Hogwarts Card System Chapter 244

Chapter 242: The Curse Has Come True So Early!

“Ted!”

“Ted, over here!”

“Ted, thank you so much!”

“And Neville, Jerry, and the others. If they hadn’t blocked that Dementor, I can’t even imagine…”

“Well done!”

“That was so cool, Ted, that move where fire shot out from your feet!”

As soon as Ted and his friends entered the Great Hall, many young wizards greeted them excitedly.

Many small wizards had seen Ted break through the window and fight the two Dementors.

That kind of intense and thrilling battle was something you could only see in “Wizarding Movies”!

Isn’t this exactly the magic battle I’ve always dreamed of?

This was much more exciting than a wizard duel. This was what a magic battle truly was!

And Neville, Jerry, and Ron using the Anti-Evil Array to force the Dementor to retreat repeatedly was also seen by many young wizards.

Although they were terrified and their bodies stiffened at the time, thinking back later, they were grateful to Neville and the others, otherwise they might have ended up in St. Mungo’s themselves.

The group, who were already under scrutiny, now received a heroic welcome.

The Weasley twins appeared out of nowhere, “Hooray for our heroes~”

Suddenly, they pulled out a strange party popper, and with a “pop~,” two miniature fireworks, in the shape of fiery dragons, chased each other around the ceiling of the Great Hall.

Many young wizards looked up, smiling.

This was good. The young wizards, who were still shaken, needed joy to dilute their fear.

It had to be said, the presence of the Weasley twins was truly indispensable.

…

Because there were too many things to deal with, just appeasing a large number of parents and sending them back through the fireplace took up too much of Professor McGonagall’s time.

Dinner was already late, and the professors hadn’t arrived yet.

However, Hagrid arrived first.

Hagrid had completely changed!

It wasn’t just a change, but a complete transformation of his image!

What was Hagrid like in the past?

Two and a half meters tall, twice as wide as a normal person, wearing a mole-skin coat all year round—oh, later he changed to the bear-skin sable Ted gave him~

His beard and hair were as bushy and thick, and messy. If you ignored his facial features, you couldn’t even tell which end was the top of his head and which was his chin!

But now?

Slicked-back hair, neatly trimmed short beard, a wide but well-fitting shirt with gilded beast-head buttons, suspender trousers, and an imposing gold-trimmed taotie-patterned wizard robe, looking like an enlarged version of Ma Dong-seok as a mob boss!

(Can someone help me with an AI face swap, put Ma Dong-seok’s face on Hagrid, let’s see the effect)

So much so that when he pushed the door open and came in, the nearby young wizards were startled and couldn’t recognize who he was for a long time!

“My goodness!” Ron’s biscuit dropped from his mouth—he was a little hungry and planned to have a snack first.

“Hagrid! It’s Hagrid!” Neville also exclaimed in surprise.

His friends had never known that he could widen his eyes so much!

Harry was also startled, feeling a bit short of breath and speechless for a moment.

And Hermione, after her initial surprise, immediately looked at Ted—her intuition told her that Ted must know what was going on!

“Hey! Ted! Neville! Harry! Ron! Hermione! Jerry! Haha, I missed you all!” Hagrid laughed and walked quickly towards them with open arms.

Along the way, the young wizards quickly shrunk to the side, afraid of being brushed by this “mob boss.”

Everyone hugged Hagrid.

“Hagrid, you… that… what…” Neville was a bit at a loss for words, staring blankly at Hagrid’s hairstyle.

“He means, your image is fantastic. Hagrid, you look great!” Hermione added.

“Exactly, exactly!” Ron and Jerry nodded like pecking chickens.

Hagrid scratched his slicked-back hair, smiling shyly in a way that didn’t quite fit his new image, “It was Ted’s idea…”

His friends, and the young wizards nearby who had been watching and heard this, all stared at Ted—what kind of magic is this?!

This story goes back a week.

Ted learned from Professor McGonagall’s letter that Hagrid was going to be a professor this year—Professor Kettleburn, the Care of Magical Creatures professor, had retired.

He was older than Dumbledore and very old. And he didn’t have many body parts left.

It was said that his pet monkey went missing, and he was so anxious and angry that he finally decided to retire—to work part-time raising dragons in a dragon sanctuary!

Professor Kettleburn recommended Hagrid as the new head of Care of Magical Creatures. Although Hagrid was very apprehensive, he was also very happy.

He originally wanted to keep it a secret from Ted and the others to give them a surprise.

But Ted learned about it from Professor McGonagall and decided to help his friend completely overhaul his image.

Ted: “First, you have to free your mind, then you can free your productivity!”

Hagrid: “Huh?”

