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Chapter 221 Curse and Alchemy

"Yes! You can breathe and speak underwater!" Ron waved the parchment in front of him and said, "The Bubble Curse!"

"Show me, this seems to be copied from the daily spells, it's on the bookshelf over there, wait..." Hermione took the parchment in Ron's hand and glanced at it, then got up and walked to the side bookshelf.

"Okay, don't just look for one magic, let's continue." Weiss knocked on the table so that the eyes of the two of them moved with Hermione's movement back.

"I don't have any more here." Harry's face was a little pale, and now he regretted wasting so much time.

"Me too." Ron also finished flipping through the last piece of parchment, and sighed: "There are almost no usable ones."

"To put it simply, don't even think about using Transfiguration to turn yourself into a fish." Weiss finished reading the stack in front of him and took the rest of Hermione's, and said while looking at it: "You go The Transfiguration class is a mess, and the only way you can use spells is."

"Is there any magic item or alchemy item that can do this?" Harry lay down on the table dejectedly.

"Huh? Wait? Isn't it only allowed to use wands this time?" Weiss stopped what he was doing and looked at Harry.

"It seems that you didn't say it?" Harry frowned and thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "It seems that Ludo Badman didn't say it."

"Then what kind of spell should you choose?" Weiss threw the parchment full of spells on the table angrily: "Just make a ship, the Durmstrang type."

"Eh? Submarine?" Harry blinked his eyes a few times and wondered, "Is there enough time? There's only one month left!"

"You only need to make a boat the size of your own person, and you have enough time." Weiss waved his hand: "Wait for Hermione to come back and discuss it with her. If she thinks it's feasible, then you start today and follow her." Learn to memorize some alchemy formations, alchemy talismans, and runes that will be used on the ship, so that when someone asks you, you don’t know anything.”

"What if only a wand can be used?" Harry tentatively asked.

"Then you will be miserable." Weiss shook his head and said "tsk tsk": "Bubble head spell, fluorescent spell, orientation spell, waterproof spell, at least you must learn these four, and you have to play them several times Water, write down the dissipating time and replenishment time of each spell in the water. In addition to these essentials, you also need to learn some attack spells, and the accuracy and prediction of these attack spells in the water also need to be practiced , because in water, people's movements will become slower."

"Well... but you have to spend some Galleons to buy a waterproof mechanical watch." Weiss pointed his forehead with his index finger and said, "Exchange Galleons for pounds, mechanical watches assembled by hand are more expensive than those assembled by magic." It's worth looking forward to."

"...Mr. Ludo Badman must have never said 'you can only use a wand'!" Harry nodded fiercely, hypnotizing himself: "As for the watch, do you think your friend can help? I dare not Trust Uncle Vernon."

"O'Connor and Jonathan? You like the gold watch with diamonds? Then you don't need to buy it. I can lend you one. They have quite a few of them." Weiss looked at Harry in surprise, and then Nodding his head assured.

"I'll call Hermione for help later..." Harry took a few deep breaths, shook his head and denied Wes's method.

"Almost all of their watches are waterproof..." Weiss still persuaded.

"No, I just don't want a gold watch." Harry still shook his head: "It's...too expensive!"

"I can't believe it! I searched the entire bookshelf and the book is gone! It must have been borrowed from someone! We came too late!" Just as several people were discussing, Hermione ran over angrily , staring and said: "When I transcribed that magic, there were at least two copies that were exactly the same!"

"That magic is not important anymore, we have a new plan!" Harry looked at Hermione's angry look with a relaxed face.

"What plan?" Hermione looked at Wes subconsciously.

"We're going to make a boat, the kind of Durmstrang." Weiss said briefly, and then looked at Harry: "You still have to learn that spell, lest you really don't use the boat, when the time comes You're in trouble."

"Boat? Didn't you say that you can only use wands?" Hermione looked at Harry in surprise, "Didn't Mr. Badman tell you that day when he left you here?"

"I don't remember saying it." Harry was a little uncertain, but also a little puzzled: "I don't even know that magic gesture, how can I learn it?"

"Sirius." Weiss glanced at him, then pointed in the direction of Hogsmeade: "Then you can 'meet' Ludo Badman in these two days, and ask more clearly."

"Will he tell me?" Harry said with disbelief on his face. "He has already made a fortune, so shouldn't he bet on others? They have a higher winning rate."

"Your odds are still the highest." Weiss just said lightly: "His foreign debts have not been paid off."

"I'll find a way to 'run into' Mr. Ludo Badman." Harry nodded his head with a serious face, and then he was a little embarrassed: "I always feel like I'm cheating..."

