Daily Life at Hogwarts Chapter 367: Salamander
As soon as he opened the door of the dormitory, Albert saw a dark shadow running past his feet, startling him. He thought his Tom was going to sneak out when the door opened, so he instinctively grabbed his hand. Reaching into his pocket, he was about to pull out his wand to summon Tom back, only to find something fluffy rubbing against his ankle.
"Okay, I'll go get you lunch."
Albert bent over to pick up Tom and lifted his foot to close the door.
He opened the drawer, which was full of cat food and canned cat food, reached out and pushed Tom's head away, took a can of cat food from it, opened it mixed with cat food and put it in a bowl. Then, with a wave of his wand, he emptied the other bowl of water and replaced it with a new one.
"Looks like I'm going to ask how the rest of us keep cats at school." Albert waited for Tom to finish eating, then he picked it up and bumped the weight, which was still as heavy as ever.
"It's time for you to lose weight, let's go and take you to the common room, which will be your space for a long time to come."
After Tom is familiar with the dormitory, Albert will let him play in the Gryffindor common room, and then slowly expand the space of activities, let him gradually familiarize himself with the environment of the castle, and contact more students , to distinguish the good and evil of others towards it, so as not to suffer losses in the future.
There were not many people in the Gryffindor common room at noon. Albert found an empty seat and sat down. He took out a pocket watch from his pocket and checked the time, preparing to let Tom rest in the common room under his watch. Indoor activities, but he soon discovered that his cat didn't seem to be planning to wander around, but instead jumped on the table next to Albert and just lay there and dozed.
"Sleep when you're full, you can really do it!"
Albert raised his hand and rubbed Tom's head, sighed softly, "If you don't exercise, you'll be fat."
Someone was covering his mouth and chuckling, looking at the fat cat here curiously, and whispering in a low voice. Albert turned his head and looked at the two young girls who were talking, whom he did not know.
Well, it should be a freshman in the first and second grades. The other party noticed that Albert turned his head and looked over, and was a little embarrassed, so he quickly turned and walked away.
Albert looked away and pulled a cat-teasing stick from his pocket, trying to get his cat to move.
After nearly an hour in the common room, Albert re-sends Tom back to the dormitory, then uses the time shifter to go back to an hour earlier.
He went straight to the school library, only to find that Fred, George, and Lee Jordan hadn't arrived yet, and now he had to take a seat for the three of them.
Not long after, the three people walked into the library one after another, still surprised that Albert arrived at the library one step ahead of them.
On the first day of school, the school library was as full as ever, with a bunch of people rushing to do their holiday homework.
Fred was a little gloat about this, completely forgetting that he was one of them.
In the afternoon, the first session was the protection of magical creatures class, which was held in the open space on the edge of the forbidden forest. Professor Kettlebo's reputation in the school was very good, and there were many students who signed up for this class.
The elderly professor has been teaching at the school for many years, and he knows how to arouse his students' interest in the conservation of magical creatures.
With Hagrid's help, Professor Kettlebo prepared a bonfire for everyone and told them about the salamanders inside, and learning about salamanders is today's content.
Everyone sat around the bonfire, observing the salamanders in the bonfire while listening to Professor Kettleb's explanation of the amazing salamander.
The way the class was taught was very interesting and immediately aroused everyone's interest.
Professor Kettleb pointed at the salamanders in the campfire with a branch and told everyone: salamanders are born of flames and feed on them. As long as the bonfire in front of them does not go out, they will continue to live.
"What if the flames go out?" a Ravenclaw girl asked, raising her hand.
"Salamanders die soon after leaving the flame."
"Will they be too pitiful."
The bonfire will go out sooner or later, which means that the salamander in the bonfire will soon die.
Professor Kettleb raised his hand and pressed it down, signaling everyone to be quiet.
“If the salamanders leave the flames with a regular dose of chili powder, they can delay their death, but they can only live for up to six hours,” he told the group. brought back the salamanders, which usually require a special environment created by a wizard to survive."
This Albert knows, because salamanders represent the number 6 in the rune alphabet.
"Of course, when feeding chili powder to salamanders, you can't feed too much." Professor Kettleb demonstrated why you can't feed salamanders too much chili powder.
Salamanders that eat a lot of chili powder will have brighter skin, and will continue to spit out sparks from their mouths, igniting Professor Kettleb's white beard.
