Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

Lee is the most silent one, because if Gavin Travers' uncle is a Death Eater, it means that Gavin hates hearing about his uncle, a Death Eater, from his family, which means... …

Is Gavin Travers a "good Slytherin"?

Li Jordan quickly took a sip of soup and recalled the things Gavin had bullied others in his mind, so as to calm himself down.

so funny.

Seeing that everyone's chat topics were getting weirder and weirder, Moon quickly changed the topic to something else. "By the way, have you noticed the gentleman on the teacher's bench who is not a professor?"

Everyone nodded, so Moon directly broke the news that Professor Lupine would be the temporary professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts in the second half of the year.

Anyway, everyone will know sooner or later, now it can be used to change the topic, which is considered to be the best use.

"It feels like I haven't seen reports about this professor anywhere before..." Someone looked curiously at Professor Lupine who was joking with Professor McGonagall. "I wonder what his abilities are like. Isn't he another Quirrell?" Professor."

"Of course not. This professor's strength should be very good." Moon said with a smile: "After all, he was personally invited by Professor Dumbledore."

Bert hesitated to speak. He knew that Professor Lupine was a werewolf, but Professor Dumbledore had specifically told him not to reveal the news, so he thought about it and held back.

At first he thought that werewolves were full of danger after all, but then he thought about it, wasn't he himself a werewolf?

He didn't feel that he was willing to leave Hogwarts, so of course he was not qualified to pretend to expose Professor Lupin anymore - not to mention, Professor Lupin looked... indeed quite pitiful.

Bert was silent for a while, and when he came back to his senses, Moon and the others' conversation suddenly turned to a strange place.

"Really? Can we really do this?" Daniel was still a child after all. Now he was no longer depressed, and instead looked at Munn excitedly.Except for him, most of the other little wizards looked at Munn eagerly, as if they had heard some wonderful suggestion.

"Of course." Moon looked at everyone's appearance and said with a smile: "The school newspaper office is not a special place. If you want, you can actually go there at any time. For example, come to play with us or follow us. Let's share a little gossip. As long as it's not when we are busy, it doesn't matter. Since you are so curious, we can go to the school newspaper office after dinner and I can introduce it to you. Our usual work, so if you are interested, you can join us next year.”

The little wizards nodded repeatedly, and just like that, everyone speeded up the pace of eating, and among them Travers was the most voracious - he was not curious about the school newspaper office, he had gone in before.But if I could go over there with everyone, it seems like...

Not bad?

Chapter 154 Christmas

The visit to the school newspaper office was really addictive for the little wizards - in fact, the visit itself was not interesting. Apart from the printing press, there was nothing rare in the school newspaper office.However, no matter what happens, once many people participate together and everyone laughs and makes fun together, even things that were originally boring will become interesting.

Early on Christmas morning, as soon as Moon arrived in the common room, he saw a large pile of Christmas gifts piled under the Christmas tree next to the fireplace. He shamelessly praised himself in his heart for being smart enough not to come out with a book, while brushing Shuashua opened the gift.

The biggest package came from Mom Ann, who gave Moon an oversized book, which was a reprint of the "Classic Potion Ingredients Atlas". It recorded many of the ingredients needed to prepare potions, and each one was unique. It is accompanied by a picture, and the raw materials on the picture will continue to rotate at a constant speed so that readers can see the full picture of this raw material.

Uncle Golov's gift was an excellent wand maintenance kit. The bottle of oil used to apply it on the wand was worth several galleons, and there were five bottles of the same oil in this small box. many.

Uncle Edgar's gift was a beautiful wooden cane inlaid with silver. Although he didn't know what use this thing could have, Moon thought about using this cane to compete with brothers Victor and Adam. , they will definitely be envious.

Hagrid gave Munn a blanket. The material was not the fur of a unicorn, but the fur of a thestral. Munn once mentioned to Hagrid that he was particularly interested in these invisible horses.In the letter sent with the gift, Hagrid specifically mentioned that in order to ensure that Moon could see the blanket, he went to Professor Dumbledore until Professor Dumbledore confirmed that Moon could see the blanket. Only Hagrid dared to give this gift.

The gift that Arlin gave to Moon was a toy of a little man riding on a broomstick. What was funny was that every time the broomstick took off, the little man would be startled by staggering around, and then quickly hug the broom.But Moon laughed twice before his face darkened, because this villain obviously reminded him of himself.

