Daily Life at Hogwarts

Chapter 559 Hagrid's Gift

Hermione is a man of action, and soon founded the Defense Against the Dark Arts club.

Although Albert doesn't know exactly how she convinced Harry Potter, Hermione did manage to invite Harry and Ron to the club.

The only problem is that they have no place to practice their magic.

It is naturally impossible for Albert to tell them the secret of the Room of Requirement. After all, it has always been the place where he and Isobel dated. Once many people know the existence of the Room of Requirement, they will not be able to use it well for dating in the future.

Hermione once thought about asking Albert to teach everyone. If that was done, it would definitely attract a large number of students to join the club.It's a pity that Albert didn't plan to show off like that for the time being, and doing that didn't match the original purpose, so he simply refused.

However, in order to show his support for Hermione, Albert introduced several practical Defense Against the Dark Arts books to Hermione, and encouraged her to consult Professor Lockhart if she didn't understand.

In fact, Albert had already guessed what Hermione was thinking, first increase the number of people in the club, and then invite Professor Lockhart to take time to teach them, so that Harry would not resist.

In just a few days, the number of club members has expanded to five, and there is a trend of further expansion.

At this moment, the five people headed by Hermione were sitting not far from Albert, discussing the obstacle spell they were practicing recently.

This is Albert's suggestion to Hermione. The Obstacle Charm is a very practical spell, and the way to practice it is also very simple: throw a paper ball at the opponent, and then use the spell to stop the paper ball in midair.

For young wizards who are new to magic, the Obstacle Curse is still a bit difficult, but they never tire of it, even though Ginny and Colin didn't join the club to learn Defense Against the Dark Arts at first, but now they talk about training The work is also very vigorous.

"I think you can form a Defense Against the Dark Arts club," Fred looked away from Harry, and suggested to Albert who was flipping through the "Daily Prophet" next to him: "Since Professor Lockhart came After teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts, we barely learned anything useful."

"If you are willing to teach everyone, I believe many people will be willing to..."

"I don't want to. You know, I don't have that much time and energy." Albert interrupted dryly, "I have twelve classes a week, and a lot of homework. There’s really no time to find time to join clubs with several professors.”

"Every time you use these excuses, I'm getting tired of hearing them." George didn't take this seriously. He knew that Albert would definitely find a way to find time if he wanted to.After all, this guy knows the so-called "Secretization Curse", although they still haven't figured out how Albert did it.

"This is not an excuse, but the situation is like this. I am really busy." Albert turned the newspaper to the second page, and was considering only publishing a weekly newspaper in the future. The content of the daily newspaper is really not nutritious, it is all mess thing.

"Don't think I don't know, you are busy dating every day." Fred couldn't help but rolled his eyes at Albert.

"I heard that Dumbledore has booked a skeleton dance troupe for this year's Halloween dinner." Lee Jordan walked over and told several roommates the good news he had just heard.

"Is the Skeleton Dance Troupe famous?" Albert closed the newspaper and asked.

"Of course it's famous, you don't know it?"

Several people looked at Albert with incredible eyes, as if they were looking at some rare animal.

"The Skeleton Dance Troupe will definitely surprise you." Lee Jordan said excitedly, "Tickets for the Skeleton Dance Troupe have always been hard to get, and they are super expensive. The principal invited them to perform at the school, which is really exciting. "

"I will look forward to it a little bit." Albert said casually
"Are you really not thinking about my proposal just now?" Fred still didn't give up. He thought the idea of ​​Hermione's Defense Against the Dark Arts club was very good.

People should learn to save themselves.

"It's like I don't have to do my homework."

Albert suddenly raised his head and looked at the owl flying towards this side. A package was thrown in front of him with a letter on it.

However, what attracted most people's attention was that the package actually trembled.

"What is this stuff?"

Several people were obviously taken aback by this weird package.

George poked the package with his hand, and said in a low voice, "Could someone send you something strange again?"

