Chapter 372: This Gift Didn't Cost Any Money, so Don't Despise It, Meow

January 9, evening.

As usual, Fish finished listening to Professor McGonagall's story today, and then walked out of her office leisurely.

He walked around to a secluded corner, and then took out an old parchment and his wand.

"I solemnly swear that I will do no good."

Fish tapped the parchment in his hand with his wand.

In an instant, thin ink lines spread like spider webs from the place where his wand tip touched, connecting to each other, crisscrossing, and extending to every corner of the parchment; then the words appeared on the top, in large green cursive characters:

Moonface, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs

Gentlemen who provide assistance to magical mischief makers

Grandly presenting

Marauder's Map

This map depicts all the details of Hogwarts Castle and the grounds, but the most unusual thing is that there are many small black dots moving on the map, each with a name marked in very small font.

Fish took a quick look. Indeed, it was a bit difficult to find the name of Black among so many small black dots...

He also noticed that in addition to the names of students and professors, pets such as Mrs. Norris, Hedwig, and Tina, as well as ghosts such as Peeves and the Bloody Baron, or magical animals such as Fawkes and Ouroboros, all appeared on the Marauder's Map. In the Forbidden Forest and the Black Lake, there were also densely packed black dots moving around.

So Fish decisively gave up the idea of ​​looking for Black on it and turned his attention to Snape's office.

The small black dot representing Severus Snape was staying there honestly, and would walk around the room from time to time.

Fish nodded with satisfaction. He asked Harry to borrow the Marauder's Map just to confirm Snape's location. Although it was not impossible to use animal tracking, the feeling of a lot of information flooding into his mind was not pleasant.

Of course, the main reason is...

A certain kitten slept too soundly in the potions class and forgot to throw the wild mark on Snape.

After putting away the Marauder's Map and the wand, Fish swung his arms and swaggered towards the basement. Soon he arrived at the door of Slytherin's dormitory.

"Power leads to victory."

There is no need to ask Malfoy specifically. Every time the password of the Slytherin dormitory is changed, Daphne and the others will notify Fish as soon as possible, so that he can come here to visit.

The way to enter Hufflepuff has never changed from beginning to end, that is, the eagle ring of Ravenclaw is a bit troublesome. Fish sometimes has to wait for others to solve the puzzle together before he can run in to visit.

However, the fun part of Ravenclaw's dormitory is on the eagle ring, so Fish often runs to play with the eagle ring for a long time, and after mumbling the door open, he pats his butt and leaves.

Walking into the Slytherin common room, other students had already fallen asleep, only Malfoy was sitting in the common room. When he saw Fish coming in, he immediately stood up and greeted him.

"Are we going to find the godfather now?"

Malfoy looked a little nervous. Although Snape was his godfather and had always been very protective of him, Snape's personality and style of doing things made Malfoy, as a godson, a little scared.

"Of course, Fish has confirmed that Severus is in his office now, meow."

(●`●)

Fish nodded and dragged Malfoy out. Because he knew that he and Harry didn't get along well, the cat didn't tell him about the Marauder's Map.

Snape's office was not far from the Slytherin dormitory, and it was also in the basement of Hogwarts, so Fish and Malfoy soon arrived at the door of the office.

Malfoy was still taking a deep breath to prepare himself mentally, and Fish went straight up and knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Professor Snape's cold voice sounded from inside the door, and Firth immediately opened the door and walked in.

"Severus, happy birthday, meow!"

(≧≦)

As soon as the kitten entered the room, he congratulated loudly.

Malfoy, who followed him in, also greeted Snape carefully, "Happy birthday, Godfather."

Snape raised his eyebrows slightly, and then replied calmly: "Thank you."

Snape had guessed Firth's arrival a long time ago, but Malfoy's appearance made him a little surprised.

Soon, Firth took the initiative to give an answer.

"Originally, Firth wanted to invite everyone from Slytherin to come together, just like when he celebrated for Minerva, but Draco said that you, Severus, would not like such a celebration, so he only brought him here meow."

Firth also knew that Snape was Malfoy's godfather, so he would first discuss it with Malfoy.

"Yes, that's true." Snape nodded and did not deny it.

As Snape's godson, although his godfather was not so easy to get close to, Malfoy still knew him.

"Godfather, this is my gift to you."

Malfoy took two steps forward and handed over the gift he had prepared.

The gift he gave to Snape was a complete set of golden potion tools, which was very consistent with the style of their Malfoy family, as flashy as always.

So Snape just glanced at it, then slightly raised his mouth to reveal a perfunctory smile, and casually put the set of tools on the desk beside him.

"Severus, this is a gift from Fish for you, meow!"

(つΦωΦ●)つ

Fish took out a heavy-looking clay pot from his pocket and handed it over.

He handed it back while explaining: "When Fish bought Christmas gifts for everyone, he forgot to leave some money for your birthday gift, meow. George and Fred's new products are not available so soon, so Fish can only go to the Forbidden Forest to find a gift for you, meow."

The kitten lowered his head a little embarrassedly and touched the back of his head.

"You are the professor of potions, so you should like potion materials, meow?"

(ω)

Snape didn't mind whether Fish's gift was valuable, but he was still curious about what was in the pottery pot.

He weighed the pottery jar gently. Judging from the shaking inside, it should be some kind of liquid, and Snape quickly estimated the overall weight of the pottery jar - about seven pounds.

The standard volume of a pottery jar like this is one gallon, but Snape could feel that Fish should have filled it up, so it would be more.

Then he reached out and opened the lid of the pottery jar...

With just a glance, Snape, as a master of potions, immediately recognized what was inside. He quickly closed the lid and said with a strange expression: "The venom of the eight-eyed giant spider..."

"Yes, meow!" The kitten nodded vigorously, "Fish remembers that it was written in the textbook that the venom of the eight-eyed giant spider seemed difficult to get meow, so Fish took Fluffy and Ouroboros to the Forbidden Forest to find the group of big spiders, and then they obediently handed over the venom meow!"

( ≧≦)

After telling the origin of the jar of venom, Fish tilted his head and asked tentatively: "Fish didn't spend money on this gift, you won't be unhappy, right? Fish originally wanted to give Ouroboros's snake skin, but unfortunately he doesn't want to shed his skin recently..."

"...Of course not." Snape's mouth twitched twice, and he quickly replied: "I like this gift very much. As for the snake skin, I don't need it. I collected a lot last time..."

He hesitated for a moment, but still didn't tell Fish how valuable the venom in this jar is.

It's not that he was worried that Fish would take the gift back. Snape was mainly afraid that Fish would know the price of the venom and run to squeeze out all the venom of the group of eight-eyed giant spiders in the Forbidden Forest...

He knew that Fish didn't have a good relationship with those spiders!

...

Recommendation ticket monthly ticket

1 gallon = 8 pints, 1 pint of eight-eyed giant spider venom is sold for 100 galleons, so Fish's jar is worth more than 800 galleons.

…

Today I used the cat cleaning bag I bought to trim Zhongyuan’s nails…

It was useless!

Zhongyuan kept struggling, and it was useless to calm him down with cat strips. Later, he even tore a hole in the cat cleaning bag and escaped…

This is my first time raising a cat, and I found it suddenly, so I have no experience. I should have socialized it when it was young.

…

Thanks to GGsbada for the reward.