Professor of Gemology at Hogwarts

Halloween is just a few days away.According to the routine, the secret room will be opened on Halloween, and Filch's cat will be petrified. He first needs to confirm through this event whether the original plot is still developing.

It has to be said that every accident that happens at Hogwarts at the beginning of the school year happens on Halloween, and every problem is solved after the exam is over, and every problem is solved until the summer vacation. The key is that it does not delay the students at all. Our exam...

After the secret room is opened, he only needs to remind him a little bit about what happened 50 years ago. He believes that the matter will be solved soon. In this way, he can usher in peaceful days early this semester and deal with the piece of petrified wood in peace. Enjoyable?

In the corridor, Gray met the almost headless Nick. He was usually in the Gryffindor tower, but now he appeared here.

"Hello! Sir Nicholas!"

"Oh! Hello! Maurice!" Greeted Gray in a brisk tone.

As a ghost, Nearly Headless Nick is all pearly white and slightly transparent.He has long curly hair and usually wears a ruff to keep his head from moving around.

"I rarely see you walking in the corridor."

"I'm sending a letter, and I'm going to apply to join the Headless Hunters!" Nick held up the letter happily.

"Headless Hunters?"

“Members of the Headless Hunters will participate in Hunters activities like horseback juggling and overhead polo!”

"..." Gray glanced at Nick's neck. Although Nick was almost headless, he still had a head.

"Tell me, I was struck 44 times on the neck with a blunt axe. Do I qualify to join the Headless Hunters?"

"Qualified!" Gray replied in a very affirmative tone.

"I think so too!" Nick became even more happy, "I'm going to send a letter, and the application should be approved smoothly!"

"Nick, I want to ask you something!"

"I'm happy! Maurice! I'll tell you as soon as I know!" Nick felt very happy because Gray recognized that he had no head.

"Do you know Mr. Ballard Mason?"

"Ballard Mason?" Nick folded the letter neatly and put it away. "Hmm... I remember him. He used to be the alchemy professor at Hogwarts. But then he left for some reason? When When I realized it, he seemed to have stopped teaching, maybe he had left the school! This man has a very weird temper... He even did 'big things' with Professor Kettleburn!"

"Professor Kettleburn? Did we do great things together?" Gray was curious. It turned out that Professor Mason had an intersection with Professor Kettleburn!

"The two of them once enchanted the Ash Snake to play the role of an earthworm in "The Fountain of Good Luck." As a result, the entire hall caught fire. This incident was widely known! But the ending was very bad. The Christmas "Good Luck Snake" The play "Yunquan" ended with this fire!"

Gray once knew the name Armando Dippet when he read "Hogwarts: A School History".Armando Dippet served as the principal of Hogwarts from 1925 to 1965. The fire accident occurred during his tenure. The story "Fountain of Good Luck" was originally included in the holiday celebrations at Hogwarts. Made into a Christmas pantomime.

This matter was very valuable. If it hadn't been for the fire in "The Fountain of Good Luck", he would not have known that Mr. Mason was related to Professor Kettleburn.

"Thank you very much Nick, I have one more question, do you know Franty Trian?"

"Trian?" Nick touched his chin and said, "Let me think about it...I'm sorry, I don't have much impression of this name."

"Okay, thank you, Nick!"

Gray's mother was a Ravenclaw graduate, and as the resident ghost of Gryffindor, it was not surprising that Nick didn't know any Ravenclaw students.

However, we can still get some clues. This weird Professor Mason has an intersection with Professor Kettleburn, who is currently in the Magical Creatures class.

Kettleburn is a very warm man, but sometimes a little reckless and careless.

His love for the dangerous creatures he studies and cares for causes him to be seriously injured multiple times, sometimes even injuring others.This enabled him to undergo no less than 62 retention checks during his tenure at the school, a record that no one can break to this day.

Gray came to the hunting ground set up around the Forbidden Forest, which was used by students during classes and also housed some magical animals. Kettleburn was very keen on dealing with them. Apart from eating and sleeping, he devoted almost all of his time to the animals.

"You're here! Maurice!" Kettleburn was massaging his swallow-tailed dog. When he saw Gray coming, he greeted him warmly from a distance.

Gray saw the dog and was reluctant to continue walking forward.

Swallowtails look very similar to Jack Russell Terriers, except that their tails are forked.

Dog owners are legally obliged to use a painless cutting spell to remove their peculiar tail when the dog reaches 6 to 8 weeks old, lest the special tail attract the attention of Muggles.

This dog is loyal to wizards and can be cruel to Muggles.Any wizard who wants to apply to keep a swallow-tailed dog must first complete a simple test to prove that he has the ability to control a swallow-tailed dog in a Muggle-inhabited area, and then he can receive a breeding license from the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures of the Ministry of Magic.

Although Gray is a wizard, his father is a Muggle, and his family lives in the Muggle world, so he has some exposure to Muggle-related things.This makes him a little afraid of the swallow-tailed dog. You never know when it will go crazy and pounce on you.

Coupled with his fiery passion, Kettleburn, who has inadvertently hurt others many times, seems to be even more dangerous...

"Don't be afraid! Professor Morris! It's very well-behaved!"

Gray breathed a sigh of relief. He might have thought too much. With the experienced Kettleburn beside him, how could that dog dare to go crazy?

Kettleburn stroked the dog's head a few times, then patted its bottom. "Go ahead! Pudding!"

As he said that, the dog named Pudding flew towards Gray with his teeth bared, scaring him so much that he quickly pulled out his wand.

"No!" Kettleburn shouted, and immediately jumped up from the stone pier and chased Pudding. His prosthetic limbs made a squeaking sound, and he shouted as he chased, "Don't! Don't--"

Gray panicked even more, watching the pudding getting closer and closer, Kettleburn still chased it, for fear that it would hurt Gray.

"Dizzy——"

Just when he was about to cast the spell, Pudding suddenly made a sharp turn and ran to the other side - it turned out that he was chasing a gopher.

"Don't!" Kettleburn gasped, "Don't... point your wand at pudding!"

"..."

The corner of Gray's mouth twitched. It seemed that he had "wrongly blamed" his old man. He thought Kettleburn was trying not to let the pudding bite him.

"Pudding was very excited when he saw the gopher!" Kettleburn said calmly and looked at the dog who was chasing the gopher with joy. It turned several corners in pursuit and ran into the forbidden forest in a hurry.

"It is an amazing scavenger! From goblins to old tires, it will eat almost anything it encounters!" Although Kettleburn ran a few meters away with missing arms and legs, his enthusiasm remained undiminished. "He solved a lot of trouble for me!"

"Uh... Professor Kettleburn, I want to ask you about someone." Gray quickly got to the point.

"Ask someone?" Kettleburn's prosthetic calf became crooked from running just now. He stood on one foot and bent down to tighten the screws on his calf. "I am an old man and I know all these things." Old man...um...and old lady, do you know anyone else worth asking? I guess I don't know as many people as I know magical animals! But I hope I can help you, Maurice!"

"Do you know Ballard Mason?"

"Who? Bar... Ballard?" Kettleburn stopped what he was doing, straightened up and looked at him.