harry potter book of crimes

"I thought it would be better to make this clear before you get confused by this delicious meal."

Dumbledore cleared his throat and continued.

"After they searched the Hogwarts Express... you must all know that our school is currently receiving a number of dementors from Azkaban. They are here to perform official duties of the Ministry of Magic."

Dumbledore was not happy about the dementors guarding the school, but this was the intention of the Ministry of Magic. As the headmaster of Hogwarts, he knew that the Ministry of Magic represented rules and restrictions.

With Dumbledore's influence in the wizarding world, he must set a good example for other wizards to follow the rules, which is beneficial to the stability and development of the wizarding world.

"They are stationed at all entrances to the school grounds," Dumbledore continued, "and while they are here, I must make this clear: no one is allowed to leave the school without permission. Dementors should not

Deceived by sleight of hand or disguise - not even an invisibility cloak." He added expressionlessly.

"Dementors are not born to understand requests or excuses. Therefore, I warn each of you: Do not leave any excuses for them to harm you. I hope that the prefects and our new Head Boy will

And the president of the female student union, you must ensure that no student will conflict with the dementors."

Percy, who was sitting only a few seats away from Harry, puffed out his chest and looked around impressively.

Yes, that's right, Percy was promoted to the President of the Boys' Student Union. Looking at him, he was obviously showing off!

"Happily enough," Dumbledore continued, "this year, I am delighted to welcome two new teachers to our ranks."

"The first is Professor Lupine, who graciously agreed to fill the gap in the Defense Against the Dark Arts course."

There was some sporadic, less enthusiastic applause in the auditorium. Only the students who had been in the same carriage with him on the train applauded vigorously, and Maka was of course among them.

To be honest, Maka still has a good impression of this werewolf professor... Well, of course, maybe it's just because he is very curious about werewolves?

Sitting among all the well-dressed teachers, Lupine looked particularly shabby.

Snape, who was sitting on the other side of the faculty chair, stared at Professor Lupin along the long faculty table.

At Hogwarts, everyone knew that Snape had always wanted to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, and it was normal to be a little angry about this.

But what surprised everyone was that the expression on Snape's face was more than anger, it was hatred. The feeling was exactly the same as every time Snape laid his eyes on Harry's face.

"As for the second teacher we appointed..."

After the less than enthusiastic applause for Professor Lupin died down, Dumbledore continued.

"Well... I regret to tell you that our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, Professor Kettle Byrne, retired at the end of last year in order to spend more time with his remaining rascals. However, I am pleased to say

, none other than Rubeus Hagrid has come to fill his vacancy. Hagrid has agreed to serve as a teacher in addition to his role as gamekeeper."

As soon as Dumbledore finished speaking, Maca was the first to applaud - he knew that he had to give Hagrid some encouragement to prevent him from always forgetting what he should and shouldn't do as a teacher.

"Although it's probably useless..." Maka thought as she slapped her hands dryly.

He could hear the applause on the Gryffindor table being particularly enthusiastic. Those little lions had always had a good sense of Hagrid.

Especially Harry, who leaned forward to look at Hagrid with a happy smile on his face.

Hagrid's face was flushed with excitement. He stared at his big hands, his smile hidden in his messy black beard.

Gradually, the applause died down, and when Professor Dumbledore began to speak again, everyone saw Hagrid wiping his eyes with the tablecloth.

"Well, I think the important things have been said," said Dumbledore, "let's begin our meal!"

…

The new semester has begun, and everyone is once again engaged in intense study.

Starting from the third grade, there are elective courses.

One is Ancient Runes, the other is Muggle Studies, and there are two subjects related to divination - Divination and Arithmancy. Of course, don't forget, there is also Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures class.

Speaking of which, Maka is not good at divination, just like he is not good at astronomy, but he just chose both divination and arithmetic classes.

In addition, the ancient magic text class seemed to be a good match for Maka, but he was not even interested in taking a look.

As for Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures class, Maka thought about it and chose it. At least he and Hagrid had a pretty good relationship, so he still had to give him some respect.

However, for the two divination courses, he only planned to try out a few classes first, and the specific situation would have to be determined separately.

