Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

Moon shrugged and showed a relieved smile, "Originally, but it's no longer necessary."

Cedric glanced at Moon blankly, somewhat confused about this guy's brain circuit.

However, since Munn had said so, Cedric naturally had no need to ask any more questions. He was originally just worried that Munn would do something stupid.But think about it now... Even if he did something stupid, Moon probably wouldn't do it.

Moon didn't lie to Cedric, because he really didn't need to continue pursuing it.

Hagrid's words didn't seem to reveal any particularly important information, but in fact they gave Moon a very key clue - Professor Dumbledore and the others had roughly found the identity of the person who broke into the Forbidden Forest, at least. Already knew that he was from the school.

It was obvious that she should have seen or heard something on the day Professor Sprout was injured.

Since Professor Dumbledore and the others already have a starting point, and their progress can obviously be much faster than that of Moon, then there is no need for Moon to search for anything anymore, as long as he quietly pays attention to this matter. The progress is just fine.

This made him feel a lot better, and he even had a vague feeling that he could eat more at night.

It seems that Gal is right, mood can indeed affect appetite?

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First a big piece of pudding, then a big plate of fried potatoes, a big bowl of beef stew, and finally a full glass of pumpkin juice.At the dinner table, Moon really had a great appetite. It seemed as if he had completely digested the large portion of soup in the afternoon in just a short time.

You know, he was far less able to eat in the past.Therefore, he "stole the show" in a sense at the dinner table. The other little badgers around him looked at him in stunned silence, as if they had seen a ghost.

"Huh... I'm full." After wiping his mouth with a napkin, Moon sat up straight with satisfaction, picked up the book from his hand, and then showed a shy smile to Gal and others on both sides, "What's wrong? Why is this like this? look at me?"

Cedric pointed to his plate blankly, "You... just ate a lot."

"Well, my appetite is better today." Moon laughed, and subconsciously turned to look at the teacher's seat, only to see Professor Dumbledore gently shaking the golden cup in his hand and giving him a wink.

?

What do you mean?

Moon was stunned for a moment, and when he looked at Professor Dumbledore, he turned his head and started laughing with Professor McGonagall, as if the scene just now was just Moon's hallucination.

Forget it, it doesn't matter.

Moon shrugged and continued reading his book.

After a while, Cedric and the three of them also finished their meals, and the four of them gathered their things and walked to the Hufflepuff common room together.

There were not many people in the corridor. The four of them went straight to the auditorium after returning from Hagrid's hut. They were already a little early for dinner, so they were the first to leave the auditorium.When they turned down the stairs and arrived at the first negative floor, the four of them were still joking, but suddenly something smelly came straight towards Gal.

With quick eyesight and quick hands, Cedric pulled Gal away, allowing him to narrowly avoid the dung bomb.

Even so, Gal was inevitably startled and looked ahead angrily - a pearl-white ghost was floating in the air, holding a bag in one hand and throwing a new one in the other hand. Dung bombs.

"Peeves???" The four little wizards called out the ghost's name in unison.

To be honest, Moon felt a little regretful before. From the time he arrived at Hogwarts until now, he heard Peeves' name almost every day.However, after all this time, he had not seen Peeves even once.

He finally saw it today, but he was not happy at all.

Who can be happy in front of a whole bag of dung bombs?Especially when you don't have a bag of dung bombs in your hands?

"That's right! That's right!" Peeves grinned, his expression so exaggerated that it even distorted his face. "That's Peeves! Let Peeves take a look, haha! It turns out to be a You grade brats! You useless Hufflepuffs!"

"Hey! Peeves, stay away from us!" Cedric took the initiative to stand in front and shouted to Peeves righteously.But Peeves was obviously not afraid of "righteous words". He rolled his eyes with a smile and threw the big dung bomb in his hand - and aimed at Cedric's face.

Cedric ducked out of the way, but Yaerlin behind him had not yet realized that the danger was approaching. Fortunately, Munn and Gal were still standing beside him. They pushed and pulled each other, and Yaerlin barely managed to escape. The dung bomb was a frontal attack, but the debris that collapsed after it hit the ground still landed on Yaerlin's robe sporadically.

"Ouch!" Yaerin finally reacted and looked at the dirt on his robe, and couldn't help but retched.

