Ancient Warlocks at Hogwarts

In fact, Hermione and the other three would be surprised to find out the next day that Snape would punish Malfoy severely.But now, except Andre, no one else believes that this will happen.

At this time, they had left Professor McGonagall's office and were walking outside the castle. Although they had just experienced an unpleasant scene, they still decided to go visit Hagrid as planned.

After all, after they returned to school, only Andre went there once during the Transfiguration class, and Harry, who had the best relationship with Hagrid, had not even met the big man, because he and Ron were not able to return to school this time. Didn't pass Hogsmeade Station.

"I think the punishment given by Professor McGonagall is too severe. It's just a fifty-point deduction and a week of solitary confinement." It was Ron who complained on Andre's behalf.

"I think fifty points is the key," Andre smiled and shook his head, saying: "The one-week confinement is not a difficult thing for me, it's just that I fell in love with Professor McGonagall's office. It’s just a week’s worth of books, but I was deducted fifty points. I’m afraid that other Gryffindor classmates will think that I’m too trouble-making.”

"How is it possible? You taught the Slytherin team a harsh lesson. They are eager to hold a celebration party for you." Ron disagreed with Andre's statement and retorted.

That's true. In Gryffindor's opinion, although scores are important, they are definitely more willing to see Slytherins make a fool of themselves than in the House Cup.

Of course, except for Hermione, the little witch is still busy figuring out how to help Andre earn back the fifty points that were deducted.

"Oh, good afternoon, everyone, are you here to see me?" Hagrid saw the four little wizards walking over from a distance. He stood in front of the hut, waving his hands and saying hello loudly.

"That's right, Hagrid." Andre shouted back.

"It's really hard for you to still remember me. It's been almost a week since school started, and only Andre has been to my place," Hagrid said half-jokingly after a few people walked in.

But Harry still explained a little seriously: "Sorry, Hagrid, we have had classes to attend in the past few days, and I was planning to come over to visit you this morning, but Wood took us to Quidditch early in the morning. Training at Qi Stadium, so I waited until now.”

"Oh, don't say that. I don't mean to blame you, it's just a joke." Hagrid quickly said that he didn't mind, then opened the door of the hut and said to the four of them: "Come in quickly, I The rock biscuits have just been baked, they are still warm, you can try them."

It's a pity that after hearing his invitation, except for Andre, the other three young wizards had expressions of resistance on their faces. After all, this kind of snack is indeed not something that normal wizards can enjoy.

Just out of politeness, the three of them could only bite the bullet and did not raise any objections.

"Tell me, what have you done this week? Oh, by the way, I've already asked Andre about the two of you flying into the school in a car." Hagrid welcomed the four of them into the cabin. Finally, he took his big copper teapot and poured a cup of black tea for everyone: "Although you may think I'm verbose, I still have to remind you that it won't happen again. This time it's You are lucky. If you run into the woods, who knows when you will be found, or even something unexpected may happen."

Although they had different views on this matter, Harry and Harry pretended that they knew something was wrong and nodded their heads obediently.

Then Ron started to talk about what just happened today.

"We had a conflict with the Slytherins in the morning... You don't even know how hateful Malfoy is. He actually said words like 'Mudblood' to Hermione. Oh, I'm sorry, Hermione, I I just want Hagrid to know better."

When he said the word mudblood, Ron specifically apologized to Hermione, but the little witch waved her hand to show that she didn't care.

"At that time, George and I were ready to go up and teach him a lesson, but Andre was faster. He used the magic that Sirius taught him to scare Malfoy so much that he almost wet his pants. In the end, they didn't fight. Instead, he went to the stadium to complain to Snape in despair."

Hagrid looked indignant after hearing this. He couldn't help but stood up and walked to Hermione. Then he patted the little witch on the shoulder and comforted: "Ignore what that guy said. I told you during the summer vacation." , the blood shed by the Malfoy family is bad."

"Well, actually I don't care that much." Hermione said a little embarrassedly: "If Ron hadn't told me, I wouldn't even know what that word means."

"That's the best," Hagrid said: "And to be honest, their approach has long been outdated. Look at our Hermione, you can't learn any magic in one go. On the contrary, those who hold the pure-blood philosophy I think one of the wizards is worse than the other."

In fact, according to the theory taught to Andre by Ms. Camille, the ancestor of the Adrian family, pure-blood wizards are indeed better than mixed-blood wizards to a certain extent, because the magic of wizards originates from the soul. Magical characteristics, and these characteristics are inherited from the original ancient warlocks, which determines that the closer to the bloodline of the ancient warlocks, the more powerful its characteristics will be.

But the problem is that after so many generations of inheritance, even the descendants of the so-called 28 Saint Clan, their bloodline has long been impure. What's more, it cannot be ignored that Muggle-born wizards themselves also have the inheritance of ancient warlocks. Otherwise, they would not have awakened their magic power. It is just that their ancestors experienced a break in a certain era, leading to their exile in the Muggle world.

Of course, if you want to explore this issue, you need to study too much information. Andre is not interested in helping those pure-blood wizards to prove this, so he did not participate in this topic, but asked Hagrid Asked about the Care of Magical Creatures professor.

"Oh, you're talking about Professor Kettleburn. I happened to meet him yesterday. He was looking for unicorns in the Forbidden Forest. He wants to show this kind of creature to the third grade children next week. , but, if you ask me, compared to unicorns, hippogriffs are more beautiful." Once Hagrid talks about the magical creatures in the woods, he will always unconsciously deviate from the original topic.

Fortunately, Andre coughed slightly, reminding the big man that he was not asking about who was more beautiful, the unicorn or the hippogriff.

