Chapter 381: Exclusive news, are you not ready yet?

In early January, the wizards who had gone home for Christmas returned to Hogwarts.

The first class of the new semester was the Care of Magical Creatures class. Gryffindor and Slytherin took their books to Hagrid's hut.

But there were no Blast-Ended Skrewts on the field this time, and their substitute teacher had also changed. He was an older witch with short gray-white hair and a very prominent chin.

"Where has Hagrid been?" Harry asked.

"He... feels a little uncomfortable." The witch frowned slightly, "Dumbledore arranged for me to come as a substitute. You can call me Professor Graplan."

Professor Grapeland took the students to the edge of the Forbidden Forest, where a beautiful unicorn was tied under a tree.

"Wow!"

"It's so beautiful."

"How did she do it? Unicorns are hard to catch."

The students expressed their admiration one after another, and many of them recognized the temporary professor a little more. This should be the Care of Magical Creatures class!

They didn't deny Hagrid's knowledge of magical animals, but there was no comparison between blast-ended skrewts and unicorns.

"Boys, please stay back," Professor Grapeland said sternly. "Unicorns like women's touch. Girls can approach it carefully and relax."

The girls, led by the professor, approached happily one by one, while the boys were left next to the stables, where Beauxbatons' Pegasus cuddled up against each other to resist the cold.

"What do you think happened to Hagrid?" Harry asked Ron. "It couldn't be that the Blast-Ended Skrewt had an accident, right?"

"Definitely not." Aaron said, "Hagrid is professional in raising magical animals. The three-headed dog and the Acromantula couldn't do anything to him.

The Blast-Ended Skrewt is not as tall as him, so you have to have that ability to hurt him! "

"I know a little bit about this." Draco said gloatingly.

"You're not really going to let Lucius find a way to change the professor of Care of Magical Creatures!" Harry looked at him coldly, "What's the reason this time?"

"Don't get me wrong, although I wish he would be expelled, this time it really has nothing to do with me." Draco took out a newspaper of the Daily Prophet from his pocket, "You will understand after you read this."

Aaron took the newspaper and after reading only two lines, the corner of his mouth twitched. "It turns out it fell into her hands. No wonder we changed to a different professor."

"Whose hands did he fall into?" Ron asked curiously.

"Rita Skeeter, the most unscrupulous and unscrupulous reporter." Aaron shrugged, and then handed the newspaper to Ron.

Dumbledore's big mistake...Mad-Eye Moody is the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher...but he is kinder than the Care of Magical Creatures professor...

Rubeus Hagrid, expelled from Hogwarts in his third year, finds himself among many qualified contenders for a position in the Care of Magical Creatures class...

Later, the newspaper mentioned that Draco was injured by a hippogriff, Crabbe was bitten by a caterpillar, and the dangerous creature Explosive-tailed Skrewt, but the most shocking thing was Hagrid's life experience, a hybrid giant.

"This is so...disgusting!" Ron said with a weird look on his face, "It's just a half-truth and a half-falsehood, and it exaggerates the truth countless times."

“I have to admit, Skeeter is quite capable.” Aaron lamented, “He even found out Hagrid’s fucking name.

Friedvarfa, I bet Hagrid didn't even tell you the name. "

"Of course not. Why did he tell us his name?"

"That's not important. What's important is that the reputation of hybrid giants in the magical world is not very good. Plus, the blast-tailed snail is a very harmful magical animal... I think that idiot's teaching career should be over." De Raco smiled triumphantly.

"I'm afraid you're overthinking this." Aaron said disapprovingly, "Don't forget, this newspaper will make Hagrid uncomfortable for a while at most. After the limelight passes, he will naturally take over the teaching again."

"Isn't that true?" Draco frowned dissatisfied, "The Daily Prophet has described him like this, how can he continue to teach?"

"Why not?" Harry asked urgently.

"I didn't ask you, Potter."

"The Daily Prophet has damaged Fudge. He was still the Minister of Magic. It has damaged Dumbledore. He is still the Headmaster of Hogwarts. It has damaged Arthur Weasley. He still serves in the Ministry of Magic and has also damaged Harry Potter, he's not doing well.

Don’t forget, Dumbledore is the headmaster, and his relationship with Hagrid is extraordinary. Do you think he would fire Hagrid because of an unrealistic newspaper?

Moreover, Hagrid has been a forest guard for decades. It can be said that the Hogwarts students in recent decades know him well and they can all testify to Hagrid. "

"This..." Draco opened his mouth, feeling speechless.

Harry and Ron looked at each other and gave Draco a challenging look.

