Chapter 456
: Fate's Favor
Chapter 456: Fate's Favor
"I'm sorry, Dad."
The wolf cub Cullen said in a childish voice: "I... Maurice and I are both very curious about Hogwarts, so we wanted to take a closer look... I swear we just wanted to take a look!"
"But on the way, Morris suddenly pushed me away, and he was captured by the big lizard... I went to the cave to find him, and finally escaped, but was surrounded by those poisonous spiders again..."
"Then, a wizard suddenly appeared... Yes, it was a student, but he was followed by a bird that looked like a phoenix, and all the spiders were scared away. He took Maurice away..."
As he spoke, his voice became lower and lower, and his round head and triangular ears drooped down. He looked very ashamed and depressed.
The man was silent for a long time, looking in the direction of Hogwarts in the distance, and said, "Did I tell you not to run out of our hunting range?"
"Yes, Dad." Karen said in a low voice, looking down.
"Have I reminded you repeatedly..." The man looked at him with angry eyes and growled, "The most dangerous area in the entire Forbidden Forest is the area near Hogwarts. You are absolutely not allowed to get close to that castle?"
"I'm sorry." Karen hung her head and said, "We...we were too curious. We thought it would be okay if we just took a peek from a distance..."
“Should?” the man roared, “Because of this irresponsible guess, your brother’s life is almost gone, and you tell me ‘should’?”
The wolf cub was almost completely lying on the ground, its face buried between its front paws, its petite body trembling constantly.
The white wolf suddenly stood in front of him, pushed the wolf cub to its side with one paw, and glanced at the man sideways with a warning and dissatisfaction in its eyes.
The man looked at her, the muscles at the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, and then he turned his eyes away.
"Vera, take the children back," he said.
"Woo~?" The white wolf let out a low growl from its throat.
"I'll stay here." The man said with a fierce look in his eyes, "If that little wizard doesn't send Morris back, I'll find a way to rescue him myself."
The white wolf hesitated for a moment, but then she saw her children around her and nodded. Several wolves, big and small, turned and left.
After running for a distance, a girl's voice sounded among the wolves: "So Karen, did you see which school?"
"No." Karen said dejectedly, "The only one who was taken away was Maurice. I... I hid in the bushes and didn't come out."
"Hee, you coward."
"Shut up, Ivy. If it were you, I don't believe you wouldn't be scared."
"I'm not afraid!"
"Keep your voice down, it will be terrible if the centaurs hear you!"
"Haha, you coward Ryan!"
"I'm just being cautious! There are centaurs, dragons, giant spiders, mermen, hippogriffs, thestrals, and I heard there was a basilisk in the past. There is a giant octopus that has lived for thousands of years in the lake... Why is this school so dangerous? Aren't those wizards living in the castle afraid?"
"Maybe they have some special methods. Maybe they can prevent themselves from being harmed by dangerous creatures... Wizards have lived here for thousands of years. The Forbidden Forest is like home to them. Of course they are not afraid."
"What do you think... Is there any magic school in the world that can recruit wolves like us as students? Although we don't know magic, we are smart and can speak!"
"Dream on! There's nothing like this in dreams!"
The noisy voices of the children gradually faded away, and the brown and yellow hair on the man's pointed ears trembled slightly.
After hearing the children's final hopeful words, he lowered his eyes and silently counted the weapons he carried with him.
Then he put on his backpack, pushed aside the leaves and bushes, and walked towards Hogwarts. His only intact pants were torn in many places by the trees, leaving gray-green strips of cloth on the slender thorns of the plants.
……
Madam Pomfrey was treating the students' injuries in the ward. Wade found an empty room with familiarity and treated the wolf cub's wound first.
Although wizards have all kinds of magical spells and potions, they cannot instantly cure all injuries. Otherwise, Moody would not be covered with scars, and Professor Kettleburn would not have only one and a half limbs left.
After Vader had treated the wound, he realized that Madam Pomfrey had been standing behind him for a while, and he quickly greeted her.
