Hogwarts Collector, I cast a spell with the Eye of God - Chapter 102
The letter was from Hagrid, inviting him to the cabin, claiming that there was an extremely important treasure that needed his appreciation and guidance.
Having read the original novel, Ye Ting figured out what the”treasure” was, so on the day he received the letter, he could not wait to lead Zhang Qiu, Hermione and Susan to the cabin.
On the way, Hermione couldn’t help but be curious:”Did Hagrid say what he invited us to do? Why are you in such a hurry?”
“I asked Hagrid to find me a Niffler in the Forbidden Forest.” Susan’s eyes sparkled with anticipation, and she speculated,”Could it be that he found it?””
“What do you want to do with the Sniff?” Hermione asked puzzledly.
“I…want to have a pet.” Susan explained, pointing at Ye Ting,”Ye Ting suggested that I consider having a Niffler.”
“In addition to their almost obsessive love for gold, silver and treasures, the sniffers are also excellent pets.”
Ye Ting explained with a smile,”These little guys are extremely smart and agile, and most importantly, they are lively and active, which is very suitable for Susan’s introverted personality.”
At this point, Ye Ting showed a happy smile on his face, and he walked briskly, as if even walking with the wind
“However, the treasure Hagrid is talking about is not the Niffler.” He smiled mysteriously,”but something that will surprise you.”
Zhang Qiu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said,”Ye Ting, is the treasure you are talking about some kind of precious magical creature?”
“How did you know that?” Ye Ting looked at her in surprise.
Zhang Qiu smiled.
She knew both Hagrid and Ye Ting.
Besides precious herbs, Hagrid could only provide Ye Ting with magical animals.
And Ye Ting’s favorite thing was to collect all kinds of precious and commemorative things, including magical creatures.
To make Ye Ting so happy, this creature must be very precious.
Passing through the green lawn, the four finally arrived at Hagrid’s hut. At the door was a slingshot and a pair of rubber overshoes given by Ye Ting.
Yaya was locked outside the door alone, and was anxiously digging at the door, as if Hagrid was behind him. Looking at it, something shameful was going on in the house.
Seeing the four people coming, Yaya rushed over excitedly and wanted to lick their arms.
But Ye Ting recalled the last time he saw Yaya licking dragon feces, and quickly stopped it from approaching.
Hearing that Yaya had such an embarrassing black history, several people subconsciously stepped back, and Yaya showed a wronged look, and they were not allowed to eat at the buffet?!
Ye Ting knocked gently on the wooden door, and the door quickly opened, but there was only a crack.
Hagrid’s burly figure looked out through the narrow field of vision, and seemed very alert.
“Come in quickly, are you sure no one is following you?” Hagrid said carefully, and he did not forget to glance around, fearing that there would be any disturbance.
“Don’t worry, we haven’t been discovered.”Ye Ting said calmly,”I’m an old hand at this.”
Although Ye Ting had never been to Azkaban, he had mastered the anti-reconnaissance skills of Linnie and Amber, one of whom was an ace spy and the other a scout, both of whom were masters of this.
Hermione and Zhang Qiu looked at each other, confused by the mysterious atmosphere.
If you didn’t know, you would think they were doing some underground transaction.
Ye Ting walked into the room and looked around.
He found that all the curtains in the cottage were tightly closed, and the thick curtains completely blocked any prying eyes from the outside world.
The flames in the fireplace were burning, filling the whole cottage with… It felt warm, even a little stuffy.
Hagrid asked Fang to continue guarding the door, and then closed it tightly.
He enthusiastically brewed tea, served the homemade rock cakes, and invited everyone to feel free to enjoy them.
Seeing this, Hermione covered her cheeks with lingering fear and smiled bitterly,”My gums have been bleeding recently, so I won’t eat this cake.”
The last time she tasted the rock cake, she still remembers it. The hard taste almost broke her teeth.
Zhang Qiu also waved her hand politely to refuse:”I ate a little too much this morning, and now I’m not hungry at all.”
Only Susan, facing Hagrid’s hospitality, didn’t know how to refuse, so she had to praise awkwardly:”Hagrid, the rock cakes you made are really delicious, no worse than the food in the auditorium.……”
“”Susan, if you like it, eat more.” Hagrid said with a smile,”Take some back to the dormitory later, and you can also let your friends try it.”
