Chapter 98: Buckbeak's defense

Looking at Hagrid's pitiful look, Ai Wen sighed.
He doesn't know what politics is, but he knows what he has to do. He can't watch Buckbeak cut his head. Hagrid will definitely get rid of it.
"Listen, Hagrid!" said Avon. "You can't give up. You need to prepare a defense. Harry, Ron, Hermione can prove that Barcobic is innocent. I can help you promote this in the newspaper. Something."
"Ivan is right, I must have read a case involving a eagle-headed horse with a winged beast." Hermione meditated. "In that case, the eagle-headed horse has a winged beast, and we can study it." It’s going on."
"Yes, we will help." Harry and Ron hurriedly followed.
Although everyone said so, the work ended up almost on both Ai Wen and Hermione.
After Harry and Ron insisted for a while, they seemed to have completely forgotten this.
This does not blame them, first of all, Harry, who is too busy recently.
In late November, Ravenclaw defeated Hufflepuff. This incident made Wood full of energy, and the Gryffindor team still had the chance to play, although they could not lose another game.
He now asks the players to train day and night, and Ai Wen has seen Harry flying around in the cold and icy snow of December.
Fortunately, since the last incident, there have been no traces of dementors on campus. The lessons learned last time and the anger of Dumbledore seem to have completely restricted them to positions at the entrance to the school.
In addition to busy with Quidditch training, Harry also learned the guardian curse with Professor Lupin.
He wants to cast a complete patron saint as soon as possible to ensure that there are no more accidents in the next game.
As for Ron, his recent state is getting more and more abnormal.
He now has almost no communication with everyone, and is not close to both Ai Wen and Hermione. While Harry was training, he was alone in the city.
In order to guard against Crookshank, he placed the streaks in his shirt pocket wherever he went.
On several occasions, they all exceeded the scope of the tracking agent and did not know where to go.
Ai Wen didn't have the heart to manage Ron and the little dwarf Peter. He and Hermione spent almost all their time in the library, and they couldn't take care of other things.
Let the little dwarf Peter go for a few days, and after more than twenty days, when the Christmas holiday, his plan can be implemented. At that time, there were the fewest people in the castle. You can bring out Sirius Black and solve the whole incident with a bang.
What is more urgent to solve now is to find a way to save Buckbeak. He and Hermione found a lot of materials and files in the library, and prepared the defense words of Buckbeak with reference to the famous cases recorded above. The titles of these files are: "Summary of Magical Animal Cases", "Handbook of Winged Animals with Eagles", "Poultry or Monsters", "Study on Barbarian Sexuality of the Eagles", etc. Each of them is very thick. .
"Avon, look at this!" Hermione put a dusty file in front of Ai Wen and whispered, "This is a case of a human headed lion in 1926, what it killed. People, but in the end they were acquitted."
"This is because everyone is afraid, no one dares to approach it." Ai Wen frowned at the small letters on the file.
"Yeah, you are right." Hermione disappointed to throw a thick file to the side.
Ivan took the file and continued to look at it. Here is a brief introduction to the magical animal of the lion body.
The lion's body is a very dangerous and magical animal with a human head, a lion's torso and a scorpion's tail. It is very rare, and it is famous for its soft humming when it devours prey.
According to reliable literature, the skin of the lion's body is almost exclusive of all known spells. Anyone who is jealous of it will be killed immediately.
This horrible creature was created by the wizard and the goblin. They were used to watch the property or the important forbidden land. It was once popular. However, since the implementation of the "No Animal Breeding Experiment" Act, the lion's body is gradually reduced.
In recent decades, it has disappeared.
Ai Wen put the file to the side. From the above text, compared with the lion's body, the hazard level of the eagle head and the winged beast does not know how many times lower.
If Buckbeak had half of the lions and tails, they wouldn’t have to sit here and worry.
In the next half month, in addition to assisting Hermione to improve his defense, Ai Wen also wrote several defense articles.
He had intended to use public opinion to put pressure on Lucius Malfoy and the Committee on the Handling of Dangerous Biology, but things were not as smooth as originally envisaged.
The Daily Prophet refused to publish these articles written by Ai Wen. They believed that this incident had no reported significance. At best, the whole incident is a trivial matter that happened in Hogwarts and cannot cause people to read interest.
Although Ai Wen finally printed these articles on the Hogwarts Magic, the effect was limited.
The opinion of Mr. Barnabas Guff, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Prophet, is correct. The vast majority of readers do not care about the life and death of a eagle-headed horse, not to mention the fact that the little wizards have already known about this. .
In contrast, they are more interested in things related to Black and Dementors.
Ai Wen is not completely without supporters. Colin, Ginny, and Luna all express their support for his point of view. Luna even persuaded her father to publish these articles written by Ai Wen on the "Singing and Reversing" instead of the original one. The article on the corner beasts has become a new headline.
However, this did not play much role, "singing and reversing" is not as much sales as the "Hogwarts Magic".
Time passed by and it was getting closer and closer to Christmas, but Avon and Hermione did not make much progress.
Although they wrote a full defense of ten pieces of parchment, Avon was very skeptical about how much the defense can play in addition to being drowsy.
Let’s not say whether the officials handling the Dangerous Biology Committee will adopt this defense. It’s a questionable question whether Hagrid can write down these things. He can read it with his ability. It’s hard work.
"No use, Hermione!" Looking at Hermione sitting across from himself, Ai Wen sighed heavily.
Hermione is still struggling in the boring file. She is often the last to leave the common room at night. The next morning she went to the library, the heavy workload, the invisible pressure from Ron and the preparation of Buckby. The defensive word, these things superimposed together, has made her have a shadow under the eyes like Lupin.
"What are you talking about?!" Hermione raised her head from the information.
"Our idea seems to be wrong. For whatever reason, Buckbeak did hurt Draco Malfoy, isn't it?" Ai Wen said slowly. "We can't justify Bakbek's innocence, as long as Lu. Xius Malfoy bites this, and Haig’s hope of winning the case is very embarrassing."
"What do we do, like Harry and Ron, do nothing?!" Hermione looked a little annoyed. "Seeing Buckbeak killed, then waiting for Hagrid to break?!"
"No, I mean, we should change our mind." Ai Wen’s eyes fell on the hand of a Newt Scamander’s "Where is the Magical Animal", the author’s experience gave him Great inspiration.