Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 428 Ron's Wish

Although today's Magical Creatures Protection class focused on the Bowtruckles, as Newt led the young wizards toward the Bowtruckles' habitat, they passed by the feathered serpent's habitat, the fairy's habitat, the devil's habitat, the fire crab's habitat, and the wretched bird's habitat.

This gave the young wizards of Gryffindor and Slytherin a sense of unreality, as if they were walking in a dream world, like children visiting a zoo for the first time, filled with curiosity about everything around them.

The magical creatures were also observing the Hogwarts students.

For the magical creatures, this was also the first time they had observed such a large number of human infants.

Of course, at this time, one of the lowly scoundrels lagging behind the tour group couldn't resist sneaking an unhatched feathered serpent egg into his pocket.

……

"Hehe..." Tiera chuckled softly from her seat in the principal's office, gently extending her hand into the void before withdrawing it—

At that moment, Tyella held a silver egg in her hand, the very one Malfoy had just slipped into his pocket.

"Heh..." Tiera shook her head and chuckled. "This little rascal, he's clearly not short of money, so why does he like to steal so much? And he even dares to steal from me?"

With that, Tiera gently tossed the silver egg forward, and the feathered serpent's egg appeared intact in the feathered serpent's nest inside Newtscamander's chest.

Before the start of the semester, Dumbledore had discussed with Tierra the selection of professors for the courses of Protection of Magical Creatures and Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Dumbledore's suggestion was that Tierra should put on Gilderoy Lockhart's skin again and teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, and then have the original Professor Grapple return to continue teaching Magical Creatures Protection.

However, Tiera had objections to the selection of candidates for both courses.

First, Tyella needs Dolores Umbridge to create conflict and tension so that he can better unite his will. So, although he also dislikes Umbridge, Tyella still allows her to skip around at Hogwarts for a year.

After all, in the original story, very few people believed in Harry before Umbridge arrived at Hogwarts, but after Umbridge arrived—

Almost everyone except Slytherin sided with Harry...

Tiera occasionally recalls this part of the story, and he doesn't even know whether Umbridge came to cause trouble or to help.

The reason why Professor Thierra of the Magical Creatures Protection Class chose Newt Scamander was—

Hey, who can resist the temptation of Newt Scamander's box full of magical creatures?

Tierra believed that, given Newt's level of trust in Dumbledore, if she impersonated Dumbledore and had a few heartfelt conversations with Newt, the naive and simple-minded Newt would definitely be willing to give away several pairs of magical creatures to "Dumbledore" if he asked for them.

So in a sense, Newtscamander's wealth is Tyrell's wealth.

So when Draco Malfoy, that little scoundrel, targeted Newt Scamander's little darlings, it was tantamount to targeting his own little darlings.

Newt Scamander's class was very enjoyable, and even Draco Malfoy, who at his age always liked to argue with everyone and everything, eventually had to admit that he was completely immersed in Newt Scamander's teaching.

Newt's class ended quickly, and many of the young Hogwarts wizards didn't even realize how much time had passed; the class was over before they knew it.

Even after class, many people continued to discuss this fascinating lesson on animal conservation.

Because Dumbledore merged the Muggle Studies class, many students didn't have afternoon classes, which meant that every young wizard got a day off on Thursday afternoon.

Therefore, Harry, Hermione, and Ron decided to go for a walk.

To be precise, it was to go to the owl's hut to mail two letters.

Although Harry and Ron were extremely reluctant to write, like other teenage boys who believed they should handle things at school themselves, they still wrote letters to Sirius Black and Percy Weasley, who had just joined the Ministry of Magic the previous year and was now reportedly promoted to Secretary to the Minister for Magic, under Hermione's strong presence. Harry's letter to Sirius was simple, basically giving an overview of his situation at school and asking if there were any new activities or instructions from the Order of the Phoenix.

Ron's letter to his brother, however, was much more complicated.

Although they were both members of the Weasley family, Ron had always been somewhat afraid of and resistant to his older brother, the third brother.

First, Ron wrote a long, very formal greeting, and then he wrote a couple of cheesy words of concern—

This already takes up a whole page.

Finally, Ron casually wrote:

"Anything interesting happening at the Ministry of Magic lately?"

Then they mailed the two letters together.

After mailing the letter, Harry and Hermione took Ron to the depths of the Forbidden Forest, to the willow tree where Tyella's grave was located, and told Ron everything about the place.

“Really?” Ron said, both doubtful and excited. “Can I wish for Umbridge to disappear? I feel disgusted whenever I see that woman now, and I can’t even eat. Ginny even complained to me that she doesn’t dare to wear pink hair clips anymore.”

“No,” Hermione said. “We’ve tried, and Umbridge is still showing up at school perfectly fine.”

“Okay…” Ron walked over, lay down on the tree hollow as Harry and Hermione had instructed, and shouted loudly:
"I hope I can finish all my papers, I hope I can finish all my papers, I hope—"

“That didn’t work either,” Hermione interrupted. “Harry tried it.”

“Okay…” Ron stood up helplessly, and punched the tree trunk with his fist in frustration. “What kind of lousy tree is this? It’s completely useless—”

"Snapped--"

As Ron was speaking, a branch suddenly lashed down from above, causing him to stumble.

“Don’t speak ill of him,” Harry rebuked unhappily. “He’s a legacy Tyrell left us.”

"Sorry, sorry..." Ron stood up awkwardly, pressed himself against the tree trunk again, turned sideways, and shouted at the largest hole in the trunk:

"I want Umbridge to be punished! I want Umbridge to be punished! I want Umbridge to be punished!"

……

Tierra, sitting in the principal's office, rubbed her temples wearily once more.

He left this wishing tree originally only with the ability to extract cursed worms, which came from his summer vacation in third grade, when he used materials from the Nicholas Lemaire Material Library to practice and master his "creative" authority.

He left behind such a will and such a wishing tree with a wickedly mischievous idea in mind—

Let Hermione, who played Beauty and the Beast, cosplay as Cinderella.

But unexpectedly, I couldn't leave—

Since his will had already been drawn up and circulated, he couldn't possibly erase each memory one by one. Therefore, he could only allow the wishing tree to exist temporarily and use it to fulfill some of his "wishes" within his power.

For example, Ron's desire for Umbridge to be punished.

(End of this chapter)