Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 173: New term
As the Christmas holiday comes to an end, the new semester is about to begin.
The students of Hogwarts returned to the castle one after another to start their new lives.
To be honest, this seemingly "massive" horse riot has little impact on the vast majority of students...
Like the wizards outside the school, they had almost zero contact with this incident. In a sense, they are all spectators.
Most of the students have never seen the brutality of the centaurs (students were all evacuated and left Hogwarts immediately after the riot started)...nor have they seen the horses in the castle. The "wreckage" of people (except for the students who returned to school at the first time like Matthew, when they returned to the castle later, those remaining traces were cleaned up by Pringer).
Their understanding of the centaur riots, apart from the daily headlines on the Daily Prophet, is limited to the damaged portraits and sculptures on campus and in castles...
Looking at the portraits and sculptures that they had been together day and night in the past, encountering such desecration, coupled with the instigation in the "Daily Prophet", many young boys were filled with righteous indignation at this centaur riot.
Some extreme remarks, such as the fact that all the horse people should be killed, also emerged in an endless stream.
But other than that, the normal life of Hogwarts has not been affected in any way——
The lessons that should be taught are still to be attended, and there are no teachers and students missing; except that the castle briefly changed hands during the Christmas holiday, nothing seems to have happened.
……
As for where the remaining centaurs went, Matthew Wakefield was actually curious.
Undoubtedly, there is no trace of centaurs in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts, or even around Hogsmeade... According to records, this man lived in the Forbidden Forest for a thousand years. The community that has been going on for many years (almost even longer than Hogwarts' history) has come to a complete halt.
A large part of the centaurs died in the riots, which can be judged from the scorched manes, broken horseshoes and bright red blood that can be seen everywhere in the previous castle.
Compared with modern wizards who are armed to the teeth, the centaur is a magical creature that is in a state of raw hair and blood, and does not use any magic except prophecy. There is no possibility of confrontation. They are too fragile... let alone Even if it is the prophecy magic they are proud of, it is not the opponent of Gellert Grindelwald at all...
The previous tragic scenes at Hogwarts can show that it was definitely a one-sided massacre!
As for the other centaurs—
Matthew believes that there are definitely many wise centaurs who will not be so stupid as to break into Hogwarts for "death"...
There were rumors that they were migrating deep into the Scottish Highlands; some Aurors tried to track them down, but the centaurs were so scattered that the Aurors were too few in number to lose track of them.
The British Isle is too big, and the number of wizards is too small... Those surviving centaurs are scattered in every corner of the tens of thousands of square kilometers of the Scottish Highlands. Finding them all is an impossible task.
What's more, the remnants of the Order of the Phoenix may also be with the horse people...
Whether it's the half-blood giant Hagrid who colluded with the Yama people from the mouth of Professor Kettleburn, or the **** dog that suddenly appeared in the depths of the Forbidden Forest... Matthew believes that the "black wizard" of the Order of the Phoenix It is true that they colluded with the horse people.
……
The entire Hogwarts fell into a superficial calm.
Behind this calm, there is definitely something terrible brewing, and Matthew can feel it.
He is not alone in holding this view.
On the last day of the Christmas holiday, Matthew saw Draco Malfoy again.
According to rumors, Malfoy's knee was shot by a centaur's arrow, but it is completely invisible now... With the method of wizards, treating this kind of "flesh injury" can be said to be a piece of cake; Malfoy's Both parents are pretty good wizards.
"Hey, Matthew!" Malfoy greeted a little weakly.
"Did you have a good Christmas?" Matthew asked.
"That's it," Malfoy shrugged, "except for a day and a night in the centaur's cave, the rest of the time is pretty good!"
Matthew couldn't help smiling.
"Wait until this summer vacation, I think my father will take me to see a few experienced old hags..." Malfoy sighed, "It's really unlucky... After entering school in September last year, I have been injured for various reasons...I suspect that I am possessed by something bad..."
Matthew blinked and echoed a few words casually.
The two chatted about Christmas.
"By the way, Matthew," Malfoy suddenly lowered his voice and said with some seriousness, "My father wasn't going to let me come back..."
"Aren't you going to come back?" Matthew asked a little vigilantly.
"Yeah..." Malfoy nodded, "He told me that something big will definitely happen at Hogwarts this year... Many wizards from pure-blood families have felt it, and they are unwilling to let their children Back to school..."
Matthew couldn't help frowning.
Even at this time last year, the black witch Morgana was raging on the campus of Hogwarts, causing many vile attacks...At that time, no student's parents considered not letting their children go back to school...
"Then why are you back?" Matthew asked curiously.
"Because Principal Grindelwald didn't allow it," Malfoy sighed, "my father received a notice, and some of his friends also received a notice from Hogwarts... any Students are not allowed to drop out of school, nor are they allowed to transfer to Durmstrang or Beauxbatons, which was allowed before, otherwise they will be severely punished..."
Matthew froze there, seemingly lost in thought.
"So... my dad suggested that I should be as careful as possible in school for the remaining half of the school year..." Draco Malfoy said mysteriously, "If you don't want to risk your life... ..."
