days at Hogwarts

Chapter 172 Wrong, dare to dare in the future

Steady the magic link between the Deluminator and the little spider's eyeball, Dumbledore's disturbed breathing slowly calmed down, but when he thought of the words "additional money", he still couldn't help but want to laugh out loud.

Dumbledore held back his smile: "So, a shrewd businessman, Mr. Morgan, how much money do you think is suitable?"

"You can just give it as you see it." Loren was very straightforward.

"The salary of the headmaster of Hogwarts may not be as high as you think. Hmm—" Dumbledore thought for a while, shaking the extinguisher in his hand, "Can I use this to pay off the debt?"

"It's just a small work for me to pass the time, but the shell made of mithril is still worth some money. Maybe it's not enough to pay you, but I think, based on the friendship between the two of us, this deal can be tried, you say What?" Dumbledore smiled.

"Well——" Loren pretended to hesitate, "Since you said so, then I will reluctantly accept this deal."

After finishing speaking, he couldn't help grinning, his gums were almost exposed.

Dumbledore was in a happy mood. He waved his hand and motioned Loren to take a closer look: "Let me briefly introduce, the Deluminator can be charged, store the light source in the surrounding environment, and take it out when you need it. For Muggle lights, A light source such as a flashlight would also work."

"Do you know what 'light' means? "

Loren looked at the light source at the top of the extinguisher, thinking about the meaning of light in his head, hope, the sun, energy...

The more he thought about it, the more uncertain he became. Because his eyes were looking directly at the light source, a deep purple shadow was cast out. He closed his eyes and asked, "What does it mean?"

Dumbledore replied softly: "Light means direction. When you fall into darkness and confusion, with light you can see the way ahead and know where you should go."

"My original intention of designing it is to keep hope when the light source is sufficient, and to illuminate the way forward when darkness and confusion come."

Loren nodded half-understood, and asked, "Then what are you doing now, are you adding any functions to it?"

Dumbledore pointed out the eight eyes of the little spider to him: "The eyes of owls, snakes and other animals will glow at night, but it is not their own light, but the unique structure of their eyes can reflect the environment, The light we cannot see is concentrated, turned into light we can see, and then reflected."

"Fantastic animals are different. Their eyes can really glow. These lights come from the unique magic power in their bodies and have strange effects."

"The acromantula's gaze can frighten its prey;"

"Maolizi's eyes can detect those suspicious people;"

"And the eyes of the basilisk..."

Loren didn't pay much attention to what Dumbledore said later. He carefully observed the magic threads extending from the eyes of the acromantula. Most of them were dark gray, mixed together irregularly, and looked mottled and mixed.

The Extinguisher is combing these magical threads, bringing together the darkest ones.

"Do these black silk threads represent the magic power of fear and awe?" he asked.

"I think so." Dumbledore manipulated the Deluminator, the black and gray magic threads gradually separated, and the combing was coming to an end.

After the last few strands of black magic threads were gathered in the extinguisher, Dumbledore closed the top cover of the extinguisher, took out a white mouse from his cuff and placed it in front of the acromantula.

The white mouse squeaked in horror at first, but when it realized that the acromantula could not spare its feet to chase it, it swung its four legs and ran to the side quickly, trying to escape the danger.

Seeing this, Dumbledore turned on the switch of the extinguisher, and put back the bundled black magic power.The little spider stared at the white mouse with all eight eyes, and the white mouse squeaked and collapsed on the spot, motionless.

"It seems to be a success." Dumbledore smiled with satisfaction.

Loren could see that the black magic thread seemed to represent the ability of the giant spider to deter prey. When it was put away, the mouse was not affected, but when it was released, the mouse was too scared to move.

But he was a little puzzled. This was different from what he had guessed before, affecting sight and blinding people. He asked, "Principal, is there any special use for this effect?"

Dumbledore didn't answer. He put the extinguisher back into his sleeve, stretched out his hand and pushed away the little spider crawling towards the little white mouse, and said with a smile, "This is Fox's snack. If you don't return it, Fox will burn my eyebrows." .”

After putting away the mouse, Dumbledore turned to Loren and said, "Wait for me in the girls' bathroom on the second floor after dinner, and you'll know when the time comes."

"The basilisk!" Loren exclaimed, he suddenly realized that this was the gaze to deal with the basilisk.

