Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 132 Ron and the Monkey
In the forbidden forest, the friends sneaked half excitedly and half cautiously. This was much more exciting than a night tour in the castle.

"Hey, Ron, don't fall behind the team, be careful. There are eight-eyed spiders in the Forbidden Forest!"

Seeing that Ron was looking sleepy with his head down, Ted tried to tease him.

"W-what? An eight-eyed spider?!" Ron was indeed alert, and rushed to the middle of the team.

Harry and the others were also curious about what an eight-eyed spider was, but only Hermione knew something about it.

Hermione said, "I've seen eight-eyed spiders in books. It's said to be a giant, ferocious spider monster. It's native to Kalimantan, and lives in dense jungles. It's carnivorous and poisonous. Eight-eyed spiders have high IQs, and some of them can even speak!"

"Talk? Like Ansu?" Jerry asked.

Ted reached out and touched Ansu on his shoulder: "No, Ansu is much smarter."

Ansu puffed out his chest, looking proud.

Ted: "In the Forbidden Forest, there is a habitat for eight-eyed spiders. It's a large hunting ground. Even the centaurs don't want to set foot there. It's said that there are huge numbers of them!"

"That's right! The venom of the eight-eyed spider is very valuable. A small bottle is worth 100 Galleons. But it is difficult to collect venom from a living eight-eyed spider, and the venom in the venom glands will dry up soon after the eight-eyed spider dies, so it is worth so much."

Ted looked at Ron, wanting to see whether the Galleons were more attractive or the spiders were more intimidating.

Ron's face turned pale with fear, but he still looked eager to try.
……

After two days in a row, Harry and his friends' interest in night tours in the Forbidden Forest had greatly decreased.

Although the Forbidden Forest adventure was indeed exciting, in two days and nights, they saw more than a dozen magical animals with their own eyes, killed five or six magical creatures with their own hands, and collected several kinds of herbs.

To be honest, it is really exciting and much more interesting than attending classes.

The problem is that I’m too sleepy!

It is the age when people grow up and become sleepy.

Ted can quickly recover through deep sleep, just an hour or two, but they can't.

After two days, the dark circles under my eyes looked like I was poisoned by corpse poison.

He yawns constantly in broad daylight and nods his head in class.

Ted felt that it was about time and they probably couldn't hold on any longer.

In two days at most, they would have to give up their night tours of the forbidden forest and choose to return to the dormitory to have a good sleep.

Only after experiencing this kind of sleepiness can they know the value of adequate sleep.

Ted: You guys are still full of energy, aren't you?! The twins are exhausted by me!
"Ted, why don't we go north? We haven't been there yet, have we?" Jerry asked.

Ted looked towards the north and said, "Do you know the professor who teaches the Care of Magical Creatures class at school?"

The socialite Harry immediately said, "I know. I've heard of it and even seen it once. An old man, smiling, with only one arm and a wooden leg."

"Yes, Professor Sylvanus Kettleburn. He has been in the school even before Professor Dumbledore. But he is still the acting professor of Care of Magical Creatures."

"Why?" Neville asked curiously.

"Because he was on probation sixty-two times! Like Hagrid, he loves dangerous magical creatures. It's hard to say whether his missing hand and foot have anything to do with this hobby."

When the friends heard this, they immediately remembered last year's young dragon Norbert.

It's really an expert at destroying houses. Even Hagrid can't stop it.

Ron's hand was bitten and was swollen for three days!

If this Professor Kettleburn is the same as Hagrid, then... no, if Hagrid is the same as this Professor Kettleburn, it is hard to guarantee how many arms and legs Hagrid will still have when he is old~
"Professor Kettleburn doesn't like living in the castle. He lives in a wooden house in the north, and there are magical animals he raises nearby. So I never go there~"

Ted explained why he didn't go there.

The outer reaches of the Forbidden Forest were not dangerous to him, but that might not be the case if he went there.

Professor Kettleburn also cast an expansion spell on the Ash Snake, which directly burned down the Hogwarts Great Hall, so that there has been no entertainment activities in Hogwarts until now.

In the original book, he lived in Hogsmeade village after retirement, and was unable to participate in the final Battle of Hogwarts due to physical problems.

