Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 780 Actor

"it's over?"

In the library, Harry, who was absent-mindedly doing his vacation homework, peeked at the Marauder's Map in the book, and found that everyone gathered in the principal's office had left. Standing up, he brought the chair down by the way, making a loud noise, attracting the attention of the students in the library who were doing homework for the holidays.

  Ron and Hermione, who were serious about their vacation homework, looked sideways at Harry, who was packing his books. They seemed to have thought of something, and they both started packing.

  Ron actually wanted to go and see the appeal, while Hermione was worried that the two would cause unnecessary trouble at a critical moment.

   It wasn't that Hermione didn't want to trust Harry and Ron, but that they didn't think much about what they did. If they got hotheaded, God knows what would happen, and it might even destroy Albert's plan.

   Albert was obviously also on guard against similar problems, so he specifically reminded the three of them not to get involved in this matter.

  As soon as he left the library, Ron asked, "What's the matter, Harry."

   "Malfoy and the others have left the headmaster's office. I think Buckbeak's appeal should be over." Harry said in a low voice.

"Harry, I know what you're thinking, but let's not interfere with this matter." Hermione quickly followed the two, and reminded sharply: "We promised, you may make things worse in the past now .”

   "Hermione, we just want to know how Buckbeak's appeal is going." Ron comforted softly.

"Harry, now is the critical moment." Hermione took Harry's arm and said seriously: "We have nothing to do, so don't trouble them, after this matter is over, we are going to visit Hagrid , okay?"

   "Hermione, we just want to know the result, not to make trouble."

  Hermione's mistrust made Harry a little annoyed.

"Two days ago, you messed up the matter, and finally asked someone else to clean up the mess for you." Hermione asked rather annoyed, "You insist on watching Hagrid cry, and by the way, you're going to screw everyone else together." Will you be satisfied?"

  Harry was rendered speechless by Hermione.

  That's right, he almost got Albert and Hagrid together a few days ago.

   "Hermione, Harry didn't mean it, it was just an accident." Ron frowned.

"If Buckbeak loses his head because of this, you're going to tell Hagrid that it was just an accident?" Hermione glared at Ron fiercely, and warned, "We can't help you, so don't do it again." They made trouble, just wait quietly for the result, you should believe it..."

  Hermione suddenly shut up, because at the corner of the corridor ahead, a group of Malfoy was walking towards this side.

   Everyone's complexion is not very good-looking.

   Seeing the gloomy face of the other party, Harry was almost elated. The reason can be imagined, obviously something bad happened.

   For example, Hagrid's Buckbeak appeal was successful.

After the four of them left, Ron touched Harry's arm with his elbow and said excitedly: "Harry, did you notice the expression on Malfoy's face just now? I dare say Hagrid must have won the case." Otherwise, Malfoy would never give up the opportunity to ridicule us."

"Yeah, I said Hagrid will definitely win the lawsuit." Harry couldn't hide a smile on his face. He really knew Malfoy's character too well. If Hagrid lost the lawsuit, the other party would see him They'll surely stop for a moment of cynicism, not a stricken look.

  Actually, Hermione thought so too at first, but she quickly remembered Albert's words, shook her head and said, "No, Hagrid lost."

   "Do you really want Hagrid to lose the lawsuit?" Ron glared at Hermione dissatisfiedly, "And, from Malfoy's suspicious expression on life, it's not hard to see that Hagrid must have won the lawsuit."

   "No, you don't understand, this is not a matter of appeal at all, Albert told me about it."

   Compared with the "so-called" truth, Hermione is more willing to believe in Albert's judgment, because Albert once told her why Hagrid couldn't win.

   "We don't understand?" The expression on Ron's face became more and more strange, "Albert may be a genius, but he must have made mistakes."

   "Let's go and ask Hagrid ourselves," Harry interrupted the possible quarrel, put away the Marauder's Map again, and trotted quickly towards Hagrid's position.

   Not long after, the three met Hagrid in the corridor on the third floor.

   However, after seeing Hagrid, both Harry and Ron felt their hearts tighten, because Hagrid didn't see any joy of victory on his face.

