Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

"Evan is right, I must have read about a hippogriff attack case." Hermione said thoughtfully, "In that case, the hippogriff was fine, we can study how it happened Something happened."

"Yes, we'll help too," said Harry and Ron hastily.

Although everyone said so, the work almost fell on Ivan and Hermione in the end.

Harry and Ron seemed to have completely forgotten about it after holding on for a while.

It's not their fault, first of all, Harry, he has been too busy recently.

In late November, Team Ravenclaw defeated Team Hufflepuff.This incident made Wood energetic again. After all, the Gryffindor team still has a chance to play, although they can't lose another game.

He now requires the players to train day and night, and Ivan has seen Harry and the others flying around in the bitterly cold December snowstorm several times.

Fortunately, since the last incident, no dementors have been seen on the campus.The lessons learned last time, and Dumbledore's rage, seemed to have confined them entirely to the post at the school's entrance.

In addition to being busy with Quidditch training, Harry also has to learn the Patronus Charm from Professor Lupine.

He needs to cast a full Patronus as soon as possible to ensure that there will be no accidents in the next game.

As for Ron, his state has become more and more abnormal recently.

He doesn't communicate with almost everyone now, and he doesn't get close to Ivan and Hermione.While Harry was training, he wandered around town by himself.

As a precaution against Crookshanks, he carried Scabbers in his shirt pocket wherever he went.

Several times, they were beyond the perception range of the tracking potion, and they didn't know where they went.

Ivan also didn't care about Ron and Peter Pettigrew. He and Hermione spent almost all their time in the library and didn't care about other things at all.

Just let Peter Pettigrew enjoy it for a few days, and in more than 20 days, when the Christmas holidays come, his plan can be implemented.At that time, there were the fewest people in the castle, so Sirius Black could be lured out, and the whole incident could be resolved in one go.

What needs to be solved more urgently now is to find a way to save Buckbeak. He and Hermione searched a lot of materials and files in the library, and prepared Buckbeak's defense with reference to the famous cases recorded above.The titles of these dossiers include: "Summary of Fantastic Beasts Cases", "Hippogriff Psychology Handbook", "Poultry or Monster", "Study on the Barbarism of Hippogriffs", etc., each of which is very thick .

"Ivan, look at this!" Hermione put a dusty file in front of Ivan and whispered, "This is a case of a manticore in 1926, what did it kill? people, but in the end they were acquitted."

"This is because everyone is afraid, and no one dares to approach it." Ai Wen frowned and looked at the densely packed small characters on the file.

"Yeah, you're right." Hermione threw the thick file aside in disappointment.

Ai Wen picked up the file and continued to read it. The following is a brief introduction to the magical animal Manticore.

The manticore is an extremely dangerous, fantastic, extremely rare animal with the head of a man, the body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion, and is famous for its soft humming as it devours its prey.

According to reliable literature, the manticore's hide repels almost all known spells.Anyone stung by it will die instantly.

Created by wizards and goblins, these terrifying creatures were once all the rage for guarding property or important forbidden places.However, since the implementation of the "Prohibition of Animal Breeding Experiments" law, manticores have gradually decreased.

In recent decades, it has even disappeared.

Ai Wen put the file aside, judging from the above text, compared with the Manticore, the Hippogriff's danger level is unknown how many times lower.

If Buckbeak was half as powerful as a manticore, they wouldn't have to sit here worrying.

In the next half a month, in addition to assisting Hermione in perfecting her defense, Ivan also wrote several defense articles.

He originally planned to use public opinion to put pressure on Lucius Malfoy and the Dangerous Creatures Disposal Committee, but things did not go as smoothly as originally imagined.

The Daily Prophet refused to publish these articles written by Ivan, and they believed that this matter did not make sense to report.The whole incident is at best a trivial incident at Hogwarts, which cannot arouse people's interest in reading.

Although Aiwen finally published these articles in the "Hogwarts Magic News", the effect was limited.

