Chapter 43 Big Mouth Hagrid
With Lucius Malfoy's strong support and Dracula's approval, the Hogwarts School Board became a completely different person.
The school board has temporarily changed from the original twelve-person system to a seven-person system, and the remaining five positions will be replenished at any time.
As the holder of the Hogwarts land title, Dracula serves as the chairman of the newly-established school board. He has the right to veto and supreme guidance on board resolutions, and has the right to appoint and remove school board members.
There are no more complex power struggles on school boards.
In addition to Yaxley and four other board members from pure-blood families, Lucius, as a top-notch loser, immediately joined Dracula's team. The wealthy Malfoy family single-handedly contracted half of the funds for the operation of Hogwarts, perfectly filling the funding gap after the dismissal of five school directors.
The other six school board members who have not thought about taking action against Dracula are all serious people. They are all noble wizards who have truly dedicated themselves to the development of Hogwarts——
Among them, people such as Gsilda Marchban of the Wizarding Examination Authority and Armando Dippet, the former principal of Hogwarts, are all well-known figures in the education world.
Naturally, Dracula had no intention of targeting these ancient figures in the wizarding world. He waved his hand casually, approved the final result, and then jumped out of the window of the school board meeting room...
Ms. Marchbain, who was nearly 200 years old, looked at Dracula jumping from the window in shock. She couldn't help but look at Dumbledore and sighed:
"Albus, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor that Hogwarts has hired this time is really an amazing person!"
"Who says it's not?"
Dumbledore shrugged helplessly, sighing in his heart that Professor Dracula's habit of not taking the usual path would probably be difficult to change...
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In the expectant eyes of the little wizards who stayed at school, the time came to the night before Christmas unknowingly.
The Great Hall of Hogwarts was beautifully decorated by the professors.
The walls were covered with hanging ribbons of holly and mistletoe, and twelve towering Christmas trees stood around. Some of the trees were hung with shiny icicles, and some were lit with hundreds of candles.
"Hey, Hagrid, can you help me hang this package of gifts on the Christmas tree?" The short Professor Flitwick stood on tiptoes and reached out to pat Hagrid's big belly.
The big Hagrid bent down very considerately and took from Professor Flitwick the packages of surprise gifts that needed to be placed on the Christmas tree for the little wizard who stayed at school, and hung them on the top level of the Christmas tree with ease. .
"Oh, thank you so much, Hagrid!" Professor Flitwick raised his head and said happily to Hagrid.
"Hagrid, good evening!" Two little wizards wearing red scarves trotted into the auditorium and saw the very conspicuous Hagrid at first sight.
Then, one of the little wizards wearing round glasses carefully saw that there was another short wizard next to Hagrid's knees, using his wand to spray out a bunch of golden bubbles and blowing them away. Hanging on the branches of the Christmas tree next to me.
"Oh, Professor Flitwick, so you are here too!" He quickly said to the short wizard.
"Good evening, Harry, and Ron!" Professor Flitwick had no idea of being annoyed at being ignored. Instead, he greeted the two little wizards warmly.
Hagrid also stopped what he was doing and waved his palms as big as a palm to Harry and Ron.
"Professor, are you decorating the auditorium?" Ron looked at the strings of golden bubbles coming out of the tip of Professor Flitwick's wand with envy. He thought it was extremely cool.
"Yes, after all, it's Christmas tomorrow, and we have to decorate the auditorium." Professor Flitwick said. "Hogwarts must allow the little wizards who cannot go home to have the same warmth and happiness as at home!"
Harry blew his nose movedly, feeling more recognized for the big Hogwarts family.
"Ron, let's go to the library later?" He threw the used tissues into the trash can, turned around and pulled Ron towards the door of the auditorium.
"Don't be like this, Harry, we can't find out anything if Hermione isn't here!" Ron's face wrinkled up and he said to Harry depressedly.
"Library?" Hagrid said as he followed them out of the auditorium, preparing to bring some more Christmas decorations. "Tomorrow is Christmas, and you still want to read? You're working too hard. That's not right. Is it like your style?"
"Oh, we're not reviewing our lessons," Harry told him cheerfully. "Ever since you mentioned Nico Flamel, we've been trying to figure out who he is."
"What?" Hagrid looked very frightened. "Listen to me, I told you... just stop! What that big dog is guarding really has nothing to do with you!"
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In fact, ever since Harry was assassinated in his first Quidditch match, Harry, Ron, and Hermione began to wonder who was causing trouble with him.
Hermione's first suspicion at that time was that Snape was chanting a curse on Harry, but she had no idea that Snape was actually chanting the counter-curse of the curse, and the magic flame he used on Snape interrupted The counter-curse was cast and almost caused serious harm to Harry.
Even though Snape did not cast a spell on Harry and was even trying to help him, Harry was still too impressed by the unpleasant professor's behavior towards Gryffindors.
Therefore, Snape's saving behavior could only slightly improve Harry's opinion of him, but it could not reverse his long-standing negative image.
What's more, after the Halloween dinner, Harry accidentally saw the bite wound on Snape's leg - it must have been caused by the three-headed dog in the restricted area on the fourth floor.
So after the Quidditch match over a month ago, Harry and the three of them, who couldn't figure it out at all, went to Hagrid's hut, hoping that someone could help them analyze the situation.
Hagrid didn't know how the three Harrys learned about the three-headed dog, and he didn't want them to know the top secret set by Dumbledore, so he gave them a serious warning:
"Listen! Listen to me, all three of you - you are meddling in things that have nothing to do with you. This is dangerous. Forget about that big dog and what it is guarding, which is Professor Dumbledore and Nico Between Flamel..."
"Aha!" Harry's eyes lit up and he said excitedly, "So it involves a person named Nico Flamel, right?"
"..."
This leads to the conversation between Harry and Hagrid about Nico Flamel on Christmas Eve.
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