Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

"Uh... ahem -" Gal cleared his throat, looked at each other with his three roommates, and then sighed helplessly, "Well, I can only say that Hagrid probably can't really do it yet." He brought a fire dragon to teach us. But, think about it, what else could Hagrid come up with? Anyway, I don’t think it would be some cute little guy, a magical animal like Sniff, I’m afraid Hagrid Ge will just find it boring to talk about."

It has to be said that Garr's guess about Hagrid's thoughts was very accurate. After all, that was the first lesson on protecting magical animals given to third-year wizards in the original book. He was able to create a Hippogriff to increase the intensity of the lesson People.

Except for Violet's three roommates, most of the others present knew Hagrid quite well, and they were also aware of Hagrid's preference for magical animals.Therefore, as soon as Gal said this, everyone almost immediately agreed unanimously.

However, for some reason, Violet always felt that Moon's smile was a little strange...

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"Okay, everyone, look here, we... uh, we are going to start class." After the little wizards arrived at the class location on time, Hagrid immediately clapped his hands and attracted everyone's attention - —When he spoke, his sentences were a little stuck, and his face was obviously a little red, but he seemed to be able to grasp it.

"Hmm... I think, um, I shouldn't have to introduce myself to everyone." Hagrid spread his hands and tried to put a smile on his face, "Everyone must know me anyway."

The little wizards who came to class suddenly smiled knowingly, and Fred and George whistled loudly.

"So, I think we can start the class directly - as the first class of this semester, the magical animal I have chosen for you is the catnivet." Hagrid said while grabbing something from his huge pocket. He took out a small thing with white fur and put it on his other open palm. "Of course, we will only spend two or three lessons on the cat nives. Because... uh... …”

Hagrid blinked and glanced at Munn unconsciously. Munn immediately asked with some curiosity: "Is it because Neko is too easy? Professor."

"Ah, yes, yes, that's right." Hagrid stretched out the cat in his hand again. The little guy was obviously very familiar with Hagrid. He was not afraid at all no matter how Hagrid moved, and even stretched it. He slouched, yawned, and then sat down.

"Because I think it's time for you fifth-year wizards to get in touch with some powerful magical animals. I mean, you won't stay in Hogwarts forever, right, and you won't be able to just go out in the future. You can encounter things like catnives and Flobber caterpillars. You have to learn to get in touch with those big guys and even discover their charm, haha.”

Looking at the young wizards below, most of them were listening carefully, and many even nodded in agreement. This made Hagrid couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and he couldn't help but smile a little more on his face. He seemed much more calm when he spoke.

"And - of course, ha, just like what Munn said just now, little guys like Mao Lizi don't actually have anything complicated to learn. A little understanding is probably enough, right. They are not like giant dragons. The same, with a huge body, sharp claws and fangs, and it can't breathe fire or anything like that."

Gal, who was standing behind Moon and Cedric and secretly holding hands with Demi, heard this and finally recovered a little from his surprise. He controlled his volume as much as possible and whispered: "I must say, this is the only sentence that I think Hagrid can say since class."

No one agreed with him, because apart from him, Violet, Cedric and Arlin had all looked at Munn thoughtfully - at the same time, an idea came to all three of them:

There are tricks!Absolutely tricky!

Chapter 34 Hagrid’s First Lesson·Part [-]

"Come on, ah, I think you might want to come up and touch these little guys with your own hands." Hagrid took a few more steps forward, and then placed the cat in his hand on Professor Kettleburn's special On the boulder that he likes to lean on. "But listen to me, cat cats are very independent creatures. If they don't like you, they won't let you touch them. So - does anyone want to come up and give it to others?" Do you want to demonstrate? It’s very simple.”

The white cat raccoon had already attracted the liking of many little wizards. Therefore, as soon as Hagrid said these words, a large number of little wizards rushed to raise their hands.After much hesitation, Hagrid once again remembered the reminder——

'If you don't know who to call to help you complete a presentation in class or answer your questions, try to find the person you are most familiar with, rather than just anyone. '

He glanced at the little wizards who raised their hands one by one, and then his eyes lit up: "Violet, come on, I think maybe this little guy will like you."

