Hogwarts: I'm the only cultivator here!

Hagrid: "Buckbeak, you..."

Hagrid, who had always regarded magical creatures as his own children and believed he understood them, felt his worldview crumbling at this moment. He suddenly realized that he didn't really understand them, and perhaps he should understand them better.

Before Hagrid could even feel sentimental, the group slowly surrounded Ye Feng and the hippogriff. Some students even took out Galleons and offered to buy sables from Ye Feng, since each sable was equivalent to a long feather of a hippogriff.

There are plenty of sables in the Forbidden Forest, and even if you don't catch them in the Forbidden Forest, they're not expensive to buy or raise, at most twenty or thirty kalpas. But the hippogriff is a magical creature, and its long feathers are excellent magical materials, with each feather worth at least ten gallons.

One Galleon equals seventeen Sickles or four hundred and ninety-three Nats. In other words, the profit from exchanging a sable for a single Hippogriff feather is at least four hundred and ninety-three times. Therefore, their gazes toward Ye Feng and the Hippogriff are extremely intense.

Is Ye Feng the kind of person who lacks money? Of course not, he doesn't lack Galleons, but who would complain about having too many Galleons? So he simply took out a small wooden sign, wrote several sentences on it, and stuck it in the ground.

"Thirty knits is enough to safely pet a hippogriff, one hundred knits can help soothe it while petting, and two hundred and fifty knits can ride a hippogriff for a spin in the sky..."

The others were stunned when they saw the words on Ye Feng's small wooden sign. However, after reading them, many people were eager to try their luck. After all, they could try their luck for 30 krt, and 100 krt would increase their chances of success. With such a huge reward of up to 490 times, who could resist?

As for Hagrid, he was still trapped in his own world and hadn't come out yet, so seeing that Hagrid didn't stop these people emboldened him even more, and soon Ye Feng was surrounded by a line of people waiting to give him money.

The first person to try was a Slytherin student. Ye Feng didn't quite remember the name, but he was quite familiar with the person because he often followed Malfoy. However, when Ye Feng saw that the guy was actually imitating him by gently stroking the hippogriff, he almost burst out laughing.

Don't be fooled by how easily he pulled out the long feathers of the hippogriff, as if he didn't even have to exert any force. In reality, the feathers were completely embedded in the hippogriff's flesh. If they were really that easy to remove, the hippogriff would have lost all its feathers long ago when it took flight.

Therefore, when that guy tried to 'stroke' the eagle-headed horse-bodied winged beast like Ye Feng, he found that the fur on the beast was ridiculously firm and showed no sign of loosening, so he increased the pressure on his hands.

Unfortunately, even when he stopped pretending and tried to pull it out by hand, he still couldn't get it out.

At first, some people thought it was just that the other party was not strong enough, or that they were afraid of hurting the hippogriff and scratching it, so they dared not exert force. But when someone (Ron) used a tug-of-war posture and still could not pull off a single hair from the hippogriff, they realized that it was not that they did not exert force, but that Ye Feng was too outrageous.

"As expected, this guy is a freak. We shouldn't have tried to get anything out of him. We were completely tricked by him." After realizing they had been tricked, the people still queuing behind them quickly dispersed, and the scene soon returned to calm.

It was at this moment that Hagrid finally came to his senses. Looking at the classroom, which had miraculously returned to order, Hagrid scratched his head in confusion and then continued the lesson.

Chapter 144 Quietly Entering the Village

In the evening, the young wizards, having finished their day's classes, gathered together to do their homework when Neville suddenly rushed over and placed a newspaper on the table.

"Dufftown! He's in Dufftown, not far from our Hogwarts!"

"What? In Dufftown? Doesn't that mean he might come to Hogwarts?"

"Really? They say Black is an Animagus. If he really came to Hogwarts, what kind of animal do you think he would come in as?"

"Hey? Do you guys think there's a reward for catching Blake?"

"He's a prisoner who escaped from Azkaban, so the bounty should be pretty high."

...

The moment these words were spoken, the room fell silent. A few seconds later, many students began to look around. Then, as someone spoke, most of the students who had been studying diligently and doing their homework left under various pretexts.

Half an hour later, in the bushes along a path leading to Hogwarts.

"Hey~ Who the hell is so inconsiderate? Didn't they see someone here and still stepped on them?"

"Sorry, I didn't expect anyone to be here. I'll be leaving now." And then...

"Stop! There's someone in this bush too. Move a little further in."

A minute later, after being chased out of the bushes by five or six people, a Hufflepuff student who arrived late finally couldn't hold back and exploded.

"Hey, I don't believe it. You think you can hide a whole bunch of people in the bushes? Do you think you can hide a whole bunch of people in the trees too?"

