Hogwarts: Starting with full Unforgivable Curses

Chapter 77: Dragon Eggs? Can you get some egg whites so I can make Professor Snape a robe?

Hermione glanced at Ron with disdain: "The exam is in two months. Are you sure you can pass it?"

Ron: "Hey, I'll be fine, okay? Don't say those unlucky words!"

Dylan shook his head helplessly and continued to read the divination book in his hand.

"Auspiciousness and good fortune are also elements of divination."

Hermione had almost finished her homework. Seeing the divination book Dylan was reading, she couldn't help but lean over curiously.

"Dylan, do you think things like divination are real? I mean prophecies and stuff."

Dylan's fingertips gently turned the yellowed pages in his hand, making a slight rustling sound.

Hearing Hermione's words, he tilted his head slightly, pondered for a moment, and said softly, "As for divination, although I think it's not like a magic spell that can directly see the effect, it does contain ancient wisdom and mysterious power."

"There are many fortune tellers who can indeed see into hidden things through crystal balls, tarot cards, or even a piece of tea leaves."

Following Dylan's voice, Hermione's eyes focused again on the book in front of him.

The left and right pages of the book merged into a star map, with twinkling stars and many strange symbols and lines intertwined.

"It sounds like divination is even more mysterious than magic."

Dylan smiled softly: "If magic exists, why can't divination exist?"

Hermione blinked. "You sound like you mean something else."

Dylan didn't deny it, but continued: "Maybe you should believe that anything is possible."

"This is the topic I've been researching recently. Professor McGonagall plans to discuss it with me during our next remedial class. It's about magic and the power of the mind."

A hint of envy flashed in Hermione's eyes: "I wish I could be tutored by professors every day."

Dylan raised the corner of his lip. "Actually, you can also participate, but... the progress may be a little behind schedule."

He said it very tactfully.

Hermione nodded in agreement: "So I should read more books on my own."

At this moment, Ron was copying Dylan's homework quickly.

——But even if there were homework to copy, he was still absent-minded. While copying, he would occasionally look up and look around.

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a big man sneaking up to them.

"Hagrid? Why are you in the library?" Ron was startled, but he didn't stop writing. "Oh! Did you just run ten laps in the Forbidden Forest? Why are you so hot?"

"Nothing, I'm just a little irritated." Hagrid's voice was a little weak, and his eyes were erratic like a thief. "Also, I just wanted to see if you were there."

Dylan looked up and saw Hagrid with his hands behind his back, not knowing what he was holding.

——Your hiding skills are really poor.

"Hey, guys, are you...still here digging through a mountain of books just to find out who Nicolas Flamel is?"

——The way of changing the subject was quite abrupt.

"So…are you worried about us finding out who Nicolas Flamel is?"

Hermione also looked up at Hagrid, the corners of her mouth raised lightly, the amplitude was just right: "Don't worry, we have found it, by the end of Christmas!"

"Besides, we are doing homework now!" Ron added, looking at Dylan's homework book while writing and drawing in his own notebook.

——He doesn't care at all whether the written words are beautiful enough.

"What! You already know?" Hagrid's eyes widened like bells.

"There's more than that! The three-headed dog should be guarding the magic..." Ron hadn't finished his words.

Hagrid hurriedly stretched out a hand and waved it continuously.

"Hey! Shhhhh! Why are you talking so loudly? Do you want everyone in the world to know?!"

Harry looked at Hagrid. "We just want to protect the Philosopher's Stone. If you could tell us directly what else is guarding the Philosopher's Stone, such as whether there are any other mechanisms behind it, I think we can do a better job of this."

"—Don't say you don't know. When I was walking back from the locker room after Quidditch practice, I secretly overheard the conversation between Professor Snape and Quirrell."

"Quirrel talked about the many preparations he made for the Philosopher's Stone. Clearly, Fluffy isn't the only one guarding the Stone, right?"

Hagrid looked defeated by Harry.

Ron and Hermione also glared at Harry: "Hey! Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"

Harry ignored the two of them and looked at Hagrid stubbornly.

