Hogwarts: Atypical Slytherin

By the second week of school, the course was finally on track.

The course that Clooney is most looking forward to is the Care of Magical Creatures course that she took so much painstaking efforts to take in the third grade. Even though she almost forgot to buy the textbook for this course in the first grade: "Fantastic Creatures and Their Origins" 》——It was Ms. Duffin who first welcomed this book home.

The teacher of this course was Mr. Sylvanus Kettleburn, a little old man with mutilated limbs. Only one arm and half a leg were left on his stocky torso - which made him look a little short. When he arrived outside the forbidden forest with his body made of wood, everyone's eyes widened.

"Oh my God." Helles even hugged Clowney's arm tightly. "This looks a little scary."

But unlike his appearance, Mr. Kettleburn's voice is ridiculously loud. Perhaps people who like magical animals are careless. He freely used his only intact hand to carry a large sack, which contained It contains many frozen eggs, and you can hold them with one hand. Through the frozen surface, you can see a dark red light inside.

"Does anyone know whose eggs these are?" The professor raised his head with great effort and looked around at the students around him. After they collected the eggs in groups, he quickly began his first lesson.

"Eggs of the ash snake?" Crowney replied tentatively. She had come into contact with these biological eggs when she was helping Snape handle potions, but she couldn't think of any other animal whose eggs needed to be frozen.

"Wow!" A smile immediately appeared on the professor's originally serious face. He glanced at the snake-shaped badge on the girl's chest, "Three points for Slytherin!"

"In that case, does anyone know the characteristics of the Ash Snake and other related information?"

A dark-skinned Hufflepuff boy jumped out from beside Crowney, and he took a step forward: "The lifespan of fire-ash snakes is only one hour. They are born from magic fire, and their eyes will flash red. The body is usually thin and gray, leaving gray marks where it wanders."

"Three points for Hufflepuff! Boy! For your wonderful speech." The professor looked around with satisfaction. "This is really an unexpected surprise. To be honest, I am very satisfied with your preview to this extent - but - —Any more?"

"Fire ash snakes need to find dark and hidden places to lay their eggs." Cedric seemed to have a good relationship with the boy. He nudged the boy lightly, and then answered very comfortably, "After laying the eggs, they will fall into pieces. , turn into dust. Their eggs are very hot and will burn everything around them, but they can be used to treat diseases after freezing."

"That's true." Mr. Kettleburn nodded approvingly, and added three points to Hufflepuff. "Most of the eggs of the ash snake will become inactive after being frozen, so I can't let everyone People observe one by one, so——"

The bag originally used to hold the ash snake eggs opened an opening, and a small gray-white snake with red eyes floated out: "And this kind of snake is too dangerous. If you are not careful, it may cause a huge fire. . So I only brought one so that everyone could observe each other up close. I spent a lot of energy for this!"

The students swarmed forward, and the poor little snake was suspended in the air by Professor Cottleburn using a levitating spell. The crowd around him made him more and more uncomfortable. It glared viciously at all the surrounding creatures with its red eyes, and tried to stand upright in the air to give everyone a warning.

But to no avail.

"Fire-ash snakes - are there male and female?" Crowney stared at the tail of the little snake. She could only see the snake's excretory cavity, and its tail was short and thin. "Each fire-ash snake is Do all gray snakes lay eggs?”

"This is a good question!" Mr. Kettleburn pointed to the tip of the little snake's tail. "Their characteristics determine that they cannot produce offspring through ordinary snakes, and they have no estrus. Currently, the Fire Ash Snake does not lay eggs. It hasn’t been discovered yet.”

"That is to say, they are born as mothers, and the purpose of their birth is to use their lives to lay an egg that may cause fire." Clooney looked up and stared at the twisting figure of the little snake, "Look at them like this Life is short and tragic."

"Mayflies can only live for a very short time on the water." She looked at it in a daze, "If the meaning of life is to come to the world for a short time, do nothing, think about nothing, and then pass away without knowing it. What’s the point of that—”

"Every life has its own value and meaning, whether he knows it or not." The swarthy Hufflepuff boy continued, "Only when animals reproduce can the population continue. Even the weakest life , they can also flourish in a difficult environment. This is the meaning of life."

"Well said!" Cedric said, "But we are a magical beasts class, not a philosophy class, little thinkers -"

After everyone visited the little snake, the professor put it on the ground. The little snake was very fast. He squirmed under the wooden planks that had been put up not long ago. Everyone poked their heads in an attempt to squeeze in with him. Clooney waved his wand a few times, and a flowing water curtain floated in the air, inside which a dim video was playing - the content was the snake's every move.

"This is really practical." Cedric said admiringly, "This way we can all watch it."

The ash snake pushed its head back and forth on the soft soil to dig a hole, and then used its sensitive tail to sweep the soil out. It curled up inside, and as its abdomen continued to shake, a red snake egg appeared in the hole. And it itself, after laying the egg, was like a completely burned tissue. The light in its fiery red eyes was extinguished instantly, and then it turned into a stiff and fragile snake body, and then broke into many pieces. The piece covered the egg. The edges of the snake eggs were rubbed black by the ashes.

Another life passed away before her eyes, but this little snake was willing to die - this was its destiny.

Professor Kettleburn used the flying spell to take the snake egg out from under the wooden board and showed it to everyone. The air around the snake egg was distorted by the high temperature. After a while, he froze the snake eggs.

"If the snake egg is not inactivated, can a baby snake hatch out?" Clowney asked, "Can there be life inside it?"

"Yes." Professor Kettleburn was very happy that the little wizards kept asking new questions, which made him feel that these young and enthusiastic children were studying and listening seriously. "But the heat will continue to dissipate - if you If you want to hatch fire-ash snakes from the eggs of fire-ash snakes, their offspring will become weaker and weaker from generation to generation, until finally they become a dead egg - this egg no longer has vitality - and of course no longer has medicine. Use value.”

"They cannot continue indefinitely." He said, "They are generated from magic fire and are creatures attached to magic. Once the flames that support their burning disappear, and no new heat energy is provided to them since then, they will eventually be greeted by It’s not a continuation.”

"But it gradually disappears until it disappears."