"Oh, yes, yes," Hagrid slapped his forehead with his hand and continued a little embarrassedly: "We are talking about Professor Kettleburn, look at my memory."

"I have told him that you want the bird and snake bones. Originally, I wanted to take you to find him together on Monday, but the professor is very talkative and he promised to help us solve those bones, but he There is also a request that requires your agreement, Andre."

"What request?" Andre asked curiously.

"It's about the alchemy tool you want to make out of bird and snake bones. Didn't you say that thing can even let a fire dragon live in it?" Hagrid picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip, and then said: "Mr. Professor I want one too, you have to know that he raised a lot of animals, in addition to the dead bird and snake, there are also many magical creatures he kept in captivity in the forest."

It turned out that this was the case. Of course Andre would not refuse this request. He immediately nodded: "That's no problem. As long as Professor Kettleburn can give me two bones of birds and snakes, I can definitely help him make it." The same alchemy tool came out, but did he tell you when the bones will be delivered to us?"

"The professor said it will take at least two weeks. He will have to go to the Far East next weekend to help us get the bones. After all, we can't find wild birds and snakes in the UK," Hagrid said.

Andre breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he only needed to let Norbert stay in the castle for about half a month. He had been a little worried since he saw someone entering the Room of Requirement that night.

But now with Professor Kettleburn's guarantee, he will soon be able to move the little female dragon out of the castle and hand it over to Hagrid to take care of her. This will undoubtedly greatly reduce the risk of being discovered by others.

"Wait, why don't I understand what you two are talking about?" But after listening to Andre and Hagrid's conversation, Hermione couldn't help but frown and ask.

Not only the little witch, but also Harry and Ron couldn't understand what the two were just talking about.

"Oh, didn't you tell them?" Hagrid thought that these three little guys had known about this for a long time.

Andre shook his head. He didn't mean to hide it, but he never had a chance to tell the three of them. Especially on the first day of school, Hermione and Ron had a conflict, and they ignored everyone at that time. Whose status.

"It's Norberta. My cousin went back to France during the summer vacation. She will have to stay there for a long time, so I can't leave it in Hogsmeade. There is no one there to take care of it." Andre explained: "I had no choice but to bring it into the castle again, in the same room where we placed it last semester."

"Oh my God, you actually brought that fire dragon into school again!?" Hermione looked at Andre in disbelief: "But it is much bigger now than last semester, right? I remember you I said that fire dragons grow much faster than humans."

"That's right." Andre nodded. "This is why Hagrid and I are looking for Professor Kettleburn. Norbert is indeed not suitable to be placed in the school anymore."

"But what does this have to do with the professor you mentioned? Also, why have I never heard of this professor's name?" Harry also asked in confusion.

Hagrid smiled and said for Andre: "Because Andre is planning to make an alchemy tool similar to the bag he gave you, but the one made from Xiu Xiu's belly bag can only be filled with daily necessities. , there is no way for Norbert to live in it, what he wants to do this time is a prop that is several times bigger than my cabin."

"At the beginning of the summer vacation, didn't we go to Sirius's old house?" Seeing that several people still looked puzzled, Andre said: "I picked up a few books there, and one of them recorded It is the knowledge of ancient alchemy. It says that if you make a box with the bones of magical animals like birds and snakes, and then cast the Traceless Stretching Charm, you can get a huge space, enough for a fire dragon to make a home in it. But the bird Snakes are not common, and I only found out after asking Hagrid that Professor Kettleburn once raised one, and he also knew where the bones of this animal could be found."

Having said this, he paused before continuing: "Oh, by the way, you really don't know this professor yet. He is in charge of the Care of Magical Creatures class. We can't take his class until we are in the third year, but you should be in I saw him in school, he was the old man who was missing an arm, um, and was lame on one leg."

After saying this, Hermione and the others immediately remembered that they had indeed seen such an old man in the castle, but they had never thought that he was actually a professor.

"So you are planning to use the bones of birds and snakes to make an alchemy tool that Norbert can live in?" Hermione had already figured out Andre's goal at this time.

"Yes, I will let Hagrid take care of Norberta by then. If I leave it here with him, I won't have to worry about being discovered by others." Andre nodded: "And I forgot to tell you that during the summer vacation, I had completely Tamed Norberta, she is now as obedient as Hagrid's fangs."

Hearing his name, Yaya, who was lying in the corner, raised his body curiously and looked at the people around the table.

"But isn't the fire dragon untameable?" Ron blinked and said, "I heard Charlie say that he had never seen a fire dragon that was truly tamed by a wizard in Romania."

Harry also said: "Yes, I also saw a Ukrainian iron belly underground in Gringotts. The goblins could only control the fire dragon by relying on iron chains."

"This is the magic passed down by our family. Didn't I go to France last Christmas to inherit my grandfather's legacy? He left me a bottle of magic potion, which was just enough to help me tame some dangerous magical animals." Andre was half-serious. Half-hypocritically: "Aren't you always curious that I can transform into a fire dragon? This can actually be accomplished with the help of the magic potion left by my grandfather."

Andre had never thought about how to tell his friends before this incident. After all, they had all witnessed him transforming into a Hungarian Horntail. However, after that time, even Ron was very knowledgeable and did not ask him about it. How to accomplish this magic.

But as the relationship between the several people became closer, Andre also felt that there was no point in hiding this half-exposed secret, so he selectively told some truths.

Of course, he didn't even tell Sophia about the Holy Acorns and Holy Mistletoe, which were the biggest secrets of the Druid sect, so naturally he wouldn't tell anyone else easily.

Especially since the mentor of the Free Magic Guild has always coveted the Druid heritage, it is best that only he knows the core secret.