Hogwarts: From Squibs to Greatness

Chapter 47 Interest and Hagrid Exposed
Since the last incident, John has been in and out of the restricted area frequently.

The Restricted Section of the Hogwarts Library is really named correctly. Apart from the three Unforgivable Curses that are explicitly forbidden to be learned, there is still a lot of knowledge that can be said to be taboo.

There are even vicious curses on many books. If you are not prepared for sudden contact, the end may not be too good.

However, John did not greedily want to learn all the books, but consciously selected books for learning.

Charms like Disapparation, Apparition, some dark alchemy with a decidedly dark Dark Arts flair, and Voldemort's magic for unleashing hellfire - the Fiercefire Curse.

Of course, John was still sober looking for Snape to help him practice. Although he was baptized by Snape's venom as expected, the other party did not refuse John's request.

But correspondingly, Snape asked him to refine the potion in the classroom or in the club, and the quality of the final product must be above excellent.

John did not refuse such a request, and striving for excellence in potions also met his own requirements.

During this period, John's revenge plan against Quirrell has also begun to be implemented.

After John discovered that Peeves was playing tricks on the Hufflepuff students that day, he followed Peeves, and after a "friendly" discussion with the other party, the other party "voluntarily" helped John.

This has led to the discovery by the little wizards of the whole school recently that Peeves no longer teased the little wizards, but began to tease or kill Professor Quirrell.

Because of the latest attack, Peeves moved the statue, so the steel ax in the statue's hand fell off, nearly beheading Quirrell.

Even though Quirrell dodged in time, a little toe was cut off. Although it was connected later, Quirrell's screams still scared many little wizards.

Two Ravenclaw girls also suffered from hysteria and were sent to the school infirmary to be treated by Madam Pomfrey.

For Quirrell to suffer such a thing, almost all the little wizards see it as a joke, but the strange thing is that the famous savior and his friend Ron are fighting for Quirrell.

For example, every time Harry met Quirrell on the road, he would give him an encouraging smile; Ron also began to persuade people to stop laughing at Quirrell's stuttering, and would scold him for his behavior when Peeves appeared .

If John hadn't said in advance that he couldn't hurt other little wizards, Peeves would have given Ron a taste of the prank props made by his brothers.

In the library, Ron was whispering to Harry about recent events.

"Did you know? Yesterday Peeves even took out his private musket. If Cedric of Hufflepuff hadn't stopped him, Professor Quirrell would be lying down in the school infirmary by now."

"I suspect that Snape is the reason why Peeves treats Professor Quirrell like this. You said that he used to be a dark wizard, so he must have a way to threaten Peeves!" Harry said confidently.
Ron nodded when he heard Harry's guess: "Indeed, he is still a master at refining potions. Maybe he concocted some potion to control Peeves."

"Don't worry about these things now. Professor McGonagall and the others won't let Peeves hurt Professor Quirrell. The exam is coming soon, so hurry up and review!"

Then Hermione looked up at Harry and Ron.

"Hermione, the exam is still hundreds of years away."

"Ten weeks," retorted Hermione, "not centuries. For Nico Flamel, it's just the blink of an eye."

"But we're not six hundred years old," Ron reminded her. "And, anyway, why are you studying? You already know everything."

"Why should I study? Are you crazy? Do you know that we have to pass these exams to get into the second grade? They are very important. I should have started studying a month ago. Didn't know I was What's wrong……"

Unfortunately, after that day, the professors seemed to resonate with Hermione, and the combined workload was several times higher than before.

This makes the Easter holiday far less fun than Christmas.

It's hard to rest easy while Hermione is reciting the twelve uses of dragon's blood next to you, or practicing wand movements.

Harry and Ron just seemed to be like this today, spending most of their free time with her in the library, moaning and yawning, desperately completing heavy homework.

"I'll never remember that." One afternoon, Ron finally couldn't take it anymore, he threw the quill away and looked out the library window.

For the first time in months, they had such fine weather. The sky was clear and clear, blue as the color of forget-me-nots, and there was an air of impending summer in the air.

"I don't know what John is doing recently. I haven't seen him in the library for a long time."

"I know, John is busy with club affairs recently, and you also know that he has joined all the clubs. It is said that Professor McGonagall's club assessment is to write an article that can be published in "Transformation Today"" Hermione put down the book Looking at Ron, he said with envy in his tone.

Ron sighed helplessly: "If I am afraid I will never be able to complete it, and I don't know how John did it. I have never seen such an all-rounder except for the lack of flying talent. John will definitely be able to get it when he graduates." 12 O"

Ron and Hermione's conversation continued as Harry buried himself in the "Thousands of Miraculous Herbs and Mushrooms" looking up "white fresh".

In fact, Harry really wanted to talk to John. After all, John was his first friend, and Harry also admired John's excellence.

But because the other party was very close to Snape, he was very afraid that John had been brainwashed and controlled by Snape. If he said something to John, the other party would tell Snape.

