Chapter 500： The Rita Skeeter Scoop

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Amid Fisch's grumbling reluctance, the Christmas break is over.

Because it was the first day of school, most of the students got up a little late, and Fei Xu and the others were no exception. The bell rang just after they finished their breakfast.

"Come on! It's time to go to class!"

Hermione didn't have time to read the "Daily Prophet" delivered today. After she put the newspaper in her handbag, she pulled up Fish, who didn't really want to go to class, and walked out of the castle with the other students.

Today's first class is the conservation of magical animals class. The thought of helping Hagrid take care of the group of bomb-tailed snails made everyone feel less positive.

With the end of the holiday, the rose garden at the entrance was finally removed by Dumbledore, and the fountains and statues that were used as decoration were also removed. The open space at the entrance of the castle was now nothing but thick snow.

The bad weather made everyone's mood even worse. Except for Fischer, who was bouncing around, the others seldom spoke, and just walked towards Hagrid's hut with their heads sullen.

However, when they came to Hagrid's hut, they saw an elderly witch standing at the door. Her gray hair was cut short and her chin was very prominent.

"Huh? Someone I don't know." Fei Xu jumped up to the other side curiously, "Hello, meow! Who are you?"

(??ω??)

Cat Cat opened her eyes wide and looked at the witch curiously.

"My name is Wilmina Grapland," the witch said to Fish, bending down and smiling, "It's your temporary substitute teacher for the Conservation of Magical Creatures class... You're Minerva's child, aren't you? I'm glad Know you."

"Yes, my name is Fish, you are Minerva's friend, meow?"

Finding that the other party seemed to be very familiar with Professor McGonagall, Mao Mao immediately showed a closer attitude.

"Of course, when she was in school, Minerva was four years older than me, she was the president of the Gryffindor girls' union, prefect, and the captain and seeker of the Quidditch team. Almost all Gryffindor girls look up to her as a role model."

After Professor Grapland complimented Professor McGonagall, he patted Fish on the head lightly and said, "Okay, the bell has been ringing for five or six minutes, you still want to know about Minerva, wait a minute. Let’s talk about it after class, it’s time for us to go to class now.”

After she finished speaking, she waved to the other Gryffindor students, and the Slytherins who came later, and said, "Please come this way, everyone."

Professor Glapland said, walking around the makeshift stables and walking into the distance.

While she was talking to Fish, it became clear why Hagrid needed someone else to take the class...

When Hermione saw Professor Grapland, she immediately turned over today's "Daily Prophet", and she saw an article called "Dumbledore's Major Mistake" on it, which mentioned Hagrid's identity as a half-blood giant.

I hadn't seen Rita Skeeter report about Hagrid before, and Hermione thought she had received a letter from Fish, so she didn't do anything, and Hermione gradually stopped paying attention to this matter, but I didn't expect it to be exposed on the first day of school.

In fact, Rita Skeeter did receive a letter from Feish, and she also struggled whether to help the cat again, but in the end, her nature was hard to change, and she chose to ignore Feish's request.

Moreover, if Rita Skeeter wants to repair her relationship with Fudge, she must write some articles against Dumbledore's reputation. Although there are already examples such as Mad-Eye Moody and Lupin the werewolf, Moody's only has Some notoriety, such as Lupin and Lockhart, have already left, and they have been mentioned in previous reports, so it will not be very effective to say it again.

Then, focusing on Hagrid, the half-blooded giant and the breeder of fried-tailed snails, it is more important to criticize Dumbledore's mistakes in teacher selection.

Anyway, when Fish asked, Rita Skeeter said that it would be good to see the letter after she had posted the article. Anyway, the excuses were easy to find. I couldn't go to the newspaper office to get the letter during the Christmas holidays, or go out to find it. I didn't have time to watch the news or something.

After several encounters with Fish, Rita Skeeter discovered that kittens are still easy to fool.

