"Albert, do you know anything about Hagrid?"
When Albert and the others had put on their clothes and were about to leave the prefect's bathroom, Hermione quickly stepped forward and called out to Albert.
"Hagrid's question?"
Albert let Fred, George and Lee Jordan go first.
"Rita Skeeter reported Hagrid's ancestry in the Daily Prophet." Hermione told Albert about Hagrid after the three of them left. "We went to visit Hagrid some time ago, but he didn't open the door for us. I'm a little worried..."
"Oh, Hagrid was talking to people about his mother being a giant, and Rita Skeeter overheard him?" Albert was not surprised at all, and said to Hermione: "I think Hagrid must have been hit hard, and I guess a lot of wizards sent letters to him, telling him to die!"
"I can't do anything. The news has already spread. No matter what I do, it won't help. I can only let the incident die down on its own."
Albert interrupted Hermione before she could speak.
"I warned Hagrid a long time ago not to mention his bloodline to others. I warned him more than once and told him the consequences." Albert sighed lightly and shook his head helplessly, "But Hagrid obviously didn't take my words seriously, so now he can be said to be 'suffering from his own actions';."
"You deserve it?"
Hermione couldn't believe she was hearing such words from Albert.
"What else?" Albert asked, "What do you want me to do? Go with you to comfort Hagrid, and then be shut out with you?"
Hermione opened her mouth, but for a moment she didn't know what to say.
Even she didn't know what she wanted Albert to do, she just wanted to talk to him. In Hermione's eyes, Albert was much more reliable than Harry and Ron, and maybe he could think of a way to help Hagrid get out of his current depression.
However, Albert said that Hagrid's current situation was entirely his own fault.
"It's no use looking at me like that." Albert looked at Hermione and said calmly, "I've reminded him so many times, but he doesn't care. What can I do? It's a good thing to let Hagrid suffer a little, learn a lesson, and learn a lesson. As for Hagrid's matter, you don't need to worry about him. Hagrid is older than the three of you combined and can handle this matter himself. After a while, he will adjust his mentality and everything will be fine."
"As for Rita Skeeter, this is not the first time that woman has written such articles in order to attract everyone's attention. If you want to find an opportunity to teach her a lesson, I think you will definitely have a chance, because that girl is likely to have set her sights on Harry." Albert motioned Hermione to listen to him quietly. "However, you'd better be quick, accurate and ruthless, at least don't let her have the opportunity to cause trouble to you, otherwise you will definitely be in big trouble. That girl is very good at vilifying others."
Hermione stared at Albert, her mouth open in a daze. After a long while, she asked, "Why didn't she report your news?"
"The last time she reported something about me, I went to her house and taught her a lesson so profoundly that she no longer dares to report anything about me in the newspaper." Albert said calmly, as if it was just a trivial matter.
Hermione opened her mouth and stared at Albert's departing back, speechless for a long time.
When Hermione returned to the prefect's bathroom, Harry had already taken off his robes and was soaking in the bathtub with the golden egg, and no one knew what he was saying to Ron.
"What do you want to do with Albert?" Harry asked puzzledly.
"I told him about Hagrid."
"Oh, what did he say..."
Hermione was silent for a moment and repeated Albert's words.
"How could he say such a thing? What he meant was that it would be a good thing for Hagrid to suffer a little and learn a lesson." Harry and Ron were very angry about this. "Isn't he Hagrid's friend?"
"Albert... probably feels helpless too, right?"
Hermione understood Albert's helplessness. After all, he had reminded and persuaded Hagrid so many times, but Hagrid didn't listen. What could he do
This kind of thing didn't need to happen at all. What happened to Hagrid now was entirely the result of his own stupidity.
Besides, now that things have happened, what good solution can Albert have
At most, I could go and comfort Hagrid like the three of them.
Hermione actually felt that Albert was right. Hagrid had already caused enough trouble, and most of the time it was Albert who helped him clean up the mess, but this time he had no choice.
She glanced at Harry and Ron again, and sometimes felt that they were both very immature, as was herself.
"Okay Harry, how's your research on the golden egg going?" Hermione changed the subject casually.
Harry demonstrated it to Hermione directly. He soaked the golden egg in water, and soon a vague singing sound was heard in the water.
"You need to stick your head in the water to hear it clearly." Harry explained to Hermione, "It's just like the song that Fred and George sang. The warriors need to get their treasure back within an hour. However, there is a problem now... I can't swim."
Harry brought up the point again, that he couldn't swim.
No, Harry wouldn't.
Dudley had taken swimming lessons as a child, but Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, no doubt hoping that Harry would drown one day, had never let him learn to swim.
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became very solemn. If Harry couldn't swim, it would be difficult for him to complete the second task of the Triwizard Tournament alone even with the Bubble Head Charm.
"How about starting now? You still have more than a month." Hermione asked tentatively, "I'm not very good at swimming, Ron, how about you?"
"I'm not very good at it either," Ron faltered.
"I don't think this is a good idea. It's winter now. Do you expect me to learn to swim here?" Harry thought this was a stupid idea. He might drown or freeze to death before he learned to swim.
"I think it may not just be a matter of swimming and breathing," Hermione said to herself. "Don't forget, the competition starts on February 24th, when the weather is still very cold. Krum should have the greatest advantage. He told me that it is very cold at their school, but I doubt whether he can stay in the lake for an hour."
"He told you?" Ron said oddly.
"Even for ordinary people, it is difficult to stay in the water for an hour, let alone in such a low temperature environment. The physical strength is definitely not enough to hold on."
"You're right Hermione, I think if I went into the water at that time, I would be frozen to death in a few minutes." Harry found that troubles came one after another, which made him very frustrated.
