Hogwarts in a parallel world

Chapter 11 Thunderbirds at Christmas

About two hours later, while Winters was listening to Elena's explanation of some ancient magic texts and spells while writing furiously, a bunch of people came.

Harry, Hermione, Ron, Slyle, Ernie, Justin, George and Fred, Aurora.Karai, Elsa and a few girls whom Winters didn't know, who might be Elena's roommates, all had bags of different sizes.

"Why don't you say anything, Elena? You said there is no big problem with your illness. I asked you about it when I was a child, and you always said there is no big problem." Elsa asked.

"It's useless to say it, and it's really not a big problem," Elena said nonchalantly.

"You will die. Dumbledore just told us everything," Aurora said.

"You really should have told us. If you hadn't told Winters the spell to shatter to pieces, we might have all been killed by that troll." Ron recalled the scene at that time and couldn't help but feel scared.

"I'll give you the notes you missed on the class," Hermione said.

A lot of people were talking about it, and George and Fred were asking what it felt like to be hit by the soul-condensing cold spell.

"You mean you're conscious?"

"So you're daydreaming? That's cool."

"It's not a daydream, it's...how to put it, I really want to be in a space where I can hear what the people around me are saying, but I can't give a response."

"Then what did you see?" Winters was also a little curious.

"I saw those senior students all talking about how thoroughly you froze me," Elena said angrily.

"I mean this well"

"I know you mean well, but the persistence of your spell scares my parents."

"Isn't that good?"

"What do you mean?"

"Unfreeze it when we find a solution." Winters' eyes lit up.

"Stop, Winters. Please wake up. That spell is dark magic, and for some reason, the intensity of the magic you cast is completely abnormal," Hermione said. "I asked the senior Gryffindor students. Being hit by the Soul-Condensing Cold will not produce blue light, but it will emit some cold air. But it cannot achieve the kind of extreme cold that makes people feel that it pierces the brain. The senior students around you all said that the moment the spell was cast, they felt like an ice pick had been pierced into their brains."

"them...."

"They're fine. They just feel pretty bad," Harry said.Winters secretly breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.George and Fred proposed to try the Soul-Condensing Cold spell, and everyone present was shocked.

"What are you doing? This curse is no joke." Slyer glared at George and Fred.

"Slaer, think about it. This spell can stop weakness, but can it stop aging?" George said enthusiastically.

"As expected of Gryffindor, I dare to think of anything... The only means of immortality currently is the elixir made from the Philosopher's Stone. But it requires a very high level of alchemy to make the Philosopher's Stone" Slyer Really thought George and Fred had gone crazy.

When George Fred was talking about all kinds of bold ideas.Winters was thinking about a sentence he read in a book: Magic comes from wizards. The sooner or later the magic awakens depends on the bloodline, but the upper limit of what a wizard can achieve depends on the strength of his soul.

"Magic, soul, and the essence of life, do these three have any relationship before?" Winters couldn't help but wonder.

They stayed until 7 o'clock in the evening, waiting for Mrs. Krall to arrive before leaving (Winters had completely despaired of ancient runes and ancient spells).

"I am very honored that Irina can have friends like you," Mrs. Klar said, looking at them.

"Winters. Don't be anxious. It's normal that you can't understand." Mrs. Krall comforted her when she saw Winters' sad face. "You can write to me. If you have any questions, I will answer them."

"I... I want to read the book again, maybe I'll get an idea?" Winters was a little at a loss.

When Winters, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Aurora returned to the Great Hall, they had only desserts and fruits left to fill their stomachs.

"Winters, are you staying in school for Christmas or are you going back?" Aurora asked.

"I don't know, are you going to stay in school or go back?" Winters asked.

"I want to go back. There's so much going on this semester."

"Then I'll respond too, so there's no need to ask," Winters said immediately.

"You're not staying at school for Christmas?" Ron said in surprise, "Christmas at Hogwarts is unique. And you don't want to spend time in the library?"

"I'll borrow a few more books. And it's time for me to be lazy." Winters said with a yawn.

