a mess. Moon suppressed laughter and had no choice but to pull Violet out of the car and walk towards the connection point of the car.

If he stayed in the carriage for a while longer, he was afraid that he would be unable to bear it again.

Violet still didn't understand the situation, but since Moon pulled her out, she followed suit.The two ducked past a silly second-year Gryffindor who was using a wand as a swift sword in the corridor, and ducked into the connection at the end of the carriage.

"Huh, cough..." Moon rubbed his stiff cheeks, calming down the laughter that was about to burst out in his heart. It was not until a few seconds later that he said to Violet, who was still a little confused: " What’s wrong, Violet?”

"It's okay, uh, I mean, it's nothing important." Violet smoothed her hair that was messed up when she ran with her right hand, and the sleeves at her wrists slipped down, revealing the Christmas gift that Moon gave her: A beautiful silver bracelet that emits dots of light at night as the owner wishes.

"Well, you've already put them on? It seems you like this Christmas gift?" Moon said with a smile: "I also wore the gloves you gave me, but I put them in the pocket of my cloak after we got in the car. ”

"Yeah, I like it very much." Violet also laughed happily. After a while, just when Moon began to feel confused, she seemed to suddenly remember something and tapped lightly. He touched his forehead, and then stretched out his left hand that had been behind his back. "Well... I was reading a book during the Christmas vacation and found some small problems. Can you help me take a look?"

Moon took the small book handed over by Violet, opened it and glanced at it briefly, and found that except for the first few questions, which were indeed difficult for first-year wizards, the rest were... relatively young ones, Questions that can be clarified even by looking through class notes.

Judging from Violet's seriousness in class and her daily performance, these questions that Arlin should be able to answer will definitely not be a problem for Violet.

Of course, Moon would not expose Violet's little thoughts. He closed the book and looked at the somewhat embarrassed Violet, suddenly feeling a little cute. "Of course, no problem. I will give it to you tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. I will write the answer in How about your notebook?"

Violet put her left hand behind her back and squeezed it hard. If Moon hadn't been standing in front of her, she would have cheered "Okay" at this moment. Fortunately, she could hold it back and just nodded quickly. Said: "Okay, you can give it to me whenever you have time. Um... Then, I'll go back first?"

"Okay, goodbye." Moon nodded slightly and watched as Violet took steps that could not suppress her excitement and disappeared briskly into the crowd in the corridor.

After Violet left, Moon looked through the book again, then put away the small book, got into the crowd, and returned to the carriage where his roommates were.After he didn't expect to go in, the person sitting inside surprised him.

"Professor Dumbledore?"

Chapter 64 An unexpected visit

Yes, this "uninvited guest" who suddenly appeared in the carriage was none other than Albus Dumbledore, wearing a violet robe and a smile on his face.

Gal and Yaerlin have stopped fighting now - given the two of them the courage, they would not dare to fight in front of the principal.The juice on Arlin's face was also cleaned up. It was probably Professor Dumbledore who helped him, saving him the effort of wiping it with paper himself.Cedric didn't know when he arrived, and he was sitting next to Arlin obediently.

Seemingly hearing Munn's exclamation, or perhaps having noticed Munn's arrival, Professor Dumbledore shook his robe, put away his wand, and then turned to look at Munn with a slight smile. Said: "Oh, it seems you have finished chatting with your 'classmates'?"

He deliberately emphasized the pronunciation of the word "classmate", which made it difficult for Moon not to suspect that he meant something.

But his principal always has such an unconventional side, so what can Moon do?

Besides, in a sense... it seems that Professor Dumbledore was not wrong?

"Yes, Professor Dumbledore, why are you here...uh, I mean, why are you in our carriage?"

Professor Dumbledore said with a little complacency and as if he was just joking: "Ah, well, the Christmas holiday is not your exclusive holiday. I took advantage of the holiday to go to London for a - how do you say that word? I came here, oh, for a trip. I was planning to go back yesterday, but I didn’t expect to be delayed because of something, so I came to take the express train back with you today, just in time to see the environment in the car. "

Is this some new way of chatting with answers to questions? !