"Good technique." Madam Pomfrey said approvingly, and walked to the front to take over the wolf cub's wounds, and asked casually: "I didn't expect you would pick up a wolf... What caused this?"
"Nobetha," said Wade.
Madam Pomfrey nodded. "Of course, I should have thought of it earlier... who else but her?"
She performed some routine checks with her wand, then froze slightly.
"Stand back, Vader! This wolf might be a little unusual."
Madam Pomfrey said as she pointed her wand at the wolf cub. The wand emitted a blue-white light, completely enveloping the wolf cub.
After a while, the light disappeared, and the wolf cub remained unchanged, except that he frowned in his sleep, as if he was very uncomfortable.
"He is not an Animagus, ma'am," Vader said.
Madam Pomfrey frowned and said, "But the magical energy in it is extraordinary. It is not at the level of an ordinary wolf."
"He's a werewolf," Weed explained. "He said his father was a werewolf—and the kid can speak human language."
"No wonder, is it the family in the Forbidden Forest?" Madam Pomfrey said with understanding.
"You all know?" Wade asked in surprise.
"Of course." Madam Pomfrey smiled and said, "After staying in school for a long time, you will know a little bit of all the secrets."
"What's going on?" Vader asked, his smoky gray eyes full of curiosity.
An old lady like Madam Pomfrey, who was full of real history, could hardly resist the expression of "wanting to hear stories" from her younger generation. While tending to the wound, she said:
"Many years ago, two werewolves mated in wolf form during a full moon. They gave birth to a litter of real wolf cubs, who were very smart and beautiful. Although they had the appearance of wolves, they had the hearts of humans. With Dumbledore's permission, they were secretly released into the Forbidden Forest to live."
"Two werewolves?" Wade said doubtfully, "But the kid only said his father was a werewolf."
"That happened many years ago. This little fellow should be the third generation. His mother found another werewolf." Madam Pomfrey sighed sympathetically: "I have to say, this approach is very unwise... Poor child."
"Pathetic?" Weed repeated. "That she-wolf should find an ordinary wolf to mate with." Madam Pomfrey said, "The thicker the human blood in the offspring, the smarter they will be... Limited by this body, the smarter they are, the more painful they will be..."
Vader fell silent.
It didn't take Madam Pomfrey long to treat the wound. She said to Vader, "Nobeta's claws and teeth are full of poison. This little guy needs to stay with me for one night. Tomorrow morning, you will send it back to the Forbidden Forest."
"I understand, ma'am." Weed glanced at the sleeping wolf cub and said, "I'll come back tomorrow morning."
……
The eagle-shaped door knocker made a pleasant and gentle voice: "I never speak, but I can answer all questions; I never move, but I can take you anywhere; I never think, but I can give you wisdom. What am I?"
"Books," said Vader.
"Correct answer." The door opened.
Wade entered the Ravenclaw common room and saw Michael and several other students who had been to the Forbidden Forest gathered in the middle. Everyone listened to their "adventures" in the evening with great interest and asked them repeatedly.
"Is she really sixty feet?" one girl asked, curious and fearful.
"Not only that, I think it may be higher." Michael said seriously: "I looked up from the ground. You know, this kind of visual estimation is very inaccurate."
"Aren't you afraid? That huge creature would probably scare me to death." A junior boy with glasses asked timidly.
"I was actually quite scared at first," Michael said honestly, "but when Norbeta lowered her head so I could touch her neck, I felt inexplicably touched. Can you imagine that feeling?"
There were sighs of envy around the fireplace.
"I also want to touch the fire dragon with my own hands... What a pity that I am not Professor Hagrid's favorite student." Someone said regretfully.
"In fact, when we left, Professor Hagrid left us a paper."
Michael pretended to be ready to tell someone a secret and said in a low voice, "If anyone can take the initiative to write a paper to let the professor see his love for dragons, maybe he will bring them with him when he goes to the Forbidden Forest next time..."
Wade shook his head, walked around the crowd and went upstairs.
