Two Worlds: I studied abroad at Hogwarts

Chapter 176 Hagrid's Thoughts

After obtaining the invisibility cloak, Moon's plan to deal with Montoya can be optimized again.

Invisibility cloak + monocular glasses.

It allows Moon to scout the opponent's deployment and equipment very well and prevent possible magic traps.

Invisibility Cloak + Sleepy Face Fungus Spore Powder.

It can be used for surprise attacks, releasing spores when the opponent is off guard.

Prevent the other side from having time to launch an effective attack and achieve absolute control over the battlefield.

Invisibility Cloak + Professor Flitwick's training plan.

Improves Moon's spell attack ability, interferes with the opponent's perception, and makes it impossible for the enemy to accurately judge his position and movement trajectory.

It can also perfectly dodge the opponent's attacks and avoid suffering substantial damage.

In addition, the invisibility cloak can also ensure that Moon can evacuate safely and escape tracking when the combat situation is unfavorable.

Of course, when using the invisibility cloak, you should also note that this alchemical item is not always effective, and the timeliness must also be taken into consideration.

After reviewing the entire plan, Moon made a new discovery.

"You also need to find a way to cover up your body odor and be careful not to make too much noise, so that you can be absolutely safe."

Moon has learned from two captured magicians that Montoya has a magic that allows him to transform into a strange animal.

At that time, his sense of smell and hearing will be enhanced, which is also something Moon must consider.

"The smell might be solved with potions, but as for the sound, spells are better."

After formulating a new plan, Moon put the invisibility cloak away.

At the same time, he also told Pengpeng to keep the phoenix feathers safe. After all, these two things are too precious, and they will inevitably attract the attention of interested people when they go to another world.

On Wednesday morning, Moon got up and studied the newly borrowed book "Ancient Spells: Exploring the Original Mark of Magic".

This book records a wide variety of ancient magical gestures.

It covers everything from simple entry-level gestures to extremely complex advanced gestures that require deep magical control.

Moreover, the book provides a detailed breakdown of each gesture.

Including the degree of bending of the fingers, the direction of arm extension, and the coordination of body posture.

The author also provides these gestures with a large number of accurate hand-drawn illustrations.

In fact, when Moon first learned [Mirror Tide], he still didn't understand why the Faithless couldn't just cast magic with their hands, but also had to use their arms and bodies.

Only now did he realize that these actions were necessary procedures for performing ancient magic.

"No wonder the hand gestures of ancient magic were abandoned. Not only are these numerous movements extremely redundant, but they also consume a great deal of physical strength."

Moon now feels more and more that the direction of magic research by wizards in the world of Hogwarts is very correct.

Using a wand with a spell is much more convenient than using gestures with a spell.

For example, the phrase "Mirror Light Against the Tide" can be expressed in four sentences using ancient Chinese.

Each sentence has three sets of complex movements.

The last line of the spell "The mirror shines, the tide surges against me, all who come will return, protect me!"

Moon must perform a set of actions to complete the shield generation.

This movement is divided into three groups: starting, building, and stabilization.

This spell will only take effect when all three sets of actions are completed and combined with the spell.

Moon has now mastered the spell, but before he was just imitating it.

Now, after reading the information on ancient magic, he knew the true meaning of these movements.

What Moon has to do now is to break down these movements one by one, understand their meaning, and finally transform them into wand-waving movements.

Only in this way can the true [Mirror Light Against the Tide] transformation be completed.

After Moon had just roughly browsed the contents of "Ancient Spell Techniques: Exploring the Original Mark of Magic".

The portrait door of the common room suddenly opened. Moon looked over curiously. Usually no one came in or out at this time.

"Have you been to the Mirror of Erised again?"

When Moon saw Harry appear, he knew that the little wizard must have gone on another night tour of the castle.

He knew that Harry was actually very attached to the magic mirror.

Even if everyone else decides not to go, he will definitely try it.

"Yes, I knew you were the only one here at this time. Where's Hermione?"

After hearing Harry's question, Moon realized that something seemed to be missing in the common room.

"I don't know, maybe I didn't get up today?"

Moon simply glanced at where Hermione usually sat, then back at Harry.

"How was it? Did you see the person you wanted to meet?"

