RNP Chapter 927 Whose house do you want to burn down?
Chapter 927 Whose house do you want to burn down?
"Hmm? You want my help?"
On the last day of the New Year holiday, Martin and the other two returned to Hogwarts, and Harry and Ron were waiting for them in front of the fireplace in the Gryffindor common room, as if they were looking forward to it.
As one of the few people who stayed on campus during the holidays, it was obvious that Harry and Ron had a very happy time. They used the fireplace as a campfire, grilled various ingredients found in the kitchen on skewers, and ate snacks until the floor in front of the fireplace was covered with crumbs.
"It's a very important matter!" "We need your expertise!"
Seeing the two people pleading in front of him, Martin became interested and patted his chest. Behind Martin, Tuji was doing the same thing.
"Tell me, whose house do you want to burn down? Do you want Peeves to help?"
Huiyuan Ai slowly shook her head and pulled Ma Wu to sit aside. It was still so cold outside, and it was really nice to sit by the fireplace and warm up. Behind them was the listless luggage carrier Doraemon.
"No, no! It's not arson!" Ron shook his head. The two of them then realized that Martin had unique insights into their expertise.
They diligently pulled Martin to the best position closest to the fireplace and warmest.
"We want to borrow your transformation technique."
"Oh!" Martin's interest faded by half: "Harry finally couldn't stand Snape's cold violence and wanted to become a girl and have a good relationship with Snape?"
"I didn't!" Harry also shook his head.
Martin lost interest completely and leaned back with his feet on another chair. "So what are you guys doing?"
"No hurry, warm yourself up first, then we'll go to the Forbidden Forest... We don't have to go in, we'll just be outside the Forbidden Forest."
……
Outside the Hogwarts castle is the Black Lake that never freezes even in the cold winter and the Forbidden Forest that covers the sky. At the edge of the Forbidden Forest, there is a wooden hut that creaks in the cold wind.
Apart from this little giant, other humans, even the greatest wizards, would only freeze to death if they lived here, right?
Living in the cabin is Harry's huge friend Hagrid, the gamekeeper and key keeper of Hogwarts.
"Does a key manager mean the same as a gate security guard?" Martin actually wanted to ask this question a long time ago.
"That's right. If I lock the door, none of you can get out of the school." Hagrid called them into the house. "Knowing you were coming, Harry, I baked some rock cakes..."
However, when Hagrid turned around and looked into the room, his expression suddenly froze, and then he turned back and smiled awkwardly: "How about you wait a moment? The room is a bit messy, I have to clean it up..."
As he was speaking, there was a sound of messy items falling to the floor in the room, and Hagrid's expression became even more embarrassed.
"Hagrid, stop pretending." Harry said suddenly, "We brought him here because of the dragon."
"His name is Norbert!" Hagrid corrected subconsciously at first, and then realized that Harry had told others that he had a dragon. At least the three children in front of him already knew about it.
Now that everyone knew about it, Hagrid had no choice but to bring the dragon out.
The scientific name of this dragon is the Norwegian Ridgeback, a type of fire dragon. Its dark skin is covered with tiny scales, which not only does not appear rough but has a silky feel. It has no horns and a slender body, and is clearly a large lizard with bat wings.
However, its size is almost catching up with the Komodo dragon, but in fact it is just a baby dragon that is less than a month old, but it has a bad temper. When Hagrid led it out, it wanted to bite Hagrid.
In fact, there was a fresh and obvious tooth mark on Hagrid's leather boots, which showed that the dragon had been in a bad temper for a long time. From an outsider's perspective, Hagrid might not be able to tame this dragon.
"Oh, so it's about the dragons," Martin sighed. "I thought you saw a certain Slytherin Head of House acting suspiciously, and decided to investigate whether he was trying to steal something from the school."
"Harry!" Hagrid said forcefully, "I've told you many times that you must be mistaken! Snape wouldn't steal anything!"
"That's not what I said!" Harry felt even more aggrieved.
They looked at Martin, who had no idea of answering the question: "So how big is it?"
"Three weeks and a few days, less than a month." Ron, who saw the dragon hatch with his own eyes, answered quickly.
