[HP]Blue Soul

Charlotte followed Alan out the door, and walked along the path next to the flower garden into the warehouse where Charlotte had been a little concerned about the half-open door.The warehouse was not as dark as Charlotte thought. The light coming in from the two windows at the back of the warehouse shone on the rows of wooden barrels, making it look like entering the winery.But these barrels were not filled with wine, but with creatures that were probably still alive, because Charlotte could hear the scratching sound coming from the inside of the barrel.

There are several sconces hanging on the walls of the warehouse, and on both sides of the sconces are hung white furs the size of adult clothes.Charlotte stared carefully at the fur on the wall for a while. She was a little unsure if she was wrong, because she saw the black spots on the wall through the fur, but blinked again and couldn't see it again.Allen noticed Charlotte's gaze, and he said with a smile: "This is the hair of an invisible beast. It is usually used to make invisibility cloaks, but it can only last for 1-2 hours before it will show its figure. You want to Don't try?"

Charlotte shook her head, thinking that the fur on the leather jacket was plucked from many invisible beasts, which made her a little nervous.

Allen didn't introduce his collection again, but went to a long table in front of a row of wooden barrels, opened the wooden suitcase on it, and then stopped by the row of wooden barrels on the right with an empty barrel Next, he took off the lid of one of the wooden barrels, fished out a dozen ferrets and stuffed them into the empty barrel.Charlotte walked to Allen's side, and there were more scratching sounds from the barrel on the other side, "There are still live... live ferrets in these barrels?"

"No, those are not ferrets. Some bugs, let Xingxing catch them, but he is not very good at killing them." Allen shrugged, put the bucket full of ferrets on the side of the box, and then kicked Stepping into the box, his whole body seemed to shrink into the box slowly, until there was only one head left, he stretched out his right hand and took the wooden barrel beside the box in, and turned back to the stunned Xia Xia. Lott said, "You come in too."

Charlotte has been seeing Alan's head disappearing into the box. She has not yet realized what happened. Everything in front of her looks like a living person in a magic trick.She moisturized her dry throat, and strode forward with difficulty to get closer to the box and poked her head to look inside.

Inside the box was another warehouse, and the warehouse below the box was brighter than the one above.The warehouse below is a wooden structure. There is a door and a window on the left side. There are wooden barrels in twos and threes beside the wall. Next to the wooden barrels is a carved wooden table that is completely incompatible with the style of the wooden house. There are also wooden tables on both sides. Equally exquisite carved wooden chairs.And Allen was standing by the wooden table waving to her, "Come down, Charlotte."

When Charlotte stood in this wooden house, she looked around again, and it was different from the feeling above, she felt that she had entered another world.Through the window of the wooden house, Charlotte could see the lush forest outside and the looming animals in the forest. The chirping and hissing of the animals seemed to be right next to her ears.After a while, the naughty Bowtruckle heard the wind, and quickly slipped into the house, skipped Alan's feet and climbed onto Charlotte's hand. It made a cute little voice, [I feel on you] to the real forest. 】

Alan missed the Bowtruckle, and said angrily: "This damn Bowtruckle, I just sent him to the tree." He reached out to grab Charlotte's injured Bowtruckle back.Charlotte turned slightly to avoid Alan's hand, and she said, "Isn't this a real forest inside?"

Alan moved his hand away awkwardly, "It's not." He walked to the door of the wooden house, "Maybe half of it is true. This is just a simulation of a forest scene. I transplanted some trees and soil outside. It comes in with water, but it’s not a real ecosystem, and the animals in it still need me to feed them.” He glanced at the bowtruckle in Charlotte’s hand again, “There’s really no need to put this bowtruckle Is the hunchback gone?"

"It doesn't matter if he likes it," said Charlotte nonchalantly.Looking at the small Bowtruckle, Charlotte raised her left hand to touch its little head, but the Bowtruckle tried her best to dodge her left hand, and hugged her right hand fingers tremblingly.Charlotte didn't react until she saw Xiaobai's head leaking from her sleeve and the letter she spit out slightly. She said helplessly to the Bowtruckle, "Do you want to come on my head? If you are afraid of Xiaobai white words."

