Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

Well, then he noticed that the writing on the sign was shaking and changed to "You are the best big-headed boy", and Moon understood everything immediately.

It turns out it was Fred and George holding the sign, so that's okay.

Under the eager cheers and attention of the little wizards, time passed little by little. When the contestants walked out of the castle, everyone was almost looking forward to it.

Only Fred and George, who had been staring at Percy, noticed that something was wrong.

"Hey George, something doesn't look right about Percy's face. He looks like he just smelled Ron's smelly socks."

"Ha, Fred, I'm glad you finally realized that because Percy's been looking like this for a week."

Fred's expression changed, "You mean, he's been sniffing Ron's socks this week?"

"Yes, Fred, that's it." George raised his palm.

"Pah -" the two brothers hit it off immediately, leaving Neville standing beside him in shock, while Ron was dissatisfied and kicked both of their calves from behind, "My socks are all clean! Thank you!"

Of course, Fred and George had already anticipated Ron's attack, so Ron's two feet landed in the air without any surprise.

Harry laughed and patted Neville on the shoulder, "Don't be surprised, Neville, believe me, they have done even more outrageous things."

Neville obviously didn't know how to express his inner thoughts, so he could only nodded in confusion.

While these little wizards were laughing and joking, on the commentary stage, Lee Jordan, who had returned to the commentary throne, had already announced the results, and happened to read the results of the Qingshui team.

"Team Qingshui, let's see, these are the previous two champions! You know, everyone, let's see what the champions' scores are this year -"

The pause lasted for three seconds, so long that the little wizards began to suspect that Li was not trying to create suspense, but was being silenced.

"Ahem, I'm sorry, I thought I saw it wrong - Hey, Arlin, Cedric, are you sure this score is okay?" Li turned his head to the side with an embarrassed look on his face and looked at Cedric, who was in charge of counting scores. the two asked.

Cedric shook his head regretfully, indicating that the result was not wrong.

Li shrugged and returned to the microphone. "Unfortunately, Team Qingshui only found 17 treasure cards. It seems that they will miss out on this year's new finals."

The young wizards who supported Team Clearwater were in an uproar, and immediately began to discuss why Team Clearwater's performance was so poor this year, whether it was due to poor condition, or whether the treasure card was hidden too secretly.

Moon pursed his lips and paid attention to the conversations among the young wizards. Fortunately, at least most of them did not say anything outrageous, such as "XXX should be replaced" or "XXX must be holding him back." You can also realize that this is just a game, and the teammates are all selected by the players themselves, nothing more.

I have to say that Lee Jordan is indeed good at commentating. Although quite a few young wizards went to discuss the situation of Team Clearwater, he quickly regained everyone's attention through his own words. return.At the same time, it also fully aroused everyone's curiosity-when the Qingshui team was still there, many people felt that this year the Qingshui team had a high chance of winning the championship for the third consecutive time.

Now, the Qingshui team has been eliminated in the third round, so can't we have a good talk about who can win the championship?

Just like that, the direction of the chat discussion quickly changed.Moon stood in the corner next to the commentary table and couldn't help but give Li Manual two likes.

On the other side, the members of the Qingshui team who had left the competition venue sneaked to the edge of the woods where there were fewer people, and found two places to sit down together.

When he was there and just came out of the castle, Percy could more or less control himself and try not to show his decline too obviously.But now, with only four people left in their team, Percy's mood was almost visibly weakened.

In today's treasure hunting competition, he was the one who was lagging behind in the team - from beginning to end, he didn't even find a single treasure card.

And assuming that he can find as many treasure cards as his teammates, they can advance smoothly.

The other two members of the team didn't know how to comfort Percy, so they had to silently go up and pat Percy on the shoulder and back. Then they whispered to Penello and left quietly, leaving the space. That was left to Percy and Penelope.

After all, everyone is teammates who have to get together frequently during this period. No matter how well Penelo and Percy hide it, some clues can still be discovered.

"I……"

After the other two teammates left, Percy opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say - things were already like this, should he say any more weak words?

