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The Ministry of Magic also thought of many ways to try to restore his missing memory, but they failed until the end, so they had to let it go.
Hehe, of course they couldn't succeed.
Because the method Scamander used to wash away Dawlish's specific memory was not the forgetfulness spell at all, but the venom of the Winged Demon!
After being drenched by the venom of the Winged Demon, if he wanted to keep that memory, Dawlish had to think from the bottom of his heart that he was almost silently delayed by Harry, and was later concocted by Scamander. The experience is immensely pleasurable, but it's clearly impossible.
Therefore, Fudge, who was somewhat weak-tempered, was bound to be caught in a dilemma by the threat of Harry's old incident being brought up again. After all, he was really not sure whether Harry, a kid who looked a little crazy, would desperately inform the royal family.
"This...Obviously, there should be some misunderstanding." After rubbing the top hat in his hands for a while, Fudge said helplessly, "As you said, Mr. Granger, Hagrid and he Did have that or something... alibi, so he might be innocent."
"Fudge!!"
Fudge's words made the three of Hogwarts look happy at the same time, but Lucius let out a roar of dissatisfaction.
"Of course, even though I am the Minister of Magic, I have to take a lot of risks in making this decision." Fudge then changed the subject, "So, I can't let the situation continue to ferment for too long. At most one month, I will I hope that Hogwarts can submit the murderer, otherwise... I can only take Hagrid away as a suspect~"
After saying this, Fudge looked at Harry with deep eyes for a while, then turned and left.
However, Hagrid was able to stay after all...
Even if it's only a month.
(ps Here, I don’t think you should look at the problem from the perspective of the original book. For the real Ministry of Magic, Hagrid is really going to enter Azkaban, and it is absolutely impossible to be unscathed. And because the protagonist didn’t drive to school with Ron , the follow-up plot of the Forbidden Forest also requires Hagrid to thread the needle himself, the above~)
Chapter 140 Six Hagrid Was Framed
Not long after Fudge left, Dumbledore was leaving too.
He was ordered to leave Hogwarts immediately after receiving the dismissal order by the board of directors, who had no time to pack up.
"Harry, your performance really surprised me, and I'm also very pleased...so just go ahead and do it, the whole of Hogwarts is behind you!"
Before leaving, Dumbledore left such a piece of encouragement, entrusting everything to Harry.
"Hmph, I really hope that your successor, Albus, can really solve the Chamber of Secrets incident, but the time is only one month. Thinking about it, I know it's impossible."
Lucius said sarcasm full of sarcasm, he seemed to think that this was not interesting enough, so he approached Harry again after that: "Mr. Granger, who has always been very lucky, from now on, you have to be afraid It's time to live. Of course, you can also write to your teacher who likes to hang out with all kinds of inferior creatures, but his grandson Rolf Scamander seems to have encountered some troubles recently, and he may not have time to take care of you help~"
This bastard even designed it on Scamander?
Hearing what Lucius said, Harry couldn't help but get angry. Fortunately, the practice of controlling emotions during this period has shown results, and he is still able to remain calm now.
"By the way, in view of the fact that there have been many attacks in the school, all our school managers have decided after consultation that they will personally ensure the safety of the school." Before turning to leave, Lucius seemed to think of something again. He showed a smirk at Harry, "Mr. Harry Granger, I heard that you have always ignored the school rules, but starting today, I hope you can restrain yourself, otherwise we school managers will be very difficult~ "
He left such a sentence, and then turned around proudly and left, and the direction he was heading was the Hogwarts Castle in the distance!
On the second day after Professor Sprout was attacked, the monster in the Chamber of Secrets was still at large, the headmaster Dumbledore was dismissed, Hagrid was wronged by Fudge as a suspect, the pure-blood family manager entered Hogwarts, and the whole school disappeared from prison. Immediate total martial law...
But the time left for Harry to resolve these matters was only a short month.
The situation was obviously corrupted beyond measure, but even so, Harry still didn't want to give up!
He had already received an important lesson yesterday, and this time... no matter how difficult it is, he will definitely overcome it! !
