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Of course, the lectures that Mr. Deng likes to hear are still needed.
He emphasized two things this year. One is that after the curfew at night, it is strictly forbidden to leave the dormitory without permission.
As for the second, it is the old-fashioned issue of the Forbidden Forest, but this time Dumbledore emphasized it very seriously.
"I would like to specifically name Fred Weasley, George Weasley, and other gentlemen and ladies who are eager to try, for the safety of your lives, please do not enter the Forbidden Forest privately from this year onwards! !"
Pretty stern warning.
From the beginning to the present, Harry is still very satisfied with Mr. Deng's performance.
Even before he had really made up his mind, Dumbledore had already started paving the way for him, so that if Harry really wanted to take action, it would be easy to change the name of the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts to Granger.
"Go to bed early, good night." After the dinner, Harry handed over the luggage to Hermione, and then turned to look for Filch.
"He doesn't live in the dormitory?" Luna seemed curious about Harry's departure.
"He lives with Mr. Filch, the administrator. Although it's not a good way to say it, my brother is indeed a famous weirdo in Ravenclaw College, and many strange things will be related to him." Hermione deliberately put on a face The vice-sister looked like she pinched her waist helplessly and sighed, "Sometimes, as a sister, I find it very troublesome~"
"But he didn't regard you as his sister."
Luna's words were quite straightforward, so straightforward that she didn't give Hermione, a senior, any face.
"You should queue up with the prefect!" Hermione pointed at the other first-year kittens who were queuing with a stinking face. "If there is no prefect to accompany you, it's easy to be unable to enter the gate of the rest area!"
Luna Lovegood... Hermione doesn't want to be friends with this first year~
Come on, almost everyone in the school knows that that stinky brother doesn't think of her as a sister at all, but you can't say it so bluntly!
only…
After Luna left, Hermione was also inexplicably stunned.
If that guy doesn't regard himself as a sister all the time, what will he regard as a sister?
Not to mention the little entanglement in Hermione's heart, Filch is also full of reluctance at the moment, because Harry actually wants to live with him this year!
"Sleeping with Anthony and the others, it's not as comfortable as sleeping with you, let alone Mrs. Norris can masturbate~"
In the caretaker's cabin, Harry shamelessly gave Filch an answer that would make him roll his eyes.
Cut, you still want to play with me to kill the donkey?
It took me a whole year to grow Mrs. Norris from a scrawny pissed-off cat to a slick beauty, and you, Filch, want to kick me out now?
There are no doors!
"By the way, Mr. Filch, I may have a box here in the future." While giving Mrs. Norris a neck massage, Harry suddenly said, "Promise me that when I'm not around, Absolutely, never touch it!"
"Okay." Seeing Harry's seriousness, Filch nodded seriously.
Having been roommates with each other for a year, he has already settled many things.
It's best to follow Harry's serious instructions meticulously, otherwise it's really easy to cause incidents that will cause a sensation in the whole school.
...
Early the next morning, in the restaurant of Hogwarts, all the freshmen who had just arrived were looking around, but the experienced old students were gobbling up.
The first day of each term is the absolute peak of postman arrivals, and if you don’t want to have breakfast with Feather, or get your plate hit by an inadvertent owl’s excrement, you’d better get it done.
Flutter!
Sure enough, as soon as Harry and Hermione put down their knives and forks, hundreds of owls swarmed in. They kept circling above everyone's heads, and dropped a large number of raindrops on the long tables in each house. General parcels and letters.
"Goo!"
Harry's favorite pet, Hedwig, was also on the list, but it didn't carry anything. Instead, it directed the six post office owls like a foreman, and carefully transported a square package to Harry.
"Scamander...do you want to be so fast~" Harry rolled his eyes helplessly while touching Hedwig's little head.
That old and disrespectful guy was simply rushing ducks to the shelves. Harry just confessed to Filch yesterday, but this box came today.
But one thing to say, this box is really pretty.
It was a brand new silver safe, completely different from Scamander's old suitcase, and the shiny material looked quite delicate.
The box uses a combination lock, and the button used to unlock the lock has a doorway, which seems to be used to switch between normal mode and wizard mode.
Judging from the feedback from the voice of magic power, it should be in normal mode at present.
"Crookshanks and Norberta are inside, that's great!" Hermione approached happily, she had been thinking about her cat these days.
"It should be, but let's see what instructions he left in the box first." Harry tried to change the password into three zeros, and easily used the initial password to open the box in normal mode.
As for the wizard mode, let’s experience it when no one is around. Harry doesn’t want to scare a few professors into sickness on the first day of school~
Sure enough, after opening the box, Harry found a note left by Scamander while finding the instruction manual for the lockbox.