Moon knew why Harry went to find the Mirror of Erised.

Although he has never seen his biological parents, Moon's life is not that unfortunate.

But Harry was different. For him, not going back to number 4 Privet Drive for Christmas was already the best arrangement.

"No, but I probably won't go there again."

Harry said as he walked over to Moon and sat on the couch.

He really wants to find someone to talk to now.

Seeing Moon's puzzled look, Harry told him the reason without waiting for him to ask.

"I just saw Dumbledore in that abandoned classroom. He gave me some advice and said the mirror will be removed tomorrow."

[It is of no benefit to indulge in unrealistic dreams or an unpredictable future and forget about real life. Remember this.]

Harry kept remembering what Dumbledore had just said.

Although he couldn't fully understand it now, he knew that the principal had no bad intentions.

After hearing what Harry said, Moon immediately guessed that the owner of the footprint should be Dumbledore.

"You mean that the mirror belonged to Dumbledore and that he saw everything you saw in it."

Moon asked curiously.

"Yes, he himself said that his invisibility magic is very advanced and ordinary people can't see through it at all."

As Harry spoke, he also remembered the time when he and Moon used their wands to examine the half footprint.

"Did he also see the reflections of other people?"

Moon asked quickly.

"He probably saw it. Anyway, he mentioned Ron becoming Head Boy. After all, that only happened in the mirror over there."

Although Harry didn't know why Moon was asking these questions, he still told the truth.

After hearing Harry's retelling, Moon knew why he got the invisibility cloak.

Dumbledore must have seen Moon's strange reflection in the magic mirror, and then asked the Phoenix Fawkes to deliver the invisibility cloak.

"Did Dumbledore say anything else?"

Moon didn't know how much the headmaster knew, he could only guess based on what Harry said.

"Nothing else happened. He just said I'd see the Mirror of Erised again and asked me not to worry. He also said someone would help me, but I didn't understand what he meant at all."

When Harry said this, Moon's eyes were fixed on him.

The contents of yesterday's letter automatically came to mind.

"Help Harry, but what kind of help does Harry need?"

Moon now didn't know what Dumbledore wanted to express.

Moon hadn't seen Hermione since Wednesday morning.

It wasn't until the first Defense Against the Dark Arts class that morning that Moon curiously asked Hermione's roommate, Lavender, about it. "Oh, Hermione has a cold and went to the school infirmary last night."

"Cold, is it serious?"

"I don't know. Oh, by the way, she said she wanted to borrow your course notes and asked you to remember them in detail."

When Lavender said this, there was a hint of disgust in her tone.

Because this morning when she said she would lend the notes to Hermione.

Hermione hesitated for a long time, but finally decided to borrow Moon's notes.

Although Lavender knew that Moon's attitude towards study was more careful than anyone else, she still felt a little depressed when she thought of Hermione's attitude.

"Okay, I'll go to the school infirmary tonight and give him the notes."

Moon didn't know why Hermione caught a cold, but he knew that after the weather got colder, many little wizards started sneezing in the castle.

For every young wizard, there is no need to take notes on the content of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

You only need to prepare one textbook for this class.

Especially for Hermione, she had already finished reading the entire first-year Defense Against the Dark Arts textbook.

So for Moon, he only needs to focus on learning his own things in this class.

That's right.

More than three months after entering Hogwarts, Moon finally learned something from Quirrell's Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

Moon was originally thinking of finding a potion to cover up the smell on his body, but after smelling the familiar smell of garlic, he knew what to do.

Of course, Moon would not use garlic to cover up the smell on his body, because that would only point out his location to the enemy.

As for what to use instead of garlic, Moon remembered that among the 32 herbs he took care of in the herb club, there was one herb that was very suitable to replace garlic.

Invisibility cloak combined with magical herbs.

This can be regarded as an optimization of Moon's tactical preparation, which can invisibly increase the chances of winning.

As for how to carry the herbs, Moon thought Hermione had already given a good demonstration.

"It seems I have to go and see this little witch myself tonight."

Because he finally learned something from the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Moon's perception of Professor Quirrell also improved a little.

However, the professor seemed to be busy recently and never consulted Moon about the Defense Against the Dark Arts Club again.

After the Herbology class on Wednesday afternoon, Moon took Bongbong to Hagrid's cabin as agreed.

