HP meets at Hogwarts

"I'm not sure if they're hibernating," Hagrid told his shivering students in the pumpkin patch in his first Care of Magical Creatures class in December. "We might as well try and see if they want to sleep." ...we put them in these boxes..."

Now there are only ten snails left.Apparently, their desire to kill each other has not been completely eradicated.Today they are each nearly six feet long.Their thick gray coat, their powerful, flailing legs, their exploding fire-breathing tails, and their spines and suckers, all add up to make snails the go-to for your magical creature care class. nightmare.The students stared listlessly at the large boxes Hagrid had brought out, all covered with pillows and fluffy blankets.

"We lead them in," Hagrid said, "and put the lid on and see what happens."

It turned out that the snails don't hibernate and don't like being stuffed into boxes with pillows and covered.Soon, Hagrid was yelling, "Take it easy, take it easy!" the field was already strewn with smoking crate fragments as the snails scuttled through the pumpkins.Most of the classmates fled into Hagrid's hut through the back door and locked themselves in. Fanny pulled Ann into Hagrid's hut early, and they were lying by the window looking out.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, and the few remaining Gryffindors stayed outside to help Hagrid.They worked together and managed to subdue nine snails and tie them up, but they also paid a heavy price, with countless burns and scratches on their bodies.In the end, there was only one snail left.

"Hey, don't scare it!" Hagrid yelled, as Harry and Ron shot sparks at the Whelk with their wands—the Whelk approached viciously, its spines arching and quivering slightly. ——"Tie its spines with a rope, and it won't hurt other snails!"

"Yeah, we don't want that to happen!" Ron yelled angrily, as he and Harry retreated to the wall of Hagrid's hut, still using the sparks of their wands to keep the snails at bay.

"Yeah, ok, ok...it does look like fun."

Rita Skeeter leaned against the fence in Hagrid's vegetable garden, watching the drama.She is wearing a thick magenta gown today with a purple suede collar and a crocodile handbag dangling from her arm.

"Huh? Didn't Dumbledore not allow her to enter the school, how did she get in?" Fanny said very strangely when she saw Rita.

"I don't know, but it seems safe outside now, shall we go out? The smell in Hagrid's cabin is really..." Ann said, opening the back door and going out.

And following them, other students also came out one by one.

As soon as Ann and Fanny came out, they heard Rita talking to Hagrid with a big smile on her face.

"My name is Rita Skeeter, a reporter for the Daily Prophet."

"It seems that Dumbledore said that you are not allowed to enter the school again." Hagrid said with a slight frown, turning over and getting off the slightly deformed snail, and dragged it towards its companions. .

Rita didn't seem to hear Hagrid at all.

"What are these fascinating animals called?" she asked, her smile widening.

"Skreck," Hagrid replied gruffly.

"Really?" Rita said, interested. "I've never heard of it before . . . Where did you get them?"

Ann blushed when he saw Hagrid being asked this question.He secretly thought it was bad, Hagrid definitely didn't get the snails through any formal and legal means.

Hermione seemed to have the same question in mind, and she hurriedly shouted at Harry, "Harry! They're very interesting! Don't you think?"

"What?" Harry asked confusedly.Ann saw Hermione stomping on Harry's foot, and Harry faltered, "Oh, yes, yes! It's interesting."

Rita Skeeter's attention was immediately attracted by Harry, "Ah, you're here too! Harry!" She turned around, twisted her waist and walked in front of Harry, "So, you like to protect magical Biology, isn't it? Is it your favorite class?"

"Yes." Harry said unequivocally.Hagrid looked at him with a wide smile.

"That's great," said Rita, "it's really great. Are the teaching hours long?" She asked Hagrid again. When she looked at Hagrid, her eyes wandered to the other students present, but The other students don't look like much.

The students who stayed behind to catch the snails almost all had injuries. Either the corner of their robes was burnt, or their palms were scratched... and those who came out of the hut were far away from the boxes where the snails were placed. Some students His face was even more frightened.

