Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

So, was the card Violet said yesterday that she couldn't show to herself yet, turned out to be the card used to invite him to attend the masquerade party on Halloween?

No wonder.

Moon leaned on the bed, picked up the thick tome he borrowed from the restricted book section, and started chewing it with satisfaction.

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An hour later, Moon almost jumped out of bed.

He couldn't help but wonder if someone had poured a "super-enhanced version of the Felixir" into what he drank a few days ago.

'The Dream Weaver Curse is a special spell whose origin is unknown. Its origin can even be traced back to Rome more than a thousand years ago. It is not only powerful, but also extremely strange. The person who is cursed will fall into a permanent sleep and dream. and cannot wake up again.At the same time, anyone who attempts to use dispelling spells to relieve the cursed person without understanding the principle will be dragged into the sleep dream woven by the Dreamweaver Curse until they die. '

'The special thing about this spell is that in addition to the incantation that must be precise to every syllable and the correct casting gestures, the caster must also use the help of some props, including 12 pieces soaked in spider venom. Spider web, a page with the Dreamweaver spell written in ink mixed with spider venom, a recently dead spider dangling from its silk, and a tapestry shuttle. '

'When the spell is successfully cast, a blood-colored mist will emerge from the fingertips and sway along the traces of the gesture until a spider of the same color is born from it - this is the carrier of the Dream Weaver Spell, which will It fully obeys the orders of the spell caster, but can only be used once. When the spider bites a target, the magic power of the Dream Weaver Spell will act on the target, and the spider as a carrier will also be completely dissipated. '

'The first time I saw the Dream Weaver Curse was in a small village in France. There lived a mysterious witch who was three hundred years old. She made a living by collecting money and helping people to cast curses on their enemies.Out of curiosity, I paid her a huge fee and asked her to help me curse an enemy that I had had for many years - of course, it was just an enemy I made up. This witch had failed to curse many times, but she paid me again. The fee was full of greed, so he took control of my body and used my hand to cast the Dream Weaver Curse...'

Moon read these passages several times in disbelief. Except for not taking out the materials mentioned above, Quirrell almost copied all the contents above, including the effects.

The pages of the book that I searched for carefully, the bloody mist that spread out, the spiders that emerged from the mist...

This is far more consistent with Quirrell's spellcasting process than the spells previously demonstrated by Professor Dumbledore and Professor Snape.

He wanted to pick up the book immediately and go straight to Professor Dumbledore's office, but now was obviously not the right time. After all, it was already curfew time, and Professor Quirrell had already been sent away. No matter how good the news was, There is no need to rush this short night.

Moon let out a breath and read the remaining content while holding back his excitement.

'The Dream Weaver Curse was successfully released. I paid the witch her due reward as promised and left the witch's home with the spider created by the Dream Weaver Curse. '

'But after leaving her door, I placed the lovely ruby-red spider on the window sill of the witch's house, and came again that night - of course, this time I didn't knock on the door or say hello, Instead, he let the spider get in through the cracks in the house.Although the witch used a lot of magic to protect her house, just as she had promised, this little guy born under the Dream Weaver Curse completely ignored all the protective magic and easily climbed onto the witch's bed and bit her. On her neck. '

'Following that, I swept through all of the witch's inheritance, the ill-gotten gains she made with her curses, and even found her magic book.Unfortunately, the incantation of the Dreamweaver Curse was not recorded in that book.And after that, I spent two full years looking for clues about the Dream Weaver Curse, but unfortunately I still found nothing. '

After closing the book with some disappointment and stuffing it into his bag, Moon lay on his side on the bed.

The story of the black man eating the black man was quite interesting, but he thought he could see more information about the Dream Weaver Curse, but the author didn't even write down how the witch behaved after being hit by the Dream Weaver Curse.

It can only be said that everything will always have some flaws.

He was about to turn off the lights and go to sleep, but something suddenly popped into his mind——

If he remembered correctly, Sonia Floris, the teaching assistant who came to teach them the Transfiguration class last Tuesday, also invited him to be her dance partner.

What Floris said at the time was that the Halloween dinner would be a more formal dance. Because Cornelius Fudge wanted to come to Hogwarts for a show-style inspection, she was chosen to lead the dance, so she gave birth to The idea of ​​asking Moon to be your dance partner?

