demon hunter at hogwarts

Hagrid was still scratching his big head with messy hair, but didn't realize what was going on.

But several centaurs had already exchanged meaningful glances with each other. Of course they knew that those friends with "slender waists and long legs" were referring to the Acromantula.

However, they did not intend to explain this matter to Hagrid, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble. Bain and Ronan, who had limited affection for humans, turned around and walked into the dark woods.

"Now that the matter has been settled, we will say goodbye." Margaret glanced at Norbert, who was sleeping in the open space, and said goodbye to everyone.

Firenze walked up to Harry, held his hand and said solemnly: "I wish you good luck, Harry Potter."

Seeing their companions being treated so differently, Ron and Neville cast envious looks at Harry, and Draco let out a disdainful snort.

"We have to move him out. According to the time, Charlie and the others will be here soon." After the centaurs left, Regulus turned to Noble and used the levitating spell to lift it into the air.

"Charlie? What is he doing here?" Ron was surprised when he heard his second brother's name.

"Of course you are sending our big friend home." Regulus pointed at the fire dragon. Norbert yawned and blew out a stream of flames from his nostrils, which almost burned Ron.

"You're right, it needs to go home quickly." Ron said with lingering fear.

Compared with the cautious approach when he came in, the path seemed much easier to walk back on. This was partly because Hagrid was familiar with the route and had a good relationship with all the creatures in the woods. None of the more ferocious magical animals were against him. Hagrid attacks.

On the other hand, thanks to Norbert, even a young dragon's breath can scare away many creatures.

If it wasn't a life and death fight, no animal would be willing to fight a fire dragon.

By the time they walked out of the Forbidden Forest and returned to Hagrid's hut, there were already five or six people standing at the door. From a distance, they were all strong and muscular men. Hagrid's big hunting dog Yaya was playing with one of them next to the pumpkin. .

"Sorry Charlie, we were delayed for a few minutes. I hope we didn't keep you waiting too long." Regulus said to the man easily.

When the man heard what Regulus said, he immediately ran over. He was indeed Charlie. Compared to a few months ago, his hair was shaved shorter and his arms were thicker.

Even though the weather was already very cold, he only casually wore a T-shirt and a leather vest.

"Professor Black, Hagrid." Charlie greeted everyone, not forgetting to wink with his little brother Ron.

Through the dim light of the hut, Regulus discovered that there was a large shiny scar on Charlie's left arm, as if it had been burned by fire.

"How did you do it?"

"On my first week of work, I met a Swedish Brachysaurus who was in a bad mood... The female dragon would be very irritable and irritable right after laying eggs. I was negligent..." Charlie scratched his ear, feeling a little uncomfortable. Say politely, "Sorry to disappoint you, Professor."

"Even the best wizards make mistakes sometimes, but I hope you won't make any trouble when dealing with this guy..." Regulus smiled, "Come on, let's take a look at your new subject first. "

Charlie yelled a few words in Romanian with a heavy British accent. The dragon trainers immediately gathered around Norbert and looked carefully at the sleeping young Norwegian Ridgeback. Charlie even started to rub Norbert's chin. scales.

Even in Romania's Fire Dragon Sanctuary, the Norwegian Ridgeback is a very rare species, so of course he wanted to take this opportunity to observe it carefully.

"Merlin's dragon egg...Hagrid, you just kept it in the Forbidden Forest? How wonderful it would be if I didn't graduate..." Charlie scratched the spines on Norbert's back with his calloused fingers and said, murmured.

"Huh?" Regulus raised his eyebrows and stared at Charlie with sharp eyes.

"I mean, this is totally wrong! How can you raise a dragon in the Forbidden Forest." Charlie also realized his slip of the tongue and immediately changed his words, "I noticed that it is a little malnourished, maybe it just broke out. I didn't drink enough brandy and chicken blood when I was shelling... You should have told me earlier, now that it's so big..."

