Chapter 295 295. Finding a Breakthrough

After the exchange between Hermione and Luna, Scott and Harry finally figured out these two things.

Scott was unfazed by the other thing.

Malfoy Sr. was extremely dissatisfied with the previous decisions of Principal Dumbledore and the school board, so he directly took the path of litigation.

Obviously, he wanted to use his relationship with the Ministry of Magic to influence the outcome of the Wizengamot trial, with the purpose of punishing Hagrid and the hippogriff that hurt little Malfoy.

Scott believed that this matter was nothing. As long as Dumbledore was willing, he could still help Hagrid keep his professorship.

As for whether the Hippogriff will be sentenced to death like in the "original work"?

This is not what Scott cares about.

Anyway... if Harry and the others want to save the Hippogriff, they only need to use the time turner held by Hermione just like in the "original book".

What Scott really cares about is Medea's actions.

He was unable to get any more information in this regard, but he only confirmed one thing from Hagrid - the Thestrals at Hogwarts were indeed stolen by Medea's people.

Nor could Scott send Rimbaud and the Crows to Edinburgh to glean information about Medea.

After all, Rambo was once caught by Medea while spying on Katie Shafik, and she even gave him a confusion spell to fly back to Hogwarts.

In the hut, Harry and Ron gave Hagrid a bunch of ideas that sounded unreliable, but Hermione refuted them one by one.

Neither Scott nor Luna spoke, just watching the lively quarrel between the three Gryffindors as if they were watching some interesting show.

Hagrid kept sobbing and wiping away tears. His mind was completely occupied by the Thestrals who seemed to him to be suffering, and he didn't even listen to what Harry and the others were saying.

The lunch break went by like this, and the three little Gryffindor wizards didn't come up with anything useful from their discussion.

On the way back, Hermione said to Harry and Ron: "I decided to check the information. Maybe I can find some previous cases in the library for reference. You should go too!"

Harry and Ron immediately grimaced.

"Look at your expressions, oh, you don't want to, don't you?" Hermione said angrily, "We can't help with the Thestral matter, and Hagrid doesn't have time to pay attention to the lawsuit now, so we have to help him !”

"Of course, of course I'm willing to help him." Harry said quickly.

Ron frowned and nodded.

"That's pretty much it!" Hermione snorted, shook her head, and walked quickly to the front.

Harry turned his head to look at Scott and Luna with a grimace, "Scott, do you have any good ideas?"

Scott glanced at him.

This guy, don't make your intention of pulling people into trouble too obvious.

Ron also said: "By the way, Scott, even Fred and George have praised your intelligence. You must have something to do, right?"

He looked at Scott with hopeful eyes, seeming to place his hope of escaping the reading task on this Ravenclaw.

"Oh you guys are so funny!"

Luna looked at this scene and suddenly laughed nervously.

Harry and Ron looked at her in confusion, and even Hermione, who was walking in front, turned her head with surprise on her face.

Luna laughed alone for a while before she stopped.

Then, she said to Harry and the others in an erratic tone: "Oh, don't worry, Hagrid will be fine."

The expressions of the three Gryffindors present were a bit incomprehensible. It seemed that they all thought Luna was a little crazy.

"Sorry, I don't know much about litigation."

At this time, Scott began to answer Harry and Ron's questions.

When the two heard Scott's words, they showed painful expressions again.

"But I can write and ask William." Scott added.

"William?" Hermione turned around again, "Who is that?"

Scott said: "William is a Ravenclaw who graduated last school year. He is very interested in law and his goal is to become a famous barrister. If he is willing to help, Hagrid will be much easier."

"Great!" Harry and Ron immediately beamed.

Scott added: "To be clear in advance, I don't know if William is willing to serve as Hagrid's defense lawyer. Of course, if he is willing, he will need to be paid."

"It doesn't matter, I can pay him!" Harry said generously.

"Then it's decided." Scott smiled and said goodbye to them, "I will inform you of the news."

In fact, William has left the wizarding world and decided to go to Muggle university. Of course, Scott is not sure whether he will be willing to help.

But this is not the purpose of Scott mentioning William. He just wants to use this matter to keep in touch with William.

After all, William was also one of the students who had accepted Medea's contract deal.

No one knows exactly what he traded.

Scott couldn't tell—

He thought about whether William really returned to the Muggle world to take college entrance exams, or... was he also a member of Medea's swindle?

It's not impossible.

If a wizard wants to say goodbye to magic completely and return to Muggle society, it is very difficult to live as a Muggle, even if the wizard is from a Muggle family.

