Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

The little wizards thought about it for a while, and it seemed that this was indeed the case, so they stopped worrying and started chatting about the boring trivial matters of life.

The first round of the night ended quickly, and there was no Yatman among the people who came out. Then, there was no Yatman among the two people eliminated in the four-to-two game.

The Hufflepuff little badgers all lost their desire to chat and began to restlessly wait for the final result of the competition - despite what Moon said, everyone still expected Artman to win the competition.

Although the prize for the champion is just a small moving doll.

Twenty minutes later, Yatman finally walked out of the classroom. The expression on his face was still as calm as before, making it impossible to tell whether he lost or won.Fortunately, he didn't want to whet everyone's appetite and said directly: "I lost, No. 10."

To be honest, this is already a very good result. It is a pity that he did not get the first place, but it does not mean that his friends will not cheer for him.

Yatman, who is only a sophomore this year, was able to win second place. Is the championship still far away?

As everyone walked to the Hufflepuff common room, they discussed the competition, prizes and wizard chess with great interest.Moon knows very well that some people take second place at a young age and then fail to take first place or even second place for the rest of their lives.But of course he wouldn't say it out loud, and he wouldn't do anything that would disgrace the scenery.

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After returning to the common room, several young wizards pulled Yatman and insisted on letting him reproduce the chessboard of the game he lost in the end, claiming that they would help him find a way to break the opponent's offensive.There was nothing wrong with Yatman. He originally planned to review the wonderful players he saw in today's game.Moon was not very interested in wizard chess, so he simply said hello to everyone and slipped back to the dormitory room.

Professor Quirrell stayed in the office obediently tonight and did not go out. Peter Pettigrew also stayed next to Patsy. On a whim, he glanced at the positions of Fred and George again and found that they were with Mr. Filch. Talk in the office.

Professor Dumbledore was circling again, Professor McGonagall was...well, Professor McGonagall was missing, at least Moon couldn't find him.Hagrid has returned to his hut, and Fang has been hovering around him, probably because Hagrid is getting Fang something to eat.

Professor Snape…Professor Snape…Professor Snape…

Ah, here.

Moon looked at Professor Snape standing outside the door of Dumbledore's principal's office, wondering what he was doing.

He seemed to have been standing there for a while.

Moon shook his head, put down the Marauder's Map, then picked up the book he borrowed from the restricted book section, and began to read through it.

This book called "The Dark Middle Ages and the Battle Sisters" is very interesting. When Moon first saw it, he thought it was the Warhammer book next door and had gone to the wrong set.After reading it for a while, I realized that the so-called "Battle Sisters" in the title of the book are actually a group of dark wizards who cosplayed as nuns. They enjoy persecuting Muggles and use the name of the church as a cover-up. In fact, they are looking for Fun, if wizards want to cover up, they don't need to use this method at all.

What's more important is that there are actually men among these dark wizards cosplaying as nuns.

How would you rate...

Moon came to browse this book with such a curious idea at the beginning, and even thought that there was no need to put this book in the restricted book area, because the first two chapters of it introduced this book called " The Battle Sisters" group of dark wizards.

It wasn't until he read the third major chapter that Moon realized how wrong he was.

Although the two wizards who compiled this book were not dark wizards themselves, they faithfully recorded many of the black magic used by this group of dark wizards, including but not limited to: spells, action essentials, spell casting keys, and spell effects. and a detailed description of the damage and consequences caused by this spell.

Even how many days and how long a Muggle's intestines will rot after being under the spell were clearly recorded. It was so clear that Moon couldn't help but wonder whether the two wizards who wrote the book really went to Muggles. Tried it.

Moreover, the book seemed to have been cast by the two editors with some kind of magic that would arouse people's empathy. When he read the content that was burned to ashes by the spell, Moon felt tingling pain all over his body.

This is also the main reason why Moon's progress in reading this book has always been very slow.

Chapter 63 Letter from SS

After two days and several hours, after finally reading the third spell in the book, Moon rubbed the center of his eyebrows vigorously, and then before his roommates came back, he quickly opened the window and took advantage of the cold air. Help yourself wake up.

