Hogwarts Card System Chapter 131

Chapter 131: Another Adventure in the Forbidden Forest

“Hey, George, Fred, what are you two up to?”

Harry’s hand heavily patted their shoulders, pressing the two who were about to get up and slip away back into their seats.

George: “Ahahaha~ It’s Harry! Little Ronny, hello~”

Fred: “The weather today, ahahaha~”

The two tried to deflect while attempting to block the things on the table with their bodies, wanting to quickly put them away.

But Harry pressed them down with one hand, “What are you secretly looking at? Let me see!”

It was a book, looking like an old handwritten notebook.

“ ‘Secret Duel Book’? Where did this come from?” Harry picked up the book and examined it.

George shrugged: “I told you we couldn’t hide it.”

“Who wouldn’t say that!” Fred spread his hands.

Harry flipped through the old book, roughly scanning it, her eyes shining. The handwritten book actually contained a large number of dueling spells!

The magical world doesn’t have a very detailed classification for magic and spells.

Things like white magic, black magic, household magic, combat magic, modern magic, ancient magic… there’s no unified classification at all.

And the so-called dueling magic is also a general category. It refers to spells commonly used in duels.

More famous ones include the Disarming Charm, the Stunning Spell, and the Shield Charm.

Since childhood, Harry had heard Sirius tell stories of their ancestors causing trouble and dueling everywhere, so she longed for dueling magic.

She never expected such a great find!

“Where did you get this book?” Hermione asked curiously.

“We found it in a secret compartment in a hidden passage in the castle. This was left by a graduate from over a hundred years ago!” George said excitedly.

Fred: “Exactly, it’s said that a transfer student came to the school back then, which ultimately led to chaos in the school, and students began learning dueling magic to protect themselves. Thanks to Ted, otherwise we probably wouldn’t have been able to break that sealing spell!”

“Ted?” Hermione keenly caught the key element.

“Oh~ what Ted?” Fred realized he had let something slip, but it was too late to compensate.

“Ted knows about this? He participated?!” Hermione immediately pressed.

Ron on the side also complained to his brothers: “You’re much closer to Ted than to me, and he always leaves us out. Oh, by the way, this book wouldn’t be something Ted told you not to tell us about, would it?”

George patted his brother’s shoulder: “Little Ronny, he didn’t mean anything by it, he just worried that you’d get into trouble if you encountered these powerful spells too early.”

But Ron slapped his hand away, angrily shouting: “I told you! Don’t call me that damn name! I have a name! My name is Ronald!” With that, he stormed off in a huff.

The others were startled.

“What’s wrong with him?” Harry asked.

Fred sighed: “Little brother’s grown up, doesn’t like his nickname anymore~”

George: “Not obedient, not obedient anymore!”

Hermione pulled the conversation back: “You still haven’t said what’s going on with Ted?”

George and Fred had no choice but to explain from the beginning.

They discovered a secret passage, found it was magically sealed, but their skill level wasn’t enough to open it, so they found Ted.

Ted used a magic suppression spell to weaken the spell’s effect, then used ritual magic to guide the magical power out of the seal, breaking the protective magic, and only then did they get this dueling notebook.

Ted looked at the spells inside; although they were valuable, he had already learned the most valuable ones.

The remaining spells, like ‘Serpensortia’ and ‘Avifors’, weren’t of much value.

However, he thought Harry and the others were still too young and would often act impulsively, so he told the twins not to let their friends touch this book for now.

Unexpectedly, it was still discovered.

His friends didn’t overthink it; they could all understand Ted’s meaning. A child with an AK is a very dangerous thing.

However, Hermione asked again: “Then what about Ted? Wasn’t he with you?”

A couple of days ago, Ted said he was doing research with the twins, developing some magical items. So, he wasn’t with the twins after all?

The twins, pressed for answers, finally surrendered.

“Alright, we’ll tell you, we confess. Ted has been sneaking into the Forbidden Forest at night these past few days, and we ran into him.”

Fred also said helplessly: “We had no choice but to agree to cover for him…”

Last year, because they were punished, the friends had an adventure in the Forbidden Forest.

To be honest, the memory was profound.

