Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 277 Lu Wei Feilai

  Albert followed behind Professor Smith, walked forward silently, turned a corner, and stopped in front of the stone statue of the Griffin.

   "Chocolate Frog!"

  Professor Smith spoke the password to the stone statue in front of him.

  The griffin statue comes to life, jumping aside, the wall behind it splits in two, revealing the upward stairway.

   "Keep up."

  Professor Smith walked through the gap in the wall and stepped up the spiral stone staircase. Albert hurriedly followed. When he stepped on the stairs, the gap closed behind him.

  The next moment, the stairs rose slowly and automatically, bringing the two of them to the door of the principal's office.

  Professor Smith knocked on the door.

  The door opened quietly, and the two walked back and forth into the principal's office.

   This is the second time Albert has come to the principal's office. It was no different from the last time I came, the portraits of witches and wizards on the surrounding walls started pretending to sleep again after they stepped in front and back.

   "Rowena, what's the matter?"

  Dumbledore was writing a letter at his desk, looked up at the two people who came in, and asked.

   "Albert has something to ask you. About Hagrid, I think he should tell you by himself!" Professor Smith moved his body and asked Albert to tell Dumbledore the reason.

   "Hagrid?" When Dumbledore turned his gaze to Albert, the parchment on the table had been automatically put into an envelope and covered with sealing wax.

  He took the letter and handed it to Phoenix standing on the sycamore tree branch, and Fox flew away with the letter in his mouth.

  Is this using the phoenix as an owl messenger?

   Albert retracted his gaze from Phoenix, and began to tell Dumbledore about Hagrid:

  Hagrid secretly raised a three-headed dog named Lu Wei in the Forbidden Forest, and his three-headed dog suddenly ran away, probably wandering outside the school.

  He spoke very carefully, including that Hagrid didn't want to cause trouble for Dumbledore, and now he was running around all over the Forbidden Forest, looking for Lu Wei's whereabouts.

  Albert observed the changes in Dumbledore's expression while talking, but the headmaster's expression remained unchanged, and he still stood there quietly listening to Albert finish his story.

   "Principal Dumbledore, you won't kick Hagrid out of school, will you!" Albert asked pretending to be worried.

"No. Mr. Anderson, your judgment and handling are correct. Gryffindor will add 20 points." Dumbledore smiled at Albert and comforted him: "Three-headed dogs are indeed a dangerous kind of magic Creature, you are doing the right thing, we'd better find the three-headed dog and put it in place before it causes trouble."

   "Principal, what are you going to do with the three-headed dog?" Albert asked again.

   "Sending it back to its hometown, that's the best choice." Dumbledore didn't hide how he dealt with the three-headed dog, and said to Professor Smith: "Mr. Rowena, are you free now?"

   "Of course I'm free, if you need help." Smith said with a smile, "I will go into the Forbidden Forest anytime to help find the three-headed dog."

   "Well, let's go to Hagrid!" Dumbledore said and was about to leave.

   "Principal, can I go with you?" Albert said quickly, "I promised Hagrid that I would help him find Lu Wei."

  Dumbledore took a deep look at Albert, nodded and said, "Then come on!"

   Albert has great confidence in Dumbledore, with his help, he should be able to find Lu Wei soon.

  The task is stable this time.

  The three left the castle and walked towards the hut outside the Forbidden Forest.

  Hagrid was having lunch, when he heard a knock on the door, he stuffed the bread in his mouth into his mouth, and reached out to open the door, "Albert, why..."

  His voice paused, looking at Dumbledore standing outside the door, he was a little flustered, his eyes moved down, and fell on Albert who was beside Dumbledore, and he immediately knew what was going on.

"Sorry Hagrid, but I think it's best to let the headmaster know about this before Lu Wei gets you into trouble." Albert apologized, "I don't want to see Lu Wei hurting Hogwarts students , and I don’t want you to get into trouble and be kicked out of school.”

  He felt that after taking Felicia, his acting skills immediately exploded, and it would be no problem to win an Oscar.

   "Mr. Anderson's judgment is right, we'd better find the three-headed dog quickly." Dumbledore smiled.

   "What should we do?" Hagrid gave up his position at the door and asked uneasily, "Albert and I searched in the woods all morning, but we still haven't found any trace of Lu Wei."

   "We will find it." Dumbledore comforted, "Rowena, do you have any good suggestions?"

"Sorry, I don't know much about three-headed dogs. However, we can go to an expert in this field." Professor Smith suggested, "Professor Kettleber is an expert in the protection of magical creatures, and may be able to give us some advice. "

   "That's a good idea." Dumbledore nodded and agreed with Smith's proposal.

  The four of them entered the Forbidden Forest together, and walked towards Professor Kettlebo's hut.

   "Albus, why are you here?" Professor Kettlebo, who was feeding his little cutie Flobber caterpillars, asked the four of them suspiciously.

   "Something happened." Dumbledore said about the three-headed dog.

   "Three-headed dog?" Professor Kettlebo was very interested in it, "So that's it, the black shadow I saw last time is it? I was still investigating what kind of footprints were those?"

   "Professor Ketelber, do you have a way to find it?" Hagrid asked hastily.

   "Unfortunately, it is not easy to find it in the Forbidden Forest." Professor Kettleber still gave them some suggestions, "It is difficult to find food now, you can enter from this way."

   "Food? It's the same as Albert's proposal." Hagrid muttered in his heart. They had been searching all morning, but they couldn't find any useful clues.

   "We should go." Dumbledore seemed to be thinking about how to lure the three-headed dog out. "I'll let the house elves prepare some fresh meat."

   "Principal, can't you use reverse tracking magic?" Albert asked tentatively.

   "Unfortunately, no." Dumbledore will naturally track magic in reverse, but the problem is that he knows nothing about Lu Wei now, and it is difficult to use magic tracking directly.

   "Can we try using the Flying Curse? Summon Lu Wei directly." Albert continued to suggest, Dumbledore has the blessing of the Elder Wand, maybe it will be successful.

   "Of course," Dumbledore stopped suddenly, "Why don't you give it a try?"

   "I tried the principal, but it didn't work." Albert explained, "My magic power is not enough, the spell may be resisted."

   "This is not surprising at all. Large magical creatures are very resistant to spells." Professor Smith explained, "Moreover, we don't know where it is now, and it may fail if it is too far away."

   "We can cast a spell together." Dumbledore said suddenly, "If the three-headed dog is not far from here, it should be successful."

   "How to cast spells together?" Albert asked curiously.

   "Read Lu Wei Feilai, count to three, and read it together!" Professor Smith explained.

   "As long as Lu Wei appears, I can subdue Lu Wei immediately." Hagrid promised, patting his chest.

   "Let's get started then."

  The three of them all drew out their wands, looked at each other, and started counting down.

   "Lu Wei is flying!" They shouted in unison.

  (end of this chapter)