Chapter 745 The Studious Cat

On the first day of school, or to be precise, the night before school started, a large notice was pinned to the bulletin boards in the common rooms of all colleges:

Apparition Lesson

If you are seventeen years old or older by August 31st, you can take a twelve-week Apparition course taught by Apparition instructors at the Ministry of Magic.

If you are willing to participate, please sign below.

Tuition fee: twelve galleons.

The first two names on the Gryffindor notice were Fish McGonagall and Hermione Granger. When the two of them came back from a night out, they happened to meet the little boy who had put up the notice. Elf, and then the impatient Cat stepped forward to sign his name.

Not only Fish is looking forward to this event, but all the eligible sixth grade students are equally excited.

Throughout the whole day, people could be heard talking about the course to be held everywhere, and everyone was very eager to be able to disappear and appear at will.

"How exciting, if only..." Simo snapped his fingers to disappear, "My cousin Figo deliberately used this trick to make me angry. When I learn it... he won't be able to live in peace for a moment..."

He was immersed in longing, and he waved his wand a little too hard, turning the spring of water that was meant for the day's Charms assignment into a water dragon, which shot up to the ceiling and bounced off, hitting Professor Flitwick in the face. superior.

"Actually, we have quite an advantage." After Professor Flitwick dried himself with a wave of his wand and scolded Seamus for copying the sentence "I'm a wizard, not a stick-wielding baboon," Ron was a little disappointed. The ashamed Seamus said: "We were revealed by house elves with their followers, which was very helpful in learning this spell. George and Fred passed the test only once."

His words made everyone even more excited. Everyone was imagining what it would be like after they learned to Apparate. Harry and Ron's fantasies were more specific, because they had seen how truly powerful wizards used Apparition to fight. of.

However, there is actually still some time before the first Apparition class, because the school needs to compile a list and confirm that no one has secretly signed up without meeting the age limit. Only then will the Ministry of Magic be notified, and then the Ministry of Magic will send someone to teach...

Fish then felt that he had been deceived.

"Didn't you and Albus say that you would learn to Apparate as soon as the vacation is over?!"

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Cat asked Hermione unhappily.

"It's only less than a month anyway, so just bear with it a little longer." Hermione quickly comforted the cat in a good voice, and kissed Maomao on the face.

"Oh well……"

Most of the time, Fish is easy to coax. After the cat pursed its lips and hummed for a while, all its anger was gone.

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"Severus, are you meowing?"

|ΦωΦ)

That night, Fish opened the door to the room that was once the Potions office and is now the Defense Against the Dark Arts office.

"Fish?" Snape, who was sorting out the medicinal materials, looked at the head that popped out of the door and whispered softly: "The elixir is not ready yet. It will take about another fifty-two days."

"Feishu is not here to induce the elixir of good fortune, meow!"

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Maomao walked into Snape's office, closed the door, took out a small box from his pocket and handed it over. "Fish specially asked for this from Newt...Happy birthday, Severus!"

Fish asked Newt Scamander for this gift on Christmas Day. The box contained ptarmigan feathers and eggshells, as well as some naturally shed claws.

In fact, these potion materials are not particularly valuable, but they are not easy to obtain, because the thunderbird is a magical animal unique to North America, and its number is not large. Most of the materials have been digested locally, and only a small part Will be sold abroad.

Snape was stunned for a moment, and a faint smile appeared on his face. In the past few years, Fish and Draco would actually give him a birthday gift. This was a day that he had rarely looked forward to for so many years.

It's just that there have been too many things going on recently, and Draco deliberately kept a distance from him and didn't give him a birthday gift this year, so Snape forgot that today was his birthday.

"Thank you." He took the box from Fish and put it aside without caring what was inside.

"And these, meow," Cat continued to take something out of his pocket, and this time he took out some food, "Fish brought these from Horace, they taste so good, meow!"

Knowing that Snape didn't like to celebrate in the kitchen, Fish brought food directly to him to eat with him several times.

