Wind and Eagle Wings at Hogwarts

Chapter 396

A new week has arrived.

After dinner on Monday, before the Transfiguration Club, Scott volunteered to come to Professor McGonagall's office.

When he explained his purpose, Professor McGonagall was not surprised.

"Have you decided to start preparing for the pre-transformation ritual of the Animagus?"

She nodded to Scott.

"Based on your level of mastery of body transformation, you can indeed start preparations."

She thought for a while, and then said: "Today is April 4th, exactly, the 18th of this month is the full moon, so you can start the ceremony from that day."

As she spoke, she got up from the chair behind the desk, opened the cabinet beside her, and took out a glass bottle from it.

"This is a mandrake leaf from my collection." She handed the sealed glass bottle to Scott, "Remember, it must be kept in your mouth for a whole month. If the leaf leaves your mouth or is damaged, the whole process You have to start over.”

Scott quickly accepted the glass bottle and thanked him solemnly.

"You have to be careful." Professor McGonagall told him again, "The ceremony must start on the full moon. If you fail this time, you can only wait for the next month to start again."

Scott nodded, and asked with some distress, "Professor, is there any trick? I mean, it is easy to fail when eating, washing or sleeping."

Professor McGonagall shook his head, "There is no trick to this step, you can only be careful yourself."

"I see, Professor." Scott looked at the fresh-looking leaf in the sealed glass bottle with some distress.

Professor McGonagall laughed, and she suggested: "There is still one week before the 25th, this week you can use other leaves for training, and try to get used to life with leaves before the full moon."

Scott accepted Professor McGonagall's suggestion.

From the second day on, he tried to keep mint leaves in his mouth.

But such training obviously did not go well.

In total, Scott consumed a dozen mint leaves on the first day of the experiment.

It's okay when I speak, and the number of failures is not many.

But when eating, it is always accidentally bitten or swallowed, the same is true when drinking water, and it is even more troublesome when brushing teeth.

What's even more outrageous is that the leaves are unconsciously spit out of the mouth when sneezing.

By this evening, Scott had lost much confidence in whether he could hold on to the leaf for a month.

"Unless I can stop eating, drinking and brushing my teeth, there is still a little chance of success."

In the dorm, Scott told his roommates.

"The only thing you can do is not brush your teeth." Eddie said with a smile, "If you really plan to do it, then please stay away from us for a month."

Scott took another mint leaf in his mouth, and said vaguely: "Now I want to try, will I swallow the leaf unconsciously when I sleep."

Roger also looked at Scott sympathetically, "This is too troublesome! No wonder the wizards who have been able to successfully cast the transformation of Animagus are a minority of the minority."

"But Scott was going to try," Milton said, "because he had that talent."

Eddie smiled gloatingly again, "Yeah, come on, Scott, so as not to waste your talent."

Scott didn't want to ignore him, and fell asleep with a mint leaf in his mouth.

However, when he got up the next morning, he found that the mint leaves that he had held in his mouth had stuck to the pillow.

"..."

Scott cast a Vanishing Charm on the disgusting-looking leaf.

After getting up, he tried to brush his teeth with leaves in his mouth again, but failed again at the step of rinsing his mouth.

Eddie and Roger couldn't stop laughing at his rare predicament.

On the long table for breakfast, the two guys who wanted to watch the excitement had been observing Scott's meal.

Scott ignored them as much as possible.

He can only eat carefully, whether it is chewing or swallowing, he can only be careful and careful, which makes him eat very slowly.

Scott couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief when it took twice as long as usual to finish the breakfast and felt that the leaves in his mouth were still in good condition.

"This is so sad," he muttered.

In order to reduce the loss of accidentally sneezing when he was talking, he put on a mask after breakfast, and spent the new day adhering to the principle of not talking if he could not speak.

At the end of the day, he consumed a total of seven mint leaves.

The number has dropped below ten, which can be regarded as some progress.

When he was sleeping that day, he wore a self-made "artifact" to prevent his mouth from opening while sleeping——

Cover the chin with elastic fabric, and hang the two ends from the ears with ropes.

This time he succeeded.

I woke up this morning on Thursday, and the leaf I held before going to bed was still in my mouth.

From this day on, Scott has lived a life of not opening his mouth to speak as much as possible, eating and brushing his teeth carefully, wearing a mask during the day, and wearing an "artifact" to prevent mouth opening at night.

