By the time I left the castle after lunch, yesterday's rain had stopped.

The sky was clear, the grass beneath his feet was soft and wet, and Jon was on his way to his first lesson in protecting magical creatures with a few Hufflepuff students.

"I've heard that Hagrid is a terrible professor!" said Eloise Meadgan, with some concern, "and one of the students got injured in his class last year!"

"So we've got to wear this......" Steven Lucas glanced at the dragonskin coat with some disgust, but he still wore it tightly.

"Which house did we take the Conservation of Magical Creatures class with?" Jon asked casually. ‘’

"It should be Slytherin!" Steven replied, "The morning lesson on protecting magical creatures was taught by Gryffindor and Ravenclaw!"

"Yes......"

They were coming down the slope, and Hagrid's hut on the edge of the Forbidden Forest was already within easy reach.

......

Rubeus-Hagrid waits for his students by the door of the hut.

He was dressed in a moleskin coat with his hands in his pockets, and a huge, vicious-looking, massive black hound hovered at his feet.

Many of the students were taken aback by it and involuntarily moved away from the hound.

The Slytherin students arrived, and Jon giggled when he saw Astoria with her friend Selwyn...... When she saw Jon, she blinked in surprise.

Jon smiled and nodded at her.

"Come on, hurry up!" Seeing that the students were almost there, Hagrid exclaimed, "I have something to treat you to today, and we are about to have a wonderful class...... Everybody come with me!"

Whether it's Hufflepuff or Slytherin students, many people look at each other a bit...... Obviously, they don't seem to believe in the "good stuff" in Hagrid's mouth because of their criminal record.

The way forward is the Forbidden Forest—

The crowd slowly followed Hagrid, Jon deliberately falling behind the back of the crowd, and so did Astoria.

"I didn't expect you to take the Conservation of Magical Creatures class!" Astoria smiled happily.

"yes......" Jon nodded, "I don't know what 'good things' Professor Hagrid is going to teach us in this lesson?"

"My sister said that last year it was a herd of eagle-headed horses with winged beasts...... They're pretty good, actually!" Astoria said after a moment's thought.

"It's nice to fly on them...... Jon quickly added, "I mean, it's ......."

"Giggle......" Astoria chuckled, pursed her lips.

......

A few minutes later, they followed Hagrid to the edge of a dense wood.

"Everybody come up to this fence!" Hagrid shouted, "Now, wait a minute...... The first thing you have to do is open the book and gently rub the spine of it!"

Hagrid strode away, and Jon carefully took out the book of the Monsters' Book of Monsters, which was tied up in a cloth bag, and gently stroked the spine of the book, and the book trembled, then opened it, lying quietly in his hand.

Astoria, like him, controlled the textbook with ease.

Not everyone can be like them, though.

"Ah......h

She dropped the book in her hand and took a few steps back in fright, covering her hands in fear.

Apparently, she had just almost been bitten by a book.

"Be gentle!" Hagrid had already returned with a heavy bamboo basket, and he shouted at the Slytherin girl, "Whether it's books or magical beasts!"

The Slytherin girl turned her head away in disgust.

Hagrid pretended not to see her reaction, and placed the basket heavily on the ground.

"Now, you can come and see what's in here!" he said with a big grin, "Has anyone told me what's in here?"

Several students surrounded him, and then with a "hiss", they were so frightened that they took a few steps back.

Jon took the opportunity to take a few steps forward, and saw that the bamboo basket was densely packed with ovoid black bugs.

"These are turtle worms, Professor Hagrid!" Jon began.

"That's right!" Hagrid happily patted Jon on the shoulder, nearly knocking him down.

"Wait, what's your name?" he pulled out the student roster, then touched his head a little awkwardly.

"Hart, Jon-Hart!" Jon replied.

Hagrid carefully took out the student roster, looked through it twice, and finally found Jon's name: "Very well, Mr. Hart...... Hufflepuff plus five points!"

"Does anyone know what the main purpose of the turtle worm is?" Hagrid asked again.

"They're a kind of fodder!" Astoria raised her hand in the air, "Feed the feed for the maintenance tree pot!"

"You're nice too, girl...... Wait, you're ......"

"Astoria Greengrass!" Astoria turned her head and winked mischievously at Jon.

"Very well, Miss Greengrass...... Slytherin also added five points!"

"Now, then, look into the woods ahead......" Hagrid shouted with open arms.

Following Hagrid's direction, they noticed that on the trees hung magical creatures the size of emerald green palms, which looked like they were made of bark and twigs.

"Oh!" the girls couldn't help but scream.

......

Jon didn't expect that the content of this lesson would be a cauldron of trees.

There is no doubt that this small magical creature is much more acceptable than the Hippogriff, the Fried Snail or the Thestrals.

Even many Slytherin students seem to be interested.

Hagrid divided them into small groups and fed them the Shuluo pot with turtle worms...... to win their favor.

Together with Astoria, Jon finds a willow tree on the shores of Lake Hogsmeade...... Their dragonfur coats were tossed aside, and both of them sat down on the edge of the tree at the same time.

"The Tree Protector is very timid!" Astoria said gently, "so don't scare them when feeding!"

As she spoke, she took a few turtle worms from Jon's hand and spread them out on the edge of the hollow of the tree, tapping lightly on the willow tree......

After more than ten seconds, a cute little creature crawled out of the tree hole, it looked at Astoria timidly, then grabbed a bug in her hand and quickly retracted into the hole......

After several round-trips, it finally emerged from the cave and stood on the palm of Astoria's hand.

"It worked!" Astoria excitedly said, "You can touch it too, Jon!"

Jon reached over with a hand and pressed it on Astoria's hand, his thumb gently caressing the little treeman's branch......

"It likes you very much!" Astoria nodded happily.

"Of course, do you remember the first time we met on the train......" Jon smiled.

"yes, we talked a lot about magical beasts at the time...... Among them is the Tree Protector!" Astoria whispered, closing her eyes.

After a few moments, she reopened her eyes and lowered her head, her cheeks flushed slightly:

"Jon, I'm really glad I met you......"

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