……
The next day, the school started.
They braved the cold wind again and made their way to the greenhouse with difficulty.
Fortunately, the temperature in the greenhouse is still normal, not too harsh... It's just that you can smell some weird plants from time to time.
But for more than half of their class time, they need to go to work outside the greenhouse... It is something no one wants to do to spend more than an hour outdoors on a cold January morning.
In fact, the content of this class was supposed to be the work of last semester; they needed to transplant flor flowers outside the greenhouse... But due to the heavy snowstorm at the end of last semester, the class was postponed.
But the flor flowers in the greenhouse can't continue to grow for too long. At the beginning of the new semester, Professor Pomona Sprout from the herbal medicine class led them to start to complete this work.
They wore dragon fur coats and thick masks, and then carefully dug out the flor flowers that grew similarly from the soil... After keeping them in sealed bags, they had to bring Follow them to the garden.
The process of the journey must be very careful, because the pollen of the flor flower is highly poisonous... Not only can the students not smell it, but if it is leaked during transportation, it may have disastrous consequences .
Professor Sprout carefully checked the sealed bags of all of them to make sure that everything was safe before taking them away.
The gardens of Hogwarts are rarely open. Professor Sprout opened the big rusty lock with the key... Everyone looked around curiously...
"Please don't fall behind!" Professor Sprout reminded kindly.
Five minutes later, they came to the fountain in the garden... Except for an open dirt field, there are small pale yellow flowers planted in other places.
"Can anyone tell me what these are?" asked Professor Sprout.
Because she was wearing a mask, her voice was a little unclear.
Matthew quickly raised his hand.
"Okay, Mr. Wakefield!" Professor Sprout called Matthew's name.
On one side, Agnes Lestrange glared at Matthew angrily, and put down her half-raised hand.
"These are highland daisies." Matthew replied calmly.
"Very correct!" Professor Sprout nodded at Matthew with great satisfaction, "Very good...then can you tell me why the Highland Daisy needs to be planted here?"
"The pollen of the highland daisy has the same properties as the pollen of the Flor flower, which can remove the toxicity of the Flor flower..." Matthew said calmly.
"Great!" Professor Sprout gave Matthew a thumbs up.
"So can we take off the mask?" A Hufflepuff student couldn't help but said, "I'm almost suffocating..."
As he spoke, he reached out to take off his mask.
"Of course not!" Professor Sprout severely stopped the student's behavior.
"Although the pollen of the highland daisy can detoxify the pollen of the flower flower, it takes a long time..." Then, Professor Sprout explained, "So, this kind of behavior is not allowed. Take..."
"We can do this because the garden is usually closed to the public... After Christmas, the flor flowers will stop pollinating; Completely disappeared..."
"...after more than a month, when the garden reopens on Valentine's Day, you will be able to enjoy the beauty of flor flowers...of course, there are also their various magical uses..."
"But we're only in second year, Professor," a Hufflepuff girl corrected, "we can't celebrate Valentine's Day this year."
Valentine's Day at Hogwarts is an orthodox festival every year... but it is limited to students above the third grade.
"Is that so..." Professor Sprout said with some embarrassment, "Well, I almost forgot... Then in February next year, you can come to the garden to appreciate the fruits of your labor a year ago .”
As if to ease the embarrassment, Professor Sprout shouted: "Okay, children, we will start working now... Pick up the small shovel beside you and transplant these flores into it ...After completing this step, the course on Flor flowers will be completely over!"
Everyone started working quickly——
This seemingly simple step, but there is a small problem.
The garden is not a greenhouse, because the temperature is too low, the soil is almost frozen, and it can't be shoveled with a small shovel... Theodore Knott even almost broke his shovel .
Still, Matthew came up with a good idea. He took out his wand and pointed it at the congealed mud in front of him:
"Flame ()!"
After baking with an open fire for a while, the frozen soil gradually softened.
Matthew waited patiently for a while. Due to the low temperature and the warm soil that was baked, the temperature quickly dropped again.
Taking advantage of this moment, he hurriedly planted his flor flower in it~IndoMTL.com~ When Matthew finished all the work, many other students were still waving their shovels vigorously.
……
The long herbal medicine class is finally over.
They were almost exhausted.
But Slytherin students, there is no time to rest now, because they still have a class on the first day of school.
The transfiguration class taught by "Severus Snape" took place just ten minutes after the herbal medicine class ended.
They dragged their tired bodies and rushed to the front of the transformation class classroom.
The door to the classroom is closed, and there appears to be a notice posted on the door.
Several students leaned forward, and they immediately showed very excited expressions.
"Professor Snape hasn't returned to school for some reason..." Malfoy and the others celebrated happily, "This transformation class has been temporarily postponed, it's great!"
This is naturally a good thing, even Matthew needs to take a good rest at this time.
But—
That Professor "Severus Snape" has not returned to school for some reason?
Matthew couldn't help frowning.
What is the reason?
When he suddenly thought of St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries, he once had a "meeting relationship" with Professor "Snape"!
Could it have something to do with that?
Matthew was lost in thought.