Chapter 311 New Magical Animal Companions

West paused, his ears pricked up to hear more.

Of course he knew Jacob Kowalski. The Kawalskis and Scamanders were close friends with his grandmother, and he had met each other several times when he was a child.

Jacob is a fat grandfather who is old but has a vibrant smile. This is what West always thought when he was a child.

However, due to geographical reasons, the West family usually has more contact with the Scamander family. Jacob is not a wizard, and frequent use of portkeys and followers to apparate will put a lot of burden on his body.

As West grew older, he rarely saw Jacob.

Not far away from him, Newt was talking quietly to Professor McGonagall. West tried to prick up his ears but did not get any useful information.

The two sides were too far apart, and West didn't dare to take out his wand and use magic. Only after Newt left in a hurry did he hear what the other party left for Professor McGonagall.

"Minerva, please help me inform Tina and Bunty."

West frowned. Why should he inform his grandmother?

Suddenly, he had a bad feeling.

After all, Jacob is a Muggle. At this age, the vitality of Muggles is far inferior to that of wizards...

No way... West bit his lip and tried not to think the worst.

But what if it really is the worst-case scenario that was expected?

After hesitating for a while, West made his choice.

He decided to sneak over and take a look, and if something really happened to Jacob, he would show up directly. The West family and the Kowalski family were family friends, and he should go there regardless of circumstances, whether to help or to express condolences. If everything is normal, then he can sneak away again.

It's a pity that Sean took away the invisibility cloak... West pinched Sniff's butt in his arms with some annoyance. When Professor McGonagall also hurried back to the castle, he continued to maintain the illusion spell and moved towards Walk to the station.

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On the other side, after calling Hermione and saying goodbye to Nagini, Sean returned to the castle.

"So, you just blackmailed me into getting a bunch of stuff?" Hermione patted her forehead helplessly.

"Hermione, although you are my best friend, I must correct your wording, it is not blackmail-" Sean said seriously.

"Compensation, huh?" Hermione looked like I had known for a long time.

Sean nodded with satisfaction: "You've learned to answer questions, that's good."

"What are you going to do with that egg, or are you going to raise it yourself?"

"Well, after all, I haven't seen it before. I decided to ask someone for reference. What if it doesn't hatch? Um?" Sean stopped in the middle of speaking.

"What's wrong?" Hermione asked confused.

"It seems that there is no need to find anyone..."

Just now, something squirmed on the inside of his robe, and that was where he placed the magical animal egg.

Just as he was about to speak, an extremely obvious sound of an eggshell cracking was heard.

Is it really going to hatch? !

Sean, who was too late to go to the Room of Requirement, directly pulled Hermione to the corner of the corridor, and then got directly into the ring.

"Help keep it safe and I'll take care of it."

With these words, the entrance quickly narrowed and the ring fell into Hermione's hand.

Sean walked into the ring and took out the deformed lizard skin bag as soon as he stepped down the stairs.

Pulling open the string at the mouth of the bag, sure enough, the fist-sized egg inside was already shaking, and a small piece of eggshell had peeled off.

Sean took a pile of hay and carefully took out the eggs and placed them in the haystack.

In the ring, several of Sean's magical animals gathered around him.

The golden egg with cyan patterns was shaking constantly, but except for the small piece of eggshell that peeled off at the beginning, the rest of the eggshell was still extremely hard.

Sean squinted and saw that there was a light cyan film with white spots inside the peeling eggshell. There was an indistinct shadow inside that seemed to be tearing the egg film hard.

Sean waited patiently, but for some reason, the movements of the little guy inside were getting weaker and weaker. The egg membrane looked thin, but it couldn't be torn apart no matter what.

Sean was a little anxious now. He kept flipping through the notes he copied from Newt, but he couldn't find any good solution after searching around. It seems that Newt has never witnessed the hatching of this magical animal, and there is no relevant record in his notes.

The shaking of the egg became smaller and smaller, and the creature inside seemed to have no extra strength.

"Hiss, I have never hatched magical animal eggs - Dave, Nadja, both of you were hatched from eggs, do you have any experience?" Sean was in trouble now.