He knew that Michael was not trying to trick others into doing his homework for him, he just didn't want to suffer the pain of studying alone.
Before Michael finished speaking, many students made a "huh" sound and scattered. But some stayed and were ready to challenge this extra essay assignment.
……
Wade returned to the dormitory, packed up briefly, and stayed in the closet space for a while.
The preliminary transformation of the space has been completed. The white functional rooms are connected in a series, including the bathroom, bedroom, dining room, alchemy room, potion room, warehouse... Various rooms are distributed in an orderly manner, which can almost meet all of Wade's needs.
As a result, he rarely went to the Room of Requirement now. It was not as convenient as his wardrobe space and was far away, but it was close to Dumbledore's office tower and there was a portrait staring at him all day.
Although Wade had no problem with Dumbledore and Barnabas now, he preferred the feeling of having complete private space.
When I came out of the closet space, it was already late, but the communication pea on the desk was still glowing dimly.
Vader put the communication pea into his ear and pressed it gently.
"Hey, Wade?" Father Ferdinand's voice came from the communication pea: "It's so late and you're still awake?"
"You too." Wade couldn't help but smile: "Still reading documents so late?"
"...There's only one left, I'll be done with it soon." Ferdinand said, "Wade, the person you're looking for has been found."
Wade was stunned for a moment: "...Ah?"
"Ah?" Ferdinand repeated his tone in surprise and asked, "You didn't forget what you entrusted to me before? Lycanthropy, scientist, do you remember?"
Wade was silent for a moment, then he remembered the instructions from so long ago.
A werewolf named Claire provided her blood sample to Wade, hoping that he could help solve the problem of lycanthropy. Wade anonymously sent the blood sample to a university laboratory and commissioned it to be tested.
But unfortunately, the test did not produce any results. Later, some other things happened, which made Wade realize that entrusting strangers to conduct tests was actually very risky. There were many people among Muggles who were very familiar with the magical world.
So Wade stopped buying blood samples from Claire, and in his spare time, he also mentioned to Ferdinand that he hoped to find specialized talents and set up a private laboratory to study lycanthropy.
But at the time, he had only mentioned it casually, without much hope, more like a Christmas wish.
Not to mention how much it costs to set up a private laboratory, the key point is that excellent and trustworthy scientists are not cabbages in the field that can be picked up just by wanting to.
At that time, Wade was very envious of a famous detective who had become smaller - next door to that guy lived an omnipotent old man named Doraemon who could realize all kinds of fantastic ideas; later, there was also a top student girl who could even create a drug to rejuvenate people.
He didn't expect that Ferdinand actually went looking for him, and after such a long time, he actually found such a person.
My father's gentle voice came into my ears: "Just like you said, that person has done in-depth research in genomics, evolutionary biology, and bioinformatics. I don't know much about academic issues, but I asked around and everyone I asked spoke highly of him. He was once a top scientist in the industry."
"...It sounds like you've been cheated." Wade frowned and said, "How could we possibly pick up such a talent?"
"Because he's sick, Vader."
Ferdinand patiently explained: "He had a stroke and was very ill. I went to see him and he was confused, quadriplegic, and unable to speak. He lived in a nursing home and no one visited him for more than three months. It was said that he would not live long, and even his children had given up on him."
"So after we bring him back, we have to treat his illness first." Wade lay on the bed and sighed, "But Dad, I don't know if magic can heal a dying person like this."
"You can try, but forget it if it doesn't work." Ferdinand said, "Weid, you are young and strong, smart, loyal, and knowledgeable. These qualities are not usually concentrated in one person; even if there is such a person, you can't easily use him."
"I understand, Dad." Wade smiled and said, "It must have taken you a lot of effort to find him... Thank you."
"I'm glad it helps you." Ferdinand said with a smile, "We are lucky too."
“What luck…”
Vader turned his head subconsciously to look.
On the desk, there is a small Cthulhu fish tank that he made himself, in which small fish made by magic swim day and night.
He smiled and said, "...indeed."
(End of this chapter)