Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

This matter is not a secret. In fact, now that Voldemort has fallen and many Death Eaters have been arrested and confessed, many people have some knowledge of this matter.

But the parchment handed over by Professor Dumbledore had several names on it, the names of several dark wizards, including Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, Bellator Chris Lestrange and other names that are familiar to Moon.

Those were the people he thought, after talking to Professor Snape, might be capable enough to brand others with the Dark Mark.

Most of them have now been crossed out and their names have been crossed out. Some of them have been imprisoned in Azkaban like Bellatrix, and some of them, like Professor Snape, have long since abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side. Some have already been confirmed dead.After removing these names, there were only a few people left on the originally large list.

Among these few people, there are two specially marked names: one is Lucius Malfoy, with a check mark on his name; the other is Jacob Thor, a Munn Guy I've never heard of.

But this Jacob Thor's name was marked "Werewolf" in small handwriting.

Yes, he was the werewolf who appeared in the Forbidden Forest with a group of giant wolves some time ago and injured Hagrid and Professor Snape.

Apart from these names, the rest of the contents on the parchment are all speculations, most of which coincide with Moon's ideas - Voldemort's party rescued the transported Forrest Dempsey, He was given the Dark Mark, and the person who gave him the Dark Mark must also know Quirrell's actions and purposes at Hogwarts. It was just an accident that he met Professor Snape, but Voldemort and his party saved him. He is not.Their purpose is most likely to cause some trouble, make the Ministry of Magic panic, force Fudge to ask Professor Dumbledore for help, and use this to make Professor Dumbledore leave Hogwarts so that Quirrell can do things conveniently.

After the failure to break into the Forbidden Forest at night and the change of leadership at the Ministry of Magic, this may have become their only way to "lead Professor Dumbledore away".

As a result, Forrest met Professor Snape at St. Mungo's. His temptation to Professor Snape revealed that he knew what Quirrell was doing, because to the outside world, Professor Snape had already turned his back on him. According to Professor Snape, apart from Voldemort himself, no one among the Death Eaters knew that he was a double agent.In other words, in addition to Voldemort himself, only Quirrell can share the information that "Professor Snape may still be working for the Dark Lord" to other Death Eaters.

Although he did not have the foresight like Moon, Professor Dumbledore still keenly believed that things could not be such a coincidence - Voldemort just revealed the news for no reason.

And this means that the person behind Quirinus Quirrell is Voldemort. No matter why he came to Hogwarts, he is undoubtedly working for Voldemort.

So is it possible... that Quirrell also has the Dark Mark on his body?

If they were willing to put the Dark Mark on Forrest, who was weak and out of power, there was no reason why Quirrell wouldn't have it on him.

Once the Dark Mark is really found on Quirrell's body, then, as Professor Dumbledore said, they no longer need to wait for Quirrell to reveal his flaws, they can just lift up his clothes and point out his With the Dark Mark, he would naturally have to be tried by the Ministry of Magic.

but……

The fact is that Quirrell may not necessarily have the Dark Mark on his body. Even if the possibility of this is not small, it is not worth their optimism too early.

After all, maybe it was because Quirrell was coming to Hogwarts on business that Voldemort's henchmen deliberately didn't put the Dark Mark on him.

"Actually..." Professor Dumbledore looked at Moon's calm expression and said with a chuckle: "This is just a small incident. Don't worry about it too much. Moon, please treat it with a normal heart."

"Okay, Professor Dumbledore, I think I was just happy a little too early." Moon shrugged helplessly and put the parchment back on Professor Dumbledore's desk. "So, what do you want? What should I do?"

"Just do whatever you have to do. I just want to share the good news with you." The old man blinked and chuckled. "In a way, this good news comes because of you."

"Then...should I leave first?" Moon put down the empty cocoa cup and stood up to leave.

Unexpectedly, Professor Dumbledore suddenly spoke again: "Ah, don't worry, Moon, there is one more thing."

"?" Moon's steps stopped again. He looked back curiously at the old man, only to see the old man smiling as if he was saying "What do you want for breakfast tomorrow morning?" and said very casually. : "I guess you must be curious about what I went to do in the morning - it's not a secret, I went to see Golov, yes, your uncle."

"The two of us took a walk, chatted a little more, and discussed one thing -"

"Moon, we both hope that you can follow me to learn something, um... beyond the classroom."

