Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

"Hello, I am your Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Ben Camp. Because I just rushed back to England this morning, you did not see me at the teacher's table on the dinner day. Now, please open your "Dark Force: Self-Defense Guide, let’s start the lesson.”

On the blackboard behind Professor Kangpu, a piece of chalk automatically floated up and his name was written on it.

"This is a good book. You can read it more often. It introduces some good common defensive spells and general spells, as well as some introductions to common dark creatures, some of which are very detailed."

In the audience, Gal couldn't wait to open the book. Although the other little badgers were not as enthusiastic as Gal, most of them were not affected by Professor Camp's weird way of speaking. Only a few were imitating Professor Camp. Looks funny.

"In the first lesson, let's talk about red hats."

Next, the course entered a long period of reading, recording, reading, and recording. It should have been very interesting content, but Professor Comm unexpectedly abruptly mentioned that the little badgers in half the room almost fell asleep.By the time of the second small class, even the excited Gal lay down on the table and gave up reading listlessly.When class was about to end, the only one still sitting upright in the class was Cedric Diggory.As for Moon, he finished reading the book early and spent the entire class reading his own stuff.

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"Oh my gosh, I can already imagine what the History of Magic class will be like this afternoon..."

After finishing Defense Against the Dark Arts, it was time for lunch and lunch break.At the dining table, Arlin took big bites of the apple pie and said in a complaining tone.

Several other people believed it, and even the good student Cedric didn't refute Arlin, because if you don't look at Professor Kump and just listen to his voice, you will really feel that the person lecturing on the stage is a stranger. The ghost of emotion.

At this time, there was a sudden noise in front of the auditorium door.

"Nymphadora Tonks! How dare you! It's the first day of term!"

Many students in the auditorium turned to look over, including Moon and the others.In fact, Nymphadora Tonks is no stranger to most of the new students in the Badger House. This unique senior with the ability to transform into a Magus made quite a few appearances at the opening banquet yesterday. The limelight made many freshmen of Badger Academy admire him very much.

Chapter 14 A less than pleasant lunch

"Ten points from Hufflepuff! After class in the afternoon, go to Professor Sprout's place and receive two nights of confinement! No need to explain! That's it!"

After throwing down the declaration of deduction of points + confinement, Professor McGonagall ignored Tonks who was still trying to explain something, turned around and walked into the auditorium with her head held high, heading straight to the teachers' table.Behind her, Tonks, who had bright pink hair, stuck out her tongue, shrugged at the little badgers who were staring at her, made a face, and walked over quickly and nonchalantly.

"You brats, stop staring at me. Do you deserve a beating?" Tonks sat next to Moon, glanced at the table, and picked up a piece of pumpkin pie. "Sooner or later, you will also be at the auditorium door." If you were scolded by a teacher before, don’t make such a fuss.”

Mu En looked at the piece of pie in Tonks's hand that he had just picked up with a clip and put it on the plate a second ago, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he ruthlessly replied: "You think everyone is like you, keen on Do you want to play some pranks that will only expose yourself and get you into trouble? Senior sister."

Tonks looked at Moon with a smile and ate the pie even more enthusiastically, "Don't be so stingy, junior, what's your name?"

Merlin, Moon knew very well that Tonks definitely knew his name, because Tonks knew him - to be precise, he knew their whole family, and according to what Tonks said at the opening dinner table , Tonks had met Moon when he was just born.What's more, at the opening dinner that day, Tonks kept calling him "little moon" one after another.

Lose someone.

So there was no doubt that Tonks was deliberately trying to piss him off.

To deal with this kind of people, Mu En has his unique trick, because his little uncle Edgar is very similar to Tonks, with a mischievous nature, and he likes to provoke people when he has nothing to do. At this time, you just need to ignore them. They will give up on their own.

Moon glanced sideways at Tonks, stood up, went to get a piece of beef pie, and started chewing on it while reading a book.

Why bother with Tonks, a tall and mature girl?Isn't beef pie delicious?

After three seconds.

"Tonks is dirty..." Moon was so helpless that he even spoke out with a strange accent.

Because Tonks conjured up a long beak to press down on Moon's book pages, and the beak was still opening and closing, making a strange sound, which sounded like "Little Moon, are you angry? Little Moon, are you angry?" Yet?".

