Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

Not because Hermione is competing again next year, or because Hermione has joined the Gobstone Club, but because...

"By the way, you two happened to be away that day. Come on, I'll take you to sign up~"

In the midst of the noisy audience, the girl with a normal expression just pulled her two good friends and ran all the way to the new world.

…………

In the evening, the Gobstone game finally came to an end. Just as the teams and spectators were about to leave, Moon suddenly walked up to the commentary stage and poked the side of his neck with his wand.

"Ahem - teams that have entered the next level, please wait a moment. Next, I want to ask something closely related to your upcoming schedule."

Although Munn said that the winning team should stay, in fact, as soon as he opened his mouth, almost all the little wizards who were still here stopped and turned around to look at the explanation table.

"Everyone knows that the Final Four is essentially a place for everyone to meet new friends and have some new fun. Therefore, our four games are all events chosen for fun."

"But now, I think one of the projects might need a little tweaking—"

"That was our last game, the Final Four."

As Munn spoke, he waved his wand above the commentary platform. A curtain that had been prepared fell from above, but it was empty.

"Before, when we didn't have a duel club, the finals of the Four-Powerful Tournament could give everyone a stage to compete with each other. But now, well, I find that everyone seems to have basically participated in the Four-Powerful Tournament, and basically want to go. Join the Duel Club.”

There was a burst of laughter from the audience, and Moon himself also laughed.

"So, I decided to change the last game of the semi-finals competition from a duel competition to a brand new one - the school relay race!"

Moon gently passed the wand in front of him, and then, the new competition rules were displayed on the huge curtain:

At the top of the curtain is an aerial view of the Hogwarts school, and a circle with a half vertical line is drawn on it.Each section of the circle is marked with a different color and has text next to it - Castle Race, Lawn Race, Black Lake Race, Sky Race.

“Every team that makes it to the finals, four people have to do their job.”

"One player is responsible for the first baton at the beginning, the castle part, quickly crossing from the top floor to the bottom floor under the condition that the use of magic is prohibited, and passing his baton to the second player;"

"The second player is responsible for the lawn part. He must follow the drawn track, pass through the obstacles when the use of magic is allowed, reach the finish line, and hand the baton to the third person;"

"The part of the Black Lake that the third contestant is responsible for is quite special. We will prepare a boat for you, but you can also choose not to use it and choose to swim by yourself. In short, as long as you can pick it up and place it in the lake without using magic, Just bring the glass bottle with your heart to the designated location by the lake and hand over the baton;”

"The last player needs to be responsible for the sky part - rush from the edge of the Black Lake to the sky above the Quidditch pitch as quickly as possible to grab the balls we send out. The first team to grab three balls will be considered. Win. Of course, you can’t use magic in this level. In addition, our balls will start shooting when the first person arrives. If the speed is fast enough, you may not even need to grab it.”

Moon knocked on the curtain with his wand, turning the curtain into book-sized pages with every rule and route map he had just explained printed on them, and then controlled the pages to fly to everyone's doorstep. in hand.

The next moment, the little wizards who had been quiet for several seconds suddenly burst into cheers, shocking Munn.

In fact, as early as a week ago, there were young wizards discussing the final game of the Four-wizard Tournament - on this point, their thoughts were exactly the same as Moon's.Now that there is a duel club, and there is even a victory list, the final of the semi-finals seems a bit repetitive, even redundant.

After all, the points list posted in the duel club is real. If the final victory of the semi-finals is determined by duel, there will be no need for everyone to go to the duel. After boarding the duel field, take out the list and look at it. Just one glance.

Unless the two players on the field have very similar duel points, otherwise, such a game is almost the same as "seeing whose ranking is more clever."

In the end, after discussion, the young wizards came to the conclusion that Munn should change the format of the Four Wizards Tournament, and maybe this year.

As a result, unfortunately, just at the beginning of this week, Moon and the others were imprisoned by Lockhart.

At that time, everyone almost thought that the change in the competition system would have to wait until next year - to their surprise, Moon was still good at surprising them as always.

Therefore, before Munn could recover from the previous shock, the little wizards in the audience suddenly cheered and shouted "Moun! Munn! Moon! Moon!"