This spell is a very vicious black magic. The person who is cursed will not be harmed immediately, and will even feel refreshed and mentally alert.But in the next few days, the person under the curse will continue to feel headaches, as if something is gnawing at their brains.After a few days like this, the pain will make Muggles unable to help but seek a doctor, or even find someone to perform a trepanation operation on themselves - not to mention it was at that time, even with today's medical methods, Muggles can't. Any problems may be detected.Because this spell does not affect the body at all, but affects the human spirit.

Seven to ten days after being cursed, most of the Muggles in the Middle Ages had died due to unscientific medical treatments. Those who were lucky enough to survive would feel bugs crawling out of their brains under the influence of the spell. The excruciating pain can make it impossible for them to do anything, even walking.Until they smash their own heads, or die completely in the cycle of pain to the point of fainting, waking up, pain to fainting, and waking up.

Under the influence of this book, Moon's head would start to hurt as soon as he started browsing this part.

While cursing himself for being a bitch [Note 1], Moon massaged his head with his fingers.

After 2 minutes, Moon, who finally had a rest, closed the window, went back to bed, and turned another page of the book - in fact, he had decided not to read the book again tonight, and turned the page just because he habit, lest the next spell he wanted to know about was related to the bloody spider released by Quirrell.

After taking a look at the general outline of the new black magic, and confirming that it had nothing to do with the content of the bloody spider, Moon closed the book and rested against the railing of the bed.

At this moment, something suddenly knocked on the window of the room.

Moon was stunned for a moment, opened the curtains and looked out the window, and found an owl he had never seen before.He has a huge body and a ferocious face. He looks like the kind of little guy who likes to peck people's fingers to bleed.

As if he noticed that Munn was looking at him, the little guy quickly knocked on the window with his beak. For fear that the window glass would be broken by the owl, Munn hurriedly got out of bed and went to open it for it. window.

I thought that the owl would fly in to ask for some food, but who knew that after seeing the window open, it actually flapped its wings and flew up, then threw a letter along the window and threw it at Moon's face, followed closely He flew away without looking back.

Moon speechlessly picked up the letter that had come into close contact with his own face. He muttered in his heart that next time he saw this owl, he must give him some color to see. Then he opened the letter cleanly, only Envelope marked "SS".

Thick, very textured paper, slightly yellowed, but judging from the edge cutting and the texture of the paper, this paper is definitely of the expensive type - Moon has seen this kind of paper before , in Potions class.One time when he was handing over a potion, he found a stack of such papers on Professor Snape's desk. He didn't have time to read the contents in detail, but he glanced at them at a glance, probably looking at something related to the potion.

The familiar paper, coupled with the signature "SS" on the envelope, left no doubt that this letter was from Professor Snape.But the question is, why did Professor Snape send him a letter?

More importantly, if that owl is Professor Snape's owl, I'm afraid his idea of ​​teaching that owl a lesson will most likely fail.

Opening the folded paper, the words inside were concise, clear and very direct:

"Professor Dumbledore asked me to teach you some knowledge related to dark magic, so that you will not accidentally go astray when reading those books from the restricted area. Tomorrow night at six o'clock, my office."

There was a formal signature at the bottom of the letter, it was "Severus Snape".

After seeing the content of the letter, Moon roughly understood.Professor Dumbledore probably calculated that he should have checked out the second book in the restricted area recently, and began to browse the part about real dark magic.Asking Professor Snape to teach him some content related to black magic was obviously not only to help him understand the content of the book well, so as to avoid any negative consequences caused by his misunderstanding; but also to educate him to a certain extent. Supervise, tell him the dangers of black magic so that he doesn't go in the wrong direction while reading these books.

This kind of teaching is something that Professor Dumbledore is unable to do. Firstly, it is because he is busy with work. You know this, as the Minister of Magic changes, Professor Dumbledore has a lot of things to deal with; secondly, Professor Dumbledore's attitude towards dark magic, his disdain and resistance, also made it impossible for him to be a guide who could help people understand dark magic correctly.

On the second point, Professor Snape is obviously not very competent. After all, this professor was once very obsessed with dark magic (and even likes it now).But there is no other way. Apart from Professor Snape, there is probably no other person in Hogwarts who can help Moon.

Moon put away the letter and felt a little funny. Professor Dumbledore was really not afraid that Professor Snape would lead him astray.

In any case, it is very good to have Professor Snape as a guide in the process of understanding black magic.

If only he could hold those weird words in his throat and not say them.

But this is obviously impossible.