Hermione and Ron looked at each other, and stopped questioning Harry. Instead, they looked at Hagrid.

Being stared at closely by the three people, Hagrid glanced at Dylan who was reading silently and didn't seem to be prepared to express any thoughts about it, and sighed deeply.

"...Okay—fine! I really can't do anything about you."

Hagrid lowered his voice and said to Harry and the others, "After you finish your homework, you can come to my cabin to see Fang - listen, I didn't promise anything!"

After saying that, he straightened up and said, "Remember to come! Also, don't continue discussing those things here, otherwise they will tell me off!"

Having said this, Hagrid turned around abruptly, put his hands in front of him again, and walked away in a hurry.

When Hagrid turned around, Dylan saw a round object out of the corner of his eye, but it was wrapped in a piece of cloth.

He glanced at Hagrid's back for a second before looking back down at the Divination Book in his hands.

However, after Ron copied two assignments at lightning speed, his butt could no longer stay still and began to shake.

"You said, Hagrid was hiding something just now, and he wouldn't let us see it."

Hermione frowned slightly, pursed her lips, looked at Hagrid's hurried back, and said, "I think it looks like a ball."

"Ball?" Harry was stunned. "Why is Hagrid holding a ball? And is it necessary to carry us on his back?"

"Maybe it's a magic ball that can directly destroy the world!"

Ron's legs kept shaking, and he couldn't hold it back any longer, so he jumped off his seat.

"I just noticed that he seemed to be coming from that side. Hagrid can actually read? I don't believe it!"

Ron took a step forward and jogged between the bookshelves, his eyes scanning back and forth over the layers of bookshelves.

Soon, he took out several books and returned them again.

"Look! This should be the book Hagrid was reading just now. None of these books have been completely put back!"

"Hagrid is so rough in his work, no wonder Harry could trick him so easily." Hermione twitched her lips and looked at the books Ron had spread out on the table.

"Dragon Breeding for Fun and Profit," "From Egg to Hell," "Dragon Species in Britain and Ireland," "Dragon Breeding That Really Works..."

Hermione was a little surprised. She looked up and asked, "Why is Hagrid suddenly reading books about dragons?"

Harry tilted his head and nodded to one of the books on dragon breeding.

"When Hagrid first met me, I heard him say that he really wanted to raise a dragon."

"What?" Ron's eyes widened. "So he wants to keep a dragon in Hogwarts?" "Oh my God, the Ministry of Magic will arrest him! The law does not allow wizards to privately keep dragons! They are an absolutely dangerous species!"

Ron didn't expect Hagrid to play such a big game.

Afraid that Harry and Dylan didn't know the seriousness of the matter, Ron lowered his voice and said, "My brother Charlie has a lot of wounds on his body. They were all burned when he was dealing with a dragon in Romania!"

"Those wild dragons are so hard to drive out! They're all so violent!"

Dragon?

Dylan was reading a book while listening to the conversation between Harry and others.

Hearing this, he couldn't help but look up: "Just now I saw something in Hagrid's hand, it was a round thing that looked like an egg."

"Could he have gotten a dragon egg from somewhere?" Ron exclaimed. "He's at Hogwarts watching over the Forbidden Forest every day, how could he have gotten a dragon egg?!"

"And he's actually wandering around Hogwarts with a dragon egg in his arms? He's totally crazy!"

Harry raised his hand and pressed it down: "Don't be so loud, Ron, be careful someone else hears."

Ron curled his lips, but didn't say anything else. Instead, he kept his mouth shut.

Dylan glanced at these people and wondered if it was too late to stop now.
If someone was listening, they would have heard their conversation thoroughly. Would there be any need to speak in a low voice?
Shaking his head, Dylan flipped through the star map and observed the changes in the star tracks.

Because they were too curious about Hagrid raising a dragon, Harry and Ron copied the homework even faster.

Before long, several parchments were filled with writing.

"Very good!" Ron looked at the pile of homework and was very satisfied.

"It's OK—if you ignore the dog-crawling handwriting." Hermione glanced at it.

