Hogwarts: Harry Returns from Azeroth

Chapter 50. The Secret of Newt's Suitcase

"It's past breakfast time," Harry raised an eyebrow and said, "You didn't sleep all night?"

Hagrid looked extremely disheveled at the moment. Not only was he still wearing the same clothes that had been torn to tatters by the centaurs yesterday, he was also casually wearing an apron covered in mud. However, he was still very energetic.

"Yeah, how can I sleep?" Hagrid said excitedly, "Honestly, you can never imagine what's in Newt's suitcase. I even helped deliver an invisible monster last night - you probably don't know what an invisible monster is, right, Harry?"

"Invisibility monster? The kind whose hair can be made into an invisibility cloak?" Harry recollected.

"No, no, no, it's not the Invisible Beast, it's the Invisible Monster," Hagrid began to talk nonstop. He was no different from Newt when it came to talking about Fantastic Beasts, and he had endless things to say. "The Invisible Monster is the offspring of the Invisible Beast and the Ghoul. Although it also has the ability to become invisible, compared to the Invisible Beast's ape-like appearance, the Invisible Monster has no specific appearance."

"It can change its shape at will! Harry!" Hagrid became more and more excited. "I can't explain to you the feeling. Even before I caught its cub, I couldn't tell the difference between its body and the cub's body!"

"I guess it's dangerous," said Harry, looking Hagrid over.

"Oh, yes, of course it is dangerous," Hagrid shrugged and said, "Invisible monsters are carnivorous animals that usually live in deep forests and feed on humanoid creatures - how did you guess that?"

"You have a wound on your face, Hagrid," Harry said kindly, "I suggest you apply some medicine to prevent infection or something - by the way, is it dangerous down there? Hermione and the others are still waiting up there."

"So I'm injured?" Hagrid touched his cheek and reacted belatedly. "Well, it's just a minor injury. Don't worry about it. Let them come down, Harry. Newt and I were busy with this last night."

"After all, you guys are coming over today, so Newt and I have to be more disciplined in advance...big guys."

"No wonder," Harry nodded, walked back to the hut and shouted a few words up the ladder.

It didn't take long for Ron and the other two to carefully climb down the ladder.

Like Harry's initial reaction, they were shocked by what they saw.

The warm sunshine, the wind blowing across my face, the flying insects whose names I don’t know flying past my eyes, and those magical animals lying lazily in their nests.

They do live here, Neville exclaimed and asked Ron to look in one direction, because there a lizard suddenly stretched out its tongue and ate a flying insect. All this made the children extremely excited.

"This is simply - incredible!" Hermione grabbed Harry's shoulders excitedly and said, "There is such a large space in just a suitcase! There is even sky! There is sun! There is wind! Harry! Can you see how this is done?!"

"Based on my current understanding of magic, I can only see that a large number of traceless extension spells are used here." Harry had to use a little force to save his arm from Hermione's nails. He gritted his teeth and said, "Be gentle, Hermione."

"The most important thing is the Traceless Extension Charm. Apart from that, the most important things are the Weather Charm and the Temperature Charm. Different magical animals require different temperatures, and they all have areas that are most suitable for them to live in." Newt's voice came from the side.

"Hi Newt, I hope we're not disturbing you" Harry greeted.

"Of course... uh, I mean no," Newt said a little stiffly, "You guys came earlier than I thought."

"This is amazing! Mr. Newt!" Hermione said excitedly, "How did you do all this? According to Professor Flitwick, the effect of the spell should not last forever, but you created such a large space in a suitcase and even created sunlight! Oh my God! This is incredible! Is this magic?!"

Hermione approached Newt while asking questions, and Newt stepped back, even bumping into the table behind him. He looked at Harry, his eyes filled with a message of asking for help.

"How do you achieve a balance of oxygen in the air? Do you need to exchange air between the box and the outside world? And there are so many magical creatures. Can you take care of them all by yourself? What if the suitcase is broken? What will happen to the things inside? Ugh! Wuuwuwuwu!!"

Hermione had countless questions she wanted to ask, and there was light in her eyes, but unfortunately she couldn't make any more sounds.

Because Harry had covered her mouth from behind and moved her away from Newt, the old man finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh my god..." Newt couldn't help but pull at his collar and wiped the sweat off his forehead.

He was really bad at dealing with children, especially one as enthusiastic and curious as Hermione.

"Hiss!!" Harry, who had just moved Hermione to the back, suddenly gasped. He quickly let go of her hand and saw a row of shallow teeth marks on his fingers.

