201 Protection and Surprise

201 Protection and Surprise

In the afternoon Charms class, Callan met Snape.

"I didn't expect Professor Prewett and Professor Prewett to be such professors."

Snape said with a strange expression as soon as he came up. Slytherin had also taken Defense Against the Dark Arts classes. They and the Ravenclaw students had witnessed the special teaching method of the Prewett brothers, which made everyone excited. Eye-opener.

Especially Snape himself. He had met the Prewett brothers as early as in Hogsmeade, but he didn't expect that both of them would become professors.

And judging from their behavior in class, it is completely different from the embarrassment outside Professor Kettleburn's house.

Karan conveniently corrected Steve's wand gesture when casting the spell, and at the same time he said with a smile: "At least from the current point of view, they are much better than Meadows."

"You mean you haven't been hospitalized yet?" Gesper added abruptly.

Callan showed a matter-of-fact expression, and Steve couldn't hold it back for a moment, bursting into laughter. As a result, his wand accidentally hit Gaspard's body and set his witch robe on fire.

"Scamander!"

Gaspard said through gritted teeth. There was clearly a distance between the two of them, but such a familiar scene still happened. He suspected that Steve did it on purpose.

Charms class passed with a great deal of noise.Professor Flitwick also saw that the students did not review their lessons carefully during the holidays, so he generously asked everyone to practice the fire-making spell in class, which was something they had learned last semester.

But after the class ended, he looked at the messy classroom and couldn't help but hold his head and said in annoyance: "I will never start reviewing the fire-making spell next year."

Karan gave him a sympathetic look. Ever since he met their new class, Professor Flitwick's classes had never gone smoothly.

The next class was an extremely boring History of Magic class. Professor Binsi couldn't even remember the names of the students, so the three of them naturally skipped class again, just like last semester.

"Want to go back to the dormitory?"

Steve said with a wink, and added a red mark on his forehead, which was the work of Gaspard.

But his mind was no longer on this trivial matter. In the end, it was just something that Karan could solve with a healing spell.

Steve continued to whisper: "Guspar was busy with his own business at noon, and he didn't have time to look at my suitcase. Do you want to take a look together?"

Greta, who happened to be passing by, didn't know what to think of. She ran out a long way away and kept looking back at them with strange eyes.

"What's wrong with her?"

Steve blinked blankly.

"Did I say something wrong again? She did the same thing last time."

Karan and Gaspard didn't say anything. They just patted Steve's shoulders again in a comforting manner, and showed regretful expressions at the same time.

By the time he returned to the dormitory, Steve had already forgotten all about this matter. He couldn't wait to pull the suitcase out from under the bed.

"I'm telling you, don't be too surprised for a while, and don't..."

Steve turned the suitcase into magic mode. He turned around excitedly, only to see Karan and Steve both raising their wands and pointing them at the suitcase that had just opened a crack.

"Hey!"

Steve screamed strangely and quickly blocked the suitcase with his body: "What are you doing?"

"Of course, it's to prevent a lot of Winged Demons from suddenly flying out of the box."

Callan waved his wand, telling Steve to move away so that he wouldn't accidentally cast the spell on him later.

"Or something else." Gaspard added expressionlessly: "Don't forget that the school has added a lot of protective measures, just in case the professors accidentally discover something that shouldn't be there. , all three of us will suffer."

Steve looked around at them.

"Don't worry, there is no Winged Demon in the suitcase, nor are there any of those things you mentioned."

He explained quickly, but still refused to move away.

Seeing that there was still a trace of doubt in the eyes of the two of them, Steve could only continue to say patiently: "After I took the initiative to confess about the suitcase, my father took the curled-winged demon away. There was no way he would let me." Keep it."

"No matter what, the venom of the Winged Demon is still too dangerous."

When he heard this, Karan's expression was inevitably a little regretful.

In this case, Steve would no longer bring him strawberry-flavored pudding.Last semester, because of this crooked-winged demon, Karan didn't even need to go to the kitchen in person, because Steve prepared all the late-night snacks by himself.

Guspard's expression was exactly the same as his, and Steve stared at them with strange eyes.

"Are you still thinking about asking me to get supper?" He said angrily: "I've been there for a whole year, and it's your turn no matter what!"

The two coughed a few times, but no one answered.

Because the speculum was still in Steve's pocket.

"Humph!"

Steve snorted dissatisfiedly.

"Do you still want to watch it?"

He asked bluntly, not even planning to continue explaining.

The two looked at each other silently, and Karan shrugged helplessly. They had no choice but to put away their wands and watched Steve open the suitcase.

Fortunately, the expected dangerous situation did not appear, and everything was calm.

Steve walked through the opening of the suitcase first, followed closely by Callan, and Guspard was last.

When he walked into the small tool room, Karan noticed that there were much less clutter than last semester. The most obvious thing was that the set of equipment for diluting venom was missing.

"Now that the Curling Wing Demon is gone, there is no need for many things to stay here and take up space."

Steve explained simply.

But this was obviously not the whole reason, because when the three of them walked out of the tool room, Karan and Gaspard were surprised to find that almost all the magical animals were gone.The place is no longer as noisy as last year, but just empty.

