Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

"Oh? Why?"

Professor McGonagall's expression did not change, but Moon could completely feel that Professor McGonagall did not feel any resistance in his heart at this moment. In other words, as long as he could really tell a reason for his passing, McGonagall would The professor probably wouldn't refuse his request.

"That's right, Professor, whether it's my own... uh, personal experience, or the battles I've seen between masters, the duels recorded in books, or even what you told in class, All prove that the transformation technique is of great help in battles and duels. If you can use the transformation technique flexibly, you can often turn the tide in a battle and turn defeat into victory."

Moon paid attention to Professor McGonagall's emotional changes and said slowly and calmly: "Professor Flitwick must have mentioned it to you, and you have also paid attention to it. I have passed this duel club. Let everyone experience some practical content in advance and help everyone accumulate some experience in this area. After all, as far as my personal experience is concerned, today’s magic world is not peaceful. These experiences may be useful at a critical moment. , providing important help to everyone.”

"If we can open up the Transformation Technique to everyone, firstly, they can experience more fun of duels and battles, and discover tactics that are more suitable for them; secondly, if they face enemies who are good at Transformation Technique in the future, they can also have it. The experience of confrontation; thirdly, using and facing Transfiguration in battle can also allow students to better understand the fun of Transfiguration and deepen their understanding of Transfiguration - after all, it is always better to use it in real life than in the classroom. The learning comes more profoundly.”

"That's probably my reason. I don't know what you think..."

After finishing these words, Moon knew in his heart that this request was probably a sure thing.

Standing in front of him, Professor McGonagall still had a straight face and her lips were pursed tightly as usual. She did not immediately give Munn a positive or negative answer. Instead, she stared at Munn for a moment. Then he said in a deep voice: "You have to know, Mr. Fox, if the transformation technique is used properly in battle, it can indeed make the method more flexible - but at the same time, it may also cause some uncontrollable damage."

"Transfiguration encompasses many types and methods of use, and it may be difficult for young wizards like you to completely restrain your own transformation."

Moon smiled easily, took out a new piece of parchment from the bag, and handed it to Professor McGonagall, "Don't worry, I have already thought about this, so when I open the Transfiguration, I will also provide it." Some new rules."

Professor McGonagall took the parchment in her hand, glanced up and down, and finally had a smile on her face.

In fact, she had already planned to agree to Munn. After all, so far, the Duel Club has indeed been well controlled, and there have been no serious injuries.Besides, the loosening of restrictions on transfiguration would also be of great help to her transfiguration courses.As a professor of Transfiguration, why wouldn't she do it?

So, just as Moon had felt before, Professor McGonagall confirmed his reasoning.It was only out of many considerations and habit that she did not agree immediately. Instead, she decided to warn Munn first, with the intention of asking Munn to pay attention to strengthening supervision.

What I didn't expect was that there was an unexpected surprise.

"Yes, Munn, you are as thoughtful as ever." This time, she even addressed Munn less formally than before. "Then do this, you want to use this transformation on the list. Shu, do you need my help?"

The so-called "transformation technique on the list" was exactly what Moon learned from the editor-in-chief of the "Daily Prophet". This technique allows one to use one "main draft" to control other "partial drafts" in real time. .Moon had even improved the spell and made it a Christmas gift for Violet. There was no doubt that he didn't need any help.

However, people should learn to show weakness appropriately at some times, which will often lead to better results in what they want to do, right?

Therefore, Moon immediately showed an expression of surprise, "Ah, that's great. I did encounter some difficulties with this spell. I was thinking about how to talk to you before. If you are willing to help, that would be great. ."

Sure enough, Professor McGonagall's smile immediately became more cheerful. She nodded lightly with satisfaction, then took out two blank parchments and demonstrated to Moon.

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A few days later, it was Saturday afternoon.

