Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

"I know, but Lucius never meant to be disrespectful to the Dark Lord. He just wanted to do more for the Dark Lord."

Snape leaned back, but still lowered his head slightly. "You should save these words for speaking in front of the Dark Lord, not here."

"I just want to ask you one thing, Severus." Narcissa pursed her lips and took another sip of wine. "After all, you are still Dumbledore——"

"Tsk - I said it, Narcissa, I have always been the Dark Lord's most loyal servant, do you understand? Maybe you should write this sentence down in your notebook, because it means that no matter what, I can't do anything Have Albus Dumbledore's [-]% trust."

"Just the day before I came back, Dumbledore just came to see me. Starting from next semester, I won't even be the Potions professor."

This time, Narcissa finally became stunned. She looked at Snape in surprise, as if she had heard some fantasy.

"If you can't understand, let me remind you. Because of Lucius's stupid behavior-" Snape raised his head and looked at Narcissa "- a ray of the Dark Lord's soul appeared, which means You should know what you are looking for. Therefore, let alone the position of Potions Professor, even if Dumbledore directly drives me out of Hogwarts, it is not completely impossible."

"Of course, from the current point of view, he probably won't be like this. After all, for him, I still have a little bit of use value."

Narcissa fell into silence again. After a long while, she said with difficulty: "Then, at least help me take care of my son and ensure Draco's safety... just because of the friendship you and Lucius have had for so many years. superior."

Snape's brows furrowed slightly, and he looked at Narcissa as if he had thought of something.

"You don't have to worry about your son's safety. At least Hogwarts is extremely safe now." When saying this, Snape took on his usual mocking tone, "That boy from the Shafiq family, Moon Fox, he's probably on the verge of transforming Hogwarts into a giant children's paradise."

Usually, Narcissa often heard her husband mention Moon Fox's name. Of course, there was always contempt and disgust in it.And in those moments, Narcissa would always smile and echo Lucius's sentiments.

But today, she just nodded slightly, and there was even a hint of joy in her eyes.

"Anyway, please, Severus...thank you."

Snape hesitated for a moment, but finally relaxed, "Don't worry, I will keep an eye on Draco, but I'm afraid it will only be in Hogwarts. The black dog of the Black family is out of prison, and another is... The distasteful werewolves have also lost their bad reputation, and I will only become more and more marginalized by Dumbledore. Even being targeted... is natural."

"That's enough." A smile finally appeared on Narcissa's face, and in the end, she still waited for this promise.

"But -" Snape suddenly changed the topic, "-are you sure you know what you are doing?"

"I know very well. I have thought about everything, including the price I may have to pay." Narcissa Malfoy nodded decisively.

"You know what that means too, right?"

"Yes, I know, I totally know." Narcissa smiled again, but this time, her smile looked a bit tragic and decisive.

The dark and depressing room fell into a long silence. The fire in the fireplace was dancing, but it was completely silent, as if it were fake.

Narcissa picked up the glass and drank it in one gulp. It was at this time that Snape spoke the last words.

"Good luck."

"Wish me good luck." Narcissa pushed the wine glass back to the small table with a gentle push, then stood up and walked out the door.

Snape did not see her off, but allowed her to walk out of the house on her own.

It wasn't until the door closed and Narcissa Malfoy returned to the dirty, smelly alley outside that Snape poured himself a glass of wine and drank it down.

He didn't know if Narcissa Malfoy could succeed, but no matter what, he knew that it would be difficult for him to see this woman again.

He had no position to dissuade Narcissa Malfoy from giving up what she was going to do, and he never believed that Narcissa Malfoy was an innocent person.

But he still feels a little bit of regret.

After all, he had known the couple Lucius Malfoy and Narcissa Malfoy for many years.

Of course, this emotion did not exist in Severus Snape's heart for long before it was completely erased.He picked up the book in front of him again, and after looking at it twice, he couldn't help but flip it forward again and glanced at the signature on the title page.

Yes, signed, handwritten - it's a Christmas gift.

From Moon Fox.

Just seeing this name was enough to make Snape's brows suddenly knit together.If this book hadn't been precious enough, it might have been swept into the trash can like the previous gifts.

The dim light passed through the dirty lampshade and fell onto the pages of the ancient book with difficulty, making the old pages even more yellow.

After a while, the only sound in the living room was the sound of turning books.

Chapter 1: The holidays are in progress

"Oriensuallum (Wall of Dawn)!"

