Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 325 Professor Hagrid
At lunch, Harry looked up, and it was raining outside the castle.

——and Hagrid's first Care of Magical Creatures class is said to be outside.

This made him very worried.

Not only because of worrying that the continuous rain since yesterday would mess up Hagrid's first class, but also because of Hagrid's unusual preferences—this guy won't pull out any giant monsters like three-headed dogs, fire dragons, and eight-eyed spiders!
In addition, although Professor McGonagall refuted everything that Professor Trelawney said was not worth mentioning, he was still a little puzzled.

That ominous, black omen that Professor Trelawney was talking about... that big black dog.

—he seemed to have seen it near the Leaky Cauldron.

"--Hey!"

He and McGuffin sighed heavily at the same time, stirring the pumpkin juice with a spoon.

"You two...don't take what that old lunatic said seriously, right?" Hermione patted the table next to her, "I said...didn't you hear what Professor McGonagall said?"

"By the way, MacGuffin! What did Professor Trelawney say about your tea dregs ball..."

Ron's mention of this incident caught Harry's attention, cheered him up, put down his spoon, and stared at the McGuffin.

Looking into their 'piercing' eyes, McGuffin was speechless.

"I……"

——He didn't know where to start. He didn't tell a few people about the incident in the centaur ceremony, and the divination and acting master Trelawney who hid his true face also warned him that it's best to keep this secret.

And he still hasn't figured out what's going on.

"Dude! You're so talented!"

At this time, Fred appeared out of nowhere, and shouted congratulatoryly.

"That's right! Why didn't we think of it, the tea dregs ball...Excellent attention, I can now imagine the expression on Professor Trelawney's face, this prank is really great!"

George slapped the MacGuffin on the back so hard that the plates on the table in front of him shook violently, and the pumpkin juice in the small bowl was rippling.

"McGuffin, are you really? Just now - playing tricks on the Professor?"

Although Hermione scoffed at the divination class, she still couldn't accept this behavior of teasing the professor.

"How did you do it? You didn't use a wand..." Ron exclaimed, but he fell silent immediately, and then remembered that McGuffin had cast the wandless and silent spell before.

"Are you really..."

Then the twins turned their heads and said to Harry: "Harry, we also heard about Trelawney's prophecy to you, don't worry...every year, a student becomes the unlucky guy in that guy's mouth..."

"Like the two of us...it was our third year, when we were two carefree, innocent Gryffindors..."

"Ah!"

The two 'boasting' obviously made everyone around them laugh. Harry Ron, they all wondered if these two guys really had a naive childhood?
"Listen to me... Guys! When we first attended the divination class, we couldn't find that ghost place, so we had to ask Peeves, so we brought this guy to the divination class professor. You can imagine the scene... It's not inferior to the McGuffin's ball of tea dregs."

"Ahem... In short, we became the unlucky ones that Trelawney said that semester!"

"Two unlucky ones!" George added.

"But Harry, don't you think we're still alive and well?"

"So... Harry, you don't have to worry! Let me tell you...you might as well worry about Wood's crazy Quidditch training program - he wants us to tell you that Quidditch training starts this Sunday morning!"

"That guy is much scarier than the 'unknown'."

"What's more, you haven't seen a big black dog anywhere, have you? Harry!" Fred snatched one of Ron's sausages and stuffed them into his mouth.

"No, I did," said Harry, "I saw it one night in the street near the Leaky Cauldron..."

The sausage, the fork fell on the table.

The expressions of Fred, George, and Ron immediately changed drastically.

"Perhaps, it's a stray dog! ... There are often such pets abandoned by their owners in London now!" Hermione said disapprovingly, she rolled up a large pile of noodles covered in sauce with a fork and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Hermione! This is not a joke. It would be terrible if Harry saw something ominous. I think we'd better find Dumbledore..."

Now it was Hermione's turn to look at Ron and the others like they were crazy.

