A day at Hogwarts.

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In the library, Harry, who was absent-minded doing his homework during the holidays, always secretly glanced at the Marauder's Map in the book, and when he found that everyone who had gathered in the principal's office had left, Harry immediately regained his spirits and immediately returned to his original place. He got up, brought the chair down by the way, and made a loud noise, attracting the attention of the students who were doing their homework in the library.

Ron and Hermione, who were seriously doing their vacation homework, looked at Harry, who was packing up his homework, as if they had thought of something, and they both started packing.

Ron actually wanted to see the appeal situation over there, while Hermione was worried that the two of them would cause unnecessary trouble at a critical moment.

It wasn't that Hermione didn't want to trust Harry and Ron, but that they didn't think much about what they did. If they got hotheaded, God knows what would happen, and it might even destroy Albert's plan.

Albert was obviously worried about similar problems, so he specifically reminded the three of them not to get involved in this matter.

As soon as he left the library, Ron asked, "What's the matter, Harry."

"Malfoy and the others have left the headmaster's office, and I think Buckbeak's appeal should be over," Harry said in a low voice.

"Harry, I know what you're thinking, but let's not interfere with this matter." Hermione quickly followed the pace of the two, and reminded sharply: "We promised that you may make things worse in the past now." worse."

"Hermione, we just want to know how Buckbeak's appeal is going." Ron comforted softly.

"Harry, now is the critical moment." Hermione took Harry's arm and said earnestly: "We have nothing to do, so don't trouble them. After this matter is over, we are going to visit Hagrid. okay?"

"Hermione, we just want to know the result, not make trouble."

Hermione's mistrust irked Harry a little.

"Two days ago, you messed up the matter, and in the end you need someone else to clean up the mess for you, Harry." Hermione reminded rather annoyed: "If you want to make Hagrid sad, let the other Will people be satisfied if they cheat together?"

Harry was left speechless by Hermione's words.

That's right, he almost got Albert and Hagrid together a few days ago.

"Hermione, that was just an accident," Ron argued.

"If Buckbeak loses his head because of this, you're going to tell Hagrid that it was just an accident?" Hermione glared at Ron fiercely, and warned, "We can't help you, so don't do it again." They are making trouble, just wait quietly for the result, you should believe..."

Hermione suddenly shut up, because at the corner of the corridor ahead, she saw a group of Malfoy walking towards them.

Everyone's faces are not very good-looking.

Seeing their sullen expressions, Harry was almost delighted.The reason can be imagined, obviously something bad happened.

Hagrid's Buckbeak appeal, for example, was successful.

After the four of them 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 must have won the case." Otherwise, Malfoy would never give up the opportunity to ridicule us."

"Yeah, I said Hagrid will definitely win the lawsuit." Harry couldn't hide a smile on his face. He really knew Malfoy's character too well. If Hagrid lost the lawsuit, the other party would see him They'll definitely stop later with a sneer, not a stricken look.

In fact, Hermione thought so at first, but she quickly remembered Albert's words, shook her head and said, "No, Hagrid lost."

"Do you really want Hagrid to lose the case?" Ron glared at Hermione dissatisfiedly. "And, from Malfoy's skeptical expression, it's not hard to see that Hagrid's appeal was successful."

"No, you don't understand, it's not a matter of appeal at all, Albert told me about it."

Hermione was more willing to believe Albert's judgment than the "so-called" truth, because Albert had told her why Hagrid couldn't win.

"We don't understand?" The expression on Ron's face became more and more strange. "Albert may be a genius, but he must have made mistakes."

"Let's ask Hagrid ourselves," Harry interrupted the possible dispute, put away the Marauder's Map again, and trotted towards Hagrid's position.

After a while, the three met Hagrid in the corridor on the third floor.

However, after seeing Hagrid, Harry and Ron felt their hearts tighten, because Hagrid's face could not see any joy of victory at all.