【Okay, okay. 】The Bowtruckle nimbly grabbed Charlotte's clothes and climbed up her hair without hurting her at all.

Charlotte stretched out her hand and tapped Xiao Bai, who had finally woken up, "You little brat, why are you so scary, you scared them when you woke up." Bai spat out the letter and hissed, [I am I don't want to be like this, if possible, I hope to make friends, hum. 】

"Oh, Xiaobai." Alan also saw the little white snake on Charlotte's wrist, and immediately frowned, "You'd better not take her into the woods, those animals will be more irritable, I don't think you would think Go through that."

"Is that so? Well—" Charlotte leaned closer and said to Xiaobai, "Can you stay here first? I'll be back later."

Xiaobai raised his head and nodded slightly.She quickly slid down Charlotte's outstretched hand onto the wooden table like water, and found a soft cloth, curled up.

Charlotte turned to Allen and said, "Okay."

"Let's go then."

Alan carried the wooden barrel and led Charlotte to the forest.On one of the trees, Charlotte saw a winged snake nesting in the grass nest in the tree hole, and only poked its head out to look at her curiously. Charlotte quickly recalled that she had seen "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", and successfully matched the number, this is the bird snake, which can be enlarged or reduced at will.After walking inside for a while, Charlotte saw a large white lake not far away, she couldn't see the edge at all, and there were dozens of small black dots dancing on the surface of the lake.On the left side of the shore was a high wall made of stones. In the gap of the wall, she saw a flash of fire.

They turned a corner and did not walk towards the lake.After taking a few steps, Charlotte saw a huge and majestic hippogriff. It had the body, hind legs and tail of a horse, but its front legs, wings and head resembled an eagle. Same.It was scouring the soil with its steel-colored beak, and its half-foot-long steel-gray front paws stamped restlessly on the ground.When it realized that someone was coming, it raised its head vigilantly, and Alan and Charlotte were getting closer and closer in its orange eyes.

Charlotte felt a very dangerous aura from the Hippogriff, it might kill anyone who got close to it at any time, but she also felt a kind of gentle power from it, which made her uneasy. Consciously want to get close to it, pet it, even bury your face in its thick feathered collar.Most of all, it's gorgeous, Charlotte said.

Alan stopped ten steps away from the Hippogriff, and said softly to Charlotte, "This is a Hippogriff, a very proud and dangerous creature. But as long as you get its Trust me, it will protect you resolutely." Allen's voice was full of excitement, "I've always wanted one, but I found her from a dense forest on the other side of the Alps last month. She was Injured, this is probably the luckiest time for me.” But then he got down again, “It was relatively easy for me to feed her at first. But she has become more and more irritable recently, and she has been irritated for several days. Don’t eat anymore, don’t even let me get close, worry about it.” He handed the bucket to the hippogriff, indicating that he wanted to feed it, then took a few ferrets, and threw them on the ground. It caught the Hippogriff's mouth very accurately, and swallowed it in two or three bites.

Allen laughed happily, "You are really useful! Charlotte."

"it works?"

"Because of you, she ate. It's not easy. You know, I fed her two days ago, and she ignored me at all."

Alan thought the crisis was over, he walked a little closer and took two more ferrets from the bucket, and threw them into the Hippogriff's mouth.At this time, the Hippogriff suddenly let out a sharp cry, raised its scaly front knee violently, showed its front paws and waved towards Alan's arm, Charlotte heard her say ,【Damn it, I'm so mad. 】

Soon a deep and long gash appeared on Allen's arm. He covered his arm and stepped back a few steps, leaning against the tree and reaching the ground.Charlotte took a few steps forward and walked to the pale-faced Allen, seeing bright red blood continuously flowing from his fingers.This scene made Charlotte's eyes hurt, and her lips trembled and she asked anxiously, "Here, how to stop the bleeding? Is there any white fresh essence?"

