Harry Potter Returns from Baldur's Gate

Although some people use motorcycles to commute, they ride scooters that are "elegant and decent, even enough to entertain a princess in Rome."

Blake immediately said that he could let Harry try his new car and he could take Harry for a couple of laps to get a feel for it.

Harry didn't expect that Black actually had a motorcycle for transportation.

But now was obviously not a suitable time, so Harry and Black agreed to meet during the Christmas holidays.

Originally, Black wanted to invite Harry to spend Christmas with him, but after improving his relationship with Aunt Petunia's family, it was obviously more suitable for Harry to spend Christmas at Aunt Petunia's house.

And Harry also wanted to check whether Daley had exercised as planned this semester.

Or... When Black left, Harry wondered if he could invite Black to spend Christmas together at number 4, Privet Drive.

For now this is just an idea.

After all, Christmas is a family holiday. Harry didn't dare to invite Black before getting permission from Aunt Petunia's family and finding out the grudges between their previous generation.

Otherwise, you might end up doing something bad with good intentions and ruin the entire Christmas.

But maybe Black visited Hagrid again before leaving.

On the first weekend after the Gryffindor vs. Slytherin Quidditch match, the forge and furnace outside Hagrid's hut were finally built.

Many of the tools and equipment still have Muggle labels on them.

Although compared to the professional blacksmith shop that Uncle Vernon had rented before, this semi-open studio was extremely shabby.

However, Harry himself was not particularly picky about the environment, and the tools were quite easy to use. On an ordinary weekend, Harry tried forging at Hogwarts for the first time.

Due to lack of understanding of material properties and enchantment effects.

So at first Harry made small things like daggers.

At first, Harry tried to attach some common magical effects such as fire to these little things.

But Harry soon discovered that the magic materials here did not seem to be as active as those he had used before, but rather very subtle.

Apart from its unusual sharpness and durability, there is almost no difference between it and Muggle products.

However, a turning point came when Harry was doing the water quenching test.

After all, in forging, quenching has always been a moment that tests skills and luck.

Before quenching the hot knife blank, you never know whether this seemingly fine knife blank will hide any surprises.

Especially for Harry, who has added materials from Hagrid's inventory to the forging, he needs to do things including but not limited to stacked Damascus, Damascus boxes, or twisted Damascus.

While quenching, Harry had no idea whether what he was pulling out of the water was a nearly finished product or a twisted or exploded waste.

After using various materials for water quenching, Harry was surprised to find that the venom of the eight-eyed giant spider was a good thing.

084 Christmas Eve

Although he is a paladin, Harry doesn't have any special opinion about poison.

After all, adventurers are a group of pragmatists who use whatever they can get.

Harry had poisoned blades many times in the past. After all, goblin archers with a little bit of brains had learned to prepare a few special arrows in their quivers to deal with emergencies.

Therefore, it is normal for the corresponding adventurers to paint something on their weapons.

Harry had a sudden idea and used the venom of the eight-eyed giant spider to quench the fire, but he had no choice.

Friends who often make Damascus weapons, or often watch others make Damascus weapons, know that the most feared thing when making Damascus pattern weapons is that impurities are mixed into the steel billet, preventing the steel billet from being fused during the previous crazy forging.

But Harry wanted to use those special materials to enchant the weapons and make them into magical weapons, which meant that he had to add "impurities" into the steel billet to increase the magical part of the steel billet.

This is why Harry has been making Damascus weapons.

After all, this method can directly integrate magic materials and runes into weapons during forging, without having to use etching or carving to engrave runes on the weapon after the forging of the main body of the weapon is completed.

This was definitely due to Harry's consideration for martial arts, and it was definitely not because Harry was clumsy and had a natural talent for etching and engraving.

So the Damascus weapons were difficult to make, and with the addition of new materials and new tools, Harry spent the first two weeks making all kinds of mistakes.

After quenching, various gadgets look like sausages just taken out of the frying pan, full of artistic atmosphere.

After wasting basket after basket of materials, Harry finally added a little eight-eyed giant spider venom to the water-quenching liquid after a trance or a brain seizure.

So Harry finally got a dagger that was barely presentable.

Harry also reviewed his forging process and discovered that the venom of the eight-eyed giant spider actually had this effect.

Harry's subsequent forging work began to go smoothly, except that the weapons Harry forged afterwards all had poisonous properties and could no longer be used to cut food.

In other respects Harry was quite satisfied.

Even after referring to some of Draco's constructive suggestions, Harry created one of the most satisfactory weapons so far. As long as Draco used the spell "Fire" or "Freezing Curse" when using the long sword, a force field that could ignite or freeze the target would be attached to the long sword.

Just as there are the most satisfying weapons, there will naturally be the most unsatisfactory weapons.

That's Hagrid's sledgehammer.

Originally, after Harry estimated Hagrid's height, he planned to make a sledgehammer for Hagrid according to normal proportions.

But after seeing Harry's drawing, Hagrid said that the hammer was too small. How could it be the same size as a stick? Make the hammer head bigger and bigger.

When the hammer was finally the size and weight that Hagrid was satisfied with, Harry was stunned.

I wonder if Hagrid can swing such a huge hammer, so I put it aside for now.

This hammer, which is bigger than Harry himself, is a problem as to how to make it by yourself.

Fortunately, Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, helped Harry solve this problem.

