Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

The corners of Rita Skeeter's eyes twitched slightly, but she knew she couldn't show timidity.

"Forgive me for having to correct your wording, Mr. Fox." Rita Skeeter pushed her glasses back up. "I never program anyone, including you, I just-"

"——I'm just making some reasonable and possible conjectures for everyone to discuss." Moon took over her words without even looking at her, word by word, word by word. The word went on.

"Really, Ms. Skeeter, you know that you are under Legilimency, and yet you still say such boring and non-nutritious words." Moon took out a gold Galleons from his pocket and pointed it at Li Tower Skeeter shook his head and said, "Also, stop your unrealistic delusions. You have even told me that you are an Animagus."

The shorthand quill and the parchment hanging in the air suddenly fell. Rita Skeeter's eyes became extremely frightened for a moment, as if the person sitting in front of her was not her interviewee today, but all the people sitting in front of her. The wizards were as shocked as Voldemort.

"What do you want?" After a long time, Skeeter finally said in a trembling voice: "Have you already planned it? This is a trap for me, right?"

Moon threw the golden galleons up, and the shining golden coins swirled and landed on the parchment that returned to the table.

"No, you just came at the wrong time." Moon said softly: "You made your threatening intentions too obvious. Otherwise, the most I can do is drive you away and let you arrange me."

"Don't take yourself too seriously, Ms. Skeeter. People like you are just a clown at best, relying on positive people who are unwilling to teach you a lesson due to their status to get around in the world."

As he spoke, Moon raised his head and looked at Rita Skeeter, "Coincidentally, I happen to not be so positive."

Skeeter fearfully avoided Munn's sight, probably hoping to avoid Munn's Legilimency in this way.She moved her body uneasily twice, thought about it, and finally gave up threatening Munn - such an approach would be too unwise at this moment.

The fact that she was able to be Legiliminated to this extent without realizing it was enough to prove that Moon Fox was not as simple as she thought.What's more, Moon Fox now knew she was an illegal animagus.

This means that even though Moon is only the founder of the "Hogwarts School Newspaper", she can directly publish this matter in the newspaper and make it public, so that she will lose her best means of stealing secrets and even be thrown into disgrace. Entering Azkaban - she knew very well that compared to her who loved to stir up trouble, whether it was the Minister of Magic or anyone else, they would definitely believe the boy in front of her.

instead of her.

Chapter 4 'A hero born of lies'

"What do you want? Money? I can give you lots and lots of gold Galleons. Reputation is also fine. I guarantee that whether it is your interview or biography, I will write it exactly as it is, without using any of my tricks."

This time, when Rita Skeeter spoke, there was a slight hint of sincerity in her words.

Moon Fox has no evidence. Indeed, no matter how much outsiders believe him, unless Rita voluntarily transforms or is fed something like Veritaserum, Moon Fox still has no evidence to prove that she is an illegal person. of animagus.

But now she discovered that this boy didn't look like an ordinary 14-year-old boy, and secondly, he didn't look like a traditional decent character.

Looking at the gold galleons in front of her, Rita Skeeter couldn't help but shudder again.

Right now, a beetle-like pattern has appeared on the golden gallon.And her animagus is a beetle.

"That's it? Is there any more valuable idea? Ms. Skeeter?" Moon asked softly: "Your price does not satisfy me. I am not short of Galleons, and I am not short of your ability to write With all the tout coming out, I need a higher price tag.”

"Or would you rather offer the price to something else? Like a dementor?"

"No, I..." As soon as she heard the word 'dementor', Rita Skeeter immediately moved back in resistance, leaning her back directly against the backrest of the bench. "I agree to everything." You, you can ask for anything, as long as it’s what I can provide.”

"Very good, let's do this." Moon looked at Rita Skeeter's increasingly stiff face, raised her hand, and took the gold coin back into her hand. "At six o'clock tonight, find a place where no one is around. Look in the mirror, and when the time comes, you will naturally know what I want."

"that's it?"

"Yes, that's it." Moon rubbed the gold coins between his fingers. "Remember, it's six o'clock tonight. If you are late, you will bear the consequences."

Skeeter nodded subconsciously, and then quickly asked, "Any mirror will do?"

"Any mirror will do - as for today's exclusive interview, I think you have probably already thought about how to write it? I've read your idea again and it's pretty good, but the middle part needs to be slightly adjusted." Moon Enzhan Yan smiled, as if he had just met Rita Skeeter, polite, decent, and very sunny. "I hope you can mention more about the Crow Party. That's the part I like to watch the most."

