Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

He raised his hand and cast the spell "Soul Release" on the dummy again!

The gray-white light whirled out and hit the dummy, while Professor Camp turned to look at Moon.

Moon closed his eyes, waved the wand in his hand slightly, silently repeated the spell twice, then opened his eyes, nodded slightly and said, "It's no problem, Professor."

Professor Camp nodded slightly, then looked at Cedric and the others, "Okay, you can take out your wands. Read it to me twice first, and then learn the movements, just like when you learn new spells in Charms class. Same."

(⊙.⊙)*4

Confused again.

I thought you would stop teaching!

Obviously, Professor Kamp couldn't hear the cries in the hearts of the four little guys, and no one would really express their inner complaints.So, Moon and others raised their wands together and began to learn this new spell from Professor Compo.

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"I'm telling you, Professor Kump is definitely extraordinary." Gal said while stuffing sausages into his mouth and dancing. "He probably has a lot of dealings with Muggles."

"How do you know?" Gal's favorite, Yarlin, picked up the conversation in a very timely manner.

Gal swallowed the sausage hard, raised his head and took two more gulps of pumpkin juice, and then explained with great satisfaction, "I'm very familiar with his sofa. It's a high-end product from my father's company. And there's more, Have you seen his artistic-looking clothes hanger? I also have one of those clothes hangers at home. They are not cheap. They are big-name products from France. And both of them are trendy. If you don’t often deal with Muggles, , it probably won’t be used.”

"So your family sells furniture?" Cedric tilted his head and looked at Gal with interest. "My father has always wanted to change a cabinet for the house, but he was tricked last time when he ordered newspapers by mail. The wizard gave him Not only was it a defective product, but it was also cursed so that if someone sat on it, the backrest would knock them down. My dad said he wanted to buy it directly from a Muggle store, maybe I could. Introduce him to your store to buy it."

"No problem." Gal patted his chest. "Just give me the address when you get back. I can ask my dad to send it there."

So next, the two of them, along with Arlin and Barton, chatted about furniture. Only Moon sat beside him, eating quietly and reading a book.

On the other side of the dining table, diagonally opposite Moon, a pair of light blue eyes were looking at him quietly, forgetting to even respond to the call of his roommate next to him.

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The first Quidditch match between Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw started soon. Fortunately, the sun was shining brightly and there were no clouds in the sky. It was a very good weather for playing.

The cheering flags of the first-year Hufflepuffs were successfully rushed out. Although the continuous homework made them very desperate, this was mainly because they did not accept Moon's help at the beginning - everyone knows that Moon is very interested in Quidditch. Not interested, so many people felt that Moon should not be allowed to accompany them to do such troublesome things.

However, with the relentless pursuit of time, they finally decided to ask for help from Moon to help them complete the more difficult parts of the pattern changing color and luminescence.Moon did not disappoint them. In fact, he was quite willing to help. His lack of interest in Quidditch did not mean that he would ignore the difficulties faced by his friends.

So, the night before the game, Moon added a soft shimmer to the flag and used a trick he learned from Professor McGonagall to make the badger on the flag move around.To this end, he almost stayed up all night, but in the end it was the repeated urging of Gal and Violet that made him give up the idea of ​​adding more sound effects.

"Hufflepuffs!"

"come on!"

"Hufflepuffs!"

"Definitely!"

In the auditorium of the Quidditch stadium, the cheers and shouts of the little badgers completely overwhelmed Ravenclaw.Of course, this is because Hufflepuff currently has the upper hand, leading by a full fifty points. Even so, the Ravenclaw students are trying their best to cheer up the teams of their houses and let them not be discouraged—— Look, the audience hasn't given up yet.

Milton and Gal grabbed the flagpole and waved it vigorously. Their first-grade flags were no worse than those of the senior grades. The only ones that could beat them by a few were the cheering objects from the sixth and seventh grade.The sixth-grade seniors built a small tree. On the top of the tree, there was a real badger eagerly looking at the field. Every time the Hufflepuff players scored a goal, the badger would hold its paws hard. Waving.

