Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

The Harry Potter trio took baskets of apples and plums picked by their classmates to the centaur tribe to hand in the task, and then the group happily returned to Hogwarts Castle with a basket of packed medicinal materials.

When they returned to the castle, they saw Professor McGonagall and Zhang Xu who were talking in front of the gate.

Zhang Xugang took his harvest to Slughorn in the potions classroom in the basement, and met Professor McGonagall when he returned to the foyer.

Recently, Lao Deng was not around, and Professor McGonagall was in charge of everything, so Zhang Xu reported to her the movement of the horse people and asked her to pass it on to Lao Deng.

"Do the horses have enough food for the winter?" Professor McGonagall asked with some concern.

As the vice headmaster of Hogwarts, she naturally understands the importance of the centaur tribe to Hogwarts.

Zhang Xu replied pessimistically: "Judging from the number of unpicked fruits so far, although the horse people will not starve to death this winter, they will definitely not be as well-off as before."

The normal daily food intake of a horse is about [-] percent of their body weight.

And the centaur is huge. An adult centaur like Firenze weighs more than 500 kilograms, and lolis of three hundred catties in the tribe run around the streets.

Due to the high altitude of the Forbidden Forest and the long winter, the horse people will not be able to collect food on a large scale until the end of spring next year, so they need to stockpile winter food for nearly five months from mid-November to April.

Calculated in this way, each adult centaur must prepare two to three tons of food to survive the winter relatively easily, so the food needed for the entire centaur tribe to survive the winter is a very large amount.

"If we go to help the horse people collect food." Professor McGonagall frowned and began to think about the feasibility of this matter.

"I don't think this is a good choice," Zhang Xu said, shaking his head. "Perhaps the horse people will have the illusion that we are raising them. Today, some horse people have such an illusion."

Professor McGonagall is also very helpless about this. It is very difficult for him to meet such an ally whose three views do not agree with his own.

So Professor McGonagall decisively decided to push the matter to Dumbledore.

At this time, Harry and the others came back with medicinal materials.

Dividing line

Shortly after dinner, the news that Katie Bell had woken up after receiving treatment spread across the common rooms of the four colleges in an instant.

Now Zhang Xu shirks a lot of things on the grounds that he needs to recuperate, so he naturally has to go to Madam Pomfrey for regular checkups, and take some auxiliary medicines as health care products.

Zhang Xu, who had just left the school infirmary, also went to the ward to visit Katie Bell just now, but although she woke up, she was not very energetic. Under the effect of Madam Pomfrey's auxiliary medicine , soon fell asleep.

As for the fact that Madam Pomfrey gave Zhang Xu and Katie Bell the auxiliary medicines that were all poured out of the same big bottle, Zhang did not know.

After returning to his dormitory, Zhang Xu came to the study, took out a thickly folded map from a kraft paper bag and spread it on the desk.

Today, after hearing the elder centaur's prophecy about mechanized troops sweeping across the Forbidden Forest, Zhang Xu suddenly realized that there was a problem that he hadn't paid attention to all these years, and that was the terrain around Hogwarts.

Due to the wizard's unscientific mobility, Zhang Xu has been ignoring this point

Although the magic of Hogwarts prevents it from being marked on the map, it is not difficult to find Hogwarts' location on maps, especially topographic maps, through indirect methods.Mr. Zhang has long determined the latitude and longitude of the circle around Hogwarts through GPS positioning. As long as these coordinates are connected into a circle, the location of Hogwarts can be known.

Out

Due to various considerations, Zhang Xu did not tell Dumbledore about this method.

It can be seen from the topographic map that the area where Hogwarts Hogsmeade is located is located in a basin between several high mountains, surrounded by mountains on three sides, only the side of the Forbidden Forest is not blocked by high mountains, and the terrain relatively flat.

For the first time, Zhang Xu carefully studied this topographic map from the perspective of Muggles attacking Hogwarts. Not long after, he discovered that a large-scale attack on Hogwarts, which was surrounded by mountains, and the relatively flat Forbidden Forest is the only option.

After confirming it at this time, Zhang Xu put it aside and ignored it.

If the matter really develops to that point, it is beyond his personal ability to solve it.

After packing up the things on the desk, Zhang Xu opened the door of the study and returned to the living room. The moment he entered the living room, a sweet smell of apples flooded into his nostrils.

Scarlett, who was sitting on the sofa, waved to him, then pointed to the coffee table.

Zhang Xu walked over and found a huge apple pie emitting bursts of aroma from the coffee table.

Scarlet cut off a few pieces of apple pie and put them on small plates, handed them to the Harry trio sitting around the coffee table, and finally shared a piece for himself and Zhang Xu.

Zhang Xu looked at the four people who did not know when they appeared in the living room of the dormitory with a confused face, picked up his share of apple pie and ate it.

Just as confused as Zhang Xu was Harry's trio. The three of them came to Zhang Xu for something, but they didn't expect Professor Scarlet to open the door for them after knocking on the door.

Now Harry and the others are thinking whether to find an excuse and run away quickly, as if what happened tonight never happened.

The atmosphere was a little weird for a while, Scarlett said that she and a few girls left a lot of apples, and made a lot of apple pies in the kitchen just now.While the other four were silently eating the sweet apple pie with their own thoughts.

Not long after, Zhang Xu finally found a topic to break the atmosphere.

"Harry, can you still dream about what Voldemort saw and heard recently?" Zhang Xu asked.

Everyone here knows that Harry and Voldemort had a tacit understanding. It's just that Harry didn't mention such a thing recently, so everyone didn't pay attention.

"No more." Harry shook his head and said, "Professor Dumbledore said he used Occlumency to seal his brain, and he realized that this kind of thing is a double-edged sword for him."

"That's a pity," Zhang Xu said regretfully, "So I planned to show him something good."

As the saying goes, if you come and don't reciprocate, if Voldemort can show Harry a small video of Black being caught and tortured by them, why can't Harry repay him in the same way?

Zhang Xu even wrote the script:

In the foyer of Hogwarts Castle, the tall and burly Hagrid stood opposite Voldemort.

Hagrid: "You're back, I've been waiting for you for over 50 years."

Voldemort: Σц

Hagrid: "It's been more than 50 years. I knew what that monster was from the very beginning. Aragog told me the true identity of that monster."

Voldemort: oцo"

Hagrid: "I know, you will be homeless after leaving Hogwarts, and I can still have a place to stay. So I let you know that I am secretly raising Aragog, so that you can Stay at Hogwarts."

Voldemort: o﹏o

Hagrid: "50+ years, I want you to understand, I"

Voldemort: ╯°Ц°╯︵┻━┻

Zhang estimated that there was a certain chance of driving Voldemort crazy.