But the latest news he received now, what Arlin and the others said was that the Halloween dinner was a masquerade party, and Violet's letter and package could completely prove this.

What's going on...?

Chapter 119 The Curse of the Spider Woman

[Supplementary Note] The Dream Weaver Spell and the following book "Journey to Dark Magic in the Fifteenth Century" are both original spells in this book, not the original content.

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The next day, Moon's doubts were successfully answered.

He took the "Journey to Dark Magic of the Fifteenth Century" in which he discovered the Dream Weaver Curse, and went straight to the principal's office after finishing the afternoon Transfiguration class.Although there is no latest password, the gargoyle at the door of the principal's office has long been too lazy to stop him - this little kid goes to the principal's office every two days, almost more diligently than Professor McGonagall, and he is always there The practical significance of conducting some surprise attacks and using password cards is almost zero.

But after letting Moon go through the door, the gargoyle thought secretly in his heart. He must ask Professor Dumbledore to give him more passwords when he has nothing to do. Otherwise, if he keeps doing this, he will still be very safe. Hidden danger.

After going up the spiral staircase, Moon stopped in front of the wooden door and was about to knock on the door when he heard the sound of conversation coming from inside.

"I don't understand, Dumbledore, anything during this time! Anything!" The speaker was a middle-aged man. He seemed to be deliberately suppressing his voice to prevent himself from roaring. But in fact, it had little effect. He was indeed almost roaring when he spoke.

"I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about it, Minister." Professor Dumbledore's familiar gentle voice followed. His tone was calm, and his words also revealed the identity of the middle-aged man - the new Minister of Magic, Connell. Leigh Fudge "Because I don't understand what you don't understand."

Although Moon wanted to continue listening, he was keenly aware that the two people would definitely talk more about recent events, but this approach was indeed a bit too rude, whether it was to Cornelius Fudge, Or to Professor Dumbledore.So he shook his head slightly, raised his hand and knocked lightly on the door, "Professor Dumbledore, are you there? I have some questions to ask you."

In fact, he shouldn't stand up at this time. The best choice is to turn around and leave and come back another time.Because his appearance undoubtedly announced to Fudge that the Shafik family and Albus Dumbledore were on the same side from top to bottom, which would only make Cornelius Fudge distrust Professor Dumbledore and Shafi The Ke family is even more afraid.

However, Fudge will realize this sooner or later, so it doesn't matter.Showing up was not the best choice, but it was a choice Moon wanted to make.

The wooden door of the principal's office slowly opened, and sure enough, Cornelius Fudge was standing in front of the window. Professor Dumbledore, wearing a decent robe, stood beside Fudge.

Both of them looked at Moon. Professor Dumbledore's eyes were slightly surprised and confused, while Fudge showed obvious resentment.

"Uh, I'm sorry, Professor, did I come at the wrong time?" Moon looked embarrassed and took a small step back, as if he was about to turn around and leave at any time.

Professor Dumbledore shook his head helplessly, then put on his usual smile, and said to Fudge: "Minister, let me introduce to you, this is..."

"No need, Dumbledore, I know him." The resentment on Fudge's face was well hidden by him. The newly appointed minister made a serious face and forced out a smile. "The Shafiq family The little genius, Moon Fox, I met him once at Shafiq Manor, but that was a few years ago."

Before Moon or Professor Dumbledore could answer, Fudge turned sideways and looked at Dumbledore again, "It seems that today is not a good time to continue chatting. Dumbledore, I will come back to you at another time. Farewell—no need to send it off.”

Dumbledore nodded slightly, but still insisted on accompanying Fudge out of the office, leaving a cup of hot cocoa for Moon and the words, "Sit down first."

The wooden door of the principal's office was closed again. Moon pulled up the chair opposite Professor Dumbledore's desk and sat down, while taking a sip of the hot cocoa in the cup.

Fox was squatting on the shelf and taking a nap. Of course, it was more like pretending to sleep.Otherwise, you can't explain why it didn't wake up no matter how loud Fudge roared, but now it looked sideways when Moon sat there.

"Hi, Fox." Moon waved to it happily, and Fox chirped softly in response, then lazily lowered his head and combed his feathers.

