Chapter 136: No Going Out

"Anders?"

The door of the cabin creaked open, and Hagrid poked his head out. His messy hair and beard were hanging down. He looked at the little wizard at the door in surprise, then looked around, and quickly pulled him into the house.

"The school doesn't allow students to go out now. How dare you come here?"

Meka smiled and took the candy he handed over and threw it into his mouth. He tasted the sweetness of the candy and replied:

"Of course I have something to ask you."

"You..." Hagrid looked at his leisurely look and couldn't help but sigh, "Anders, if you are caught, Professor McGonagall will definitely give you the harshest punishment."

"Then it'll be nice if you don't get caught." Meka smiled.

"Okay." Hagrid shrugged helplessly and asked:

"What do you want from me?"

"I'm learning some kind of potion that requires the venom of the Acromantula, but now I can't buy this material from anywhere else." Meka looked at Hagrid and said, "I think you should have this Plant something?”

"Acromantula venom?" Hagrid frowned, "Anders, this is a very dangerous thing. Have you told Professor Snape?"

Meka nodded and said: "Of course, otherwise I wouldn't come to you. Don't worry, I'm just using it to refine ordinary potions and won't hurt anyone."

"That's good."

Hagrid put on his gloves and an empty glass bottle, walked towards the door, and said:

"I have to go out for a while and bring you something. Just stay here and don't go anywhere."

"Okay." Meka responded.

He ate the snacks on the table and occasionally looked at the furniture in the room.

Less than twenty minutes later, Hagrid came back. He took off his gloves and held a bottle of green solution with vague spider silk wrapped around the mouth of the bottle.

"No!" Hagrid handed the bottle of solution to Meka.

Meka was about to take it with a smile when suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside the door. Hagrid immediately panicked and thrust the bottle of green solution directly into Meka's hand, then pushed him into the back room and said hurriedly:

"I guess some professor is here. Don't speak or make any noise for a while, otherwise I won't be able to protect you..."

Meka was also a little surprised, because as far as he knew, Hagrid's hut rarely had visitors on weekdays.

That's why he dared to come here to borrow something from Hagrid during his lunch break.

He also reacted quickly, and under Hagrid's guidance, he hid in the gap between a wardrobe and the wall.

"Remember! Don't make a sound!" Hagrid ordered again.

Meka nodded: "Don't worry."

Hagrid took a deep breath, then patted his face and walked out.

After a while, the door opened, and two people walked into the house while talking.

Both voices were a bit old, and Meka recognized that one of them was Professor Dumbledore. Later, during their conversation, he also learned the identity of the other person.

"The Minister of Magic, Connery Fudge, is here so quickly?"

Ever since Meka learned from Harry that the news about Hagrid opening the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago was spread, he knew that Voldemort would still frame Hagrid and drive Professor Dumbledore out of Hogwarts. .

This can greatly facilitate Voldemort's actions.

However, he really didn't expect that just a few days later, people from the Ministry of Magic would come, and it was estimated that Hagrid would be taken away today on suspicion of murdering students.

Sure enough, after a while, Meka heard Fudge say:

"The situation is very bad, Hagrid. We have to come here. Things about your school have been spread for a long time. Students of Muggle descent have been attacked repeatedly. This is simply unbelievable. If I hadn't stopped them, the reporter from the Daily Prophecy would probably have Coming to the door."

Hagrid was stunned for a moment: "Minister Fudge, are you here to tell me the news?"

"No." Fudge said, "I am here to ask you to go to the Ministry of Magic with me and cooperate with the investigation of this matter."

"I have nothing to do with this matter." Hagrid quickly explained, "I swear, I have never harmed Hogwarts. Professor Dumbledore knows this."

"Maybe I didn't make it clear." Professor Dumbledore also said,

"Cornelly, I believe Hagrid never did that fifty years ago, and it is impossible to do it now. He loves Hogwarts even more than I do."

"Albus, there's nothing I can do." Fudge said helplessly.

"The files from fifty years ago are still on my desk. Someone complained to me about Hagrid. And now some students at your school know about the opening of the secret room fifty years ago. They also think it was Hagrid." Made.”

"All circumstances are very unfavorable to Hagrid. For this reason, I have to take him away."

"Take me away?" Hagrid's voice was a little angry. "Take me where? To Azkaban Prison?"

"This is a desperate move, Hagrid." Fudge was about to speak when the door suddenly opened again.

Then, Meka heard another familiar voice.

"Lucius is here too?" Meka narrowed his eyes.

"What are you doing here? Get out of my house!" Hagrid's voice deepened.

"Don't be so impatient." Lucius smiled, "I'm not here just for you."

