Hagrid was a straightforward and honest person. Since he had accepted Roger's commission and was genuinely interested in cultivating new magical creatures, he naturally put his heart into it.
He had been working on this for nearly two months, ever since he and Roger reached a verbal agreement.
Initially, he conducted some experiments.
But they all failed.
These failures made Hagrid realize that the magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest were not sufficient to meet his experimental needs.
He required more special species of magical creatures, and the ones Hagrid needed were relatively rare and difficult to obtain, which stalled his experimental progress.
Even though Roger had been sharing his non-confidential research on cellular transformation and modification with Hagrid during this time, it was still no use. Cultivating magical creatures was like a clever cook trying to make a meal without any ingredients.
Until Hagrid met two people.
The first he encountered two weeks before Halloween. As usual, he went to Hogsmeade Village, a gathering place for wizards near Hogwarts, looking for new magical creature sellers in the tavern.
He actually found someone, though the seller was heavily disguised, with a altered voice and an air of mystery. Hagrid didn't suspect anything, though... The trade of magical creatures itself operated on the fringes of the law.
The sale of some high-risk magical creatures was even a serious crime, so this kind of attire was perfectly normal.
The seller brought a Boggart, which Hagrid had been seeking recently. Unfortunately, there was only the Boggart; the seller claimed not to have seen the small magical creatures Hagrid wanted.
After the transaction, the person insisted on drinking with Hagrid. Under the seller's questioning, and fueled by alcohol, Hagrid boasted about how he had tamed a rare Three-Headed Dog.
"You have to learn how to keep them calm, for example... with music."
"Music?"
After everyone left, Hagrid encountered his next stroke of good fortune.
After asking many friends in the magical creature dealing business without finding the small magical creatures he desired, Hagrid decided to pay out of his own pocket and posted rewards in various newspapers.
Soon after, someone came knocking.
At first, Hagrid was a bit skeptical of what the person was saying because... she was too young, and her claims went beyond Hagrid's understanding.
But seeing her earnestness, and being particularly lenient with children, Hagrid decided to give her a chance.
"Do such creatures really exist?"
"Pestering Mites certainly exist, they're right there," the blonde girl, who looked no older than 10, affirmed.
Skeptical, Hagrid followed the instructions of the little girl, Luna Lovegood, and confined the Boggart and the 'Pestering Mites' together.
Hagrid was one of the few experts in the world when it came to cultivating magical creatures.
He had even managed to make a XXXXX-level dangerous creature, a Manticore, and another high-risk magical creature, a Fire Crab, produce offspring, creating a new species: the Blast-Ended Skrewt.
His skills were beyond doubt, and then, Hagrid began his demonstration.
A Boggart, a Dark Magic creature, a shapeshifter that lives in dark, confined places, it transforms into whatever the person facing it fears most. No one knows the Boggart's true form because no one has ever seen it.
According to the little girl Luna, a Pestering Mite is a tiny, invisible creature that floats into people's ears and disrupts their thoughts.
Hagrid intended to use the commonality between the two to create a creature small enough to perceive human thoughts and change itself according to the thinker's will.
Hagrid wanted to cultivate it generation after generation until the creature was so small that it had no thoughts of its own, completely obeying the wizard's commands.
In Roger's words, it would be a type of 'Parasitic Beast' that humans could control autonomously and that possessed the ability to reorganize its own physical structure.
But as time passed to this point, Hagrid's 'Parasitic Beast' was not successfully cultivated; instead, something strange had been created...
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After systematic observation, Roger summarized the characteristics of this creature.
Under normal circumstances, the creature was transparent, about the size of a grain of sand, emitting a faint yellow glow, appearing like a source-less firefly floating in mid-air.
At this stage, it was not powerful, even somewhat fragile.
However, once it came into contact with humans or other intelligent beings, it was completely different.
Its life form would transform from a material state to a semi-spiritual state, attaching itself to the brain and soul, and creating terrifying illusions in the human mind.
The creature's 'nourishment' seemed to be the fear of living beings; the more fear it consumed, the stronger it became.
As it grew stronger, it also began the next stage of metamorphosis, transforming from a semi-spiritual form into a 'thought-form.'
This might sound abstract, but if one is familiar with Chinese culture, using the term 'Inner Demon' would likely make it understandable to many.
Roger did not allow the creature to fully metamorphose, but he felt that the 'Inner Demon state' was likely not the evolutionary limit of this creature! After finishing the last line of the observation report and casually naming it 'Fear Demon,' Roger looked at Hagrid with an unprecedentedly serious expression: "Hagrid."
"Destroy it."
"I will archive and seal the data from this experiment. All the new creatures you have cultivated, destroy them all, leave none behind." Roger's tone was not impassioned, but Hagrid could feel the extreme gravity and irrefutability of his words.
"Today, I will personally oversee the destruction."
Hearing Roger's words, Hagrid was immediately shocked. "What!"
"But..."
"Nothing at all," Roger said, taking out his wand and pointing it at his temple.
Roger had already become very skilled at magic like Legilimency when he was researching the modification of his own brain and the creation of an alchemical brain.
Roger easily extracted a piece of his thoughts from his mind.
In the wizarding world, there was no subspace environment that could allow sentient beings to grow infinitely, giving them the chance to develop into cosmic-level disasters.
However, the collective subconscious sea of all beings did exist! Why, after a spell was invented, could everyone who chanted it use magic, rather than having to understand it thoroughly and possess extremely strong willpower like the spell's developer? The collective subconscious played a significant role in this process, a point that was discussed in the book "Ritual Magic is More Than Just Blood Sacrifice."
If this Fear Demon, nurtured by Hagrid, grew to the point where it could follow human thoughts, infiltrate the collective subconscious sea, and reproduce within it, what would happen? Roger recalled something similar from his past life.
The Dream Man.
A certain chapter in "Tales of the Unexpected" discussed this; it could be simply understood as a nightmare that could spread through memes and was inescapable, causing immense social chaos.
And that was considering the best-case scenario. One had to remember that this world possessed magic and magical power. If the Fear Demon could grow even further... becoming something like Freddy from "Nightmare on Elm Street," capable of killing within the mental world, it wasn't impossible!
In the wizarding world, few were proficient in magic related to souls and minds; most were Dark wizards like Voldemort.
If catastrophic consequences truly occurred, whether they would intervene to help, stand idly by, or even fan the flames... it was hard to say! Roger condensed the potential severe consequences he had deduced into a wisp of thought extracted by his wand, and then poured it into Hagrid's mind.
Roger believed this was a more effective method of persuasion than words.
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