Dumbledore just smiled, turned and went out to say goodbye to Hagrid and Hermione.

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Noon, Hagrid's cabin.

Hagrid picked out a few pumpkins that were only about a circle larger than Fang, but had very hard skins, chopped them into pieces, and stewed them directly in an iron pot with clean water without adding anything.

"Look at this kind of pumpkin, hey! The sweetest." Hagrid smiled brightly.

Since he entertained the little wizard with rock cakes as dinner, no one wants to stay at the hut for dinner.Hagrid was very depressed when Harry and Ron waited for dinner and left before dinner.

This time, he wanted to show his skills and let the little wizard understand that there are many good things in the forest.

Ripe and saccharified pumpkins are difficult to make and unpalatable, even if you pick them off and chew on them, they are full of sweetness.The aroma of the pumpkin in the iron pan filled the forest, and you could feel the sweetness of the air when you took a breath.

Even Hermione, who had the smallest appetite, ate a whole stewed pumpkin, and her belly was bulging.Hagrid finally drank all the pumpkin soup that came out of the stew.

After the meal, Loren and Hermione sat on the small bench outside the house to digest their food. By the way, they helped clean up the pumpkin with pumpkin seeds sandwiched between them. They took the pulp out of the pumpkin and spread it on a wooden board to dry.In addition to saving some of the dried pumpkin seeds for next year's seeds, they can also be fried for winter snacks.

Hagrid sliced ​​open a pumpkin, and instead of the pulp in the middle, there was a nest of slugs wriggling slimy.

This pissed him off. With a heavy breath in his nose and enough strength, he even threw the pumpkin and the slug family out, and they couldn't even see a shadow in the sky.

"It must be that Weasley kid, the last time he showed them around my pumpkin patch, he spit several slugs into it."

"This bad boy must have done it on purpose. Next time I see him, I'm going to plant him in the pumpkin patch." Hagrid sat down cursing, and continued to deal with the pumpkin angrily.

Loren and Hermione looked at each other and laughed in unison.

Hermione joked: "Come on, Hagrid, Ron will definitely come with Harry, don't talk about planting him in the ground, you're probably going to entertain them with the biggest and sweetest pumpkin."

Hagrid was not happy, and retorted without confidence: "No way! I don't know how many pumpkins are broken. If you say plant him in the ground, you will plant it in the ground."

"What about Harry, do you want to treat him to a pumpkin?" Loren asked.

Hagrid turned away, not wanting to look at them, "Harry didn't harm my pumpkin."

Loren and Hermione laughed together: "Hahahaha..."

When the sun hangs under the clouds in the west, it turns half of the sky yellow like a pumpkin, and the pumpkin seeds are almost finished.

Hermione stood up and went to the sink to get water to wash her hands. The pumpkin juice was sticky on her hands, and some places on the back of her hands had formed a transparent hard shell, which melted away as soon as she rinsed it with water.

Loren said goodbye to Hagrid, trailing behind and walking slowly to Hermione's side to wash his right hand.

Although she didn't study today, Hermione still felt that her life was very fulfilling, and the golden clouds hanging in the west were full of the sweet aroma of pumpkins.

Hermione rubbed her wet hands on Loren's body a few times, and complained, "You're always secretive, and you'll distract me when you talk in the morning."

Loren called out his grievances: "It's Principal Dumbledore who dismissed you, what's none of my business?"

"I don't care, it's your fault." Hermione rubbed a few more times, wiping the water off her little hands.

"All right, all right." Loren snorted twice, with his left hand behind his back, and said to Hermione with a wicked smile on his face, "Do you know what the main purpose of coming out today is?"

"What is it?"

"To tell you," he whispered, leaning closer to Hermione—

"I've learned to apparate!" Loren bluffed and yelled, and quickly touched Hermione's face a few times with his pumpkin juice-stained left hand.

The sweet smell of pumpkin smeared her face, and Hermione was stunned, completely stunned.She was stunned for a few seconds, and then screamed fiercely.

"Loren Morgan!"

Hagrid and Fang shuddered in fright, and slowly turned their heads to look this way.

"You're dead!" Hermione reached out and was about to grab Loren.

"[Apparition]"

Loren turned around, disappeared in place with a "bang", and appeared not far behind Hermione in an instant, looking at her with a smile: "Look, this is Apparation."

