Chapter 312: Werewolves (Edited)

After leaving the Headmaster's office, Fish headed for Professor McGonagall's office.

"Minerva, Fish is here nya~!"

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Unlike when he entered the Headmaster's office, Fish knocked honestly on Professor McGonagall's office door, then pushed it gently and poked his head in.

"Come in."

Professor McGonagall smiled and greeted the kitten, before Fish ran through the door and gently closed it, then ran to Professor McGonagall's side with Fawkes and Uroboros in tow.

"Minerva~"

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According to the usual practice, the little cat first jumped into Professor McGonagall's arms and cuddled her for a while, then transformed into a cat and lay on her lap.

Little Fawkes flapped his wings and landed on Professor McGonagall's hair, while Uroboros very deftly entangled himself in Professor McGonagall's hand.

"Good evening, Fawkes. Uroboros."

Professor McGonagall also greeted the two magical animals in a very customary manner, then took a small comb out of the drawer, and while combing Fish's hair, spoke to the little cat in a soft and gentle tone.

He didn't know what the reason was, but the story that Professor McGonagall told Fish today had to do with werewolves.

Fish is no stranger to werewolves. Among Lockhart's seven textbooks, one of them was "Walks with Werewolves," which was about werewolves, and there had been a werewolf legend at the school long before he came to Hogwarts.

According to school rumors, werewolves lived in the Forbidden Forest, but unlike normal werewolves, those in the Forbidden Forest were the offspring of two werewolves who took on wolf form during the full moon.

Werewolves born this way were no different from ordinary wolves, but they had intelligence so close to that of humans that Dumbledore took pity on them and allowed them to live in the Forbidden Forest.

Fish had looked for these wolves in the Forbidden Forest, there were some, but they were not werewolves, and their intelligence was low. The cat had asked Shadow and Lochlin about them, but they told him there had never been any.

Later, Fish asked Dumbledore about the rumor, and learned that it wasn't true, that the source of the rumor couldn't be verified, and that the school wasn't clearing it up, just to keep students away from the forbidden forest.

So far, Fish only knew a little about the existence of werewolves.

At first, he had thought werewolves were half human, half animal, like centaurs and mermaids, but after hearing Lockhart's story, he realized that werewolves were similar to Animagus, except that their transformation was not controlled by themselves, but by the moon in the sky.

"Minerva, why did Lupin say that Fish looks like a werewolf?

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After hearing the story, Fish returned to his human form, then tugged on Professor McGonagall's sleeve and asked curiously, "Aren't wolves supposed to be more like dogs with their long mouths?"

In fact, he had wanted to ask that question at the opening dinner, but Dumbledore had interrupted him and he had forgotten about it, and now that Professor McGonagall had told the werewolf story, the kitten remembered.

In both Lockhart's and Professor McGonagall's stories, werewolves seemed to play the role of villains, biting people to death and then being defeated by the stories' protagonists.

"Fish don't bite people by chance nya!"

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The little kitten's perception of Lupin is even worse, and he even hinted that he is a villain!

"Professor Lupin didn't mean that..."

Professor McGonagall smiled and rubbed Fish's head, calming the angry kitten.

She had deliberately told the werewolf story to get Fish's attention, after all, Professor Lupin was a good man, but he was a werewolf after all, and he had to hide in the Shrieking Shack until the full moon was past.

And Fish is a little fellow who likes to run around at night, what if he ran into....

Professor McGonagall wasn't worried about Fish getting bitten by Lupin.

Because Lupin now has the aconite potion provided by Snape, he can stay conscious and his own cat can even defeat the basilisk, so even if Lupin, who can't use a wand, turns into a werewolf, he is definitely not Fish's opponent.

He was worried that it wouldn't be a good idea for Fish to hit Lupin again if he met him.

So, Professor McGonagall told Fish why werewolves bite, what happens when they bite, and that Professor Lupin was actually a werewolf.

In fact, even if Fish didn't ask, he planned to explain the werewolf and Professor Lupin situation to the kitten after he finished telling the story.

"... Because of the prejudice and discrimination they have suffered from wizards for so long, many werewolves have taken revenge by trying to infect as many people as possible, especially children, and cultivating their fear of wizards from a young age, hoping to defeat them one day with a large number of werewolves. "

After talking about Lupin, Professor McGonagall didn't want Fish to take werewolves lightly, so she mentioned those radical werewolves again.

"And Professor Lupin was the victim of an attack by those werewolves when he was a boy, because his father, Lyall Lupin, who was then at the Ministry of Magic, said that werewolves should all die."

After listening to Professor McGonagall's account, Fish finally understood what Lupin's faint dangerous aura was all about. Fish finally knew what was going on with that vague aura of danger that Lupin had.

However, regarding such a heavy werewolf topic, it was obviously not something Fish could clearly figure out now, although he sympathized with Professor Lupin, he was actually a bit confused and didn't know how to react to the heavy werewolf topic.

Fortunately, Professor McGonagall really didn't want to discuss the current situation and the future of werewolves with Fish, she patted Fish on the head and said quietly, "Come on, don't think about it too much, I'm telling you so you won't have any prejudice against Professor Lupin, but also so that, if you meet other werewolves in the future, you'll keep your guard up."

"Well, Fish understands nya..."

The kitten, who still hadn't gotten over the heavy topic he had just heard, nodded somewhat sullenly.

Professor McGonagall didn't mind, as she knew the little guy too well, and in less than three minutes the kitten would forget the subject without her having to worry about it.

"Keep the fact that Professor Lupin is a werewolf a secret, or he'll have to find another job, most wizards wouldn't be comfortable with a werewolf teaching their children, even if he was a really good person."

"Don't worry, Fish is tight-lipped nya!"

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The kitten replied confidently, then twitched his ears and said, "But Fish thinks that even if Fish doesn't say anything, in the end Professor Lupin will leave Hogwarts for other reasons nya."

Professor McGonagall: "..."

She couldn't argue with that, because it was a truth that had been proven true by the resignation of countless Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers.

Besides, previous Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers had quit Hogwarts for one reason or another, but at least they hadn't lost anything, at most they had been injured, dosed with a potion, and laid up for a few hours.

But for the past two years, the teachers of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class have either disappeared or had their reputations destroyed, and more importantly, they've all been beaten by the little cat in front of her.

This year's Lupin was even worse, beaten almost to death by Fish on the train before he got to school.... No, it must be said that he was almost beaten to death....

In the future, if Dumbledore wants to find a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, it will probably be even harder.

Professor McGonagall sighed for a moment, and then there was no more....

Anyway, it's Dumbledore who has a headache, she's only the deputy headmistress, so she doesn't have to worry about recruitment.

As for the fact that all the teachers in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class had been hit by the cat....

It's all because of the Voldemort curse, what does that have to do with Fish?