"Hagrid, we met Malfoy just now, and his face was very ugly. Did you win the appeal?" Harry immediately stepped forward and asked.

"No, I lost." Hagrid looked at Harry and the three of them, and said blankly: "The officials of the Committee for Disposal of Dangerous Creatures were all bribed by Malfoy, you know what Lucius Malfoy is like, He is good at intimidating and luring others, even the legal consultant I was looking for was taken away by Gallon by Lucius, and the executioner McNeil, he is Malfoy's old partner."

Ron also stared at Harry dumbfounded, and Harry watched Ron go silent, just like Hermione said, Hagrid lost Buckbeak's appeal.

"Where's Anderson?" Harry asked tremblingly, "Isn't there something he can do?"

"Albert has done his best, he prepared a bunch of hand cards for me," Hagrid said as he took out a bunch of hand cards from his pocket, and said to the water bottle containing the tranquilizer, "I follow his suggestion , drank sedatives, and relied on the content he provided, it was true that Malfoy and his party had nothing to say, but the result was the same as Anderson said, Lucius Malfoy bribed the people from the Dangerous Creatures Disposal Committee and forcibly announced Buckbeak is guilty and sentenced to death."

"Where's Dumbledore?" Harry asked furiously. "How could Professor Dumbledore allow this to happen?"

"Dumbledore tried," said Hagrid, taking a sip of the tranquilizer. "Dumbledore didn't have the power to control the committee, and he was asked to be a witness...but I'm grateful to him, Dumbledore." Putting off the execution till after sundown gives me time to say goodbye to Buckbeak."

"How come, they are dereliction of duty." Harry's eyes widened in shock, he finally knew why Hermione said that Hagrid would lose, because from the very beginning, Hagrid could not appeal successfully.

And Albert obviously knew it from the start.

"Don't feel bad for Harry, the situation is not as bad as you imagined." Hagrid said suddenly, "By the way, you should have a drink too!"

With that said, Hagrid took out a few paper cups from his pocket and poured a cup of tranquilizer for Harry, Ron and Hermione respectively.

"What is this?" Harry looked at the potion in front of him in confusion.

"Tranquilizer." Hagrid said without thinking, "After drinking it, don't discuss this matter any more, and don't get involved in it. Let it take its course. No matter what Buckbeak's result is, I have to accept it."

"Hagrid!" Hagrid

"Even if I don't accept it, what can I do!" Hagrid stopped, reached out and patted Harry's shoulder and said, "Albert always said that anger can't solve the problem, and I think he is right."

Harry stared blankly at Hagrid's leaving back, then at the paper cup in his hand, and fell into a short silence.

"Drink it, let's go back and continue doing our vacation homework." After finishing the cup of tranquilizer, Hermione was going back to the library to continue her homework.

"What is this, Hagrid comforting us instead?" Ron was also a little dumbfounded, "Did he drink this stuff and make himself stupid?"

"He's not stupid, it's you who are stupid." Hermione had already understood what Hagrid meant, and said to Harry and Ron, "Let's go, go back and finish your homework for the holidays, and we'll go to Hagrid tomorrow."

……

The Hazardous Creatures Committee didn't run to Hagrid's cabin to stare at Buckbeak.

After all, they'd just had a falling out with Hagrid, and no one wanted to bask in the sun, and Professor Dumbledore had promised.

All afternoon, Hagrid stared blankly at Buckbeak in the pumpkin patch.

Buckbeak seemed to have sensed that something bad was about to happen, and he didn't seem to be very energetic, but Hagrid didn't dare to touch it, because Albert had instructed that after bringing Buckbeak to the pumpkin patch, don't Forget it.

After throwing all the cards in his pocket into the fireplace and burning them, Hagrid continued to read another parchment.

It says what to do if you lose your appeal.

Ok!

Albert planned to let Buckbeak break free from the rope and fly away by himself.

As for how to do it, Albert didn't say.