The seniors in the seventh grade who were about to graduate were even more amazing. They worked together to use their wands to create a patch of light and shadow above the auditorium. It was a badger spinning in circles and waltzing. It was a bit funny, but the effect was surprisingly good.

The eaglets of Ravenclaw on the opposite side were not to be outdone. The most powerful one there was to transform the curtain hanging under the auditorium into an eagle. As long as Ravenclaw scored a point, the eagle would It flaps its wings and makes a loud chirp.

In the middle of the auditorium, the professors were also watching the game very happily.Different from the previous game between Gryffindor and Slytherin, this game was not too tense, and there were not many foul actions. Some of them were just the two sides working hard to compete in ball skills and flying skills, which obviously made the game more enjoyable to watch. Climbed more than one level.

"Ha! Ravenclaw caught up, and the Chaser - oh I know him, it's Phyllis! He got the Quaffle and used a beautiful feint to throw away the two Hufflepuff players. , and then quickly rushed towards the goal...the ball went in! Ravenclaw added 10 points! Now there is still a forty-point gap between the two sides!"

The commentator of the game is third-year Carson Bull, a tall boy with curly hair from Gryffindor.Speaking of which, more Gryffindor students are used as commentators for Hogwarts Quidditch games, probably because they are always enthusiastic and energetic.

"I saw the Seekers of both teams starting to move faster! Could it be that they saw the Golden Snitch? Oh... not good! Not good! The Ravenclaw Seekers didn't notice the Snitch. Bludgers!”

Chapter 49 Good Start

"Beautiful dive! Ravenclaw's Seeker sensed the approaching danger at the last moment and used a wonderful flying maneuver to dodge that damn Bludger! Oh my god, I just realized she's so beautiful , I must ask her if she has a boyfriend later." Carson Bull covered his heart and praised the Ravenclaw Seeker in a rather grandiose tone, but he did not guard against Mai behind him. Professor Ge suddenly raised his knuckles and knocked on the back of his chair, scolding: "Carson Burr! Explain the game well!"

Carson stuck out his tongue, turned around and said quickly, "Good professor," and then hurriedly continued talking about the form on the field.

"Although she - you all know who I'm talking about, she successfully avoided the Bludger, but this also gradually widened the distance between her and Hufflepuff's Seeker!"

"Oh! Oh oh oh! One wave after another! Herman Wintingham is that handsome young man who is very good at playing the lute. He is the scorer of Hufflepuff, and now the Quaffle is coming. It's in his hands! First he made a fake move... around one... around two... someone blocked him! He couldn't avoid it! His teammates came up! The ball went in! Beautiful!"

On the field, Ravenclaw's Seeker Magna Evert was lagging far behind in the pursuit of the Golden Snitch. At this time, she suddenly heard the news that Hufflepuff had scored, which made her I couldn't help but get distracted.When she quickly turned her attention back to the Hufflepuff Seeker, the Hufflepuff Seeker had already raised his right hand high, showing off the Golden Snitch in his hand.

"Hmph!" Magna snorted angrily and waved her right hand in vain, but if she lost, she lost, and there was nothing she could do.

"Hufflepuff wins!"

As Mrs. Hooch announced the result loudly, the Ravenclaw players turned their brooms and gathered around Magna to comfort and encourage each other. The Hufflepuff players ran aside early to celebrate.In the stands, the little Hufflepuff wizards broke out into the loudest shout of the day, which lasted for a long time. The eaglets of Ravenclaw opposite were all listless, and suddenly turned into frost-beaten eggplants.

"Moon! We won! We won!" Garr shook Munn's shoulders crazily. It was obvious that Cedric and Arlin were more passionate about Quidditch than him, but at this moment he But he became the most excited person, and even stood out among the Hufflepuffs.

Moon agreed to him with a helpless smile. As for Gar's situation, Moon could only explain that it was due to his excessive sense of group honor.

Compared to the first-year students, Hufflepuff's seniors appear to be much more restrained.It’s not that they’re more stable (although that’s true), or that they’re not happy when they win.It's just that they know very well that beating Ravenclaw is not that worthy of cheering - the Gryffindor team and the Slytherin team are much stronger than them, especially Slytherin, which is even more worthy of being called Totally crushed them.Therefore, today's good start is probably just a "good start".