Moon's little head was filled with big questions one after another. He was obviously asking Professor Dumbledore what he was doing in their carriage here.Look at what he said in his answer. Is this a ridiculous thing?

Resisting the urge to roll his eyes at Professor Dumbledore, Moon said helplessly: "I thought you usually just apparated back to school."

Dumbledore obviously saw Munn's helplessness. He narrowed his eyes with a smile and stopped teasing Munn. He explained: "Well, this is true in normal times, but today I suddenly remembered something. Let me tell you – yes, you, mainly you, Moon.”

He first stretched his hand to the seat and motioned for Munn to sit down. Then he sat opposite Munn and next to Cedric, and spoke harmoniously: "Look, Munn, this is it. I thought about it. , I think it’s better to explain it to you in person. I have talked about some things about you with your uncle, Mr. Golov Shafiq, and we have reached a consensus that you are a responsible and determined person. , smart, and very active children, these are your good qualities. But Moon, you have to know that sometimes, our good qualities may not lead everything we experience to a correct direction. Direction, this is what everyone often says, sometimes good intentions can lead to bad things."

"That incident in the Forbidden Forest, I know that you have always felt a little guilty about Professor Sprout, which will prompt you to find the truth about that incident. However, as a first-year student, if you have passed Being too involved in such a thing may bring you danger. This is what none of us want to see. And I feel that if you really encounter any danger because of this, we teachers will only I feel even more derelict in my duty.”

Dumbledore obviously hadn't finished speaking yet, but he probably saw Moon's desire to explain, so he stopped speaking and looked at Moon quietly, obviously wanting to hear what he had to say first.

Moon cleared his throat, thought for a moment, and then said: "I guess Professor Dumbledore must have known about Mr. Hagrid's 'accidental' leak, and you were worried that I would insist on investigating." I wanted to find out the truth, so I chose to come here in person to persuade me to give up. But... let me first admit that I did want to find out the real culprit of this matter, but since Mr. Hagrid said it, I have I gave up the idea of ​​continuing to pursue it.”

"Because Mr. Hagrid accidentally revealed that the person who broke into the Forbidden Forest and injured Professor Sprout was someone from the school, which proves that you already have clues. I wanted to pursue this matter at that time , I just thought that there are some things that maybe we students can see more clearly - professors may not necessarily know some things that students know, and professors may not necessarily be able to see some things that students can see. But since Professor, you have found the clues, so I naturally have no desire to continue to pursue it. Maybe I will pay attention privately, but what I can assure you is that I will not act impulsively."

Dumbledore stared at Moon for a few seconds, then suddenly smiled with relief, "If that's the case, then I'm relieved. I believe that Moon, you are a person who will keep your promise."

He stood up, took out his wand, and seemed to be leaving, but then he suddenly stopped and winked lightly at Moon, "Besides, you are right, we do have clues, just like you 'Think' like that."

Like I 'thought'?

Moon understood immediately. He had just deliberately let down his guard and revealed some thoughts - he had previously thought that Professor Dumbledore and the others might have acted as a weapon for some reason, so even if they knew the real culprit, they did not take action immediately. .Sure enough, Professor Dumbledore should have been paying attention to his thoughts because of his status as a natural Legilimency. After discovering that he deliberately lowered his guard, he understood the idea from him, and before leaving affirmed.

What surprised him even more, but what he thought was natural, was that Professor Dumbledore never pried into any of his other thoughts, ideas or memories. As a natural Legilimency, he had The level of sensitivity in this area is ridiculously high.

It can only be said that Professor Dumbledore's respect for these little wizards is much higher than he thought, and he is worthy of being a great wizard who deserves respect.

Seeing Dumbledore disapparate and leave, Moon looked at the three roommates beside him who looked at him in surprise, and couldn't help laughing, "Why are you looking at me so blankly?"

Cedric said helplessly: "Professor Dumbledore must have cast some kind of spell just now. We didn't hear half of what he said to you clearly. We could only see your two mouths moving, as if they were speaking. mime."

Well, apparently, Professor Dumbledore felt that there were some things that seemed inappropriate for Cedric and the others to know too much about.

