One day in 1940, at the age of eleven, Rubeus Hager met a strange-looking guy.

It was raining heavily, and under the lightning flashing, a thin figure stood in the rain, with gray-white hair, stud earrings, wearing a black retro leather jacket and black high-top leather boots.

However, the most striking thing is his pale golden pupils, which shone in the dark night, like a flame that will not be extinguished. He stared at the other for three seconds, and those eyes immediately stung him.

Then, the boy bent down and stretched out his hand and said, "Hey, you're okay." ”

......

Rain trickled down the dilapidated neon tubes, and in the damp, filthy alley, Hoffa reached out his palm to the strangely immature man who had fallen to the ground.

He always felt that this person seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was for a while.

Rubeus Hagrid looked at the boy in the garbage heap next to him, still twitching and foaming, and lowered his head even more.

"Are you alright?" Hoffa tilted his head, "You're a wizard, aren't you?"

"I'm not... I'm not..."

The big man covered his face in horror and stepped back, but there was a wall behind him, and there was no way to retreat.

Hoffa felt a little headache, he finally met a person with magic fluctuations in his body, how this guy looked like an autistic child.

He stepped forward, reached out, and grabbed the big man's shirt.

With a scream, Hoffa pulled him to his feet. After pulling it up, Hoffa was stunned.

The other party is three heads taller than himself, at least one meter nine in stature, and is as strong as a cow, but this strong and scary guy is frightened at the moment like an angry little daughter-in-law, with blurred tears and a whimper.

While crying, he also took out a few crumpled bills from his trouser pocket and handed them to Hoffa.

"Here you go... All for you... Other... Don't hit me..."

Hoffa was dumbfounded, did the other party misunderstand something?

He let go of his hand.

"I'd like to ask ......"

Before he finished speaking, the moment he let go, the tall, strange-looking boy threw away the money and ran away. Stumble along.

At the turn of the alley, he accidentally frightened a stray dog foraging for food in a garbage heap, and the stray dog barked at him.

He rolled on the ground in fright, rolled to the ground, then got up on his hands and feet, and in the blink of an eye he ran away without a trace, leaving Hoffa to stand there and scratch his head.

Turning his gaze to the notes on the ground, he stooped down and picked them up, Muggle coins, which together amounted to about twenty shillings.

Does this guy think he's a money grabber?

Hoffa tried to catch up, but found that the magic fluctuated as thin as a gossamer, and the other party was suppressing his own magic.

This made him hesitate.

Do you want to catch up?

Standing in place and thinking for a moment, Hoffa decided to go back first to find out some news, this kid is a little weird, and it is not too late to ask for money and ask for directions when he asks for his identity.

But when he returned to the door of the diner with twenty shillings, he found that Aglaia was no longer at the door, and through the glass, he saw Aglaia sitting in the shop at some point, munching.

I saw her sitting at the dining table, holding a chicken wing in one hand, a spoon in the other, and a morscht on the plate, her mouth full of greasy. There was also a waiter serving her food next to her.

Hoffa supports his forehead, this guy is really an animal who lives completely in the moment, he fights when he is unhappy, runs away when he is suffocated, and eats when he is hungry.

He opened the door and sat down across from Aglaia. The rain dripped from his hair, and Aglaia moved the plate, puffing out her cheeks and saying, "Don't let the water fall into my bowl." ”

Hoffa sneered: "I didn't get Muggle money, you can pay the bill for the restaurant after eating." ”

Aglaia's eyes widened for a second, and then she picked up a chicken wing and stuffed it into Hoffa's mouth at lightning speed, and said, "Now you have eaten it too, so you brush it with me." ”

Hoffa ......

Aglaia withdrew her fingers, spread her hands with a greasy mouth, shook her silver head and said, "It's a big deal, just pay the gold Galleons, Muggles won't even know the gold coins." ”

"It's only three or four gold coins in total, pay one for one meal, how many meals can you eat?"

"We can eat a little more. Aglaia laughed.

