In the library, Harry, who was absentmindedly doing his holiday homework, secretly glanced at the Marauder's Map tucked in the book. When he found that everyone gathered in the principal's office had left, he immediately became energetic and suddenly stood up from where he was.
He stood up and knocked down his chair, making a loud noise and attracting the attention of students doing their holiday homework in the library.
Ron and Hermione, who were doing their holiday homework seriously, both turned their heads to look at Harry who was packing up his books. They seemed to have thought of something and started packing their things.
Ron actually wanted to go over and see the status of the appeal, while Hermione was worried that the two of them would cause unnecessary trouble at a critical moment.
It's not that Hermione doesn't want to trust Harry and Ron, it's that both of them don't do things very carefully. If their brains get hot, God knows what will happen, and it may even ruin Albert's plan.
Albert was obviously wary of similar problems, so he specifically reminded the three of them not to get involved in this matter.
As soon as they left the library, Ron asked, "What's wrong, Harry?"
"Malfoy and everyone else have left the Headmaster's office. I think Buckbeak's appeal is over." Harry said in a low voice.
"Harry, I know what you are thinking, but let's not interfere in this matter." Hermione quickly followed the two of them and reminded sternly: "We promised that if you go there now, it may make things worse.
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"Hermione, we just want to know how Buckbeak's appeal is going." Ron comforted softly.
"Harry, now we have reached a critical moment." Hermione took Harry's arm and said seriously: "We have no good solution, so don't cause trouble to them. After this incident is over, we will visit Hagrid."
, okay?"
"Hermione, we just want to know the result, not to cause trouble."
Hermione's distrust made Harry a little annoyed.
"You messed up everything in the past two days, and in the end you asked someone else to help you clean up the mess." Hermione asked angrily: "You insist on watching Hagrid cry, and you also screwed up the others.
Will you be satisfied?"
Harry was speechless by Hermione.
Yes, he almost tricked Albert and Hagrid together a few days ago.
"Hermione, Harry didn't mean it, it was just an accident." Ron frowned.
"If Buckbeak loses his head because of this, are you going to tell Hagrid that it was just an accident?" Hermione glared at Ron fiercely and warned: "We haven't been able to help, so don't go and tell him again.
They are causing trouble, just wait quietly and wait for the results, you should believe..."
Hermione suddenly shut up, because at the corner of the corridor ahead, a group of Malfoys were walking towards this direction.
Everyone's faces looked unhappy.
Seeing the gloomy look on the other person's face, Harry was absolutely elated. The reason could be imagined. It was obvious that something bad had happened.
For example, Hagrid's Buckbeak appeal was successful.
After the four people left, Ron touched Harry's arm with his elbow and said excitedly: "Harry, did you notice the expression on Malfoy's face just now? I dare say Hagrid will win the case."
, otherwise Malfoy will never give up the opportunity to ridicule us."
"Yeah, I said Hagrid will definitely win the lawsuit." Harry had a smile that couldn't be concealed on his face. He knew Malfoy's character very well. If Hagrid lost the lawsuit, the other party would see it.
They will definitely stop and make a sarcastic comment instead of looking shocked.
In fact, Hermione thought so at first, but she quickly remembered Albert's words and shook her head: "No, Hagrid lost."
"Do you really want Hagrid to lose the lawsuit?" Ron glared at Hermione dissatisfied, "Besides, from Malfoy's doubtful expression, it's not difficult to see that Hagrid must have won the lawsuit."
"No, you don't understand. This is not a matter of appeal at all. Albert told me about this."
Hermione was more willing to trust Albert's judgment than the "so-called" truth, because Albert once told her the reason why Hagrid couldn't win.
"We don't understand?" The expression on Ron's face became increasingly weird, "Albert may be a genius, but he must also make mistakes sometimes."
"Let's ask Hagrid ourselves," Harry interrupted the possible argument, put away the Marauder's Map again, and trotted towards Hagrid's location.
After a while, the three of them met Hagrid in the corridor on the third floor.
However, after seeing Hagrid, both Harry and Ron felt their hearts tightening, because there was no joy of victory on Hagrid's face.
