Chapter 31: The Biting Dragon!
In this fantasy world, except for wizards, all other magical creatures with magical properties have been incarnated using some new technologies such as righteous souls and righteous remains.
Magical power is the process of changing from the spirit and body, and magic is a way to simulate supernatural powers, so the physical bodies that these magical creatures got at the beginning have already been faked into reality, at least half-truths and half-truths, and it is also worth Liu Jiecao's attention.
What's more, this is a dragon egg in front of me...... is one of the strongest species in this fantasy world.
"Where did you get that, Hagrid?" Ron said, crouching down to the fire and taking a closer look at the big egg. "It must have cost you a lot of money!"
"Won." "Last night, I was drinking in the village and playing cards with a stranger. Honestly, the man was probably desperate to get rid of it. ”
"But what are you going to do when it hatches?" Hermione asked.
"Oh, I've been reading." Hagrid said, pulling a tome from under his pillow, "Borrowed from the library—Raising Dragons for Fun and Profit—a little outdated, of course, but it's complete. Put the eggs in the fire because their mother exhales into them. You see, it's written here, and when it hatches, feed it a barrel of brandy and chicken blood every half hour. Look at it again -- how to tell the difference between eggs -- and what I get is a Norwegian Ridgeback. It's rare. ”
He looked smug, but Hermione wasn't impressed. "Hagrid, don't forget that you live in a wooden house." She said.
But Hagrid didn't listen at all. He played with the fire and hummed a little tune happily. Now, they have something new to worry about: what will happen to Hagrid if someone finds out that he is illegally raising dragons in his hut?
"I really want to know what a peaceful and peaceful day looks like." Ron said with a sigh.
Night after night, they struggled to complete the large pile of homework assigned by their teachers. Hermione had already started to make a revision plan for Harry and Ron. It's driving them crazy.
Then, at breakfast one day, Hedwig brought Harry another note from Hagrid. There are only four words written on it: It's almost out of the shell.
Ron didn't want to take herbal medicine classes anymore. Want to go straight to Hagrid's cabin. Hermione strongly disagreed.
"Hermione, how many times in our lives can we see the little dragon come out of the shell?"
"We're going to have classes, or we're going to get in trouble; If anyone found out what Hagrid did, he would be even more unlucky than we were—"
"Don't talk about it." Harry whispered a warning.
Malfoy was a few paces away from them, stopping to listen to them. How much did you listen to him? Harry hated the look on Malfoy's face.
Liu Jiecao knew very well that whether Malfoy heard it or not, at least it had aroused curiosity, so there was something later.
In the herb class, Ron had been debating with Hermione. Eventually, Hermione finally agreed to have it during the morning recess. Run with the two of them to Hagrid's hut to have a look. At the end of class, as soon as the bell rang in the castle, the four of them threw down their small shovels and hurried across the field, towards the edge of the forbidden forest. They were greeted by Hagrid, his face flushed and excited.
"It's coming out." He let them into the hut. The egg was lying on the table, and there was already a deep crack in it. Something was moving in there, and there was a playful clicking sound. They all moved their chairs closer to the table. Hold your breath and watch closely.
Suddenly, with a harsh scraping sound, the egg cracked. The little dragon staggered and fluttered on the table. It's not actually pretty; Harry thought it looked like a crumpled black umbrella. Its prickly wings were compared to its thin, jet-black body. It looks extraordinarily large. It also has a large, long nose with white nostrils, horn bumps on its head, and orange-red eyes protruding outward.
It sneezed. A few sparks erupted from the nose.
Liu Jiecao looked at this little thing and felt that it seemed that he could try to clone it......
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Hagrid muttered. He held out a hand. Touched the little dragon's head. The little dragon bit his finger, revealing his long fangs.
"Oh my God, look, it knows its mother!" Hagrid said.
"Hagrid." Hermione said, "How fast did the Norwegian Ridgeback grow to the bottom?" ”
Hagrid was about to answer, when suddenly his face changed to his own face—he leapt to his feet and ran to the window.
"What's going on?"
"Somebody just peeked through the curtain -- it's a boy -- running into school."
Harry jumped to the door and looked out. Even from a distance, he would never admit his mistake.
