Chapter 6 : The Ice Crystal Phoenix Who Came to Deliver a Letter
Hogwarts.
The magic school is on holiday.
It's because a lot of freshmen are going to be enrolled this year.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Minerva McGonagall, was busy because she, like other professors, had to visit some Muggle-born parents from time to time to explain the existence of magic.
It has to be said that there are simply too many new students this year.
But no matter how busy the professors at Hogwarts were, one of them was definitely more laid back.
Headmaster of Hogwarts.
Albus Dumbledore.
Dumbledore is a name that everyone in the entire magical world can be familiar with, and has always been recognized by everyone as the greatest white wizard of the time.
The headmaster's name is often followed by a group of staggering achievements, and wizards in the wizarding world have grown up with Dumbledore's name.
and.
Dumbledore is also considered to be the greatest headmaster ever at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a reputation that the 100-year-old man actually likes very much.
Now at this age, there is nothing that Dumbledore likes more than raising a group of young wizards to grow up.
Dumbledore was sitting in his office now.
The old man's hair was a little messy, with a small pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, a long white beard, and a thick magic book with his hands on the table.
This is a really learned old man.
The old man has a cup of warm black tea in his hand, next to the black tea is a plate of sweet and delicious sponge cake, and the plate is pressed against a flat spoon.
The old man lived a very comfortable life.
A birdcage stand was erected above the table, and a flaming red phoenix stood quietly on the stand, occasionally shaking its head.
Dumbledore noticed the Phoenix's movement, put down the page in his hand, picked up a spoon, scooped a small sip of sponge cake and handed it to Phoenix, carefully comforting: "Almost forgot, Fawkes needs to be serious every day. breakfast..."
Phoenix Fawkes.
This is the partner who has always accompanied Dumbledore. They get along like family members, and they are also one of the few creatures who can always accompany Dumbledore.
Just as the fire phoenix lowered its head to take a mouthful of the muffin, its body suddenly froze in place, as if it had sensed some kind of crisis, it turned its head sharply!
"Coo!"
The phoenix cry that used to be like fairy music in the past, but at this moment suddenly came a chilling sound from its mouth!
This is a sign of impending danger!
Dumbledore hurriedly put down the spoon in his hand, lifted the sleeves of his wide robe, walked to the window of the headmaster's office and looked up at the sky.
A chill quietly enveloped Hogwarts in summer.
Filch, the janitor who stayed at Hogwarts, and the house elves in the underground also felt the sudden change in temperature, as if winter had come to this school half a year earlier.
When Dumbledore walked out of the headmaster's room, he saw a huge ice crystal bird hovering over the barrier of Hogwarts!
Just a body with a wingspan of more than ten meters, it looks like an ancient creature. Its body is composed of abundant and huge magic power and frost crystals, allowing people to clearly feel the oppression brought by this giant bird.
As a legendary mythical creature, Phoenix Fawkes is undoubtedly the first to recognize the horror of this giant ice crystal bird, which is undoubtedly a mythical creature!
Dumbledore raised his head to look at the circling ice crystal giant bird, and the old wizard's eyes still sharply saw that it seemed to have an envelope on the edge of its sharp beak...
so…
Is this a letter delivery pet?
Dumbledore took off his glasses in a bit of confusion, reached out and wiped his eye sockets and put them back on again: "Well... am I too old or did I see it wrong? "
Ok.
That's right.
It's not that he's too old to be blind.
But this powerful magical creature that can obviously affect the weather is actually used by people to send letters. This behavior is a bit too high-profile.
Anyone who sees this scene will definitely think that the latter is provoking Albus Dumbledore, even Dumbledore himself thinks so.
The old man's character is generous, and he doesn't care about it at all.
Dumbledore smiled and beckoned to the ice bird in the sky, silently casting a spell to make his old voice grand and loud: "If you are here to send me a letter, just fly down, there are some desserts here."
This is the practice of wizards.
Usually, pets must eat something after delivering the letter.
The ice crystal phoenix soaring in the sky heard the old man's voice, and its body quickly fell from the sky, directly breaking through the barrier of Hogwarts!
The huge body of the ice bird floated in the space between the floors of Hogwarts, and as it fell, layers of frost instantly formed on the wall.
Phoenix Fawkes, who appeared on Dumbledore's shoulder, couldn't help screaming a few times, as if to say hello to the ice bird.
pity…
The character of this ice bird is as cold as frost, it just stretched out its huge head and handed over the envelope that it carefully held along the way.
To be honest, sending letters is quite a challenge for it.
Dumbledore got the envelope on his toes. The low temperature on it made his fingers tremble, and even the letter had turned into a hard ice cube.
When the old man took the letter, he was still thinking childishly whether it was necessary to turn on the stove to dry the letter in the summer...
"Chirp!"
After seeing Dumbledore stretch out his hand to take the letter, the ice bird didn't stop, and simply soared away from the school.
"It is quite a character..."
Dumbledore glanced down at the envelope, which said to Hogwarts.
This was a letter sent to the school, and together with the ice bird that had appeared before, Dumbledore thought it might be a communication book or something from some other school of magic.
However, when the old man opened the envelope, he didn't quite understand the contents. It was not until he saw the signature that he realized that it was a reply letter from a freshman.
have to say.
Fortunately, he signed it.
If it is a letter signed by Professor Minerva McGonagall, there is a high probability that this little guy will be treated as a problem child, because Professor McGonagall attaches great importance to etiquette, Professor McGonagall has not been able to take everything in stride like an old man.
[Hello Professor Dumbledore ]
[This is a response to my admission letter. By the way, can my pet Anivia be brought into the school? This is my birthday present from Mr. Barty Crouch. ]
[PS: The ice bird who sent the letter is Anivia, and it is a little bigger. Mr. Barty Crouch said maybe I won't be allowed to, although it doesn't need to eat anything. ]
[Sincerely, Winson Wright]
"Looks like a lively little guy..."
After Dumbledore glanced at the contents of the letter, he had already anticipated it in advance, and this freshman named Winson Wright was likely to cause a lot of trouble in the school.
This kind of thing doesn't matter to the elderly at all.
And Dumbledore knows that this year's freshmen have many lively freshmen, such as the twin brothers of the Weasley family who will also enter Hogwarts.
The name Winson Wright had come up before.
Dumbledore remembered where he first heard the name before he picked up the quill on the table and began to write back to Winson Wright seriously.
Photo wall in the principal's office.
The Hogwarts headmasters in history seemed to have come to life, and they asked at random: "Dumbledore, who sent you the letter? We heard from the people hanging outside about the one who sent the letter. Is the person who wrote it provoking Hogwarts?"
"No, just a kind and funny little guy."
Dumbledore smiled and shook his head, holding the quill pen and earnestly continued to write the reply, while replying to them: "When the little guys in this class are all enrolled, Hogwarts will be better than any other in the past. It's a little more lively every year..."