On Thursday, he consumed a total of five mint leaves.

On Friday, four tablets.

On Saturday morning, Scott got up before dawn again, and waited in the deserted common room for Rimbaud who flew in from the owl passage.

Rimbaud did not speak until he had placed the spell.

"Good morning!" Rimbaud raised a paw, "I brought it back."

Scott, wearing a mask, just nodded without speaking.

He reached out and took the little gray gecko, and then took out his [Magic Mirror].

After importing the effect of the gecko's "recording" of the week into the magic mirror, he first accelerated the playback to go through the "video", and then began to focus on checking the part when Mr. Bird was alone in the office.

But it didn't do him much good.

Although Mr. Bird has always been gloomy, decadent, and withdrawn, there is no evidence to prove that he is the mysterious Mr. B.

"Perhaps Mr. Bird is an overly cautious man," said Rimbaud nonsense. "Perhaps he is not Mr. B at all."

But Scott is not jumping to conclusions lightly.

"Do you still need to continue to monitor him?" Rimbaud asked.

Scott shook his head.

"No need for now." He shook the [Magic Mirror] in his hand, and said in a vague voice, "I still need to spend time carefully checking the photos I have taken."

Rimbaud nodded.

Scott added: "Next, pay more attention to Azkaban. If Voldemort's jailbreak really happened, I would like to know as soon as possible."

"Don't worry." Rimbaud said somewhat proudly, "I have conquered the crows that originally lived on the small island of Azkaban. If there is turmoil on that small island, they will come to my place to notify I."

"Fine." Scott nodded and let it leave the common room.

On Saturday, Scott consumed a total of two mint leaves.

It wasn't until Sunday that Scott finally kept the same leaf in his mouth from morning to morning.

This new Monday is the 25th, the day of the full moon.

After brushing his teeth and mouthwash that night, Scott took the Mandrake leaf that Professor McGonagall had given him in his mouth under the light of the full moon.

That night, when Scott was writing a paper in the common room wearing a mask, Luna walked up to him again.

"You don't have to talk, Scott," Luna told him. "I already know you're preparing for an Animagus."

Scott nodded.

Luna moved a stool and sat next to him, and also started to write her homework.

Scott looked at her suspiciously.

Luna also raised her head to look at him, then smiled faintly.

"I still haven't figured it out, maybe there are some things I'm destined to not understand." She said softly, with a serious look, "But, as I said, I will look at you."

After finishing speaking, she lowered her head and began to write the paper seriously.

Scott smiled silently, looked away, and continued to write in his hand.

From this day on, Scott and Luna spend more time together.

Although due to different grades and different courses, Scott is still very busy, and the time spent with Luna is really not much, but it is still much more than before.

Luna would take the initiative to sit next to him during the meal, and they often did homework together. Sometimes when Scott returned from Professor Flitwick's office to the Ravenclaw tower at night, Luna would wait in the common room Here, talk to him a few words before going to bed.

It really fulfilled the promise of "I will watch you".

In this regard, Scott just let her.

The performance of becoming intimate between the two of course also attracted the attention of other people, and there was a lot of gossip.

"The genius of Ravenclaw fell in love with the mad girl!"

This seems to be a topic that Hogwarts students are passionate about for a while.

But both Scott and Luna are guys who do their own way and don't care about other people's eyes.

Amid the gossip, they still maintained their own rhythm without being affected in the slightest.

As a result, even Scott's friends began to misunderstand his relationship with Luna.

Scott only explained "are friends" when they first asked.

Of course, as a friend who knows him well, after a period of time, I can also see that there is no spark of love between the two.

"Why?" Eddie, who is a gossip expert, was most interested in this topic, and asked Scott specifically, "I thought you were finally falling in love."

Scott just smiled, too lazy to speak.

"Speaking of which, the four of us in the dormitory are all single." Eddie said, "I didn't expect that even Roger had changed."

Scott shrugged his shoulders, then took out his wand, and used his magic power to leave two lines of glittering words in the air——

[It may be that the girls in Hogwarts who fit his aesthetics have already talked to him. ]
Seeing these two lines, Eddie laughed out loud.

"Let's talk about you." After laughing, he was still gossiping, "Is Luna okay, I always thought you admired her."

