demon hunter at hogwarts

"Yes... get down to business first."

Newt stopped his comments with a slight embarrassment and began to give Nagini the medicine.

When the ointment was picked out of the jar and exposed to sunlight, it immediately gave off a particularly strange smell. It smelled like mint, onion and durian mixed together.

Regulus couldn't help but think of the clerk's instructions when he bought this jar of medicine.

He was glad that he hadn't been so curious that he actually made some ointment to see what would happen when it was exposed to the sun.

Tina sniffed and stood aside, watching Newt melt the ointment with magic and apply it to Nagini's injured area.

The big snake, which was full of life just now and tried to bite several people to death, was now lying on the ground dying, its huge body twitching from time to time due to pain.

Regulus had already let go of his left hand and changed back to its original shape, not forgetting to repair the torn suit sleeve.

Because there is a Dark Mark on his left forearm, this is not an ordinary tattoo that can be displayed casually to others.

Although since Voldemort had not fully regained his strength, the mark only had a faint tint of color.

After treating all of Nagini's wounds, the jar of unpleasant-smelling "Dr. Aziz Blancheflor's Reptilian Potion" also came to an end.

Fortunately, the effect of this potion is really good, at least the wounds no longer ooze blood.

"It's such a difficult spell." Newt sighed. "After being cast by this spell, if Voldemort gives her an order, she must obey it, and she won't even have the consciousness to resist at all."

"Do you think she needs some blood tonic?" Regulus said suddenly.

At this time, the patch of grass where the big snake lay was speckled with traces of blood.

"The blood replenishing potion is made for humans. If used on snakes, the effect will be less..." Newt said, "But it can be used for emergencies. I always keep some in my study..."

Before the magizoologist had finished speaking, Regulus used Muggle close-up magic to turn a bottle over and hold it between his fingers.

What was inside the bottle was the high-quality blood replenishing agent that he had spent a large sum of gold galleons to buy.

It's ironic to say that this blood tonic was originally specially prepared by him after listening to Quirrell's story in order to prevent himself from being bitten by "a big snake whose venom can prevent human wounds from healing".

In the end, he didn't use it, but used it on the big snake.

"Very good...you convince her to open her mouth...I'll give her the medicine." Newt said, "You have an advantage over me at this point."

Regulus retracted the hand holding the blood tonic and avoided Newt's attempt to take the bottle.

Tina's eyes flicked thoughtfully between her husband and this young man who was a stranger to her.

"I'll do it. It shouldn't be difficult to give the medicine." Regulus said easily.

"You have to be careful not to touch her fangs..." Newt stood aside and kept telling Regulus, "Many breeders, for their own safety, use magic spells to force potions into the animals. Throat, this approach can easily make the other party feel disrespected... Many magical animals have the same intelligence as humans and are very proud. Once you do this, you will never gain their friendship..."

"Newt!" Tina raised her voice and rolled her eyes at her husband.

"Very pertinent advice..."

Regulus sternly unscrewed the cap of the potion bottle, walked up to Nagini, and said to the serpent, "Eat this, it will be good for you."

Nagini trembled and opened her mouth, revealing a row of formidable teeth. Two huge fangs were as long as daggers and extremely sharp.

Regulus nonchalantly put his hand into the snake's mouth and poured a bottle of blood tonic into her throat.

Newt and Tina held their breath, watching the snake's reaction.As long as her upper jaw dropped slightly, the fangs could pierce Regulus' arm.

Fortunately, Nagini did not do this, and the medicine feeding process was completed smoothly.

"That should be enough." After seeing Regulus successfully pull back his hand, Newt breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Let me adjust the weather spell. I remember Nagini was in the tropical rain forest of Indonesia before. What was found inside, the Albanian jungle, was too cold for her... Let me see..."

Newt waved his wand and kept mumbling.

Regulus keenly noticed that this area was starting to become humid and hot.

"Wonderful spell," he admired.