Gal's gift was a huge Christmas cake with four little figures drawn on it with syrup. Gal said in the greeting card that it was what they looked like at Shafiq Manor last year, but Moon never noticed this. Fortunately, The cake itself is very delicious.

Cedric's Christmas gift was very thoughtful - it was a newspaper clipping book filled with key articles from the school newspaper this year, which looked full of memories.

What moved Moon the most was undoubtedly Violet's gift, which was a beautiful static oil painting. There was a secluded path in the picture, with tall trees on both sides of the road, and dots of light shining through the trees. The shade falls on young men and maidens.The girl held up a leaf with a bright smile on her face, while the boy stood beside her, quietly looking at the face of the girl hiding behind the hole in the leaf, also smiling.

While trying to put the painting into the frame, Moon saw the small words on the back of the painting that read, "It won't move, and it won't come apart."

As expected, Professor Dumbledore's gift was a book, with a note inside the book containing a list of books.Although there is no explanation, there is no doubt that this is probably a list of books that the old man wants to recommend him to read in the future.

What surprised Moon was that he actually received gifts from Floris and Professor Lupin.

Floris's gift is a small gem pendant, which lights up when you tap it twice with your finger, and goes out when you tap it twice more. It's interesting, but to be honest, the light isn't very bright, so it's more like a decoration or something. Toy.And the gem pendant itself didn't look like a very expensive one; Professor Lupine's gift was a photo - a photo of him and Moon's father.

The gifts from the two of them caught Munn off guard, because... Munn didn't prepare a Christmas gift for Floris at all. To be honest, if it hadn't been for this sudden gift, Munn would have almost forgotten that he had ever had such a relationship with her. There was an intersection.

As for Professor Lu Ping's gift, because he only confirmed that the visitor was Professor Lu Ping two days ago, the gift he prepared for Professor Lu Ping will not arrive until noon today.

Of course, the more important thing now is, what should Floris do?

After Moon scratched his head and thought about it for a while, he decided to handwrite a letter of apology, and then attached a rune horse feather bookmark that he had bought with his Christmas gift as a gift, and at the same time troubled Debbie again. ——The gift definitely couldn't be delivered immediately, and he could only hope that his sincere apology would make Floris not mind too much.

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Before the banquet started, Moon found Professor Lupine and gave him his gift.It was a new Christmas robe from Madam Malkin's shop. The fabric was excellent, and it also had a lot of functions such as automatic cleaning.This is also the Christmas gift that Moon gave to Uncle Edgar (Edgar often ruined his clothes due to work). With this robe, Professor Lupine does not have to wear his old robe to attend banquets. And when the second half of the semester starts, he can still wear this robe to teach the little wizards.

Today's banquet was not too lively, after all, not many people stayed at Hogwarts during Christmas, but everyone was very happy, and the professors prepared a lot of small gifts and pop-up fireworks.In addition to Christmas meals, there are also a lot of various candies on the long table.Professor Dumbledore put on the beautiful pointed hat decorated with stars that Moon gave him. Professor McGonagall also rarely put on beautiful robes with novel styles and bright colors, and even accompanied Professor Dumbledore. I danced a dance with Hagrid - both of them looked very tired from dancing, but the effect was very good and everyone was amused and laughed non-stop.

Trelawney didn't let down the fun, and kept talking and laughing with everyone. The only regret was that after drinking a lot of eggnog and red wine, she still passed out drunk on the table, but fortunately she didn't make any fool of herself.

At the end of the banquet, everyone set off all the pop-up fireworks together, and everyone opened all the small gifts piled under the Christmas tree.Moon received a large slab of chocolate, a wizard's chess set, and a sparkling crystal ball.When he returned to the dormitory, he finally met Peeves and gave him the Christmas gift he had prepared for him - a bag that would not hurt anyone if stepped on, but would cause a mouse to jump out from under his feet. Small mousetrap.

Peeves was deeply moved after receiving the gift. While saying that he would definitely get more exclusive news in the new year, after Moon turned around, he rewarded him with two dung bombs as a Christmas gift - the result It was all bounced back by Munn, and he was also given a "Soul Vent".

Chapter 155 The Screaming Shack

In the next few days, everyone's days basically passed by slowly like this. A group of young wizards ate together every day, played wizard chess, went out for snowball fights, or read books, did homework, and wandered around the castle together.From time to time, Moon would take Bert to Hagrid's cabin to visit Hagrid and help Hagrid.