Hermione, who was also standing in the team, did not cheer along, but when she looked at the little wizards around her, she suddenly understood why Munn said that the Four Wizards Tournament would never be changed to what she wanted. That look.

Perhaps, what everyone needs is Moon's Four Strong Tournament, which is simply fun to play, instead of her "fake Four Strong Tournament" that always has a sense of education.

At this moment, she even felt that whether she could win the Gobstone Competition next year was not that important.

However, when she saw the three Gobstone Club badges in her hands, as well as those of Ron and Harry, Miss Granger suddenly laughed again.

No, even though everyone has joined, she still has to fight for this victory - otherwise, by this time next year, Harry and Ron's resentment will probably bury her.

Just like that, amidst the cheers of the little wizards, Munn finally regained his composure, distributed the rules in his hand without laughing or laughing, and then said loudly: "Okay, okay, go back and have dinner. Otherwise, Professor McGonagall will come to trouble me soon."

The little wizards in the audience burst into laughter again, chatting enthusiastically about the new final rules while walking towards the castle.Not far from the competition venue, a tabby cat that really just happened to pass by by accident suddenly stopped and glared at Moon on the stage fiercely.

It's hard to imagine a cat with such human eyes - just like it's hard to imagine an ordinary tabby cat walking out of the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts.

However, if there happens to be a square pattern around the eyes of this tabby cat, which looks exactly like the glasses on the bridge of the nose of Ms. McGonagall, the vice-principal and professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts...

Then this thing seems suddenly unsurprising, doesn't it?

Chapter 89 Judgment

The discussion on the new rules of the Four-Wizard Tournament lasted for three full days.

In the past three days, as long as you stay at Hogwarts, almost no matter where you go, you can hear several young wizards chatting excitedly about how to get from the top floor of Hogwarts the fastest. Arrive at the first floor, or discuss what kind of obstacles will be arranged on the lawn outside the castle...

There were a few young wizards from Muggle families who were very flexible. They immediately thought of opening the windows on the eighth floor and jumping directly from the eighth floor - all they had to do was find a way to make a parachute before the game.

A few poor little guys, they didn't even know that a parachute can't be opened by falling from any height, and they never thought that even if the parachute really opened, when he fell close to the castle, It will also be hung on by the sharp points on the edge of the castle.

Fortunately, Moon thought of it, and he thought of it in advance.The school newspaper published on Monday also recorded the restructuring of the semi-finals competition, and clearly restricted the rules for each stage of the competition.One of them is: During the castle part of the competition, anyone who leaves the castle through any way other than the main entrance on the first floor will be deemed to have failed.

He was indeed a little afraid that if some little wizard couldn't think about it, he would jump down from the building and enjoy the feeling of flying.

Then he can hardly absolve himself of the blame.

Of course, to a certain extent, he is now quite "to blame", at least in Mr. Filch's eyes.

After all, there are always some little wizards who are downright action-oriented.They were not satisfied with just standing in the corridor of the castle and chatting briefly. In contrast, they were more willing to actually run around the castle several times.

For Mr. Filch, it was torture.

He was tired of these little wizards running back and forth endlessly, and he couldn't confine them just because they were running back and forth in the castle - there was no such rule in Hogwarts at the moment.

So, of course, he wants to strangle the "mastermind" behind all this.

That is Moon.

However, what Mr. Filch didn't expect was that it was the "mastermind" who helped him in the end.When Moon discovered on Tuesday that some of the young wizards at Hogwarts were heading towards the path of "runaway mad dogs" without looking back, he immediately took advantage of lunch time to clearly tell the young wizards that they This kind of training is causing trouble for everyone.

Under Moon's conscientious and quality guidance over the past few years, the effect of these words was pretty good. That afternoon alone, more than half of the people who were still running around were immediately reduced.The rare few people who start running are quickly stopped.

Mrs. Norris was very pleased with this—she could roam the corridors in peace again.

It was in this atmosphere that Wednesday, the night of February 2th, slowly arrived.

