Seeing Hagrid's pitiful look, Ivan sighed.
He didn't know politics, but he knew he had to do something, he couldn't just watch Buckbeak get his head chopped off, Hagrid would definitely break down.
"Listen, Hagrid!" Ivan said, "You can't give up. You need to prepare your defense. Harry, Ron, and Hermione can prove that Barcobeak is innocent. I can help you publicize this in the newspapers." thing."
"Evan is right, I must have read about a hippogriff attack case." Hermione said thoughtfully, "In that case, the hippogriff was fine, we can study how it happened Something happened."
"Yes, we'll help too," said Harry and Ron hastily.
Although everyone said so, the work almost fell on Ivan and Hermione in the end.
Harry and Ron seemed to have completely forgotten about it after holding on for a while.
It's not their fault, first of all, Harry, he has been too busy recently.
In late November, Team Ravenclaw defeated Team Hufflepuff. This incident made Wood energetic again. After all, the Gryffindor team still has a chance to play, although they can't lose another game.
He now requires the players to train day and night, and Ivan has seen Harry and the others flying around in the bitterly cold December snowstorm several times.
Fortunately, since the last incident, no dementors have been seen on the campus. The lessons learned last time, and Dumbledore's rage, seemed to have confined them entirely to the post at the school's entrance.
In addition to being busy with Quidditch training, Harry also has to learn the Patronus Charm from Professor Lupine.
He needs to cast a full Patronus as soon as possible to ensure that there will be no accidents in the next game.
As for Ron, his state has become more and more abnormal recently.
He doesn't communicate with almost everyone now, and he doesn't get close to Ivan and Hermione. While Harry was training, he wandered around town by himself.
As a precaution against Crookshanks, he carried Scabbers in his shirt pocket wherever he went.
Several times, they were beyond the perception range of the tracking potion, and they didn't know where they went.
Ivan also didn't care about Ron and Peter Pettigrew. He and Hermione spent almost all their time in the library and didn't care about other things at all.
Let Peter Pettigrew enjoy himself for a few days, and in more than twenty days, his plan can be implemented during the Christmas holiday. At that time, there were the fewest people in the castle, so Sirius Black could be lured out, and the whole incident could be resolved in one go.
What needs to be solved more urgently now is to find a way to save Buckbeak. He and Hermione searched a lot of materials and files in the library, and prepared Buckbeak's defense with reference to the famous cases recorded above. The titles of these dossiers include: "Summary of Fantastic Beasts Cases", "Hippogriff Psychology Handbook", "Poultry or Monster", "Study on the Barbarism of Hippogriffs", etc., each of which is very thick .
"Ivan, look at this!" Hermione put a dusty file in front of Ivan and whispered, "This is a case of a manticore in 1926, what did it kill? people, but was acquitted in the end.”
"This is because everyone is afraid, and no one dares to approach it." Ai Wen frowned and looked at the densely packed small characters on the file.
"Yeah, you're right." Hermione threw the thick file aside in disappointment.
Ai Wen picked up the file and continued to read it. The following is a brief introduction to the magical animal Manticore.
The manticore is an extremely dangerous, fantastic, extremely rare animal with the head of a man, the body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion, and is famous for its soft humming as it devours its prey.
According to reliable literature, the manticore's hide repels almost all known spells. Anyone stung by it will die instantly.
Created by wizards and goblins, these terrifying creatures were once all the rage for guarding property or important forbidden places. However, since the implementation of the "Prohibition of Animal Breeding Experiments" law, manticores have gradually decreased.
In recent decades, it has even disappeared.
Ai Wen put the file aside, judging from the above text, compared with the Manticore, the Hippogriff's danger level is unknown how many times lower.
If Buckbeak was half as powerful as a manticore, they wouldn't have to sit here worrying.
In the next half a month, in addition to assisting Hermione in perfecting her defense, Ivan also wrote several defense articles.
He originally planned to use public opinion to put pressure on Lucius Malfoy and the Dangerous Creatures Disposal Committee, but things did not go as smoothly as originally imagined.
The Daily Prophet refused to publish these articles written by Ivan, and they believed that this matter did not make sense to report. The whole incident was at best a trivial incident at Hogwarts that did not arouse people's interest.
Although Aiwen finally published these articles in the "Hogwarts Magic News", the effect was limited.
Mr. Barnabas Guffy, the editor-in-chief of the "Daily Prophet", is correct. Most readers don't care about the life and death of a hippogriff at all, not to mention that the little wizards already know what happened .
They're more interested in things to do with Black and the Dementors than that.
Aiwen is not completely without supporters. Colin, Ginny, and Luna have all clearly expressed their support for his views. Luna even persuaded her father to publish these articles written by Aiwen in "The Quibbler" instead of the original one. A new headline has been made for a research article on the horned snorkel.
It didn't help much, though, and the Quibbler now doesn't sell as many copies as the Hogwarts Newspaper.
Time passed day by day, and Christmas was getting closer, but Ivan and Hermione didn't make much progress.
Although they wrote a full ten parchment defenses, Ivan doubted how much this defense could do other than make people drowsy.
Leaving aside whether the officials of the Committee for Disposal of Dangerous Creatures will adopt this defense, it is doubtful whether Hagrid can memorize all these things. With his ability, he may read it aloud It's all strenuous.
"It's useless, Hermione!" Looking at Hermione sitting opposite him, Ivan sighed heavily.
Hermione is still struggling with the boring files. She is now often the last to leave the common room at night and the first to the library the next morning. In Ke's defense, the combination of these things has already cast shadows under her eyes like Lupin's.
"What did you say?!" Hermione looked up from the file.
"Our thinking seems to be wrong. No matter what the reason is, Buckbeak did hurt Draco Malfoy, didn't he?" Ivan said slowly, "We can't defend Buckbeak's innocence, as long as Lu Hughes Malfoy clings to this, and Hagrid's chances of winning the case are slim."
"Then what should we do, do nothing like Harry and Ron?!" Hermione looked a little annoyed, "Watch Buckbeak get killed, and then wait for Hagrid to collapse?!"
"No, I mean, we should change our thinking." Ivan's eyes fell on the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by Newt Scamander at hand. The experience of the author of this book gave him Great inspiration.