Violet walked forward with a bit of excitement, and then stopped three steps away from the boulder.

"Very well, Violet, now, raise your hand and slowly approach Brown - this is the catnives. It is best to make him realize that you are trying to touch him. Remember, as much as possible Make yourself friendly."

Hagrid stared intently at the catnives on the boulder. While talking to Violet, he raised his hand and waved gently at Violet, indicating that Violet could get closer.

Three steps, two steps, one step.

At first, Brown on the boulder stared at Violet with some vigilance, but when Violet actually walked to it, it did not raise its claws to attack, but instead cautiously leaned down slightly - —But it’s not as low-key as ready to go, but more like asking for a touch.

"Ha, it seems that Brown does like you. You can touch his head now. Remember, never pull his ears, but you can try to scratch the base of his ears, which will also make the cat feel like It's very comfortable." Hagrid grinned and finally took two steps back with confidence.

'Whether they are dangerous magical animals or those that are not so dangerous, try to ensure that you can pay attention to their movements in the classroom at all times to avoid unnecessary situations. '

Violet patted the cat's head as she was told, and then scratched its ears. Sure enough, Brown gradually changed from lying down to lying there completely, obviously not satisfied with Violet's touch. I'm quite satisfied with the touch.

After a while, Violet returned to the group of little wizards. Several girls almost immediately surrounded her, pulling Violet to ask about the feeling.

"Okay, let's continue to try to contact Brown one by one later. Next, we should..." Hagrid, who had been going smoothly for a while, got stuck again, but this time he did not immediately seek help from Moon. Help, and he quickly remembered the next process. "Ah, that's right, that's right. Next, can anyone answer a few questions about Maolizi?"

This time, there were fewer little wizards raising their hands - but the cat nives were not rare magical animals after all, so nearly half of the little wizards still raised their hands high.

"Then..." Hagrid looked at it and fixed his gaze on a certain part of the crowd. "Fred, if I put a cat and a catnivet together, how are you going to tell them apart?"

Fred quickly replied: "Ha, it's simple. Cat's ears are larger than those of ordinary cats. Oh, by the way, you can also tell them by their tails. Cat's tail looks like a lion. It has that fluffy long hair at the end, right, Hagrid—"

George next to him bumped Fred's abdomen hard. Fred woke up from a dream and quickly added with a playful smile: "Professor Hagrid."

"You're right, Fred." Hagrid didn't pay too much attention to the issue of title. After all, to be honest, even he himself wasn't quite used to this change in status.

"Next question, let me think about it...Yarlin, do you know what special abilities Mao Lizi has?" Hagrid was a little hesitant when choosing candidates, but in the end, he still believed in Yaerlin.

Fortunately, Yaerlin did not live up to his trust and gave the answer directly, "Well, cats and dogs are very vigilant and smart. They can distinguish suspicious and untrustworthy people in the crowd, and they don't care. No matter how far away from home they are, they can find their way.”

"Excellent, I guess, five points for Fred for Gryffindor and ten points for Hufflepuff, for Violet and Arlin."

Hagrid let out a sigh of relief and nodded with satisfaction. He was just worried that Arlin wouldn't be able to answer his question.In that case, he might be a little embarrassed again.

"There is another more important thing. I guess many of you may want to raise a cat nives yourself, but - regarding this, the Ministry of Magic has relevant restrictions. If you want to raise these Little one, then you have to go to the Ministry of Magic to apply for a license."

"As for the reason, ha, who knows what the people at the Ministry of Magic think. Maybe they think the nives will scratch their master to death." Hagrid shrugged, then pointed to Brown on the boulder, "Now, we can Let’s start trying to get in touch with the cats one by one. How about, um... everyone lines up and comes one by one?”

