Hogwarts: Harley from The Witch Way - Chapter 407

c391 This family cannot live without Hagrid!

After one class, Professor Trelawney finally realized what it meant to be sweaty.

In order to fool Umbridge, she even used the knowledge in the Muggle books she accidentally read!

Fortunately, Umbridge was probably really fooled by herself, and even had some respect for herself.

This made Trelawney feel tired but also a little happy.

She made up her mind to unpack her bookcase after this class.

Professor Trelawney originally bought a lot of obscure books from a Muggle stall to fill his bookcase, preparing to slap them in the face when someone doubted him.

If I remember correctly, those second-hand Muggle books called “Houheixue”, “Guiguzi”, “Danyangzi”, and “Red Boss” were originally placed with the “Tao Te Ching” In the same section as the street stalls.

If you read through these books carefully, you will definitely gain a lot and continue to fool Umbridge.

Professor Trelawney even thought happily that maybe Umbridge had a “smart eye” and really realized her talent?

By the time Umbridge talks to Professor Dumbledore, her salary, which has not changed in nineteen years, should be able to rise.

Professor Trelawney, who never goes downstairs, firmly believes that as long as the Senior Deputy Minister of Magic opens his mouth, his salary increase will be just around the corner!

Of course, if this idea is heard by Professor McGonagall, who is responsible for managing payroll, Professor McGonagall will only sneer and think Trelawney is wishful thinking.

Trelawney had predicted Professor McGonagall’s death back then, believing that Professor McGonagall would not survive to graduate.

After being hired by Professor Dumbledore, Trelawney boldly predicted that Gryffindor would not win the title for ten consecutive years.

Professor McGonagall remembers all the prophecies Trelawny made!

Professor McGonagall is not petty, but you, a divination professor, have made so many false predictions that have not been fulfilled, and you still want a salary increase?

If he didn’t deduct his salary, it was because Dumbledore was stopping him!

And believe in Umbridge… who is she?

Professor Trelawney was dreaming boldly, and Umbridge was also thinking a lot.

After attending the class, Umbridge was generally quite satisfied.

Although there are many problems and doubts in the process, Trelawney probably has real talent and learning.

Umbridge decided not to make an evaluation for the time being, unlike her own leader’s report, but to wait and see for a while before making any comments.

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Time flies by so fast, October flies by in the stormy sky, and in a blink of an eye it’s Halloween Eve.

However, the festive atmosphere of Halloween this year is not as strong as before. The students always feel that something is wrong, something seems to be missing.

After thinking about it over and over again, I realized that this year’s Halloween…why are there so few pumpkins?

In previous years, there would always be a large number of magical giant pumpkins appearing in the auditorium, either hollowed out and hung from the ceiling, or lying on the ground.

There will also be a large number of exquisite pumpkin lanterns as decorations in every corner of the stairs, on the armor heads in the corridors and on the tables in the auditorium.

But now, all these have disappeared, leaving only pumpkin pie, pumpkin porridge and pumpkin pie on the table.

What’s Halloween without pumpkin decorations?

Now that a problem has been discovered, it is time to find the cause.

The students gathered around and realized that there were so few pumpkins for Halloween this year because Hagrid seemed to have not appeared in Hogwarts for a long time.

In previous years, Hagrid was responsible for growing large quantities of pumpkins to supply Hogwarts. Only he could secretly use some expansion magic on pumpkins to create giant pumpkins that could be used as carriages.

This year Hagrid has been missing since the beginning of school, so naturally it is impossible to provide pumpkins.

Although the school will normally purchase a batch of pumpkins as ingredients, don’t think about the decorations made from pumpkins.

(The original book even skipped this Halloween. The author read it several times and never mentioned this Halloween. This shows how important Hagrid is to Hogwarts!)

This made the little wizards miss Hagrid inexplicably.

Although most students didn’t like Hagrid’s Care of Magical Creatures class, they didn’t like the ugly and dangerous squids, poison horns, and manticores (weakened versions) that Hagrid often showed off during class. biology.

But the students still have a very favorable impression of Hagrid himself.

He provides decorations for Hogwarts every holiday, always helps the professors with their work, and almost always gets a response when young wizards ask him for help.

Hagrid is already an indispensable part of Hogwarts. This family cannot live without Hagrid!

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Although everyone is very sad about Hagrid’s absence, the holidays still have to be celebrated.

And although this year’s Halloween lacks decorations, the holiday flavor is not too bland.

After all, there is Professor Slughorn in the school.

Professor Slughorn has always loved having fun, making friends with talented wizards and including them in his network.

The best way for these talented wizards to get to know each other is undoubtedly to hold a banquet.

When Professor Slughorn was still the dean of Slytherin House, he would hold a Yule Ball every Christmas at his own expense, inviting young wizards in the school who he thought were talented as well as outstanding people from other schools to come.

The Halloween holiday is not that long, and naturally it cannot be so grand, so Professor Slughorn just proposed a costume party.

Professor Dumbledore has been extremely busy since the start of the school year, traveling around Europe and Great Britain, often disappearing from school, and almost all of his powers as principal were handed over to McGonagall out of “force”. Vice-Chancellor.

But for such an important holiday as Halloween, how could Dumbledore miss it?

As for Professor Slughorn’s seemingly interesting activity, Professor Dumbledore approved it without even thinking about it.

After learning the news, the little wizards who were a little depressed became excited again.

But the exciting activities are in the evenings, and daytime classes are a must.

This morning was Divination class, which was also Umbridge’s favorite class to attend, but she was absent today.

At the same time, Professor Trelawney’s mental state was clearly not quite right.

She seemed worried, and from time to time she would talk to herself in a dramatic, low and trembling voice, making people very worried about the professor’s mental state.

