Master Druid at Hogwarts

Chapter 502 Rita Skeeter's Scoop
Amid Fisher's reluctant complaints, the Christmas break is over.

Because it was the first day of school, most of the students got up a little late, and Fish was no exception. They had just finished their breakfast before the class bell rang.

"Let's go! It's time to go to class!"

Hermione didn't have time to read the "Daily Prophet" that was delivered today. After she put the newspaper in her handbag, she picked up Fish who didn't really want to go to class, and walked outside the castle with other students.

Today's first class is the Protection of Fantastic Beasts class. The thought of helping Hagrid take care of those snails again made everyone's emotions not very positive.

With the end of the holiday, the rose garden at the entrance was finally removed by Dumbledore, and the decorative fountains and statues were also removed. The open space at the entrance of the castle now has nothing but thick snow.

The bad weather made everyone's mood even worse. Except for Fish who was bouncing around, the others seldom spoke, and just walked towards Hagrid's hut with their heads sullen.

However, when they came to Hagrid's hut, they saw an elderly witch standing at the door.Her gray hair was cropped short and her jaw was very prominent.

"Huh? Someone I don't know." Fisch jumped up to the other party curiously, "Hello! Who are you?"

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Mao Mao opened her eyes wide, looking at the witch curiously.

"My name is Wilmina Graplan," the witch bent down and said to Fish with a smile, "I'm your temporary substitute teacher for the Protection of Magical Beasts class... You are Minerva's child, right? Glad Know you."

"Yes, meow, my name is Fish, you are Minerva's friend, meow?"

Finding that the other party seems to be very familiar with Professor McGonagall, Mao Mao immediately showed a more intimate attitude.

"Of course, when I was in school, Minerva was four years older than me. At that time, she was Gryffindor's female student council president, prefect, and the captain and Seeker of the Quidditch team. Almost every Gryffindor girl looks up to her as a role model."

After Professor Graplan praised Professor McGonagall, he patted Fish on the head lightly, and said, "Okay, the class bell has rang for five or six minutes, and you still want to know about Minerva, wait Let's talk after class, we should start class now."

After finishing speaking, she waved to the other Gryffindor students and the Slytherins who came later, and said, "Please follow me this way."

As Professor Graplan said, he walked around the temporary stables and walked into the distance.

When she talked with Fish, everyone also knew why Hagrid needed someone else to take over...

When Hermione saw Professor Graplan, she immediately turned up today's "Daily Prophet", and sure enough, she saw an article titled "Dumbledore's Major Mistake", which mentioned Hagrid's identity as a half-giant.

I hadn't seen Rita Skeeter report on Hagrid before, and Hermione thought she had received a letter from Fisher, so she didn't do anything. Hermione gradually stopped paying attention to this matter, but I didn't expect it to be exposed on the first day of school.

In fact, Rita Skeeter did receive a letter from Fish, and she was also debating whether to help Mao Mao again, but in the end she still had a stubborn nature and chose to ignore Fish's request.

Besides, if Rita Skeeter wanted to repair the relationship with Fudge, she had to write some articles that damaged Dumbledore's reputation. Although there were already examples such as Mad-Eye Moody and Werewolf Lupine, Moody only had Some notorious names, such as Lupine and Lockhart, have already resigned, and they have been mentioned in previous reports, so it will not be very effective to say it again.

Then, it is more important to criticize Dumbledore's mistakes in teacher selection by focusing on Hagrid, a half-blood giant and snail breeder.

Anyway, when Fisch asked, Rita Skeeter said that it would be fine if she didn’t see the letter until she finished posting the article. Anyway, excuses are easy to find. I can’t go to the newspaper office to get the letter during the Christmas holidays, or go out to look for it. I didn't have time to watch the news or something like that.

After several contacts with Fish, Rita Skeeter found that kittens are easy to fool.

However, in order not to let the relationship between himself and Fish suddenly deteriorate again, Skeeter did not make some "appropriate exaggerations" in the article as usual, but honestly wrote about Hagrid's identity as a half-blood giant and his understanding of Vague identification of "dangerous organisms".

Thanks to Hagrid's own problems, even if Rita Skeeter reported truthfully, he would still look like an incompetent, even dangerous professor.

That's why Harry and Ron are speechless right now.

