Ancient Warlocks at Hogwarts

After entering November, the weather in Hogwarts is getting colder and colder.Looking out from the Gryffindor tower window, the peaks of the distant hills were covered with snow, and even the Forbidden Forest became gray.

The black lake below the castle is covered with thick ice, and occasionally you can see a few unruly senior students skating and playing on it.

The first Quidditch match will be held this Saturday. Gryffindor's Quidditch captain Wood forced all team members to practice Quidditch every minute.

Harry put all his thoughts on this, and he even asked Hermione for a Quidditch book list, hoping to learn more about the sport.

Andre was indifferent to this. Although he performed well in the previous flying lessons, the thought of Quidditch training sessions three times a week made him give up the idea of ​​participating in the team selection in the second grade.

With this time, he might as well study more magic.

The library of Hogwarts is much more attractive to Andre than a Quidditch match that doesn't take long to end. At least he recently found a very interesting spell in the library - - Traceless Stretching Spell.

"This spell needs to be continued continuously to keep the bag's enlargement space."

In the common room, Hermione sat on the same sofa as Andre. Ever since the troll incident, she had been very close to Andre.

Even when Andre lent his homework to Harry and the others to copy, she no longer cared about it.

This made Harry relieved. He had no time to do his homework recently due to Quidditch training.

"Yes, but if you can find the right magic materials, you can extend the duration of the Traceless Stretch Spell to several years." Andre nodded.

The spell itself is quite difficult to perform, and if it is just cast on an ordinary pocket box, it will not take long for the attached magic to wear off.With Andre's current strength, he can probably maintain it for about half a day.

Therefore, magic materials with spatial characteristics must be used to maintain the extra space expanded by the Traceless Stretch Spell for a long time.

This is just like a wizard who can use the Disguise Spell to hide his body, but the invisibility cloak still needs to be made of the fur of an invisible beast - the spell is often not effective for a long time, and is far less stable than the innate abilities of various magical creatures. .

"Maybe you can try the sniffing belly bag. This kind of creature can always hide things larger than its size." Andre thought for a while and said.

Hermione frowned upon hearing this: "But where do you have to find such an animal?"

Andre said: "Hagrid should be there somewhere. He always likes to collect magical animals, and we don't need to kill the Sniff, we just need to peel one off the dead Sniff. As far as I know , the reproductive capacity of this little thing is quite amazing, just like the rabbits in our Muggle world."

Hermione nodded and said that she would help Andre look up information in this area.

Soon the nine o'clock bell came from the clock tower of the main building, and the two ended their conversation and said good night to each other.

The next day was Friday, and Harry became more and more nervous. He seemed distracted all morning, and even took out a copy of "Magical Quidditch" in the Potions class. Andre covered his face and couldn't bear it. Let's see what happens next.

Because Snape had quietly stood behind Harry, "Whose class do you think you are taking, Potter?"

Harry shuddered and jumped up from his chair, as if a mixture of ice and water at minus ten degrees had been poured onto his neck.

"Ten points from Gryffindor because of you, Mr. Potter, who only has a broom in his head!" Snape snatched away the books on Harry's desk.

"I have to find a way to get the book back. I borrowed it from the library. If I don't return it, Mrs. Pince will never let me into the library again." Harry kept talking about this during lunch. .

Although Andre didn't know why he felt that not being able to enter the library was more terrifying than facing Snape, you must know that the only time Harry went to the library this semester was just to borrow the "Magical Quidditch".

But Andre didn't say much, and just let Harry try it out. He planned to go to Hagrid's hut with Hermione in the afternoon to ask Hagrid if he had any sniffing belly bags.

After lunch, Andre took Hermione out of the castle. This was Hermione's first time going to Hagrid's hut.

She was obviously curious about everything outside the castle, but Andre didn't dare tell her that all the crops in the fields were taken care of by the house elves at Hogwarts.

If she found out that there were more than 100 intelligent creatures who were like slaves in the school, who knows what she would do. Andre didn't want Hermione to set up some house-elf protection association in advance.

The two soon arrived at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, where Hagrid was chopping wood outside.

Seeing Andre's arrival, Hagrid was obviously very happy. He usually didn't have many visitors here.

"Hi, Hagrid, this is Hermione Granger, also our Gryffindor." Andre introduced Hagrid.

"Oh, hello Miss Granger." Hagrid stretched out his big hand and shook Hermione's hand.

"Just call me Hermione, Hagrid."

"Hagrid, we came here today to ask you if you have any Niffler's fur here, I mean the kind with a belly bag." Andre waited for the two of them to finish shaking hands and directly stated the purpose of his visit.

"What do you want that thing for?" Hagrid asked curiously: "Of course I have it. You have to know that I have to deal with a batch every year. These little things grow too fast. They can give birth to seven or eight in one litter, and they always It's running around. Dumbledore made sure I didn't get sniffed into the castle."

Andre smiled. He knew that Hagrid had brought out a large number of Nifflers when he served as a professor of Care of Magical Creatures in the future, but he did not expect that such creatures were about to overrun the Forbidden Forest.

"I recently learned the Seamless Stretch Charm, so I wanted to see if I could use Sniff's belly bag to make a magic prop or something."

"Oh, I know this spell, but I can't use it. Well, I mean you have to know that I don't have a wand that can cast the spell!" Hagrid realized that he seemed to have let slip again, and he quickly turned around and walked towards the house, " Okay, you guys wait for me here for a while, I’ll go look for it, I remember I put all the peeled skins under the bed.”

Hermione glanced at Hagrid doubtfully, and then asked Andre in a low voice: "How come Hagrid doesn't have a wand? Isn't he a wizard?"

Andre bared his teeth. He couldn't tell Hermione that Hagrid was expelled from Hogwarts and had his wand broken because he was slandered 50 years ago and opened the Chamber of Secrets.Although in fact Dumbledore secretly repaired his wand and kept it hidden under his pink umbrella.

So Andre had to say perfunctorily: "I don't know either. You can't ask people about this kind of thing. It would be very rude, right?"