Study Days at Hogwarts

Professor Trelawney's outburst before leaving really shocked all the teachers and students at Hogwarts, and also refreshed everyone's previous impression of the old liar.

No one thought that all this was actually someone behind the scenes, and the actual operation was not very difficult.

Professor Trelawney herself is an experienced liar. She has been accomplished at pretending to be a ghost and deceiving others for decades. In Albert's euphemistic words, she is a master of language.

With the help of a blessed elixir and a complete script, it's no surprise that extraordinary performance occurs.

The last success story was Harry Potter.

For this reason, Albert was also surprised to find that he had triggered a task called "Highlight Moment".

It's a pity that the task is not easy to complete, especially since Albert is about to graduate from Hogwarts and there is not much time to complete the task. It depends more on luck. Although Albert has always claimed that he has good luck, he is actually not willing to pin things on luck.

What makes Albert more confused is that when Porter confronted Fudge during the trial, he did not trigger a similar task.

After this incident, the prophecy left by Professor Trelawney before she left was once again dug out of the trash heap of history.

In addition to the recent prediction that Porter would be suspended from the Toad, the second prediction that she would be expelled from the Toad also came true.

The next prophecy is: President Dumbledore will hire a non-human divination professor to serve at Hogwarts.

This prophecy will be verified in the next few days, and everyone will not have to wait too long. What if the third prophecy also comes true?

Will the rest of the prophecies gradually come true?

The prophecy left by Trelawney was like a slap, knocking Umbridge unconscious.

Umbridge never thought that she would go to great lengths to drive Trelawney away and prepare to install "one of her own" in Hogwarts, but Dumbledore had already found a new Divination professor.

Could it be that the other party had expected this?

What made Umbridge even more annoyed was that Dumbledore actually didn't tell her who the new Divination professor was. He just mysteriously said that he would know in a few days, and even confidently promised that if the new professor didn't arrive within three days, , the Ministry of Magic can appoint a new Divination Professor on its own.

The smile on Dumbledore's face gave Umbridge a very bad feeling. She didn't want the old liar's prophecy to come true under any circumstances, not just because of Trelawney's subsequent prophecy, but what it also meant She drove away a professor who could literally predict the future.

Everyone will not only question the actions of Minister of Magic Fudge, but also her ability to serve as a senior investigator.

Umbridge guessed right, and Albert dug a hole with his backhand for her to jump into.

After sending away the frustrated Umbridge, Dumbledore couldn't help but shake his head. He came to the window, looked in the direction of the Forbidden Forest and fell into a brief silence.

To be honest, the old man did overlook something at first, and if it hadn't been for Albert's reminder, he might even have made a bad mistake.

Centaurs are very repulsive to wizards.

Moreover, the superiority of most wizards always easily touches the nerves of centaurs.

However, for an elderly person who is always busy and often needs to think about many things, forgetting something is sometimes very helpless.

Luckily he got a heads up.

When Dumbledore found Firenze, the only centaur who was willing to come to Hogwarts as a divination professor, he actually reminded Firenze privately and invited him to return to school with him, but Firenze refused. , the centaur still insisted on returning to his own colony and telling everyone the news, instead of going directly to Hogwarts with Dumbledore.

This is undoubtedly a very bad thing.

Therefore, when Dumbledore came back from the forest, he asked Hagrid to meet Firenze in the Forbidden Forest.

To be honest, it wasn't really a conscious choice, but Dumbledore didn't have many options left.

If another Ministry of Magic official is involved, it will only make things worse, and may even lead to Trelawney being driven away completely.

Dumbledore never wanted to let Trelawney leave Hogwarts, especially after the other party made a prophecy about Voldemort, and her situation became very dangerous.

Her current departure is obviously related to someone.

In fact, Dumbledore would rather Trelawney remain unknown and be sheltered at Hogwarts, rather than being in the limelight like she is now.

However, things had already happened, and it was meaningless to say anything else. He believed that the other party would ensure her safety, just as Trelawney said before leaving, she would return to school to teach next semester.