When Moon walked down the path outside the castle, he saw Hagrid and Fang returning from patrolling the Forbidden Forest.

"I knew you would come at this time, so I came back early."

Hagrid was very happy to see Moon.

He stretched out his big hand and put Bengbeng on Yaya first, and then walked towards the cabin with Moon.

Moon's eyes stayed on Hagrid's little red umbrella.

He had encountered Hagrid patrolling the Forbidden Forest before, and at that time the Forbidden Forest warden would carry a giant crossbow with Fang.

Now the giant crossbow is gone, leaving only a small red umbrella.

Of course Moon knew that the little red umbrella contained the wand that had been repaired just last week.

But seeing a tall wizard holding a small red umbrella to patrol the Forbidden Forest, Moon still felt that this combination was a bit weird.

After noticing Moon's gaze, Hagrid lowered his head and whispered something to him.

"It's awesome, much more useful than that crossbow."

After hearing what Hagrid said, Moon knew that the other party must have tried to cast spells with a wand many times in the Forbidden Forest.

"What's in the Forbidden Forest?"

When Hagrid patrols the Forbidden Forest, he used to carry a giant crossbow, but now he has to carry a wand.

This inevitably made Moon curious about what was in the Forbidden Forest that required Hagrid to face it so seriously.

"Oh, it's nothing, most of them are cute, like the big white spider, unicorn, centaur, thestral, hippogriff"

Hagrid knows all the magical creatures like the back of his hand, remembering them in great detail, including their territories and preferences.
However, when Moon heard him say that the spider was very cute, he still couldn't agree, especially the big white spider.

"Besides that, is there any danger? You still carry your umbrella with you."

"Oh, this!"

Hagrid held up his little red umbrella and explained.

"It's not these little cuties it has to deal with, but the ferocious animals that have entered the forbidden forest, as well as some poachers."

Through Hagrid's description, Moon learned that the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts was the largest gathering place for magical animals in the entire British wizarding world.

Many greedy people would venture in here just to get the fur and flesh of these magical animals.

To deal with them, Hagrid had to patrol the Forbidden Forest every day.

As Hagrid was telling the story, they finally returned to the cabin.

As soon as the door was opened, Yaya carried Bengbeng and ran to the corner.

There stood a newly woven wooden basket.

"Ya Ya, shut up! That's not food."

When Hagrid noticed Fang's actions, he immediately ran over and took out a round object from the big dog's mouth.

Moon also followed curiously because he heard the sound of jumping happily.

"what is this?"

Moon repeated Bengbeng's question.

"Oh, it's Pu Rongrong. This is a method I found to strengthen the levels in the Forbidden Forest."

Hagrid said as he showed Moon what he had in his hand.

This is a magical creature that is smaller than Moon's fist.

It is covered with creamy yellow fur and is shaped like a ball, which is very cute.

Perhaps because it had just been taken out of Yaya's dog's mouth, Pu Rongrong kept trembling in Hagrid's palm.

"How do I use this? It doesn't look very powerful."

Moon already knew that Hagrid's challenger was a ferocious three-headed dog, the same big guy that had once bitten Snape.

But this furry and soft little guy in front of me seems to have no abilities other than being cute.

After hearing Moon's question, Hagrid first put the cattails in Moon's hands, then walked to the door and closed it.

"This little guy isn't very strong, so many people use him as a pet. But he does have one advantage."

Hagrid said as he walked over to the head of the bed where on the chest of drawers was a record player that he had borrowed.

When he got the pointer of the record player in place, soothing music began to play.

The little guy in Moon's arms jumped up happily after hearing the music, and jumped more and more vigorously.

"You see, it's like this. Pu Rongrong dances really hard when she hears music, and Lu Wei, uh, you know."

Moon already knew from Hagrid's words how to pass the three-headed dog level.

Music, sleep.

"Don't worry, I'll keep it a secret!"

Seeing Hagrid's somewhat nervous expression, Moon said with a firm look in his eyes.

"Oh, of course I believe you."

Hagrid said this and looked outside the house with some concern.

Moon asked curiously as he put Pu Rongrong back into the wooden frame.

"By the way, now that you've found a way, what are you going to do with me?"

(End of this chapter)