Just as one person and one bird were living in harmony, five minutes slipped away quietly, and Professor Dumbledore opened the door again and walked in.

"Professor, you are back."

"Well." Professor Dumbledore straightened the collar of his robe, then walked to the shelf where Fox was, stretched out his fingers and gently stroked the feathers on Fox's wings. "I feel... you seem to have a great interest in the new minister." Views."

"Indeed." Moon admitted bluntly. "I think Mr. Fudge's enthusiasm for power is a bit too much. Therefore, I think he will never be a competent minister."

After all, even if he has not watched the plot of Harry Potter and does not have any advance knowledge of Fudge's outrageous actions in the future, Moon also knows very well what these people with an excessive desire for power will do after they really gain power. Come.

"In this way..." Professor Dumbledore nodded, without commenting on Moon's point of view or asking any further questions. Instead, he asked: "So, Moon, why did you suddenly come here again?"

"Ah, speaking of this, Professor, I may have found the spell that Professor Quirrell cast in the Room of Requirement." When the business was brought up, Moon suddenly became excited and spread out the book in his hand. On Professor Dumbledore's desk, "This is the Dream Weaver Charm. Except for the casting materials, all the details of Professor Quirrell's spell are consistent with the Dream Weaver Charm."

"Dreamweaver Curse." Professor Dumbledore repeated the name of the curse, but he did not come forward to look at it, but seemed to be stuck in his memories.

After a few seconds, he looked at Munn, his eyes full of admiration, "I think this is the correct answer, Munn, I didn't expect you to really find the clue. Ah... Dreamweaver Curse, Spider Woman's Curse, Allah Kne's resentment... I almost forgot about this curse." [Note 1]

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[Note 1] Arachne, from "Metamorphoses" written by the ancient Roman poet Ovid, is a woman who is good at brocade weaving and has extraordinary craftsmanship. However, because of her arrogance, she has an affair with the god Minerva in Roman mythology. During the competition, he made an extremely disrespectful act and was turned into a spider by Minerva.

Chapter 1 Sundae and Halloween

"This is a very ancient curse. I really didn't expect Quirrell to be able to cast the Dream Weaver Curse." Professor Dumbledore said with some emotion: "If this is the case, then I think we must be forced to suspend classes. ”

The smile that was still on Moon's face suddenly froze. He pursed his lips and suddenly understood.

Yes, if a spider created by the Dreamweaver Curse is still lingering in Hogwarts, no matter who it aims its fangs at, it will be a huge disaster.Faced with the Dreamweaver Curse, which could ignore most of the magical protection, the only thing Professor Dumbledore could do was to evacuate the students and conduct a top-to-bottom investigation of Hogwarts.

He frowned tightly and suddenly thought of something. When he raised his head, he found Professor Dumbledore looking at him with a half-smile.

"Okay, Moon, I can probably guess what you are thinking - don't worry so much. Suspension of classes is a last resort. Fortunately, we still have some methods." Professor Dumbledore said with a smile: "Dreamweaver Curse" Although terrifying, he also has a flaw, that is, he must get the order of the curser before he can attack the target. However, before sending Quirrell away, I confirmed that he was indeed trapped under the curse, so he did not attack the target. Not conscious, not disguised.”

"That means...at least we still have some time to find the spider before Quirrell wakes up."

Moon breathed a sigh of relief, and his previously frozen expression softened again.

"Speaking of which, Professor Dumbledore, I have another question to ask you." Moon rubbed his hair, not knowing how to speak.After much hesitation, he finally gritted his teeth and asked the question he wanted to ask, "Well, a girl previously invited me to be her dance partner. She told me that this year's Halloween dinner will be a more formal one." The dance. But just yesterday, Arlin and the others, uh, my roommates, told me that the Halloween dinner would be a costume party..."

Professor Dumbledore took a sip of the orange-red juice in the crystal cup and couldn't help laughing. "Ha, Moon, when I heard you say that a girl invited you to be her dance partner, I thought you wanted to ask. What should I choose to wear to the prom? Believe me, I can always give the best help in this regard."

The silver-haired old man happily took another sip of juice, then put down the cup and spread his hands: "But I can also answer this question for you - what they said is correct. I guess the one who invited you to be a dance partner The girl must be a senior girl, and the invitation was probably before Thursday?"

