A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 315 Fire and Smoke Divination

From morning to afternoon, members of the club filed out.

"Awesome!!!" exclaimed one student excitedly, "It's as if the professor belongs to me alone..."

"We all think so," said his companion, grinning.

But he didn't hear clearly at all, and said in an exaggerated tone: "Professor Haipu also discussed with me the topic of a more handsome casting posture, did you hear that?"

"I'm a hundred feet from you, man!"

A girl said: "Professor Haipu was very patient. When he told me about the rune sequence structure of the lighting technique, he said that it looked like a lily of the valley—"

"Huh? The professor told me about tulips." Another girl said.

"It's obviously a rose..."

Several people looked at each other and argued with each other. Ron couldn't help but said, "Maybe Professor Haipu just wanted to express an arc structure. These flowers all look alike, don't they?"

The girls who were having a heated discussion stared at Ron and left with a snort.

Ron touched his head and said puzzledly, "Did I say something wrong?"

"No, you just ruined their good mood today." Hermione said casually.

They came to a courtyard where the plants grew thickly along the winding path, and Harry fiddled with the orange-red spherical fruit in the bushes, next to which was a large mistletoe studded with white beads.

"Is Sirius all right, Harry?" Hermione asked.

"He's fine, he's been busy planning his brother's funeral lately, and he doesn't want anyone else to interfere," Harry said softly.

"I remember it was Regulus Black?" Ron said excitedly, "He's so cool, a lonely hero..." He lowered his voice and said, "As a Death Eater, he played a trick on You-Know-Who once." , he deserves this treatment."

"Yes, but the Horcrux must not be mentioned at the funeral. Principal Dumbledore talked to me specifically, as you know..."

Ron laughed. "He must have been distressed at the time, and maybe he was thinking of casting an Oblivion Charm on us—"

"Ron!" said Hermione sternly.

"Well, I'm just talking nonsense, of course none of this will happen..."

Hermione looked around worriedly, she didn't think it was safe here: "Harry, we'd better not mention that word outside."

"The Horcrux?"

Harry muttered something in a low voice, and thought about it seriously, "You're right, but most people don't know what it is—Luna?" Harry stared dumbfounded at the little girl in the garden, who held a food box in one hand in the other hand a half-woven mistletoe garland.

Luna's eyes were evasive, and she threw the wreath aside, pretending to find them suddenly, "Hello, Harry, Hermione, Ron. Nice to meet you." She said in a singing voice explain.

"What are you doing here?" Harry said, he suddenly regretted discussing this topic in the garden, wonder how much Luna heard?

"I'm waiting for Ginny, you know, she's going to be hungry, a picnic is essential." Luna was shaking slightly, her waist-length blond hair tossing back and forth.

"Really?" Ron also showed suspicion, "Did you hear—"

"Luna—"

Ginny ran over from a distance, and she said out of breath, "Sorry, I'm late, Fred and George insisted that I try their new products, so I managed to get away, Shouldn't they know about this... to visit Faerun in the Forbidden Forest—Ron?"

Ginny stared for a few seconds before realizing her slip of the tongue, and screamed, "Why are you here? Are you trying to eavesdrop! Oh, Hermione, Harry, you're also..." She His expression became blank: "What happened?"

Harry and the others looked at each other, as if it was really an accident.

Luna hummed softly, and she picked up the wreath that had been thrown on the ground, and weaved it by herself.

A few minutes later, they walked in the direction of Hagrid's cabin—

"We care about you too, Ginny." Ron said, "There was only one attack on the edge of the Forbidden Forest two months ago..."

"Yeah, your leg got a black spell and it swelled to twice its size," Ginny said lightly.

"It's still bleeding! Ginny, you don't care about your brother at all?" Ron said dissatisfied.

"Worried? I was naturally worried when I heard it for the first time," Ginny said with a straight face, "I will also be worried the second time, the third time, the fourth time, and the fifth time... "

Ron's face was flushed, right down to the base of his ears.

Harry began to change the subject. He knew exactly what Ron was bragging about afterward, and had heard it more often.But Ron's spell was blocked for him, and Harry thought Ron fully deserved the words he boasted about himself.

So he said, "Well, so you're going to see a centaur? As it happens, we want to go see Buckbeak at Hagrid's, and they might become friends..."

Harry stopped talking, and suddenly wanted to whip himself. Centaurs have a lot of self-esteem. He faltered and explained, "I mean...well, they are all our friends."

Luna said cheerfully, "You're right, Harry. I think you'll be friends. Firenze is very friendly."

"Firenz?" "Firenz?"

Harry and Hermione spoke at the same time in surprise, and Harry said: "I knew him, Firenze, in the first grade! I met a dark wizard who hunted unicorns, and later found out that it was Quirrell. —Working for the Mysterious Man, it was Firenze who helped me and took me out of there."

He picked the word carefully, and did not use the word "riding", because his experience told him that horse people are very taboo about this.

Luna looked at Harry in a daze, and Harry added: "It's true, he looks young, with platinum hair and a strong body..."

Luna grinned.

A group of people came to Hagrid's cabin and saw the burly Hagrid removing weeds in the pumpkin field. When they approached, Hagrid was holding a red umbrella in his hand and gesticulating in the field.

"Hagrid!"