"Then you make a boat yourself?" Weiss looked at Harry doubtfully and said, "Then I will teach you how to draw the alchemy formation, and finally you can engrave it by yourself?"

"Well, it's not cheating." Harry changed the subject immediately.

...the next day, early in the morning, in the auditorium...

"An accident happened again." Hermione seldom gave Wes a cold face, and patted the newspaper in front of Wes with an anxious and helpless expression.

"What?" Weiss followed Hermione's fingers suspiciously: "Dumbledore's Major Mistake" reported by our special correspondent Rita Skeeter...

"...Now it's up to Hagrid himself." Weiss said with a frown.

"Should we visit him?" Hermione asked worriedly.

"He is an adult, and Professor Dumbledore is often slandered by this woman, so it should be fine..." Weiss said in a deep voice, "Ron and I really don't have time right now, and the time left for Harry is too short. gone."

"Hmm..." Hermione frowned and said, "Harry and I don't have time either, he recites too slowly." He sat down in Si's position and ate breakfast alone.

It didn't turn out as Wes wanted, Hagrid locked himself in the hut, and even his Care of Magical Creatures class was replaced by a gray-haired witch named Professor Graplan.

"Wes, we should persuade Hagrid!" Harry said, patting Wes's keel that had just been shaped by magic.

"Don't take pictures randomly! You lost all the books!" Weiss picked up a book about 'ship structure' angrily, opened a page and read it carefully.

"Forget about this ship!" Harry closed the book Wes was reading, and said angrily, "Hagrid needs us! I can give up the Triwizard Tournament!"

"Don't add to the chaos! Didn't you already take Ron? Anyway, I'm not far from Hagrid's hut. I'll go there when he comes out!" Weiss growled impatiently, and then looked down to find the book he had just seen. On the first page, he casually pointed to the closed door of Hagrid's cabin and said, "Go and call the door open first!"

"The Triwizard Tournament is not as important as you think! At worst, I will give up that treasure that belongs to me!" Harry also roared loudly, glaring at Wes.

"It doesn't matter? What if Dobby is kidnapped?" Weiss looked at Harry coldly.

"How is that possible! It clearly said baby! Not a creature!" Harry shuddered and shook his head hastily.

"It doesn't say it's just an 'item', and Dobby, the maverick guy, can literally be called a 'baby' to your SPEW, and the only one." Weiss closed the book himself , looking at Harry: "You decide for yourself, it's very easy for me to stop. You can try to learn those spells while you still have time, but if it's a boat, it must be too late. Now there is no help from Hagrid. Time It was tight."

"...You're just saying it's possible, right?" Harry turned pale, thinking of the importance of Dobby to SPEW that Weiss said a while ago, and said silently after a while.

"Yes." Weiss nodded quickly.

"Give up that damned ship!" Harry roared after being silent for a while, "I'll go back and learn those damned spells! Save Dobby myself!"

"Then it's easy for me." Wes glanced at Harry, stood up and brushed off the sawdust, and walked towards Hagrid's cabin.

The ending was not at all what Harry had imagined. When several people called Hagrid at the door together, he didn't make any sound inside. If they hadn't heard Fang Ya's low barking, they really thought Hagrid was not in the house.

"Oh, I'm going to continue working on that damn ship." Weiss shook his head and said, "I didn't expect Hagrid to be so fragile."

"Wes! Can you be serious?" Harry glared at Wes.

"Okay, and I'm serious." Weiss gave Harry a white look: "You two can go to the divination class now, I will stay here and wait for Hagrid to open the door while I make the damn ship."

"Guys, I said why don't we use magic to open the door?" Ron drew his wand and aimed it at the lock, ready to cast a spell.

"So what if we open it? He doesn't want to see people, so we can force him?" Weiss pressed Ron's hand: "Only when he is willing to see people, can we tell him what we think."

"We said our opinion loudly to the door, do you think it will be useful?" Harry walked to Hagrid's door with an ugly face, ready to yell.

"It's useless, he's the kind of person who sticks to his horns." Weiss made a 'please' gesture: "But you can keep trying." After speaking, he looked at Ron: "He's just sad because he's a half-blood giant." In this way? Shouldn't it be?"

"Uh, come here..." Ron froze for a moment, glanced at Harry who was shouting at the door, pulled Wes aside and whispered.

"...Well, if this is the case, don't even think about seeing him for ten days and a half months." Weiss curled his lips and watched Harry's movements: "Come and persuade him every day, I hope it will be useful. However, Li How did she know about it, Tuskeet?"

As Wes said, Hagrid didn't open the door anyway, but Harry and the three would knock on the door every day after class, and Weese also made a lot of scattered parts for a ship here. Now according to his words, it needs to be assembled.

"I hope what's written in this book is correct." Weiss said, looking at the scattered parts.