A permanent sticking spell solved Harry's problem of not being able to forge a hammer bigger than his own.

Harry spent most of the next few weeks until Christmas forging the hammer of such impressive size.

Hammer out the pieces of the sledgehammer, then stick the pieces together with a permanent sticking spell.

Finally, a week before Christmas, Harry completed the largest hammer he had ever made.

Aside from the new techniques and skills Harry had learned while forging the hammer, Harry was extremely dissatisfied with it.

After all, a hammer of such exaggerated size doesn't look like a weapon at all, but more like a big toy.

However, Hagrid couldn't let go of this hammer. He swung it with great vigor. He could basically kill those big spiders that were not very mobile in the cold winter with one hammer.

It managed to salvage Harry's impression of this super-giant weapon, but if possible, Harry still didn't want to build a weapon of this size again.

During this period of time, in addition to making the hammer for Hagrid, which made Harry want to vomit when he saw the hammer and anvil for a short period of time.

Harry also figured out where and how to spend Christmas this year.

After this period of communication, Harry felt that Black had become much calmer after being released from prison.

And he seemed to actually enjoy working at the auto repair shop, and even chatted with Harry about computers in a subsequent letter.

Although Harry didn't understand what Black meant by those CPUs and the like, he felt that with Black's current calmness, he should be able to invite him to spend Christmas at Aunt Petunia's house... right?

So Harry patted his chest and guaranteed Black to Aunt Petunia, promising that if Black came to spend Christmas together, he would behave like an ordinary person without magic and would never do anything strange.

At the same time, Harry also explained that the reason why Black disappeared for ten years was because after his parents were murdered ten years ago, he wanted to avenge his parents but was wrongly imprisoned. He was released only this year after new evidence was found.

In other words, he is playing the script of The Count of Monte Cristo.

In the end, Harry didn't know which of his words had convinced Aunt Petunia or Uncle Vernon.

They agreed to have Blake come to their house to spend Christmas with them.

After dealing with Aunt Petunia, Harry sent an invitation to Black, asking him if he would like to come to his aunt's house to spend Christmas together. Of course, the prerequisite is that he should try to act more like a Muggle, but Harry believed that this would not be a problem for Black.

Black soon sent a reply, saying that he was very happy to receive Harry's invitation and promised that he would strictly abide by Muggle etiquette and try to behave as ordinary as possible.

After finishing everything, Harry began to look forward to this year's Christmas. If nothing unexpected happened, this should be the most comfortable Christmas Harry has ever had in his life.

A few days before the Christmas holidays, Professor McGonagall began to count the number of people who would remain in Hogwarts for the holidays.

To Harry's surprise, the Weasley children all chose to stay in Hogwarts for Christmas.

According to Ron, the Weasley family's house was not big, so it would be a disaster if all the children rushed back to spend the Christmas holidays.

Although he didn't quite understand the Weasley family's choice, every family has its own problems, so Harry didn't say much.

I was just planning to fulfill my duty as a friend and go visit the Weasleys during the holidays to comfort my friend's parents and see if there was anything they could help with.

After all, after Hermione left the team, Harry rarely saw Ron except at bedtime.

But Harry was still willing to treat Ron as his friend, and according to the highest etiquette among adventurers, he visited his family on holidays.

Of course, Draco chose to go home to spend Christmas. In Draco's words, Hogwarts is good, but Malfoy Manor is better.

Although we spent the winter in the castle, I always felt that something was missing in such a complete and well-maintained castle.

Not only Harry and Draco, as Christmas approaches, the castle is also filled with a festive atmosphere.

Even Professor Quirrell, whose mood had been changeable since the last Quidditch match, seemed to be in a much better mood recently. He took the initiative to stop his homework, saying that it would be suspended until the start of the next semester.

However, on the day before the Christmas holiday that everyone was looking forward to, Harry was preparing to leave Hogwarts after lunch in the hall.

Harry heard two passing Ravenclaw students say that Professor Quirrell suddenly fainted during class today.

Hearing this, Harry subconsciously turned his gaze to Hermione who was huddled behind a thick book.

It seemed that the training during this period finally took effect. The moment Ron noticed Harry's gaze towards Hermione, he shook his head at Harry.

And used her eyes to tell Harry that this matter had nothing to do with Hermione.

Soon Dumbledore also announced that Professor Quirrell would temporarily go to St. Mungo's for recuperation due to health reasons, which made Harry temporarily put aside his suspicion of Hermione.

After lunch, Harry said goodbye to Ron who was reluctant to leave and left Hogwarts Castle.

Unlike when he came, this time when Harry left, he was riding in a carriage pulled by a creature that looked like a malnourished dragon-horse hybrid.

Given that they have wings, it's clear that these creatures can fly.

So before returning to London, Harry had been debating whether this black horse that looked like a dragon was better, or those hippogriffs.

During Harry and Draco's special spider-clearing operation in the Forbidden Forest, Harry encountered the same Hippogriff colony he had encountered the previous night several times.

The cub that Harry rescued seemed to have a special liking for Harry. It would peck Harry gently every time and send Harry to the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

However, Draco didn't seem to have a special affinity with these large birds of prey, and the hippogriffs didn't seem to particularly like Draco either.

So Harry and Draco, as fans of the Hippogriff on one side and fans of the strange black dragon-like creature on the other, engaged in a long, but low-intensity and meaningless debate.