Chapter 697 Another way(1/2)
Felix's vision suddenly became dazed, and he whispered:
"simple?"
Hermione froze and felt dizzy. She took a step back and tried her best to keep her tone calm, "Professor, I am Hermione, Hermione Granger."
"Your middle name is not--"
"Join!" Hermione blurted out. She stroked her hair and her thoughts gradually became clear. "I heard from the staff of the Ministry of Magic talk about Umbridge's middle name Jane. I hate her very much, so I changed her name." She emphasized again, "My name is Hermione Joan Granger now."
"Oh, uh, that's pretty good."
A strange feeling suddenly surged in Felix's heart, as if a friend who had been in contact for a long time but had not met had disappeared forever. He was about to speak, Sirius, Bones, Dedalo Digo, the short Professor Flivie, Sprout, Neville, Harry, Ron, Seamo and others surrounded him.
Sirius hugged Felix's neck.
"You scared everyone, buddy! We almost thought you wouldn't come back." He grinned, "Tell me quickly, what did you see on the moon? Everyone can't wait for nothing."
"Yes, professor." Some students started to cheer.
Felix glanced at Hermione who was pushed to the back. He reached out and shook his hand in front of everyone's eyes. Yuelan and two containers appeared out of thin air. He waved his hand and a huge freely floating and stretched blue bellflower-like flame appeared above his head, allowing everyone to see what was in his hand.
"Is this?" Ms. Bones said incredibly, holding her breath.
"I brought it back from the moon." Felix said, the crowd was quiet for a moment, as if trying to understand the meaning of this sentence, and then they suddenly cheered loudly and clapped enthusiastically. The noise attracted the students who remained in the castle and continued to flow into the courtyard...
Harry also slapped his face. He was so excited that it turned out that it was true. There were traces of wizards on the moon. Neville was so excited that his eyes shone, "It's amazing! I want to climb the moon too."
There are many people who think like him. Harry had the same idea. He even regretted failing the O.W.Ls exam in astronomy. Those boring star maps and the names of celestial bodies suddenly became vivid and vivid. They were entrenched in the deep and cold starry sky, and looked so charming.
Apart from the moon, what will Professor Haip’s next goal be?
Mars?
Titan?
Io?
Harry looked for Hermione around and wanted to ask for her opinion, but no one was found. He turned around and looked behind him and found that Luna handed Hermione a light blue handkerchief with a calm expression. After Hermione took it, Luna stroked her back randomly, as if she was taking care of a sick little animal. Harry suddenly understood something.
Harry looked back at Professor Happ who was receiving the celebration. It was night now, and the blue bellflower flames illuminated the professor's face very clearly and brightly. The corners of the professor's mouth were slightly raised and he smiled slightly, just like he taught students on weekdays. Harry had seen this smile countless times in Dumbledore's meditation basin.
On the contrary, the people around the professor stood with their backs facing Harry, and could only see black backs.
"He's too dazzling, isn't he?" Luna asked in a dream.
Hermione didn't speak, but just returned the handkerchief to her. So Luna stood quietly next to Hermione, and the two looked at Felix who was surrounded by everyone. "He looks so calm and smart. The wizarding world needs this right now." She hummed like a singing voice: "Extraordinary wisdom is the greatest wealth of mankind."
"What do you want to say?" Hermione asked stiffly.
"You look a little unhappy," Luna said bluntly, "I think you need some comfort or something."
Hermione rolled her eyes. She should have thought of it. Luna's reaction was different from that of ordinary people. She sincerely hoped that Luna's articles would not infect too many people. But her mood suddenly improved a lot. She asked curiously: "Luna, have you never been worried?"
"It's been," Luna said.
Hermione pricked her ears and listened, but after more than ten seconds there was still no further description. She blinked and realized that in Luna's concept, she had already answered the question. "I mean, how do you solve your troubles in life?" Hermione said patiently, and she also gave her own solution, "I usually look for answers from books, but now I don't think it works."
"Think about something happy." Luna shook her head and said, the little carrot earrings hanging on her ear almost threw her to Hermione. "People can only do one thing at a time. When your brain is occupied by other things, troubles won't come to disturb you. I like to draw, and I've been fascinated by writing articles recently." After that, she nodded affirmatively.