Susan looked at the dozen rock cakes stuffed into her hands, and she was so anxious that she almost cried. Hagrid walked to the fireplace, pointed his thick fingers at the ball emitting a mysterious black luster in the fire, and his voice was full of expectation:”Ye Ting, I specially asked you to come here today, actually I want to ask you to help me see how to hatch this dragon egg.……”
“Dragon eggs?” Hermione jumped up from her chair in surprise,”Where did you get those, Hagrid?!”
“”Wow, Hagrid, you must have spent a lot of money on this egg, right?” Zhang Qiu’s tone revealed envy.
In the wizarding world, which little wizard doesn’t dream of owning a majestic dragon?
“Haha, I forgot to tell you.” Speaking of this, Hagrid couldn’t help laughing.
“This dragon egg is a treasure I won.”
Hagrid said proudly,”I just wanted to have a drink and relax, but I didn’t expect to meet a Greek guy. We played a few cards, and he lost the dragon egg to me.”
“Lose to you?” Hermione frowned,”This is not an ordinary bet, this is a precious dragon egg.”
“I don’t know, maybe he has some special channels.” Hagrid said nonchalantly,”But none of this matters. What matters is that the dragon egg is mine now.”
“What did you pay for it?” Hermione was keenly aware that things were not simple.”I don’t think just playing cards can……”
Speaking of this, Hagrid was no longer sleepy.
He took a big sip of tea, and then excitedly recounted the experience of the God of Gamblers:”That day, I was chatting with Melania and accidentally mentioned the topic of unicorns. She was particularly interested in this topic! I told her that I could give her a piece of underwear made of unicorn hair. She was so happy to hear that, and she said she would wear it for me to see if she had the chance.……”
“Wait, Hagrid, let’s not go into details here.” Ye Ting couldn’t help but interrupted:”Also, who is this Melania?”
“Oh, she is one of the girls who often drink sherry in the Leaky Cauldron. You may have seen her too.”
Ye Ting was slightly stunned. One of his teleportation anchor points was set near the Leaky Cauldron. He would pass by there every time he entered and left Hogwarts.
He tried to recall. In his impression, it seemed that there were a few old ladies who often drank in the Leaky Cauldron…
Hagrid called them girls?
Hagrid continued to narrate with great interest:”I was about to leave with Melania… After all, it’s Christmas, and everyone wants to have a good time. Unexpectedly, I met a friend of Melania. The guy was wearing a hood and looked mysterious. He insisted on buying us a drink and suggested playing cards. To be honest, my card playing skills have never been very good, but my luck was simply off the charts that day.……”
At this point, Hagrid got more and more excited and even talked about the card game:”……At the end of the tenth hand, he still had seventeen cards, and I only had two cards left. I covered the cards on the table and said to him:”You can beat me in one second, you can kill me in one second. If you can beat me in one second with seventeen cards today, I will eat the table right now!”……”
“”Ahem, Hagrid, stop talking about playing cards and get to the point.” Ye Ting interrupted him again.
This Hagrid was too outspoken, first about pornography and then gambling… If he continued like this, Ye Ting was afraid to talk about being stung by a Billywig.
The sting of a Billywig is the raw material for the popular candy, Sizzle Bee Candy.
But this bug also has a special ability.
Anyone stung by a Billywig will feel dizzy and then float up.
Generations of young Australian wizards have been trying to catch Billywigs and stimulate them to sting themselves in order to obtain this incidental effect.
In short, after being reminded by Ye Ting, Hagrid finally got down to business:
“Finally, Melania’s friend lost all his money and gave me the dragon egg as a pawn.”Hagrid said with a smug smile
“But it’s illegal to keep dragons privately, right?”
Hermione pointed out seriously,”In 1709, the Wizarding Conference passed a bill prohibiting the keeping of dragons. If you were caught………”
“Well, as long as you are careful and don’t get caught, it will be fine.”Hagrid turned his head away with a guilty look on his face.
“To be honest, raising a dragon in the Forbidden Forest is actually not a big deal.”Ye Ting shrugged indifferently.
In his eyes, Hogwarts is a magic school after all, and raising a dragon is nothing special.
Think about it, if Muggles can raise peacocks on campus, then why can’t Hogwarts raise a few dragons in the vast Forbidden Forest?
