From Azkaban To Hogwarts

"Those stains have different meanings to us. For example, to a child carrying butter home, that piece of butter means the world, but to us adults, it is just a piece of butter."

William explained to Adams as he sat on the picnic mat as the fire was lit.

"It's strange. No wonder the fifth grade students didn't say bad things about you during the exam - but is Aphra really okay?"

Adams pointed to the little girl next to him whose robe had been cleaned and who was holding the chocolate and sipping it like a squirrel.

"It's okay. By the way, you don't want to see her get beaten, right?"

"nonsense!"

Adams quickly issued three denials and took out his own cutlery.

Lost rabbits, hazelnuts and pine nuts hidden by squirrels, mushrooms picked in the woods, scattered edible potions and wild vegetables collected by Adams himself, and various piles of ingredients stacked together constituted the main part of this lunch. raw material.

Next, there was nothing more to do with William and the others. Adams was busy with the stove in one hand and the wand in the other, completely ignoring the two teammates who did not understand food magic.

"Uncle Singed, Uncle Liar, I want to go and play next to you, is that okay?"

Aphra ate the chocolate and became active again.

‘Why are you still a liar uncle? ’

William couldn't help but rolled his eyes covertly. However, Singed was very patient, "Okay, but reach out your hand first, I have to mark it - if you hide again, I won't worry about not being able to find you."

"Yeah, be good, Aphra."

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When dinner was served, William and the others were surprised to see a little mud monkey rushing towards them.

"Afra is back obediently!"

She shouted energetically - if it hadn't been for this shout, William would have even taken out his wand to defend himself.

In less than half an hour, the original color of the bright red robe is almost gone - the originally fair face is covered with traces of muddy water, and the straight hair is now messy, mixed with grass seeds, if not The voice did not change, and William found it hard to believe that this was the little girl who just said she wanted to run out to play.

‘Where’s the cute kid we brought here? Whose family does this little mud monkey belong to? ’

William fell into a deep state of doubt.

"Gudu."

Professor Singed next to him made a clear swallowing sound, "Professor Taylor is going to duel with me."

Although it is a bit exaggerated, it is understandable that anyone who takes a clean child out and is brought back with a little clay monkey will want to challenge you to a duel.

"Let's see if there's any possibility of remediation."

William patted his shoulder sympathetically, and the two stood up and picked up their wands to hold Aphra down.

Finally, when Adams's dish was served, the two of them reluctantly allowed the little girl to return to her previous appearance - William finally understood how serious his magic problem was, and he couldn't handle more delicate tasks at all.

Fortunately, Aphra cooperated enough. Maybe the child who had been wild enough finally remembered that he was going to be beaten. But even so, when William and the others ate their meal, they still felt that today's meal was more than twice as delicious - purely It's tiring.

"Uncle Liar, you won't let me play without you, right?"

On the way back, the alert little girl asked cautiously while worrying about being beaten.

‘You changed my title! ’

"No, don't worry." William rubbed her head and picked out the leaves that had not been cleaned up. Although she was indeed a little tired today, it was quite interesting to have such a little girl in the staff lounge.

When they got out of the forest, William and the others quickly helped Aphra clean up the mud and water she had collected on the way back, and then they breathed a sigh of relief.

"I have to leave the rabbit with Hagrid. There is no place to raise it in the castle. You should send Aphra back first."

"Singed, please go and send Aphra back. I have to discuss it with Hagrid. The new seventh-year students need to see how herbs grow naturally - this requires Hagrid to prepare a safe area for me in advance."

Adams also found an excuse, leaving Singed with a friendly expression on his face, and took Aphra back - although William and the others worked hard, the braids could not be easily done by three men, so they used magic. Nope either.

"May Merlin bless him."

"agree."

The two nodded in agreement, watching Singed's sad figure walking farther and farther towards the castle, and then walked towards Hagrid's cabin.

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"How was lunch today?"

"It's great, I can't help but want to learn it - does everyone in Hufflepuff have such superb cooking skills?"

"Not entirely. I'm good at herbal medicine, so I like to add some personal understanding to it. The effect is pretty good."

"You're too modest - wait, over there?"

William suddenly pointed forward. Not far from Hagrid's hut, a flash of red was quietly advancing over there.

‘Can you people with obvious hair color be more careful when lurking? ’

Before he could finish his rant, Adams' angry voice rang out; "It's theft! That's where Hagrid's chicken coop is! That's one of the few live chickens in Hogwarts! Damn it - if it was Hagrid Chipachi, I’ll keep that bastard in solitary confinement until Christmas!”

Before William could make any association with the meaning of this sentence, Adams had already rushed over angrily.

"Stop, thirty points from Hufflepuff!"

The figure over there seemed to want to escape, but was knocked unconscious by a curse from the angry Adams. Although Adams rushed over quickly, he stood there stunned.

"Um?"

Out of curiosity, William also trotted over with the rabbit in hand. Then, the door of Hagrid's house opened, and Hagrid walked out with his hound named Yaya with a confused look on his face.

"What's going on, Professor Adams? Ah, William, it looks like you've learned a lot."

He greeted William who was carrying the rabbit, and then turned his attention to Adams, "Oh, Professor, what happened? Hey, isn't this Ginny?"

The trotting William finally came closer. At this time, Adams had released the little girl who was under control. She looked at everyone timidly, with a look of fear on her face.

"Gryffindor?"

Adams looked happy, but immediately turned serious, "Then why are you coming to Hagrid's house?"

"I...I, I want to go to the Forbidden Forest, but I'm afraid of being discovered by Hagrid, so I want to see if he's there. Fred and the others said it would be easy to sneak in if Hagrid isn't here."

As soon as the name Fred appeared, William immediately remembered where he had seen this girl - on the train, she and another Gryffindor had come to him for help.

It should be the sister of the twins. Thinking of this, William took half a step back.

For the sake of his reputation, he thought it would be better to stay away.

‘It has nothing to do with me. Students, don’t send any strange messages. I’m not targeting the Weasley family. I won’t close this confinement! ’