"Where are you Hermione?" Harry asked,

"I want to go home too. My parents have booked tickets to Custer Prairie. I heard that the winter scenery there is very beautiful. I want to go and see it," Hermione said.

"Harry, aren't you going to answer?" Winters asked.

"Me? I'd rather live in Hogwarts," Harry said depressedly. "You'll understand after you meet my aunt and uncle once. It's hard to explain in words." Harry shook his head and said, and Winters couldn't help but think of various rumors.

Hogwarts has returned to its former peace.Christmas is here in these quiet days. "I have to leave quickly, otherwise Aurora will be waiting impatiently." Winters found that he had overslept.

He made an appointment with Aurora to meet in the auditorium at 7:7 in the morning. It was already 10:[-] when he woke up.

"Merry Christmas to you," Harry said vaguely after hearing the noise.

"Same for you." Winters hurriedly congratulated Harry and at the same time recited a levitating spell on his box containing several books, and ran out without even thinking about it.

When he ran to the auditorium, he found that Aurora had just arrived.

"Your ticket" Aurora gave him a small cardboard card.

"It's Christmas. Are you worried? Hermione only brought two books." Aurora saw the floating box.

"Just think of it as a mystery novel," Winters said.They didn't see Slyer, and Ernie told them that Slyer's parents were coming over to see how their son was doing.

The train started on time, and soon it started to snow heavily outside.When Winters saw Aurora practicing transfiguration, he suddenly realized that he had left his wand in the dormitory.

"My wand..."

"Forgot it?" Aurora was already used to it.

"Wait... there is something inside my down jacket. Winters felt something pressing against his ribs.

"It's not in the pocket of the down jacket, but inside the down jacket?" Aurora asked in surprise.

"Yes, it's inside the down jacket." Winters was also very surprised. "When did something get into my down jacket?" He was very confused.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Winters returned to the town of Collinson, which he had not seen for 4 months. The snow was already very thick.His family is already waiting for him.

"How have the past few months been? I've heard a lot of rumors," Lydia said. "I heard people saying that you killed a troll and then froze a girl. It seems that she was a little girl from the Krall family. "Daughter," the adoptive father said suspiciously. In his opinion, this was completely a story about two people.Something must have gone wrong in the middle.

"Let's talk about it when we get back," the adoptive mother said with a smile.

The first thing Winters did after returning home was to cut a hole in his down jacket, and then he discovered that the thing that had been pressing against his ribs was actually his wand.

"Maybe it was caused by your sleepwalking," Mrs. Eisen said after seeing it.

Everyone sat in the living room and listened to Aurora telling stories, and Aurora told everything about the troll and Elena.

"I just said something was wrong. The more rumors spread, the more outrageous it became," Mr. Eisen said with a smile.

"Is that girl's name Irina? Is there nothing we can do about her illness?" Mrs. Eisen asked with concern.

"With Dumbledore, there's no problem that he can't solve," Aurora said with admiration.

But Winters knew very well that this disease could not be solved by Dumbledore alone, or that no one could solve it.

In the evening, Mrs. Eisen brought blueberry pie and tomato steak from the kitchen, and everyone ate their fill.Winters felt as if his room was in a very far away place.He just wanted to lie on the sofa and sleep until dawn, but he remembered that he hadn't washed up yet, so he forced his exhausted body to sit up from the sofa.After he returned to his room, he fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow and had a dreamless night.

"Winters? Are you still sleeping?" Mrs. Eisen's voice sounded.

"Your friends have been waiting for you for ten minutes," Aurora shouted.Winters opened his eyes drowsily, picked up his watch, and found that it was almost nine o'clock.

"Winters, come down quickly. Are the academic pressures at Hogwarts really that high?" Elsa Liz shouted.

"Give me 15 minutes," Winters yelled.

As a result, when he went downstairs, he found that he still had toothpaste in his mouth and his shoes were on backwards.

"Where have you planned to go today?" Mrs. Eisen asked.

"In the southern mountain forests, I heard people say that the streams there are frozen. We want to go ice fishing." Jim Lake was a little excited.