Mr. Barnabas Guffy, the editor-in-chief of the "Daily Prophet", is correct. Most readers don't care about the life and death of a hippogriff at all, not to mention that the little wizards already know what happened .

They're more interested in things to do with Black and the Dementors than that.

Aiwen is not completely without supporters. Colin, Ginny, and Luna have all clearly expressed their support for his views. Luna even persuaded her father to publish these articles written by Aiwen in "The Quibbler" instead of the original one. A new headline has been made for a research article on the horned snorkel.

It didn't help much, though, and the Quibbler now doesn't sell as many copies as the Hogwarts Newspaper.

Time passed day by day, and Christmas was getting closer, but Ivan and Hermione didn't make much progress.

Although they wrote a full ten parchment defenses, Ivan doubted how much this defense could do other than make people drowsy.

Leaving aside whether the officials of the Committee for Disposal of Dangerous Creatures will adopt this defense, it is doubtful whether Hagrid can memorize all these things. With his ability, he may read it aloud It's all strenuous.

"It's useless, Hermione!" Looking at Hermione sitting opposite him, Ivan sighed heavily.

Hermione is still struggling with the boring files. She is now often the last to leave the common room at night and the first to the library the next morning. In Ke's defense, the combination of these things has already cast shadows under her eyes like Lupin's.

"What did you say?!" Hermione looked up from the file.

"Our thinking seems to be wrong. No matter what the reason is, Buckbeak did hurt Draco Malfoy, didn't he?" Ivan said slowly, "We can't defend Buckbeak's innocence, as long as Lu Hughes Malfoy clings to this, and Hagrid's chances of winning the case are slim."

"Then what should we do, do nothing like Harry and Ron?!" Hermione looked a little annoyed, "Watch Buckbeak get killed, and then wait for Hagrid to collapse?!"

"No, I mean, we should change our thinking." Ivan's eyes fell on the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by Newt Scamander at hand. The experience of the author of this book gave him Great inspiration.

Chapter 99 Marauder's Map

"Think about it, Hermione, the responsibility of the Dangerous Creatures Committee is to deal with injuries caused by dangerous creatures and to execute punishments for them." Ivan continued, "We can't prove that Buckbeak is innocent, it did attack Malfoy, even if it has a valid reason, we can prove that the hippogriff is not dangerous."

"You mean..." Hermione mused.

"According to the classification of dangerous creatures in the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", hippogriffs are very low in danger, and they can be tamed by wizards. This kind of docile animal is not under the management of the Committee for Disposal of Dangerous Creatures " Ivan opened the book and turned to the page introducing the author, "Also, we can solve this matter from the perspective of protecting rare species, Mr. Scamander may provide us with some help."

"Mr. Scamander?!"

Hermione took the "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" handed over by Ivan, and frowned at the author's introduction above:

The author of the book, Mr. Newt Scamander, is currently the most prestigious magical biologist in the magic world. He graduated from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1915. Researcher of the Bureau of Restriction, Director of the Werewolf Registration Office, Director of the Department of Management and Control of Magical Creatures, etc.

Mr. Newt Scamander spent 30 years traveling around the world on five continents, recording the shapes and habits of 75 kinds of magical creatures known in the magic world. "Where" collects data, and the second edition of this book has been revised and printed.

Under his leadership, the Ministry of Magic established the Werewolf Registration Office in 1947; the Prohibition of Feeding for Experimental Purposes was amended in 1965, which effectively curbed the prevalence of new untamable animals in Britain.

Due to his contribution to the study of magical animals and magical zoology, Mr. Newt Scamman was awarded the title of second-level magician of the Merlin Sir Order in 1979; Work.

"As the former director of the Department of Management and Control of Magical Creatures, Mr. Scamander has a very large influence on the Committee on the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures, definitely much greater than Lucius Malfoy." Ivan explained, "and he is The president of the Society for the Protection of Magical Creatures, we just need to write a letter to tell him about Buckbeak, and I believe he will help us."