"What's the name of this dragon?" A bearded dragon trainer who came with Charlie suddenly asked in half-baked English.

"Oh, it's called Norbert." Hagrid replied immediately.

"I suggest you change its name." The dragon trainer pointed at the fire dragon and said, "This is a female fire dragon. Its horns, hind limbs and tail are all different from those of the male. Look at the horns first..."

Hagrid and the four little wizards listened attentively to the dragon trainer's explanation, as if they were taking a lesson on the protection of magical creatures.

"Filch will come to take them back to the castle later. We have limited time and cannot let too many people know about this." Regulus said in a voice that only he and Charlie could hear.

Charlie understood immediately and coughed twice, interrupting the dragon trainer's story. "Adrian, thank you for your explanation...but we still have a long way to go. Are you ready to go?"

"How are you going to take it away?" Harry finally couldn't help but ask.

"Fly back, of course." Charlie stretched out his right hand, and his broomstick immediately sprang out of the darkness.

Then, the six dragon trainers took out ropes and hastily tied the iron chains holding the young dragons to their respective broomsticks. Then they simultaneously stretched out their wands and used the levitating spell to lift the sleeping fire dragon into the air.

"Maybe you can go to Romania to visit it during the vacation next summer!" Charlie did not forget to say after taking off.

"I will!" Hagrid shouted, "Goodbye, Norbert! Mother will never forget you!"

Draco let out a mocking sneer, but it was drowned out by Hagrid's loud sniffling. Charlie waved at them and flew into the night sky with his companions and Norbert.

Hagrid's huge body was shaking. Harry walked over and patted his knee, trying to comfort him, but this only made Hagrid sob harder.

Just when Harry was helpless, Filch ran over panting, pointed at the figures of Charlie and others flying away from the castle in the distance, and asked, "What is that? Is there something flying in the sky?"

"Maybe it's a strange-looking bat." Regulus stopped Draco from answering the question with his eyes, then turned to Filch and said politely: "Please bring these gentlemen back to the castle, they This lockdown ends tonight.”

So, the four Harrys followed Filch back to the castle. Along the way, Filch kept talking about how he missed those ancient punishments, and expressed his desire to try it on these people. desire.

In the hut, Hagrid was still lying on a big pumpkin wiping his tears, and did not notice that Regulus had been standing quietly behind him.

"I have to talk to you. Can you let me in?" Two minutes later, Regulus felt that waiting for Hagrid to calm down would take too long, so he couldn't help but speak.

"Ah... you haven't left yet..." Hagrid started up, turned around and saw that it was Regulus, then he rubbed his eyes and said vaguely: "Of course... please come in..."

After saying that, he opened the door and welcomed Regulus into the hut.

As soon as he stepped into the house, Regulus was shocked by the furnishings in the house.

One of Ollivander's favorite wand materials, a unicorn tail hair worth ten galleons, was actually hanging on the wall together with several broken copper pots. There were probably hundreds of pieces in that handful. root.

Some fire crab shells were randomly thrown into the bucket in the corner, and the gems on them shone with colorful luster.

The bottle on the window sill contained green Acromantula venom, which was priceless on the black market.

After a rough estimate, Regulus believed that if the various magical creature by-products in this cabin were converted into galleons, it would not be a problem to fill a medium-sized Gringotts underground vault.

"Would you like something to drink?" Hagrid walked to the table with two wine glasses the size of small barrels. "I also have a few barrels of brandy here, which were originally intended for Norbert... Now we can only drink them ourselves."

Regulus was not polite and sat directly opposite Hagrid, watching the gamekeeper come over with a huge oak barrel to fill the wine glass.

"Rupert...do you know what a serious mistake you made this time?" Regulus said after taking a sip.

"I know it's wrong to raise a dragon..."

"No, this matter has passed. What I want to know is, where did you get this dragon egg?" Regulus interrupted Hagrid seriously, "As far as I know, this thing is It’s not a stall product that can be found in just any pet market.”