"Of course, don't get me wrong, not now. I think it will have to wait until at least next year, when you are in third grade."

"So, I wonder if you are willing?"

Chapter 116 Good News

[Supplementary Note] The werewolf Jacob Thor is an original character in this book, not an original character.

-

Even when he returned to the Hufflepuff common room and sat in front of the fire, Moon still felt a little dizzy.

It's not that he was very surprised by this. Don't get me wrong, of course he was very happy to learn from Professor Dumbledore, whether it was experience, spells, or many other things, even if it was just understanding of the secrets and strange things in the magical world. , can completely make Moon willing to be Professor Dumbledore's student.The reason why he wasn't surprised by this was because he had already had a clue about it.

In fact, from the time Professor Dumbledore gave him the approval note for the Restricted Area and asked him to learn dark magic from Professor Snape, he was almost destined to receive Professor Dumbledore's guidance later.If the old man had not made such a plan long ago, it would have been absolutely impossible for him to "let go" Moon like this.

What made Munn a little dazed was that he didn't expect this to happen so quickly.

Originally, in his mind, Professor Dumbledore would come to explain the matter to him either after he captured Peter Pettigrew or after the Triwizard Tournament, that is, after his sixth year.As it turned out, it happened much faster than he thought.

There is no doubt that Uncle Golov's encouragement is definitely indispensable, but more importantly, I am afraid that the frequent sightings of Voldemort and the preparations of various dark wizards are imminent.

In any case, this is a good thing. In addition to being able to study with Professor Dumbledore, another thing can be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

At that time, Peter Pettigrew would be caught immediately, and this time, he would never let Peter Pettigrew escape with good luck like in the original work.

Moon took a deep breath, holding back the excitement in her heart, then settled into the cushioned sofa and opened the book on her lap.

"Pa—" A snow-white little paw rested on the page of Moon's book.

"Snowball?" Moon was stunned for a moment, then thought of something, and quickly turned to look behind the sofa.

Sure enough, Violet held the drawing board with a smile on her face, shook her body slightly and pointed to the seat next to Moon, "Shall I come over and sit down?"

"Of course." Moon picked up the snowball, stuffed the restlessly writhing kitten into his arms, and then moved to the side himself - in fact, he didn't have to do this at all, the sofa had There was plenty of room for Violet to sit.

But he just moved, as if he was afraid that Violet would sit somewhere else because there was not enough room.

The final result of this was that after Violet sat down, there was still enough space for a person of similar size to sit next to her.

Violet, who was the first to discover this, put the bag on her back horizontally on the sofa without mercy, taking up all the extra space.

Although there are not many people in the common room at the moment, but... don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the worst.

Violet smiled secretly, then turned around, just in time to meet Moon's eyes.

The girl's cheeks turned slightly rosy, and she pretended to stretch out a hand to warm herself up to the fire, as if this could prove that her blush was caused by the temperature. "Well, Moon, you look very happy in front of me. Is there any good news?"

"Well... it's good news, but it's not easy to say yet." Moon scratched his head. He didn't want to hide it, but the fact that he was going to study with Professor Dumbledore was not suitable to be made public for the time being, at least not yet. , just like he studied dark magic with Professor Snape. "In fact, a lot of good things have happened recently, but unfortunately they are all things that need to be kept secret for the time being."

"That's really good." Violet didn't care about Munn's concealment, or in her opinion, it was not a concealment, because Munn did tell her that something good had happened, but it was not suitable to say it yet. Just come out.

"It's very good." Moon nodded, suddenly realizing that the familiar awkward chat had begun again. While stroking the pages of the book, he put back Snowball Cat's sneakily extended paws, "By the way, Have you drawn any new cards in the past two days?"

"Yes." Violet answered simply, but suddenly she seemed to think of something, and turned her head to straighten the loose hair beside her ears, "Well... I can't show it to you yet."

Moon laughed for a moment, not sure whether Violet was hiding some surprise or was retaliating against his "not easy to say" just now.

"Yeah! That's right." Violet suddenly patted her forehead and said to Moon: "I suddenly remembered that the day you asked for leave was Thursday, and Gemma and Ashley came to me to say something happened. I want to discuss this with you, remember to wait for them in the auditorium at noon tomorrow."

