For Scott, every day in May seems extremely long.
Because he must be extremely careful and always pay attention to his life with a mandrake leaf in his mouth.
Not only that, during this month he was also busy collecting other ingredients for the Animagus potion – dew and the pupae of the Grimace Hawkmoth.
Among them, he successfully bought the pupa of the Grimace Hawkmoth through mail order, but the real trouble was the dew.
The dew he needed had to be gathered from places that had not been exposed to sunlight or human contact for seven full days.
Scott could only ask Rimbaud to lead the crows to help him find a place with lush vegetation in the Forbidden Forest that would not be exposed to the sun, and then collect dew himself every morning.
After Luna heard about it, she also took the initiative to help.
On this day, Scott once again got up while his roommates were still sleeping. After washing carefully, he went to the common room to join Luna.
“Good morning.”
Not long after, Luna came bounding down the stairs.
“Good morning……”
Scott’s eyes moved down to look at her bare feet under her robe.
“What’s wrong?” Luna stepped on the carpet with bare feet, ran to Scott, and pulled his sleeves, “Let’s go quickly!”
Scott had to speak, “Luna, we are going to the forest, I think you’d better put on your shoes.”
“Really?” Luna looked down at her feet and curled her toes.
Scott just waved his hand and told her to go quickly.
Luna nodded, turned around and ran back to the dormitory like a gust of wind.
When she came out again, she had already put on her stockings and leather boots obediently.
Scott nodded.
After that, the two left Ravenclaw Tower and headed straight for the Forbidden Forest.
In the early morning, the sun has not yet appeared, and mist is still floating in the back garden of Hogwarts Castle.
Scott and Luna walked through the twists and turns of the garden.
Scott remained silent with his mask on, while Luna kept looking around as she walked, observing the dewy flowers in the garden, seemingly in a good mood.
Not long after, the two of them walked through the garden and into the forbidden forest.
Not long after they entered the Forbidden Forest, Rimbaud flew over and took the initiative to lead Scott from the front.
“Hello, Rimbaud.” Luna actively greeted Rimbaud in a friendly manner, “I am Luna, Luna Lovegood.”
Rimbaud, who was flying, glanced at her and then at Scott.
Scott nodded at Rimbaud.
“Hello, Luna.” Rimbaud responded.
Luna suddenly became happy. She obviously liked Rimbaud very much and kept talking to him all the way.
Rimbaud was a little reserved at first, but soon he and Luna agreed to go together.
Seeing that Luna and Rimbaud were chatting passionately, Scott did not stop them.
In his magic perception, there was no one else nearby at this time, and he was not worried about the exposure of the talking Rimbaud.
Luna, who always has fantastic ideas, makes Rimbaud very happy.
For example, she would ask, “Are you the king of the Crow Kingdom?”
Rimbaud was extremely proud after hearing this.
“You are really good at talking, Luna.” It said happily and pretending to be humble, “Of course I am not a king. I just own a territory and more than a thousand obedient crow subjects.”
When Scott heard this, he couldn’t help but slandered the “subjects” and said, “You don’t want to be the king!”
Although Rimbaud was too stinky, Luna was very cooperative.
“Then let’s call you lord!” She said enthusiastically, “How about Lord Black Wings?”
“Hey hey hey hey…”
Rimbaud couldn’t help but laugh loudly.
“You’re too polite!” it said pretentiously, “but I like this title!”
Luna also talked with Rimbaud in a serious manner about how to expand its territory and power, and strive to be promoted from lord to king as soon as possible.
Listening to the little girl and the raven talking as if they were playing house, Scott couldn’t help but smile even though he didn’t speak.
When they finally arrived at their destination, Rimbaud and Luna had become good friends.
Scott took out two glass bottles from the deformed lizard skin bag and handed one to Luna.
“Be careful,” he reminded aloud, “dew that has come into contact with humans cannot be used.”
Luna nodded seriously.
The two squatted down together and began to collect dew seriously.
Since the dew cannot be touched, the method they adopted was to hold the roots of the plants with their hands and shake them so that the dew would naturally roll down into the bottle.
Since Scott wanted dew from a place that had not seen sunlight for seven days, he needed a place where sunlight could not reach it from all angles.
Although the vegetation in the Forbidden Forest is generally dense, such a place is not easy to find, not to mention that it requires a place that no one has touched.
Rimbaud and the crows searched for several days before they found such a small area that could not get sunlight at any time during this season and where no one would normally come.
