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McPhail and Belby did not move. Dumbledore had just said that he could arrange for them to stay in the castle for one night so that they could go to present the Order of Merlin to another person tomorrow.
The two of them accepted it with pleasure.
For some reason, Fudge stayed as well.
After leaving the headmaster's office, Sassia set off back to St. Mungo's... She came here on her own initiative to support Kyle and did not need to attend the honoring ceremony tomorrow.
After saying goodbye to her, Kyle found Newt waiting at the corner of the stairs.
The two of them came to an empty room next door, and Kyle said with some surprise, "I didn't expect you to come."
"Didn't you write to me before and ask me to help take care of some troublesome little animals?"
Newt sighed, "As it happens, they sent me an invitation, asking if I want to come to Hogwarts with them."
"So you agreed?"
"Yeah." Newt nodded. "Your winning of the Order of Merlin is something worth celebrating. I should come over as well. Oh, Tina thinks so too."
"Thank you..." Kyle said sincerely.
Normally, Newt rarely even attends gatherings with old friends, but today he was able to appear in an auditorium with hundreds of people... This was a huge test for him as a person with social phobia.
But Newt waved his hand and stopped Kyle from continuing:
"So, the little animal you were talking about in the letter is the Niffler?"
"Those little guys are indeed a bit naughty. You need to be a little patient to get along with them."
"No, not the Niffler." Kyle smiled. "The little guy is very cute and not a bit of trouble at all."
"What is that?" Newt was stunned.
Apart from the Niffler, Newt couldn't think of any other magical animals that Kyle needed his help to take care of.
"They were all smuggled here. I took care of them for a while after I found them... Never mind, you should just look at them yourself."
Kyle took out his box, opened it and put it on the ground.
"But before you go in, you have to be prepared that they might be a little different than you think."
"Now that you mention it, I'm suddenly a little bit looking forward to it." Newt smiled and shook his head, but he didn't take Kyle's words to heart.
He has seen all kinds of magical animals, so why would he need to prepare himself mentally?
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 235: Shocked Newt
Newt walked into the box with ease and landed in the room.
He looked around and was somewhat surprised to find that Kyle had arranged the place quite well.
The furniture was all arranged in an orderly manner, much tidier than his messy room.
Moreover, the two large bookshelves in the corners of the room were filled with volumes bound in parchment.
As soon as Newt walked over, he immediately felt the traces of the traceless extension spell on it, which meant that there were more books inside than he saw.
"What is this..." he asked curiously.
Kyle's heart skipped a beat...how could he have forgotten about this?
Newt might keep the illegal magical creatures secret for him, but that wasn't necessarily the case with the stuff he'd copied from the Restricted Section.
"Nothing." Kyle pretended to be calm and said, "It's just some notes I took in class. I put them here so that I can look them up at any time."
"Class notes? So many!"
"Oh, and quite a few of them were written down while I was reading in the library."
Newt touched the books and whispered, "No wonder you were able to win the Order of Merlin... I'm not surprised at all now."
Although Newt is a dropout, even when he was not expelled, he was only interested in knowledge related to magical animals.
If we exclude these "extracurricular knowledge", all his notes added together might not be as thick as the booklet above.
"It's nothing. It's all thanks to the shorthand quill... Let me take you inside to have a look."
Kyle opened a small door and stepped out.
Newt nodded and walked out of the room. Then he was a little surprised to find that the space inside was much larger than when he handed it over to Kyle.
There were also a few rowan trees that hadn’t been there before, and they were so lush that Newt didn’t need to look to know they were full of bowtruckles.
Wait, what is that…
Newt suddenly noticed that next to the mountain pear tree there was a black "big stone" with three heads.
“Three, three-headed dog?” Newt’s eyelids twitched.
Before he could finish being surprised, a huge figure flew over his head.
Newt looked up, his expression becoming even more dull.
A dragon? ...or the rare Norwegian Ridgeback!
Newt suddenly had a ridiculous feeling in his heart.
