Meanwhile, Felix was building a house in the ice and snow of the Arctic. Valen hid under his thick dragon-skin hat and was not used to the endless glaciers.

Felix had a very fulfilling two weeks. After the Christmas dinner, he spent a day focusing on the company's affairs, and then showed up at Newt's country cottage without stopping. The Scamanders received him. Newt's wife, Tina Scamander, a kind and serious old woman, knew that he was planning a short trip, and prepared twelve flavors of hot dogs for Felix.

"Honey, you can make some apple pie as a seasoning." Newt said.

"I always can't control the heat." Tina glanced at him and said.

In the next three days, Felix followed Newt's instructions and traveled back and forth between magical animal sanctuaries around the world, collecting the magical animals he had listed in his mind one by one. In the last week of the holiday, he came to the Arctic, where he was least sure.

"A magical animal that can split itself?" Newt said, "Did my memory tell you? Frankly, I don't know if it's an illusion, but I saw it once in the northernmost part of the world. It was a ferret, or a fox, or a wolf... It's all possible. They split themselves when they hunt, a bit like the civet cats guarding the important places of the French Ministry of Magic. Although they are completely different, the civet cat is not a living thing, but a spirit..."

Felix was very curious about this magical animal.

He must admit that he was moved when he first heard about it in Classroom 7. Although he knew that the Felix Felix was useless, he still used up the last bit of stock and started an endless search journey.

His advantage was the super mobility brought by the Apparition and the eyes that could distinguish magic.

But the North Pole was too big, so big that it made people desperate. He could only keep drawing circles outward according to the approximate location provided by Newt. Fortunately, he found a very precious gem from the black market in America. The gem came from a long-horned water snake that was unique to the local area. The gem on its forehead could give people invisibility and the ability to fly. Felix wove it into a flying carpet, so that he could float in the air without any burden.

Felix could fly himself, but it consumed a lot of magic power, so he rarely used it unless he was fighting. In comparison, Voldemort seemed to be very familiar with it. Felix wondered if he had dissected a horned water snake and transplanted its blood into his body. Of course, it could also be a Voldemort bat?

"There are still two days left. If you can't find it, go back." Felix said. The ice house was built quickly. He went in and cast a traceless extension spell to expand the space inside and started a fire inside. Only then did Valen jump out of the hat.

"Didn't you have fun playing with those otters yesterday?"

"Chirp!"

"The constant temperature locket is broken? That's right, you've been using it for a long time. I'll make one for you later. Forget it, just buy one." Felix took out a thick blanket and an iron pot from the ring, turned his head to look at Valen, and said hesitantly: "Do you like grilled fish or soup? Of course, we also have plenty of hot dogs..."

Valen retched twice.

"A bit greasy? So picky." Felix smacked his lips. In the end, he didn't touch the hot dogs - he had eaten enough during the two days in the Brazilian rainforest.

On a new day, Felix sat on the flying carpet and looked down from thousands of feet in the air. Below was an endless, rolling iceberg. In fact, the flying carpet could fly higher, but Felix's magic perspective couldn't keep up.

Valen leaned on his back and happily played a small game. The game came from the magic painting club in the school. At that time, the club was considering what subject matter to use as the material for interactive magic paintings. Valen appeared at the critical moment. It not only provided the core inspiration, but also included a considerable amount of financial support.

So a magic painting game called "Brave Warrior" with Sniff as the protagonist appeared.

After spending some time "killing all around", Valen took out a new magic painting from his pocket, and Sniff jumped from the painting anxiously waiting at the edge of the level to another magic painting, wearing a deluxe version of the exclusive magic wand, and began to challenge the new level.

On the other side, Felix made a new discovery.

A creature with snow-white fur nimbly shuttled across the white land. Following its direction, Felix found a nest of Arctic hares fleeing frantically. The creature was indeed like what Newt had described, with the characteristics of both an Arctic fox and an Arctic wolf, but much smaller, looking about the same size as a snow ferret.

The most important thing was that Felix saw the fast-flowing magic from this creature.

The presence of magic meant that it was a magical animal.

Felix floated in the air two or three hundred feet above the ground. The snow-white magical animal was completely unaware of the mysterious man's observation above it. It was extremely fast, but the Arctic hare was not slow either, and its turning was quite flexible. This magical animal jumped high when it approached the Arctic hare, and when it reached the top, an identical entity separated from its body. The two white shadows intertwined in the snow, communicating with each other and cooperating tacitly, and in the blink of an eye, it caught an unlucky rabbit.