   "Hagrid, we met Malfoy just now, and his face was very ugly. Have you won this lawsuit?" Harry immediately stepped forward and asked.

"No, I lost." Hagrid looked at Harry and the three of them, and said blankly: "The officials of the Committee for Disposal of Dangerous Creatures were all bribed by Malfoy, and you all know what Lucius Malfoy is like." He threatened and lured others, and even the legal counsel I was looking for was taken away by Malfoy with Garen, and the executioner McNeill, he is Malfoy's old partner."

  Ron stared at Harry dumbfounded, Harry also watched Ron fall silent, just like Hermione said, Hagrid lost Buckbeak's appeal.

   "Where's Anderson?" Harry asked tremblingly, "Don't he have a way?"

"Albert has done his best, he prepared a bunch of hand cards for me," Hagrid said, and took out a bunch of hand cards from his pocket, as well as a water bottle containing tranquilizers, and said, "I followed his suggestion, After drinking the sedative and relying on what he provided, it was true that Malfoy and his party had nothing to say, but the result was the same as what Albert said. Lucius Malfoy bought off the people from the Dangerous Creatures Disposal Committee and Convict Buckbeak and sentence him to death."

   "Where's Dumbledore?" Harry asked furiously, "How could Professor Dumbledore allow this to happen?"

"Dumbledore tried," Hagrid said calmly, taking a sip of the tranquilizer. "Dumbledore doesn't have the power to control the committee, and he was asked to be a witness...but I'm still grateful to him, Dumbledore." Bullido delayed the execution until after sundown, so I'd still have time to say goodbye to Buckbeak."

   "How could this be?"

  Harry's eyes widened in shock. He finally understood why Hermione said that Hagrid would lose, because from the very beginning, Hagrid had no chance of succeeding in appealing.

   And Albert obviously knew it from the beginning.

"Don't feel bad for Harry, the situation is not as bad as you imagined. By the way, you should have a drink too!" Hagrid took out a few paper cups from his pocket and poured one for Harry, Ron and Hermione respectively. Tranquilizer.

   "What is this?" Harry looked at the potion in his hand in confusion?

   "Tranquilizer." Hagrid said without hesitation: "After drinking it, don't discuss this matter any more, and don't get involved in it, let it take its course. No matter what Buckbeak's result is, I have to accept it."

   "Hagrid!"

   "Even if I don't accept it, what can I do?" Hagrid reached out and patted Harry's shoulder and said, "Albert always said that anger can't solve the problem, and I think he is right."

  Harry stared blankly at Hagrid's leaving back, then looked at the glass of tranquilizer in his hand, and fell into a short silence.

   "Drink it up, let's go back and continue doing our vacation homework." Hermione was going back to the library to continue doing her homework.

   "What is this, Hagrid actually comforted us instead?" Ron was also a little dumbfounded, "Did he drink this stuff and make himself stupid?"

   "He's not stupid, it's you who are stupid." Hermione had already understood what Hagrid meant, and said to Harry and Ron, "Let's go back and finish our homework for the holidays. We'll go to Hagrid tomorrow."

  …

   The Hazardous Creatures Committee didn't go to Hagrid's cabin to stare at Buckbeak.

   After all, they had just had a falling out with Hagrid, and no one wanted to go there to bask in the sun, anyway, Professor Dumbledore also made a promise.

  All afternoon, Hagrid stared blankly at Buckbeak in the pumpkin patch.

Buckbeak seemed to have sensed that something bad was about to happen, and seemed to be in low spirits, but Hagrid didn't dare to go over to comfort it, because Albert had told him that after bringing Buckbeak to the pumpkin patch, he would not Forget it.

  After throwing all the hand cards in his pocket into the fireplace and burning them, Hagrid continued to read another parchment.

   It says what he should do if he loses the appeal.

All right!

  Albert planned to let Buckbeak break free from the chain and fly away.

   As for how to do it, Albert didn't say.

  Although Hagrid felt that this method was unreliable, it was Albert who proposed this plan. Hagrid believed that since Albert planned to do this, he must have made complete preparations.

After memorizing the contents of the parchment over and over again, Hagrid repeated the rehearsal in his head until the sun dipped and it was getting dark, then he threw the parchment into the fireplace and watched it turn into a pile of ashes .