Rita Skeeter was even beginning to feel a little numb to Moon's terrifying Legilimency ability. She responded and threw the shorthand quill into the box together with the roll of sheepskin before she even had time to put away her belongings. The paper was stuffed into his crocodile leather handbag.

"Buffy!" Moon raised her voice slightly and called out the house elf. "Send Ms. Skeeter away from the manor. She is going back."

Buffy bowed to Moon, "Okay, Master Moon."

Seeing Skeeter, led by Buffy, walk out of the pavilion, drift away, and completely leave the manor, Moon let out a long breath, and then took out a note from his pocket.

There wasn't much content on the note, only two sentences in total:

[Meet Rita Skeeter]

["Moon Fox: Hero or Dark Lord?"]

He stretched out his finger, tapped lightly on the paper, completely erasing the first line of text, then touched his chin to ponder the content of the second line of text, and finally changed it to "Moon Fox: Born in The hero of lies.”

After pondering for a few seconds, Moon nodded with satisfaction, folded the note again, put it back in his pocket, and then, without going back to the house, he lay down on the bench, closed his eyes and took a nap.

He didn't know if it was because he vented some negative emotions to Rita Skeeter, or because having breakfast with his family made him feel at ease again.In short, it was only now that he felt sleepiness starting to creep into his head.

However, not long after he lay down, a sound of apparition suddenly sounded in his ears.

In the blink of an eye, Moon's face had put on a mask of pain - he didn't even need to open his eyes to know who was coming.

The only person who has appeared everywhere in Shafiq Manor in recent years is Edgar.

"I'm sleepy……"

"But I want to know what you just said to that woman Rita Skeeter." Edgar sat down next to Moon and put an apple on Moon's chest. "Oh my God, I just saw The look on her face when she walked out was extremely ugly. I didn't expect you to be able to deal with such a person——"

After uttering a long string of words, Edgar finally retracted his gaze and looked at Moon. It was this look that made his words stop abruptly.

Although Moon's behavior at this time was no different from when everyone joked with each other in the past, Edgar still vaguely noticed that there seemed to be a little discomfort hidden under Moon's 'pain mask'.

"Moon, are you okay?" Edgar picked up the apple, stood up, and asked in a low voice: "You don't look very comfortable. Do you want me to send you to St. Mungo's? I can go with you." Golov and Ann said they would just take you out if you didn't want them to worry."

Moon shook his head. "I'm fine, uncle. It's just that my sleep has been a little bad lately, which has given me a headache. I guess I'll be fine after I get some sleep."

"Okay... okay." Edgar scratched his head. "If you have anything, you can tell me. Don't worry, we don't need to tell them what happened between us, you know? You have a good rest and remember anything." calls me."

With that said, Edgar was about to apparate away again, but after thinking about it, he stopped casting the spell, turned around and walked quietly towards the outside of the pavilion.

"Uncle?"

"Ok?"

"Thank you."

…………

Moon couldn't remember clearly whether Uncle Edgar said anything else later, because for some reason, he fell asleep immediately, and it wasn't until about four o'clock in the afternoon that he was struck by the increasingly hot temperature. Wake up.

When they woke up, Hesper and Ern were quietly playing wizard chess, while Quaid watched silently while slowly fanning Munn with a large fan.

"Well..." Moon rubbed his eyes and sat up from the bench, then stretched his waist vigorously. "Okay Quaid, no need to fan, I'm awake."

Quaid turned his head and glanced at Moon, then put the fan aside.Ouen, who was about to lose in the chess game, took advantage of this great opportunity to immediately cheat and threw aside the chess piece he just picked up. "Brother Moon, you finally woke up. We were still discussing what to do. Don’t ask you to get up for dinner.”

Hesper pressed Ern's head angrily and laughed, and then looked at Munn. "Brother Moon, why did you suddenly run to the bench and fall asleep? When we saw you, your head was full of You’re all sweaty, why don’t you go back to your room and sleep?”

"I'm too sleepy, so I'm too lazy to go back." Moon also smiled and rubbed Ouen's hair, and stood up while explaining, "Thank you for your hard work, otherwise I might not be able to sleep for two hours. Gotta wake up.”

"I fanned you too!" Owen raised his hand, "Can you apply to take us to London before the holiday ends~"

"Okay, then when we go to Diagon Alley to buy books for the semester, we will take you there with us." Moon deliberately joked: "Diagon Alley happens to be in London."

Owen's expression turned bitter, "It doesn't matter, you would have taken me with you when you were going to Diagon Alley..."