Although Hagrid felt that this method was unreliable, it was Albert who proposed this plan. Hagrid believed that since Albert planned to do this, he must be fully prepared.

After memorizing the contents of the parchment over and over, rehearsing it side by side in his head, until the sun was setting and it was getting dark, Hagrid threw the parchment into the fireplace and watched it become a pile ash.

Hagrid was relieved that Harry, Ron and Hermione didn't show up. He was really afraid that the three of them would appear rashly and disrupt Albert's plan! "

At this moment, Ya Ya stood at the door and barked wildly towards the outside.

"Yaya, be quiet."

Hagrid walked to the door and saw Dumbledore, Lucius, the old councilors, and the executioner, McNeil, coming down the stone steps towards the hunting lodge.

"Where's the beast?" McNeil asked grimly.

"Out, outside, in the pumpkin patch." Hagrid glared at Lucius.

With a cruel smile on McNeil's face, he walked past the house to see Buckbeak pecking at a mouse.

Just as he was about to step up to execute the execution with an axe, Dumbledore suddenly said: "If I remember correctly, you must first read the official announcement about the execution, and then you need to sign it. McNeill , you should also listen, and you, Lucius, since you are here, you must also sign, this is the procedure of the Ministry of Magic."

"Yes, that's what it is."

Everyone crowded into Hagrid's hut, and McNeill was still watching the hippogriff in the pumpkin field through the window, as if thinking about where to drop the axe.

"...the Commission for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures has decided that Buckbeak the Hippogriff, hereinafter called the Convicted, shall be executed at sunset on June [-]th...beheaded by Wall, the executioner appointed by the Commission. Don McNeil..." The old wizard read from the parchment under Hagrid's hostile gaze.

"...The following are witnesses. Hagrid, you need to sign here!"

"I want a copy later," said Hagrid to the old wizard, taking the quill tremblingly.

"That's a perfectly reasonable request," said Dumbledore.

"Okay, but we have to wait until we finish this." The old wizard reluctantly agreed.

"McNeil, it's your turn." After Dumbledore signed the parchment, he said to the others, "Malfoy, since you are here, you also need to sign."

The two came to the table, picked up the quill on the table in disgust, and signed their names on the parchment.

"Okay, McNeill, I'll leave it to you then." The old wizard rolled up the parchment and put it in his pocket, not intending to make a copy for Hagrid at all.

"Hagrid, don't go out, it might be better..." Dumbledore comforted softly.

"No, I want to accompany it for the last time." Hagrid had just finished speaking when he heard a scream from outside: "Where did that beast go?"

"It was chained here," said McNeil furiously. "I just saw it, and it's here!"

"Strange," said Dumbledore with interest. "We all saw it here just now."

Lucius felt as if his heart was being held, 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, Buckbeak, how clever you are! Hagrid didn't bother Lucius at all, and shed tears of joy.

"Someone has loosened the chain," McNeill growled, "we should search around the castle and the woods."

"It was Potter, Harry Potter must have hidden the beast."

Malfoy snarled furiously, remembering the Harry Potter he had met in the corridor earlier, "He must have done it, I'm sure he took the beast."

"Don't be stupid, Mr. Malfoy, the dementors are watching Hogwarts from all directions, and they won't let other creatures come in and out of the castle at will." Dumbledore said softly, "Search the sky and the woods if you want Well, but I have to warn you: Dementors are never allowed in Hogwarts."

"There, Hagrid. I'd like a cup of tea, or a brandy."

"Of course, Professor," Hagrid's voice trembled slightly with excitement, "I have an unopened bottle of brandy here, which Anderson gave me last Christmas."

"You guys!" Malfoy blushed with anger, he knew that he had been tricked by a hunting ground guard, and he really wouldn't believe it without Dumbledore's help.

"I'm sure they used the Disillusionment Charm to hide the beast in the castle, we'd better search the whole of Hogwarts Castle," said Lucius Malfoy angrily.