"My dad said that it was completely unnecessary for me to bring so many magical animals to school last semester because I didn't have much time to get along with them. After all, I still had to go to class. This didn't mean anything to either of us. s help."

Although he said this, Steve unexpectedly did not show any sadness, and was even a little unusually excited.

As if the answer to the mystery was about to be revealed, he looked at the two of them proudly again and said proudly: "You will definitely be shocked!"

"Come on, go this way."

It seems that because the number of magical animals has decreased, the space in the suitcase seems to be larger.

Steve led the two of them past an unusually tall tree. There used to be a group of bowtruckles on it, but now they were all gone.

"Is it because your father knew in advance that the school would strengthen protective measures?"

When passing by a small empty cave, Karan suddenly asked: "That's why he took all those magical animals back, so as not to get you into any trouble."

"Uh." Steve stopped immediately and looked at the two of them blankly.

"Is that so?" He said uncertainly: "Probably not..."

"Did you wear a speculum at that time?" Karan asked simply.

Steve immediately shook his head: "My father gave me the speculum after he finished talking about it."

"What's left in this suitcase?" Gaspard asked after carefully looking around.

"Remaining......"

Before Steve could finish speaking, a dull howl came from the bamboo forest not far away.

All three were familiar with the sound, and they had heard the howl more than once.

"That's Wolf."

Steve took two steps quickly. He pointed at a snow-white figure in the bamboo forest and said, "That's the moon wolf we found in the Forbidden Forest last semester. Do you still remember it? It also followed me back to Hogwart. tz."

"But it originally came out of the Forbidden Forest." Karan's doubts deepened: "Your father won't just let you bring Wolf back, right?"

Steve was stunned for a moment, opened his mouth, and finally said something muffled.

"And Jackson, my dad gave it to me so I could write letters home."

Jackson is Steve's owl at home, but it doesn't even need to take up space in the suitcase because Steve can bring a pet to school.

At this time, Steve finally realized something was wrong.

"Why did my father hide this from me? Why did he have to use the excuse of being a magizoologist?" He muttered dissatisfiedly.

But Karan quickly repaired the bond between father and son that had not yet had time to crack.

"Maybe it's because I'm worried about you."

He said thoughtfully: "After all, judging from the current results, the school's decision to strengthen protective measures was made early during the holidays."

"Even if Mr. Newt tells this matter, it won't be of any help to you."

"After all, Hogwarts has strengthened its protective measures and become safer. And this will also prevent you from making any rash moves out of curiosity."

"How could I do this?" Steve's eyes widened, filled with complaints about his distrust of Mr. Newt.

Karan and Gespad didn't speak. They pointed to Wolf in the bamboo forest silently.

Steve looked at them left and right in confusion. After a while, he finally nodded in understanding.

"Oh, you mean breaking into the Forbidden Forest without permission and sneaking Wolf out?"

At the end of the sentence, the complaint on Steve's face turned into a sneer, and he even coughed twice in embarrassment.

"Yes, that's it."

Karan clapped his hands helplessly.

"Okay, it's time to go back."

He said as he and Gaspard left the suitcase.

It's obvious there's nothing to see here anymore, not even what it was last year.

At least there were cute moon-crazy beasts at that time, and even Gaspard had silently hand-fed them a few times.

"Hey, don't go!"

Steve quickly stopped the two of them.

After the two of them turned around in turn, Steve continued to say mysteriously: "I didn't say there would only be Wolf in the suitcase."

The two had no choice but to walk back again, but the initial expectation was no longer on their faces.

"Are you going to sneak away the magical animals from the basement behind Mr. Newt's back again?" Gaspard said sharply: "If that's the case, I advise you to write a letter and send them back as soon as possible. What trouble does Mr. Newt get into?”

Gaspard had been to Mr. and Mrs. Scamander's home with his parents during the holidays. He had a good sense of Mr. Newt, especially when the other party agreed to support him in using magic thread to compete.

"I stopped doing that kind of thing a long time ago. Now that I'm a second-year student at Hogwarts, I've long given up on those boring tricks before entering school."

Steve said seriously, as if he was recalling a story that had happened in the past.

Although this story was still going on more than a year ago.

Wolf, the moon wolf, had already noticed the arrival of the three people, but he just yawned lazily and took it as a greeting to them.

And judging from its body shape, it seems to have gained a lot of weight.It seems that Steve really took good care of it. Even though he lost weight in Egypt, he didn't cause Wolf any pain.

Steve trotted all the way. He rubbed Wolf's still soft hair and asked him inexplicably: "Is it okay?"

Karan and Gaspard walked forward without knowing why. After walking closer, they discovered that Wolf was not resting there, but was patiently watching over something.

It used its body to surround a well-made soft cushion, and a soft depression was carefully pressed in the center of the cushion.

In the soft place, a small, wrinkled baby bird fell asleep with its eyes closed.

Karan's eyes suddenly widened, and a strange light flashed on the lenses of Gaspard's glasses.

The two immediately turned to look at Steve, thinking of the same answer.

Steve once again showed a proud expression. He looked at the two of them triumphantly and almost laughed out loud.

He declared proudly like a victorious general.

"This is a phoenix!"