Harry Potter’s Book of Sin

"I think it's better to make it clear before you get confused by this delicious meal."

Dumbledore cleared his throat and went on.

"After they searched the Hogwarts Express train... you must all know that at present our school is going to receive some dementors from Azkaban. They are here to perform the official duties of the Ministry of Magic."

Dumbledore was unhappy about the dementor guarding the school, but this was what the Ministry meant. As the headmaster of Hogwarts, he knew that the Ministry of Magic represented rules and constraints.

With Dumbledore's influence in the magic world, he must set a good example for other wizards to abide by the rules, which is beneficial to the stability and development of the magic world.

"They are stationed at all the entrances of the school grounds," Dumbledore continued. "During their stay here, I must make it clear: No one is allowed to leave the school without permission. Dementors should not be allowed. Being deceived by tricks or disguise-not even invisible cloaks." He added this sentence expressionlessly.

"Dementors by nature don’t know what requests or excuses are. So I warn each of you: don’t give them any excuses to hurt you. I hope the prefects, and our new chairman of the Boys Student Union With the chairperson of the Girls’ Student Union, you have to make sure that no student will collide with the Dementor."

Percy was sitting only a few seats away from Harry, and he puffed his chest out and looked around impressively.

Yes, that's right, Percy became the prefect of Gryffindor Academy. Seeing his appearance, he was obviously showing off!

"It's more gratifying," Dumbledore continued, "this year, I am happy to welcome two new teachers to our team."

"The first one is Professor Lupin. He graciously agreed to fill the vacancy in the course of Defense Against the Dark Arts."

There were scattered, not very enthusiastic applause in the auditorium.Only those students who had been in the same car as him on the train clapped vigorously, and of course Maca was among them.

To be honest, Maca still has a good impression of the werewolf professor... well, of course, maybe it's just because he is curious about the werewolf?

Sitting among all the well-dressed teachers, Lupin looked particularly shabby.

And Snape, who was sitting on the other side of the faculty seat, kept his eyes on Professor Lupin along the long table of the faculty member.

At Hogwarts, everyone knew that Snape had always wanted to be a teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and it was normal to be a little angry about this.

But to everyone's surprise, the expression on Snape's face had surpassed anger, which was hatred.The feeling was exactly the same every time Snape put his eyes on Harry's face.

"As for the second teacher we appointed..."

After the unenthusiastic applause for Professor Lupin disappeared, Dumbledore continued.

"Um... I regret to tell you that our professor Keitel Byrne retired at the end of last year in order to have more time with the rest of his mischief. However, I am happy to say It is not someone else, but Rubeus Hagrid to fill his vacancy. Hagrid has agreed to serve as a teacher in addition to serving as a hunting ground guard."

As soon as Dumbledore’s voice fell, Maca clapped first—he knew he had to give Hagrid some encouragement, lest he always forget what to do and not to do as a teacher.

"Even though it's useless..." Maca thought like this while slapped dryly.

He could hear that the applause on the Gryffindor table was exceptionally enthusiastic, and the cubs had always good senses to Hagrid.

Especially Harry, he leaned forward to look at Hagrid, with a happy smile on his face.

Seeing Hagrid flushed with excitement, he stared at his big hands.

Gradually, the applause subsided, and when Professor Dumbledore began to speak again, everyone saw Hagrid wiping his eyes with the tablecloth.

"Well, I think the important things are done," Dumbledore said. "Let's start eating!"

...

The new semester has begun, and everyone is once again engaged in intense learning.

Starting from the third grade, there are elective courses.

One is ancient magic texts, the other is Muggle studies, and there are two subjects related to divination-divination and arithmetic divination.Of course, don’t forget, there is Hagrid’s lesson on protecting magical creatures.

Speaking of which, Maca is not good at divination, just like he is not good at astronomy, but he chose both divination courses and arithmetic divination courses.

In addition, the ancient magic text class seemed to match Maca very well, but he didn't even have any interest in taking a look.

As for Hagrid's lesson on protecting magical creatures, Maca thought about it and chose it.At any rate, his relationship with Hagrid is pretty good, and he still has to give this face.

