Chapter 49: Can the Philosopher's Stone Resurrect the Dead?
"Die, you squeamish crybaby!" Hermione couldn't control her anger and threw her fist handsomely, hitting Dudley in the nose.
Dudley sat on a stool with one hand over his nose, tears of 'remorse' streaming down the corners of his eyes.
Harry and Ron looked at Dudley in disbelief, not expecting Dudley to cry like this. Hermione looked at Dudley for a moment, then at her fist.
Dudley wanted to die, and he didn't want to cry. In fact, Hermione didn't use much force, but the place where she was hit was her nose, and the tears couldn't be controlled at all.
Dudley looked at them speechlessly, and actually laughed out loud, what kind of bad friend is this.
There is a price to be paid for being a friend, no, Ms. Pince stared at them fiercely with a feather duster, warning that if they were to be so noisy the next time, they would be banned from the library.
The ban on access to the library was a good thing for Harry and Ron, who were eager to get into a fight so that Miss Pince could ban them immediately.
Some people are happy, others are not. When Hermione heard that she would be barred from the library, her eyes lost their brightness, and she looked up at the sky outside the window, losing her desire for life.
Dudley snickered mercilessly, a group of young and naΓ―ve people, he wouldn't tell them that Miss Pince was just scareping, and besides, even if they were really forbidden to enter, they could go to the Room of Requirement to find books to read.
As Miss Pince watched, they returned all the books, and Dudley dragged a stupid Hermione to Hagrid's cabin.
They were surprised to find that all the curtains in the room were drawn tightly.
"Hagrid doesn't really have a dragon. Harry whispered, and then he knocked on Hagrid's cabin.
Hagrid shouted in the room, "Who?"
After Harry answered, Hagrid cautiously opened the door for them to enter, then poked his head out and looked around before turning back and closing the door.
It was suffocatingly hot inside the hut, and it wasn't cold anymore, but there was still a fire burning in the fireplace.
The men looked at each other thoughtfully, and then they looked around and found no sign of the dragon, Harry and Hermione were worried that Hagrid really had a dragon, and it was illegal to do so. Ron thought the dragon was so cool that he wanted to see it for himself. In fact, as soon as he entered the room, Dudley's eyes looked at the fireplace, and in the middle of the fire, under the kettle, lay a large black egg, and he thought about how to fool Hagrid, the dragon egg should taste good, right?
When the group sat down, Hagrid brought them tea and a stoat sandwich, which they hurriedly declined. Hagrid's food never misses its name, and this sandwich is made with the meat of a stoat.
Dudley thinks that since Hagrid can eat even the meat of a weasel, Hagrid should not resist eating dragon eggs. He takes it for granted, whether it is Hagrid in the movies in his previous life or Hagrid he knows now, they all like dragons very much, so it is probably a very difficult thing for him to fool Hagrid into eating dragon eggs.
They had to look at Hagrid every time they took a sip of strong tea, but every time Hagrid looked at him, they would quickly bow their heads and take a sip of strong tea, and the hot air was full of silence, and no one spoke first, and after a while, Hagrid couldn't stand the way they looked.
"What do you have to ask me?"
"Yes," said Harry impatiently, already knowing the key information and not feeling the need to beat around the bush, "we want to know what other mechanism guards the Philosopher's Stone besides Luwi. β
Hagrid looked at them a few times and frowned.
"What the hell are you trying to do?" he said angrily, "I don't know the answer you want to know, and besides, you know so much. Why do you have to worry about the Philosopher's Stone all the time? Isn't it good to study honestly?"
"It's because Snape wants to steal the Philosopher's Stone!" Harry felt his heart clear as soon as he said it, "We're here to protect the Philosopher's Stone!"
"It can't be!" Hagrid replied firmly, he was terrible about the matter, he had clearly said that Hogwarts was the safest place, and with Dumbledore there, there was nothing to worry about.
Harry was also annoyed, was it because they were so young that no one believed them?, and he looked at Ron and Dudley.
Good brother needless to say, one look is enough, Ron nodded his head frantically and said, "What Harry said is the truth!"
Seeing that Dudley didn't react, Harry pushed a few times. Then he said in a trance, "Ahh He hadn't even heard what Harry had started to say, and all he could think about was how to trick Hagrid into eating the dragon eggs.
Hermione was actually very entangled, she was suspicious of Snape at first, but Snape loved Harry's mother, and there was no reason to attack Harry, but some time ago Harry saw Snape threatening Quirrell again.
