Chapter 66 Taking Dragon Blood for the First Time
"If we leave now, will Professor McGonagall think that Malfoy is lying?" Ron suddenly suggested that they take the opportunity to leave.
Harry and Hermione were somewhat moved when they heard this. They looked at each other and then looked at Maka.
"It's too late to say it now." Maka Anders raised her chin to indicate that someone was coming.
"Very good." Professor McGonagall brought Malfoy closer, and the gatekeeper Filch followed behind her.
She was wearing a green silk robe, and her wrinkled and dignified face suppressed anger, and said:
"So Hogwarts doesn't restrict students from going out at night? It seems that I, the vice-headmaster, am not qualified and don't even take this rule to heart?"
Hermione didn't dare to breathe. She heard that Professor McGonagall was speaking in a sarcastic way. The people who didn't take the rules to heart were not Professor McGonagall, but the few of them.
Malfoy sneered silently at Maka behind him, which was a return of his temper.
"Never, I repeat, never, ever had any reason for you to wander around at night." Professor McGonagall's stern eyes made Harry and the others bow their heads.
"Professor, we were wrong." Maka was the first to admit his mistake.
His voice was sincere and his attitude was very correct: "We are willing to accept your punishment and education for this, to remember the lesson and never let similar incidents happen again."
Professor McGonagall's eyes paused on his face for a while, and her stern look eased. She said:
"In order to ensure that similar incidents do not happen again, Gryffindor will deduct 50 points, 50 points per person."
Ron's face fell. They had not made up for the points deducted after the last troll incident. Hermione answered questions in class every day, Harry won the Quidditch game, Maka repeatedly added points in the practical of the potion class, and he did some classroom hygiene.
Even so, there is still a gap, and they are waiting to completely plug the hole recently. Now, the hole has changed back.
"Besides that," said Professor McGonagall, "you will face a detention. Tomorrow Filch will tell you about the detention, and it will start tomorrow night."
Filch's thin face showed seriousness, and he nodded.
"Professor." Malfoy said, "And the matter of them raising dragons without permission..."
Professor McGonagall looked down at him, making him shut up, and said, "You too, Mr. Malfoy, Slytherin will be deducted 50 points because of you. Tomorrow you and your classmates will accept this detention."
Harry raised his eyebrows and almost laughed.
"I will take care of the dragon matter. Now you should go back, Mr. Filch, and take them back to the dormitory." Professor McGonagall left.
She walked towards Hagrid's hut in the distance, as if she wanted to talk to Hagrid about this matter.
"You little mice..." Filch glanced at a few people with his cloudy eyes, and walked ahead with a cold smile on his lips.
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"What a bad day." After returning to the dormitory, Ron lay on the bed and sighed: "What a huge score hole. If other Gryffindor students hear it, I don't know how they will look at us."
"What will the detention be tomorrow?" Harry also looked worried.
He had heard that the previous detention was usually carried out by Filch, and the content was very unfriendly. It caused some students to have psychological problems and was later abolished.
As a result, Professor McGonagall ordered Filch to take them to detention today. He was worried that the previous detention content would be picked up again.
Harry saw Meka lying leisurely on the bed reading a book, and he was surprised: "Meka, aren't you worried about the detention tomorrow?"
"What is there to worry about? The boat will be straightened when it reaches the bridge." Meka smiled.
Harry was stunned and felt that Meka's mentality was really good and enviable.
But he never thought that entering the Forbidden Forest was Meka's original plan. He wanted to see the world and try to find magical animals that were "free of charge" in it.
The Forbidden Forest is so large, Maika thinks that there are many kinds of creatures in it, and it is not impossible to encounter those powerful magical animals. If possible, he wants to get blood for free.
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The next day, when everyone in the dormitory left and the surroundings became quiet, Maika set out the magic potion equipment sent by Eva in the dormitory and began to refine the blood of the fire dragon.
It took a long time, and only a small amount of the original bucket of dragon blood remained, and a large amount of impurities turned into dirt and settled at the bottom.
The dragon blood that originally shone with fire spots became particularly crystal clear, and the fire light hidden and flowing in the dragon blood could almost be seen. Under this influence, the temperature of the dragon blood's invisible emission also increased.
After completing all this, Maika put the dragon blood into several potion bottles in batches, put away the rest of the things, and prepared to absorb the dragon blood before dusk.
"Hiss..." Maika poured the crystal dragon blood on the blood fetus, and the scorching temperature made his hand subconsciously want to retract.
But after observing for a while, he realized that the dragon blood would not harm the body, so he let the dragon blood drip on the blood mark on the back of his hand again.
"The body is heating up."
Meka quickly noticed that there was a heat flow flowing through the blood fetus to the whole body, as if there were lines of burning fire running through it, and there was a scalding breath from head to toe, as if he was in a steamer.
There was white steam emanating from the top of the head, and the mysterious blood lines on the body that were originally hidden were flashing, and the blood lines became clearer and clearer, covering the whole body, the hands, and the face.
"The vampire's blood is being purified, and the Animagus has begun to change."
Meka noticed that the blood in his body was making a boiling sound, much more intense than any time before. When he heard the sound, his face and pupils were covered in blood.
He closed his eyes, and the Animagus in the darkness was covered in blood, as if it was in a ball of bloody fire. Its body was being tempered by the bloody fire as iron, and its fur seemed to be ignited every time. A single slender hair carried a flickering ray of firelight.
"The bones, membranes, hair, and blood are all being exercised."
Meka seemed to be able to hear a creepy sound coming from the fire, like bones being broken, but the huge energy in the fire was washing away, healing the bones every time and allowing them to grow again.
The skin, hair, and blood were expelled from the bat's mouth like a bunch of black-red impurities. The shed skin quickly gave birth to new ones, the hair also grew quickly, and the new blood surged in the bat's body.
Soon, the bat was once again enveloped in bloody fire, like a bloody egg, pregnant with more changes.
Meka was about to wait when he suddenly realized that the heat in his body was too high, his cheeks were burning, and his soles felt like they were stepping on fire. He woke up from the stinging pain and paused the change.
"Dragon blood cannot be absorbed in one go. The effect of the medicine is too strong." Meka looked at the red and hot skin on his body, then looked at the remaining dragon blood, and came to a conclusion.
"I'm afraid it will take one or two more times to absorb all the dragon's blood."
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At night, outside the Gryffindor Tower, the Melkas gathered together and waited for the skinny figure of the gatekeeper Filch.
Filch led them towards Hagrid's hut, and he sneered:
"You are really lucky. In the previous confinement, students who made mistakes were tied up, hung up, and placed in the underground classroom. Think about the screams that I heard every time I passed by the underground classroom..."
Filch let out a chilling laugh.
Harry and the others huddled together unconsciously and slowed down, while Ron's eyelids trembled.
"In this confinement, you will work with Hagrid to deal with what happened in the Forbidden Forest. This matter is related to a magical animal called a unicorn."
Filch said as he walked, and soon, the group arrived in front of Hagrid's hut.
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