Chapter 14: Predation in progress

Headmaster's Office at Hogwarts.

The phoenix is a gentle creature whose singing strengthens the courage of the pure-hearted.

Therefore, the people who see the phoenix are undoubtedly pure children favored by fate, at least that's what Elena thinks at the moment.

"Hello Fawkes, I'm Elena Kaslana. ”

Grunt~

The silver-haired little girl swallowed a little nervously, and bowed slightly to the phoenix standing on the bird's shelf observing her, indicating that she had no ill intentions - though she was not sure if the etiquette for the eagle-headed horse winged beast was equally effective for the phoenix.

Phoenix Fawkes's bright eyes blinked, looking at Elena with confusion, and she didn't respond.

Just when Elena felt that her face was about to freeze with laughter, Phoenix Fawkes suddenly bent down her beautiful neck covered with red feathers and bowed properly.

"Whew...... Thank you Hagrid, and thank you Mr. Newcastle for their incredible contribution to helping people understand magical creatures. ”

Elena breathed a sigh of relief, walked over slowly, and carefully reached out to stroke the phoenix's golden-red feathers, she could clearly feel the warm and fleshy strong wings under its soft feathers.

The phoenix let out a pleasant chirp and lazily closed its eyes, as if she liked Elena's gentle touch.

In fact, wizards have long speculated about the existence of a mysterious connection between the phoenix and the baby, because when the purebred baby is provoked, it can turn into a bird-like creature and throw fireballs to attack.

"It's so warm......"

Seeing the big golden bird close its eyes relaxedly, Elena quietly put her other hand on the other side of the phoenix's body, and rubbed her little face happily against the smooth feathers.

Unlike the Scottish round-faced fat chicken, which is a little stinky, the phoenix feathers smell like the sunshine on a summer sun-dried sheet.

Elena hugged Fawkes's back with both hands, inhaled with her small nose, and subconsciously muttered, "Such big wings must be delicious......

Phoenix Fawkes, who was pretending to be asleep, opened his eyes suddenly, bent down to look at the silver-haired little girl lying on its back, and a trace of human doubt flashed in his big eyes.

I saw that the next moment, the cute Elena licked her lips, closed her eyes, and suddenly opened her mouth with a happy face and bit its wings - woo~

?!

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A loud birdsong suddenly sounded in the quiet principal's office.

Before Elena could bite it, the phoenix, feeling threatened, spread its wings without hesitation and pushed away the silver-haired little Lori lying on its back.

Syllable.

Then, there was a soft sound in the air, and the phoenix that had been standing on the bird stand suddenly disappeared and appeared on the large wooden table in the center of the room, the red feathers on its neck stood up, and looked at Elena with wariness.

"Hey, Dumbledore promised me that he could eat you. ”

Elena, who had an empty hand, smacked her lips with regret on her face, turned around, looked at Phoenix Fawkes spread her hands, and explained seriously, "Besides, you are an immortal, I am curious to take a bite and taste the taste, there is no malice." ”

Hearing Elena's words, Fawkes let out another angry chirp, his fiery red wings spread, staring at the dangerous creature in front of him as if he were facing a great enemy.

As the conflict between one man and one bird erupted, the portraits of the previous Headmasters of Hogwarts, who had been resting with their eyes closed, woke up one after another, and followed with interest the confrontation that took place in the Headmaster's office.

"It's the first time in many years that I've seen a student dare to try to bite a phoenix. A big, fat wizard with a red nose crossed his arms and looked curiously at Elena, who was empty-handed.

"Which house are you from?Slytherin or Gryffindor, I think only people from these two houses would be so daring. Raise your wand, little girl, and fight like a wizard. ”

"I'm sorry, neither. Principal Dexter Fosco. I won't know which house I belong to until after a month of separation. So, for the time being, I don't have my own wand. ”

Elena glanced up at the name frame under the portrait, shook her head and replied respectfully.

She still has some impressions of this irascible "portrait principal" that often appears in both movies and novels, although she is not sure how much wisdom the wizard who exists as a portrait still retains, but it always hurts to respect something.

"Maybe she doesn't understand what a phoenix is, right? Muggle-born wizards always make jokes like that out of ignorance. ”

At this moment, there was a sneer from the side, and a slightly chubby, curly-haired wizard glanced at Elena and said with a proud expression.

Phineas Nigellus Black, the least popular Headmaster in Hogwarts history, is easily recognizable by Elena's outfit from the non-magical world.

