Hogwarts Fantastic Beasts in the Stomach

"What is Black Leopard?" Ron muttered, but it was obvious that neither Carlos nor Luna had any intention of explaining it to him.

The two of them had already walked upstairs.

"What is this?" Carlos focused his attention on Luna's room. There were a bunch of strange gadgets in her room.

For example, a glowing crystal ball, or a uniquely shaped stone. Of course, what intrigued Carlos the most was a brown Niffler.

"Is that really a sniff?" Carlos frowned slightly: "It doesn't feel like it..."

"Isn't it like that?" Luna's singing voice came. She looked at Carlos thoughtfully and asked, "So where is Mane?"

"Have you already eaten me?"

"Well..." Ron's expression changed, and Carlos quickly shook his head: "Ahem, of course not! Of course not!"

"Mane is playing at Ron's house and he doesn't even want to leave."

Ron glanced at Carlos after hearing what he said. Does it really mean that Mane's heart won't hurt when you speak like this?

"Is that so?" Luna nodded, looking a little dazed, and then carefully picked up the Niffler statue from the table.

"Does it look good?"

"It looks really good." Carlos affirmed, and after looking at him carefully, he discovered that the hair on Xiu Xiu's body was actually made of hair... but it seemed to have been brushed with a paintbrush.

Did Luna do this herself?

"Did you make this yourself?" Carlos asked after thinking for a moment, and then poked Xiu Xiu's eyes with his hand. It seemed to be made of buttons?

"Hmm." Luna smiled: "I spent about a week doing it."

"It's so beautiful..." Ron came over and said, he also poked the sniffer doll: "It looks lifelike."

"It's for you, Carlos." Luna said to Carlos, "It's your birthday, isn't it?"

"Um..." Carlos scratched his head: "There's still a month to go..."

"One month?" Luna blinked: "That's actually not too late."

“A gift of any time is better than a gift of late.”

"That makes sense." Carlos and Ron nodded.

Luna also nodded: "This is what my mother said."

Looking at Luna's gift, Carlos nodded happily: "Thank you for your gift."

"Do you like it? That's great." Luna seemed very happy. She glanced at Ron and said, "Ronald, I'll give you a little gift too."

"Do I have it too?"

Luna nodded slightly and took out a small bottle from the drawer, which contained a lot of cute rabbit hairpins and other rabbit peripherals.

"I'll give this to you." Luna nodded and handed him a hairpin.

"..." This made Ron, who was full of joy, feel a little disappointed.

"Can you bring it to Ginny?" Carlos suggested, "Girls might like this."

"Hmm...that makes sense." Ron nodded and put the hairpin in his arms.

"By the way, Luna." Carlos looked at the girl who seemed to be in a trance again and said, "I also prepared a small gift for you."

"Huh?" Luna came back to her senses and looked at him with her beautiful eyes: "What gift?"

"You'll know when the time comes." Carlos felt that he needed to remain mysterious. This kind of secret story has a twist.

"Okay then~" Luna didn't ask any further questions, perhaps because a few ideas had already flashed through her smart mind.

As if Carlos's gift reminded her, Luna slowly took out a notebook from her drawer, a small notebook with various stickers on it.

"I found something interesting." She waved to Carlos and said, "It's related to Slytherin."

"Slytherin?" Ron was a little confused. He didn't know what Luna and Carlos were talking about.

"Is it the thing I wrote in the letter before?" Carlos was quite surprised. He thought that there should be no more details about this matter, and it was about Slytherin's transformation experiment.

Wait... From this point of view, Slytherin's experimental transformation plan seems to be somewhat similar to Mr. Flamel's alchemical goal.

Their goals are the same.

"Look, Carlos..." Luna handed the notebook to Carlos. The first thing Carlos smelled was a faint smell of grapes. Maybe grape juice was sprinkled on it?

"I think squeezing some grape juice on the paper will make it smell pleasant." Luna explained, "Isn't it?"

"Hmm~" Carlos smelled it again: "It does smell good..." But after all, Carlos still had to take a closer look at the contents.

Beneath a cute little snake drawing was what Luna wanted to show Carlos.

"Slytherin went to Northern Europe after leaving Hogwarts, possibly searching for magical animals. It is very likely that he conducted a series of experiments there."

Carlos turned back a page, and there seemed to be a paper cutout in a book that explained the information summarized by Luna in more detail.

"I thought there would be no follow-up to that incident." Carlos said matter-of-factly: "I thought it was just a story told by Professor Binns."

"Many stories are true." Luna said confidently: "No matter what story it is, it has its own origin."

"And the source... is usually true." She said with certainty: "It's like the story of the Bent-Horned Snorlax."

Her words made both Carlos and Ron nod.

"That makes sense." Carlos asked, "Is this what your mother said too?"

"It's her." Luna nodded and smiled.

"But... where is your mother?" Ron scratched his head: "Is she with your father?"

"Not really." Luna's voice became much softer when she said this. She raised her head and looked at the star lamp hanging on the ceiling and said, "She passed away."

"Sorry..." Ron and Carlos both whispered.

"It doesn't matter." Luna didn't seem to be affected too much. She was always so optimistic: "Anything we lose will accompany us in another way."

"Well..." Carlos nodded, then looked at Ron and Luna who were a little quiet, he thought for a while and said, "Do you want to take the bus with us?"

He wanted to change the awkward topic.

"No, Carlos." Luna smiled and shook her head. She lifted the small bucket on the table and said, "I still have to water the airship, remember?"

Luna's words made both Carlos and Ron a little disappointed.

"Okay, Luna." Carlos shrugged: "I will come to play with you again in a few weeks."

"I will take you to find the gift then."

"Yes." Luna nodded, her long pale golden hair shining in the sun: "I believe you."