Daily Life at Hogwarts

Chapter 553 Unpopular
Talking about saving salamanders is just an excuse.Fred, George, and Lee Jordan were shady from the start.

As for how to take the salamander away?
In the last semester, the three of them had thought about it seriously.

It's a pity that Professor Ketelber didn't let them get in touch with salamanders after the protection of magical creatures class, and he couldn't find a chance to implement it.

The original ideas have been retained until today before they have the opportunity to be implemented.

Naturally, the three of them would not let go of this opportunity. Even without Albert's help, they could still "save" the salamander.

Fred spent a lot of effort in this regard, using the Transfiguration Charm to turn a branch into a glass bottle, and George released a blue portable magic flame into the bottle, which was the magic he learned from Albert. Lee Jordan stuffed the salamander he caught from the campfire into the container the twins had prepared.

For the fire-born and fire-eating salamander, as long as the magical flame in the glass bottle does not go out, it can continue to live.

To a certain extent, it is not wrong to call it a rescue, because as long as the salamanders whose blood is drawn, they will basically die tragically at the hands of the students.

No way, most of the students didn't master the formal blood collection skills at all, so they couldn't save the salamander's life after blood collection.

However, for a salamander with a lifespan of only six hours after leaving the flame, death is not terrible, that is, the difference between an early death and a few hours late death.

Professor Kettlebo didn't care about Fred's small actions in class, probably thinking that the three of them were going to catch a salamander to raise, and kindly reminded, "Magic flames are only suitable for transferring fire. Lizards cannot provide food for salamanders for a long time, if you want to use magic flames to raise salamanders, it will only cause the salamanders to die of malnutrition in the end."

"we know."

The three of them were a little embarrassed, but they still nodded seriously to show that they knew.

"Everyone should focus on learning how to correctly collect blood from salamanders, because there are not many opportunities for this." Professor Kettlebo sat on a chair, looked around the crowd and said seriously, "I have seen too many people take blood, and just put it on fire." Lizards were killed. This is actually a shameful waste. If the salamanders can survive after blood collection, as long as they are kept in the campfire for a while, they can still continue to collect blood. After all, firewood burns in the fireplace for a long time in winter , is not a strange thing.”

Keeping a few salamanders in the fireplace is a common thing for a professor of protection of magical beasts. Hagrid has done this too. In Professor Kettlebur's fireplace, there is even a salamander that is several times larger than the ones here. This big pet is said to have been kept since Hogwarts was teaching.

Before the end of get out of class, Professor Kettlebo brought it out to everyone to open their eyes. It is really big, and it can spit out sparks from its mouth.

"By the way, the prize this time belongs to Mr. Anderson." Professor Kettlebo held up Albert's bottle of red fluorescent glass test tube and happily announced the result, "Except for the few that were killed at the beginning, the blood collected by Mr. Anderson The salamanders are basically still alive."

The professor of protection of magical creatures continued: "It is best to store the collected blood in a magic flame, so as to best maintain the effect of salamander blood. If it is stored directly in a bottle, the treatment and rehabilitation of salamander blood will be more effective. The function will gradually weaken, so most of the salamander blood needs to be stored in a special way, or used immediately after being taken."

"I remember a small bottle of... ten Sickles?" Fred looked at the test tube in his hand, muttering something in his mouth.

"Don't be stupid, in Albert's words, if it's really so profitable, it's your turn?" Lee Jordan put his own label on the test tube and handed it to Professor Ketelber.

"Is this thing really made of silver? Then is it very valuable?" George fiddled with the bird and snake statue in his hand, and asked Albert sideways.

"Don't be stupid, even silver is not worth much." Albert looked at George speechlessly, this thing is more about its commemorative value.

After class, everyone put out the bonfire and hurried back to the lounge in the rain.

Then, I couldn't wait to take a hot bath for myself, carefully cleaned off the dirt on my body, changed into clean clothes, and ran to the fireplace in the lounge to warm up and chat.

When Fred and George came to the break room with glass bottles and were about to try to eat fireworks for the salamanders, Wood appeared without warning and took the two away for training.

"Wait, I remember we didn't have Quidditch practice today," Fred yelled, struggling.

"Oh, really not." Wood said with a smile, "However, Hufflepuff gave up training today and gave us the Quidditch pitch."

"It's so pitiful!" Albert looked out of the window and sighed softly.

He was dragged out into the rain just after he came back from the outside, so it's not surprising that he would get sick and catch a cold.

The rain intensified again, and the raindrops were pattering against the castle windows.

Albert picked up the teacup and took a sip of the milk tea. After sending a message to Isobel with the communication bookmark, he took out a book and started reading. It took him three years to complete the mission of "reading maniac" The time has not yet been completed, and the current task progress is stuck at 76, which is very close to 100. "

"How about, let's try it." Lee Jordan felt his hands were a little itchy, and wanted to feed the salamander fireworks to see what effect it would have.

"Forget it." Albert said casually, "We will try again after Fred and George come back. They have been looking forward to it for a long time."

"Oh fine!"

After Angelina and the others went to the Quidditch field for training, Lee Jordan couldn't find someone to chat with, so he fetched homework, sat next to Albert and began to do it silently, just as Albert was free , you can ask him directly if you have any questions.

Just then, Percy took a notice and posted it on an old noticeboard in Gryffindor. It said the first Hogsmeade weekend of the term, at the end of October.

For Albert and the others who often ran to Hogsmeade, this thing was no longer attractive to them.

However, it would be nice to be able to visit Hogsmeade, at least without sneaking to Hogsmeade.

In this regard, the happiest students were the third graders. This was their first visit to Hogsmeade Village. Many people got together and discussed the interesting places in Hogsmeade Village in whispers.

They talked about the joke props in Zobo's joke shop, and how to bring them into school without Filch noticing.

The administrator has almost become the biggest villain in the school. I heard that he has caught a cold recently and has a particularly bad temper. He always likes to trouble the students.

Several people seemed to be planning to find something for Filch to do, so that the other party would not have time to trouble everyone.

Albert flicked the pages of the book for a moment, listening to their brilliant plans, and was immediately speechless.

These guys planned to "accidentally" smear frog brains on the ceiling of the Fifth Basement, and Filch had to spend a lot of time cleaning it up.

"I think throwing a few rotten eggs in Filch's office would be more fun than that," Lee Jordan muttered under his breath.

In fact, many students prefer to make trouble for Filch by adopting the former.However, once Filch catches them on the spot, they will be ordered to clean up.

(End of this chapter)