"But the problem is still not solved!" Hermione said loudly. She actually wanted to refute Luna's biggest hobby was to be alone and completely immersed in her own world, but she had a premonition that if she said this, the topic might immediately deviate from the right track and turn to some creatures that only exist in Luna's fantasy.
She didn't want the rest of the time to argue whether the Bubble Snot Monster and Heliopa existed. Hermione glanced at Felix, Oh, by the way, there was the Moon Frog! She bet Luna would definitely find an opportunity to ask.
Luna looked at her with light eyes intently, her big, protruding eyes exuded a calm madness. "It will always be solved in the end, although it may be in a way we unexpectedly-"
"What about?" Hermione raised her eyebrows.
"I've been wondering what I do after graduation," Luna said seriously. "Often jobs may not be suitable for me-"
Hermione covered her mouth and chuckled. It was hard for her to imagine Luna's future work. Compared with her, Fred and George were both mature and steady, with traces to follow.
"Then you found it now?"
"I think I should be a fantasy zoologist, running around the world," Luna said calmly. "I can search for undiscovered magical animals in my spare time, draw them down, and record the process of discovering them in words. I already have the first goal."
"Where is it?" Hermione asked in surprise.
"Arctic." Luna said excitedly: "Felix said there is a magical animal that is similar to ferrets, and she likes to eat hot dogs."
"This is impossible!" Hermione said decisively, "How could there be magical animals who like to eat human food?"
"Nothing is impossible." Luna asked unexpectedly: "Isn't Valen the same?"
"That's different. Valen was raised by the professor." Hermione said subconsciously. She suddenly had the urge to pull the professor over and ask clearly, and asked him what he had said to Luna.
Luna was stunned and said vaguely, "I will prove it to you." Then she became dazed, as if thinking about what kind of hot dog to prepare. Then she suddenly woke up and asked, "Where are you?"
"I-what?"
"I heard you want to be the Minister of Magic."
"Oh, oh, yes."
"I hope you succeed." Luna said seriously, as if she had thought of something, and asked, "You don't like eating goblin pies, do you?"
"Luna," Hermione said softly, "there is no such food."
The chat was in an awkward situation again. Hermione decided to change the topic before Luna raised the Auror's conspiracy to rot the teeth. Maybe she could talk about this issue a few times? Hermione thought she was authoritative in gum disease, but she still reluctantly gave up this tempting idea.
"Have you ever thought about joining the Ministry of Magic? Working in the Department of Magical Biology Management and Control? If Ms. Bones hadn't established a new department, I would have wanted to choose there after graduation - and you would have met many old friends, Harry, Ron, Neville... although they are different departments."
"They and I were friends," Luna said.
Hermione knew that Luna would only communicate with people on topics she was interested in, and when she was not interested, she would immerse herself in her own world, looking dazed from the outside, or as she did now, the topic went to other places - Hermione gave up persuading Luna, stared at her with her fingers excitedly, and said a string of club members' names, "...and Ferenze, Hagrid, Glopp, Yunbo, Woolu--"
"Who is Woolu?" Hermione asked conditionedly, "I know other people, I didn't expect you and Glopp to know each other too, through Hagrid? And Yun Bo, I met him when I went to the school kitchen, and he liked to study recipes." She said in one breath, as if answering questions in class.
Luna waited for her to finish speaking before she said, "Wulu is a night hedge, and Haig calls him Wuwu."
Hermione thought for a while, "It seems that this is the case. Hagrid mentioned it in class... Oh, by the way, have you found the King of the Hedge?"
"Finished," Luna said.
This feeling is really strange. Hermione never thought that she would open her heart to Luna one day (she felt that Luna was too illusory in her heart), but when things really happened, she found that it was not bad, just like whispering to Halloween pumpkins.
Luna left and wandered to a corner of the courtyard. At this time, the crowd gradually dissipated. Professor Hayp handed the moon soil and two containers to Ms. Borns. "I will give it to Gringott for identification first. It happened that Bill told me about the Pan-Magic Alliance during the day. The fairies were ambiguous in their attitudes." She shook her head.
Pan-magic alliance?
Hermione's eyes lit up and chased in the direction Ms. Bones left.