The suspect was naturally the angry Hermione in front of him, with red cheeks, staring at Harry at the moment.

"...You scared him, Hermione." Shrugging, Harry whispered to Hermione, "Newt is a little introverted, calm down."

"Is that so?" Hermione was stunned for a moment. She was not an ungrateful child. She quickly looked at Newt and apologized after finding that Newt did look uncomfortable: "I'm sorry, sir, I didn't know you--"

Hermione's words stopped abruptly, and not only her, but even Ron and Neville who were playing in the back also held their breath suddenly.

Because behind Newt, suddenly jumped over - an indescribable magical animal.

It has a short body, covered with thick reddish-brown hair, and five thick legs, but the ends are more like palms than feet, and the fingers are also thick, and the ends of all five legs are deformed.

Harry recognized at a glance that this magical creature was the one that Newt had released last night - or rather, it could not be considered released, because only two legs appeared and it was sent back by Newt.

Now I finally saw its full picture.

It is very ugly and very scary. Compared with its five eye-catching red-haired paws, what is more eye-catching is the huge mouth full of sharp teeth in the middle of its body.

Five-legged monster, Harry still remembered the name Hagrid shouted last night.

"Stop, don't move." Newt's voice was clearly heard by everyone, but in fact, even if he didn't say it, the other people subconsciously slowed down their movements to avoid attracting attention as much as possible.

Harry became a little nervous because he saw Newt quietly took out his wand - this meant that the master of magical creatures was actually a little unable to control the magical creature.

"Suck, suck, suck—suck."

While making strange noises, Newt shook his wand lightly, and then a wooden barrel flew out from under the table next to him. It was filled with meat of unknown animals, even piled up into a small round bag.

It can be seen that Newt was also very nervous, because although the five-legged monster's pair of eyes wrapped in flesh glanced at the barrel of meat, it was still more focused on the people behind Newt - especially Harry and the other young children.

He even lowered his body slightly, and his five muscular feet became more powerful.

It looks very much like a signal before an attack.

"Roar!!" Harry lifted his robe and took off the shield on his back without hesitation, roared loudly, and then hit the shield with the warhammer.

Sizzle! Boom!
Lightning appeared from nowhere and struck Harry's shield as Hermione screamed. It did not disappear on the spot, but covered it like a cloth, clearly showing a pattern like scattered branches.

And the warhammer, the warhammer also danced with restless sparks, and as Harry swung forward, a long lightning bolt struck the ground in front of the five-legged monster, even creating a charred area on the ground, and even the stone was split. The five-legged monster froze, it seemed to be hesitating, three seconds, five seconds - and then suddenly bit the barrel full of meat, and jumped away in the blink of an eye.

There was a sudden sound of relief at the door of the cabin.

"Cool, Harry," Neville whispered, "Your magic is really cool, especially the lightning strike."

"Very good response, Harry," Newt turned around and said, "You made it feel threatened, which is crucial."

"Don't worry, Newt, I'm here," Hagrid said, patting his chest. "Isn't it beautiful? Harry, this is the five-legged monster."

"It's the five-legged monster?" Hermione's face turned pale, and she stammered, "I, I saw it in your book, Mr. Newt. It seems to be a magical beast of the XXXXX level."

"What does that mean, Hermione?" Ron asked from behind.

"Every XXXXX-level creature is a wizard killer." This sentence answered Ron's question. Hermione swallowed and continued, "And in the legend, the five-legged monster was actually transformed by a wizard."

"That's right, Miss Hermione?" Newt said with a smile, "There is indeed such a legend about the five-legged monster. It is said that there used to be two wizard families living on the island of Delia, McBoone and McLever. The patriarchs of the two families had a wizard duel after drinking, and Dugald McLever was killed in the end."

"In order to seek revenge, members of the McLever family attacked the McBoone family and turned all the McBoone family members into five-legged monsters," Newt narrated leisurely. "But something happened that no one expected. The McBoone family members became even more dangerous after being transformed into monsters. Even though the wizards of the McLever family tried desperately to transform the McBoone family members back to normal, they failed. In the end, the five-legged monsters killed all the McLever family members on the island."

"Oh, that sounds like a story I'd hear in Professor McGonagall's class," Ron muttered quietly, but loud enough to be heard.

"Haha, if this legend is true, then this is indeed a warning example of a failed Transfiguration."

"So is it real?" Hermione's eyes widened in anticipation.

"No one can know this because there are no survivors who can tell the truth to others," Newt shrugged and said, "The pentads can't speak. The only thing people know for sure is that the pentads resolutely resisted all attempts by the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures to restore them to their original form."

