The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 650 Harvest Season

It was September 1st again. The scarlet steam locomotive blew its whistle and drove the little wizards out of Platform 9 3/4, across the fields and mountains, towards the Scottish Highlands. Hogwarts had started school.

Professor McGonagall followed Ada's advice and assigned the troublesome Sirius to the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

At first Sirius was reluctant. What was the point of staying in school? There was nothing interesting about it except that he could see Harry often.

It was not until Lupin and Tonks also received an invitation from Professor McGonagall that Sirius reluctantly nodded and agreed to become the new annual professor.

According to the discussion between Professor McGonagall and Ada, Tonks will serve as the teacher of Muggle Studies. Her teaching content is to show slides to students so that the young wizards will no longer be poor frogs in the well.

As for Remus Lupin, he is not a teacher of any subject. His only task is to take good care of his pregnant wife and the new professor of Muggle Studies in the school.

Yes, that's right, Nymphadora Tonks Lupin was pregnant, and the child was Lupin's.

This is why Lupin has been worried and absent-minded recently, and even caused a farce like running away from home.

Lupin had rejected Tonks's advances for a year because he felt that he was old, poor, and a werewolf, and that Tonks deserved someone better.

Although the two were married this summer, Lupin still felt that it was a very serious mistake and that he was out of his mind to marry Tonks.

Werewolves have always been excluded, and Lupin's parents had to move several times with him when he was a child. It was not until he entered Hogwarts that Lupin made friends.

Lupin's first half of life was as bitter as his surname. The book "Hairy Nose, Human Heart" also tells the heartbreaking story of a wizard's struggle with werewolf.

Therefore, Lupin did not want Tonks to live such a wandering life. He did not want Tonks to suffer such a crime, and he did not want his lover to bear the shame of being a werewolf.

This emotion completely erupted when he learned that Tonks was pregnant. Lupin was afraid that Tonks would also become an excluded person, and that the unborn child would be like him.

Lupin, who was afraid to face it, chose to escape like a coward.

When Sirius found Lupin, he was hiding in a country pub and drinking himself unconscious. Under Sirius's scolding and Harry's contemptuous eyes, Lupin reluctantly returned home.

What greeted Lupin was Tonks's smile mixed with tears and the barely perceptible fetal movement.

Although the fetus usually takes four months to feel the fetal movement, Lupin felt it. It was not until then that he woke up and realized his real mistake.

Whether Remus Lupin was a werewolf or not, Tonks couldn't be without a husband, and her unborn child couldn't be without a father.

After learning that Lupin had run away from home, Ada looked up a lot of information about werewolves in order to help the two and dispel Lupin's worries, hoping to find evidence that werewolves (lycanthropy) are not hereditary.

However, Ida did not find any theoretical basis, neither saying that werewolves can be inherited nor that they cannot be inherited, because few werewolves will marry and give birth to offspring.

If Lupin and Tonks' child is born safely, it will be the only known offspring of a werewolf.

Nothing serious was found, but strange knowledge was gained.

If two werewolves mate in wolf form during a full moon, they will give birth to a litter of wolf cubs. These wolf cubs are the same as ordinary wolves, but they will be very beautiful and have intelligence close to that of humans. Seeing this, Ada immediately thought of the wolves she met in the Forbidden Forest. It was a litter of very beautiful little wolves. When Ada and the twins went to check for the second time, the litter of little wolves was gone.

Now that I think about it, that litter of wolf cubs were most likely the descendants of a werewolf, but I don’t know how many years they had lived in the Forbidden Forest.

The problems facing Hogwarts and Professor McGonagall were solved, and Lupin's knot was untied. This August can be considered a complete success for the Order of the Phoenix.

The person who picked up the new students at Hogsmeade Station was still Hagrid, which gave many students the illusion that nothing had changed. The same tall and mighty figure, the same rough voice, and the carriages without horses.

But when the students returned to the castle and saw the throne-like chair, they realized that this school year was different. The headmaster was replaced by Minerva McGonagall, and the person who sorted the freshmen was Professor Flitwick. Everything had changed.

Even the Slytherin students were more annoying than before, especially the children of the Death Eaters, who were so arrogant that the students from other colleges wanted to punch them in the nose.

If Harry and the other two had looked carefully, they would have discovered that Crabbe and Goyle had not returned to school, and that only Pansy Parkinson was left of Malfoy's former small group.

But Harry had no interest in the children of these Death Eaters. His only purpose in returning to school was to find the lost crown, which was hidden in the school by Voldemort.

On the first night of school, Harry, despite being tired from the journey, went to check the castle with the Marauder's Map. Ron and Hermione yawned beside him, but Harry was not infected at all and was full of energy.

This led to Harry's listlessness the next day. While others were getting acquainted with the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, the once notorious fugitive Sirius Black, Harry was sleeping soundly in his godfather's class.

Like Lupin, Sirius was recognized by the students in his first class. Many girls were attracted to this handsome man and wanted to marry him.

Harry, who was soundly asleep, didn't know that in just one class, he had gained a bunch of godmothers at Hogwarts.

From this class on, wave after wave of female students flocked to Harry and showed their affection to him. At this time, Harry was more popular with girls than when he was a warrior.

Although "boyfriend" was so popular, Ginny was not jealous at all, because these girls were not coming for Harry. Their purpose of surrounding Harry was very simple, just to know what Professor Black liked, especially dear Sirius's view on choosing a partner.

Every time he attends Defense Against the Dark Arts class, the handsome Sirius will have more fans. So why was he single for so many years?

Autumn is indeed the season of harvest, and Harry Potter has harvested a lot, but he is not happy at all. No one would be happy if they harvested a group of godmothers.

In addition, the inability to find the crown was also one of the reasons why Harry was unhappy.

Since the beginning of the school year, Harry has been like a bat that has been transformed into Ginny's happy spell. He stays during the day and comes out at night. He circles around the castle almost every night, and occasionally wanders around the forbidden forest. But Harry has not found any clues. Hogwarts is too big, and it is not easy to hide a crown.

Fortunately, Harry is not alone, he also has the resourceful Hermione, the equally flawed Ron, and a group of godmothers.

In order to avoid the pursuit of his godmothers, Harry ran into the Room of Requirement. When Harry visited this magical house after a long absence, he finally figured out where the crown was hidden.

The Room of Requirement is such a wonderful place.

Most students don't know about this place, and those who know about it don't necessarily need a "place to hide things", and those who need a "place to hide things" don't know about Horcruxes...

It's really like Bulbasaur eating Cheetos and walking into Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. It's so cute!
(End of this chapter)