Online Games: Harry Potter: The Age of Magic

Chapter 79 Hagrid
"Hagrid?"

Looking at the name that appeared on the half-blood giant's head, Ah Bo looked at Rossi with surprised eyes, "Do you know him?"

"He is an NPC in the copy of "The Chamber of Secrets", the guard of the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts, haven't you seen him in "The Chamber of Secrets"?"

Hearing Abo's question, Irene on the side was a little stunned.

"Ah? Am I the only one who doesn't know him?" Abo scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "Uh... I entered the instance alone, and the first NPC I met was Filch. As for this Hagrid, I Didn't see him in Chamber of Secrets."

No, you are not the only one.Glancing at Jiang Jing beside him, Rossi retorted inwardly.Seeing the slowly starting car getting closer and closer, she greeted after deliberation:
"Hey, Hagrid, I think you need our help."

He was suddenly called by someone he didn't know, and Hagrid, who was wearing an oversized moleskin coat, couldn't help being stunned for a moment. After carefully looking at the four of Rosie, he said in a low voice:
"Miss, do we know each other?"

While speaking, he took half a step forward without any trace, protecting the boy beside him.

Seeing this, Rossi raised a smile at the corner of his mouth, made a friendly expression, and said in a soft voice:

"Although it's the first time we've met, I'm no stranger to you."

With that said, she took out her ID card from the inventory and showed it to the other party:

"I'm an Auror from the Ministry of Magic, shall we talk in detail?"

"Ministry of Magic's Auror Office, Rosie..." Hagrid, who could barely read the contents of the certificate, repeated in a low voice, and nodded while thinking, "Okay, let's go out first."

……

In the lounge of the Gringotts Wizarding Bank, Hagrid, who was sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, glanced at the boy who was looking out the window curiously. The pink umbrella in his hand shook slightly, and then he solemnly said Turning his head, he looked at Rossi who was sitting opposite and said:

"What are you trying to say? Why do you say I need your help?"

"We found a few things."

Rossi tapped lightly on the coffee table in front of him twice, and said in a mellow voice, "Someone wants to steal the Philosopher's Stone."

In Hagrid's suddenly cautious and hesitant expression, Abo, who was standing aside with his arms folded, added, "Well, it's what you took out of the vault."

"Who? Who wants to steal it?" Hagrid clenched the umbrella in his hand, and looked at the four of them with scrutiny.

"Of course it's Voldemort."

Rossi smiled, turned his head and looked at the boy who was looking out the window without paying attention to their conversation, and continued, "Since Harry Potter has returned to the wizarding world, as his old enemy in fate, the mysterious People will naturally recover initially."

Because the other party showed a trace of fear when hearing the three words Voldemort, she deliberately changed the other party's address later.

"V... The Mysterious Man is really still alive?" Hagrid said with fear and worry.

Hearing this, Rossi chuckled and said, "It's obvious. If it wasn't for his initial recovery, why would Nicole Flamel send the Philosopher's Stone to Hogwarts for safekeeping?"

"You should understand that his condition must be very bad, and he must urgently need the Philosopher's Stone for further recovery. Therefore, in order to protect the Philosopher's Stone from being stolen by him, I think you need us to escort you back to Hogwarts. "

Hearing her words, Hagrid's rather ferocious face showed a bit of panic expression, while Jiang Jing and the other three, who were listening in a cloud, didn't dare to say a single unnecessary word, but stood upright without knowing it. lower back.

"You found out that the mysterious man has recovered? He, he..."

After stammering for a few seconds, Hagrid's expression suddenly froze for a moment, and then, as if he had been reminded by some unknown energy, he quickly regained his composure, "Did you just say... pirates?"

kindness?What's going on, why did he suddenly change his appearance?Rossi wondered, and said without changing his expression: "Yes, is there any problem?"

Hagrid nodded slightly, then smiled and said:
"With the ability and power of the mysterious man, it would be easy to take the Philosopher's Stone from me, but the word you just used was: 'robbery'."

He mentioned Rossi's choice of words again, deliberately paused for a few seconds, and then continued:
"This means that you know that in his current state, he cannot take the Philosopher's Stone from me, so you need to use the means of stealing."

