Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

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In fact, wizards can use any kind of tool to cast spells, including bare hands.

It's just that ordinary wizards are used to magic wands, and it's difficult to cast spells without a wand.

The sudden change ended the argument between Hermione, Harry, and Ron, and diverted everyone's attention. Ivan expressed his thoughts about the magic left by Snape in good time...

Chapter 1362 Contraband Trading

"As for the matter discussed just now, I think Hermione is right." Ivan expressed his opinion, and he noticed the disapproving expressions on the faces of Harry and Ron, "I'm not saying that magic is dangerous, but ha It is indeed very irresponsible to use it on other people without knowing what a magic is."

"Princes don't leave behind dangerous magic," said Harry stubbornly. "He's not a Death Eater, and I trust him."

"I also don't think he's a bad guy, and we agree on this point," Ivan said.

He didn't want to argue with Harry, this guy's absolute trust in the prince now couldn't be convinced for a while.

If he said a bad word about the prince, it is estimated that Harry's emotions would become agitated again, and he would fall into an argument just like before.

This kind of thing is actually easy to understand. The initial favorability between different people is different.

In the case of hiding his identity, the notes left by Snape helped Harry gain the limelight in the Potions class, and gained an initial favor from him, and there were many non-magic things marked in it that were consistent with Harry's views, That is to say, Harry and Snape were more compatible in school days, and the Half-Blood Prince directly gained his trust.

Before this kind of trust, Harry would not believe Hermione's unsubstantiated guesses, no matter how reasonable they were.

"I believe the prince is not a bad wizard, but we are not sure of his true identity after all." Ivan continued, "So, be careful, we can test the magic left by the prince in advance and find an empty classroom Use one by one, check the magic on it, and use it on others after making sure there is no danger."

"That's a good idea. Check all the spells left by the prince." Ron agreed. "I dare say that there must be many interesting spells like Fuchsia in that book."

"Well, I'm fine with that, if it reassures you." Harry was persuaded.

"I also agree with this suggestion. It is much better to check all the magic left in that book than to directly use it on people and cause irreparable consequences." Hermione hesitated, and then said, "But during the inspection process , Ivan must be present."

"Why? Harry and I can do this, Ivan is so busy..."

"Because Aiwen has enough strength to deal with those unexpected situations that may happen, we now assume that the magic left by the guy who claims to be a prince is very dangerous." Hermione said, "He did leave me Given that impression, no decent wizard would create magic like the Fuchsia."

"You're biased, Harry's father used this magic."

The endless debate started again. If external factors such as time and physical strength were not considered, they could argue like this for a whole day, and no one could convince anyone.

Fortunately, Ginny appeared at this time and diverted attention.

"I saw Professor McGonagall just now, and she asked me to give this to you." She said and handed over a roll of parchment.

On it is the familiar long, thin, sideways font, Dumbledore's font.

"Thank you, Ginny, Dumbledore's class is on...Monday night." Harry unfolded the parchment to show Ivan, and he felt that his mood was relaxed and happy, and he transferred from the prince to other people. In terms of things, "By the way, Ginny, are you going to Hogsmeade with us later?"

"I'm going with Dean, maybe I'll see you there," she said, and waved them away.

"By the way, go to Hogsmeade, sorry, Harry, I forgot to tell you, I will be with Lavender later, she wants me to accompany her to a new shop, it seems to sell coffee or something The stuff shop is very popular recently." Ron said, and added, "You know, I refused, but she is too clingy!"

Of course, everyone knows that since last semester, Ron has always complained to them about Lavender's bad things, such as being too clingy to him, so that he has no time to be with everyone and so on.At one point, he even talked about considering keeping Lavender at a distance, but it was all talk and physical honesty.

"Okay, do you have any plans for today?" Harry asked, he looked at Ivan, Hermione, and Yi, who had been concentrating on his breakfast, and was not interested in things like the identity of a prince or dangerous magic. Ryan.

"It's something!" Ivan said, and he was going to meet Mundungus at the Pig's Head Bar.

He wanted to buy something from this guy, not a very common contraband.

Alvin needs a fresh, freshly dead house-elf body.

He didn't have any special hobby of collecting elf corpses or doing something with them, but he needed it to activate the demon altar under the kitchen.

This is a necessary material for summoning that demon. Since Dumbledore's second training is next Monday, Ivan is going to get this thing.

Mundungus had written to tell him that he had got a corpse that met his requirements!

"We are going to take a look at the candy store first." Hermione said, she knew that Aiwen was going to trade this special contraband, and she also helped when repainting the magic runes on the demon altar, "then go buy some daily Supplies and spell-casting materials, and..."

"Pygmy Puff!" Elaine interjected.

"That's right, I'm going to buy pygmy puffs, this magical animal is very popular among girls recently."