It was still in the open space in the Forbidden Forest, when Professor Dumbledore took Moon, Garr, Harry, Hermione, and Lockhart, who was still in a wheelchair (after roughly learning about Lockhart). After what Hart had done, Madam Pomfrey strictly kept her initial promise - only to stabilize Lockhart's injury) appeared together, everyone's eyes turned to their side.

At this moment, Lockhart thought sadly that although he could still get everyone's attention, the meaning of that attention was completely different.

He is no longer the big star Loha...

His sad thoughts stopped immediately before they completely passed through his mind.Because he soon discovered that those people were not looking at him at all.

The wizards waiting here are still the same ones who came to the Forbidden Forest a few days ago. They all witnessed the scene when Moon "killed" Voldemort.Therefore, everyone was looking at Moon, and even Professor Dumbledore only had eye contact with Ms. Bones.

In just a moment, Lockhart felt that his life had turned completely gloomy.

Now you can’t even think about black and red, right?I no longer deserve your attention, right?So, love... adoration goes away, right?

"Okay, tell the others to come too."

It wasn't until Professor Dumbledore led everyone to stand still that Ms. Bones finally raised her hand and spoke to the witch behind her.Upon hearing this, the witch quickly raised her hand and shot a red spark upward. Not long after, from the other two directions, Hagrid with Aragog and another group of wizards, members of the Wizengamot They hurried together.

This time, someone (acromantula) finally looked at Lockhart (eight eyes).

"Everyone is here?" Ms. Bones looked around and confirmed the number of people. "Let's start."

"Defendant Gilderoy Lockhart, you are accused of colluding with Aragog the Acromantula and his descendants with the intent to murder Moon Fawkes, Garl Fuller, Harry Potter, and Hermione Granger. These four Hogwarts students, do you plead guilty?"

"I don't admit it! I don't admit it!" Lockhart struggled. "I just want to scare them!"

Facing Lockhart's defense, the wizard who stood up nodded and turned to look at Aragog. "Aragog, the Acromantula, this is inconsistent with your testimony. Do you have anything to ask?" stated?”

Aragog stared at Lockhart coldly. He knew that it was possible that both he and Lockhart would be unlucky today, but there was also a slight possibility that one of him and Lockhart could be unlucky easily. Some.

If possible, it certainly hopes to be the less unlucky one.

"I do. Although I can't provide my memory because I'm not a wizard, I can very clearly reconstruct the whole process -"

No one could see Aragog's sneer, but it did tell the story from the first time he met Lockhart to setting up an ambush and launching an attack on Moon and others.

"This is all one-sided!" Lockhart shouted loudly. "It is a monster! A man-eating monster!"

"Please be quiet, Mr. Lockhart, it's not your time to answer yet." The wizard frowned and said sternly: "If you continue like this, I can only ask the minister to find a way to keep you quiet for a while. ”

Lockhart had no choice but to keep silent and watched in despair as Aragog told him everything.

"Okay, Aragog the Acromantula, please continue to wait." After Aragog finished his statement, the wizard turned to look at Hermione, who was standing next to Harry. "Hermione Jane G. Ranger? [Note 1]"

"Yes, I am." Facing such a battle for the first time, Hermione was somewhat nervous - of course, Harry and Gal beside her were also a little nervous.But when the wizard looked at her, she took courage and stood up.

The wizard nodded slightly and continued: "According to the testimony provided by the current headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, you once had an affair with Lockhart. Trapped together...in the Dream Weaver Curse."

As soon as the name of the curse "Dream Weaver Curse" came out, many knowledgeable members of the Wizengamot immediately started whispering.

"And since then, you have already doubted Gilderoy Lockhart's identity and his character. In addition, on the night of the incident, you were also one of the people besieged by the Acromantula. Excuse me, Do you have anything to say?"

Hermione pursed her lips, conceived the words in her mind, and then slowly told what Lockhart had done in the Dream Weaver Curse, her conjecture about the Oblivion Curse, and her final judgment. come out.

At first, her voice was trembling slightly, but by the time she finished speaking, she was obviously excited.

"... Therefore, I think Lockhart is probably a liar who steals his name. Moreover, he definitely didn't just want to 'scare us' that night! If it hadn't been for Moon, Harry, Garr, and I would have They are already dead!"