Hermione flung herself away, throwing away all rationality and calmness.She has only one thought now - to teach this person a harsh lesson!

Wiping the pumpkin juice off her face, Hermione chased after him.

Loren didn't sit still, turned around and ran towards the castle.

Hagrid watched the scene of the two running under the sunset, and sighed with emotion: "This is the beautiful youth!"

Looking at the continuously walking figure in front of her, Hermione took a deep breath and wanted to grab her, and she wanted to press him to the ground and beat her hard.

Uppercut!

Whip legs!

Every time a movement is thought of, Hermione runs faster and gets closer to Loren.She faintly felt that she was running faster and faster, faster than ever before.Her physical fitness seems to have improved again.

The distance between Loren and Loren was rapidly getting closer, getting closer, getting closer... Hermione's eyes widened, and the corners of her mouth slowly curled into a smile, and she would be able to catch this vile guy soon.

"[Apparition]"

boom!
Loren teleported a long distance again, he turned his head and showed a bright smile: "Want to learn, I'll teach you."

Feeling that this person was even worse, Hermione was so angry that her silver teeth were about to gnaw.She didn't say a word, and the steps under her feet moved faster.

Naked twist!

Cross solid!
guillotine!
In the fantasy in her heart, the viciousness of the beating has increased several levels, and the name of the fighting skill in her mind made her burst out with endless energy and tirelessness.

The evening wind blowing in the forest brings a cool breath, and the breath is full of the fragrance of grass and trees and moist water vapor.Under the setting sun, the boy's shadow stretched very long, longer than the branches of the Whomping Willow, longer than the path on the grass, and stretched all the way to people's hearts.

In this way, one chased the other and ran, and the person in front occasionally teleported to open a distance, and ran into the hallway with the burning torch.

"[Apparition]" Loren turned back, but this time he couldn't teleport out like before.

"Oops!" He forgot that Apparition was forbidden within Hogwarts grounds.

Hermione seized the opportunity to approach, she put one arm across the front of Loren's neck, and clamped it with the other hand, making a twisting movement, but she didn't use any force.With a triumphant smile on his face.

Although he wanted to hang up and fight for three days and three nights when he was chasing, but if he really caught him, he wanted him to admit his mistake even more.

Hermione's little face was flushed, and with the joy of finally achieving her goal, she gasped in Loren's ear and said, "Tell me, how many times have you played tricks on me? !"

Loren, who was still holding a wand in his hand, could of course use some kind of magic, repelling spell, binding spell, stun spell, etc. Hermione was unprepared, and the sneak attack would definitely succeed.But this is not a life-and-death duel, you don't need to die, and it is true that he smeared pumpkin juice on someone's face first.

Loren didn't struggle, and was willing to admit defeat. Before he died, he had to be prepared to be caught.And struggling will only make his neck hurt more, he is silent, like a kitten whose neck is pinned down by life.

Hermione shook his head: "Huh? Say, do you know what's wrong? Will you still play tricks on me in the future?"

"Wrong, dare to do it in the future." Loren was very honest.

Hermione laughed angrily: "What did you say?"

"Wrong, dare to do it later."

It was impossible to expect him to promise not to commit another crime in the future, so Hermione just locked him up and slowly regained her strength.Loren was also resting and panting, and the two fell into a strange state of peace.

I don't know how long it took, Loren said quietly: "If you don't let go, I'm going to scream."

Hermione was stunned for a long time before calming down the shock in her heart. She moved her somewhat stiff neck, and choked out a sentence with complicated emotions: "Being surrounded by people is more embarrassing for you."

"I'm not afraid of embarrassment." Loren spread his hands, "but you are afraid."

Hermione was completely speechless, she was indeed afraid.For a while, there was nothing she could do about this scoundrel, but she felt too aggrieved by not doing anything.

Grabbing Loren's cheeks, Hermione twisted them to both sides: "If you tease me again, your face will be swollen!"

This was Hermione's most vicious threat, but Loren still smiled, pressed her hand, and pulled her towards the auditorium.

The aroma of dinner food was already wafting down the hallway, and the Hogwarts kitchen had made pumpkin tonight.

"Did you hear that? You still laugh, don't laugh!"

"I heard it."

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(End of this chapter)