It's only been one school year, and it's still at Hogwarts. Where on earth did Kyle get these dangerous creatures?
He suppressed the shock in his heart and continued to look around.
Oh, there's also a mountain troll next to it...but compared to the three-headed dog and the Norwegian Ridgeback, it seems so inconspicuous.
"Is this what you call...the little animal?"
Newt asked with a strange expression, he wouldn't be surprised at all if Kyle was expelled from school.
He was expelled from Hogwarts because he and his friends illegally raised magical ferrets, and the magical ferret was only 3X.
Look at what Kyle raised... a dragon and a three-headed dog, both of which were the most dangerous 5X magical creatures. Even if he found just one of them, it would be enough to fire him ten times.
What is this, a disciple surpassing his master?
Starting off as the most dangerous 5X-level creature, are kids nowadays so fierce?
Kyle's eyes wandered as he said, "Uh... the three-headed dog is about two years old, and the fire dragon is not even one year old. Judging from their age, they are indeed still young."
"What about the giant monster..."
"It has a small brain."
"..."
"Like I said before, they were all smuggled in..."
Facing Newt's expression of "you will definitely be expelled", Kyle quickly explained their origins.
It’s nothing, just tell the truth.
……
"Is it all related to the Philosopher's Stone?"
After understanding the whole story, Newt frowned and said, "Forget about the dragon. Since Dumbledore borrowed the three-headed dog, why don't you return it to Hagrid and let it stay in the Forbidden Forest?"
"There was a small accident. It seems that it and Norbert have become... friends."
Kyle spread his hands and said, "I did send Fluffy back before, but he almost ran out of the Forbidden Forest several times. If Hagrid hadn't found him in time, he might have rushed directly to the castle to find me.
There was no other way, so as not to scare other people, I had to put it in there too."
Newt smacked his lips. Even though he was well-informed, he didn't know what to say for a moment.
The disciple is really better than the master...
Ten minutes later, Newt left the box and took Norbert, the Norwegian Ridgeback, and the troll away.
As for Fluffy...it's just staying here temporarily and will eventually have to go back to the Forbidden Forest.
Although it was very unhappy with the decision and rolled around on the ground begging to be taken away, Kyle still refused to agree.
It's not that he doesn't want to, but he can't. Lu Wei is Hagrid's treasure. If he takes him away, Hagrid will definitely go crazy.
After finally calming down the aggrieved Lou Williams, Kyle and Newt left the box together.
On the way back, Newt suddenly said, "Kyle, I can help you take care of them for a while, but you can't keep them like this forever."
"You should know what I mean."
"Yes, I understand." Kyle whispered, "Next year, I will prepare to send the troll back to the Forbidden Forest. After I graduate, I will go to Norway and send Norbert back."
“You going by yourself?” Newt asked.
"Yes." Kyle nodded: "I want to try it. After all, I put it in the box, so I should be the one to return it."
Newt was silent for a moment and said nothing more.
Kyle is now in his second year and still has five years to graduate, which is not a particularly long time. Moreover, the existence of the box can perfectly hide the fire dragon, and there is no need to worry about being discovered by others.
Afterwards, the two changed the topic to a more relaxed one.
"That's a female dragon, right? Why is she called "Norbert"?" Newt asked curiously.
"That was given by Hagrid," said Kyle. "I found that he seemed to like the name very much, so he didn't change it."
"Is that so? No wonder..."
……
After leaving the castle, the two followed a path to the school gate, and not far ahead was the Hogsmeade platform.
Here they stopped.
Of course, Newt would not leave here by train, that would be too slow, and he could use Apparation only after leaving the school grounds.
The boundary is the two winged warthog statues.
After crossing the door, Newt turned around and gave one last warning: "It is very important that you don't let them get out of the box when you are in school.
Oh, and remember to bring the Order of Merlin when you come to pick them up. Tina has been wanting to see it since she got the news."
"I will." Kyle said with a smile.
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