Malfoy saw the dragon.
Unlike everyone who was nervous, only Liu Jiecao had long been aware of the matter. He didn't even need to know the original plot, which Malfoy's curiosity should have been thought of at the time, and it was all caused by Ron's insistence on arguing with Hermione in public.
Over the next week, Harry, Ron, and Hermione were very upset by the evil smile on Malfoy's face, and Liu Jiecao could see that Malfoy's intentions would have gone long ago if he really wanted to tell the secret.
However, Harry and the three of them spent most of their spare time in Hagrid's dimly lit cabin, reasoning with him. Liu Jiecao didn't participate, just came to see the dragon together, and by the way, he found an opportunity to obtain the dragon's genes, which were ready to be used as alchemy materials, or for cloning.
"Just let it go." Harry advised, "Let it go." ”
"I can't." "It's too small, it's going to die." ”
They looked at the little dragon. In just one week, it has tripled in length. Clouds of smoke puffed out of its nostrils. Hagrid put aside the job of guarding the hunting grounds because the dragon was messing with him. The ground was littered with empty brandy bottles and chicken feathers.
"I decided to call it Noble." Hagrid looked at the dragon with tearful eyes and said, "It really knows me now, you see." Noble! Noble! Where's Mom? ”
"Hagrid." Harry raised his voice, "In two weeks, Noble will be as long as your house." Malfoy could go to Dumbledore at any moment. ”
Hagrid bit her lip. "I- I know I can't keep it forever, but I can't just throw it away, I can't."
Harry turned to Ron suddenly.
"Charlie." He said.
"You're confused, too." Ron said. "I'm Ron, remember?"
"No-Charlie-your brother Charlie. In Romania, study the dragon Charlie. We might as well give Noble to him. Charlie can take care of it and release it back into the wild. ”
"Great!" Ron said, "How's it going, Hagrid?" ”
Eventually, Hagrid agreed that they would send an owl to ask Charlie first.
The next week was like a year. On Wednesday night, after everyone else had gone to bed, Liu Jiecao, Hermione, and Harry were still sitting in the common room.
Well, of course, Liu Jiecao just accompanied them by the way. In fact, he has no interest in staying here stupidly.
The clock on the wall had just struck twelve o'clock when the portrait hole was suddenly opened. Ron took off Harry's invisibility cloak as if he had fallen from the sky. He had just gone to Hagrid's hut to help feed Noble, who was now eating dead rats in wooden crates.
"It bit me!" Ron said, showing them his hands, wrapped in blood-stained handkerchiefs. "I couldn't hold a pen for a week. Let me tell you, the dragon is the most terrible animal I've ever seen, but the way Hagrid treats it, you think it's a fluffy bunny. It bit me later. Hagrid wouldn't allow me to scare it. As I left, I heard him singing a lullaby. ”
Seeing Ron being bitten, Liu Jiecao's eyes flashed, and he vaguely knew how to obtain the dragon's genes.
There was a lapping sound in the dark window.
"It's Hedwig!" Harry said. Hurry over and put it in. "It must have brought Charlie's reply!"
The four heads came together and looked at the note.
Dear Ron,
How are you? Thank you for writing to me - I'm glad I adopted that Norwegian Ridgeback, but it wasn't easy to get it here. I think the best thing to do is to send it to a couple of my friends first, who are coming to see me next week. The trouble is. Don't let others see them carrying a dragon illegally.
Can you take the Spinal Dragon to the tallest tower at midnight on Saturday? They can meet you there and take the dragon away while it's dark.
Please hear back to me as soon as possible.
Love you.
Charlie
The three men looked at each other. Liu Jiecao smiled indifferently.
"We've got the Cloak of Invisibility." Harry said, "It shouldn't be too hard - I think the Cloak of Invisibility is enough to cover the two men and Noble." ”
Then, Harry looked at Liu Jiecao, as if it suddenly occurred to him that there was an extra person who couldn't cover it.
His relationship with Liu Jiecao was a little worse than Hermione's, so he looked at him, after all, Liu Jiecao was often expressionless......
Liu Jiecao immediately said that he had a disposable invisibility cloak, so it didn't matter at all.