After all, Neville and the others directly ran into Voldemort possessing Quirrell, and even now, they felt lingering fear.

However, Hermione didn’t participate that time.

Hermione asked: “What did he go to the Forbidden Forest for?”

“He said he was trying out new spells.”

“What kind of spells can’t be tried in the castle?”

“We wouldn’t know that. He can manage himself, why would we ask so many questions?”

Hermione: Are you being sarcastic with me?

…

During dinner, Ted held his chopsticks, looking curiously at his friends.

“Why are you all looking at me like that? Did I get hot sauce on my face?” He reached up to touch, but no.

Hermione narrowed her eyes, staring at Ted: “What have you been doing lately? You haven’t been with us.”

Ted was about to speak when he suddenly felt the atmosphere was off. He saw Neville winking at him from the side, and quickly cleared his throat twice, saying:

“It’s like this. I’ve been learning a new spell recently, and it’s quite dangerous. So I’ve been practicing in the Forbidden Forest. It’s still a bit dangerous there, and a lot of people make a lot of noise, making it easy for Hagrid to discover, so I didn’t tell you.”

Hermione rolled her eyes, having intended to directly expose Ted’s lie and harshly question him.

She never expected him to confess so readily.

Ted: Do you think my mind-reading is fake?

Since he had already said this much, trying to prevent his friends from following him was impossible.

Let’s go together.

Ted’s Invisibility Charm could take a few, and Harry’s Invisibility Cloak could also take a few, which was enough.

The six quietly gathered in the middle of the night, jumped out of a first-floor window, and headed straight for the Forbidden Forest.

As they approached Hagrid’s hut, Jerry twitched his large, round ears and whispered, “What’s that noise? Did you hear a strange sound?”

Neville paused, a little happy: Brother, you heard a strange sound too?

Ted reassured him: “Don’t be nervous, that’s Hagrid snoring~”

Jerry: Snoring?! That’s clearly a beast roaring!

As they got closer, the sound became clearer. They could hear it from over ten meters away.

As expected of the Hogwarts gamekeeper, even when asleep, Hagrid still used his own way to deter dangerous presences in the Forbidden Forest, guarding the school grounds.

Just imagine, what magical creature wouldn’t be scared hearing a tractor chugging and sputtering in the middle of the night?

…

“This is a Bog-Rot, not dangerous, but disgusting. It ambushes, and it sprays putrid sludge. If you get it on you, three or five ‘Scourgify’ spells won’t clean it off…”

Ted cast an Ice Arrow, freezing the lump of rotten mud with two fist-sized eyeballs, then used a Severing Charm to cut it into several pieces.

35 experience points gained.

Don’t look at Ted as just having wandered around the Forbidden Forest for a few days; in reality, he had killed almost all the monsters on the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest.

Last year, he didn’t dare to cause trouble, and was even more afraid of running into Voldemort chasing unicorns, so he didn’t even think about the Forbidden Forest.

This year was different. After Ted got ‘Sectumsempra’, he wanted to try out its effect.

Ordinary wooden dummies were boring, so he thought of the Forbidden Forest.

Isn’t it normal to connect theory with practice and get to know the magical creatures from textbooks?

And collect some experience points while he was at it, perfectly normal, right?

He had this idea last time when he was punished to patrol the Forbidden Forest with Malfoy and killed that big toad.

Ted leisurely cleared some aggressive and ugly magical creatures, while taking his friends on a stroll through the Forbidden Forest, telling them about the information he had found in the library.

The category of magical creatures is very broad, including fantastic beasts.

For example, Dementors and Boggarts in the original story are magical creatures, but not fantastic beasts.

Their existence is difficult to define; they are not naturally born. Instead, they appear from the convergence of magical power.

After the celestial convergence, some magical zoologists tried to create a detailed classification that could include creatures from other worlds.

Now they are called aberrations. In fact, they are just monsters that haven’t been fully understood yet.

And the Bog-Rot that Ted killed is a member of the mud creature family.

System rating: Level 1~


Thank you to Yinglanglang for the 1000 point tip, to the deceased Elder Xia for the 500 point tip, to Hai Wuyuan 521 for the 400 point tip, and to Duyu for the 100 point tip.


Thank you all.

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