"It's that strange round animal with a very long and thin pink tongue that sticks out all the time, sticking out like a snake?" Harry said, remembering the scene of Ginny teasing that thing that day.

"It's that thing. No one raised it before. Since Fred and George's store put it on the shelves, dwarf puffs have become popular. Many girls think they are cute."

What a weird aesthetic that such a strange animal is suddenly popular among girls.

A round monster that can only stick out its tongue and lick it around. Ivan doesn't understand what's so cute about this thing, and what girls like about it.

Even Elaine, who has never been very interested in such things, mainly asked for a pygmy cattail.

But then again, it's a trend.

The merchandise sold at Fred and George's shop is becoming more and more popular, and there are many things that he seems to be inexplicable to set a trend among young wizards.

"Anyway, there's a lot to buy today, Harry, are you with us?"

"I'd better forget it." Harry hesitated and said, he thought it was better not to join Ivan, Hermione, and Elaine on the shopping trip to pick out some cute pygmy cattails and spell-casting materials, "I plan to Sit at the Three Broomsticks for a while, and if you're done you can go to me..."

Chapter 1363 Slughorn's Invitation

After breakfast, everyone lined up to leave the castle together.

Filch stood at the oak gate as usual, checking the names of the students who were allowed to go to Hogsmeade one by one.

This time was longer than before, because in addition to checking the list, he had to repeatedly test everyone with a spy device.

Filch had that skeptical look on his face, as if every student passing him was carrying some dangerous dark magic item.

The spy is a simplified version that the Ministry of Magic is using, and Ivan is not sure how useful this thing is.

Hermione said Filch had used it to check out Crabbe's dark magic item on the first night of school.

It sounds good, but it certainly didn't detect the contents of Ivan's carry-on bag.

"I don't understand, what does it matter if we smuggle out the dark magic item?" When it was Ron's turn, he stared at the long, thin spy device uncomfortably, and asked, "I'm afraid you should check Something we brought in, right?"

He swears, and Filch pokes him a few extra times with his spy device.

When they walked outside in the strong wind, rain and snow, he was still grinning in pain. It turned out that the spy device can still be used like this...

Speaking of which, today's weather is really bad enough, and this year's winter seems to have come very early.

Ivan couldn't help but wonder whether Voldemort and the evil gods had the ability to affect the climate, otherwise how could this bad weather be explained?

The walk to Hogsmeade was uncomfortable, very windy and cold with rain keeping the temperature down.

Although everyone walked together, no one spoke.

On the road leading to Hogsmeade, you can see students bending forward against the wind everywhere.

Everyone had scarves wrapped around their heads, and even then, the exposed parts were numb with the cold.

This kind of weather should be curled up in a warm bed or in a warm common room instead of coming out. When they finally entered Hogsmeade, this feeling became more intense, similar to Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade Almost half of the shops in De Village are closed, making it extremely depressed.

The door of the first shop at the entrance of the village, Zoko’s joke shop with the largest flow of people, was boarded up.

Ivan heard Harry lament, although Fred and George's joke products are very popular, but as a veteran prank supplier, Zuko's joke shop still has many unique products, and its closing makes people feel Pity.

Thankfully, the Honeydukes Candy Shop was still open, making their trip a little less boring.

The group was not in a hurry to leave, and decided to go to the Honeydukes Candy Store first.

After entering Hogsmeade village, most of the students staggered towards the crowded shop.

A few seconds later, everyone feels a sense of pleasure as the warm breath of toffee smells on the face.

"Thank God, it's so good here, I really want to..."

"Ah, children, I didn't expect to meet you here!" said a bell-like voice behind them.

Ivan's heart jumped, it was Professor Slughorn's voice.

They turned around and saw Professor Slughorn.He wore an enormous plush hat, a coat with a matching plush collar, and clutched a large bag of candied pineapple that took up at least a quarter of the tiny shop.

"Ivan, Harry, Hermione, Elaine, it's such a coincidence to see the four of you here." Slughorn said kindly, not knowing if it was intentional, and he missed Roy again. Well, "Speaking of which, you four little guys have missed my three small dinner parties in a row! This is no good, no, children, I am determined to invite you, and you can share with those who attended the party Ask around, everyone loves the vibe there.”

Ivan never doubted this, the point is that they didn't talk at all to the guys who could like Slughorn's party.

Most of the things that those people pursued and liked were denied and rejected by the four of them.

God knows how much effort they had spent over a month trying to turn down Slughorn's invitation.

Harry's strategy was that every time Slughorn sent him a small invitation with a purple ribbon, he deliberately arranged for the team to practice, regardless of the time and weather, it was training, this Tactics ensured that Ron was not left alone.

Ginny and Elaine can also use this excuse not to go, but most of the time Elaine directly refuses.

