Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

"Ah, I don't want to go home. It would be nice if I could walk around a couple more times outside." When they reached the hillside, Ooun looked back at Cedric's cabin again, and then scratched his head in distress. Scratching his head, "But it will take me a full year before I can go to Hogwarts..."

"Actually, even if you arrive at Hogwarts, it doesn't mean you can run around during the holidays." Hesper's soberness in the world exposed Owen's delusion. "Unless you can be more powerful than Brother Moon, otherwise , at least until sixth grade, you don’t have to think about being able to go out and play by yourself.”

Owen pouted, his little face almost immediately filled with unhappiness, "But at least I can make more friends, so that I can write to them one by one during the holidays and find something to do for myself."

Quaid stood nearby and listened without saying a word, but suddenly reached out his hand and rubbed Ouen's hair. He was so angry that Ouen turned his head and bit his hand - as he grew older, the family's Among these children of the same generation, except for Moon, Ouen's hair is no longer open to anyone.

"Okay, okay, stop making trouble, let's go home." Moon looked at his three younger brothers and sisters with a smile, reactivated the teleportation technique, and took them back to Shafiq Manor.

Chapter 18 reunion

The Daily Prophet, which contained Rita Skeeter's exclusive interview with Moon, was slowly delivered by owls to every subscribed wizard on the morning of July 17th.

Then, in almost just one morning, the subscription volume of the Daily Prophet suddenly increased significantly, and many people were even asking if this interview could be republished in the next issue—— for their own personal collection.

Facts have proved that after experiencing various things and achieving a series of achievements, Moon's reputation has reached an exaggerated level.And even though he has never done business or research, his number of fans is still quite impressive, and can even be said to be second only to Harry, the savior, and Professor Dumbledore, the greatest wizard in the world today. and Gilderoy Lockhart a year ago.

Of course, the premise is that it must be limited to the UK.

At the beginning of the interview, Rita Skeeter praised Moon to the fullest, using a lot of phrases that made Moon even feel nauseous, such as:

"His eyes full of wisdom and gentleness made me fall deeply into them in just a moment, and I felt his impressive and amazing personal charm..."

"I tried to ask him why he wanted to save the werewolves. At that moment, the compassion on his expression even made me mistakenly think that I was interviewing a mature man who had experienced many vicissitudes of life..."

"All this gave me a strong desire to explore. Just a short walk from the gate of Shafiq Manor to the garden, I had already overturned the interview questions I had set earlier - at that time, I looked like , those questions obviously can no longer reveal to my readers the legend of Moon Fox..."

Immediately afterwards, in the purely fabricated interviews and conversations that followed, Rita Skeeter still perfectly implemented this writing idea:

"I asked Moon, if he had it to do over again, would he still be willing to take risks alone and risk his life to get rid of the terrifying basilisk that has lived for more than a thousand years for Hogwarts. And the boy in front of him There was no hesitation at all, and he immediately gave an extremely affirmative answer."

"He said: 'As soon as I learned about the existence of the basilisk, I quickly realized that the danger was imminent. If I wanted to save my friends and classmates from the shadow of the basilisk, I had to Putting one's life on the line...'"

"Ahem - okay, don't read it now." Munn pulled the newspaper from Violet's hand with an embarrassed look on her face. The little girl laughed softly, raised her head and looked into Munn's eyes steadily, "What's wrong? , can’t I see how others praise you as a great hero?”

Moon's face turned red, and while he covered his face with the newspaper, he said in a sullen voice: "Oh, didn't I tell you everything? All the contents are about that woman Rita Skeeter. It was made up, not a single word in it came from my mouth.”

"Oh...~~" Violet knelt on the sofa, stretched out two fingers, and gently pulled off a corner of the "Daily Prophet" that Mu En was holding to cover her face, so that she could see Mu En again. En's eyes said, "So what's the matter? I just like to see others praise you, right? I like it even if it's fake. The more you praise me, the more you like it."

Moon helplessly let go of the newspaper and muttered: "Then if you wait a while and see Rita Skeeter's new biography about me, wouldn't you have to rush to Did her family kill her?"

