Chapter 4: New Hogsmeade Members
Ever since Ralph began researching herb cultivation, the herbivores of the Forbidden Forest have suffered a lot.
Because of their powerful magic resistance, those herbs won't have much effect on Ralph, at most the taste is not very good.
However, other creatures are different.
On that day, the herb in charge of the evil woman bird ripened early, and Ralph tasted it, and found that the taste was somewhat strange, sweet and sour, with pungent notes.
The whole bird was not good, and when it shook it, it put away the herbs and planned to give them to the centaurs or feed them to the unicorns.
In the following years, the herbs matured, and Ralph was left with only a medicinal field for planting, which had only been supplemented with organic fertilizer.
As for the rest, he tasted them one by one, keeping the good ones and the bad ones to the centaurs for potions, and of course, he would keep some of them and feed them to his subjects and neighbors.
Soon, the Forbidden Forest was making a fuss again.
Some magical creatures have suffered a "slight" loss of control due to eating the herbs fed by Ralph, while others have developed depression and misanthropy.
Then the centaur returned the part of the herb that had been stored, and ran away without looking back.
During that time, the magical beasts in the Forbidden Forest were most afraid of encountering a thunderbird and feeding you with seemingly "delicious" herbs.
The moon beast, which settles near Ralph's lair, shiveres every time it passes by the door or sees Ralph.
The ball bird, on the other hand, flashed away as soon as Ralph showed signs of feeding.
Looking at the warehouses full of herbs, Ralph misses the wizarding community even more.
Previously, through transformation, shrinking, and invisibility (as resolved in the Invisible Beast), Ralph managed to reach the area where the Forbidden Forest and Hogwarts meet.
After several days of exploration, he found that a secret passage had appeared in the location where the beating willow had been planted a year ago.
Turning into an invisible bird and bouncing around the passage, Ralph came to a shack with scratches on the walls.
Later, Ralph learned that the hut was called the "Screaming Shack" because of the terrible howl that came back from it whenever the moon was full.
The Screaming Shack is located southeast of Hogsmeade Village, relatively close to Hogsmeade Railway Station.
Not far away is Hogsmeade, the only wizarding village in Britain without Muggles.
Ralph hovered in the sky for a long time, and Hogsmeade was a picturesque village of cottages and shops. Because it is above the snow line, it is covered with a layer of snow all year round.
During the holidays, the trees in the village are filled with enchanted candles.
Ralph waited here on purpose, and when the train came, he evaded the fare and took the train to London. Thanks to the help of mystical dreams, Ralph knows a lot about the British wizarding world.
Now Voldemort's power is still developing and has not reached its peak, the wizarding society is quite stable for the time being, but small fights are still inevitable, according to Boss Tom, there are many fewer wizards in Diagon Alley, and there are many more black-robed wizards in Tumbledown Alley, and Ralph has also turned himself into an adult wizard and carried out a field trip.
Back in the Forbidden Forest, Ralph "convinces the people" and convinces a sniffer in the territory to help carry the goods to Diagon Alley or Tumble Alley to sell.
The sale was very successful, and there were some special gains in Tumbledown Alley, and a few wizards who didn't have long eyes were cleaned up, so they didn't want them.
After that day, there was a rumor in Tumbledown Alley that there was a very powerful wizard in England, with a strange sniffer who was willing to pretend to be other items, not only good at casting spells without a wand, but also extremely magical.
Some people trumpet that he is the patriarch of a family that raises magical beasts and cultivates herbs; It is also rumored that he is Newt Scamander; Some even claimed that he was the Dark Lord himself.
The rumors intensified, so much so that at that time, the people in the overturned alley were panicked and settled a lot.
As for why I went to Tumbledown Alley, it was because some goods were restricted from trade, such as the horns of the poisonhorns.
On this trip, Ralph buys a shape-shifting lizard skin bag to store the Golden Galleons, but most of it is still kept at Sniff.
He also went to Gringotts to exchange some pounds sterling, and was going to buy something glittering next time he went to the Muggle community to reward the sniffer and get his own gold Galleon.
'How merciful I am!' Ralph thought.
It's a pity that he ignored the ability to sniff at the beginning, otherwise, he would be alone now, far from being so troublesome.
After that, Ralph came to Hogsmeade as a little wizard, after all, to stay here for years.
He first visited Duke Honey's confectionery.
"Hello, little wizard, do you want to buy something?" Mr. Froome asked kindly, he was a large, bald man.
"Well, this, this, and that." Ralph decides to confuse the "enemy" first and buy something for it.
"Okay, Chenghui 1 Galleon 2 Sike."
"Well, give."
After giving change, Ralph asked:
"Sir, are there any houses for sale around here?"
"Are your family going to settle here? Your parents have such a good eye, little wizard, and let me tell you, our Hogsmeade village is hundreds of years old......"
Mr. Froome spoke "balabala", his eyebrows fluttering, and his spirit was very excited.
Ralph also waited patiently, nodding his head from time to time.
When Mr. Frum had finished speaking, Ralph spoke:
"Sorry sir, I don't have a home for the time being, I don't know who my father is, my mother left us after our siblings were able to live on their own."
"Oh, I'm sorry, little sir, I don't know your name yet."
"You don't have to be sorry, this is our tradition, you know, there are always some families that have some strange rules, my name is Ralph Alvi, you can call me Ralph."
"All right, Ralph. Wait a minute, I'll call Bonnie, she's my wife, let her take care of the shop, I'll show you the house. Oh, I almost forgot, my name is Ambrosius Frum, you just call me Ambrosius......"
In this way, Ralph managed to settle in Hogsmeade with the help of a group of amiable neighbors.
Unfortunately, good neighbors are also a nuisance, and once, when he came back alone from Hogsmeade train station, he was seen by his neighbors.
Then, that night, he was kindly called to the Three Broomsticks by Grandma Bonnie, Mrs. Froome, and began to be lectured and taught by the villagers.
Some people sang red faces, some people sang white faces, and Ralph was red and ashamed.
Then, there was a rule that when little Ralph wanted to go out shopping in Diagon Alley, he had to be accompanied by the elders of the neighborhood.
Ralph also weakly resisted with the phrase "Diagon Alley is still safe".
Then, under the pity of the men, Ralph was attacked by the ladies, and even Aberforth, the old bachelor, "paused" a bottle of whiskey to suppress the shock.