Due to the small area, Scott and Luna worked all morning and collected only a little bit of dew.
If you drink it, it will only be enough to moisturize your lips.
Fortunately, all Scott needed was only a silver teaspoon.
When leaving, Scott said to Rimbaud: “Let the crow take note of this place. We will come back in seven days. Two more times should be enough.”
“I hope the weather won’t change,” Luna said. “If it rains, the dew won’t work, right?”
Scott nodded.
He didn’t have any good ideas for this.
The conditions required to learn Animagus are so troublesome, or else success requires some luck.
Fortunately, his luck was pretty good this time. He collected it twice more and successfully collected the required dew.
All in all, Scott finally passed this long month smoothly.
The materials were prepared, but the mandrake leaf in his mouth was still intact.
Seeing that May 25 was approaching, Scott was worried about another thing.
He was worried about the weather on the full moon.
This is another test of his luck——
He must remove the leaves during the full moon, fill a crystal vial with saliva, and soak the leaves in it, allowing it to receive pure moonlight.
If there were dark clouds and no moonlight that night, he would have to find a new mandrake leaf and start over.
This also means that all his previous efforts will be in vain.
Scott certainly doesn’t want to see this happen.
But when the 25th came, Scott got up in the morning and looked at the continuous rain outside the window, and his heart felt cold.
But not long after, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and quickly relaxed again.
“Oh no! It’s raining!”
Just then, he heard Eddie’s exclamation.
Scott’s roommates also knew what he was doing during this time, and when they saw the rain outside the window, their expressions also changed.
“Scott…”
Milton opened his mouth and called Scott.
He seemed to want to say something to comfort him, but didn’t know what to say.
There was silence in the dormitory. At this time, even Eddie, who always talked a lot, didn’t seem to know how to speak.
Roger got up from the bed, walked up to Scott, reached out and patted him on the shoulder.
Scott couldn’t help laughing when he saw that his roommates all looked even more unacceptable than himself.
“Scott, what’s wrong with you?” Roger, who was closest to him, looked at him in surprise, “Are you okay?”
Scott shook his head.
“Scott, don’t be sad, you… you will definitely succeed next time.” Eddie rarely stuttered, “Just… forget it this time.”
“Yes…yes.” Milton echoed without any confidence.
“I’m fine,” Scott said softly.
Now he has learned the technique of keeping his mouth as still as possible while speaking.
Roger looked at him again and patted his shoulder hard again.
“That’s right!” He said in an encouraging tone, “It’s not time to give up yet!”
Milton’s eyes lit up, “Maybe the rain will stop after a while!”
“As long as you can see the full moonlight at night!” Eddie made a cheering gesture, “It will definitely be possible!”
Seeing that they would get it wrong, Scott simply said: “It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t stop raining. Even if it rains in the Scottish Highlands, it won’t rain all over the UK at the same time.”
Eddie immediately understood what he meant and continued quickly: “Even if it rains all over the UK, it won’t rain all over the world!”
Roger also laughed, “Although it’s a little troublesome, you can always find a place with moonlight tonight.”
Scott nodded in agreement.
It was exactly after he thought of this that he relaxed.
“Are you going to ask Professor Flitwick for help?” Milton asked.
Scott nodded again.
After carefully washing and changing clothes as usual, he waved to his roommates and left the dormitory first.
When he came to the common room, he saw Luna running up to him who was standing in front of the window watching the rain.
She said to Scott: “Although it’s raining at Hogwarts, you can go find a place with moonlight.”
“I know,” Scott said with a smile.
Luna also smiled slightly, “Then I’ll be relieved.”
After Scott said goodbye to her, he went directly to Professor Flitwick’s office.
Without Scott having to say anything, Professor Flitwick took the initiative and said when he saw him: “Oh, Scott, I was just thinking about you.”
He looked at the rain outside the window, then smiled at Scott.
“Seeing that you are not too anxious, I know you have thought of it.” He said, “If there is no moonlight at night, I will take you to a place with moonlight.”
“Thank you, professor.” Scott bowed respectfully.
“Go ahead.” Professor Flitwick smiled and waved his hand.
The rain never stopped.
During the first class in the morning, Professor McGonagall also found Scott and specifically called him out of class.
After hearing Scott tell him his plan, she breathed a sigh of relief.
She adjusted her glasses and said to Scott: “I always thought you could think of this, but I was worried that if you didn’t think of it, you gave up your efforts for a month.”