He shrugged, "Don't worry about it. Who has anything to eat? Why are the snacks that Gal just put on the table missing? I'm going to starve to death."

The three little wizards looked at each other. Each of them had just eaten a piece. There was indeed another piece, but...

Professor Dumbledore was eaten...

Chapter 65 A preliminary idea for the Hogwarts school newspaper

Fortunately, Moon did not arrive at school hungry in the end. The aunt pushing the dining car on the train solved his urgent need and allowed him to have a full meal.

It's a pity that as the saying goes, misfortune lies where blessing lies, and blessing lies where misfortune lies.Overeating is inevitable after starvation. Moon actually ate two dozen crucible cakes in one go and drank two bottles of pumpkin juice. This made him sit next to the dining table and look at the sizzling and greasy baked goods on the table. Lamb chops, fragrant meat pies and ice-cold ice cream, I couldn't even take a bite.

At first, when they saw Mu En sitting at the table like a Buddha, the little badgers around him wondered what happened to him.After learning about his feat on the express train, several little badgers headed by Tonks immediately laughed exaggeratedly. The laughter was so loud that if everyone hadn't been chatting with each other and making a noise, there would have been several people at the table. Everyone has to look over here.

In the days that followed, the cauldron cake became almost a well-known joke among Hufflepuffs.In any case, Moon is still a well-known figure in the first year. There are only a few people in Hufflepuff House who don't know him, even though several other houses have heard of him to some extent.When I usually get news about Moon, most of the time one professor praises him, and the other professor praises him again. It seems that among all the professors who teach first-year students, except for Severus Snape, the poisonous tongue, There is no professor who has not praised Moon.

Now that such a slightly funny thing suddenly happened, even if it were Munn himself, he would probably be talking about it for several days.

…………

a few days later.

"Crucible Cake Prince?" Munn looked dumbfounded as he looked at the cardboard card that Tonks handed over cheerfully. On it was a Q version of Munn with a crucible cake-shaped crown on his head, waving his hands and dancing. Strange dance.

"You are really outrageous. How about using this energy to do something serious..." As he said this, he put the card into his book - to be honest, the painting was quite beautiful. It’s a nice bookmark. “Who knows how to draw? You can draw really well. Do you have any more? I’ll get two and send them to my family.”

He had heard about it two days ago. Tonks and his three roommates wanted to get him some souvenirs. At first, he thought that these people were exhausted and they just wanted to get two small badges with dots on them that would change. , etc. I didn’t expect that they actually made such a beautiful card.

Yes, of course this thing was approved by Moon - otherwise this behavior would be almost pure school bullying.

"This was not painted by us, it was painted by Violet." Tonks pointed at Violet, who was biting a piece of pie not far away diagonally across the way, and said with a narrow smile: "If it weren't for us Say you agree, Violet would never want to draw something like this."

This surprised Moon. Although it could be seen from Violet's little notebook that she wrote very well, he did not expect that Violet could actually draw, and her skills were not bad.

"But, if you want it again, it will definitely be gone. I made eight in total. Violet kept one for herself, I have one here, each of your three roommates has one, and you have one here. Zhang, the remaining two were taken away by Gabrielle and Larian when we got rid of them." Tonks twisted the cherries on the cream cake and threw it into her mouth. "Many people also looked at Gabrielle. Later, El wanted to come to us and ask for it, but we couldn’t even give it to him.”

"Is such a small card so popular..." Moon couldn't believe it.

Gal, who had returned to the dormitory, was late and happened to hear what Munn said, so he pushed Yaerin away and sat down next to Munn. "Hey, Munn, you underestimate yourself." , and also underestimated how boring everyone is - it’s actually quite understandable, if you think about the last time Gabriel and Larian’s relationship was exposed, everyone had been teasing them for a long time, well, it’s been almost two weeks.”

When Gal said this, Moon thought a little more.

It's true. Everyone is more or less bored. Apart from attending classes and practicing magic every day, their leisure and entertainment life almost only consists of walking, basking in the sun and playing Quidditch. What else can they do in the rest of the time besides gossiping?Wash your hair upside down?Banquets and dances don’t happen every day, and there are only a few holidays a year...

