Professor Ghoshak stood in place for a while. After coughing twice, he slowly turned around and entered the castle.
Hoffa didn't know what happened. When he saw Ghoshak leave, he came out from behind the wall and chased after Joey through the snow.
"Hey, Joey!"
"Hey, wait for me."
After a few calls, Joey turned his head.
When he saw that it was Hoffa, he showed a surprised expression.
"What are you doing here? Why don't you go watch the Quidditch competition?"
Huffing and puffing, Huo Fa caught up to Joey in the knee-high snow.
"I haven't seen you for a while. How are you feeling?"
Speaking of this, Joey waved his hand impatiently.
"Don't mention it. I'd rather die that day."
"What's wrong?"
"What? Those damn guys said that I violated the teaching rules and brought students into the Forbidden Forest without permission. I have to be suspended for observation, and I won't be paid during the observation period. Without a salary, what will happen to my Maya? "
Joey became more and more agitated.
"She's been in the hospital for a few days, and she's very weak. These damn Europeans, will they die if they live a good life? Why must they fight? I've had enough! "
Maya was an egg laid by Joey's previous Thunderbird Talas.
Hoffa wanted to comfort Joey, but Joey's words made Hoffa completely speechless. He was now half a European.
After a few seconds, Joey also realized that he had lost his composure. He sighed and muttered, "Forget it, why should I tell you?"
Hoffa didn't mind. He chased after him and asked, "Is Maya in a bad condition?"
"Very bad. Come and see her. Maybe I'll bring her back to America after Christmas."
Old Joey then brought Huo Fa back to his treehouse with a gloomy tone.
Now, every tree in the Forbidden Forest was engraved with mysterious runes.
As soon as he entered the Forbidden Forest, Hoffa felt that there were eyes everywhere, invisible eyes.
Joey said sullenly, "Black Wizards.
"Damned Dark Wizards. Dumbledore and the headmaster have placed defensive markings on every tree in the vicinity. Now, even if there's a mouse near the school, they'll know. Many magical creatures have sensed that they're being watched, and they've all left this area. "
The two climbed up the treehouse. Joey helped Hoffa make a pot of tea in the living room and slumped in a chair.
In a rattan basket on the coffee table in front of them was a large grayish-white egg... It's dimmer than the last time Hoffa saw it, and the blue lines on it was almost imperceptible. blue.
Joey took out his reddish-brown spectacles and looked at the egg carefully before rubbing his hair worriedly.
"If this goes on, I might really have to go home. The environment here, the environment... is the weather, the weather. "
Hoffa quickly, he's glasses glasses........
With the help of his glasses, Huo Fa saw that the embryo inside the eggshell had obviously become thinner.
Looks like it's not in good condition. Hoffa frowned. Don't you have any ideas?
"Of course there is a way, but it can't be done in England."
Joey said worriedly.
"I've lived with Thunderbird for 30 years, and I know it well. It needs a dry and hot environment when it hatches, the drier and hotter the better. But the current environment is not suitable for its growth. "
"Can't you simulate an environment?" Hoffa gestured with his hand. "Like the birds in the breeding base, with fire and magic."
"This is a magical creature, not a turkey."
Joey said angrily.
"Even if you can simulate a dry and hot environment, you can't simulate the climate it likes. Do you know what climate is? It's hot, oppressive, stormy, and thunder. "
"The climate in Arizona, USA?"
Hoffa asked.
"That's right, Thunderbird likes to be born in that kind of environment."
Hoffa looked at the egg, then at Joey's sullen face. Suddenly, a strange idea came to his mind.
"I think I have an idea."
Hoffa said slowly.
"What idea?"
"When I was in Diagon Alley before school started, I saw a shop that specialized in selling weather. They sold all kinds of weather. Thunder, rain, deserts, and rainforests were sold. It was exactly the same as the real thing. "
"There's such a shop?"
Joey was stunned.
"Yes, I saw it with my own eyes. Doesn't the American Wizard World have it?"
Joey shook his head like a rattle.
Hoffa said, "We can buy one, if …"
"How much?" Joey asked directly.
Hoffa thought for a moment.
"If I remember correctly, it should be fifty gold coins."
"Fifty gold coins?" Joey sucked in a breath of cold air.
"My monthly salary at Hogwarts is only fifteen gold coins, and I have to send ten to America every month. How can I have that much money? And these hateful school leaders even stopped my salary because of the Forbidden Forest. "
Hoffa laughed bitterly.
