Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

"...However, this marking magic also played a great role in tracking 'House'.

In fact, on the day I received Icario's letter, I located House's traces, and it had already appeared near the Tunisian coastline.

So I applied for a transnational portkey and went directly to the city of Tunis, where I wanted to go to the sea to stop it and treat it for diseases.

But when I saw it, it had been controlled by a group of wizards dressed as Berbers using a 'bridle spell' (Note 1), and was used to drag a carriage traveling in the sea.

Horace, do you know what this means?

In the whole of Europe, only three magic schools - Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang - have mastered the magic of taming "horse-shaped" things like Yeqi, the rune horse, Iseron and the horse-shaped water monster. The secrets of animals are kept secret.

You know, in the past, if the Ministry of Magic wanted to use Pegasus to pull carts, they had to rent Thestrals from Hogwarts.

In addition, due to geographical and monster origin restrictions, water monsters are not bred on a large scale in Hogwarts or Beauxbatons.

Therefore, among that group of Berber wizards, some are definitely wizards from Durmstrang! "

After listening to Kettleburn's words, Byrne immediately thought of the information he knew about the Durmstrang Magic School.

Draco complained to him several times about the poor teaching level of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class at Hogwarts (Although Bourne is also a Gryffindor, he is not a member of the Harry Potter trio, and also He took the initiative to help Draco in the cabbage biting incident, so they have a good relationship), he said that his father Lucius Malfoy had hesitated before whether to let him go to Durmstrang.

It is an academy that never accepts young wizards of Muggle origin. This is actually related to the personal experience of its founder, the legendary Bulgarian witch Nerida Vokanova, because she is the orphan of a Muggle victim of the medieval witch-hunting movement. .

After Nerida Volkanova founded the magic school and died mysteriously, Halfon Mount became the second headmaster of Durmstrang.

He not only continued the tradition established by the founder, but also established a teaching system focusing on dueling and various forms of martial arts and magic.

After that, generations of Durmstrang principals inherited Principal Mount's school philosophy, and they were very keen on training students to become combat wizards.

As a result, Durmstrang's "Defense Against the Dark Arts Class" is said to have long existed in name only, and its real name should be "Dark Arts Practice Class".

The current headmaster of Durmstrang is Igor Karkaroff, who was originally a Death Eater.

This man was captured and brought to Azkaban after a six-month cross-country pursuit by the Auror team headed by "Mad Eye" Moody.

Karkaroff was tried after Voldemort's fall. Under the pressure of a life sentence in Azkaban, he chose to make a deal with Barty Crouch, the former head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, to name other Death Eaters in the Wizengamot Tribunal.

In exchange, Karkaroff was pardoned and released by the Ministry of Magic, and later became the headmaster of Durmstrang.

It is precisely because of his experience that some people in the wizarding world jokingly said that the school philosophy of Durmstrang Magic School should be: "Welcome to Armstrong, the cradle of dark wizards!"

The matter involves three major magic schools in Europe. Although these three schools have a lot of cooperation on the surface, in fact they are more competitive.

After all, there are only so many wizards. If there are more students in one school, there will naturally be fewer students in the other two schools.

If it weren't for the competition for students, how could Hogwarts Castle have given birth to the two magic props "Pen of Acceptance" and "Book of Admission"?

Therefore, upon hearing the news about Durmstrang, Horace's curiosity was instantly aroused, and he couldn't help but ask: "What's next? Silva, how did you rescue this horse-shaped water monster?" ?”

“I didn’t act rashly at the time, but followed those people all the way and found that they were constantly traveling between ports in North Africa and Southern Europe.

Tunisia, Malta, Venice, Greece, Algeria, the Pillars of Hercules... They have been transporting goods between various ports in the past half month. "

"No wonder," Bourne also thought of something.

That is, after the final exam, Professor Kettleburn disappeared and did not even attend the final banquet.

Some young wizards speculated what the old professor might be busy with in the Forbidden Forest, but Bourne, as the "Forbidden Forest Coordinator", knew that during that time, only Hagrid took him and the Weasley brothers to the Forbidden Forest regularly. Patrol, Professor Kettleburn was not in the Forbidden Forest at all.

It turned out that the old professor had left Hogwarts at that time and had even come to the Mediterranean.

"A few days ago, those people left Gibraltar and headed straight for Britain. This time, they did not carry any goods. When I followed them, I found that this group of people had exchanged all the goods for money.

After entering the Atlantic Ocean, the little guy 'House' suffered from acute blight syndrome because he was not adaptable to the salt content and temperature of the sea water. The calamus manes on his body lost their vitality and his underwater swimming speed slowed down.

When the group arrived in England, they went directly to Diagon Alley and purchased a potion to treat acute blight.

However, only one of them left to treat 'House', while the others went to Gringotts to save money. And I also took this opportunity to rescue 'House' and temporarily placed it in the Hand of Glory. "

Horace couldn't help but exclaimed after hearing this: "What a bold adventure!

I still remember that when you attended the sorting ceremony, the Sorting Hat hesitated for a long time between sorting you into Hufflepuff or Gryffindor. "

"Maybe it's because I prefer taking care of magical animals. This should be more similar to Senior Newt."

Kettleburn scratched his hair sheepishly at the compliment.

"Then you secretly returned to the Pillars of Hercules this time because you discovered some secrets on 'House'?" Bourne asked.

Hearing Bourne's question, this usually carefree old man became rarely serious. He seemed very angry and his face turned red.

"I originally planned to cure 'House' and then give it to Icario quickly so that he would not have to worry about paying compensation - I didn't know at the time that Icario had already passed away - but I Unexpectedly, when I was treating this little guy, I discovered that it had actually been domesticated a long time ago."

As he spoke, Kettleburn took out his chestnut wand and chanted the spell.

“Vero Veto（速速变形）！”

A silk thread popped out from the top of the wand, and an oversized orange carrot was tied to the end of the thread.

He waved his wand twice.

When he saw the carrots and finished his meal of millet and herring, the horse-shaped water monster, who was about to eat some vegetarian snacks, immediately neighed happily a few times, and then swam quickly to the shore. It pressed the small half of its huge body on the wooden board of the dock, raised its head, and opened its mouth to eat this after-dinner dish.

"You can take a look at its neck. Is there a circle that is not covered by the mane of the broad-leaf calamus?