Harry Potter Returns from Baldur's Gate

But in this class, Harry found that Quirrell's gaze on him had become a little strange again.

There was some strange sarcasm and some indescribable look in his eyes.

However, considering that Quirrell had been strange in the past, Harry didn't pay too much attention to Quirrell's strange look.

Compared with Quirrell, Professor Snape's performance remained stable in this week's Potions class.

Professor Snape simply placed the completely unprocessed snake, as well as other completely unprocessed raw materials, on Harry and Hermione's workbench.

Compared to other students, I only needed to grind the snake's fangs into powder and then put the peeled snake skin into the pot.

Harry and Hermione not only had to pull out the snake's fangs themselves, but also had to peel off the snake's skin themselves.

Faced with this serious discriminatory treatment, Harry hadn't said anything yet, but Hermione couldn't help it anymore.

She held up the dead snake and protested strongly to Professor Snape.

Then Professor Snape said to him, "I think you have the ability to do better. If you think you are just an ordinary student, you can put the snake back and replace it with processed materials in the material cabinet."

Obviously, Hermione could not refuse the statement that she was superior to others, but the price was that Hermione could only communicate with Harry to a certain extent through eye contact and actions reluctantly.

Although the amount of information exchanged in this way was not as much as the amount of information exchanged between Harry and Draco on the way to the bathroom.

But what surprised Harry was that, although Hermione's performance in Herbology class was always poor, her skillful techniques in handling biological materials were something Harry had only seen in the most experienced hunters.

The skinning and bone removal process is extremely skillful, and almost every cut can be made along the gaps between the muscles.

The biological materials processed by Hermione did not look like processed potion ingredients, but more like biological specimens in a natural history museum.

Just find a jar to soak it in, or find a board to nail it on, and you can pretend to be one of those well-made specimens.

This superb knife-wielding technique makes it impossible to tell that this is a person who might make some low-level mistakes when handling ordinary herbs.

This made Harry even more curious about what Hermione had experienced in the past that caused her to behave so strangely.

Combined with Hermione's aristocratic habits, Harry could only conclude that Hermione must have spent a lot of time hunting in the past, otherwise she wouldn't have such smooth knife skills.

I don't know if it was because of Hermione's excellent knife skills, or because even with this completely unprocessed material, Harry and Hermione were able to complete the making of the potion within the specified time.

Snape, who had been frowning all this time, seemed to be in a much better mood, so much so that Harry finally got an 'E' in this class after a long time.

However, in the following weeks, Snape continued to steadily teach Harry and Hermione the lesson of potions.

Professor Snape's behavior even made Harry suspect that if time and conditions did not allow it, Professor Snape would even want to let him and Hermione start making the potion from the stage of collecting raw materials.

Just as Professor Snape steadily strengthened Harry and Hermione's Potions class, Professor Quirrell's lifestyle was equally stable.

Professor Quirrell's daily lifestyle was like that of a robot. Apart from appearing in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom during class time, appearing in the auditorium during meal time, and occasionally going to the school hospital, he spent most of his time in his office.

If Harry had not been to Professor Quirrell's almost bare office, he would have suspected that there was something in Professor Quirrell's office that made him unwilling to leave.

Even Neville, who had received money from Harry, found Harry and asked him whether he wanted to continue monitoring him.

After all, more than a hundred Galleons is not a small amount of money, and what I can provide now is obviously not worthy of such a high reward.

If Harry agrees, Neville can complete the task and refund Harry part of the money.

However, Harry did not want a refund. Instead, he asked Neville if he could cooperate with him in investigating Quirrell's office if he paid more money.

After several weeks of surveillance, Harry, who had mastered Quirrell's pattern of action, was ready to see for himself what Quirrell was doing in his office.

It just so happens that on Friday, which is tomorrow, Quirrell has classes all day.

Harry only had one Potions class in the morning, so unless anything unexpected happened, this would be a perfect time to investigate.

However, considering that he really has no talent in finding things, he must drag Draco along to search together.

Hermione and Ron wouldn't come to help right now, so Harry wanted to see if he could buy services from Neville.

"My friend, what you are doing is not just monitoring the professor. If you are caught, it will not be as simple as just losing points. In addition, my people will be keeping watch for you and will also cover your departure under certain conditions. This is very risky, so..."

Harry smiled at Neville's embarrassed expression.

"I understand. It'll cost more, right? Do you think two hundred Galleons is enough?"

When Harry said this, Neville's expression was as if Harry had not just been preparing to add another 200 gold Galleons to the activity fund.

Instead, it was as if he had melted the two hundred gold Galleons and poured them down his throat.

"My friend, this is two hundred gold galleons..."

After being stunned for a few seconds, Neville regained his business expression and looked at Harry with an inhumane look or the look of a landlord's stupid son.