"There are a lot of people, as far as we know, there are a lot of wizards who are in bad luck after seeing the unknown! In the era when mysterious people were rampant, people even regarded it as a sign of the Dark Lord's attack..."

Ron argued, insisting that he was right.

Especially in the face of Hermione's indifference, and her inexplicable sense of superiority... This made Ron a little angry.

"I think it's clear that everyone in the wizarding world has heard about it... and Hermione, you just don't like being inferior to everyone else."

"I..." Hermione said angrily.

"You don't have to argue, Ron, Hermione... You've all seen this big black dog before!" McGuffin interrupted.

"what!"

Several people immediately looked at McGuffin.

"On Harry's birthday, outside Diagon Alley, old Tom went to take a chicken rack and tried to drive away the big black dog..."

"Don't you know? That big black dog has been entrenched around the Leaky Cauldron for several weeks, fighting old Tom every morning and evening... It is said that he took great pains to drive him away without letting the other wizarding guests know..."

"Ha! I knew it, now the truth is revealed!"

said Hermione very happily.

Ron grabbed McGuffin to confirm again and again whether this matter was true.

"Ron, don't be so depressed, this is a good thing for Harry... Now that Harry is confirmed to be fine, then George and I will tell you the shortcut and the best way for us to take this class!"

"You just look at the crystal ball, lower your voice, make a dejected expression, and say something bad is going to happen to you... or to your friends..."

"The more unlucky the better!"

The twins asked and answered, and said with gestures.

"In this way, Professor Trelawney basically won't bother you... And in the exam, you can get excellent grades in this way. Fred and I got a lot of credits through this course!"

George lowered his voice and said, lying beside Harry and Ron.

"This is a little help from seniors... You are welcome!"

Hermione next to her just rolled her eyes at these words.

"Sure enough, compared to my arithmetic and divination class, this class is a complete pile of rubbish!"

After she came to this conclusion, she grabbed her backpack and left.

"What did she say? Her arithmetic and divination class hasn't started yet?" Ron said with a frown.

"Maybe Percy knows something...he used to do this in the third grade..." George also looked at Hermione's back and recalled.

"Yes, the schedule is full, and we even met him from two completely different places... the first second was still behind, and the second second was in the front again..."

The twins also remembered that something similar had happened to Percy, and they encouraged Ron to test Hermione to see what the secret was.

……

"There's no secret!" Hermione dealt with Ron impatiently, "Even if there is... I can't tell you, it's what Professor McGonagall told me!"

"So...is there really a way for you to appear in two classrooms at the same time?"

Ron automatically ignored part of Hermione's words, and said happily, "Is it the legendary [Copy Curse]? Can Hermione also copy me and let the other me go to class!"

The meaning behind the words made Hermione roll her eyes.

"Let me tell you again... [Replication Curse] cannot be used on humans, especially wizards. This is explicitly prohibited by the Ministry of Magic."

"The copied thing is not a human being, it's just a pile of carbon molecular polymers made of magic power. It has no soul wisdom, and an accident will cause extremely serious consequences, and it will create a twisted monster...Moreover, under normal circumstances, it is impossible to use [Copy Curse] like that successfully."

"Essentially speaking, it belongs to the vague spell formed by the combination of [Summoning Spell] and [Transformation Magic]. Generally, it can only be used on objects and small animals without intelligence."

"Don't waste your time, Ron! If this goes on, I'm going to tell Professor McGonagall and Percy...Harry, McGuffin, you two persuade him to stop daydreaming, there is no such thing as effort and easy enjoyment!"

"Harry, MacGuffin?" Hermione followed their gaze when she saw that the two were not responding.

— LS Malfoy in a scarlet wizard robe, standing in the middle of the Slytherin crowd.

Her pale face was flushed, her makeup was very delicate and mature, and there were even two green drop-shaped gemstones hanging from her ears. She looked young and cute, like a 'normal' witch.

