Chapter 442 Conflict

Fish and Hermione held hands and came to the foyer. The entrance to the great hall was crowded with people. Everyone rushed here for dinner just after class. A group of people crowded at the door, shouting and pushing. With.

And in addition to the crowds, there was also a ghost named Edmund Grubb who was adding to the chaos in the foyer.

This ghost is fat and wears Victorian clothes. He will cause trouble here simply because he died from eating poisonous plums and died at the door of the Hogwarts dining room, so he is in a bad mood. When it's bad, it prevents people from going in to have a meal to vent their unhappiness.

Edmund and Fish are also old friends. When Maomao first entered school, Edmund was the ghost that he teased endlessly.

"Edmund, are you in a bad mood again?"

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Maomao pushed through the crowd crowded at the door and got in front of Edmund who was blocking the entrance.

"Fish!"

Edmund was startled. When he saw the cat reaching out to grab him, he immediately gave up blocking others from eating, and suddenly got into the wall and ran away.

"Why did you run away... Is Feishi so scary?"

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Maomao scratched his head and muttered in confusion.

The students who were blocked by Edmund at the door thanked Fei Xu one after another.

"Thanks to you, Fei Xu, otherwise our dinner would have taken at least another twenty or thirty minutes."

Edmund's reputation is still very high in Hogwarts, and the Weasleys were also stopped by him when they were students.

After scaring Edmund away, the crowded hall quickly became clear. Fish led Hermione and ran to the Gryffindor table to have dinner.

"Meow?"

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While the two were eating, Fei Xu suddenly raised his head and looked toward the hall. A pair of triangular cat ears also turned that way.

"What's the matter, Fish?" Hermione asked curiously.

"Harry and Ron had a fight with Draco again..."

Maomao spread his hands and said helplessly. He shook his ears and added: "It seems that Arthur was in the newspaper and Draco was laughing at Ron about it..."

"Strange, isn't it a good thing to be in the newspaper, meow? Fish's cat, Mao Tou, has also been in the newspaper!"

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Fish looked at Hermione strangely, hoping that she could explain it to him.

Hermione thought about it and roughly guessed what was going on. It was probably the reporter named Rita Skeeter who made up some random content to keep Mr. Weasley from coming... She had done this before. .

After briefly explaining the reason to Fei Xu, Maomao shook his head as if he understood, and then looked towards the hall again.

"They seem to be about to fight, let's go watch the excitement, meow!"

(ω)

False reports and the like, where is the fun in fighting? Fish put down the knife and fork in his hand, grabbed Hermione and ran towards the hall.

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"There's another photo, Weasley!" Malfoy said, turning over the newspaper and holding it up high. "A photo of your parents, standing at the door of your house - you actually call this a house. !”

As usual, he continued to mock the Weasley family's poverty. Malfoy originally wanted to make a comment about Molly's figure.

Just considering that Fish had a good relationship with the Weasley family, and Malfoy was also worried that Harry and Ron would really pounce on him just like they did in the first grade, so he could only smack his lips in regret and say The sarcastic words were swallowed back.

But even so, Malfoy's words still made Ron tremble with anger.

"Go away, Malfoy." Harry scolded, then turned around and grabbed his friend, "Don't be angry, Ron..."

"Oh, by the way, Potter, you lived with them this summer, right?" Malfoy continued sarcastically: "Then please tell me, is the Weasley family really so shabby? Is there a spare room for you to stay in?”

"I am going to kill you!"

Ron tried his best to rush towards Malfoy, but Harry held him tightly by his robes.

Malfoy recalled the bad experience of being pushed to the ground and beaten by the two men, and subconsciously took two steps back, hiding behind Crabbe and Goyle.

"Ha, you coward."

Seeing Malfoy's retreat, Harry immediately retorted: "Baby Malfoy doesn't dare to go anywhere without his two followers."

"I just don't want to roll around on the ground like a savage with you," Malfoy said with a sullen face and took out his wand, "Speaking of which... our duel didn't seem to have a winner, Potter."