"You guys think...how about we start a school newspaper?" Moon said thoughtfully.

"School newspaper?" Tonks' eyes lit up, this sounded interesting.

In addition to Tonks, Mu En's roommates also looked at him in unison.

"Well, the school newspaper just publishes some campus gossip and the like. You don't have to force the content. Some will be published daily, and some will be published once a week. I have a camera, and I can ask Violet for the illustrations. Everyone can write articles. Let's write together, and I'll go to Professor Dumbledore to get some sponsorship to buy a printer, what do you think?" Moon took out today's Daily Prophet from his bag and put it next to the dinner plate.

"I'm sure it's fine." Tonks said with great interest, "Count me in, but don't ask me for money. I can only provide some content support."

Naturally, the three roommates had no objections, but Gal quickly said with some distress: "The problem is... I can't take pictures, I can't draw, articles... I can't even finish my homework, I feel like something I can’t help you at all.”

"We can make a food column." Moon said with a smile: "You can share some cooking experiences, recipes, etc., and maybe some people will be willing to read it. You won't be the only one in Hogwarts. People like to cook."

Cedric patted Gal on the shoulder, "At least Hagrid must be willing to watch. Whether he can learn or not is another matter."

A few people laughed and chatted for a while, and then continued chatting. They immediately made a decision and decided to try it out.

"Okay, then let me go back and write a plan first - probably put our plan into writing, like writing a paper, and then show it to Professor Dumbledore. If he agrees, we will start. Find someone to do it together. Besides Violet, you can also think about who else is suitable to join and compile a list for me later?" Moon looked at a few people.

"By the way...I thought of another question." Gal hesitated and muttered: "Do we need to charge for this school newspaper? I mean, you see, it costs money to subscribe to newspapers, so we have to Don’t you want to charge? If you do, how much should you charge?”

It must be said that Gal raised a very valuable question, which caused several young wizards to fall into deep thought.

Chapter 66 Professor Dumbledore’s Tips

Facts have proved that the school newspaper is not so easy to handle.

Although the idea of ​​setting up a school newspaper at Hogwarts flashed through his mind at that time, after finishing his astronomy class in the evening and returning to the dormitory to start writing the plan, Moon began to be attracted by one after another. I'm stumped by a question.

First of all, content filling is actually a big problem: it seems that you can write anything, but in fact, no matter what you write, there are limitations.

If you want to write about campus gossip, what should you write about?Expose someone's love affair?Those with a bad temper will come to trouble you every minute.Writing about something like Moon's "The Crucible Cake Prince"?Accidentally leading to school bullying.Write about someone who did a prank and was put in solitary confinement by the teacher?Most of the people involved will only feel embarrassed, and only a few will accept it.

I want to write about the Quidditch match at school, how do I write about it?As soon as the results of the competition came out, all the teachers and students in the school knew very well that retelling the process and results of the competition would only make the college that lost the competition unhappy.Write a game review?There is no doubt that the result is still the same. There will always be one college that is unhappy because of this comment.

Moon held the parchment with only one title written on it, and was in a dilemma for a moment.

This is definitely not possible. Since we want to create a school newspaper, we must first make it enjoyable for everyone in the four colleges to read. Secondly, we must pay attention to the direction of the wind and avoid causing any bad disputes or criticism.Only a school newspaper like this can be regarded as a school newspaper for everyone at Hogwarts.

He fiddled with the feathers on his quill, and after thinking hard for a while, he finally came up with an idea and started writing furiously on the parchment.

…………

"Ahem, mint ice cream." Moon cleared his throat and said to the gargoyle in front of him.

As soon as the gargoyle stone beast heard "mint ice cream", it jumped aside lightly (Moon thought it would feel like an earthquake), and the solid wall behind it suddenly cracked in half, revealing a An ancient stone staircase that spirals upward.

"Ha, thank you." Moon breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time complained in his mind about Professor Dumbledore's strange office password - mint ice cream?He thought this thing didn't sound delicious, as if one bite would freeze a few teeth.

Going up the spiral staircase, Moon soon arrived at the door of Professor Dumbledore's office.He was about to knock on the door when he heard Professor Dumbledore's voice ringing through the door.

