From Kamal Taj to Hogwarts

Because he was worried about Professor Kettleburn's physical condition, Sivan got up early the next day and rushed to the shack where the professor lived.

Knocking on the wooden door of the shack, Xiwen stood waiting at the door with some anxiety.

After a long while, just when Xiwen was about to break in, Professor Kettleburn appeared at the door with a tired and unshaven face.

"Little Xiwen?" he asked. "Why are you here?"

"Professor, are you feeling well?" Xiwen carefully considered his words and asked implicitly.

The professor looked at him doubtfully and said, "What questions can I have? Let me tell you, I had a good sleep last night. I also dreamed about the big cat leopard I had seen in America before. That guy was amazing..."

As he was talking, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

"Wait, how did I sleep last night?" He looked suspiciously at Xiwen, who was so guilty that he looked down at his toes, and asked. "Also, why didn't I take off my shoes when I went to bed last night?"

'Can I say that the smell is too strong and I dare not take it off...'

Of course, Xiwen did not dare to say this. He just said: "Professor, you looked at my kitten yesterday and fell there. I moved it to the bed for you..."

"Kitten is still young, she must not have done it on purpose, and you have not been harmed. So can you punish her..." Xiwen was worried about Kitten and began to plead with Professor Kettleburn.

The professor was stunned for a moment and suddenly became excited.

"Cat and Leopard! It must be Cat and Leopard!" He shook Xiwen's shoulders and roared loudly. "Yellow eyes, good at hypnosis. Quick! Where is your cat? This is a major discovery. It confirms that Cat and Leopard can interact with the cat.

Something like a small cat hybrid!”

"Um..." Xiwen was so shaken that he couldn't help but silently broke away the professor's remaining right hand. Because he was afraid that the professor would retaliate against the kitten, he said vigilantly. "I didn't bring the cat here this morning, otherwise

tonight?"

"Then come here on time at seven o'clock tonight!" Professor Kettleburn said vigorously. "I just want to prepare some information first."

After saying that, he urged Xiwen to leave, while he hurried towards the castle on crutches.

Seeing the professor leaving in a hurry, Xiwen shrugged and started his daily morning exercises next to him.

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Not expecting to return to the dormitory too early in the evening, Xiwen went to the library during the day to complete the week's homework.

Because the school has just started for a week, the homework given by the professors in each subject is not much. For example, the Transfiguration class, the Charms class and the Defense Against the Dark Arts class just ask the young wizards to practice the magic spells practiced in the class. These hope

I have already learned the text, so there is no pressure at all.

The assignment in the herbal medicine class was to write a 7-inch paper on the processing and storage methods of fresh vegetables. Although Xiwen did not attend one class, he got the notes from Miranda, the college bully who always ranked first in the grade.

, completing this kind of task is no problem at all.

The homework for the Potions class was to preview some basic details of the preparation process of the Living Hell potion. Xiwen briefly read it once and memorized it with his strong memory.

History of Magic had the most homework, which was to write a foot-long paper on the Werewolf Code of Conduct. Xiwen spent a lot of time finding the corresponding information in the library, revised it, and finally wrote an article that looked good.

Not bad. However, he was very curious about how Professor Binns corrected homework as a ghost...

After the homework was taken away by Abraxas and Mobley in the name of reference, Sivan reluctantly carried the kitten on the road to Professor Kettleburn's shed.

By the time Xiwen arrived, the professor had already put on all his equipment and was waiting at the door of the shack. He was rare without a cane and was standing on the gravel road in front of the door casually. He was wearing a hat full of burrs today.

He was wearing a cowhide hood, an khaki jacket with only one sleeve, a pair of faded jeans, and a cowhide water bag and an oil lamp hung around his waist.

"Professor, your legs?" Xiwen asked in surprise, looking at the professor's empty right hand and intact jeans.

Professor Kettleburn lifted up his trousers and showed the wooden leg inside the trousers to Xiwen. He said proudly: "This thing is very easy to use. It can be used as a right leg. Look, I don't need to get a new one at all."

leg!"

Xiwen looked at the so-called prosthetic leg, which was no different from an ordinary wooden stick, and fell into deep thought...

"Let's go, follow me to patrol the Forbidden Forest today." The professor waved his hand and walked in front. "You can't escape this time!"

"Professor, what should I do with the kitten?" Xiwen asked hurriedly.

The professor said: "Just take it with you and let her see the world!"

Xiwen was still a little worried, frowning and asked: "But won't she be in danger?"

"She has cat and leopard blood! It's better for you to worry about her than to worry about yourself." Professor Kettleburn turned around and glared at him with hatred, and said.

"And I'm very familiar with the Forbidden Forest. There's nothing dangerous about it, don't worry!"

Xiwen could only nodded and said nothing more.

In fact, Xiwen was also very curious about the Forbidden Forest. After all, at the opening ceremony, Principal Dippet personally spoke and strictly prohibited the little wizard from going to the Forbidden Forest.

Wait, Professor Kettleburn said there is no danger, so why doesn't the principal allow entry into the Forbidden Forest?

So Xiwen asked: "Professor, you said there is no danger in the Forbidden Forest, so why does Principal Dippet not allow students to enter?"

"I don't want to go into the Forbidden Forest every day just to pick out those little naughty things that got lost." Professor Kettleburn said angrily. "What's more, there are centaurs in the Forbidden Forest, and they won't do that.

Be polite to wizards."

"So that's it." Xiwen nodded.

That's right, one of the biggest dangers in entering a forest is not that there are dangerous things in the forest, but the risk of people getting lost in a forest with complex vegetation and terrain. What's more, even the forests of the Muggle world are filled with many dangerous things.

The unknown, let alone the Forbidden Forest filled with magical creatures.

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Professor Kettleburn held an oil lamp, and two wizards, one large and one small, walked into the Forbidden Forest one after another. Under the illumination of the light, their shadows were dragged behind them, stretched very long.

If someone looks from a distance, they will see that the Forbidden Forest is very dark and gloomy. The entire forest is shrouded in mist. The huge and dense trees are connected together, casting a heavy black shadow in the moonlight, like

It is a giant beast that wants to choose people and devour them, swallowing up both Professor Kettleburn and Sivan...

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