Azkaban: The Fifth House of Hogwarts

(Official map of Hogwarts attached here)

Hogwarts occupies a large area, and the distance between the Quidditch pitch and Hagrid's hut is enough for a person to walk quickly for half an hour, but the location of the dragon training field cannot be decided lightly.

Before Rollo came, there was actually a lot of controversy in the principal's room. The two people who held different opinions were Hagrid and Professor Kettleburn.

Hagrid wanted to build the dragon training farm on the edge of the Forbidden Forest near his hut, above the Whomping Willow, so that he could not only see his favorite little fire dragons when he woke up, but also It will make it easier for him to take care of Lin Zi.

Kettleburn did not agree with such a site selection. Taking care of fire dragons was not an easy task. Fire dragons could be artificially bred, but fire dragons also required a huge space for activities. The location next to Hagrid's hut was completely unable to meet this requirement. Conditions, and the upper, lower and right sides are restricted, making it inconvenient for future expansion.

"Perhaps it would be more appropriate to build it here?"

Rollo pointed to the blank area on the right side of the Hogwarts greenhouse between the Forbidden Forest and the Black Lake.

"I think this place is pretty good. It's spacious enough, and we can use local materials to divert part of the water from the Black Lake to create an area suitable for Peruvian Venomous Tooth Dragons or Swamp Dragons to live."

"But wouldn't it be too remote? I mean...this area was originally a vegetable garden."

Although Hagrid tried very hard to show that he didn't just want to sleep next to the fire dragon, his simple boy's thoughts could hardly be hidden from anyone present.

But the people present didn't mind this. They knew clearly how much Hagrid liked fire dragons, and wanting to get closer to them couldn't be considered purely selfish.

"This place is far away from Hogsmeade and will not affect the people in the village. It is also far enough from the school castle that the roar of the dragon will not affect classes. It is also close to the greenhouse. Professor Sprout can also get the freshest fertilizer. It is actually quite good here. Not bad, right?”

Rollo looked at Hagrid with a smile and explained to him patiently.

"The dragon training ground established at Hogwarts will be the safest dragon training ground in the world, but what I want to train is not ten or twenty fire dragons, so Hagrid, we need a spacious enough place."

"After all, the Dragon Training Facility at Hogwarts does not serve Golden Gallons. I plan to introduce all twelve currently known types of fire dragons and four types of frost dragons into Hogwarts. Here—"

Rollo pointed to the open space near the black lake and asked Dumbledore.

"Can a frozen lake be built here? The excavated soil can be piled up on a hill to simulate a snow-capped mountain environment. I wonder if it is possible to complete such an extremely cold site?"

Facing Rollo's question, Dumbledore fell into thought slightly.

"This is a good idea. Since ice dragons only live in the polar regions, I did not take them into consideration at first."

"However, if we really want to artificially create an environment that simulates the polar regions, it is not impossible."

"I wonder if you've ever heard of snow fairies?"

Dumbledore looked at Rollo thoughtfully.

"Although it is possible to maintain the extremely cold environment you need simply with magic or alchemical magic circles, the resources consumed are also extremely terrifying. The annual maintenance cost will be an astronomical figure. Hogwarts may be very It’s hard to afford the cost.”

"But if we have the help of the Snow Fairy, then it's not impossible."

"Snow fairies that occasionally appear on the top of snowy mountains and at the pole are also called snow nymphs and ice queens by wizards living near the pole. Their appearance is highly similar to that of human women, and they have extremely powerful control over ice and snow magic. And where he settles, even if it is not a cold snowy mountain and ice field, it will be turned into an area frozen by ice by his power."

"As far as I know, there is a person in the world who used the power of the Snow Fairy to complete this incredible environmental transformation."

"Maybe you've heard his name."

"He was my friend and teacher, the legendary alchemist Nicolas Flamel."

"The miniature world he built is the largest zoo in the world, which contains most of the known magical creatures in the world, including of course the ice dragons that live in extremely cold areas."

"I can solve the alchemy magic circle that assists the construction of the ice and snow field, but there is nothing I can do about the snow fairies that stabilize this ice and snow area and reduce its maintenance costs."