"That is to say, they really might have been transformed by wizards, so the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures would try it." Hermione looked in the direction where the five-legged monster left with some fear.

"Maybe," Newt joked, "If the five-legged monsters were really transformed by the McBoone family, then they must be very willing to be a five-legged monster, and they don't even want to change back."

"This is not funny at all... Magic is too dangerous. I have to be careful." Hermione muttered softly, and suddenly raised her head and asked, "But you said in the book that the five-legged monster cannot be trained or tamed. Why does it look--"

Hesitant to speak.

"It looks like it's been tamed?" Newt said with a smile, "You are indeed very studious, Miss Hermione...but in fact I didn't tame it."

"No?! Then how did it--"

"Don't worry, kid," Newt said gently, "Five-legged monsters are very dangerous carnivores, and because they have a special preference for humans, the relationship between them and humans can basically be summarized as hostile."

"So if you analyze it in essence, I didn't actually tame it. I just fed it. Very few animals will continue to hunt after they are full. That would only waste their energy. And the five-legged monster is actually very ticklish. At least the one I encountered is very ticklish."

"I don't know how it escaped from Delia Island. You know, the reason why the island was marked as invisible was to minimize the harm of the five-legged monster." Newt shook his head helplessly. "If it weren't for Dumbledore's request, I should have sent it back to Delia Island by now."

"I think we'll need Newt to accompany you throughout our tour of the box," Harry said after thinking for a moment.

Originally he thought that Hagrid and Newt should have restrained those dangerous magical creatures after working all night, but considering the five-legged monster just now...it's better to be careful.

"Hey! Harry! Look at me!" Ron suddenly shouted excitedly, "Look! I'm flying!!"

Harry turned around and saw Ron and Neville floating about half a meter above the ground. They looked dizzy but very happy.

"Aha, they were stung by Billywig bugs," Newt said happily. "One of my Muggle friends really likes being stung by this kind of bug, because it makes you float up in the air, which is very interesting. He said that this feeling makes him feel like he can perform magic."

While Newt was talking, Harry clearly saw a small blue flying insect, about half an inch long, flying out from Ron's neck. It had a bright jade-like luster all over its body, and its wings grew on both sides of its head. The flapping movement was very slow, but it was flying in a whole-body spinning posture, with a thin stinger hanging from the bottom of its body.

That's probably what Newt was talking about, the Billywig worm.

"Aren't you two going to visit other areas?" After dispersing the lightning on the shield and hammer and putting them back on his back, Harry asked Ron and Neville: "If you want to float here, I'm afraid I'll have to send you into the house - otherwise it will be troublesome if the five-legged monster suddenly comes back."

"Oh, that's right," Hermione chimed in. "I don't want to come back and see two piles of broken bones on the ground... or two piles of feces or something."

Hagrid laughed loudly.

"Oh! Shut up, Hermione!" Ron retched. "Please don't leave us two here - Hey! What is this?!!"

Just thinking of the fangs, sharp teeth and bloody mouth of the five-legged monster he had just seen made Ron feel his calves trembling, not to mention having to face such a monster alone.

While he was speaking, suddenly, a small creature that looked like a mole ran out from somewhere, jumped from the ground and landed on Ron's trouser leg, and quickly got into his robe.

"Merlin's underwear! Harry! Help me!!"

He instinctively cried for help. Anyone who had an animal as big as a mouse suddenly crawling into their clothes would feel extremely panicked, fearing that it would bite something... especially the feeling of it running around inside their clothes.

It was like swimming in mid-air. Ron frantically waved his arms to try to grab the mole from his clothes, but the dizziness caused by being stung by the Billywig bug made him always one step behind the mole.

It was no longer a matter of scalp tingling, Ron now had goose bumps all over his body.

"Ah, that's the Niffler," said Hermione, happy that she had recognized another magical animal. "They like everything that sparkles. Ron, do you have anything shiny on you?"

"Something that glows...do cow horns count?" Ron asked blankly in mid-air.

"Hmm?" Harry's eyes sharpened.

"No, no, I mean--Ah!" Sensing the murderous intent, Ron instinctively shrank his neck and then let out a scream, "Don't touch my Copper Knut! You little thing! That's my last property!!"

The Niffler suddenly jumped from Ron's collar to his shoulder, holding a shiny copper Knut in its hand, which was shining in the sun - and then stuffed it directly into its bellyband.

Ron, the screaming intensified.

(End of this chapter)