It's just that he just intends to try a few lessons in the two divination courses first, and the specific circumstances need to be calculated separately.

But even so, this semester's Maca, in terms of busyness alone, is obviously better than before.

Oh, right!One more thing must be mentioned.

During this semester, a major event happened at Hufflepuff College-the Quidditch team at the college suddenly entered a semi-paralyzed state.And there is only one reason for its paralysis, that is, all the original members of the hospital team have retired!

The first to retired was the team Darren Chris and the chaser Charles Brown, who had graduated honorably this year; and the two seventh-grade players who retired immediately after the team retired, due to the pressure on them at home, They had to withdraw from the college team and concentrate on preparing for the NEWTs exam.

In this way, the same seventh-grade seeker, the big beauty Charlotte, also quit.

There is only one sixth-grade batsman, Mark Baker, who has no choice but to withdraw from this tragic situation.

In this way, the Hufflepuff Academy team was completely deserted like a dramatic.

At this point, Cedric Diggory must be mentioned.He won the presidency of Hufflepuff since last year.Since he took office, let alone, the popularity is really good.

Just ask, who would not like a boy who is sensible, handsome, and elegant?

During one semester of Maca's low-key life, Cedric's reputation at Hufflepuff College rose rapidly, and the little badgers often compared him with Maca.

And it was such a fast-rising handsome prefect who was obliged to take the matter to himself when the Hufflepuff Academy had such a serious problem.

He personally served as the captain, re-recruited players, and quickly restored the completely stagnant team to a normal training state.

He even came to Maca many times, hoping that he could rejoin the academy.Although Maca did not agree, he always maintained a humble and elegant tone. He was not impatient or even resentful because of Maca's repeated rejections.

It's just that Maca really doesn't have time to ride on the broomstick and fly around. There are too many things to do, and he can't be too busy.

No, just after finishing the divination class, he has to rush to the arithmetic divination class.

To be honest, Professor Trelawney's fortune-telling class really made him a little confused, and this was based on the premise that he had considered the content of fortune-telling in advance.

"Why can the look of tea dregs predict the future? What is the principle?" Maca couldn't understand this.

What's more terrible is that none of the books on divination has explained its principles, as if this is an empirical discipline, which makes people suspicious.

Relatively speaking, arithmetic divination is much easier to understand.

Whether it is the magical attributes of numbers or the magical analysis of graphics, it is a kind of traceable subject, which makes Macache really interested.

It's just that arithmetic and divination usually requires a lot of complicated calculations, and a large number of formulas and formulas make Maca feel like an advanced mathematics class that has gone academically.

But in any case, the arithmetic divination class is obviously more appetite for Maca than the divination class.

But when Maca was about to give up the divination class, he accidentally remembered a sentence from Professor Trelawney when he started the class.

"You have chosen the divination course, which is the most difficult course of all magic arts. I must warn you from the beginning: if you don’t have the'sight', then I can teach you very little. , Books can only take you so far..."

Yes, fortune-telling is undoubtedly a discipline that attaches great importance to talent, and this "talent" originates from the extension of blood.

But this has nothing to do with the pure-blood theory of the wizard family. The "view" of divination begins with an awakening similar to the phenomenon of reversion, which has nothing to do with the purity of blood.

It was this speculation that made Maca decide to continue taking this course that he "didn't understand", and tried to find some clues from Professor Trelawney for reference.

In addition to this, Hagrid’s lesson on protecting magical creatures followed.

Just yesterday, Malfoy was injured in Hagrid's class, and the incident quickly spread across Slytherin College.Malfoy and his two idiots went around very hard, trying to make Hagrid's name bad.

"Hagrid, how are you?"

By the side of Hagrid's cabin, some students from Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw gathered in the clearing, waiting for others who had not arrived yet.

Maca came to Hagrid and spoke to him.

"Oh, I think so, okay."

Hagrid obviously looked a little depressed, after all, something went wrong in the first class, which was not a good thing.

"Don't worry! It's not a big deal..." Maca said, "But to be honest, eagles with horses and wings are classified at level 3X. I think they are not suitable for the first class of the third grade. Content, isn't it?"

"But... but they are very interesting," Hagrid argued weakly, "and very beautiful, what do you think?"