Harry Potter and the Temple of Tales

Louis spent most of the rest of the Christmas holidays in the Room of Requirement.

After the dance, there is still a lot of time for students to take vacation. Most students have chosen to go home, and Hogwarts has returned to a deserted time. Of course, during this year's Christmas vacation, students from the other two schools

Students will all stay at Hogwarts.

Therefore, it was several days later when Louis saw Astoria again.

Harry has been worrying about his second project this holiday, how to spend an hour in the water safely.

There was no hope of learning the spell, and it took him a long time to master the Flying Curse, not to mention that the spell that allowed him to breathe freely underwater must be a more advanced spell.

He also asked Hermione, but the answer he got was a standard bubble head curse.

"This is already the simplest spell I can think of, Harry." Hermione shook her head, "Or, you can ask Professor Moody?"

Not only Harry, but Louis is also thinking of ways to work on this underwater project. Although he has barely mastered the Black Mist Curse, it cannot help him survive in the water. According to the current situation, the best way is parotid grass.

But this thing is relatively rare, it belongs to plants near the Mediterranean Sea, and only Snape kept some in Hogwarts.

This is more troublesome. Trying to get the materials from Snape is like defeating Dumbledore in a duel.

After Christmas, the new semester begins, and Hogwarts in winter welcomes its new year.

The first class of the third grade was an outdoor Care of Magical Creatures class. The Gryffindor students arrived outside Hagrid's hut early, only to see Professor Kettleburn waiting there.

Louis and the others had never met the old Care of Magical Creatures professor because he resigned from Dumbledore two years ago.

"Ah, very good. You are all here. Come with me."

Kettleburn was an affable old man who staggered and walked as if he was about to fall apart.

"Professor, I want to ask." Luna, who was standing on Ravenclaw's side, raised her hand, "Where is Professor Hagrid?"

"Hagrid? Oh, I forgot to mention it." Kettleburn turned his head, "He has something to do so he has to take a few days off. Dumbledore asked me to take over his classes."

Hagrid asked for leave? Louis frowned. The half-giant incident should be over. Rita Skeeter hasn't written any negative news about Hagrid recently.

Moreover, it turned out that the person who was supposed to teach Hagrid was an elderly witch, Graplan.

"Okay, I've said everything I need to say, and here's what you're going to learn today." Kettleburn waved his wooden magic prosthesis, and Louis discovered that only half of his limbs were intact.

The students were all looking forward to today's content. After a while, a huge figure stumbled and rolled from the jungle not far away.

It is so huge that its limbs are too short to be seen, but one horn is very obvious. It looks very fat and cute.

"Wow, this is it?" Some students have already exclaimed, "Poison-horned beast?"

Lewis looked over there carefully and saw that this was indeed a magical animal from Africa, the poison horned beast.

This guy's whole body looks like a rhinoceros. Its skin is so hard that almost no spell can be broken.

As expected, Kettleburn, like Hagrid, likes those ferocious magical animals. He gave the students a highlight at the beginning. Although the poisonous horned beast looks harmless to humans and beasts, once it is angered, the horns on its head will

Can destroy anything.

This is simply another risky move. Last year's Malfoy is a good example. Although it was his own death, the probability of something happening to a ferocious magical animal is much higher than that of an ordinary one.

However, Kettleburn is very good at controlling the level. He will not let students get close to these magical animals. Once they show signs of anger, he will ask students to stay away.

Even so, the students still showed a strong desire for knowledge in this class, and Colin even said that he would keep one at home in the future.

"Then your whole family might be lost." Lewis patted the shoulder of his friend next to him.

"Do you know why poisonous horned beasts live in Africa? It's because the coffin-carrying industry is developed there. No matter how many people they hurt, there is always a way to solve the problem."

Several of them returned to the castle and happened to see Harry holding a green thing in his hand.

"Louis, I found a solution." Harry waved at him excitedly, "Parotid grass, it is said that you can hold your breath underwater for an hour."

"Where did you get it?" Louis looked at the kelp-like thing in Harry's hand.

"Qiu gave it to me. She said it was a gift from Cedric." Harry's eyes were a little blurry, as if he was recalling every detail of his time with Qiu Zhang.

"But she was a little depressed. After she gave this thing to me, she left immediately."

Cedric again? What does this guy want to do? He and Krum planned to help Harry, and even went to Snape to steal the parotid grass at the risk of death.

Various signs seem to confirm that Cedric has become Barty Crouch Jr.'s pawn, apparently helping Harry pass the Triwizard Tournament.

"This Parotid Grass does have this effect." Lewis said, "But before you take it, you'd better consult Neville. After all, he is the best in herbal medicine."

The reason why Louis didn't mention Professor Sprout of Hufflepuff was that on the one hand it was difficult for Harry to explain how he obtained this rare medicinal material, and on the other hand, based on his relationship with Sprout, this herbalist

The professor may not tell him.

"I just don't know if this thing can be divided into two parts for use." Harry frowned, "Otherwise, I can help you..."

"It's okay, I will figure out the second project myself." Louis declined Harry's kindness, not to mention that Barty Crouch Jr. would come to rob Hogwarts in order to prevent others from plagiarizing his ideas.

The only parotid grass that had been manipulated could only be used by Harry. The fishy smell in his mouth would make Louis unbearable.

In the days that followed, Hogwarts began to speculate about the content of the second project. Because the first project was to deal with the fire dragon, some of them speculated whether it would be a giant water monster.

Not to mention, those little wizards at Hogwarts really have the physiques of European emperors, and they can guess this kind of thing very well. However, the craziest thing that has been spread is the monster that summons thunder and lightning, because that day

The thunder and lightning storm blowing over the Forbidden Forest is still fresh in my memory.

However, no matter what it is, it can arouse great interest among the melon-eaters, because after the start of the new semester, the date of the second event of the Triwizard Tournament is not far away.