Hagrid had heard about what happened yesterday, and also knew that Trelawney was expelled by the woman named Umbridge, but he never thought that Dumbledore would hire the centaur Firenze as the school's president. Professor of Divination.

Moreover, Hagrid was disturbed by Trelawney's expulsion.

Although Hagrid was very confident in Yeqi's class, he was still a little worried that he would be kicked out. It wasn't just Umbridge who had reviewed his lessons not long ago, it was Albert's warning.

The reminders given by Albert will basically come true, which means that he may also be driven away by Umbridge one day, which is undoubtedly not good news.

After Dumbledore left, Hagrid seemed to remember something. He took out Albert's letter from the cabinet. After reading it carefully, he threw the parchment into the fireplace and burned it. Then he took his bow and arrows and headed to the Forbidden City. Lin connected with Firenze.

"Hopefully it's not that bad."

Hagrid plunged into the Forbidden Forest and walked quickly towards the centaurs.

Before Hagrid could get close to the group of centaurs, he saw a scene that shocked him. Half the group of centaurs were kicking around something.

There is no doubt that what Dumbledore feared happened.

"Stop, stop, what are you doing?" Hagrid stepped forward quickly, trying to stop this atrocity.

"Go away Hagrid, this is an internal matter within our community." Bain glared angrily at Hagrid who pushed him away.

Hagrid helped the fallen centaur up from the ground. Firenze looked miserable, with horse hoof prints all over his body.

"Fierenze betrayed us and became a slave to mankind."

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The centaurs did not attack Hagrid, but stared at him dissatisfied.

"Betrayal? Just because Firenze planned to help Dumbledore?" Hagrid glared back at the stubborn centaurs in front of him with dissatisfaction.

"Our customs are different from yours, and our laws are different from yours," said a gray centaur with deep wrinkles on his face. "Hagrid, don't get involved in the private affairs among the centaurs."

"I only saw a murder," Hagrid shouted.

"Firenz tried to sell our knowledge and secrets to humans," Margaery walked out of the crowd of centaurs and stood in front of Hagrid, saying coldly, "This is a shame for us centaurs. This has to be stopped.”

"Your knowledge is not as valuable as you think. I can't watch you murder my friends with my own eyes. If Dumbledore knew that you planned to kill his professor, I think he would be very unhappy." Hagrid had no choice but to say Move out Dumbledore, he knew that only Dumbledore could scare the centaurs in front of him.

However, this did not produce the expected effect, but instead made the already irritable centaur even more angry.

"Dumbledore is in a little trouble now. It will only take half a year to solve the problem at most." Hagrid said loudly. "He just invited Firenze to come to Hogwarts to be a professor. That is a position worthy of everyone's respect."

"Fierenze, if you insist on leaving us, then we will regard you as a traitor, and you will be expelled from the group and never set foot in the forest, otherwise we will kill you." Margery said calmly Looking at Firenze, he knew what trouble Dumbledore had encountered, but the centaurs were unwilling to get involved in conflicts and wars between wizards, and Firenze's actions would undoubtedly bring trouble to the entire community.

"I'm sorry Margery, I don't regret my decision." Firenze turned around and walked towards the outside of the Forbidden Forest.

"Hagrid, you have lost the friendship of the centaurs." Margaret looked at Hagrid's leaving figure and said coldly, "From now on, don't come to our Forbidden Forest again, you are no longer welcome here. .”

"This is not your forest."

"Just let them leave like this?"

The black-bodied, bearded Baine dug his hooves at the ground anxiously, "We know what he hides in the Forbidden Forest."

Margery didn't answer Bain, turned and left.

As the leader of the centaurs, Margery was calmer than the other centaurs. If possible, he did not want to have any unpleasant conflicts with Dumbledore.

After all, the Forbidden Forest is near Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As their neighbor, they knew that the old man was a wizard worthy of the centaurs' respect. Perhaps this was the reason why Firenze chose to help Dumbledore.

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On the other side, Firenze limped to his old friend and said softly: "Thank you Hagrid, you did me a big favor."

