Hogwarts Advanced Guide

Chapter 219 Nurmengard Castle
Austria, Nurmengard Castle.

Surrounded by layers of snow-capped mountains, a towering, cold, and pitch-black castle stands on the cliff, and an extraordinarily tall tower is built near the edge of the cliff.

A towering city wall surrounds the castle, blocking the possibility of most people wanting to enter.

"Is this the place where Grindelwald was imprisoned?" Hera and Leni lurked in the snowy forest, looking at the famous quote engraved above the entrance: "For the greater good."

"Yes, this is Grindelwald's prison. Like Hogwarts, there is an anti-apparition spell around Nurmengard Castle, so we can only find a way to sneak in." Leni said this while lying on the snow, and she pulled Hera back.

Walking on the rugged mountain road, Hera asked puzzledly: "Actually, I don't know what you want me to do for you." Hera had just arrived here when she was dragged here by Leni.

"What you need to do is very simple, you just need to bring this to Grindelwald." Leni took out a wand from her pocket, and she said with firm eyes.

Hera was not in a hurry to take the wand, he frowned tightly, "I think, maybe this matter depends on his wishes. I can't guarantee that I will be able to enter Nurmengard yet. Look at the level of defense and the strength of martial law."

"Tell me, how much."

"This it—it's not a question of money or not."

"A thousand gold Galleons, regardless of success or failure."

"Well, you know."

"two thousand."

"Ahem, I don't think my strength is strong enough to sneak into Nurmengard quietly."

"Two thousand gold Gallong plus a clue about your life experience." Leni squinted her eyes, and found out the lore. She knew that Hera had absolutely no resistance to this, even far surpassing Jin Gallong. It can be roughly guessed from his eagerness to ask for the genealogy of the Gaunt family.

In fact, when the black and white demon kings fought in the British magic world, many pure-blood wizards from Germany and France took the opportunity to go in and pick up the leaks. By chance, Leni did learn a little bit about Hera's life experience. It may not be so accurate, after all, it was more than ten years ago.

But it's better than nothing.

Leni's guess was indeed good. When she finished speaking, Hera's pupils suddenly dilated. He was silent, his eyes kept looking at Leni, and his toes rubbed gently on the snow. His feet were almost rubbed out of a hole.

"We will create opportunities for you, remember Norber?" Leni said briskly, which in the end gave Hera confidence like a shot in the arm.

Hera gritted her teeth and took the wand from Leni's hand. "I took it, but if there is any danger, I will definitely give up the mission as soon as possible."

"No problem." Leni smiled.

Hera dared to swear that he never expected that in just two years, Norber would grow to such a large size.

They apparated out of the woods, out of sight - Hera heard something - a deafening high-pitched growl
Leni led Hera around a bush, and stopped. They stood together—for a short moment, Hera thought he saw a bonfire, and several men welded their feet loudly, jumping around the fire, like the legendary XZ jumping god—then, he opened his mouth in surprise.

Noble!

It has grown into a full-grown fire dragon, and its appearance is very fierce. If Lainee hadn't said to bring him to see Norbert, he would never have believed that the behemoth in front of him would be Norbert.

It was imprisoned in the plank grounds, standing on its hind feet, roaring and snorting--balls of flames shot out from its open, tusked mouth into the cloudy sky.Twisting and stomping vigorously.

There were at least five or six wizards in the arena, trying desperately to subdue the dragon, pulling on the chains that connected to the big thick leather straps that fastened the dragon's legs to the dragon's neck.

Hera was stunned, and he murmured: "Noble."

He raised his head, and at a very high place above, he saw Noble's eyes, the pupils were vertical like cat's eyes, and he didn't know whether it was because of fear or anger, those eyes protruded and made a terrible sound, a shrill and ear-piercing wail.
"How can you do this? It's so pitiful." Hera couldn't help shouting, and Lainie covered her face in despair, and said, "Could it be that you stayed with that half-blood giant Hagrid for a long time? You think he's pitiful!?"

"Uh" Hera didn't know how to answer.

Leni continued, "Stay here and don't move. It can emit fire twenty feet away. I don't want you to be injured before you move."

A wizard on the field yelled: "It's no use! Say the Stunning Charm, count to three, and say it together!"

Hera could see each dragon tamer draw his own wand.

"Stunned!" they shouted in unison, and the Stunning Charm shot at the black Norbert like a rocket, and the sparks from the bursts fell like a shower on Norbert's thick scaly skin——

Hera watched as it staggered on its hind legs, its mouth wide open in a silent growl, the flames in its nostrils suddenly extinguished, but still speaking softly—and then it arrived very slowly, the multi-ton, black-scaled dragon crashing to the bottom.

The loud noise even made the trees behind Hera tremble, and the snow fell from the treetops and fell on the heads of Hera and Leni.

The dragon trainer put down his wand and walked towards the fallen dragon, which looked like a hill. The dragon trainer hastily fastened the chains, tied them firmly to the iron posts, and stared the iron posts deep into the ground with his wand.

"Want to take a closer look?" Leni suggested, and they walked towards Noble together.

"How about it, Miss Rozier?" the dragon trainer gasped and came to talk to them. "It should be all right now—we gave them sleeping pills, and it fell asleep all the way when it came. We thought it would wake it up in the quiet night, and Norbert would feel better—but, as you saw, it woke up early—not happy at all—"

"I think it's not your fault, Lord Grindelwald will remember your efforts." Leni nodded proudly.

"This is what we should do." The dragon trainer lowered his head and shouted loudly, which startled Hera.

(End of this chapter)