Speaking of which, these wizards were really down to earth. Knowing magic didn't change the fact that they were poor. In the novels he read in his previous life, the Weasley family was very poor because they had many children. It seemed that Harry Potter wasn't rich after graduation because he didn't earn much from his job at the Ministry of Magic.
Hoffa took a sip of tea and asked, "Why did you come to England to work? Why not find a job with more money? "
"I have too many family members in America, and they annoy me every day. Back then, the Talas didn't like my family either. It wants peace, so I brought it to Hogwarts. "
"Do you have many children?" Hoffa took another sip of tea and asked casually.
"Seventeen."
Old Joey straightened his legs and heaved a long sigh.
Hoffa almost choked on his tea.
"How many more?"
"Seventeen, seventeen. I'm a Mormon, do you think that's a lot? "
"I don't care what kind of Mormon you are!" Hoffa exclaimed. "Seventeen, how did you do it, your wives?"
"I have nine wives."
Old Joey said calmly, "In America."
Pfft!!
A mouthful of hot tea spurted out of Hoffa's mouth and onto Joey's face.
The sympathy he felt for Joey's difficult situation immediately disappeared. Hoffa coughed and looked at the familiar yet strange old man in front of him in shock.
He felt that his worldview was quickly collapsing. Nine wives, seventeen children, what kind of concept was that? Was it a feudal society or a slave society?
Why was it possible to marry nine wives and have seventeen children in 1938?
"Really?"
Hoffa asked hoarsely.
"Why do you look like you've seen a ghost?" Joey said angrily as he wiped the tea on his face with a towel.
"I already said that I'm a Mormon, a Mormon. Polygamy is allowed in our religion. "
Hoffa suddenly understood.
Then he asked without hesitation, "What are the requirements to join the religion?"
Old Joey was amused by Hoffa's expression. He shook his head and sighed. "How old are you? You're already thinking about these things. But let me remind you, some things are not as beautiful as they seem. If I really enjoyed life in America, I wouldn't have come to Hogwarts to do this kind of hard work. "
"Nonsense, you can only sigh in front of me if you've experienced it!"
Hoffa scolded angrily. "Serves you right for being short of money. It's not too much for me to say that you'll be poor to death. God has already opened nine windows for you. It's time to take something away from you. "
"You're so mischievous."
Old Joey couldn't help but laugh.
The conversation in the treehouse inexplicably went completely off the rails.
Hoffa completely forgot about Thunderbird and Quidditch.
He kept asking Old Joey about the details of Mormonism, specifically the details of polygamy. For example, what to do if his wife was jealous, how to sleep every night, how to get a new wife, and if there were any rules for doting on his wife.
Joey, who asked the last question, couldn't take it anymore.
He got up angrily and hurriedly pushed Hoffa out of the door.
"Brat, it's not too late to ask me these questions when you're older!"
Bang!
As soon as the door closed, Hoffa was pushed out of the treehouse.
As soon as the cold European winter wind blew, he woke up a little.
Only then did he remember that he had promised Aglaia to watch her Quidditch competition. Why did he suddenly come to discuss polygamy with Old Qiao?
He climbed down the tree unhappily and fell into the knee-deep snow. He suddenly felt as if he had an extra goal in his life.
After graduating from Hogwarts, he would go to America and become a modern Wei Xiaobao.
As he walked, he seriously considered the feasibility of this problem.
When he reached the exit of the Forbidden Forest, Hoffa turned his head to look at the woods. He felt that he couldn't let this old guy give up his job at Hogwarts Hunting Ground.
He had to make him stay.
He still had 60 gold coins left from the money that Indor gave him last time. He should be able to go to Diagon Alley to customize an Arizona climate blanket.
But before that, he should go back to Quidditch Stadium first. He didn't know if that boring competition was over.
…
…
The snow was heavy and the snow was very deep.
In the distance, the spectator stands of Quidditch Stadium stood tall. Four huge banners of the academy fluttered in the sky. The pillars of the stadium could be faintly seen in the heavy snow.
The competition shouldn't be over yet.
Covering his eyes, Hoffa hurried back to the Quidditch Stadium, one foot deep and one foot shallow.
But halfway through, he saw a blurry figure standing alone in the snow in the distance. It was a little out of place in the white snow.
Someone was standing in the snow.
Hoffa thought for a moment and walked in the direction of that person curiously. Why would someone appear alone in the snow when someone else was playing? Could it be that the other person was like him and had no interest in Quidditch?
After a few steps, the figure in the distance suddenly raised its head.
