days at Hogwarts

Chapter 83 The first day of the new year

A hut on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, January 1992, 1.

A warm and moist touch on his face woke Rubeus Hagrid from his sleep, and when he opened his eyes, a big black dog looked at him expectantly.

"Well, it's alright, Yaya, I'm going to make you something to eat."

He put his hound on the ground, took the moleskin coat from the head of the bed, and put it on.

He looked out the window, the snow reflected the sun's light through the window on the wooden roof, bright and majestic.

The giant stretched every bone in his body vigorously, feeling the soreness of the muscles.

"Ah~" Rubeus Hagrid exclaimed comfortably.

His figure was too big, and his lazy waist almost occupied the entire space of the wooden house.

Pushing open the door, the cold wind that rushed in made him shiver his neck.

Hugging a large bundle from the pile of firewood, there is no need to rekindle the fire. There is still unburned fuel from last night in the stove. The flame gradually licks and wraps around the firewood, and the wooden house becomes hot again.

Throw a pile of chopped frozen meat into the pot, put some salt indiscriminately, and the aroma of the broth will permeate after a while.

Ya Ya's saliva flowed on the ground, and he ran around happily.

A pot of broth was divided into two portions, and one portion was poured into Fang's bowl. Hagrid let out a loud laugh as he watched Fang hastily bite out a piece of meat and bone, which was scalding and barking.

Rubeus Hagrid took the broth, biting the rock cake baked by the stove, the giant's teeth could easily bite through the dry and hard cake, making a crisp sound.

After breakfast, I took Yaya to the forest for a turn.

The inspection process was nothing more than walking repeatedly, following the snowy road he had stepped on before, deepening the footprints on the road.

In winter, most of the animals in the forest nest in their homes, waiting for the arrival of spring.He didn't meet any friends to say hello to.

Rubeus Hagrid went back to sit in front of the cabin, watching the clouds, his eyes slightly shut.

The giant's mind was flying aimlessly.The clouds in the sky lose their magic power and fall down to be snow. He almost lost his magic power too, but fortunately Dumbledore is there.

Harry should be having a good time, that bike is a nice ride.

Rubeus Hagrid actually has a lot of things to do, go to the forest to pick some winter fruits, or prepare firewood for next winter, because this year's firewood is already enough.

Go to the castle and chat with the professors, even if he can't understand what the professors are saying most of the time, he can also tell some interesting stories about animals in the forest to amuse the professors.

The professors at Hogwarts are very patient, but anecdotes are not so funny after being told a lot

As he watched the unglaring sun climb from the second branch of the pine tree next to the cabin to the top of the pine tree, Rubeus Hagrid decided to do something.

"Let's go, Fangya, let's go outside the forest, those two Weasley bastards might try to break into the Forbidden Forest, we have to be careful." The giant's rough and powerful voice echoed in the forest.

"Wow, woof!" Fang circled around Rubeus Hagrid's trouser leg.

His dogs, like him, are always full of life.

Yaya suddenly stopped spinning and cried out towards the outside.

"Hagrid! Hagrid!" came the voice of the Weasley bastard.

Hagrid looked over. Two of Harry's friends, the Weasley twins, and a little Hufflepuff wizard, five of them were wading through the snow and coming towards the cabin.

His mouth opened unconsciously, thinking in his heart, I knew that they really wanted to break in, these are two bastards.

Hagrid didn't meet him, and walked briskly back to the cabin to light the fire again, and baked some rock cakes.

Going out again, the giant's voice was full of joy: "Why are you here?"

"Happy New Year Hagrid, we're coming to play with you!"

"Introduce you to a new friend, this is Rolf Scamander."

"Grandson of the famous Newt."

The tone of each twin's sentence, such cheerful emotions can always be transmitted to other people, the winter is empty, and the cold forest has become lively.

Hagrid brought the little wizards into the house, and the wooden house that could hold the giant was suddenly full and crowded.

In the misty water vapor rising from the pot, the little wizards' teeth gnawed on the rock cakes, making teeth-stinging sounds.

Hagrid watched this scene with a smile on his face, his heart suddenly seemed to be filled with something, and he felt very full.

……

Rolf tried several times. Under the protest of the pain in his gums, he finally decided to give up the rock cakes, and turned his eyes to the tall and unshaven man in front of him, "Hagrid, my grandpa mentioned you."