  Harry, Ron, and Hermione didn't show up, Hagrid was relieved, he was really afraid that the three of them would appear rashly and disrupt Albert's plan! "

  At this moment, Ya Ya stood at the door and barked wildly towards the outside.

   "Bee, be quiet."

  Hagrid walked to the door and saw Dumbledore, Lucius Malfoy, the old wizard of the Council, and the executioner, McNeill, coming down the stone steps towards the hunting lodge.

   "Where's the beast?" McNeil asked grimly.

   "In the pumpkin patch." Hagrid glared at Lucius Malfoy.

  McNeil walked around the house and saw Buckbeak pecking at the rats, with a cruel smile on his face.

Just as he was about to step up to execute the execution with an axe, Dumbledore suddenly said, "If I remember correctly, the official announcement about the execution must be read first, and then you need to sign on it. McNeill, You should listen too, and you Malfoy, since you're here, you have to sign it too, it's Ministry of Magic procedure."

   "Yes, that's it." said the old wizard.

  Everyone crowded into Hagrid's hut, and McNeil was still watching the hippogriff in the pumpkin field through the window, as if thinking about where to drop the axe.

"...The Committee on the Handling of Dangerous Creatures has decided that Buckbeak, the Hippogriff, should be executed at sunset on April 20...beheaded by Walton McNeil, the executioner appointed by the committee..." The old wizard said in the sea He read the contents of the parchment under his hostile eyes.

   "...the following are witnesses. Hagrid, you need to sign here!"

   "I want a copy later," Hagrid said to the old wizard, taking the quill tremblingly.

   "This request is perfectly reasonable." Dumbledore said.

   "Okay, but we have to wait until we finish this thing." The old wizard reluctantly agreed.

   "McNeill, it's your turn." After Dumbledore signed the parchment, he said to several others, "Malfoy, you also need to sign."

  The two came to the table, picked up the quill on the table in disgust, and signed their names on the parchment.

   "Alright McNeill, I'll leave it to you next." The old wizard rolled up the parchment and put it in his robe pocket, not intending to make a copy for Hagrid at all.

   "Hagrid, don't go out, it might be better..." Dumbledore comforted softly.

   "No, I want to accompany it for the last time." Hagrid had just finished speaking when he heard a scream from outside: "Where did that beast go?"

   "It was chained here," McNeil said furiously. "What I just saw, is here!"

   "Strange." Dumbledore said with interest, "We all saw it here just now."

  Lucius Malfoy felt his heart being held, gasped for breath, and looked angrily at Hagrid who had just walked out of the hut.

   "Oh, God bless, it's gone, it must have broken free." Hagrid didn't pay attention to Lucius' murderous gaze, and shed tears of joy.

   "Someone broke the chain," McNeill growled, "We should search around the castle and the forest."

   "It was Potter, it must have been Harry Potter who hid the beast."

  Lucius Malfoy remembered the Harry Potter he met in the corridor earlier, and growled furiously: "He must have done it. I'm sure he took the beast."

"Don't be stupid, Mr. Malfoy, the dementors are watching Hogwarts from all directions, and they won't let other creatures enter and leave the school at will." Dumbledore said softly, "Search the sky and the woods if you want Well, but I have to warn you: I will never allow dementors into Hogwarts."

   "Now, Hagrid. I'd like a cup of tea, or a brandy."

   "Of course, Professor," Hagrid's voice trembled slightly with excitement, "I have an unopened bottle of brandy here, it was a Christmas present from Albert last time."

"you."

  Lucius Malfoy was furious. He was convinced that Hagrid had found some way to smuggle Buckbeak to a safe place. If Dumbledore didn't help him, he wouldn't believe it.

   "I'm sure they used the Disillusionment Charm and hid the beast somewhere in the castle. We'd better search the whole of Hogwarts Castle."

asshole!

  From the very beginning, the other party had no intention of going to court with him.

   Lucius Malfoy was so **** off at this that a gamekeeper actually made fun of them all for monkeys.

   I have something to do today, so I was a little rushed at the end. It has been revised again, and those who have seen it can refresh it again.

  (end of this chapter)