Master Druid at Hogwarts

Chapter 121 Rubeus Hagrid's Melancholy

Friday.

After two rough Potions lessons in the morning, Harry and Ron huddled together and muttered under their breath.

"I really want to see Snape's terrified expression after his plot failed!"

Ron poohed angrily at Snape's receding back. He had just been targeted in Potions class.

Especially after Seamus blew up the cauldron, causing Neville next to him to leave early for treatment in the infirmary, Snape devoted all his energy to mocking him and Harry.

"There is also the young master with a big head and his followers, wait until their dean is dismissed, let's see if they can still be so arrogant!"

Harry, who was also targeted, added that Malfoy and his two followers are Snape's best fans. Every time Snape satirizes Harry, Malfoy will bring Crabbe and Goyle to show off Atmosphere, ear-piercing ridicule sounded.

After thinking about the tragic future of Snape and Malfoy, the two decided to bring Hermione together to visit Hagrid in the hunting lodge in the afternoon.

Ever since they knew that Dumbledore had been paying attention to the trapdoor, the two of them no longer bothered about the Philosopher's Stone, but anyway, they also spent a lot of time looking for Nicole Flamel, so they wanted to Let's go to Hagrid for a moment...

Come and see him.

There was no class in Gryffindor this afternoon, and Wood, the training freak, didn't ask for additional practice. They happened to be free to show Hagrid the results of their hard work.

The behavior is a bit childish, but Harry and Ron are not very old, so it is really normal to have such thoughts.

Hermione, however, wasn't very interested in it.

"I still have to prepare a review plan for the final exam, don't go!"

Hermione, who was scribbling on the table, refused without raising her head.

"Final exam? Review plan?" Ron couldn't believe his ears. He shouted exaggeratedly: "Hermione, the exam is still hundreds of years away!"

"Twelve weeks," retorted Hermione, "not centuries. For Nico Flamel, it's just the blink of an eye."

Harry and Ron looked at each other speechlessly, they didn't understand the world of top students.

"But we're not six hundred years old." Ron felt the need to remind the young lady in front of him, "Besides, don't you know everything? Why do you need to review?"

Ron was referring to Hermione's other nickname - Miss Know-It-All.

"Why should I study? Are you crazy? Do you know that we have to pass these exams to get into second grade? They're important..."

Hermione ignored Ron's teasing reminder, and started to talk at length, which made the two of them feel pain in their brains, and even had a faint tendency to be persuaded by her to study together.

Fortunately, Harry regained his sanity in time, "But, it's not too late this afternoon, is it? Don't you want to ask Hagrid whether our deduction is correct?"

Hermione rolled her eyes. There is no need to ask questions for such an obvious answer. Besides, Harry and Ron also said before that Dumbledore is still watching the trapdoor. She doesn't care about that at all now. thing.

But no matter what, they were friends who read the book together, and they all invited themselves so sincerely, Hermione felt that taking an afternoon to come was still acceptable.

"Okay, then I will accompany you for a walk."

Hermione raised her head proudly and reluctantly agreed.

After lunch, the three of them came to Hagrid's hunting lodge together and knocked on his door.

Tall Hagrid opened the door for them.

"It's you?" Hagrid didn't seem to be in a very high mood. After opening the door, he just glanced at the three of Harry, and then moved away, "Come in."

Harry was a little puzzled by Hagrid's performance. Normally, when he saw himself visiting, his attitude would be more enthusiastic.

"Hagrid, are you alright?" Harry asked with concern.

"Thank you for your concern, but I'm fine." Hagrid forced a smile, and handed them three large wooden cups, "Come and have some tea, rock cake?"

"No thanks."

All three shook their heads decisively.

"You've heard that too, haven't you?" Hagrid sat across from the three of them and said with a sigh, "Thank you for coming to see me."

"What?" Harry and the three were at a loss.

"Huh?" Hagrid looked up suspiciously, "Didn't you come to see me after hearing about those children?"

"Sorry, we don't know what you're talking about..."

Harry scratched his cheek in embarrassment. Hagrid seemed to have encountered something unpleasant, and they were still running around at this moment, which seemed a little out of place.

So he nudged Ron beside him, and gave him a wink.

Ron understood Harry's meaning tacitly, and he immediately changed the subject, "So what happened? Can you tell us? Maybe it can help you."

"Thank you, Ron," Hagrid forced a smile, then shook his head and said, "But you can't help with this..."

He said in a low mood: "It's about the little guys in the Forbidden Forest. Recently, the acromantula has been targeted by other animals. Many of their members have died in the past few days..."

During this period of time, because of Fish, the acromantula's downsizing was a bit serious. As a gamekeeper, Hagrid naturally discovered this situation, but under the active cover of the group of magical creatures, he didn't know that all of this was true. Fisch did the trick.

At first, Hagrid thought that the centaurs were leading the charge again, but when he approached the centaurs, he was denied by them. When he asked them what was going on, he got a lot of dumb replies.

