Chapter 559 Hagrid’s Gift
Hermione is an activist and soon established the Defense Against the Dark Arts Club.
Although Albert didn't know exactly how she persuaded Harry Potter, Hermione did succeed in inviting Harry and Ron to join the club.
The only problem is that they have no place to practice magic.
It was naturally impossible for Albert to tell them the secret of the Room of Requirement. After all, it had always been the place where he and Isobel dated. Once many people knew about the existence of the Room of Requirement, they would not be able to use it well for dates in the future.
Hermione once thought about asking Albert to teach everyone. If that was done, it would definitely attract a large number of students to join the club. Unfortunately, Albert didn't intend to be so ostentatious for the time being, and it was inconsistent with the original purpose, so he simply refused.
However, in order to show his support for Hermione, Albert introduced several practical defense against the dark arts books to Hermione, and encouraged her to ask Professor Lockhart if she didn't understand.
In fact, Albert had already guessed Hermione's idea. First, increase the number of people in the club, and then invite Professor Lockhart to take time to teach them. In this way, Harry would not resist.
In just a few days, the number of members in the club has expanded to five, and there is a trend of further expansion.
At this moment, the five people headed by Hermione were sitting not far from Albert, discussing the obstacle spell they were practicing recently.
This is Albert's advice to Hermione. The Obstacle Spell is a very practical spell, and the way to practice it is also very simple: throw a paper ball at the opponent, and then use the spell to stop the paper ball in mid-air.
For young wizards who have just come into contact with magic, obstacle spells are still a bit difficult, but they enjoy it. Even though Ginny and Colin did not join the club to learn Defense Against the Dark Arts at first, they are now talking about training. Things are also very exciting.
"I think you can definitely form a Defense Against the Dark Arts Club," Fred looked away from Harry and suggested to Albert, who was flipping through the Daily Prophet next to him: "Since Professor Lockhart came After teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts, we learned almost nothing useful."
“If you are willing to teach everyone, I believe many people will be willing...”
"I don't want to. You also know that I don't have that much time and energy." Albert interrupted dryly, "I have twelve classes to take every week, and a lot of homework. I really don’t have time to find time to join several professors’ clubs.”
"I'm getting tired of hearing these excuses every time you use them." George didn't agree with this. He knew that Albert could find a way to find time if he wanted to. After all, this guy knows the so-called "Clone Curse", although they still haven't figured out how Albert did it.
"This is not an excuse, but this is the situation. I am really busy." Albert turned to the second page of the newspaper and was considering only ordering the weekly newspaper in the future. The content of the daily newspaper was really not nutritious and was just a mess of rubbish. thing.
“Don’t think I don’t know, you are busy dating every day.” Fred couldn’t help rolling his eyes at Albert.
“I heard that Dumbledore has booked a skeleton dance troupe for this year’s Halloween dinner.” Lee Jordan came over and told several roommates about the good news he had just heard.
“Is the Skeleton Dance Company famous?” Albert asked, closing the newspaper.
“Of course it’s famous, but you don’t know?”
Several people looked at Albert with incredulous eyes, as if they were looking at some rare animal.
"The Skeleton Dance Troupe will definitely surprise you." Lee Jordan said excitedly, "Tickets for the Skeleton Dance Troupe have always been hard to buy and super expensive. It's really exciting that the principal can invite them to perform at the school. "
"I'll look forward to it a little bit," Albert said casually
"Are you really not going to consider the proposal I just made?" Fred still didn't give up. He thought Hermione's idea of forming a Defense Against the Dark Arts Club was a good one.
People should learn to save themselves.
“It’s like I don’t have to do my homework.”
Albert suddenly raised his head and looked at the owl flying this way. A package was thrown in front of him, with a letter on it.
However, what caught a few people's attention the most was that the package actually trembled.
"What is this stuff?"
Several people were obviously startled by this strange package.
George raised his hand and poked the package, and said in a low voice: "Isn't someone sending you something strange again?"