Today is the first party day since the start of school for the Duel Club, and of course the little wizards will not miss it easily.What's more, just before the Christmas holiday, the Duel Club had just completed its second assessment, and a new group of young wizards had joined the team that could freely duel - these were not just those who passed the second assessment. This is good news for little wizards, and it is also worth cheering for other little wizards.

Because this means that they can have a new duel opponent.

The only ones who felt a little disappointed about this were Fred and George.They had no choice but to accept Moon's investment, and were therefore restricted from using Duel Club's list rankings to open the market.

However, weighing the heavy gold Galleons in their pockets, the two brothers sincerely felt that this thing was better, it was practical and practical, at least it would not be taken away by Professor McGonagall, and they would not get a gift from their mother. Love--

No, it's not love, it's a shouting letter.

After everyone rushed into the Duel Club in a chaotic manner, those with a keen eye noticed at a glance that there was a photo frame the size of a poster of Quidditch players on the wall to the left of the entrance. In the photo frame was a piece of specially aged parchment. At the top it says "Duel Club Standings".

"Ah! The standings! Our standings have been posted!" The little Ravenclaw wizard who first discovered the photo frame shouted loudly: "The top thirty are all on it!"

The little wizards immediately looked over and soon discovered the list one by one.

"Who do you say did this?"

"I guess it's Munn. He is most likely to know this list. Besides, he created the Duel Club and those rules are also his handiwork."

"But Moon comes very rarely, and he also has to deal with the school newspaper."

"I also think it feels more like Sirius - Harry showed him our list before, and he showed great interest."

While everyone was delighted with this discovery, they talked a lot and found a place to sit down, waiting for the professors to arrive.

As a result, three minutes later, neither Professor Flitwick nor Sirius came. Instead, Moon opened the door and walked into the large classroom.

"Moon! List!"

"Moon, do you know who made the scoreboard on the wall?"

Seeing the excited expressions of the little wizards, Moon smiled, raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, poked his neck with his wand, and amplified his voice, "Have you seen the scoreboard on the wall? Ha, Couldn’t any of you guess that I did it?”

The answer was immediately revealed as soon as it came up. The little wizards immediately screamed and clapped, and a few even whistled - a familiar tone, and they knew it was Fred, George, Lee and Mill. After all, these are the ones who like to whistle the most.

"You don't need to applaud me. This is your own creativity. I'm just trying to find a way to help you make this thing public." Moon said while patting his bag. "When I leave later, , come to me to receive the new list, the rankings and points on it will change on their own, so you don’t have to copy them one by one in the future."

There was another burst of cheers, even more enthusiastic than before.Moon had to raise his hand and wave several times before everyone became quieter.

"In addition, there is another news to be announced - from now on, the top [-] club members in the standings can use the deformation spell in duels with each other! It can also be used in duels in special venues!"

At this time, Munn had completely detonated the little wizards' excitement, and they couldn't even stop it.

If it was just about opening up the Transfiguration spell, it would still be open to some people. In fact, it shouldn't have received this level of enthusiasm.

But this was a signal, indicating that Munn had indeed kept his word and won them more rights to use spells.

Today is Transfiguration, what about tomorrow?What about the day after tomorrow?Is it still far away from the day they look forward to, when they can use all the spells they master to compete?

Chapter 72 Lockhart’s Confinement

At the end of January, amidst the expectations of the little wizards, this year's Hogwarts Four-wizard Tournament officially started.

"Okay! We saw that Hermione Granger from Gryffindor passed all the tests - God, is there not a question that can stump her? She seems to have mastered all the contents mentioned in the entire question outline Memorize it!" Li Jordan's eyes widened and his voice was extremely excited, which completely ignited the emotions of the little wizards in the audience.

"The second-year Hufflepuff girl on the same team as Hermione, if I remember correctly, her name should be Susan Bones. Ha, she didn't even have to say a word, she just stood there. Now, you can watch your team get perfect scores."