Scott’s good luck seemed to be gone during this period, and the rain didn’t stop until the evening.
After dinner, Professor Flitwick came over on his own initiative.
“I asked, it’s not raining in London today.” He said to Scott, “Let’s go there first.”
Scott, of course, had no problem with that.
Afterwards, they walked through the fireplace in Professor McGonagall’s office to the Leaky Cauldron in Diagon Alley.
“It’s been a long time, Professor Flitwick!” The bar owner greeted Professor Flitwick warmly, “Would you like a drink?”
“No, Tom, I have something else to do,” Professor Flitwick said.
He led Scott through the crowd in a hurry, nodding in response to other people’s greetings from time to time. After walking out of the bar, he extended his hand to Scott.
He said, “Come on, it’s too noisy here. I’ll take you to a quieter place.”
Scott held Professor Flitwick’s hand and was taken to a woods by the professor’s apparation.
“Just here.” Professor Flitwick let go of his hand and walked aside, gesturing for him to start. “You know what to do.”
Scott nodded, took out a small crystal vial from his pocket, and began to collect his saliva.
It took quite a while, but when more than half of the bottle was filled with saliva, he finally stopped. Then he took out the mandrake leaves that had been in his mouth for a month and soaked them in the saliva.
When the leaf finally left his mouth, he couldn’t help but breathed a sigh of relief. He opened his mouth and moved his mandible in a few exaggerated movements.
Feeling the complete freedom of his mouth, he raised the vial and let it bathe in the moonlight and receive the pure moonlight.
Not long after, the disgusting saliva bubble leaves in the bottle underwent some subtle changes——
The saliva became clearer, and the mandrake leaf stretched a lot.
After that, he took out the prepared materials and added them to the small medicine bottle.
A strand of your own hair, a teaspoon of dew, and the pupa of a grimacing hawkmoth.
Under the moonlight, these materials soon reacted more obviously.
Whether it was the mandrake leaf, Scott’s hair or the pupa of the Grimace Hawkmoth, they all slowly melted under the influence of the moonlight.
After all the materials were completely melted, Scott got a bottle of colorless mixture that looked a little cloudy.
He quickly sealed the vial with a cork, and then sealed it with melted wax.
“Is it done?” Professor Flitwick looked at the vial in his hand, “You must put it in a completely quiet and dark place immediately. Of course, the best way is to bury it in the ground. “
Scott nodded and put the medicine bottle into the deformed lizard skin bag on his waist.
“Then I’ll leave first. Thank you, Professor.”
He shook the silver snake-shaped necklace on his left hand at Professor Flitwick, and immediately activated the door key after Professor Flitwick nodded.
After a while, Scott appeared in the crow territory.
At this time, the rain in the Scottish Highlands had stopped, but the sky was covered with dark clouds, and there was no moonlight visible.
It was extremely dark in the forest.
Scott first took out [the severed arm bone] to activate it, and then took out his wand.
“Lumos!”
As he lit his wand, Rimbaud flew down from the top of the oak tree.
“Scott, are you done?” it asked with concern.
“Good evening.” Scott nodded and said in a teasing tone, “Lord Black Wing.”
“hey-hey.”
Hearing this title, Rimbaud couldn’t help laughing again.
“Oh, you should call me Rimbaud.” It said modestly, “You are my best friend.”
“Okay, take me to the place you found.” Scott said funny.
He waved his magic wand to enlarge Rimbaud’s size and let him fly to a bare mountain cliff.
“No birds are nesting here, no other animals are living here, and it will remain quiet,” it said to Scott.
“Okay.” Scott said with satisfaction.
He jumped off Rimbaud’s back, waved his wand to create a deep hole in the ground, then took out the vial and buried it in the ground.
After that, he let a huge stone fly over and press on this small piece of land.
“That way there won’t be any accidents.”
He clapped his hands, climbed onto Rimbaud’s back again, and let him carry him back to the Forbidden Forest, and then returned to Hogwarts Castle alone.
After returning to the castle, Scott first found Professor Flitwick to solemnly thank him again, and then returned to the Ravenclaw common room through the secret passage in the professor’s office.
“How’s it going, Scott?”
Milton, who was writing a paper in the common room, immediately asked with concern when he saw him.
“It went well,” Scott said with a smile.
His voice was slightly muffled.
Milton glanced at him in surprise.
“Oh, I’m not used to it yet.” Scott rubbed his face, “I always feel like there’s something in my mouth.”