"You also met our Minister of Magic just now. To be honest, what happened this time made him extremely angry and furious. If you hadn't come unexpectedly, he would have spent at least half of his time here. Hours. Therefore, the originally scheduled visit was cancelled, and he had to use all his energy to deal with the criticism from the families of St. Mungo's patients."

As he said that, Professor Dumbledore blinked and said, "That's it. I think he will probably be glad that he didn't announce his visit to Hogwarts in advance."

"So that's it..." Moon rubbed his hair. He thought Floris might have some problem before, but now it seems that he has been too disturbed by various affairs recently.

"That's right, well, although I also enjoy chatting with you, Moon, it's time for you to go have dinner." Professor Dumbledore smiled and issued the expulsion order, "I also have to deal with some things of my own."

"Ah, okay, Professor, excuse me for disturbing you." Moon stood up quickly. Professor Dumbledore didn't mention this. He didn't feel hungry yet, but as soon as Professor Dumbledore finished speaking, his stomach began to growl. "I guess it's really time for me to get to dinner. Goodbye, Professor."

"Yeah." The old man nodded slightly and watched Munn walk out of the office. Then he sat down at the desk and took out a bowl of extra-large sundae from somewhere and started eating it.

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Amid the long-awaited expectations of the little wizards and wizards at Hogwarts, October 31st has finally arrived.

Just like last year, Moon and the four of them ran to the auditorium early in the morning, but this time they were not the only ones who came. Under the unremitting publicity of Yaerlin and Gal, the entire school newspaper office also joined in. On Halloween morning, we were among the army carving pumpkins and decorating the hall.Even four people from Milton's dormitory came with them, as well as Gabriel and Laryn, who attended the "New Year's Eve dinner" together during the Chinese New Year this year.

While Hagrid was working energetically, he secretly wiped away tears where no one could see him - this sentimental half-blood giant was really touched. This was the first time in Hogwarts for so many years. Once, a student was willing to get up early in the morning to accompany him to make these basic arrangements.You know, in previous years when Moon and the others were not here, he would basically transport the things over and prepare them first, and then the professors would complete the decoration of the entire auditorium one after another throughout the day.

Therefore, even when Milton clumsily carved a pumpkin into a large funny face, Hagrid didn't complain. Anyway, they didn't have much else, and pumpkins always had enough to take care of.

Of course, there was no need for Hagrid to complain. Just Gemma’s murderous eyes and the ridicule from Gar, Arlin, Barton and others were enough for Milton to run away in despair and stay away from the pumpkin pile like Moon.

Laria, who had never carved a pumpkin before, was also a little clumsy in learning the actions of others, and soon she was able to make the pumpkin look good - because she finally put down the knife prepared by Gal and used her instead. wand.In contrast, Garforth from Ravenclaw and Gemma and Ashley, who were also carving pumpkins for the first time, all performed extremely well, which made Moon jealous again.

Even Milton can carve a pumpkin into something funny, but what about him?He could only make the pumpkin look like a weird big painted face, and he even often got it smashed by mistake.

In this way, amidst the laughter and laughter of everyone, the work was completed extremely quickly. Even when the aroma of roasted pumpkin was just coming out, everyone had already finished everything.

"Okay, little guys, thank you very much." Hagrid looked at everyone with a happy smile and clapped his hands hard. "I'm done with my work. It's time for me to go back. You go and wait for breakfast."

"Bye Hagrid~" Everyone agreed and said goodbye to Hagrid. Even Gemma, who never liked to smile, showed a smile.

Moon looked at everything and suddenly felt a little emotional.

Professor Quirrell was also sent away. If the spider created by the Dream Weaver Curse could be found as soon as possible, maybe everyone could live happily like this this semester.

How awesome would that be…

Chapter 121 Angle and Aperture

The first Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the morning was relaxed. As soon as Professor Quirrell left, the ones teaching everyone became the student assistants in recent years and Professor Snape - yes, Professor Snape started. for his voluntary substitute teaching trip.Fortunately, the second-year Hufflepuff wizards have not yet received lessons from Professor Snape, and the substitute student teaching assistants have never been very strict.