Alan didn't think it was a big deal, but looked at her and comforted her: "It's nothing, it's a common thing." He pulled out his wand from his clothes with his intact left hand, and shouted, "Bai Xianfei is here!" As soon as the voice fell, a bottle flew over from the cabin with a "swish", and Allen skillfully pulled out the cork on the bottle with one hand, and then poured some on his bleeding wound, and the blood stopped soon Living.

"Often?" Charlotte asked with a pale face.

Allen read again, "The blood tonic is coming." He stretched out his hand and waited for the next bottle, and replied to Charlotte, "After all, I don't have your talent. Most magical creatures are dangerous, and injuries are common. Things. As long as it is not a one-hit kill, wizards are not so easy to die." After he drank the blood tonic, the blood on his face immediately recovered, but at the same time his brows frowned in pain, "Potion Really useful stuff, but the taste is really not that good."

Allen stuffed the empty bottle into his pocket, and continued: "I once wanted to improve the taste of the potion, but once I got out of the formula, I was like a newborn baby, and I didn't know what to do. You know Professor Slughorn was a headache at school, and I used to blow cauldrons in his class. Now he should be relieved that his headache students can now make their own potions, but I think he also You won't pay attention to this useless student..." Allen stood up while supporting the tree.

Charlotte picked up the ferret that had been spilled on the ground and put it back into the bucket, and said speechlessly: "I didn't expect you to blow up the cauldron."——I know Professor Slughorn, who is still the Potions Master at Hogwarts professor."

"Blessed are the students. Although he is a bit weird, the potion level is still acceptable." Alan took the bucket in Charlotte's hand, "So—what's the situation with this Hippogriff? Can you ask Ask? It stands to reason that you can also communicate with her. "

"I just heard her say she was angry." Charlotte glanced at the hippogriff that had been digging over there.

"Angry?" Allen frowned and thought for a while, and he said with a sad face, "I was very polite to her, why did I get angry?"

"Let me ask?"

"Ask."

Charlotte looked at the still irritable Hippogriff, gave herself some psychological hints to strengthen her courage, coughed twice, cleared her throat, and asked as if reading: "Hi, may I ask where you are?" Why are you angry?"

The Hippogriff over there raised its orange eyes, glanced at Charlotte like a fool, snorted, and let out a cry, [Oh, these damned humans are saying something again what? 】

Charlotte looked back at Allen, frowned and said, "She doesn't seem to understand us." Then she scratched her head again, and muttered in a low voice, "No, it stands to reason that they can all understand Yes. Unless—" Charlotte seemed to think of something, patted her head suddenly, and said suddenly, "I know! She's not from England, is she?"

"Of course, as I said, I found her from the Alps." Alan raised his head and thought for a while, then continued, "According to the scope, it should be France, yes, France."

"Do you speak French?" Charlotte asked.

"Of course. The only foreign language I know is French." Allen said "Hello" in French after he finished speaking, and the Hippogriff over there even honked in response. Charlotte What I heard was [That's right. 】

"Yes, that's it. You asked her in French why she was angry." Charlotte said happily.

"Er, well.—why are you angry?" Alan asked in French.

[This is not a real forest, I can't find a suitable branch to make a nest, and there is nothing in the ground here.Damn, my baby is about to be born! 】The Hippogriff made an urgent and angry cry.

Charlotte was speechless for a moment, and Allen asked anxiously, "What did she say?"

Charlotte didn't answer him, but glanced at Alan and asked, "Are you really a magical biologist?"

Allen replied inexplicably, "Oh, of course."

"Then why don't you even know that this Hippogriff is pregnant?" Charlotte pointed to the Hippogriff's belly.But unfortunately, Charlotte did not see that the Hippogriff was pregnant, and her belly showed no signs of distending.

"How would I know, this is the first live one I've seen." Allen said shyly, and then, as if changing his face, he suddenly jumped up with a happy laugh, "What! She's pregnant! I earned it! One turned into two!" Then he stopped and asked, "Then why is she mad? I didn't find out she was pregnant?" Allen's face was wrinkled.

