The Ancient Wizards of Hogwarts

In the Defense Against the Dark Arts class on Tuesday afternoon, there was a huge water tank placed in the corner of the podium. Inside was a disgusting monster with sharp horns and its skin seemed to be covered with mucus.

Its skin is green, but there are also many places where it is red. Those red colors appear in regular circles, which makes people feel a little strange.

It has a body similar to that of a human child and eight legs like octopus tentacles. The ends of its two arms are three slender 'fingers' with suction cups like octopus tentacles. At this time, the monster was hiding among the water plants in the corner of the water tank, baring its green teeth at them threateningly.

Although it looks a bit ugly and ferocious, students still have a strong interest in it.

Professor Lu Ping clapped his hands and asked with a smile:

"Okay, can anyone tell me what kind of creature this is?"

Cassandra raised her hand reservedly:

"Grindellow, Professor.

"This is a common water monster that is widely distributed in lakes and lakes across the UK. Because they often attack Muggles and wizards in lakes, they are recognized as dark magical creatures by the Ministry of Magic."

Lu Ping nodded slightly and praised:

"Yes, Miss Malfoy said it in detail. Five points for Slytherin."

Lupine walked to the water tank, pointed his wand at the green monster inside, and introduced in detail:

"Grindylows mainly feed on fish but will sometimes attack humans.

"They usually live in aquatic plants at the bottom of lakes and attack any living thing that comes close. So as long as you avoid areas covered by aquatic plants, you can effectively avoid being attacked by them.

"Grindylo's teeth are very sharp, but they usually don't attack directly with their teeth. Instead, they use their long fingers to grab your ankles and drag you to the bottom of the lake until you drown.

"It's easy to deal with this kind of monster. Although their fingers are strong, they are very fragile. The trick to dealing with them is to prevent them from holding on to you.

"We can deal with them with a simple and effective spell."

Lupine introduced while chanting a spell to the monster in the water tank:

"Relashio!"

puff!

A boiling water column immediately spewed out of the water tank, and it hit Grindylow's body without any bias, causing it to roll painfully in the water. The part where it was hit by the water column had already burned a piece of its originally pale green skin. Red!

Lupine put away his wand and asked with a smile:

"Now, does anyone want to give it a try?"

Seeing the water monster struggling painfully in the water tank, the students immediately burst out with great enthusiasm and excitement.

Many students raised their hands and wanted to try it themselves.

Lupine's eyes passed over the students who raised their hands, and finally settled on the black-haired girl in the front row:

"Miss Harley, you come first."

Harley looked at Ash beside her nervously, and under the latter's encouraging eyes, she took courage and walked to the water tank step by step.

Lu Ping smiled and comforted:

"Don't be nervous, the extraction spell is not a very advanced spell."

"Read it after me, Relashio."

"Relashio!"

Harley pointed her wand at the tank and whispered the spell.

puff!

Another jet of scorching water shot towards Grindylow, leaving another red circular scar on its body.

"Well done!"

Lupine laughed and clapped, which made the girl who successfully released the curse a little excited, and also made other students eager to give it a try.

"Who's next?"

"Oh, Miss Dupin, please come to the front!"

"Everyone else lines up and we come one by one."

Under Lupine's guidance, the originally boring Defense Against the Dark Arts class immediately became cheerful and lively.

Until the moment the bell rang for the end of get out of class, the students were still a little unfinished.

Harry excitedly talked with Cassandra about the spells they had just learned, until they met Snape coming at the door of the classroom. He was holding a goblet with steaming viscous liquid in it. It's a bit disgusting to go up there.

"Professor Snape." Harry greeted him obediently with a slight smile.

Professor Snape nodded slightly, with a smile on his face, and watched them leave.

After all the students left, he strode into the classroom.

There were only two people left in the classroom, Ash still sitting in his seat and Lupine waving his wand to carry the water tank back to the office.

Snape handed the steaming goblet to Lupine with a cold tone:

"Drink, Lupin."

"Thank you, Severus."

Lupine took the goblet and thanked him with a smile.

He took a brief sip, his expression was distorted and his body was trembling slightly.

Lupine asked:

"Is it true that I can't put sugar in it?"

