Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 67 Bowtruckle

  As soon as he approached Hagrid's hut, Fang rushed towards this side, circling around several people. Albert squatted down, rubbed the dog's head with his hand, and scratched his chin again, which calmed Fangya down.

  Hagrid had pushed open the wooden door of the room, inviting everyone in.

  There is only one room in the hut, with ham and roast pheasant hanging from the ceiling, and a copper kettle on the fireplace, the fire has long been extinguished. In the corner stood a large bed with a pieced quilt made of rags.

  Hagrid picked up a pink umbrella in the corner and lit the fire, and hung the copper pot of water on it to boil, apparently preparing to make tea for them.

While doing these things, he still didn't forget to turn his head and say to the three of them: "Next time, if I see you sneaking into the woods next time, I will hand you over to Professor McGonagall. She will definitely make you happy." Dare to enter the forest again."

   "We're just curious...what's in the woods." George muttered softly, "Why, Dumbledore would forbid students to enter the woods."

"There are wild beasts in the woods, and magical creatures that are dangerous to you." Hagrid explained to them impatiently, "It's not without reason that Dumbledore forbids you to enter the woods. It's too dangerous."

   "Hagrid, be careful not to let the Bowtruckles fall into the fireplace, they seem to be very afraid of fire." Albert changed the subject.

"Oh!" Hegera opened the chair and sat down. By the way, he put the Bowtruckle on the table, took out the herbal medicine from the cabinet next to it, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and then applied it to the Bowtruckle wound. Use some small wooden boards to help the Bowtruckle hold and bind with unicorn tail hair.

  However, this was a delicate job for Hagrid, but he still took it seriously.

   It's just that the bundled Bowtruckle doesn't seem to appreciate it, and is a little annoyed by the small wooden boards on its body.

   "I'm not very good at this kind of delicate work." Hagrid said to the crowd after handling the Bowtruckle, "Bowtruckle's hands and feet are very slender, and they are easily injured and broken."

  The kettle rang, and Hagrid poured boiling water into the large teapot, and poured everyone a cup of amber tea, with a plate of rough, irregularly shaped biscuits beside them.

   "This is fresh." Albert asked, picking up the plant that Hagrid was chewing.

"Well, pomegranate is the simplest and most effective plant I can find. I asked Professor Sprout for some. It is very suitable for treating most animals' injuries." Hagrid took a sip of hot tea, and then After eating a few small biscuits, I began to introduce the breeding of Bowtruckles to everyone with great interest.

  Hagrid took out a wooden box containing something similar to brown rice, and he said to several people, "Feed this to Bowtruckles, it will make them feel better."

   "Hagrid, what is this?" Albert grabbed a small handful and handed it to two Bowtruckles that were trying to shake off the bandages. They immediately stopped struggling and pounced on them to eat them.

   "Google," said Hagrid, "a bug that Bowtruckles like to eat. Of course, fairy eggs are their favorite food, too."

  Fred and Lee Jordan are both trying to feed Bowtruckles, while George is wrestling with a cookie.

Albert saw with his own eyes that George picked up a small biscuit and put it into his mouth. He took a few bites and found that he couldn't bite. It's not biscuits, it's stones.

   Seeing this scene, Albert wanted to laugh a little, he didn't want to touch the biscuit at all. This kind of biscuit may be just right for Hagrid's teeth, but it is quite toothache for Albert and the others.

   "What are they good for, Hagrid?" Fred asked, pointing to the Bowtruckle.

   "What's the use?" Hagrid thought for a while and replied, Bowtruckles are the best rangers, the trees they live in will grow particularly lush, and the wood of these trees is usually suitable for making wands.

"If one day, you want to remove leaves or wood from the tree guarded by the Bowtruckle, it's best to give them some ground turtle or fairy eggs as a comfort, otherwise you have to be careful with their sharp claws. A case of blind eyes."

   "Won't you have some?" Hagrid asked suspiciously, noticing that a few people had hardly touched the biscuits.

   "No, it's time for dinner." Albert quibbled, and he took out his pocket watch to check the time and said, "I think we should go back to the castle so as not to miss dinner time."

   "That's right." Hagrid suddenly remembered something, and said to Albert, "The dry trunk outside is from a sorbus tree..."

   "Thank you, Hagrid!" Albert immediately thanked the other party, "I'll cut a short part and take it back later."

   "Do you need my help?" Hagrid liked the polite kid in front of him. Because of his appearance, many students were afraid of him, and few of them were willing to chat with him.

   "No need!" Albert pulled out his wand, pointed at the dead tree and said, "Torn apart."

   "Is this enough?"

   "I can't take any more." Albert used the Cutting Curse to cut off a small tree trunk for himself, "I may use some more in the future."

   "Then I'll put it behind the house, you need to get it yourself." Hagrid nodded.

   "Goodbye Hagrid." Albert picked up a small tree trunk and called the other three roommates to walk towards the castle together.

   "What do you want this for?" Li Qiaodan asked puzzled.

   "You will know in the future." Albert smiled and asked the three of them, "How is it in the woods?"

"It's similar to the forest near my house." Fred winked at Albert and said, "We entered from the other side of the forest. We didn't expect to meet Hagrid dragging a dead tree trunk. He probably entered the forest to help you." Get a sorbus tree."

   "So, you were caught by Hagrid?" Albert wanted to laugh a little, he felt that the luck of the three of them was really bad.

   "I dare say, they must be lying to us, there are no dangerous creatures in the forest at all." George complained.

  Albert said to himself, if you met, you would probably have been snatched away and eaten, so how could you be in the mood to gossip here.

  Albert asked back: "You said...why would they deceive students?"

  Fred curled his lips and said: "Percy said that there are many dangerous beasts in the woods, but in fact, not many people have actually seen those beasts."

   "Actually, you need to change your thinking." Albert reminded, "Why didn't Dumbledore allow the students to enter the forest?"

   "What secret do you think... is hidden in the woods?" Li Qiaodan's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"It's possible, of course there are other possibilities." Albert continued to analyze to the three, "There should be many magical creatures living in the depths of the Forbidden Forest, didn't Hagrid say that there are unicorns in the Forbidden Forest? These magical creatures are dangerous to us, and going too far into the Forbidden Forest will cause students to get lost."

  (end of this chapter)