Chapter 501: The Possessive and the Loser

"Gu... Gugu..."

"Well, well, well, well, Fish knows, meow, please, Catherine."

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Fish was standing opposite Hermione's owl, listening to its story with a serious face and nodding his head from time to time.

"What's going on, Fish?"

Hermione asked curiously. This was the first time she had encountered a letter sent by an owl being returned. Whether the letter was delivered or not was secondary. She now wanted to satisfy her thirst for knowledge.

"Catherine said that she couldn't search for Rita's specific location, and she didn't know where Rita's home was, so after walking around twice, she had no choice but to fly back."

While Fish was answering Hermione's questions, he was feeding nuts to Catherine. The owl flew aimlessly outside for several days without much food.

"How could this happen?" Hermione twitched her cat ears and muttered in surprise.

This matter is not within the scope of Miss Know-It-All's knowledge. The books she usually reads do not introduce much about the owl mail system, and Hermione herself does not take it seriously.

Now think about it...

The fact that an owl can accurately deliver mail to every wizard is a very remarkable thing in itself.

Because wizards don't need to write the recipient's address on it like Muggles do. They only need to tell the owl who the recipient is, and the owl can find them no matter where the recipient is.

Therefore, it is only reasonable that wizards have countermeasures. Just like Hogwarts cannot be plotted on the map, Rita Skeeter should have used a similar spell to prevent the owl from finding her. .

Hermione could probably guess the reason why Skeeter did this. As a paparazzi who offended many people with her news reports, it was completely normal for her to hide her whereabouts, just in case she was singled out. It's not impossible to seize the opportunity and give her a curse or something.

Moreover, Skeeter usually eavesdrops on various news in the form of a beetle. If an owl comes and exposes her whereabouts at this time, she will be in big trouble.

Even more unimaginable, what if an owl comes and treats the beetle-like Rita Skeeter as food?

Hermione scratched her head in distress. Although she had guessed this, it did not help at all to stop Skeeter from reporting on Hagrid.

"Don't you know her address?" Hermione asked.

"I don't know," Maomao shook his head, "The owl that gave Fish the quill doesn't live in the school. It flew away after delivering it."

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Hermione hesitated for a moment and decided to think of a way to see if she could find out the address of Rita Skeeter... Although it was tempting to replace Hagrid as a professor, she still couldn't do it. Ignore the matter.

Fortunately, Rita Skeeter seems to have been prepared for this, probably to facilitate receiving letters from readers, or to learn from others where there is news worth reporting. She works at the Daily Prophet He left a special address for receiving mail at the main office, and then Hermione asked Catherine to make another trip.

As for whether Rita Skeeter can see the letter before the news is released, it is not up to Hermione. She has done everything she can. In fact, Hermione still occasionally thinks A kind of "if only Skeeter hadn't received it" anticipation arose.

After all, to be honest, Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures class, except for the initial period, was a little more normal with Harry's help. After that, he became more and more self-indulgent. Especially this year, he was tossing that from beginning to end. Students have long complained about the bomb-tailed snails.

As the holidays passed day by day, and no reports about Hagrid appeared, Hermione breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a little bit regretful.

Fish had long forgotten this matter, and had fun in Hogwarts every day with Hermione and the often-visited Gabrielle.

In addition to Fish and Hermione, due to the Yule Ball, many couples suddenly appeared in Hogwarts. Dumbledore never demolished the rose garden at the entrance of the castle, and there would be couples from time to time. On a date inside, the overall atmosphere of the school suddenly became ambiguous.

Of course, there are pairs of winners in life, and there are naturally losers who live alone, and Harry and Ron, brothers and sisters, are among them.

Harry didn't need to say more. His thoughts were all on Qiu Zhang. After the first dance, he made Parvati run away because he ignored his partner.

And Ron's situation was not much better. Padma was not very satisfied with Ron's dance partner from the beginning. Rather than being invited by Ron, it was more to give face to her sister.

However, Ron valued his dance partner, so the two of them got along pretty well. Unfortunately, Ron was accidentally affected by Fleur's spell at the dance, which naturally turned Padma off. She was also annoyed, and then Ron couldn't help but come to her to apologize, and the two of them became strangers.

Of course, compared to Harry, Ron was relatively good. He didn't have much affection for Padma in the first place, so they broke up with each other. But Harry was miserable. From time to time, he saw Cedric and Qiu... Zhang held hands and walked intimately in front of him.

This resulted in Harry basically staying in the dormitory during the holidays, or hiding in the Room of Requirement to practice the Bubble Charm and other spells that might be used in the competition. He would only come out to hang out during meals...

With such diligent study and practice, Harry not only mastered the Head Soaking Charm before the start of school, but also learned several spells suitable for underwater use, which gave him a lot of confidence in the second project.

The other two warriors were also preparing for the second project. For example, Harry heard from Ron that Krum had jumped into the Black Lake to swim in such cold weather more than once, and Fleur, She also went into the water several times, and every time she entered the water, a group of boys were watching.

From the actions of the two of them, basically everyone knew that the content of the second project was related to diving, and the location was probably in the Black Lake.

After Harry mastered the Bubble Charm, he naturally went into the water and tried it a few times, but he was too embarrassed to practice it in front of other people. To be precise, he didn't want Qiu Zhang to see his poor paddling. , so I put on my invisibility cloak and sneak out at night to try.

The result was not very optimistic. His swimming speed was really not very good, and the Bubble Curse could only prevent him from drowning. So Harry basically had to go to the Black Lake to practice swimming every night. He even caught a cold because of it, but even so, Harry still didn't stop practicing...

Because this would allow Harry to temporarily forget about Qiu Zhang, and he also imagined that if he performed well enough in the competition, Qiu Zhang might fall in love with him.

The only one who doesn't take this matter seriously at all is Fei Xu...

Cats are not that stupid to go swimming in the water on such a cold day!

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In the official settings, wizards can use shielding spells, hiding spells and other spells to prevent owls from finding themselves.