The bright and soft light flows from the tip of Moon's wand. It seems to be moving slowly, but in just an instant, it has been intertwined to form a wide, seemingly devoid of real wall.

"Perfect." Professor Dumbledore, who was standing aside, couldn't help but clapped his hands gently and praised: "You are indeed very talented in spells, Moon. I think this is inseparable from your abundant magic power. It's related. Ha, I thought it would take at least a few days for you to learn this spell. I didn't expect that in just two days, you can already use it skillfully."

Moon lifted the spell, held the wand tightly, and laughed himself, "You taught me well too."

This is not a polite word, but a sincere thank you - due to his superb strength and thorough research on spells, Professor Dumbledore can always face the problems that Moon encounters during the casting process. Hit the point accurately and solve it directly.

It was precisely because of the guidance of such a good teacher that Munn was able to master this spell so quickly.You must know that although his magic power has been increasing and his talent is indeed good, the difficulty of the spell "Wall of Dawn" is actually much higher than that of Li Huo.Even if you include the negative emotions that you need to control when learning Li Huo, this is still the case.

"Ah, I like such compliments. To be honest, sometimes I do miss the time when I was a professor at Hogwarts. For me, teaching students to learn spells and practice transfiguration is also a special kind of thing. Such fun." There was a bit of nostalgia in the old man's eyes. "Well, but now is obviously not the time to talk about this, right? We are only one step away from success."

"Compared to the Wall of Dawn, the second spell I want to teach you is much simpler, but I'm not sure whether you can use it - Moon, I'm always worried about you."

As the old man spoke, he took out his wand, but did not immediately give a demonstration to Munn. Instead, he looked towards the direction of the Forbidden Forest and said harmoniously: "You are too smart and too precocious. This is not a thing." Bad guy, Moon. In fact, I was often judged as such a person when I was young, so I asked myself whether I have some understanding of this kind of person."

"People who are precocious are often not happy enough."

"Thinking too much and worrying too much makes it difficult to be completely close to others, even to family members - even especially. And our happiness, our most important happiness, comes precisely from these relationships with others emotions."

"What this spell requires is precisely this kind of pure and powerful happiness that is enough to drive away the demons in our hearts."

Moon held the wand, with a trace of hesitation on his face.

What the old man said was absolutely correct.

However, this hesitation quickly dissipated. He smiled and said loudly: "Don't worry, Professor, maybe I can successfully release this curse the first time - if it is the Patronus Charm."

"Ha, you really thought of it." Professor Dumbledore raised the hand holding the wand and waved forward, "Expecto Patronum!"

A stream of silver smoke poured out from the tip of Professor Dumbledore's wand. The next moment, a large pale bird flew out of the smoke and flew high into the sky.Despite its extremely fast speed, Moon could still clearly see that it was a phoenix.

"It's your turn, Moon." Professor Dumbledore put away his wand and looked at Moon with interest.

Although Moon had shown great confidence just now, Professor Dumbledore still felt that he was likely to see some hesitation on Moon's face when he tried to cast the spell.

But to his surprise, Munn raised his right hand without any hesitation and waved the wand in the same manner as he had just done - silver smoke swirled out, and then, a strong and powerful wand came out. The giant human bear rushed out of it, and it didn't dissipate under Moon's control until it had rushed far away.

"This is really... I didn't expect it." The old man looked at Munn in amazement, and then his blue eyes revealed a bit of curiosity. "I wonder if you would like to share the memory you just recalled? I'm really full of...inquiring thoughts about it."

Moon had already seen the old man's gossip mentality, but what he was thinking about just now was not something ulterior, so he simply said directly: "I thought of my mother, or in fact, I can I thought of many such memories, my mother, two uncles, aunts, and even my younger brothers and sisters, but I finally chose the most memorable one."

"Each of them has given me precious, sincere and passionate love, and these, to me, can make me feel happy from the bottom of my heart."

"So, actually, the Patronus Charm is not difficult for me."

Moon put away his wand. He knew that the old man's lecture should end here.

Sure enough, the old man nodded clearly and put away his wand like him.However, the next moment, he heard the old man say: "It turns out that the love of family members, well, is indeed a touching and happy thing."

"However, I thought you would think of Miss Evelina."

Moon looked at the old man with a face full of ridicule speechlessly - he should have thought of it earlier, he should have thought that Professor Dumbledore would never let go of such a good opportunity to tease him.

It's late but it's arrived.