"Alright. ”

Hoffa took out the strange boy's twenty shillings from his pocket: "After this meal, accompany me to find someone." ”

"Eh, didn't you get it in exchange?"

Aglaia looked at the banknote on the table and asked curiously, "Why is this Muggle money wet?"

"Not in exchange. ”

Hoffa picked up a piece of bread and stuffed it in his mouth, "I grabbed it." ”

"Ahh

Aglaya looked incredulous: "What's the matter with you this year, beating your boss and robbing money on the street, are you oversecreting hormones?"

Hoffa rolled his eyes, didn't answer, and simply ate a few loaves of bread to fill his stomach. He got up and walked to the counter, intending to inquire about some news.

Behind the counter of the tavern was the owner who was wiping wine glasses, he was chubby, had two beards, and yawned. When he saw Hoffa coming, he seemed quite enthusiastic.

"Hello, check out?"

Hoffa nodded, settled the bill with the wet banknotes, and asked, "Boss, do you know a place called Heiltsburg near here?"

"Heirtzburg?"

The tavern owner was stunned, and he looked up and thought for a long time.

"It's strange that I've lived for more than forty years and have never heard of this place. ”

Haven't heard of it, have you... It's normal to think about it. There are not many skills next to these wizards in Britain, and the ability to hide themselves and eliminate the sense of existence is first-class. Muggles who want to come to Scotland don't know about places like Hogsmeade.

Hoffa then changed the question.

"Boss, do you have a strange guy here who is tall and young? ”

The fat boss who wiped the cup had his eyes wide open: "You mean the stupid big guy of the Hagrid family in the suburbs?"

Hagrid... When those two words entered Hoffa's ears, it was as if there was a bridge between the past and the future, the real and the unreal.

"Hagrid, Rubeus Hagrid?"

Hoffa asked again in disbelief.

"yes, Rubeus Hagrid, that's a fool. ”

The boss said nonchalantly.

"Like his father, Noble Hagrid, he was a fool. What, he's in trouble with you?"

Hoffa's head still didn't turn a little.

Hagrid, that half-blood giant, fantastic beast fanatic, one of the most important supporting characters in the future Harry Potter era, was met by himself casually? The world is too small, no wonder when I met him just now, I felt inexplicably familiar.

It's just that he seems to be a little different from the man in his impression, and the impression of Hagrid is not so cowardly.

Moreover, he is obviously a wizard, how can he be beaten in the garbage by a few Muggle boys?

Since he came to this world, he has only seen a few people in the original books, whether it is Dumbledore or Tom Riddle, they all behave the same as in the original books. But why Rubeus Hagrid is so different from what he thinks, he is neither brave nor good at words, and can even fall when frightened by dogs.

Is this still the half-giant who raises dragons in the house, spiders in the forbidden forest, and takes a big dog with him when he goes out?

Seeing that Hoffa didn't speak, the tavern owner said to himself: "It's normal to be troublesome, Hagrid, that old drunkard, drank his mind through drinking, and he hasn't had a normal day, and it is estimated that his son's mind is also inherited from him......."

Out of great curiosity, Hofa pulled a chair, sat down across from the tavernkeeper, and asked, "And where does he live?"

The tavern owner stared at Hofa's strange eyes with some curiosity, but when he looked at Hofa's retro leather coat, he felt that he was not an ordinary child, so he said.

"That father and son live in a black house in the suburbs, I advise you not to approach there, that family is very evil, very evil......"

"Evil Sect?"

Hoffa was puzzled.

"Isn't it evil? Let me tell you, the kid named Ruber is only 11 years old this year, and he is taller than the tallest relative in my family. Must have eaten something abnormal. ”

"It's quite evil. ”

Hoffa absentmindedly echoed that this was indeed evil for Muggles. But of course he knew why Hagrid had grown so tall, it was because he had a giant mother, and now 1.9 meters was short for him, and by the time he became an adult, he would be more than 3 meters tall.