"Gemma and Ashley?" Moon was stunned for a moment, unable to figure out what they needed his help for.

"Well, I don't know what it is. Gemma just asked me to tell you something, but they didn't say anything specific."

The flame in the fireplace kept making a "cracking" sound. After talking about business, the two chatted for a few more words, and then sat on the same sofa and began to do their own things.Snowball huddled in Moon's arms, sometimes looking up at the boy, sometimes turning his head to look at the girl, his clear, round eyes filled with half-understanding emotions - maybe it was just the light reflected by the fire.

After a while, after all, he still couldn't resist the cat's sleeping nature. Snowball carefully stretched his front paws, curled himself up into a ball, and fell into a deep sleep.

…………

The good news is still coming one after another.

Early on Monday morning, the Daily Prophet once again grabbed the attention of the young wizards at Hogwarts: Cornelius Fudge, who had just taken office for a few days, received a lot of accusing letters.

Although Forrest Dempsey had been killed, due to the desperate resistance of the Aurors and the timely arrival of reinforcements, the therapists and patients at St. Mungo's did not suffer any substantial harm other than being frightened. Just the fact that "dark wizards broke into St. Mungo's" alone caused Fudge to be humiliated and abused by hundreds of people.

After all, according to the news leaked from the therapists at St. Mungo's, just a few hours before Forrest Dempsey led the dark wizard to attack St. Mungo's, Cornelius Fudge was still treating the Aurors Pull away.

Therefore, those patients were indeed not injured, but the question is, what does this have to do with Fudge?It's just the Aurors who did a great job.

Although the Daily Prophet tried its best to hide this news in every corner, everyone was still keen to find it and spread it widely.

Chapter 117 The invitation that hasn’t come yet

Then, at noon that day, another piece of news spread among the little wizards by word of mouth - Professor Quirrell was picked up by therapists from St. Mungo's.

The reason announced is very simple. It is said that the curse on Professor Quirrell is too powerful. Madam Pomfrey really has no other choice but to force Professor Quirrell to live in St. Mungo's for a short period of time.But Moon, who had just talked about this matter with Professor Dumbledore yesterday, naturally knew that the whole story was not like this. Poor Quirinus Quirrell was obviously really branded with the Dark Mark, so he was directly Send out of Hogwarts.

Sure enough, only halfway through lunch, he received a letter from Debbie, which was given to him by Professor Dumbledore. The content of the letter was very simple: "We found what we were looking for, so as to avoid too much impact. , not made public for the time being.”

After lunch, Moon waited for a while at the door of the auditorium as promised to Violet yesterday.After a while, the two girls Gemma and Ashley followed out.

"Good afternoon, I heard from Violet, do you want my help with something?" Moon looked at the two of them, hoping that they would not ask too difficult questions.

It's not that he doesn't want to help, but it's just that so much good news finally came one after another, and he hopes to keep this happiness as long as possible.

As if they heard the prayer in his heart, Gemma and Ashley looked at each other, and then Ashley looked away with blushing cheeks, and poked Gemma in the waist.Gemma sighed helplessly and reluctantly handed a note to Moon.

Moon instinctively felt that something was not quite right.

Ashley's ambiguous and shy little expression was very familiar to him. Gabriel and Laryn had often shown this expression on their faces before they were together.

"Ashley wants you to pass this on to Victor Gray - you should know who that is. She heard that you and Victor have some friendship." Gemma shook off the words in her stomach, and then complained slightly He glanced at Ashley.

"No problem" Moon agreed readily, and then looked at Ashley's back with amusement as she grabbed Gemma and ran away.Whether it was when they first met on the train or Ashley's work performance after joining the school newspaper office, this girl seemed to be a neat girl who was full of arrogance and acted directly. How could she think of talking about it? When it comes to love and romance, everything is the same.

But soon, after thinking about it, Moon's expression suddenly became strange again.

He's not Cupid, so why does Gemma have to come to him for her relationship problems, and Ashley has to come to him for her relationship problems?

Good guy, not only Cupid, but also Cupid for Slytherin seniors?

Glancing at the note in his hand again, Moon couldn't help but show the classic "old man on the subway cell phone" expression.

