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Dumbledore's big mistake!

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

In September this year, he hired alastor "mad eye" moody as the teacher of defense against the dark arts, which surprised many people in the Ministry of magic.

Moody's is a notorious evil spirit. He used to be Auror. As we all know, as long as someone suddenly moves in front of him, he will attack.

However, compared with the half man and half demon hired by Dumbledore to teach the course of protecting magical creatures, mad eye Moody is serious, responsible and kind.

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The news of the prophet daily is very timely. Just after the Christmas holiday, the news about Hagrid's giant blood has been put on the headlines by Rita Skeeter.

She used sharp words to describe a lot of harmful remarks about giants, and passed them on to Hagrid. In order to enhance her persuasion, she even asked a student for a small interview.

"I was attacked by a winged Gryphon, and my friend Vincent Crabbe was bitten by a frober caterpillar." in an interview, a fourth grader named Draco Malfoy said, "we all hate Hagrid, but we dare not be angry."

Obviously, it was not just the people who showed up to eavesdrop on Hagrid's conversation with Mrs. maxim in the middle of the ball last night.

On the day the newspaper was published, Hagrid asked for leave. The substitute professor was a witch named "wilmina grapland".

To tell the truth, no matter how she deals with magical creatures, at least her teaching level is much better than Hagrid. She brought us a practical class about beautiful unicorns. Those beautiful and pure creatures made a very good impression on the students.

But Harry and they looked very anxious. They were fine a few days ago! Where's Hagrid?

As professor grapland approached the unicorns with the girls, Harry turned to Ron and said, "what do you think happened to him? It's not a fried tail snail -"

"Oh, Potter, if you're worried about that, I can tell you that he's not under attack," Malfoy whispered. "No, he's just too ashamed to show his ugly face."

"What do you mean?" Harry snapped.

Malfoy reached into the pocket of his robe and took out a folded newspaper.

"See for yourself," he said with a proud smile, "I really don't want to tell you the news, Potter..."

It was the headline with a picture of Hagrid on it, and his face looked furtive.

"How did she find out?" Ron whispered.

But that's not what Harry was thinking.

"What do you mean? 'we all hate Hagrid'?" Harry snapped at Malfoy. "What kind of shit is that," he pointed to Cramer. "He was badly bitten by a flebber caterpillar? They don't even have teeth!"

Crabbe giggled, obviously very proud.

"All right, I think it's time to end this fool's teaching career." Malfoy said, his eyes shining. "Hybrid giant... I thought he just drank a bottle of oxytocin when he was a child... Students' parents won't promise... They're worried that he will eat their children, ha ha..."

"You --"

Soon it was time for class to end, and the girls came back with Professor grapland.

"It was a great class," said Hermione as they entered the auditorium. "I don't know half of what Professor grapland told us about unicorns --"

"Look at this!" roared Harry angrily, pushing the Daily Prophet article under Hermione's nose.

Hermione read the article and opened her mouth in surprise. Her reaction is as like as two peas Ron.

"How did Skeeter, the annoying woman, find out? Hagrid didn't tell her?"

Recently, Ron and Hermione seem to have reached a tacit understanding. They both keep quiet about their quarrel. Now they are very friendly to each other, but they are polite and unnatural.

Just a few days ago, they discussed the giant's height together. Hermione remembered that the book said twenty feet, but Harry remembered that Marca mentioned thirty feet.

But today, they don't have the leisure to discuss those problems.

"We must go and see him," said Harry. "Just this evening, after divination class. Tell him we want him back... Do you want him back?" he asked Hermione coldly.

"I -- well, I don't want to lie. It's good to have a decent class on the protection of magical creatures once in a while for a change -- but I do want Hagrid back, of course I do!" Hermione added hastily, frightened by Harry's angry eyes.

So, after dinner that day, the three of them left the castle again, crossed the ice covered ground and walked towards Hagrid's Cabin - they wanted to go with Maka, but who knows, Maka didn't know where to go.

When they came to the door of Hagrid's cabin, Harry knocked on the door, and there was a deep bark from behind the door.

"Hagrid, it's us!" cried Harry, pounding the door hard. "Open the door!"

Hagrid didn't answer. They could hear their teeth scratching the door and purring, but the door didn't open. They knocked heavily for more than ten minutes. Ron even knocked on a window, but there was no reply.

This time, Hagrid seemed unable to make up his mind.

"I always think Marca should be in there now..." Harry couldn't help looking back. "He always does. Every time he pops up in the most critical place, startling us all."

But unfortunately, Maka is not here this time.

According to the news in the Daily Prophet, he knew that even that night he saw Rita Skeeter in the form of Animagus, but he didn't mean to stop this episode.

Hogwarts needs a bit of chaos now - if the water is too clear, no hand is willing to reach in to catch fish.

Of course, if Skeeter doesn't lead the fire to him

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

While Harry and they were worried about Hagrid, Marca walked alone in an alley in Hogsmeade village.

"Coming?"

Just ahead, in a dark corner, an invisible figure suddenly said.

"Talino, how's it going?" Marca asked calmly.

"The target of this mission is not easy to deal with," the man whispered. "So far, several targets have been lost - but it is certain that their actions are still very cautious. It is obvious that they are still a while away from large-scale action!"

"Good, keep staring..." Maka said, suddenly handing out the box in her hand. "These things you take away are useful things - keep an eye on the movements of the target and try not to miss any clues."

The figure took over the suitcase, opened it slightly, looked at it, and then closed it firmly.

"Seriously, your potions are spoiling us..." he said tactfully. "The old man in charge of those key targets said that with these supplies, tracking is easier than walking."

"During the mission, these expenses won't ask you for a copper NAT. Don't save it," Marca waved her hand. "As long as the mission is completed well, I can give you more."

"Just for you, there's a task next time. We'll give you a 50% discount!"

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

Time passed quickly, and it was mid January in the twinkling of an eye.

The students were going to Hogsmeade village, and Harry wanted to go too. He thought he might meet Hagrid there, so that he would have a chance to persuade him to come back.

But Hermione disagreed, because the problems left by the first project of the top three competition are still waiting for them! The box was very depressing. Hermione had been studying it, but she didn't think of any good idea to open it.

"I'm going to take this opportunity to think about it. I think you should do the same!" she seriously persuaded Harry. "Remember? We have to finish the task!"

In fact, Dumbledore didn't set the problem of how to open the box. To open them, you just need to find the right place - it only tests the action power of warriors and their understanding of ancient RuNi.

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

For example, Maka's snow-white ice box. He just needs to go around the ice cellar in Hogwarts, and he can easily find the runiwen altar used to open the box.

This kind of magic mechanism makes use of the combined substitution feature of niwen - they do not exist independently, and each can be replaced by other runes to obtain another completely different effect.

But where does Maka have time to find any altar?

He drew a few simple runiwen matrixes and easily completed the replacement of runes.

When the ice box in front of Maka suddenly burst into blue flame, the cover of the box opened automatically

There is an irreplaceable clue in each box, which will become the real goal of each warrior in the upcoming second project of the top three competition.

"Dumbledore is really not too big..." Marca looked at the things in the box and muttered.