Nonetheless, a win is a win, and you still have to celebrate when you should.Surrounded by Hufflepuff students, the victorious players ran back to the common room with joy.Many little badgers got into the kitchen on the way and got a lot of fruits, desserts, sausages and pumpkin juice from it.The common room, which is usually very lively, was completely lively today, and even Gabriel and Victor took part in it.

Everyone was making a fuss, so Moon naturally wouldn't take out his book and read it again, but it was totally unacceptable to expect him to jump into the crowd like Gal, Yaerin or Milton. Reality.So as soon as he returned to the common room, he quietly ran to the corner, holding a glass of pumpkin juice and watching the others being silly with a smile.

"Hey, Moon." The dazzling golden hair popped up out of nowhere. Violet blinked her clear eyes and stared at Munn. She twisted the corner of her robe with her left hand and slowly sat next to him. "You Why are you sitting here alone?"

Moon took a sip of pumpkin juice and said with a smile: "Well, Cedric and the others are making trouble inside. I don't really like to get into the crowd, so I just sit here."

"Then I'll sit with you for a while." Violet looked away and looked at the crowd. She held her fair chin in one hand and picked up her glass of pumpkin juice with the other. "You are really amazing. If it weren't for Without your help, everyone’s flags would definitely not be as beautiful as they are.”

"Uh..." Moon paused, wondering why this girl suddenly sounded like Professor Compton when she spoke today. How should I reply to this?

After holding it in for three seconds, Moon finally spit out only "It's okay, hahaha..."

"Hmm, Moon?" Violet turned her head back at some point, her clean eyes clearly showing her affection for Moon. Such an honest straight shot made Moon's face turn red and her heart skipped a beat. He picked it up enthusiastically.

Obviously on Halloween Eve, I went to dance when I said I was going to dance, and I didn't flinch at all. Why am I getting nervous now?

Weird weird.

While muttering to himself in his mind, Moon responded, and his eyes began to wander around.

"If there is anything I don't know in the future, can I come and ask you?"

"Okay."

Violet laughed happily. She took a sip of pumpkin juice using Moon's posture, and then asked curiously: "Why do you seem so afraid of me?"

"Uh, no, no." Moon waved his hand, trying his best to control his eyes from wandering around, and at the same time cursing himself for being useless.

In fact, to be honest, Violet has only shown a relatively straightforward affection now. For an 11-year-old child, let alone "love", even if she uses "like", it is somewhat exaggerated. morning.Maybe Violet really has a little more affection for him than normal, but so what?

At the very least, such straightforwardness is much cuter than pretending to be smart and doing stupid things to attract the attention of the person you like.

Moon secretly exhaled, finally feeling less nervous.

"By the way, Violet, why aren't you with your roommates?"

"They are all on the other side. I saw you sitting here by yourself. I felt that you seemed bored, so I ran over to keep you company."

grass!Why is your heart racing again?

Sure enough, I’m still a little overwhelmed!

Chapter 50 Ian Madden

The Quidditch match between Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw is the last match in November, and the next match between Ravenclaw and Slytherin will not officially start until February next year.Therefore, after the game, the students of Hogwarts returned to their usual leisurely lives.

At the same time, this often means that the first half of the semester is coming to an end.

In the second week of December, the deans of each college began to count the status of students staying in school. On the 18th, they will usher in their Christmas vacation - a bit like the winter vacation when Moon was in school in his previous life. But the time is shorter.For example, this year’s Christmas vacation starts on the 18th, returns to school on January 1th, and starts classes on January 7th. Counting the first and last two days, it lasts for three weeks in total.

There are not many students staying at Hogwarts during the Christmas vacation. After all, a three-week vacation is no joke. If you choose to stay in school, you will most likely have to face where to go every day for the next 21 days. You can only see a few people, or even no one at all.