"Come in, Mr. Fox. Ha, every time I call you, I will think of my phoenix. You can meet her this time."

Moon gently pushed the door open. Sure enough, the door was unlocked. When he walked in, Dumbledore was sitting behind his desk. On the wooden shelf beside him, there was a beautiful, crimson but with golden tail feathers. The big bird is slowly preening its feathers.

"Oh, she is really beautiful, isn't she?" Seeing Munn looking at Fox at a glance, Dumbledore showed a gentle smile and also looked at his own Phoenix. "You are very lucky to have her when she is most beautiful. Saw her."

As if he noticed that the two were talking about him, Fox raised his head and cried, and immediately looked at Munn.

"She likes you." Dumbledore seemed a little surprised by this. "There are many people who come to my office on weekdays, but few of them can make eye contact with her for the first time."

Fawkes crowed again, very melodiously, as if she was acknowledging Dumbledore's statement, but soon she bent her head and combed her feathers again.

Moon was inexplicably amused. Fortunately, he quickly remembered the purpose of his visit. He quickly took out the parchment from the inside of the cloak and handed it to Professor Dumbledore. "Well, I'm sorry, Professor, I almost forgot about the business. I'll do it." The main reason I want to visit you is..."

"Bringing a plan for the school newspaper?" Professor Dumbledore chuckled, stood up slightly and took the long roll of parchment from Moon's hand. "Professor McGonagall just told me, 'There is a lot to do. ’, she said.”

Moon blushed inexplicably. He coughed lightly and rubbed his hair. "Actually, it's not that... good. It's just that the writing is more informative."

"Ah, humility is an indispensable good quality on the road to progress, Moon, but-" Dumbledore unfolded the parchment and said casually: "-I still want to say that before you, since I served as Hogwart Since I became the principal of Ci, I have received seven or eight proposals for the school newspaper. Most of them were rejected by me directly because of inappropriate content. The remaining one or two were quickly rejected because although they were barely approved, But there are still articles that are inappropriate and forced to stop.”

"And among the seven or eight school newspaper plans, there has never been one that Professor McGonagall considered to be 'promising,' Moon."

Moon's face turned red again. He no longer continued to be self-effacing, but took advantage of Dumbledore's time to browse the contents of the parchment and quietly looked at the office.

This is a spacious circular room that is very comfortable and conveniently arranged, but there are a lot of things - there are several tables here, some with teapots, teacups, candies, snacks and stacks of books on them. There are all kinds of strange and unique silverware on it, as well as several tables scattered in the corners. On the cabinets are various bottles and jars, backward hourglasses, photo frames, candles and other messy things.

In addition to tables and cabinets, there are many shelves in this room. Moon also saw the Sorting Hat on one of the shelves placed behind the desk. Unfortunately, it seemed to be napping at the moment and ignored Moon.

There are beautiful patterns on the circular wall surrounding the room, but they are not eye-catching. In contrast, what is more interesting are the photos hanging on the wall. They all belong to the previous headmasters of Hogwarts.Some people in the photo were chatting, some people ran to other photo frames to "visit", and some people were looking at Moon - which made him a little embarrassed.

Just when Munn gradually began to feel a little bored, Dumbledore finally finished reading the entire parchment. He raised his head and looked at Munn in surprise and praised: "Although I have learned from various channels, including my own observations, "I have confirmed that you are indeed a very outstanding child, but this -" he shook the parchment in his hand "-I must admit that I still underestimated you, Moon, you are even better than I thought." few."

"I think most of the ideas above are very good. They may not all be mature, but they are definitely possible to try. However, there is one thing I think we need to discuss carefully. Regarding the operation model of this school newspaper, I I don’t think you should be completely free.”

Chapter 67 A good start

Professor Dumbledore's suggestion did make sense - to be precise, he and Moon were thinking about different things.

Moon was more focused on the school newspaper they had discussed, while Professor Dumbledore was considering the operation model of the entire school newspaper.In other words, Moon is thinking about the school newspaper for those of them who are currently considered to be "power generators for love". Once they leave, the school newspaper created by those who generate power for love will probably slow down immediately. Slow decline.