Chapter 202： Letters and research

Ron leaned over to look at the parchment and said unexpectedly, "Why is there my father's name?"

On the parchment, the names of James Potter and Sirius Black occupy the center, and various related characters are drawn from their names. For example, James introduced Harry, and various sources of information were drawn from Harry. The name of the person, such as'Mr. Weasley','Minister Fudge','Professor Lupin'.

Harry explained: "Before getting on the train, Mr. Weasley asked me to be wary of Sirius and made me swear not to look for him. He must know more."

"Should I write a letter to Dad?" Ron asked tremblingly, and to be honest, he was a little afraid.

"I think--"

"Potter! Come here." Professor McGonagall came in from the outside and waved at Harry.

The two went into the corner to speak quietly, and Harry's voice became more and more excited.

After a long while, he came back, put a sight glass on the table with a gloomy expression, picked up the quill pen and added a new name ‘Professor McGonagall’ on the parchment.

"She knew it too, but fooled me as a child."

Hermione looked at the pocket speculum and suddenly said, "This was made by Professor Haipu and commissioned by Dumbledore. It contains Sirius Black's hair."

She promised that Professor Haipu would not disclose it in advance, but since the sight glass had been delivered to Harry, there was no need to hide it.

Harry laughed angrily. "So, everyone is trying to keep me as a client in the dark?"

"Don't do that, Harry, they have their reasons. But we can also check the past by ourselves, can't we?" Hermione said.

Ron's eyes widened. "Do you know what you're talking about, Hermione?"

"This is very important, Ron. We may be able to analyze valuable information from it, such as the magic that Sirius Black is good at. In case of a narrow encounter, it is better than knowing nothing about him." Hermione assigned domineeringly. Task: "Ron, you write to your dad, and Harry will work hard from Professor Lupin."

"How about you?" Ron asked sensitively.

"I asked Professor Haipu if he knew something, but it is unlikely. When he enrolled, Harry's father had already graduated." Hermione broke her fingers and said, "Yes, there is Hagrid, you remember Is it? The night Malfoy was injured, we ran to comfort Hagrid, and he finally drove us out excitedly."

Ron said with approval, "This trick works, Hagrid has a big mouth, he will miss it."

Harry suddenly reminded the two of them: "Snape must know that too. He hates my father, and also hates Professor Lupin, maybe..."

"What a great idea. We ran over and asked him—dear Professor Snape, did you get spanked by a guy named James Potter while you were in school? We wanted to learn more about a friend of his ..."

Harry was speechless.

Neville walked in, holding a letter in his hand. Looking around, he came to the three of them.

"Grandma's letter, sent to Professor Haipu, I don't know whether to hand it to him or not." Neville's round face showed hesitation.

...

Felix saw the letter the next day. He opened the envelope in front of Neville and pulled out the letter paper.

Neville stared at him intently. "What did she say?"

"Ask me to come to Mrs. Paddy's Teahouse on the weekend to meet and talk in detail." Felix smiled.

Neville took a sip of water, "I, can I follow, this is about me, isn't it?" He reluctantly said the words that Harry and the three had made for him yesterday.

"Oh, no, you are not allowed to enter Hogsmeade yet."

...

"You just agreed? Didn't fight any more?" Harry said with staring eyes.

"I, I..." Neville said falteringly, "I think Professor Haipu made a lot of sense. I am indeed not allowed to go to Hogsmeade."

"You can ask him to take you, he is a professor!"

"I didn't expect..." Neville said, touching the back of his head.

Harry was sulking all by himself.

On the other side, Felix was looking at a glass bottle with interest.

Three days later, the eight-eyed giant spider inside was the size of a walnut.

"I know you can understand me, Mr. Eight-eyed Spider." Felix said.

"Wizard, what do you want to do?" the eight-eyed giant spider said gruffly, and its pair of big claws opened and closed continuously, making a "click, click" sound.

"A lot, but I need your cooperation."

"Impossible, wizard, you can't insult me," it said fiercely, while waving its big claw angrily.

If this sentence were to be spoken in terms of its original size, it would be very deterrent.

Felix smiled, "I want to remind you that you attacked me first. The reason why you are left is because you are still useful. If it is useless..."

The eight-eyed giant spider became nervous. It once again remembered the fear of being tortured (smaller) by this wizard, "So, you will let me go?"

"If you're satisfied, why not? Do you look delicious?"

"Well, I promise." It quickly changed its words.

"Next, I will use my magic to stimulate you a little bit to restore you to the original state. You have to describe the corresponding feelings, understand?"

"……understand."

From Felix’s perspective, the eight-eyed giant spider has a blue magic power entrenched in its body, which looks extremely orderly, like chains, blocking its body from recovering, but this magic power is surging. The slow speed dissipated.

After all, this magical power is the source of waterlessness, and the eight-eyed giant spider itself is a magical creature, containing magical power in its body, and it is also desperately getting rid of its imprisonment.

The later the process, the faster the speed. From the data obtained in the previous three days, the time is between 5 and 8 days.

‘If my magic can automatically absorb the free magic power, will it exist forever? Felix guessed, but this is totally unrealistic, at least he can't even touch a shadow now.

Felix tentatively tried, the blue magic power was very stable and seemed to dismiss his original master. He did not use the zoom spell to cancel the magic, but infiltrated his own magic power into the body of the eight-eyed giant spider to help it fight and kill the blue chains.

A wisp of blue mist appeared from the body of the eight-eyed giant spider, and soon, it became the size of a watermelon, but it did not dare to move, allowing Felix to poke him here or there.

Every few minutes, Felix asked how the eight-eyed giant spider felt.

"How does it feel?"

"Nothing."

After a while--

"What now?"

"It's like walking into the nest from the sun I feel a lot more comfortable." The eight-eyed giant spider likes a cold and humid environment.

"It was hard before?"

"The process of transformation is uncomfortable and I am very uncomfortable, but I don't feel it after a while. I thought I was just like this." said the eight-eyed giant spider.

Felix looked at it quite unexpectedly. Although he knew that eight-eyed giant spiders could speak human language, he didn't know that they could express their meaning so clearly.

"Do you usually use English to chat and have tea parties?" Felix asked curiously.

"I don't know what you are talking about, Aragok taught us." said the eight-eyed giant spider.

Felix understood a little bit. The wild eight-eyed giant spiders absolutely don't have this kind of talent. It would be nice to be able to say some short sentences.

But the Forbidden Forest is different. Their source is Aragog, and Aragog was raised by Hagrid.

This gave him some new ideas, maybe he could raise them in captivity?

When he made this suggestion to Hagrid euphemistically, Hagrid said frankly: "This is what Hogwarts does now! I go there every one or two months to see Aragog, it’s too old. There may not be much time. Extracting some eight-eyed giant spider venom by the way is a good thing. Part of the school's expenses comes from this. But every time Aragok does not allow too much extraction, he also has to consider hunting for future generations. ..."

"Or horsemen. They act as a barrier to the forbidden forest. They are alert to the approach of werewolves, giants, and dangerous creatures. They will notify me if they can’t be solved. They are also good at healing, which is different from wizards’ methods, and sometimes they can manage Use it. As for horse divination, I don’t know much about it..."

"The same goes for plants. Professor Sprout will sow some seeds into the forbidden forest every year."