Azkaban: The Fifth House of Hogwarts

The tattered fence looked like it was pieced together with wooden sticks picked up from the forest. It might be able to contain those docile animals, but it definitely couldn't withstand the torment.

Maybe a wild boar could push through the wooden fence, not to mention that there was a ferocious human-headed manticore locked inside.

However, the facts are often diametrically opposed to the speculation. The Thorny Head, who had been tortured by Hagrid all afternoon yesterday, is now staying in the fence. He has many scratches and even some bruises on his body. This is not the sea. It was left behind when Hagrid came to arrest him. To deal with this little guy who has just entered adulthood, a slap is enough, and he can also control the force very well, only knocking him out but not injuring him.

These are the scars left by the thorn head when he tried to escape from the devil's prison and struggled with the broken wood.

Ollivander orders a batch of high-quality wood from Hagrid every year to make wands, and the materials for the wand cores are also purchased here. After all, the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts is almost the richest magical forest in England. The materials produced are of high quality, and the most important thing is that Hagrid is not greedy, and Hogwarts does not care about this little money.

A seven-gallon wand designed for little wizards is actually a total loss. If it weren't for Hogwarts's subsidies and the discounted prices of raw materials, the loss-making business would not have been able to last for 1000 years.

These trees are special woods that Ollivander has decided on but have not yet completed shade drying. As one of the best staff makers in Europe, Ollivander still has not given up his enthusiasm for studying his craft.

The rope woven with unicorn hair has extremely high strength and is excellent in resisting magic and physics. The magic iron birch, which can only grow less than three centimeters per year, has always been a magic weapon coveted by giants. Even the fire dragon's back will be broken if the stick goes down, and he will become a meal on the plate.

If you miss this magical 'little flying stick', it will be a trivial matter if your legs are broken.

Blocked by this copper wall and iron wall, this thorn head could only squat in the pit.

"It seems that you are in good spirits!"

With a muffled sound, Hagrid opened the fence and threw a lost wild deer in. There are actually many such non-magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest. Most of them are food for magical creatures. However, due to the abundance of water and grass, the environment It is rich, but it will not be eaten to extinction. The ecological chain of the Forbidden Forest has always been stable.

"Eat, then work when you're full."

However, Thorny Tou, who had been beaten half to death yesterday, was lying in the corner without getting up, just whining and whining.

"Isn't it said that the Manticore can talk when it reaches adulthood? Why does it look a little silly?"

Rollo patted Hagrid's arm and stared intently at the silly Thorny. Compared to his much younger sister Thorny, this guy felt less smart than Yazi.

"He's quite stupid. I've beaten him countless times. This guy just can't listen to a word of human speech. He does all kinds of things in the woods all day long. He pricks anything with his tail needle and doesn't eat anything. He just plays. , and the fighting ability is quite strong, once I slaughtered an entire group of great wildebeest that had just migrated here, and I was so angry that I almost skinned it!"

"But now..." Hagrid hummed proudly, "I finally found a way to make it obedient."

"If it still can't speak even when it's an adult, it means it's really stupid. It's just like there are squibs in wizards. Although magical creatures won't give birth to squibs that don't have magic power, there will be some guys who will be stunted throughout their lives."

"His parents abandoned him. If it weren't for the peace and security in the woods, this guy wouldn't have survived to adulthood."

"But as long as he can learn well, I will continue to raise him at worst."

"But now..."

"Eat honestly! It's not a big deal for you to give birth to a baby. Who can show you how aggrieved you are? I didn't see you being soft when you killed the wildebeest. After eating, get to work. Hurry up."

Hagrid, who changed his face as soon as he said it, roared at the thorn head. The thorn head, which was trembling in the corner, trembled violently, and then began to bite the food honestly. It was already hungry.

Just after this guy devoured the wild deer into a skeleton, Hagrid walked up to it in a few steps, knocked the guy unconscious with a sharp knife, and grabbed it by the neck and pulled it out of the fence. .

"What to do now, I listen to you."

"The magic crystal flower can absorb magic power and condense the seeds of power. This seed contains the unique information of this creature. I want to use this to combine the manticore and the fire crab."

"Natural reproduction is a blend of information, and these magic seeds with individual information can also combine them with each other to a certain extent?"

Rollo told Hagrid exactly what he had guessed.

"Three-in-one Chimeras are also the result of the fusion of three different creatures. We cannot expect Chimeras to be born from the natural intercourse of sheep, lions, and dragons, but simple splicing is impractical, and physical Although suturing can create a suture monster, this man-made monster has no signs of life. It is a puppet that is forcibly kneaded together using corpses, let alone the birth of offspring that inherit the characteristics of the mother."

"I think it is a more reliable way to partially fuse the information of two different creatures in the form of magic seeds to give birth to a new life."

Hagrid nodded as if he understood. He hadn't fully understood Rollo's words, but no matter what, as long as he carried out actual experiments, Hagrid would soon be able to figure out what method this was.

A magic crystal flower was taken out. With Hagrid's help, a small wound appeared on the manticore's body. The blood containing magic was absorbed by the roots of the magic crystal flower, and the flower buds bloomed. A ball of iron-gray magic appeared in the middle of the flower.

"Bring the fire crab over and let's try..."

Experiments are constantly being carried out, but it will not be that simple to complete the experiment of breaking through reproductive isolation and artificially cultivating new lives mixed with different bloodlines.

Until the sun set, Rollo walked out of the woods with a tired look on his face. He and Hagrid had not successfully completed their experiment.

"Maybe we haven't found the right approach yet, but I think it could work."

Although there was some gain, it didn't mean much, so Luo Luo was not too disappointed.

"I will pay attention to the magic crystal flowers in the forest. We are not in a hurry anyway, just take our time."

Hagrid also said encouragingly to Rollo.

"But don't stay here tonight. I'm afraid that even if Professor McGonagall doesn't say anything, Snape will have to say something weird to me."

"The most important thing for you now is to go to class. Go back and make up for today's Transfiguration class."

Seeing Hagrid nagging like an old woman, Rollo smiled and nodded in agreement, then waved goodbye to him and set foot on the road to the castle.