But this eccentric, self-willed but extremely respectable wizard climbed up to the attic and threw all his Flobberworms out of the skylight onto passing Death Eaters.

He's also an interesting old man.

……

While on a nighttime stroll, Ted discovered a patch of herbaceous balsam pear, a less commonly used herb, but one that came in handy for a recent little research project of his.

So he mobilized his friends to help him pick the fruits.

The friends were scattered in an area of ​​about ten steps away, squatting on the ground and cutting grass.

Ron sighed softly and looked at the handful of ordinary grass in his hand. It felt cold in his hand.

He had been in a bad mood recently and was short of money for his wand. Every time he attended class, he could only watch others cast spells while he pretended to imitate them.

I wonder if this cooling grass is worth the money?

At this moment, a small, thin shadow silently hung down from the branch above his head, then reached out and pulled away the wand from his waist.

"Hmm? Hey! Give me back my wand!"

Hearing Ron's shout, everyone was startled and looked over to find that Ron was fighting for his rebellious wand with a monkey whose tail was wrapped around a branch and hanging upside down.

The monkey is about 40 centimeters tall, with white fur and a black tail. The tail is so long that it can wrap around trees and swing on them. It is naughty by nature and has a natural ability to steal things.

This thing is called a long-tailed thief monkey!

This thing originated in Southeast Asia, and it is definitely not a native species of the British wizarding world. It should have been brought to the Forbidden Forest by someone, just like the eight-eyed spider.

Ted suspected that it was raised by Professor Kettleburn.

However, while Ted was thinking about the origin of the monkey, the "battle" had already entered a fierce stage.

When the monkey saw that he couldn't snatch it away, he got angry and went up to give Ron a small bag - after all, the monkey was not big!

Even though the beating didn't hurt, how much psychological damage did this little bitch do to a twelve-year-old child?
Ron's eyes turned red, and he immediately raised his hand and slapped back.

Then the monkey slapped him back, and Ron slapped him back again...

In five seconds, the two sides exchanged three big punches.

The friends were all stunned. What was going on?
Fortunately, Ted reacted quickly and froze the long-tailed monkey with a freezing spell, and Ron was able to get back his badly damaged wand.

At this time, Ron was already very angry. He was slapped several times by the monkey. How could he face people?

"I'm going back! This damn forest!" He left a word and walked back.

Ted said to the other friends, "Okay, let's go back too. Don't come tomorrow. You should have a good rest for a while."

The friends looked at each other and had to go back.

Ted grabbed the frozen monkey and said, "How dare you steal? I think you are just toasting me and not drinking the cooking wine."

It just so happens that Ted is planning to test a new product. Isn't this experimental material delivered to his doorstep? !

……

Ever since Ron's battle with the long-tailed monkey, his friends no longer mentioned going on night trips to the Forbidden Forest with Ted without them.

To be honest, even if Ted invited them to go for a night out, they wouldn't go.

The pain of lack of sleep is really too painful~
It's like someone is stirring your brain with a stirring stick, making you want to fall down and pass out.

It took the guys four or five days to recover, and that was after they drank a vitality tonic.

Ron was silent for several days because of the incident with the monkey calling Bidouzi.

Neville and Jerry asked the kitchen for a large plate of chicken legs, which forced him to smile.

In comparison, Malfoy was feeling very proud.

Because he was chosen as a Slytherin Quidditch player, and the crucial Seeker.

His father Lucius generously donated seven expensive Nimbus 7 flying brooms to the Slytherin Quidditch team and sent his son directly to the house team.

It fully demonstrates what it means that "if you have money you can do whatever you want."

This caused Ron to curse behind his back: Quidditch selects players like this, I'm afraid they don't even care about their reputation!
You say the broom is not good, the broom is not good, it has been used for many years, and it is not hot after changing it? It's just a change of soup but not the medicine...

There are only a few of them. You, Malfoy, are the seeker. Can he be the seeker? No, he doesn't have the ability, you know!
The more he thought about it, the more he hated Lockhart. If it weren't for him, he would have had his own flying broom this year, and maybe even been chosen for the hospital team!
And the flying car, and the magic wand, the damn magic wand...

(End of this chapter)