Chapter 742： studious cat

On the first day of school, to be precise, the night before the start of school, a big notice was nailed on the notice boards in all the college common rooms:

Apparition class

If you are seventeen years of age or older by August 31st, you can take a twelve-week Apparition course taught by a Ministry of Magic Apparition instructor.

Interested participants please sign below.

Tuition: Twelve Galleons.

On the Gryffindor notice, the first two names were Fish McGonagall and Hermione Granger—the two of them came back from a night swim when they happened to meet the house elf pinned to the notice. , and then the impatient cat went up to sign the name.

Not only Fish was looking forward to it, but all the eligible sixth graders were equally excited.

Throughout the day, people could be heard talking about this course, and everyone yearned to be able to disappear and appear at will.

"How exciting, if you can..." Seamus snapped his fingers to signify disappearing, "My cousin Figo deliberately used this trick to annoy me, and when I learn it...he won't even think about being alive for a moment..."

He was so absorbed in his longing that he swung his wand too hard, turning a spring that was about to be transformed in the spells classwork that day into a water dragon, which shot up to the ceiling and bounced back, hitting Professor Flitwick in the face. superior.

"Actually, we have an advantage." After Professor Flitwick swung his wand to dry himself, and chastised Seamus for copying the sentence "I'm a wizard, not a stick-wielding baboon," Ron was a little surprised. A shy Seamus said: "We were shown by house-elves with entourage, which was very helpful in learning the spell. George and Fred passed the test only once."

His words made everyone more excited. Everyone was imagining what they would look like after learning to Apparate, while Harry and Ron's fantasy was a little more specific, because they had seen really powerful wizards, how to use Apparition to fight of.

However, there is still a long way to go before the first Apparition class, because the school needs to count the list and confirm that no one has registered secretly under the condition of age before notifying the Ministry of Magic, and then the Ministry of Magic will send someone over to the class...

So Fish felt cheated.

"Didn't you and Albus say that you can learn Apparition as soon as the holidays are over?!"

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Cat Mao questioned Hermione unhappily.

"It's less than a month anyway, just bear with it." Hermione quickly comforted her and kissed the cat on the cheek.

"OK then…"

Most of the time, Fish was very coaxing. After the cat pursed its mouth and hummed for a while, the anger disappeared completely.

…

"Severus, are you meow?"

ΦωΦ?)

That night, Fish pushed open the door of the room that used to be the Potions office, now the Defense Against the Dark Arts office.

"Fix?" Snape, who was sorting out the herbs, looked at the head that came out of the door, and said softly, "The elixirs are not ready yet, we will have to wait another fifty-two days."

"Fishu isn't the one who came to urge the blessing medicine!"

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The cat walked into Snape's office, closed the door, and took out a small box from his pocket and handed it over. "This is what Fish specially asked for Newt... Happy birthday, Severus!"

This gift, which Fish had asked Newt Scamander for on Christmas Day, contained ptarmigan feathers and eggshells, and some naturally shed claws.

These potion materials are actually not particularly valuable, but they are not easy to obtain, because thunderbirds are unique magical animals in North America, and the number of them is not large. Most of the materials are digested locally, and only a small part is will be sold abroad.

Snape was stunned for a moment, and a sly smile appeared on his face. In the past few years, Fish and Draco have actually given him a birthday present. This is the rare day he has been looking forward to for so many years.

It's just that there are too many recent events, and Draco wants to keep a distance from him. He didn't give him a birthday present this year, so Snape forgot that today was his birthday.

"Thank you." He took the box that Fish handed over, and he didn't care what was in it at all, so he put it aside.

"And these meows," the cat continued to take out something from his pocket, and this time he took out some food, "This is what Fish brought from Horace, and it tastes so good, meow!"

Knowing that Snape didn't like going to the kitchen to celebrate, Fish would bring food directly to him a few times later.

While digging out the food, the cat continued to mutter: "Hermione still refuses to come over this year, Severus, your temper should change."

Snape twitched the corners of his mouth and didn't say anything, just silently eating the food Fish had brought out.

However, Fish just said a few words casually. He used the reason for Snape to celebrate his birthday, and after a delicious supper, he left with satisfaction...

Although the relationship between Cat and Snape is very good, he is usually too boring, and the bottles on the shelf are not allowed to touch the cat, so he is not fun here at all, of course not Fish. stay too long.

And Snape didn't mind it either. Fish was overjoyed that he would come to celebrate his birthday. How could he even think about such a trivial matter.

After celebrating Snape's birthday, Fish returned to a comfortable and ordinary campus life.

During this period, Dumbledore did not inform them to watch the story, and he was not at school most of the time, and seemed to be busy with some very important things. Even Fish contacted him to come back for treatment, and Dumbledore had it. He replied several times that he was not free, which led to the fact that even though Fishu's healing techniques had improved, he still couldn't prevent his vitality from gradually declining.

Fortunately, according to Mao Mao's perception, even if Dumbledore does not accept his own treatment for the next period of time, at least he can last until the end of the semester, and there will be no problem when Snape's Flux is ready. So Fish was not particularly worried, although he was a little dissatisfied with Dumbledore.

In this way, the time soon came to February. As the temperature warmed up, the snow around the school melted, and it was replaced by a bleak dampness. Gray-purple clouds pressed low over the castle, and the continuous cold rain made the lawn slippery and muddy.

As a result, the sixth graders' first apparition class was moved from the playground to the auditorium, and the class was scheduled for Saturday morning so as not to delay regular classes.

When Fish and Hermione came to the Great Hall, they found the tables were gone. The rain beat against the high windows, and the enchanted ceiling whirled dimly overhead.

They assembled in front of McGonagall, Snape, Flitwick, and Professor Sprout and a small wizard. That strange wizard should be the Apparition class instructor from the Ministry of Magic.

He was insanely pale, with transparent eyelashes and thin hair, and there was an air of unreality, as if a gust of wind would blow him away. UU Reading

"His size has an advantage in Apparition," Hermione whispered in Fish's ear. "The difficulty of Apparition will gradually increase with the size of the person being teleported."

"That's right, Charlie didn't pass the Apparition test because he was too strong." Ron also agreed.

At the same time, he also showed a trace of sadness, because he was the tallest among the Weissley children, and even one of the tallest sixth graders in the entire school.

Neville also became nervous when he heard the words... His body has always been a bit fat, and coupled with his poor performance in the past, even if he has cultivated some self-confidence in the past two years, he is still a little guilty at this time.

Even Hermione was frantically curling the ends of her hair. During this time, she would go to the library to look up Apparition-related content whenever she was free.

Since Apparition is a spell that requires a certificate from the Ministry of Magic to be used legally, even in the Hogwarts library, there is no specific practice method, only some content that constantly emphasizes its danger and difficulty. So Hermione didn't find anything helpful for learning Apparition, but was rather disturbed by the horrific encounters that followed.

In fact, after the excitement passed, everyone was more or less nervous. After all, it is not a secret that the failure of the Apparition will lead to splitting. Almost every year, wizards appear on the Daily Prophet. .

Of course, Fish couldn't be nervous, he had never failed to learn magic.

The cat was staring at the little wizard at this moment, and couldn't wait to learn the apparition spell.

?(??ω??)?

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