"Then you are..." Hagrid asked.

"I'm here for Professor Dumbledore," Lucius said.

Professor Dumbledore also responded: "For me? Lucius, what do you want from me?"

"I'm sorry to inform you, Professor Dumbledore." Lucius suddenly sneered,

"I and other members of the board of directors agree that you have not shown the qualities and abilities of a headmaster in the recent turmoil, so you have to give up your position."

"This is clearly an unfounded accusation! Lucius!" Hagrid's voice rose, and he seemed very angry,

"You will put the entire Hogwarts in danger by doing this. Without Professor Dumbledore, who can protect the students?!"

Lucius said: "But what I saw is that even if Dumbledore was here, he couldn't protect any student."

"You!" Hagrid was about to speak, but Professor Dumbledore stopped him.

"Hagrid, don't worry."

"Yeah, why should you worry? Are you worried that no one will be able to protect you after Dumbledore steps down?" Lucius said,

"Look, you're anxious again... But I shouldn't ask about the Chamber of Secrets. Fudge will handle this matter with full authority and won't let any suspect go."

He said to Fudge, "Don't you think so, Fudge?"

"Of course." Fudge replied.

Lucius seemed to take out something: "Now let's get back to my purpose, Professor Dumbledore, I brought your suspension letter."

"It has the signatures of 12 directors on it." Lucius said, "I have talked to them all, and they all think that Professor Dumbledore is getting more and more confused."

"You are the confused one, you all!" Hagrid said angrily, "Once Professor Dumbledore leaves, you will know how important he is to Hogwarts. Hogwarts will really fall into crisis, and students of Muggle descent will die because of it!"

Lucius ignored it. Hagrid, he continued:

"Look at the 'Chamber of Secrets' incident this time. If it continues like this, I'm afraid all the students of Muggle descent will be finished. That's an unimaginable loss."

"What do you mean, Professor Dumbledore?" Lucius asked, "Are you leaving by yourself, or are you going to leave?"

"Since you all want me to leave, I will leave naturally." Professor Dumbledore said in a normal voice,

"But if someone in Hogwarts asks for help, he will definitely get my response."

In the inner room, Meka, who was in the gap between the wardrobes, was suddenly startled.

If he remembered correctly, this sentence seemed to be said to Harry and the others, but Harry and Ron were not here now.

"Is this sentence said to me now?" Meka looked strange.

The conversation outside continued.

"Of course." Lucius smiled, "In order to keep Hogwarts running normally, someone has to take over all the affairs of Hogwarts."

"What do you mean?" Professor Dumbledore asked.

"I heard that there is a new professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts this year?" Lucius asked.

"Yes." Dumbledore responded, "Gilderoy Lockhart is a young man."

Lucius smiled:

"I think that when attacks happen frequently, it is the time for the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor to take on the heavy responsibility. He will temporarily become the acting headmaster of Hogwarts. This is also the intention of the board of directors."

"Professor Lockhart becomes the acting headmaster?" In the inner room, Maeka frowned.

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Maeka walked out of the inner room only after the noise outside faded away.

The small house, which was bustling just now, is now quiet. Only the iron kettle in the stove is still steaming. It is some kind of animal milk that Hagrid is preparing to use to entertain him.

The owner of the house has left, and Maeka can only help him clean up the house.

Then, before leaving, Meka saw a black dog lying on the ground snoring in the corner, and smiled:

"It seems that I have to settle it down."

He found the rations that Hagrid prepared for Fang, filled the iron basin in front of it, and prepared a place for it to go to the toilet and sleep. Then he left the hut and returned to the dormitory.

Meka lay back on the bed and continued his lunch break, thinking about the sword of Gryffindor.

"Professor Dumbledore and Lucius are still dealing with some things in Hogwarts. They should leave at night."

"That time is the best opportunity for me to enter the principal's office and look for the sword of Gryffindor."

"But will Professor Lockhart stay in the principal's office?" Thinking of this, Meka couldn't help feeling a little troubled.

If Professor Lockhart still holds Voldemort's diary, it will be difficult for him to take the sword of Gryffindor, not to mention quietly.

I hope I won't see Lockhart when I go to the principal's office at night, he thought.

In the evening, Professor Lockhart's appointment as acting headmaster had caused an uproar.

Later, Lockhart suddenly announced a new school rule:

"In order to ensure the safety of Hogwarts students, from now on, all classes at Hogwarts will be suspended, and all students must stay in their respective public rooms and dormitories and are not allowed to go out!"

"Each college has professors taking shifts day and night to supervise. Those who violate this new school rule will be subject to the most severe punishment, including but not limited to expulsion from school, no one is exempt!"

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