It saw Hoffa.
The two of them looked at each other across the wind and snow from afar.
Then, it turned around and ran at lightning speed.
Hoffa was puzzled for a second. Then, he was horrified and suddenly realized something.
The place where that guy was standing just now was the location of the teleportation portal!
There was something wrong with this person!
He pulled out his legs with a creak. Hoffa ran on all fours on the snow.
"Stop!"
Hoffa shouted.
But the other person didn't stop at all. Instead, he ran faster and faster. As his robe fluttered, his figure became more and more blurry in the snow.
Hoffa pulled out his magic wand and stumbled to the place where the figure stood just now.
Sure enough, the snow was almost completely overturned, revealing the dark brown turf below.
The turf was full of potholes. The huge abandoned teleportation portal buried under the grass was once again overturned and suffered unprecedented damage.
Every rune was blown to pieces. The air was full of violent magic elements. This piece of land had suffered at least ten Violent Curses just now.
Gotcha!
Hoffa glanced at the blurry figure. At this moment, he had completely turned into a gray dot. After a few flashes in the snow. He disappeared.
He disappeared in the direction of Quidditch Field.
Hoffa chased after him without thinking.
This guy was the culprit that caused him to be hunted down by Schmidt.
If the teleportation portal wasn't destroyed, Indor wouldn't have come to Hogsmeade to find him. If Indor didn't come to find him, he wouldn't have provoked the three German Dark Warlocks for no reason, and he wouldn't have encountered Dark Warlocks in the Forbidden Forest and escaped death twice in a row.
This guy was the cause of everything.
Who was it!?
Was it Schmidt himself?
Hoffa ran with great difficulty while thinking about the other person's identity.
The figure in front of him was already out of sight.
Ghost Walk!
Hoffa directly activated the ability.
As the world changed color, he disappeared into the snow.
In the shadow state, his speed increased tremendously. He left a series of shallow footprints on the snow with each step of more than three meters.
Ten seconds later, when he jumped out of stealth, he didn't hesitate to activate the ability again.
After 20 seconds of high-speed running, he approached the flickering gray figure in front of him.
It was right at the entrance of Quidditch Field.
Hoffa followed his footprints and rushed all the way into Quidditch Field. The moment he jumped out of stealth, Hoffa pressed his hand on the other person's shoulder.
"Hey!"
The man abruptly turned his head and pushed Huo Fa away.
At that moment, Hoffa saw a mask, a strange pale mask.
He stood there in a daze. In the blink of an eye, the masked person rushed out again.
Hoffa quivered and wanted to chase again.
However, at this moment, the stadium erupted into thunderous cheers.
Everyone stood up. Some people even jumped down from the tower and tried to hug their team members.
Bright blue ribbons danced in the sky. The symbol of an eagle shone in the snow. Sparkle.
The commentator shouted in a hoarse voice.
"Aglaia, the young substitute for Ravenclaw, stepped forward to catch the Golden Snitch when the team was behind by 100 points and saved the team from a crisis. He used superb skills that we can't even dream of. It's unbelievable. I can foresee that for a long time in the future, Ravenclaw will have another ace that belongs to them. Of course, Slytherin's performance … "
The commentator talked non-stop on the stage.
Ravenclaw's people ran around excitedly and cheered.
Slytherin's people were dejected and their faces were full of annoyance.
Hoffa stood at the entrance of the stadium with a pale face. The footprints on the snow were completely erased by the fanatical fans. The blurry figure completely disappeared into the crowd.
In the air, some ribbons and confetti floated down and hung on Hoffa's face.
Aglaia held the Golden Snitch and danced in the air with his teammates before slowly landing on the ground. The crowd cheered even louder.
But their cheers didn't affect Hoffa at all.
He had seen that person before.
He had seen him before!
A few months ago, in Violet's secret room, the person who taught him the Phantom Curse!
Aglaia held the Golden Snitch up in the crowd's praise. His face that was red from the cold was full of pride.
Hoffa stood in the crowd in a daze.
Suddenly, a hand pulled Hoffa out of the crowd and dragged him to the front of the crowd.
Miranda scolded, "Where have you been? I've been looking for you for a long time! "
Hoffa came back to his senses, but he didn't know how to answer.
At this time, Aglaia held the flashing Golden Snitch excitedly in front of Hoffa.
"Did you see it? Did you see it? Did I ride the broom upside down at the end? "
Hoffa nodded slowly, "You are the best ball seeker I have ever seen."
"Hahahaha!"
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