Percy always feels like he's been acting weird lately, and he can't tell where the blame lies. Anyway, he's just in a weird state, and he's distracted from everything he does.

Now it is even more ridiculous to ask myself if I am useless.

To Percy, that's the kind of thing that should be swept into the trash can.Failure is already useless, why should we repeat it again?Do you emphasize that you are a weak loser?

Percy swallowed, calmed down his emotions, and whispered: "It won't be like this next time, I promise."

Percy's words did not shock Penello, but she accepted them very easily, because in her opinion, this was exactly Percy's usual style.

But thinking of Percy's abnormality recently, Penello blinked and decided to try again to influence his ideas——

As if it were the last time.

Chapter 95 Process and Results

Penello has always thought that Percy is a very good dating partner.

Well, although he is not very funny and his family situation is not that good.However, at the same time, he is smart, has top-notch academic performance, outstanding abilities, and has his own clear ambitions and ideals...

Percy Weasley may have a lot of shortcomings, but that doesn't mean he can't have a lot of strengths.

Moreover, many of Percy's so-called small flaws are really nothing to Penelo -

Not funny enough?She could find a way to contribute her share of humor;

Family situation is a bit bad?Penelope didn't think Percy was the kind of person who would need to rely on family support when he grew up, and she herself didn't either;

Are you too strict and follow the rules?In her opinion, this cannot even be said to be a complete shortcoming, at best it is just a mixture of good and bad.

But one thing Penello has always been concerned about is that Percy always shows an excessive yearning for the Ministry of Magic and power - so much so that it even exceeds the level of ambition and ideals.

She had tried to talk to Percy several times before, but she had only tried it briefly, because Percy's stubborn attitude made her realize that she might not be able to shake even a little bit of power in Percy's heart.

Although this incident is not enough to make Penello choose to break up with Percy directly, from the girl's point of view, it would obviously be the best thing if it could make Percy less obsessed with power.After all, she did like Percy quite a bit.

"Why won't it be like this next time?" Penello fiddled with his headband while thinking about his words in his mind. "You want to say that next year you will perform better in the semifinals? "

Normally, Percy would have hummed, taking it as a promise, and then said sternly that even if it was just a game, since he participated, he should take it seriously and find a way to win the championship.

But today, Percy rarely hesitated for two seconds before nodding and saying, "Well, at least I won't get such a bad result like today."

"But what will happen if we get a bad result?" Penelo kicked the edge of Percy's shoe with his toe. "We don't have to win the championship. This is just a game."

"Even if it's just-"

The familiar rigid, proud, and even somewhat high-sounding words came out of his mouth. However, Percy did not finish the words, but swallowed them back.

He remembered many things.

For example, in the extra supplement of the school newspaper, there are letters sent by his mother to his two uncles;

For example, he overheard Fred and George in the common room saying, "Hey, Fred, for us—" "For Moon—" "For happiness— !", although he didn't know how making himself covered in blood-red blisters made these two idiots happy, but at that time, Fred and George were indeed shouting about pain, while their eyes were full of excitement;

For example, last night, after he left Professor Flitwick, when he looked out the window, he happened to see Gilderoy Lockhart in a wheelchair, and when he was "besieged" by those reporters, he was filled with excitement. Face of fear and resistance.

He could feel that these seemingly unrelated things were affecting him, but Percy really didn't understand how these things affected him.

Percy took a deep breath and raised his head with a straight face, "Even if it's just a game, I don't want to lose the game because of me. Penelo, I'm a little... uncomfortable, so I'm going back first."

With that said, Percy wrapped his robe tightly, nodded to his girlfriend, and then strode straight towards the castle, leaving Penello alone looking at him in surprise.

At this moment, Penello finally confirmed that the previous feeling was definitely not her illusion - there were indeed some changes taking place in Percy today, and even recently.

But whether it is good or bad, no one can tell for the time being.