Judging from the few words Professor Trelawney revealed from time to time, it can be judged that Umbridge probably sent her an investigation notice.

Although Professor Trelawney made a rare effort and spent a lot of time reading Muggle books, he still failed to fool Umbridge.

After all, the Muggle books she read were all in conflict with each other, and some of the prefaces and subtexts did not match.

If he could really read “The Red Boss” or any other book, then Trelawney would be able to completely confuse Umbridge.

But with Trelawny’s own level of inexperience, and his obvious lack of Muggle literary skills in translating books, understanding it was naturally a wishful thinking.

It is even more impossible to learn and master all this knowledge in just one month to the extent that it can be used to fool people.

So after being deceived for two full weeks, Umbridge finally discovered many unreasonable things, and out of doubt, began to press forward step by step.

In the end, she made a judgment that Trelawny was most likely a liar with no real ability.

Since he is a liar, it is easy to deal with. Even if she did fire Trelawny, Umbridge would be justified.

After reporting to Voldemort and Fudge respectively, she issued her first detention notice as a senior investigator.

This is also the reason why Professor Trelawney is in extremely bad mental state today.

Although the students didn’t know the details, they all had a general guess.

But except for a few loyal believers, the other students didn’t seem to sympathize with her.

After all, who doesn’t know that Professor Trelawney is a well-known old liar at Hogwarts? Can you trust a word of the courses she teaches?

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Finally, after the divination class ended, the students rushed out of the classroom with almost no one staying.

Divination class is the last class this afternoon, so everyone needs to return to the dormitory as quickly as possible to put on makeup and attend tonight’s Halloween dinner.

Harry didn’t stay outside longer and went straight back to the common room.

The Gryffindor common room was a mess and the little lions were extremely excited.

To Harry’s surprise, she noticed that Hermione and the Weasley twins had gathered together and seemed to be discussing something.

While Hermione wasn’t paying attention, Harry hit her hard with a ball charge, pressing her chin on the long, messy brown hair behind her.

She subconsciously took a deep breath, um, there was an orange aroma.

I don’t know when Hermione got a new shampoo, but Harry clearly remembered that the original shampoo was scented with lilies.

But the orange flavor is the orange flavor, and the citrus aroma is so delicious, it is worthy of my Hermione!

“Harry!” Hermione exclaimed first.

“What are you three doing sneakily?”

While grabbing Hermione’s hands that tried to resist, Harry looked at the round biscuits placed on the table between the three of them.

“Huh? Canary custard biscuits? No, it seems to have been modified…”

“He is worthy of being the champion of the Six-wizard Tournament.” Fred nodded.

“This is a brand new product based on the canary custard biscuit – toad biscuit! Exclusively endorsed by Umbridge!”

Harry blinked and looked at the Weasley twins expectantly.

“We all know that Umbridge has been causing trouble in the school during this period.” George said with a serious face.

“Although she only teaches elective courses…”

“That’s because the greasy old bat beat her into the hospital and made her lie down for two weeks…”

“So her kind of flying can only be used for elective courses…”

The Weasley twins sang in unison, their voices rising and falling, accusing Umbridge of her guilt.

The last two people said in unison:

“…In view of the fact that during this period, pink toads disgusted classmates in the school, causing mental discomfort to everyone and making the professors unhappy.”

“So we decided to give her a little Halloween surprise!”

“Then how did you convince Hermione to witness you preparing a prank? According to common sense, she should have complained to me, the prefect.”

Harry let go of Hermione’s hand, but still held Hermione from behind. Hermione no longer resisted feebly, but there was still a bit of resentment on her face.

“I don’t know anything, and I don’t know anything about Umbridge. I was just idle and bored watching Fred and George’s activities.”

Hermione’s whole body was soft except for her mouth.

But Harry was used to Hermione being so tough-talking. She just quietly made some small and unobtrusive moves, and Hermione surrendered instantly.

“Okay, I’ll do it. I really can’t stand the idea of ​​Umbridge bullying others. She often makes unreasonable troubles in the Divination class and picks on Professor Victor.”

Hermione chose to tell the truth, “So I’m here to give Fred and George a little help and help them solve their Transfiguration difficulties.”

“The two of them based it entirely on a canary custard cookie, but the canary cookie’s feathers fall off within a minute.”

“We want to turn Umbridge into a toad, preferably for more than an hour, but unfortunately we have not succeeded so far.”

“Your original spell targeted the bird’s feathers, not the toad’s skin.”

Harley explained the academic mistakes made by the three of them, and at the same time pulled out her wand.

“This involves a concept in human transfiguration. When you go back, I suggest you read the third section of the sixth-grade textbook. I won’t teach you any more.”

“I can correct this small problem, but don’t you think it’s a bit boring to simply turn Umbridge into a toad?”

“What should I say?” George asked with interest, “Do you have a better idea?”

Before he finished speaking, a red light hit the cookie in front of him.

The biscuit trembled for a moment, then became silent.

“Well…let me think about it,” Harry thought for a while, and five or six more rays of various colors were emitted from the wand.

“It’s done, now it’s perfect.” Harley clapped her hands, admiring her masterpiece.

“Now what does this cookie do?”

Fred poked the cookie with his wand, and sparks suddenly appeared on the wand, which startled Fred.

“Keep it secret.” Harry smiled evilly and pulled Hermione up.

“Anyway, as long as you can put the cookie into Umbridge’s mouth, you can enjoy a wonderful scene.”

“Gentlemen, let’s go first. Girls’ makeup is very time-consuming.”

Fred and George looked at each other, shrugged helplessly, grabbed the biscuits and walked out of the Gryffindor common room.

For tonight’s fun, the two of them need to make some preparations.

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(Thanks to Mr. “Sua” for the reward!) (End of this chapter)