Chapter 628 Dumbledore Must Have Done Something!

Fisch and Hermione basically stayed in the Forbidden Forest all day on Sunday, and did not return to the dormitory until late at night. Moreover, on Monday night, Hermione went to organize the activities of the Cat Club, and Fisch rarely followed her, but continued to teach Grawp the alphabet in the Forbidden Forest.

After Fisch's teaching for a day and two nights, and Hagrid also took time to teach some during the day on Monday, Grawp finally recognized all 26 letters.

In fact, if you really want to count, Grawp's speed is faster than Fisch's at the beginning, because the cat was not as obedient as Grawp at the beginning. Professor McGonagall had to lure the cat in various ways for several days before he could learn the 26 letters intermittently.

On Tuesday, Harry and his friends were all worried when they went to Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures class. They were very worried that he would create some troublesome animals again, and they were even more worried about the performance of other students, especially Malfoy and his confidants when Umbridge was listening to the class.

However, when they walked towards Hagrid who was waiting at the edge of the woods, they did not see Umbridge nearby. Hagrid's appearance was not reassuring, because he was carrying a dead cow on his shoulder.

Before Harry and the others could breathe a sigh of relief, they heard Hagrid say happily: "We have class here today!" He shook his head towards the dark woods behind him, "The woods are a bit dense! But they like darkness..."

Harry's heart tightened immediately, this introduction did not sound like a kind animal.

The expressions of other students were not very good, especially Slytherin, who made a low complaint.

But Hagrid didn't care at all. He happily glanced at the whole class and said: "I have reserved a forest investigation class for you fifth graders, and I want you to see how these animals live in their natural environment. The animals we are going to study today are very rare...but you have actually come into contact with them a long time ago."

As he spoke, he carried the dead cow and strode into the forest.

"Oh!" Hermione exclaimed, guessing what creature Hagrid was going to teach them today.

Although it was a little beyond the syllabus, it was indeed a very safe animal for Hagrid.

So Hermione relaxed all of a sudden, and followed Hagrid into the woods with Fish.

The other girls followed without hesitation, and the boys could only chase after them helplessly.

After walking for about ten minutes, they came to a place with dense trees and dark as dusk, with no snow on the ground. Hagrid threw the dead cow to the ground with a grunt, took two steps back, and turned to face the whole class.

When they got here, many students' expressions had relaxed, because they had all been here with Fish before, and they had guessed what animal they were going to learn about today.

"It seems that you have already guessed it," Hagrid curled his lips in disappointment and said, "Yes, the magical creature we are going to meet today is the Thestrals."

Those students who had not guessed it suddenly realized that because of Fish, the students of Hogwarts had long known that it was a group of Thestrals who were responsible for pulling the carriages at the beginning of each school year. Many people even followed Fish to ride the Thestrals in the sky. Naturally, no one would believe in their unlucky superstitions.

"Will Twilight Sparkle come?" Parvati asked excitedly, "The Thestrals I rode last time were called this name. Fish said she was the daughter of the leader of the Thestrals!"

"What's so strange about this? Wuwu has several descendants. It's not like we haven't ridden them before." Pansy couldn't stand her smug look and rolled her eyes.

Hagrid ignored the tit-for-tat between the two college girls. He shook his head to get rid of the hair that was blocking his face and made a strange, sharp cry. The sound echoed in the dark forest, like the cry of a giant bird.

Perhaps it was a habit that he had developed in the past two days. Fish suddenly interrupted Grawp and said, "Hagrid, your pronunciation is wrong, meow, it should be called like this..." As he said that, the cat made almost the same sound...

Anyway, other people couldn't hear the difference.

Hagrid touched his beard awkwardly, but fortunately it wasn't the first time that he was interrupted by the cat, so he was only embarrassed for a short while before recovering.

A moment later, Fish suddenly looked up at the sky, and the others followed suit, but no one saw anything, except Hagrid, Neville, and a boy named Theodore Nott from Slytherin.

A dozen thestrals flapped their huge wings and landed from the sky. Although the others couldn't see them, they felt the airflow they created when they flapped their wings.

"Meow ha ha ha! Wuwu, you are here meow!"

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Fish ran over with joy, patting this and touching that.

The Thestrals also used their beak-like mouths to gently touch Fish's cheeks and neck.

"Very good, they are here, but I still seem to have a little less food." Hagrid clapped his hands and said, "Then, students who can see the Thestrals, please raise your hands so I can see."

"Fish... your situation is not special... and you, Neville? And Nott?" Hagrid looked around, then looked at the two of them and asked, "Then, you should know why you can see the Thestrals?"

"I don't know! Fish can see them from the beginning, meow!"

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The cat shook his head and answered confidently.

Hagrid ignored him and continued to look at Neville and Nott.

The thin and tall Theodore Nott nodded unhappily, and Neville nodded and whispered: "Because I saw my grandfather die..."

"Yes," Hagrid showed a cheerful look without any tact, and said with a smile: "Only those who have seen death can see the Thestrals. Thestrals..."

"Cough, cough."

The familiar cough sounded, and Umbridge appeared a few feet away from Harry, still wearing a green hat and green cloak, holding her writing board in her hand.

"Oh, hello!" Hagrid smiled, and was not angry because she interrupted his lecture.

However, Umbridge did not accept the goodwill released by Hagrid. In the following classes, she kept picking on Hagrid's lessons.

Originally, with Hagrid's poor tongue, he had no ability to refute Umbridge's deliberate targeting. However, since he was often sabotaged by Fish during class, he had developed a little quick wit. Although he was still affected, he could barely answer Umbridge's tricky questions.

Umbridge would not let Hagrid off so easily. She imitated Rita Skeeter's way of writing news, deliberately distorted some of Hagrid's answers, and wrote them down on her writing board... She just wanted to say that Hagrid was a troll with low intelligence, just because Hagrid had the blood of a giant.

Then she wandered among the students, inducing everyone to say bad things about Hagrid...

"What do you think of them?" Umbridge found Nott, who could see the Thestrals, and asked with a pinched throat.

"The Thestrals are quite friendly," but Nott did not cooperate. He stroked a Thestral and replied, "They always pull us from Hogsmeade when school starts, and there has never been a case of the Thestrals attacking students."

Even Malfoy replied, "Although Hagrid... Professor's courses are questionable, there is no problem with the Thestrals at Hogwarts. I have been riding in their cars for several years, and even riding them in the sky, and nothing unfortunate has happened."

After asking around, Umbridge's expression was very ugly. Although she had collected a lot of information that was unfavorable to Hagrid, the whole process was not as smooth as she expected...

The Slytherin students were actually speaking for Hagrid! They had all kinds of opinions in Professor Grubbly-Plank's class before!

Umbridge, who didn't realize that the key point was actually on Fish, thought that the Slytherin students were also beginning to lean towards Dumbledore, and this might very well represent the intentions of the pure-blood families behind them...

Umbridge suspected that Dumbledore might have done something during her hospitalization, otherwise Slytherin's attitude would not have changed so obviously.

"You will receive your investigation results within ten days." Umbridge, who had completely misunderstood, said to Hagrid with a gloomy face.

Then she hurriedly walked out of the students and left the Forbidden Forest.

She must tell Minister Fudge about her findings as soon as possible!

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