"You're using the repeater, right..." Moon took out the book, closed it again and put it aside, looking directly at Tonks.The method of dealing with the younger uncle is not effective. This guy is more naughty than the younger uncle, so he has to change his strategy.

"Reader?" Tonks put away her beak and looked at Munn curiously. The little wizards next to her were also a little confused.

At a time when the repeater had not yet applied for a patent and was officially launched, Moon suddenly realized that they could not understand his joke at all, even those young wizards from the Muggle world. [Note 1]

"Nothing, so, Tonks, what did you do? Make the professor so angry." Moon began to chew the pie with Tonks.

Moon changed the topic in the direction that everyone, mainly Tonks, wanted, so that they would quickly ignore what happened before.

"Ha!" Sure enough, when this was mentioned, Tonks became so excited that she didn't even bother to eat the pie. "I used a spell to lock that nasty Clyde from Slytherin in a shabby cupboard. , and tied him up with his robe and gagged him.”

Most of the new students were a little confused. After all, they had just entered school, and no one knew what Tonks was happy about.Some senior students applauded, but soon someone asked in confusion: "In that case, how did Professor McGonagall find out?"

"Oh..." Tonks raised her hands to cover her face, "I didn't see Professor McGonagall at the top of the stairs at the time. She saw all this..."

When he said this, Tonks's ears turned red - not red like shyness, but like red-hot iron, even glowing slightly.Then, soon, steam erupted from inside.

The little wizards were so amused that they burst out laughing. Even Moon couldn't hold back his nerves and laughed out loud.The laughter of the little badgers inevitably attracted the attention of others. It didn't take long for a few people at the Slytherin table to stand up and walk towards Hufflepuff's long table.

"Are you only going to attack from behind and hang out with children in lower grades?" Surprisingly, the leader of Slytherin is a girl with a soft face and golden hair that makes people unable to move their eyes, but the eyes are too cold Some people resist "Nymphadora."

Obviously, this girl from Slytherin was by no means the first time she had faced Tonks, so she knew exactly how to anger Tonks - just call her Nymphadora. Tonks hated this name. It is said that "Nifa" always reminds her of some unpleasant words. [Note 2]

"Call me Tonks!" Tonks stood up and looked at the Slytherin without fear. "How are you so good? Gemma Farley, the all-round nanny of Slytherin's lower grades, Will they call you mom?"

A whistle sounded - from the Gryffindor table, but because everyone was paying attention, no one saw who blew the whistle.

"Cough!" A slightly heavy cough sounded. Professor McGonagall had a straight face and her eyes were completely fixed on Tonks and Gemma Farley.

Gemma frowned and said, "We'll see, Nymphadora, it won't be easy for you."

Tonks was furious. If Professor McGonagall hadn't been watching, she would have almost pulled out her wand and said a spell. "Okay! Let's see!"

Tonks didn't eat the next meal well. To be precise, she didn't eat at all. She was always bloated, and her cheeks even had a faint tendency to become bigger like a frog.Cedric, who was watching, was terrified, for fear that he would suffer an unwarranted disaster.Gal wanted to laugh heartlessly, but Mu En stuffed a large piece of pudding into his mouth, and he couldn't make a sound for a long time.

Gabriel seemed to want to say something to Tonks, but seeing Tonks like this all the time, he had no choice but to give up.

After an unpleasant lunch, everyone left the auditorium again to go to class. The freshmen of Badger House got their wish and met the ghost Professor Cuthbert Binns.

Probably everyone knows the legendary story of Professor Binns—because he was too old, he forgot to bring his body when he went to class, and became a ghost professor ever since.Almost no one does not admire his professionalism, but at the same time, almost no one likes his dull to the extreme class.

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[Note 1]: The patent application date for the repeater was July 1991, 7.

[Note 2]: According to the annotation of the translation of the "Harry Potter" series of books, the pronunciation of "nympha" in Nymphadora is similar to "nympho", and "nympho" is an unsightly word.

Chapter 15 Boys’ Fun Time

Arlin originally thought that after experiencing the baptism of Professor Kamp in Defense Against the Dark Arts, they would be more resistant to Professor Binns's class. Even most of the other little badgers thought so.But after walking into the History of Magic classroom, within five minutes, they discovered that they were wrong, and how wrong they were.