"Be careful, don't go too deep. Many parts of the mountain forest are in a natural state. If you encounter wild animals, you will be in trouble." Mr. Eisen warned them to pay attention to safety.

"We have Winters, how can any wild beast dare to hurt us?"

"I think it's better to be careful. People discovered traces of thunderbirds a month ago, in that mountain forest." Lydia was a little worried.

"I just remembered, but it wasn't a month ago, it was more than 40 days ago. The southern mountain forests were hit by a storm," Maitlans suddenly shouted, obviously he was starting to get scared.

"How about... let's play in a nearby park." Winters also started to get scared.

"The last time the thunderbird appeared was more than 40 days ago. Maybe it has left now," Aurora said hesitantly.

A moment of silence.

"I think you won't be able to touch it if you don't go too deep." Mr. Eisen thought it would be better to go outside and take a look at the scenery. He couldn't stay at home until the end of Christmas.

"Then we'll set off as planned," Jim Lake shouted happily.Winters has been to the mountains and forests in the south many times.But most of them are around residential areas and don't go too deep.But this time is different. The town of Collinson is planning to build a resort in a pleasant place in the south. According to Matt Lee, it will "maintain the original appearance as much as possible."They wanted to see where they wanted to go and try some ice fishing.

As they continued to go deeper, the scenery became more and more majestic and strange at the same time.Then they came to a dry, huge cave.Not far away is the frozen river.

"This is it. I felt great when I saw this cave," Jim shouted.They looked for food and firewood according to the division of labor in the past. Winters conjured up some small animals to act as guards, alerting them to possible dangers.Jim and Matt tried their best to dig a hole in the river and started their favorite fishing activity. Aurora and Elsa chatted about what happened at Hogwarts in the past few months. matter.

"You guys have been really exciting these past few months." Elsa was a little lost in thought.

"What about you?" Aurora asked.

"She's just like me. Homework, classes, football games. But it's a pity that she didn't come to the last game of last semester." Lydia sighed.

"Why, you are the main force?" Aurora was surprised.

"My calf is strained, so I have to leave the game temporarily," Aisha said very depressed.

"What about you? Which of you two went to Quidditch?" Elsa was very curious about this sport, which she called flying football.

'None of us participated' Winters

"But my roommate Harry..."

"The Boy Who Lived? How was he? I heard he had a pair of emerald green eyes." Elsa started her rapid-fire question.

Winters then told Elsa everything he knew about Harry Potter so far.

"If I have the chance, I will definitely ask him for an autograph," Aisha said excitedly.

"We can get his autograph for you after we return to school." Winters was speechless when he saw Elsa so excited.

"No, I want to ask him personally." Aisha refused firmly.When Winters was about to see how Matt and Jim's "hunting" was going, he heard Jim yelling, "Someone help us, the things in the net are too heavy."

Winters ran over and cast a floating spell on the fishing net. "Magic really saves effort," Matt said breathlessly.

"If you have learned this, you won't think so. Someone once wanted the stone in front of him to float, and the stone turned into an angry bison. After hearing what Winters said, Matt said that if that person was him If so, it might not be a bison, but a tiger.

The wood in the cave made a crackling sound, and the stars and the moon together made the dark night sky extremely beautiful.It was already night before I knew it.Matt suggests they split into two teams and have a snowball fight, but it quickly turns into a free-for-all.Finally, everyone lay on the ground exhausted.

"My accuracy is still as bad as ever," Jim gasped. "But you threw it far." Winters lay in the snowdrift.He was exhausted, and at first it was two teams, three against three.Later it became one person and one team, and finally it became a six-person melee.

"Jim, what's wrong with you?" Winters saw Jim jump up suddenly, obviously frightened by something.

"That's... a big bird?" Elsa's voice was full of fear.

"Winters...I can't believe my eyes...Come over and take a look." Aurora was extremely surprised.Winters ran over immediately after hearing this, and then he was so frightened that he froze in place.

"Is this... a thunderbird?" A large bird with a wingspan of at least 8 meters and a phoenix tail stood in front of them. It looked indescribably majestic, and everyone was frightened. at every turn.Winters felt as if something was stuck in his brain, unable to function.The Thunderbird also stared at them motionless.

