Hogwarts: Dumbledore reigned over the wizarding world

Chapter 42 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Newt has never been one to follow the rules. Even though he lives in Muggle society and is retired, don't expect him to really give up his lifelong career and hobbies.

The basement of the Scamander family was transformed into a huge space.

The space was divided into different areas. On a seemingly desolate grassland, Tina and Vaughn poked their heads out of the secret door of the tunnel under the grassland.

Taking cover from the dry, dark yellow grass, the two men each held a telescope.

Tina whispered, "Did you see that?"

"I saw it... One of them seemed very excited, but the other one didn't seem to want to bother."

Vaughan replied.

The field of view framed by the telescope was aimed at two huge monsters in the distance.

Even from a distance, you can tell that they weigh at least one ton and have smooth, thick, and wrinkled skin.

It has a single horn and looks like a rhinoceros at first glance.

But when one of the jumping guys gasped with excitement, you could see that its horn began to emit a fiery red light.

The place where the horns meet the head is the brightest, swaying as if it is filled with magma-like substance.

"They're called ermines, and they have explosive fluid in their horns. The one that's already aroused is a female, and she's smelled the male's musk."

Tina whispered, "Newt rescued them last year. Some dark wizards went to Africa to capture them and smuggled them to Britain. Because they have been away from home for too long, it is difficult for them to return to their tribe. Newt hopes to encourage them to pair up and form a new family, and then release them into the wild..."

As they were talking, the two of them saw through the telescope that the jumping poisonous horned beast was pushed away by its companion as soon as it approached its companion.

Vaughn looked at Tina: "The males don't seem interested in the females."

"Yes, the reproductive rights of animals depend on competition between groups to determine the winner." Tina sighed. "There are only two of them here. Without fierce battles and opponents being blown to death, the male can't get excited."

Vaughan shrugged. "It's amazing they haven't gone extinct with this kind of breeding habit."

"Oh..." Tina also had a headache.

She continues to take Vaughn on adventures in the vast basement.

In more than two hours, they visited swamps, mountains, snowfields, and forests.

I saw all kinds of magical animals, including horse-shaped sea monsters living in freshwater lakes, poisonous leopards that like to run in the forest, and Billywig worms from Australia.

These are all smuggled goods that Newt rescued, especially the Billywig bug. When this bug stings a person, it will make the person float, in the physical sense.

This has led to many adult wizards and young wizards using it as a prank toy. However, it is actually an XXX-level magical creature, and its sale and circulation are restricted by the Ministry of Magic. Only some candy manufacturers are allowed to import it (its stinger is the raw material for Zizi Bee Candy).

So the smuggling market was naturally formed.

Tina also took Vaughn on a ride on the Aerobird, a strange and magical animal that looked like a stupid dodo bird when on the ground, with fat and short wings.

But when taking off, it will quickly change its shape, expand itself into a large balloon, float into the air like a hot air balloon, and then expel the gas and turn into another huge form to fly.

Its tail can be extended and retracted, so riding actually means being wrapped up by its tail.

These are only part of the ones Newt has taken in. In fact, due to the needs of potions and alchemy, many high-risk magical animals have been rescued by Newt from smugglers.

However, they had long been sent by Newt to the protection areas of the Ministry of Magic of various countries.

Vaughn was very interested in seeing the wide variety of magical animals.

He had only come into contact with materials taken from them before, and this was the first time he had seen a living creature.

"You and Rolf might be friends."

Tina said to Vaughn: "He is my grandson and he also likes Fantastic Beasts."

Vaughn recalled that he had no impression of the name, but he vaguely remembered that the husband of the crazy girl Luna in the future seemed to be Newt's grandson.

Could it be this guy named Rolf?
After exploring the basement, when they returned to the entrance, Dumbledore and Newt were also back. The two were casting the Unseen Stretch Charm to expand the basement space, which required powerful spellcasting skills. Dumbledore took out his wand. It was an elderberry wand, very similar to Vaughn's, with prominent, smooth joints and a pure black color, seemingly nothing special.

"The Elder Wand..."

Vaughn felt the huge abyss-like magical fluctuations emanating from Dumbledore, and ripples began to form in his heart.

But he didn't look any further, because as the space expanded, Newt opened the old suitcase and released the unicorn inside. A system panel popped up in front of him:
[Side Quest ②: Saving the Forbidden Forest Unicorn (Completed)]

[Do you want to receive the reward? 】

"receive!"

Vaughn thought to himself that since the reward was a so-called "language pack", there shouldn't be any abnormalities.

It was exactly as he guessed.

After receiving the reward, Vaughn felt his brain go blank for a moment, his throat and ears felt a little itchy, and then he didn't feel anything unusual.

But he knew that he was different.

Not only the system pop-up prompts:

[Obtain "Unicorn Language"]

He also heard the voices of "people" other than himself, Tina, Newt, and Dumbledore.

"Yo——(Where are we?)"

"Yo-- (Didn't you hear what Fox said? A place to temporarily house us)"

"Yo Yo! (Look at that ugly human cub, he's peeping at us)"

"Yo Yo! (Humph, dirty, obscene, despicable)"

"..."

Vaughn remained expressionless as he listened to those snow-white, holy, fairy-tale-like unicorns belittling him in various ways.

Although I know that they don't like men by nature, they only like girls.

But he still felt that he should wait a little longer and let Socket Man suck more blood from them!

Until he heard the whitest unicorn say, "Let's go, Dumbledore is too ugly, I don't want to be around him."

"Yes, yes!" The other unicorns responded.

Vaughn exhaled and immediately felt much better.

When everything was done, it was already late at night, and Tina made a midnight snack with authentic American flavors.

Although it’s hard to describe in a few words, it’s at least better than British “food”.

Dumbledore still didn't get any midnight snack, but he didn't care. He smiled and took out some candy from his pocket to eat.

It was around 12 o'clock when they said goodbye to the Scamander family.

After walking out of the cottage, it was Fawkes who Apparated the two of them back to Hogwarts again - after Apparating so many times tonight, it seemed that it was exhausted and had even lost some of its fur.

Vaughan openly picked up one and put it in his pocket. Dumbledore looked at him with a smile. When he was about to leave, he suddenly said, "Vaughan, what do you think of Newt?"

"Like you said, Albus, a good man."

Dumbledore nodded. "He likes you very much and wants you to visit his house more often in the future. Are you willing?"

Vaughn recalled Newt's shyness and thought about his own personality.

He looked at Dumbledore suspiciously.

What does the old guy want to do?
(End of this chapter)