Compared with Professor Bibbins, Professor Commop's class can even be called "excellent".Because Professor Kang's lectures were just in a flat tone, sounding more like a machine than a human being.However, when Professor Binns gave lectures, he not only spoke in a flat tone, but also often breathed and spoke awkwardly.Not to mention that he always likes to make long sounds, as if he doesn't know how to finish a sentence.These two extra qualities mean that his words are often fragmented and difficult to follow.

In fact, the only moment Professor Binns caught the attention of the badgers during the entire class was when he crossed the blackboard and entered the classroom.

Five minutes after entering the classroom, 5% of the little badgers couldn't hold back their shaky eyelids and climbed onto the table; 80 minutes later, Moon pulled two wads of paper and stuffed them into his ears, then took out his extracurricular books, He decided to take time to study the history of magic on his own, no longer listen to Professor Binns's class, and learn to close his ear plugs to listen to the spell as soon as possible. Twenty minutes later, Gal snored briefly and loudly, waking up several classmates, but It completely failed to disturb Professor Binns' interest in teaching; at minute 10, Cedric, the last one who forced himself to listen carefully to the lecture, tilted his head and fell next to the sleeping Arlin.

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"I didn't miss anything, did I?" Garr rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked at Munn, Arlin and Cedric who were surrounding him. For some reason, Cedric kept looking elsewhere.

Moon looked at him and shook his head sadly, "Nothing special, you just missed your dinner."

"Oh, late... HA?!" Gal jumped up, with a look of horror on his face. "I missed dinner?! Merlin's mother! How long have I been asleep?!"

"There's no point calling Merlin's father, it's already 07:30 now." Munn said, and Arlin turned his head away and shrugged his shoulders, but Gal didn't notice.

"What?! Um...that's wrong." Gal discovered Hua Dian. "Why didn't you go to astronomy class?"

Moon took a deep breath and looked at Gal with a look of pity, "It's 07:30 on Tuesday night."

Gal sat back and looked around blankly, as if he was beyond hope, until he discovered that although the curtains in the History of Magic classroom were blocked, there were not so bright, but absolute strands of light coming from the gaps underneath. It's the light from the sun.

"Damn Munn!!" Gal rushed forward and tried to grab the corner of Munn's clothes, but Munn had already backed away with a smile, and then ran out of the History of Magic classroom.Cedric and Arlin could no longer hold back their laughter, and ran out laughing together, leaving Gal behind, roaring and chasing the three of them, "You all stop! If you are a man, don't run! You can joke around if you can" ! Don’t run away if you have the ability!”

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Everything ended with Professor Sprout's curse and four licorice wands.

Gal wasn't angry at all, he just wanted to extort candy from the three of them.But they were caught running and chasing in the corridor like wild dogs by Professor Sprout. Professor Sprout, who had just returned from the greenhouse, gave them a lesson as they deserved, and then put them Return to the auditorium for dinner.

During dinner time, the little badgers didn't see Tonks, so most of them were a little worried.Although Tonks likes to play pranks, she is very knowledgeable and very nervous.But she is warm-hearted and willing to help others. Apart from her conflicts with some Slytherin students, she actually has a very good relationship with most of her classmates, especially the little badgers.

If Tonks was the only one who didn't show up, everyone had nothing to worry about.It's just that Slytherin's fifth-year prefect, Gemma Farley, who had a quarrel with Tonks during lunch, didn't come either, which was a bit intriguing.

Fortunately, soon after Gabriel's reminder, everyone finally remembered that Tonks still had a sentence of confinement on her body, and then they relaxed and started enjoying dinner.

Moon poked two pieces of golden fried pork chops with a fork and put them on the plate, then took some French fries and ketchup, and then spread out the book.

"Oh my God, Moon, how do you manage to keep reading?" Gal came over and read the name of the book in Munn's hand word by word, "Knowledge of Magic - Analysis of Common Magic... What kind of book is this?" ? Teach people how to release the curse?"

Moon bent his fingers and tried to flick Gal on the head, but Gal quickly retracted his head.

"No, it's about some analysis of magic spells, such as the origin of spells, variations of spells, etc."