"Then...it depends on what she has arranged for you." Violet said with a smile: "If she dares to write nonsense from beginning to end, I will definitely call on your fan base to go together. I'm asking her for an explanation. And don't worry, I will find out all the words that can refute her and expose all her lies - as long as this does not affect your plan."

"But it's not bad." Moon scratched her head. Before she could speak again, Violet grabbed the newspaper and glanced at it twice, then pointed to one of the pieces.

"Well, here's the content about the Crow Party."

Moon took the newspaper and glanced at it, then nodded with satisfaction - sure enough, at his request, Rita Skeeter wrote a book about the Crow Party and used Moon's "answer" to explain it. The Crow Party taunted him fiercely.

"Moon, speaking of it, I feel that the Crow Party has not been stimulated at all..." Violet was also looking down at the words. For the first time since she came here in the morning, her face that had always been smiling appeared. A little worried, "I also paid attention to the news in the newspapers during this holiday, but it has been so long and there seems to be nothing about the attack by the dark wizard..."

"Do you think they are actually planning some special action in private to retaliate against you?"

"Don't worry." Moon gently combed Violet's smooth blond hair with his fingers, and whispered: "I think they should have taken action, but they haven't shown it yet, or they haven't. Just start taking action. As for taking pure revenge on me... the Crow Party will definitely do that, but it will never be just that."

"Because in that case, for them, the gains will outweigh the losses. On the contrary, they must show enough deterrence to make me and everyone who is on the same front with me and cooperate with my plan think about Be restrained."

"Otherwise, if just one of me dies, instead of reducing their exposure, it will only make their exposure skyrocket again."

Violet turned her head slightly and pressed Moon's hand on the back of the sofa. "Be careful, you know? If something happens to you, everyone will be very sad."

"especially me."

"Yeah." Moon slowly lowered his head, looking at the photo in the newspaper in trance, and thinking about it in his mind.

His words were not just to comfort Violet, in fact, they were also his true thoughts in his heart - of course, including the fact that the Crow Party was not unstimulated, but had not fully launched its action yet.

Because, although there has indeed been no news about large-scale attacks by dark wizards during this period, and the Ministry of Magic has not received any news related to the Crow Party, for Moon, there is a very intuitive Evidence: Rodriguez had not had any contact with him for some time.

This was obviously unusual, because the interruption in contact occurred immediately, without any warning or notice.It was as if Rodriguez suddenly disappeared overnight.

Therefore, he can almost conclude that the Crow Party must be preparing something, and its plan is definitely not small.

He took out his hand and rubbed Violet's hair. Just as he was about to say something else, Hesper's voice suddenly came from outside the door of the small building, "Brother Moon! Violet! It's time to eat!" "

The two looked at each other, then smiled at each other, then put down the "Daily Prophet", got up and walked towards the door.

At the dinner table, uncle Edgar used the contents of the newspaper to make fun of Moon without any surprise. Even Uncle Golov rarely responded and made fun of him. There was nothing he could do about it. Rita was here. What was written in the newspapers was really exaggerated.And those contents are obviously perfect to use as a conversation piece for the family at the dinner table.

Fortunately, because she had to listen to the Weird Sisters' performance tonight, Violet was sent over by Mrs. Evelina early in the morning. At this time, she could still help Munn share a little "firepower", otherwise If so, Moon would die in embarrassment at this lunch no matter what.

"Okay, okay, if you keep talking for a while, Munn may not even dare to go out today." An slightly complained at his two brothers, and then told Munn: "Munn , before going out this afternoon, I think you'd better cover up a little bit, otherwise when you listen to the performance tonight, if someone recognizes you, you and Violet will probably be surrounded there and have to take off your clothes for a long time. I can’t survive.”

"Don't worry, Mom, I know." Moon responded and pulled out a folded mask from his trouser pocket. "It has been prepared for a long time. I will bring this and the plain mirror with me in the evening."

In fact, the better way is of course to directly change the appearance, but today I am going out with Violet after all, if I really become another person - let alone Violet Well, even he himself would be very awkward.

Anyway, after An spoke, Munn's two uncles finally calmed down a little, which made Munn feel so relaxed that he even ate much faster.

After the meal was over, he and Violet sat at home for a while, chatting with a few elders, and then went to Moon's room to pack everything and prepare to leave for tonight's weird... Where the Sisters performed.

