Chapter 114 Good Friday
Harry and Ron were unlucky.
It was a weekend, and Hermione had caught the two of them in the tea house early in the morning. After memorizing books for more than an hour with a miserable look on their faces, Professor McGonagall came to teach the three residents here how to transform into Animagus.
The two people who thought they could escape the sea of suffering were happy for less than a minute. Professor McGonagall asked them to follow them to the third floor, find a corner and continue to endorse...
She greatly appreciated Hermione's behavior of making up lessons, and even gave Gryffindor another twenty points for it. As for those two people...when Hermione was the only one staring at them, the two of them could still complain and complain. , occasionally being lazy, now a heavyweight came, and they demonstrated on the spot what it meant to work hard.
Afterward, Harry secretly complained that he felt that the Muggle students preparing to take the selection exams did not work as hard as he did.
But this has little to do with the three people who are trying to record the main points of Professor McGonagall's words.
It's only January now, and the reason why I started so early is because the lead time for learning Animagus transformation is very long.
Just a piece of mandrake needs to be held for a month, and then the leaves have to receive pure moonlight, collect dew, and finally, the most time-consuming thing, is waiting for the storm, and all of this must be done under natural conditions.
It’s not like Ma En has never thought about the Room of Requirement. He mentioned it to Mag and asked her if it was okay to do these things in a simulated environment. He was rejected on the spot and asked him to follow the rules honestly. Come on, Animagus transformation is almost like risking your life, don't try to be clever.
Professor McGonagall said that if everything goes well, they can complete this series of operations before the end of this year's semester. If it doesn't go well...it won't necessarily happen. Let's see when the storm comes.
Not to mention the two hard-working contestants, the three people who are learning the Animagus transformation technique are actually not going well...
Not to mention the problem of speaking, almost everyone accidentally swallowed or chewed the mandrake in their mouths. Ma En was fine, but he didn't think it tasted good, and the two little girls... the antidote almost became The two of them carry drinks - yes, although the various potions made from this thing are very powerful, untreated mandrake is poisonous... (Note)
It took them more than a week to get used to having a piece of stuff in their mouths, and they could speak as normal without spitting it out.
It's just that it's not convenient to brush your teeth, but that's okay, the magic is still very useful.
After a full month, when the time came to February, they took out the blade of grass from their mouths and mixed it with other ingredients prepared in advance under the moonlight...
Then I found a place to bury it, not too far away, just in the shade of the black tea house. This place was quiet enough. Even the little wizard who was always running around, few people came here, and Ma En returned The three bottles of medicine have several magic spells set up to ensure that they are not disturbed.
After doing this, she said hello to Professor McGonagall, and she nodded with satisfaction. As for whether to register...she didn't say it, and neither Ma nor the three of them mentioned it. Everyone agreed to pretend that it didn't happen. Pass.
But speaking of which, the punishment for illegal Animagus is not as harsh as before.
After Umbridge came to power, she scrapped a lot of unreasonable bills, changed many small things into fines and published them in the newspapers, and built a special prison to transfer some prisoners in Azkaban who had not committed such serious crimes. Go in.
In Azkaban now, only the most vicious criminals are "qualified" to stay there, and most prisoners go to ordinary prisons to serve their sentences.
This incident made the Dementor group a little dissatisfied, but after a big fight and a lot of deaths, they became more honest again. After all, the total number was small and the food was enough...
After a series of recent events, Umbridge's popularity has suddenly risen in the wizarding world. The pink toad that everyone used to hate is now greeted by people wherever she goes!
It has to be said that although Umbridge is disgusting in various ways, as a tool person, she is very qualified. She will do whatever Walder asks her to do, and she can even flourish in all kinds of things. It seems that as long as she Having status, no matter who gave it to her, it didn't matter to her. She used everything she had to prove that she was a very good part...
Even the Daily Prophet praised her lavishly, saying that she was a rising star in British wizarding politics. She did not hesitate to praise her and made her look like a saint.
On the contrary, the devil's advocate smeared her, saying that she was a degenerate tempted by the devil, and was brewing a huge conspiracy, preparing to completely subvert the wizarding world... Not to mention, the guess was quite accurate, but Ma En was slightly substituted. From an outsider's perspective, I think it's fun to watch the devil's advocate, even if sometimes the guesses above are actually quite accurate. For example, this newspaper has slandered Dumbledore more than once as controlling the entire wizarding world from behind. From a certain perspective In fact, their guess was correct.
A few days ago, Marne met Walder on the road and asked him if he had ordered Umbridge to untie the pile of things. Old Walder was confused and said that he only asked her to untie the flying carpet. Then I saw the catalog in the old newspaper that Ma En found. After carefully checking the contents, I was very satisfied.
In his words, Umbridge is a talent. Just look at who she is used for. In Fudge's hands, she will be a mean and mean bitch. In his hands, she will be an excellent and outstanding official.
Mahn would not comment on this.
What he is most concerned about now is when the storm will come...
After waiting eagerly for three days, when the snowflakes were falling, I remembered that it seemed that it was not going to rain now, and the occasional cool rain was not a storm.
Because of this, they were laughed at by Harry, who was trying to make up for the class. Marn got angry and gave them a test paper. After taking it, Harry and Ron couldn't sleep in on the weekend for a long time...
While other people's weekends were rest days, their weekends were torture days, and they were extremely busy. Harry's Quidditch training, which he had been feeling exhausted, almost became his savior. Every time, he looked at the clock eagerly to see the time. As soon as he picked up the broom, he rushed out, leaving Ron in the room shouting that Harry was not interesting enough.
The only time Ron had to rest was probably during the Quidditch match. He would go to the Quidditch pitch to cheer for Gryffindor. Several residents of the Black Tea House would also go there sometimes, mainly to watch the game. It doesn't matter whether it's serious or not, if it's an important game, even someone as uninterested as Ma En will come to cheer for it.
And then... every time he went there, as long as he was playing against Slytherin, something would always happen in the opponent's stands...