A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 268 Meeting Newt
The door of the phone booth flew open, and Felix walked into the resplendent foyer, all the way to the information desk.

"Hello, where is the living room No. [-]?"

A blond, middle-aged witch casually looked at the badge on his chest. There were various signs posted on the bulletin board behind her, but these were all blocked by an exaggerated arrest warrant, "Felix Hemp ...Oh, Mr. Hape, Mr. Cedric has an account, please come with me—”

"Sorry ma'am, I haven't registered my wand yet."

The witch said enthusiastically, "That's not a necessary step, my dear. I heard that you are an expert in Muggle studies? I have a copy of "Simple Spells to Fool Muggles" at home, but I haven't read it much, and I can't tell the difference. Bad...Little Tim always messes up the house."

She took Felix to the elevator area, glanced at the floor, "We are going to the fourth floor—oh, be careful!" While speaking, a group of paper airplanes flew into the elevator through the gap in the golden fence door, and she explained: "Here's the note the Ministry uses to deliver messages—"

As soon as they entered the elevator, the paper planes hovered slowly above the ceiling. They were a light purple in color and stamped with the stamp of "Ministry of Magic" on the side of the wings.

"—We used owls to communicate before, and you can imagine the air quality here... There is also the problem of feces. The tables and chairs are in a mess. After switching to these small things, the cleaning work in the ministry has been reduced by one third."

"Excuse me, I still don't know your name?" Felix had to interrupt the rhythm of her speech.

"Ella Defina, where did I say, oh, yes—" she began to describe how her five-year-old son drew the logo of the entire Quidditch League team from a sack of flour, " He will lead the national team to victory," she said proudly.

"Ms. Difina, I heard that LCA Comics Publishing House recently released a new set of comics, which are very popular."

"Yeah, I didn't pay much attention, what's your name?"

"Call--"

The elevator stopped, and two wizards walked in from the outside. One was a red-faced wizard with a short brown beard, wearing a black wizard robe; the other was an old man with gray hair and beard, wearing a tweed gray trench coat, It was a brown vest.

The old man tilted his head slightly, "Amos, there is a problem with your process, there is a big problem. And you have been going around in circles. I can see that Tina taught me a lot."

Amos, a wizard in a wizard robe, said anxiously: "I know you are very concerned about the living environment of the Hippogriff, but this matter has nothing to do with you, does it? You are not even its owner."

"I can't ignore it just because it has an owner. I'm just fighting for its legal rights."

"But you're retired, Mr Scamander."

"Theoretically, I just don't go out much ... but I haven't stopped working, if you know how much I work in a day, you don't think so."

"Your Fantastic Beasts has been revised to the 52nd edition, why not finish another edition?"

The old man looked at the side face of the other party, "I do have this plan, but—we have already digressed, I reiterated that I was entrusted by my friends—including three caring little guys—— Questioning the Ministry’s workflow. I don’t think you hired me as a consultant to keep me silent.”

"Of course, many magical creature protection areas in the Ministry need to refer to your opinion."

The elevator stopped on the fourth floor, and the two walked out——

"Mr. Haipu, we're here too." Difina at the front desk said, and Felix bowed, "Thank you, is it on this floor, I can look for it myself."

He took a few steps and turned around, "Also, the name of the book is "The Adventures of Mick the Little Wizard", and it is sold in many bookstores."

Felix followed the two wizards and watched them stop at the door of a spacious office.He looked up. It read "Department for the Regulation and Control of Fantastic Creatures".

A wizard wearing a black wizard robe walked into the office, leaving the old man waiting outside. Felix approached and asked, "Mr. Newt Scamander?"

The old man turned his head and his eyes slid past him, "You are..."

"Felix Hemp, the professor of ancient runes at Hogwarts." Felix introduced himself, "We just met in the elevator."

Newt's eyes fell on him, "Yes, yes, that's right...Mr. Hemp, I've heard your name, little Rolf mentioned you."

Felix said: "I was very interested in your research results when I was in school. I also collected some newspaper clippings, but unfortunately I didn't find much content."

“I did have a few early publications that weren’t taken seriously—” Newt said. “That was a long time ago.”

"For a while at school, I was obsessed with how to deal with them, of course, make sure you don't hurt yourself," Felix said.

Newt's eyes lit up, "That's what my research is about, rescuing, nurturing, protecting... I also teach other wizards to understand them, not to be afraid—"

"So, Potter and the others finally found you?" Felix said. "I heard a few words in the elevator. I guess you are discussing the case of the Hogwarts hippogriff attacking the students."

"Potter? Harry Potter?"

"Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and, of course, the center of the vortex, Rubeus Hagrid and his Buckbeak."

Newt nodded, "That's right. They wrote to me and told me that a Hippogriff had been treated unfairly, and begged me to stand up. To be honest, I have been away from the Ministry of Magic for many years. Here Not quite the same as when I left. Sorry - very different."

He raised his head in a disappointed gesture, "Tina persuaded me to write with peace of mind, but when I see some things, I can't pretend that I didn't see them—if the horns of the poisonous horned beast start to light up, I have to deal with it— —You see what I mean, don't you?"

Virgos are large, rhinoceros-like beasts that store a deadly fluid in their long, sharp horns, causing anything injected with the strange venom to explode.

"We can't stand the injustice happening in front of us." Felix expressed his understanding.

"Yes, you summed it up well—oh, wait a minute, I need to solve some small troubles—" Newt quickly reached into his pocket, and took out a silver pocket watch, which suddenly expanded and contracted, looking It's about to explode.

"Mr. Scamander—" Felix stared, and put a humanoid armor spell on himself.

"Don't worry, it's not a bad thing—" Newt said in a hurry, the front cover of the silver pocket watch snapped open, and a pink snout in the shape of a duckbill protruded from it. In the next second, a palm-sized Niffler slipped out of his pocket watch and nimbly climbed onto Newt.

Immediately afterwards, two more snuffers appeared, one of them faced the smooth cover of the pocket watch for the first time, straightening its black soft down, and the other seemed to have taken a fancy to the silver watch chain.

Felix looked at them curiously, a dark, furry little creature somewhere between a mole and a platypus, with an uncanny love for shiny things.

"Hey! Valen, Thrall, Thorpe, be quiet." Newt whispered, and he nimbly grabbed Niffler, who was standing on his shoulder, struggling to pull out the silver button, and stuffed it back into his pocket watch.He also threw the other two snuffers in, and then closed the front cover.

Newt looked left and right, no one noticed, he put his pocket watch back in his pocket, and winked at Felix: "Theoretically, I can't bring my magical animal friends...but they can Not long after I was born, I was really worried."

　Alas, I can't finish writing, and there will be an update tomorrow!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)