After all, they were accompanied by Violet, and several elders were still giving instructions before they set off, for fear that the two of them would encounter some accident.For a moment, the two of them were blushing and didn't know what to say.

"Okay, let's set off. You can go back quickly." Moon dragged Violet to his side and said to her mother and two uncles: "Don't worry, we will try our best to take care of ourselves, Duoduo Be safe.”

After saying that, he took Violet and waved to the three of them, then activated the teleportation technique and disappeared with Violet at the entrance of Shafik Manor.

The next moment, the two of them were standing on the bank of the Thames River.

Chapter 19 Wizards' Gathering

The Weird Sisters performed today on the banks of the Thames River, in a place far away from Muggle cities and towns.Of course, to be more precise, it was actually at the wizard's gathering that was going to be held there today.

After arriving at a place not far from the wizard gathering, while there was no one around, Moon quickly covered the lower half of his face with a mask, and took out a wizard hat and a pair of flat glasses. , three things were blocked on the head. Unless it was those who were particularly familiar with it, no one would be able to recognize him as Moon Fox anymore.

When Moon read the gossip news in his previous life, he would still sneer at it, thinking that most of the celebrities were just making a fuss out of a molehill - after all, they were just ordinary people?As a result, every time I go out or go somewhere, I have to mobilize a lot of people and spend a lot of time, which is not too troublesome.

It wasn't until today that he became a big star in the British wizarding world, and he finally understood the thoughts of those stars: their influence was not exaggerated, as those famous stars, if they didn't wrap themselves up more tightly, If so, there is no telling what kind of congestion it will cause when going to public places.

At least it is absolutely impossible to avoid being surrounded by onlookers for a period of time.

After Moon finished dressing up and received patient confirmation from Violet, the two of them walked forward along the river side by side, talking and laughing.

While they were still a short distance away from the assembly site, they already heard the noise coming from over there.And when they got closer and passed through the barrier of the spell, the entire wizard gathering was instantly revealed in front of their eyes, and the bursts of non-stop conversations and shouts also came over -

Pointed tents of different colors were laid out along the river bank and spread towards the front. Occasionally there were many vendors setting up stalls on the ground, and at a glance, there was almost everything.Snacks, drinks, exquisite or weird magic gadgets, as well as many potions and ointments in different containers. Moon even saw an old man selling broomsticks there.As for the merchants selling clothes such as robes and hats, there are countless more.

To be honest, if most of the pedestrians here weren't wearing wizard robes and weird-looking hats, at first glance, Moon would have almost thought that he had suddenly returned to his childhood in his previous life.At that time, his family was not very wealthy, and they did not live in a large flat in the city center.If he remembered correctly, when he was five or six years old, there was a big circus performing in the small park near his home. It was probably some kind of event.

And the feeling he had when he was there was almost exactly the same as now.

"Wow, I thought this was the kind of small gathering my mother took me to before." Violet grabbed Moon's wrist and walked quickly inside happily.Naturally, Munn would not disobey her. He followed the girl with a smile, and quietly broke into the crowd with her.

"The latest wizard hair dye! With just one swipe, you can turn it into any color you want! You can cancel the color at any time! You can buy a small box for a few silver coins!"

"Prank crystal ball! Prank crystal ball! It can easily stick to your friend's hand! Make him really embarrassed!"

"Specially made soothing elixir, just three to five drops will allow you to bid farewell to worries and embrace peace all night long!"

The surrounding vendors were shouting loudly. Violet and Moon, who were walking through the crowd, almost stopped for a moment every few steps. Until Violet stared at them for a long time, her curiosity was fully relieved. Only then can they continue to move forward.

Before entering, Moon had doubted what the pointed tents with different colors and patterns were used for.But soon, his doubts were answered - there was a sign at the entrance of each tent, which stated the place inside the tent.

For example, there is a tent with a red background and yellow plaid pattern on the outside, which is marked with the name "Mead Manor". At a glance, you can tell that it is probably a bar; and next to this Mead Manor tent, there is another pure blue tent outside. The sign said "Old Cullen Colosseum", which seemed to be a place for small bets on "legal beast fighting".