Rita Skeeter's previous report could still say that she was talking nonsense, but in this article, the description of Hagrid is basically in line with the facts. Even the half-blood giant, they also learned from Hermione. Got confirmed.

"Hagrid has been teaching for so long, and there have been no problems!"

Harry groaned for a long time, and could only say so indignantly. At the same time, he looked hopefully at the other Gryffindor students, hoping that they would agree with him.

However, what he waited for was the exclamation of a group of girls.

It turned out that they had arrived at their destination. A beautiful unicorn was tied under a big tree on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. At this time, it was uneasily scratching the dirt with its golden hooves.
"Back off, boys!" snarled Professor Graplan. "Unicorns love female petting. Girls stand in front and approach carefully... er..."

She couldn't continue in the middle of her sentence, because Fish didn't know when she had jumped in front of the unicorn.

"It's Linda Meow!"

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The unicorn in the Forbidden Forest was very familiar with Fish, so he untied the rope that tied the unicorn without hesitation.

The unicorn Linda, who was still a little uneasy at first, quickly calmed down after seeing Fish, neighing in a low voice, and rubbed her head affectionately against the cat.

"Well... the rumors are indeed true..."

Professor Graplan sighed, and subconsciously put his hand into his pocket, as if he wanted to take out something, but in the end he didn't take it out.

She shook her head, and continued to say to other students: "Girls all come closer, boys except Fish stay away, it's better to stop behind the fence."

Cats and unicorns, no girl can refuse this combination, they couldn't hold back for a long time, cheered in a low voice, and quickly moved to Fish and Linda's side.

The boys also obediently stayed by the stable fence, standing there watching them, as well as Fish and the unicorn surrounded by them.

"Fisch, is her name Linda?"

"Fish, please ask, can we touch her?"

The girls chattered around the cat, completely leaving Professor Graplan aside.

Professor Graplan smiled wryly, feeling Hagrid's helplessness...

With Fish here, the Care of Fantastic Creatures professor seemed like nothing.

However, apart from being distracted by Fish, Professor Graplan's lectures were well received by the vast majority of students...

"I wish she would have stayed, the lady teacher!" said Parvati Patil after the class was over. "This is my idea of ​​a Care of Fantastic Creatures class...a decent animal like a unicorn, Instead of monsters..."

"What about Hagrid?" Harry asked angrily.

"What about him?" said Parvati icily. "He can still be his gamekeeper, can't he?"

Since the ball, Parvati basically ignored Harry, and now Harry hit her directly at the muzzle of the gun.

"But Hagrid is also a good teacher, isn't he?" Facing Parvati's intimidating gaze, Harry flinched, but he still didn't give up and wanted to find other supporters.

However, even among the male group, there are very few respondents. Except for Fisher, everyone has the experience of being injured by snails. It is obviously impossible to say that they like this kind of course, so in the end it is Luo Enkan reconciled for the sake of friendship.

The snail or the unicorn, which one to choose is too obvious, and even Hermione, who had asked Fish to send a letter to Rita Skeeter before, betrayed at this time.

As Parvati said...

Hagrid still had a job as a gamekeeper anyway, didn't he?It's okay to have one less professor of protection of magical animals, and it doesn't mean that he will be kicked out of Hogwarts for it.

As for Fish...

"Wilmina is Minerva's friend, and Fish doesn't hate her either."

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Mao Mao frowned, he didn't care much about who was the professor, and...

"She didn't assign homework meow!"

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　The name Linda comes from a relatively old cartoon, the AI ​​name of the unicorn spaceship in "Patronus of the Zodiac". Well, according to the cartoon, or the setting in Japan, that thing should actually be It's a unicorn, you can tell by looking at the unicorn in MH, it looks like a unicorn.

　　However, there are also cases where we translate foreign unicorns into unicorns, so the situation in Japan is probably similar.

　　In addition, I originally wanted to use the name Swift, which has nothing to do with the singing one. The source is Swift Wind (Shunfeng Ma), Sheri's mount, from an older American cartoon. She also has a brother named Seaman, I can't remember what to say specifically, I just remember the self-introduction of the brother and sister that sounds so silly now.

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　　Today's big detective has not been updated, and this week there is probably only one subordinate of the sixth case... It seems that there should be three or four episodes of the case that Deng Lun participated in, otherwise there is no need to search and search like this.

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　　Thanks to the technical cat mi for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)