Felix observed and descended at the same time, and was amazed in his heart. If he didn't look carefully, he wouldn't have found anything unusual.

The magical animal with snow-white fur picked up the rabbit, turned around and saw a strange creature falling from the sky. It had never seen a human before, and now stayed there to look at Felix.

Felix showed a kind smile.

"Little fox? Little wolf? Little ferret? I have delicious hot dogs here..."

Two days later, Felix released it.

"We have a great harvest. Let's go, Valen." Valen waved goodbye to his new friend.

"Chi! (Goodbye!)"

"Chichi! (Pay attention to losing weight!)"

"Chichichi! (Be careful not to catch food in the future!)"

Felix patted Valen gently, "It is much more symmetrical than you..." Valen was so angry that he wanted to hit him.

...

The train to Hogwarts has stopped at Hogsmeade, and the little wizards who went home for the holidays returned to school in a carriage.

As prefects, Ron and Hermione organized the little wizards to get on the carriage and got into the carriage before the last batch. As soon as they came in, the Thestral carriage started moving.

"What, all dark magic? Snape?" Hermione looked at Harry and Ron in surprise. She had been traveling around with her parents for the past two weeks, and her mind had not yet come to terms with it. "Well... it's normal to think about it, isn't it? We all know that he is very interested in the Defense Against the Dark Arts course. Maybe he is preparing for the lesson..."

Harry said unhappily, "If that's the case, it means we only have to endure it for another year..."

"The key is that he is still sneaky and wandering around the house in the middle of the night. Ginny can testify to that." Ron added.

"Oh, alas, I don't know, but this is his private matter." Hermione stroked her hair, "Have you finished your homework? I think some parts can be revised."

Harry and Ron looked at each other. They obviously spent more time guessing Snape's motives.

"I'm almost there..." Ron glanced at Harry uneasily, but Harry didn't say anything.

"Well, if you don't hand in your homework tomorrow, will you tell the professors about this reason?" Hermione asked sharply. Harry sighed. After returning to school, they hurriedly finished their dinner and came to the library. There were already quite a few students sitting inside. They found an empty table and sat down. Hermione looked around thoughtfully.

"What's wrong?"

"The earplug spell seems to be becoming popular."

Harry looked around and he did find that some students' mouths were opening and closing quickly, but no sound came out. The gloomy face of the librarian, Mrs. Binns, appeared from the gaps between the bookshelves again and again, like a vulture that couldn't find its prey and circled in the sky for two weeks before leaving regretfully.

Harry tapped the table with his wand, and the sounds around them became blurred, sounding like a low and noisy buzzing sound.

Harry took out his homework. He still needed to finish his History of Magic paper. He unscrewed the ink bottle, dipped the tip of his quill pen into ink, and began to write on the parchment. When he looked up, he saw Snape's figure flashing between the bookshelves.

Harry's heart was pounding. He tried his best to catch Snape's movements. He was surprised to find that he stayed in the restricted area for quite a while, and finally sat at a table, reading a book. It was not until the library was about to close that Snape stood up and left with the book.

"Wait for me." Harry stood up and said to Ron and Hermione. "What?" But he had already bent down and left his seat.

After a while, he came back with lingering fear.

"What's wrong?" Ron asked, "You look like you've just been hit by Mrs. Binns with a feather duster..."

"Snape, the book Snape reads..." Harry swallowed, "It's The Most Poisonous Magic."

"So what?" Hermione asked irritably, her eyes still on her thesis, "Harry, he's a professor, even if he's studying the Dark Arts, he must have a legitimate reason, he might be thinking about how to crack it... If you can check his book borrowing records, I think you'll find more."

"Good idea." Ron said, "Hey, I'm serious, we can really try it!"

"You're wrong this time, Hermione." Harry said in a low voice, "I haven't read as many books as you have, I've only heard of this name once..."

Hermione raised her head and stared at Harry's face in a daze.

She said in a dry voice, "I remember... there's a paragraph in the preface of this book, 'Regarding the Horcrux, the most evil magical invention, no discussion or guidance will be given here'... Harry, you think he's investigating..."

She didn't continue, but Harry and Ron knew what she meant - Snape might be secretly investigating the Horcrux.