"Okay, Miss Granger, please return to your original position first." The wizard saw Hermione's emotional instability, so he raised his hand to interrupt her thoughts of continuing, and turned to look at the others. people.

Later, Harry and Gal were also questioned one by one. It was obvious that both Harry and Gal gave the same answer - Lockhart didn't just want to scare them, they really almost did it that night. Eaten by Acromantula.

As the wizard asked questions one after another, Lockhart's heart gradually reached his throat.

Judging from the wizard's questioning rhythm, the next person he wants to ask is Moon Fox.

And that was exactly what Lockhart feared the most - from beginning to end, he felt that that guy was his biggest threat.

However, to Lockhart's surprise, the wizard did not ask Moon, but instead turned his gaze back to him.

"Defendant Gilderoy Lockhart, do you have anything else to say now?"

Lockhart took a deep breath, then gritted his teeth and said, "That spider is lying. I really just wanted to scare these children. It took it upon itself to eat them!"

Hermione's palms were already sweaty - even though she knew that tonight's trial was a sure thing, she couldn't help but feel a little worried.

The next moment, the wizard turned around and looked at the many members of the Wizengamot. "I believe that in the past two days, you have all received the memories we sent one after another. Those memories came from these four little ones." The Witcher provides four clips with different angles but almost identical content, without any trace of modification.”

"In my memory, Gilderoy Lockhart was not attacked by the Acromantula, but turned and ran away as soon as the Acromantula surrounded him. Combined with the Acromantula Aragog and the three With the testimony of the young wizard, you should have already made your decision——"

When he heard the last few words, Lockhart felt his eyes darken.

Sure enough, he was just a clown from beginning to end.

Chapter 90 Trial Part [-]

This time, Lockhart did not choose to continue to resist.

The reason is simple. In front of the memories submitted by several young wizards, it is useless no matter how much he says - Lockhart has a very poor ability to observe people's emotions, but even so, he can easily see those members of the Wizengamot. The expression on the face.

It was an undisguised dislike of him.

By now, he was already thinking about his future life.Although he didn't know exactly how many years he would be sentenced to stay in Azkaban, for him, even staying there for just one day was enough to scare him.

Pampered Mr. Lockhart and Azkaban, ha, how ironic.

However, Lockhart was completely dumbfounded until the next moment when the wizard responsible for leading the trial spoke again.

It turned out that his trial was not over yet.

"You don't have to rush to vote on Lockhart's guilt or innocence. Next, we will still launch a second trial." The wizard said solemnly, and Lockhart took the opportunity to glance at the Wizengamot members - —No one was in a hurry to raise their hands. It seemed that he, the person being judged, was the only person in the room who didn't know how many charges he would have to accept today.

"Defendant Gilderoy Lockhart, you are accused of maliciously stealing the memories and experiences of many people over the past few years, distorting them, fabricating them, and writing them into your own novels to make huge profits; In addition, in the process, you also illegally cast a very powerful forgetfulness spell on others. Is there anything you want to say about this accusation?"

The wizard raised his head and looked at Lockhart, and found that Lockhart's expression had become a little twisted and ferocious.

However, Lockhart himself didn't seem to notice this, and he was even trying hard to weave a suitable lie for himself - if the crime of "intending to murder an underage wizard" would bring him to Az If he stayed in Azkaban for several years or even more than ten years, once the current crime was confirmed, he would never be able to get out of Azkaban in his lifetime.

"I...I didn't! These crimes don't belong to me!"

Unfortunately, after thinking about it and hesitating for a long time, Lockhart finally just said this simple sentence to defend himself.

Of course, such an argument has no credibility. No matter how loud Lockhart screams, struggles, or raises his voice, no one will think it is a strong argument.

Not to mention that there are three powerful pieces of evidence standing against him:

The first piece of evidence is what Hermione experienced during the Dreamweaver Curse, especially the passages about Lockhart;

The second piece of evidence is Lockhart's own wand that has been confiscated. After testing, it was found that the last spell cast by that wand was actually the Oblivion Curse. Any young wizard at Hogwarts can be very decisive. proof that Lockhart never taught the Oblivion Charm in class;