"Mr. Scamander, oh, he still remembers me! He traveled here and gave me an acromantula egg."

"My grandpa heard that you were fired for this, and blamed himself for a while."

"Hahahaha, it's nothing, Mr. Scamander was also expelled from Hogwarts for Fantastic Beasts..."

Loren and the others knew that Newt was running around the world at that time, and when he returned to Hogwarts, he met Hagrid who was still a student, and gave Hagrid an egg of an acromantula.

Hagrid hatched Aragog in the cupboard at Hogwarts. Later, because of his involvement in the Chamber of Secrets incident, Hagrid had his wand broken and expelled from Hogwarts.

Ron's eyes were dull, "Damn it, Hogwarts actually expels students."

He followed Loren and the others around at night a few times ago, purely because the twins were an example, and they were not expelled. Ron also felt that Hogwarts would not expel students.

The twins had completely different reactions, "I had an acromantula when I was a student!"

"Dangerous creature of XXXXX level!"

George and Fred looked at each other and said in unison, "This is so cool."

"What happened to that giant acromantia, was it executed?" Rolf was concerned about this.

"No, Aragog settled down in the Forbidden Forest and had many children." Hagrid sounded very proud of the acromantia, like an old father.

Hagrid said that the acromantids multiplied and became a powerful colony in the Forbidden Forest, and the centaurs were afraid of them.

Hearing this familiar name, Ron recalled the acromantula he met before, and muttered that there was such a deep background story in it.

"Practice magic hard. These are walking golden galleons. The venom of acromantula is very valuable." Loren bewitched in Ron's ear, his voice low.

Ron's expression became struggling, longing for Gallon and fear of spiders.He was distracted and didn't notice Loren's expression of wanting to watch a good show.

Rolf and Hagrid exchanged knowledge about magical animals, and the two seemed to be having a good time talking.

Chatting about things in school, the twins teased Hagrid for taking the opportunity to kiss Professor McGonagall at the Christmas banquet, and their laughter made Hagrid blush.

When complaining that his parents didn't bring the twins to see the dragon, Hagrid sighed: "Seriously, I really want to see the dragon with my own eyes."

The time passed in this way while talking and laughing, they didn't stay here for lunch, said goodbye to Hagrid and prepared to go back to the castle.

Before leaving, Loren asked Hagrid for some unicorn molted tail hairs. These can't be used as wands, and they are almost useless as potions.Loren has other roles.

On the way back through the snow, Rolf sighed, "Hagrid is a pure and lovely person."

Ron muttered, "Knowing an acromander as a pet isn't very cute."

He looks like he's come off the chessboard and is much more alive.

……

Of course, Loren didn't want the unicorn's tail hair to sell it for money. He planned to conduct his first alchemy experiment.

On the way to Albania, Dumbledore's hat and cuffs looked like Doraemon's pockets, and Loren, who had to carry a bag anytime and anywhere, was about to drool.

As soon as he came back, he planned to try to make a piece of space storage equipment.

Most of the storage in the wizarding world relies on the classic spell - the traceless stretching spell.

It is an incantation that enlarges the internal dimensions of an object, enhances its capacity and makes its contents lighter without affecting its external dimensions.

As a high-level spell, the Stretching Unmarked Charm is strictly controlled due to its potential for abuse.The Ministry of Magic has strict regulations on the spell: the Untraceable Stretching Charm cannot be used for private use, but only for the production of individual items (such as school luggage and family tents) that have been approved by the relevant Ministry of Magic.

In fact, in the book "A Thousand Cases of Violations of the Secrecy Act", the traceless stretching spell is the largest spell.

Wizards always naturally take out some inexplicable things from their jacket pockets or knitted hats.The wizard Noct Isaac, who returned from a study tour in Africa, dumped 86 elephants from his wallet in front of an entire Muggle customs, and was finally sentenced to life imprisonment.

There are also people who steal things through the Untraceable Stretching Charm.An unknown wizard who nearly succeeded in attempting to steal the Statue of Liberty with the Untraceable Stretching Charm sent shockwaves around the world.

In the end, the US Ministry of Magic cooperated with the Muggle government to promote this event as a grand magic show, and the stupid Muggles actually believed this rhetoric.

