054 - Dragon Blood

"Yeah, I heard George say that with Ivan's level of Transfiguration it was okay to participate in the OWLs." Harry couldn't help but interject.

He thought Hermione was good enough, and if she was complaining, then he and Ron would have no hope in the exam.

Feeling that Hermione's confidence was still not high, Ivan persuaded her again.

"It's not good to always be tense before an exam. You should relax, and try to plan with a combination of work and rest, otherwise, it will not affect your performance."

Harry and Ron immediately put down their books and nodded at the sagely advice. They felt that Ivan's words were very reasonable, and it was really exhausting to keep studying all the time.

Ivan ignored them and continued.

"Norbert's training is almost complete, and Charlie will come to pick up Norbert in a few days, and as we have a holiday today we can go see him together."

For the past week, Hermione has been soaking in the library to revise the whole year's worth of notes, and sometimes she even forgot about eating, so Ivan wanted to take this opportunity to help her relax.

"No, what's so good about dragons anyway? I'm going to review "Basic Transfiguration Spells" again." Hermione stubbornly shook her head. She wanted to get first place in every class, and the Transfiguration class was no exception.

Other things are fine, at least in the exams she was the best, she doesn't want to lose to Ivan here too...

Harry and Ron were the opposites. They had already tossed aside the boring books on the history of magic and started discussing how to train a dragon.

Ivan didn't hide anything. He told them his process of training Norbert with Hagrid. He also spoke softly so that Hermione who was reading won't hear anything.

Because they were sitting in a corner of the library, Ivan was not worried about being heard by others as long as he was not very loud.

After hearing that Norbert had grown bigger than a table and could still follow orders to jump, turn over, and breathe fire, Harry and the others were very excited and wanted to see it.

As Ivan continued, while quietly paying attention to Hermione, the speed of her turning the pages was obviously much slower than normal, as she was listening sneakily...

"Norbert can fly now, don't you want to try the feeling of riding a dragon?" Ivan struck the iron while it was hot and took out his trump card.

"It's so close to the castle, what if you are discovered?" Hermione finally couldn't help but ask.

"We can go in the evening and fly low. As long as we are careful, we shouldn't be spotted." Ivan smiled.

Hermione nodded, and subconsciously wanted to continue her revision, but within two seconds she closed the book with a "pop", and then glared at Ivan angrily. Her head was now full of dragons, and she was couldn't revise her notes anymore.

....

A few hours later, Ivan was sitting outside Hagrid's house on a chair, lazily giving instructions.

"Nobert, jump!"

"Nobert, come here..."

"Nobert, breathe fire... You are old enough now, and you have to learn how to cook a fish for yourself..."

On the lawn not far in front of him, a large and fierce-looking Norwegian Ridgeback happily rolled on the ground and sprayed hot flames at the fish grill according to Ivan's instructions.

Then he bit the grilled fish with a big mouth full of fangs, flapped his wings, and ran up to Ivan, and placed the grilled fish in front of him, waiting for Ivan to sprinkle the potion that enhances its taste, so that he could eat it.

Ivan stretched out his hand and stroked Norbert's head to show off his closeness. This was just over a month's work, and Norbert's size was several times that of Ivan's now.

"That's so cool!" Ron who was watching with eager eyes, reached out and tried to touch Norbert's wings. Harry and Hermione also looked a little enthusiastic.

"Don't move!" Ivan suddenly shouted.

Ron's body froze and he was taken aback. After recovering, he wanted to say a few words, but when he turned his head, he found that Norbert's big head was close to his neck, his fangs were still dripping with yellow saliva. Ron knew that Ivan was not speaking to him, so he fell down on the ground in shock, and Harry hurriedly stepped forward and helped him up.

"Bad dragon..." Ivan stretched out his hand and hammered Norbert's big head, letting it retract his fangs, and the hard scales were knocked against his fist, it was a little painful.

"Ivan, haven't you tamed him?" Ron asked with lingering fear.

"How long has it been? I have just achieved some preliminary results" Ivan shook his head, don't look down at Norber's obedience to him now, as this authority was established with the help of a big sword and a grilled fish.

When Norbert gets older and he will realize that his dragon trainer was not as strong as he thought, and the relationship may collapse at any time.

But now it's okay to order Norbert. After a period of comfort and warning, Ivan confronted it that these few people were okay and they won't harm him.

"If you want to touch him, you can now."

Ron, who was frightened, did not dare to approach him, but Harry stretched out his hand bravely.

"Hermione, you can try it too." Ivan looked at Hermione who was struggling.

Hermione originally planned to refuse. After all, it was too dangerous, but in the end, she couldn't resist the temptation to pet a dragon and put her hand on Norbert's head. Although the hard scales felt a little awkward to touch, The little witch was very excited the first time she touched a creature like a dragon, and the corners of her mouth twitched unconsciously.

Although Norbert was very uncomfortable with the behavior of these few strange dwarfs touching him, it was difficult for Norbert to flap his wings and shoot fire at them because of Ivan's presence.

Ivan carefully observed Norbert's expression and movements, and then he relaxed a little after making sure that Norbert would not react violently right now.

Over the past month, while training the dragon, Ivan has already successfully collected enough dragon blood, and the fusion potion in the responsive room has also been successfully brewed. He only needs to add the dragon blood to it and it's done.

Ivan frowned as he thought of the evaluation of the items he received when he had collected the dragon blood.

[Magic Item: Dragon Blood

Explanation: This is the blood extracted from the juvenile Norwegian Ridgeback. Its potency and magic are inferior to that of the adult Norwegian Ridgeback, but it has the same potential...]

Although Ivan expected this situation, he was still a little depressed when he got this information.

Fortunately, the potential of the young Norwegian Ridgeback's blood was basically the same as that of the adult, which means that it will take more time to develop the potency, which made Ivan relieved.

He finally decided to add the dragon blood tonight...

Just as Ivan was wandering and looking at the sky, a dog barking sound came out from the forbidden forest, and then from the bushes not far away, a big, bloody, limping dog ran towards Ivan...