The Alchemist of Harry Potter

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In the library, Harry, who was absent-mindedly doing his holiday homework, always sneaked a glance at the Marauder's Map in the book, and found that after everyone gathered in the principal's office had left, Harry immediately came to his senses and stayed where he was. When he got up, he brought down the chair and made a loud noise, attracting the attention of the students who were doing their homework in the library.

Ron and Hermione, who were doing their vacation homework seriously, looked at Harry, who was packing up their homework, as if they had thought of something and started packing.

Ron actually wanted to see the appeal over there, while Hermione was worried that the two would cause unnecessary trouble at a critical moment.

It's not that Hermione doesn't want to believe Harry and Ron, it's that they don't go through much of their brains, and if their brains are hot, God knows what will happen, and it may even destroy Albert's plan.

Albert was obviously worried about the occurrence of similar problems, so he specially reminded the three of them not to get involved in this matter.

As soon as he left the library, Ron asked, "What's the matter, Harry."

"Malfoy and the others have left the Headmaster's office, and I think Buckbeak's appeal should be over," Harry said in a low voice.

"Harry, I know what you're thinking, but let's not interfere in this matter." Hermione quickly followed the pace of the two, and reminded sharply: "We promised that you may make things worse in the past. worse."

"Hermione, we just want to know how Buckbeak's appeal goes," Ron comforted softly.

"Harry, it's now a critical moment." Hermione took Harry's arm and said seriously: "We have nothing good to do, so don't go and cause them trouble. After this is over, we are going to visit Hagrid, okay?"

"Hermione, we just want to know the result, not to mess with it."

Hermione's distrust made Harry a little annoyed.

"Two days ago, you screwed up things, and in the end you asked someone to help you clean up the mess, Harry." Hermione reminded angrily: "You have to see Hagrid's sadness, and by the way, put the rest of the Will people be satisfied when they hang out together?"

Harry was left speechless by Hermione's words.

That's right, he almost pitted Albert and Hagrid the other day.

"Hermione, it was just an accident." Ron quibble.

"If Buckbeak loses his head because of it,

Are you going to tell Hagrid that it was just an accident? Hermione glared at Ron and warned: "We haven't been able to help them, so don't bother them anymore, just wait for the result, you should believe..."

Hermione suddenly shut up, because at the corner of the corridor ahead, she saw Malfoy and a group of people walking towards them.

Everyone's faces are not very good-looking.

Seeing their gloomy expressions, Harry was simply elated. The reason can be imagined, obviously something bad happened.

Hagrid's Buckbeak appeal, for example, was successful.

After the four of them left, Ron elbowed Harry's arm and said excitedly, "Harry, did you notice the look on Malfoy's face? I bet Hagrid has won the case. , otherwise Malfoy would never pass up the chance to sneer at us."

"Yeah, I just said that Hagrid will definitely win the case." Harry's face had a smile he couldn't hide. He really knew Malfoy's character too well. If Hagrid lost the case, the other party would see They'd definitely stop for a sneer, not a battered look, afterward.

In fact, Hermione thought the same at first, but she quickly remembered Albert's words, shook her head and said, "No, Hagrid lost."

"Do you really want Hagrid to lose the case?" Ron glared at Hermione dissatisfied. "And, from Malfoy's skeptical expression, it's not hard to see that Hagrid's appeal was successful."

"No, you don't understand, this is not a matter of appeal at all, Albert told me about it."

Hermione was more willing to trust Albert's judgment than the "so-called" truth, because Albert had told her the reason why Hagrid couldn't win.

"We don't understand?" The expression on Ron's face became more and more strange. "Albert may be a genius, but he must have made mistakes."

"Let's go and ask Hagrid ourselves," Harry interrupted the possible dispute, put away the Marauder's map again, and trotted towards Hagrid's location.

After a while, the three met Hagrid in the corridor on the third floor.

However, after seeing Hagrid, Harry and Ron felt their hearts tighten, because there was no joy of victory on Hagrid's face.