"In fact, I probably know no less than you do. ”

Elena raised her eyebrows, she was not angry at what a portrait said, not to mention that she had already heard of the stinky temper of this stubborn old wizard, and the silver-haired little Lori shrugged her shoulders indifferently.

"By the way, I'm not a Muggle, and your [eternally pure] Black bloodline isn't necessarily superior to me. ”

"A bloodline purer than the oldest and noblest of the Black family? I have never heard of one of the Twenty-Eight Sacred Clans of the Wizarding Realm with the surname of Kaslana's family. ”

Phoenix said with disdain, a little surprised that Elena had accurately uttered the aphorisms on their Black family coat of arms, but that didn't mean he would be so easily bluffed by a little girl.

"Oh...... Who told you that I was British, you shouldn't have a narrow idea that there is only a pure-blood wizard family in the whole world, right? ”

The silver-haired little Lori replied absentmindedly, her eyes slowly swept from the principal's office, wanting to see if she could find something more handy that could help her capture the phoenix in front of her.

Anyway, Phineas trapped in the portrait couldn't find out which family she was from, and after casually blocking back, it would save a lot of trouble.

"Could it be that the pure-......blood wizard family from abroad who once visited the Black family? Alina...... It seems to be a common name on the German side. ”

Sure enough, after hearing Elena's answer, Phoenix held his chin and began to think seriously.

In his opinion, the person who knew the address of the noble Black family's main mansion could not have been someone from a Muggle family.

Ignoring Phoenix, Elena tried to take a small step forward, and Phoenix Fawkes, who was standing on the wooden table, flapped her wings nervously, and her long golden beak was aimed at Elena threateningly, as if she would immediately peck at her as long as she took another step forward.

"Wow, that's fierce. ”

The silver-haired little Lori stuck out her tongue and took a step back, it seems that Mr. Newt Scamander's account of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is not entirely correct, at least this phoenix still doesn't quite match the adjective "gentle".

"Wait, you don't really want to eat the phoenix, do you? give up, it's impossible, not to mention if you can successfully catch the phoenix. As a spirit of fire, the phoenix is not afraid of any flames and heat, but it can also summon fire when it is dangerous, and then reborn in the ashes. From ancient times to the present day, I have never heard of a successful prey on a phoenix. ”

It was an old witch with long curly silver hair who spoke, and her tone was extraordinarily soft, sounding like nuns from a London abbey, with a nice ending note at the end of each sentence.

Dalyse Derwent, one of the few headmistresses at Hogwarts, served from 1741 to 1768, and before that, she was a healer at St. Mungo's Hospital from 1722 to 1741.

"Dear Principal Dalys, in fact, I've already figured out how to cook. ”

Elena turned around and looked at the silver-haired old witch with a sweet smile.

"As long as the phoenix's ignition method is not nuclear fusion, then it only needs to replace all the oxygen in its environment with inert gas, and then find a way to heat the local gas and steam it directly at high temperature. ”

"The only problem now is ...... How to catch this delicious phoenix - well, no, it now has a new name [rare Scottish longtail turkey]. ”

Elena looked left and right, and suddenly her eyes lit up.

"There it is!"

I saw the silver-haired little Lori casually grab a worn-out old wizard hat from the shelf behind the table with a huge claw-shaped corner, and carefully looked at the black hole inside, if it was in the right direction, it should be able to completely put the phoenix head in it.

At that moment, the worn-out wizard's hat suddenly writhed in Elena's hand, a crack in the brim of the hat, and a panicked voice came from inside.

"Ma'am, what do you want to do?!I'm a wise, thoughtful devil's hat infused with the Hogwarts Big Four, and do you know what kind of rudeness you're doing?!"

"Quiet! Of course I know what I'm doing, dear Sorting Hat. ”

Elena rubbed the big hat in her hand vigorously, pinched the brim of the hat with both hands, and aimed the black hole of the hat at the long golden beak of Phoenix Fawkes standing on the table, and squinted her eyes proudly, "In this way, it should avoid hurting this hat that is especially important to Hogwarts." After all, if the Sorting Hat is broken, it will affect this year's Sorting Hat. ”

Elena raised her head, met the guarded eyes of Phoenix Fawkes, smiled slightly, opened the Sorting Hat and slammed forward - human ingenuity lies in the ability to use tools to hunt!

"Don't worry, it'll just hurt all of a sudden, soon. ”

The Sorting Hat swayed awkwardly from side to side, struggling more and more violently, and let out a violent scream as Elena moved.

"Wait a minute!! wait a minute!!

"You're not going to use the Wise Devil's Hat as a trap, are you?!"

"Stop, are you the devil?!"

"Ahhhh!!!h

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