"Hagrid, Mr. Headmaster, did he just enter the room?" After Lucius walked away, Harry looked back at Hagrid.
"Well, it's in the house..." Hagrid responded in a muffled voice, he was still immersed in the panic and self-blame just now.
"Then let's go into the room and talk." Harry has no time to comfort Hagrid right now, he must immediately confirm whether Dumbledore has left any more messages for himself!
After entering the room, Harry searched carefully, and finally found a crystal medicine bottle filled with an unknown liquid among the sundries on the table.
For Harry, Hagrid's hut is as familiar as his bedroom, so he has an absolute understanding of the furnishings in the house. As a half-blood giant, Hagrid would not use such small-sized objects, so this The vial must have been left by Dumbledore!
Sure enough, when Harry took the medicine bottle in his hand, a line of text quietly appeared on the blank space of the desktop.
Harry guessed right, Dumbledore really left him a message and necessary help before he left.
(Harry, dear child, when you see this information, I must be on the way to be dismissed. I can't help you much this time, I hope Hagrid can be your help. In addition... The medicine bottle is a gift from Fox, and it originally wanted to bear more, but unfortunately recently entered the Nirvana period, and I can only say sorry to you.)
The speed at which the handwriting was displayed was not fast, and both Harry and Hagrid saw it clearly, and they both fell into emotion at the same time.
Old Deng is worthy of being Old Deng, even in the face of such an emergency, he can still leave the maximum backhand for Harry.
The liquid in the crystal vial is Fawkes' Tears of the Phoenix, a holy elixir capable of healing all wounds and poisons, apparently Dumbledore's talisman for Harry.
As for Fox not being able to fight for him himself, Harry didn't think it was a problem, because his own partner was already reliable enough!
And then there's... Hagrid.
"Now, what happened 50 years ago, you don't have to hide it from me anymore?" Harry asked Hagrid seriously.
"Yeah...Harry, I'm really ashamed, you trust me so much, you even argue with Fudge at all costs, but I..." The half-blood giant's voice was choked with sobs, he rubbed his eyes indiscriminately, trembling Tell Harry the truth of the year.
"I am innocent, and Aragog is equally innocent. We were all wronged! By a... student named Tom Riddle!!"
Following Hagrid's tearful confession, the 'truth' he had been hiding all along finally gradually surfaced.
In 1942, Hagrid, who was only in the third grade at the time, got an acromantula egg by chance. He hatched it and named it Aragog, and secretly raised it in a storage room in the castle dungeon.
It was also at this time that the secret room was mysteriously opened, and attacks continued to occur on the campus, and the last victim of the incident was naturally Myrtle Warren who was born as an ordinary person.
Thus, Hagrid was framed.
A student named Tom Riddle exposed the fact that Hagrid was raising the acromantula, and pushed all the blame on Aragog, insisting that the acromantula was the culprit for all the attacks.
At the end of the incident, Hagrid secretly released the giant spider into the Forbidden Forest, and he himself was broken from his wand and expelled from Hogwarts at the same time.
Thanks to Dumbledore, who was still a professor of transfiguration at the time, pleading with the headmaster, Armando Dippet, Hagrid was able to stay in Hogwarts as a gamekeeper and has been working until now.
"Harry, this is my whole story. I wasn't the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets, and Aragog will definitely not be the monster in the Chamber of Secrets!" At the end, Hagrid's voice was full of distress, "But... But I still don’t know anything about it. I have been asking Aragog about the real culprit all these years, but it has never told me. I’m sorry, Harry...I want to let you and Dumbledore down this time Looking forward to it, because I really can't help."
"Who said you can't help anymore?" Harry raised his eyebrows, "You take me to the Forbidden Forest tonight, and this time with me, I'm sure you can hear the voice-over of that acromantula."
Unmistakably, this should be the reason why Dumbledore wanted to keep Hagrid himself.
Although Lao Deng didn't know about the Chamber of Secrets, he knew that Hagrid had been raising giant acromantias all these years, so... Aragog, the suspected murderer back then, is the only one who knows now!