However, in order to prevent his relationship with Fish from suddenly deteriorating again, Skeeter did not make some "appropriate exaggerations" as usual in the article, but honestly wrote about Hagrid's identity as a half-blood giant, and his love for it. Ambiguous identification of "dangerous creatures".

And thanks to Hagrid's own problems, even if Rita Skeeter reported it truthfully, he looked like an incompetent, even dangerous, professor.

That's why Harry and Ron are speechless right now.

The previous report of Rita Skeeter could still say that she was talking nonsense, but in this article, the description of Hagrid is basically in line with the facts. Even about the half-blooded giant, they also learned from Hermione. was confirmed.

"Hagrid has taught for so long without any problems!"

Harry babbled for a long time, and could only say this angrily, while looking at the other Gryffindor classmates, hoping that they would agree with him.

However, what he was waiting for was the exclamation of a group of girls.

It turned out that they had reached their destination. Under a big tree on the edge of the forbidden forest, a beautiful unicorn was tied, and it was digging the soil with its golden hooves restlessly.

"Boys stand back!" Professor Grapland snapped. "Unicorns love the touch of women. Girls stand in front, approaching carefully... er..."

She couldn't go on in the middle of her words, because Phish had already jumped in front of the unicorn at some point.

"It's Linda Meow!"

?(?ΦωΦ?)?

The unicorn in the Forbidden Forest and Fish were so familiar with each other that he untied the rope that tied the unicorn without hesitation.

And the unicorn Linda, who was still a little uneasy, quickly became quiet after seeing Feixu, neighing in a low voice, and rubbed her head against the cat affectionately.

"Well... the rumors are really true..."

Professor Grapland sighed with emotion, and subconsciously put his hand into his pocket, as if he wanted to take something out, but he didn't take it out in the end.

She shook her head and continued to say to the other students: "The girls are all leaning over, and the boys except Fish are farther away. It's better to park behind the fence."

Cats and unicorns, no girl can refuse this combination. They couldn't help it for a long time, they cheered in a low voice, and quickly got close to Fish and Linda.

And the boys also stayed obediently by the fence of the stable, standing there watching them, and Fish and the unicorn surrounded by them.

"Fish, is her name Linda?"

"Fixu, please help and ask, can we touch her?"

The girls kept chatting around the cat, completely ignoring Professor Glapland.

Professor Glapland smiled wryly, feeling the helplessness of Hagrid once...

With Fish here, the professor of the conservation of magical creatures class seems to be optional.

However, apart from being distracted by Fish, Professor Grapland's lectures were well received by the vast majority of students...

"I really hope she can stay this female teacher!" Parvati Patil said after class: "This is the conservation of magical animals class in my mind...like a unicorn A decent animal like a beast, not a monster..."

"What about Hagrid?" Harry asked angrily.

"What about him?" said Parvati dryly. "He can still be his gamekeeper, can't he?"

Parvati has basically ignored Harry since the ball, and this time Harry hit her directly on the muzzle.

"But Hagrid taught him well, didn't he?" Harry flinched at Parvati's intimidating gaze, but he still didn't give up and wanted to find other supporters.

However, even in the group of boys, there were very few respondents. Except for Fei Xu, everyone had the experience of being injured by the bombed tail snail. It is obviously impossible to say that they liked this kind of course, so in the end it was Luo Well, for the sake of friendship, I agreed.

It was so obvious which one to choose, the scrambled-tailed snail or the unicorn, even Hermione, who had asked Fish to send a letter to Rita Skeeter, had defected at this time.

As Parvati said...

Hagrid still works as a gamekeeper anyway, doesn't he? It doesn't matter if there's less professor of Fantastic Creatures, not that he's going to be kicked out of Hogwarts because of it.

As for Fish...

"Wilmina is Minerva's friend, and Feixu doesn't hate her either."

(??ω??)

Mao Mao frowned, he didn't care much about who was a professor, and...

"She didn't assign homework, meow!"

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