Scott: "..."

[I do appreciate her, but not in the way you think. ]
He was sure that there was really only friendship between himself and Luna.

On the one hand, it was because Luna was still young, and in his eyes, he was just a smart kid.

On the other hand, it is because, since Scott knew the enemy he will face in the future through the prophecy, he has completely lost his mind about love.

As for Luna?

Scott felt that she might not have gotten the hang of it yet.

In short, Scott is okay, but he found that Luna's situation in the academy seems to have gotten worse.

Originally, Luna could be regarded as an outlier in Ravenclaw where weirdos gather, and she has always been somewhat excluded.

After Savannah dropped out, Luna also had no female friends from the same college.

Her ostracism among girls seems to have intensified since she became significantly closer to Scott.

Fortunately, she has a good relationship with Ginny, and after Scott reminded her, she would no longer let others hide her things, but learned to refuse, which made Scott not worry too much about her situation.

Of course, he still asked Luna when he was doing his homework.

"Are you okay? I mean, there don't seem to be any girls in the academy who are friends with you." Scott's question was straightforward.

Of course, Luna is also very used to this kind of directness.

"I'm doing fine," she said.

Her answer was not forced, and she didn't seem to understand why Scott cared about this issue. Obviously, she didn't care about the exclusion of girls of the same age.

"It's all because you are so popular." She looked very understanding, "Everyone wants to be friends with you."

Scott could only shrug his shoulders.

To be honest, he really didn't feel how popular he was.

After all, from the past to the present, the only girl who has taken the initiative to express her affection to him is Savanna.

Even if the love part is thrown away, there are not many people who just want to be friends with him.

As if seeing his doubts, Luna said: "You have only played with certain people all the time, Eddie, Milton, Roger, Fred and George, many people think you are not good close to."

It turned out to be the case.

Scott nodded.

He's not a warm person and doesn't need a lot of friends.

But he doesn't feel like he dares to approach...

"I don't think the students in the upper grades would say that." He spoke slowly and carefully, "But I really rarely deal with the students in the lower grades."

In the second year of Ravenclaw, he only knew Luna, Savannah, and Jacob. As for the first year... Although he and Keira were responsible for the orientation, he really didn't remember even a name.

However, seeing that Luna was not affected in any way and was still living comfortably, he was relieved and didn't worry too much about this issue.

Instead, Luna asked him again, "Do you have any troubles?"

"You know again?" Scott was already surprised.

At this moment, he was really not in a good mood.

He has taken the time to look at Mr. Bird's image in [Magic Mirror], but he still hasn't found any clues.

Of course, this may also be because he is too busy, coupled with the troubles and psychological pressure caused by living an overly cautious life with a leaf in his mouth, which caused him to have no time and patience to check the images carefully.

Under Luna's persistent questioning, because he couldn't lie and there was no need to hide it, Scott told her the matter as concisely as possible.

"Then leave it to me." Luna offered to extend her hand, "I will check it carefully for you."

Although hopeless, Scott did not refuse.

After showing her the identity card of the Scholars Union and the [Book of Prometheus] that changed to the card, Scott handed the [Magic Mirror] to her.

Scott agreed to Luna's help just because he didn't want to disappoint her kindness, but he didn't expect Luna to surprise him unexpectedly.

For a week after that, Luna did not take the initiative to mention this matter in her relationship with him.

But on a Tuesday night a week later, when Scott returned to the common room after dueling training, he saw Luna sitting on the sofa waving happily to him, still holding his [magic mirror] .

"I found it," Luna said. "A clue."

It was already after the curfew, and there was no one else in the common room.

Scott walked directly to Luna and sat down, took the [Magic Mirror] in her hand, and looked at the picture presented on the mirror.

This is a still picture. In the picture, Mr. Bode is standing in front of the messy bookshelves in the office, holding a large black book in his hand, and is about to turn around and leave.

Scott raised his head and looked at Luna suspiciously.

"I've already intercepted the problematic part." Luna reached out and took the [Magic Mirror] and tapped on the mirror a few times, signaling Scott to look again.

Scott looked again.

This time it's a moving image.

Mr. Bode got up from behind the desk, walked to the unusually messy bookshelf, reached out to take the black book from the shelf, and then turned and left.

The screen freezes.