None of the four people in Moon's dormitory chose to stay at school. Arlin thought he was going to stay at Hogwarts because his mother sent him a letter a few days ago, saying that if he If Dad's work goes well, the two of them will probably go to Romania.So Yaerlin prayed to Merlin every day, hoping that his father's work would not go so smoothly - maybe Merlin really heard his prayers, so on the 17th, Yaerlin's mother sent another letter , indicating that the trip to Romania was ruined and that Arlin could go home for Christmas.

After entering December.The snow in Hogwarts began to slowly increase, and the temperature dropped even more sharply.From then on, Moon finally had a good reason not to go out, because Gal and the others began not to run out all the time, the only exception was when they went to Hagrid's hut.So, whenever he had some free time, Moon would sit by the window of the common room, drink the Muggle hot cocoa that his mother had sent him, and read a book slowly.

During this period of time, he still maintained the habit of looking at the Marauder's Map whenever he had nothing to do. Unfortunately, he found nothing, but he learned a lot about irrelevant things.

Victor is getting busier and busier. Every time Moon opens the Marauder's Map during the day, he is either in the classroom or staying in Professor Compo's office with Professor Compo. It seems that the research has reached an important stage. ;

Tonks has recently been keen on spending time in that big dungeon, alone. When I see her, she always walks in a hurry and mysteriously. No one knows what she is doing. Moon originally wanted to ask, but He couldn't meet her anyway, so he simply gave up the idea;

I don’t know if it’s because of the recent increase in conflicts between Slytherin and Gryffindor, but Gemma Farley started hanging out in the corridors when she had nothing to do. Previously, Moon ran to the library to return a message. It was almost time to turn off the lights, and he happened to catch Gemma teaching a Slytherin fourth grader. She looked unusually sassy;

In addition, Gabriel and his secret girlfriend Larian finally came out to the public - the fifth-year Hufflepuff prefect finally realized that their affair had become a common secret, so he Just don't hide it anymore.From then on, Moon never saw the two of them running into the common room for a date in the middle of the night.

There were also a lot of messy and trivial things, which made Moon slander that he was about to develop his voyeuristic potential.It just so happened that the incident of someone breaking into the Forbidden Forest had completely disappeared, as if it had never been traced again.

On the night of the 17th, Moon packed everything and went to bed.They were leaving school on the Hogwarts Express tomorrow morning, so most of the little wizards chose to go to bed early.

"Well..." After stretching, Moon covered himself with the quilt, leaned against the pillow, and picked up the Marauder's Map.

"I solemnly swear that I will not do bad things."[Note 1]

Dense ink stains began to appear on the Marauder's Map, and the map of Hogwarts was gradually outlined.

"Let me know... Professor Dumbledore is circling again... Why is Professor McGonagall still in the office... Gemma Farley is also circling... Why isn't Tonks sleeping?"

Moon murmured in a low voice. Anyway, the roommates were sleeping soundly. Gal's snoring almost reached the next door. No one could hear him going crazy here.

"Filch is patrolling and Professor Snape is...hanging out? Huh? Why is Hagrid in the castle?"

As his eyes continued to scan, Moon suddenly discovered something strange.Logically speaking, Hagrid will never run into the castle at this time, and it seems that his direction should be... Professor Dumbledore's office?

Moon frowned. If Hagrid caught someone sneaking into the Forbidden Forest, shouldn't he just take that guy to Dumbledore?Why are you alone?

He subconsciously glanced in the direction of the Forbidden Forest on the map, only to see a name running towards the Forbidden Forest very quickly.

"Ian Madden...?"

He didn't know this person, and he had never even heard of his name. The only thing he was sure of was that this person was definitely not any staff member of Hogwarts, and he was not a first-year student either.

In other words, this Ian Madden is probably the guy who sneaked into the Forbidden Forest before!

To be honest, Moon wanted to run to Dumbledore's office right now and tell Dumbledore about this.But that means that he will most likely have to hand over the Marauder's Map, and if this is the case, he will have a lot of trouble in the future if he wants to deal with the big rat Pettigrew.

Being impatient can lead to big plans, and now he has to be patient - not to mention that this Ian Madden may just be an idiot student who is curious about the Forbidden Forest.Besides, Professor Dumbledore and the others also have certain clues, so they may not really need any help from him as a first-year student.

