Turn to Page 249, Cornelius Fudge. Today’s lesson is called Distortion.
The chapter begins with our trio reckoning with the information from Tom Riddle’s diary showing that Hagrid housed a creature in Hogwarts when the Chamber of Secrets was last opened. With the lapse in attacks, they decide it’s not necessary to confront him about it. On the eve of the next Gryffindor Quidditch match against Hufflepuff, Harry finds his belongings ransacked and only the diary taken. On the following day before the match, he hears the voice in the walls again, which seems to spark an epiphany in Hermione. She runs off to the library as Harry and Ron go down to the pitch, but before the match starts, Professor McGonagall announces the suspension of the match and asks Harry and Ron to accompany her. She shows them a petrified Hermione Granger and Penelope Clearwater, who were found only with a small mirror.
In the aftermath of the attack, Harry and Ron resolve to visit Hagrid under the cloak of invisibility. When they arrive, Hagrid is agitated, and before they get their questions answered, Dumbledore also arrives at Hagrid’s hut with Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic. Fudge declares that he has no choice but to take Hagrid to Azkaban, in light of these new attacks. When things seem like they can’t get much worse, Lucius Malfoy arrives to declare the governors have removed Dumbledore from his position, effective immediately. Dumbledore and Hagrid both part the hut with peculiar words, directed at Harry and Ron - invisible in the corner of the hut.
Music: Happy Haunts by Aaron Kenny
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