Dave, who only knew how to eat and fight, had no idea when asking questions. He could only judge that the creature in the eggshell was still alive. Its evaluation was: "It has very little smell, and the smell should only fill the gap between teeth."

Bird Snake Nadja is also inexperienced. It was smuggled here, and Bird Snake's mother was not around when it was hatched.

Instead, it was the Basilisk who gave the advice.

The basilisk's huge body was coiled outside the wooden house, with only two huge nostrils blocking the wooden door.

"There should be birds and magical animals inside, I have a feeling." The Basilisk hissed.

"The person who gave me the egg said the same thing, but it's useless to know what kind it is." Sean was a little anxious.

The basilisk's huge body swam on the ground for a while, and then continued: "It has come out."

"Huh?" Sean didn't understand what the basilisk meant.

The basilisk's letter reached into the house, and the top of the huge letter pointed at the hole in the eggshell.

"That's not the egg membrane, it's part of the bird. My Nobuko can feel it."

Isn't that egg membrane? When Sean heard this, he looked down and found something strange. The shaking amplitude of the egg has been very small, but the membrane inside the gap is stretching and contracting strangely.

If you look carefully, you can see that the film seems to be expanding and shrinking, and the white spots on it are also expanding and shrinking.

This is part of the bird...

"Then why can't it get out..." Sean was confused. While he was thinking, he suddenly remembered the notes he had just read.

Newt records a magical animal in it: the Airwing.

Although this magical animal is a bird, its skin is smooth and scaleless, it has a mouth similar to that of a platypus, and its body resembles that of a dragon. The biggest feature of the air-wing bird is that it can show different postures according to the needs of the function.

If this creature wants to take off, it will puff up the skin on its neck and turn into a huge hot air balloon, and then fly quickly with the help of high-altitude wind.

Newt wrote in it: "The epidermis at the neck of the Airwing bird bulges like a frog inflating its vocal sac. It is light cyan in color, and there are white spots on the surface that expand as the epidermis expands..."

Sean lowered his head to compare, and sure enough, the egg membrane he thought was exactly the same as Newt's description.

Gu Tu

He quickly looked at it again.

Newt once got an Airwing, but he never saw the hatching of an Airwing egg. He only mentioned: "The hatching of an Airwing egg sometimes helps the weak chicks escape from the eggshell... …”

Do you need help... Sean looked at the egg that was shaking less and less. He didn't know if it was a good thing to affect the birth of magical animals, because the process of many magical animals breaking out of their shells was a process of their growth. If you interfere rashly, the chicks may die young.

However, the egg has almost stopped shaking now, and it seems that it will die now if we don't help it...

Sean didn't hesitate anymore and put on a pair of dragon leather gloves, then picked up the tool and cracked the eggshell.

It was an egg the size of a fist, but the shell was much harder than Sean expected. He was worried about hurting the little guy inside, so he could only handle it carefully, and it took him a lot of time to break a small spot.

The egg was completely motionless.

"It's too late..." Sean frowned. The membrane was tightly attached to the eggshell, and he couldn't use the Petrification or Loosening Curse.

At this time, Nadja, who felt Sean's anxiety, screamed.

Sean, who had a slight resemblance to the animal language, immediately understood what the other party meant, and he was overjoyed: "Naga, do you have any idea?"

The bird-snake Najia nodded, and gently rubbed Sean's face with its beak, and then quickly shrank its body.

The bird-snake, which was originally one meter in diameter, became the size of a loach. It hummed low, then clung to the eggshell, and stuck its head in along the gap.

"Doo doo doo doo!" A crisp knocking sound sounded, and as the body became smaller, the sharp beak became like a miniature impact drill, constantly impacting the hard eggshell.

The eggshell peels off at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Impact drills that don’t use electricity, do birds and snakes still have this ability? ! Sean's eyes lit up, and he continued to dig from another direction.

With Nadja's help, the eggshell peeling project progressed significantly. It didn't take long before the upper half of the eggshell had completely fallen off, and the appearance of the creature inside was revealed to Sean.

Just like the picture Newt drew, it was a small air-winged bird. However, the skin on its neck bulged hard, completely pressing against the eggshell, while its duck-billed head sank into itself. of 'hot air balloons'.