"sure."

Snape had a sarcastic expression on his face, "Although this will destroy the properties of the medicine, you don't have to worry, I still have many backups."

"Then forget it, thank you for your kindness."

Lu Ping refused with a grimace, as if accepting his fate, he raised his head and prepared to take a breath. Anyway, the long-term pain is not as good as the short-term pain.

Goulon! Goulon!

Lupine slammed the goblet on the table, and the bitter taste in his mouth made his facial features twist into a ball and ran back to the office.

It took a while for Lupine to come back. He had a water glass in his hand and was drinking heavily to dilute the bitter taste of the medicine.

Lu Ping smiled bitterly and said:

"Honestly, it won't be any easier than transforming."

Snape's eyes were cold:

"No one begged you to drink it, but some people begged me to mix the potion for you."

Lu Ping took another sip of water, and his words were extremely sincere:

"So I'm really grateful to you, Severus."

Snape sneered and didn't respond.

Eh.

Lupine sighed in his heart, turned to look at Ash aside, and proactively asked:

"So what should I do tonight?"

Ash thought for a moment and spoke slowly:

"We first have to find a place where you can safely transform."

"Screaming Shack."

Lupine had almost no hesitation, "I transformed there before."

Snape looked gloomy, he didn't have a good impression of this place.

Not because he was almost killed by Lupine, but because he was saved by the person he hated the most.

Sometimes he even wished that he died there, so that Lupine would be imprisoned in Azkaban and the other three would be expelled. In this way, that damn James will not continue to pester Lily, and he will not join the Death Eaters since he is dead, nor will he kill Lily for eavesdropping on the prophecy!

But time cannot be repeated after all, and they must all forgive themselves for what they have done.

Neither he nor Lupine.

Ash had no objection to the location provided by Lupine, but he quickly took out the blood bag from his pocket and said slowly:

"Secondly, we have to draw some blood."

——

In the lounge of the Slytherin dungeon, Harry asked curiously:

"Cassandra, what do you think is in Professor Snape's cup?"

Cassandra frowned and thought for a while, then guessed:

"I don't know, but it should be some kind of healing potion. It's completely different from the uplifting potion. It looks like it's specifically targeted at a certain disease, just like a potion for treating scabies."

After hearing Cassandra's description, Harley easily came to the conclusion:

That cup of medicine was definitely not for Professor Snape, otherwise there would be no need for him to bring it to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom to drink, so this cup of medicine could only be for Professor Lupine. In other words, Professor Lupine is ill, and very seriously ill!

This is not surprising, after all, Professor Lu Ping's face has always been very pale, looking sickly, and he looks sick at first glance.

But the problem is...

Harry couldn't help but asked in a low voice:

"Shouldn't this kind of thing generally be kept secret?"

Having a hidden disease is not a glorious thing.

"Who knows?"

Cassandra was obviously not very interested in this and said casually, "Didn't you say that Professor Snape hates Professor Lupine? Maybe he did it on purpose? He just wanted other people to know that Professor Lupine was sick. "

Harry's expression was a little subtle. Although he was suspected of slandering Professor Snape, this possibility was very high!

If he hadn't deliberately exposed Professor Lupine's illness, Professor Snape could have found a more discreet time to deliver the medicine.

Harley was almost certain that this was the truth, and she whispered:

"If it hadn't been at school, I really doubt they would have started fighting."

"No, there is no doubt that there will definitely be a fight."

——

Outside Hogwarts Castle, Lupine pointed to the Whomping Willow not far away with branches as thick as a python swaying in the wind, with a somewhat nostalgic expression:

"The Whomping Willow is a violent plant, but you can stop it by pressing its scab."

Snape asked with a cold face:

"Then what are you waiting for?"

Although pressing the scar on the Whomping Willow can stop him from attacking, he will still be beaten wildly by the Whomping Willow during the process of pressing the scar.

Snape suffered from this.

But now that they are all here for Lu Ping, it is natural that Lu Ping should be beaten.

"All right."

Lupine shrugged and did not refuse.

In fact, he originally thought so, because Snape would definitely not go, and he couldn't let Ash go as a student. In the end, he would have to resist everything.

