The Little Superman of Hogwarts

Hogwarts' Superman

Chapter 229 [Lupin Implicated]

When Malfoy opened his eyes, Kreacher vanished into the Hospital Wing in a flash.

Hagrid, in his excitement, gave Malfoy a bear hug, nearly crushing the newly awakened boy to meet Merlin directly.

Malfoy had been unconscious ever since the poisoning. His last memory was of being poisoned, his body wracked with pain, his eyes blinded, and then… he'd been unconscious for a while…

Suddenly he was better? ? ?

Hagrid roughly recounted the events of the past two days. After a long period of stunned silence, Malfoy finally understood his situation and easily got out of bed.

As Malfoy looked at Hagrid with suspicion, a still-charming older woman appeared at the entrance of the Hospital Wing…

This was Malfoy's mother, Narcissa Malfoy, born into the Black family. Sirius Black was her cousin.

Thanks to the Black family's excellent genes, she was tall, slender, beautiful, pale-faced, with blue eyes and long golden hair, and a crisp, cold voice.

However, Narcissa's hair color differed from that of most of the Black family, possibly inherited from her mother, as the Blacks generally had dark hair. Narcissa certainly possessed the arrogant beauty that was a common trait of her family.

However, perhaps due to the long-term influence of the Malfoy family, or perhaps it was her nature, her face now looked a little sharp, with a very pointed expression.

Hagrid wanted to explain something, but seeing Narcissa's expression, he was immediately startled. He simply said, "Draco is awake. We healed him," and immediately rushed out of the ward.

Only then did Narcissa notice the little Malfoy, who had been completely obscured by Hagrid.

Narcissa still loved her child very much, and she immediately forgot about Hagrid, hugging Malfoy and bursting into tears.

The news of Malfoy's recovery spread quickly. By noon, the whole school knew. By this time, exam week was also over, and everyone was waiting for their grades and looking forward to the long summer vacation.

However, the aftermath of Malfoy's injury clearly wasn't going to subside—soon, the next day, everyone received two shocking pieces of news.

Hagrid was removed from his teaching position! This was expected by most people.

And, very unexpectedly—Lupin was also fired! The reason was even more explosive: Lupin was a werewolf!

In the original story, because of Lupin's periodic transformations, Snape had once substituted for him. Lupin brought his werewolf friends to Hogwarts on a full moon night, which led to his exposure.

But in reality, because Snape had a child, this greatly reduced the conflict between the two of them. Lupin, seemingly relieved of the pressure, did not act as recklessly as in the original story. This school year had passed peacefully, and the appearance of such a thing after the end of the exams was truly surprising, giving Kreacher a sense of fate.

Similarly, from this perspective, Kreacher was even more certain that this world would actively correct some things, but its initiative wasn't that strong, more like a probability.

For example, in the original story, the probability of his exposure might have exceeded 100%, while in reality, the probability of his exposure might have reached 50%. So, the probability of this explosion would be reduced, waiting until he finished this semester before finally exploding.

Lupin was a rare good teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts, even ranked higher than Mad-Eye Moody in the original story.

His departure was indeed a pity and a loss for Hogwarts.

Very quickly, everyone received this news, so on the day Professor Lupin left, Harry Potter and his friends all went to see him off, but Kreacher didn't go. Professor Lupin and Kreacher had somewhat divergent personalities; in simple terms, the two weren't on the same wavelength. They hadn't established any deep friendship. However, Kreacher still sent a small gift to Professor Lupin through Ginny's hand.

Although Hagrid was stripped of his teaching position, he still stayed in the hut in the Forbidden Forest, and from time to time, one could see Hagrid sitting in the shade of a tree, lost in thought.

As for Kreacher, he had been studying that coin these past few days—the coin engraved with the goblin Ragnuk the First.

"How did it go?" Hermione asked after an experiment.

"This thing is a sealed magic array, containing something inside, probably a magical item," Kreacher said with a strange tone, slightly puzzled.

"Anything else?" Hermione asked, hearing Kreacher's odd tone.

"Inside that magical item, there's at least another layer!" Kreacher said, puzzled. "It's a layered magical item, like a Russian nesting doll," Kreacher explained.

Hagrid had explained that this coin came from his mother, but he was too young when his mother left. He had heard all this from his father, who had passed away many years ago.

Kreacher decided to use divination to predict what was inside the coin.

Divination is a branch of magic that generally foresees the future or gathers insights from past, present, and future events through some ritual or tool.

This is a very inexact discipline that requires specific ways of thinking and concentration to enhance a person's perception and logical thinking abilities, in order to gain insights into different events, phenomena, details, emotions, and thoughts.

But for Kreacher, whose magic power had reached a massive 260,000, the accuracy of divination had reached an astonishing level.

He held a pile of stones in his hand, then scattered them, letting them roll freely. This was a form of astrology.

Kreacher interpreted the results based on the position of the stones, and the result shocked him: [A person who shouldn't exist!]

There's a person inside?

Could it be a corpse?

"Looks like I have work to do this summer!" Kreacher muttered to himself. Unsealing the coin would also be a major project.

During the week before the summer vacation, the grades came out quickly. Kreacher once again finished the year's exams with all Outstanding grades. This time, Hermione also got the exact same grades as Kreacher. The two were tied for first place.

This made the Ravenclaw students look bad—in other years, Ravenclaw practically monopolized all the top student spots.

But in the third year, Kreacher and Hermione were like two mountains, making everyone unable to lift their heads. Hermione was still within the understandable range, but Kreacher was completely in the "non-human" category.

Ginny also got all Outstanding grades except for Astronomy, making her one of the top students in the second year.

Severus Snape got all Outstanding grades in the first year, dominating for a time, known as the rising new king of Hogwarts.

Lily Evans' grades were also very good, but slightly worse than Severus, belonging to the top student category.

Soon, the third year was coming to an end…