I, Hogwarts Second Week

"Huh?" Owen turned his head and looked at him, "It looks quite similar. He was squeezed dry."

"Who is so bold as to attack a senior official of the Ministry of Magic?" He then said with a hint of ridicule.

"It's not that kind of attack -" Percy said anxiously, and he suddenly opened his left arm. When his clothes were lifted up, a wound of about two inches clearly appeared.

"Knife wound?" Owen recognized the source of the wound at a glance.

As he often uses Shen Feng Wu Ying, he naturally knows what kind of weapons are needed to cause such wounds.

In addition, the wound was faintly emitting a red light, as if Percy had buried a light tube in his arm, and to the naked eye, although his wound had healed, it left a lot of The deep, concave scar looked like someone had dug away part of his flesh and blood.

"this"

In fact, injuries are very common in the magical world. Learning some magic spells will even inevitably lead to the experience of injury, such as the Apparition spell. Therefore, the magical world has countless and various magical methods to treat physical injuries. , ordinary injuries can be cured by just chanting the quick repair spell.

Even something serious, such as a broken arm or leg, can be easily cured with just a pair of magic potions.

Judging from the size of the scar on Percy's arm, it was something he could heal with a wave of a wand.

Whenever you see obvious scars on a wizard, it must be the work of black magic. This is where most of the scars on Moody's body come from.

Black magic will stay on the injured person forever. If the blockage caused by the magic is not cleared, the scar will never heal. Percy is lucky. His wound has healed, leaving only a permanent scar.

"What's going on?" Owen frowned, and the teasing expression on his face gradually disappeared.

"I don't know," Percy said. "I'm missing a memory. Probably about two days."

"Anyway, when I woke up, my whole body ached as if someone had cast the Cruciatus Curse, and I was extremely weak. It took me about half a month to finally regain some energy. Look at what I look like now." He pointed at himself, dry and waxy. His face looked like he had stayed up late for two weeks, "I didn't dare go home at all. Every time my mother wrote to ask me, I would excuse her by saying that the ministry was very busy."

"Don't you have any clues?" Owen asked.

"Yes!" He widened his eyes and looked at Owen nervously, "I only have a little impression that the person who attacked me must have used a forgetting spell on me. I hired a therapist from the ministry to try to restore my memory. , but it failed, and I had a splitting headache for a week!”

Percy shrugged, trying to appear relaxed, but the subconscious twitching muscles in his cheeks clearly felt that the pain he endured at that time was definitely not easy.

"But at least it reminded me of some images." He said, "The people who attacked me were a group of people. They were wearing black robes, but they were all short. That's all I remember."

"Short?" Owen's eyelids twitched. "How short? Like an elf?"

"Yes." Percy continued, "Originally, I didn't think about elves or goblins at all, but a month after I was attacked, a goblin suddenly sent me a letter.

Not by owl, but by direct delivery.

In the letter, it said that it knew the truth about my attack. It did not go into details in the letter. It wanted to meet and talk to me in person. The handwriting in the letter was very sloppy and I could barely read it clearly. Moreover, I felt that the goblin seemed to be mentally disturbed. It was very clear, going here and there. Finally, it took me a while to understand the words. It said London was not safe and asked me to meet in Hogsmeade.

But I waited for it in Hogsmeade for several days, and no one looked for me at all. "

Percy said in a skeptical tone. He might have regarded this as a prank. After all, he had never actually seen the goblin in the letter, but——

"You don't have to wait any longer." Owen suddenly said with a cold face, "The person you are waiting for is already dead."

"Dead?" Percy asked in surprise, "How do you know - don't you think it's just a prank?"

"A week ago, Hermione and I discovered a goblin corpse in Hogsmeade." He said calmly. "It matches the time you mentioned."

"This -" Percy held his forehead. The death of goblins is not common, or the location of Hogsmeade Village is not common. For well-known reasons, wizards do not want to see that kind of death in Hogsmeade Village. biology.

