Chapter Seventy-Three: Newt Scamander (Part 1)
What does it feel like to fly at high altitudes?
As a man who had never even driven the J-20 in his previous life, William finally felt the thrill of flying.
He stood on the body of the Thunderbird, stepped on the sea, and the thunder crossed the sea, cleaving the waves, and the sea water soared several meters, and slapped the shore fiercely.
As the ptarmigan flew higher and higher, a waterspout was formed under it, and for a while, the monstrous water column swayed upward, and the momentum was like a rainbow.
William opened his arms and looked up, the full moon hung high, and the sea of clouds was surging, as far as the eye could see......
This is probably the most beautiful scene, right?
Handsome is really handsome, but within five seconds of high spirits, William felt cold and piercing, his legs trembled, and he was frozen like a stupid roe deer.
William learned Bobo tea, came to a cat hand, trembling in the heavy feathers of the ptarmigan's neck, and then felt a lot warmer in his body.
Seeing that Hermione's nose was red from the cold, William squeezed her, and with a few more taps of his wand, he turned the quill in his pocket into several thick blankets.
He gave one to each of them, and everyone wrapped themselves in blankets and finally it was not cold.
If it weren't for the fear of being thrown down by the Thunderbird and falling to his death, William really wanted to build a fire here to roast his hands, and by the way, he had a small barbecue in the sky.
Isn't it beautiful...... Ollie gives?
"Mr. Scamander, why are you here?" William asked.
The old man's name is Newt Scamander, and he is a famous magizoologist.
William is no stranger, as he is the author of the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", which is the textbook for Hogwarts.
Newt was a student at Hufflepuff House, but was expelled from the school.
As we all know, students who do not graduate normally are big guys, who graduates normally from serious people?
So Newt is definitely not an ordinary wizard, he once captured the original Dark Lord Grindelwald, although he was later escaped.
From William's point of view, Newt's magnificent experience, a proper protagonist template, can be made into a movie, at least five can be made!
However, Newt is now in his nineties, and he is a gray-haired old man who looks about the same as Dumbledore.
Hearing William's inquiry, Newt's eyes wandered, he looked at the Thunderbird, and said gently:
"Nicol said that there was something wrong with your toad, and he was too busy experimenting to get out, so he asked me to ride Frank to pick you up."
Hermione curled up in a thick blanket, her head resting on William's shoulder, asked curiously, "Who is Frank?" ”
Newt gently touched the brown feather under his body, his eyes looked through the thick bangs, glanced at Hermione and said:
"It's this Thunderbird, and I'll name it Frank."
The ptarmigan is a large bird animal that lives in North America, most commonly found in Arizona in the southwestern United States, and is closely related to the phoenix.
The Thunderbird can create storms while flying and is also highly sensitive to danger, making it an extremely dangerous creature.
Newt was struck by the lightning that the Thunderbird had attracted earlier.
However, the Thunderbird sucked most of the electricity away, and Newt didn't suffer much damage, and he fell down only because of the old cold leg attack.
"Frank was rescued from smugglers when I was in Egypt for more than 60 years, and I was sent back to the United States," Newt said. ”
Don't look at Newt's ease, but this return process is definitely not easy.
As far as William knows, in those days, the Magical Congress of the United States enacted a death curse policy for all magical animals.
Newt sends a Thunderbird back to the United States, where he has no choice but to smuggle it out.
"And how did Frank end up here?" Hermione wondered.
"Frank flew over on his own last year, and he's grown enough to fly the Atlantic on his own." Newt explained.
"This time, Nicol's birthday, I brought it with me, and when the birthday was over, I took it by the way to send a child to Romania.
The child, like Frank, was an animal smuggled by wizards. ”
William raised his eyebrows, and Newt's words revealed a lot of information.
Transporting magical creatures across borders is a troublesome affair, and Newt doesn't seem to be ready to go through official channels, but rides straight over on a Thunderbird.
After all, the Thunderbird can even cross the Atlantic Ocean, and it is not too difficult to fly from a small English Channel to Romania.
Domineering!
"By the way, what's wrong with your toad?" Newt wondered.
"Nicol's tools, there has never been a problem, I seem to see traces of a magical attack on them?"
William nodded, and quickly recounted the incident they had encountered in the Black Lake.
Newt combed the Thunderbird's feathers and said solemnly, "Kid, I think you and your friend made a mistake. ”
"Error?" William was stunned.
"You shouldn't have caught merfolk, even if you didn't intend to harm them, just make wands for merfolk hair."
Newt said seriously: "Mermaids are not animals......"
"And what are they?" Hermione asked, confused.
"People, people like us." Newt wrapped himself in a blanket, "I suppose you two haven't taken a Magical Beasts class yet, have you?" ”
William nodded, "That's an elective that only started in the third year, I'm in the second year now, and Hermione is in the first year." ”
William knew a lot of magical creatures, but he only watched them out of interest and did not learn them systematically.
"No wonder." Newt suddenly seemed to be an old professor.
"You may wonder why mermaids are humans and not animals.
The definition of a human being has been debated in the wizarding world for centuries. ”
"Originally, Burdock Malden, the fourteenth-century president of the Wizarding Council, decreed that any member of the wizarding world who walked on two legs was given the status of 'human'.
Later, he summoned all the 'people' to the meeting in a friendly manner.
But the conference hall was crowded with two-legged animals brought by the goblins, such as ball birds, divination birds, and elves. ”
"So just having two legs doesn't guarantee that a magical creature can or will be interested in the affairs of the wizarding government."
Newt continued: "Malden's successor, Lady Alfrida Cragg, believes that all creatures who can speak human language are human.
But this definition is also narrow. ”
It wasn't until 1811 that a definition was found that most members of the wizarding world found acceptable.
The new Minister of Justice, Grogen Stamp, issued an order:
A 'man' is any creature who has enough intelligence to understand and bear some responsibility for the process of making these laws. ”
"So trolls aren't humans, merfolk and centaurs are classified as humans."
Of course, because of the feud between centaurs and banshees and vampires, they refuse to share the identity of 'human' with these creatures, but that doesn't prevent us from defining them as 'human'. ”
William nodded, he had heard Cedric mention it.
His father was from the Department of Magical Beasts Management and Control, and the Centaur Liaison Office still exists, though not used by the Centaurs.
Newt looked at William and Hermione.
This was the first time he had made eye contact with the two of them, and the rest of the time, they had swept over or dodged nervously.
Newt said very seriously:
"Kid, it's not because the merfolk are attacking you that they're weird.
There are no strange creatures in the world, only narrow-minded people. ”
……
……
(The first is to ask for a recommendation vote.) I still owe a little more.
Thank you for the reward of "Taoist friends, please stay in Buyo"\\(//?//)\\)