"Right now, Hermione Granger's answer speed has even surpassed that of Artman and Ron who just passed the test before. To be honest, I really didn't know that Hermione could play wizard chess so well." Li frowned. Pick, said full of ridicule.Hermione stood on the stage and smiled generously, but was not disturbed at all and continued to answer questions in an orderly manner.

In the audience, Ron stared at Hermione's solo show on the stage. He bumped Harry's elbow in shock, "I said, Hermione can play wizard chess? Didn't she always think it was a barbaric game?" ?”

Harry, like everyone else, gave Hermione his own applause, and laughed and said: "You must not know, last time Hermione asked us to accompany her in the common room to endorse, you just sat down and After falling asleep, Hermione hadn't even taken out the book yet. If you hadn't fallen asleep at the time, you would have known that Hermione has been memorizing all the items on the topic outline in the past few days."

"Oh -" Ron's mouth could almost fit an egg. "A whole book, God, how did she do it? This is too scary."

"I think this is pretty cool." Harry shrugged. "Admit it, mate, neither of us will ever think of doing something so cool in our lives."

Ron shook his head angrily, and echoed in agreement: "You're right - that's why she looks even more terrifying."

Naturally, Hermione didn't know that Ron was arranging her in the audience, but it didn't matter even if she knew.After all, after more than a year of getting along, she had already become accustomed to Ron's way of speaking. In a sense, this could be regarded as a way of complimenting Ron.

For example, Ron often finds Moon scary.

By the time the first game of the Final Four was over, Hermione's team, Ron's team, and Artman's team had all successfully entered the second round.Harry was more unlucky. Although his team was quite satisfactory in answering the questions, the people who entered the maze were unlucky. They obviously moved a lot, but they just couldn't reach the end smoothly.

Neville, who became a dark horse due to various factors last year, unfortunately failed at the first level. To be honest, Neville has worked very hard, and it can even be said that he devoted [-]% of his energy to face it. maze.However, there is such a thing as getting confused in a maze...

It is true that hard work does not have an effect. Maybe sometimes, hard work may have the opposite effect in this case.

The lively competition time never lasts long. Although it actually consumes a lot of time, from the personal experience of the little wizards, it seems that this competition did not last long at all. There is only a feeling of hunger in the stomach. Only then did they regain a little sense of time.

After leaving the competition venue, everyone was rushing to the auditorium, ready to fill their stomachs.Hermione, who successfully won the first game and was promoted, forced Harry and Ron to run in front of Moon and blocked Moon behind the stage.

Then, she proudly delivered an acceptance speech to Moon, and confidently told Moon that she had found a few Gobstone players to form a team with her this year, and she would never fail again like she did last year. Won the second game.

In this regard, Moon was obviously inconvenient to express too many opinions, so he could only smile and nodded, wishing her good luck.

"Huh? It seemed like you were teasing me for being a busy person just now?"

After Hermione, Harry and Ron left, Violet, who had been standing behind Moon, smiled and poked Moon on the shoulder, "You are obviously the busy person. After finishing this matter, you have to do it again." That thing."

Moon was obviously not comfortable saying directly, 'The current efforts are for the future's peace,' so he had to purse his lips and smile evilly, and counterattacked: "What? Have you finished replying to your readers' letters?"

Once Professor Sprout's picture book was sold, it was extremely popular because of its detailed and rich content.Moreover, not only those wizards who study herbal medicine, but also some young wizards who are still in school or even not yet in school have also become loyal fans of this book "Pomona Sprout and Her Herbal Journey: Volume [-]" fan.

The reason is simple - Professor Sprout's wording in the book is not only precise, but also simple and straightforward. Even young wizards can understand many of the contents; and Violet has contributed her exquisite work. His painting skills and the beautiful and interesting illustrations alone are enough reasons for many little wizards to buy it.

The popularity of the album also naturally increased the fame of Professor Sprout and Violet, especially the little-known Violet.She received many letters from young readers. Those young wizards used their immature handwriting and wording full of errors to spare no effort in expressing their love for this picture album to Violet.Many of them even asked Violet to draw two storybooks, any story.