"Hagrid, we just met Malfoy. He looked very ugly. Did you win this lawsuit?" Harry immediately stepped forward and asked.
"No, I lost." Hagrid looked at Harry and the three of them and said expressionlessly: "The officials of the Committee for Disposal of Dangerous Creatures were bribed by Malfoy. You also know what Lucius Malfoy is like.
He coerced and lured other people, even the legal adviser I was looking for was taken away by Malfoy with Galleons, and the executioner McNeil, he is Malfoy's old partner."
Ron looked at Harry dumbfounded, and Harry also looked at Ron and fell silent. Just as Hermione said, Hagrid lost Buckbeak's appeal.
"Where's Anderson?" Harry asked tremblingly, "Doesn't he have a way?"
"Albert has tried his best. He prepared a bunch of hand cards for me," Hagrid said as he took out a bunch of hand cards and a water bottle with tranquilizers from his pocket and said, "I followed his advice.
After drinking the tranquilizer and relying on the content he provided, it was true that Malfoy and his team had nothing to say, but the result was the same as what Albert said. Lucius Malfoy bribed the people of the Committee to Dispose of Dangerous Creatures and forcibly
Buckbeak is pronounced guilty and sentenced to death."
"Where is Dumbledore?" Harry asked angrily, "How could Professor Dumbledore allow this to happen?"
"Dumbledore tried his best," Hagrid took a sip of the tranquilizer and said calmly, "Dumbledore does not have the power to control the committee, and he was asked to be a witness... However, I am still very grateful to him,
Dumbledore delayed the execution until after sunset, giving me time to say goodbye to Buckbeak."
"How could this happen?"
Harry's eyes widened in shock. He finally understood why Hermione said that Hagrid would lose, because from the beginning, Hagrid had no chance of succeeding in his appeal.
And Albert obviously knew it from the beginning.
"Don't be sad Harry, the situation is not as bad as you think. By the way, you guys should have a drink too!" Hagrid took out a few paper cups from his pocket and poured a cup for Harry, Ron and Hermione respectively.
Tranquilizer.
"What is this?" Harry looked at the potion in his hand in confusion.
"Tranquilizer." Hagrid said without hesitation: "After drinking it, don't discuss this matter anymore, don't get involved, let it be. No matter what the outcome of Buckbeak is, I have to accept it."
"Hagrid!"
"Even if I don't accept it, what can I do?" Hagrid reached out and patted Harry on the shoulder and said, "Albert always said that anger can't solve problems. I think he is right."
Harry stared blankly at Hagrid's leaving figure, then looked at the glass of tranquilizer in his hand, and fell into a short silence.
"Drink, let's go back and continue doing our holiday homework." Hermione was about to go back to the library to continue her homework.
"What is this? Hagrid actually comforted us in turn?" Ron was also a little dumbfounded. "Did he drink this thing and drink himself into a fool?"
"He is not stupid, you are the ones who are stupid." Hermione had already understood what Hagrid meant and said to Harry and Ron, "Let's go back and finish the holiday homework. We will go find Hagrid tomorrow."
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The people from the Dangerous Creatures Committee did not go to Hagrid's hut to stare at Buckbeak.
After all, they had just fallen out with Hagrid, and no one wanted to bask in the sun there. Professor Dumbledore had made a promise anyway.
Throughout the afternoon, Hagrid stared at Buckbeak in the pumpkin patch.
Buckbeak seemed to sense that something bad was about to happen, and he seemed to be in low spirits. However, Hagrid did not dare to go over to comfort him because Albert had told Buckbeak not to do anything after taking him to the pumpkin patch.
Never mind it anymore.
After throwing all the cards in his pocket into the fireplace and burning them, Hagrid continued reading another piece of parchment.
It says what he should do if he loses the appeal.
All right!
Albert planned to let Buckbeak break free from his chains and fly away.
As for how to do it, Albert didn't say.
Although Hagrid felt that this method was very unreliable, it was Albert who proposed this plan. Hagrid believed that since Albert planned to do this, he must have been fully prepared.