…………

That night, Percy tossed and turned in bed for a long time without falling asleep. In the end, he could only stare at the top of his head in boredom and began to think endlessly.

Moon didn't sleep either, but that was because he had received a letter.

A letter from Bernard Paxton.

In this letter, Bernard wrote all the final results of the trials that Wednesday night:

Just like Bernard said that night, Hagrid was convicted of "illegal breeding", but he was still very young when he was convicted, and he suffered for a full 50 years with the wrong crime. It can be said that he is a victim.Therefore, the Ministry of Magic finally not only withdrew all previous charges against Hagrid and allowed Hagrid to repair his wand and use magic, but it also did not impose a fine on Hagrid.

In the end, this was good news. At least Hagrid didn't have to think about finding something from the hut to sell, or asking someone from Moon, Sirius, or Professor Dumbledore to borrow money.

The punishment for Aragog the Acromantula was also very light. Although it did collude with Lockhart and did intend to allow his offspring to kill people, it did not cause any substantial damage and was only an accessory.What's more, for so many years, Aragog has really restrained its descendants, not allowing them to invade the forbidden forest extensively, nor allowing them to break into the school grounds.In addition, he finally admitted his mistake with a good attitude and became a tainted witness...

In Bernard's words, "Aragog and the remaining Acromantulas were sent to the place you recommended."

In Munn's opinion, the Acromantula's crime would not lead to death, that's fine.But you have to suffer a little, and at least you have to pay some price, instead of being sent directly to a place where you can only eat and sleep.

After all... these are not a bunch of impulsive beasts without reason. The Acromantulas' IQs are not low.

So after learning that Aragog and the other Acromantulas would probably not be executed, Moon immediately thought of a perfect place to go.

Azkaban.

What a perfect place, an isolated island in the sea, full of dementors and dark wizards.Now throw in the Acromantulas, the dementors are the first level of guards, and the Acromantulas are the second level of guards - it's not a loss anyway, the Acromantulas can still get a serious opportunity to eat people. .If anyone dares to jailbreak, you're welcome to show off.

Moreover, unlike humans, the Acromantula will not be affected by Dementors and can stay there with peace of mind.The only drawback is that the climate is a little bad, the food has to be controlled, and there is not such a big place for the Acromantulas to roam around.But if there are no shortcomings, wouldn’t it become a blessing again?

In this way, the security of Azkaban can be raised to a higher level. After all, who can guarantee that there will not be ruthless people like Sirius in the original book in Azkaban in the future?

Especially after Peter Pettigrew was imprisoned.

As for future rebellions possible…

To put it bluntly, no matter where they place things like Dementors and Acromantulas, the rebellion is the same; let alone the resulting prison escape - as long as Azkaban is still using Dementors , the dementor rebellion will trigger a large-scale prison escape, so what if an Acromantula is added?Is it possible that twice as many prisoners will appear out of thin air to escape?

Does not exist.

Finally, there is Lockhart. After taking the super powerful version of Veritaserum collected by Professor Snape, Lockhart immediately became a sincere and handsome boy who was more knowledgeable than Moon during the interview. There is nothing left to say.But this guy not only plays the memory spell well, he also has a pretty good memory of himself, and can even recite the facts of his crime.

But this is nothing to be proud of, it will only make people hate it even more.

In short, just like this, Lockhart explained everything. The breadth of involvement and the number of victims were jaw-dropping.

Therefore, he was imprisoned in Azkaban until death and sent there with the Acromantula.

In any case, the final result is quite satisfying.Moon shook the paper and wrote a brief reply to Bernard. After sending it, he finally climbed onto the bed, leaned back, and began to rest.

Although the process has gone through many twists and turns, to be honest, Moon feels that this is the treatment Lockhart deserves, rather than simply being hit by a forgetting curse and living in St. Mungo's in such a hazy way from then on.

Although on the surface it seems that Lockhart has never used any Unforgivable Curses, or even directly killed anyone.But in fact, using memory spells to deprive those people of their memories, experiences, and even part of their lives is no more noble than killing people.

