Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures

98. Chapter 98 Buckbeak's Defence

    Looking at Hagrid's pitiful look, Ivan sighed.

    He doesn't know what politics is, but he knows what he has to do. He can't watch Buckbeak cut his head, and Hagrid will definitely get rid of it.

    "Listen, Hagrid!"Ivan said, "You can't give up. You need to prepare a defense. Harry, Ron, and Hermione can prove that Barcob is innocent. I can help you promote this in the newspaper."

    “Ivan is right, I must have read a hippogriff attack.”Hermione said with meditation, "In that case, hippogriff is fine, we can study what is going on."

    "Yes, we will help."Harry and Ron hurriedly followed.

    Although everyone said so, the work ended in almost Ivan and Hermione.

    After Harry and Ron persisted for a while, they seemed to have completely forgotten about it.

    This does not blame them, first Harry, he is too busy recently.

    In late November, the Ravenclaw team defeated the Hufflepuff team. This incident made Wood full of energy, and the Gryffindor team had a chance to play, although they could not lose another game.

    He is now asking the players to train all night and night, and Ivan has seen Harry several times Mobiliarbus in the cold, icy snow of December.

    Fortunately, since the last incident, no trace of dementor has been seen on campus. The lessons learned last time and Dumbledore's anger seem to have completely restricted them to positions at the entrance to the school.

    In addition to busy with Quiddich training, Harry had to learn the Patronus curse with Professor Lupin.

    He wants to cast the full Patronus as soon as possible to ensure that there are no more accidents in the next game.

    As for Ron, his recent state is getting more and more abnormal.

    He now has almost no communication with everyone, and is not close to Ivan and Hermione. When Harry was training, he was alone in the city.

    In order to guard against Crookshanks, he placed Scabbers in his shirt pocket wherever he went.

    On several occasions, they all exceeded the scope of the tracking agent and did not know where to go.

    Ivan didn't have the heart to manage Ron and Peter Pettigrew. He and Hermione spent almost all of their time in the library, and they didn't care about anything else.

    Let Peter Pettigrew go for a few days, and after more than twenty days, when the Christmas holiday, his plan can be implemented. At that time, there were the fewest people in the castle. You could take Sirius Black out and then solve the whole incident with a bang.

    What is more urgent to solve now is to find a way to save Buckbeak. He and Hermione have found a lot of information and files in the library, and refer to the famous case recorded above to prepare Buckbeak's defense. The titles of these files are: "magical creature case summary", "hippogriff psychological handbook", "poultry or monster", "hippogriff barbaric research", etc., each of which is very thick.

    "Ivan, look at this!"Hermione put a dusty file in front of Ivan and whispered, "This is a case of Manticore in 1926, who killed someone but was finally acquitted."

    "This is because everyone is afraid, no one dares to approach it."Ivan frowned and looked at the small letters on the file.

    "Yeah, you are right."Hermione was disappointed to throw a thick file aside.

    Ivan took the file and went on. The following is a brief introduction to the magical creature of Manticore.

    Manticore is an extremely dangerous magical creature with a human head, a lion's torso and a scorpion's tail. It is very rare, and it is famous for its soft humming when it devours prey.

    According to reliable literature, Manticore's skin almost excludes all known spells. Anyone who is smashed by it will be killed immediately.

    This horrific creature was created by the combination of wizard and Goblin. They were used to watch out for property or important forbidden places and were once popular. But since the implementation of the Ban on Experimental Breeding Act, Manticore has gradually decreased.

    In recent decades, it has disappeared.

    Ivan put the dossier aside, and from the above text, hippogriff's hazard rating is not as low as that of Manticore.

    If Buckbeak had half of Manticore, they wouldn't have to sit here and worry.

    In the next half month, in addition to assisting Hermione to improve his defense, Ivan also wrote several defense articles.

    He had intended to use pressure to give pressure to Lucius Malfoy and the Committee on the Handling of Dangerous Biology, but things were not as smooth as originally envisaged.

    "Daily Prophet" refused to publish these articles written by Ivan, who thought it was not reported. At best, the whole incident happened to be a trivial matter in Hogwarts and could not attract people's interest in reading.

    Although Ivan finally printed these articles on Hogwarts Magic, the effect was limited.

    The opinion of Mr. Barnabas Goff, the editor-in-chief of "Daily Prophet", is correct. Most readers don't care about the life and death of a hippogriff, not to mention the fact that young wizards have already known about this.

    In contrast, they are more interested in things related to Black and dementor.

    Ivan is not completely without supporters. Colin, Ginny, and Luna all express their support for his views. Luna even persuaded his father to publish these articles by Ivan on The Quibbler instead of the original study on Crumple-Horned Snorkack. The article became the new front page headline.

    However, this did not play much role, "The Quibbler" is not as much sales as "Hogwarts Magic".

    Time passed by and it was getting closer to Christmas, but Ivan and Hermione did not make much progress.

    Although they wrote a full defense of ten pieces of parchment, Ivan doubted how much the defender could play in addition to being drowsy.

    Let’s not say whether the officials who deal with the Dangerous Biology Committee will adopt this defense. It’s a questionable thing that Hagrid can write down these things. It’s possible to read them all by his ability. Struggling.

    "No use, Hermione!"Ivan sighed heavily as he looked at Hermione, who was sitting opposite him.

    Hermione is still struggling in the boring doss, she is often the last to leave the common room at night, and the next morning she is the first to go to the library, with heavy academic burdens, invisible pressure from Ron, and preparation of Buckbeak's defense. These things are superimposed and have already made her have a shadow under her eyes like Lupin.

    “What?”Hermione looked up from the information.

    "Our idea seems to be wrong. For whatever reason, Buckbeak did hurt Draco Malfoy, didn't he?"Ivan said slowly, "We can't defend Buckbeak's innocence. As long as Lucius Malfoy bites this, Hagrid's hopes of winning the case are very slim."

    "What do we do, like Harry and Ron, do nothing?!"Hermione looked a little annoyed. "Look at Buckbeak being killed, then wait for Hagrid to crash?!"

    "No, I mean, we should change our mind."Ivan's eyes fell on the hand of a Newt Scamander's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," and the author's experience gave him a lot of inspiration.