After memorizing the contents of the parchment over and over again, Hagrid repeated the drill in his mind until the sun tilted and the sky grew dark. Then he threw the parchment into the fireplace and watched it turn into a pile of ashes.
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Harry, Ron and Hermione didn't show up, which made Hagrid relieved. He was really afraid that the three of them would show up rashly and disrupt Albert's plan!"
At this moment, Yaya stood at the door and barked outside.
"Ya Ya, be quiet."
Hagrid walked to the door and saw Dumbledore, Lucius Malfoy, the old wizard of the committee and executioner MacNeill walking down the stone steps towards the hunting lodge.
"Where is that beast?" McNeil asked grimly.
"In the pumpkin patch." Hagrid glared at Lucius Malfoy.
McNeil walked around the house and saw Buckbeak pecking at the mouse, a cruel smile appeared on his face.
Just as he was holding an ax and preparing to carry out the execution, Dumbledore suddenly said: "If I remember correctly, the official notice on the execution must be read out first, and then it needs to be signed. McNeil,
You should also listen, and you, Malfoy, since you are here, you have to sign it, this is the procedure of the Ministry of Magic."
"Yes, that's it." said the old wizard.
Everyone crowded into Hagrid's hut, and McNeil was still observing the hippogriffs in the pumpkin patch through the window, seeming to be considering where to lay the axe.
"...the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures has decided that Buckbeak, the Hippogriff, should be executed at sunset on April 20th...the beheading will be carried out by Walton McNeil, the executioner designated by the Committee..." Old
The wizard read the contents of the parchment under Hagrid's hostile gaze.
"...As a witness, Hagrid, you need to sign here!"
"I want a copy later." Hagrid took the quill tremblingly and said to the old wizard.
"This is a perfectly reasonable request," said Dumbledore.
"Okay, but we have to wait until we finish this matter." The old wizard agreed reluctantly.
"McNeil, it's your turn." After Dumbledore signed the parchment, he said to several others, "Malfoy, you need to sign too."
The two came to the table, picked up the quill on the table with disgust, and signed their names on the parchment.
"Okay MacNeil, I'll leave it to you next." The old wizard rolled up the parchment and put it into his robe pocket, not intending to make a copy for Hagrid.
"Hagrid, please don't go out, it might be better..." Dumbledore comforted softly.
"No, I want to accompany it on its last journey." As soon as Hagrid finished speaking, he heard a scream from outside: "Where did that beast go?"
"It was tied here," McNeil said angrily. "That's what I just saw!"
"How strange." Dumbledore said with interest, "We all just saw it here."
Lucius Malfoy felt his heart being grasped, gasping for air, and looked angrily at Hagrid who had just walked out of the hut.
"Oh, God bless it. It's gone. It must have broken free on its own." Hagrid ignored Lucius' murderous gaze and shed tears of joy.
"Someone has broken the chains," MacNeill growled. "We should search the area around the castle and the woods."
"It's Potter. Harry Potter must have hidden that beast."
Lucius Malfoy remembered Harry Potter he had met in the corridor before and roared angrily: "He must have done it. I'm sure he took that beast away."
"Don't be stupid, Mr. Malfoy, the dementors are monitoring Hogwarts from all directions, and they will not let other creatures enter and exit the school at will." Dumbledore said softly, "If you are willing, search the sky and the woods.
Yes, but I have to remind you: I will never allow dementors to enter Hogwarts School."
"Okay, Hagrid. I'd like a cup of tea, or maybe a brandy."
"Of course, Professor," Hagrid's voice trembled slightly with excitement, "I have an unopened bottle of brandy here, which Albert gave me as a Christmas gift last time."
"you."
Lucius Malfoy was furious. He was convinced that Hagrid had found some way to smuggle Buckbeak to a safe place. He would never believe it without Dumbledore's help.
"I'm sure they used the Disillusionment Charm and hid the beast somewhere in the castle. We'd better search the whole Hogwarts castle."
asshole!
From the beginning, the other party had no intention of filing a lawsuit with him.
Lucius Malfoy was so furious that a gamekeeper treated them all like monkeys.