"Two hundred Galleons, is that a lot?"

Harry showed a negotiation smile.

"If it's not enough, I can add more."

"No, no, no, that's enough. Even more. For only 20 Galleons I can arrange this operation for you."

Hearing that Harry was going to add more money, Neville waved his hands.

It was as if what Harry had just said was not to increase the budget, but to cut the pay.

"Only twenty Galleons? Don't you really need to add a little more?"

"No, no, twenty Galleons is enough."

Harry pulled out the wallet he had prepared long ago from his pocket and handed it to Neville.

"Then it will be just like last time, happy cooperation."

Neville took the wallet, sighed and said nothing.

Harry knew that Neville wanted to know what he was doing more than the Galleons.

But in matters like this, whether or not Quirrell was actually researching dangerous dark magic, the fewer people who knew about it, the better.

The more people know, the greater the possibility of leakage.

And with the current abilities of Neville and those first-year Slytherin wizards, Harry didn't think they could intervene in the current situation.

If they join in rashly, they will probably only do more harm than good.

So Harry quoted a completely unreasonable high price at the beginning to show his attitude: "You can ask for money, but don't ask about the matter."

Neville was worthy of being the best middleman in Night City as he claimed. After understanding his own subtext, he did not really accept the offer of 200 gold Galleons to ensure room for future cooperation.

He is indeed a capable person who knows when to advance and when to retreat.

So Harry patted Neville on the shoulder.

"I remember your matter, but it has nothing to do with the current situation, don't worry."

Hearing Harry's words, Neville, holding the wallet, smiled and left the small garden outside the hall.

Watching Neville's back as he left, Harry breathed a sigh of relief.

I was secretly glad that Neville didn't accept the offer of 200 Galleons.

Although he had a whole vault of gold, Harry was not very well off recently.

After chasing Draco around with the original design of Gwent for several weeks, and after Qiu Zhang provided a little data planning support.

The design of the basic set of Gwent was finally completed, and after repeated trials with the Gryffindor Quidditch team, Harry also finalized the design of the broomstick saddle.

It would have been a good thing for Harry to complete these two tasks almost at the same time.

This means that Harry is very close to seeing the rewards and starting to make a lot of money.

But before Gwent and Broomstick Saddles were launched and started to make a profit, there was a money-burning cycle from mass production to publicity.

As a result, Harry, who was originally wealthy, was almost drained of his wealth.

After handing over the twenty Galleons, Harry was almost able to compete with Ron in terms of poverty.

Of course Harry could also borrow money, but the only people around Harry who could borrow money were Draco and Qiu Zhang.

Draco is a partner in the Gwent project. If he borrows money at this critical juncture, he will inevitably have to make concessions in terms of equity.

After all, even though Draco is easy to talk to, Lucius is not so easy to get along with.

As for Qiu Zhang... Harry, who had finished giving Neville an additional task, looked up at the leaden sky above Hogwarts.

Borrowing money from Qiu Zhang on Valentine's Day was something that Harry would never do unless he got hit on the head by an ogre with a stick.

With a hint of relief and joy that today was another successful day of negotiations, Harry prepared to go to the Quidditch field.

Although today is Valentine's Day, Wood, as the captain, obviously will not give the team a holiday for this reason, so Harry still has to go to training now.

096 The Attacked Unicorn

Everyone except Wood was actually quite dissatisfied with the fact that the Quidditch team had to practice on Valentine's Day.

After all, although most people don't have boyfriends or girlfriends, this does not prevent those who do, such as Harry and Angelina's "friends" from sitting in the audience seats at the Quidditch pitch during training and cheering them on.

The feeling of having this cold dog food slapped on your face is really not good.

Of course, the angriest person was Wood, ever since Qiu Zhang took Harry away from the Gryffindor table last time.

A tacit understanding was reached between Wood and Qiu Zhang.

That is, Wood will no longer interfere with Harry's private life, and Qiu Zhang will not appear during Harry's Quidditch training.

However, today Qiu Zhang appeared on the Quidditch field.

Not only did he appear on the Quidditch field, Qiu Zhang was not even wearing a Hogwarts uniform, but instead wore a white trench coat and black boots.

It attracted a lot of attention from Gryffindor students who came to watch the team's training.

Especially after Qiu Zhang appeared on the court, Harry's flying speed was obviously slower, and his movements were not as neat and smooth as before. Instead, he performed stunts in the air.

Although Wood didn't understand what Valentine's Day was, he understood what Quidditch was.

So after Harry performed the trick of hiding someone in the saddle for the third time in the air.

Wood simply gave up the goal and flew in front of Qiu Zhang on his broom.

"You've crossed the line!"

Wood glared at Qiu Zhang fiercely.

“Today is Valentine’s Day.”

Qiu Zhang looked at Wood with a smile on his face.