Chapter 889 ? I Have to Get some Mutton From You
Near the Forbidden Forest, Ellen, who escaped from the turbulent Quidditch pitch by using the toilet, said goodbye to his elder brother and stood under a tree, leaning on the trunk, looking at the blue sky. He was waiting for Penelope to come out to give Hagrid Delivering the spider corpse——but to his surprise, he saw two witches walking in the distance, Penelope, who was angry, walked behind, and the light-blond witch in front of her was bouncing Jumped over.
Penello stood in front of Allen with her arms folded, her eyebrows raised but her mouth grinned down to suppress her annoyance: "Professor McGonagall went crazy and chased her, the crazy girl saw me asking for help... I had to bring her here."
"Professor McGonagall seemed very angry with my question, so I told her that maybe I should change the question and ask the girls whose father and lover fell into the river who she would save first to balance... As soon as I finished speaking, she became more anxious and started to stalk I...she doesn't want me to touch the microphone."
"Fortunately, Dad didn't come... Where are Emily and the others?"
"My sister and her college have their own celebrations. Mrs. Harris and the others went back on their own first...Professor Snape didn't expect to get another Quidditch Cup this year, and seemed to agree with them to use the common room as they wish."
The three of them walked along the path to Hagrid's gamekeeper's cabin. In front of a messy field of carrots and artichokes with scattered leaves, Penello bent down to check for almost heart-shaped footprints walking on the dirt.
"Why was the vegetable field trampled in such a mess, what animal broke in?"
"The footprints of the goat." Penello had finished judging the footprints and stood up and said.
"I didn't even know there were goats in the Forbidden Forest." Allen looked at the huge pieces of carrots scattered on the ground, "In addition to being good at animals, Hagrid is also quite talented in growing vegetables. Are your grades good?"
After walking a few more steps, they came to Hagrid's cabin on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. The three of them walked to the door. There was a crossbow and a pair of rubber overshoes in front of the door. A sheet of sheepskin, a goat's head under a shelf, scattered wool and dried blood on the floor - it seemed the culprit had paid for his crime.
Penello took two steps forward, bypassed them and knocked on the door.
Fang Ya's cry sounded immediately, "Who is it?" Hagrid's rough voice sounded, "Is it Harry?"
The wooden door was pulled open with a creak.
"Miss Clearwater?!" Hagrid, whose hands were covered in blood, looked at Penello who knocked on the door in surprise. He recognized the former Ravenclaw student who is now a famous female Auror of the Ministry of Magic.
Hagrid's heart suddenly rose, and then he took a look at his blood-dripping hands and quickly put them on his back, as if he realized that it would be easier for people to misunderstand that the dry explanation was that of a sheep, and then he stared cautiously. Looking at the female Auror like a pea.
Only then did Alan and Luna come out from behind Penello, and they greeted Hagrid, who then relaxed his tense body.
"Hagrid, there is something I want to tell you, but let's not talk at the door, shall we?" Allen said playfully, "Could it be that you didn't kill a sheep?"
"Ah, of course not!—Come in—" Hagrid, who was a little dazed, heard Alan's words, and then realized that he had blocked the guests from the door, and hurriedly let Alan and the others come in.
The three of Alan stepped across the threshold. In one corner of the cabin stood an extra-large bed covered with a patchwork quilt; Wooden tables and chairs, with a never-ending pile of gammon and dead birds hanging from the ceiling above the fire—it seems Hogwarts hasn't let little wizards in the gamekeeper's game in modern times except for himself. They have used.
On the floor stood a huge wooden basin of slaughtered mutton, and on a huge wooden table stood a plank with the skeleton of a goat not yet disassembled.
Hagrid found a large rag and wiped the table vigorously,
Then a large teapot was set on the table, and tea was made for them, and ferret sandwiches were served.
"Did you guys just come back from the Quidditch match? I heard loud cheers..." Hagrid moved the big wooden board off the table. "I couldn't watch the game because of this goat. Caught it, I have to deal with it...Hey Fangya, go away, this is not for you...Uh, who won the game?"
"Sorry Hagrid, I just ate a lot on the field and I'm not hungry yet..." Allen said after politely declining Hagrid's sandwich, "Emily caught the Snitch, and Slytherin won."
"Are you coming to me this time because you want to use some magical creature to teach again?" Hagrid sat down on the chair, spreading his huge palms, "Many students have returned the Flobber slime to me, but more The one who came to apologize to me - said they killed the slime worm they were assigned...I didn't know that the students cared so much about it..."
Luna's light silver eyes passed by the window, and suddenly she was startled. Just now, there was a long black hair passing by in the distance outside the window. Penello noticed Luna's expression, stood up quickly and walked to the window , but found nothing.
