"Albert, are you alright?"
At lunchtime, Shanna sat down next to Albert, still brooding over the point Snape had inexplicably deducted from her that morning.
"It's alright, what's wrong?" Albert skillfully spread a generous amount of mayonnaise on his sandwich, then added sliced tomatoes, two slices of fried bacon, and finally a cold sausage before covering it with a slice of bread.
"Seriously, you can still eat?" Shanna asked in a low voice. "Did you offend Professor Snape somewhere?"
"No," Albert replied without hesitation.
In fact, even if it were true, he wouldn't admit it, so the answer would only be no.
"I know about this." George, with a pie in his mouth, smiled and took a bite. "It all started two days before school started. We were strolling around the castle when we ran into Snape. Albert went to ask Snape if he could take a picture."
George can't help but laugh when he talks about it.
"Yes, yes, I remember, it was about that," Fred added from the side. "Later, Snape said he would ask Albert a question in Potions class."
"That's why all that happened this morning," Shanna said in surprise.
"Snape didn't let Albert get away with it, so he tried a different approach," Li Qiaodan continued, "which is why our Potions professor assigned Albert extra homework after class."
"Ahem, you're all mistaken. What do you mean by making me suffer?" Albert cleared his throat and said seriously, "Professor Snape thinks I have a good talent for potions and is going to give me special attention to improve my potions skills. Don't you agree?"
"Yes, yes, we misspoke just now." The twins quickly corrected themselves, with expressions that said, "That's right, that's exactly it."
Shanna was amused by their words, but still asked suspiciously, "Is there anything wrong with your thesis?"
"It's nothing, writing one or two papers is the same," Albert said casually. "I'm going to the library later to finish both papers as soon as possible."
"Merlin's Beard, you're actually planning to go to the library to do your homework right after you finish eating? Don't we have plenty of time to finish our homework?" Fred, George, and Lee Jordan all looked at Albert with disbelief, puzzled as to why Albert was in such a hurry to do his homework.
"It won't take much time." Albert took a big bite of his sandwich, chewed slowly, and swallowed. "And it's best not to cram all your homework together, so you'll have some free time to do other things."
"You don't mind if I write it with you later, do you?" Shanna winked and said, "It'll be faster to find information together."
Perhaps, for Albert and Shanna, who come from a Muggle family, finishing their homework as quickly as possible has become a habit.
The Weasley brothers and Lee Jordan quickly moved away from the two, fearing they might catch the terrible disease that would kill them if they didn't do their homework immediately.
All right!
In reality, they were afraid that Albert would drag them into doing homework as well.
There's still so much time left, why rush to finish it now?
"Ahem, well..." Fred awkwardly changed the subject, "We're planning to go outside the castle later, would you like to come with us?"
"We can't go into the woods." Albert raised an eyebrow. He wouldn't take any risks before he had the ability to protect himself.
"We never said we were going into the woods," George said with a grin. "You said it."
"You dare say you didn't think about it?" Albert snorted irritably. He knew that the twins would be frequent visitors to the Forbidden Forest in the future.
"That's right. Cough, I meant to wander around, anyway there are still some places in the castle I haven't been to." Fred quickly corrected himself.
"We weren't planning on going into the woods, just going over there to take a look. I remember there's a small cabin on the edge of the forbidden forest over there," George quickly added.
Albert looked up at the roof. It was a cloudy day. Hmm, going out over there to digest his food would be fine.
"Okay!" he agreed.
"Let's go!" The twins each put their arms around Albert's shoulders.
"Wait, the sandwich is going to fall."
"Don't worry, I'll hold it for you!" Li Qiaodan smiled and took the sandwich.
"See you at two o'clock!" Albert greeted Shanna, and then the three of them helped him walk out of the castle.
There is indeed a small cabin on the edge of the forbidden forest.
As they walked toward the cabin, they found the hunting ground guard outside processing a mink pelt. Beside him, a black hunting dog barked low in their direction.
The hunting ground guard looked up at Albert and his three companions who were pacing around and said, "You lot, don't loiter here. There are terrifying werewolves in the Forbidden Forest. Few who go in come out unscathed. I don't want to be collecting your corpses."
Albert looked up at the barking black hound, pulled a half-eaten sausage from his sandwich, and waved it in front of the hound.
"He's really big!" Lee Jordan muttered. Although he had met Hagrid once, he was a little intimidated by him. After all, the height and attire of the man in front of him were…very intimidating.
"Are there really werewolves in the Forbidden Forest?" Albert wasn't afraid at all and walked towards the other side. If he hadn't known from books that Hagrid had a decent personality, he would never have had the idea of making contact with him after seeing what he looked like.
Fred tugged at Albert's coat from behind, signaling him to leave quickly.
Albert glanced at them speechlessly. Well, he admitted that his courage lay in his understanding.
There was no way around it; the hunting ground guard was indeed a bit intimidating. He was at least 15 feet tall, with a fierce, savage face covered in a beard, and wore a patched animal skin coat. He looked like a legendary barbarian, and if he were to wander around the city at night, he would frighten countless people.
Hagrid was taken aback by what he heard, not expecting such an overly friendly person.
Albert, biting into a sandwich, squatted down and waved the sausage in front of the black hound. The hound's low barking gradually subsided. It wagged its tail and slowly walked towards Albert, sniffing the sausage before picking it up with its mouth and eating it. The three people behind it were dumbfounded by what they saw.
Is this still a fierce hunting dog?
Hagrid was also taken aback, not expecting that his dog could be bribed with just half a sausage. Come to think of it, this little guy has quite the nerve.