The Precious Compound Bow

The twin brothers were in a bad mood after receiving the Howler, and they went to the Quidditch Pitch listlessly.

William and the others left the castle, crossed the fields, and headed toward the Forbidden Forest.

Hagrid lived in a small cabin on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. He was sitting in the doorway, basking in the sun and polishing a bronze composite bow.

The giant bow in Hagrid's hand was as tall as Hermione, and it Winky in the sunlight.

"Ah, William, you've arrived? Please have a seat," Hagrid said excitedly.

William nodded and used his wand to transform the pebbles on the ground into four beautiful chairs.

"This is Hermione, a friend of ours," William introduced.

"Hello, my name is Hermione Granger, you can just call me Hermione," Hermione said quickly.

She had met Hagrid; he was the one who greeted the new students when they enrolled.

"Hello, little one, just call me Hagrid." Hagrid put down his giant bow and greeted the girl.

"I feel like I've heard your name before. Oh, right, Harry and his twin brother came to visit yesterday, and Ron mentioned you."

"Oh, what did he say?" Hermione frowned.

"Ah--it's nothing, it's just... I study hard... I'm friendly... cough cough..." Hagrid lied.

"Really?" Hermione looked at Hagrid with a skeptical gaze; this was clearly not something Ron would say.

In fact, the two of them are ignoring each other now.

Hagrid avoided Hermione's gaze. Ron had said some bad things about the girls, but how could he tell her such things?

William changed the subject, asking, "Hagrid, do you like the gift?"

"I love it, I love it so much! I've never been so happy." Hagrid laughed like an eight-year-old.

Hagrid's wand is hidden inside the pink umbrella, but he is not used to using a wand and prefers to use a huge stone bow.

William had seen Hagrid use the stone bow many times, but the bow was just a stone, and the bowstring was just ordinary rubber bands, nothing special.

So William asked Nicolas Flamel to help him make a bow using Alchemy, and he also made ten golden arrows.

Hagrid stroked the giant bow with obvious delight. "It's just too expensive."

This bow is indeed very valuable; the bow body is made of a mixture of keel and oak, with a considerable amount of metal also incorporated.

The bowstring was made from the tendons of a fire dragon and the Unicorn Hair, and even Hagrid couldn't break it.

These bows and arrows are imbued with various magical properties, giving them the ability to ward off magic and penetrate defenses.

With Hagrid's strength, if he were to fire an arrow, it would pierce through not only Protego but also the hard shells of many Magical Creatures.

This is truly a piercing arrow that brings forth a thousand armies.

Most importantly, it is a product of Alchemy created by Nicolas Flamel, and that is what makes it so valuable.

Few of Nicolas Flamel's alchemical artifacts have been passed down, and each one is priceless.

Whether something is valuable or not depends on who has it.

William could sell a custom-made Hogwarts Map for 300 Galleon, but the cost was only a piece of cowhide; overall, the cost was extremely low.

Similarly, crafting a fine composite bow was not particularly difficult for an Alchemy master like Nicolas.

But for Hagrid, it was very valuable.

"I still have a lot of magical materials piled up in my house. Feel free to take them if you need them, don't be shy," Hagrid said happily.

Hagrid possesses a vast amount of Forbidden Forest materials; the Unicorn Hair alone is more than enough to weave carpets.

He never sells them; he just piles them up in the house, or he gives some to Fang as a doghouse.

William nodded, telling Hagrid not to stand on ceremony.

"What's this bowstring made of?" Hagrid asked curiously. "This is the strongest material I've ever seen. If you have any more, please get me some more."

William coughed twice. I wonder what kind of expression he would have if he told Hagrid that it came from his favorite fire dragon.

"I'll get you some more, as for what it's made of... haha, I have no idea."

Dragon tendons are valuable, but William has a fire dragon, so he can get a lot more.

Moreover, he had to hurry up and use the materials from the dragon to make things, otherwise Professor Snape would eventually smuggle them back to his little box and hide them away.

Professor Snape has been doing this shameless thing lately. William didn't see the dragon in August, and when school started, he found that the dragon was missing a leg.

Rather than letting Snape profit from everything, it's better to make things for the people around you.

Cedric needs Dragon Heartstring to make his wand.

Not only Cedric, Professor Flitwick also asked William for some dragon blood.

Professor Flitwick claimed that a friend of his needed dragon's blood to nourish his kidneys. Although William didn't know who this friend was, it didn't stop him from brewing some Potions for the professor to drink mixed with dragon's blood.

"From now on, I'll take this bow with me when I go to the Forbidden Forest," Hagrid said with a smile.

The Forbidden Forest is dangerous, and Hagrid certainly needs a powerful weapon for self-defense.

Well, for most creatures in the Forbidden Forest, Hagrid is the more dangerous one.

After chatting for a while, Hagrid stood up to get them some Rock Cakes.

They all declined, saying they had just eaten breakfast, and no one wanted to eat the Rock Cakes.

Hagrid was slightly disappointed; he had honed his culinary skills during the summer and invented a herring-skin chocolate cake.

The method is also very simple: ferment the herring, mix it with Rock Cakes, and finally add small chocolate cakes.

Harry and Ron both loved the food yesterday, and Hagrid even let them take some with them when he left.

William suddenly realized why Ron looked so pale and unsteady on his feet when he ran into Ron yesterday; he had been so exhausted that his legs had gone weak.

"Hagrid, where's Fluffy?" Cho asked. "I haven't seen him in ages. He must be having trouble sleeping without me singing to him..."

"Nonsense, you're just lying to me. You want to know where Fluffy is."

Hagrid looked wary; it seemed Dumbledore had instructed him not to reveal the location of the Fluffy.

"What's Fluffy?" Hermione asked curiously.

"Fluffy —he's the adorable puppy I bought from a Greece guy at the Leaky Cauldron last year," Hagrid said with a fond smile.

Even cuter Bobocha!

Hermione said "Oh," and roughly filled in the blanks in her mind.

William laughed and said, "Even if you don't tell us, we know where Fluffy is."

"Where?" Hagrid asked warily.

"Is it Restricted Section on the fourth floor?"

"What... how did you know?"

"Dumbledore borrowed Fluffy, but didn't put him in the Room of Requirement, because I brewed Potions there every day."

"And when Headmaster Dumbledore started the school year, he suddenly forbade us from going near the Third Floor Corridor. You also said that Fluffy was borrowed by the headmaster, so he could only be somewhere else," William analyzed.

"Hagrid, why did Dumbledore put Fluffy there? Was he guarding something?" Cedric asked.

"No, you won't get a single word from me," Hagrid said, frustrated.

"Then we'll prepare to explore the fourth floor tonight," Cedric laughed.

"No! It's dangerous there."

"Danger?"

"Yes!"

"Fluffy is not dangerous at all," William laughed.

"It's just a cute little thing, like Bobocha."

"..."

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