At the end of the month, the rain that had been falling for several days stopped and the sky finally began to clear up. The bright sunshine swept away everyone's gloomy mood of the past few days. All the students who had been staying in the castle recently came out to play, and the energetic Weasley brothers were already playing with Lee Jordan.
Next to the hunting lodge, Hagrid was drying moldy animal skins. When he heard footsteps coming in, he turned around and greeted the visitor: "Why do you look listless?"
"It's probably because he's been staying in the castle for too long, and he's been under a lot of academic pressure recently." Albert bent down, rubbed Yaya's head with his hand, and took out the dog food that he had prepared in advance to feed Yaya.
"Look, what did I just hear? You actually said that you have academic pressure?" Hagrid paused and his eyes widened.
Hagrid knew something about Albert. It was really weird that a famous genius of Hogwarts would say that he had academic pressure.
"Yeah." Albert didn't say much. He waved the boomerang he made in front of Yaya, then threw it out with force.
He came here this time just to play this with Yaya. Playing with a pet can effectively relax his mood.
"That's not like you. By the way, I just baked some cookies, would you like some?" Hagrid took out the other stored items to dry.
"Forget it, my teeth are not as good as yours." Albert refused dryly.
"That's a shame?" Hagrid sat on the wooden chair, put the plate of biscuits next to him, reached out and picked up a piece, took a bite, the crisp sound of the biscuit could be heard even from a long distance.
“You set your standards too high.”
"Maybe." Albert took out a chocolate toffee from his robe pocket, put it in his mouth, and chewed it slowly.
Not long ago, Professor Brod wrote to give advice on being single-minded. He believed that Albert should focus on one thing first, such as magic runes, or improving the protective bracelet.
Albert understood what Professor Broad meant. The former professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts actually hoped that he would slow down his pace. Sometimes, if you slow down a bit, some obstacles will be overcome naturally.
In fact, Albert himself knew why. He was too ambitious and encountered a situation similar to Hermione.
However, unlike Hermione, Albert has a cheat to protect him, so his upper limit is actually very high. But the more he learns, plus the matter of alchemy, he does not have enough energy, so he says that he has academic pressure.
In fact, it was Albert who created all the trouble for himself.
This is the consequence of being too greedy.
"By the way, did you cast a spell on that thing?"
Looking at the boomerang that flew back automatically, Hagrid was very surprised.
"Well, it's a kind of tracking spell." Albert did not deny that there are actually many kinds of tracking spells and many uses, and the effect of the boomerang he created is to make it return to its owner.
Of course, the effect of the spell is not actually very strong. The boomerang will automatically spin, and its effect is to pull on it and let the boomerang return directly to Albert's hand.
"What a clever spell!" Hagrid couldn't help but sigh. He himself had no talent for magic.
Albert's expression was a little strange. Last time, Fred and George disappeared in the Forbidden Forest, so he specially went to learn this spell. However, the disadvantage of this spell is that it has a short range and will become ineffective if it is too far away.
While the two were talking, Yaya came back chasing the boomerang. It didn't understand why this thing came back by itself.
Albert raised his hand and touched Yaya, then fed it some food. Then he threw the boomerang out, and Yaya suddenly jumped out again and chased him away.
"Hagrid, do you have a fishing rod?" Albert asked suddenly.
"What do you want a fishing rod for?" Hagrid looked at Albert in confusion. "Ready to go fishing?"
"Uh, relax." Albert said.
"Relax, why don't you ride your broom to the sky for a while?" Hagrid asked doubtfully. "By the way, I heard from Charlie that you didn't join the Quidditch team."
"I have a lot of things to do. If I can't train with everyone, then don't join the team." Albert said honestly, "Also, I go fishing mainly because I want to eat grilled fish."
"So, you're going to catch one and grill it yourself?" Hagrid's eyes widened, unable to understand Albert's thinking.
“My cooking skills are actually pretty good.”
"I have fresh beef here, do you want it?" Hagrid asked.
"Your lunch?" Albert looked at Hagrid in surprise, but still refused. "If I eat, what will you eat?"
"You are so small, how much can you eat? And I have plenty of it." Hagrid said disapprovingly. Then he took Albert to see the beef. There was quite a lot of it, but it didn't look very good and wasn't properly processed.
"Can you eat so much by yourself?" Albert stared at the beef in the iron bucket and raised his eyebrows.
"No, I'll eat some, and then take the rest to the Forbidden Forest to feed..." Hagrid suddenly stopped.
"What?" Albert asked curiously.
"Dog." Hagrid said firmly, as if to make his words more convincing.
"Dog, don't you already have one?" Albert had just finished speaking when he heard a slam on the wooden door, as if something had hit the door.
When Albert pushed open the door, he found Yaya lying on the ground biting the boomerang. He had finally caught this cunning little thing.
Because the wooden door was temporarily closed, the boomerang that Albert had forgotten about hit the door directly and was caught by Yaya.
"It's Fang after all." Albert gave the dog food to Fang, tilted his head and looked at Hagrid and asked, "Don't you have one? Although it's a little timid, Fang is not bad! And where is the dog you mentioned?"
"Keeping in the Forbidden Forest," said Hagrid awkwardly.
"Why keep them in the Forbidden Forest?" Albert asked reflexively, but soon realized that there was something wrong with this matter. He suddenly repeated: "A dog kept in the Forbidden Forest is dangerous?"
"No, Fluffy isn't dangerous at all," Hagrid retorted in a panic.
"Lu Wei?" Albert repeated. He didn't know why he felt that the name was familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere.
"Hagrid, I have reminded you more than once that what you call not dangerous only means not dangerous to you." Albert reminded Hagrid again.
"Don't worry, I will keep it in the Forbidden Forest and will not let it appear in front of the students of Hogwarts." Hagrid comforted him. He also knew that Albert meant well and he followed his suggestion, so after much consideration he kept Fluffy in the Forbidden Forest.
"Okay!" Albert raised his eyebrows and said, "Do you mind taking me to see your new dog?"
"Well..." Hagrid hesitated.
"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else." Albert comforted, "You know, I never say anything nonsense."
"Okay!" Hagrid finally nodded in agreement.
"By the way, do you want some roast beef?"
"Why not? This is a good time to marinate it." Albert took out his wand from his pocket, reached out to turn over the beef in the iron bucket, and selected the parts that were more suitable for roasting.
As he said this, he turned his head and looked: "By the way, Hagrid, do you want it?"
"want."
Hagrid watched Albert use the Cutting Charm to cut two pieces of beef from above, then cut it in half and placed it in a large bowl. He poured in beer and some seasonings, massaged it briefly, then covered it with a lid and began to marinate.
"Is that all?"
"Muggle eating." Albert said without hesitation: "I have always believed that Muggles are better at cooking than wizards. Don't be too quick to deny it. Muggles know how to enjoy life better than wizards, even though the British cooking skills have always been... average."
Albert went outside to fetch water to wash his hands, while Hagrid divided the beef into four portions, one of which was his food for the day, and the other three were obviously food prepared for his dogs.
"Three." Albert raised his eyebrows slightly and finally remembered what Hagrid's new pet was.
A few minutes later, Albert followed Hagrid, who was carrying the iron bucket, towards the Forbidden Forest. Yaya, who was still eating beef, immediately swallowed the last piece of beef and quickly followed the two.