Gal shook his head after hearing this, "It doesn't sound suitable for me."

"What are you suitable for? Troll dance teaching?" Yaerin teased Gal as he quickly retreated and hid behind Cedric. Gal, who was chewing roast beef in anger, almost choked himself.

Cedric was also startled and quickly reached out to stop Gal who was about to chase him. At the same time, he glanced at Professor Sprout who was sitting on the teacher's chair and whispered: "Do you want to be beaten by Sprout again?" Can Professor Plaut give me a scolding?"

Gal swallowed the beef in his mouth angrily and muttered: "Arlin Sutton, you are dead, believe me, you are dead!"

Arlin stuck out his tongue, squeezed to sit down next to Cedric, and poked a piece of fried elbow from Cedric's plate with his fork. "Okay, okay, I believe you, I'm dead." .”

Gal gulped down the pumpkin juice and gave Yaerin a final warning with his eyes.

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After dinner, the four of them and the other little badgers rested for a while in the auditorium. Moon was still reading the book tirelessly, and Cedric browsed the content of the evening astronomy course in advance.Arlin and Gal were great. They bickered three times in a row on the three topics of "Wizard Chess", "Flying Lessons", and "Where to Go on the Weekend". If Greg and Doreen hadn't pulled them in the middle, If a new friend they met came over to say hello, Gal would probably be unable to control his hands, press the sharp-tongued Arlin on the long table and use a wand to clear his nostrils.

The tit-for-tat confrontation between the two people lasted until the end of the astronomy class - on the way back to the common room, one of Arlin's wizard jokes successfully made Gal laugh out of breath, and the two people got together again. The muttering went away.

No.16 Chapter Talent

The distribution of classes on Tuesday still makes Hufflepuff's little wizards very satisfied. They only have two classes today, Transfiguration and Charms, both in the morning. The afternoon flying class will not start until the second week.This meant that even though they had to climb up to the fourth floor for Charms after Transfiguration, at least they could have an afternoon to play—or to complete the astronomy homework assigned by Professor Sinistra last night.

This good mood naturally carried them to the Transfiguration classroom. The little badgers met in groups of two and a half to have breakfast, and went to the Transfiguration classroom early to wait for class.Professor McGonagall also affirmed this.

"Very good, no one is late, that's great." Professor McGonagall would actually praise them for such a thing, which made Moon feel a little outrageous, but he soon realized that it was probably because of the students who were late in the past two days. A bit much.

"Today is your first Transfiguration course. First of all, I want to warn you that if you want to learn Transfiguration well, you must first put away any joking, careless, and impetuous mentality and thoughts." As Professor McGonagall spoke, she took out her wand and easily turned a book on the table behind her into a frog with a bulging mouth, which caused the little wizards to exclaim.

"Transfiguration is complex, dangerous, and rigorous. Only with sufficient effort and concentration can you have the possibility of mastering Transfiguration. Of course, talent and a certain amount of imagination are also essential." Professor McGonagall flicked her wand. With a wave, the frog suddenly jumped into her hand, and then turned back into a book - that was the textbook for their class, "Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration."

"Now, has anyone reviewed the homework in advance? Can anyone tell me how to use Transfiguration when you first learn it?"

Except for Moon and Cedric, the rest of the little badgers looked at me and I looked at you, and they all felt the urge to open the book. Only Cedric raised his hand.

"Mr. Diggory, please speak." Professor McGonagall motioned to him.

Cedric stood up from his seat and said generously: "To release the transformation spell, you first need to clearly picture the shape of the object you want to transform in your mind, and secondly, you need to recite the spell clearly, correctly and decisively. waving the wand to avoid misreadings and verbose gestures."

"Yes, very good, Mr. Diggory, please sit down. Five points for Hufflepuff."

Cedric sat down happily, and Professor McGonagall waved her wand, causing matches to float to the desks of the little badgers.

"For Transfiguration, practice is always the source of progress, so our lessons will always be accompanied by the use of wands. Now, please take out your wands, chant the incantation with me, and learn my gestures - —" A match also floated in front of Professor McGonagall. She slowly raised her wand, and the little badgers followed suit.

Once, twice, three times.