"Hagrid, we met Malfoy just now. His face is very ugly. Did you win the appeal?" Harry immediately stepped forward and asked.

"No, I lost." Hagrid looked at the three of Harry and said blankly: "The officials of the Committee on Disposal of Dangerous Creatures were all bribed by Malfoy, you know what Lucius Malfoy is like, He is good at intimidating and enticing others, even the legal counsel I found was taken away by Lucius using Galleon, and the executioner McNeil, who is Malfoy's old friend."

Ron also looked at Harry dumbfounded, and Harry looked at Ron silent, as Hermione said, Hagrid lost Buckbeak's appeal.

"Where's Anderson?" Harry asked, tremblingly. "Didn't he have a way?"

"Albert has done his best, he has prepared a bunch of cards for me," said Hagrid, taking out a bunch of cards from his pocket and talking to the water bottle with the tranquilizer, "I followed his advice. , drank tranquilizers, and relied on the content he provided, it was true that Malfoy and his party had nothing to say, but the result was the same as what Anderson said, Lucius Malfoy bribed the people of the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Organisms and forcibly announced Buckbeak was guilty and sentenced to death."

"Where's Dumbledore?" Harry asked furiously. "How could Professor Dumbledore allow this to happen."

"Dumbledore worked hard," Hagrid said, taking a sip of his tranquilizer. "Dumbledore doesn't have the power to control the council, and he's been asked to be a witness... But I'm grateful for him, Dumbledore. Delay the execution until after the sun has set, so I have time to say goodbye to Buckbeak."

"How come, they are dereliction of duty." Harry's eyes widened in shock, he finally knew why Hermione said that Hagrid would lose, because from the beginning, Hagrid could not have successfully appealed.

And Albert apparently knew it from the start.

"Don't be sad, Harry, it's not as bad as you thought." Hagrid said suddenly, "By the way, let's have a drink too!"

With that said, Hagrid took out several paper cups from his pocket and poured a tranquilizer for Harry, Ron and Hermione.

"What is this?" Harry looked at the potion in front of him in confusion?

"Sedative," Hagrid said without hesitation. "After you drink it, don't talk about it, don't get involved, let it take its course. Whatever the outcome of Buckbeak, I have to accept it."

"Hagrid!" Hagrid

"Even if I don't accept it, what can I do!" Hagrid stopped, reached out and patted Harry on the shoulder. "Albert always said that anger can't solve problems, and I think he's right."

Harry stared blankly at Hagrid's leaving back, then at the paper cup in his hand, and fell into a short-term silence.

"Drink it, let's go back to do our vacation homework." After Hermione drank the cup of tranquilizer, she was ready to go back to the library to continue her homework.

"What is this, Hagrid comforting us in return?" Ron was also a little dumbfounded. "Did he make himself stupid by drinking this stuff?"

"He's not stupid, it's you who are stupid." Hermione had understood what Hagrid meant, and said to Harry and Ron, "Come on, go back and finish your vacation homework, we'll go to Hagrid tomorrow."

...

The people dealing with the Dangerous Creatures Committee didn't go to Hagrid's hut to stare at Buckbeak.

After all, they had just fallen out with Hagrid, and no one wanted to bask in the sun, and Professor Dumbledore had promised.

All afternoon, Hagrid stared at Buckbeak in the pumpkin patch.

Buckbeak seemed to sense that something bad was about to happen, and he didn't seem to be in high spirits, but Hagrid didn't dare to touch it, because Albert had instructed that after he brought Buckbeak to the pumpkin patch, he would not let it go. Leave it alone.

After throwing all the cards in his pocket into the fireplace to burn, Hagrid continued to read another piece of parchment.

It says what to do after losing the appeal.

All right!

Albert intends to let Buckbeak free himself from the rope and fly away.

As for how to do it, Albert did not say.

