Chapter 35 Stone and Dragon
Since inviting their roommates to join the association, their spell skills have improved by leaps and bounds. After all, Professor Flitwick, the close-knit grandfather, is no joke.
The snow-covered Hogwarts was soon taken away by time. Spring had arrived, marking the second half of Hogwarts' first school year.
That day, in the library, Harry and Ron were still aimlessly looking for Nick Flamel, while Aiden was reading "Alchemy: From Beginner to Die" with relish.
Hermione came over quickly with a large book in her arms and threw the book in front of the three people.
"I should have known. Aiden clearly reminded me. Why was I so stupid?" Hermione's tone was a little annoyed.
"You just discovered it." Ron took over her conversation.
I really don’t know how he will be able to hook up with Hermione in the future, Aiden rolled his eyes.
Hermione glared at Ron, "Here you see, Nicolas Flamel, the creator of the Philosopher's Stone, celebrated his 665th birthday last year."
"What stone?" *2
Looking at the two of them, Aiden felt somewhat helpless and explained, "The Philosopher's Stone has enormous magical power. Currently, the academic community knows of two uses for it. One is to refine gold, and the other is to refine elixirs of immortality."
"That's it, Snape must want to steal him." Harry's clever little head immediately connected all the things.
"Wow, refining gold is really awesome," Ron added.
"I must remind you that as a well-known potion master, Severus Snape is not short of money." Aiden made his last struggle.
"But he may not desire immortality, right? Remember what he said to us in the first class? I can teach you to avoid death and create glory." The top student Hermione completed the logical loop for this suspicion.
Aiden rolled his eyes and stopped trying to persuade her.
That night, the Iron Triangle took Aiden to Hagrid's hut and knocked on Hagrid's door.
"Oh, it's you, but I'm sorry, I may not be free today." Hagrid closed the door directly.
"Hagrid, we know about the Philosopher's Stone" * 3
The closed door quickly opened again, and Hagrid looked at them with a complicated expression, "Oh~."
"Hagrid, we know Snape wanted to steal the Philosopher's Stone. He wanted immortality," Harry said.
"Yeah, he tried to kill Harry last time," Ron agreed.
"Snape, that's impossible. He is one of the professors who participated in protecting the Philosopher's Stone." Hagrid replied.
"One, this is too dangerous, Hagrid, you have to inform Dumbledore as soon as possible." Hermione reminded.
"No need to bother. No one knows how we got through except me and Dumbledore," Hagrid said confidently.
Aiden: "I don't have a say, do I?"
"Okay, you should go back. I have things to do." Hagrid started to chase people away.
But at this moment, the pot he placed on the fire made a slight crackling sound.
He took a large egg out of the pot and held it on the table.
When Ron saw the egg, his eyes widened. "This is...Hagrid, how did you get it?"
Aiden was also looking at the egg with great interest. The creature inside the egg was already showing signs of wanting to break free.
"I won it from a stranger, but he seemed to want to lose to me." Hagrid was a little confused.
As the cracking sound became louder and louder, the egg cracked. From the crack came the sound of the airlock deflating, and the egg exploded.
A young dragon appeared before everyone.
"What is this? A dragon?" Hermione was a little curious.
"Yes, the Norwegian Ridgeback, that's what Charlie studied in Rome," Ron added.
"Oh, it's so beautiful, look, this little guy thinks I'm his mother." Hagrid touched the dragon and got his beard burned.
"Hagrid, I must remind you that this is a dragon. You'd better send him away as soon as possible. It will only take two weeks for him to grow as big as your hut." Aiden spoke up.
"But he is still so young, I can't send him away, um...who is that outside the window?" Hagrid sobbed, raised his head and saw someone outside the window.
The four of them turned around at the same time and saw Draco standing outside the window peeping. Draco noticed everyone's gaze and immediately turned around and ran away.
"It's Malfoy," said Harry.
Aiden rolled his eyes, took out his wand and waved it, and the door of Hagrid's hut opened.
"Malfoy, come flying." Aiden waved his wand again and cast the Summoning Spell.
Outside the house, Draco, who was running back to the castle, suddenly felt his feet leave the ground and his head was spinning.
Malfoy came to his senses and felt himself falling into someone's arms.
He looked up and saw Aiden's handsome face. His pair of bright heterochromatic eyes stared at him teasingly, while he was lifted up by him in a princess hug.
"Good evening, Mr. Malfoy." Aiden smiled.
"We can't let him go, or he'll tell others about Hagrid's dragon raising." said Ron.
"Kill him." Hermione said viciously.
"Wait, sis, did you get the wrong script?" Aiden rolled his eyes.
"No, I won't tell anyone." Draco struggled in Aiden's arms.
Aiden put Draco down, "This guy is telling the truth, I just flipped his brain."
"How can you be so nice?" Harry was a little surprised.
"Humph, I'm not like you stupid lions. Living dragons are very rare." Draco said arrogantly.
Aiden sighed; "Well, Hagrid, I'll get you a prop and let you keep it for the time being, but you must arrange a place for this dragon as soon as possible."
"Its name is Norbert," said Hagrid stubbornly.
Aiden ignored Hagrid, took out his wand and pointed it in the air, "Call the suitcase." An ordinary suitcase appeared in the air and then fell to the ground.
"You can actually use the Flying Spell to directly obtain items in the castle?" Hermione asked in surprise.
"I just brought Malfoy here, but this wasn't a flying spell, it was a summoning spell of Transfiguration. I prepared the suitcase in advance." Aiden explained.
"Hagrid, give me some of the unicorn hair you collected in the Forbidden Forest, and also some water and a clean glass bottle." Aiden said to Hagrid.
Hagrid pulled out a large bundle of unicorn hair. "Is this enough?"
Aiden's eyes widened.
"Ahem, that's enough, go prepare the other ingredients," Aiden ordered.
Next, Aiden demonstrated a simple and easy-to-understand alchemy laboratory construction to everyone present.
He was seen carving the aguz (?) rune on the ground, then drawing a small circle, and throwing the bristles and water in a bottle in. After a flash of white light, only a pool of silver liquid remained in the bottle.
Then Aiden produced a carving knife, dipped it in the liquid from the bottle and began to carve runes on the suitcase.
Since Aiden had been practicing alchemy diligently during this period, he was able to draw more runes. This time, he carved four runes on the box, namely Fehu (?), Jera (?), Berkano (?), and Algiz (?).
Space, cycle, life and protection, the four forces flowed on the box. Then Aiden cast a traceless extension spell on the box, and a small world was created.
"Okay Hagrid, this thing is completely comparable to Mr. Scamander's box, you can keep Norbert in it." Aiden handed the box to Hagrid.
Several people entered the box and checked what was inside. Inside the box was a large forest with sky and land, which looked very spacious.
"Wow, you can create this forest with just a few strokes. Teach me, Aiden." Ron exclaimed.
"Okay, I'll make a list of books for you when we get back." Aiden didn't even look at Ron.
"Forget it, thank you."
Aiden rolled his eyes.
"Well, that's great. From now on, Norbert can be kept here without being discovered." Hagrid seemed a little excited.
"Can I come and see it?" Draco hesitated.
"Of course." Hagrid agreed excitedly.