"I've been teaching this class for two years!" said Hagrid.

Rita glanced again quickly at the window of Hagrid's hut. There were a few heads poking out there, Malfoy, Goyle, and Crabbe, who seemed to think the danger was still there.

"Great... Wondering if you'd like to do an interview, huh? Share your experience with the readers about protecting magical creatures? The Daily Prophet has a zoology column every Wednesday, I think you must know. We Can introduce these -- um -- rattle wolves."

"Skret," said Hagrid eagerly, "er—yeah, all right."

"Oh, Hagrid will regret it..." Fanny whispered behind Ann.

Ann also noticed that the faces of Hermione and Harry suddenly changed. They seemed to want to say something, but Hagrid had already had a good talk with Rita and arranged for Hagrid to be interviewed at the Three Broomsticks this weekend. .

"I think so too..." Ann said softly.As soon as the words were finished, the bell for the end of get out of class in the castle rang.

"Oh, Merlin bless, Ann, let's go quickly..." Fanny whispered behind Ann.

Ann and Fanny walked towards the castle with the large army who had been impatiently thinking of dismissing get out of class.

"Ann, where do you think Hagrid got those snails?" Fanny asked Ann on the way.

"Well, I think it may be imported illegally, or it may be a new species that Hagrid doesn't know how to make up..."

"Uh... To be honest, although I don't like Rita Skeeter, if she can make Hagrid's schrecks disappear this time, I think the result will be pretty good."

"I quite agree with you, Fanny," said Ann gravely.

After dinner, Ann and Fanny parted at the door of the dining room, Fanny was planning to go back to the Slytherin lounge, while Ann was going to the conservatory.

When Ann walked into the courtyard of the castle, Hermione called to stop her.

"Hermione? What's the matter?"

"Do you have something to do tonight? Let's go to the kitchen!" Hermione gasped.

"Tonight? OK! Let's go now?"

"No, no, wait, I just came out of the library, I have to go to the dormitory, I still have something to take..." Hermione almost jumped up, and was about to run towards the Gryffindor tower.

"Hey..." Ann grabbed Hermione's arm, "You just came out of the library? Didn't you have dinner? By the way, what are you going to get?"

"It's okay, I'm not hungry. I'm going to the dorm to get gloves and scarves for the house-elves!"

"Stop, stop!" Ann made a big cross on her chest with her hand.

Hermione looked at Ann incredulously.

"Hermione, you don't need to go." An Yong said in a particularly firm tone.

"Why?" Hermione asked.

"Gloves and scarves are unnecessary. If you put them on, I don't think we'll be kicked out by house elves in 10 minutes..."

"What?" Hermione looked at Ann, expecting her to answer.

Ann frowned, how would she explain the sensitive and fragile character of the house-elf.After thinking for a while, she asked, "Hermione, is this the first time you've seen a house-elf tonight?"

"No, I saw it once during the World Cup. That house elf's name is Winky, a poor house elf, and her owner just because of some inexplicable accusations..."

"Wait...Winky?" An suddenly felt that it might be a bad thing to promise Hermione to take her to the kitchen.

"Ann, you know Winky too? Oh, you must know about the World Cup... Then you must also know that Mr. Crouch fired Winky just because of groundless accusations, which for house elves..."

"Okay, okay. Hermione, I understand your need for the establishment of SPEW, since you don't need to take things. Then I will take you to the kitchen, but let's say yes, we will go tonight, just to see their working environment , and then I will find a more typical house elf to understand with you, but is it okay to mainly listen to me when the time comes?"

"Why?" Hermione asked again.

"Uh... because... house elves are a group of highly sensitive creatures... If you tell them something that doesn't fit their point of view from the very beginning, they will be very resistant. You have to do things step by step, right?"

Hermione looked at Ann with an inexplicable gleam in her eyes.

