Hogwarts: Harry's Path to Witches

Chapter 289: The strange feedback of magic mirror divination (1000 words, for first tip and additional updates)

In the open space next to the lake, seven huge fire dragons were locked in an enclosure surrounded by thick wooden boards.

In order to restrain this group of fire dragons, huge iron ropes were tied to their necks, limbs and wings.

The fire dragons probably didn't like the iron ropes, so now they were supporting their bodies with their hind legs and trying hard to stand up.

At the same time, they also let out bursts of roars, "whooshing" and exhaling breath mixed with flames.

However, the Ministry of Magic has already made sufficient preparations, and a lot of magic has been applied to the thick wooden boards and iron locks.

When the fire mixed with the breath splashes onto the thick wooden board, there will always be a magical sheen flickering above the thick wooden board;

When one of the fire dragons tried to fly up, the chain also had magical power fluctuations to ensure that the chain would not break.

Moreover, this area has already been cast with magic that weakens the sound, so the roar of the fire dragon has also been weakened a lot.

"The Welsh Green Dragon, the Australian Opal-Eyed Fire Dragon, the Hebridean Black Dragon, the Swedish Short-nosed Blue Dragon, the Chinese Fireball Dragon, the South American Cablo Red-Eyed Dragon, and... the Hungarian Horntail."

Harry's lips didn't move, but his voice reached Hermione and Fleur's ears clearly.

"And these seem to be female dragons. Judging from the lines on their bodies and some subconscious movements, they should be female dragons incubating eggs."

Around these fire dragons stood about sixty or seventy wizards, about seven wizards in a group, dealing with a fire dragon.

Harley noticed that there were even nine dragon trainers around the most ferocious South American Cabro's Red-Eyed Dragon and the most dangerous Hungarian Horntail.

Despite the assistance of magic, these fire dragons still struggled and tried to fight each other.

This was a pain for the dragon trainers. They kept waving their wands, running, and shooting out stun spells one after another.

"Is this the cute little thing that Professor Hagrid mentioned in your letter?" Fleur finally came to her senses and took a breath of air.

Because she just saw the Hungarian Horntail spitting out a mouthful of flames at the Cabro Red-Eyed Dragon in South America not far away.

However, as soon as the South American Cabro red-eyed dragon lowered its head, the pillar of fire flew over its head and landed in the lake.

Suddenly, bursts of steam rose, and two freshwater fish floated up with their bellies turned over, exuding a burst of fragrance.

After being attacked, the South American Cabro red-eyed dragon did not tolerate the opponent and spit out streams of flames with all its strength.

This time the Hungarian Horntail was not so lucky. Facing the opponent's attack, it has no ability to dodge.

However, the flames of the red-eyed dragon Cabro in South America sprayed on its body, but it did not cause any harm to it at all. There were not even any burn marks on the dragon's skin. It was just cupped.

Part of the flames escaped and ignited a large area of ​​surrounding woods.

The two dragon trainers who were standing by as reserves had grimaces on their faces and hurried over to put out the fire.

After seeing how much effort the trainers put into subduing these fire dragons, Ms. Maxim in front couldn't help but complain:

"Hagrid, are you sure these fire dragons are the... cute, gentle, and playable... little guys you mentioned?"

"That's right!" Hagrid's face was full of excitement, "Aren't they cute? Aren't they gentle? And I think they are more suitable for masturbating than teeth!"

Ms. Maxim did not reply. Obviously, the gap between reality and his imagination was a bit big.

Before inviting him to come, Hagrid only hinted at showing him and her the cute, gentle magical animals that could be used in the first project.

At that time, Ms. Maxim thought that the Ministry of Magic would provide some animals similar to civet cats to help the warriors pass the first level.

After all, if it was a dangerous creature used as an opponent, Ms. Maxim racked her brains and couldn't find a magical animal that met the criteria of "cute" and "gentle".

But Hagrid actually forcibly lowered the fire dragon to... It can also be said that it raised it to the standard of "cute" and "gentle"...

Ms. Maxim was inexplicably reminded of the magical zoologist Newt Scamander she had met before, and how Newt praised her as "as beautiful as a rune horse."

Ms. Maxim initially thought he was insulting her, and she was so angry that she wanted to cast a curse on him.

Not long after, Ms. Maxim heard him praise his wife as "noble and noble, as if she had just finished hunting a poisonous leopard."

Sure enough, all the experts on magical animals are almost cut out of the same mold, and even their knowledge of magical animals is so strange!

Hagrid also took Ms. Maxim up to watch carefully and communicate with the wizards around the paddock.

Harry also saw the second brother of the Weasley family, Charlie Weasley.

He was the captain of Gryffindor's Quidditch team, and his grades were very good, and he seemed to have become the captain of a certain dragon-taming team.

At this time, he was exchanging something with Hagrid: "Hey, Hagrid, why are you here now?"

"Of course I came to see these cuties. Well...you know, I thought you should know about my dream."

Charlie smiled: "Of course, how could I forget that? The little guy you provided is still in our protected area."

