[hp] Black Dog Breeding Manual

As the flames were extinguished, the Salamander lost his hiding place, and everyone could see him clearly.It was just an ordinary small lizard shape, and it crouched in the lamp holder of the oil lamp, looking very frightened and uncomfortable.

Professor Kettleburn hurriedly took out several red peppers from his pocket, and tried to feed the salamander with his only hand.After eating the chili, the salamander felt better and his skin returned to red.

Professor Kettleburn re-lighted the wick, and the salamander jumped back into the fire in an instant and disappeared.

"If you accidentally extinguish the flame, remember to feed it the chili immediately. As long as you eat the chili regularly, it will last for six hours, enough for you to light it. Also, Peter, you haven't passed your homework once, Remember to be careful." Kettleburn said, maneuvering the wheelchair back to the podium, and continued to talk about other habits of salamanders.

Peter Pettigrew seemed eager to dig a hole and go underground.

James laughed and patted him, "You are so useless."

Anaska tried to communicate with the salamander first as usual, but failed.

Seeing her frowning, Lily asked, "What's wrong? What did it say?"

"This may be the kind that I can't communicate with..." Anaska shook her head, looking frustrated, "I seem to be unable to speak to snakes and lizards."

The inability to communicate means that Anaska cannot understand the health status of the salamanders as usual, which greatly increases the difficulty of raising them.Fortunately, in addition to the ability to communicate with animals, Anaska also has excellent knowledge of magical animals and rich experience in animal breeding. To raise salamanders, it is enough to keep the fire alive, and there is no need to feed or bathe. The raising process is relatively simple .

Anaska took care of it for a few days, and found that the salamander looked healthy from the outside, without any abnormality, so she let go of her worries.

The flames were much smaller than the night before, because there was not enough fuel to burn.The salamander curled up in the center of the flames, as if he didn't want to leave.Anaska carefully poured in the high-temperature kerosene she bought from Hogsmeade Village on the rest day. This kind of kerosene can increase the temperature of the flame, and as long as a little bit, it can keep at least two days without burning out. The clerk said it was a good thing for a salamander.

Although Anaska has checked the information and conducted research, but has not practiced it, she is still a little worried about using it on the salamander. After pouring it in, she has been very nervous, and she is always ready to go to Professor Kettleburn if she has any questions.

She also kept a lot of hot peppers in her pocket, and if the salamander showed distress, she would immediately put out the flames and give first aid.

Fortunately, the accidents belonged to Anaska's overthinking.As soon as the flame touched the new lamp oil, it instantly jumped up a lot, and it turned from red to blue, only a little part of the edge remained the faint orange.

The salamander stretched its limbs comfortably in the flames, and it also changed color with the temperature of the flames. At this moment, all of its bright red skin had turned into bright blue, shining brightly in the unlit classroom.

Salamander nodded slightly to Anaska, as if thanking her.

The little movement of the creature in the fire made Anaska extremely happy.Even if the language cannot communicate, animals will still perceive human kindness, and it is still possible to communicate with each other.

Lily took more elective courses and had less free time than Anaska, so Anaska often helped her look after her.After the lamp oil was poured into Lily's lamp, Lily's salamander also became active.

Anaska turned around, and the four oil lamps of the group of four were neatly placed together, and the four small flames flickered on and off.

The names of the four people were marked on the oil lamp, and Anaska couldn't help being stunned after reading the words on it.

Animals bred by a group of four can usually tell who the owner is by the condition of their lives.Lupine's animals were always the healthiest. Remus Lupine seldom talked, but he always had a gentle expression on his face, and his gentleness did not diminish when he applied it to animals.

James is second to Lupine. Although he is careless, people will find the boy's kindness and sincerity after getting along with him. Similarly, he has a Gryffindor-style sense of responsibility and always includes animals in his protection scope.However, the character of being arrogant and not good at considering others sometimes tosses those unlucky little lives.

The animals of Sirius and Peter Pettigrew are more pitiful.Sirius doesn't care about them at all, he doesn't care whether they are dead or alive; Peter Pettigrew is so clumsy that he can't understand it. When he doesn't do anything, the animals can live well, but once he takes care of them, the end of the animals will be too. arrive.

But this time it was an exception. The oil lamp that Anaska thought was Lupin's... was engraved on the copper lamp: Sirius Black.

The salamander belonging to Sirius lay on the flames, spitting out letters one after another, exuding a sense of leisure and comfort.

This time, it seems that Anaska doesn't need to secretly help at all. According to the current state, this salamander can definitely return to the hands of Professor Kettleburn with the health and fitness of the top few in the class...

The survival of salamanders is closely related to the temperature of the flame. To be on the safe side, Anaska put her hand on the side of the wick and used her palm to estimate the temperature of the fire.

