Two Worlds: I studied abroad at Hogwarts

Chapter 36 An unexpected gain

Seeing Hagrid's mysterious look, Moon felt a strange feeling.

"I was just about to deliver it to you today." After closing the door tightly, Hagrid turned and came to a large package.

"You know, they molt in the fall. There are plenty of them in the Forbidden Forest."

Hagrid said as he pulled out a tangled ball of silvery-white thread from the package in front of him.

"what is this?"

Moon had never seen such pure lines before. They even emitted a faint silvery-white light, illuminating the fine lines on Hagrid's palm very clearly.

"Oh, I forgot you haven't seen it. This is unicorn tail hair. I saved a bunch specially for you." Hagrid said as he stuffed the thin thread into Moon's hand.

Moon asked curiously, looking at the silver-white tail hair that Hagrid could barely hold in his hand, but he needed both hands to fully grasp.

"There must be at least a thousand of them, right?"

"Roots? Do we have to use the word root to describe these little things? I've always used a handful, a bundle, or a bag or something like that."

"Are there a lot of unicorns in the Forbidden Forest?" Seeing Hagrid scratching his head in confusion, Moon asked the question in his mind.

"Not many, only about a hundred or so. This may be the last unicorn herd in Britain."

Hagrid always felt sad when talking about these things. He always thought that the unicorn tribe could have lived freely in the forest instead of being trapped in the Forbidden Forest.

He believes that this will make the unicorn population larger.

"Actually, you've done very well."

After deciding to make a magic wand, Moon specifically consulted some books on unicorns.

He knew that such magical creatures were rarely touched by men, and it was a great achievement for Hagrid to be able to take care of them in the Forbidden Forest.

"Oh, thank you." Hagrid's sad expression disappeared quickly. Looking at the unicorn tail hair in Moon's hand, he continued.

"I know you're making a wand. This is a relatively easy-to-obtain core material. It should be enough for your experiments."

What Hagrid said was absolutely correct. Although there are many materials for wand cores, the mainstream ones in the UK are dragon heartstring and unicorn tail hair.

Of course, this mainstream is also controlled by the Ollivander family, and outside the UK, there are many people who use wand cores such as Veela hair, troll beards, and leopard hair.

However, it is even more difficult to obtain these materials.

Moon originally wanted to use gold Galleons to buy a batch of wand core materials, but now Hagrid has prepared so many unicorn tail hairs, which helps him save a lot of expenses.

"Thank you so much."

"No need to do that. Unicorns have to shed their fur anyway. There are a lot of these tail hairs in the Forbidden Forest right now. I just picked them up casually."

Hagrid's words reminded Moon of his only friend in Xilin: the horse breeder Gerald.

He once told Moon that horses shed some of their old hair in the fall and grow a denser, thicker, finer coat to prepare for the cold winter.

And unicorns, which are similar to horses, should have the same experience.

"Well, since you say so, I'll take it." Moon put the tail hair into his pocket and then looked at Hagrid again.

"By the way, I ate 'Hagrid Shortbread' in the Great Hall today."

When Moon asked this question, he saw Hagrid's mouth corners unconsciously rise.

"Yes, I recommended this to Dumbledore. He also likes sweets very much, and the menu of the Great Hall has not changed for decades."

Hagrid explained that he had brought the final version of 'Hagrid Shortbread' to Dumbledore, and unsurprisingly, won the headmaster's favor.

Dumbledore even sent house elves to learn the production process.

"You didn't see that they have a very strong learning ability. They can learn it after just watching it once. However, they have been suggesting that the rock cakes should be steamed instead of baked, but I disagreed." Hagrid said and gave Moon a playful look.

"Why don't you agree?"

Moon immediately understood what Hagrid meant and took over his words without any hesitation.

"Oh, that's the soul of Hagrid's Shortbread, isn't it!"

"Of course!"

Seeing the extremely proud expression on Hagrid's face, Moon also happily agreed.

Moon chatted with Hagrid for a long time, from whom he got some spare branches, and visited the pumpkin patch behind the cabin.

According to Hagrid, the pumpkins here are all prepared for Halloween, but now the pumpkins are not ripe yet, so they have attracted some bugs that want to steal the pumpkins.

Nearing evening, returning from Hagrid's Hut.

As soon as Moon entered the dormitory, he heard Ron's shouting.

"What the hell is going on, Scabbers? There's hair all over the sheets!"

Scabbers, lying on the bed, ignored Ron and looked very tired.

Moon subconsciously looked at Bongbong and found that it was just waving the old magic wand toy, so he felt a little relieved.

Putting the unicorn tail hair into the suitcase and taking a branch out from under the bed, Moon went to the common room.

The wooden stick from this morning had been carved away.

Even though Moon had experience in wood carving, crafts like making wands, which required a more delicate touch, were indeed somewhat difficult.

In fact, carving and polishing the prototype of the magic wand are not difficult for Moon. The difficulty now is how to separate the magic wand perfectly.

The book explains that this step must be done along the grain of the wood itself, otherwise the wand will be unable to guide magic if its structure is destroyed.

The introduction in the book was very brief, but Moon knew that sometimes fewer words meant more difficulty.

Before the wood grain is cut, it is impossible to predict its direction, and he can only rely on extremely subtle feelings to control the direction of the knife.

This is a very difficult challenge for Moon.

Throwing the badly carved stick into the fireplace, Moon began to work on the next one under the light of a bright flame.

Only after the new wooden stick was polished again did Moon start learning magic today.

Hermione, who was sitting not far away, wanted to speak, but seeing Moon's serious attitude towards learning, she had to give up the idea of ​​communicating.

The next morning, there was another bright flame in the fireplace.

Moon had no choice but to start carving and polishing again.

Fortunately, Moon's bad luck in making wands did not affect his performance in class.

In the morning's herbal medicine class, Moon once again perfectly mastered the planting and care methods of Bermuda grass, and he was rewarded with another college point.

In the afternoon's Charms class, Professor Flitwick explained a new spell: the Fire Charm.

As the most basic of all fire spells, Professor Flitwick required all students to master it, and also left a fifteen-inch homework on the derivation of fire spells.

In the Transfiguration class, Professor McGonagall asked students to turn quills into pens, which was much more difficult than turning matches into needles. Moon tried three times before he succeeded.

When Moon finished his homework in the library and returned to the dormitory in the evening, he heard Ron scream again.

"Scabby, where's your beard?"

　Seeking follow-up reading, monthly tickets, and recommendation tickets from the little wizard
　　
　
(End of this chapter)