"Haha! Stinky Yarlin! Stinky Yarlin!" Peeves smiled with joy as he put his hand into the bag of dung bombs, took out several of them one after another, and threw them at them like a barrage of artillery. Four people.

Munn didn't care so much, he pulled out his wand and shouted forward: "Protego (armor protection)!"

An invisible obstruction appeared in front, blocking all the dung bombs thrown at them.Meanwhile, Cedric yelled, "Run! To the Great Hall!"

Gal and Arlin woke up from a dream and hurriedly followed Cedric in the direction of the auditorium.Moon waved his wand and fired another Iron Armor spell to deflect more dung bombs thrown by the angry Peeves, then turned around and ran away.

The stench spread in the corridor behind, and Peeves, who had failed to succeed one after another, would not let them go easily. He chased after them while screaming, and kept hitting the four of them with the dung bombs in his hands.

At the moment, it seems that all I can do is pray that Peeves' dung bombs can be used up as soon as possible...

Chapter 46 Professor Ben Camp

If Filch could see this corridor, he would scold Peeves all over his body from morning to night, and he would scold Peeves non-stop for 24 hours.

With the marks of dung bombs all over the walls and the floor, and the stench that makes people's stomachs tremble rapidly and retching like mad, the corridor, which was not very wide, had now become quite miserable to look at - even terrible to smell.

"HAH~HAHAHA! You are indeed useless Hufflepuff brats! Are you just going to put your head on your butt and run away like crazy?" Peeves smiled maliciously, sarcastically, and said annoying rubbish. Chasing madly behind the four Moon men.If they weren't afraid of the countless dung bombs in his hand, the four of them would definitely have turned around and had a good "battle" with him.

But right now, as Peeves said, they just have to run for their lives.

Not to mention Cedric and his three little guys who are not yet proficient in spell casting, even Moon, who is already proficient in casting many spells, has no way to deal with Peeves - to be honest, he would rather face three of them at the same time. Four senior idiots like Gavin didn't want to mess with Peeves, a troublesome guy.

You know, Peeves is not an ordinary ghost, or in fact, he is not a ghost at all - even though he looks like other ghosts.This guy does not have an exact classification. If we have to give these existences a name, then they can only be called "Peeves".

He has an entity and can interact with real-life objects, like he can pick up a dung bomb and throw it at Cedric's pretty face, or he sometimes wanders around with a big lock to lock students in It's like having fun in the classroom.In addition, it can become invisible and has some peculiar anti-magic abilities.In addition, he can also use the ability of other ghosts to pass through walls as he wishes.

With such a Peeves, Moon racked his brain and thought about all the magic he could use, and finally he could only come to one conclusion - in front of Peeves, he could only parry, but not fight back.

Under the crazy pursuit of Peeves, the four people who panicked finally managed to run up the stairs. In fact, this journey was not very far, but at the "critical moment of life and death", the four people still felt that the escape journey just now was so long.

At this moment, Moon suddenly stopped and frowned, "Huh? It seems..."

When Moon stopped like this, the other three people seemed to suddenly realize something was wrong. They looked back together, only to find that Peeves had disappeared.

"Eh? Where's Peeves?" Gal asked weakly after taking a few breaths.

"Eh...?" Yaerlin covered his chest, as if he had lost his breath.

"HA! Peeves is here!" A voice sounded behind the four of them, above the stairs.Moon and the others quickly looked at the top of the stairs in horror, only to see Peeves half-body leaning out of the wall, holding a large dung bomb in each hand, and was about to hit them.

At this moment, a gray-white light swirled over from the other end of the corridor above the stairs and hit Peeves' back.Peeves' maniacally laughing expression suddenly froze, as if he suddenly lost all strength. His hands went limp and all the dung bombs fell to the ground.

After about a second, Peeves suddenly stood upright and looked angrily towards the direction of the light.

A middle-aged man wearing a old-fashioned, old and patched brown robe was walking slowly from the other side with a measured pace.

"Ahah! Who did Peeves think he was!" Peeves put his hands on his hips and said in a stern voice: "It turns out to be the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, the unlucky Kump! Oh, damn, you are really It's time to be Head of Hufflepuff, you're as useless as all the other Hufflepuffs."