A few minutes later, the Hufflepuff student walked out of the fairly dense forest, looking utterly dejected. Not only could all the bushes in the forest talk, but even the trees could talk. He had no choice but to find another place to hide.

Ye Feng was speechless as he watched the Hogwarts students setting traps at various entrances to Hogwarts, and even crouching not far from the Dementors.

"Sirius, good luck, I hope you've already gotten in."

After giving Sirius Black his blessing, Ye Feng casually affixed an invisibility talisman to his body, followed by a concealment talisman and a subtlety talisman (to reduce his presence and become invisible). Only then did he carry his net bag toward the entrance to Hogwarts.

Whether it was because they didn't believe Ye Feng and his group could capture Dementors, or because Dumbledore had smoothed things over, or perhaps there were just too many Dementors in Azkaban and the Ministry of Magic itself didn't know how many Dementors it had sent out, so it was unaware that any Dementors had gone missing, Ye Feng has not been punished until now.

The Dementors he had captured earlier were now almost completely depleted.

Dementors are a type of soul-based monster, but they are also physical entities, which makes them somewhat special. However, magic and spells targeting souls or spiritual entities can still affect them and even kill or purify them.

In order to study their characteristics, whether they are affected by magic and spells, and whether they can be purified and restored, Ye Feng used up all the Dementors he had captured in just a few days. So he set his sights on the Dementors guarding the various entrances to Hogwarts.

Of course, since these Dementors have been explicitly assigned to Hogwarts, it's impossible to capture them openly, as that would easily give the Ministry of Magic a handle to use against them.

Although he was certainly not afraid of the Ministry of Magic, he knew it would ultimately put the Hogwarts teachers in a difficult position, so Ye Feng chose to stealthily capture him. And so…

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A Hogwarts student hiding not far from the Dementors blinked, and something terrifying happened.

A net appeared on the head of the Dementor that had been lingering at the intersection, and then, in a flash of light, the Dementor vanished, causing the student hiding in the bushes to rub his eyes hard.

However, even after he rubbed his eyes until they were red, the Dementor that had disappeared did not reappear. And when he slowly calmed down and returned to normal, and carefully looked around to see if any suspicious people or things had entered Hogwarts, something shocking happened again.

Right under his nose, another Dementor, dozens of meters away, also vanished. This time it was even more absurd, because he didn't see the net that was faintly visible, as if the Dementor had disappeared into thin air.

"How can it be!"

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The Gryffindor student was startled as soon as he shouted in shock, because at the same time several other voices came from beside him, the closest of which was less than a meter away, almost touching his face.

However, he was utterly shocked that he hadn't noticed the other person was so close to him.

However, he was quite shocked. The expression on the other person's face proved that the other person was not much better than him, which made him slightly relieved. At least it proved that his disguise and infiltration were still quite good. As long as he disguised himself well enough and was not discovered, he would have a chance to catch Black, who wanted to enter Hogwarts.

Although the Daily Prophet said that Black is a ruthless criminal, the best thing for them to do if they find out is not to try to catch him, but to notify the Ministry of Magic as soon as possible. But can the bounty for catching Black be the same as the price for providing information?

In the past, there were very few places at Hogwarts where you needed to spend money. Generally speaking, you would only need to spend money on things like buying books at the beginning of the semester. Even if you went to the villages and towns near Hogwarts, you wouldn't spend much money, at most ten Galleons.

But things are different now. With Ye Feng's arrival, they not only need to buy cool and incredibly practical heavy-duty flying brooms, but talismans have also become an essential part of their daily lives. If you don't use them when everyone else is using them, your grades will quickly fall far behind. So, buying talismans alone is a considerable expense every month.

Therefore, apart from those from relatively wealthy families, the remaining students who had no additional source of income experienced firsthand what it means to be penniless.

This is why they became frequent visitors to the Forbidden Forest, and the shores of Black Lake were often filled with fishermen. Naturally, they were unwilling to miss out on this 'business' that could quickly yield a large sum of Galleons.

However, no matter how well they hide or how sophisticated their disguises are, they are destined to be supporting characters tonight, because the protagonist is the Dementor, or more accurately, the mysterious figure who caused the Dementor to mysteriously disappear.

Of course, the 'mysterious figure' did not capture all the Dementors. He captured them selectively, catching one or two at each intersection, so that the remaining Dementors could still fulfill their task of guarding the intersections, and it was not very noticeable that there were fewer Dementors.

Half an hour later, the door to Gryffindor's common room opened and closed silently, even though no one was there. As the night deepened, the grass and dense canopy began to emit various kinds of snores. However, even though most people were asleep, one dormitory window in Gryffindor still emitted a soft light.

