Chapter 98: Arrange a Vacation

Lu Yunkai didn’t take Ron’s mouse, Scabbers, to heart.

It’s only natural for a cat to catch a mouse! If it dies, it dies. At most, I can buy a new mouse or owl to compensate it.

As for Chris saying that it was an Agmanis, Lu Yunkai actually preferred to believe it: Which wizard would be willing to turn into an animal to be a pet for others? How could an adult wizard be so shameless? ?

As for the Death Eaters and the attacks... Lu Yunkai thought it was probably Chris trying to save face.

After all, as a cat, it was very embarrassing to be almost killed by a mouse. So Lu Yunkai didn’t take it seriously on this matter and pretended to believe the lie it made up.

What Lu Yunkai really cared about was Voldemort and the notebook.

Although from the perspective of being irreconcilable with the dark magic, Chris swallowed Voldemort's soul and restored its own soul, which was not only not to be criticized, but also made great contributions, but Lu Yunkai still had some opinions about Chris.

Since Chris could use the method of swallowing souls to deal with the notebook, why didn't she use it earlier?

Chris could only explain that the soul-eating lynx could only swallow a human soul once. After swallowing, it could only rely on its claws to attack such creatures. Even when it was in the Forbidden Forest, it was not impossible for it to find human souls to use. The reason why it had been holding back was to use this trick to deal with the notebook.

After Chris said this, a cruel big cat instantly became a hero who endured humiliation...

Lu Yunkai didn't know how much truth this broken cat had, and how much exaggeration and bragging, but since Dumbledore had confirmed that the notebook was destroyed, he still chose to believe it.

As for whether it was possible that Voldemort was possessed by Chris, Lu Yunkai chose to believe Chris's statement.

After all, if there really was such a way to prolong life, then the Soul-Eating Lynx would not have become extinct, okay! Those wizards who wished to live longer would have already kept them in captivity and cultivated them so that they could transfer their souls to immortality.

Lu Yunkai even thought that if he encountered a magic item like a notebook again in the future, he would not be afraid: he just needed to find a way to destroy Chris's current soul and then let it swallow the soul attached to the magic item...

When Chris knew Lu Yunkai's idea, she ran away from home in the next few days.

...

Time passed quickly from spring to summer.

The Chamber of Secrets incident at Hogwarts has disappeared from everyone's memory with the passage of time, and several petrified students including Hermione were rescued as the mandrake matured.

On the day she recovered, Hagrid set up a large table of banquets in his cabin, on the one hand to celebrate Hermione's recovery, and on the other hand, to thank several people including Lu Yunkai for helping him "clear his grievances."

It was then that Lu Yunkai realized that since Voldemort launched that attack at school and killed the "Moaning Myrtle" who was still floating in the bathroom on the second floor, Hagrid had been the "culprit" who killed her in name for decades.

It was just because there was no evidence that the Ministry of Magic had never convicted him. Even Hagrid couldn't use magic because of this...

Well, in fact, since Hagrid dropped out of school so early, he couldn't use much magic.

And before that, he was a gamekeeper at Hogwarts. Compared to a job, it was also a kind of "imprisonment without conviction" in the eyes of the Ministry of Magic.

So when the attack reappeared this time and Dumbledore couldn't suppress it, the gang directly arrested Hagrid and put him in Azkaban. It was not until more than a month after the basilisk died that they finally released him reluctantly.

And this time when the basilisk died, Dumbledore went to the Ministry of Magic to testify, which was considered to be a successful way to clear Hagrid's name and put the pot that was originally Voldemort's on his own back.

Hagrid was finally vindicated.

Therefore, he was full of sincere gratitude to several people including Lu Yunkai (Hagrid, as one of the parties involved in the succession incident, naturally knew that the basilisk actually died at Lu Yunkai's hands).

But although he was very sincere in his gratitude, the banquet he prepared...

Well, the intention was there, but the taste was not forced.

Compared with Harry and the other three who had to stuff the stone cake that was as hard as a rock into their mouths, Lu Yunkai was still lucky.

When he came to find Hagrid, he brought an object that could distract Hagrid's attention and make him not remember to urge Lu Yunkai to eat...

The wood carving that Lu Yunkai wanted to find out the origin of even if he used the relationship of his "future father-in-law".

In the past few months after the death of the basilisk, in addition to potions and papers, Lu Yunkai spent a lot of time studying the archaeological spells introduced by her father with Daphne in his spare time.

