Chapter 205 The Mouse
The busy and fulfilling college life always passes very quickly.
In the blink of an eye, time has rushed to the end of October.
The annual rainy season is still continuing, and the weather is getting colder and colder, just like last year, and the situation is as bad as ever.
“Rainy days always make people feel unmotivated!”
Albert covered a yawn and looked up at the rainy ceiling, looking for an excuse for being lazy.
"morning."
Fred and George were on one side, reaching out and patting Percy's shoulder hard, smiling and greeting their brother sitting next to them. This beat caused Percy, who was eating, to choke and cough repeatedly.
Albert was a little amused and handed over the drink next to him. Percy took a big sip of the drink and swallowed the food in his mouth before glaring fiercely at Fred and George who used Albert as a shield. .
The two people hiding behind Albert were opening and closing their lips. If you could read the lip language, it would be obvious: You swallowed it yourself, don’t blame us.
At this moment, the arrival of a large number of postmen attracted the attention of the students. These owls, which had traveled long distances in the rain, swooped through the rain-splashed windows and dumped the rain on everyone in the auditorium. and body.
A gray owl dropped a square package in front of Albert.
“It always feels like you get mail every day.” Fred said enviously, pointing to another owl flying towards this direction.
The owl sent a letter.
Albert glanced at the sender, stuffed the envelope into his pocket, and then opened the package in front of him. Inside was a book called "Advanced Magical Translation" that still smelled of ink. This book was most likely from Flourish Blossom Bookstore. Just arrived. "
""Advanced Magical Texts Translation"?" Percy glanced at the title of the book and frowned slightly, because he had never heard of the name of this book as he was also taking Ancient Magical Texts as an elective.
"This is the latest book compiled by Professor Babuling. It seems to be a reference book prepared for advanced ancient magic text courses." Albert explained casually.
To be honest, the book was published faster than he expected.
"A book compiled by Professor Babuling himself?" Percy looked at the advanced magic text translation in confusion and asked Albert to borrow it to read.
A moment later, Fred and George also had a thick letter from home in front of them, and they were still nagging: "Mom got us wrong again."
"What's wrong?" Albert noticed that Percy looked at him a little strangely, so he asked aloud.
“Did you help edit the annotations?” When Percy opened the first page, he was stunned because it said: Dedicate this book to Albert and thank him for his help with this book.
Albert looked confused and asked suspiciously: "What's wrong?"
"This..." Percy pointed to the content on the first page. There was no doubt that Albert was referring to the Albert Anderson in front of him.
"Yeah." Albert nodded directly and admitted, "I did help revise the content in "Advanced Magic Text Translation"."
At this time, the attention of the students in the hall was attracted by the slender package held by six owls.
“Flying broomstick!” Fred pursed his lips and murmured softly.
While everyone around him was still eager to know what was in the package, several people around Albert had already guessed the contents of the package.
Before the owls knocked over the breakfast in front of him, Albert quickly stood up and caught the slender package grabbed by the owls flying towards him.
“Can I open it?” Lee Jordan stared at the slender package and asked Albert excitedly.
“Sweep Six.” George also came over to admire this broomstick from the Sweep series. This Sweep Six broom was more expensive than their Sweep Five, and it was also faster.
"You actually bought a broomstick." Albert's roommates were surprised that Albert would buy a broomstick, because Albert had not participated in Quidditch training for a long time.
“Fifty Galleons, not bad.” Albert muttered softly.
When he felt someone's gaze directed toward him, Albert turned his head and looked in the direction of the gaze. It was Isobel, the Ravenclaw girl who had just retracted her gaze from looking at him.
Since the last Occlumency teaching, Albert and Isobel have maintained a friendly relationship, a bit like what was said in the previous life, the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water.
Hmm, it’s really just as plain as water.
When we met at the club, we would occasionally chat. The biggest communication between the two is to write letters to each other, and the contents of the letters are all ancient magic texts.
While Lee Jordan was introducing the advantages of sweeping six stars to others around him, he suddenly turned his head and asked: "Are you going to try out the advantages of the new broom later?"
"If you want to try it first, go out and play by yourself!" Albert didn't mind riding the new broom right away, especially if it rained.
“Then I will try this broom for you first!” Li Qiaodan said happily.
“By the way, do you know where I can get a living rat?” Albert suddenly asked as he took out his notes and flipped through them.
Mandrake's cry storage program has been successful, and it is still a cry from a young age. However, Albert is not sure whether the sound can kill a mouse.
Actually, Albert initially hoped that Sheila could catch a living mouse for him, but what was the result?
Sheila caught a bunch of dead mice for him, so Albert had to come out to stop the farce.
Originally, Albert hoped to catch a few mice at Hogwarts for experiments, but unfortunately, he still couldn't find any mice after searching for a long time.
“In the kitchen?” Lee Jordan said uncertainly.
"It's not that troublesome, Percy just kept a mouse as a pet." Fred looked at his brother with evil intentions.
“What do you want a mouse for?” Percy asked, frowning.
"Well." Albert thought for a while and said, "I am trying a magic experiment. In fact, the effect is similar to the coma spell. I want to use mice to test the effect first. However, I can't find the mouse for a while."
“So you want to attract my attention?” Percy frowned slightly.
“Well, don’t say that, Albert will definitely give you money.” George reminded with a smile, “One Sickle, two Sickles?”
"Three Sickles, no more." Fred suddenly said, slapping his thigh hard. His move startled the others.
“Your Scabbers is not a pet rat anyway, so it wouldn’t be a pity to die.” The twins mentioned this matter, which made Percy frown slightly.
You can’t try it with people!
Although the cry of Mandrake in its infancy cannot kill people, Albert still doesn't want to face its power directly. Finding a mouse to try is undoubtedly the best choice.
After all, the majority of experimental mice are still making contributions to mankind.
Even if you really can’t find a white mouse, a house mouse will do.
Hmm, Ron’s mouse seems to have been his brother Percy’s original pet. He remembered that the mouse seemed to be a wizard, named Peter or something.
I heard that the price of Firebolt is 500 Galleons. Does any book friend know the specific situation?
(End of this chapter)