Chapter 120: Protecting Magical Creatures (Part 2

When I left the castle after lunch, the rain had stopped yesterday.
The sky was clear, and the grass at his feet was soft and damp; Jon and a few Hufflepuff students were on the way to the first lesson of protecting magical creatures.
"I heard Hagrid is a terrible professor!" Heloise Midgen said with some worry: "A student was injured in his class last year!"
"So we have to wear this stuff..." Steven Lucas glanced at his dragon leather coat with disgust, but he still wore it tightly.
"By the way, with which college did we protect the magical creature class?" Jon asked casually. ‘’
"It should be Slytherin!" Steven replied, "Gryffindor and Ravenclaw took the morning lesson on protecting magical creatures together!"
"Is it……"
They were walking down the slope, and the shack in the forbidden forest was close at hand.
...
Ruber Hagrid waited for his students by the door of the cottage.
He was wearing a moleskin coat with his hands in his pockets, and a huge, vicious-looking, huge black hound hovered at his feet.
Many students were taken aback by it, involuntarily staying away from the hound.
The Slytherin students arrived, and Jon giggled when she saw Astoria and her friend Selwyn together... When she saw Jon, she blinked in surprise. .
Jon also smiled and nodded to her.
"Come on, hurry up!" Seeing that the students are almost there, Hagrid shouted loudly, "I have something to entertain you today. We will have a wonderful class soon... everyone, follow me!"
Whether Hufflepuff or the Slytherin students, many people looked at each other a little... Obviously, because of the previous conviction, they didn't seem to believe in the "good stuff" in Hagrid's mouth.
The way forward is the Forbidden Forest
The crowd slowly followed Hagrid, Jon deliberately fell to the back of the crowd, and Astoria did the same.
"Unexpectedly, you also chose the protection of magical creatures class!" Astoria smiled happily.
"Yes..." Jon nodded, "I don't know what ‘good stuff’ Professor Hagrid will teach us in this lesson?"
"My sister said that last year was a group of eagle-headed horse-winged beasts... In fact, they are pretty good!" Astoria thought for a moment, and said.
"It feels great to fly with them..." Jon quickly added, "I mean, it should be like this..."
"Chuck..." Astoria pursed her lips and smiled.
...
After a few minutes, they followed Hagrid to the edge of a dense forest.
"Everyone comes up to this fence!" Hagrid shouted, "Now, wait a moment... The first thing you have to do is to open the book and gently stroke the spine of the book!"
Hagrid strode away, and Jon carefully took out the "Monster Book of Monsters" in the cloth bag; gently stroking the spine of the book, the book shivered, then opened, and lay quietly. In his hands.
Like him, Astoria controlled the textbook with ease.
But not everyone is the same as them.
"Ah..." A Slytherin girl screamed.
She threw away the book in her hand, and took a few steps back in fright, while covering her hand in fear.
Apparently, she was almost bitten by the book just now.
"Be gentle!" Hagrid had returned with a heavy bamboo basket, and he shouted at the Slytherin girl: "No matter if you treat books or magical animals!"
The Slytherin girl turned her head in disgust.
Hagrid pretended that he hadn't seen her reaction, and placed the bamboo basket heavily on the ground.
"Now, you can come and see what's inside!" He said carelessly: "Can anyone tell me what's inside?"
Several students gathered around, and then with a "hiss" sound, they took a few steps back in terror.
Jon took the opportunity to walk a few steps forward and saw that the bamboo basket was densely packed with ovoid black insects.
"These are worms, Professor Hagrid!" Jon said.
"Correct!" Hagrid happily patted Jon on the shoulder and almost knocked him down.
"Wait, what's your name?" He took out the student roster, and then touched his head in embarrassment.
"Hart, Jon Hart!" Jon replied.
Hagrid took out the student roster seriously, turned it over twice, and finally found Jon's name: "Very well, Mr. Hart... Hufflepuff adds five points!"
"So does anyone know what is the main use of the beetle?" Hagrid asked again.
"They are a kind of fodder!" Astoria raised her hand high: "Feed the fodder for the tree guard!"
"You are also very good, girl... wait, you are..."
"Astoria Greengrass!" Astoria turned her head and winked mischievously at Jon.
"Very well, Miss Greengrass... Slytherin also adds five points!"
"So now, look at the woods ahead..." Hagrid opened his arms and shouted.
Following the direction Hagrid was pointing, they noticed that there were magical creatures the size of emerald green palms that looked like tree bark and small branches on the trees.
"Oh!" The girls couldn't help screaming.
...
Jon didn't expect that the content of this class was actually a tree guard.
There is no doubt that this kind of small magical animal is much more acceptable than eagle-headed horse-body winged beasts, fried snails or night snails.
Even many Slytherin students seemed to be interested.
Hagrid divided them into groups in pairs, and asked them to feed the tree guards with the beetles... to win their favor.
Jon and Astoria were together and found a willow tree on the shore of Lake Hogsmeade... Their dragon skin coats were all thrown aside, and the two sat beside the tree at the same time.
"The tree guard is very timid!" Astoria said gently: "So don't scare them when you feed!"
While talking, she took a few soil turtles from Jon's hands, and then spread them by the tree hole while gently tapping the willow tree...
More than ten seconds later, a cute little guy crawled out of the tree hole. It gave Astoria a timid look, then grabbed a bug in her hand and quickly retracted into the hole...
After several round trips, it finally got out of the cave and stood on Astoria's palm.
"It succeeded!" Astoria said excitedly, "You come and touch it too, Jon!"
Jon stretched out a hand and pressed it on Astoria's hand, and his thumb gently stroked the branches of the tree man...
"It likes you very much!" Astoria nodded happily.
"Of course, do you remember the first time we met on the train..." Jon smiled.
"Yes, we talked a lot about magical animals... One of them is the tree guard!" Astoria closed her eyes and said softly.
After a while, she opened her eyes again and lowered her head, her cheeks flushed slightly:
"Jon, I'm really glad to meet you..."
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