Ivan's idea was very feasible. He and Hermione sent a letter to Mr. Newt Scamander that night, and received a reply during breakfast the next day.

"Ivan, take a look at what's written on this." Hermione said excitedly, "Mr. Scamander said in his reply that he is very supportive of our idea. He is willing to save Buckbeak. He said that his mother Once a hippogriff breeder, he had a lot of contact with these animals as a child."

Ivan took the letter and saw that Newt Scamander wrote on it: Due to excessive hunting, the number of hippogriffs has decreased sharply in the past hundred years, and he has been worried about this matter.Therefore, he agreed to revise and perfect the article written by Ivan on the protection of Hippogriff and sign it.In addition, he will also come forward to contact the Committee on the Handling of Dangerous Creatures and ask them to handle the case as carefully as possible.

Next, things started to look good.

Due to Mr. Newt Scamander's relationship, the "Daily Prophet" successfully published the article on the introduction and protection of Hippogriff written by Ivan and Hermione.

It recorded in detail the habits of the Hippogriff, its current living conditions, and everyone's knowledge of this animal, etc., and it also gave a complete account of Buckbeak's attack on Malfoy.

In the next few days, many readers wrote to them and Hagrid, expressing their willingness to support them.Everyone even launched a "Save Buckbeak" campaign for this, and formally petitioned the Ministry of Magic on this incident, asking the Ministry of Magic to pardon Buckbeak, and many people participated in it.

Public opinion continued to ferment, causing great pressure on the Ministry of Magic.

The school board and the Hazardous Creatures Committee wrote Hager three consecutive letters, saying that out of an abundance of caution, Buckbeak's attack on students would be reinvestigated until the hearing.

Judging from the current situation, Buckbeak has a high chance of being found not guilty.

With so many people's attention, even if Lucius Malfoy wanted to make trouble, he had to be worried.

Hagrid gradually recovered, he appeared in the castle more and more times, and he was happy every day.

Ivan and Hermione also felt a lot more relaxed, and with Harry's continuous efforts, the tension between them and Ron also eased.

At the very least, Ron could sit with them again now, instead of wandering around the castle alone with Banban like some time ago.

Two weeks before the end of the semester, the sky suddenly clears up to a dazzling meringue color, and the muddy grounds are covered with a shiny frost one morning.

As Christmas approaches, the festive atmosphere in the castle is getting stronger.

Charms teacher Professor Flitwick has been adorning his classroom with shimmering lights that are actually little fairies with wings constantly fluttering.

The students were happily discussing holiday plans, and most of them were heading home for Christmas thanks to Sirius Black.

In fact, except for Ivan, Harry, Ron and Hermione, almost all other Gryffindor students are going home.

Alvin was about to implement his plan, Ron said he couldn't bear to spend two weeks with Percy, and Hermione insisted that she go to the library.

Although the three of them had their own reasons, Harry was very moved. He thought that the three of them stayed at Hogwarts for Christmas must be to accompany him.

In the last week of term, students from the third year and above can go to Hogsmeade village again.

Everyone was happy and the whole breakfast table was full of discussions about buying Christmas presents.

"Ron, where is Harry? Why hasn't he come for breakfast yet?" Hermione asked a little strangely.

"He's still in the dormitory. As you know, he can't go to Hogsmeade." Ron said to himself, his voice a little dull, "He borrowed a copy of "Sorting Broomsticks" from Wood, and it seems that he is going to take the Time is spent on it."

"This is so pitiful!" Ivan recalled Harry's disappointed expression in the common room before going to bed last night, and said uncertainly, "Maybe I can take Harry to Hogward through the secret passage, I have walked through that secret passage many times in the past year, so there should be no problem."

"This won't work, Ivan!" Hermione spread jam on her bread and said firmly, "This year's situation is different from last year. There are so many dementors at the entrance. Besides, if Sirius Black knows that It's a secret way."