Moon looked at Ooun, then at Hesper, and suddenly pointed at the chessboard on the table, "Well, if you can beat Hesper in a game of wizard chess before going to bed tonight, I will agree. When you come back after two days of going out, I will take you out to play. Although it is not London, it is guaranteed to be a place you have never been to. "

"Really?" Owen, who was in a great mood, suddenly had fighting spirit in his eyes.

From the first day of Munn's vacation, Ern had already planned to let his three brothers and sisters take him out to play.

As for whether he can beat Hesper in wizard chess...

Owen had already forgotten about that kind of thing.

effort!Must win!

Munn glanced at Hesper, and Hesper immediately understood - this time she had another opportunity to abuse Ern on the chessboard. She had to pay attention to her points so that Ern could also win. Bundle.

Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to sleep tonight. If Ouen didn't drag her to fight all night long, he wouldn't be Ouen.

Quaid, the only one who could stay out of the matter, looked at the three people who had their own agendas and snickered secretly.

In this way, the four people brought the chessboard and chess pieces, moved from the pavilion to the living room, set up their horses, and started a series of battles again. As a result, two more people, Edgar and Golov, were attracted later, one on the left and the other on the right. Po and Owen took action.

With Golov's help, Hesper, who had already won with ease, began to crush them in all directions, killing both Edgar and Ern until they were left with nothing but numbness.At the back, Edgar simply used the excuse of peeing and fled the scene in despair.On the contrary, Ouen relied on his determination to go out and play, gritted his teeth and worked hard, and he was extremely resilient and never gave up.

It wasn't until 10 minutes before six o'clock that Moon estimated that the time was almost up, so he got up and went back upstairs, saying goodbye to this not-so-exciting, but indeed interesting, chess game.

Yes, interesting, referring to Owen's ever-changing appearance.

After a while, when Munn went downstairs again, what he saw was Ouen sitting there guarding the chess game that he finally won, waiting for him to appear in a silly way.

How can I put it, it has to be Hesper. If it were his uncle Edgar, I guess Owen would not be able to get this hard-won victory until [-]pm tonight...

Chapter 5 Quest

"Ah, long time no see, Moon. It seems like you are ready to go out for adventure?"

Standing outside the gate of Shafiq Manor, Professor Dumbledore, wearing a well-tailored white robe with a great style, smiled and handed a small bag to Moon, "Here, with this, maybe we will Used when traveling.”

"Of course." Moon fastened the strap of the small bag to his belt and then pulled up the zipper of his jacket. "Are you really not going to go in and have a seat and have a cup of tea before leaving?"

Professor Dumbledore shook his head, "No, after all, this trip is not to take you out for a camping trip or anything, but to take you to dangerous situations. After entering, I saw Golov and Ann. What if they didn't say anything?" If you are willing to let us go, our plan will be ruined."

The old man joked solemnly and raised his arms at the same time. "Now that we are ready, shall we set off now?"

Moon responded, turned around and waved his hand towards the manor, and then held Professor Dumbledore's forearm.

The next moment, the world was spinning, and a strong feeling of squeezing and pulling away had been transmitted to Munn's mind.

The surrounding scene quickly stretched, twisted, and deformed, and began to form strange lights and shadows - but this did not last long, maybe only a second or two later, Moon and Dumbledore had already appeared in the field. Above the wasteland.

The moonlight tonight is still a little dim, which makes even a slightly distant place look like a blur, making it impossible to see clearly.Therefore, as soon as he landed, Professor Dumbledore took out his wand and used light to disperse the surrounding darkness.

Moon took two deep breaths, then stood up straight and took out his wand.

"I thought you should be familiar with the feeling of following the appearance -" Professor Dumbledore glanced at Moon, and then suddenly said: "Ah, your condition is a bit bad. Did something happen to you?"

If he was seen through in front of his uncle a few days ago because Moon did not hide it, then at this moment, what Professor Dumbledore showed was his pure and astonishing insight.

"It's nothing, Professor." Moon rubbed his eyebrows and said softly, "It's just that I haven't slept well in the short time. I always have nightmares."

"Don't underestimate your dreams, Munn. If I remember correctly, your prophecy talent is also outstanding." The old man raised his finger and pointed in the direction, leading Munn over there. "For wizards, Dreams can often reveal something. You should have learned about dream interpretation when you were in fourth grade. Although Sybil's predictions... were shockingly bad, she did have a pretty good grasp of theoretical knowledge. It just seems too rigid sometimes.”

Moon tugged at the corner of his mouth and smiled reluctantly - not because he had any objections to Professor Dumbledore's words, but because after the Apparition just now, his head began to hurt again.Fortunately, right now, the pain is easing little by little.

