harry potter book of crimes

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Dumbledore's big mistake!

Our special correspondent Rita Skeeter reports that the eccentric Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, has always dared to hire controversial teachers.

In September of this year, he hired Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, a decision that surprised many in the Ministry of Magic.

Moody is a notoriously vicious man who used to be an Auror and is known to attack anyone who moves suddenly in front of him.

However, compared to the half-man and half-demon hired by Dumbledore to teach Care of Magical Creatures, Mad-Eye Moody was serious, responsible, and kind.

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The news from the "Daily Prophet" is very timely. The Christmas holiday has just ended, and the news about Hagrid having giant blood has already been put on the front page of the newspaper by Rita Skeeter.

She described a lot of remarks about the dangers of giants in sharp words, and passed them all on to Hagrid. In order to increase her persuasiveness, she even asked a student to conduct a small interview.

"I was attacked by a Hippogriff and my friend Vincent Crabbe was bitten severely by a Flobber caterpillar." In the interview, a man named Draco Marr

Fu's fourth grader said, "We all hate Hagrid, but we dare not speak out."

Obviously, in the middle of last night's dance, those who overheard the conversation between Hagrid and Madame Maxime were not the only ones who showed up.

On the day the newspaper was published, Hagrid took a leave of absence, and the substitute professor was a witch named "Wilmina Graplan".

To be honest, no matter how good she is at dealing with magical creatures, at least her teaching level is indeed much better than Hagrid. She brought everyone a practical lesson related to beautiful unicorns, those beautiful and beautiful unicorns.

The pure creatures brought a very good impression to the students.

But Harry and the others seemed very anxious. They were fine a few days ago! Where was Hagrid?

When Professor Grapeland led the girls closer to the unicorns, Harry turned to Ron and said, "What do you think happened to him? It couldn't be a Blast-Ended Skrewt-"

"Oh, Potter, if you are worried about this, I can tell you that he was not attacked," Malfoy said softly, "No, he was just too shy to show his big ugly face."

"What do you mean?" Harry asked sharply.

Malfoy reached into the pocket of his robes and pulled out a folded newspaper.

"You can see for yourself." He said with a proud smile, "I really don't want to break this news to you, Potter..."

It was the headline article, and there was a picture of Hagrid on it, with a sneaky look on his face.

"How did she find out?" Ron asked quietly.

But that's not what Harry had in mind.

"What do you mean? 'We all hate Hagrid'?" Harry snapped at Malfoy. "What the hell are you talking about?"

A big bite? They don’t even have teeth!”

Crabbe giggled, obviously feeling very proud.

"Okay, I think it's time to end this idiot's teaching career." Malfoy said, his eyes sparkling, "The half-blood giant... I originally thought he just drank a bottle of oxytocin when he was a child... Parents of students don't know this.

Promised... They were worried that he would eat their children, haha..."

"you--"

Soon it was time for get out of class to end again, and the girls also followed Professor Graplan back.

"This class was really good," Hermione said as they walked into the auditorium. "I didn't know half of what Professor Graplan told us about unicorns -"

"Look at this!" Harry shouted angrily, shoving the article from the Daily Prophet under Hermione's nose.

Hermione read the article and opened her mouth in surprise. Her reaction was exactly the same as Ron's.

"How did that annoying woman Skeeter find out? It couldn't have been Hagrid who told her, right?"

Recently, Ron and Hermione seemed to have reached a tacit understanding, and they both kept silent about their quarrels. Now they are very friendly to each other, but they are polite and seem a bit unnatural.

Just a few days ago, they had discussed the height of the giant together. Hermione remembered that the book said it was twenty feet, but Harry remembered that Maka mentioned it and said it was thirty feet.

But today, they no longer have the time to discuss those issues.

"We have to go see him." Harry said, "This evening, after Divination class, tell him we want him back... Do you want him back?" He asked Hermione coldly.

"I - well, I'm not going to lie, it would be nice to take a decent Care of Magical Creatures lesson once in a while for a change - but I do hope Hagrid comes back, of course I do!" Hermione was said by Harry.