Of course, it is said that fighting animals is legal, but in comparison, it is more like stepping on a gray area. If it is really legal, it is not very legal.If someone wants to take issue with them, it's okay to at least report it and make them pay a fine.However, generally these businessmen who are engaged in animal fighting gambling business will not bring in any truly illegal magical animals, let alone any dangerous creatures. Instead, they are more likely to just bring in small swallow-tailed dogs, cats and raccoons. This guy is just doing it to make everyone laugh.

After following the flow of people for a while, Violet stopped again and looked curiously at the performance of the stall owner in front of her.

He was a middle-aged wizard in his thirties, with a round face and light blond hair. He always looked smiling and very kind.After gathering enough guests, he immediately chose one of the many guests, bowed politely to that person, and then said with a smile: "Sir, can you show me your wand? No need to give it to me. , just take it out and let me see it."

If you were to hand your wand directly to a stranger, I'm afraid most people here would never agree.But if they just hold it in their own hands, the wizards won't have any resistance to it.Therefore, the selected guest nodded immediately and took out his slightly old wand from his inner pocket.

Taking advantage of this moment, Moon took a curious look at the stall, only to find that the middle-aged wizard's stall only had rows of straight small wooden sticks that looked like wands but were definitely not wands.

Violet tugged on Moon's sleeve and asked in a low voice: "What do you think he is going to do?"

Moon shook his head, "I don't know either, but it looks interesting."

After seeing the guest's wand, the middle-aged stall owner nodded with satisfaction, then walked back to the stall, picked up a wooden stick from the brown cloth, and lightly touched the guest's wand. magic wand.

The next moment, in everyone's surprised eyes, the wooden stick in the middle-aged stall owner's hand immediately turned into another identical magic wand.

"Look, sir, now I have a wand just like yours. Do you think it's any different from your original wand?"

The customer was far more surprised than everyone else. He took the fake wand from the middle-aged stall owner, first weighed it, then shook it in his hand, and then said in disbelief: "Merlin's beard. This wand is almost indistinguishable from my own wand, except for the way it feels when I hold it, and even the wear and tear on the exterior has been imitated."

"Then try waving? How about casting a spell on us?" The middle-aged stall owner clapped his hands and took two steps back, leaving enough room for the customer to perform. "Of course, you can Don't worry, this wand won't explode."

The onlookers laughed together. The guest thought for a moment, waved his wand forward, and read loudly, "Orchideous!"

"Crack-"

Not even half of the flowers that should have appeared emerged from the tip of the wand. On the contrary, when the guest had just finished reciting the spell, the fake wand suddenly broke from it, and there was even a protrusion at the break. A small flag appeared with a funny face drawn on it and a dumbfounding sentence "You failed!"

The laughter around him became more and more enthusiastic, and some people even took the lead in applauding.The guest who had been teased probably had already guessed that it was a prank prop, so he was not angry at all, but smiled happier than the others.

"Ha! As you can see, the latest prank gadget, a disguised wand, seven silver coins and two. I guarantee that unless you are alert, you can almost use it to play tricks on most of you. Friends!" The middle-aged stall owner jumped back to the back of the stall and opened his hands to the onlookers. "What are you waiting for? This is an exclusive prop at the moment, and no joke shop has the right to operate it. As long as you buy it, You are the only holders right now.”

Violet looked eagerly at the disguised wand on the stall, and shook Moon's forearm with gleaming eyes. "Well, do you think this thing can fool Gal and Demi?"

Moon thought politely for about three seconds, and then nodded decisively, "Without a doubt, absolutely no problem."

Violet naturally believed in Moon's judgment without hesitation.Therefore, after receiving this answer, she immediately stepped forward, took out the coins from her pocket, and bought two disguised wands.

However, when she looked back at Munn, she found that with a wave of his hand, Munn bought ten sticks in one go.

"Eh?" Violet's eyes widened. "Moon, do you think so many people want to make fun of you?"

"That's not the case. Although if you calculate it carefully, it's actually quite a lot." Moon shrugged and put all the disguised wands into the buckle bag. "But most of the people I really want to prank are not You will be fooled by this thing.”

"But to be honest, I think this gadget is very interesting. On the one hand, it can serve as a reference for Fred and George. On the other hand, maybe they can be used for other purposes in the future."

