Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

"Hey! Moon, here is a manuscript for me to review!" Oliver Wood, who had just joined the school newspaper office, waved towards Moon, then used his wand to control several manuscripts pinned together and sent them to Moon. on the table.

Although Oliver is not a very familiar person, this guy is more or less... a social cow. Therefore, after joining the school newspaper office, he quickly established a good relationship with most people. ——Except Gemma and Ashley from Slytherin.

In this guy's own words, he could never be friends with someone from Slytherin.

Of course, in fact, after many inquiries by Moon and others, the reason why this guy had such an idea was actually just Gryffindor's pride.

Originally, Gryffindor and Slytherin were two houses that were quite difficult to deal with. In addition, Slytherin has almost monopolized the Quidditch House Cup championship in recent years, as well as the Hogwarts House Cup championship [ Note 1].What's even more outrageous is that Slytherin will still use dirty tricks on the Quidditch field even when he clearly has an advantage.Under such circumstances, it is strange that Oliver would be willing to have a good relationship with Gemma and Ashley.

But these two girls, Gemma and Ashley, are not cheap. When it comes to arrogance, these two people from Slytherin are no less arrogant than Oliver.If Oliver wants to give them a cold face, they will naturally not give him a good look.The three of them just walked in and out of the school newspaper office every day without saying a word, just pretending to be transparent to each other.

Moon and the others didn't have any good ideas. Unlike Doreen, Oliver was a "complete Gryffindor". He was born to dislike all Slytherins. It would be even harder to correct his ideas than to go to heaven. .

For things like this, we can only hope that some good opportunity will arise in the future so that both parties can put aside their prejudices and formally reconcile.

"Okay, let me take a look..." Moon opened the manuscript and looked at it, and was suddenly stunned.

This is a manuscript related to campus gossip, but this manuscript is actually about things related to Professor Quirrell...

Moon took a deep breath and quickly looked at the specific content below.

"Professor Quirrell...appeared in the dungeon late at night? The person who submitted the manuscript was..."

"Peeves?!"

Moon was completely dumbfounded.

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[Note 1] The Quidditch House Cup is a Quidditch game in which teams from colleges compete with each other to eventually win the championship; the Hogwarts House Cup refers to the scores in the four large hourglasses at the entrance of the castle. Whichever house has the highest score at the end of the semester is the champion, which is the house cup that determines the decoration of the auditorium at the end-of-term banquet every year.The two are not the same thing.

Chapter 21 Special Correspondent Peeves?

"How did you sift through this gossip?" Moon looked at Oliver confused, "How did Peeves' revelations get left behind?"

"Professor's gossip, a lot of people should want to see it. Our gossip column is not genuine anyway, it's just for everyone to see." Oliver explained rationally.

Indeed, from the very beginning of the school newspaper, the manuscripts for the campus gossip column have stated that the contents of the column are not truthful. After all, this column cannot be truthful at all. Things like gossip are simply heard from hearsay. Who knows whether it is true or not? What's going on?It's just for everyone's enjoyment.

But the problem is...

Moon rubbed his eyebrows and began to feel the temptation from the manuscript.

He really wanted to send this manuscript out, and it would be good to put even a little more pressure on Quirrell.If Moon remembers correctly, although Quirrell's stuttering was fake, this guy was somewhat unconfident when he was a student at Hogwarts.For a person who is not confident like this, the more pressure is put on him, the easier it is for him to get confused and mess up things.

But the problem is that this is a manuscript aimed at professors. If you post it rashly without ensuring its authenticity, you will probably get a gank from Professor McGonagall.

Then the unlucky one will not be Quirrell, but the office of their school newspaper.

Is it possible that you have to go and ask Peeves, "Do you want to keep your gossip?"

This is a bad idea. Who can tell the truth from what Peeves says?Unless he brings out Professor Dumbledore or Bloody Barrow, even if he has the weapon to deal with Peeves and the Soul Ventilation he learned from Professor Camp, it will be difficult to make Peeves tell the truth.

The vase on the table exudes a quiet fragrance, and there is a small beige flower that Violet picked from the edge of the school forest.

The flower was originally pink, but Cedric secretly told Violet that Moon didn't like pink things very much, so Violet used a little trick of transfiguration to turn the flower into beige.

Speaking of which, Violet's talent for transformation is actually quite good...

wrong!

Moon looked at the flower and suddenly had an inspiration: Asking Peeves openly about gossip was obviously an unreliable choice, but he could make some changes!

Just as he said, Moon put the manuscript aside, put on his robe and walked outside the school newspaper office. "Hey, Oliver, Garr, do you know where Peeves usually appears more often?"

Gal, who had finally slept peacefully in the past few days, shook his head with a confused look on his face, and then seemed to think of something, gritted his teeth and said, "It's definitely not in the corridor where Bloody Baron wanders every day."