Although Hagrid inexplicably used a question, the little wizards still chose to execute it as a matter of course. They lined up their teams one by one and followed Hagrid's instructions one by one and approached Brown, who was still lazy on the boulder. past.

Munn and others lined up in the middle of the queue. While everyone was looking at Mao Nizi, Cedric gently poked Munn's shoulder from behind and asked in a low voice: "Hey, Munn, what did you do yesterday? That little package that was given to Hagrid at night...?"

"Teaching advice, I knew last semester that Professor Kettleburn was retiring this semester. I figured Professor Dumbledore might ask Hagrid to replace Professor Kettleburn, so I got a copy of this for him. , lest he cause any problems recklessly when he first starts coaching." Moon also responded to Cedric's question in a low voice, "So far, it seems that the results are pretty good?"

"I just said how could Hagrid tell us about cats..." Cedric laughed. "It's good. I was worried about what kind of trouble Hagrid would make last night, such as dragging a cat out of the Forbidden Forest." It’s just the Acromantula that wasn’t sent away or something like that…”

Yaerlin, who had been eavesdropping from behind, couldn't help laughing, leaving Lee Jordan who was following him confused.

Facts have proved that the cat nives are still quite picky animals, or at least Brown, the cat nives, is somewhat picky - by the time the class was over, nearly two-thirds of the little wizards in the class had failed to get what they wanted. I wish I could lick the big brown furry cat head with my own hands.

As a result, Violet and other little wizards who successfully completed the touching ceremony with Brown immediately became the envy of everyone.

"Don't worry, don't worry." Hagrid smiled happily as he sent the little wizards away, and at the same time comforted everyone, "We will finish the remaining content of Mao Lizi in the next class. When the time comes, I will bring another cat nives here, maybe you can touch it."

These few words really gave many little wizards hope, so everyone vowed that they would win the next class and left the woods laughing.

"Ha, it seems that today's first lesson was at least a success, right?" Looking at the young wizards who had stayed in the school newspaper office, Hagrid wiped away the fine beads of sweat on his forehead and said Said: "Or, at least it shouldn't be considered a failure?"

"You've done a great job, Hagrid." Gal said sincerely, "I always thought this class would be a disaster."

Hagrid smiled and pushed back the cat head that Brown poked out of his pocket, and then looked at Munn with a grateful face. "Thank you to Munn for that. If he hadn't made some preparations for me, I might not have returned the favor." It’s really going to mess up this class.”

"Then I don't think so." Moon smiled and spread his hands. "Maybe you don't know how to choose the right magical animal or how to deal with some minor problems in class, but your understanding of magical animals and The knowledge is there. Don’t forget, you told us most of the magical beast knowledge in the school newspaper in the past few years.”

Moon tried to change the topic, but Moon's 'attempt' failed.

Gal suddenly looked at Munn, and then glanced at Yaerlin and Li next to him. The next moment, the three people immediately stepped forward and gave Munn a "Strong Man Lock Combination Technique".

"Okay, you didn't tell us about this earlier, which made us worry for nothing. How are you going to compensate us!"

Gal said fiercely, and at the same time, he did not forget to take advantage of the moment when Moon could not see it, and quickly mouthed to Yaerlin: "Homework! Homework!"

The two of them really didn't care that there was a professor standing next to them. After receiving Gal's reminder, Yaerlin immediately added: "Let me tell you, this matter will not cost you a month's homework." , don’t even think about running out of this woods today!”

Several other people watching, including Hagrid, were amused and burst into laughter.Moon, who was locked up tightly, had a helpless look on his face, and said loudly and painfully: "Isn't it just homework! Let go of your hands! If you have something to say, say it! Otherwise, I will ask Professor Hagrid to put you in solitary confinement! Lock up for one—no, two months!”

Chapter 35 Before the weekend arrives

On Friday, the fifth grade Hufflepuff wizards had their first Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson of the semester.

"Ha, look at you, it seems like you are still not used to me changing from your teaching assistant to a full professor?" When he walked into the classroom, Sirius had a teasing smile on his face. "That's such a pity, even if you If you haven’t gotten used to it yet, I’m afraid there’s no way to change this fact.”