"You have been doing the same thing for decades, and you have to become more proficient." Newt smiled stiffly after finishing speaking, and used his wand to adjust the layout of the area. Soon, something similar to a nest was built. come out.

Nagini slowly swam in and there was no more movement.

"It seems that she is quite satisfied with this family." Newt lowered his head and caught a glimpse of the blood stains on the ground. With a thought in his mind, he immediately took out something like a test tube from his pocket and waved his wand to collect the blood drops. .

"I need to study her blood again." The magical zoologist explained, "Since it is a blood curse, it is likely to be related to blood. Maybe we can find the secret."

"Let's go, let's go eat first." Tina reminded.

She knew Newt's character, he was extremely serious about his work, even a little bit over the top, and once he got into working mode, he would forget to eat and sleep.

He is no longer young after all.

"I'm a little hungry too..." Regulus quickly understood Tina's intention and continued following the topic, "I wonder what special delicacies you two have prepared? To be honest, I really can't stand Albania. Something like smoked bacon..."

"I've had worse things..." Newt said seriously, "Once I went to Sudan, it was all desert, and the food was all gone, so I could only catch scorpions and rattlesnakes to eat..."

After hearing what Newt said, Regulus suddenly felt that Albanian smoked bacon wasn't that bad.

When several people left this magical animal shelter that had cast a traceless stretching spell and returned to Newt's home, the table was empty and there was no so-called food.

There was only a burnt smell in the air.

Rolf stood dejectedly at the kitchen door, his face dark.

"Rolfe? What are you doing?" Tina asked doubtfully, "Where's the apple pie?"

"Sorry, grandma, I messed up..." Rolf rubbed his hands and said, "I wanted the temperature to be slightly higher so that the skin would be crispier, but I didn't control the fire power well and it exploded..."

"Tina...I forgot to remind you that Rolf was bitten by a soft-clawed land shrimp. It's best not to let him do anything for a week." Seeing that his wife was about to get angry, Newt hurriedly tried to smooth things over.

Then he turned to Regulus and said, "It seems we have to eat dry bread. I originally planned to ask Tina to cook two American dishes to entertain the guests..."

"American food?" Regulus frowned.

He had never heard of American food.

"Actually, I'm not good at cooking either..." Tina saw Regulus' confusion and said a little awkwardly, "I haven't made much progress in so many years... the food I made can only be said to be barely edible. Before... …Cooking is all Queenie’s business.”

"Queenie?"

"My sister, she...sigh..." Tina shook her head.

"Sorry, I talked too much." Regulus quickly understood from the expressions of the two old people that this "Queenie"'s past was probably not that good.

Newt took out the dry bread and some fresh vegetables and said, "We'll use these to make sandwiches, and Tina can make a few cups of hot cocoa...the kind you made when we first met."

"But I remember you didn't drink." Tina said stiffly, turned and walked into the kitchen, but she seemed to be in a better mood.

Newt winked at Regulus and smiled the same smile he had when he showed off the Winged Demon.

"Professor Black, Grandpa, may I know what you are doing?" Rolf, who had been standing by the wall tremblingly, suddenly asked.

"Do you still remember what you said to Professor Dumbledore the night I found you in the Forbidden Forest?" Regulus asked.

Rolf was about to speak, but was interrupted when Newt spoke first.

"You ran into the Forbidden Forest at night?"

"Yes, there was a rune horse that suddenly lost control. I want to help find it..." Rolf explained his behavior, "It's not that dangerous in the Forbidden Forest. I met Margery, and he has been helping me. .”

"Have you ever been to the north of the Forbidden Forest?" Newt suddenly glanced in the direction of the kitchen and lowered his voice and said, "There are descendants of werewolves there. They have human IQs but look exactly like ordinary wolves. Every time you go there The howling of wolves heard on a full moon night is all caused by them..."

Regulus finally knew where Rolf's energy came from.

