From Hogwarts to Strixhaven

"Did you see how badly Ravenclaw lost today?" Harry said to his two friends as they walked along the path from the Quidditch stadium to the edge of the Forbidden Forest. They were about to meet Hagrid. For some reason, he was not present at today's Quidditch game.

"Don't worry, Harry." Ron comforted his friend. He fully understood Harry's concerns. "Since we can beat Slytherin once, we can beat them again!"

"Don't be too sure." Hermione has always played a role in discouraging enthusiasm in small groups. "You know, it is said that Ivy has also joined the Slytherin Quidditch team. Slytherin's performance today must be related to him."

"What?" Ron and Harry seemed to have heard the news for the first time. "You mean, Ivy cast a spell on those troll-like Slytherin Quidditch players? That's why they were so powerful in the game? Isn't using magic considered cheating?"

"I can That's not the case. "Hermione shook her head, "Besides, using magic in Quidditch is not necessarily cheating. I remember the rules only said that you are not allowed to use wands on your opponents. If the target of the spell is a teammate..."

"Maybe it's true..." Harry said pessimistically, "Their flexibility on the broom has almost doubled, and combined with their terrifying size, Slytherin's strength has been greatly enhanced... In addition to magic, I can't imagine anything else that can do this..."

"We can ask Hagrid, he must have watched Quidditch games for many years and have experience in this kind of thing." Hermione patted Harry's shoulder comfortingly.

"Wuhu-ha!" There were shouts from the horizon, and the three of them looked up, a line of large birds flying in the air, perhaps some kind of magical animal in the Forbidden Forest.

"Is there something wrong with my ears?" Ron asked uncertainly, "Why do I hear those big birds talking?"

"I seem to hear it too." Harry said hesitantly, "To be honest, this is the first time I find that I can understand what other animals say besides snakes..."

"Maybe this means that we are particularly talented in some magical fields." Ron said happily, and then he understood what Harry had just said, "Wait, Harry! What did you just say? You can understand snakes talking?"

"Yeah, once I went to the zoo with my aunt and her family, and a Brazilian python told me that it had never been to Brazil." Harry shrugged. Since entering Hogwarts, life in the Muggle world seems as far away as hundreds of years ago. "I dare say this is not a rare skill. There must be many people with similar abilities!"

"No, Harry, no." Hermione said with A look of regret and shock looked at him, "That's Parseltongue, many dark wizards have this ability. The most famous Parseltongue known is Slytherin himself, and his descendants have inherited this ability from him."

"Wait." Harry was confused, and remembered what the tattered hat said to him at the sorting ceremony that day, "You mean, I am a descendant of Slytherin?"

"It's no big deal, many wizards are related, maybe this means you are a collateral relative of Slytherin." Ron looked around and whispered, "Let me tell you something, I am a cousin of that annoying Malfoy in blood."

"Harry!"

Harry hadn't recovered from the fact that his best friend was actually a cousin of his enemy, and he heard a shout from above his head. It was Hagrid's voice, so he looked up as a matter of course.

However, what came into view was not Hagrid's messy beard, but several strange creatures that Harry had never seen in his life.

Their bodies, hind legs and tails looked like horses, but the front half had wings, claws and heads like giant eagles, and each of them had bright orange eyes, which looked very majestic.

When these strange guys rolled up a flurry of snowflakes and fell to the ground, Harry and the other two finally understood where Hagrid's voice came from - he was riding on the backs of these beasts!

"Hagrid!" Harry gasped and coughed repeatedly because of the snowflakes that flew into his mouth. So Ron had to help him ask the second half of the sentence: "How did you become so short?"

In the impression of the three friends, Hagrid has always been a gentle and kind person. People who don't know him may be scared away by his huge body, but as long as they say a few words, they can understand that this big guy who covers the sky is actually a passionate guy.

But now, Hagrid's recognizable huge body disappeared, just like a wool sweater exposed to the sun, Hagrid's body also shrunk, becoming only half of its original size. But even so, he was much taller than Ron, the tallest of the three.

"Oh! Hello! Ron and Hermione!" Hagrid jumped off the back of the beast and said happily to the three people, "This is all thanks to Ivy! He helped me fulfill my lifelong dream! Flying in the sky on a hippogriff!"

The three looked behind Hagrid, and Ivy was smiling and waving at them.

"Shrinkage." Ivy explained simply, "It can reduce people's body size to half of their original size, and the clothes on their bodies will change accordingly."

"Magic is so amazing..." Ron muttered, and at the same time he couldn't help looking at Hagrid standing next to him. It was the first time that he could see the wrinkles on Hagrid's forehead without looking up.

"We met in the forest." Hagrid hugged Harry affectionately. He seemed to be very curious about the change in his body, especially holding Harry to his chest like this. You know, Harry could only hug his thighs in the past. "At that time, I was choosing a suitable Christmas tree for Hogwarts, and I saw Ivy flying down from the sky on a group of hippogriffs."

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"Hippogriffs...? Sorry, what?" Harry tried clumsily, but failed to pronounce the syllables correctly.

"Hippogriffs!" Hagrid repeated, patting the giant beasts beside him with his hands, "These are the cute big guys!"

"Do you want to try it?" Hagrid's eyes sparkled, and he said to the three little wizards who were not used to talking to Hagrid without looking up, "Ride them in the air for a circle?"