"We're just passing by, we'll leave right away." Aurora spoke suddenly, and the voice didn't seem to be hers.

"I'm going to pack my things," Winters said stupidly, and then he kept a low profile as much as possible and backed away. He was praying, hoping that the Thunderbird, a creature known as a relative of the Phoenix, could understand his low profile. attitude.The others also backed away as he did, bending their waists and retreating in a posture of surrender.

"If it gets angry, will the crushing spell still work?" Aurora asked in fear.

"The thunderbird is a relative of the phoenix... I doubt that my spell will bounce back on my face." Winters didn't have any hope for the spell at all. He just wanted to end this trip as soon as possible.Just as they were getting closer to the cave, the thunderbird suddenly called out.

"Don't move," Winters yelled, and he reached for his wand.Thunderbirds can create storms and lightning, and Winters recalled what he read about them in the "Alfarans Continental Geography Series".

He didn't think that the crushing spell that knocked down the mountain monster could hurt the thunderbird, but he could at least reduce the damage that an angry thunderbird might cause.After a moment of silence, the thunderbird began to sing again, and he suddenly felt that the sound was familiar.

"Aurora, I really want to hear this voice in Ollivander's wand shop, the moment I got my wand."

"Everyone present heard it, and I heard it too...it must be trying to express something." Aurora gradually became less scared.

"If it were to attack, we would have been knocked to the ground by the strong wind." Lydia analyzed the situation in front of her.

"This is a relative of Phoenix. He should be able to tell whether we have any malicious intentions or not," Matt shouted.Everyone breathed a long sigh of relief.But they still didn't understand what Thunderbird was trying to do.The ptarmigan seemed to understand that they did not understand what he was saying and created a breeze, then turned around, its phoenix tail floating in the breeze.

"It was probably telling us to follow it. It must have been in trouble," Winters said.

"Should we follow?" Aurora hesitated.

"Let's do this, you stay and I'll go," Winters suggested.

"This is too unsafe" Aurora was worried.

"Listen, I knocked down the troll. Even if I encounter any problems, I have the ability to resist. You divide into two teams. One team will wait here, and the other team will notify the Magical Creatures Management Office in the town. I will definitely "Tell them what happened in detail. I will place a magic mark with a blue light where I stay." Winters said and jumped on the back of the Thunderbird.A strange feeling passed over him, and he felt that his vision and hearing had become extremely sharp.

The thunderbird carried him high into the sky, and the high-rise buildings on the ground became so small. Just when Winters was looking at it in fascination, they had already reached their destination, the thunderbird's cave.Winters released a blue-white beacon into the sky to alert Aurora and the others.Winters then lit his wand and walked towards the Thunderbird's cave.

In the cave he saw two small ptarmigans and a larger ptarmigan.The big ptarmigan (Winters suspected that the ptarmigan was a male, because its feathers were more colorful than the one that carried him) lay aside, eyes closed, looking very weak.The ptarmigan opened its eyes and looked at him as he came closer, then closed them again after a moment.Winters soon discovered why the Thunderbird was weak.

Its back was black and smelled of being burned, and there seemed to be blood.

"Fire dragon? Black magician?" Winters said to himself.Apart from the fire dragon, the only person who can injure a thunderbird like this is a powerful black magician. Could it be a mysterious person?Winters couldn't help but think wildly, but the current thing was to find a way to heal that terrible wound.

"Heal quickly." Winters pointed his wand at the huge, terrible wound, and then he heard a strange sound, as if a board was broken.Then he was surprised to find that the wound scabbed over within seconds.But the male ptarmigan was still weak.

"Recover..." The female Thunderbird next to him (Winters guessed wildly) suddenly picked him up.

"I'm...what do you mean?" Winters found it standing between him and the male ptarmigan.After an unknown amount of time, he vaguely heard footsteps.

"This is where the blue glowing magic mark Winters talked about" said Aurora's voice.

"That thunderbird definitely doesn't want to hurt you, it must be in some kind of trouble."

"We also guessed it. But we didn't dare to go."

