Daily Life at Hogwarts

Chapter 204: The mouse

Views:

The busy and fulfilling college life always goes by so fast.

In the blink of an eye, time has quickly come to the end of October.

The annual rainy season is still continuing and the weather is getting colder. Just like last year, the situation is just as bad as before.

"Rainy days always make people feel depressed!"

Albert suppressed a yawn and looked up at the rainy ceiling above him, trying to find an excuse for being lazy.

"morning."

Fred and George, one on each side, reached out and patted Percy's shoulders, greeting their brother who was sitting next to them. This pat made Percy, who was eating, choke and cough repeatedly.

Albert handed the drink next to him with a bit of amusement. Percy took a big gulp, swallowed the food, and glared at Fred and George who used Albert as a shield.

The two of them were opening and closing their lips. If you could read lip language, it would clearly mean: You swallowed it yourself, don't blame us.

At this moment, the arrival of a large number of postmen attracted the students' attention. These owls, who traveled long distances in the rain, swooped through the rain-splashed windows and splashed the rain on the heads and bodies of everyone in the auditorium.

A gray owl dropped a boxy package in front of Albert.

"It always feels like you get mail every day," said Fred enviously, pointing at another owl flying towards them.

The owl brought a letter.

Albert glanced at the messenger, put the envelope in his pocket, and opened the package in front of him. Inside was a copy of "Advanced Magic Translation" that still smelled of ink. This book was most likely sent by Flourish and Blotts Bookstore.

"Advanced Rune Translation?" Percy glanced at the title of the book and frowned slightly, because he had never heard of the name of this book even though he also took the ancient rune elective.

"This is the latest book written by Professor Babeling. It seems to be a reference book prepared for the senior ancient magic courses." Albert explained casually.

To be honest, the book was published faster than he expected.

"The book compiled by Professor Babel?" Percy looked at the Advanced Magic Rune Translator in confusion and borrowed it from Albert to read.

A moment later, a thick letter from home fell in front of Fred and George. They kept muttering, "Mom made a mistake again."

"What's wrong?" Albert noticed that Percy was looking at him strangely, so he asked puzzledly.

"Did you help with the annotations?" Percy was stunned when he opened the first page, because it said: This book is dedicated to Albert, thanking him for his help with this book.

Albert looked confused and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

"This..." Percy pointed to the content on the first page. There was no doubt that Albert was referring to the Albert Anderson in front of him.

"Yes." Albert nodded and admitted, "I did help revise the content of "Advanced Magic Rune Translation"."

At this time, the attention of the students in the hall was attracted by the long and thin package that the six owls were holding together.

"Broomstick!" Fred pursed his lips and murmured softly.

While everyone around was still eager to know what was in the package, several people around Albert had already guessed what was in the package.

Before the owls knocked over the breakfast in front of him, Albert quickly stood up and caught the long and thin package held by the owl flying towards him.

"Can I open it?" Lee Jordan asked Albert excitedly, staring at the long and thin package.

"Okay." Albert agreed to let Lee Jordan open the package on the spot and take out the broom inside.

"Sweep Number Six." George also came over to admire this Sweep series flying broom. This Sweep Number Six broom is more expensive than their Sweep Number Five and is also faster.

"You actually bought a flying broom." Albert's roommates were surprised that Albert bought a flying broom because Albert had not participated in Quidditch training for a long time.

"Fifty Galleons, not bad," Albert muttered.

When he felt someone's gaze coming towards him, Albert turned his head and looked in the direction of the gaze. It was Isobel, the Ravenclaw girl who had just withdrawn her gaze from him.

Ever since the last teaching of Occlumency, Albert and Isobel have maintained a friendly relationship, a bit like what was said in the previous life: the friendship between gentlemen is as pure as water.

Well, it’s really as plain as water.

When they met in the club, they would occasionally chat for a few words. The biggest way they communicated was by writing letters to each other, and the content of the letters was all ancient magic words.

When Lee Jordan was introducing the advantages of the Six-Star Sweep to others nearby, he suddenly turned his head and asked, "Are you going to try out the advantages of the new broom later?"

"If you'll try it first, then go out and play on your own!" Albert didn't mind riding his new broom right now, especially if it was raining.

"Then I'll try this broom for you first!" Li Qiaodan said happily.

"By the way, do you know where to get a live mouse?" Albert asked suddenly as he took out his notebook and flipped through it. The plan to store the crying sound of Mandrake had been successful, and it was the singing sound of its childhood, but Albert was not sure whether the sound could kill a mouse.

In fact, Albert originally hoped that Sheila could catch a living mouse for him, but what was the result

Sheila brought him a pile of dead rats, forcing him to come out and stop the farce.

Originally, Albert hoped to catch a few mice in Hogwarts for experiments, but unfortunately, he searched for a long time and still couldn't find any mice.

"In the warehouse?" Lee Jordan said uncertainly.

"Don't bother, Percy just keeps a mouse as a pet." Fred looked at his brother with ill intent.

"What do you want a mouse for?" Percy couldn't help asking.

"Uh." Albert thought for a moment and said, "I'm trying a magic experiment. Well, the effect is actually similar to the coma spell. I want to use mice to test the effect first."

But, I couldn’t find the mouse for a while.

"So you've got your eye on my Scabbers?" Percy frowned slightly.

"Well, don't say that. Albert will definitely give the money." George reminded, "One Sickle, two Sickles?"

"Three Sickles, no more." Fred suddenly slapped his thigh hard, and his action scared the others.

"Anyway, your Scabbers is not a pet rat, so it's not a pity if it dies." The twins mentioned this in advance, which made Percy frown slightly.

"You can't use humans to try it!"

Although the singing of a young mandrake cannot kill people, Albert still does not want to face its power himself. Finding a mouse to try it is undoubtedly the best option.

After all, experimental mice still make great contributions to mankind.

Even if you really can't find mice, house mice will do.

Well, Ron's mouse seemed to be his brother Percy's original pet. He remembered that the mouse seemed to be a wizard named Peter or something.