She was talking to a few witches of the same grade as Slytherin, and she laughed crisply from time to time.

"No way!"

McGuffin and Harry looked at each other.

Both of them knew what the other was thinking.

This guy, - LS Malfoy won't start a relationship!

Looking at her this morning is still very normal!

No no,—no!

To be fair, the fellow was a wizard last term, though his fortunes had changed, and no one, save a few, knew of his former fortunes.

But... this is too fast!
This made Harry and McGuffin, who knew Malfoy's original 'situation'... especially McGuffin (who compared the original plot), unable to accept this guess.

— and don't know who the 'lucky' guy is.

"Why are you two staring at that guy from De LS!"

Hermione's tone was very dissatisfied, and her eyes were not kind.

"No, nothing... are we going to have this lesson with Slytherin?" Harry asked hastily.

Hermione and DLS are equivalent to the former Harry and Decora... maybe same-sex repulsion, anyway, when mentioning DLS now, Hermione gets a little furious.

But Harry didn't have the same hatred for Draco as before.

After all, he who knows the 'truth' - he has a special sense of superiority towards this 'little witch'.

And he felt an indescribable feeling of pity for her and... empathy for her.

(I'm afraid that he will suffer as badly as he did that day,-Harry has always had this kind of worry in his heart.)
As for now, they were heading towards Hagrid's cabin.

At lunchtime, it was still cloudy and rainy outside.

Now it has stopped, and the weather has dispersed, and the sun that has not been seen for many days is sprinkled from the sky on the soft, dewy grass.

The moist and fresh air and the chirping of birds filled the surroundings, making them very happy.

Hagrid was standing near the huts, still wearing his century-old mole coat, waiting for the wizards.

"Okay, is everyone here? Let's go!" Hagrid led the little wizard towards the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

Yaya raised his head arrogantly, followed behind him with his tongue out, wagging his tail.

……

Hagrid, oh, it should be called Professor Hagrid now... He led them around the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and came to a jungle that was not damaged by the flames.

There are several round low walls with a radius of tens of meters made of stones of various sizes, colors and shapes.

Finger-thin vines wrap around tall trees and stone-built low walls to form a circle of fences. There are about five or six such sites in this open space, with different heights, some uphill and some below.

Hagrid led them into the largest of them all.

"Okay, everybody, come over to this fence! Don't run around... Let our big man have a place to land soon!"

Hagrid took a deep breath, and after sending out a strange cry into the sky deep in the Forbidden Forest, he said nervously to the little wizard's strange gaze.

"First let's open the book—"

"Open? Open what?"

DeLS Malfoy raised his hand, and Goyle and Crabbe, who were further transformed into dog lickers behind her, held up the "Monster Book of Monsters" tied with hemp rope.

She laughed loudly,

"Great! For the first time, I know that I have to deal with my textbook first in class!"

Hagrid was a little downcast when he heard that.

Hermione stood up immediately.

She couldn't bear de LS Malfoy's elation at all now.

"Just read these books!"

Hermione said smugly.

The expression on his face made De LS very angry.

Hermione took out her book and shook it for De LS to see... Her textbooks were not clamped or tied up like everyone else's.

A quill was glued to the back of the book. Whenever the book wanted to bite someone, the plush of the quill would shake, and the book trembled, then fell silent.

"Okay... great! So clever, look at Miss Granger... that's right, just stroke the spine of the book!"

"Fifteen points for Gryffindor!"

Hagrid was so overjoyed that he gave Hermione an outrageous score without even thinking about it.

Hermione looked at Malfoy triumphantly, showing off.

Made de LS Malfoy grit his teeth.

"Okay, let's start class!"

Seeing that MacGuffin Harry and the others were able to conquer the book, Hagrid was very excited, and he became more confident when speaking.

He came to the middle of the field and waved to the sky.

Twelve small black dots flew rapidly across the clear sky above the Forbidden Forest, growing bigger and bigger.

That is……

(End of this chapter)