Although Hagrid felt that this method was very unreliable, it was Albert who proposed this plan. Hagrid believed that since Albert planned to do this, he must have been fully prepared.

After memorizing the contents of the parchment over and over, rehearsing side after side in his mind, until the sun was tilting and it was getting dark, Hagrid threw the parchment into the fireplace and watched it turn into a pile ash.

Harry, Ron and Hermione didn't show up, which made Hagrid heave a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that the three of them would appear rashly to disrupt Albert's plan! "

At this moment, Fang Ya stood at the door and barked wildly outside.

"Tooth, be quiet."

Hagrid walked to the door and saw Dumbledore, Lucius, the old committee member and the executioner McNeil walking down the stone steps towards the hunting lodge.

"Where's that beast?" McNeill asked grimly.

"Out, out, in the pumpkin patch." Hagrid glared at Lucius.

With a cruel smile on McNeill's face, he spared the house to see Buckbeak pecking at mice.

Just as he was about to come forward with the axe to execute the execution, Dumbledore suddenly said: "If I remember correctly, the official announcement about the execution must be read first, and then you need to sign it. McNeill , you should also listen, and you Lucius, since you are here, you must also sign, this is the procedure of the Ministry of Magic."

"Yes, that's it."

Everyone crowded into Hagrid's hut, and McNeil was still looking out the window at the hippogriffs in the pumpkin fields, as if thinking about where to drop the axe.

"...The Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures has decided that Buckbeak, the hippogriff, hereinafter referred to as the convicted. shall be executed at sunset on June 6th...beheaded, by Wall, the executioner appointed by the Committee. Dun McNeill..." The old wizard read the parchment under Hagrid's hostile gaze.

"...the following as witnesses. Hagrid, you need to sign here!"

"I'll have a copy later," Hagrid said to the old wizard tremblingly, taking the quill.

"That's a perfectly reasonable request," said Dumbledore.

"Okay, but we'll have to wait until we're done with this," the old wizard reluctantly agreed.

"McNeil, it's your turn," Dumbledore said to the others after signing the parchment. "Malfoy, since you're here, you need to sign too."

The two came to the table, picked up the quill on the table in disgust, and signed their names on the parchment.

"Okay McNeil, I'll leave it to you next." The old wizard rolled up the parchment and put it in his pocket, not intending to make a copy for Hagrid at all.

"Hagrid, don't go out, it might be better..." Dumbledore comforted softly.

"No, I want to accompany it on its last journey." Hagrid had just finished speaking when he heard a scream from outside: "Where's that beast?"

"It was chained here," McNeill said furiously. "I saw it, right here!"

"It's strange," said Dumbledore with interest. "We all saw it here just now."

Lucius felt as if his heart was being held, and looked angrily at Hagrid who had just walked out of the hut.

"Oh, God bless it, it must have broken free, Buckbeak, how clever you are! Hagrid ignored Lucius at all, and wept with joy.

"Someone's unchained," roared McMunier, "we should search around the castle, and the woods."

"It's Potter, it must be Harry Potter who hid the beast."

Malfoy remembered the Harry Potter he had met in the corridor earlier, and growled furiously: "He must have done it, I'm sure he took the beast."

"Don't be silly, Mr. Malfoy, Dementors are watching the Hogwarts school from all sides, they won't let other creatures come and go in and out of the castle at will." Dumbledore said softly, "Search the sky and the woods if you want. Well, but I have to warn you: Dementors are never allowed into Hogwarts."

"Okay, Hagrid. I'd like a cup of tea, or a brandy."

"Of course, Professor," Hagrid's voice trembled slightly with excitement, "I have an unopened bottle of brandy here, the last Christmas present Anderson gave me."

"You!" Malfoy blushed with anger. He knew that he had been tricked by a hunting ground guard, and he really wouldn't believe it without Dumbledore's help.

"I'm sure they used the Disillusionment Charm to hide the beast in the castle, we'd better search the whole Hogwarts castle," said Lucius Malfoy angrily.