After three times, almost all the little wizards showed disappointed expressions - the matches in front of them had not changed at all. Cedric had made a slight change in the shape of his matches. It was almost invisible if you didn't look carefully, but That match is indeed a little thinner.

But Cedric had no intention of looking at his match or showing an excited expression at this moment. The eyes of him and the surrounding classmates were already focused on the match in front of Moon, oh no, the needle. .

The few little wizards sitting next to Moon knew very well that Moon did not follow Professor McGonagall in his third attempt, which was why they looked at Munn.

"Very good, very good, amazing talent, Mr. Fox." After discovering the "abnormal situation" here, Professor McGonagall came over and immediately saw the needle lying on the table. This made She was very surprised, and at the same time showed some rare smiles, "Have you ever tried to practice transfiguration before? Before entering school."

"I have learned some magic spells." Munn replied truthfully: "But the Transfiguration is the first attempt."

"Then, I have to say, Mr. Fox." The smile and admiration on Professor McGonagall's face became more obvious. "Your talent in transfiguration is really amazing. If you can study hard, then I believe that you You will be able to achieve extraordinary achievements in the art of transfiguration.”

Being praised like this made Moon somewhat shy. He pursed his lips and bowed humbly, "Thank you for the compliment, Professor McGonagall. I will continue to work hard."

Professor McGonagall obviously noticed Moon's shyness. She nodded, suppressed her smile, and said to the other little wizards: "Okay, Mr. Fox's success will win another 10 points for Hufflepuff. If there are still If someone succeeds, he will also receive the same award."

Moon's success undoubtedly inspired other young wizards, at least giving them the idea that "it doesn't seem that difficult." Therefore, everyone in this Transfiguration class was very motivated.It's a pity that until the end, no second person successfully completed the transformation.The one who did the best was Cedric, who succeeded in making the end of the match sharp and metallic.This earned him a five-point reward from Professor McGonagall, but Cedric was not satisfied with this. Instead, he took the initiative to make an appointment with Moon for after-school tutoring, determined to continue practicing until there was no class in the afternoon.

Munn's success made Gal and Yaerin very happy, but they did not have Cedric's hard-working spirit, so they just treated this matter as a conversation piece like other little badgers, at most. When chatting with others, you can always say "Moon is my roommate", which makes Munn a little pained, because he will always think of a very similar sentence, "My father is XX".

It turns out that transfiguration is not Munn's only talent. After arriving in the Charms classroom, Munn's talent was once again demonstrated.Professor Flitwick chose the softening spell as their first spell. This was not a spell that Moon had learned himself, but he still turned the stone in front of him into a piece of rubber on the third try. Mud.

There is no doubt that Munn has become famous, and he does not resist it. He is somewhat aware of his magical talent, and has no intention of suppressing himself to spend seven years quietly - even though he is the first person. There are disadvantages, but there are also advantages, and for him in Hogwarts, the advantages obviously outweigh the disadvantages.At least it is easier for outstanding students to find professors and get approval slips from the library, and it is easier for them to get opportunities to start small businesses.

Chapter No.17 The annoying Professor Snape

If we were to choose a teacher who is least liked by students among all the teachers at Hogwarts, the one with the highest score would definitely not be Professor Ben Camp, who speaks in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class and is as plain as water. , and it must not be the ghost from the History of Magic class, Professor Binns.There is no doubt that Professor Snape, who is thin, has sallow skin, and has a huge aquiline nose. From head to toe, he exudes a coldness that is even more exaggerated than that of his Potions classroom. He is definitely the champion. Candidate.After all, even some students in Slytherin House dislike him.

At this moment, the first-year Hufflepuff students were sitting in front of him.

This was the first Potions class for the first-year Hufflepuffs, but it was already Wednesday, and under the guidance of students from other houses, they had already heard about the professor's weird temper.As soon as some little wizards who were always smiling sat in the Potions class, they immediately became angry and did not dare to take a breath. Unfortunately, this did not stop Professor Snape from attacking at all.

"Milton... Graves" the low voice floated gently, like a knife stabbing Milton Graves' neck. This made Milton feel that he was almost suffocating, but Professor Snape Obviously, he has no intention of letting him go. "If you want to murder Miss Baker next to you, I suggest you just use the knife at hand instead of trying to explode your pot with crazy stirring... No one knows how. into such a potion.”