Therefore, it is really possible that the goblin corpse Owen met was the one who wrote to him.

He was surprised that it was really a goblin that attacked him, but - why?

For money?

For those greedy creatures, only gold galleons are their eternal pursuit.

But himself - he doesn't have any money!

"Hmph - I thought this year would be a quiet year!" Owen said coldly, "It seems that there are still many crawlers in the darkness eager to try!"

"By the way." He came back to his senses and looked sideways at Percy, "Didn't you do nothing when someone attacked the Ministry of Magic?"

At this time, they had walked through the long aisle and arrived at the corridor on the side of the auditorium.

Owen waved his wand, and wherever he passed, the crystal lamps automatically went out.

"The Auror office sent someone to investigate, but nothing was found." Percy smiled sadly, "After getting the letter, I asked my colleagues to investigate the goblins' recent movements."

"What was found?"

"No, everything is normal. Those Aurors even think I have persecution delusions." Percy said mockingly.

"What else do you know about the attack?" Owen asked at the scene. The information he knew now was too little, and most of it was second-hand news.

He is also very worried about this kind of incident that seriously deviates from the original story. Human beings always have a natural sense of urgency for the unknown.

"Yes -" Percy suddenly stopped and looked at Owen with his bloodshot eyes. His expression was so complicated, like a pot of bitter and spicy soup, "Sent from Charlie and Bill." After receiving the letter, they were also attacked."

"What?" Owen looked at him in surprise.

"Yes, it was also in the past few months. They didn't dare to write to their parents. They couldn't help much except worrying and crying." Percy suddenly punched the wall next to him, and it cracked. The gravel cut his arm open, and blood slowly slid down along the cracks on the wall, but Percy seemed to have lost the feeling of pain, and his face showed no expression of pain at all, but was full of self-blame.

"This is for the entire Weasley family!" Owen immediately came to this conclusion.

"But why your family?"

Then he asked again.

The Weasley family may be the pure-blood family with the largest number of people in the wizarding world. Branches are spread throughout Europe, America, and Africa, and are related by blood to most pure-blood families.

But why Percy's family?

To be honest, they are not eye-catching, and not all branches of the Weasley family are as poor as the Percy family. Some are even very powerful. If the attacker is for power or wealth, then it will definitely He would not attack such a family.

I have only heard of bank robberies, but I have never heard of slum robberies.

"Does Dumbledore know about this?"

"I talked to him tonight, and he asked me to come to you." Percy said hoarsely in a low voice, "There are also goblins around Hogwarts. I heard that they are also trying to attack a group of people. A little wizard."

"Huh?" Owen looked at him puzzled, "Why didn't I know?"

"You don't know?" Percy was a little surprised, "Okay! Now you know. In short, look after Ron and the others for me, especially George and Fred. They have been thinking about sneaking out of the castle all day, just in case. They are also in danger. If you can take this time—no, don’t let the two of them leave the castle for the entire next semester!"

"If there is any safe place in Britain, then Hogwarts is the only place left."

"I will."

At this time, the two of them had already reached the spiral staircase. "Okay, let's separate here. I have some things to do. I need to talk to the principal about the competition."

"Yeah!" Owen responded. Then Percy walked away in despair.

He walked up the spiral staircase, stepping on the familiar marble, but this did not give him much joy in revisiting his old place. Instead, at this moment, he seemed to be carrying a big mountain on his shoulders, bending down as if he was old. He walked like a teenager, which made people feel distressed.

Owen understands that feeling of powerlessness.

He was teased by Miss Granger several times during the week, and he also felt this way when his plan failed to move forward.

The difference was that Percy was probably in more pain than he was.

After all, Owen has never regarded Death Eaters as his relatives!

Watching Percy's figure gradually walking into the darkness, Owen couldn't help but clenched his fists.

This is the first time since the beginning of his second week that he has faced a completely unknown and powerful enemy.

