Chapter 143: Asking for help
Keeping a dragon privately is illegal, and if discovered, Hagrid has almost a 100% chance of being fired or even sent to jail.
So, as in the original book, Ron suggested that the Norwegian Ridgeback had privately sent to his brother, Charlie, who was studying dragons in Romania.
It's just that on the night of the appointment day, the two of them were blocked by the nosy Hermione again.
The two sides argued for a long time, and finally, at Twilight's suggestion, Hermione supervised that they actually send the dragon away, and promised not to do anything like this that would deduct points for the house, otherwise Hermione would immediately go to Professor McGonagall to complain.
Then Twilight was also pulled by Hermione 'helplessly'.
Then, as he expected, Malfoy bumped into the sneaky four and followed them to Hagrid's hut, where he heard about Hagrid's dragon breeding.
And when he learned that they were going to send the dragon away in the middle of the night, Malfoy immediately ran back and told Professor McGonagall.
It didn't take long for Harry and Ron to deliver the dragon to be caught by Professor McGonagall in his urn, and Twilight avoided it with Hermione with an invisibility charm.
With 50 points per person, Harry and Ron received the highest personal deduction record for the whole year, and the whole person was as completely wilted as a frosted eggplant.
To make matters worse, Gryffindor, who had been the number one in the positive number, not only lost to Slytherin, but also fell to the bottom of the four houses at once.
The attitude of the Gryffindor students, who had regarded him as a hero, had completely changed their attitude towards him, pointing fingers at them even more than the other three houses.
All of a sudden, Harry and Ron were rats crossing the street.
And Mu Twilight successfully completed his plan, because the skin magic resistance of the young dragon was not high, Mu Twilight easily probed the body structure of the Norwegian Ridgeback Dragon back and forth countless times. It's already capable of becoming a real dragon.
It's just that in terms of size, she can only become more than two meters at most, which is far from a real dragon that is more than ten meters long.
According to his estimates, in the entire wizarding world today, I am afraid that only Dumbledore can have the huge magic power to transform into a dragon.
Of course, when it comes to practical effects, he doesn't need to be completely transformed, he only needs to deform dragon wings, dragon scales, and dragon stomachs.
Especially after transforming his lungs into the lungs of a dragon, he was able to release dragon breath at will without additional spells, and its power far exceeded that of ordinary flames, almost comparable to fierce fire.
Although the fire is powerful, it consumes a lot of mana, and when maintaining the supply of mana, the fire will be very obedient, and it will burn whatever it wants, and it can distinguish between friend and foe, but once the mana supply is interrupted, the fire will instantly go berserk and swallow nothing.
With Mu Dui's current magic power, it is estimated that it will be drained in two seconds if he releases the fire, and if he doesn't escape in time, he will burn himself to death like Crabbe in the original book, which is far less practical than dragon breath.
"Oh my God, Mudu, you're amazing!" Hermione couldn't help but exclaim as she watched Mu Dui burn down hundreds of square meters of classrooms with a mouthful of dragon breath.
"It's okay, it's just Transfiguration, and it's not hard for you..."
He was modest, but he could still see Mu Dui's excitement from his face, after all, this kind of power was estimated to be more powerful than that of Otoshi Xisheng.
"Okay, but what if you burn down your desks and start class tomorrow?"
Hermione's question made Twilight's face froze.
"This... Anyway, I'd better go to Professor McGonagall now! ”
Accidentally destroying the classroom because of practicing magic is not a serious fault in itself, and in addition, Twilight voluntarily admits his mistake, and Professor McGonagall's affection for Twilight, but it is only symbolically a punishment for him to move new desks and chairs to clean up the classroom.
"Professor McGonagall has been so nice to you..."Hermione had been following Twilight all the time, and she was also envious when she saw this.
Of course, because she didn't get into trouble with Harry and Ron, Professor McGonagall was actually very good to her as a top student.
Dozens of oak tables and chairs, it is obviously unrealistic to want to carry them one by one, even if Mu Dusk fully shows his martial strength, he can resist a few at most at a time.