"Isn't it a little small?" Harry picked up a piece of wood and tapped it.

"You should be worried about whether this thing will leak." Ron said with a curled mouth.

"Yes, you should worry about whether this thing will leak, we don't even have time to test it." Weiss nodded and said, squinting at Harry: "How is your alchemy symbol memorized?"

"Almost." Hermione replied instead, while glancing at Harry: "I hope he won't get the alchemy circles of 'heavy' and 'light' wrong again."

"There is such a big difference between the two, do you need to remake your glasses?" Weiss also looked at Harry in disbelief.

"...the two look alike, okay?" Harry looked at the two with embarrassment, "How on earth did you two tell the difference?"

"That's how it's made clear. Anyway, let me tell you the function of each alchemy array, so you can remember it clearly." Weiss took the parchment and pointed at the sketch above: "The alchemy array behind is 'knock-up', it uses The reaction force is used to push the whole ship, and then the interior of the whole ship is described as "solidification", you only need to input the magic power once every time you open the entrance and exit to take a breath, and then you use the magic power to input the "heaviness" of the alchemy array under your feet It will sink, the alchemy array above the head is "light" to control the floating, the alchemy array in front is "transparent" to let you have a certain vision, and originally planned to describe an alchemy array that purifies the air, but there is not enough space... "

"Then what if we encounter a giant squid?" Harry said worriedly, "I can't even stretch out my wand. Is there any light!"

"It's hopeless if you encounter a giant squid, just wait for death, the kind where the ship is destroyed and people die." Weiss said quickly: "And don't go to the area with too many aquatic grasses, a dozen or so Grindyllos together Attack, you also wait to die. For the light source, get some 'fluorescent moss' before the game and put it on the bow of the fishing boat, don't let them be eaten by the fish."

"Isn't that equivalent to having no attack power and no defense power?" Ron said in surprise, "Isn't it too dangerous?"

"This ship has no attack or defense capabilities." Weiss shrugged and said: "And you have to surface once in a while to take a breath."

"I always feel more and more unreliable." Harry said with a bitter face.

"Then go and learn the spell." Weiss glanced at Harry: "That way I can save some alchemy materials."

"...For my spells, I still trust your alchemy." Harry said in a flattering manner after being silent for a while.

"Speaking of which, Wes, hasn't Hagrid come out recently?" Ron pointed in the direction of Hagrid's cabin.

"No, I haven't taken the bread at the door." Weiss pointed at the small basket at the door and shook his head.

"Do you think he will go to Hogsmeade for a drink this week?" Harry looked worriedly at Hagrid's cabin.

"If it weren't for this thing, I would go to Hogsmeade. I believe I will meet Ms. Rita Skeeter there." Weiss kicked the wooden block beside him and said with a cold face: " She must be short of money."

…weekend…

"Good workmanship." Dumbledore's voice sounded from behind as Weiss waved his wand to assemble the submarine.

"Professor Dumbledore, I think so too." Weiss nodded and said, and then controlled a ball of resin to stick between the two layers of wood, and finally summoned a small flame to burn it.

"The spell is good too." Dumbledore's laughing voice sounded again.

"Thanks to Mr. Badman for confirming that you can use more than just a wand." Weiss stood up and looked back at the old man who was looking at the blueprint.

"However, I remember that it seems that the Triwizard Tournament cannot help the players." Dumbledore nodded in satisfaction, and looked at Weiss with white eyebrows.

"What are you talking about." Weiss also raised his eyebrows and said, "I just like that big ship very much, but unfortunately they don't sell it, so I made a fake 'Durmstrang Big Ship', just for the competition. It was taken for private use because of bad custody.”

"Well, it's a pity." Dumbledore nodded slightly: "I'm afraid it will be destroyed by the giant squid in a short while after the game, but its world is in the Black Lake."

"Really, that's really a pity." Weiss spread his hands: "Who made it a wild magical creature, we can't let it pay for it."

"Yes, what a pity." Dumbledore said with a smile: "I'm going to see Hagrid, do you want to come together?"

"No, I'm very interested in making this ship now." Weiss shook his head, squatted down and started working again.

"Hagrid, open the door, it's me." Dumbledore didn't say anything, turned and walked towards Hagrid's cabin, knocking on the door and saying.

"Professor Dumbledore, I..." With Hagrid whimpering, the door was opened.

Weiss glanced back at Dumbledore who was walking into the hut, shrugged his shoulders, and looked at the drawings carefully: "It should be this one now..."

"Hagrid!" Weiss' actions were interrupted by Hermione's angry voice. When he looked back, he found Hermione was banging on the door of the cabin: "Hagrid, that's enough! We know you're Inside! Nobody cares that your mother's a giant, Hagrid! You can't let that nasty woman Skeeter get her way! Come out, Hagrid, aren't you..."