"In the Pig's Head Bar." Hagrid hesitated for a moment and said, "There was a guy in a cloak, who looked like a foreigner. I had never seen him before..."

"What did you all say?"

"He asked me what I did. I said I was the gamekeeper at Hogwarts, and he asked me what animals I had taken care of... I told him, three-headed dog, thestral, acromantula... ...and fried...well, a new species, I haven't decided what to call it yet." Hagrid frowned and tried to recall, "I said that the dragon I wanted to raise the most was a dragon, so he told me that he happened to have one there. It’s a dragon egg, but the Ministry of Magic’s investigation has been strict recently, so he couldn’t take action, so he asked me if I was willing to make a deal…”

"What's your price?" Regulus asked in a calm tone.

"Honestly, I don't know what the price of dragon eggs is on the black market, so I asked him to drive it. He said he was somewhat interested in the Acromantula..." Hagrid picked up the wine glass and took a big sip. Somewhat excited, "You know, not many people can appreciate the beauty of the Acromantula... so I told him that I can get a few Acromantula eggs."

"He agreed?"

"He didn't agree immediately. He told me that he wasn't sure whether he could make those newly hatched spiders obedient." Hagrid said, "It's no wonder. Most people are afraid of Acromantulas. What else have you seen?" Can spiders speak human language? So I told him, you just need to put them in a box, feed them with bread crumbs and ham, and the most important thing is to talk to them every day, so that they will treat you as a friend …”

"It is indeed a simple but effective method... I have to tell Newt and ask him to write this passage into the newly revised book." Regulus said, "Then, the spiders in the Forbidden Forest are all Arago The descendants of Aragog, right? They all obey Aragog’s command, so that’s why they don’t attack humans everywhere?”

"Yes, Aragog values ​​its friendship with me, so it will restrain its descendants..." Hagrid said, "That's why I say that spiders are not that dangerous..."

"Generally speaking, how old can an Acromantula live?" Regulus suddenly asked an irrelevant question.

"About three to forty years..." Hagrid replied subconsciously, and then he seemed to think of something bad, and his face darkened, "Aragog... it is already 40 years old. It is said that it has rarely seen much recently. Leaving the nest, my eyes are also blind..."

"If Aragog dies, do you think this large group of spiders will still abide by the agreement between it and you?" Regulus continued to ask.

"Should... yes..."

Having said that, it could be heard from Hagrid's hesitating tone that he didn't seem to have much confidence.

"I think... I've got the information I want." Regulus picked up the wine glass and took a swig, "Thank you for the brandy."

After saying that, he planned to leave the hut.

"Regulus...Professor Black...can I ask you something?" Hagrid suddenly called him hesitantly.

"what's up?"

"It's about Norbert..."

"You are worried that the Malfoy brats will report you, right? The words of an 11-year-old child will not have much effect, even if he is the son of Lucius Malfoy." Regulus turned around. Shen smiled and said, "With Principal Dumbledore here, you won't be imprisoned in Azkaban."

"I didn't mean that... I meant..." Hagrid said incoherently, "I can't let... let Dumbledore know what I did, he will be very disappointed."

Regulus suddenly burst into laughter, leaving Hagrid a little confused.

"Do you think Dumbledore really doesn't know?" After laughing, Regulus made a big circle with his hand and said, "Few things that happen here can escape his eyes... I I might as well tell you the truth, the principal entrusted me to handle the matter regarding Noble."

"Why doesn't he..." Hagrid was suddenly speechless mid-sentence.

Even someone as slow as Hagrid could realize that if Dumbledore came to the door in person at this time, he might be so ashamed that he would leave the school immediately.

"The current situation is much more dangerous than what we see. Maybe one day, those spiders will invade Hogwarts in large numbers. Don't take my words as alarmist." Regulus said seriously, "I can see Come out, the person you respect the most is the principal, and the principal... also trusts you very much, I hope you won't really let him down."