This is where the benefits of magic come into play.
"Shrink quickly—"
The double tables and chairs, one and a half meters long, were reduced to ten centimeters by Mu Dusk's shrinking charm, and then placed in the pocket of her robe that had been applied with a traceless stretching charm that actually exceeded a cubic meter in size, and it only took one trip to move them all.
As for the charred and blackened Transfiguration classroom, it was even simpler, with a cleansing spell, it became as clean as new, and there was no trace of fire at all.
"That's it, let's go back!"
After such a toss, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening when the two returned to the common room.
Usually everyone is asleep by this time, and only the two night owls, Twilight and Hermione, continue to read in the entire lounge.
This time, however, they unexpectedly bumped into Harry and Ron.
"What bad things are you talking about?" Hermione's nosy temper flare up again.
"What's the matter with you... We didn't discuss anything bad," Ron grumbled dissatisfiedly, but he couldn't hold his head up in front of Hermione since he was deducted 50 points.
"We only came across a unicorn hunt in the Forbidden Forest while on patrol tonight... Harry thought it might be... It's a mystery man..."
"Mystery man?" Hermione's eyes widened exaggeratedly, "The mystery people have been gone for years!" ”
"As you said, the mystery man just disappeared!" Harry immediately argued.
"Then why don't you go to Professor McGonagall or Professor Dumbledore and tell them the news?"
“......”
Harry and Ron looked at each other and left the common room angrily.
Without evidence, even if they told Professor McGonagall, it would be useless, and he himself didn't think Professor McGonagall would believe their one-sided words, let alone Dumbledore, who was pretending to be confused.
Because the deduction was so ruthless, Harry and Ron were honest for several months, and the final exams were approaching, and the pressure of revision made these two scumbags have no mind to think about other things for the time being.
But in fact, the scar on Harry's forehead has been aching since he took a photo of Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest, but he has been hiding it all along, and he only told Ron about it after the exam.
"Harry, relax, we should trust Dumbledore, he's the greatest wizard of the century, he's here, what's that... What stone is definitely fine! ”
Ron, who had just finished the exam, was completely relaxed, a little reluctant to toss, and whether it was dealing with Snape or Voldemort, he was obviously weak.
"And our Gryffindor score has managed to rise to third place, if we deduct any more points..."
Ron hadn't finished his words, but Harry had already understood what he meant, if Gryffindor was to be at the bottom of the two of them, they really wouldn't want to raise their heads in school in the future.
"Professor McGonagall was so ruthless that she deducted 50 points for each of us... I'm willing to bet Professor McGonagall wouldn't have deducted so many points if it had been Twilight and Hermione who had been caught..."
When he thought of that night, Ron was depressed, if he had known that this would be the case, he would never have sent the dragon away in person, and just let Charlie's people go to Hagrid. Why do they have to go up and intervene themselves?
But when it came to the Norwegian Ridgeback, Harry thought of something else.
"Wait, why did someone find Hagrid with a dragon egg when he wanted to raise a dragon?"
"It's just a coincidence, right?"
"No way, it's illegal to keep a dragon privately, but would you be hanging around outside all day with a dragon egg that could send you to jail?"
"This ......"
Ron couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, he had never thought about it from this aspect, and he didn't know how to refute it for a while.
"Let's go find Hagrid!"
Without waiting for him to speak, Harry pulled him straight out of the dormitory.
"Wait! What are you going to do! Hermione, of course, spoke, and when she saw Harry and Ron's anxious looks, she felt that Gryffindor was going to deduct points again.
"It's still early until the lights go out—"
With that, Harry and Ron ran around Hermione and ran out of the common room, stomping Hermione angrily.
"So many points have been deducted, and they haven't even learned a lesson!" Hermione complained angrily to Twilight.
"Not necessarily, maybe they really found something?"
"What did you really find? You don't believe what they say, do you? Hermione couldn't help but say loudly. Just after the exam today, everyone went outside the school to let out the wind, and there were only two of them in the lounge, so they didn't alarm the others.
