Felix and Newt exchanged their addresses, and he learned that Newt was retired and lived with his wife in the Dorset countryside, where they owned a "huge" underground basement where magical creatures in need lived.
"I don't always raise them, I am more like a healer, and I let them return to nature once the 'patients' are healthy again," Newt said to him.
Despite guessing the answer, Felix asked, "Mr. Scamander, if you're not going to get something out of them, how have you kept your love for them for so long?"
Newt smiled and said, "How do you keep the love? Of course because of the love itself."
...
The next weekend, at the Magic Runes Club gathering, Felix showed the members the Ring of the Ouroboros Snake.
He flipped the dark green coin in his hand, letting it nimbly pass through the tips of his fingers. His actions quickly caught the attention of these students, and the next second, the coin transformed into a small snake and curled up into an Ouroboros Snake ring on his right pinky finger.
He waved his wand and dozens of coins flew out from the table in the corner, landing precisely in front of each of the young wizards.
"Count this as your belated Christmas present."
"It can replace the Copper Knut that you received before, and has two forms within - coin and ring, as you choose. If you want to turn it into the latter, all you need to do is to meditate: infinity, and then inject magic power. You can try it now-"
The club members held out their hands and let the coins fall into their palms, feeling heavy. Neville, who is attending the assembly for the first time, rubbed the lines on the coin, its surface glowing with a unique thick sheen, but not like metal when he touched it. He looked up at Harry, who is sitting next to him, and Harry mouthed to Neville: Basilisk scales.
This is what Hermione told him, he then relayed to Neville. In fact, when Harry knew about this, he felt surprised, he thought the Basilisk was thrown back into the Chamber of Secrets after the exhibition, but Hermione told him that the Basilisk is full of treasured magical materials, which have been divided by the Professor Hap and Snape ...
Neville's heart thumped like he is completing some kind of ritual, and he clearly and precisely recited, "Infinity." The coin in his hand changed and became a small dark green, slender snake in the blink of an eye.
Neville held it up and asked tentatively, "Do you know how to do that?" The little snake swam to his right pinky finger, twisted twice, and morphed into an Ouroboros Snake ring.
The most excited ones are Slytherin, Draco Malfoy almost as soon as he saw the coin turned into a small snake, he could not help but reach out his index finger to gently touch its head, not as slippery as one might expect, but a kind of tender texture, as if carved out of a dark green gem.
The little snake tilted its head, its dark, shiny eyes locked with his.
Draco reached out his finger, the snake's body shifted and wrapped around his finger, gently swaying the snake's body, the head, and tail connected to form a circle. He looked to his left and right with delight, then glanced at Pansy Parkinson and Daphne Greengrass, whose eyes were wide open, and all their attention got drawn away.
The others reacted more calmly, they neither rejected the snake look, but neither did they show any particular liking for it. Cedric got tempted to ask if he could change the form, but he thought that the "snake" is not the symbol of Slytherin House, but the symbol of alchemy and rune, the symbol of the Ouroboros Snake, which represents the Magic Rune Club and Professor Hap himself, So he gave up.
Then he heard Professor Hap's voice--
"Its material comes from the thousand-year-old Basilisk, which you should have some impression of, the one from the chamber of secret last year. I found that the scales of the basilisk are extremely magically inert, making it difficult to channel magic, but they are also excellent materials for isolating and preserving power."
"I used the basilisk scales as a medium and drew the runes with the powder of African Boomslang skin and Occamy eggshell, thus the Ring of the Ouroboros Snake you see created."
When the African Boomslang skin was mentioned, Hermione quickly glanced at the professor, she did know that this material is one of the important ingredients for making polyjuice potion, but did not know that it can also be ground into a powder used to draw runes, but she understood when she thought of the professor had a headache for a long time about how to use the Basilisk scales and made a lot of attempts.
Felix began to demonstrate, he waved his hand to let the students see a bunch of practical rune symbols near his wrist, then the ring on his right pinky finger approached them, the ring of the Ouroboros Snake suddenly swam, the snake's mouth released its tail, the body shot out to swallow these runes one by one before returning to Felix's hand and changing back into a ring.
"I found in practice, it can store magic runes for a long time, and extremely slow down the process of magic overflow, although, for me, it has no use, for you guys, the benefits are very obvious -"
Under the eyes of the crowd, he knocked the head of the little snake, which opened its mouth and spat out the string of magic runes it had just swallowed, and Felix revealed the answer by saying, "As long as you succeed in outlining a magic rune, you can retain and analyse it for a long time until you are completely familiar with the structure of that magic rune."
Felix curled up his lip, "And so, we have our theme for today - cooperation and exchange."
"In the previous few activities, you have mastered at least one practical magic rune, now I need you to swap it with others in exchange for a magic rune that person specializes in, you should exchange at least twenty of them."
He glanced at Hermione and added, "You can exchange a maximum of three magic runes from the same person." Otherwise, these students would only need to find Hermione to get it.
Draco couldn't help but complain, "Professor, that's not fair, there is the least number of Slytherin students here."
"Well - that makes sense." Felix agreed, "In that case, let's add another condition, the exchange cannot be with the same house you belong."
The other students looked at each other, Felix smiled and said, "You should see that I want you to get to know each other, In the previous few assemblies, you all sat together in the same house, this can not be conducive to future cooperation ..."
"Now, let's begin."
The members of the club began to move, and it became apparent at this point who among the four houses is most popular, the students of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin subconsciously gathered around the young Hufflepuff wizards.
Petter Sheldon, a sixth-year Hufflepuff girl, couldn't help but say, "What an unforeseen development - oh, Warren, you have your day." She giggled.
Warren Pardis of Ravenclaw scowled, "Stop it, I've helped you quite a few times ..."
Ever since he was called up by Professor Hap last year to compete with this girl in an ancient rune knowledge contest - even before the answer space became available - she has been going toe-to-toe with him, but the two of them occasionally go to the library together to write assignments and look up information, and they have sort of built a unique bond of combative friendship.
At least that's what he thought.
Harry pushed his way out of the crowd, he was never great at dealing with such situations, especially when he is asked to take the initiative to befriend some people. But when he noticed that Draco Malfoy's face also isn't looking good, his mood suddenly cheered up, like returning to Diagon Alley, eating ice cream from Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour in the summer sun kind of feeling.
Draco caught Harry's eye and said in a mocking whisper, "Potter - you're as annoying as McAdams, so why don't you go back to your Boxing Ring."
Harry looked at him in dismay, he didn't really care about Malfoy's bad attitude - their relationship had never been friendly, but the information that popped out of his mouth is quite surprising -
"You've read The Strange Adventures of Mick the Little Wizard?"
"No, no!" Draco immediately denied it.
Harry affirmed: "You've definitely read it, McAdams and boxing ring are things from the book," he said with a stifled smile: "And you've seen at least the third volume."
Draco's face instantly darkened, and he opened his mouth several times, but he could not think of anything to say in retort.
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