The temperature is very high, which cannot be achieved by the original lamp oil. Perhaps someone has used magic on the fire here... The flame is very small, and the temperature must be controlled precisely. With Anaska's level of magic spells, it is impossible to risk using spells to change it. Hot, Sirius and James should be able to do it.

But Sirius never bothered to bother with animals.

Anaska was about to withdraw her hand when the classroom door suddenly opened from the outside.

"Anaska?!" The person who entered seemed surprised.

Anaska was even more taken aback, and when she retracted her hand in a panic, she was scalded severely by the high-temperature flames.

When inspecting other people's flames, she was bumped into by the master. Anaska felt a guilty conscience. Her fingers might have been burned, which was quite painful. She took a painful step back and almost knocked over other classroom utensils.

This was the first time she ran into him while trying to save Sirius for his homework on the protection of magical animals. You must know that the eldest son of the Black family would never come here unless he was in class.

Sirius obviously didn't expect to meet Anaska unprepared, and his expression was very surprised.

"Are you alright?" Sirius stepped over and held Anaska's injured hand very naturally.

Anaska flinched subconsciously, but Sirius was stronger than her and could not escape.

Sirius looked down at Anaska's fingers, then took out his wand and used a "wound healing".

Sirius' actions were so natural that Anaska couldn't help feeling that the one who was embarrassed was the one who was not generous enough.In addition, Anaska would not be surprised if Lily, Mary, or even James did this act of helping the wounded, but the one standing next to her was actually Sirius.

Anaska was very uncomfortable, and a strange feeling lingered in her heart.

The magic of "wound healing" didn't seem to be very suitable for burns. Although the blisters on Anaska's fingers disappeared, they were still abnormally red.Sirius frowned and considered for a while, then switched to clear water like a spring.A small stream of cool water was poured on Anaska's fingertips, and the burning sensation dissipated a lot immediately.

Anaska quickly withdrew her hand, "Thank you."

Anaska hadn't turned on the light to see the color of the flames, nor had Sirius come running in.The classroom of the Protection of Magical Animals class was dark and quiet at the moment. Once she didn't speak, Anaska could clearly hear the steady breathing of the two people in the classroom, and Sirius was staring at her.

There is absolutely something wrong with this situation, it is very abnormal!

"What do you think... um... how about my salamander?" Sirius' voice sounded different from usual, it was softer, and there was actually a gentle feeling.

Anaska couldn't figure out what was going on, just as she couldn't figure out how Sirius had come to the Fantastic Beasts classroom.She could only guess far-fetchedly that Sirius was also worried about next year's OWLs exam, so she suddenly became concerned about the living conditions of her animals...

Anyway, it's a good thing that Sirius stopped ignoring creatures other than humans.

Anaska dazedly praised the health of the salamander raised by Sirius. Just as she was about to run away, she heard Sirius speak again: "...Then what do you think of James's?"

Next, Anaska commented on the salamanders raised by the four of them one by one according to the order in which Sirius asked.After the review, the two were silent for a while.

"Hmm... I remember you also took Muggle Studies as an elective. Is this course interesting?" Sirius asked again.

Anaska was rather shocked, she didn't think Sirius would be interested in Muggles.And she didn't really know if Muggle research was interesting, because most of the time she was talking to the rats under the table.

Anaska didn't know if it was an illusion, Sirius seemed to be looking for something to talk about.

The topic of Muggle research didn't last long, and Sirius led the chat back to the salamanders, which Anaska was apparently more interested in.

He pointed to Peter's dying oil lamp, "Do you think this can be saved?"

Pettigrew Peter's salamander can tell with the naked eye that he won't live long. There is only a little bit of flame left, and the burning temperature is not much higher than room temperature.Anaska couldn't bear it, so she added some high-temperature lamp oil to the half-dead salamander.

After the lamp oil was poured in, the flames only flickered for a moment, and then fell silent again. The time limit was not as short as that of the explosive fireworks.

"...So this is not okay." Sirius was quite interested, "Peter watched me add magic to the lamp oil, and he begged me to do it for him too, and I asked him to do it himself. Then he pronounced the spell wrong , as a result, the speed at which the wick goes out is much faster.”

"Should we go to Professor Kettleburn?" Anaska said.

"How dare Peter go, he was scolded just now." Sirius shrugged, "Let him hand it in like this, anyway, he never supported him."

"But speaking of it..." Sirius sized up Anaska, then turned his gaze around again, scanning Anaska and her location, "Do you often come here?"

Anaska didn't realize the meaning of Sirius' question, she nodded honestly.

Sirius smiled playfully, "No wonder my animals never die..."

The author has something to say: Anaska needs many candles...to light wax.