Fortunately, Professor Dumbledore did not choose to continue this topic. He pointed in the direction of the castle, and while walking towards the castle with Moon, he said: "Perhaps you are curious why I want to teach you the Patronus Charm. After all, right now Most of the Dementors are in Azkaban, and I think the greatest use of the Patronus Curse mentioned in the book is to deal with Dementors."

"However, in fact, the Patronus Charm is not only used to deal with dementors, but has the effect of dispelling all pure evil and negative emotions. In addition, the Patronus Charm has a small use, that is, it can be used for wizards. Make their voices heard.”

"For example, in some..."

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As Moon finished learning the two spells taught to him by Professor Dumbledore, the Easter holiday was less than half over, and before he knew it, the exclusive interview arranged by the Daily Prophet had also arrived.

The reporter who came to interview Moon was a man who looked to be in his thirties. He was tall and slender. Although his appearance was not very delicate or handsome, it was very comfortable to look at.

Moreover, just like his appearance, the interview method of this reporter named "Dominic Home" is also very comfortable and gives people a feeling of spring breeze - without any aggressive questioning or questioning, and no privacy concerns. Overexploring.

The most important thing is that he knows how to grasp the scale of the problem and is not offensive at all from beginning to end.

During the interview, for a moment, Moon actually wanted to ask him to teach the little wizards of "Hogwarts School Newspaper" some interview techniques.

The interview location was chosen at Hagrid's small teahouse. Hagrid prepared a pot of black tea and a few snacks for them.Although the appearance and taste were average, it didn't take long for the two people who were chatting happily to finish all the snacks.

"I'm very happy to interview you, Mr. Fox." Dominic stretched out his hand, shook hands with Moon, and then slightly adjusted his light blue windbreaker. "Today's chat was very pleasant. If I say that before coming here, I If you are still a little confused about your amazing achievements, then now, I think I understand a little bit."

"Thank you, Mr. Holm." Moon smiled generously. "I am also honored to be interviewed by you. I hope that if there is such an opportunity in the future, it can be you again."

"I hope so." Dominic shrugged, and then said to Moon: "But unfortunately, next time, I won't be the one to do the special interview about your 'Growth and Achievements', and... …”

Moon noticed a slight hesitation on Dominic's expression, and followed him out of the teahouse. Then he smiled and said, "Mr. Holm, you don't have to be so restrained. If you have anything to say, just say it."

"Okay, you should have received the letter from the newspaper. The next special interview was moved to June because the reporter couldn't leave for a while, which is after the final exams at Hogwarts." Dominic blinked. Blinking, "I don't really want you to think that I am someone who likes to speak ill of my colleagues behind their backs, but I do need to remind you about this."

"The second special interview, the reporter coming to interview you is Rita Skeeter."

From the moment he heard the name 'Rita Skeeter', Moon immediately understood why Dominic wanted to 'speak ill of his colleagues behind their backs'.

Even if he had no memory of his previous life, he would still have heard of this female reporter - because this guy was famous, but he was just notorious.

Spoiling rumors, malicious speculation, spring and autumn writing skills, and grafting others on, these tricks are just tricks that Rita Skeeter comes to easily.She can turn black into white, or turn white into black. It all depends on how to get more popularity and more people to read it.

From this point of view, Rita Skeeter is undoubtedly successful. Almost all the articles she interviews and writes are popular in the Daily Prophet.

"Thank you for the reminder, Mr. Holm." Moon nodded gently towards Dominic. "If I didn't learn the news until I was about to be interviewed, I'm afraid I would really have a headache."

"You're welcome. Okay, I'll leave first, Mr. Fox. I hope we can see each other again. I wish you a happy holiday~" Dominic waved at Moon and then strode towards the gate of Hogwarts.

Looking at his retreating back, Moon stretched his waist, then raised his head to look at the sky——

Next, he could finally have a good rest during the remaining half of the Easter holiday.

Chapter 1 Before the exam comes

After the Easter vacation, the little wizards at Hogwarts immediately entered the busiest period of the semester——

The final exam is coming, and preparation for the exam will take up some of your time.Immediately afterwards, the Quidditch team members of each college had to take time to prepare for the last two Quidditch games. In May, each team of the four colleges had to compete once, and no one could escape. past.

In addition, there are still many young wizards who are unwilling to give up participating in duels in the duel club every week, hoping to leave a good ranking on the leaderboard before the official end of the semester.

In short, one thing after another, in the remaining month or so, almost all of them fell on the little wizards.