But even so, Maka this semester is obviously more busy than before.

Oh, by the way! There is one more thing I have to mention.

During this semester, a big thing happened to Hufflepuff House - the house's Quidditch team suddenly entered a state of semi-paralysis. There was only one reason for its paralysis, and that was that all members of the original house team had retired.

Team up!

The first to leave the team were captain Darren Chris and chaser Charles Brown, who had graduated honorably this year; and the next to leave the team were the two seventh-grade players. Due to the pressure exerted on them by their families, they

They had to quit the college team and concentrate on preparing for the NEWTs exam.

In this way, the beauty Charlotte, also a seventh-grade Seeker, also quit.

There was only one left, sixth-grade batsman Mark Baker, who had no choice but to quit in desperation.

Just like that, the Hufflepuff House team was completely depleted in a dramatic manner.

At this point, we must mention Cedric Diggory. He has been the prefect of Hufflepuff since last year. Since he took office, his popularity has been really good.

Let me ask, who wouldn’t like a boy who is full of reason, handsome and elegant?

During the semester when Maka lived a low-key life, Cedric's reputation in Hufflepuff House rose rapidly, and the little badgers often compared him with Maka.

And it was such a handsome prefect who was rising rapidly. When such a serious problem arose in the Hufflepuff team, he took the matter on himself without hesitation.

He personally served as the captain, recruited new players, and soon restored the completely stagnant hospital team to normal training status.

He even came to Maka many times, hoping that he could rejoin the hospital team. Although Maka did not agree, he always maintained a humble and elegant tone and did not become impatient because of Maka's repeated refusals.

Feeling resentful.

It's just that Maka really doesn't have the time to fly around on the broom. He has too many things to do and he can't be busy at all.

No, he had just finished the divination class and had to rush to the arithmetic divination class.

To be honest, Professor Trelawney's divination class before made him a little confused, and this was only after he had thought about the content of divination in advance.

"Why can the appearance of tea leaves predict the future? What is the principle?" Maca was simply puzzled by this.

What's even more terrible is that none of the divination books explains the principles, as if it is completely an empirical subject, which makes people suspicious.

Relatively speaking, arithmetic divination is much easier to understand.

Whether it is the magical properties of numbers or the magical analysis of graphics, they are all topics that can be traced, which really makes Maka interested.

It's just that arithmetic divination usually requires a lot of complex calculations and a lot of formulas, which makes Maca feel like he is taking an advanced mathematics class that has gone astray academically.

But in any case, the arithmetic divination class is obviously more appealing to Maca than the divination class.

But just when Maka was about to give up the divination class, he accidentally remembered Professor Trelawney's words at the beginning of the class.

"You have chosen the divination class, which is the most difficult course among all magical arts. I must warn you from the beginning: if you do not have 'sight', then there will be very little I can teach you in this regard.

, books can only take you so far..."

Yes, divination is undoubtedly a discipline that attaches great importance to talent, and this "talent" comes from the extension of blood.

But this has nothing to do with the pure blood theory of the wizard family. The "horizon" of divination begins with the awakening of a kind of atavistic phenomenon, which has nothing to do with the purity of blood.

It was this speculation that made Maca decide to continue taking this course that he "couldn't understand" and tried to find some clues from Professor Trelawney for reference.

In addition, Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures lesson will follow immediately.

Just yesterday, Malfoy was injured in Hagrid's class, and this matter quickly spread in Slytherin House. Malfoy and his two idiot followers worked hard to spread the news everywhere, trying to

Ruin Hagrid's name.

"Hagrid, are you okay?"

Beside Hagrid's hut, some Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw students gathered in the open space, waiting for others who had not arrived yet.

Maka came to Hagrid and talked to him.

"Oh, I guess so, not bad."

Hagrid looked obviously a little frustrated. After all, things went wrong in the first lesson, which was not a good thing.

"Don't worry! It's not a big deal..." Maka said, "But to be honest, hippogriffs are classified in level 3X. I think they are not suitable for being used as a course in the first class of third grade.

Content, isn’t it?”

"But...but they are very interesting," Hagrid argued weakly, "and very beautiful, what do you think?"