Felix stopped her carefully and hesitated: "Granger—" "I figured it out, professor!" Hermione said, and she ran away. Felix was a little stunned. What's going on? Did he understand it wrong?
He stared at Hermione's back. The moon in the sky and the torches in the courtyard created two shadows. The two shadows first overlapped and then separated very well. Then Hermione turned into Hogwarts Castle.
After a moment, Harry sneakily pulled Ron to guard the foyer.
"What's the matter?" Ron looked towards the door. "Nevil and Dean went to the kitchen to get food, saying they wanted to celebrate."
"Let's talk about it later." Harry said without much confidence. "By the way, are you still in touch with Collins?"
"Is there?" Ron thought carefully and said, "I met him two days ago in the Ministry of Magic. Now she has become a team leader..."
"Um."
A few minutes later, Hermione returned.
"Ms. Bones agreed!" she announced happily.
"Agree—what—" Harry asked in surprise.
"I asked Ms. Bones, who said that the establishment of the Pan-Magic Alliance was slow, so I asked if I could help, and she agreed!" Hermione said as she walked towards the stairs: "The Ministry of Magic staff were in a deadlock when negotiating with the Horseman and the Goblin. The former was not interested in alliances. You know, they liked to live their own lives in the closed doors and had no good face to anyone, and they didn't like the appearance of mama yaksha and vampires in the alliance..."
"But the biggest problem lies with the goblins. They want to remain neutral, but Bill found out that there was more than one voice inside the goblins, and they could change their attitudes at any time. This originated from the powder-filled pattern of goblins and wizards over the past many centuries. The earliest conflict can be traced back to the early days of the school's establishment-"
"Why don't I know?" Ron interrupted.
"Gryffindor's sword." Hermione said briefly, so Harry and Ron immediately understood that the goblins had a pathological view of ownership, and they insisted that as long as the things created by the goblins were theirs, even if the wizard paid the money. When the wizard died, the goblins had the right to get the items back.
The Gryffindor's sword was created by the Fairy King at that time. Will Hogwarts hand over the Gryffindor sword to the Fairy? It's completely impossible.
"The Ministry of Magic will not agree that the goblins are actually separated from the magic world by name neutrality, especially since they are in charge of the economy and coin rights of the magic world! Before negotiating with the government, we must prioritize reaching agreements with the goblins."
"Okay, I almost understand," Ron said slowly, "but what does this have to do with you?"
"I drafted the earliest paper!" Hermione cried as if she was stepped on her tail. "I also spent a lot of time studying the cultures of different races and their taboos. All I have to do now is find a set of rhetoric that both parties can accept..."
"It's not easy," Ron muttered, "and I didn't say anything, don't be excited."
"Yes, Hermione, you're a little sentimental lately," Harry interjected, and he said half-truely: "I thought you were in love."
Ron was startled, then looked at Hermione with his eyes shining, "Really or false? Who are you?"
Hermione glared at Harry fiercely.
"It doesn't matter." She retorted fiercely: "If you think I have read so many books, learned so much magic, and suffered so much to fall in love with others, then you are wrong! The current situation is far more complicated than what Voldemort has brought us. If there is a slight mistake, everything we value may be ruined. This is a change that has not been seen in a thousand years since the founding of Hogwarts. We cannot expect the professor to do everything alone."
"I talked to Luna. She plans to become a fantastic animal expert in the future and go to the Arctic to find hot dog-eating ferrets." Hermione said, Harry and Ron widened their eyes. They heard it right? Hermione raised her voice: "If the world is full of war, can this wish come true? Will she be forced to join the Ministry of Magic and raise her wand to fight with Muggles? She eventually dies in a certain conflict?"
Harry's heart sank, he couldn't imagine that scene.
The crazy, weird, yet smart and kind Luna Lovegood was always calm and seemed to move her, but if Mr. Xienofilius Lovegood died in the conflict... He shook his head suddenly, unwilling to think deeply, he didn't want to know what Luna would become.
"There is nothing wrong with Luna wanting to be a magical animal expert. I want to be the Minister of Magic and participate in a series of major changes in the magic world that will inevitably happen after the peace. You two want to be Aurors - just as we can protect others' ideals while realizing our ideals -"
To be continued...