Professor Camp looked at Peeves expressionlessly, his face still as calm as before in class.He raised the slender dark red wand in his hand and pointed lightly at the wall.

Peeves's upper body instantly swelled up - like a filled balloon. It was obvious that Peeves was very angry at this moment. Of course he didn't want to leave, but Professor Camp's meaning was already very obvious.

"￥#￥%#...%￥#￥...%￥%#" Cursing a series of strange words that were completely inaudible, Peeves puffed up his upper body and disappeared into the wall.

It wasn't until Peeves left that Moon and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief. Arlin took one look at the dirt on his robes and couldn't help but retch again.

Professor Camp walked in front of the four of them and waved his wand gently. Arlin's robe and the surrounding walls and floors became clean and new silently.

"You can make more noise." After doing all this, Professor Kang finally looked at the four people again and said.

Cedric scratched his head and took the lead in bowing to Professor Compo, "Thank you, Professor, we will pay attention next time..."

Munn, Gal, and Yaerlin also bowed. Then, Munn stood up straight and asked curiously: "Professor Compu, what is the spell you just used...?"

Professor Camp and Moon looked at each other, and after a moment of hesitation, he answered the question, "It's a spell I created myself. It is specifically and can only be used to deal with little things like Peeves."

"Hmm...can you teach me, Professor?" Moon's eyes were a little expectant. He really wanted to learn this spell - just in case he would meet Peeves again in the future, in case they met on a narrow road at that time. , he can at least protect himself.

This time it was Professor Kamp's turn to be stunned, perhaps because he did not expect that a first-year kid like Moon would want to learn such an unorthodox spell from him.

In fact, this is because Professor Camp has less contact with the little wizards at Hogwarts. If everyone knew that he had a spell that could be used to deal with Peeves, there would definitely be a lot of people rushing to learn it.

"You...you can come to my office tomorrow, in the afternoon."

"Okay, Professor." Moon nodded gratefully.

As soon as he started, Cedric immediately asked: "Can I follow you too?" Even Gal and Arlin hesitated for a moment, then looked at Professor Kump expectantly.

"Uh..." Professor Kamp still had no expression, but he seemed a little... at a loss?

In the end, Professor Compo still didn't answer Cedric and the others. He just nodded, then turned around and left quickly.

"Our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor is really a bit weird, isn't he?" Looking at Professor Kamp's back, Gal couldn't help but ask this question even though he had just saved him.

Although they did not agree openly, in their hearts, the remaining three people nodded.

Chapter 47 Office Teaching

Professor Kamp's office is on the fourth floor, next to the main classroom of Defense Against the Dark Arts [Note 2].

Because there are many empty rooms in Hogwarts Castle that are not in use, professors often choose the location of their offices according to their own preferences when they come to work here.Some people like to place their offices next to the staff lounge on the first floor, some people like to set up their offices next to the main classroom, and some people simply change part of their course classroom into an office, and so on.Obviously, Professor Kangpu is the second type.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Moon and Cedric, urged by Gal and Arlin who had finished their homework in a hurry, followed them to the door of Professor Compo's office.When they were on the way, they had discussed who should knock on the door, but when they arrived, they found that the door to the office was already open, and Professor Kang Pu was writing something inside.

"Kang..." Cedric wanted to say hello, but Professor Kangpu, who was sitting behind the desk, raised his left hand and said in his same voice that has never changed for thousands of years: "Come in, sit down first, and wait until I finish writing. ."

The four of them stuck out their tongues to each other, walked into the office obediently, closed the door, and then sat down on the low sofa next to the clothes rack.

To be honest, the layout of Professor Kang Pu's office is very unexpected - you know, this professor wears old robes every day, but he pays great attention to his appearance and takes care of everything meticulously from head to toe.Moreover, he usually had no expression. Even when chatting with other professors at the office table during meals, Moon and the others had never seen this professor smile too widely.

But right now, this office is not at all as rigid and old-school as Professor Kump himself. It has burgundy sofas, dark-grained wooden floors, avant-garde irregular clothes hangers, etc. There are even stickers on the walls that fit the overall style. decorative wallpaper.Except for the door and the chandelier above, there is almost no trace of Hogwarts in the entire office.

If you ignore the chandelier and the door, the most inconsistent person in this room is actually Professor Camp himself?