After Lu Yunkai gradually mastered those spells that were only useful for archaeology and pawnshops, he began to explore the origin of the wood carving.

Of course, what really interested him was not the wood carving, but the pricing mechanism of the system that he had complained about for a long time.

He had to figure out why this thing was so expensive.

But all the spells could not give Lu Yunkai an answer that convinced him:

Time test, the wood carving was made no more than 80 years ago;

Material test, it was just ordinary oak;

Magic test, none;

If the only thing that may cause some deviation in the price is its manufacturer.

According to the corresponding spell detection results, the maker of this wood carving belongs to the giant family. But according to what Daphne asked from her father, there has never been evidence that the giant family has any intersection with the Eye of Horus.

In other words, this wood carving is simply weird from beginning to end.

From Chris, Lu Yunkai learned that Hagrid, who was actually three and a half meters tall but looked only over two meters tall because he was very fat, had giant blood.

That's why he brought it and planned to ask Hagrid for his explanation.

Although Hagrid has giant blood, he doesn't even know as much about giants as Hermione, who finally found a reason not to stuff her mouth with food at the dinner table.

Including the giant's habitat, lifestyle, family and tribe composition...

Hagrid stayed with him to learn more.

Naturally, it is impossible to give any reasonable advice about this wood carving.

"But I think this wood carving is very detailed for a giant, and it may indeed have collection value."

This was a suggestion that Hagrid reluctantly gave Lu Yunkai in order to "retain his respect".

As for how credible it is, Lu Yunkai can only control it himself.

And after learning that Hagrid was ostracized by giants because he was a hybrid of giants and ordinary humans, Lu Yunkai seemed unable to force Hagrid to help him.

After returning from Hagrid, Lu Yunkai finally ended his entanglement with the wooden sculpture.

If you don’t get the answer, don’t think about it. Anyway, the system is still helping him make money, that's enough.

With the exception of Ginny, several "victims" attacked by the basilisk returned to normal school life, Lu Yunkai's second year at Hogwarts also slowly came to an end.

There are still no Defense Against the Dark Arts classes, and there are still no summer homework and final exams. Just like last year, all students are looking forward to the upcoming summer vacation.

Lu Yunkai and his classmates have more detailed and reasonable plans for the upcoming vacation than last year.

For example, Malfoy arranged his summer vacation plans by the day, and one day he even expected to go with Lu Yunkai to visit a potion master who was very close to his father...

Well, this was not Lu Yunkai's request. Malfoy didn't even discuss it with him when arranging the itinerary. But after thinking about it, he found that he really didn't have anything better to arrange. In addition, the potion master was in British Magic. As a very famous person in the world, Malfoy promised that in the name of his father, if Lu Yunkai had any questions about potion making that he was interested in, he could ask him for advice, which made Lu Yunkai not have any objections to Malfoy's arrangements.

Although when facing Harry Potter, Malfoy always behaved very mean and unreasonable, but when getting along with Lu Yunkai, he was just a twelve-year-old boy who was not very good at expressing his kindness. That’s all.

And this is not the only "mandatory arrangement" in Lu Yunkai's summer vacation booking itinerary.

Blaise, and even Crabbe and Goyle arranged days to play with Lu Yunkai.

But all the people put together can't compare to...

"If you have nothing to do, come and stay at my house during the summer vacation!"

Daphne's request was translated by her best friend Pansy as: "Kidnapped!"

Well, for Pansy's expression that made Daphne so angry, Blaise also had a sharp rebuttal:

"She's jealous."

When I came back from the Christmas vacation, I saw Daphne, who was able to make "rapid progress" with Lu Yunkai solely through her own initiative. Pansy also took the initiative to launch an "offensive" against Malfoy.

Take the initiative to get close to him, chat with him when nothing happens, not only help him check his homework, but also organize his Quidditch protective gear, and make secret glances at him every chance he gets...

But what makes Pansy sad is that Malfoy's precise summer vacation schedule didn't even leave a day for her.

Even Lu Yunkai felt sorry for Pan Xi about this matter. It seems that the word love does not exist in Malfoy's dictionary. His explanation for why Pansy treats him so well is that he is "feared by the power of the Malfoy family"...

Lu Yunkai also asked Daphne to encourage her. After all, even if it is wood, there will be a day when gold and stone will bloom.

But which day it is...

Lu Yunkai didn't know.

At least during this summer vacation, Lu Yunkai definitely won't be able to arrive.

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