There was a sudden heavy snowfall last night, and by the time the moon stopped at dawn, the snow could not reach people's calves.

When Zhang Xu, Harry, and Slughorn walked into the Forbidden Forest, they couldn't help but feel embarrassed when they saw the snow on the ground.

Snow covered the ground of the Forbidden Forest, and the paths, ravines, tree roots and vines on the ground were invisible, and it was easy to fall if you walked on it.

In this case, even the horses are too lazy to go out. In this way, it is convenient for Zhang Xu and them, and it can make their actions less variable.

As for the step-by-step thrilling ground...... They can fly!

I have to sigh at the Weasleys' flying car that settled in the Forbidden Forest, which is now about to evolve into Kitt in "Thunderbolt Ranger". After the Weasley twins overhauled it once before graduation, it's now on a rampage, and has become one of the most unscrupulous in the Forbidden Forest, even the horses have to walk around when they see it.

However, Harry knew how to control the car, so the group saved themselves from the trouble of trekking through the snow after finding the snow-covered car.

Slughorn looked confused about the car, Harry had sat in the back seat of the Dursleys' car, and the last time Zhang Xu drove was in his previous life.

In this case, Zhang Xu could only drive hard.

Fortunately, Mr. Weasley did not remove the safety belt of the car, otherwise Zhang Xu would not have dared to come to the car and hang around in the Forbidden Forest. Just curious, Slughorn, who sat in the front passenger seat, was strangled with his bulging belly as he learned to put on his seat belt. So after less than ten minutes of driving, Harry sat in the co-pilot's seat.

"What are we going to look for?" Harry, holding a map to show the way, asked.

Zhang Xu replied while concentrating on driving to avoid crashing into the tree: "We are going to find the native sheep." ”

"That kind of tree with the same fruit as a sheep?" Harry asked.

"That's right." Zhang Xu replied, "Slughorn needs a part of this plant. ”

"I need the juice from the fruit." Slughorn, who was sitting in the back seat, answered, "That is, the blood of that sheep." ”

"What's the use of its juice?" Harry asked curiously.

"It's a very versatile catalyst." Zhang Xu replied, "There are some drugs that take a few hours or even half a day to fully work after taking them, and if you add it to the medicine, you can make the medicine fully effective in a few minutes or even seconds." ”

"Then it's best to use him as an antidote." Harry said excitedly.

"Yes, it can allow some drugs that were not suitable as antidotes because they were too slow to act can be reused." Slughorn said to Harry, "It's just that research on it is just beginning, would you like to come and study it with me, Harry?" I can make you the second author of the paper. ”

"Uh, let me think about it." Harry replied that he was still a little resistant to Potions class.

"You better not think about it." Zhang Xu said, "Aren't you going to be an Auror in the future?" As an Auror, you'll inevitably have to deal with poisons and antidotes, and you can use this as an opportunity to strengthen your knowledge. ”

Hearing that this would work for the Aurors, Harry thought about it for a moment and agreed.

Slughorn told the newly-fooled handyman that he would be contacted as soon as the research began. Then he also wanted to fool Zhang Xu into joining the miscellaneous team, but was "hehe" by Zhang Xu.

"Professor, how did you know that the juice of the native sheep fruit had this effect?" Zhang Xu asked curiously, because there had never been any research in this area before, and what Zhang Xu said to Harry just now was what Slughorn told him when he was selling his knowledge before.

"A few years ago, an old friend of mine asked me to help make potions after he fell ill. ”

"After drinking that potion before going to bed, I slept until noon the next day and was cured."

"It's just that that day my friend ate a meal of five ripe lamb chops fried with the fruit of a native sheep before going to bed, and as a result, when he finished drinking the medicine and changing his pajamas, he found out that his illness was cured after changing his pajamas."

In the ensuing conversation, Zhang Xu noticed that Slughorn seemed to be deliberately befriending Harry, and kept showing Harry his connections in the chat, but Harry was not sensitive to this at all.

The group talked and laughed, but they all deliberately avoided the question of what would happen if the juice of this fruit was used for poison.

According to the text on the map provided by the Centaurs, the nearest native sheep grew on the bank of a stream, about a mile upstream of the stream was a small waterfall two or three meters high.

The car stopped at the bottom of the waterfall, and the three people in the car stepped out of the car to move their muscles.

Since the maps provided by the horses were in the Impressionist style, they did not have the concept of scale, so the group had to find the reference objects such as rivers, streams, and waterholes on the drawings first, and then follow the water.

Coupled with today's heavy snowfall, it's easy to get lost if your car flies above the treetops.

So all the way, the car has been flying on the ground a little higher, in order not to hit the tree, Zhang Xu's speed has not been high.

In this way, the car will turn left and right, and the people in the car will be a little unbearable.

After getting out of the car and moving his stiff body for a while, Harry asked, "Why did we stop so far from the target?" ”

Slughorn replied, shaking his stiff legs, "Now that the fruit of the native sheep is ripe, it will leave when the weather warms up." The cart is so noisy that it scares the fruit away in advance, so it will take a lot of effort for us to catch it. ”

"There is a situation!" Zhang Xu, who was standing on the side, suddenly shouted.

Harry and Slughorn were startled, and the two immediately drew their wands, and then looked at Zhang Xu, who was shaking his nose and inhaling.

"The wind brings some flavor." Zhang Xu pointed to the downstream direction where the wind was blowing and said, "The taste of roast mutton seems to have cumin." ”

The other two were stunned, they didn't smell anything, but looking at Zhang Xu's appearance, it didn't look like he was joking, after thinking that Zhang Xu had some small and practical magic, they no longer suspected that Zhang Xu was mistaken, and then they immediately thought that someone had taken the lead.

"Let's go over and have a look." Slughorn said a little angrily, "Everyone, grab your wand. ”

He didn't have anything to say if something he thought was in his pocket was taken away when he didn't know it, but if someone roasted it in front of him first, it would be annoying.

The group of three quietly walked downstream along the frozen stream, and as they approached their target, Harry and Slughorn began to smell the smell of lamb in the air.

When they reached the edge of a clearing, they saw a blond man dressed in a strange color roasting a leg of lamb around a campfire in the middle of the clearing.

The strange color of the dress was Slughorn's feeling, and Harry remembered seeing soldiers on TV wearing what was called a snow camouflage suit when he was at 4 Privet Road.

Zhang Xu grabbed Harry and Slughorn, who were about to come forward to say hello, and then shouted to the man who was roasting the leg of mutton: "Bell, this is my professor and classmate." Call out two of your friends, we have no ill will. ”

Bear Grylls, who was roasting a leg of lamb, breathed a sigh of relief, and then shouted into the surrounding clearing, "Come out, everyone, they are Hogwarts professors and students." ”

As soon as Bell's words fell, two people appeared in the snow on both sides of Zhang Xu and them.

If Zhang Xu and the three of them took a few more steps, they would fall into the other party's triangular ambush circle.

Zhang Xu saw that after the two people who were in ambush just now took off their hats and hoods, they found that they were acquaintances who had a relationship with each other when they were acting together last time, so he greeted them: "Long time no see, Simon, Kevin." ”