"That's normal. Although the Thunderbird is a relative of the Phoenix, if it gets angry, you will die."

"If I guess correctly, his companion should be injured. It may be the fire dragon. The possibility of a dark wizard is too small. Once Thunderbird realizes that he may be in danger, he must either run away immediately or strike first."

"But the possibility of a dark wizard cannot be ruled out. A dark wizard with high magic power can easily kill a strong thunderbird."

"Captain, the deployment has been completed"

"Tell all team members to be vigilant." Winters saw a group of people coming by the light of his wand.Aurora and the others walked in first, followed closely behind by the Eisens.In addition to the Office for the Regulation of Magical Creatures, there is also the Office of Magical Rapid Response.

"Ha... If my guess is correct, you are Winters Renault. You are famous, boy. You actually froze the little daughter of the Krall family, and it was Dumbledore who thawed it himself. "said a tall man with a hoarse voice and a beard.

"you are...."

"I'm Marlene Lance, Captain of the Magical Rapid Response Team. You can call me Captain Lance. This is Professor Nestor. Colette Nestor, the magical creature expert here."Professor Nestor is a tall, thin man with dark brown hair and a pair of glasses.

"Oh...Hello," Winters said quickly.Winters told Captain Lance and Professor Nestor what happened next.Professor Nestor quickly got to work and took out various magic instruments to check. As a result, an instrument inlaid with white crystals suddenly flashed red.

"What happened to the red light just now?" Captain Lance asked alertly.

"Dark magic, but it doesn't quite look like it... Poison Flame Dragon?" Professor Nestor murmured. "I'll take another look..." No one in the cave spoke.

"I understand, it is indeed black magic, but it is not man-made. It is the damage caused by black magic creatures. And it is the poisonous flame dragon. But the habitats of this dangerous creature and the Thunderbird have almost no overlap. Although the two There is very little overlap in the food eaten, but they are almost indistinguishable." Professor Niest was confused.

"Then it's even more dangerous. It may be those crazy dark wizards who tamed those terrible dragons, forcing them to attack the Thunderbirds. This is not a small matter, I must report it to my superiors."

"I agree. There should be someone at the Magical Creatures Control Headquarters who can understand what Thunderbird wants to say. But I personally don't think anything can be found." Professor Nestor shook his head.

"Why doesn't Thunderbird let me cast a Restoration Charm on it?"

"Because frequent use of recovery spells will cause damage, and it is very troublesome to treat. Don't use it if you can, and the poisonous flame dragon's dragon flame has a very strong -"

"What is that?" Aurora and Winters said in unison.

"A giant dragon with a length of 20-40 meters. It can fly to an altitude of tens of thousands of meters. It is covered with tough dragon skin. Unless it is hit directly with a large-caliber armor-piercing projectile or a powerful magic spell attack, it is useless. Its dragon flames It can hit targets hundreds of kilometers away from an altitude of tens of thousands of meters. Those tough alloys are like water in front of its dragon flames and will disappear instantly.

But none of this is unique to it.It is an invisible dragon, and it can see through the illusions created by wizards. The most terrible thing is that this dragon can create illusions, or illusions.It creates illusions that are extremely difficult to deal with.Fortunately, there are no more than 20 of these creatures in the entire Alfalas continent, and they are extremely proud.No one in recorded history has tamed them," Captain Lance said in his husky voice.

"But it's not that you can't make friends, it's just that it's difficult," Professor Nester added.

"Making friends with a dragon like this? Winters suspected he heard wrong.

"Don't be surprised, there were people in history who successfully made friends with a poisonous flame dragon."

"How to do it?" Winters thought that the person was either talking nonsense, or there was something wrong with the recorder's brain.

"It's Godric Gryffindor. He successfully made a poisonous flame dragon respect him through his extraordinary magic and fighting skills. Legend has it that Gryffindor's grave was dug for him by the dragon." Nice Professor Te said with reverence.

Winters and Aurora completely understood why Gryffindor House was popular. People worshiped heroes and wanted to become legends, or part of legends, and engrav their names in history.

(End of this chapter)