"Besides, you may need to fight with the murlocs to get back the treasure that was taken away." Ron asked casually, "By the way, Hermione, are you really going to be Krum's treasure?"
"Albert said it was just a possibility!" Hermione said gloomily.
"He's always right," sneered Ron.
...
The Christmas vacation was finally over. On the first day of school, Fred, George and Lee Jordan, who could no longer hide, were met with the iron fist of punishment. Apparently, the last time they distributed pastries mixed with aphrodisiacs to students, they annoyed some students.
After all, it seemed normal for them to take revenge on the three of them for making them look so bad in front of the girls. Especially those three bastards, who imitated Albert and disappeared, leaving a backlog of students for the Christmas holiday. Instead of calming down as the twins hoped, their anger grew.
Hence the attack that happened not long ago.
Unfortunately, that group of people couldn't beat Fred, George and Lee Jordan.
Unlike the three people who had been trained by Albert, those guys who came to cause trouble for the three were simply rookies who only knew how to cast spells. Although this statement was strange, it was probably the case.
"I thought they would calm down after Christmas, but I didn't expect..." Fred and Lee Jordan shrugged at Albert and said, "I didn't expect they still remembered that incident. They can't just let us stand there and get beaten!"
"That's why I said we should have eaten together and pretended that we were accidentally drugged, so they wouldn't have come to bother us. After all, we didn't know there was a love drug in the dessert, so we are also victims." George looked like if you had listened to me, you wouldn't have encountered this situation.
"Who told you to be so suicidal?" Albert said speechlessly, "I heard that you sent Bagman to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries."
Talking about this, the four of them couldn't help laughing.
No one here has any sympathy for that bastard Bagman.
After returning to the common room, the four found that the school had given them a surprise. There was a large notice pinned on the notice board in the common room:
Apparition Lesson
If you are seventeen years of age or will be seventeen by August 31st, you can take a twelve-week Apparition course taught by the Ministry of Magic's Apparition Instructor.
Please sign below if you would like to participate.
Tuition fee: Twelve Galleons.
"We'd better pass it on the first try. Charlie took the Apparition test twice." Fred took out a quill and signed it. He said to the other partners, "Of course, Albert will be fine."
"Twelve Galleons is a lot of money." George took the quill from Fred and signed it, muttering, "Albert, do you mind lending us some Galleons first? We'll pay you back when we have money."
George actually knew that the wealthy Albert didn't mind at all that they used research funds to pay for the Apparition class, but he still had to talk to Albert about it.
Taking out twenty-four Galleons at once was undoubtedly a further blow to the Weasley family, who were already financially tight.
"No problem. Remember to return the thirteen Galleons to me when the time comes." Albert took the quill, signed his name, and said with a smile, "But after the joke shop opens, you probably won't be short of money anymore."
Angelina smiled and greeted Albert, then looked meaningfully at Fred, George and Lee Jordan and said with a smile: "You are in trouble. I heard that someone wants to make trouble for you."
"We've found them," Fred shrugged nonchalantly, "but they were weak and we three dealt with them."
"real?"
"Of course, we have received training from Albert, so we should have no problem dealing with a few students."
"What training?"
"Defense against the Dark Arts training, of course." Fred said matter-of-factly, "The Defense against the Dark Arts class at Hogwarts is really terrible. You can't learn anything useful. Of course you have to teach yourself."
"Then why were you hiding for some time?" Alicia asked sharply. She thought the Weasley twins were bragging.
"We're just studying something in seclusion," George explained with a light cough.
"I'm more curious about where you were hiding some time ago?" Angelina asked curiously
"Of course he's hiding in the dormitory." Fred and George said in unison.
After Albert signed his name and handed the quill to Lee Jordan, he walked toward the outside of the crowd.
"I remember that you can't Apparate in the castle or the hunting grounds." Shannah appeared beside him at some point, frowning and saying, "And I heard that Apparate is not very comfortable."
"The principal actually has the power to lift certain restrictions in the school." Albert explained with a smile: "As for Apparition, you can only adapt to the discomfort yourself. Once you get used to it, it is still very convenient. After all, you can reach your destination in the blink of an eye."
"That sounds like something you would say."
"You haven't Apparated yet!"
A few people remembered that Albert left school quietly during the Christmas holidays, and they became more and more suspicious that Albert had already mastered the Apparition.
After all, it was Albert, so even if he learned it, it didn't seem like a strange thing.
"You already know how to do it, why did you sign up?" Angelina asked in confusion. She just saw Albert signed it.
"You need to take training before you can take the exam. This is the rule of the Ministry of Magic, because most people who don't take the training course will not pass the exam." Fred explained, "Remember? Charlie took the exam twice before he passed."
"Tell us about Apparition!"
The sixth grade students all surrounded Albert, hoping that he could tell them some experiences about Apparition and the key points of how to quickly master Apparition. They now believed that Albert had mastered Apparition.
However, Albert naturally had a way to deal with them. He pulled out his wand and waved it lightly, summoning a booklet titled "Common Mistakes in Apparition and How to Avoid Them" from his dormitory. He handed it to everyone present, then picked up his cat with a smile and went back to the dormitory, leaving behind a group of girls with resentful eyes.
"Albert is always prepared, no wonder he always learns these things faster than others."
Seeing the booklet issued by the Ministry of Magic in her hand, Sana sighed softly. They all knew that the school had Apparition training every year, and they naturally knew that this thing actually existed, but no one really cared, and no one went to borrow it from the senior students who had passed the exam to read. But Albert had a copy, which meant that he had been preparing for the Apparition exam a long time ago.