So Ron and Hermione immediately agreed, which shows how hard the next week will be. Anything, as long as you can get rid of Noble—and Malfoy.
Things went wrong. The next morning, Ron's bitten hand was twice as swollen. He didn't know if it was proper to go to Madam Pomfrey - would she see that she had been bitten by a dragon? By the afternoon, however, he had no other choice. The wound turned an unsightly green color. It seems that Nober's teeth are poisonous.
With this, Liu Jiecao easily obtained the dragon's genes from Ron's wounds.
Compared to Ron's belief that the dragon's teeth were poisonous, Liu Jiecao thought that it was not poison, but the strength of the dragon's genes, its saliva, and its genes invaded Ron's wounds, which caused the abnormality.
At the end of the day's lessons, Liu, Harry, and Hermione rushed to the hospital to find Ron in bed, in very bad condition.
"It's not just my hands." He whispered, "Although it hurts like it's going to break." To make matters worse, Malfoy told Madam Pomfrey that he was going to borrow a book from me, so he came in and laughed at me as much as he could. He kept threatening that he was going to tell Madam Pomfrey what had bitten me - I told Madam Pomfrey that it was a dog, but I don't think she believed it - that I shouldn't have fought Malfoy in a Quidditch match, he was taking revenge on me now. ”
Harry and Hermione tried to calm Ron down.
But Liu Jiecao shook his head and was speechless, this was all Ron's own fault, if he hadn't aroused Malfoy's curiosity, he wouldn't have followed him to see the dragon, let alone what happened later.
"By midnight on Saturday, it's all over." Hermione said, but that didn't comfort Ron in the slightest. On the contrary, he sat up from the bed and broke out in a cold sweat.
"Saturday midnight!" "Oh, oops—oh, terrible—I just remembered—Charlie's letter was in the book Malfoy had borrowed, and he must have known we were going to get Norbor." ”
In this regard, Liu Jiecao was completely speechless, which was simply indescribable.
Sure enough, throughout the plot, Ron is always seen doing bad things, and it is almost difficult to see the shining point of this person, no wonder many readers feel strong dissatisfaction and resentment towards the pairing of Ron and Hermione, and now Liu Jiecao feels more and more that it was a wise choice to prevent Ron from participating in the troll incident, and now at least Hermione is not bad for Ron, but it will never go as far as the relationship in the original story.
Not only Liu Jiecao, he thought that even Harry and Hermione must be in an extremely speechless mood now, but seeing that Ron was still injured, he was in no mood to accuse him.
Also, before Harry and Hermione could answer, Madam Pomfrey walked in just around the clock and told them to leave, saying that Ron needed to sleep.
"It's too late to change the plan." Harry said to Hermione, "We don't have time to send another owl to Charlie, and this is probably our only chance to get rid of Noble." We had to take a risk. We have the Cloak of Invisibility, which Malfoy doesn't know. ”
Liu Jiecao was speechless in his heart, thinking about whether he should participate, and if he did, he would have the opportunity to be punished into the forbidden forest......
Thinking of the unicorn that was killed by Quirrell's blood, even if its corpse can't be moved, but by the way, taking a little bit of its blood and hair, whether it is used for cloning or for alchemy materials, is worth going once.
As for the possibility of being deducted more points, but since it is very likely that he will participate in Harry's Savior Trial together in the end, then it doesn't matter that part of the points deducted can be earned back because of this.
For a while, Liu Jiecao had already made up his mind.
Then, when they went to inform Hagrid, they found the Great Hound Tooth sitting outside the door, with a bandage around his tail. Hagrid opened the window and spoke to them.
"I can't let you in." He gasped and said, "Noble is hard to deal with right now - I can't do anything about it." ”
They told Hagrid about Charlie's letter, and Hagrid's eyes welled up with tears, but it could also be because Noble had just bitten his leg.
"Huh! It doesn't matter, it just bites my boot -- it's playing -- after all, it's a little fluffy baby. ”
The little furry baby banged on the wall with her tail, and the window clicked.
Harry and Hermione walked back to the castle, hoping that Saturday would come sooner.
Liu Jiecao looked at the two of them and felt that the two of them, even the hospitalized Ron, would never have any more love for the dragon from now on. (To be continued......)