It was completely within Albert's expectations that Hagrid would lose the lawsuit, and this incident did not cause any disturbance in his campus life.
Potter came to him several times to discuss ways to save Buckbeak, but Albert always dismissed him by saying, "Don't worry about it, I will take care of it."
As for how to deal with it, that is none of Harry's business.
Albert's distrust made Harry and Ron very annoyed, but they could not think of a way to save Buckbeak. Even Hermione was desperate and had no confidence that Hagrid could win the lawsuit.
Moreover, Hermione also warned the two not to care about this matter and not to mention it outside, so as not to cause trouble for Hagrid and even directly kill Buckbeak.
Therefore, even though Harry and Ron were angry at first, they were not blinded by anger. They could not save Buckbeak, nor could they bear the responsibility of killing Buckbeak because of their own reasons. Therefore, they could only trust him now and believe that Albert could help Hagrid solve this matter perfectly.
"Continue to appeal?" Ron asked puzzledly.
"Yes, that's what Albert meant?" Hermione explained, "Albert thinks Hagrid shouldn't give up the chance to appeal. Even if he knows he will lose, he should continue to appeal until he fails completely."
"But... why?"
Harry couldn't understand why Albert would waste his time if he already had a solution to the problem.
"He thinks the Malfoys spend a lot of Galleons to bribe the wizards on the committee. Maybe they should be allowed to spend more Galleons."
In fact, Hermione knew Albert's intention, which was to let Malfoy spend more money to bribe other wizards, and also to pretend to be doing his best to confuse everyone.
"I understand. I will continue to appeal." Hagrid agreed with Albert's proposal and believed that the other party would not harm him.
"But... will this really work?" Ron asked dryly.
"Albert is still very reliable, and what he taught me is actually very useful." Hager recalled, "I drank a large glass of tranquilizer before going to the lawsuit."
Hagrid began to recount what had happened in the previous few days:
Last Friday, Hagrid took Buckbeak to London on a pre-booked Knight Bus. The Hippogriff caused a commotion on the bus. Finally, with the help of the Ministry of Magic employees, Hagrid successfully brought Buckbeak into the Ministry of Magic.
The trial was held in a courtroom on the tenth floor below the Ministry of Magic, before the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures.
"Albert told me that when the Hogwarts board handed this incident over to the Dangerous Creatures Committee, they had already given up on Buckbeak." Hagrid was very angry when he talked about this. "They don't care about the death of the Hippogriff at all. Professor Dumbledore doesn't have a good solution in this regard."
“Perhaps, he predicted it.”
Harry remembered that Albert was good at prediction, and it would not be surprising if he saw a solution to the problem from the prediction.
"For Albert, there are some things that he doesn't need to spend any effort to predict. He can guess the results just by speculation."
Hermione knew Albert's abilities, and she had not given up on divination. In fact, she hoped that she could learn something useful.
Although it may not be divination, it is still progress to learn useful knowledge.
After the court session, Hagrid had been responding according to Albert's advice. Whenever the committee asked him questions, he would pin the questions on Malfoy.
"I told the committee that Buckbeak is just a magical creature that has been domesticated and will not attack students rashly. This incident is entirely Malfoy's problem. It's like if you know that you will be bitten by a dog if you pull its tail hard, but you do it on purpose and get bitten by the dog, can you still blame the dog for biting you?"
"This analogy is so apt." Hermione exclaimed, "If you didn't pull the dog's tail, how could you be bitten by the dog?"
"Yes, Malfoy did it on purpose, so he deserved to be injured." Harry agreed with Hagrid's point of view. Malfoy's injury was entirely his own fault.
“That’s very well said.”
"I told them that Draco Malfoy had brought this upon himself because he had deliberately caused trouble for the Hippogriff, and that was why he got hurt. You can't blame the Hippogriff, it was there to help teach the class, and I told them that Harry had ridden it around the school."
"Lucius Malfoy was very angry at the time." Hagrid stroked Fang's head with his big fan-like hand. "He was probably very angry that I described his son as an idiot!"
"That guy is an idiot," Harry agreed immediately.
"Most of the Slytherins are idiots who married their close relatives." Ron noticed that the others were looking at him, and quickly explained, "Don't look at me like that. Fred and George always laugh at them for having problems with their brains and having particularly bad tempers, which is why they are prone to producing dark wizards."
"What happened next?" Hermione asked.
"Later, the committee all sided with Malfoy." Hagrid sighed deeply. "Lucius probably used coercion, bribery, and a large sum of Galleons to bribe the committee members."
"They kept changing the subject, saying that hippogriffs are different from dogs, and picking all kinds of problems. Like Albert said, wizards are arrogant. Their main reason is that magical animals hurt wizards, so they must be sentenced. They don't really care whose problem it is."
"Later, Lucius Malfoy stood up and spoke, and listed the so-called evidence (several photos of Malfoy's injuries) and the so-called witnesses, and the committee did exactly what he asked, and couldn't wait to sentence Buckbeak to death, and then ended the court without giving me a chance to refute. The whole process took no more than half an hour." Hagrid said angrily, "This is how they tried, they are simply a group of beasts. Albert told me a long time ago that the Ministry of Magic is actually not trustworthy, and the laws of the Ministry of Magic are just a joke. Most wizards bully the weak and fear the strong. I didn't believe it at first, but later I believed it."
"If it was the centaurs in the forest or the giant acromantula in the forest who hurt that little bastard Malfoy, no one in the Ministry of Magic would be willing to sentence them."
"Why?" Hermione asked puzzled.
"The centaurs simply ignore the Ministry of Magic. Once the Ministry of Magic goes to their tribe to capture the so-called criminals, they will definitely be attacked by the centaurs in the entire forest." Hagrid took a deep breath and said, "As for the Acromantulas, they are very dangerous, especially in the Forbidden Forest. Once attacked by a large number of Acromantulas, the best result is to flee in panic."
The Ministry of Magic dared to try Buckbeak because it actually found Hagrid's weakness. If Hagrid had let Buckbeak go at the beginning, there wouldn't have been so much trouble.
The Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures was not going to provoke a group of angry hippogriffs, and they didn't know it was just Buckbeak, so they had to accept it in the end.
As for causing trouble for Hagrid, Dumbledore guaranteed that there would be no problem. At most, there would be an additional report in the Daily Prophet about a Hippogriff absconding after injuring someone.
Albert had long seen through the essence of the matter, but did not remind Hagrid of this. He also knew that Hagrid was afraid of breaking the law and would probably not let Buckbeak go. Moreover, this was an opportunity to trigger the mission, so he would rather spend more time than use the simplest and most effective method.
There are benefits to going around in a circle like this, so why not
Anyway, the problem will be solved in the end, at most the procedure will be a little complicated.