After reading it again, Scott still didn't find any clues.

But he chose not to ask.

Since Luna said that she found something wrong in this video, it means that he overlooked something.

So he took the [magic mirror] and clicked on the mirror again, and played this video several times again.

It wasn't until after the fifth broadcast that he finally discovered the problem.

This flaw is not considered hidden, but if you don't concentrate and watch the video carefully, you will easily overlook it.

The problem is the number of books on the shelves.

The bookshelf was very messy, and all kinds of documents and books were not neatly stacked together, and those books were all about the same length as the one taken away by Mr. Bird.

But because the video can be paused and zoomed in, Scott still counts the number of books on the shelves that haven't actually diminished since Mr. Bird took the book down.

In other words, the book in his hand appeared out of thin air.

Because he used his body to cover the book when he took it down, it is impossible to see from behind that he did not actually take the book from the shelf.

"Another point."

Luna stretched out her finger to slide on the mirror, and finally let the picture stop before Mr. Bird walked to the front of the bookshelf and raised his hand to pretend to take the book.

She then zoomed in on the frame, showing Scott the right hand of Mr. Bird.

"Here." She pointed to the cuff of Mr. Bird's right hand.

Scott took a closer look and found clues again.

There was a faint golden luster on the edge of Mr. Bird's black cuff. If you looked closely, you could easily guess that it was a golden card.

Now Scott can confirm that this Mr. Bird is also a member of the Scholars Union.

Although it is still impossible to confirm whether he is Mr. B, this is also a harvest.

"Thank you, Luna," he said to Luna.

Mr. Bode was so cautious in his actions when he was alone in the office, and these two less obvious flaws could not be discovered by random searching.

It is conceivable how much patience Luna paid for this.

"You're welcome, as long as I can help you." Luna said happily.

Scott nodded, and looked down at the image in the mirror again.

Through the reflection of the mirror at a certain angle, he saw the cold light in his eyes.

"Scott."

Just then, Luna put her hand on his arm.

Scott heard her ask, "What do you want to do?"

He turned his head and saw the worry in Luna's eyes.

"Don't worry." He said softly, "I just want to find out if he is the guy who threatened me."

Luna asked seriously, "If it's him, what are you going to do next?"

"Won't do anything," Scott said.

"Really?" Luna blinked.

Scott nodded.

Luna laughed again.

"I trust you because you can't lie to me."

She didn't even ask Scott why he didn't do anything, but stood up and waved at Scott.

"Good night, Scott."

"Good night, Luna."

After watching Luna enter the female student's dormitory through the stairs, Scott looked back at [Magic Mirror] again.

He looked at Mr. Bird in the picture and smiled silently.

Although he hadn't confirmed it yet, he guessed that this guy should be Mr. B.

In order to verify this conjecture, he began to use the power of arithmetic and divination.

Although there are few known conditions, if it is only a vague answer...

An arithmetic divination was over, and Scott also verified his guess.

He turned off the screen in [Magic Mirror], got up and walked towards the dormitory.

He wasn't cheating on Luna.

He really can't do anything.

If he wanted to deal with such a silent person who used to hide himself and didn't know what means he had, he had to be more careful.

If you don't know enough about the other party, you can act rashly, which may lead to unpredictable consequences.

He was not in a hurry about this, and decided to continue to wait for the other party to make another move.

Of course, he was not in a hurry because the other party's threats were just verbal threats.

Scott didn't care about this mild threat.

In his mind, if this Mr. B really had evidence that could pose a real threat to him, with his eagerness to force him to submit, he might have already presented it.

If he just wanted to accuse him with empty words by fabricating some false memories for others like in the last trial, Scott would not worry about any serious consequences.

The enemy does not move, I do not move.

He is not as demanding of Mr. B and Graplan as they had guessed before, nor is he as important as they thought [Knowledge Bank], so he is fearless.

Speaking of which, although Graplan seems to be the same thing, Scott always feels that she is not very smart.

Because of her performance, and Mr. B's threat of thunder and rain during that trial, Scott will not pay much attention to them now.

Instead of spending too much time and energy fighting wits with this kind of person, he might as well learn more from the Ravenclaw mentor.

Of course, if one day Mr. B showed some flaws, or let Scott know his details, then Scott would not be too polite to him.

(End of this chapter)