"And they should tell the professors if they do find anything!"
Twilight shrugged her shoulders with a smile, not arguing with her.
Of course, Harry had approached the professors, but the professors didn't believe it.
"Dumbledore has gone to the Ministry of Magic, and as you should know, he's very busy as Headmaster..."
When Professor McGonagall heard the news, Harry's face suddenly showed a look of disappointment that could not be concealed.
He then discussed with Ron that they would defend the Philosopher's Stone on their own.
"I'll stare at the third-floor hallway, and you go out of the office and stare at Snape!" Harry made a quick decision.
It's just—
"Mr. Potter, if I see you wandering around the hallway on the third floor again, I'll deduct 50 points for you!"
Two hours later, Harry was carried back to the common room by an enraged Professor McGonagall, and if it weren't for the fact that everyone was sleeping at ten o'clock in the evening, I am afraid that there would have been another commotion.
And what Harry didn't expect was that Ron actually came back one step ahead of him.
"How did you—"
"I'm sorry Harry, Snape found out... I said I was looking for Professor Flitwick, and he just called Professor Flitwick out... By the time I came out of the office, Snape was gone..."
"Damn! Snape must have gone to steal the Philosopher's Stone, and today Dumbledore went to the Ministry of Magic, this is his best chance to do it! Harry angrily slammed his fist on the coffee table, causing Hermione, who was reading a book, to glare at her in dissatisfaction.
"We have to stop Snape!" Harry didn't pay any attention to Hermione, still talking to Ron.
"It's-"
"No way!" Hermione jumped to her feet when she heard this, "Didn't you hear Professor McGonagall?" If you go to the third-floor hallway, you're going to lose 50 points—"
"So what?! Even if I am dropped out of school, I will never back down! Harry waited for Hermione to look decisive,
"The scar on my head tells me that Voldemort is back! If I don't stop Snape from getting the Philosopher's Stone and giving it to Voldemort, we'll all be finished! Didn't you hear what would happen when he returned? There will be no Hogwarts to expel me then! He's going to ruin it! Does it matter if you don't lose points at this time? Even if Gryffindor wins the House Cup, will he let you or your family go? Don't stop me anymore, I won't give in to the forces of evil! ”
I have to say that mouth escape is really a necessary skill for all protagonists.
Hermione, who was originally very resolute, was suddenly blindsided by Harry, especially Harry's attitude that she must try even if she was expelled, so she couldn't help but agree.
"Well, you two won't be able to break through the barriers set by the professors..."
Hermione's words immediately touched on the sore spot of Harry's good Ron, because without Hermione to help them with tuition, even Harry had half of his classes with P (Poor), that is, failed, and the rest were all A's, just barely passing, and as for Ron, it was even worse.
With the level of the two of them, even if they knew how to deal with Lowe, it was useless, and there were the levels set by Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick and others behind them, and it was impossible for them to break through.
"Hermione, please help us!" Harry suddenly took a deep breath and pleaded solemnly with Hermione.
"Me? I can't do it alone... Even if we get through it with my help, what if we run into Professor Snape? The three of us together are no match for him at all! Hermione hurriedly waved her hand.
Although she has always been very confident in herself, but because of the existence of this more powerful guy, she is not as blind as in the original book.
"Only Twilight can do it, and her spell level can't be compared to even the average adult wizard—"
Harry and Ron immediately looked at Twilight.
Hermione's words were true, and although they were reluctant to admit it, Twilight's level of magic was recognized as the strongest in the entire first year, and even the professors thought so, and often praised Twilight publicly.
Coupled with Mu Dui's beautiful appearance, if it weren't for the fact that he almost killed his classmates, and his indifferent personality, I'm afraid someone would have pursued him a long time ago.
"Mu Dui-san—"
"I can help you!" Mu Du looked at him and took the initiative to say.
"But like you said, after this incident, at least I will be deducted points or expelled, and in serious cases, I will even be killed by Voldemort, so I need to be paid enough!"
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