"Oh." Martin nodded: "Then it is a milk dragon."
"Uh...it doesn't drink milk. After he hatches, he only needs chicken blood and rum."
Ma Wu's eyes lit up and he walked over: "Toothless!"
This kid made a cameo appearance in How to Train Your Dragon.
"Roar!" The ridgeback dragon opened its mouth and roared at Ma Wu angrily, allowing her to clearly see that it had teeth.
The frightened Ma Wu immediately brought Xiao Ai to his side.
Martin withdrew his gaze from that side: "It seems that it can't be raised like this, it has to be stewed."
"How can that be?!" Hagrid was shocked. "It's a dragon! A Norwegian Ridgeback!"
"A fire dragon... that should not be cooked through." Martin was still provoking Hagrid: "Then let's make chilled sashimi. A dragon that is not yet a full moon should be very tender."
Harry and Ron hurriedly separated them. Ron went to accompany Hagrid to chew his tooth-breaking rock cake, and Harry explained the whole thing.
Hagrid, who loves magical animals, likes dragons very much, especially fire dragons. He dreams of raising a dragon.
Then, shortly after school started, Hagrid's opportunity came. By chance, he got a dragon egg and hatched it in his hut.
Dragon eggs are precious, but this is not a question of whether they are precious or not - raising dragons is illegal. Ever since European wizards signed the International Statute of Secrecy, it is illegal for wizards to raise dragons personally.
Harry and Ron knew about this during their first weekend here, but because it was illegal, they kept it a secret and didn't tell anyone else.
But as the dragon grew bigger and got worse, Hagrid's room could no longer hide it. Harry and Ron felt that this was not going to work. They had to either kill the dragon or send it away. Otherwise, if the matter was exposed, Hagrid would be in trouble. But Hagrid, who loved dragons so much, was already obsessed with it. He knew it was wrong and it made sense, but he just didn't agree to send the dragon away, even though things had reached a critical juncture. On the last day before the holiday, Malfoy saw the dragon here.
As his friends, Harry and Ron had to be tough and find a way to get rid of the dragon before Malfoy complained.
After Harry finished his brief introduction, Ron's attempt to persuade Hagrid was not very successful, and Hagrid got mad again: "It's a dragon! How can you even think of dealing with it!"
At this time, Huihara Ai and Ma Wu were hiding far away and watching the dragon. Only Tuji had the courage to walk forward, put his front paws behind his back, and looked at the thing carefully.
"Hiss--roar." The ridgeback dragon opened its throat and roared, and streams of smelly hot air floated out. The ridgeback dragon, which was not yet a full moon, could not spit out flames.
The ridgeback opened its wings and opened its big mouth to bite the rabbit's head. For half a month after hatching, it had been eating chicken blood rum and dried mice prepared by Hagrid. Now it obviously wanted to try hunting to get blood food.
"Jiji!" Tuji glared and kicked the ridgeback dragon on the chin in an instant. His little foot kicked directly over his head, not only forcing the bloody mouth shut, but also kicking the ridgeback dragon backwards, with its belly facing up in the air.
"Nobert!" Hagrid was instantly heartbroken.
"Hmm..." Martin looked at it, then turned back to look at Doraemon: "Xiaoji, Momotaro balls should still be usable, right?"
All the 'electronic products' on Doraemon were disturbed by the magic magnetic field, and only the scientific achievements of pure materials science and pharmacy could be used. There were very few props that met the requirements, and Martin thought that Momotaro dumplings should be among them. Feeding this dragon one pill would make it gentle, kind, and able to do housework.
"No!" Even though he had been useless for a long time, Doraji still stuck to his principles and refused to give in.
"Can you use your Transfiguration to turn it into something smaller?" Harry asked Martin. "We have already contacted Ron's brother. His brother in Romania is very familiar with how to deal with dragons. We just need to find a way to send it to him without anyone noticing."
"Use Transfiguration? Impossible." Although Hagrid dropped out of school in the third grade because of Voldemort's frame-up and didn't learn much, he still had a broad knowledge: "Do you think it's a little mouse? A dragon is not something that students can transform into, even if it hasn't grown up yet."