"That's it, you need to feed chili powder every ten minutes." Professor Kettleb patted off the sparks on his beard and threw the salamander back into the bonfire, "By the way, let the salamander live at room temperature. Surviving the next hour is one of the final exam questions over the years."
In the next time, Professor Ketelber asked everyone to go to the edge of the forest to collect firewood and leaves to make the fire burn more vigorously, so as to observe the color change on the salamander.
The color of the salamander will change with the heat of the flame. If the flame temperature is high, it will tend to be blue, if the flame temperature is low, it will gradually appear bright red, and at room temperature, it will be brighter of orange.
Seeing the salamanders jumping around in the crackling firewood was an interesting lesson for everyone.
Albert used his wand to fish a salamander from a campfire, and as soon as it left the flames, its skin turned a bright orange-red, and it was still a little hot in the palm of the hand.
Fred and the others immediately came together to observe the response of the salamander, and felt that its body was burning like a flame.
The salamander quickly broke free from Albert's hand, fell on the ground and tried to run into the bonfire, but was caught by Fred's tail.
The poor salamander just snapped its tail to escape, and soon disappeared into the bonfire.
Fred looked at the writhing lizard tail in his hand and suddenly didn't know what to say.
"Hey, did the scales of a salamander rot? It actually lost its tail." Professor Ketelber said in surprise when he saw the tail on Fred's hand.
The latter's face was a little embarrassed. The salamander lost its tail, apparently not related to the rotten scales.
"Salamanders, like dragons, may have rotten scales. Once the scales rot, they will lose their tails. If you keep a salamander and this happens, just rub some peppers on it. It’s enough to treat with powder.” Professor Ketelber said to the students who were talking and laughing: “Why don’t you write it down?”
"Sir, what's so special about salamanders?" Fred dropped the tail and changed the subject, "I mean why do wizards keep them."
"Salamander blood has strong healing and healing properties, and can also be used to make a variety of potions. That's one of the reasons wizards keep salamanders," explains Professor Kettleb.
"How do we get blood from salamanders?" Albert asked. "They don't look like they have a lot of blood on them."
"Very well, this is supposed to be something you'll learn next year. Of course, if you want to know." Professor Kettleb waved his wand, and a salamander flew out of the fire. fell into his hands.
"We said earlier that the salamander will die soon after leaving the flame, so you need to be fast enough to draw blood." Professor Kettleb took out a knife and a test tube and showed everyone How to get blood from salamanders.
The method is very simple, just cut a knife on the salamander's rear foot near the tail, and then shove it from head to tail like milking a cow.
Yes, it's that simple and crude.
As for hemostasis?
Well, salamander blood has strong healing properties, and it doesn't take long for wounds to heal on their own.
"The strength should be moderate~IndoMTL.com~ otherwise it will cause the salamander's internal organs to rupture, although this will not kill them, but it will make the salamander very uncomfortable." Professor Ketelber restored the blood salamander. Throw it into the campfire and continue, "It's best to wear gloves when taking blood, or you may get burned."
"Of course, if you need salamander blood, you can buy it at the pharmacy. A small bottle costs ten cicols."
"..." George mumbled something.
"Salamanders are easy to keep. The only problem is that the process of taking blood is complicated. Many wizards are reluctant to do this work. However, the blood of salamanders needs to be used in many places." Professor Ketelber Concerned about this, he motioned for everyone to continue observing the salamanders, preferably to observe how they eat.
Albert scoffed that Fred and George wanted to "rescue" salamanders from the Conservation of Magical Creatures class. How could he not know Fred's character, so he simply refused to help them make them? Bottle with blue flames that can be put in a bottle.
In the end, the twins had to give up and take the salamander directly away, which wouldn't last long at all.
"We just want a salamander," muttered Fred. "You have cats, Lee Jordan has spiders, and we don't have pets of our own yet."
"I don't think Snape would want you to bring that thing into the potions classroom," Albert reminded. "And, what do you want to feed it?"
"We just wanted to see what would happen if we fed the salamanders to the fireworks." George blinked and said honestly. Fred's words could not deceive Albert at all.
"That's a good idea." Lee Jordan's eyes lit up and he echoed, "We can try to get a salamander next time."