Ted: “I mean, then you can have authority and command respect in the classroom from those unruly young wizards. You need to be able to hold the fort!”

Hagrid: “Really? But I don’t want to…”

Ted: “Trust me, I’m well-read, I won’t lie to you.”

Hagrid: “Then, what should I do?”

Ted: “Uh, first I’ll take you to Hoodle-Roo to get a trendy haircut!”

So, Ted personally designed Hagrid’s new look.

And you know what, this image was quite successful!

When the young wizards heard that Hagrid was going to be the Care of Magical Creatures professor this year, and then saw Hagrid’s current image, they suddenly felt uncertain.

Otherwise, probably more than half of the young wizards wouldn’t have thought Hagrid was capable of being a professor.

But now—if it was the current Hagrid, maybe he really could be!

You see, a Buddha needs gold, and a person needs clothes.

Ron suddenly remembered something and exclaimed, “I knew it! Who else would use a biting book as a textbook? It bit me several times, and even tore my socks!”

He was talking about the Care of Magical Creatures textbook Hagrid required them to buy—“The Monster Book of Monsters.”

This book had a mouth full of fangs, was very ferocious, and bit anything it could get its teeth on.

Buying the book from the bookstore was thrilling enough.

The bookstore clerk’s hand, wearing dragon-hide gloves, reached into the book crate, and was bitten by three or four Monster Books, making for a very terrifying scene.

Ron had originally wanted to try and cram in some studying in the days before school started, after all, his grades last year were actually good, maybe he was cut out for studying?!

But as soon as the book was unbound, it immediately chased Ron, biting him, from the second floor all the way to the attic, making the Weasley family’s ghoul shriek.

It also completely shattered Ron’s potential as a student~

Jerry asked, “You’re really brave! I bought that book, but I never dared to touch it. It bit your socks, and then what? How did you subdue it?”

Ron shrugged, “Then it just passed out.”

Neville wondered, “Why? Monster Books are afraid of socks?!”

Jerry understood Ron, “Do you even need to ask? It must have been knocked out by the smell?”

Neville nodded: That’s right, with the power of Ron’s socks, even a dragon would pass out after one bite.

…

Since the professors and headmaster hadn’t arrived, dinner couldn’t start.

So Hagrid sat with Ted and his friends, chatting for a while. In reality, he was a little scared—never had so many young wizards looked at him with such eyes.

Moreover, he was going to be a professor, something he had never dared to imagine, so he was a little scared!

He needed his friends to give him courage.

“By the way, do you know?” Hagrid said.

“Know what? If you don’t say it, how would we know if we know what you’re talking about?” Harry fiddled with the two-way mirror Ted made. When not in use, it could be used as a small mirror to check herself.

She wanted to video call Sirius sometime, so he wouldn’t worry.

Hagrid was confused by Harry’s words and didn’t react to whether he knew or not.

However, he didn’t dwell on it. Instead, he raised his hand to his mouth and whispered conspiratorially, “Do you know? The new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor can’t make it, for now.”

“Who?” Ron exclaimed, “Who can’t make it?”

Hagrid: “Quentin Trimble, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Dumbledore found.”

“Quentin Trimble? That name sounds familiar!” Hermione frowned in thought.

Ted said, “The author of the first-year textbook.”

Hermione’s brow smoothed, “Ah, yes, Quentin Trimble, the author of ‘The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection’! Is he our new professor?”

She thought “The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection” was very well written, with knowledge points explained simply and clearly, which showed the author’s skill—provided he wasn’t Lockhart.

Hagrid shrugged, “Maybe not anymore.”

“What do you mean?”

“Quentin Trimble encountered an accident, and might only be able to come in a few days, or many, many days.”

“What exactly happened?”

Hagrid looked left and right, sneakingly, “Actually, it’s similar to what happened to you today.”

“Those Dementors were originally chasing a dark wizard from another world, led by Aurors, but they left their ranks without permission and attacked you. And Quentin Trimble ran into that dark wizard.”

“He intended to help the Aurors, but he was hit by a spell from the dark wizard… and was directly admitted to St. Mungo’s.”

Ron, with his mouth full of biscuits, asked indistinctly, “Is it serious?”

Hagrid spread his hands, “If it wasn’t serious, who would be hospitalized? Perhaps… sigh, no Defense Against the Dark Arts professor has ever… on the first day of school… I’ve never seen anyone so unlucky.”

Hermione and Harry both looked at Ted. They remembered Ted saying that this position was cursed!

This curse was too powerful, wasn’t it?

The new professor couldn’t even make it through his first day of employment?

Ted: This new professor’s fate isn’t strong enough!

(End of this chapter)