Hagrid turned around, "Harry, Ron, Hermione! Oh, and there are two little girls, one from the Weasley family, what's your name?"

"Ginny, Ginny Weasley."

"What about you?" Hagrid looked at Luna, the tip of the umbrella in his hand touched a pumpkin next to it, and it exploded a big hole with a "bang", and the yellow juice splashed all over their faces, "Oh, sorry! "

Hagrid said in a hurry, and he took Harry and Ron who were closest to him aside, "I'm going to find a rag, I can't use magic on you," he explained in a low voice, "I'm not very good at life magic, I missed it." good time..."

"Wait, Hagrid - clean it up! Clean it up! Clean it up!"

With Hermione's help, they finally got to the point without spending much time.

"Buckbeak? He returned to the clan, and his clan misses him very much." Hagrid waved his arms and said, Harry and the others felt a little sorry, but they were still happy for Buckbeak.

When he heard that they were going to visit the centaur, Hagrid yelled at them with wide eyes: "You guys are dying! You were only attacked two months ago! There is also the Battle of the Covered Bridge, if I were not in the school hospital, Missed it..." He stared at them blankly for a long time, then said dejectedly: "I can't help either, I don't know that spell."

Harry and the others comforted him, "You saved me, Hagrid, remember? Madam Pomfrey said that if you wait for a while, your legs will be cut off and regrown." Ron said sincerely .

"Hagrid, you've used the Bloat Charm very well," said Hermione, looking at the pumpkin outside the window.

Harry racked his brains, but unfortunately he couldn't find any proper reason, "They're all right, Hagrid, you can't despise yourself."

"Thank you, thank you..." Hagrid emotionally pulled out a handkerchief, wiped the wet corners of his eyes, and suddenly realized: "Stop! You still haven't said why you went to the Forbidden Forest?"

"We're going to visit Firenze, I haven't seen him in months." Luna said, "Also, big man, I like the layout of your place, it's very similar to my house."

Hagrid laughed. "Call me Hagrid, girl. What's your name?"

"Luna, Luna Lovegood," she said, shaking her head.

Hagrid dug out a few dirty things from a dusty bag and distributed them to them one by one. "What's this?" Harry asked. It looked like the bones of some kind of creature.

Luna had already blown her cheeks, and a loud whistle sounded. After a while, she stopped, panting slightly.

Hagrid said gruffly, "Look, Luna has already demonstrated it. It's a bone whistle. I use it when I train the animals in the Forbidden Forest. If it's in danger, it might work. Of course... little guy Ladies and gentlemen, I don't suggest you go to the Forbidden Forest..." He said very conflictedly.

Finally, Hagrid took them to meet Firenze, and Luna put a wreath of mistletoe on the centaur's head, and enjoyed the food in the food box together, because there were too many people, everyone didn't get much , Harry felt even hungrier after eating.

He missed the auditorium in the castle terribly, but the reunion with Firenze would have been fun too, and it would have been better if he hadn't explained the difficult astrology.

"The aura of Mars recently is very strange, and we think it indicates something." Firenze said, he strongly suggested that Luna use sage and sweet mallow to do a fire and smoke divination, "You are the most spiritual I have ever seen human beings."

Luna did as she did, and Harry was surprised she was carrying these things with her, even more so than her cork necklace and Zeppelin Lee earrings, so they had to sit around and watch the choking smoke billow up.Hagrid was taller than they were standing when he sat down, sneezing incessantly as the breeze blew and the smoke mixed with the incense hit him.

Firenze was not affected at all, "Fate brought us together to form a prophecy." He bent down on the ground and observed carefully, trying to find certain shapes and symbols.

"Looks like the magic Professor Hemp taught us." Ron whispered to Harry, who didn't find any similarities between the two, but he thought it looked a bit like Buckbeak's flapping wings.

"Like a cloak of fire." Ginny expressed her opinion, and she regarded this as a game.

Hermione chose to sit on the sidelines quietly and did not speak. She has always been uninterested in these strange things.

"Humans have never been very good at doing this kind of thing, and even the centaurs have acquired this ability after a long time." Firenze said calmly, "and it is easy to make mistakes. Luna, you see What?"

"I saw a party, everyone was very happy, everyone fired fireworks into the sky." Luna said happily. "Wish I was there too."

Firenze said with some disappointment: "I thought it was a hint of war..." Others looked at him puzzled, and he explained: "Mars dominates wars. In the past ten years, there have been various signs that the wizarding world The people here are just living through the short period of peace between the two wars. However, there have been new changes recently, and the elders in the clan cannot understand—" He shook his head and did not continue this heavy topic.

Afterwards, Harry and the others returned to the castle, ate a hearty meal, and left all this behind.

They went back to the Gryffindor common room, where Percy was standing in front of the bulletin board looking at the job postings. "Isn't he going to the Ministry of Magic?" Harry asked.

Ron shrugged, "Penello hasn't been found yet, but she has got a few letters of recommendation, but her favorite job is abroad, and Percy is trying to keep her."

After a few minutes, Percy left happily.

Before returning to the dormitory, Harry glanced at the advertisement on it, combined with Percy's approximate location before he left, he found an inconspicuous newspaper clipping in the corner, he didn't read the small print at the bottom, but remembered the company name--

future world.

(End of this chapter)