The little wizards all laughed - in fact, there was no way they could be used to anything.To put it bluntly, for the Defense Against the Dark Arts course alone, who should be the professor?

Anyway, the professors of this subject are always of the annual type. This time the professor is Sirius, who is very familiar to everyone. To be honest, it is too late for the little wizards to be happy.

"Okay, let's start class." Sirius said as he crossed his legs and sat on the soft chair that had been set up on the podium. "Get ready, the change this semester is not just that my status has become higher than yours. As your teaching assistants become more advanced, more importantly, your courses will also undergo some changes."

"After thinking about it over the summer, I personally think that for you fifth graders, it no longer makes sense to continue learning how to deal with those monsters. First of all, you have Care of Magical Creatures class, and I think Professor Hagrid I am definitely happy to share a lot of this knowledge with you.”

Sirius winked at everyone with a 'you know what' look on his face.

"Secondly, most of you have actually seen the common, easy-to-solve, and easily-hurt little things in class in previous years, right."

"Therefore, I have decided that in the following lessons, I will no longer take you to study those little monsters, but will focus on -" He waved his wand and made the words appear on the blackboard by themselves. " —Dark Magic."

Looking at the little Hufflepuff wizards who were beginning to become eager to try, Sirius laughed quite complacently. He cleared his throat, and his eyes wandered around everyone's faces twice, and finally settled on Cedric. "Cedric, please tell me, what are the categories of black magic?"

Cedric stood up and answered crisply: "There are jinxes, poisonous curses and curses, but the boundaries are not clear."

"Very good, please sit down. Next, Alma, tell me a black magic you know."

Alma stood up immediately and gave an answer after thinking for a moment, "Well, I think... the crushing spell."

"The Crushing Curse, yes, yes, it is indeed a black magic, and it is a curse - anyone else, who else wants to share the black magic they know?" Sirius spread his hands, "Come on, be active A little bit, I guess you are all very interested in these things."

The fact is, as Sirius said, even those young wizards from Muggle families, after several years of study, most of them have some understanding of dark magic.Maybe it's not deep, maybe I haven't even understood why black magic is black magic, but at least I can tell some of the spells.

Leg-locking curse, petrification curse, bat spirit curse, explosion curse...

"Very good, everyone." Seeing everyone saying more than a dozen spells one after another, Sirius raised his hand and asked the little wizards to stop temporarily. "Here, Hufflepuff adds five points."

"Even you can name so many black magics. You can imagine how wide the scope of black magic is. Obviously we can't talk about them all, so in our class, I will only pick up some of them, especially the more typical spells, to explain to you."

With that said, Sirius waved his wand again, completely erasing the original writing on the blackboard, and replacing it with the names of two spells:

Crushing curse, explosion curse.

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By the time this Defense Against the Dark Arts class ended, Sirius, who was already a very good teacher in the eyes of the young wizards, immediately reached a new level in his evaluation.

"Ha! Sirius's new course is so cool." Milton praised with gleaming eyes: "I think his course is more interesting than the course taught by Greengrass in the third grade."

Looking at the approving expressions of the other little wizards around him, it was obvious that Milton was not the only one who felt this way.

However, in fact, in terms of teaching ability alone, Sirius obviously still cannot catch up with Professor Greengrass.But in terms of course content, Sirius undoubtedly has a big advantage, and this advantage is enough for the young wizards to ignore the gap in teaching quality.

"Indeed, the explosive curse!" Garr fiddled with his wand. "Ah, I wish I could learn it too. Unfortunately, even if I learn it, I can't use it in the duel club."

"Of course not." Cedric patted Gal's shoulder helplessly. "Please, Gal, wake up. Do you want to blow up a certain classmate?"

"Maybe he doesn't think his spell is so powerful at all." Arlin interrupted abruptly, and then hurried away from Gal before he opened his eyes, leaving only the little ones around him. The wizard laughed unbridled, attracting a lot of curious eyes.

