[HP] Being a problem student at Hogwarts

The green dragon's blood dripped down Hagrid's messy beard. Tom looked away as politely as possible, not looking at the food remnants and grass clippings in the tangled beard.

He looked like he had just been forced to roll on the ground, or was knocked to the ground by someone. Tom thought.

"Can you tell us what happened to you?" Harry asked.

"No, Harry, this is strictly confidential - I can't tell you that my job isn't worth it."

"Did the giant hit you, Hagrid?" Hermione asked softly.

Hagrid's hand loosened and the dragon meat slid onto his chest.

"Giant?" Hagrid grabbed the dragon meat before it slipped onto the belt and applied it to his face again. "Who said giant? Who did you talk to? Who told you - who said I - ah?"

"We guessed," Hermione said apologetically.

"Oh, you guessed it, didn't you?" Hagrid looked at her sternly with the eye that was not covered by the dragon flesh.

"It's...obvious," Ron said, and Harry nodded.

Hagrid glared at them, then grunted, threw the dragon meat back on the table, and walked over to the whining kettle.

"I've never seen kids your age know so many things they shouldn't know," he muttered, pouring boiling water into five bucket-shaped cups, "I'm not complimenting you. Some people call this - asking around. Nosy."

But his beard was trembling.

"You went to find the giant?" After finding out that it was not a Death Eater who attacked Hagrid, Harry felt more relaxed. He sat down at the table and asked with a smile.

Hagrid placed the teacup in front of everyone, thought for a moment, took the cup in front of Tom and made it again, washed away the slightest bit of dragon's blood on the cup, poured a new cup, and then Then he sat down and picked up the dragon meat and put it on his face.

Tom thanked him sincerely - Hagrid said he was careless, but he actually took good care of them.

Hagrid muttered: "Nothing..." He sighed and admitted, "Yeah, I went."

"Found them?" Hermione asked breathlessly.

"Honestly, they're not that hard to find," Hagrid said. "They're big."

"Where are they?" Ron asked.

"In the mountains." Hagrid answered vaguely.

Tom's ears perked up: "Then why don't Muggles-"

"It's not that they didn't," Hagrid said in a low voice, "It's just that the cause of their death is always said to be mountaineering accidents, right?"

"But apart from witnessing, other technological means -" Tom remembered mid-sentence, "Oh, the team for reversing accidental magical events, the memory cancellation command."

"What the hell?" Hagrid didn't understand what Tom was talking about.

"Never mind that - Hagrid, tell us what you did!" Ron said excitedly, "Tell us about being attacked by giants. Harry can tell us about being attacked by dementors -"

Hagrid choked, and the dragon meat fell out. He coughed repeatedly, and a large amount of saliva, tea, and dragon blood splashed onto the table, and the dragon meat slid to the floor with a splat.

Tom couldn't help but shrink back, and at that moment his magic mist exploded in fear.

"What do you mean, attacked by dementors?" Hagrid shouted.

"Don't you know?" Hermione asked with wide eyes.

"I don't know what happened after I left." Hagrid pointed at Tom, "I don't know when Tom came back from studying abroad -"

Several children looked at each other in confusion, without mentioning where Tom went to "study abroad."

Hagrid continued: "...I have a secret mission, and I don't want owls to follow me everywhere - nasty dementors! Isn't that true?"

"It's true, they showed up in Little Whinging, attacked me and my cousin, and then the Ministry of Magic wanted to expel me—"

"What?" Hagrid roared.

"——I had to go to trial. There were many things. But first tell us about the giant."

"Are you going to be fired?"

"Tell me about your summer vacation first, and then I'll tell you about mine."

Hagrid glared at Harry with the eye he could open. Harry looked at him with a straight and determined expression on his face.

"Oh, okay." Hagrid said helplessly.

He bent down and pulled the dragon meat out of Yaya's mouth. Then, when Hermione and Tom stopped in unison - "No! This is very unhygienic!" - they applied dragon meat mixed with mud and dog saliva to their eyes.

Tom closed his eyes in pain and silently looked away again, not looking at Hagrid's face.

Hagrid took a sip of tea to refresh himself, and then began to tell the story of how he—or rather they—Mrs. Maxim also went to find the giant. .seven

Although many people don't know where the giants gather, this is not difficult information for Dumbledore to obtain. But even with Dumbledore's guidance, it still took them a full month to find the giant.

Because you can't use magic.

"What?" Ron couldn't understand at all.

"We're being watched, Ron," Hagrid said gruffly.

According to Hagrid, the Ministry of Magic was keeping tabs on Dumbledore and those they thought were with him, especially those like him who suddenly left Hogwarts and behaved suspiciously. So they have to be careful lest the Ministry of Magic finds an excuse to arrest them.

They first went to France, pretending to go on vacation, and then got rid of the stalkers when they relaxed their vigilance. They found an opportunity to use a little magic, successfully found the place, and started walking into the mountains to look for them...

"Once we got there, we had to put away our magic. First, because giants don't like wizards, and we don't want to anger them too early; in addition, Dumbledore warned us that the mysterious man must also be looking for giants and may have sent Messenger. He told us to be very careful in that area and not to expose ourselves in case there are Death Eaters nearby."

Hagrid stopped and took a long sip of tea.

In his story, one night they climbed over the ridge and finally spotted the giants, like moving hills. There are only seventy or eighty giants in total, but it is already a large gathering of giants—perhaps even the largest one in existence. This is determined by the nature of the giants to kill each other - of course, the wizards also killed some, but more of them killed each other. To be precise, because of the hunting and expulsion of wizards, the giants had to live in groups, and because of their cruel nature, more people died at the hands of their own people.