Chapter 140 VII The Horseman's Behavior Is Outrageous
As night fell, when the light covering Hogwarts gradually faded, Hagrid and Harry set off quietly, preparing to go to the Forbidden Forest to find his old friend—Acromantula Aragog.
Along the way, Hagrid kept telling Harry about the past between himself and Aragog.
For example, how he fed it with leftover food crumbs from the dining table; community.
And... how friendly Aragog was, never once trying to hurt Hagrid who was human.
For Hagrid's idea, the only evaluation Harry can give is...
Naive.
Hagrid was really kind, and he was undoubtedly a loyal friend, but his biggest problem was that he was always naive when it came to Fantastic Beasts.
The Octopus is an extremely dangerous fifth-level creature like the fire dragon and the poisonous leopard. They have super reproductive ability and are born to eat human flesh. They are absolutely a deadly threat to any wizard or ordinary human being.
But it was such a creature, Hagrid dared to hide it in the Hogwarts dungeon storage room without any experience in taming it. This was undoubtedly a joke for the safety of the teachers and students in the school.
To put it bluntly, this means that the Chamber of Secrets incident happened in a timely manner. Otherwise, once Aragog recovered from his savagery and did something regrettable, Hagrid would never be able to clean up his crimes for the rest of his life. !
Therefore, even though Hagrid was innocent back then, Harry still felt that the former headmaster made the right decision to expel him from the school.
But as the saying goes, laughing is not as good as others, and Harry can't criticize Hagrid too much in this matter. After all, from last year to now, the outrageous things he has done by himself are enough to be expelled several times.
"Sigh~"
The two walked in the dark for a while in the Forbidden Forest, and when they passed a dense bush that was exposed to the moonlight, Harry suddenly heard a long and pleasant moan.
"Is it a unicorn? Great, we meet again~" Harry couldn't help being overjoyed when he suddenly saw a familiar figure appearing next to the bushes.
The unicorn in front of him was the one that Harry rescued in the Forbidden Forest last year. Now it has regrown its horns, but it looks short and slender.
It happily jumped to Harry's side, and gently rubbed its side face against Harry's chest, with a humanized expression of joy on its face.
"Can even unicorns be so intimate..." Hagrid stared blankly at this scene, with both envy and regret in his heart.
He was very envious of Harry being able to interact intimately with all kinds of magical animals, whether it was the dangerous fire dragon or the supposedly scary unicorn in front of him, they all liked to cling to Harry.
But on the other hand, I have never been able to do this.
"You mean a horseman?"
After interacting with each other after a long absence, the unicorn talked to Harry about the purpose of coming this time, and his eyes changed from the gentleness before, replaced by a touch of resentment.
"Hagrid, there are centaurs around here, can I trouble you to talk to them?" Harry turned over and jumped on the back of the unicorn, while taking out the invisibility cloak to cover his body, "Also, with them When talking, remember not to reveal my whereabouts."
The unicorn is obviously very angry now, obviously the horse people said something to make it angry when they were chatting just now.
what will happen...
Harry kept thinking as he was led forward by the unicorn.
The Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts is almost as psychedelic as a ghost land at night, but for Hagrid, he is familiar with the road, and with the guidance of the unicorn, he soon "met" in the forest OK horse people.
"It turned out to be you... Hagrid." A rather rough-looking centaur with a black body and black hair was vigilantly tensing the bow and arrow in his hand, and gradually relaxed until he could see Hagrid clearly.
"Long time no see, Bane." Hagrid greeted the rough centaur, and at the same time turned his head to look at another centaur with a softer face, "And you too, Ronan, you are banning Are you patrolling the woods?"
"It's a patrol, but it's mainly following the guidance of the planet's trajectory." Another centaur, Ronan, had a melancholy voice and seemed to be a little older than Bane.
"It's something like planets again. You always like to believe in these inexplicable things."
Hagrid shook his head noncommittally. He was originally not interested in astrological guidance, but now that he had been with Harry for a long time, he felt more and more that the so-called prophecy of the centaurs was just a sham.