"What did you two see?"
"I guess some brave little wizard broke into the Forbidden Forest again."
"Since Sirius and his class, more and more people like to break into the Forbidden Forest..."
"It's called the Forbidden Forest, but it seems that no one has ever really regarded it as a forbidden forest... Forget about Hagrid, let's talk about something serious... about Aragog..." Alan was surprised to find this The big man looked terrified.
Hagrid was pale, trembling all over, and wiped his forehead with his sleeve: "Take me away, don't make trouble for Dumbledore, he doesn't know about it at all."
The appearance of the half-blood giant made Alan and the female Auror confused for a while, and Alan quickly focused on the half-blood giant.
Hagrid rubbed his big fan-like hands together, and said in a dull voice: "You must have known that I broke the law a long time ago, those acromantulas that appeared in the battle of the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic were the Ministry of Magic who got them. Let's go back."
"Acromantula eggs are clearly listed as a Class A non-trade commodity by the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, which does mean that importing or selling acromantula eggs will be severely punished, regardless of whether they are raised as adults." Penny Luo memorized the regulations of the Ministry of Magic for wanting to go shopping, and then sarcastically said, "But if you want to catch you, it will be Josephine..."
Big and big tears fell into his shaggy beard, and Hagrid interrupted Penello's sarcasm with a twitch and began to say to himself: "I broke the law! I shouldn't have raised Aragog secretly! Not It should be put in the Forbidden Forest!"
Alan already knew what the other party was worried about, and tried to persuade him with some helplessness: "Hagrid...we are not..."
"I found some bones in their lair...but Aragog didn't do it, he didn't kill people! He promised me that he wouldn't harm humans..." Hagrid began to wail after emphasizing a few words, "it's just Descendents of that are not bound by this promise...the bones and remains appear to be Muggle..."
Hearing that Hagrid didn't tell himself and turned himself in, Allen couldn't laugh or cry. He put his hand on Penello and comforted the female Auror who was about to make a move.
"Actually, from the literal theory of wizard law, if you release it, if it doesn't kill you, you have no responsibility..." Seeing Hagrid's guilt, Alan didn't intend to arrest Hagrid, so he had no choice but to feel a little guilty. Sanguanwuzheng found a reason to appease Hagrid against his will, "It's the same as the law of the jungle in nature, which is the law of nature... For Muggles, this is a deep mountain and old forest, and the habits of acromantia Nor do they hunt outside their territory...The Muggles who can come here are mostly those who like adventure and survival in the wild...They must have been aware of the possibility of encountering beasts..."
"They didn't tell me about this..." Penello realized that Allen didn't want to get to the bottom of it, and then put his anger on the acromantulas who came to her management, and planned to go back and examine it carefully.
"But... you didn't come to catch me?" Hagrid opened his palms a little, exposing his buried face, and then began to cry again, "I killed people! Merlin, I did something What!"
"... so you have to be more careful about choosing pets in the future, some things can't hurt you or cause you fatal damage, but for little wizards and Muggles...well, that's why other people in Umbrella Corporation I have been trying to teach you these ideas, and you have been much better recently than in previous years..." Alan patted Hagrid's thick arm and comforted him: "Don't worry about Hagrid, we are not here to arrest you...We are here this time Came here to tell you that Aragog died of old age... er, I mean died of old age... We brought his body back to you, I think you'd be happy to bury it, after all... As an acromander, Pey and I Nello is sure that it has indeed resisted its own nature and fulfilled its promise to you—although it is somewhat indulgent in its behavior towards its offspring..."
Hagrid's intermittent sobs, which had already begun to weaken, suddenly stopped. The obituary and Aragog's promise made the half-blood giant let out a wail almost like a beast, and whispered Aragog's name in his mouth.
"I'm hungry." Luna's light and fluttering voice sounded suddenly, making the noisy scene quiet.
Everyone followed her gaze, and it was the pot of mutton that Hagrid had disassembled.
"The magazine in Qiu Zhang's hometown I read has a recipe about making lamb stew."
Penelope's eyes turned around Luna, she rolled her eyes in displeasure, and just wanted to criticize Luna's behavior of not looking at the atmosphere of the conversation, when she heard Alan say in a somewhat embarrassed tone with some jealousy: "Hagrid, I've got to get some mutton from you."
Author's note: Today is the winter solstice, I wanted to arrange a mutton-eating plot in this chapter many days ago, but as I was writing, I found that I had counted an extra chapter, and I was reluctant to delete the entire chapter that was written, making it what should have been I didn't start cooking mutton until the plot of eating mutton became...but it was mentioned in this chapter at any rate.