Chapter 991: Woo woo woo


    No matter how to look at it, that ce was perfect for Grawp to use as hisir.


    ording to Hagrid’s character and past practices, he might even find a mate for Grawp.


    Fall in love, mate, reproduce, fall in love again, mate again, and reproduce again.


    Just like this, in a few decades, a brand new tribe of giants would appear in the forest near Hogwarts…


    Following this topic, Evan hoped Hagrid would help him find a few animals as fighting practice objects, including Acromants.


    Hagrid agreed, saying that Aragog had always been thinking about Evan and would definitely be willing to help him with this small favor.


    Without the support of the evil god’s power, the old spider was close to the end, likely to die at any moment.


    This might not be a bad thing for him; after all, the price paid for the extended life span was to be dominated by the evil god.


    Looking at his descendants, the ordinary ones were okay, but therger ones had been twisted into something else.Things were going well here for Evan, and Hagrid was willing to provide them with animals forbat training.


    But Hermione’s suggestions to persuade Hagrid to give up showing dangerous animals in ss and to help him n lessons made little progress and received no response.


    Hagrid always emphasized that he wanted to give them a surprise.


    Hermione wanted to exin Umbridge’s situation to him, but Hagrid just wouldn’t listen.


    He kept telling Hermione that no one in their right mind would be willing to study thorns instead of Chimaeras.


    Of course, he was giving an example!


    He didn’t have a Chimaera, not because he didn’t want to raise one, but because it was hard for him to get Chimaera eggs.


    Soon, everyone knew what his so-called surprise was: Thestrals.


    Umbridge did not inspect Evan’s ss, but she appeared in the fifth-year Care of Magical Creatures ss, which was the ss where Hagrid showed everyone the Thestral.


    Evanter learned about the situation from Hermione and what she said about Hagrid.


    In the forest, the students gathered around the Thestrals. They couldn’t see them, but they could feel something moving.


    “These Thestrals … who can tell me why some o’ you can see them an’ some can’t?” Hagrid said.


    Hermione immediately raised her hand. After learning about Thestrals with Evan’s help on the first day of school, she had researched a lot.


    “Go on then,” said Hagrid, beaming at her.


    “The only people who can see Thestrals,” she said, “are people who have seen death.”


    “Tha’s exactly right,” said Hagrid solemnly, “ten points ter Gryffindor. Now, Thestrals have a kind of unique magical power…”


    “<i>Hem, hem.</i>”


    Professor Umbridge had arrived. She was standing a few feet away from Harry, wearing her green hat and cloak again, her clipboard at the ready.


    Hagrid, who had never heard Umbridge’s fake cough before, was gazing in some concern at the closest Thestral, evidently under the impression that it had made the sound.


    He felt a bit worried; could this Thestral be sick, making such strange sounds?


    “<i>Hem, hem</i>.” Umbridge faked another cough.


    “Oh hello!” Hagrid said, smiling, having located the source of the noise.


    “You received the note I sent to your cabin this morning?” said Umbridge, in the same loud, slow voice she had used with him earlier, as though she was addressing somebody both foreign and very slow. “Telling you that I would be inspecting your lesson?”


    “Oh yeah,” said Hagrid brightly. “d yeh found the ce all righ’! Well, as you can see — or, I dunno — can you? We’re doin’ Thestrals today…”


    “I’m sorry?” said Umbridge loudly, cupping her hand around her ear and frowning. “What did you say?”


    Hagrid looked a little confused about Umbridge’s reaction.


    “Er — Thestrals!” he said loudly. “Big — er — winged horses, yeh know!”


    He pped his gigantic arms hopefully twice, trying to show Umbridge what Thestrals looked like.


    Professor Umbridge raised her eyebrows at him and muttered as she made a note on her clipboard, “‘has … to … resort … to … crude … sign …nguage …’”


    She raised her head and smiled, “You continue with the ss, don’t worry about me.”


    “Well … anyway …” said Hagrid, turning back to the ss and looking slightly flustered. “Erm … what was I sayin’?”


    “ ‘Appears … to … have … poor … short … term … memory …’ ” muttered Umbridge, loudly enough for everyone to hear her.


    The Slytherins looked as though Christmas hade two months early; Hermione, on the other hand, had turned scarlet with suppressed rage.


    “Oh yeah,” said Hagrid, throwing an uneasy nce at Umbridge’s clipboard, but plowing on valiantly. “Yeah, I was gonna tell yeh howe we got a herd. Yeah, so, we started off with a male an’ five females. this one’s called Tenebrus…”


    He patted the first horse to have appeared, even though many couldn’t see it.


    “Woo, woo, woo!” Tenebrus made a series of calls, nuzzling affectionately against Hagrid.


    “… he’s my special favorite, firs’ one born here in the forest. Everyone cane over and touch Tenebrus, or ride it!”


    “Sorry, are you aware,” Umbridge said loudly, interrupting him, “that the Ministry of Magic has ssified Thestrals as ‘dangerous’?”


    “Thestrals aren’ dangerous! All righ, they might take a bite outta you if yeh really annoy them, just like dogs…”


    “‘Shows … signs … of … pleasure … at … idea … of … violence … ‘” muttered Umbridge, scribbling on her clipboard again.


    “No —e on!” said Hagrid, looking a little anxious now. “I mean, a dog’ll bite if yeh bait it, won’ it — but Thestrals have jus’ got a bad reputation because o’ the death thing — people used ter think they were bad omens, didn’ they? Jus’ didn’ understand, did they?”


    Umbridge did not answer; she finished writing herst note, then looked up at Hagrid and said, again very loudly and slowly, “Please continue teaching as usual. I am going to walk among the students and ask them questions about your past performance.”


    As she spoke, Umbridge gestured to make sure Hagrid understood. When she said “students,” she pointed around at individual members of the ss, when saying “walk among,” she mimed walking, and for “ask questions,” she pointed at her mouth to indicate talking.


    Clearly, Umbridge wasn’t evaluating Hagrid’s teaching abilities; she was questioning his intelligence, treating him as if he were an unintelligent giant with whommunication was impossible.


    Hagrid stared at her, clearly at aplete loss to understand why she was acting as though he did not understand normal English.


    Hermione had tears of fury in her eyes now, and she still hated her terribly when she told Evan about itter.


    “You hag, you evil hag!” she said angrily, “you awful, twisted, vicious toad!”


    Umbridge finally asked Pansy Parkinson, having figured out the situation at Hogwarts over the past few days. She knew whom to avoid, whom to rely on, and whom to suppress. Most Slytherin students were on her side.


    “My dear, do you find,” said Professor Umbridge in a ringing voice to Pansy Parkinson, “that you are able to understand Professor Hagrid when he talks?”


    Just like Hermione, Pansy had tears in her eyes, but these were tears ofughter.


    Her answer was almost incoherent because she was trying to suppress her giggles.


    “No, I can’t … because … well … it sounds … like grunting a lot of the time … I don’t understand what he’s saying … or what those sounds mean.” “


    “Very well … ‘Unable of correct expression … can only make grunting sounds’.” Umbridge scribbled on her clipboard.


    The few unbruised bits of Hagrid’s face flushed, but he tried to act as though he had not heard Pansy’s answer.


    Hey there! Tranting_Wizard here! Chapter 1220 just dropped on Patreon! If you''ve enjoyed reading and want to read more, I''d greatly appreciate your support ?<ul><li></li></ul>