The remaining two classes on Friday are Transfiguration and Potions. For the little wizards of Hufflepuff, Potions is obviously not bad, but Transfiguration - Merlin's smelly socks, this is almost... It has become the class that everyone least wants to take.

There is no way, for them in fifth grade, OWLs are already around the corner.

Several new professors are actually okay, like Slughorn, he probably hasn't fully understood everyone's basics and learning levels, so he hasn't mentioned this aspect much yet; Professor Hagrid and Professor Black are concerned about this. I didn’t pay special attention to him, and he behaved as usual in class.

Among the old professors, Professors like Professor Flitwick and Professor Sprout have always been gentler and easier to talk to. At most, they just chatter a few words to everyone, and nothing major or substantive. Variety.

As for Professor McGonagall...

In the first class on Thursday, she gave everyone a straight shot and made it clear that she never wanted to see anyone get low grades in the upcoming OWLs - not even Hufflepuff.Moreover, just after the first class, she started to assign a considerable amount of homework to everyone.

And today, they had to accept Professor McGonagall's "Tiger Bomb - Second Bomb".

Yes, they have two Transfiguration classes per week this semester, one on Thursday and one on Friday.

Just like that, the happiness brought by Sirius and the exploration of dark magic quickly disappeared the moment they walked to the front of the Transfiguration classroom.Moreover, this depression lasted even until their lunch time.

Because Professor McGonagall had moved up the time to collect homework to next Monday - Merlin was in class, and they obviously didn't have a Transfiguration course on Monday.

"I can't help but start thinking that if I really fail to pass the OWLs, Professor McGonagall will just tear me into pieces." Yaerlin looked sad and felt that the chicken drumsticks in his hands seemed to have become less fragrant. .

"Tsk, look at Milton, he's not worried at all." Gal elbowed Milton next to him who was still enjoying his meal. "Really, Milton."

Milton raised his head quite proudly and nodded vigorously to show his approval, "Yes, I'm not worried at all. I will definitely not be able to pass anyway."

The little wizards sitting around immediately burst into laughter again. Atman raised his hands to cover his face and turned his head to the side, probably trying to pretend that he didn't know his roommate. look.

Except for Artman, Cedric and Moon didn't smile either, because they didn't notice the conversation of the people next to them at all, but were talking about other things.

"So, are you going to recruit someone tomorrow?" Cedric carefully took a bite of the apple pie and asked softly, "Or do you already have someone in mind?"

"Recruiting, I don't have any good candidates here." Munn gnawed on the pie, glanced at Cedric, and then said helplessly: "Ced, if you have anything to say, just say it directly. You don't have to keep talking. Take a roundabout way and find another topic.”

"Uh..." Cedric scratched his head in embarrassment, then said with a smile: "Well, actually, there is nothing else. I just want to ask you... if you can do me a favor."

"Tell me." Moon said casually, "What's the matter?"

Cedric looked around twice, then lowered his voice again, and deliberately moved closer to Moon, as if he was afraid that others would hear him, and muttered a short sentence.

When he first heard it, Moon looked normal and even flipped through the book in his hand.But as he listened, Moon's expression became increasingly weird.Especially after listening to everything, his expression clearly revealed his confusion.

"you sure?"

"Of course, Qiu asked me to do this." Cedric winked at Moon and nodded, "Ahem, remember to keep it a secret. Don't let it slip."

"Okay... don't worry, I won't even keep such a thing a secret." Moon scratched his head, still feeling that what Cedric just said was a bit too abstract, but he didn't think so for a moment. Know how to comment…

At the same time, Yaerlin, the third person involved in this matter, was still thinking about his transfiguration problem with a sad face, completely unaware that there was a huge "conspiracy" heading towards him. Once out of the clutches, he will be trapped hard.

While Cedric was eating the apple pie with great satisfaction, he glanced at Arlin quietly.

There is no other way, we agreed to work together, now is the time to make a small sacrifice.