Ann thought that Hermione doubted herself, so she quickly explained, "Ah hey! I definitely don't intend to shirk, or don't mean to help you, I promise you, I will definitely do it. It's just that the situation of the house elf in the kitchen is very complicated. More complicated lately…”

"I believe in Ann, I promise."

"Huh?" Ann was going to explain more, but she didn't expect Hermione's answer to be this.But just promise.Ann immediately started to walk towards the kitchen, "Then let's go."

Ann led Hermione down a stone staircase, and the bottom was not a dark and gloomy underground passage like the one leading to Snape's dungeon.It was, on the contrary, a broad stone gallery, brightly lit by torches, and here and there adorned with cheerful pictures, chiefly of things to eat.

"This place seems to be different from the place where you invited me and Fanny to have dinner?" Hermione said walking in the stone corridor, looking around.

"You know, the roads in Hogwarts castle are always changing, and there is a big difference between weekend mornings and Monday nights here. No, look, this is the storage room where we had dinner last time. Nothing has changed. "

Indeed, Hermione saw that the storeroom door was still in its old battered appearance.

"Here." Ann walked to a large picture of a bowl of fruit, "Hermione, this is the entrance to the kitchen. If you come next time, just like this, scratch the fruit in the fruit bowl." pear."

Ann scratched the pear in the picture, wriggled, giggled, and turned into a big green doorknob.

"Look, the mechanism is like this, a door is here." Ann said, pushed down the doorknob, and pushed the door open. "Welcome to the Hogwarts kitchen."

Hermione walked in with curiosity on her face, and Ann followed, closing the door behind her.

It was a large room with a high ceiling, as large as an auditorium, surrounded by stone walls piled with gleaming copper pots and basins, and a number of hearths, and at the other end of the room was a brick Big fireplace.Inside the room are four long wooden tables like the auditorium, but there is nothing on them.There are estimated to be more than 100 house-elves in the room, all wearing the same uniform and a tea towel with the Hogwarts crest on it.

"Ah! It's Stoke, here she comes..." An elf found Ann, and then a group of house elves were attracted.

About a dozen house elves surrounded Ann, but after seeing Hermione next to Ann, they immediately became different. They all smiled and bowed towards the two of them.

Hermione looked impatient and wanted to stop them, but An took Hermione's hand, leaned closer and whispered in Hermione's ear, "Don't rush to stop them, if you want to liberate them, you must first understand them , and if you want to understand them, you must first let them accept you, if you reject their overtures at the first meeting, it will become difficult to communicate in the future..."

After speaking, Ann's head left, and she didn't notice that Hermione's ears were completely red.

After bowing to Hermione, the house elves seemed less restrained. They gathered around Ann and started talking, "Is Stoke here to deliver a new recipe again?" "The person next to Stoke is Who is it?" "Do you still need a stove like before? Go Liuliu to start a fire!" "What ingredients do you need?"

"Be quiet, please," said Ann, and the house-elves fell silent at once.

"Okay, thank you. Let me introduce you first. This is my friend, Hermione Granger from Gryffindor College. She will often come to the kitchen in the future. Treat her as you treat me, no need polite."

The house-elves stared at Hermione with wide eyes.

"Come here today, no new recipes, just come and have a look. You all go back to your seats. But Jiji, Liuliu, can you help my friend get something to eat? She hasn't had dinner yet. Googoo , can you call Dobby? Thank you very much!" Ann said.

Two house-elves immediately laughed, and several more house-elves followed the two laughing house-elves, and one ran quickly across the room.The rest of the house-elves dispersed chatting.

The author has something to say:

I wish everyone a happy Lantern Festival!The author Jun starts school on February 2th, and should strive to finish writing the fourth part before then.Because the fourth part is a very important one in the story of this article, the number of words is a little bit more.The number of words in the fifth part will be relatively less.

Just let me tell you a little bit, tomorrow's chapter should be a chapter with super long words and a good plot.At least the author thought this chapter was good when he wrote it.I have written more than 4000 words, and I should be able to finish it tonight.It should be released tomorrow morning...you can look forward to it...