When he mentioned the unborn Norbert, Hagrid couldn't help crying: "Oh, poor Norbert, he lost his mother as soon as he was born."

"Actually, I think you should call her Norberta." Charlie shrugged.

"I don't know which book you read the random knowledge from, so I tried to judge the type and gender of the young dragon in the egg from the eggshell."

"But in fact, the type of young dragon can be barely determined through the dragon eggs, but the gender cannot be determined."

"And Norberta is a big girl."

Hagrid reached out to scratch his head, but suddenly remembered that his hair had been arranged for a long time and could not be easily messed up, so he put his hand down again.

But soon, his attention was no longer on Norberta, but on the fire dragon in front of him. He decisively abandoned his old love when he found a new love.

Ms. Maxim on the side couldn't help but asked curiously: "This..."

"My name is Charlie Weasley, Ms. Maxim." Charlie nodded, but his expression was not particularly good-looking.

When Ms. Maxim began to observe the fire dragon around the paddock, Charlie said bluntly:

"Hagrid, I think your behavior is a bit ill-considered. You shouldn't have brought her here."

"Warriors should not know what they are facing, and Ms. Maxim will definitely tell her students, don't you think so?"

"Oh, I just thought she'd like to learn more and try out these cute little guys."

Hagrid's eyes were still staring at the fire dragon infatuatedly.

"By the way, why are there seven-headed fire dragons?"

"Because some idiot was careless." When talking about that idiot, Charlie looked as if he had just eaten fly-flavored Bibi's multi-flavored beans.

"It's obviously six schools, but she accidentally filled it in with seven fire dragons. I really don't understand. It shouldn't be difficult to distinguish between 6 and 7 in Arabic numerals, right?"

"For this extra fire dragon, we had to slightly modify the first competition event."

"That's enough, that's why I don't want to enter the Ministry of Magic. These idiots from pure-blood families will really bring us countless troubles..."

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Hagrid continued to admire his beloved fire dragon, but Harry and his party had quietly left.

When they returned to the edge of the Forbidden Forest, the three of them stopped.

Fleur's expression was not very good: "That's the... target we want to deal with?"

"And it's still a target that we can deal with without knowing anything and being unable to prepare effectively?"

"Actually, everyone should be somewhat prepared." Harley looked back at the Forbidden Forest and said softly,

"On our way back, I saw Karkaroff. He didn't even use the Disillusionment Spell, he just slipped over and took a peek."

"There is also a bird of unknown species flying in the sky. It has a weak aura of life on it. It is probably a so-called shikigami sent by the magic office to investigate."

"Previously, a tree was sprayed by the flames of the red-eyed dragon Cabro from South America, but there was a flower on it that was unscathed, and it contained fluctuations of magic power. It should be Castrobshe's method."

"Also, there seems to be a small thunderbird hovering in the clouds in the sky. I guess it is the people of Ilvermorny."

"Ah? Really? I didn't find anything!" Hermione sighed subconsciously, then turned to look at the sky.

She was suddenly shocked to find that there seemed to be a dark cloud in the sky, which was somewhat conspicuous in the clear night sky.

And according to the information that can be deduced from the previous chat between Hagrid and Charlie, this batch of fire dragons was probably just delivered this afternoon, and these fire dragons were locked up just now to avoid affecting other creatures in the Forbidden Forest.

As a result, just at night, all the principals or warriors of the six schools knew about it!

Is this called confidentiality? What kind of secrecy is leaking around!

Seeing that Fleur's face was still nervous, Harry took the initiative to hold her hand and comforted her:

"It's okay, it's just the fire dragon. Tomorrow is Saturday, let's start preparations from tomorrow."

"Tomorrow morning we will go to the library first and I will make a simple plan."

Fleur nodded, her pale face becoming much rosier.

After saying a brief goodbye to the two of them, she wrapped her robe tightly around her body and walked quickly towards Beauxbatons' carriage.

Harry and Hermione also took advantage of the darkness and quickly returned to the Gryffindor common room.

It was late and the common room was empty.

Hermione originally wanted to discuss a plan to deal with the fire dragon, but after exercising in the Forbidden Forest for so long, the little witch was already tired and sleepy.

After taking a shower, she fell asleep almost as soon as she touched the pillow, so the plans discussed during the night had to be abandoned.

Harley didn't sleep, she still remembered Ollivander's reminder to her.

Considering that it was getting late, Harry didn't rush to read the memory from Ollivander's grandfather for the time being. Now Harry wanted to do a magic mirror divination first.

The magic mirror's divination is similar to Harley's guess. This wand will bring danger to herself.

However, the risk is not great, and it is still within the acceptable range for me.

And according to the revelations obtained from the spirit world through magic mirror divination, the clues related to the magic wand are more related to the restoration to sequence three.

This cheered up Harley's mood.

"So Ollivander's grandfather probably went crazy because he was not strong enough and witnessed things he shouldn't have seen."

Harley was summarizing in her mind, her emotions fluctuating slightly.