“There is a letter on it.” Lee Jordan reminded him. He took the letter out of the package and glanced at the sender’s name. “It was sent to you by Hagrid.”
As he spoke, he handed the letter to Albert.
“Can we open the package?”
Fred was really curious about what was in the package, so he asked Albert for his opinion. He felt that Albert would probably not open such a weird package by himself.
"Open it!" Albert did not object. "Hagrid probably won't send anything dangerous."
“Hagrid seems to have a different view of danger than ordinary people.”
Albert added in his mind.
He knew that Hagrid had once been friends with an Acromantula, bought a three-headed Greek dog at the Pig's Head Bar, and secretly kept a dragon at home illegally.
However, Albert was not too worried that Hagrid would send him something dangerous, not to mention that he was not the one to open the package.
He began to read Hagrid’s letter, which said two things:
Professor Wilmina Grubbly-Plan seems to have other magical creatures to look after and is unable to hold the position of Care of Magical Creatures Professor at Hogwarts for a long time.
The suspicious item in the package is "The Monster Book of Monsters". This book is Hagrid's chosen teaching material. I hope Albert can provide him with some advice.
Finally, please note:
Be careful, it can bite.
Just touch the spine of a book and it will calm down.
“What is this thing? Damn it, it actually bites people. It hurts. Please help me get it off.”
An angry voice sounded from the side. When Albert looked over, he found that Fred had "The Monster Book of Monsters" biting his palm and was shaking it hard, trying to shake the book off his hand.
After George and Lee Jordan reacted, they quickly stepped forward to help Fred pull the book off his hand. The book fell to the ground and immediately ran under the table, like some kind of crab.
"What the **** did Hagrid send you?" Fred complained to Albert while checking the injury on the back of his hand, "Who on earth said this thing is not dangerous just now?"
Albert ignored Fred's complaining gaze, took out his wand and waved it, levitating the book, and then conjured a rope out of thin air to tie it tightly.
"Okay, it's safe now." Albert threw the book on the table. Although the thing still trembled occasionally, it was obviously no longer able to bite anyone.
“Why did Hagrid send you this?” George asked curiously. “It looks like a mad dog.”
"It's called "The Monster Book of Monsters". Well, you heard it right, this is a book."
"Are you sure this thing is a book? I think it looks like some dangerous magical animal." Fred emphasized the word "danger" very hard.
"You'd better go find Madam Pomfrey to take care of the wound to avoid leaving scars." As he spoke, Albert reached out and gently touched the spine of the book, and "The Monster Book of Monsters" immediately became very peaceful.
“What a shame, why didn’t you tell him earlier if you had a way to subdue him?” Fred complained endlessly.
"Hagrid wrote it in the letter." Albert stuffed the book into his backpack, "Let's go find Madam Pomfrey. I'm sure you don't want to leave a scar."
The three of them all understood the meaning of Albert's words, and they all accompanied Fred to the campus hospital.
Halfway, Albert told them about Hagrid’s intention to apply to become a Professor of Care of Magical Creatures.
“Oh, my God, don’t tell me that that thing in your hand is Hagrid’s chosen textbook.”
The three of them suddenly became ill.
The news of Professor Kettlebo's illness has long been spread in the school, and Professor Graplan has temporarily taken over the Care of Magical Creatures class.
"I thought Professor Grubbly-Plank would take over Professor Kettlebo's position." Fred found it hard to imagine what Hagrid would be like after taking over the Care of Magical Creatures class.
Albert could understand the mood of the three of them, but they would not be the only ones disappointed. Many people expected Professor Graplan to succeed Professor Kettlebo.
“Anyway, next year is the last year.” Albert didn’t pay much attention to this matter. He also has no intention of continuing his Care of Magical Creatures course.
In fact, Albert even planned to give up Muggle Studies, Divination, History of Magic, and Astronomy in the sixth grade.
(End of this chapter)