Rather than hoping that Professor Snape would shut up, it would be better to hope that Cornelius Fudge, the future minister, would be assassinated before taking office.

Speaking of which...is Fudge about to be officially confirmed as taking over?

Nine days have passed since Minister Barnold left office, and it is almost the end of October. It is estimated that it will take another week at most before Cornelius Fudge's acceptance speech.

Moon dug out a bottle of cherry juice from the cabinet next to the bed. While drinking it, he put Professor Snape's letter into his robe pocket, then went to bed and found a book with a lighter content. Looked up.

If Garr were in the dormitory right now and saw Moon reading a book, he would probably be shocked, because Moon could actually read a book backwards - yes, it was a book called "The Quibbler".

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[Note 1] Jipizi is a dialect word, which usually indicates the meaning of knowing that one has to suffer and yet keep trying.

Chapter 64 Professor Snape’s Dark Arts Course

Professor Snape's office was as cold as ever, just like the professor's overall temperament.But it's not that humid, probably because it's easier to store the potion, and it's not suitable for keeping the office filled with moisture all the time.

Moon looked around curiously. There were dim candles burning everywhere, and it looked very ghostly. It made people worry about Professor Snape's eyesight. He stayed in a place like this every day tinkering with potions. This light is already uncomfortable enough, and it’s really hard for Professor Snape to not wear glasses until now...

Why don't you give him a light test if you have a chance in the future?

The walls were covered with shelves stacked on top of each other, filled with countless bottles and jars of all kinds, stuffed with strange and slimy specimens of animals and plants, all soaked in potions.Moon could not identify what all the materials inside were, but he did admire Professor Snape's art of arranging bottles: all the bottles and jars were arranged in a regular manner, with different categories, different sizes, and different names. The initials... According to this set of rules, the bottles are all placed quite neatly and clearly.

Compared with the jars placed on the wall shelves, Professor Snape's long table looked much messier. The things on it were piled up in a haphazard manner. It looked like a completely different world from the wall shelves.Placed on top was an open book. Professor Snape seemed to have no intention of hiding the contents of the book. Even if Moon saw it, he did not close the book.

Because it was just a mediocre Potions textbook, and there were no notes on it.

So...Professor Snape is preparing a lesson?

Moon was a little curious, but Professor Snape didn't close the book, but that didn't mean he didn't intend to take the opportunity to make some yin and yang remarks to Moon.

"Mr. Fox, if you can't control your eyes, you can ask me to cast an eye curse on you next time you come here. It's better than looking around without any rules." Snape said this. He didn't even raise his head, he was still staring at the Potions textbook in front of him, as if he could see flowers from it.

Moon curled his lips helplessly and stopped looking around. Firstly, he was not secretly spying on any secrets, and secondly, he did not wander around and look around. He simply stood there and looked around. Snape was obviously looking for something on purpose. Reasons to ignore him.

However, since the master had brought it up, he had no choice but to look at his nose and heart, and honestly found a chair to sit down.

A few minutes later, Professor Snape took out a notebook from the table, wrote something on it with a quill, then put the notebook into the Potions textbook, put it casually on the table, and then looked towards Moon.

"Moon...Fox."

Moon looked confused at Professor Snape who stopped talking after calling his name. What does this mean?Do you want me to shout "arrive"?

After a few more seconds, Professor Snape suddenly pulled out his chair, stood up and strode over to Moon, staring intently at Moon.Moon leaned back reflexively - Professor Snape's sudden movement made him feel slightly uncomfortable, and those cold eyes were obviously trying to peek into his inner thoughts.

It was a little offensive, but it was very characteristic of Professor Snape, who probably wanted to see if he had any signs of being corrupted by the dark arts.Because Moon could clearly feel that Professor Snape was not trying to read through his memory, but was simply experiencing his emotions.

The problem is, he can't succeed.

Sure enough, after a while, Professor Snape snorted coldly, turned around, found another notebook from the table, opened it and whispered: "The principal told me about your Legilimency talent. High, which even surprised him personally, but in my opinion, this is not good news. If I guess correctly, you should have been exposed to it early on while learning how to control your natural Legilimency abilities. How do I close my mind and heart?”

"Indeed, Professor, this is necessary in the process of controlling my involuntary Legilimency of others." Moon adjusted his sitting posture and replied.