When bidding farewell to William, Scott did not delve too deeply, and even sent his blessing, wishing him to become London's leading barrister.

But thinking about it afterwards, Scott felt something was wrong.

Maybe he judged others by himself, he always felt that William left too easily.

Scott himself could never be so free and easy.

In his opinion, even if he did not have such magical talent, he would never give up magic.

Just look at Jacob, although the boy had mediocre talent, he seized every opportunity to improve himself, even at the risk of his life.

At this time, Scott urgently needed information about Medea, but there was no good way.

For some reasons, he did not want to contact Medea directly, and he could not send crows to inquire about the information, so he could only look for breakthroughs from other aspects.

Just as Hagrid was facing a lawsuit, Scott thought of using this opportunity to restore contact with William to see if he could gain anything.

Of course, if he guessed wrong, and William was really just working hard for the college entrance examination, then he would not lose anything.

He did it as soon as he thought of it. After the class that afternoon, Scott took the letter he had written to the school's owl shed.

He hired a vigorous public owl with some food to help him deliver the letter.

After the owl flew away, Scott summoned a few more crows and asked them to follow the owl.

"I hope William didn't use a spell to block the search of you postmen." Scott said, and distributed the remaining food to other owls.

When a wizard doesn't want to be found, there is of course a way to block all contact with the outside world, including the owls delivering letters.

Looking up and watching the crow disappear into the sky, Scott turned and left the owl shed, and went to attend the evening Transfiguration Club as usual.

The members of the club are all students with strong talents in Transfiguration, which leads to the members' general learning progress being faster than in the usual Transfiguration class.

For example, Scott and his batch of fifth-year students have begun to formally contact some human body transformation content in the Transfiguration Club.

Human body transformation is an important branch of Transfiguration, and of course, it is also the most dangerous.

The ultimate magic of this branch is the Animagus that can completely transform into an animal.

Normally, the knowledge of human body transformation is not included in the content of the ordinary wizard level examination.

In other words, generally only students in the sixth grade who choose to continue to study Transfiguration will be exposed to human body transformation.

But in the club, Professor McGonagall has assumed that these fifth-year club members will choose to continue to study Transfiguration in the sixth grade.

So, she intends to teach them some knowledge of human body transformation from this school year.

Scott also chose to formally learn the knowledge of human body transformation from this school year to prepare for the extremely difficult magic of Animagus.

He plans to spend a year to prepare and try to complete the transformation in the sixth grade.

Professor McGonagall appreciated his cautious attitude.

"Human body transformation is an extremely dangerous magic!"

She emphasized to the students more than once.

"If you don't want to send yourself to the hospital, please remember to try it under my supervision, even if you are only going to make one of your ears bigger!"

As a cautious guy, Scott certainly remembered her warning and never took risks.

But others may not be the same.

For example, Angelina, the Gryffindor chaser and Fred's favorite, had an accident while trying to make her palm bigger in private and was sent to the school hospital.

"Maybe if my hands were bigger, I might be able to catch the Quaffle better in the game." Angelina said afterwards.

In this regard, Scott only wanted to say that Quidditch has caused great harm to people.

Scott received a reply from William the next morning.

William said in the letter that although he is now studying in a middle school and preparing for college, he is still willing to participate in the case Scott mentioned and serve as Hagrid's defense lawyer.

[…I didn't expect to receive such a letter.

But I must admit that I was a little excited after reading the letter.

In the Muggle world, I am far from qualified to take the bar exam, but in the wizarding world, I am a graduate of Ravenclaw College!

I think this will be a meaningful experience. Perhaps a successful defense can better represent my farewell to the wizarding world, at least it is cooler than the graduation dinner.

Anyway, thank you, Scott…]

Scott stood up and walked to the Gryffindor table and showed the letter to Harry and the others.

"Oh! He agreed!" Harry was very happy.

"He's going to meet you at the Three Broomsticks this Saturday?" Hermione, who had quickly finished reading the letter, looked up and said to Scott, "But our Hogsmeade Village has been cancelled!"

"Let the meeting with the lawyer be left to the client, Hagrid." Scott said to Hermione, "I'm just responsible for passing on the message."

He winked at Harry while speaking.

Scott would of course choose to sneak out, this is an opportunity to observe William up close.

But... at least he must ensure safety before sneaking out.

Harry immediately understood.

"Yes, let's tell Hagrid the good news quickly!" He said to Hermione with a smile.