"Since this is the case, why do I need your escort??"

Grasp the words in the speech of the conversation partner and infer the true meaning behind the other person's words. This is the ability of a normal adult.So it made sense that Hagrid would have noticed this in time.

Uh...how did he become smart all of a sudden?

Just when Rossi was dazed by Hagrid's sharp words, he smiled and pulled Harry who was still watching the scenery outside the window to the door of the lounge.

"Of course, no matter what, I would like to thank you for your reminder, and I will pay more attention."

As he spoke, he pushed open the door and walked out without giving Rossi and the others a chance to speak.

"This? What should we do next?" Irene looked at the closed lounge door again, and couldn't help asking.

"Oh, I didn't fool you successfully!" Abo sighed, "If you can't submit tangible evidence, you still can't convince an NPC with an online IQ."

"It seems that there is no way to enter Hogwarts through him."

No, from what I've seen in the original book, from what I know of him, he shouldn't be aware of my choice of words.Rossi was very confused, but he couldn't explain it to his companions with a reasonable explanation, so he smiled wryly and didn't dwell on the reason inside.

"By the way, you just mentioned Harry Potter. What does it mean for him to return to the wizarding world? According to the name of the game, he must be the protagonist of the game we are playing."

Mingming and Rossi are both 19 years old, but when Jiang Jing was thinking about the problem, he had a mature temperament that did not match his age.

"Can we find him and use him to enter Hogwarts? After all, according to what we read in the forum, Harry Potter is the savior of the wizarding world!"

Seeing the eyes of the three people looking at her, Rosie blinked her curled eyelashes, and then said with a low laugh: "Harry Potter, you have all seen it, it is the little boy just now!"

"What?"

Hearing this, Irene went to the window in surprise, and looked at the boy downstairs who was walking beside the half-blood giant without blinking, "Is he Harry Potter?"

"So it is!"

There was a dazed expression on Abo's face, "No wonder he is also called the Boy Who Lived, 'he caused the ambitious Dark Lord Voldemort to die at a young age', judging by his age, this childhood is also inevitable. It's too young!"

……

"I thought of another question."

After Harry and Harry disappeared into the crowd, Jiang Jing, who hadn’t spoken for a while, raised his hand and pressed the bridge of his nose, looked at Abo and asked, “How long is this task? I didn’t find its time limit in the task panel. "

Abo sat on the sofa in front of Hagrid, and said without thinking, "In mid-June, if we don't die due to some accident, we will leave this instance due to mission failure in mid-June next year."

After finishing speaking, he thought of something and added again: "But no matter how long you stay in this dungeon, the time after you leave the dungeon will be the morning of the next day."

"There is such a setting?" Irene said in surprise, "But according to the laws of the United States, the time difference between the virtual game and the outside world must not exceed 12 hours? And the game cabin does not have the ability to increase the time span? "

"I don't know about that, anyway, it was like this before." Abo shrugged indifferently, and spread his hands, "And it doesn't affect anything. Under the condition that the NPC's AI is the same as that of a normal person, the time span On the contrary, you can experience a more real magical world and the life of a wizard.”

Regarding the problem of the time span in the game, although Abo and the others are strange, they are not unacceptable.

But for Rossi, she couldn't help but think about it.

Almost all virtual games known in the United States have a ratio of 1:1 to real time, but why does this game have such a long time span?Moreover, the description of the game cabin also clearly mentioned that it does not have the ability to increase the time span!
She kept thinking in her heart, and subconsciously felt that this was a question worth exploring.

"Rosie?" Seeing that Rossi hadn't spoken for a while, Jiang Jing couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"

"Eh..." Rossy, who woke up from his thoughts, stayed for two seconds and explained slowly, "I'm thinking about something."

"Then what should we do next? Should we go to Diagon Alley to find clues?" Irene said, looking out the window.

"Well, proceed as planned." Rossi nodded.

As they said that, several people got up from the sofa. When they walked out to rest, the three of Rossi were about to walk outside Gringotts, but they saw Jiang Jing suddenly stop when passing by the copper gate leading to the vault.

(End of this chapter)