In addition, in fact, some publishers and booksellers began to contact Violet secretly, and the negotiations happened to be about publishing story picture books.

Because of this, Moon teased that Violet had become a busy person and had already begun to reply to letters from readers.

Violet rolled her eyes at Moon with annoyance, and then took another step forward, completely coming to Moon's side. "Let's go, we should go eat."

Moon responded, waved his wand to summon the bag into his hand, and walked towards the auditorium with Violet.

…………

Two days later, before the heat of the first game of the Four-Wizard Tournament had completely passed, and the young wizards were still discussing the event, a piece of news came like a bolt from the blue.

This year's semifinals competition is likely to be suspended suddenly.

The first person to spread the news was Nash, so he soon became the target of all the little wizards' inquiries.And when everyone really heard the reason from him, almost all the little wizards realized that if what Nash said was true, then it might not only be the Four-wizard Tournament, but also the upcoming Quidditch game, which they were thinking about. The Duel Club and even the "school newspaper" which has long been closely related to their lives will be greatly affected.

Because all four people in Moon's dormitory were detained by Gilderoy Lockhart - and it was a long-term detention, lasting at least two weeks, and probably a month.

The little wizards heard about this at the dinner table on Monday night.In fact, this incident happened only ten minutes ago.

On Monday afternoon, Professor Trelawney, who taught the Divination class, took leave. She claimed that she accidentally contracted the disease, but most of the students in the class thought that she probably drank too much wine, which caused the brain damage. I'm groggy and in such bad shape that I really can't come to class.

Therefore, it was very rare that Moon, like Gal, Arlin, and Cedric, got a half-day holiday on Monday afternoon.

The four of them first visited Hagrid, sat in Hagrid's hut for a while, and chatted with him.It wasn't until around five o'clock that I returned from Hagrid's hut and went to the school newspaper office.

However, when they came out, they ran into Gilderoy Lockhart.

Originally, this was supposed to be just an ordinary, mutually disgusting encounter.However, as luck would have it, there was a sudden cold wave today and the temperature dropped sharply, so Moon specially made four crystal balls that continued to emit heat for himself and a few friends to keep warm in their hands.

And those four crystal balls, emitting shimmering light and heat, happened to fall into Gilderoy Lockhart's eyes.

For other professors, this would be nothing more than a trivial matter. The little wizards at Hogwarts would come up with many similar gadgets every winter.Although this is indeed a violation of the "no casting of spells in the corridors" regulations, it can be used flexibly. Carrying cursed items may not necessarily count as casting spells in the corridor-unless they are in front of the professors, Hexed the gadgets in the hallway.

Except for Professor McGonagall, who is always strict and abides by the rules, and Professor Snape, who likes to find faults and find faults in others, the other professors basically don't care about this kind of thing.

But Lockhart is obviously not the 'other professor' either.

"Gentlemen, I'm afraid I have to ask you to come to my office." Lockhart stared at the four of Moon with a serious face, as if he was really thinking about school rules and discipline. "In the corridor Casting spells, and four at a time, is probably no small matter. I think it will be difficult to convince the public if you are not given a small punishment."

The corner of Moon's mouth twitched, and through the gap beside Lockhart, he saw a dark shadow flashing past the corner of the corridor ahead.

"Professor, these are just four crystal balls used for heating." Moon also had a cold face, and the disgust in his eyes was no longer concealed. "If you are willing, you can take them and check them to see if they are What's really at stake - if you can see clearly."

Cedric, Gal, and Arlin who were standing next to Moon were all shocked.

Of course they knew that Lockhart was an out-and-out liar, and they also knew that the mastermind who exposed Lockhart in class was Moon (after all, they were all accomplices), and they also knew that Moon had never liked him very much. Lockhart.

But this was the first time they saw Moon being so rude to a professor in the school.