Milton smiled understandingly.
“I still need to wait for a storm with thunder and lightning before I can collect the potion.” Scott added, “Of course, there are rituals that must be completed while waiting.”
As he spoke, he took out his wand, pointed it at his heart, and chanted the incantation, “Amado, Animo, Animado, Animagus.”
Nothing happens.
Scott explained to Milton, “While waiting for the storm to come, I have to do this every time the sun rises and sets, and it makes me feel my second heartbeat.”
“A storm with thunderstorms?” Milton said. “You shouldn’t have to wait long. Summer is coming and this kind of weather will be more common.”
“I hope so.” Scott shrugged.
After saying goodbye to Milton, Scott found Luna who was reading in the college library and told her that everything went well during the operation.
“Animagus?”
Helena floated out of nowhere and heard the conversation between the two.
“There are not many Animagus from Ravenclaw House.” Helena said, “You’d better become an eagle. Of course, a raven is also good.”
They are all animals related to Ravenclaw College.
Scott told her, “It’s a peregrine falcon. My patronus is a peregrine falcon.”
Helena immediately looked at him with appreciation, “Very good.”
“Scott.”
Just then, Ethan Cooper walked into the library and called Scott.
“Someone is looking for you.” He said, “It’s the Weasley twins. They are outside the common room.”
“Thank you.”
Scott thanked him and came to the common room.
“Hi, Scott.”
“Guess why we are looking for you.”
Fred and George were standing in front of the window on one side.
“I guess your promotional video is finished?” Scott walked up to the two with a smile.
Fred and George showed a proud expression at the same time.
“I have to say, we have completed a masterpiece!”
“It’s more perfect than your Eddie’s work!”
“But we still need some small help.”
“For example, borrow your small mirror and large mirror.”
Scott immediately understood.
He said, “I see. You need to borrow my [magic mirror] to complete the editing and post-production, and you also need to borrow the big mirror for the public screening.”
Fred and George nodded first, and then both showed embarrassed expressions.
Of course, the embarrassed expressions on their faces looked a little fake.
“You are right.”
“But not only that.”
The two sang in unison.
“Although we also want to borrow the [magic mirror].”
“But we may not be able to handle the editing and post-production you mentioned.”
As they said, they put their hands together at the same time and said with a smile: “I can only ask you for this matter, Mr. Trollope.”
“Okay, okay.” Scott deliberately showed a malicious smile, “You actually trust me to hand over the promotional video of Gryffindor College? I am a Ravenclaw.”
“Of course, Scott.”
“Although you are a Ravenclaw.”
Fred and George, one on the left and one on the right, put their hands on Scott’s shoulders.
“Among the friends we know, there is no one friendlier than you.”
“You are the friend of Gryffindor in our hearts!”
As they said this, the two of them shouted slogans in a passionate tone.
“Praise friendship, long live the friendship between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw!”
At this time, the Ravenclaws who were entering and leaving the door of the common room looked at them in shock.
But Fred and George still did not feel embarrassed or ashamed, and gave these Ravenclaws a warm smile.
“…”
Scott couldn’t help but twitched his mouth.
“Look, Scott!”
“Everyone is moved by the deep friendship between us!”
Seeing that the two were still cheering, Scott quickly stopped their drama.
“Okay, I give up.” He had to raise his hands in surrender, “I promise you.”
Fred and George immediately took back their hands on his shoulders and clapped each other to celebrate.
Scott curled his lips and reminded them, “What about the music? A good editing must echo the rhythm of the music.”
“Don’t worry.” Fred gave a thumbs up, “We are ready.”
George put his hands on his hips, “I have to remind you, Scott, there are Gryffindor students among the members of the Classical Music Club and the Toad Choir.”
“So what.” Scott shrugged his shoulders, “Good performers and singers are not necessarily good composers.”
“But we have a secret weapon!” Fred winked mysteriously.
George also emphasized, “You will be surprised.”
Scott was not too curious.
It was a promotional video for Gryffindor College. As long as they thought it was appropriate, he would not pick and choose the music they chose.
“Then bring the material, is it in your magic camera?”
He just stretched out his hand and asked the twins to give him the material they shot.
But Fred and George did not play by the rules.
The two put their hands together in front of Scott again.
“It needs to be kept secret until the trailer is released.”
“So…”
The two of them held Scott on the left and right, and “kidnapped” him to the joke prop studio in the secret passage.