So he has been deliberately avoiding John recently, and he cannot accept that his good friend may become the kind of person he hates in his impression.

Just when Harry was not in the mood to read and was thinking wildly, he suddenly heard Ron say, "Hagrid! What are you doing in the library?"

Seeing that Hagrid was wearing an out-of-date moleskin coat and hiding something behind him in a panic, he walked slowly towards them.

"just looking around."

Hagrid's voice was evasive, and his eyes were also erratic. Such a guilty reaction immediately aroused Harry's interest. Seeming to see Harry's thoughts, Hagrid hurriedly opened his mouth.

"What are you doing here? Still looking for Nico Flamel, aren't you?"

Apparently Hagrid didn't want to have too much contact with Harry and the others right now, thinking that they said they were looking for Nick Flamel, so he asked directly to change the subject, and then left here.

It's just that Hagrid didn't expect to hear a different answer from last time.
Seeing Ron's brisk tone, he said triumphantly: "Oh, we figured out who he is hundreds of years ago, and we also figured out what those three monster dogs are guarding. Is it the Philosopher's Stone..."

"Shhh!!"

Hagrid heard Ron's words, and hurriedly stopped his next words, and then looked around carefully and quickly to make sure that no one heard Ron's words just now.

"Don't shout loudly, what on earth are you trying to do? This matter has nothing to do with you, are you still doubting Professor Snape? I said that Professor Snape would not do those things."

Harry raised his head to look at Hagrid at this moment, and said, "To be honest, we have a few things we want to ask you about the organ that protects the Sorcerer's Stone, except for Lu Wei..."

The reason why Harry has such doubts is because he learned from Professor Snape's conversation that threatened Professor Quirrell one day that Professor Quirrell seemed to have made a lot of preparations for getting the Philosopher's Stone, which shows that the guarding of the Philosopher's Stone is not good enough. There is only one level.

The content of other levels Hagrid, as the arranger of the first level, should know.

"Hush!" Hagrid interrupted Harry again.

"Listen, don't discuss this in public, come to me after class, but remember, I didn't promise to tell you anything, because there are things you shouldn't know, and if it is known, they You'll think I told you..."

Hearing Hagrid's words, Harry naturally chose to agree, seeing him nodding his head and saying, "Then, see you later..."

Then Hagrid acted like a thief, trying to keep the things hidden behind him from Harry and the others, and left the library like this.

"What's he hiding?" said Hermione thoughtfully.

"Do you think it has something to do with the Philosopher's Stone?" Harry said his guess
"I'll go to Mrs. Pince and ask what book Hagrid was looking for just now."

After Ron's voice fell, he had already put down the book, and he was already impatient with reading.

Soon he came back, holding a lot of books in his arms, and then directly threw these books heavily on the table.

"Dragon!" Ron whispered as if he had discovered some big secret, "Hagrid is looking for information about dragons! Check out these "Dragon Species in Britain and Ireland", "From Dragon Eggs to Hell", "Guide to Raising Dragons" .”

"Hagrid always wanted a dragon, he told me so the first time I saw him," said Harry. "And after we met John at that time, he kept praising how beautiful John's eyes were, and he was willing to give everything to have such a pair of dragon's eyes."

"But it's against the law. My brother Charlie worked in a Romanian dragon farm. He learned a lot about fire dragons before he joined the job. My brother Charlie also has all the books that Hagrid checked."

"At the wizarding conference in 1709, a bill prohibiting keeping fire dragons was officially passed. This is something everyone knows. Keeping fire dragons is too easy for Muggles to discover."

"Because fire dragons are not only dangerous, but also very difficult to tame. If you are not careful, these fire dragons will escape."

"I should have taken a picture of Charlie's burns for you to see. They were all from the wild dragons he drove out in Romania. My mother cried a lot because of it."

"Are there wild dragons in Britain?" Harry asked curiously.

"Of course!" It seemed that he was involved in a field he was familiar with, and Ron's face turned red with excitement.

"There are common Welsh green dragons and Hessian black dragons. My dad once told me that the Ministry of Magic has a job of hiding the existence of these wild dragons. Wizards at the Ministry of Magic have to constantly tell Muggles who see wild dragons Chant a spell to make them forget about it."

"So what the hell is Hagrid trying to do?" said Hermione.

Harry moved his head closer, and whispered, "Is it possible that Hagrid found a dragon in the Forbidden Forest, so he wanted to raise it?"

"It's possible, then the Forbidden Forest caught fire a while ago because of the fire dragon!" Ron said with affirmation
Both Hermione and Harry agreed with Ron's conjecture, otherwise they would not have been able to figure out what caused the fire in the Forbidden Forest.

It is said that the Weasley twins who were traveling at night were taken aback. They were very close to the Forbidden Forest at that time. They also said that they went to put out the fire when they saw the principal. They don't know if it is true or not.

Now it seems that it may be true, the professors should have collectively gone to catch the dragon that night.

(End of this chapter)