Some people certainly enjoy it, such as Hermione, who has recently been preparing for her dueling club assessment while reviewing for her final exam.For Hermione, the final exam must come first, there is no doubt about this, but she is also full of confidence in the final test of the Duel Club.After all, I have been practicing for several months, and the remaining time is just to consolidate.

But people like Harry, Ron, Neville and others obviously don't have so much leisure.

Relatively speaking, Ron is the easiest among the three. He does not have to prepare for assessments or Quidditch training, he only needs to prepare for the final exam peacefully; followed by Harry, he also has to Participating in Quidditch training; Neville was under the most pressure - he was determined to pass the test this time and was almost fainting from the pressure, not to mention that for these ordinary things, his heart was not as much as Harry's , as big as Ron.

The complete opposite of these second-year wizards are "veterans" like Moon, who are at least fourth or fifth grade.

Needless to say, Moon and Cedric naturally had no pressure at all on the final exam, especially since they were not like Hermione, who had to spend a lot of time reading the book even if they were already sure of it.Therefore, the two of them looked the same as usual. If Moon hadn't occasionally given important remarks to others, others wouldn't have even noticed that he was a student facing the end of the semester.

Although Gal and Yaerlin are working hard to "make things happen", if you want to talk about pressure, they actually don't feel it.After all, they have been studying at Hogwarts for several years and have been hanging out with Moon and Cedric. Although they can't learn how to use their brains, they have definitely learned how to understand themselves correctly. .

Therefore, even though the exam has not yet officially arrived, both Gal and Yaerlin can already roughly guess how they will fare.

Because of this, during this review, there were two subjects that Gal simply and neatly threw out of his mind.

What are you afraid of? No matter how bad you are, you will just get a T.

Mr. Gal Fuller is the man who said in the first year of school that "long-term pain is worse than short-term pain" (and he was also a man/boy without determination).

In this way, amidst the various responses of the little wizards, two Quidditch games came one after another.

In the first week of May, during Hufflepuff's match against Slytherin, Slytherin fully learned from the previous experience and took Draco Malfoy off the field and replaced him with the team's The replacement Seeker takes the stage.Without the distraction of Malfoy, who was distracted and distracted, the Slytherin team successfully dragged the Hufflepuff team into a fierce battle.Cedric was also completely stared at by them in the first half hour, unable to get away to look for traces of the Golden Snitch.

However, when the game gradually approached one hour and the score gap between the two sides was close to a full [-] points, Cedric finally found an opportunity with his keen sense of smell, quickly broke through the siege, and won the golden ball. Snitch grabbed it and led Hufflepuff to its last victory of the year.

And this also means that this year's Quidditch Academy Cup champion is none other than Hufflepuff.

As always, the little wizards watching the game gave their heartfelt applause, even Slytherin who lost the game - they were really unwilling, they lost the first game this year by a hair, and the second game Another game ended in failure due to Malfoy's extremely poor condition. I thought that I might be able to win in the end, but I still lost in the end.

But now, most of them have understood that the so-called "do whatever it takes to achieve victory" does not necessarily apply to everyone.As Moon said, competitions between colleges should promote fun and competition, rather than robbing and fighting like enemies.

The phrase "do whatever it takes to achieve victory" should be something you prove to your enemies, not friends who live together day and night.

After landing, the players from the two teams shook hands and hugged each other, and then returned to the locker rooms of their own colleges.Everyone could see the unwillingness on the Slytherin captain's face, but there was no doubt that from the moment Harry and Cedric, two amazing seekers, stepped onto the field, they could no longer continue. The kind of dominance he has shown in football games in the past.

Two weeks later, the last Quidditch match of the semester finally arrived.

Although this year's Quidditch Academy Cup is destined to be won by Hufflepuff, Gryffindor and Ravenclaw have not shown any slack in the game because of this - this has been the case between Harry and Autumn This can be seen in the Seeker duel.From beginning to end, Harry kept Qiu far away.

If Cedric was more or less accommodating to Ravenclaw during the game (after all, she was his girlfriend), then for Harry, even though he did not show mercy at all, It would undoubtedly make him "targeted" by Cedric and Qiu at the next party, but compared to Oliver's death stare, he felt that he would rather make peace with Cedric and Qiu then.

There is no way, when it comes to the Quidditch match, Oliver Wood will never allow any slack.

So, just like that, under Qiu's helpless eyes, Harry led the Gryffindor team to victory with a huge advantage of nearly 20 meters.