Moon was secretly speechless, and for a moment he was even more confused about Professor Kang Pu.

Because the professor seemed very busy, after looking around the office, Moon took out his book and started reading.Among the remaining three people, Cedric was okay, he could sit still, but Gal and Arlin were extremely uncomfortable. They didn't dare to make any noise, and they felt that just sitting on the sofa was boring. , I can only keep touching and rubbing here and there, scratching my head and ears like two little monkeys.

After about 10 minutes, Professor Kang finally stopped writing, rolled the paper on the table into a tube, stuffed it into a small leather bag, and hung it next to the table.He stood up, glanced at the four of them, and said, "Well, I didn't expect you to come so early, so I arranged a little more working time."

Typical Professor Kamp's statement, giving no chance to answer at all - what should I do?Do you want to say "It doesn't matter, you are busy with your business"?Or say "Ah, yes, we are early"?

The four little wizards looked at me and I looked at you, and they could only laugh awkwardly.

Professor Compo nodded, took out the wand from the inside of his robe, and with a slight wave, several floors in the middle of the office bounced up, revealing the hollows below.There was originally a wooden dummy lying in the cavity. After the floor bounced up, the dummy also floated up and changed its angle until it stood upright on the ground.

"I thought up this spell by myself. It came from an accident. I cast the spell when I was drunk and accidentally pronounced the wrong sound, which made the spell effective on a floating ghost [Note 3] that was almost like a ghost. ——We will talk about floating ghosts in the future, but now you just need to know that this is a little monster with some similar characteristics to Peeves of Hogwarts."

It was still the same tone as during the lecture, but perhaps because of the examples, or perhaps because they were about to impart knowledge that could not be found in books. This time, Moon and the four of them listened very seriously, and they did not even feel that Professor Kang was The lectures are so boring.

"If you want to learn this spell, you must first have another spell as a basis -" Professor Kump held the wand and slowly released the magic on the dummy with extremely standard movements, "Relashio!" "

A red light flashed past, and the dummy's clenched hands suddenly relaxed.

"After you have learned this magic, you can try to release my spell."

As he spoke, Professor Kamp waved his wand to make the dummy hold its hands again.

"Lelashios!"

Moon carefully observed Professor Kamp. When he released the spell, in addition to the changes in the spell itself, there were also some minor changes in his movements, such as the original lifting being changed to a horizontal swing.

"Okay, that's about it. Do you have any questions?"

"?" "?" "?" "?"

All four were confused.

There is no reading session, no movement exercises, just a demonstration, and that’s it?

Professor, are you overestimating us?

We really think we are all geniuses... huh?

Gal and Yaerin turned to look at Cedric. Cedric shook his head slightly, and then the three of them looked at "Big Boss" Munn together.

Moon also shook his head hesitantly, but halfway through, he changed his head to a nod with uncertainty.

The three of them breathed a sigh of relief, half reassured and half helpless.

It doesn't matter if they haven't learned it yet, as long as Munn has learned it, there will always be time to teach them.

"Uh, Professor..." Moon, who had high hopes from the three of them, gestured with his wand like a gourd, looked at Professor Kamp, and asked, "Can you please demonstrate again? Just once."

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[Note 1] Corrected some content in Chapter 13. I may have misremembered the location of the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom as the second floor, but now it has been changed back to the fourth floor. Don’t be surprised.

[Note 2] In the original book, classrooms are not divided into concepts of "main classroom" and "assistant classroom." However, in order to help the original book correct the concept of incorrect number of teachers, the concept of "teaching assistant" is introduced in this book, so it is Classrooms are divided into main classrooms and secondary classrooms - used to solve the problem that when two grades take the same course at the same time and are taught by professors and teaching assistants respectively, there is only one classroom.

[Note 3] The floating ghost is an original creature in this book and does not exist in the original work. It will be mentioned later in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class and elsewhere.

Chapter 48 Quidditch Preliminaries

There is no doubt that Professor Kamp has no reason to refuse Moon's small request. Although he originally wanted to see if a few people had any questions about the spell itself before continuing to teach in depth, there is no harm in demonstrating it again. .

Until this moment, this old-fashioned and low-emotional intelligence professor Camp had not discovered that there was a big problem with the statement he just made.