"Of course, if it's just a simple nightmare, you can also try Scott Norton's pipe, remember? It has a sedative effect. And you don't need to smoke, just light it and treat it as a sedative. Just put an incense there." Professor Dumbledore said, shrugged again, and said with a smile: "Of course, I don't recommend you to try smoking so early, otherwise Golov will probably impeach him immediately. My position as principal.”

The headache that had mostly subsided in this moment was finally no longer a problem for Moon. He also smiled and then looked around.

It doesn't look like a complete wilderness. Looking out from a distance, you can see the lights of a small town in the distance.And even where the two of them are now, they can still vaguely recognize some human traces.It just seemed that no one had visited this place for a long time, so it seemed extremely desolate. Even the path underfoot was covered with clumps of weeds.

Along the path, there is a tall tree a little further forward, but the leaves are so sparse that they seem to be dying. Only the thick trunk can show the pride of this dying tree in the past. look.

"So, you haven't said yet, where are we?" Although he had already made a judgment in his mind, Moon still asked this question to avoid any missing information or information that he didn't know at all.

"Here? This is the edge of Little Hangleton, an inaccessible place where many of the past are buried." The old man's words contained a bit of regret and reminiscence. He stretched out his wand forward and continued: "See that Is there a tree? Moon, if we go further, we will reach the destination of this trip. If everything goes well, maybe we can find a comfortable place tonight, drink a glass of hot milk, and sleep well. Sleep."

"Of course, at the same time, this is where Voldemort's mother was born. It was also here that Voldemort made his second Horcrux. He killed his biological father's family and blamed everything on his uncle. "

"Wow, it sounds like Mr. Voldemort's favorite thing to do." Moon mocked, which diluted the slight sadness in Professor Dumbledore's heart.

"That's right, Moon. Ever since I got the complete memory from Slughorn and saw everything clearly, I have thought of this place. And when I remembered the murder of the Muggle Riddle family, After that, I am almost completely sure that Voldemort must have made Horcruxes here. I just don’t know if he will still hide his Horcruxes here.”

"I think it's very possible. After all, he can even hand over his diary to Lucius Malfoy - I heard that guy is about to be tried. Is it true?" Moon suddenly remembered something As a aside, while still a little far away from the tree, he simply asked directly.

Professor Dumbledore nodded, "It's true, but don't worry, you will probably be required to testify when the time comes, so the Ministry of Magic will send you a letter."

After getting the answer he wanted, Moon stopped talking and followed the old man forward slowly.

After walking for about two or three minutes, an old man and a young man finally arrived under the big tree. With the light emitted from Professor Dumbledore's wand, Moon could see at a glance that there was something on the trunk of the tree. There were many deep and shallow scars left, which looked like they had been poked by knives.

Perhaps sensing Munn's doubts, or maybe just wanting to introduce Munn to what happened here, Professor Dumbledore suddenly paused and turned his gaze to the tree trunk beside him.

"Before Tom Riddle was born and his mother and uncle were still very young, from that time on, his uncle, Morfin Gaunt, was already a very typical 'wizard villain'. He ignored " Statute of Secrecy", he uses his magic unscrupulously, intimidating and even attacking those Muggles living in Little Hangleton. He always carries a short knife with him, and sometimes climbs this tree to search for those who dare to 'trespass' 'Muggles in their family's domain."

"As for those scar knots you noticed, they were left by Morfin Gaunt with his knife."

As he spoke, Professor Dumbledore gestured to the flat open space in front of him, "If my memory of what I saw is correct, that place should be the location of the Gaunt family's cabin."

Moon looked at the flat open space without any traces left, and wondered: "Was it hidden? Or was Voldemort directly trying to erase it?"

"I prefer the former, Moon, do you want to give it a try?" Professor Dumbledore turned sideways and looked at Moon.

Moon didn't waste any time. He raised his hand and waved it in front of his eyes, then looked at the open space again.Sure enough, after exerting the ability to see through invisibility on himself, the scene there has suddenly changed——

A dilapidated, even crumbling cabin stood there quietly. The wooden boards in many places had even rotted, and the walls and the bottom of the door panels were covered with dirty moss.As for cobwebs and dust, there is obviously no need to say more.

Even when the wind blew occasionally, Moon would suspect that the hut might fall down and disintegrate into ruins.

He strode forward and stopped again when he was much closer. He raised his hand and cast a dispel magic on the outside of the cabin.

A large number of protections began to disappear. These protective magics themselves were not particularly complicated. They were all spells such as Muggle expulsion and universal protection, and the intensity of the spells was not high, so they could be easily lifted.Even the spell that made the cabin invisible was also dissolved.