Then, with the sound of the door opening, Hermione's voice stopped instantly, and she shouted in a surprised voice: "Professor Dumbledore!"

"Good afternoon, little Hermione..." Dumbledore said with a smile, and then looked at Harry and Ron who were running towards here: "Gentlemen, don't be so nervous..."

"Professor, good afternoon." Both of them slowed down in unison.Say hello loudly.

"We... um... we want to see Hagrid." Hermione's voice slowed down, and her figure blocked her way in Wes's direction.

"Ah, I've already met Serena Weiss, the workmanship is really good." Dumbledore said, his eyes sparkled: "Why don't you come in?"

"Oh...ok," said Hermione awkwardly.

Weiss saw several people walking into the hut tremblingly, patted the dirt on their bodies, and walked towards the hut. When passing by the window, he saw Hagrid with red and swollen eyes as if he was about to cry, and at the same time whispered in a trembling voice. Said: "But I am a half-blood giant..."

"I can knock down dragons that are taller than you. There is nothing to be afraid of giants." Weiss' head came in through the window.

"It's different, they...they'll hate me..." Hagrid saw Wes, his expression still depressed.

"It's as if you are not a half-blood giant, and Malfoy likes you." Weiss said with a curled lip.

"Wes!" Hermione threw a ball of paper at Wes, telling him to shut up.

"Originally, Karkaroff wanted to beat me from the first time he saw me, but am I still alive and well?" Weiss took Hermione's paper ball and threw it into the burning stove beside him. : "You can't let down your friends because of those who don't like you?"

"Serena Weiss is right. Every week I receive owls who are dissatisfied with my management of the school, but I am still the headmaster of Hogwarts." Dumbledore said with a smile while stroking his white beard: "You You can't expect everyone in the world to like you."

"That's right, I just like to see how helpless those people don't like me." Weiss spread his hands and said gloatingly: "They are so depressed."

"But none of you...not...not half-blood giants..." Hagrid's voice was lowered as if to growl.

"You can't choose your birth." Weiss said angrily, "If I could choose, I might be able to beat Harry upright in the first competition."

"That's right! Look at what kind of terrible relatives I have!" Harry chimed in, "The Dursleys!"

"Excellent point of view!" said Professor Dumbledore. "My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for bewitching a goat. Did you get up? No, not at all! He held his head up high, and went about his own way! Of course, I'm not sure he can read, so maybe he's not very brave..."

"Come back and teach, Hagrid." Hermione said softly, "Please come back, we really miss you."

Hagrid fought back a sob.Many more tears rolled down his cheeks and seeped into his shaggy beard.

Dumbledore stood up: "I do not accept your resignation report, Hagrid, I hope you will come back to class next Monday." He said: "You come to the auditorium to have breakfast with me at 08:30. No excuses are allowed .Good afternoon to all of you.”

Dumbledore walked towards the door, stopped only to bend over and scratch Fang's ear, and left the cabin.When the door closed behind him, Hagrid buried his face in his hands as big as the lid of a dustbin and wept bitterly.Hermione kept patting his arm, and at last Hagrid looked up, his eyes were red, and said, "What a man, Dumbledore...a man..."

After winking at Harry, Wes also left the window, returned to the pile of parts, and muttered to himself, "I should be able to fix the bottom of the boat today..."

…Wednesday afternoon…

"Well... the tung oil is also dry... Hagrid, put it in the water with me, I have to see if it leaks." Weiss looked at the wooden 'cocoon'-like object in front of him with satisfaction, and patted it to the side. said Hagrid, who was sitting on the steps.

"What about the water leak?" Hagrid helped Wes lift the 'Cocoon' and walked towards the Black Lake.

"Well... then you have to abstain." Weiss nodded fiercely after pondering for a moment.

"...it won't leak." Hagrid said confidently.

"Well, throw this away." Weiss threw the boat into the black lake with both hands after stepping into the water: "Let's soak for a few hours first."

Hagrid's heart swayed up and down with the 'cocoon' that went up and down with the lake water, and he prayed secretly: "Don't leak water..."

"Hmm... Hagrid..." Weiss rubbed his chin and looked at Cocoon.

"What? Did you find something wrong?" Hagrid asked nervously.

"No, I just think its color is too monotonous, should we paint something?" Weiss pondered: "For example, draw a Hogwarts logo?"

"...Let's talk about it after it's confirmed that it won't leak." Hagrid said, wiping the cold sweat from his brow.

"Well, I need to add a chair inside... No! Sofa..." Weiss continued to touch his chin.

(End of this chapter)