The second class is still very relaxed, because it is a history of magic class, so everyone can just do what they want to do.

They have a total of three classes on Wednesday. In addition to the Defense Against the Dark Arts class and the History of Magic class in the morning, there is only the astronomy class in the evening. However, because tonight is Halloween and there is a banquet, the astronomy class is also Canceled temporarily.

"So, have you decided what you are going to do tonight?" Gal asked vaguely while chewing the mutton pie: "I thought it was the pumpkin-headed monster, but the gay one from the store is too gay. It’s too big for me to wear.”

Before Moon and the others could reply, Gabriel next to him looked at Gal curiously, "Hey, Gal, did you buy it at the 'Purple Pepper Strange Shop' that I recommended?"

"No poke." Gal nodded vigorously.

"Then you don't have to worry." Gabriel said with a smile: "Sometimes their clothes have this problem. The adaptation spell on them is not sensitive enough and cannot adjust the opening according to the body size of the person wearing it. , I will help you deal with it when you go back later, and you can wear that pumpkin head tonight."

Gal's original little disappointment disappeared instantly, but Violet's roommate diagonally across the street said dejectedly: "Oh no, Gal and I probably bought the same clothes... won't it look like that by then?" Would it be embarrassing?”

Cedric turned his head and came over, "Then you can enter the venue with Gal and dance together, so it won't be awkward."

Gal nodded blankly, causing the little girl opposite to roll her eyes. Everyone around them snickered and looked at them. Arlin even said unscrupulously: "Then you have to be careful, you are all wearing pumpkin heads." If so, be careful when your heart starts dancing and your two big heads bump into each other.”

Moon looked at Yaerlin's disgraceful mouth speechlessly, then picked up a croissant and stuffed it directly into his mouth.

The table full of food couldn't stop his mouth.

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Before the evening arrived, it was just past three o'clock in the afternoon, and the craze of cross-dressing had already begun to spread in the Hufflepuff common room. Many young wizards had changed into their own clothes for the evening in advance.

Among these people were Gal and Demi Noel, Violet's roommate who also bought a pumpkin head costume from the Purple Chili Bizarre Shop. They chatted for a long time in the afternoon, and now They all put on their pumpkin-head suits for the night and were warming themselves by the fire in the common room while bobbing their heads to the music on the record player that someone had bought. They looked very happy.

Moon didn't want to change clothes at first, but after Gal, Yarlin and Cedric also changed into their "fancy clothes": Yarlin got a set of clothes that looked very much like medieval soldiers, with stains on them. Covered with all kinds of bloodstains and with many arrows stuck in it; Cedric wears a very common large cloak and skull face mask, and is only a sickle away from the classic image of the God of Death.

Under the constant encouragement and coercion of the two, Moon had no choice but to find the pair of red horns from the package and put them on his head. In exchange, Yaerin moved the two arrows on his clothes to At the knees.

Neither Arlin nor Cedric understood why Munn had to let Arlin get an arrow in his knee. Only Munn looked at this success with satisfaction and kept mumbling, "I used to be an adventurer, until my An arrow in the knee.”

It doesn't matter, anyway, Moon's three roommates have long been accustomed to Moon's inexplicable convulsions from time to time.

"Ha! Munn, you are too boring, don't you just have two horns?" A burly gorilla walked up to Munn and patted him heavily on the shoulder. If the gorilla hadn't spit out It was Tonks' voice that made Moon almost stick his wand into its nostril.

"Of course it's not just that, there are other clothes, but I'm too lazy to change now." Moon said guiltily as he gnawed on the apple he snatched from Yatman.

It wasn't that he was too lazy to change, he just wanted to keep those clothes and wear them at night.

Regardless of whether this reservation has any practical significance, at least he and Violet definitely thought of going together, because in another corner of the common room, Violet only had a beautiful white hair on her head. Aperture, other than that, no other clothes have been changed.

Violet originally wanted to come to Moon, but she was surrounded by too many people at the moment - everyone was curious as to why she had such an angelic aperture. [Note 1]

She didn't want to reveal the mystery so early, so she had to keep talking away from everyone and chatting randomly.

"How is your Potions study going?" Moon glanced at Violet again, and then started chatting with Tonks who was dressed as a man-eating gorilla next to her.