…………

The good news is still coming one after another. The Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the afternoon happens to be taught by Victor. Originally, Professor Quirrell only hired one student assistant this year, and it was not Victor. But at this time, they and the first grade All Gryffindors have to take Defense Against the Dark Arts classes, and Professor Snape also has Potions classes to take, so they can only recruit Victor, who worked as an assistant to Professor Ben Camp last year, as a young man.

After class, Moon handed the note to Victor.

"Um...Grey, Ashley Bishop of Slytherin asked me to give this to you." Moon pointed at the note. "Don't misunderstand that I gave it to you."

As soon as he heard the name Ashley Bishop, Victor immediately showed a clear expression, and then he knocked his forehead a little and put the note into the book - if Munn read it correctly. If so, there would already be at least 8 or 9 pieces of paper tucked inside.

Combined with Victor's expression just now, there is no doubt that most of those notes are similar confessions and dates.

It seems that what Tonks said before is indeed true, Victor is really... popular in half of Hogwarts.

"Thank you, Fox." Victor nodded to Munn, and then hurried out of the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom with the book in hand.

Moon shrugged, and while packing his bag, he murmured out of curiosity, "It's not Valentine's Day or Christmas these days. How come Gray received so many notes from girls?"

The three Gals waiting for him looked at each other, and soon realized something, and looked at Munn together.

"Uh..." Gal scratched his head. "I forgot to tell you, Moon. That should be a note for Yogry to attend the masquerade party on Halloween."

"What's that Halloween thing?" Moon's expression began to change to "Subway Old Man's Mobile Phone" again. "Masquerade?"

"Yes, masquerade, masquerade... Well, you don't have to be so surprised, right? Isn't it normal to dress up as a ghost or ghost on Halloween?" Yaerlin didn't understand what Munn was wondering about for a while. .

The strange thing about Moon is of course not the masquerade party. Oh, this is also a bit strange. When he was reading novels in his previous life, he didn't remember that there were so many tricks at the Halloween banquet at Hogwarts.But what made him feel even weirder was...

Violet didn't tell him about this...

Moon picked up the bag in his hand and subconsciously walked out. As a result, he kicked the table leg because he didn't look where he was going.

"Hiss——" This is sour and refreshing.

…………

Without agreeing to Garr's invitation to go to the Quidditch pitch, Moon hurried back to the common room.

But Violet was not in the common room, and she didn't know whether she had gone back to the dormitory or gone out with her roommates. Anyway, she was not seen in the common room.

For the next three hours, Moon stayed on the sofa in the common room, flipping through a book. He looked left and right without taking in much. He would look up from time to time until he was the only one left in the common room. , he returned to the dormitory a little frustrated.

He really wasn't just imagining it - today is already October 10th, and after tomorrow, October 29st will be the day after tomorrow, which is Halloween.

Even if Violet didn't plan to invite him to dance like she did last year (Moon actually had the nerve to mention it - a young man asked a girl to invite him), she should at least mention it to him. What an opportunity for him to invite...

Putting the book on the bedside table, Moon sat down on the edge of the bed, but his eyes happened to catch an envelope standing in front of his water glass.

Chapter 118 Dream Weaving Curse

'Hi, Moon, just in case you don't know, there is a costume party on Halloween on the 31st, so... do you want to attend with me? '

'By the way, I've prepared the clothes for you, so that you won't be too late to prepare at the last minute.If you are willing to participate with me, wear that suit~ I asked Blue, the house elf in the kitchen, to put it under your bed to prevent Garr and the others from accidentally opening it. '

'——Violet'

Along with the letter was a card, which was still in the style of those "Mun cards" newly drawn by Violet. On the card, Moon was holding a steel fork, wearing a loose black and red robe, and two hairs on his head. It has a small red curved horn, a pair of flickering bat wings behind it, and a long and thin pointed tail. It looks like a little devil jumping out of hell.

Holding the card, Moon quickly leaned over and looked under the bed. Sure enough, a large package was quietly placed there.

As a result, the depression accumulated over the past few hours was swept away in an instant, replaced by joy and excitement.

There is also a hint of guilt.

He stuffed the card back into the envelope and carefully put the envelope into his drawer. Then he thought angrily and amusedly about what activities he would have next year, whether it was going to Hogsmeade or going to No matter what kind of dance or banquet is held, he has to be the one who takes the initiative to invite it.

Violet can't always take the initiative alone.