As the cat took out the food, he continued to mutter: "Hermione still refuses to come over this year. Severus' temper should change."

Snape twitched the corner of his mouth and said nothing, just silently eating the food that Fish took out.

However, Fish just muttered a few words casually. He used it as a reason to celebrate Snape's birthday, had a delicious late-night snack, and left with satisfaction...

Although the relationship between Cat and Snape is very good, he is still too boring at ordinary times, and Cat is not allowed to touch the bottles and cans on the shelf, so he is not fun at all, and Fish certainly won't Stayed too long.

And Snape didn't mind this at all. He was already overjoyed that Fish would come to celebrate his birthday, so how could he care about such a trivial matter.

After celebrating Snape's birthday, Fersh returned to his comfortable and ordinary campus life.

During this period, Dumbledore did not notify them to go to the story, and he was not in school most of the time, as if he was busy with something very important. Even when Fersh contacted him to come back for treatment, Dumbledore replied several times that he was not free. This resulted in Fersh's healing spells making some progress, but still unable to stop his life force from gradually declining.

Fortunately, according to the cat's perception, even if Dumbledore did not accept his treatment during the next period of time, he could at least hold on until the end of the semester, and there would be no problem when Snape's Felix was ready. So although Fersh was a little dissatisfied with Dumbledore, he was not particularly worried.

In this way, time soon came to February. As the temperature warmed up, the snow around the school melted, replaced by cold and damp. Gray-purple clouds pressed low over the castle, and the continuous cold rain made the lawn slippery and muddy.

As a result, the first Apparition class for sixth graders was moved from the playground to the Great Hall, and the class was scheduled on Saturday mornings to avoid delaying regular classes.

When Firsh and Hermione arrived at the Great Hall, they found that the tables were gone. Rain was beating against the tall windows, and the enchanted ceiling was spinning dimly above their heads.

They gathered in front of Professors McGonagall, Snape, Flitwick, Sprout, and a small wizard. The strange wizard should be the Apparition instructor from the Ministry of Magic.

He was surprisingly pale, with transparent eyelashes and thin hair. He had an unreal feeling, as if a gust of wind would blow him away.

"His size has an advantage in Apparition," Hermione whispered in Firsh's ear: "The difficulty of Apparition will gradually increase with the size of the teleported person."

"Yes, Charlie failed the Apparition test because he was too strong." Ron also echoed on the side.

At the same time, he also showed a trace of worry, because he was the tallest among the Weasley children, and even one of the tallest sixth-grade students in the whole school.

Neville also became nervous when he heard this... He has always been a little fat, and coupled with his previous not-so-excellent grades, even if he has developed some confidence in the past two years, he still feels a little guilty.

Even Hermione was curling her hair anxiously at this time. During this period of time, she would go to the library to look up content related to Apparition whenever she had time.

Since Apparition is a spell that requires a certificate from the Ministry of Magic to be used legally, even the library of Hogwarts does not have a specific practice method, only some content that constantly emphasizes its danger and difficulty. So Hermione did not find any content that was helpful for learning Apparition, but was disturbed by the terrible experiences after failure.

In fact, after the excitement passed, everyone was more or less nervous. After all, it was no secret that the failure of Apparition would lead to splitting. Almost every year, there would be wizards on the "Daily Prophet" for this reason.

Of course, Fish would not be nervous, as he had never failed to learn magic.

Maomao was staring at the little wizard with burning eyes, and couldn't wait to learn the spell of Apparition.

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……

Recommendation ticket monthly ticket

I thought the problem was solved... but it turned out to be a problem again... I ran outside all day today and was almost sunburned.

In addition, I seemed to pass by the filming location of "The Beginning" today, which is the place where Auntie Guo got on the car. I'm not sure if it is the same place. It looks very similar, but I didn't confirm it because I just passed by.

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Thanks to Ino from Maomao Island for the reward.