Oliver did give some reliable advice, "I think you can go to the fourth floor of the castle and take a look. I heard that Peeves often hangs out in the trophy display room recently."

"OK, thank you Oliver!" Moon responded and hurried out.

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Going upstairs along the stairs, taking advantage of the gap before the stairs disappeared, Moon rushed to the edge of the fourth floor, and then went straight to the prize display room.As a result, before he even reached the corner of the showroom, he saw Peeves scribbling on the wall with a black pen.

"Hey! Peeves! I'm here to interview you!" Moon put one hand in his robe and secretly held the wand. His face remained calm as he smiled and said to Peeves: "How's it going? Do you want to consider appearing in the school newspaper? Let everyone know how powerful Peeves is?"

Peeves stopped what he was doing and looked at Moon suspiciously, "Seriously? Do you really want to interview Peeves?"

"Of course it's true, otherwise why would I come to you, to be chased by you and throw chalk away?" Moon kept smiling, "right?"

"Ha! Then Peeves will accept your interview! Come on, what do you want to interview? Peeves' heroic deeds? How Peeves chased two Gryffindor kids and fled yesterday. ?" Peeves put his hands on his hips, so that the black pen in his hand was stabbed directly into his waist.

Obviously Peeves didn't feel any pain, Moon complained secretly in his mind, and said at the same time: "Oh, no, Peeves, I don't think chasing away two Gryffindor students is a heroic deed... "

Seeing the suspicious look on Peeves' face again, Moon quickly said the following words: "Think about it, they are just two ordinary students, wouldn't it be wrong to be chased by Peeves all over the ground? Is it reasonable?"

As soon as these words came out, Peeves felt much relieved, but this did not mean that he had given up his doubts about Munn. "Then what do you want to know?"

"I noticed that you submitted an article to us and exposed a piece of gossip?" Moon smiled with squinting eyes, looking like a bad fox eyeing the chicken cubs. "About Professor Quirrell? Think about it, Peeves. Exposing a professor's shady secrets, doesn't this better demonstrate the power of Peeves?"

Peeves pinched his chin, thought for a while, and muttered, "Sounds good...but it's a pity..."

He glanced sideways at Moon and curled his lips, "I can't throw chalk at the professor's head. I'll be locked up if I do that."

"No, no, no, you don't need to throw away the chalk, Peeves, it's outdated." Moon was extremely vigilant, fearing that his words would offend Peeves. "You should catch up with the latest trends." The trend, Peeves, think about it, what is everyone at Hogwarts having a piece of now? What is the most popular thing in Hogwarts now? Is it chalk heads and dung bombs, Peeves? Of course not!"

Peeves was a little unhappy at first, but after listening to it, he actually became interested. "You mean... the school newspaper? Ha! Peeves knows! Moon Fox - you, You didn’t mean to interview me at all!”

Moon's hand holding the wand shook. It sounded like it was about to happen, but he was afraid that Peeves would suddenly have a seizure.

"Moon Fox! You want me to join the school newspaper and become your reporter!"

'Huh...' Moon breathed out secretly. Seeing Peeves like this, he should undoubtedly agree. In this way, he can write down Peeves' name on the gossip column, even Professor McGonagall. If there was any problem, Moon could have asked Professor McGonagall to find Peeves. 'Are we publishing false gossip?No, we're publishing exclusive gossip discovered by special reporter Peeves! '

Many times, all that is needed to silence senior management is a name.

Although this is indeed a bit sorry for Peeves, just think of it as a small price to pay for Peeves bullying the students every day.

Just when Munn was thinking this, Peeves suddenly threw the pen in his hand at Munn!

Chapter 22 The most peaceful day

Moon dodged to avoid the pen thrown by Peeves, pulled out the wand from his robe, and sent Peeves to a halt with a burst of soul force, making Peeves freeze on the spot.

"Hey! Peeves!" Just as the effect of the soul drain disappeared, Moon pointed his wand at Peeves again, "What are you doing?"

Peeves said indignantly: "Do you think Peeves will be deceived by your words? You will invite Peeves to be a reporter?! Ha! Peeves doesn't believe your lies!"

"..." Moon didn't know how to refute Peeves for a moment. What he said... was outrageous.

"If you don't believe it, Peeves, an article signed by your name will appear in the next issue of the school newspaper, which will be next Monday." Moon vowed: "It will be here soon, isn't it?"

Peeves was completely dumbfounded now. He looked at Moon in confusion, "Really? There will really be articles signed with Peeves' name?"

"Of course it's true. As for the gossip you said about Professor Quirrell running to the basement late at night, I can put your name on it to prove that it was your contribution. Of course, the premise is that you agree, Peeves. And you have to make sure it's true." Moon followed suit and resumed his gentle (un)kind (well-intentioned) smile.