And this made the wry smile on his face even stronger.
"What did Mr. Scamander say?" Hermione asked curiously upon seeing this.
"What else can I say, the task assigned to me~" Harry curled his lips helplessly, "He told me that the weather charm in the box will last until Easter next year at most, and then I will figure out what to do by myself."
"Weather spell?" Hermione was stunned for a moment, "Don't you still know how to spell this level?"
"So, either hurry up and learn the spells, or find another way to store them~"
Scamander must have been pissed off with Old Deng. Where exactly he wanted to keep these magical animals was a question that never even occurred to him.
"By the way, help me ask Professor McGonagall for a leave later."
"Aren't you?" Hermione frowned upon hearing this, "This is the first class at the beginning of the school year, and you skipped it just like that? Please, give me a more plausible reason~"
"The reason is that I have to negotiate with the mermaid in the Black Lake for the matter of the horse-shaped water monster... Do you think this reason can be passed by Professor McGonagall?" Harry asked with a playful smile.
"Forget it... I'll make up one for you~"
Hermione rubbed her frowning brows bitterly, and finally decided to give up on Harry.
No way, when it comes to magical animals, Harry's interest is definitely much stronger than in class.
"Okay, the new password is set~" At this moment, Harry had reset the password of the box and switched it to wizard mode.
In other words, the suitcase at this time has been replaced with a large number of magical animals such as Nobeta and Zou Wu!
So, going to Hogwarts for the second year is just a superficial task for Harry.
His real task is to take care of these "cute little ones who are not dangerous at all" in the box in Scamander~
"Hey, what's the new password setting?" Seeing that Harry had finished tinkering with the box, Hermione asked curiously.
"Then do you still need to ask, of course it's 919~" Harry gave the answer without thinking.
"This..." Hermione froze for a moment.
919, that's her birthday...
(ps Second grade class timetable, please forget the original book, mainly arranged by Sanmiao himself. Because in the chamber of secrets volume, Aunt Rowling didn’t make the class timetable seriously at all, the whole original book of chamber of secrets courses, all kinds of repetitions, time conflicts Not to mention, sometimes there will be mysterious situations where there are still classes on weekends, which is of no reference value at all.
For example, Valentine's Day in the original book in 93, that day was obviously on Sunday.
In addition, Hogwarts started on September 9st, but September 1st in 92 was a Tuesday, so the 9nd day of the official class was Wednesday, and the first class in the morning was Transfiguration class.
As for why most of the classes of the Eagle Academy are held together with the Lion Academy, of course it is because... and the Snake Academy are afraid of conflicts again, so they can only match the Lion with the Eagle, and then give the honest Badger Academy to the Snake, the above~)
Chapter 110 The Mermaids of the Black Lake Need to Communicate
Regarding the reason for skipping class, Harry didn't joke with Hermione, he really needed to go to the Black Lake.
There was a horse-shaped water monster in the box that Scamander gave him. If the guy stayed in a small environment for a long time, his temper would easily become irritable and even lose control. Therefore, Harry had to help him find it immediately. Suitable stocking place.
And Harry also knew that this was a practice assignment left by Scamander for himself.
In the last half month of the summer vacation, Harry was forced to surprise K to finish "Mermaid: A Comprehensive Guide to Language and Customs" written by Dylan Marwood, a famous linguist in the magical world, while Hogwarts Black Lake The actual controllers are a group of Scottish Selkie mermaids, and Scamander obviously planned this long ago.
If Harry wanted to successfully raise the horse-shaped water monster in the Black Lake, he must first obtain the consent of the group of mermaids.
It was said that he was going to find the mermaid, but Harry was going to Hagrid's hut at the moment.
He needed the gamekeeper to introduce him to his teacher in Care of Magical Creatures, Professor Sylvanus Kettleburn.
In this test, Harry didn't want to ask Dumbledore to help him cheat directly, so the only one who could have anything to do with the mermaid in school was this old professor who was so devoted to his work that he almost had prosthetic limbs all over his body.
"Harry, why are you here?"
When he came to the hut with the suitcase, Hagrid was drinking tea and chatting with someone, and the guest in the hut happened to be Harry who wanted to find the old professor today.
"I have something to do. I wanted to ask you to introduce Professor Kettleburn to me. I didn't expect to meet you here. It's really great~"
Harry greeted Hagrid familiarly, and at the same time stepped forward to say hello to the old professor politely.
Professor Kettleburn is a gray-haired old man, he is much older than Hagrid, and he is a teacher with a long history.
