great-warnovel Chapter 112 is coming soon.
Chapter 112 is coming soon.
Chapter 112 is coming soon.
Hermione's birthday didn't cause much of a stir. In fact, apart from Harry getting his birth date from the Book of Admission from Professor Potter, no one else bothered to remember other people's birthdays.
Even Professor McGonagall only quietly wished her a happy birthday after class the next day; the reserved professor was not used to expressing his feelings directly.
The attention of the other students, however, was drawn to the newly constructed owl tower.
Thanks to Professor Sprout's tireless efforts, a ghostly owl's dwelling, meticulously recreating the environment of the decaying forest, was finally completed.
Hagrid also moved the eggs he was incubating here, so Hermione no longer had to smell that stench when she entered and exited the Hall of Glorious Stones.
The other students were initially curious about the glowing eggs, but after learning that they were a new species of owl...
People were very interested in them and asked when they would be available for purchase, or if they wanted to raise one themselves, as the world had suffered from the lack of express delivery for too long.
They spontaneously brought all sorts of food, enduring the stench, to help the professors care for the chicks.
But as some of the baby ghost owls hatched, Professor Kettleburn also brought back some adult birds to care for the little ones.
The owl tower grew smellier every day, as these ghost owls were still in the process of being domesticated, and some of their bad habits had not yet been corrected.
They would observe every student who came to the tower to see them, stealing anything shiny from them and trying to steal it to hide in their nests, burying it with their own foul-smelling excrement.
Even if the students eventually find their belongings, they will likely throw them back into their homes because of the persistent stench.
They also make unpleasant noises, and anyone who tries to communicate near them will be unable to hear anyone else, as if they are the only ones making noise in the whole world.
Gradually, no students were willing to go see them anymore, and only Hagrid, Sprout, and Kettleburn were busy in the tower.
However, the professors remained optimistic about the future of these treacherous magical birds, mainly because of Newt, the Master of Fantastic Beasts.
He believed that the owl's bad habits did not stem from its animalistic nature. After undergoing a period of magical taming, it could become as obedient, docile, hardworking, intelligent, and loyal as the magical owl of the past.
As the students gradually lost interest in the ghost owl, they began to look forward to next week's highlight—the field trip.
After successfully completing the first practical lesson, Professor Lockhart was not discouraged by his defeat to Hermione. He repeatedly assured the students that the scheduled field practice class would not be affected, and that he would take the students to conduct their first field lesson once Hogwarts reached the correct location.
"I've planned several routes to ensure that students of different grades can learn the knowledge that suits them." He would say this whenever a student asked him for information, whether in the hallway or at the door of his office.
So the students looked forward to the next week even more. For the first time, they felt that the walking speed at Hogwarts was too slow. Fred and George even dared to suggest to Professor McGonagall that the castle be moved faster. Of course, the result was not good. They almost had to take over the toilets for a month.
The route of Hogwarts has always been a mystery. Even Hermione doesn't know who decides it. She has never seen Dumbledore or McGonagall set the route. They seem to have simply handed over control to Hogwarts itself, letting it go wherever it wants.
And this magical castle never disappoints. It always appears in the right place at the right time. Every year at the start of the school year, it calculates the most suitable location based on the list in the admission book, allowing professors to take the least amount of walking and receive the most students.
They also choose suitable locations nearby for wand picking so that young wizards can make wands. So the location each year is not decided by the professors, but rather deduced based on the Hogwarts route.
Sometimes Hermione felt that the castle was truly alive, and even Dumbledore had to speak to it politely. However, its intelligence seemed to be in a state of confusion. Although it could understand wizards' instructions, it was mostly silent and rigid.
For example, regarding energy requirements, before the pyroxene stabilized, McGonagall lived in constant fear. Hogwarts was like an insatiable child, demanding vast amounts of energy every day, and at that time, the pyroxene was like a ticking time bomb.
Every day when she opens her eyes, she worries that she'll be left with only her head floating in the sky.
As for Lockhart's field practice plan, the castle silently absorbed the proposal. After the professor threw a series of prepared locations into a large pot in the headmaster's office, Hogwarts automatically changed its course.
However, the wilderness is mostly desolate now. Without any landmarks, the students have no idea where the castle is. They can only ask the professor again and again every day, "Where are we today? Where will we be tomorrow?"
Then, based on these unfamiliar place names, they guessed what kind of situations they would encounter during their upcoming field practice.
But they didn't actually have much time to overthink things. Besides their heavy coursework, they were also engaged in intense training for the Quidditch Cup, which had resumed normal operations this year.
The heads of the various houses took this very seriously. Last year's Gryffindor victory left Professor McGonagall in high spirits for a month afterward, and she even spent the summer promoting it to every wizard she knew.
This year, as soon as the school year began, the headmasters summoned their respective Quidditch captains and gave them their mission for the year: to win the Quidditch Cup for their respective houses and not let Gryffindor have all the glory!
As a result, a considerable number of students, apart from eating and attending classes, had most of their free time occupied by their captain. Every day, different colored school uniforms could be seen flying in the sky over the spacious Quidditch pitch, and Harry had complained to them more than once about Captain Wood's domineering attitude on Quidditch.
Hermione, however, supports this. Although she herself is an anti-Quidditch advocate who hates brooms, her little ghosts need the development of Quidditch to score. It can draw some unknown power from the shouts of the players, the cheers of the audience, and every goal and score, thus helping her grow.
Therefore, Hermione was very keen on organizing Quidditch matches. She used her influence to mobilize other students from Gryphon to form a cheering squad and used Transfiguration Charms to create support materials for her house, striving to overwhelm the other houses in terms of momentum.
Soon, Hufflepuff followed suit, leveraging their numerical advantage to develop a powerful shouting formation. With the magic of their loud voices, their single stand could shake the entire stadium.
If their first ball game hadn't taken place after a field practice session, Hermione probably would have turned Hogwarts upside down by now.