Sean reached out and tried to grab it, but the Airwing's 'hot air balloon' was slippery and had a layer of eggshell mucus on it. Sean, who didn't dare to exert force, couldn't hold it firmly.

Fortunately, Najia was still working conscientiously, and most of the eggshell fell off again. Sean held up most of the 'balloon' and pulled it out slightly.

With a "Boom~" sound, the little airwing bird finally broke away from the eggshell completely.

However, the little Airwing's eyes turned white and he lay motionless on the haystack.

"Still alive, but the breath is very weak." Dave, who is good at sensing biological signs, came up with the idea.

"Pudding." Sean greeted.

Pudding jumped over neatly, and then put his eyes close to the little air-winged bird's head, and the cat and leopard's Legilimency ability was quickly activated.

Then it turned its head and looked at Sean: "Meow, meow, meow."

Sean: "..."

He circled around the little airwing that was still inflated like a hot air balloon, and finally discovered something was wrong.

The opponent's long tail was close to his back, and because it was the same color and extremely small, Sean didn't notice at all - this guy's own tail was wrapped around his neck...

Sean quickly and carefully stretched out his hands to untie it, and the tail wrapped around its neck was released. The little airwing immediately began to gasp for air, its swollen skin rose and fell, and its whitened pupils returned to their original positions.

"Wow..." The little airwing made a weak call, which sounded like a hoarse frog call mixed with the sound of a mammal.

"It's finally okay..." Sean breathed a sigh of relief.

The little airwing finally took a breath, and the skin on its neck shrank rapidly, returning to its original appearance. It looked like a duck-billed fire dragon, and then it grew a pair of extremely small fleshy wings.

Ugly, cute, ugly.

"Wow, wow..." the little airwing bird was still calling weakly.

One person, one curled-up demon, one cat and leopard, one bird, one snake, one basilisk. The strange combination surrounded the fist-sized little air-winged bird in strange postures.

"It must be hungry, right?" Sean said. He couldn't understand the cry of the newly born chick.

"Hungry." Pudding gave the accurate answer.

Sean squatted by the haystack and looked at the broken eggshells: "After a bird is born, the eggshell seems to supplement the nutrition of the female bird. So what do the chicks eat?"

The basilisk's Nobuko carefully pushed the eggshell towards the Airwing, and then hissed: "I ate a little eggshell when I was born, and then I had the strength to hunt by myself - but I can't eat too much, no. Delicious and tooth-piercing.”

Nadja, who had turned into the size of a scarf, clinging to Sean, casually swept the eggshell away: "Birds and snakes don't eat eggshells."

Pure silver eggshells are indeed inedible...

Dave, who was devouring a sheep brain in his mouth, looked at it, hesitated for a while, and then slowly came closer. It opened its white mouth, and a little bit of sheep brain bits leaked out from between its teeth.

"There's only so much left..." Dave came up with a thought with great reluctance, and Sean could even feel the pain in his heart...

Sean: "..."

He took the note and read it.

Newt recorded in the book that the Airwing's favorite food is lake fish.

"That's it... Pudding, go catch a fish." Sean ordered.

Pudding meowed and quickly jumped to the lake, where Sean had already put a lot of fish in, which was prepared in advance for the aquatic magical animals that might be tamed in the future.

Pudding ran to the lake and just looked around, then quickly poked with his front paws. When he lifted it up again, there was already a small fish on his paws.

Sean took the small fish, tore it open a little, and then put the fish meat to the mouth of the little airwing.

"Woo-wow-wow-wow-ah-" The Airwing's nose moved, and then it opened its mouth as wide as possible.

Sean smiled and fed the fish meat into it.

The airwing's throat just shook, and the fish meat slid directly into its throat. It then stood up and continued to open its mouth wide at Sean.

"ah--"

Sean tore open the small fish and fed it in bit by bit. It didn’t take long for all the fish to enter the Airwing bird’s belly, but it still had its mouth open.

"Do you have such a big appetite?" Sean asked Pudding to catch another small fish, and then fed it all to the Airwing.

After eating two, the Airwing opened its mouth wide as a habit, but just halfway through, it suddenly fell down in pain and jumped like a fish.

Sean was shocked and looked at Pudding quickly.

Pudding leaned over and took a look: "Meow meow meow"

Sean: "..."

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