Frightened by the angry gaze, he hurriedly added.

So, after dinner that day, the three of them left the castle again, walked through the snow-covered field, and walked towards Hagrid's hut - they originally wanted to go with Maka, but who knew, Maka didn't know

Where did he go?

When they came to the door of Hagrid's hut, Harry stepped forward and knocked on the door, and Fang's low barking sound immediately sounded from behind the door.

"Hagrid, it's us!" Harry shouted, banging the door hard, "Open the door quickly!"

Hagrid didn't answer. They could hear Fang scratching at the door and whining, but the door didn't open. They knocked hard for more than ten minutes. Ron even went over and knocked on a window, but there was still no response.

.

This time, Hagrid seemed undecided.

"I always feel that Maka should be in there right now..." Harry couldn't help but turn around and said, "He's always like this, and every time he will suddenly appear at the most critical place, scaring us all.

Jump."

But it's a pity that Maka is really not here this time.

He knew the news in the Daily Prophet, and he even saw Rita Skeeter in Animagus form that night, but he had no intention of preventing this episode from happening.

Hogwarts needs a little chaos right now - if the water is too clear, no hand will be willing to reach in and catch the fish.

Of course, that's assuming Skeeter doesn't draw the flames to him...

At least for now, Maka's warning to Rita Skeeter is still very useful, which can be seen from the fact that Maka's name has not even appeared in the news reports.

While Harry and the others were worrying about Hagrid, Maka was walking alone in an alley in Hogsmeade.

"coming?"

Just ahead, in a dark corner, a figure whose face could not be seen suddenly spoke.

"Tarino, how is the situation?" Maka asked calmly.

"The targets of this mission are not easy to deal with," the man whispered. "So far, several targets have been lost - but what is certain is that their movements are still very cautious, and they are obviously far away from the big move.

There’s still a while left!”

"Very good, keep watching..." Maka said, suddenly handing out the box in her hand, "You take these with you, they are all useful things - keep an eye on the target's movements.

Try not to miss any clues."

The figure took the suitcase, opened it slightly, took a look, and then closed the suitcase firmly.

"To be honest, these potions of yours are almost spoiling us..." He said smoothly, "The old guys in charge of those key targets have said that with these supplies, tracking is easier than taking a walk.

"

"During the mission, I won't ask you for a copper nut for these consumptions, so don't save it," Maka waved her hand and said, "As long as the mission is completed well, I can give you some more."

"Just saying this to you, there will be a mission next time, and we will give you a 50% discount!"

The two of them finished their conversation quickly and left, as if nothing had happened here just now.

Time flies by so fast, and it’s already mid-January in a blink of an eye.

The classmates were all going to Hogsmeade to play, and Harry also wanted to go. He thought he might meet Hagrid there, which would give him a chance to persuade him to come back.

But Hermione disagreed, because the problems left by the first project of the Triwizard Tournament were still waiting for them! That box was very depressing. Hermione had been studying it, but she just couldn't think of any good ideas.

Get it open.

"I plan to take this opportunity to think about it carefully. I think you should do the same!" She persuaded Harry seriously, "Remember? We have to complete the task!"

In fact, Dumbledore's settings for how to open the boxes are not complicated. To open them, you only need to find the right place - this only tests the warriors' mobility and their knowledge of ancient runes.

learn.

The places where you can open the four boxes are different, but they are all within the scope of the school.

Take Maka's snow-white ice box for example. He only needs to go around the ice cellar at Hogwarts to easily find the rune altar used to open the box.

This kind of magic mechanism makes use of the combinatorial replacement characteristics of runes - they do not exist independently. Each one can be replaced by other runes and obtain a completely different effect.

But where does Maka have time to find an altar?

He drew a few simple rune diagrams himself and completed the rune replacement with ease.

When the ice box in front of Maka suddenly burst into blue flames, the box lid opened automatically...

Each box contains an irreplaceable clue, which will become the true goal of each warrior in the upcoming second event of the Triwizard Tournament.

"Dumbledore really doesn't take it too seriously..." Maka murmured as she looked at the contents of the box.