Chapter 145 Harry: We're so lucky!

"boom!"

Before dawn, a huge explosion suddenly rang out in the common room of Hogwarts, or more precisely, Gryffindor. The loud explosion woke up all the students at Hogwarts, and many of the Gryffindor students who were closest to the explosion jumped out of bed in fright.

"Ouch! My nose!"

The unlucky guy on the lower bunk, who was startled and actually jumped up, clutched his nose, which was bleeding profusely from the impact, and howled in pain. Meanwhile, Mr. Harry, who often stayed up all night and treated fighting Voldemort as his final exam, instinctively jumped out of bed the moment he heard the noise.

However, unlike some unknown unlucky guy, because Harry was a psychic, the moment he woke up, his body instinctively rolled over and sat on the edge of the bed, reaching out to touch the glasses on the table, so he wasn't bumped.

Meanwhile, Hermione, who had also gotten up while Harry was looking for his glasses, immediately pulled out her wand and looked around warily, her ears perked up as she listened carefully to the sounds coming from all around her.

Unfortunately, apart from the initial loud bang, no further sounds were heard.

Meanwhile, on the other side…

"Suck~"

Ron, who had also gotten up, wiped his hands with a tissue, sniffed, and said, "Harry, do you smell anything unusual?"

Upon hearing Ron's words, Neville, Ron's roommate, asked while putting on his shoes, "Ron, did you smell something?"

"There is definitely a strange smell, it's like, it seems..."

“Burnt feathers.” Before Seamus could finish speaking, Harry said what he was about to say.

"That's right! Harry, can you smell it too?"

“I think we can all smell it, and I think we might be in trouble.” As he spoke, Harry stared intently at the dormitory door, because faint white smoke was seeping into the room through the crack under the door.

Upon hearing Harry's words, the others followed his gaze and froze, followed by a deafening gasp.

"It's on fire!"

As the deafening alarm blared from Harry's dormitory, Ye Feng, deep in thought, stared at the completely blasted alchemy furnace, now nothing but scrap metal, in the Hogwarts common room.

"That doesn't make sense. Based on my research over the past few days, it's impossible for me to be wrong."

"The Soul-Guiding Flower can awaken the subconscious of the Dementors, the Morning Dew Grass can cleanse their polluted souls, the Nine Yang Root can further burn away their resentment, and with the addition of the Mind-Concentrating Grass to solidify their form, and the morning dew collected immediately after being exposed to the purple aura, this should be able to restore the Dementors. How could the furnace have exploded?"

"Could it be that Dementors are really just some kind of strange magical creature, rather than being created by wizards through some strange transformation?"

"But there's no reason for that. I've dissected and studied so many Dementors, and all the data I've obtained from them shows that these things were indeed human in life. I can't be wrong."

Ye Feng was utterly baffled by this failure, because he never expected that the refining process, which should have been a sure thing, would fail so badly. His medium-sized alchemy furnace, which was over two meters tall, exploded during the refining process, and not a single fragment was even the size of a head.

"Sigh~ It seems I need to catch a few more Dementors to study. The research is still not thorough enough." Ye Feng sighed after thinking for a while, while Harry and the others, fully armed, pushed open the dormitory door.

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The moment Harry and his friends opened the door and saw the state of the common room, they were terrified. The common room was engulfed in flames, but that wasn't the worst part. The worst part was that the walls of the common room were riddled with holes, and a huge hole had been blown into the floor.

As they passed through the raging fire, they saw a figure that was all too familiar to them.

"Ye Feng!!!"

Seeing the figure who was clearly lost in thought and indifferent to everything around him, Harry and the others couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, which successfully woke Ye Feng from his reverie.

"Huh? Why are you guys out here? Is it already dawn?" Ye Feng was very puzzled when he heard Harry and the others' exclamations, but he was soon startled by the scene in front of him.

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"Did Voldemort break in? Why is the common room like this?"

Harry and the others: (￣∠￣)ノ

Although they didn't know the whole story, they could guess the general idea from the scene before them, because only Ye Feng in the entire Hogwarts had the guts and the ability to blow up Gryffindor's common room like this.

So, the reason Gryffindor's common room is in its current state is entirely due to this seemingly innocent guy in front of me.

Seeing Harry and the others' expressions, Ye Feng seemed to remember something, awkwardly scratched his head, and then casually pressed down. To Harry and the others' shock, the fire that had almost completely engulfed the Gryffindor common room was suddenly extinguished.

Ye Feng's effortless fire-extinguishing maneuver left Harry and the others wide-eyed, while Ron's eyes lit up.

"Thai pants hot! Ye Feng, how did you do that? Did you use some kind of magic? Can you teach me?"