Chapter 20 Attack

As Moon said, he didn't think that a small prop like this could be hidden from Professor Snape, the kind of person who is as meticulous as a hair and wary of everyone and everything. I'm afraid he just got this disguise wand. , I immediately noticed something was wrong.

But, after all, not everyone is as vigilant as Professor Snape.There is no guarantee that something like this, which seems to be just a prank prop, will be suddenly used one day in the future.

Well, to put it bluntly, he just saw something that seemed useful and useless appeared in front of him, and his hamster addiction broke out.

After leaving the stall, Violet dragged him around the gathering several times, and bought a crystal ball that would stick to people's hands, a bottle that would turn everything around after drinking. There was a strange potion that looked like people's heads were made up of large fruits and vegetables, and a small box of wizard hair dye that dyed the hair with just one swipe.

It wasn't until they were a little tired from shopping that they got into the "Mead Manor" tent they had seen earlier in the morning, went in and ordered two non-alcoholic drinks, and then found a remote seat to sit down.

With the help of the curtains drawn by the store, Moon was finally able to temporarily take off all the hats and masks on his face. While drinking, he curiously watched Violet holding it in her hand and playing with it repeatedly. That box of wizard hair dye.

"What hair color do you want to dye yourself? 'Valley'? Or some other color?" [Note 1]

Violet took a sip of the pear juice in the cup and smiled maliciously at Moon, "Who said I was going to dye my hair? I want to dye it for you, okay?"

Munn was startled when he heard this, and then he smiled in amusement, "You can dye it. Anyway, if it doesn't look good, I will take a photo and give it to you so that you can appreciate your 'masterpiece' every day."

"Wow, you are so vicious." Violet made a face at Munn, and then happily removed the package from the hair dye, picked up a small piece from it with her slender index finger, and stretched it towards He touched the side of Moon's head and said, "Don't move. Otherwise, if you apply it crookedly, you will have to bear the consequences~"

"Okay, okay, I won't move." Moon bit the straw and sucked the sweet drink in the cup into his mouth bit by bit.

About a minute later, Violet sat back on her seat with a smile, and took out a small mirror from the pocket of her robe. "Here, take a look for yourself, it's not bad."

Moon took the small mirror and took a look at the area that Violet had just tinkered with. He found that Violet had not dyed a large area on him, but had only made a highlight-like effect. A few strands of hair were dyed a light violet color - which was the 'Valley characteristic' that he casually mentioned just now.

Not to mention, he looks quite good-looking. Although he has a slightly non-mainstream chuuniu aura, it does make him look a bit more mysterious.

There is a special feeling that tomorrow I can set up a store to tell fortunes with tarot cards and crystal balls.

"The workmanship is good." Moon rubbed her hair out of habit, but deliberately avoided the small area where the few strands of hair that Violet had just picked out were located.

"That's it~" Violet took back her small mirror and said casually: "Let me think about it, you have to wear a hat anyway, or wait until we go back at night and I will change your hair back. Well. The hair dye I put on it may have to be removed by myself."

"It's okay." Moon bit the straw and said nonchalantly, "Just keep it, it's not ugly anyway."

Violet was stunned for a moment, then her face turned red for no apparent reason, she held the pear juice cup in both hands and took a big sip.

"Okay, that's up to you."

The Weird Sisters' performance won't start until about seven o'clock in the evening, so the two people who had already walked around outside were no longer in a hurry to go out. Instead, they sat here for about an hour. I drank two or three more drinks one after another.It wasn't until the time approached five o'clock that I finally left the tent and went back outside.

Facts have proved that when it was almost time to eat, the number of wizards at the meeting place not only did not decrease, but actually increased slightly.Even the surrounding vendors have some more ones that were not there before.So, the two found another stall, ordered two snacks that they had never eaten before, and walked around the gathering place again holding paper boxes.

When passing by a small open space, a burst of children's cheers suddenly attracted their attention. They turned their heads over there and saw a lot of people surrounding them.

Naturally, the two of them refused to lag behind others, and immediately disappeared the empty boxes in their hands. They also avoided several paper cranes and paper airplanes that seemed to be controlled by magic and flew around, and quickly squeezed in. Inner circle of people.