Out of courtesy and safety, they waited quietly until morning before walking into the giant's camp to meet their Gugo, their leader, a giant named Kakus.

They presented a gift prepared by Dumbledore to the tallest giant in the camp, a piece of Gubler's fairy fire.

"One -?" Harry asked.

"A magic torch that can burn forever," Tom said, "This is not something ordinary wizards can cast... Gringotts charges a high price for this thing, it is very valuable." Unlike Li Huo, although Li Huo can also It will continue to burn until the curse is broken, but the strong fire will use everything it can reach as fuel. But Gubulai's Immortal Fire doesn't do that. No one has ever had their fingers burned while holding the eternal torch.

Ron wowed.

"Anyway, after they figured out what it was, they were very happy." Hagrid turned the dragon meat over and put the cool side against his swollen eye. "Then they did as Dumbledore said, friendly I said hello and promised to bring a gift and talk to him the next day.”

"Why didn't you talk to them that day?" Hermione asked.

"Dumbledore asked us to take our time and let the giants see that we keep our word. We will bring gifts tomorrow. If we really bring them, it will give them a good impression. And let them have time to test the first gift and find out It was good stuff and wanted more. Anyway, giants like Karkus - say a lot at once and they'll kill you. Easy. So we bowed back and found a cozy little cave for the night , when we went back the next morning, we saw Kakus waiting for us eagerly."

The next day they brought a beautiful helmet - made of goblins and indestructible. Kakus was happy. In this friendly atmosphere, they had a general chat, talking about Dumbledore's always being friendly to other intelligent creatures, the recent international situation, etc. It can be seen that Cacus has a good impression of Dumbledore - he once openly opposed the slaughter of the last batch of giants.

Then something unfortunate happened. That night, an internal conflict broke out again in the giant camp. The friendly Karkus was killed. The new Gogo, the giant named Gogouma, supported the Dark Lord.

Gao Gaoma rejected their gifts and tried to kill them - thanks to Madame Maxime's superb magic skills and her ability to fight and retreat, their lives were not lost. But Gao Gaoma did not refuse the gifts brought by the Death Eaters, and had a pleasant conversation with them.

Hagrid was not willing to give up on his mission. They also wanted to convince the other giants, those who disobeyed Gao Gao Ma and were beaten badly.

They were successful for a time, until the Gogos and Death Eaters besieged them.

The remaining giants who barely survived were unwilling to deal with them anymore.

"So no giants are coming," said Ron disappointedly.

"We did what we had to do and brought Dumbledore's message to them. They may just not be willing right now—"

Tom looked out the window at the falling snow, and the part of the magical mist he had grazed outside was floating lively in the field. After hearing what Hagrid said, he turned his head back.

"So," he said slowly, "no giant followed you back?"

Hagrid turned over the dragon meat and covered his eyes. "Yeah..." he said vaguely.

Tom looked strange. He turned to look out the window again and asked, "Are you sure?"

Hermione's expression changed accordingly. She stood up and followed Tom's line of sight and looked out, but outside was a silent, snow-covered forest, and she couldn't see anything.

"What's wrong?" she asked suspiciously.

"In the Forbidden Forest," Tom sensed the vague message coming from the magic power, "there seems to be a very big new species."

Hagrid let out an earth-shattering cough.

Harry slowly came to his senses, and shock appeared on his face: "No way, Hagrid?" He looked at Hagrid's concealing actions, "You brought back the giant? And... and you haven't told Dumbledore yet. profitable!"

He jumped up, put his head on his knees and complained and barked a few times.

"I have no choice!" Hagrid shouted desperately, "He doesn't want to come, but I have to bring him, I have to do this... I can swear to Dumbledore, I really have no choice, I I can't watch him being beaten to death - he, he is my brother!"

Silence fell in the hut. Tom was busy warning his misters not to taste the giant.

"Your...brother?" Hermione asked weakly

"We... share the same mother." Hagrid said, tears sliding down his swollen face. "After my mother gave birth to me, she left my father and found another giant. She was born there. After getting off Graup—"

"Grawp?" said Harry.

"Yeah...well, when he said his name, it sounded like this." Hagrid said uneasily, "He can't speak a few words in English...I'm trying to teach him...Anyway, my mother She doesn't like him as much as she doesn't like me. Because the giantess thinks it's a good thing to give birth to healthy big children, he has always been a short man among the giants - only sixteen feet tall - so he suffered a lot of abuse... My mother is dead again, he alone...will be beaten to death..."

"Only" sixteen feet. It's only about two floors. Hermione felt like she almost didn't recognize the word "only".

Hagrid stood up unsteadily. He was so tall, but he looked like a helpless child.

"You...can understand, right?" he said anxiously, "Maybe I can take you to meet him. He is a good boy..." Hagrid said emotionally, becoming happy again, ""You will know when you see him. Well, he just...well, he's not quite used to it yet. Maybe if we talk to him more and teach him, we can bring him out... and live with me...

The children looked at Hagrid, who had a bruised nose, a swollen face, and seemed to have a broken bone. They really couldn't answer the question and agreed to go see the violent giant.

"So he hit you," Harry said calmly.

"He just... just doesn't know how strong he is yet!" Hagrid said excitedly, "You will know when you see him." He said reaching out and putting on the fur coat hanging on the side.

"Come on," he said cheerfully, "I think he'll be happy to meet you."

"Is it too late for us to say curfew is coming soon?" Tom asked Hermione quietly.

"I guess it's too late," Hermione said with a teary voice.