Chapter 502: Rita Skeeter's Scoop

With Fish reluctantly complaining, Christmas vacation was over.

Because it was the first day of school, most students got up a little late, and Feixu and the others were no exception. They had just finished breakfast when the school bell rang.

"Let's go! It's time to go to class!"

Hermione didn't have time to read the "Daily Prophet" that was delivered today. After she put the newspaper into her handbag, she picked up Fish, who didn't want to go to class yet, and walked out of the castle with other students.

The first class today was the Care of Magical Creatures class. The thought of having to help Hagrid take care of the group of blast-tailed snails made everyone not in a very positive mood.

With the holiday over, the rose garden at the entrance was finally removed by Dumbledore, as well as the decorative fountains and statues. The open space at the entrance of the castle was now filled with nothing but thick snow.

The bad weather made everyone's mood even worse. Except for Fish, who was jumping up and down, everyone said little and just walked to Hagrid's hut with their heads sullen.

However, when they arrived at Hagrid's hut, they saw an elderly witch standing at the door. Her gray hair was cut short and her chin was very prominent.

"Huh? It's someone I don't know." Fei Xu jumped up to the other person curiously, "Hello, meow! Who are you?"

(ω)

Maomao opened his eyes wide and looked at the witch curiously.

"My name is Wilmina Graplan," the witch bent down and said to Fish with a smile: "I am the temporary substitute teacher for your Care of Magical Creatures class... You are Minerva's child, right? I'm very happy. Know you."

"Yes, meow, my name is Fish, are you Minerva's friend, meow?"

Finding that the other person seemed to be very familiar with Professor McGonagall, Maomao immediately showed a closer attitude.

"Of course, when I was in school, Minerva was four years older than me. At that time, she was the head girl of Gryffindor, a prefect, and the captain and seeker of the Quidditch team. Almost all the Gryffindor girls look up to her as a role model."

After Professor Grapeland praised Professor McGonagall, he gently patted Fish on the head and said, "Okay, the school bell has been ringing for five or six minutes. You still want to know about Minerva? Wait. Let’s talk after class, we should go to class now.”

After finishing speaking, she waved to the other Gryffindor students and the Slytherins who arrived later, and said, "Please follow me this way."

Professor Grapeland said, walking around the temporary stables and walking towards the distance.

When she was talking to Fish, everyone also understood why Hagrid needed someone else to teach...

When Hermione saw Professor Grapeland, she immediately pulled out today's "Daily Prophet", and sure enough, she saw an article titled "Dumbledore's Big Mistake", which mentioned Hagrid's identity as a hybrid giant.

I had never seen Rita Skeeter reporting on Hagrid before. Hermione thought she had received a letter from Fish, so she did not take any action. Hermione gradually stopped paying attention to this matter, but I didn't expect that it would be exposed on the first day of school.

In fact, Rita Skeeter did receive a letter from Fish, and she debated whether or not to help Cat any more, but in the end she was determined to ignore Fish's request.

Moreover, if Rita Skeeter wants to repair her relationship with Fudge, she must write some articles that damage Dumbledore's reputation. Although there are already examples like Mad-Eye Moody and Werewolf Lupine, Moody only has Some of the notorious ones, such as Lupine and Lockhart, have already left their jobs, and they have been mentioned in previous reports, so the effect of mentioning them again will not be very good.

Then, it is more important to focus on Hagrid, a hybrid giant and snail farmer, to criticize Dumbledore's mistakes in teacher selection.

Anyway, when Fish asked, Rita Skeeter said that it would be fine if she saw the letter after she posted the article. Anyway, it was easy to find an excuse. She couldn't go to the newspaper office to get the letter during the Christmas vacation, or go out to look for it. I didn't have time to watch the news or something like that.

After several encounters with Fish, Rita Skeeter discovered that kittens are easy to fool.

However, in order to prevent his relationship with Fish from suddenly deteriorating again, Skeeter did not make some "appropriate exaggerations" in the article as usual, but honestly wrote about Hagrid's identity as a hybrid giant and his attitude toward Hagrid. Vague identification of "dangerous creatures".

Thanks to Hagrid's own problems, even if Rita Skeeter reports truthfully, he seems to be an incompetent and even dangerous professor.

This is why Harry and Ron are speechless right now.