"You really don't know how to talk!" Ron snorted, pushed the homework back to Dylan, and then stuffed his own homework into his backpack.

"Dylan, do you want to go take a look at Hagrid's hut?" Harry also packed up his things and looked up at Dylan.

"I'll take a look too." Dylan closed the divination book. "After all, it's very likely a dragon egg. I just need some egg white."

"If what Hagrid hid was really a dragon egg, I wonder if I could pull some out."

Ron's eyelids jumped: "If you extract the egg white, won't the egg die immediately?"

Dylan thought for a moment and said, "The incubation of dragon eggs must have very strict requirements on the environment. Moreover, the egg white, as the nutrition and moisture for embryonic development, may indeed cause the death of the dragon egg."

"..."

Ron, Harry and Hermione all looked at Dylan with strange expressions.

After a pause, Harry said, "Then I don't think Hagrid would agree with you doing this."

"Well, I'm just thinking about it, but Hagrid won't be able to successfully raise a dragon in the end, so if he doesn't want this egg, I can buy it."

Dylan thought about the topic he had recently discussed with Professor Snape while brewing potions.

"I can try to extract the egg white from the dragon egg and see if I can use the potion to provide nutrition to the dragon egg again."

Moreover, his system provides him with a pet space. Hagrid cannot raise a fire dragon, so does he have a chance to raise a dragon?
In short, it is reasonable for him to come and see what is going on with Hagrid's dragon egg.

After they packed up their things, they left the library and hurried to Hagrid's hut.

From a distance, you can see that the windows of Hagrid's hut are covered tightly with curtains, and the curtains are drawn very tightly, with no gaps visible.

The door of the cabin was also tightly closed, with not a single gap between the door panel and the door frame.

——Originally, there were many tiny gaps between the wooden boards at the door's edge, but now they have all been carefully addressed.

Harry and Ron looked at each other, then walked forward and knocked on the door gently.

dong dong——

"Hagrid, it's us!" Harry said.

"Hurry, come in quickly!" Hagrid's deep voice came.

The door of the hut opened immediately.

Immediately, a burst of heat emanated from it.

"Oh my god, it's so hot!" Ron felt a wave of heat coming towards him.

Dylan drew his wand.

“Aguamenti (clear spring like water)!”

"Glacies crystallorum!"

Two spells were cast in succession.

A thick stream of water instantly spurted out from the tip of Dylan's wand, circling around him.

At the same time, these water flows were also wrapped by another magical force, and the water molecules quickly condensed.

In the blink of an eye, crystal clear ice crystals appeared in front of everyone, and the originally sultry air gradually cooled down.

"Wow, it's so cool!" Ron's eyes lit up and he quickly moved closer to Dylan.

But before he could feel the coolness brought by the ice and snow, his arm was grabbed by Hagrid, and he flew into the house with a "whoosh".

"Come in!" Hagrid urged again.

Hermione and Harry filed in, and Dylan also stepped in, the ice crystals around him moving with his movements.

"Please sit down first. Would you like some rock cake?"

Hagrid looked around at the door with his big head, and after making sure that no one was following him, he closed the door with a "bang" and turned to look at the little wizards.

"No thanks." Dylan was the first to decline.

"Thanks, but I'm not very hungry," Hermione added.

"Well, if you have anything you want to ask, just ask it now." Hagrid nodded, but did not force the snacks on them.

He also discovered that the rock cakes he made seemed to be loved by only his own teeth - of course, he and some of the magical creatures he raised.

——For example, Aragog and his lovely children.

Dylan didn't respond to Hagrid's question. After all, with Harry beside him, there was no need for him to speak.

Instead, he looked at the current layout of Hagrid's hut.

It's so hot here, it seems Hagrid has indeed got the dragon egg.

What he said in the library just now was not a lie. He really wanted to get some egg white out.

—He needed this for one of his potions.

"If I had dragon egg whites, I could soak Professor Snape's robes in potions, so that Professor Snape would walk more smoothly."

(End of this chapter)