[Comprehensive] Digging Secrets in the Academy of Magic

Until the train resumed running for a while, the little wizards in the box were still discussing the dementor just now.Draco kept unpacking the chocolate frogs and handing them to Harry and Al. He didn't stop until several wriggling frogs crawled into the box.

After arriving at the destination, the pets were sent directly to the children's dormitory with their luggage, and the little wizards put on their school robes and went to the carriage—except for Scabbers. Cover it in your pocket.

When the second year started, Harry and Ron came in their family's flying car, so this was the first time Harry and Ron took a Hogwarts carriage.Ron was fine, and Harry was taken aback when he saw the carriage.

"What is this?" He screamed in surprise, afraid of those strange creatures: they look like black horses, but their bodies only seem to be skeletons and skins, their faces are like skeletons, and they have a pair of huge wings.

"This is the carriage." Draco said, "What's the matter?"

"No, no, I mean the cart...this kind of animal." Harry looked at his companions in bewilderment, "Are you all used to it?"

Ron stared at the air in front of the carriage for a while: "...What's so common? It's also my first time riding in this carriage, Harry."

"This is thestrals, Harry." Al walked over and touched the back of thestrals. They are by no means very gentle animals, but they will not attack wizards at will. "Only those who have seen death can see them, They are invisible to those who have not seen death."

"Death?" Harry was a little scared, and took a step back, staying away from the Thestrals.

"Thestrals?" Draco had never heard of such creatures, "When have you seen death?"

"In the first grade, where the Sorcerer's Stone is hidden, Quirrell died." Al reminded.This matter didn't affect him, anyway, he was a man who would not regret his death, but Harry's expression was not very good. He got into the carriage and sat on the side farther from the Thestrals.

That's enough for a 13-year-old boy.

I don't know how the news spread so fast. When they got off the carriage and were still walking towards Hogwarts, Harry and Al were ridiculed more than once by their classmates from Gryffindor and Slytherin respectively—— It's all about them passing out on the train.Al was very calm about this, Harry blushed all the way, and Draco was furious, it seemed that if Harry hadn't pulled him, he would have given those gloating people an Avada.

As soon as the group entered the corridor of the castle, Al, Harry, and Hermione were called into the office by Professor McGonagall, who rushed out halfway.

It didn't take long for Harry to feel even worse.Professor Lupine informed Professor Dumbledore that the two of them had fainted because of a dementor on the train, and McGonagall specially called them to the office and asked Madam Pomfrey to examine them.

"I'm really fine, absolutely fine!" Harry angrily dodged Madam Pomfrey's hand that rolled his eyelids, Madam Pomfrey muttered "they have a big impact on those who can't stand it" , this sentence made Harry even more annoyed: "I can't stand it!"

"Well, you are not." Madam Pomfrey said tolerantly, "Don't take it to heart, Mr. Malfoy is very indifferent."

Harry looked at Al, and the other party looked over calmly, and even picked up the biscuits that Professor McGonagall put on the table and ate them.

"It tastes good, do you want to come?" He raised his chin at Harry.

"No, thanks." Harry had no appetite.

After making sure that the two of them were okay, McGonagall told Al and Harry to go out and wait, and she wanted to say a few words to Hermione.

"I can't stand them seeing me like a weak little sheep." Harry said sullenly, "I mean - I'm not fragile? Isn't every 13-year-old wizard facing Voldemort three times?"

"Of course you are not vulnerable." Al hesitated for a moment, and decided to tell him why he reacted so strongly, "Dementors have a deeper impact on people with a painful past. You once... lost your parents, and others Compared with your classmates, your past experience was too painful, so you fainted, you are not weak, but you are stronger than most people."

Harry was stunned, he was thinking about something, and his face really improved a lot.

Al patted Harry on the shoulder reassuringly, but he heard him ask: "So...why did you faint, Al?"

Al blinked, and said without changing his expression, "I fainted because I'm fragile and I can't stand being touched."

Harry looked at Al who was half a head taller than himself: "..."

After Hermione came out of McGonagall's office happily, the three of them went to the restaurant together.Al noticed an extra gold chain around Hermione's neck, presumably the Time-Turner.

... a little wanting.This is something like a bug, it can reverse time!