Outside the window, the owl carrying Moon's reply flapped its wings and flew across the silent night sky, then gradually disappeared into the distance and disappeared.

At the edge of the Forbidden Forest, Hagrid hummed a tune and used his calves to block the teeth that had been swirling around him happily. He then raised the wooden board in his hand high and stabbed it into the soil with all his strength.

In fact, the wooden bar was firmly inserted under his exaggerated strength, but it was as if he was showing off, and as if he was nostalgic. Even though no one was looking at him at all, only his dog, he was still there enjoying himself. Then he took out his wand, cleared his throat, and chanted a spell and tapped the wooden board in front of him.

The wooden board was also quite honorable. After Hagrid cast the spell, it honestly burrowed into the soil again...

Uh, like two or three millimeters?

Hagrid couldn't really see it, not to mention it was at night, but he was happy. Even if the spell failed, he would still be happy.

Of course, it goes without saying that this can be seen - Hagrid even went to great lengths to make a large piece of wood of the same size (usually he didn't pay so much attention to it), painted them all with white paint, and began to make a model for himself. Decent yard.

So, his mood is obviously understandable.

Chapter 96 Valentine’s Day Party

It wasn't until Moon woke up the next morning that he finally recalled what day it was when Gal, Arlin, and Cedric dressed up carefully.

Just last night, in his mind, today was just an ordinary February weekend - just like any other weekend, no different, except that they were going to Hagrid's place as a guest today.

However, Cedric put on his favorite and most handsome embroidered white shirt under his wizard robe. Arlin didn't even button the robe, just to reveal the Emma Cross shirt underneath. A light brown sweater for him.Gall, who always dressed casually, simply threw aside his wizard robe and planned to go out in his exquisite and beautiful Muggle coat.

The calendar he had seen a long time ago finally set off a wave of excitement in Moon's mind, allowing him to barely recall that today seemed to be Valentine's Day.

Amid the constant urging from his three roommates, Moon rubbed his hair. It took him a long time to fall asleep after he lay down last night, and he was awakened by a nightmare in the middle of the night. He was really a little out of sorts at the moment.

"Okay, okay...I know, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day...Oh, damn, where are my socks."

Seeing that Munn seemed to want to simply put on a sweater and robe and leave, Cedric and the three of them looked at each other and finally decided that they could no longer let Munn go on like this.

Otherwise, do we really want to sit back and watch Moon become the only bachelor in their dormitory?

impossible!Absolutely impossible!

Arlin held the door, and Gal threw the clothes that Munn had worn for two days directly into the dirty clothes basket. Cedric raised his hand and opened Munn's box.

"Hurry up!" The three teenagers issued an ultimatum to Munn in unison.

Moon looked at his three roommates dumbfounded. He didn't know what to say for a moment. Finally, he carefully found a shirt and matching knitted vest from the box. By the way, they were still there. Under Cedric's guidance, he took care of his messy hair that he had just woken up from.

To be honest, since getting together with Qiu, Cedric's ability to do hair has become more and more perfect.

Until Moon finally made himself look like a human being, and his outstanding appearance finally returned to what it should be, so that he would not fall from the "Cedric-level" to the "Gall & Arlin-level", the three of them Then he was satisfied and threw the book he still wanted to hold on the bed, and then dragged him out of the dormitory.

In fact, the four of them went out a little early. If it were normal times, most of the little wizards would still be sleeping in at this time.But I couldn't bear to say that today was Valentine's Day. Although I couldn't make it to Hogsmeade, most of the students at Hogwarts - especially those who were already in love, got up early and started using their way to spend this holiday.

For example, some people secretly (or openly) exchange love letters and letters expressing their feelings, and some people take their lovers for a walk early in the morning on the lawn or by the lake.And according to Cedric, this is only the morning. In the evening, if you go for a walk by the lake, it will be the "execution site" for singles.

Of course, while some people choose to celebrate Valentine's Day well, there are bound to be others who simply ignore this holiday.

Well, like Percy and Penelope.