"Do you know how hippogriffs have babies?" Charlotte asked.

"Of course, of course. You need to build a nest on the ground—" Allen glanced at Charlotte, then at the ground, kicked the soil with his feet, and soon saw the wooden board, he was embarrassed Smiling, "I forgot that this isn't a real forest anymore, there are basically nothing to make a nest, she can't use her beak to chop down trees by herself—"

"Yes, that's it." Charlotte also glanced at the ground, and when the layer of soil was kicked away, the original wooden structure of the box was revealed.

In the end, Allen told the Hippogriff in French that he would give her the materials to prepare a nest, and finally calmed down the fury of the Hippogriff, and Charlotte therefore dared to step forward and touch the hippogriff. The sharp beak of the hippogriff—although her sharp beak looks like steel, it feels delicate and soft to the touch.

When the Hippogriff retreated behind a thick tree, Alan took Charlotte to other places in the box and met other creatures, including a very shy light gray moon idiot, As soon as he saw a person, he withdrew his body and hid in the hole made of stone. Allen said that it would only appear on the night of the full moon.This requires him to take time every month to simulate a full moon over the box; there is a kind of Motra rat that looks like a mouse but has anemone-like growths on its back. Alan told Charlotte not to get too close because it The bite will make you retch, and of course Charlotte doesn't really want to get close to it. Even if she can understand what the Motra rat is saying, the similar appearance to the rat still doesn't interest her much; at first The bird snake she saw almost came up to attack when she saw Alan, but stopped when she saw Charlotte, which made Alan amazed; and the lake...

The amazing thing is that Charlotte couldn't understand what they were talking about, whether it was the magical creatures by the lake or in the lake.

For example, beside the stone wall specially made into the beach, there is a fire crab with jewels of different colors on its shell. Charlotte was almost burned off by the flames ejected from its tail, while Alan was able to do it with ease. He said: "Five Grade OWLs exam content, haha."

Charlotte took a few dozen steps away from the fire crab with concern, and turned to the lake on the right. She finally saw clearly the little things jumping on the lake, which were Lamora fish.Allen, who had fed the fire crabs, walked up to Charlotte and threw a wooden board onto the lake, and then the wooden board was fixed on the lake by the Lamora fish, which would not float with the current. A sucker with strong magic power.The food on the board slowly flowed from the board into the lake as if it had melted.

Of course, Charlotte still couldn't understand what La Mora fish was saying.

When they came out of the box of magical creatures, the sun had climbed into the sky, revealing that the time had reached noon, and Alan and Charlotte sat face to face on the sofa again, and he said with emotion: "This is really powerful. Talent! Although there is always a little flaw."

Charlotte touched Xiao Bai who was wrapped around her wrist again, and scratched her face embarrassedly, "It would be great if I could help you."

Alan sat up straight suddenly, and said seriously: "You can help me a lot, come to be my assistant, I need you." He stretched out his right hand whose sleeve was scratched, and continued, "Look, If you were here, I might be injured a lot less." Seeing Charlotte's hesitant expression, he added more chips again, "Of course, being my assistant can't be free, I will pay you generously The salary is definitely much more than what you get in a pet store."

Charlotte stared blankly at the red marks under Alan's torn sleeves, thinking.I have to say that now she finds Allen's proposal more attractive than before she entered the magical creature box.She liked the magical creatures, she liked the hippogriff, and even the mouse-like Mortra didn't bother her so much.But, Mrs Betty...

"I think I have to discuss it with Mrs. Betty first." Charlotte said, "Mrs. Betty is the owner of Betty's Pet Shop. She treats me very well. If it weren't for her, I might not be alive now, at least not in peace. By now, I can't leave her alone in the shop, and she's not too young. I won't leave the pet shop unless there are other people in the shop who can take on some of the work."

Allen sighed and said, "Okay... I don't force it, but if, if there are any new variables, I still hope that you can be my assistant. You shouldn't bury this talent, the magic world You should not be missing from the world of magical creatures, maybe in the future you can have a higher achievement than Newt Scamander."

