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Elwyn, Harry, and Hermione left the school hospital. When they arrived at the hall, they found that the long tables used by the four academies had been moved to the wall. There was only a square table in the middle of the room that could accommodate twenty people. Those who were going to stay on campus for Christmas this year were sitting on both sides of the table.
Elwyn did not see Dumbledore. His seat was empty.
Besides him, Professor Meg, Snape, Professor Flitwick, and Hagrid were all there. Filch, the janitor, was also there.
Filch had taken off his usual brown coat and was wearing an old and rather outdated tuxedo. Next to Professor Flitwick were two extremely nervous first-year students from Ravenclaw Academy. On the left of Snape was a gloomy sixth-year student from Slytherin Academy.
Ron was sitting alone at the end of the table. No one wanted to get close to him.
Harry hesitated for a moment and walked towards Ron. His face was full of worry.
Elwyn hurriedly pulled Harry back. He could not just go over like this. Because of what happened to Professor Lupin last night, Harry's current reaction should be to hate Ron.
If they approached hastily, they could easily alert the enemy.
Peter was a cunning opponent. They had to be careful.
The three of them looked at each other and moved away from Ron. They sat side by side next to Hagrid.
Other than Snape, who had a strange smile on his face, the atmosphere at the table was very gloomy and depressing. There was no cheerful atmosphere at all. Everyone ate their lunch in silence. No one spoke.
"Elwyn, Hermione, how are you two?" Hagrid asked with a worried face.
"Don't worry, Madam Pomfrey said we're fine, we just need to —" Before Elwyn could finish, he saw three owls fly into the hall.
With three red envelopes in their mouths, they flew straight to Dumbledore's empty seat.
"That's enough. It's those howling letters again. They've been ringing for an entire morning!"
Professor Meg stood up. She looked furiously at the three howling letters that the owl had thrown onto the dining table. The corners of the letters were burning.
She pulled out her wand and waved it at the Howling Letter.
The red envelope that was slowly burning suddenly burst into three blue flames, turning the envelope into ashes in the blink of an eye. There was no sound at all.
"Unbelievable, unbelievable!" Professor Flitwick said in a sharp voice. "Are these people crazy?! They actually sent a howling letter to Dumbledore. I haven't seen such a crazy thing in years. "
"Stupid owls and equally stupid howling letters!" Snape sneered.
"I noticed that these howling letters were all sent by your students, Severus?!" Professor Meg said with pursed lips.
"Thank you for reminding me. I didn't notice this before!" Snape's lips curled into a cold smile. "However, I can understand why the students' parents did this. In my opinion, what the principal did this time was indeed inappropriate. Who would have thought that a school professor would be a werewolf? Who would have thought that this tamed werewolf would attack his own students? With this lesson, I believe that the principal will be very, very careful when hiring people in the future! "
"Professor Lupin is innocent!" Harry looked angrily at Snape and shouted involuntarily, "He didn't hurt anyone, he —"
"Quiet, Potter! Five points deducted from Gryffindor's score! " Snape turned to look at Harry and sneered. "I don't want to know what your relationship with that werewolf is, but I have to remind you to watch your tone. Don't shout at me like an uneducated werewolf!"
Harry sat down angrily. He forced himself not to look at Snape.
"Don't worry, Harry! With Dumbledore around, Professor Lupin will be fine. " Hagrid comforted her in a low voice. He seemed to be lacking in confidence. "This is terrible. I can't even remember how many of these owls have come today. They're carrying howling messages, and they're constantly flying over."
"It's been like this the whole morning?" Elwyn was surprised.
"That's right. You and Hermione didn't come to breakfast, so you didn't see the scene. More than four hundred howling letters exploded at the same time in front of the whole school!"
"I just told them!" Harry said weakly. "Hagrid, is there any news about Dumbledore or Professor Lupin?"
"There is indeed bad news." Hagrid said hesitantly. "I just heard that the department is going to lock Professor Lupin up in Azkaban!"
"How can they do this before the trial has even started?" Harry glanced at Ron and then quickly looked back. He lowered his voice and said, "Ron's accusations are obviously absurd. Professor Lupin will be proven innocent."
"I know. It's all because of Lucius Malfoy!" Hagrid replied angrily. "It's not that I don't believe in Lupin, but if it were me, I would rather choose death than be locked up in Azkaban again."
"Is it very scary there, Hagrid?" Hermione asked cautiously.
"You can't imagine it. Fifty years ago, when I was wrongly accused of controlling the monster in the secret chamber to kill a student, I stayed there for a few days," Hagrid said calmly. "It didn't look like that place at all. I thought I was going crazy at the time. I kept thinking about terrible things. The day I was expelled from the Hogwarts, the day my father died … "
"Because of the Dementors?!"
"That's right. You've all seen these monsters this year, but I'm afraid you haven't seen thousands of Dementors together. That kind of terrifying feeling." Hagrid closed his eyes, his face revealing a painful memory. "The Azkaban prison was built on a deserted island far from the coastline. That island was full of Dementors. As long as you stayed there, after a while, you wouldn't know who you were, and you wouldn't know what the meaning of living was. I still remember that I often wished I could fall asleep. When they let me out, it was as if I had been reborn and remembered everything. It was the most wonderful feeling in the world. Remember, the Dementors weren't willing to let me go. "
"But you're not guilty?!" Hermione said.
"Guilty?!" Hagrid snorted angrily. "Do you think they care about this? They don't care. They've already got more than five hundred people with them. They can completely suck the happiness out of these people. They don't care who's guilty and who's not. "
Hearing Hagrid's words, Harry felt as if his stomach had liquefied into water, and the blood in his body instantly became cold.
"Don't worry!" Seeing Harry and Hermione's expressions, Elwyn hurriedly said, "Professor Lupin won't be locked up in Azkaban. After tonight, we can prove his innocence."
Harry didn't say anything. He was still thinking about Azkaban.
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