Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 494 The Opportunity to Disturb the Horsefly Hatching! Hagrid's Troubles!

Hagrid's cabin has now been expanded again, not only in terms of interior space but also by the construction of several new houses.

This is partly due to the need to breed magical creatures, and partly because Hagrid's father, after being resurrected, also needed a house to stay in.

After Dudley used the portal opened by the conceptual opening spell to arrive next to the expanded Hagrid's Hut, he went straight into the house where the harassing flies were bred.

This place has become a regular haunt for him, Hagrid, Newt, and Luna.

Once inside the house, Dudley met Newt.

Since Newt had nothing else to do at the moment, he used his old method to create a sense of unease through mental magic, hoping to envelop the area where the horsefly eggs were hatching and that the first horsefly would be born soon.

"Dali, you're here. Recently, many insect eggs have lost their vitality. We need to optimize our methods to allow the Biliwig and Erythrium to hatch a new batch of eggs."

Newt was not surprised at all by Dudley's arrival. He stopped the mental magic that was stimulating him, used a calming spell to soothe his mind, and naturally started talking to Dudley about his professional topics.

Dudley nodded calmly in response, then picked up where Newt left off, saying, "I've gained a new, more suitable and controllable ability to generate negative emotions, perhaps..."

"Perhaps it can help with the gestation and hatching of harassing horsefly eggs?"

Seeing that Dudley suddenly stopped talking halfway through his sentence, Newt found it strange and helped Dudley finish the sentence.

Upon hearing this, Kedali did not reply, but instead strode forward to the wooden tray on which the harassing horsefly eggs were placed.

Seeing this, Newt realized what was happening and turned to look at the insect eggs in the tray with Dudley.

Through his mental probing, Newt also noticed that a strange change was taking place inside one of the eggs, and the harassing fly inside seemed to be taking shape.

“We’re going to succeed…” Newt exclaimed with delight.

However, before he could even laugh, the changes inside the insect egg began to slow down or even stop.

Dali naturally noticed this situation as well. To prevent this hard-won achievement from collapsing halfway, he disregarded all martial ethics and activated his conceptual perception ability to directly investigate the reasons for the changes in the insect egg and the slowing down of those changes.

Strictly speaking, as an important part of the experiment to create the harassing fly, directly using conceptual perception to explore it can be considered as glimpsing knowledge of the future, which somewhat violates the principles that Dudley had previously set.

But Dudley had just gone through Hermione's obsessive-compulsive behavior, and his mood was worse than usual, so he couldn't care less about such things at the moment.

Once conceptual perception is activated, the answer automatically appears in Dali's mind.

After learning the answer, Dali was speechless.

It turns out that the reason they haven't hatched the harassing horsefly eggs for so long is because the irritating emotions they provide are forcibly created by mental magic and lack 'spirituality'.

Just now, Dudley entered the incubation room with a frustrated mood towards Hermione, and a certain harassing horsefly egg absorbed the irritating mood with its spirituality, which caused a positive and strange change, making it possible for it to take shape and hatch.

However, Hermione's matter did not cause Dudley too much trouble, and it was already considered resolved. Dudley's natural frustration was exhausted, so the larva that was disturbing the horsefly egg was halfway through its development when it ran out of nutrition and its development began to slow down.

Dudley reacted quickly. He didn't use any magic, and his previously set ability to generate negative emotions was also useless. He tried to recall how he felt when he learned that Hermione was stuck in a rut, and wanted to continue to generate spiritually agitated emotions.

However, this was of no use.

The development of the larvae inside the harassing horsefly egg is still slowing down.

Dali immediately understood the reason: the irritability generated by recalling memories was too deliberate and unoriginal, no different from the irritability generated by using mental magic to stimulate oneself. It was not suitable nutrition for harassing horsefly eggs.

"What a disappointment, we've failed again," Dudley said to Newt in a tone of utter frustration.

"It's nothing, Dudley. Creating a new magical creature is such a difficult thing, it's normal to encounter some setbacks."

Newt took it all in stride. Instead of being annoyed by Dudley's words, he comforted Dudley.

"Ugh!"

Dali sighed silently.

Newt is too gentle, kind, and patient.

Getting him to feel naturally and genuinely agitated is no easier than creating a harassing fly.

Dudley's attempt to provoke Newt's frustration with a single, disgruntled remark was clearly overthinking things.

Seeing that his desperate attempt to save the horse had failed, and the harassing horsefly egg was about to die, Dali was ready to give up when a miracle happened at the last moment.

Hagrid burst through the door, tears welling in his eyes, his voice trembling with emotion, and began to speak:

“Newt, oh, Dudley's here too. Great, no… not so good, you know what? My father's going to abandon me again. He's planning to go find my mother, that giantess I don't even remember looking at, all by himself during the summer vacation in a little over a month.”

He thought I couldn't see through his plan, he thought he could hide it from me. He forgot that I'm also a professor at Hogwarts, and I've become smarter too...

He forgot that I'm 63 years old, not a child anymore.

Why didn't he explain such a big thing to me? Why did he secretly pack his bags and prepare a farewell letter?

Can't I go with him to the giant tribe, to find that heartless giant mother?!

“Hagrid, perhaps you could talk to your father…”

Newt's attention was drawn to Hagrid as he entered the room. Upon hearing this, he only wanted to immediately comfort Hagrid, who was feeling sad, depressed, and quite angry and irritable.

Dudley tugged at Newt's arm, signaling him to be quiet and instead come over to sense the hatching of the harassing horsefly eggs.

It turned out that Hagrid brought with him a strong sense of spiritual unease.

This special nutrition not only brought the larval stage of the insect egg back to life, but also caused the other six viable eggs in the tray to enter the same development and hatching stage.

Standing at the doorway, Hagrid, filled with grief and indignation, saw that one of his two good friends had ignored him the whole time, while the other had turned away without saying a word, leaving him even more heartbroken and frustrated.

"Hmph! I'll go talk to Norber."

Hagrid angrily declared that he was going to the nearby dragon's lair to confide in the fire dragon who was sleeping soundly in broad daylight.

"Don't go, please don't go! Come closer, stay angry and agitated, it's almost time to give birth!"

Dudley quickly called out to Hagrid and opened a portal, teleporting Luna, who was reading in the library, over.

Soon, in front of the tray where the harassing horsefly eggs were placed, there was a large man whose mood was fluctuating and who had not yet completely recovered from his little mood, and a little girl with a dazed and ethereal temperament and exceptionally bright eyes.

Under the watchful eyes of the four, a total of seven harassing horsefly eggs reached the crucial moment of hatching and birth.