"Happy to accompany you!"

Harry let go of Ron's robe, took out his wand, and responded with gritted teeth.

Ron stood aside, slightly confused...

Didn't I want to have a fight with Malfoy in the first place? When did it change to Harry's?

When Fish and Hermione arrived, they saw Harry and Malfoy confronting each other with wands, while Ron, Crabbe, and Goyle stood aside.

"Fight! Fight!"

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Maomao, who was not too dissatisfied with the excitement, started to make noises. Seeing that the situation was turning into a duel, the students who had been watching on the sidelines also joined in the noise. Gryffindor and Slytherin had deep grievances between them. In the house, the factions clearly cheered for the two people on the field, while Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, like Fish, watched the excitement from the sidelines.

Of course, many of them still sided with Harry, not because of Harry's reputation as the "Boy-Who-Lived", but simply because Slytherin was unpopular.

"What are you doing?!"

Just when the two were about to take action, Professor Moody limped down the marble stairs. His terrifying evil eye glanced back and forth between Harry and Malfoy, making both of them reluctant. He lowered his wand willingly.

"Meow..."

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The cat howled in annoyance, and then angrily stared at Professor Moody who came down from upstairs...

It's all his fault, the excitement can't be seen anymore.

"Hmph, you're lucky!" Malfoy put away his wand, flicked his robe and planned to leave, "Crabbe, Goyle, let's go!"

However, he had only taken two steps when he heard Professor Moody yelling from behind: "Wait a minute, kid!"

"Anything else, Professor?"

Malfoy turned around and asked softly.

"You haven't explained everything clearly yet," Professor Moody took two steps forward, and stared at Malfoy with his normal eye and the magic eye, "So you can't leave yet!"

"I took out my wand, just to make a little joke with Potter." Even though Mad-Eye Moody's appearance was very intimidating, Malfoy didn't think he dared to do anything to him, so he still looked like that. With a dismissive attitude, "We haven't even used a lighting spell, so we have nothing to explain to you."

"Is this how Lucius teaches his children?"

Moody's magic eyes trembled slightly, as if they were about to pop out of his eye sockets. He bent down, brought his scarred face close to Malfoy, and growled in a rough voice: " I think he probably never told you how I almost imprisoned him in Azkaban, right?"

When it came to Azkaban, Professor Moody seemed to be gritting his teeth, and his look at Malfoy became dangerous.

Professor Moody's appearance was still very impressive. Malfoy swallowed, took a few steps back, and distanced himself from him.

But at this time, Malfoy still didn't think Moody dared to do anything to him, so he retorted harshly: "Yes, he didn't mention it to me. After all, our family is all dealing with senior officials from the Ministry of Magic, such as Barty... Crouch, Ludo Bagman, and the Minister for Magic, Mr. Cornelius Fudge."

As he spoke, he glanced at Professor Moody's slightly worn robe with disgust.

The pupil of Professor Moody's normal eye suddenly shrank. When Malfoy announced his father's name, Barty Crouch Jr. was successfully stimulated.

"I want to teach you how to respect the professor for Lucius!"

He growled, raising his wand and pointing it at Malfoy.

Amid everyone's exclamations, Professor Moody's tip of the staff shot out a beam of white light, which hit Malfoy solidly, knocking him away and turning him into a stoat.

The ferret flew in the air for some distance and then fell hard to the ground.

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Edmund the Ghost is Rowling's scrapped case. She once said that she regretted not writing this character... I think I have written about him before? I can't remember some...

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In the original book, Moody (Barty Jr.) turned Malfoy into a ferret, with the excuse that he looked down on people who were attacking from behind... However, when he transformed into Malfoy, he was also attacking from behind...

But this was just Barty taking the opportunity to teach those Death Eaters who betrayed Voldemort, so it wasn't a big problem.

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Thanks to Maple Shadow Yanyue and the initial letter α for the tip.