"After all, the core of this wand is related to my return to sequence three. That is a saint. It's hard to say whether Ollivander's grandfather has the strength of sequence five."

"Return to sequence three, the ageless witch..."

Harley put the magic mirror away, but as soon as she stuffed it into her pocket, Harley was suddenly startled.

She just realized that what she just used was her most commonly used magic mirror.

But in Harley's impression, she had already judged that there was something wrong with this magic mirror.

After reading Peter Pettigrew's memories in the past few weeks, Harley learned that neither Senior Riddle nor Barty Jr. knew the origin of the parchment written with red paint.

In this case, Harley definitely couldn't let the unknown enemy plot against her, so she chose to activate a magic mirror divination the next night.

But that time, Harley gained nothing.

The spirit world did not give Harley any response through the magic mirror divination.

There is no feedback message that the divination failed, nor is there any backlash that would occur when a divination reaches a high-level being. There is no problem with the object or content of the divination being wrong.

Even the seven lights in the spiritual world, which should have been paying attention to him, had no response and did not give any enlightenment.

In the mirror of that magic mirror, there was only a dream-like nothingness, an extremely deep void.

The result of this divination can be said to be truly without feedback.

If his magic power hadn't been depleted, Harry would have thought that he had not used the magic mirror for too long, so he had made a mistake in the steps.

After repeated experiments many times with no change in the result, Harley originally thought that the rituals, black magic and curses attached to this commonly used magic mirror had become ineffective due to too many uses.

She also plans to take some time to check it out and follow the production process again.

But this time, I used the magic mirror that was judged to be problematic, but the magic mirror gave me a response.

Harry hesitated for a moment, then pulled out the magic mirror from his pocket again, and at the same time, he easily turned over and got out of bed.

She dug out a brand new mirror from the box, as well as various essential oils and hydrosols needed for ordinary magic mirror divination.

Then, Harley quietly slipped into the bathroom and quickly locked the door to avoid being disturbed.

After completing all this, Harley took a deep breath and divined the events of this competition.

After all, I have obtained enough information about the project of this competition to verify its correctness.

Although the specific competition items shown by the magic mirror divination were somewhat beyond my expectations, in terms of accuracy, there was no difference in the results of the two magic mirror divination.

And compared with the information he already had, the results were consistent with the scenes he saw in the Forbidden Forest at night and some key points revealed by Charlie and Hagrid during their chat.

From this point of view, there seems to be nothing wrong with the magic mirror I often use.

So why does magic mirror divination have that weird phenomenon without any feedback?

Harry silently collected all the materials and then stuffed them directly into his pocket.

Lying on the bed, Harry looked at the ceiling, and the unique font on the parchment came to mind again.

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The next day was Saturday. Although she went to bed late the first day, Harley still got up early.

After breakfast, Harry and Hermione rushed directly to the library.

Because it was the weekend, there were not many people in the library. The two of them easily occupied a large table in the corner and brought in a thick stack of books.

Although Harley felt that the fire dragon was not too strong for her, even if she was unprepared, she could easily kill a fire dragon without taking the form of a mythical creature.

But she also heard the conversation between Charlie and Hagrid yesterday, and she already knew the specific events of the competition in advance.

Considering that one more fire dragon was rented this time, the gold galleons spent could not be wasted, so the Ministry of Magic temporarily adjusted the plan, hoping to put all seven fire dragons to use.

In this case, Harley naturally had to consider a suitable tactic so that she could get a higher score in as elegant and handsome a way as possible.

Not long after the two sat down, Fleur also rushed over carrying a bag.

After hearing that she was preparing for the Six Wizard Tournament with Harley, Ms. Maxim was very happy to let Fleur go, and also agreed to help her take care of Gabrielle.

As soon as she sat down, without even putting her school bag away, Fleur couldn't wait to ask: "What preparations do we need to make?"

Apparently, she was a little too nervous after learning that the first project was a fire dragon.

"Well, let me think about it..."

Harry took out his wand and waved it, casting soundproofing magic around him.

Then she moved the pile of books about fire dragons piled in front of her to the side, spread out a piece of parchment, and quickly wrote various information on the paper with a quill.

"Our opponent is the Fire Dragon, and the requirements of this competition are likely to make us persist for a period of time."

"By the way, I observed yesterday that those were female dragons incubating eggs."

"If we are a threat to the dragon eggs, or if the organizer makes these female dragons think that we are a threat to the dragon eggs, they will definitely show strong aggression."

"So...if my guess is correct, the first project should be for us to go to the female dragon's lair to seize certain items."

"A very reasonable guess." Fleur thought of what she saw last night, and the batch of carefully preserved dragon eggs that Ms. Maxim mentioned to her this morning.

"Then everything will be clear," Harley tapped the table with her fingers.

"Kill the fire dragon, and the fire dragon will no longer threaten us."

"Perfect!"

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(Thanks to "Nine-tailed Yanhu" and "The most handsome Wan Chong in the group" for their rewards!)

The total reward last month was about 2000 yuan, and I should add 1000 words. Add words today. I've been busy lately, so I'll add another thousand later.