Professor Snape nodded slightly, "This will inevitably have an impact on my courses, because I can't accurately sense your emotions, and even if I can, I can't accurately judge whether there is any deception on your part. And black magic The erosion of people often begins with changing a person’s emotions and character.”

He wrote something in the notebook, probably a comment or an idea on how the course should be conducted, and then said: "I have always felt that it is necessary for Hogwarts to teach you some dark magic - not necessarily spells, but even if it is just to let you It's good for you to experience and feel black magic. Unfortunately, the principal doesn't think so. He firmly believes that staying away from black magic is a good thing."

"I can't change the principal's mind, and now, it seems that you can be a good example. This is the main reason why I am willing to take this job."

Professor Snape clicked a dot on the notebook with a pen, then closed the notebook with a snap, turned his gaze back to Moon, and asked coldly: "Strictly speaking, what about Legilimency and the brain?" The contact with Occlumency is both a bad thing and a good thing for the course. I can't feel your emotions, and I can't tell whether you are affected by black magic. But you yourself are... I have to admit that besides being a genius Besides, he is also very determined.”

When he said this, Professor Snape's brows twitched, as if he was reluctant to praise others like this.

"Therefore, the experience of being exposed to Legilimency and Occlumency can allow you to better control your emotions, which can weaken the impact of black magic on you as much as possible."

"Now, tell me, how many times have you read the book "The Dark Middle Ages and the Battle Sisters"?"

Moon pursed his lips and answered seriously, "I have read the entire preface and Chapter 1, which is the overview part. In the following details about the spells, the Heart-Destroying Curse, the Visually Impaired Curse and the Illusion I’ve also finished reading the Insect Curse—the third Phantom Insect Curse was just finished yesterday.”

"Yes, the progress is much faster than I expected." Professor Snape walked towards a row of shelves, as if he was looking for something. "When I read these spells, I felt something different from when I was learning other spells." Does it feel different?”

"Apart from the pain that the book itself brought to me..." Moon took a deep breath, "I can indeed clearly feel that I will gradually develop an inexplicable desire for destruction."

Chapter 65 Dark Magic Quest

"Very good. Being able to sense this proves that you are at least qualified to contact and learn black magic at this age. As I said before, your talent helps a lot."

Professor Snape took down a jar from the shelf with a black toad soaked in it. However, he did not seem to intend to use it. Instead, he placed it on the table and continued: "Before the lecture officially begins, Before that, I want to correct some misconceptions you may have about black magic."

"You must first understand that black magic does not mean evil magic."

Moon strongly supported this view, but he did not intend to open his mouth. Instead, he wanted to hear Professor Snape's opinion.

"People's misunderstanding of black magic is often too serious. In the mouths of the world, black magic is misinterpreted as evil, sinful, and terrible... It seems that as long as you come into contact with and use black magic, your life will be changed. It's like a crime." Professor Snape waved his hand, and a small board and a few pens flew out from behind a shelf and hung on the wall.

"There is no doubt that this is wrong. Although black magic itself is indeed a very dangerous thing, if you control it properly and understand how to use them, then black magic will become a powerful helper for you - however, in this process , you must always remember that the road to learning black magic is like walking on a cliff, and you will fall into the abyss if you are not careful. Black magic itself is often used to hurt, curse, and kill, which makes them dangerous from the beginning of their creation. Full of malice, and because of this, you need the blessing of malice to use them. If you don't intend to really hurt someone, then the black magic you release will have no power at all. Even the three indispensables The forgiveness spell will only become a tickling toy."

"These black magics that are accompanied by malice not only rely on malice when using them, but will also inevitably be corroded by malice when learning. It would be okay if they are some evil curses [Note 1], because evil curses It does not contain too much malice in itself. But when we mention these taboo black magic, we often refer to curses [Curse], rather than curses [Jinx] or poison curses [Hex]. This is obvious, some For ordinary curses, you can find a lot of books teaching you how to cast them in Flourish and Blotts. But there, you will never find a book that clearly teaches you how to use Avada Kedavra. Books that kill people.”

"And what I am talking about, these black magics that contain strong, terrifying, and unpredictable malice, are exactly these curses."

"They are ever-changing, infinitely powerful, dangerous, cunning, and vicious. To fight against them requires great courage and wisdom. Likewise, to learn from them requires even more courage and wisdom. Otherwise, you will only learn more about them. Go deeper and gradually become a slave to black magic, which will corrode the mind and distort the soul."