Hagrid, who couldn't find the reason, could only ask other animals to stop their actions against the acromantula, but it turned out...no effect.

This made Hagrid feel very melancholy.

"Acromantula!"

But Hermione didn't care why Hagrid was melancholy, she screamed loudly, startling everyone else.

"Those are terrifying creatures classified as XXXXX by the Ministry of Magic, and they are actually in the Forbidden Forest!"

"Actually, they're not that dangerous," Hagrid retorted. "The Ministry of Magic are too sensitive. Aragog and his children are very kind."

Harry and Ron expressed disapproval. Although they didn't know the specific situation of the acromantula, the XXXXX classification was enough to explain everything.

At the same time, they also probably understood what happened... Fei Xu said that he has been going to the Forbidden Forest to hunt big spiders every night recently.

It seemed that he was not only fighting by himself, but also brought his animal friends to fight together.

The two looked at each other, and both decided to keep silent about it.

And Hermione didn't know about Fish's night tour, because it involved them inadvertently betraying Fish, so Harry and Ron kept it a secret, and just told her that Dumbledore was at the trapdoor I have been paying attention.

Coupled with how precious the girls are to Fish, Harry felt that if he told Hermione, Fish went to the Forbidden Forest with his help to find trouble for a spider rated XXXXX...

Harry shuddered, his decision to remain silent all the more hardened.

Even so, Hermione was still freaking out.

"Oh my god! There are such terrible creatures in the Forbidden Forest, and you still bring Fish in there every weekend! What if he gets injured?! What are Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall thinking? How could it be?" Agree to such a horrible thing!"

Hermione was so excited that she even abandoned her idol, Professor McGonagall.

"Hey, don't get excited, Hermione," Hagrid quickly reassured, "I actually made an agreement with Professor McGonagall not to take Fish to deal with magical creatures above XXX level."

Although this agreement was broken on the first day...

Hagrid added silently, but like Harry he wisely kept silent.

But Hermione still looked worried, and kept complaining in a low voice.

Seeing that this would probably go on forever, Harry quickly changed the topic.

"Actually, we are here this time to ask you to verify something, Hagrid."

At this moment, he could no longer take care of Hagrid's mood.

Besides, Harry also found it utterly inexplicable that Hagrid felt sad for a bunch of spiders.

"It's about Nico Flamel..."

"I've said it a long time ago, I won't tell you who he belongs to!"

Hagrid interrupted Harry a little annoyed, "This is not what you should know!"

"Actually, we figured out who he was hundreds of years ago," said Ron triumphantly, as if he had discovered who Nico Flamel was. "We also knew that the dog guarded the What, is the Sorcerer's Stone..."

"What?!" Hagrid jumped up from the stool in surprise, interrupting Ron's stuttering, "How do you know that?!"

"Of course I found it by flipping through the books," Ron said with a melancholy face when he recalled those miserable years, "You can never imagine how many books we have flipped through during this time!"

Hermione glanced at him silently, but didn't speak, she was still overwhelmed with worries about Fish, and didn't want to pay any attention to the Philosopher's Stone.

"Oh...that's it..." Hagrid looked a little flustered, and finally he sighed dejectedly, "Well, even if you know this, don't go around talking about it, it's not what you students should know .”

"Of course we won't talk nonsense," Harry said with a frown. "It will alarm Snape who wants to steal the Philosopher's Stone."

"Huh? Snape?" Hagrid was taken aback for a moment, "Are you still suspicious of him? Impossible, Snape also helped protect the Philosopher's Stone, and he won't steal it."

"What?! Snape!!!"

This time it was Harry and Ron's turn to jump up in surprise. Even if they knew that Dumbledore was watching secretly, if Snape had known about other mechanisms, the Philosopher's Stone would still be dangerous.

"Yes, Dumbledore borrowed Fluffy from me, and then invited several teachers to design the mechanism," Hagrid recalled, "the deans of the four colleges participated... oh, yes, and Professor Quirrell, who is in charge of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class..."

"Because he asked for leave before, he was the last one to cast the spell. Of course, Dumbledore himself cast the protection spell, so there is no need to worry about the Philosopher's Stone being stolen."

"By the way, when I took Professor Quirrell to design the mechanism, I happened to meet Fish." Hagrid chattered.

Hermione, who had been thinking about it all the time, finally stopped when she heard Fish's name, and turned to look at Hagrid.

As for Harry and Ron, they had heard Fish mention this before, so they weren't surprised.

At the same time, they finally knew why Snape had been persecuting Professor Quirrell, because besides him, Snape probably had figured out the magic of several other professors.

Fortunately, Lu Wei and Professor Quirrell are still there, and Dumbledore has been observing secretly.

Although he was still a little worried, Harry couldn't think of anything he could do for a while, and after Hagrid finished speaking, he began to avoid the question of the Philosopher's Stone again.

So after sitting for a while, the three of them left Hagrid's cabin full of sorrow.

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