He didn't want to see those familiar friends suffer the same pain as Percy.

Immediately Owen walked to the basement.

The bustle of the castle seemed to be buried in the snow.

Everything is calm.

But no one knows what kind of filth is hidden under the wind and snow. Can

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On the second day of Christmas, everyone got up very late. The common room was much quieter than the previous days. People were chatting away, interrupted by yawns from time to time.

What awaits them next will be a full week of vacation.

In the morning, when they took a deep breath and rushed to the auditorium for breakfast, it was already past nine o'clock. However, the elf seemed to have expected that all the little wizards would sleep in today, so he extended the breakfast service time.

When Owen met Hermione again in the morning, her hair was matted again. She confessed to Owen that she had sprayed her hair with lots of Smoothing Spray in preparation for the prom. "But it would be too troublesome to do this every day." She said realistically, while scratching the base of Sirocco's ears, and the cat hummed in comfort.

"Actually, I know there's a curse."

With that said, Owen told Hermione about a shaping spell he knew.

That is a magic spell specially used to style your hair. As long as you make your hair style in advance and then use this magic spell on it, the magic spell will keep your hair that way.

The disadvantage is that human hair is growing after all. Although it is styled, the new hair will still accumulate on the top of the head, and the spell is not dustproof. If you use this spell for a long time, your hair will only get worse. In the history of magic, there was a witch who used this spell to style her hair for more than ten years. When she realized that the time was too long and lifted the spell, at that moment, her hair, which was several meters long, seemed to be compressed. It jumped up like a spring, taking with it——her scalp.

They had a very comfortable breakfast.

But Harry kept complaining. He heard from George that Ron seemed to have sneaked into Ilvermorny's starship last night. Anyway, Ron didn't go back to the dormitory last night. When he got up this morning, Ron's bed was empty. , didn’t even lift the quilt.

This further confirmed what George said, which made Harry very unhappy. Obviously he and Ron were best friends, but now he had a secret, and a third party appeared in the friendship between the two.

Harry said, Ron shouldn't be silent, he should tell him where he was going, etc. In short, it was because his good brother was growing up overnight without him, which made him very unhappy!

Breakfast was spent with Harry chattering.

In the afternoon, Owen took time to go to Sirius to learn about the situation around the castle.

During his time at Hogwarts, he had been responsible for the school's security alongside Moody.

In fact, Sirius knew far less than Owen guessed. They had been investigating the goblins around the castle for more than a month, but there were no clues at all.

He just told Owen the same stories he told Harry and Hermione about his great-great-grandfather.

Although this gave Owen some predictions about the current enemy, it did not provide any actual valuable clues.

In the next few days, Owen asked many people about the issue of goblins. Under the guidance of Hufflepuff's ghost, the Fat Monk, Owen went to Professor Spencer of the History of Magic to learn about the situation. As the founder of Hogwarts, Owen As a professor who taught in the castle during his school days, Professor Spencer must know far more than others imagine.

But this is just Owen's speculation. The reality is that Professor Spencer barely pays attention to his questions. He is very old and somewhat stubborn. No young wizard has ever been able to communicate with him normally.

He couldn't even remember Owen's name, even though he was the star of the school.

Professor Spin would call Owen by the name of 'Mr.

Of course - he would still react to some of the school's legends, such as Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets. Unfortunately, Professor Spencer was very stubborn in believing that it was just a legend and that there was no such room in the school.

So what he tells is not necessarily correct.

Owen spent a few days trying to contact Professor Spencer, but this seemed a bit stupid and in vain. The professor hardly answered his questions or even ignored him.

But when he heard the name Shani Weasley and the terms heir to ancient magic, he still had some reaction. His light gray body turned slightly red, as if the wizard's face turned red when he was angry. Then he drove Owen out of the office with a ferocious expression, although he couldn't really have any influence on Owen.

Then, he went to Dumbledore and asked the principal to talk to Professor Spencer in person. He must know something, but he would not tell him.