But before Lupine left, Ash suddenly spoke:

"It doesn't have to be so troublesome."

"oh?"

Just as Lupine was about to ask Ash if he had any good ideas, he saw Ash pointing his wand at the Whomping Willow and whispering a spell:

"IMMOBULUS!"

The Whomping Willow fell silent instantly, its tentacle-like branches blowing in the breeze, motionless, and seemingly harmless.

Lupine's eyes were a little surprised. The Holding Curse itself was not surprising. It was a spell that all first-year students could learn, but the effects of the same spell cast by different people were vastly different.

Generally speaking, Hogwarts requires students to be able to immobilize elves with a immobilizing spell.

Even an adult wizard may not be able to control a strange plant like the Whomping Willow.

Because this requires an extremely high level of mastery of the Immobilization Spell, and it also places extremely high requirements on the wizard's own magic level.

But Ash can easily do things that even many adult wizards cannot do, which shows that he is extremely talented in magic!

Snape said coldly:

"Lupin, I don't think you have much time to waste."

"Or do you want to transform in front of others?"

Lupine recovered from the shock. He looked up at the sky, which was filled with darkness.

It won't be long before the moon will appear.

"follow me."

Lupine took a deep breath and walked quickly to the base of the Whomping Willow. There was a hole there, which was connected to a secret passage.

The secret passage was low, narrow, winding, and both Lupine and Snape had to carry their backs on their backs.

During this process, Snape kept holding his wand tightly and pointed it quietly at Lupin's back.

At the end of the secret passage was a messy, dusty house. Broken furniture lay scattered on the floor, the windows were blocked by templates, and the wallpaper had fallen off the walls. Obviously, no one has been here for a long time.

Snape sarcastically said:

"I think you must miss this place very much."

"Miss you?" Lu Ping felt bitter in his heart.

What do you miss? Miss spending time with friends? Or do you miss yourself when you almost killed Snape?

But what should he say? Should he say that it was just Sirius' 'prank' and that he and James had no knowledge of it?

He was about to say something when a ray of light suddenly illuminated his bitter expression.

He subconsciously looked at the window that was nailed shut by wooden boards, but he could still see the bright moon through the gaps between the wooden boards.

At this moment, he was bathed in the moonlight.

Lupine's body became distorted in the moonlight due to pain or growling. His body was continuously stretched, and every inch of his skin grew black spikes. His pale features were twisted into a ferocious wolf head, and his hands grew sharp claws.

Compared with real wolves, werewolves have slightly shorter muzzles, slightly smaller pupils, and their overall shape looks closer to humans.

Snape narrowed his eyes and pointed his wand at Lupin.

"wait wait wait……"

Lupine struggled to take a step back, making a growl-like sound from his mouth, but he could still barely distinguish that it was human language.

"what a pity."

Snape said he was sorry, but his wand was pointed at Lupin from beginning to end.

His eyes were quite unkind.

Whenever Lupine slowed down for even a second, his spell would have already taken effect.

"Now, what should we do..." Lupine gasped and struggled to ask.

The wolfsbane potion can keep him sane, but it cannot completely keep him sane. He will still transform into a werewolf and must always fight against the bloodthirsty and brutal nature of the werewolf.

"First, I need to draw some more blood."

Ash explained while taking out the blood bag from his pocket:

"Werewolves only go crazy when they transform, and they have the contagiousness to turn other people into werewolves."

"So I guess the blood of the werewolf when transforming should be very different from the usual blood. I need to collect the blood of the werewolf in different states to analyze whether the blood contains any special components."

"And this special ingredient may be the key to curing werewolves."

Taking into account the werewolf's almost full 'physical resistance' and 'magic resistance', the needle of the blood bag is specially made and slightly thicker than the ordinary one. However, Ash looked at Professor Lupine, whose arms were covered with black hair, and for a moment he didn't know where to start.

Ash looked up at Professor Snape and asked helplessly:

"Professor Snape, do you know of any magic spell that can quickly remove hair?"

"I'd love to help!"

The corners of Snape's mouth raised slightly, and that sunny smile made Lupine's heart tremble.