With a pop, the star appeared and said to Ellen and Charlotte: "Lunch is ready, the master and the lady can go to the dining room for dinner."

Allen clapped his hands and said, "Okay." He stood up and looked at Charlotte, "Go, go and taste the food cooked by the stars, I promise you will be full of praise. I dare say no one's domestic The little elves can cook such delicious food as the stars."

Tears quickly gathered in Xingxing's eyes as big as headlights, and he said in a trembling voice: "The master is always so gentle, polite, and kind, and he always praises Xingxing's cooking skills." He bowed to Alan. Bowing, his nose seemed to touch the carpet.

"Don't be surprised, house elves are sometimes more exaggerated." Alan looked at Charlotte with a complex expression and said, "I promise I didn't abuse him, our family is different from the rest of the Travers family " Allen seemed to think of something and showed a disgusted expression, "Some elves often like to hit the wall, I dare say this is not a good hobby, I will not allow Xingxing to do this. If he does something wrong, I will Hopefully he can get things right again.”

"Then you are a gentle man," said Charlotte with a smile.She is also willing to be friendly to all creatures, oh, except mice, in fact, if the mice didn't bite her books and steal her food, she wouldn't have such a prejudice against mice.If Allen was such a person, then she would be more willing to associate with him.

"Thank you. I appreciate the compliment."

"Hmph!" Pascal on the wall let out a cold snort.

Allen gave Pascal a blank look, ignored him, but said to Charlotte: "Let's go and eat." Then he took Charlotte to the restaurant.

The dining room is just behind the living room. Although it is only half the size of the living room, the long tables inside fill up two-thirds of the dining room, and the remaining one-third Charlotte saw a small room surrounded by a small wooden fence. There is a place covered with white stones, and a bare black hole in the middle, as if something was put in and then pulled out.

On the other side of the long table are two silver lamp holders and some silver wine vessels, all of which are carved with complicated patterns.Charlotte and Alan sat on the other side, and the stars quickly brought lunch to the table, a large plate of roasted chicken legs, spaghetti bolognese, some potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, and various vegetables. Lott's Christmas dinner was even richer, she had never seen so much meat...

As Allen praised, the craftsmanship of the stars is very good.Charlotte feasted and ate to her heart's content.After the main meal, there is also a dessert made by Xingxing, which is equally delicious and makes people want to swallow a spoon.

After the meal, Charlotte finally remembered her agreement with Severus. She borrowed the owl from Allen, wrote to Severus, and told him everything that happened to Allen here, including The matter of Raven Forest, the matter of magical creatures, and the matter of Alan wanting to be her assistant, she thought that maybe Severus would give her some good advice.

After writing the letter, Charlotte had to bid farewell.Xiaobai was still unwilling to get off her wrist, and Allen said that Xiaobai could continue to follow Charlotte.Charlotte kept the Bowtruckle on top of her head, because the Bowtruckle was really conspicuous and easy to be spotted.Allen personally sent Charlotte to the exit of the manor.

Charlotte knew that when she stepped out of the range of the fence, everything in front of her eyes would change.She asked, "Mr. Allen, can I still come here in the future?"

Allen smiled and said, "Of course, you are always welcome here, even if you are not my assistant."

Charlotte was a little bit reluctant to part with the Hippogriff, and she asked again: "Can I see the baby Hippogriff being born?"

"Of course. I must need you very much at that time. After all, I don't know what the Hippogriff said, right?" Alan winked at Charlotte.

"Thank you, Mr. Allen."

"Call me Ellen, will you?"

"Thank you, Alan. Goodbye—"

"goodbye--"

Charlotte stood at the foot of the hill again, but her mood was very different.She looked at the dilapidated house with the half-open door on the slope, and no longer felt afraid.She seemed to be able to see some lovely creatures inside, waiting to greet her.She touched Xiao Bai who fell asleep again, and happily set foot on the way home, she knew that she would come back here soon.

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