Thinking of this, Moon took out a piece of dried meat from the drawer of the bedside table. While grinding his teeth, he began to quietly pay attention to the sneaky Ian Madden on the map.

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[Note 1] The original text is "IsolemnlyswearthatIamuptonogood." It can be translated as "I solemnly swear that I do not do good things." It can also be translated as "I solemnly swear that I have no good intentions." The author chose the first one because Moon is indeed I didn’t do anything good with this thing (×) (Mun flipped the table (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻). In fact, there should have been this note when the Marauder’s Map first appeared, but I gave forgotten.

Chapter 51 Homecoming

The arrival of the 18th puts many little wizards in an unusually good mood, especially the first-year wizards - after careful calculation, they have been away from home and their families for more than three months.

For most first-year wizards, this is the first time in their lives.

They finished saying goodbye to their classmates in school, and then, under the watchful eyes of the teachers, they left the castle with Hagrid, walked through the playground, and went to ride the carriage that seemed to have no power - most little wizards did not You know, these carriages are actually pulled by a creature called the Thestral.

Of course Munn knew this, but he had never witnessed death with his own eyes. His father Hu Yan did not die in front of him at that time, so he, like most young wizards, could not see these strange-looking but temperamental people. Mildly interesting creatures.

"Hey, Hagrid!" Finally it was Moon and Cedric's turn to get on the carriage. Hagrid waved to them, and they hurried up.Gal was the first to get in the car, while Moon said to the reluctant Hagrid from below: "Don't worry Hagrid, I will send you a letter and photos. Of course, there will definitely be no shortage of Christmas gifts." , and so are a few of them."

Cedric nodded, and Gal and Arlin agreed in unison.

In fact, they were a little reluctant to leave. In the past month, they had been running to Hagrid's hut frequently. They made a lot of jokes and shared a lot of interesting things together.Even with the help of Garr, Hagrid's cooking skills have improved greatly.

At least the rock biscuits he baked no longer need to be eaten with tea.

Hagrid stretched out his hand to rub his eyes, and patted the carriage carriage with a smile. "Oh, of course, I will also be thinking about your Christmas gifts. Go back quickly. We can see you again after you have finished the Christmas vacation."

"That's right, Hagrid, see you then." The four little wizards waved goodbye to Hagrid. Hagrid whistled, and while watching the carriage start to move forward, he also waved to see off the four moons. people.

When the carriage reached the corner and the four of them could no longer see Hagrid, they finally put down their arms and looked at each other.

"Oh, I didn't feel it at first, but now I really feel a little reluctant to let go..." Yaerlin rarely spoke without any words, but said with some sentimentality: "Not just Hagrid, but also you."

"Haha, it's not like we won't see each other again." Moon shrugged, leaned on the seat back of the carriage and said with a smile: "It's just a Christmas vacation. Besides, if you are willing, wait until after Christmas, You can come to my house to play. I think my mother and uncles will welcome you."

As soon as this matter was mentioned, everyone immediately became interested, and Gal quickly said: "Yes, yes, you can also come to my house as a guest. My parents must really want to meet my wizard friend."

"Well, my family is not doing well." Yaerlin scratched his head. "Although my mother is a wizard, my father... he doesn't have a good impression of wizards, but is a little afraid of them. Maybe you will be very worried when you go there." Awkward."

Cedric also smiled bitterly, "You can come to my house to play, but my dad might be a little too enthusiastic, um..."

Seeing that the topic started to develop in an unexpected direction, Moon quickly cleared his throat and interrupted Cedric, "Hey, what are you talking about? It's just a Christmas vacation. It's too long for us to take turns visiting each other like this. It’s a bit tight. It’s better to go to my house first. Just after Christmas, if you have time and your parents agree, come over. We can go to another house next summer or next semester. Wouldn’t that be great? "

"Okay, I really want to meet Munn's parents." Yaerlin agreed: "I will definitely file a complaint with Munn's parents then, saying that Munn is bored in the dormitory studying every day and is about to die. I became a nerd myself.”