Lockhart's face turned red and white with anger from Moon. He even forgot the principle of keeping a proper distance from Moon during this period. He strode forward and grabbed the crystal ball in Moon's hand. " Huh?! A heating gadget?! Let me tell you, you are secretly planning to make some kind of magic bomb! You actually dare to openly contradict the professor. You guys, all of you should be put in solitary confinement by me! Right now! Come to my office. !”

Anger has gone to Lockhart's mind, and he even ignored some of the faint stinging pain in his head. He just smashed the crystal ball he just snatched from Munn, his eyes were red. He took the lead and headed straight to his office.

At the other end of the corridor, Nash, who had just descended to this floor and was about to go to the school newspaper office to pick up something, happened to see the backs of Lockhart and the four of them, and at the same time heard Lockhart's last shout.

So, realizing that something was wrong, he hurriedly went to the school newspaper office to pick up his book, and then went to the long table in the auditorium to share the news with everyone.

There is no doubt that Moon is the absolute core of the Final Four Tournament, the Duel Club and the school newspaper office, and the remaining three Cedrics are all key members of the Final Four Tournament and the school newspaper office.If these four people are really imprisoned for a month, it will obviously become a big problem whether the Four Powers Tournament can continue to be held. Even the writers of the next issue of the school newspaper may face a shortage of manpower.

Not to mention that Cedric is still the main force of the Hufflepuff House team. Even if the next game is Ravenclaw vs. Slytherin, after missing a whole month of training, Gryffin will How should Cedric play in multiple games against Hufflepuff?

To be honest, these are just insignificant entertainment projects.But speaking more broadly, these things have almost occupied the extracurricular life of most young wizards at Hogwarts.

In this way, with worries and sorrow about these things, in just one dinner, it was almost known to everyone that the four Moons were imprisoned by Lockhart.

In Lockhart's office, the four of them, Moon, were standing next to the wall, accepting Lockhart's 'teaching'.

Of course, rather than saying it as a lecture, it would be better to say it is Lockhart's revenge time.

"You think, how long should I give you a better confinement time? One week? Two weeks? One month or two months?"

None of the three Cedric spoke. On the one hand, Lockhart was still a professor no matter what, and now they were in Lockhart's hands again. A head-on confrontation was obviously not a good idea; on the other hand, they also He was worried that when he opened his mouth, he would say the wrong thing and provoke a conflict, causing Moon and Lockhart to break out again - after all, they could all see that Lockhart almost always spoke to Moon.

It's obvious that Moon is Lockhart's real target.

However, it turned out that even if they didn't speak, Moon had no intention of listening quietly.

"I think you'd better go find Professor Sprout. After all, we are all Hufflepuff students, and Professor Sprout is our dean. If you want to lock us up for a long time, Professor Sprout has to open the door to confinement." Moon raised his head and said coldly: "As for you, you probably don't have such power yet."

"What a good idea." Lockhart sneered and took out a piece of folded parchment from his arms. "You want me to conflict with Professor Sprout, right? So that you can reap the benefits? Haha. , Do you think I haven’t thought about this? Mr. Fox? This is the regulation signed by Professor Dumbledore to me. For students from third grade to above, I can confine them at will!"

Moon frowned, glanced at the approval note in Lockhart's hand, then gritted his teeth and lowered his head again.

Cedric and the three of them had their hearts in their throats at this moment.

To be honest, they are not afraid of being imprisoned with Moon, let alone what consequences this will have - what else is more important than their good friends?What's more, how much of everything that will be delayed originally appeared because of Munn.

However, when Lockhart took out the approval note, they were really worried that Lockhart would directly imprison Moon from today until the end of the semester.

With Lockhart's current extremely unstable mental state, no one would think that he was unable to do such a thing.

"What's wrong? Have nothing to say?"

Lockhart arrogantly shook the parchment in his hand again, and then finally put the regulations close to his body again. "Starting from today, you will be in confinement for a month. Don't worry, I will let you put all the regulations." Enjoy all the uncomfortable work."