According to Harry's understanding, he is a passionate but extremely reckless teacher. He has a very tense relationship with the former principal, Armando Dippet, and even received 62 detentions for probation.
Now he has only one arm and half a leg left, and this is the price he paid for his recklessness.
However, this also reflects from the side how fanatical the old professor has for the courses he is in charge of.
"Hey, if you want to find me, just go to the office directly, there's no need to be so polite~" The old professor waved his only remaining arm, and in addition to enthusiasm, there was a hint of envy in his eyes.
"We happened to be talking about you just now," Hagrid said with a grin. "Professor Kettleburn heard that you can get the personal guidance of Mr. Scamander, and he is really envious~"
"Isn't that right? I've been worried. If you take the protection of magical animals next year, I don't even know what to teach you." "After all, Mr. Scamander has claimed several times in public that you are like a parent-child lover to him~"
"Professor, you are too polite..." Harry twitched the corners of his mouth in embarrassment.
To be honest, although he was very grateful for Scamander's public support for him, he also knew that this old man definitely didn't take advantage of it enough.
"By the way, what's the matter with you coming to see the professor, and you didn't even attend the first class?" After the three chatted for a few words, Hagrid got to the point.
"It's related to magical animals. Mr. Scamander commissioned me to release a horse-shaped water monster in the Black Lake." Harry patted the suitcase beside him, "So, I would like to ask Professor Kettleburn to help Let me recommend the mermaid from Black Lake."
"The horse-shaped water monster...you need to communicate well with the mermaid."
The old professor knew the seriousness of the matter. The horse-shaped water monster was classified as a fourth-level magical animal by the Ministry of Magic like the mermaid, and its habits were quite ferocious. It was definitely a huge threat to any creature in any water body!
But... Scamander actually allowed Harry to deal with this matter alone. It seemed that the famous magizoologist really valued this child very much.
"Let's go, I'll take you to the Black Lake, I have a way to help you call Merkus, the leader of the mermaid community." The old professor put on his prosthesis and got up with Hagrid's help, "But I don't I am not familiar with the language of the mermaid, so I may not be able to help you communicate with Mercus."
"It's great to be able to introduce you, thank you very much for your help~" Harry hurriedly thanked.
The three of them came all the way to the Black Lake outside the school, and saw Professor Kettleburn took out a long whistle from his arms. He lay down on the ground, submerged the front end of the whistle in the water, and then blew it vigorously.
In an instant, the screaming whistle instantly spread throughout the entire black lake, and the humming caused layer upon layer of ripples, spreading from the shore to the center of the lake.
Not long after, a few strange human figures slowly emerged from the water, creating a rippling vortex...
Harry has to say that the mermaid in the Black Lake of Hogwarts and the portrait in the prefect's bathroom are no longer the same as the original. They are two completely different creatures.
The mermaid in the portrait has long hair and shawls, a graceful figure, and that graceful appearance, whoever looks at it will subconsciously want to commit a crime.
But the mermaid that appeared in front of Harry now had iron-gray skin and unkempt dark green long hair. They looked at the three people on the bank with yellow fish eyes, and when they grinned, Harry could even see Broken teeth in their mouths.
Could this be the mermaid of the fighting nation?
Looking at the shark tooth pendant on the other party's neck and the sharp spear in his hand, Harry couldn't help but ask the sky speechlessly.
"Kettleburn, what do you want from us?"
The mermaid who spoke first looked rougher and stronger than its kind. His voice was completely different from that of a human, and the piercing tone could not help but make the hair stand on end.
But there is one thing to say, this voice is actually not unpleasant, it's just that the tone is too high and too sharp.
Professor Kettleburn could barely understand what the mermaid said, but Hagrid was completely confused.
"I brought this kid to you specially, Mercus, he has something important to discuss with you mermaids."
Professor Kettleburn introduced Harry to the leader of the mermaids, and at the same time made an apologetic expression to Harry, indicating that his help could only go so far.
"A human child...you are Harry Potter?" The mermaid leader named Mercus looked Harry carefully, and then suddenly found the scar on the latter's forehead.
"After being adopted by a new family, I have changed my name to Harry Granger." Harry corrected the other party's misunderstanding seriously, and politely extended his hand to say hello, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Mercus."
"You can actually speak the language of our mermaids? Although it's not very standard, but considering your age, it's quite good." Mercus nodded in approval, but didn't touch Harry's hand, "But we Mermaids don't have the habit of shaking hands, and they don't add suffixes like Mr. to their names. Besides, if you really want to call me that way, you should call me Ms. Mercus~"