Dumbledore is not a god, and of course he has problems that he cannot solve.

"Don't worry, Professor Dumbledore." Rollo patted his chest, "Even if it's just coaxing and lying, I can bring him back for you, just tell me where I can see him."

Rollo, who was ready to be a scumbag, didn't mind kidnapping a snow fairy. He just sacrificed his appearance for the sake of scientific research. Anyway, it was all a matter of time. It didn't matter if it was earlier or later.

"It's with help, not kidnapping."

Dumbledore smiled and shook his head, "The snow goblin is an extremely proud and even arrogant magical creature. Even Nico is just cooperating with him, and we only need to let him live for a while and transform the core area into a semi-permanent one." The frozen state is enough. With auxiliary measures, it can maintain an extremely cold environment for at least three to five hundred years."

"Why 350 years?" A somewhat curious Rollo asked Dumbledore.

"Because Nicoléme's miniature world began to be built 350 years ago, and so far, the snow-capped mountains and ice fields there have not shown any signs of melting."

"However, we can go slower in this area. Snow fairies are not common, and even news about them is not always heard."

"Then now."

Dumbledore raised his head and looked at the people gathered around the table.

"What do you think of this place as a construction area for a dragon training facility? What do you think, Hagrid?"

"Of course, I mean it's pretty good."

Hagrid scratched his thick hair, with no trace of disappointment on his face, "I thought I would only raise a dozen dragons at first, but I didn't expect there to be so many!"

"If that's the case, the location I chose won't fit them."

Although he lost the opportunity to sleep with the fire dragons, Hagrid was unexpectedly surprised by being able to raise more than twice as many fire dragons at once. He had checked the information on dragon training farms across Europe, and among them the largest one There is only one free-range + less than twenty fire dragons in captivity.

If calculated based on the number of one male and one female for each dragon species, the dragon training field at Hogwarts will be able to accommodate at least 32 dragons, including frost dragons, as well as the children born after the breeding of these dragons.

Perhaps it won't be too long before the dragon training ground at Hogwarts will accommodate more than fifty dragons. This will be a huge surprise for Hagrid.

"It looks like we're all on the same page, which is good."

Dumbledore said in a brisk tone, "Maybe I should have thought of letting you come over earlier, Rollo. Please forgive me for always treating you like a child."

"But am I not just a child?"

Hearing Dumbledore say this, Rollo couldn't help but smile. Even if he suddenly returned to the age before time travel, he was only 20 years old. In Dumbledore's eyes, how could he be any different from an 11-year-old child? go?

"That's why I'm sorry for this. I didn't take into account that you have many considerations about the dragon training farm that I didn't take into account. Maybe my old thinking has limited me. I shouldn't think that the dragon training farm is just about raising a few dragons. The place."

"Maybe I need to tear up the previous construction plan. Hogwarts needs our own dragon training ground... No! It belongs to Hogwarts, and it is also the only dragon breeding and research center in the world."

"You are right, we are not building this site with Jin Gallon as the goal, we are to better study dragons, just like I discovered the twelve effects of dragon blood, to reveal the secrets of dragons that we have never explored The secret to arrive.”

Dumbledore, who had changed his previous thoughts, no longer planned to continue discussing the details of the construction of the dragon training farm. His previous construction plan was designed based on other dragon training farms, but this was not what Hogwarts needed.

"Maybe I should say goodnight."

Dumbledore glanced at the clock on the wall. The hour hand pointed to eleven o'clock at midnight, which was the time to fall asleep.

(Originally there was supposed to be one more chapter, but I was halfway through writing and suddenly I got the inspiration to write the plot of the Snow Fairy that I will use later. However, the Snow Fairy plot requires a lot of emotional drama that I am not good at...my hair is all over it. Even though I am bald, I am still not satisfied. This wave of blood loss has delayed both sides, but I can look forward to the plot of the Snow Fairy. I think it is quite beautiful, but it is too difficult to write it out. The key words are: Stars and frost are fleeting)