"Seriously?" Peeves repeated his question.

Munn didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he could only nod his head again.Peeves was overjoyed and spun around in the air several times, and even danced a short ballet. While dancing, he said: "No problem, of course Peeves agrees. Peeves promises that it is true, Peeves." I did see that stammering silly Quirrell sneaking around on the basement floor, ha! Maybe it’s because the professors don’t have a curfew!”

"Then, remember to create more school gossip for us in the future, Peeves. As long as you guarantee that it is true and we think it is worth publishing, your signature will appear on it. That's right, Peeves, Your signature. If you want, I can even put your signed photo on it." Moon offered a more generous price, and Peeves jumped directly into the wall (really only his head).

After a few seconds, Peeves pulled out his own head. "Of course, of course, when will Peeves be photographed? Where will Peeves sign his name?"

Moon raised the camera, "OK, now, how about I take a photo of you and you just sign your name on it?"

Peeves had an extremely exaggerated smile on his face, his mouth almost stretched to the back of his head - what's even more exaggerated is that he could still speak normally. "Hey, Moon Fox, how do you like this pose? Whether it looks good or not, if not, I can change it."

"It's okay, Peeves, that's all." Moon pressed the shutter button and took a photo of Peeves, then took out the photo and handed it to Peeves, "Here, you can sign it. The photo will appear in the school newspaper next Monday."

Peeves caught the photo and signed his name on it. Then, he probably thought it wasn't pretty enough or not individual enough, so he simply added a big red heart after the "s" in "Peeves". , and added a slightly weird smiley face in the red heart.

"That's it~" Peeves held the photo in both hands and handed it to Moon, his smile even showing a bit of flattery. "Just put it in the school newspaper, okay?"

"It's OK, there's no problem at all." Moon gestured OK with his hand, "Then I'll leave first?"

"Walk slowly, walk slowly, come here often when you have time!" Peeves was as attentive as a waiter in a restaurant, waving wildly at Munn and saying goodbye to Munn.

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"Let me tell you, we will have an extra special reporter in the future. Remember not to let anything slip when you see him." That night, Moon called all the current members of the school newspaper office together and reported to him. Everyone announced the big news, "He is Peeves."

Unsurprisingly, everyone showed puzzled expressions.

"Peeves? Moon? Are you sure?" Garr looked at Munn confusedly, as if he had a book of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" stuffed into his eyes.

"I'm sure, it's Peeves." Moon had already expected everyone's reaction - because if he had suddenly heard such news, he would probably have the same reaction as everyone else.Since he called everyone over, it meant that he had already thought about how to explain.

"It sounds ridiculous, but think about it carefully. Since we can interview other ghosts, why can't we let Peeves be the reporter?" Moon shrugged. "Isn't Peeves also a ghost? Although he is keen on He likes to play pranks and deceive students for fun, but the problem is - Peeves is also the ghost who likes to wander around the school and eavesdrop. He can find far more gossip and gossip than us."

"What's more, letting Peeves join the ranks of the school newspaper reporters has a small and inconspicuous benefit - he likes this 'job' very much, so no matter how long this love lasts, at least for a while. , he will definitely devote part of his energy to snooping for gossip, which means that in the next period of time, his pranks will definitely decrease a lot. This can be regarded as our contribution to some extent. "

To be honest, everyone already trusted Moon unconditionally in making various decisions about the school newspaper, so no one raised any objections to Peeves becoming a reporter.But the problem is - no one is optimistic about this matter, at least they don't think that the prankster Peeves would be willing to be a reporter.

As a result, Peeves shocked everyone the next day - in just one night, he put eight pieces of fresh gossip on the table in the school newspaper office, and among them were A few of these could really be used in the school newspaper.

In the afternoon, when everyone saw Peeves happily jumping into the school newspaper office with a note and humming a tune, everyone in the school newspaper office was stunned.

"Hey, Peeves, the gossip I found is very good. I decided to put two pieces of gossip in next week's school newspaper, with your name and your photo on them." Moon clicked at Peeves with a smile. nod.

Peeves made an unprecedented move, and everyone even saw his face turn a little red.

After confirming that Moon really wanted to add a new gossip piece to the school newspaper, Peeves saluted Moon fiercely, and then said hello to the six people in the school newspaper office. Then he ran out again happily.

As a result, this day became the quietest day at Hogwarts - Peeves did not pull any pranks for 24 hours.

Chapter 23 The dispute over figs

In the History of Magic class, Moon sat in the back row with Cedric, Gal, and Arlin, sharing the figs that Gal had brought from the kitchen.

It’s not that Cedric has learned bad things from following a few people, but this class is replaced by the portrait of Professor Binns. There is no new class content. You only need to review what has been taught before, or complete the previous class. Just do the homework assigned in class.