In the first two days, everyone was still a little nervous when facing young wizards from other colleges who had not had much contact with them before. After two days, this kind of restraint gradually disappeared, even the two who were originally the most cramped. The little Ravenclaw wizard can chat and laugh with other people later.

In his free time, Moon basically ran back and forth between the dormitory, the library, the dormitory, and the library, hoping to finish reading those books as soon as possible and confirm whether there was any important information in them.

In this way, time gradually came to the last day of 1990 - December 12st. At the same time, tonight will also be a full moon night.

Throughout the whole day, Bert was always in a depressed mood and did not even eat lunch. It was only after Moon and Professor Lupin persuaded him several times that he was finally willing to eat some dinner.

Although there is already Professor Luping to take care of Bert, considering Bert's slight resistance to Professor Luping, not to mention that Professor Luping is only a temporary professor now, and it is not determined whether he will continue to stay next year or even after that. Teaching at Hogwarts, Professor Dumbledore decided to let Moon accompany Bert and Professor Lupin around the full moon night as originally planned.

Of course, this plan was originally supposed to be implemented after the Christmas vacation, but now that Moon has chosen to stay in school, Professor Dumbledore has naturally moved the plan forward.

As expected, Professor Lupine took Bert and Moon all the way to the direction of the Whomping Willow. They should have transformed directly in the Shrieking Shack as Professor Lupine did before.And judging by Bert's familiar look, it was obvious that the last time he transformed in school was at the Screaming Shack.

Sure enough, after walking along the road for a while, perhaps feeling that the atmosphere was a bit dull, Bert whispered to Moon: "The last time I... turned into a werewolf, I also came here. There is a secret passage under the Whomping Willow. , leading directly to the Shrieking Shack. Professor Lupine seemed to have other things at that time, so Professor Dumbledore took me there so that Professor Lupine, who was temporarily free, could take care of me. Later, Lupine The professor told me that there was no Wolfsbane potion when he was at Hogwarts, so he had to go there and transform so that he would not make a big mistake when he was unconscious."

"As for why we still go to the Shrieking Shack now..." Burt joked sadly to himself, "Maybe it's because I can't help but want to scream after turning into a wolf, otherwise we should be able to go to school this time inner."

Moon didn't say anything, just patted Bert's shoulder gently to express comfort.

After getting close to the Whomping Willow, Professor Luping pointed with his wand, and a pebble on the ground flew over with a "whoosh" and hit the knot on the trunk of the Whomping Willow. It was still swinging slowly. The whomping willow clinging to its branches suddenly became still.

"Let's go, it's getting dark soon." Professor Luping's face looked paler today than usual. He put away his wand and first let the two of them go in through the tree hole under the trunk, while he walked at the end.

After entering the secret passage, everyone's emotions began to become more depressed, and no one spoke anymore, until they finally reached the bottom of the Shrieking Shack and continued up the road.

This place looks like an ordinary, dilapidated old house. There are broken furniture everywhere, and the wallpaper is basically mottled or completely peeled off. Fortunately, there are not many traces of dust and dirt. After coming here for the first time, Professor Dumbledore or Professor Lupin had already simply cleaned up once.

All the external doors and windows here have been completely sealed with wooden boards. Although the rooms are complete, there is actually nothing to see.Therefore, after entering, Professor Lupine took the two of them to a relatively empty and larger room, and then sat down with Bert.

Moon glanced at the expressions of the two people. Through the faint light in the room, he could see the depression and fear on Bert's face. Professor Lupine was relatively better, but also a little depressed.

He thought for a while and took out the hollow metal ball from his buckled velvet bag. As soon as it came into contact with the darkness of the outside world, the metal ball immediately levitated and illuminated the entire room.

"A very exquisite little appliance." Professor Luping chuckled and commented, "There were some candles here before. Professor Dumbledore also brought some when he came last time. If you need it, you can go next to it." Get it from the cabinet in the room, but it’s best not to keep the room lit, otherwise the people in Hogsmeade will be curious.”

Moon responded, and at the same time pulled out a long piece of silk cloth to completely cover the window. "This way you won't be afraid that people outside will see it." [Note 1]

Professor Luping nodded slightly, then glanced sideways at Bert beside him, and then realized that under the soft white light, Bert's mood seemed to have improved slightly.