"Hagrid, we respect you as the gamekeeper at Hogwarts, but that doesn't mean you can judge the customs of our centaurs at will!" Compared to Ronan, Bane's temper is obviously more fiery, and he always speaks out of words. It reveals a kind of superiority.
"Don't be like this, Bane, Hagrid is our friend." Ronan comforted in a soft voice, "Nowadays, the trajectory of the planets is already very chaotic, at this time, there should be no more troubles between friends. "
"The astrology is chaotic... Huh, it's not because that traitor Firenze is meddling in his own business!" Bain snorted angrily, "The trajectory of the planet clearly indicated the correct development of the situation, but he chose to be the leader A mule driven by humans, if he hadn't insisted on saving the so-called savior..."
"Wait!" Bane's words made Hagrid feel a little wrong, "Savior... you mean Harry? Could it be that you saw Harry in the Forbidden Forest when you rescued the unicorn last year?!"
This was definitely unexpected news for Hagrid, because during the inspection last year, he only brought the somewhat annoying Malfoy into the Forbidden Forest, and then met Ronan and Bain who were talking about each other.
As for the seriously injured unicorn, Hagrid didn't find the other's whereabouts, but saw bloodstains in the forest.
so…
Hagrid subconsciously glanced at the unicorn wandering 'casually' not far away, and suddenly felt as if he understood something.
At that time last year, Harry must have come to the Forbidden Forest before him, and he also saved the unicorn ahead of time—the unicorn in front of him was the injured person at that time, because Harry was its lifesaver, it That's why he was so close to Harry.
And something must have happened during the rescue, so Firenze, who is a centaur, 'saved' Harry again.
Of course, what Hagrid didn't know was that the so-called "Fierenze saved Harry" was just what Firenze told the centaurs, not the actual situation at that time.
But what Hagrid was sure of was that Bane and the centaurs wanted to stand by and watch Harry's danger!
"Facts have proved that the traitor Firenze is purely doing bad things!" Bain didn't notice the change in Hagrid's mood, and was still cursing to himself, "The astrology clearly showed at that time that the mysterious man has returned, and he In the end, Harry Potter’s life will definitely be taken away, but that traitor chose to help the Savior and mix with those humans! If he hadn’t intervened at the time, or simply asked me to kill the child afterwards, the trajectory of the planet would have changed. It won't be as chaotic as it is now!"
"What did you say?!" Baine's words made Hagrid furious!
This nasty centaur, not only let Harry be in danger, he even thought of murdering Harry? !
Chapter 140 Eight Horsemen Can't Be Proud For Long
"Damn it... I really didn't expect that you so-called friends would have such thoughts about Harry!"
In the deep forbidden forest, Hagrid, who knew the cause and effect, roared angrily, and even pointed the crossbow in his hand at Bain!
At this moment, he really wanted to shoot an arrow through Bain's head.
Not only did he allow Harry to be attacked by that mysterious man, but he even wanted to kill Harry himself to maintain that ridiculous astrological prophecy... No matter what kind of relationship Bane and Hagrid had before, at this moment, they were no longer friends !
"Hagrid, I warn you not to be impulsive!" Bane also raised the bow and arrow in his hand, "Don't forget, you are just a half-blood giant, and there is no need to be so concerned about human affairs. What you have to do should be Follow the guidance of the astrology like us centaurs! Then you will find that even if the mysterious man really returns, nothing will change at all."
"Astrology, prophecy... Baine, I've heard enough of the lies you've been telling me!" Hagrid loaded the crossbow bolt in his hand, and the finger that held the trigger didn't tremble a bit, "This will all end, My-Know-Who …No, it's Voldemort, he's going to lose, and definitely Harry!!"
Even Hagrid didn't know it, but without knowing it, he had been inspired by Harry.
He began to see Harry no longer as an extremely smart and mature child, but as his most important friend...as important as Dumbledore!
With such support, he finally dared to break through the fear in his heart, and called out the name that most wizards dare not even mention!