He coughed twice in time, interrupting the discussion between grandfather and grandson about werewolves.

"Sorry...Professor Black, we seem to have mentioned a...blood-cursed orc named Narnia?" Rolf scratched his head in embarrassment and said.

"It's Nagini." Regulus corrected, "You should have seen her just now."

"That big snake?" Rolf said in surprise, "No wonder it looks familiar to me... What do you think, can you save her?"

Regulus didn't answer, and Rolf turned his attention to his grandfather again.

"As for the blood curse she was hit by, we can make some comparisons with Animagus transformation." Newt analyzed, "Even an Animagus who has successfully practiced will often feel that he is Will be dominated by animal nature. If there is a mental problem with him, human consciousness will be replaced by animal consciousness."

Rolf was a little confused, but Regulus was convinced.

According to Sirius, when he was in Azkaban, if he couldn't resist the desperate torture caused by the dementors, he would turn into the form of a dog.

Because the animal's thinking is relatively simple and is not easily dominated by complex emotions of despair, he can survive those long years.

"...When you transform back, you must imagine your human form as clearly as possible. This is very important." Newt continued, "Otherwise, you will be trapped in the body of an animal, and animal nature will gradually replace human nature. Eventually turning into an animal completely. We assume that the same is true for Nagini..."

Newt waved his wand, and the golden mist formed into the shape of a woman. She had a strange posture, with her arms folded around the back of her neck.

"Because the body of a snake is completely different from that of a human, she must remember the position of each part after the transformation so that she can return to her human form. But she will transform unconsciously while sleeping, and there will always be a time when she forgets this matter……"

As Newt told the story, the figure in the mist began to change. Unlike what Rolf and Regulus expected, the snake's tail did not turn into a foot, but the woman's left hand.

The woman's right hand turned into a snake body, connecting the head and body.

"This is the process of Nagini's transformation when she performed at the Mysterious Circus." Newt dispelled the fog and said, "It's not the same as you imagined, right? If she forgets which part of her body is her right hand, which part of her body is her right hand?" One section is her left leg, and she will never be able to come back. Moreover, before that, she would be worried that she would transform in her sleep, so she would not dare to sleep... In this way, her mental state would only get worse and worse. After the transformation, Easier to be controlled by animal nature..."

"But she remembers her name." Regulus said. "I think this means that her memory as a human has not completely disappeared, but is just sleeping somewhere in her brain. If we can try to wake it up..."

"Regarding the blood curse orcs, our research is progressing too slowly because there are not enough samples, and each family's blood curse has different effects." Newt said with some regret.

Regulus nodded. The problem of blood curse has troubled the wizarding world for thousands of years. It is not that easy to solve.

There was a brief silence in the room, and Rolf seemed depressed.

"The transformation technique you used just now is very special." Newt suddenly spoke, breaking the silence, "Judging from the shape of the claws, they look a bit like vampires, but they are not the same as their knuckles... It can be seen that the power is very strong. It's so big that it's impossible for an ordinary wizard to catch Nagini with his hands... This is the first time I've seen magical creature transformations used on humans..."

"It's a new attempt, not yet mature..." Regulus didn't know how to explain this problem to Newt, and was searching for words.

Fortunately, Tina came out of the kitchen with sandwiches and hot cocoa to relieve him.

The conversation among several people naturally shifted to Nagini and Credence. During this period, Newt also told a glorious history of his own.

"...Actually, I was the first person to capture Grindelwald, and the first person to hand over his wand was Tina...in the subway station in New York..."

Rolf looked at his unremarkable grandparents and clearly didn't believe it.

Because in the story Newt just told, Grindelwald single-handedly challenged the Twelve Aurors of the MACUSA and still had the advantage. He only subdued them and did not kill them. He was obviously able to do it with ease.

According to the current situation, capturing the President of the Magical Congress of the United States alive is just a matter of chance.

How could he be knocked down by his grandfather when he randomly released two magical creatures?