In terms of doing homework, Cedric is even more diligent than Moon - Moon will also focus mainly on the school newspaper and reading leisure books. He often completes homework when he has time.In contrast, Cedric usually finished his homework as soon as it was assigned.

That's why Cedric joined his friends in sharing figs.

Ever since being scolded by Professor McGonagall for falling asleep in the History of Magic class last semester, Gal had learned this trick: using snacks and fruit to ward off sleepiness.There is no way, Professor Binns's lectures are so hypnotic, it can be said that the magic sound reaches the ears. Even if Professor Camp and Professor Quirrell are tied together, they can only be comparable.He was also afraid that Professor McGonagall would gank him while he was sleeping sweetly in the History of Magic class, so he had to bring some food over to prevent him from falling asleep.

Anyway, Professor Binns doesn't care who is eating during class, as long as they don't smack their lips.

"Damn it, Yaerlin, don't take it from me - don't you still have it over there?" Gal lowered his voice and forcefully snatched back half of his fig from Yaerlin. "Go and eat yourself." of."

Arlin looked at the fig that had no choice but to bid farewell to him with regret, and said naturally: "How can my own things be more delicious than those that were stolen?"

Moon and Cedric smiled secretly beside them and agreed with Yaerlin's words.

Gal suddenly became anxious and scolded his three friends: "Fart! All the figs you eat are from me and I share them with you. You still want to come over and rob me of the remaining figs after sharing them." Bar."

Arlin took advantage of this and took another whole fig away. Then, before Gal could snatch it, he opened his mouth and bit into it.While chewing, he muttered happily, "Hey, this is just better than what you gave me!"

He didn't notice that someone had appeared at the door of the classroom. He didn't notice that Moon and Cedric suddenly sat upright. He didn't even react when Gal, who was sitting next to him, kept kicking him. He was still wandering around munching on figs. "Don't kick me. Why do you keep kicking me? Why don't you take it back if you can? No, no, no, no one can even chew the figs I have - ah !”

Arlin hadn't finished what he said, and of course he couldn't finish. Professor McGonagall, who noticed that he didn't know how to restrain himself, strode in directly and hit Arlin on the head with the rolled-up school newspaper in his hand.

Arlin was so frightened that he didn't know where to put the remaining third of the figs in his hand. In desperation, he actually put the last bit of figs in front of Professor McGonagall. I also threw figs into my mouth and even chewed them a bit.

All the little wizards who saw this scene: Moon and the three of them, Violet who had just put away her drawing board in a hurry, and Milton who was playing wizard chess on paper with Barton, all burst out laughing—— -No one wants it, but the problem is that Arlin's behavior looks too much like "Professor McGonagall is trying to steal my figs! I have to eat the figs quickly!"

Professor McGonagall was obviously shocked by Arlin's behavior. She never thought that Arlin could do such a thing.

I am the vice-principal of a school, so I can’t steal your figs, right?

Why is it that when someone is caught eating snacks in class, their first reaction is to eat them all quickly?

It's outrageous!

A second later, Professor McGonagall's face turned dark as she recovered from the shock. She glared at Arlin fiercely, and then gestured to Moon with her eyes, "Fox, and you, Arlin. Sutton, come out with me."

In theory, if you want to take a student out of another professor's class, you need to say hello to the professor who is teaching.But this class was just a substitute lesson for Professor Binns' portrait, so Professor McGonagall didn't even bother to say anything more and just called Moon and Arlin out, only whispering at the portrait of Professor Binns when they left. Nodding as a sign.

Naturally, Professor Binns would not have any objections to the portrait, or in other words, he was too lazy to have any objections at all. As long as the students did not make too much noise in the classroom, he would not care about it.

At first, Moon was a little surprised when he was also called by Professor McGonagall, but when he followed Professor McGonagall outside and saw the rolled-up school newspaper in Professor McGonagall's hand, he probably I understand what Professor McGonagall is here for.

That was the latest issue of the school newspaper, which published the gossip about Professor Quirrell staying up late at night and sleepwalking in the basement.

"I was supposed to take you to the principal's office, Fox, but now you have to go by yourself." After leaving the History of Magic classroom, Professor McGonagall first looked at Moon and said to him in a calm tone: " Professor Dumbledore wants to meet you."

"?" Moon couldn't help but feel a little dazed. He originally thought that Professor McGonagall wanted to warn him that he should pay more attention to the content in the school newspaper in the future and try not to include professors.But what he didn't expect was that the one who wanted to see him and talk to him was Professor Dumbledore.

But since Professor McGonagall has already spoken, and the vice-principal is obviously angry at the moment, it is not a good time to ask her questions.Therefore, Moon could only give Yaerlin a look of "asking for blessings", then nodded obediently and walked quickly towards the principal's office.