In the following days, everyone had their own things to do.

As soon as Christmas is over, January 24th seems closer. When the holidays are over, it will be game time in two weeks.

During the rest of the holiday, Miss Granger finally came away from the sweetness of the ball and became anxious, spending a lot of time running to the library to investigate about the snake locket.

But nothing was found. At first, she was very adamant that she did not need Owen's help, but after several days of frustration, she seemed not as stubborn as before.

"I don't understand why you don't just ask Irving for the answer to the game riddle!"

One afternoon near the beginning of the new semester, a large number of little wizards were copying and writing homework in the auditorium.

Although the homework given by professors is just a piece of cake for Owen, he still likes to learn from Miss Granger. No reason! I just don’t want to use my brain.

"Because -" Owen raised his head, put down the quill in his hand, and pushed Hermione next to him. When the little witch looked up at him with her confused eyes, Owen pointed his finger at his cheek, "Kiss One bite and I’ll tell you the answer!”

Then, he received a blank look, and then Hermione began to work hard again.

"." Harry was also speechless. If possible, he wouldn't want to sit across from them for a second, if it weren't for the fact that he hadn't finished his homework.

The ambiguity in front of him made Harry very hurt, and then he complained about Ron again.

He met Ron in the garden yesterday, but he was indifferent to his greeting, as if he had met a stranger.

That guy who values ​​sex over friends has forgotten that he is a student of Hogwarts.

Just when Harry was sad and couldn't help but look in the direction of Ravenclaw, suddenly the sound of flying wings came from above the auditorium.

It's Hedwig.

It held a thick newspaper in its mouth and dropped it on the long table in front of Harry.

"Oh! I see you Owen."

Harry grabbed the newspaper and unfolded it. On the front page was a picture of Owen and Hermione, frozen in time when they were kissing in the Great Hall.

Miss Granger just glanced at it and immediately lowered her head unnaturally.

Harry watched with great interest.

But he was a little confused, "Did Rita Skeeter come to the dance? I didn't see her."

"She's everywhere." Owen asked for the newspaper from Harry, intending to crop the photo.

Rita Skeeter's beetle Animagus is a rarity in the entire wizarding world.

Unless her stupidity is exposed, it will be harder than climbing to the sky to catch a beetle in the castle. Moreover, it is still winter, which has already reduced the difficulty. If it is summer - you have to catch 10,000 real beetles. I can't tell it's just her.

He briefly glanced at the article - apart from describing him as a heart thief and vaguely hinting that Hermione was a loose girl, he basically didn't write anything else. It might have been written by Miss Granger's fans last time. Tuan Chong was scared.

However - as a rising star in the magical world and in the eyes of young British wizards, finding a boyfriend will still have a certain impact on Miss Granger's reputation. Although most wizards start falling in love at this age, but When something happens to them, they will hope that the world will be kind to them. But once it happens to others, they will become the so-called mainstream voice and criticize you for being too frivolous. How can you establish such unfairness at a young age? What about the relationship between men and women?

In particular, Britain itself is more conservative than other European countries, and the wizarding society is even more conservative than the Muggle world.

"Oh my God!"

"I can't believe this woman is still talking nonsense." Although the photo published in the newspaper made Hermione feel embarrassed, the text next to the photo made her furious. She snatched the newspaper from Owen's hand——

——Miss Granger, who is super powerful and ambitious, seems to be very fond of the young wizard with a profound background and rich reputation. According to reliable information, after she abandoned the poor Bulgarian Quidditch star, Viktor Crew The queen's new boyfriend is a member of the Rozier family, an ancient family from Paris.

——We don’t yet know how this will affect her last boyfriend, savior Harry Potter.

Hermione looked a little scary now. She gritted her teeth, kicked the newspaper in her hand fiercely, and squeezed it tightly with both fists, as if she wanted to pour all her resentment into it.

It was obvious that the little witch had reached some point of rage.