He burst into laughter, and then realized that he had been infected with lycanthropy for too long, and he had never had wolfsbane potion before, so he was already used to suffering the torture of transformation in the silent darkness.But for Bert, he may still need a little light support.

Immediately afterwards, Remus Lupine suddenly felt a little dazed again. The two children in front of him reminded him... of some past events.

Yes, the past is the past.

It's all over.

Professor Lupine took out two large cloaks and handed one to Bert, while keeping the other in his hand.Moon realized they needed to change clothes, so he went out for a couple of walks.Sure enough, when they came back, they all took off their clothes and put on their cloaks.

Then, in the silence, the three people sat in silence until some time later, Moon suddenly noticed that the two people had painful expressions and their bodies began to move involuntarily.

The moon in the sky had already revealed its white face and round outline at some point. In the room, Bert was the first to fall from his seat, unable to hold himself up, and scratching his body with both hands.The cloak that was previously wrapped around them had quietly slipped off at this time - because of this, the crazy squirming and deformation of the bones in their bodies was completely exposed to Munn.

The onset of lycanthropy has begun.

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[Note 1] The specific location of the Screaming Shack is on the outskirts of Hogsmeade, a relatively remote place, so no one usually passes by, so just cover the light. Unless you come close, no one outside will be able to see the nails. The interior of the boarded windows was covered with silk.

Chapter 156 The Night of Wolf Transformation

Compared to Bert, Professor Lupine, although his face was also full of pain, had been suppressing his desire to scream, and only squeezed out hoarse growls from his throat.In addition, whether it is the twitching and shaking of the body or the terrifying twists of the bones in the body, neither of them can say who is better. On the contrary, it is the larger Professor Lupine who is more visually intuitive. to feel the torture he endured.

Under Munn's worried eyes, the bones of their heads continued to be elongated, and their bodies became strangely longer and narrower.Layers of hair began to sprout on their bodies, and the palms that were originally scratching on their bodies changed to look like animal claws.

Within a moment, Bert and Professor Lupin transformed into two giant wolves at the same time - compared to ordinary gray wolves, they were larger in size, with slightly shorter muzzles, and their pupils were more like a cross between a wolf and a wolf. among humans [Note 1].Strictly speaking, compared to those common canine beasts [Note 2], after transformation, they are actually closer to the giant wolves that Munn saw in the Mortlan glass illusion.

Seeing the two people lying on the ground with no movement, Moon couldn't help but take a few steps closer with some worry, and asked softly: "Professor Lupine, Bert, are you okay?"

Bert didn't react at all. He lowered his head and stared blankly ahead, not knowing what he was thinking.Professor Lupine, on the other hand, stood up reluctantly and nodded slightly. His eyes were still full of fatigue, and a bit of animalistic madness could be seen vaguely.Fortunately, his consciousness is still clear. It seems that the wolfsbane potion must have indeed taken effect, and it is very effective.

"That's good." Moon relaxed a little, took out a few more large bowls from the buckle velvet bag, put some less cooked steaks from the kitchen in them, and added two more bowls. Water "I guess you may be a little resistant to the way your body eats now...especially you, Bert, but adding a little food and water can make you less tired and weak. Okay, you guys can rest here for a while, If anything happens, come out to me and I'll clean up this place."

In the next few years, they might come back every month. The outside should be in a dilapidated state, but the inside could be made tidier and more comfortable.

Moon had just walked out of the room, and then he heard the shrill, trembling wolf moo coming from the room. Although he had not heard the two people's cries after they transformed into wolves before, the sound from the cries revealed Judging from the emotion, this voice obviously came from Bert.

Probably as Bert himself said, the painful emotions accumulated in his heart prevented him from restraining his urge to scream miserably, so he needed to come to the Shrieking Shack to complete his transformation.

Moon sighed, took out his wand, and began to complete his repair work in each room.

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Time flew by, and after roughly repairing the Screaming Shack, Moon found a room by himself and read a book.

It goes without saying that Bert definitely doesn't want to be exposed to Moon's gaze when he turns into a werewolf. He still needs time to let himself accept these things little by little.Therefore, Moon had no choice but to go back and take a look every once in a while, leaving more time for them to be alone.