Everyone knows how popular dragon materials are in the market!
A dragon farm is simply a source of wealth.
Take dragon blood for example, it has so many uses that Lao Deng himself wrote a thick monograph on it. (To read the exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)
Not to mention that dragon liver, dragon meat, dragon nerves, dragon skin, dragon bones, dragon horns and even dragon feces are all very popular materials.
It is conceivable how big the profit margin of raising dragons is!
Not to mention that there is the golden signboard of Hogwarts behind it, this business will never lose money!
“.Do you really think so?”Hagrid was surprised when he heard Ye Ting’s support.
“How can you say that?” Hermione glanced at Ye Ting in dissatisfaction,”Don’t encourage Hagrid to break the law.”
“Speaking of raising dragons, this is actually a tradition of Hogwarts.”
Ye Ting pointed out with a smile,”You will know if you look through the school history. Hundreds of years ago, the Forbidden Forest was the dragon breeding farm of Hogwarts.”
“Is this…really?” Hermione showed a surprised expression.
Although she was a little skeptical, she had to believe it.
After all, she knew that Ye Ting was much better than her in terms of memory.
“Of course, otherwise how could the motto of Hogwarts be”Do not disturb sleeping dragons”?”
Ye Ting continued,”In fact, at the beginning, this motto did not have any special meaning. It was just a literal meaning, warning the young wizards of Hogwarts not to run around in the dragon farm for no reason.”
This was just something he made up.
Because the motto”Do not disturb sleeping dragons” has existed since the founding of Hogwarts, and at that time, there was no such thing as raising dragons in the school.
“”But,” Hermione pointed out sharply,”you just said that was hundreds of years ago. There must be a reason why Hogwarts doesn’t keep dragons anymore, right?”
“That’s easy.”
Ye Ting shrugged his shoulders easily,”I gave up dragon breeding at the beginning mainly for safety reasons. At that time, dragon breeding technology was not mature enough and accidents were easy to happen.”
At this point, he changed the subject:”But now it’s different. Modern dragon breeding farms have mastered a series of mature technologies to deal with fire dragons, and the danger has been greatly reduced. So the cancellation of dragon breeding farms in the past does not mean that they can’t be resumed now.”
“Can we really raise a dragon?”
Hagrid couldn’t help rubbing his hands, his eyes flashing with anticipation.
He had two dreams. The first was to raise a Kraken in the Black Lake – this is the largest magical creature known so far.
But the Kraken dragon is so rare that it is hard to find it, let alone raise it.
The second is to raise a fire dragon.
“I have actually studied this point.”
Ye Ting said seriously,”Although it is illegal to raise dragons privately, as long as you have a guarantor and follow the procedures of the Ministry of Magic, it is not difficult to apply for a dragon farm. Of course, the prerequisite is that you must obtain a dragon trainer’s qualification certificate.”
“Oh, I see!” Hagrid suddenly realized,”It’s like participating in O.W.L.S exam, you need a certificate”
“As for other conditions,”
Ye Ting continued,”a standard dragon training farm is essential. To be honest, Hagrid, the Forbidden Forest is such a good condition, we just need to clean it up a little and add some things required by the Ministry of Magic, and then we will have a qualified dragon breeding farm, right?”
“Haha, I told you, this is the best place to raise a dragon!” Hagrid was so happy that he couldn’t stop smiling. Ye Ting’s words really touched his heart.
“But…what if the students’ parents complain?”Susan thought more carefully.[]
Her aunt, Amelia Bones, is the head of the Department of Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic.
The Department of Law Enforcement is the largest department in the Ministry of Magic, and the head of this department is basically the second in command of the Ministry of Magic.
Under the influence of her aunt, she has a clear understanding of the procedural issues of such matters.
“In fact, neither the school rules of Hogwarts nor the regulations of the Ministry of Magic explicitly stipulate that Hogwarts cannot keep dragons.”
Ye Ting smiled slightly,”This kind of thing is like a night walk, as long as you are not discovered, it is not a violation. So, raising a dragon is the same, as long as the law does not say so, then we are legal and compliant.……”
“Great! Thank you, Ye Ting.” With Ye Ting’s encouragement, Hagrid gradually put his mind at ease.