Does the Philosopher's Stone still have a role that she doesn't know about, and since the Philosopher's Stone can make people immortal, does it have a resurrection effect? Hermione was frantically brain-filling, and gradually smiled.
Snape loved Harry's mother, so he saved Harry in the court, but this did not conflict with Snape's desire to resurrect Harry's mother, so he did everything possible to steal the Philosopher's Stone.
That's right, it must be.
Hermione then said to Hagrid in a sweet, flattering tone, "Hagrid, I guess you don't want to tell us. But you know what is happening here, and nothing escapes your eyes. β
Hagrid still had a straight face, but they could tell at a glance that Hagrid was happy, because Hagrid's beard was shaking.
"Actually, we know that you, Snape, and Quirrell designed the trap to protect the Philosopher's Stone. Hermione guided step by step, "We want to know who, besides you, Dumbledore trusts to help him." β
Hearing this last sentence, Hagrid puffed up his chest in honor.
Harry and Ron smiled contentedly at Hermione.
"Well, since you already know so much, it doesn't hurt me to tell you. Hagrid was happy like a child, "Dumbledore believed in me so much that he borrowed a few more teachers from me to cast his magic, I think about it......"
Hagrid wrenched his hands and counted, "Except for the Professors Quirrell and Snape you started talking about." Three other professors participated: Professor Sprout, Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall. By the way, Dumbledore himself had done magic. β
"If you already know that Snape is the guardian of the Philosopher's Stone, why should you suspect that he will steal it? Hagrid asked suddenly.
Hermione's eyes sparkled, and she excitedly spoke out what she had begun to conjecture.
After a few minutes, Dudley looked at Hermione dumbfounded, what kind of brain circuit is this to come up with such a strange answer? Not to mention other loopholes, let's just say that Snape saved Harry by chanting a counterspell on the court, so who is the person who put the curse on Harry? Was this person eaten by you Hermione? His chest hurt so much, he really wanted to complain about Hermione to relieve it, but he didn't dare.
"And so it was. Harry muttered.
"Harry, you agree with my conjectures!" Hermione said, dancing.
Harry smiled awkwardly, he didn't agree with Hermione's conjecture at all, but it suddenly occurred to him that since Snape would find Quirrell, he must have figured out the mechanism of the other professors, and all that was left was Quirrell's magic and how to get through Hagrid's Lowe at the moment.
"You're the only one who knows how to get through Lowe, right, Hagrid?" Harry asked eagerly, "Surely you're not going to tell anyone, even if it's a professor?"
"Don't worry, Dumbledore trusts me so much, I'm sure I won't say it," Hagrid patted his chest with pride, "No one knows how to get through Lowe except me and Dumbledore." β
"That's good, that's good. Harry was completely relieved, even if Snape knew about Quirrell's magic, because he couldn't get through Lowe. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Hagrid, can we open a window? β
"I'm sorry Harry, I can't open the window. Hagrid refused, and he stole a glance at the fireplace.
"What's that!"
"This ......," said Haimo, twisting his beard uneasily, "that's ......"
"Hagrid, you must be hungry, you're baking eggs, you don't know how hot this fire is, I'm very good at fire magic, let me help you." β
Dudley said as he pulled out his wand and pointed it at the fireplace.
"No!" Hagrid pounced, his hands on Dudley's hands and a twist that sent Dudley back to the fireplace, "You can't do that, it's going to die." β
Dudley sighed, he shouldn't say so much, how good it would be to use magic directly to make the dragon egg cooked, but he didn't seem to be able to do it, his flames were poisonous.
"Where did you get that? Ron took the opportunity to jump to the fire and take a closer look at the dragon egg, "This must have cost you a lot of money." β
"I was going to save up to buy ......," Hagrid still couldn't believe it, "I was drinking beer in the village last night, and a stranger wanted to play cards with me, and I won the dragon egg back, and to be honest, I felt like the man wanted to get rid of it." β
"What are you going to do when everyone else wants to get rid of it, and you take it, and when it hatches?" asked Hermione.
"I've read books. Hagrid pulled several thick books from under his pillow, "These are borrowed from the library, you see the book "From Hatching Eggs to Nirvana: A Guide to Raising a Dragon", it is very informative. β
Hagrid opened the book, pointed to the contents, and said, "Put the eggs in the fire, because their mother will exhale at them when they hatch the eggs." You see, it's also written here, when it hatches, feed it a barrel of chicken blood brandy every half hour. β