Thinking about how to get one before all the time-turners in the Ministry of Magic were broken, Al said to Harry seriously when parting at the dinner table: "Remember to remind Ron to make a cage for Scabbers and make it look good." —I mean, protect yourself, okay?"

Harry nodded in confusion.

They had already missed the sorting ceremony, and after sitting in their seats, Harry couldn't wait to eat a mouthful of food to pad his belly, and asked Hermione, "Al likes mice so much? Why does he care so much about Scabbers?"

"Scabbers? What happened to Scabbers?" Ron asked sharply.

"Maybe it's because I like mice..." Hermione stroked the chain around her neck absently, and the two careless boys didn't notice her extra necklace.

"Al asked me to remind you to remember to fix Banban a cage." Harry told Al the explanation, and Ron also had a puzzled expression.

But after all, he cared about his pet, Ron nodded, and planned to borrow a school owl tomorrow to order a cage.

——Banban's poor life as a prisoner is about to begin from now on.

"What did McGonagall tell you to do?" Draco asked at the long Slytherin table.

"Madam Pomfrey is checking us for injuries because of the dementors," Al replied.When Pansy heard this, he immediately came over: "Injured? Al, how are you?"

Al smiled at her: "As you can see, I'm still alive."

Pan Xi stared blankly at him for a few seconds before looking away.

After starting school, Al and Draco became more and more estranged from her. She didn't go to Malfoy Manor this summer, so she didn't see her for two months.

The little girl's face was a little red, and she buried herself in cutting the fried egg on her plate like a cover-up.

After the dinner, Dumbledore announced the change of this year's professors. Lockhart resigned. The original professor of protection of magical creatures, Professor Kettle Burn, retired. Lupine and Hagrid served as professors of defense against the dark arts and protection of magical creatures respectively. professor.

There was thunderous applause at the Gryffindor table, welcoming their new professor, Hagrid.Al noticed, however, that Severus was glaring at Lupine as if he were his own father-killer.

... It's not much different. The four-person group of robbers bullied Severus a lot when they were students. Although Lupine didn't participate much, he was the only one present now, and the hatred naturally shifted.

Draco snorted softly, disapproving.He and Al have been to Hagrid's hut several times, so they have a good relationship with Hagrid, but he doesn't think Hagrid will be a good professor—"That half-giant is really stupid, isn't it?"

Al shrugged.Hagrid is not bad, but he doesn't know how to educate children step by step, let alone how to treat magical creatures from the perspective of ordinary wizards.

But Al now cares about something else.

"Lockhart resigned? But nothing happened to him last year." Al asked strangely.

Lockhart didn't follow him to the Chamber of Secrets in the second year, he didn't forget everything, he was still a normal vase.But even so, he resigned.

"Who knows, wouldn't it be better if the vase went away? I think that Lupine is quite reliable, he drove away the dementors." Draco said objectively.He wouldn't have liked Lupine, but apparently Lupine's help to Harry and Al on the train had won him a lot of affection.

"I just..." Al said hesitantly, "Have you heard of the Dark Lord's curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor?"

Draco cut the steak stiffly, and complained: "Don't mention him, Al? Anyway, no matter whether there is a curse or not, the replacement is a professor, and we can only listen to the lecture."

Draco still had lingering fears about what had happened in the Chamber of Secrets last semester.

After Dumbledore once again emphasized not to provoke the dementors and be careful of Sirius, the little wizards were able to return to their dormitories.

As soon as the door was opened, Dahei rushed forward enthusiastically, and his two paws slumped on Al's shoulders. Al could feel the heat from his mouth.

"Don't get excited, macho." Al patted the huge dog's head, "I know you're hungry, I brought you something to eat... Oh, don't lick me, please."

Draco wiped Al's saliva off Dahei's face with a look of disgust.

"Are we really going to share a dorm with him in the future?" Draco grumbled, "Can't we let him sleep in an empty dormitory or in the lounge? What if he's pulled on the carpet, and he's so big... With such a small space, I feel that the air is thin.”

Al: "... Objectively speaking, our dormitory is not small enough to accommodate a big black. Besides, aren't you afraid of Sirius? Big black stands about the same height as me, he can protect us, Isn't that right, Big Black?"

Al looked at Sirius meaningfully, and the big black dog held a piece of bread in its mouth, gave a vague "woof", and tucked its tail guiltily.