The excuses used by Ivan and Hermione were to conduct magic research, or simply avoid Professor Slughorn.

"I know the four of you are very busy, you train and study hard, and you are the best students in the school, but it's not harmful to have some entertainment once in a while. It's a good balance between work and rest. By the way, Elaine, I specially prepared the first class The blood of the dragon, the blood of the black dragon of the Heshidia Islands, this is a high-end product, not only has a strong magic power, but also tastes very delicious, you will definitely like it, I guarantee." Slughorn said, "Then , how about Monday night, I think the weather..."

"Not Monday, Professor."

"Harry and I have an appointment with Professor Dumbledore that night to go to him."

"It's unfortunate again!" Slughorn exaggeratedly yelled, attracting the attention of most people in the store, "Ah, well, you go to Albus's, but you can't avoid me forever Yes. What about the ladies? Hermione, Elaine, are you two free on Monday night?"

"Free, free!" Elaine said impatiently, sniffing hard.

This greedy ghost may have been tempted by the black dragon's blood from the Heshidili Islands, and she had always refused before.

"Oh, well, we're going to the party on Monday, Professor..." Hermione said helplessly, looking at Elaine.

"It's settled!" said Slughorn with satisfaction, as if he thought it was a good start to invite Hermione and Elaine to the party.

He waved his hands pretentiously, and walked out of the candy store in a big way.

He didn't notice Ron until the end, like he was just a bunch of cockroaches on display in the store.

"That's really nice!" Ron was as sullen as he had been at the first invitation in the second week of term.

He seemed eager to go to Slughorn's party, thinking it would be a good chance.

Except for Elaine who was still obsessed with the taste of high-grade dragon blood, no one was in the mood to continue shopping. After simply buying some candy, the five of them separated quickly, and Ron went to the place where he had made an appointment with Lavender. Harry went to the Three Broomsticks with the two Creevey brothers whom he later met in the shop.

Ivan, Hermione, and Elaine are going to buy pygmy puffs, and then go to the Pig's Head Bar to find Mundungus for contraband trading...

Chapter 1364 The Cute Pygmy Puff

Adorable pygmy cattail!

Inside the Hogsmeade Pet Store, the crowd was crowded, and many girls gathered around the counter.

Through the noisy crowd and the glass, Aiwen focused on watching the pygmy ponies huddled together in the cabinet.

Their bodies are like fleshy balls, they look very soft, covered with soft creamy yellow hairs, they bounce around inside the glass counter.

Behind the counter, a clerk is explaining to Hermione, Elaine and other interested girls about these pets that have suddenly become popular among girls recently: the pygmy cattail.A scavenger that eats everything from leftovers to spiders, the pygmy cattail is hardy and very easy to care for.

They are cute in appearance and docile in character. No matter you hug and knead them, or throw them around, they will remain indifferent.

In addition to having a cute appearance and a docile personality, the pygmy catfish especially likes to stick out its long pink tongue and lick it around. This is the main reason why many girls like this strange creature, because this peculiar habit makes them It looks more cute and flattering.

By the way, the pygmy pampas also like to get into holes, such as into the noses of sleeping wizards, and eat their dried boogers...

Juvenile pygmy cats often do this to wake up their sleeping masters, but they don't do it when they are adults.

The diameter of an adult Pygmy Puffy is about the size of two or three fingers, and it cannot penetrate a hole the size of a nostril.

The clerk told them that the pygmy cattail was once popular as a pet more than ten years ago, and now it is back in fashion.

Many girls gathered around the counter to buy excitedly. Ivan, who had observed carefully for a long time, was not very interested in the pygmy cattail. He thought it would be better to buy an owl.

You know, because of its popularity, the price of pygmy cattail is almost the same as that of owls!

But the owl can deliver letters, and what can the pygmy catfish, which can only jump around and stick out its tongue, do?

For his question, you can directly use the last conclusion of the clerk in the pet store as an answer, that is: this kind of animal is cute in appearance, docile in character, fluffy and soft, comfortable to the touch, clean, close to the owner, and Running around, barking, easy to keep, has many unique abilities, is there any reason why pets that can be carried around and used at any time are not popular? !

It seems that there is really no reason not to be unpopular. From this point of view, the pygmy cattail is really a good pet...

About two or ten minutes later, the three of them left the store.

Elaine carefully held a dwarf puff in her palm, she liked it very much.

Hermione is also very interested in the pygmy pampas, and the two are discussing what to name it.

On this kind of topic, Ivan couldn't get in the way at all.

Fortunately, it didn't last long. The cold wind on the street was blowing on their faces like knives. Hermione and Elaine didn't discuss any more for a long time. They tightened their hoods and hurried to the pig's head at the other end of the street. Go to the bar.