Alchemy professor at Hogwarts

Chapter 6 The Walls of Britain

"Miss Granger, reading while walking is not a wise choice, you may hurt yourself or others."

Turning sideways to avoid Hermione, Hardy politely helped the other party who was about to fall, and kindly reminded.

"Mr. Ollivander? Yes... sorry..."

Hermione clutched the heavy book on her chest tightly, as if she was afraid that the other party would run away, and that was exactly the case. As early as on the train, the other party had planned to escape three times.

"Mr. Ollivander, I was looking for you... This book is really great, I may need half a month to read it carefully, I don't know how to return it to you by then?"

Hermione touched the lines on the cowhide cover of the book and said.

"If you want...you can send it to the alchemy professor's office at Hogwarts at that time. If I don't have a class, it should be there." Hardy replied after a little pondering.

Hermione nodded: "I see... Wait, Professor Alchemy's office?"

Her eyes suddenly widened, and Hermione looked at Hardy in disbelief: "Mr. Ollivander, if I understand correctly, you have successfully become the alchemy teacher of our school?"

"Yes, welcome to listen to my alchemy class after school starts. If you have good teaching suggestions, I will be very grateful."

"It's... great!" Hermione exclaimed excitedly: "I heard the conductors mention your wonderful alchemy, I really hope I can have a chance to watch it up close."

"In my class, everything will be there." After chatting with Hermione for a few words, Hardy wanted to leave, but was stopped by the other party.

"Mr. Ollivander... oh no, it's Professor Ollivander, please be careful when you go back to platform nine and three-quarters."

Hearing Hermione's reminder suddenly, Hardy turned around in surprise: "Is something wrong? Miss Granger?"

"Before... just now, I overheard the conversation of several Aurors. It seems that a bomb berry was hidden somewhere on platform nine and three-quarters."

Hardy's eyes flickered: "Miss Granger, did you hear anything else?"

Hermione added: "The Aurors said that two house-elfs had secretly brought five bomb berries to the platform, and they've found four, but the last one is still missing."

"According to those Aurors, the last bomb berry must still be hidden somewhere on platform nine and three-quarters. If it exploded, it would be enough to level a house."

"Miss Granger, I really didn't expect that you could inadvertently hear such a rich content..."

Facing Hardy's gaze, Hermione couldn't help lowering her head, her cheeks flushed.

After she noticed the secret actions of several Aurors, she used the security appearance of her second-year Hogwarts student to sneak up and snoop on these news.

"Miss Granger, although I can understand that you are a real Gryffindor cub, please don't take risks in similar things in the future."

Hardy's face slowly became serious: "Please always remember the old proverb that curiosity can kill the cat, and don't make the same mistake as me."

Next, Hardy cited a similar case in his fourth grade, and explained it for Hermione on the spot.

"Just because I overheard the conversation of three dark wizards, I was in danger!"

Hardy warned: "I still can't forget the burning sensation of the one-inch wound on my left hand. If it weren't for luck, I would never be able to stand in front of you now."

"My God, three dark wizards! Professor Ollivander escaped from them?" Hermione covered her mouth in surprise.

Nodding his head, Hardy said, "Almost, I knocked the wands of three dark wizards into the air, then broke their legs and feet, and finally handed them over to the Aurors who came late."

Hermione: "..."

Something seems wrong with this example?
"I will keep your warning in mind, I promise!" Hermione said solemnly with a small face.

But in the next second, Hermione secretly thought again: "But I can't stop Harry and Ron...It's really not easy for me."

After bidding farewell to Hermione, Hardy returned to Hogsmeade Station and boarded the return Hogwarts Express.

Sitting in the VIP car, he began to seriously consider the course materials and teaching arrangements for young wizards of all grades.

He pushed aside four or five fragrant business cards on the desktop, waved his magic wand to manipulate a quill, and quickly recorded everything on the clean parchment.

……

"Woooo-"

Hot steam spouted from the chimney, and the passengers were busy moving the goods and luggage on the train to platform nine and three-quarters. Hardy got off the train with his suitcase, and headed straight for the exit of King's Cross Station after identifying the direction. go.

Sudden.

With a bang, the explosion came suddenly, beyond everyone's expectations.

The broken stones all over the sky were like sharp arrows, shot out from a load-bearing pillar on the nine and three-quarters platform, and the billowing smoke and dust directly drowned everything.

puff puff puff...

The gravel splashed and roared straight towards Hardy, but was blocked by a milky white barrier eight inches away from him.

"Extremely thrilling!"

Hardy slowly lowered his right hand, which was raised to the side of his face. On his slender fingers, a sterling silver ring was emitting a steady stream of blazing light, blocking all the impact of explosions for Hardy.

This is a defensive alchemy product made by Hardy himself, named "British Wall".

The purpose is to deal with emergencies like today, after all——

No matter how good a wizard is, it is difficult to deal with all accidents.

The sudden explosion almost caused the entire load-bearing column to break in the middle, and the broken stones fell to the ground, and there were shouts and shouts everywhere.

Fortunately, there are a total of twelve load-bearing columns like this on platform [-] and three-quarters, which prevented the entire platform from collapsing and causing more serious accidents.

"My God, Mr. Ollivander, are you not hurt?"

As the smoke and dust fell, Thomas, the grey-bearded train conductor, hurried over, holding his head in his hands, his eyes widened, and his throat rolled up and down.

"This... this... it's unbelievable that such a nasty bomb attack would occur on platform nine and three quarters. Fortunately, today is not the day when the little wizards start school!"

Hardy put down his palm, disarmed the defense of the "British City Wall", squatted down and looked at the rubble pile on the ground, and found some residues of pungent berries.

It seems that it was the last explosive berry in Hermione's mouth that was not found by the Aurors, which caused the explosion on platform nine and three quarters.

As far as Hardy knows, the exploding berry is a plant that is strictly controlled in the magic world. It is usually used as a unique food taste additive in the seedling stage, causing a slight bursting sensation in the mouth of the user.

But once the exploding berries mature from the seedling stage, the taste will become as pungent as gunpowder, and the power of the explosion will become more and more terrifying as the years grow.

Staff from the Ministry of Magic once voiced their opinion that this kind of magical creature was too dangerous and should be completely banned, but in the face of strong protests from several magic food manufacturers, they could only let it go.

However, for safety reasons, the planting and use of explosive berries is still strictly controlled, and any magic food manufacturer has also issued regulations one after another, strictly prohibiting the cultivation of explosive berries to maturity.

The damaged load-bearing column was located on the edge of platform [-] and three-quarters, so the casualties caused by the explosion were very small. Except for Hardy, only three passing passengers were impacted and left skin trauma.

(End of this chapter)