The previous report about Rita Skeeter could still be said to be nonsense, but in this article, the description of Hagrid is basically consistent with the facts. Even the matter of the hybrid giant, they also learned from Hermione. Confirmed.

"Hagrid has been teaching for so long and there has never been any problem!"

Harry choked for a long time and could only say this angrily. At the same time, he looked hopefully at the other Gryffindor students, hoping that they would agree with him.

However, what he was waiting for was the exclamations of a group of girls.

It turned out that they had arrived at their destination. Under a big tree on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, a beautiful unicorn was tied up. At this time, it was restlessly pawing the soil with its golden hooves.

"Boys, stay back!" Professor Graplan shouted sharply: "Unicorns like women's touch. Girls stand in front and approach carefully... uh..."

She couldn't continue in the middle of her words, because Fish had jumped in front of the unicorn at some point.

"It's Linda Meow!"

(ΦωΦ)

The unicorn and Feishi in the Forbidden Forest have long been extremely familiar with each other, and he untied the rope that tied the unicorn without hesitation.

The unicorn Linda, who was still a little uneasy at first, quickly calmed down after seeing Fish, neighing in a low voice and rubbing her head affectionately against the cat.

"Well...the rumors are indeed true..."

Professor Graplan sighed and subconsciously put his hand into his pocket, as if he wanted to take out something, but in the end he didn't take it out.

She shook her head and continued to say to the other students: "Girls, come closer. Boys except Fish should stay away. It's best to stop behind the fence."

Cats and unicorns, no girl could refuse this combination. They couldn't hold it back for a long time and cheered softly, then quickly came to Fish and Linda's side.

The boys also stayed obediently by the stable fence, standing there watching them, as well as Fish and the unicorn surrounded by them.

"Fish, is her name Linda?"

"Fish, please help me and ask, can we touch her?"

The girls chatted non-stop around Maomao, completely ignoring Professor Grapeland.

Professor Grapeland smiled bitterly, feeling Hagrid's helplessness...

With Fish here, the Care of Magical Creatures professor seemed dispensable.

However, despite being distracted by Fischer, Professor Graplan's lectures were well received by the vast majority of students...

"I really hope she can stay, this female teacher!" Parvati Patil said after class: "This is the Care of Magical Creatures class in my mind...a decent animal like a unicorn, Instead of monsters..."

"What about Hagrid?" Harry asked angrily.

"What will he do?" Parvati said coldly: "He can still be his gamekeeper, can't he?"

Ever since the ball, Parvati had basically ignored Harry, and now Harry was directly in the crosshairs of her.

"But Hagrid taught him well, didn't he?" Facing Parvati's intimidating gaze, Harry flinched, but he still refused to give up and wanted to find other supporters.

However, even among the boys, there were very few responders. Except for Fei Xu, everyone had the experience of being injured by a bomb-tailed snail. It was obviously impossible to say that they liked such courses, so in the end it was Luo Enkan agreed for the sake of friendship.

It was too obvious which one to choose between the Blast-Ended Skrewt and the Unicorn. Even Hermione, who had asked Fish to send a letter to Rita Skeeter, rebelled at this time.

Just like Parvati said...

After all, Hagrid still has his job as a gamekeeper, doesn’t he? It didn't matter that he had fewer Care of Magical Creatures professors, and it didn't mean that he would be kicked out of Hogwarts because of it.

As for Feixu...

"Wilmina is Minerva's friend, and Fish doesn't hate her, either."

(ω)

Maomao frowned. He didn't really care who became the professor, and...

"She didn't give her homework meow!"

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The name Linda comes from an older cartoon, the AI ​​name of the unicorn spaceship in "The Guardian of the Chinese Zodiac". Well, according to the cartoon, or the setting in Japan, that thing should actually be It's a unicorn. You can tell by looking at the unicorn in MH. It looks like a unicorn.

However, we have also translated foreign unicorns into unicorns, so the situation in Japan is probably similar.

In addition, I originally wanted to use the name Swift, which has nothing to do with the singing one. The source is Swift Wind, She-Ra's mount, which comes from an older American cartoon. She also has a brother named Heyman, I can’t remember exactly what he said. I just remember the brother and sister’s self-introduction that sounds very silly now.

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There is no update on today's detective. There is probably only one subordinate of the sixth case this week... It seems that there should be three or four episodes of the case that Deng Lun participated in, otherwise there would be no need to search so hard.

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Thanks to the technical cat mi for the tip.