Everyday Players at Hogwarts..

Chapter 572: Runic Number Seven
"The Moke is a silvery green lizard found throughout Britain and Ireland.

It can grow up to 10 inches in length.

The shapeshifting lizard has never been discovered by Muggles because it has the ability to shrink its body at will.

Just now it has become so small that it is invisible to your naked eyes, and has been observing you on the high stool.

And why does it attract wizards so much that they even invent spells for it?

This is because its shed skin is a valuable material that can be used to make wallets or purses.

The wallet made of shapeshifting lizard skin can shrink when a stranger approaches, so it is difficult to be discovered.

Once the owner puts the item into the bag, only he or she can take it out.

So you understand.

Owning a shapeshifting lizard means an inexhaustible vein of gold." Hagrid's words undoubtedly made the eyes of the little wizards in the audience seem to turn into the shape of gold galleons.

They are all in the third grade, fourteen or fifteen years old!

You can go to Hogsmeade now.

I am no longer a child who doesn’t know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are.

According to Hagrid, it seems that as long as you have such a deformed lizard, you will be rich and free?

Now, even Ron, a guy with a bulging wallet, couldn't help but look up and down at the deformed lizard.

But Harry found that Hagrid didn't care about all this.

He looked confident.

Hagrid saw Ron couldn't help but take a few steps forward and laughed, "You kids are so naive.

Many of your graduating seniors have had the same plans as you have now.

Become a professional lizard hunter.

But most of them failed and had to look for jobs.

The successful ones don't need to rely on these little lizards to make money.

Even I was able to catch this cunning little cutie with my own unique trick during your last school year."

"Last school year?" Harry understood immediately.

That's when Hagrid awakens.

This is how Hephaestus was born.

However, Harry noticed that Hagrid and Snape were different from Professor McGonagall.

as usual.

Now, my plan to talk to Hagrid after class about what happened was ruined.

The following time is the interaction between Hagrid and the shapeshifting lizard named Lexus.

And those students who were dissatisfied with Hagrid's evaluation played hide-and-seek with Lexus with Hagrid's permission.

When the get out of class bell rings.

Because there will be ancient magic and spells classes coming up.

Harry and the others waved goodbye to Hagrid and walked towards the castle.

As they passed the library on the second floor, a group of chattering girls passed by them.

One of them had a Bulgarian scarf tied around his waist.

Then Harry was surprised to find that when he was about to go upstairs, Ron suddenly turned around and ran towards the group of girls.

"You...scarf Krum." When Harry walked in, he heard Ron saying this to the girl wearing a Bulgarian scarf.

When the girl saw that the person she was chatting up was Ron, who was very famous in the school, the impatience on her face quickly turned into friendliness.

"You really are with Krum - hehe, I mean. Yeah.

I got this scarf from Krum.

He was just in the library.

Wrap your head with a scarf.

Just like Professor Quirrell before.

But he underestimated us.

We saw him wearing this scarf before - did you ask him if he still has it?

He's gone.

There were some Durmstrang students there too.

They are all cool.

Too bad there are still some Beauxbatons bitches.

This is Hogwarts, they are not welcome!"

“It’s incredible that there are so many students in the library.

I was wondering why I never see them on weekdays.

So they all went to the library.”

After getting rid of those girls.

Ron complained as he walked to the Ancient Magic Classroom on the 4th floor.

He thought it was unfair.

They are Ravenclaws because they have their own library in the common room.

I seldom go to the library.

Otherwise he would have known Krum's movements long ago.

Maybe he bumped into Krum yesterday, explained the misunderstanding, and played with him all day again.

Maybe we can fly a broom together after dinner!
The Ancient Magic Rune class, like the Divination class, only accepts students from one academy.

Only they were Ravenclaws.

The professor's name is Bathsheda Baburin.

Harry had seen her before, at the start of term and at the end of year dinner.

She looked Indian, with a monocle embroidered with tulips.

Her makeup and dress all have a strong Far Eastern flavor.

If Padma had chosen the Ancient Rune, she would probably have found it very familiar.

However, this class was much more boring than Harry had imagined.

After a brief roll call, Professor Baburin handed out the "Ancient Runes Simple Introduction" borrowed from the library.

He started teaching ancient runic numbers directly.

"Demiguise: This animal's invisibility symbolizes '0';
Unicorn: The horn of this animal symbolizes '1';
Graphorn: The horns of this animal represent '2';
Runespoor: This three-headed creature symbolizes '3';
Fwooper: This creature has feathers that can be four different colors, thus symbolizing '4';
Quintaped: This five-legged creature symbolizes '5';
Salamander: This creature can live up to six hours after leaving the fire, hence the symbol of '6';
Unknown: As this most magical number remains a mystery, the symbol for Unknown represents '7';
Acromantula: This creature with eight eyes symbolizes '8';
Hydra: This nine-headed creature symbolizes the number "9."

Along with Professor Baburin's voice with a slight hint of curry, this boring knowledge was also recorded by the students one by one.

Good guy.

This is a reading note.

Seeing that the class was just pointing out the key points and asking them to copy down, Harry couldn't sit still anymore.

"Professor, can you tell me what kind of magical creature this Unknown is?

Is it just to represent it with the unknown?" Harry's voice suddenly sounded in the classroom where only the rustling sound of writing could be heard.

Professor Babbling adjusted his monocle and looked Harry up and down:

“This question.

Well.

A student also asked me this question decades ago.

But he was in private.

You may also know this student. His name is Tom Riddle.

Your Professor Riddle's father."

(Harry's eyes widened. He knew that the student was referring to Voldemort.)
“What do you think of when you first hear the number 7?
If you have ever been to church, you might first think of the seven deadly sins (pride, envy, wrath, laziness, greed, gluttony, and lust) and the corresponding seven virtues (chastity, diligence, generosity, humility, gentleness, temperance, and tolerance).

They are something that every human or wizard possesses."

(Anthony quickly asked: "But we are wizards?")
"Wizards are magical creatures too. The most mysterious of magical creatures."

(End of this chapter)