Throughout the night, Bert screamed every once in a while - he had no choice but to use this method to vent the frustration in his chest.Moreover, he did not touch the food and water left by Moon. Only Professor Lupine drank a few water and ate a piece of steak.

When the sky lit up again and wisps of sunlight shone through the gaps in the wooden boards on the window, Moon stretched his waist vigorously. Just as he was about to go back, he heard Lu Ping's voice suddenly coming from the room over there. Professor's Voice "Moon...we have recovered."

Moon made up his mind and quickly put away the books and returned to the next room.Sure enough, Professor Lupine and Bert were all sitting on the ground with pale and tired faces. Although they were in poor condition, they had indeed transformed into human forms again.

The boy didn't know what to say for a moment. In the face of such torture, any kind of comfort seemed particularly pale.So Moon just smiled at the two of them, and then stepped forward to help them up one by one.

"Professor, Bert, do you want to continue to rest here for a while? Or do you prefer to go back as soon as possible and have a good sleep?"

Professor Lupine glanced at Bert. If he was alone, it would be more comfortable to recover his strength here. But Bert obviously wanted to return to the castle and hide in his dormitory before his classmates got up.

"Go back quickly, otherwise everyone will get up later, and if I get hit by them, I will be exposed." Professor Luping stood up and supported the wall and said to the two of them.

"Okay." Munn supported the two of them with strength, and carefully returned to the direction of the secret passage.

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In the following days, neither Professor Lupine nor Bert appeared in the auditorium again.No one thought much about Professor Lupin, but they obviously chose to avoid talking about Bert.

Everyone knows why Bert suddenly disappeared in the past few days.

The little wizards are still living their own peaceful holiday life as always, reading books and doing homework together. With one missing Bert, nothing seems to have changed - but in fact, everyone has some unspeakable emotions in their hearts. .

No matter what, since the holiday until now, they have been playing together almost every day. It would be nonsense to say that they don't have any feelings at all.But Bert is a dangerous werewolf...

Moon is well aware of everyone's emotions. Unlike Burt's previous friends, these little wizards who hang out with each other every day during the Christmas vacation first know Burt's werewolf identity, and then join his organization. Let’s spend the holidays together.So relatively speaking, they are more accepting of the current Bert than some of his former friends.It's just that their long-term education prevented them from recognizing Bert quickly, that's all.

If Moon enlightens them now, most of them will definitely quickly understand their true thoughts and make their own judgments.

But Moon couldn't do that.

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[Note 1] In the third film in the Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," the werewolf transformed by Professor Lupine is shown as a creature between wolves and humans. appearance, but in fact in the original work, the werewolf is more like a real wolf after transformation, but there will be slight differences in some characteristics.

[Note 2] Wolves are biologically classified as "Carnivora - Canidae - Canis - Wolf Species" and are divided into multiple subspecies. There is no concept of "Wolfidae" under Carnivora.In case any readers are confused, this is marked here.

Chapter 157 New Laws

The reason is simple. His intervention now can make these young wizards realize the decision they really want to make - but after all, this only happened due to Munn's interference.

And if they are allowed to think and hesitate in this direction, and finally make a decision because of the friendship they feel in their hearts, then they will have a clearer understanding of the meaning of their decisions and be better able to make decisions. I will still make this decision when facing similar things in the future.

This is something more precious, and all it takes is some time.It just so happens that for most young wizards right now, the least valuable thing is time.

After the night when Professor Lupine and Bert turned into wolves, the Christmas vacation at Hogwarts officially entered the second half - January 1991, thus arrived.

Life was as usual. On January 1th, Moon came to the principal's office again and chatted with Professor Dumbledore about Professor Lupin. The reason was that he heard that Professor Lupin used to scream. The Shack spends his full-moon nights, so is a little curious as to how Professor Lupin can be guaranteed not to leave the Shrieking Shack without Wolfsbane Potion.

As expected, Professor Dumbledore talked about the Whomping Willow [Note 1], and then the two chatted about Professor Lupine and Moon's father, and about Professor Lupine's friends from their student days. Finally, the topic naturally led to the deaths of James Potter and Lily Potter.

Professor Dumbledore didn't say much about this last topic, but only briefly touched on it.Moon could clearly see the old man's sadness when he talked about this matter, so he didn't deliberately ask any more questions - for him, just hearing the name "Peter Pettigrew" was enough.

He didn't even need to know that Peter Pettigrew was a "dead man."