Snakes at Hogwarts

Chapter 123 Ivar is about to hibernate

November has come quickly.

After Halloween, the sky has been gray, and even the mountains outside the castle have been dyed the same color as the sky.

This is because the first snow of winter hit the Scottish Highlands a few days ago.

Naturally, the weather is getting colder day by day, which makes Ivar start to become listless. The snake is now increasingly unable to leave the bed in Andros's dormitory.

Since the temperature suddenly dropped, Ivar would lie in the warm and comfortable bed on the bed almost all day long. He would only eat and sleep every day, and sometimes he wouldn't even talk to Andros for a whole day.

You know, it originally had to quarrel and quarrel with Andros every day, instead of crawling on the bed motionless like a social animal.

Of course, Andros knew exactly what was going on.

After all, they are snakes, and they have to be listless like this for a few months every year.

In fact, according to common sense, pythons do not hibernate.

Because their habitats are mainly distributed in the tropical rain forests of Asia, Africa, or North America, where suitable temperatures are maintained all year round.

But they don't hibernate just because they don't need to do so, and this principle obviously does not apply to Ivar who lives in the Scottish Highlands where it has just snowed and there is frost on the ground every morning.

Like most pythons, it is also very sensitive to temperature.

This means that if the temperature is lower than fifteen degrees, it is likely to cause numbness and inability to move. If the temperature is lower than five degrees, it is likely to be life-threatening to Ivar.

As it happens, the current temperature in Scotland is between two and nine degrees above zero.

This is also the reason why Andros still wants to leave Ivar in the dormitory. You know, according to his original plan, he wanted to temporarily entrust it to Hagrid.

However, he did not consider the weather at that time. Now that he thinks about it, his plan at that time may have to be put on hold for the time being, and he can only wait until next spring at the earliest before making any plans.

What a pity, Andros originally planned to try to let Ivar find out the location of those magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest.

But it doesn't matter, it's not something to worry about anyway.

There is still time and opportunity.

If Ivar really stayed in the Forbidden Forest for a night unprepared in this weather, he could prepare himself the next day and then go directly to collect Ivar's body.

Looking at the giant python still sleeping soundly on the bed, Andros shook his head helplessly. Sometimes he even wondered whether the python would die in his sleep one day, just like Professor Binns, who taught the history of magic.

Then again, why can only some human beings return to the world of the living as ghosts after death?

But what about other creatures?

Let’s not talk about ordinary creatures like Ivar that are thrown into the rainforest and caught in large numbers.

Even magical creatures like centaurs have never returned in ghost form.

Why is this so?

Why are there no other races among those so-called ghosts?

What is the world after death really like?

Bah, bah, bah, why am I thinking about such a depressing topic so early in the morning?

What bad luck.

After giving Ivar an annoyed look, Andros climbed out of bed. After simply washing and dressing up, he used a magic spell to slightly shrink the size of the python, and then yawned and walked out of his dormitory.

The common room in the early morning was empty. As an aspiring young snake who studied hard and made progress every day, and was ready to find a good partner in the future, Andros had always been a member of Slytherin's army of early risers.

Except for Andros, most of them are senior students preparing for the ultimate wizard exam.

As for Draco and Zabini?

Sorry, if there were no classes in the morning, these two idiots would probably be able to sleep until lunch.

As for Gore?

...Forget him, he has slept to death in the dormitory.

...

"Haven't you heard of it?"

As soon as he entered the auditorium, Andros heard the disgusting sound.

That voice was all too familiar to him, and just by the exaggerated tone, he could tell that it must be Ron Weasley's voice.

"I mean, it's been so long since this happened, haven't you heard the story of our heroic fight with that giant monster?"

Surrounded by two junior Hufflepuff students, Ron Weasley was talking endlessly about his heroic experience a few days ago. Next to him, Harry was standing there with an awkward look on his face, not knowing what to do. say something.

"We, we just heard about it." A little badger replied timidly. Unlike Gryffindor, Hufflepuff has never been known for its boldness.

"Then it's really a pity that you missed such a wonderful story. Now let me tell you what happened at that time!" Upon hearing that the two of them had never heard of this story, Ron chuckled. He was very prosperous during this time. .

"At that time, the two of us were returning to the lounge with our team from our own house. As we walked through a corridor, a large number of stray Hufflepuffs came from there.

They were going in the opposite direction to us, and the two teams mixed together in the narrow corridor, and they rushed us out of the large group at once.

When we finally got rid of this group of lost Hufflepuffs, we were also lost with the larger group. "

"What happened next?" asked one of the two little badgers.

"Then? The most exciting part of this adventure was what happened afterward!" Ron's eyes suddenly lit up when this wise little badger asked.

These days he basically tells this story whenever he meets someone.

"Of course we wanted to return to the lounge as soon as possible, but at that time the castle stairs suddenly started to rotate crazily, and we couldn't find the right path at all.

In addition, we were not familiar with the structure of the castle, so we ended up accidentally running back to the far left side of the first floor, which was the end of the rows of classrooms. Then, we ran into a troll head-on. "

"That giant monster that broke into Hogwarts?" Another little badger exclaimed, he had not forgotten that nightmarish experience.

"Of course! Are there other trolls besides it?"

"It also looks like it got lost in those stairs. I have to say, that thing really stinks." Ron made an expression as if he had fainted from the stench.

One thing to say, his eloquence is not bad, at least the story described in this story is quite good.

However, only Merlin knew how much water there was in it.