"Martin is very strong. His Transfiguration is even better than Professor McGonagall's... He won't be kicked out even if he makes trouble in the professor's class."
Professor McGonagall said in her first class: "Transfiguration is the most complex and dangerous spell you will learn at Hogwarts. Anyone who misbehaves in my class will be asked to leave and will never be allowed to come back. I have warned you."
But the fact that this warning was useless to Martin was by no means entirely due to Martin's identity as an exchange student.
"No one except Dumbledore could be better at Transfiguration than Minerva... Really? Then he must be very good indeed."
The kicked-away Ridgeback Dragon got up from the ground and shook its head.
Huiyuan Ai whispered to Ma Wu: "I think your brother is going to turn it into a corgi, that's his best transformation."
“No…” Ma Wu seemed to be staring at Martin in a daze: “The number on my brother’s body hasn’t moved yet…ah!”
"Numbers?" Before Huiyuan Ai could understand what Ma Wu was talking about, Martin snapped his fingers on the other side, and then as Ma Wu exclaimed, the ridgeback dragon disappeared.
There was only a little kitten, not even a month old, left there.
But the little kitten Norbert obviously did not forget his noble identity as a ridgeback dragon. He immediately arched his back as a cat, activated the ridgeback dragon form, and breathed on a piece of dead branch in front of him.
"Where's Norbert?" "Where's my Norbert?" Hagrid was dumbfounded. He ran over with his big feet that were twice as big as Hakimi's to look for his baby dragon that had suddenly disappeared.
Soon he found the strange little kitten on the ground, and carefully picked up the kitten along with the dirt and snow on the ground: "Could it be... Could it be..."
"Cool." Ron praised. "This will make it much easier for us to send it away. It's smaller than Scabbers now."
After a month of getting used to his new identity as a yellow mouse, Scabbers poked his head out of Ron's pocket and saw a kitten.
Hehehe, it’s a rumor that mice are afraid of cats. Be brave and knock the cat over!
The yellow mouse clambered up Ron's shoulders and leapt into Hagrid's hands, ready to attack the kitten.
However, after only two rounds, Banban was firmly pinned down in its claws. The instinct engraved in his blood allowed Norbert to easily catch it and bite the back of Banban's neck.
"Maybe we won't have to send it away." Harry shrugged. "Hagrid can keep it forever."
The kitten Norbert had already started to bite Banban, but the yellow mouse, which was a Pokémon and had thick skin, was not so easily broken through. Norbert bit the back of its neck and kept pulling.
In pain, Banban screamed, and then released the electricity accumulated in his cheeks: "Pikachu——!"
The kitten was knocked away and then caught by Hagrid. When Hagrid readjusted his gesture, Scabbers was thrown to the ground without any concern.
Hagrid was still not satisfied with the little kitten in his hand: "No, how can this be? This kitten hasn't even been weaned yet. It's a dragon. It should be drinking dragon's blood rum and a handful of dried mice at this time."
Martin was a little concerned: "Does it eat rat meat?"
"Yes, they are all high-quality rats caught by me from the area around here."
"Then he is a cat!"
Hagrid held the cat in his hands and began to chatter about how special dragons are, how precious dragons are, how sacred dragons are, and the differences between dragons and cats... and finally asked Martin to change it back quickly.
"Since you like dragons so much..." Martin snapped his fingers and transformed Norbert from a Hakimi who was not even a month old into a 'dragon'.
It's just that this dragon doesn't look very smart.
Although this dragon has no wings, its appearance shows that it is a dragon. But Hagrid also denied this mentally retarded baby dragon. Hagrid, who has a special liking for dragons, was not even interested in finding out what kind of dragon it was.
In the end, Martin couldn't convince Hagrid, so he kept the appearance of the Ridgeback and simply reduced its body in proportion, so that Harry and Ron could put it in a small box and then secretly transport it out.
There is another key prop for transporting this dragon, and that is the invisibility cloak.
As a New Year's gift, Harry suddenly received an invisibility cloak on New Year's Day. He didn't even know who sent the package, but with the invisibility cloak, their action of "smuggling" the dragon tonight would be much easier. (End of this chapter)