"But……"

"Don't worry, Ron and I will buy you Christmas presents. The candies I brought you last time, which flavor do you like?" Hermione said with a smile, "My dad and mom like honey dukes sweets very much." Maomaoya mints bought there!"

"If you can, you can bring me some oranges..."

Before Ivan finished speaking, he saw Harry hurrying into the auditorium with his schoolbag in his hand. He ignored Malfoy, who was jokingly acting like he fell off his broomstick at the door, and walked straight towards them. Come on, look happy.

"Guys, look at this, Fred and George just gave me..."

Harry carefully pulled out a large, square, old piece of parchment from under the cloak, with nothing written on it.

"Harry, what is this?" Hermione asked strangely.

Before Harry could speak, Ron whispered, "The Marauder's Map!"

I don't know if it's an illusion, but his dull and monotonous voice seems to be full of surprises.

Chapter 100 I solemnly swear that I have done nothing wrong

Ivan raised his head abruptly. Harry hadn't introduced it yet. How could Ron know that this old parchment was a Marauder's Map? This is really abnormal.

"How did you know, Ron?" Harry also looked very surprised, and then suddenly said, "Fred and George must have told you, right?!"

Ron nodded hastily, looking a little weird.

"Okay, you two, who can explain to Ivan and me what this tattered parchment is?" Hermione said impatiently.

"Hermione, this Marauder's Map was found by Fred and George from Filch's office. It can mark all the details of Hogwarts castle and various venues, including every secret passage and the places that appear on it. Everyone's name." Harry raised his head and looked around cautiously before lowering his voice and whispering, "With its help, I can put on the invisibility cloak and avoid other people to go to Hogsmeade with you go."

"What?!" Hermione stood up in surprise.

"Don't get excited, Hermione!" Harry hurriedly pushed her down.

"If it's what you say, you should give this map to Professor McGonagall, Harry!" said Hermione in an anxious voice.

"No, I won't hand it in!" said Harry hastily. "If I did, I'd have to say where I got it, and Filch would know it was Fred and George!"

"But what about Black?!" Hermione gritted her teeth. "He can use a passage on this map to enter the castle. The teachers will know..."

"It's impossible for him to come in through these passages." Harry said quickly, "Fred and George said that Filch knew most of the secret passages, and the entrances and exits of the remaining few secret passages are also very hidden. It is impossible for Black to come in." Know."

"You are taking a risk, what if he knows?!"

"Black can't be running around in Hogsmeade, Hermione!" Harry said stubbornly, "You told me when you came back last time that there are dementors patrolling there at night, and if Black appears, they will found him."

"But..." Hermione bit her lip, looking worried.

"Okay, Hermione, are you going to denounce me?" Harry asked with a smile.

"Oh, of course not! But honestly, Harry..."

"Christmas is coming soon, let me relax." Harry took out his wand from under the cloak and said with a relaxed expression, "Next, I will show you this map. If Black Appear on the top, we will find him the first time."

Hearing his words, Ivan woke up suddenly!

He didn't dare to say if he could see Sirius Black, but Peter Pettigrew was still in Ron's coat pocket. If Harry used the Marauder's Map at this time, he would definitely find Peter's name among the four of them .

Aiwen's first reaction was to stop, but then he realized that this didn't seem to be a bad thing. Why did he stop Harry? !

He had been struggling with this year's incident before, and the main reason why he couldn't hand Peter Pettigrew to Dumbledore was that he couldn't explain clearly without arousing suspicion, why did he know that Peter was an Animagus? !

After all, this matter is not known to outsiders.

It would be too suspicious if he recognized Scabbers as Peter Pettigrew from the start.

Last year's Tom Riddle's diary was like this. He actually told Dumbledore unknowingly that he knew it was a Horcrux. Fortunately, he went back to Hogwarts before that, and the Big Four told him You can evade your own statement.

Dumbledore is too terrifying. Although he is the greatest white wizard in the world today, he is also a complete conspiracy.

Aiwen didn't want his hole cards to be known by the opponent, and then waited foolishly to be calculated.