"There is a letter on it." Lee Jordan reminded, he took the letter out of the package, glanced at the sender's name, "Hagrid sent it to you."

With that said, he handed the letter to Albert.

Albert glanced at the irregular writing on it, then opened it casually and took out the letter paper.

"Can we unpack the package?"

Fred was really curious about what was in the package, so he asked Albert for his opinion. He felt that Albert would probably not open such a weird package by himself.

"Take it apart!" Albert didn't object, "Hagrid shouldn't send anything dangerous."

"Hagrid seems to have a different view of danger from ordinary people."

Albert added in his heart.

He knew that Hagrid had been friends with Acantara, had bought a Greek three-headed dog at the Pig's Head Bar, and had secretly raised dragons at home illegally.

However, Albert was not too worried that Hagrid would send him something dangerous, not to mention that he was not the one who opened the package.

He started reading Hagrid's letter, which said two things:
Professor Wilmina Graplan seems to have other magical creatures to take care of and is unable to hold a long-term tenure at Hogwarts as Professor of Conservation of Fantastic Creatures.

The suspicious item in the package was "The Monster Book of Monsters". This book was Hagrid's choice of textbook. I hope Albert can give him some advice.

Last note:
Be careful, it can bite.

Touching the spine of a book can calm it down.

"What is this, damn it, it bites. It hurts, help me get it off."

An exasperated voice sounded from the side, and when Albert looked sideways, he found that Fred was bitten by the palm of "Monsters' Monster Book", and was shaking it vigorously, trying to shake the book from his hand.

After George and Lee Jordan reacted, they hurried forward to help Fred tear the book off his hands. The book fell to the ground and immediately ran under the table, like some kind of crab.

"What the hell did Hagrid send you?" Fred complained to Albert while checking the injury on the back of his hand, "Who the hell said this thing is not dangerous just now?"

Albert ignored Fred's complaining gaze, pulled out his wand and swung the book, floating the book, then created a rope out of thin air to bind it firmly.

"Okay, it's safe now." Albert threw the book on the table. Although the thing would tremble occasionally, it was obviously unable to bite anymore.

"Why did Hagrid send you this?" George asked curiously. "This thing looks like a mad dog."

"It's called The Monster Book of Monsters. Well, you heard me right, it's a book."

"Are you sure this thing is a book, I think it looks like some kind of dangerous magical animal." Fred bit the word dangerous very hard.

"You'd better go to Madam Pomfrey to treat the wound, so as not to leave a scar." While speaking, Albert stretched out his hand and gently stroked the spine of the book, and "Monster Book of Monsters" immediately became very peaceful.

"It's unlucky, you have a way to subdue him, why didn't you say it earlier." Fred complained endlessly.

"Hagrid wrote in the letter." Albert stuffed the book into his backpack, "Let's go and find Madam Pomfrey, I think you definitely don't want to leave a scar."

The three of them understood the meaning of Albert's words, and they all accompanied Fred to the school hospital.

On the way, Albert told them that Hagrid planned to apply to become a professor of protection of magical creatures.

"Oh, my God, don't tell me, that thing in your hand is Hagrid's chosen textbook."

The three of them suddenly became ill.

Rumors of Professor Ketelber's illness had long spread throughout the school, and Professor Graplan temporarily took over Care of Magical Creatures.

"I thought Professor Graplan would take over from Professor Kettleber." It was really hard for Fred to imagine what Hagrid would be like after taking over the Protection of Magical Creatures class.

Albert could understand the feelings of the three of them, but they would not be the only ones disappointed.Many people think that Professor Graplan will succeed Professor Ketelber.

"Anyway, next year will be the last year." Albert didn't pay much attention to this matter.Nor was he planning on continuing with Care of Magical Creatures.

In fact, Albert even planned to give up Muggle studies, divination, history of magic, and astronomy in sixth grade.

(End of this chapter)