Chapter 674 New Professor of Care of Magical Creatures
Rove couldn't help but take a breath as he watched Rita choreograph the article about the love triangle between Harry, Ron and Snape.
He didn't even dare to understand Professor Hesnape, but Rita is so bold... I really don't fear that one day I will come to Hogwarts and be drugged by someone!
It can only be said that Rita deserves to be the most daring reporter in the new awards!
But then again, although the content is a bit fake, but it involves celebrities, cheating, teacher-student relationship, etc., people still enjoy watching it and want to know the follow-up content.
This is the strength of Rita, who understands readers' innermost expectations very well.
In comparison, another report she made during the Christmas holiday is unremarkable:
[Dumbledore’s major mistake]
The newspaper's special correspondent Rita Skeeter reports that the eccentric Albus Dumbledore, head of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, has always dared to hire controversial teachers.
In September of this year, the violent Mad-Eye Moody was hired as a teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts.
The decision came as a complete surprise to many at the Ministry.
However, compared to Hagrid, the teacher hired by Dumbledore to teach the Protection of Magical Creatures class, Mad-Eye is serious, responsible and kind...]
In this article, Rita sorted out in detail the Defense Against the Dark Arts professors that Dumbledore had recruited over the past few decades:
There are dark wizards, crooks, smugglers, vampires, Squibs pretending to be magic...not a single good guy anyway.
In the end, she also revealed Hagrid's identity as a half-blood giant in the article, and implied that he might be Dumbledore's illegitimate son, so he could be taken care of by the principal for decades.
To be honest, except for the illegitimate child, the other content is quite objective.
For example, Hagrid illegally crossed a manticore with a fire crab to breed a dangerous snail, and forced the students to take care of it.
Rove sighed slightly. He asked Hagrid to hand over the snails more than once, and reminded him not to spread the word... Well, something happened now, right?
"How is Hagrid now?" Rolf asked.
"I don't know." Neville shook his head. "Since this report came out, Hagrid never came to the auditorium for dinner. No one knows where he went."
"I don't know if he will come or not when class starts later."
"Probably not." Rove said, "Hagrid should be hiding for a while."
Rove guessed right, when they came to the cabin, they didn't see Hagrid, but an elderly witch instead:
She was about sixty years old, thin and severe, with a long face, a pointed chin, and small ears. Her black hair was graying, but her eyes were as bright as onyx.
The witch saw Rove, walked towards him, and asked, "Son, do you remember me?"
The Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw students all turned their heads to look at Rove, why are there people he knows everywhere!
Rove stared at the witch, searched his memory for a while, then remembered and said:
"Oh, you are... Mrs. Wilmina Graplan?"
A rare smile appeared on the corner of Wilmina Graplan's mouth.
"It's me, boy, I'm afraid you don't remember me, the last time we saw you, you were nine years old, you're tiny, not much bigger than an elf, and much taller than me now.
If I hadn't seen your picture in the newspaper every day, I wouldn't have recognized you. "
Rove fully remembered that when he was nine years old, he visited the Hebrides with Newt and lived with the McFasty family for more than half a year.
Speaking of the McFasty family, it is also an ancient pure-blood family that can communicate with fire dragons and domesticate them.
It is rumored that there is a magic horn in their family, which can forcibly control fire dragons.
Therefore, McFasty is also known as the Dragon King family.
This title is not exaggerated, they have lived in the Scottish Hebrides for generations and have been taking care of the black dragons on the island.
Even every child of the McFasty family would choose a newly hatched black dragon as a companion when they were young, and then raise them up personally!
And the children of the Scamander family, when they are ten years old, can only choose one of the three magical animals of the royal family - Niffler, Salamander and Bowtruckle - as a companion.
In comparison, it is indeed a lot shabby!
The witch named Wilmina Graplan in front of her was also a wizard of the McFasty family, but she later married. After marrying Graplan, she changed her husband's surname.
She's also a dragon expert and a magizoologist, and she's Newt's half-student.
"By the way, when I came to Hogwarts, Eileenia asked me to say hello to you." Graplan said:
"She said she really wanted to meet you. She had a bet with you back then."
When Roof heard the name Elinia, he also twitched his lips.
Elenia McFasty is Grapeland's great-niece, the same age as Rolf.
The year she chose the black dragon, Luo Fu was also there, and then the black dragon cub she chose was almost kidnapped by Luo Fu... The two of them even had a fight over it.
Taking advantage of her early development and being a head taller than Roff, Elinia proposed a father-daughter game, where whoever lost would be called daddy.
Rove already knew magic at that time, so he easily defeated Eileenia and made her call him his father for two months... Of course, when there was no one else!
Unexpectedly, Elinia still remembered this and took the initiative to bring it up. Could it be that she wanted to regain her position?
Speaking of which, Rolf was very curious about why he didn't see Elinia at Hogwarts when he entered school.
Later he learned that the McFasty family had always maintained the tradition of receiving magical education in their own home.
Luofe and Professor Grapeland chatted for a while, and as the class time arrived, Grapeland said:
"I am Professor Graplan, and I am the temporary substitute teacher for your Care of Magical Creatures class. I will be teaching the class for the next period of time."
"Where's Hagrid?" Justin asked, raising his hand.
"Hagrid is ill," said Grapeland. "He needs some time to recuperate."
Everyone looked at each other in confusion at first, and then quickly became happy. After all, changing teachers meant that they no longer had to deal with Blast-Ended Skrewts.
Sure enough, Professor Grapeland did not take the students to the pumpkin patch, but walked around the stables and towards the Black Lake.
They walked through the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and soon arrived at the black lake.
More than half of the Black Lake is frozen. Durmstrang's big ship on the lake is docked in the lake. It looks weird, like a ghost ship that has just been salvaged.
Professor Graplan stood on the shore and said loudly:
"In this lesson I'm going to teach you about merfolk."
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