There are some nasty guys who use the no trace stretching spell to participate in the big eater competition.In a French Baguette Big Eater Competition, a 45kg lady stuffed nearly three tons of baguette into her mouth. The local Aurors couldn’t get it back, even if it was magic. Coiled demon venom was mixed with rainwater to neutralize the effect of this event.

There are many cases like this, the International Federation of Wizards finally expanded the "Secrecy Act" ban on the traceless stretching spell, only approved production departments can legally use this spell, including home tent production, Hogwarts luggage The production of official vehicles for the cabinet.

As for how many wizards are still using it in private, the Ministry of Magic can't find out.

As an advanced spell, the traceless stretching spell has very different effects.

Applying the Untraceable Stretching Charm to the Hogwarts suitcase doesn't really do much, it just makes the inner space of the suitcase a little bigger and makes the suitcase lighter so that an 11-year-old wizard can drag it.

In the field of alchemy, the effect of the Untraceable Stretching Curse combined with alchemy methods is even greater.The limit of expansion capacity is different, and there is a big difference between loading living things and loading dead things. Some people can fit a zoo in a box, while others can only make the box expand several times.

In Flamel's introduction, the alchemy magic circle can make the traceless stretching spell more diverse.It will be smoother to engrave the alchemy circle on the carrier first, and then apply the traceless stretching spell.

It took Loren a night to understand and memorize the primary space magic circle, and the rest is the engraving process.

Right now, he still can't use magic power to engrave an alchemy circle on the carrier. He can only use some magic materials, and the unicorn's tail hair is one of them.

As night fell, Loren nestled in his quilt, and for the first time pointed his finger at the scale icon that symbolized the alchemy laboratory.

Silver light shines from Flamel's eyes on the cover page, capturing Loren's consciousness into the book.

A sphere glowing with fiery red light was put into a boiler carved out of black stone. Flowing lines like magma emerged from the surface of the black boiler, linking together symbols that Loren was somewhat familiar with but could not understand.

Hexagrams of various colors, Libra, the sun, and astrological charts circulated on the surface of the boiler, and finally, countless red bricks and stones were piled up to form a hemisphere and buckled up.

Loren's perspective suddenly zoomed in, and the inside was also a hemispherical space, with the boiler emitting a dim light in the center of the room.

Flamel's figure appeared in the air, "Welcome to Flamel's alchemy laboratory."

Loren dissatisfied, "Why not call it Loren Morgan's alchemy laboratory?"

Flamel glanced at Loren, and let him understand the meaning, "The alchemy laboratory that any alchemist has dreamed of throughout the ages, here you can conceive any material that you and Ni have seen, unlimited and endless .”

Loren understands that this means that there is no cost of trial and error, and the proficiency is first transferred to the liver, and then the real world is launched into the soul.

Compared with the library and the dueling room, Flamel seems to enjoy the environment of the alchemy laboratory more, flying freely in the air, "What are you going to use as the carrier of the magic circle?"

"What is the easiest way to get started?" Loren is very self-aware. It is obviously unrealistic for you to ask him to engrave alchemy circles on pendants, rings, bracelets and the like.

"Suitcase, larger size means more flexible play." Flammel waved his hand, and small black suitcases emerged out of thin air and piled up in a pile.

"Also, unicorn tail hair."

As the words fell, bundles of bundled unicorn tail hairs floated in the air and got into boxes one by one.

Loren slandered this guy in his heart, implying that he would have liver many times.

"Use a magic wand to pull the unicorn's tail hair, stimulate the magic power contained in it, and draw an alchemy circle."

Flammel started teaching, pointing to a box.

The box took two steps back, jumped into the air with a running run, and opened in the air like a dancer.

The tied unicorn tail hair in the box spread out and floated in the air, emitting a glowing white light.

The tip of the wand pointed towards the thinner end of the unicorn's tail hair, and the tail hair seemed to be attracted by magnetic force, following the wand to draw on the box.

The wand is like a pen, and the unicorn tail hair is like ink.

A hexagram pattern wrapped in double rings is printed on the inner bottom of the suitcase, and the three pairs of runes with six corners symmetrical to each other echo each other and emit luminous light.The middle is still dim, waiting for a traceless stretching spell to awaken the magic circle.

After Flamel's demonstration, four colors of red, yellow, blue and green radiance were emitted from his body, shining on the red masonry wall, and alchemy rune symbols emerged on the wall.

"Loren Morgan, you are now a true apprentice alchemy."