Admiral of Hogwarts

Considering some of Hagrid's habits, Hugo and Hermione ran to Hagrid the next day to persuade him not to surprise everyone in class.

After all, now that Umbridge is in school, she will find excuses to get rid of teachers she thinks are too close to Dumbledore. But Hagrid believed that no one in their right mind would be willing to study the Chimaer and give up on the Chimera.

Of course, this sentence is just a metaphor. It's not that he doesn't want to raise them, but because it's not easy for him to get Chimera eggs. It has to be said that as a half-giant, Hagrid has the unique stubbornness of a giant.

"I think we can try to follow Hagrid and see what he has prepared. If it is too dangerous, we can use other means to prevent him from talking about the animal." Hugo said to his sister after returning from Hagrid.

Obviously, Hagrid didn't think there was anything wrong with the monsters he raised, and naturally he wouldn't hide the monsters' whereabouts. The next day, during their break after lunch, Hugo and the others saw Hagrid carrying a whole sheep into the Forbidden Forest.

Not far after following him, Hugo and Hermione saw him arriving at a clearing in the forest, where he stopped and put the sheep on the ground, and then made a strange, sharp cry that echoed in the dark forest, like It's the cry of a giant bird.

A few minutes later, several Thestrals came out of the dark forest. They looked at Hagrid with their pupil-less white eyes for a few seconds, then lowered their heads and began to bite the dead sheep with their fangs.

"This should, um, be less dangerous." Hermione said, looking at the Thestrals tearing mutton in the distance. "They have been pulling school carriages for so many years and I haven't heard of anyone being hurt. At least they are much safer than the semi-wild Hippogriffs."

"And this thing should be used by fifth-grade students. Both us and Firefly are in the classroom, so if any danger does occur, we can deal with it in time."

"Yes." Hugo said looking at Hagrid who was humming a tune and feeding the Thestrals. "Originally I planned to let the animals go if they were too dangerous, but now it seems that the animals Hagrid chose are not bad, at least they don't have any magical attack capabilities."

Although he doesn't trust Hagrid, Hugo has confidence in the level of the ship girls. At least if this small group of more than a dozen Thestrals come together, the shipgirls can defeat this group of people alone.

Just as Hugo and the others had predicted, although Hagrid's choice of animal this time was not bad, he still received a slanderous appraisal from Umbridge in class. Hagrid's final evaluation would never be high.

During this class visit, Umbridge struggled to portray Hagrid as a mentally retarded troll because of his giant ancestry.

Although due to Hugo's intervention, Hagrid's giant ancestry was not exposed last semester. But the task that Dumbledore assigned to Hagrid this time and his size also made Fudge and his group roughly guess this.

Naturally, given the despicableness of the Ministry of Magic, they would not use this weapon, so in this case, the issue of Hagrid's bloodline became a weapon used by Fudge to deal with Dumbledore.

"Do you think Umbridge was a Death Eater back then?" On the way back to the castle, Hermione asked after thinking about Umbridge's behavior in class, "I haven't met many Ministry of Magic officials. You put your blood where your mouth is in public.”

The Ministry of Magic is indeed dominated by pure-blood wizards, and it does discriminate against those who are not pure-blood wizards, but the staff of the Ministry of Magic. Especially officials from the Ministry of Magic would never say that in public.

Therefore, it seems very strange for a guy like Umbridge to promote the theory of blood in public. He feels like one of those very extreme blood theorists.

"It's hard to say, but I think she is not a Death Eater, because the recruitment of Death Eaters is either absolutely loyal or very capable. Let this kind of person only cause trouble internally. And even if a pure egoist is She won’t want that two-prong socket either.”

After hearing his sister's question, Hugo thought very seriously for a few seconds and then made an inference. "This kind of person is obviously more advantageous to the mysterious man in the magic force."

"You are right. The biggest characteristic of such people is to exploit various loopholes in the rules to benefit themselves. So normal organizations want these people to be on the side of their enemies, not their own."

Hearing what Hugo said, Hermione was stunned for a moment, then nodded and approved his idea.

December brings more snow and an avalanche of homework for fifth graders. As Christmas approaches, Hugo and Hermione's prefect work becomes more and more arduous.

They were responsible for overseeing the decoration of the castle. In addition to this, they, the prefects, had to patrol the corridors in shifts with Argus Filch, who suspected that there might be an increase in fights during the festival and needed to be dealt with.

I have to say that Squibs like Filch are also pitiful. At least for him who was born in the magical world since he was a child, it is too bad to know this world but not be able to join it.

However, Filch's current problem is that his heart has been distorted after feeling this difference for a long time, so in the original text, he cooperated with Umbridge to cause troubles for this year.

To be honest, a squib like him doesn't actually like discriminatory guys like Umbridge, but he also doesn't like those students who use magic to cause trouble for themselves all day long, so he cooperates with Umbridge. A strange arresting plan.

But for Hugo, at least he can still be saved, unlike Umbridge, who has no way to save his soul other than reinventing himself.

"Mr. Filch, I have a letter from your niece here." While patrolling that day, Hugo waved his wand to clean up all the traces of graffiti in the corridor, and took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Filch.

"Letter?" Filch was stunned for a moment after seeing the letter. Then he took the letter with trembling hands because he remembered who this little niece was.

For wizards, although they don't talk about squibs, squibs are inevitable. Especially for those small families with basically no big inheritance, the probability of using dumb weapons is higher.

Therefore, he is not the only Squib like him among Filch's relatives, but other Squibs often choose to live as ordinary people without magic, rather than choosing this path like Filch.

So after Filch read the name on the envelope and briefly recalled it, he remembered his little niece who was now in her thirties and was a doctor in Glasgow.

Of course, this Ms. Filch is now working at the lunar base with her husband, who is also a doctor. The reason why she wrote this letter is that after seeing the situation inside the lunar base, she hopes that her uncle can really work here. to find your dream.

"Thank you, thank you for bringing this letter." For Filch, who has been working alone at Hogwarts for decades with only a cat for company, it is extremely happy to receive letters from relatives. things.

So naturally after receiving the letter, he expressed his sincere gratitude to Hugo as the messenger, and then left with the letter in a somewhat rude manner, leaving Hugo alone to patrol there.