A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 402 Hourglass
Felix looked around, but Moody was nowhere to be seen.

Indeed, in this environment, it was not suitable for him to appear. Maybe because a firecracker suddenly exploded beside him, he would turn all the little wizards within sight into animals of the corresponding academy.

Hmm... Felix imagined this kind of scene. Little lions, little snakes, little badgers, and little eagles were flopping about in the auditorium, and the house elves rushed over with baskets and put them away one by one. ...

"Ha, interesting!"

"Are you talking about that dog? Interesting indeed..."

There was a malicious light in Snape's eyes, and Felix followed his gaze, and saw a big black dog sneak in at some point, took a piece of steak from the dining table, and lay in the corner , staring at Harry.

When he noticed their gazes, the big black dog waved its paws in a humane manner, gravy dripping from the corners of its mouth.

"He's really good at being a dog. I didn't know Azkaban had this kind of training..." Snape said slowly.

……

The festivities continued well into the evening, even supper was skipped, and the house-elves in the kitchen were exhausted by the coming and going of the Great Hall.

The door to the Gryffindor lounge.

Harry came back yawning, and Violet, the fat lady's friend in the portrait, asked him very interestedly: "I heard you snatched the dragon's egg?"

As she spoke, she stared at Harry without blinking - he held a shiny golden egg under his arm.

"Yeah... gibberish." Harry said the password.

"No!" said Violet angrily.

"He was saying the password... the password was gibberish," said the Fat Lady, pushing her friend out of the frame and turning her body forward to reveal the entrance to the lounge.

There were not many people inside.Harry walked around the dormitory, but it was still empty.He casually put the golden egg on the bed, lying on the pillow in a daze.What happened in the afternoon seemed to be still in front of his eyes, and he was still very worried tomorrow, but he didn't let himself show it.But after it was over, he felt that the fire dragon was no big deal.

Thinking of what Hagrid had said, he took out the magic lamp of the Hungarian Horntail from his robe pocket, pressed it lightly, and the Charmander began to flap its wings with its fangs and claws, emitting a soft light.

It's kind of cute indeed... Hagrid has a point in what he said...

He casually picked up the hourglass on the bedside cabinet and fiddled with it. It was exchanged by Professor Haipu's Nixiu Warren and him, and he placed it on the cabinet casually, accompanied by a stack of rune cards.Crookshanks sneaked in before and scattered the card and the hourglass. He only gathered the cards at that time, and stepped on it when he was sleeping at night, only to find that the hourglass also fell on the ground.

When he dug the hourglass out of the crack in the floor, he was worried that it would be trampled, but unexpectedly, the hourglass was very strong and intact.

At this time, Hermione stuck her head out from the door, "Harry, are you there?"

"exist--"

"We work on laying golden eggs."

Harry sat up suddenly in bed and went into the common room.

"Where's Ron?" Hermione asked casually, staring intently at the golden egg.

"He hasn't come back yet, he should be with the younger students... you know, he's been under a lot of pressure lately," said Harry, embarrassed to say that Ron was still bragging.

They leaned together, hesitant to open it.

In the auditorium, Roger Davis opened the golden egg in public, wanting to see what it was like inside, but found that the heavy golden egg was empty, and then there was a terrifying, shrill scream from inside, as loud as Harry had heard even more horror than the ghost band playing with jigsaws and Myrtle screaming hysterically, and his heart nearly stopped.

After that, Li Jordan and the twins who were very interested in the golden egg never wanted to touch it again. Harry handed it over to a big black dog for safekeeping, and secretly gave him two sausages.The result was then——

"Is this what you raised?" an ethereal voice asked.

Harry turned his head and saw that it was Luna, surrounded by a string of magic lamps of different shapes, flying around her continuously, and there was a small charmander lying on her disheveled head.

"Oh, uh... yes," he faltered.

Sirius cooperatively stretched out a paw and handed it to Harry. Harry bit the bullet and shook it twice, "Look...he can shake hands, oh, I mean...it."

"Many people think that black dogs are a harbinger of disaster, and some people have written a book about them..." Luna said softly, and the others in her sight avoided the place far away, "But I don't think so. He is A loyal friend."

"Uh, thanks," said Harry.

He wasn't sure if Luna had noticed something, but she just said hello and left, as if she had suddenly appeared.

……

Finally, Hermione stretched out her hand, and pressed her nails along a very inconspicuous groove in the middle of the golden egg, prying it open.

The shrill screams immediately echoed in the lounge, startling Ron who had just entered, and sat directly on the steps of the door, causing the fat lady to keep urging him outside.

Hermione slammed the golden egg shut. "No..." she said disappointedly. "It seems that everyone's golden egg is the same."

"What do you think?" Ron heard the second half of the sentence, came to them, and sat on an empty chair.

"I read from the book that in previous competitions, sometimes warriors of different ranks got different clues." Hermione explained dryly, her face was pale, and she was obviously frightened by the voice.

It's really screaming too badly...

Ron shrugged and knocked on the golden egg, "If we cast a spell on it...for example, Scarchi, Scar..."

"Scapin's Appearance Curse."

"That's right, that's it." Ron said with certainty.

"That's a spell to analyze the ingredients of the potion," Hermione said angrily, and she thought about it carefully, "It's not impossible, this kind of thinking... we can try the analysis method in alchemy."

"Any of the three of us know this stuff?" Ron asked, and he and Harry looked at Hermione with burning eyes.

"Me neither," Hermione spread her hands, "but I know Professor Happe will, well, I can learn."

"So troublesome?"

"No trouble, we have three months, as long as we solve the puzzle within one month, we will have enough preparation time." Hermione said confidently: "And you can learn one more skill, alchemy and rune are inseparable , you can use it too.”

The corner of Harry's mouth was bitter. Just keeping up with the increasingly difficult activities of the Rune Club was a test for him. The only good news was that the Rune Club never left homework.He looked at Ron, the expressions on their faces were the same.

"I'll leave the golden egg to you, Hermione." Ron said sternly.

Hermione stared at her sternly, and he quickly changed the subject, looked around, and suddenly said in surprise, "Oh, Harry, why did you take it out?"

Harry was stunned, only to realize that Ron was referring to the hourglass. It turned out that he just took it out in a hurry.

"What's this?" Hermione asked, thinking it looked familiar.

"Warren and I exchanged hourglasses, I told you," Harry explained.

"You did, but I didn't really..." Hermione snatched the hourglass from Ron and stared at it thoughtfully. "I must have seen something like that somewhere..."

"Is it an antique?" Ron asked with great interest: "Have you read this kind of book?" His last question revealed his true thoughts, and he said expectantly: "How much do you think it is worth?"

Hermione played with the hourglass for a long time, shaking it towards the magic lamp above the lounge from time to time, making a strange sound in her mouth.

Harry and Ron looked at each other, but they knew it was best not to interrupt her at this time, because she had entered a state of frantic research.

"I remember!" Hermione said suddenly, her eyes seemed to sparkle, "I know where I've seen this hourglass, it's not in a book, I've entered a misunderstanding...it's Egypt!"

"Egypt?" they both asked in unison.

"That's right, Egypt. Ouch~" She suddenly smiled like a gluttonous fox, and said happily, "No wonder Professor Haipu wants to teach Warren, so it has a criminal record."

"What the hell is it, Hermione, don't be a fool," said Ron eagerly.

"This hourglass comes from a money-grubbing Gringotts goblin, no," Hermione whispered, holding her breath, "it should be said to come from an evil ancient Greek dark wizard, the despicable Helbo!"

(End of this chapter)