Compared with Tiera's perfect and happy Christmas vacation, Harry's Christmas vacation seems not so satisfactory——
First of all, he found out that his father's best friend, his godfather, was actually the culprit who killed his parents. This made Harry's original joy of receiving the Firebolt from Tiera diluted by half.
Tiera's absence at Christmas this year diluted the remaining half of Harry's joy, especially when Tiera sent Ron a gift but didn't even send a letter to herself. This joyful mood instantly turned into a faint awkward emotion——
Harry didn't know why. His Firebolt was obviously more valuable than Ron's gift, but Harry was still a little unhappy——
Harry knew Hermione thought the same way, because compared to Harry and Ron, who both got gifts -
Hermione got nothing.
On Christmas morning, Hermione rummaged through every gift under the Christmas tree in the Gryffindor common room—
But no, there wasn't a single gift under the Christmas tree from Tiera to Hermione, not even a Christmas card.
But that's not all that frustrated Hermione -
On the second day of the Christmas holiday, Hermione and Harry, who were in a bad mood, were going to take Ron, who was in a high mood, to visit Hagrid.
When they arrived at Hagrid's woodside hut, they learned bad news——
"Buckbeak... ugh... Buckbeak may be sentenced to death!" Hagrid choked out, crying like a three-hundred-pound... maybe four-hundred-pound child.
"Those damn guys from the Dangerous Creatures Committee, they... they got into trouble with these interesting creatures... ugh..." Hagrid cried.
Hagrid's hut was a little crowded at this time, especially after Harry, Ron and Hermione came in——
Now Hagrid's hut is filled with all kinds of magical animals——
The mutated snail, the invisible beast that likes to take care of its babies, and of course the big colt-like Hippogriff, Buckbeak, is lying in the corner of the room, chewing something, making it flow everywhere on the floor. blood.
"I can't tie it with a rope in the snow." After seeing the weird looks in Harry, Ron and Hermione's eyes, Hagrid said even more, "It's all alone, and it has to be during Christmas." .”
Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at each other. They had never seen Hagrid face to face with what Hagrid called an "interesting animal" and others called a "terrible monster". Buckbeak, on the other hand, doesn't seem to mean any harm, but is certainly endearing by Hagrid's usual standards.
"Don't give up, Hagrid, you must prepare a strong defense." Hermione said, sitting down next to Hagrid, putting her hand on Hagrid's thick forearm and patting it comfortingly, "Let me help you. , we just have to prove that Buckbeak can’t hurt anyone.”
"What did Dumbledore say, Hagrid?" Harry asked.
"Dumbledore has done enough for me." Although Hagrid stopped crying, his voice was still hoarse. "It's hard enough for him just to prevent those dementors from entering the castle, and there are also little Sirius Black wanders around..."
Ron and Hermione gave Harry a quick look, as if expecting him to blame Hagrid for not telling him the truth about Black—
But Harry couldn't bring himself to do so because he now saw how miserable and scared Hagrid was.
"Listen, Hagrid," Harry said, "You can't give up. Hermione is right, you have to prepare a defense. You can call us as witnesses! We can prove that Buckbeak is harmless!"
Finally, after they promised to help many times, Hagrid blew his nose on a handkerchief as big as a tablecloth and said: "You are right, I can't collapse, I must cheer up!"
Fang timidly stepped out from under the table and rested his head on Hagrid's lap.
"I haven't been feeling right lately..." Hagrid said, stroking his teeth with one hand and touching his face with the other hand. "I'm always worried about Buckbeak, and no one likes my class..."
"We do!" Hermione lied immediately.
"Yeah, your class is great!" Ron said.
"It would be great if Tiera was here..." Hagrid said, "He can also give me some advice... You know... he has been helping me take care of these lovely babies during the summer before he was adopted by Lockhart. Little animals, and often come to see them... I don’t know why this semester... He seems to be suddenly not interested in these little cuties..." Hagrid complained endlessly, "And these little cuties of mine seem to be suddenly no longer interested. It’s like I’ve known him... I’m as indifferent to him as a stranger... And he didn’t give me a gift this year..."
Suddenly, as Hagrid was talking, Hermione stood up with a "whoosh"——
"What...what happened? Hermione?" Harry and Ron asked as if they were startled.
"Oh...no, no...it's nothing..." Hermione said slowly again, but her eyes flickered, obviously thinking about something...
Although Hagrid's trip to the hut was far from interesting, it did have a certain effect——
Harry no longer thinks about Sirius Black, and Hermione no longer keeps a gloomy look on her face -
They had gone to the library the day after their visit to Hagrid, and returned to the empty common room with arms full of books that might help prepare Buckbeak's defense. The three of them sat in front of the roaring fire, slowly flipping through the dusty files, which were all famous cases of magical animals hurting people. They occasionally exchanged words when they saw relevant situations.
"Huh?" Harry said suddenly, pulled out a few pieces of paper from under the pile of files, and asked -
"Isn't this Tiera's homework?" Harry asked doubtfully, "Why did you take it here?"
"Oh... no, no, it's nothing." Hermione said, taking Tiera's homework out of Harry's hands, "It's just... it's just... I suddenly felt that his handwriting was pretty good recently... so I asked the professors to come over...I want to practice by myself..."
Hermione quickly tucked Tiera's homework behind her.
"Let's... let's continue studying the file..." Hermione said.
Harry and Ron didn't take it seriously and continued to sit in front of the fire and study the files. This is how the three little wizards spent their Christmas holidays -
Because of the Sirius incident, Harry was not in the mood to play as wildly as before, while Hermione was always holding Tiera's homework with a thoughtful look on her face. This left Ron alone, and it was not always easy to be alone. He took Harry and Hermione out to play, but Ron couldn't bear to read the file.
Fortunately, Ron is not too bored, because he has a Christmas gift from Tiera——
A big shiny black dog.
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