Professor Snape picked up a pen and wrote a spell on the blackboard, which was the same visual impairment spell that Moon had read before.

"Mr. Fox, please answer a question now." He turned around and looked at Moon coldly. "According to what I just said, what is the biggest obstacle you can think of in the next process of learning black magic? "

Moon hesitated, and then said thoughtfully: "I think, Professor, there are two biggest obstacles I can think of. One is that when I come into contact with these spells, in order to avoid being affected by them, I have to slow down. My own footsteps; the other is that I’m afraid it will be difficult to find someone to practice with, after all, I can’t cast a Phantom Insect Curse on you.”

Although Professor Snape was indeed unpopular during his time in class, Moon never considered murdering the professor.

Of course, if other young wizards came over, Moon was really not sure whether they would want to use a non-lethal black magic on Professor Snape.

Professor Snape snorted slightly, agreeing with Moon's answer, "I will tell you how to solve these problems to the greatest extent in the next class, but now, before you leave, I need to tell you One thing."

He wrote two more spells on the blackboard, which were the Phantom Insect Curse and the Heart-Destroying Curse that Munn had seen in the past few days. But obviously, the professor had no intention of discussing these with Moon in this class. Dark Magic "The principal told me that he wanted to ask you to help find the spell that Quirrell released in your...prophecy. Did he mention to you a dark magic that retained the spell?"

"Yes, Professor."

"Unfortunately, Professor Dumbledore and I have different opinions on this point." Professor Snape put down his pen, turned around, took out his wand, and after reciting the spell softly, a bloody A spider crawled out from the tip of his stick. "As the principal said, he was not very sure that his judgment was correct. Later he talked to me about this matter, and I thought that his judgment was obviously incorrect. .”

"Spiders are a very common image in black magic. Many black magics that require something similar to a magical creature as a carrier will use spiders, snakes, toads or similar things as the carrier when they are created. Symbol. Coupled with the endless variations of various black magics, I know at least more than ten kinds of black magic can be constructed just for things like the bloody spider."

He raised his wand and snapped his fingers, causing the cork of the bottle with the toad on the table to pop open.At the same time, the bloody spider clinging to the tip of Professor Snape's wand jumped up and jumped into the bottle.

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[Note 1] Jinx is one of the three major categories of black magic. It is also the least powerful spell among the three (jinx, hex, and curse) and is more commonly used for mischief. And there is often a way to break the curse, causing little harm to the recipient.In comparison, poison spells are even more powerful, while curses are the most powerful and evil. The three unforgivable curses are among the curses.It should also be noted that the original work does not explicitly mention that "learning black magic will cause people to be maliciously corroded, and their character and soul will be distorted." This part can be regarded as a second set.But the original work does mention that the use of black magic (at least part of it, such as Horcrux making) will distort the wizard's soul, temperament, and even appearance.In addition, the use of black magic requires malice, which is also an official setting of the original work. I think most people know it, so I won’t go into details here.

[Note 2] In addition, perhaps most book friends will misunderstand this - although curses are the most dangerous of the three categories of black magic, in fact, the scope of curses is the same as jinxes and poisonous curses. It's very broad, and students at Hogwarts also learn curses in dark magic, but they only learn some of the simpler ones.For example, the Exploding Curse - Thunderbolt Explosion, the Whole Body Binding Curse - Petrify Everything, the Crushing Curse - Shattered into Bones, etc. These are all spells that are on the list of curses like the three unforgivable curses, but they can all be used in Hogwart. ci learned.

This is mainly because not all curses are dangerous to the caster and require great malice to be cast. Even the boundaries of many spells are relatively flexible, and there is no very clear distinction between jinxes, poison curses and curses. The dividing line is that some curses are not even considered curses, and "curses" are not necessarily at the same level as the Unforgivable Curse.

When Professor Snape discussed dark magic with Moon, including what he called "the dark magic that Professor Dumbledore wants you to stay away from", they were all those that would burden the caster and were highly dangerous and should never be used. Dark magic that will appear in "Standard Spells" and the Hogwarts teaching system.What is said in this chapter [Note 1] that "the use of black magic will cause a certain degree of invasion to the caster" also refers to this type of more dangerous black magic.

Chapter 66 Unhealed Injuries