“Someone’s idea may not be realized.”

"Just have fun in your heart!" Draco said with disdain, "At least you don't have to face the disgusting Blast-Ended Skrewts."

The two looked at each other and lowered their heads in embarrassment.

Although he didn't want to admit it, Draco was telling the truth. If he had to choose between a unicorn and a squid, he would choose the former if he didn't have any brains.

...

Hagrid was so shocked by the newspaper that he locked himself in the room without seeing anyone for more than half a month.

It was not until the end of January that he decided to teach again after Dumbledore's repeated persuasion and comfort.

After Hagrid came back, he did not let the students feed the snails anymore, but continued to teach about unicorns according to Professor Graplan's class.

As a forest guard, he knows as much about unicorns as anyone else.

When two pure golden baby unicorns were brought in front of everyone, almost all the students could not hide their excitement and joy.

"Ahem! Cubs are easier to spot than adult unicorns. They turn silver when they are about two years old, start to grow horns when they are four years old, and turn pure white when they reach adulthood.

In addition, cubs have no defensive mentality and will not resent boys.

You can come over and pat them or just order a sugar cube if you like. "

For a while, everyone surrounded the cubs and looked at them with interest. The girls were very excited, and the boys were also deeply attracted by their cute appearance.

Abe snorted lightly and turned his face away dissatisfied.

Aaron patted it on the head dumbfounded, knowing that it was unhappy that he was actually outcompeted by two unicorn cubs.

"You are a holy dragon. If you spread your wings, you will definitely defeat them, but it is not the time for you to be exposed yet."

Hearing this, Abe nodded slowly, glanced at the two unicorns with disdain, and decided not to be familiar with them.

Time passed day by day, and it was soon mid-February.

Things were not going well on Harry's part. He, Ron and Hermione spent their free time in the library looking for a way to allow him to breathe underwater for an hour.

But they searched through magic books related to water, but found nothing.

Hermione also asked Professor McGonagall for the approval slip for the Restricted Book Zone, but even those ancient spells did not involve underwater breathing.

"There must be a way, there must be something." Hermione kept encouraging herself. The magic books beside her were stacked more than one meter high, but she was still flipping through the books.

"We were not so serious when we were looking for Nico Flamel." Ron yawned and rubbed his sleepy eyes, "Hermione, although I don't want to say this, there may not be all the problems in the book. Answer."

"But the answer to the second project can definitely be found in the book." Hermione said very seriously, "They can't design a competition that they can't pass.

You have also seen that Krum has been practicing diving these days. There must be some magic that can help him. "

"He is Durmstrang's student!" Ron said speechlessly, "Karkaroff showed unconditional favoritism to him. Maybe he taught him Durmstrang's advanced magic.

The same goes for Fleur, Maxim must have taught her Beauxbatons' special magic. "

"What about Cedric?" Hermione asked, "Dumbledore didn't teach him?"

"But his dad is the Director of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures at the Ministry of Magic, and he knows a lot of magic."

"Indeed, I have almost no advantage compared to them." Harry said with a bitter look on his face.

"You can ask someone for help!" Ron said meaningfully, "Didn't Professor Moody give you some advice once?"

"No!" Harry shook his head, "I asked Professor McGonagall, and she said that you can't ask for help from others in the Triwizard Tournament. Everything can only rely on the warriors themselves.

I don't know if Professor Moody will help me the second time, but I know he certainly can't cast a spell on me before the game. "

"Actually, there is no other way." Ron hesitantly pointed to Aaron, who was leaning against the corner and writing and drawing.

"This...isn't appropriate!" Hermione said with an embarrassed look on her face, "We still have time, we are not at the end of our rope."

"How much time? Two days?" Ron said speechlessly, "Other than him, the only one left at this time is Cedric who may be able to help Harry breathe underwater."

"Don't mention Cedric to me." Harry said coldly.

"You understand the situation. We have no other choice. We can't just watch Harry fall into the lake and drown!"

Hermione was still hesitant, but Ron continued: "We're not asking him to help Harry directly, we're just asking him how to do it. Let's run the rest of the head office ourselves!"

"I'll go ask!" Harry sighed, and then walked up to Aaron cautiously.

"That...this..." Harry hesitated and didn't know what to say. After all, it was okay to ask him for help whenever something happened. Once or twice was okay, but it would be hard to repay the debt if it happened too many times.

Aaron couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he looked at Harry Potter, who was speaking fluently. He then moved his eyes to Hermione and Ron. Seeing the books piled high beside them, he seemed to understand. Why was Harry looking for him?

"Ugh! Don't tell me you're not ready for the second event."