"Your injuries look a bit bad!" Hagrid noticed the horse hoof prints on Firenze's body and was a little worried about Firenze's injuries. Being kicked by a group of centaurs was not fun. Hagrid suspected that if he hadn't Show up in time and Firenze will be kicked to death by other centaurs.

"Don't worry, I can heal my injuries."

On the way back to Hogwarts, Firenze picked some herbs and planned to use them to treat his injuries. Centaurs are very good at healing magic, and their healing magic is not the same as that of wizards.

Unfortunately, it was winter and we couldn't find many useful herbs. There were reserves in the community, but Firenze couldn't go back.

"Hagrid, I need some white branches."

Firenze was kneeling near Hagrid's pumpkin patch, processing the herbs she picked along the way.

"You're lucky. Someone gave me a lot of fresh food a while ago. I'll get it for you." Hagrid turned and walked into the hunting lodge to get the fresh food that Albert gave him a while ago to treat his injuries.

"Oh, it seems I'm lucky." Firenze took a large amount of fresh vegetables from Hagrid.

"Albert gave this to me. I have always been surprised that he gave me so much. Now I can probably guess the reason." Hagrid helped mash the fresh vegetables and mixed them into the herbs prepared by Firenze. , "I dare say he already knew that you would come to Hogwarts to serve. No wonder he asked me to pay attention to you to prevent you from being killed by other centaurs."

"Albert?"

Firenze whispered the name, but he didn't recognize the other person.

"Albert is a genius, a very powerful genius, and he is good at divination. He has helped me a lot. He is a person with a good personality. You will definitely like him." Hagrid introduced himself to Firenze. A friend helped him apply the herbs to the wound.

Firenze picked up some white branches and whispered the centaur's healing spell in his mouth, as if green light swept along the white branches from the wound where the herbs were applied. Firenze stretched out his hand to wipe off the herbs on it, and the part originally injured by the horse's hoof was much better.

If Albert were here and saw Firenze using white branches as props for using healing spells, he would be able to tell the reason at a glance.

White fresh flowers can actually be used as the core of a wand. If combined with willow and unicorn horns, a very powerful and extreme healing wand can be created.

As for why Albert knew about it, it was naturally because he had made one himself and gave it to Mrs. MacDoug to please his future mother-in-law.

"That Albert can predict the future?" Firenze was a little surprised.

"Yes, he can do divination, and he is very powerful." Hagrid did not hesitate to praise him. "Many people say that Albert is much more powerful than Dumbledore when he was young. Maybe you know him. I remember Albert. I used to go into the woods a lot.”

"I probably know who he is, I remember hearing Ronan mention it before." Firenze recalled something that happened a few years ago.

One night, a young foal broke into the woods alone to look for other lost foals. Later, the centaurs found many corpses of Acromantulas in the forest. Even centaurs were still very concerned about those big spiders. alert.

Of course, if Hagrid hadn't mentioned it, Firenze would have probably forgotten it.

"You stay here to treat your injuries first. I'll tell Dumbledore that you're here. I think he will help you arrange everything." Hagrid was going to go to Dumbledore and bring Firenze's Tell each other things.

"No need Hagrid, I'm already here." Dumbledore appeared near the hunting lodge. He looked at the horse hoof prints on Firenze's body and sighed silently in his heart, "Thank you Firenze, and thank you. Hagrid.”

"You're welcome, this is what I should do." Hagrid almost said, patting his chest.

"I also have to thank Albert for the reminder. I think he is probably looking forward to meeting you. I believe you will get along well!" Dumbledore said to Firenze.

Firenze was a little confused and didn't understand the meaning of Dumbledore's words.

"Albert is a prophet, and I think he would probably be happy to share his knowledge of prophecies with you." Dumbledore explained to Firenze with a smile. He felt that Albert reminded him that he probably wanted something from the centaurs.

As for what you want to get, it's actually not hard to guess. Albert was very interested in horse people knowledge.

"I'm looking forward to meeting him." Firenze said softly, he was a little curious about the young fortune teller.