"But you haven't told me where he lives. Hoffa repeated.

"What do you care about?" said the tavernkeeper, "you delicate-skinned and tender-skinned, and at first glance a decent child, don't let your curiosity delay your future." ”

Hoffa smiled, "It's okay, you can talk about it." ”

"You're quite bold. The tavern keeper pouted, "What do you suppose Rubeus ate to grow so big?"

"What have you eaten?"

The boss looked around, and said in a mysterious low voice, "Cannibalism." ”

"Huh?" Hofa was startled.

The boss shook his head: "You still don't believe it, look at your appearance as an outsider, let me tell you, a few years ago, there were often people on our side who went hunting in the back mountains of the town, and there was nothing at all."

Later, ever since the old madman Noble Hagrid moved in, the hunters have disappeared one after another. Our mayor took people to look for it, and after searching in the woods for many days, we only found a head, and guess where I found it?

"Where?" Hoffa leaned.

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Hoffa: Σ(?□?; ）

"There's a table-sized lump of in the woods, and there's an undigested head in it. ”

The tavern keeper stretched out his arms and gestured, and said with palpitations: "It's terrible, it's terrible, we arrested that old madman and interrogated him, and he refused to admit that he did it himself, but we went to his house and looked, and there was a lot of all kinds of messy equipment, which looked like some kind of laboratory." ”

"Scientists?"

Hoffa asked quickly.

"A bullshit scientist, a scientist is a decent profession, like Sir Isaac Newton to be called a scientist, that man is a madman, a drunkard, a murderer, a cannibal. ”

The boss paused, pointed at Hoffa and said sternly, "So, I advise you not to approach that place, this is not a children's adventure story. Otherwise, something happened, don't say I didn't warn you. ”

"Since you say that, why don't you arrest him?"

"No evidence. ”

The boss resumed his absent-minded posture, and he shrugged: "That cunning old fellow of Noble Hager must have deceived the police in some unknown way." ”

Hoffa's eyes drifted to the flames of the fireplace and groaned. If he remembered correctly, Hagrid's father was also a wizard.

He doesn't remember much about Hagrid's youth, except that he had a giant mother.

However, from the words of these townspeople and the scene they saw before, it can be inferred that the pair of wizards and sons are not welcome in this town. Not only is it unpopular, but it may also be saddled with some unproven charges.

However, if only from your current situation.

It was necessary for him to meet the future Hogwarts Warden, who owed Hagrid twenty shillings, if not more. What's more, if Helzburg was a wizarding secret, it would be useless to ask these Muggles. The best option is to ask an adult wizard.

He looked up at the tavernkeeper, "Could you please tell me the exact address?"

The fat owner of the tavern was a little annoyed and said, "Young man, don't disobey the old man, otherwise, you will be the one who suffers." ”

Hoffa shook his head, "Thank you for your kindness, but I still hope you'll give me his address." ”

The tavern owner asked for it, and honestly put the cup on the table: "I won't stop you if you look for death, go forward, turn left, until you reach the bend of the river, you can see a black house in the woods, that is." ”

Hoffa jumped off the table and nodded to the boss.

"Thank you. ”

At this time, Aglaia also finished eating, and she wiped her mouth and came to Hoffa's side: "Let's go, let's hurry up and get on the road." ”

Hoffa shook his head: "I'm going to find someone and give him the money back." ”

Aglaia was stunned: "You really robbed the money?"

"Not really, but I'm going to go. ”

Aglaia looked at the crackling rain outside, and said with some hesitation: "I don't know if there is enough time, when I took this job, they only gave me a month, and now there are only a few days before delivery." ”

"Then it's even more important to go. Hoffa said, "We don't know the way." ”

"Don't you know this tavernkeeper?" asked Aglaia.

"It's unrealistic to expect a Muggle to know wizarding secrets. Hoffa said, "Come with me." ”

Aglaia nodded, she wondered, "Hoffa, who is the person who gave you the money?"

Hoffa said, "The future junior. ”