Hermione walked slowly on the lawn. It was drizzling, and the sky was gray. In the fine, sparkling raindrops, Hermione walked on the lawn. Her socks and the hem of her cloak were wet.
The Forbidden Forest looked as if it was enchanted. Every tree was shining with silver light, as if it was covered with a layer of gauze. The raindrops slid down from the leaves and fell on the hair of the little wizards. The wet hair made people feel very uncomfortable.
And this kind of discomfort turned into anxiety and worry when they heard the low, throbbing moans coming from Hagrid's hut.
"Hagrid!" Hermione shouted while pounding on the door. "Hagrid, are you in there?"
There was a sound of heavy footsteps, and the door creaked open. Hagrid stood there, his eyes red and swollen, and tears splashed on the front of his leather vest.
"Why are you here so early?" Hagrid leaned against the door, took out a big handkerchief, and wiped his face carelessly.
"The weather is bad, I want to come early to get a good place." Hermione said. Then she asked, "What happened?"
"Ala … Gok …" Hagrid started sobbing again.
Hermione quickly held Hagrid's arm and helped him back to the hut.
Hagrid slumped on a chair and cried uncontrollably. Tears streamed down his face. He noticed Hermione's gaze and held his face in his hands.
"Hagrid …" Hermione understood and patted Hagrid's arm sympathetically.
"Alagok." Hagrid kept wiping his eyes. "It's gone! Not only it, all the eight-eyed giant spiders are gone. I should have thought of it, I should have noticed it. He clearly reminded me, but I didn't notice anything! My Alagok! "
Hagrid let out a beast-like whimper and wiped his eyes with his sleeve.
Hermione brought a cup of steaming hot tea to Hagrid and placed it on the table in front of Hagrid. For a moment, she didn't know how to comfort him.
"A cup of tea will make you feel much better. Class was about to begin. I don't think it's a good idea for everyone to see the professor like this. "Hermione tried to distract Hagrid.
"I haven't been normal recently," Hagrid said, stroking his teeth with one hand and wiping his face with the other. "I'm worried about Alagok, and no one likes my class —"
"I like it." Hermione immediately lied.
Hagrid was silent for a while and stood up, "You're right, Hermione. Let's go and see the Fried Tail Snails. They've been growing well recently."
Hermione silently followed behind Hagrid and helped him close the door.
The Fried Tail Snails did grow fast, although no one knew what they liked to eat.
Hermione noticed that Hagrid was in a better mood when he saw the Fried Tail Snails. Obviously, he liked these creatures, which were hated by the little wizards, from the bottom of his heart.
"I suggest that you come to my hut every other day to observe the Fried Tail Snails and record their unusual behavior."
"I won't come," when Hagrid made this suggestion with the look of Santa Claus taking out a big toy from his pocket, Draco Malfoy said without hesitation, "I've seen enough of these annoying things in class, thank you."
The smile on Hagrid's face disappeared.
"Do as I say," he growled. "It's related to your final grade."
The little wizards were successfully shocked. They seemed to realize for the first time that the big guy in front of them was not only a gamekeeper and a key keeper, but also a real professor who controlled their final grade.
So in the following grouping, they all obediently obeyed Hagrid's assignment.
Compared to other people's fear of the angry big guy. Harry was relieved for Hagrid, who finally began to act like a professor.
Hermione was happy for Hagrid, but she couldn't help but complain, "It would be better if the object of observation was not this annoying Fried Tail Snail."
When Hermione put a pile of cabbage mixed with a pile of unknown meat into a cardboard box and went to the Fried Tail Snail area to lure a few over, all the Fried Tail Snails in the enclosure were restless and rushed to Hermione's direction.
Especially the two largest ones. They squeezed out the rest of their kind and gathered in front of Hermione. In order to fight for the first position, they tangled together.
"Don't push, don't fight." Seeing that the two Fried Tail Snails were fighting fiercely and were about to break out of the box, Hagrid came forward and separated these Fried Tail Snails.
Hermione looked at the situation in front of her and silently retreated to the back of the crowd. She didn't want to tell others what had just happened here.
"It's strange, they are my favorite two. I've never seen them fight so fiercely. Is it the breeding time again?" Hagrid scratched his head, he couldn't figure out the situation. "Fried Tail Snails are bred by a Manticore with a human head and a Fire Crab, so their habits are difficult to control."
Hermione heard this, blinked her eyes, and had an ominous feeling in her heart.
That night, a figure with a scarf wrapped tightly around his head sneaked into the hunting ground.
When approaching Hagrid's hut, the figure turned into — a Manticore with a human head, a Manticore with a Manticore. It walked with cat steps and lowered its voice, approaching the breeding area of those Fried Tail Snails.
As soon as Hermione arrived, those Fried Tail Snails crazily rushed to her direction. The first two Fried Tail Snails even began to attack each other in a circle in order to compete for the first position. One of them even made an attacking action by using its forelegs to support its body and throwing its tail that could spit fire.
Hermione hurriedly lowered her voice and tried to pass these thoughts, "Stop, don't fight.
The Fried Tail Snails that were fighting for the first position just now magically quieted down. Although they didn't leave, it was much better than the chaotic scene just now.
Hermione's worries came true, but at least it didn't cause any more chaos. Hermione nervously glanced at the direction of Hagrid's hut and found that he didn't do anything. She was secretly relieved. It seemed that Hagrid was used to the Fried Tail Snails making noises from time to time.
With the last hope, she tried to order a few Fried Tail Snails, but she desperately found that they all completed the task perfectly.
Hermione unconsciously swung her tail that was full of poisonous thorns back and forth because of irritability. Although she felt that it was a little pitiful that the eight-eyed giant spider was enslaved by the gem and had to "voluntarily" become the target of the soul sucking, she was still very envious of Penello's Animagus. It was just like a spider queen who could command so many spiders.
Hermione had fantasized that she could command so many monsters as her subordinates, and that she would definitely train them better than Penello's messy formation. But she never thought that her Animagus really had a similar ability, but the target was the disgusting Fried Tail Snail that even Hagrid himself couldn't think of any use for!
This must not be known to Allen and the others, or the evil Penello would definitely use this matter to make fun of her, and then give her a nickname of Fried Tail Snail Queen or something!
Thinking of this, Hermione couldn't help but let out a sad sigh — "Awoo!" As a result, because she wasn't familiar with the new way of speaking in this state, the sigh completely turned into a lion's roar.
This kind of movement finally alarmed Hagrid. Hermione heard the sound of the wooden door of Hagrid's hut creaking open. She panicked and ran in the opposite direction of Hagrid's hut. After running for a few steps, she remembered to deactivate her transformation.
Hermione, who had returned to her human form, walked around the testing area of the Fried Tail Snail towards the direction of the Forbidden Forest. She was ready to change direction to return to the school when she could use Phantom Shift.
When Hermione got close to the area where the Spot-tail Snails were, the two largest Spot-tail Snails started to fight. They fought more fiercely than ever, and the two of them hugged each other and died together.
Hermione looked at the Fried Tail Snails that were beginning to turn into ashes and raised the magic wand in her hand in surprise. She found that the souls of the two Fried Tail Snails that had just died were actually automatically absorbed by her magic wand. Hearing Hagrid's footsteps, Hermione didn't have time to investigate carefully and left in a flash.
Hagrid came to the area of the Fried Tail Snails, vigilantly looked around the surrounding environment, then bent down and found the huge monster footprints left by Hermione in the Animagus form among the messy little wizard's footprints.
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