It's easy to think about what she would do to Rita Skeeter if she did catch her.

"There are worse things to come from."

Harry suddenly placed his portion on the table.

It was a huge picture of Hagrid, his expression looking furtive in the dim light.

Below, a row of large characters clearly stated: Dumbledore's major mistake.

Our special correspondent Rita Skeeter reports that the eccentric Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, has always dared to hire controversial teachers. In September, he hired Astor "Mad-Eye" Moody as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, a decision that surprised many in the Ministry.

Moody is a notoriously vicious man who used to be an Auror.

He has been known to attack whenever someone moves suddenly in front of him.

However, compared to the half-human and half-demon hired by Dumbledore, Mad-Eye Moody was serious, responsible, and kind.

Hagrid is a large, fierce-looking man. He used his newly acquired power as a professor of the Care of Magical Creatures class to obtain a batch of dangerous creatures that are prohibited by the Ministry of Magic as teaching materials. He also participated in some prohibited biological experiments.

The latest evidence shows that he is not a pure-blood wizard at all, or even a pure-blood human. We can exclusively reveal that his mother is the giantess Friedvarfa, and her current whereabouts are unknown.

"I can't believe it!" Harry looked up at everyone after reading the newspaper and said angrily, "How could she slander Hagrid like this? What about giant blood? So what? He is a good man."

"And-" he changed his words and looked at Hermione, "how did that annoying woman Skeeter find out?"

"No matter how she found out, this is a very serious problem now." Owen said calmly.

"Let's not talk about the giant hybrid thing for now." He knew that Harry and Hermione were from Muggle families and did not understand this kind of creature. In fact, when Voldemort came to power last time, the giants joined the Death Eaters camp and created There have been a large number of horrific attacks, and it is normal for wizards to despise and fear such creatures.

"There is no evidence for mixed blood, but what about those biological experiments? Those are all certain things."

He said with some regret, "But even this is enough for the Ministry of Magic to arrest him. According to the law, he will be imprisoned in Azkaban for at least ten years."

"Oh my God!" Miss Granger covered her mouth in surprise.

They had heard Sirius talk about the notorious wizard prison. In his words, ordinary people could go crazy even if they stayed there for only one day, one hour, or ten years - it was unimaginable.

"What now?" Harry asked in panic. Hagrid was the leader of his wizarding world and the hero who took him away from his Vernon family. He didn't want to see Hagrid imprisoned in Azkaban.

"I don't know. Let's wait for the news and see how Barty Crouch will react."

Hagrid was nowhere to be seen for the next week.

During the meal, he did not show up at the staff table, and no one saw him performing his duties as a gamekeeper on the grounds. Harry went to look for him several times, but he refused to show up and hid in the cabin with the curtains drawn. Deadly.

After the start of the new semester, even his position was replaced by substitute teacher Professor Graplan.

Professor Grapeland is an elderly witch with short gray hair and a very prominent chin.

To be fair, compared to Hagrid, her teaching skills are much better, and she also knows how to choose appropriate magical creatures.

In two classes on the first day of the new semester, she showed unicorns to the third and fourth grade students, which were much more popular than the Blast-Ended Skrewts.

The girls lined up to pet the unicorns. If they were lucky, they could bring back a few unicorn hairs and souvenirs from the previous class, which made them very happy.

With just one move, Professor Graplan wiped away all the traces Hagrid had left in this class for a year and a half. Everyone suddenly realized that the Care of Magical Creatures class was so interesting. Those magical animals had never been as interesting as they are today. The wonderful.

This was even worse, for Harry, because it took away any remaining sympathy for Hagrid.

He became worried and kept going to Professor McGonagall. Dumbledore tried to keep Hagrid's professorship, but neither headmaster gave a clear answer.

As time goes by, more and more young wizards seem to like Professor Graplan, and Hagrid's situation gradually becomes worse. Even if he is not imprisoned in Azkaban in the end, his professorship is likely to be will be replaced.