Hogwarts becomes host

The second time she used the diary, Elaine still couldn't figure out where Slytherin's heritage was.

She was not in a hurry, she still had time, and let Mr. Riddle continue to reflect deeply.

Maybe he should play with the yew wand next time so he could see where he stood.

The best case scenario is to eliminate Riddle without involving other people, but that is unrealistic; Elaine is also mentally prepared to release the basilisk to attack people, but of course it must not kill anyone, and if possible, it will not even be petrified.

But this is not realistic. The basilisk can swallow a student in one bite, and can break a person's ribs with a flick of its tail. Not only is its teeth extremely poisonous, but it can also cause death if it meets the eye. Petrification is the least harmful option. .

Let's look at the situation again

On the first day of school, Gryffindor's classes were Herbology and Transfiguration in the morning, and Defense Against the Dark Arts in the afternoon.

During breakfast, Elaine found a random excuse to get Hermione's class schedule.

Fortunately, Hermione didn't draw a heart on Defense Against the Dark Arts like in the original novel─but she still answered all the class times this week without thinking. Elaine convinced herself that it was normal for top students to memorize the class schedule. Things, they will memorize anything related to learning and don't need to worry about it.

In the herbal medicine class, it was no surprise that Mandrake was taught.

Elaine honestly can't understand how anyone could want to eat a salad made from this thing.

The ordinary version of Mandrake just has roots that look like human limbs, but the magic version is really an ugly green baby, just a few sizes smaller than the real one.

It's not all ugly with the dirt and pale green skin. The obvious spots and pimples on the body are also disgusting to look at. In addition, the obvious human face makes Elaine feel uncomfortable just slicing and using it, let alone eating it.

The human face is not the wrinkles of the plant itself, but actually has eyes, a nose and a mouth, and the big mouth is screaming loudly.

Here Elaine was tricked by the blood of the Shafiq family.

The fluffy pink earmuffs could not completely block the enhanced hearing. The moment Professor Sprout pulled out the mandrake, the high-pitched scream made Elaine almost lose consciousness and collapsed on Hermione.

Fortunately, the professor saw something was wrong and immediately stuffed the grass back into the soil. Fortunately, Elaine's own mental power was strong enough, and the mandrake was still young. The sonic attack did not destroy Elaine's consciousness, but it did. It left her completely exhausted for ten minutes.

This was nothing, but she couldn't practice without soundproofing, so she had to leave the greenhouse early.

Thinking about it carefully, when Adair uses his body, he can even "hear" the flow of magic power. How can ordinary earmuffs be effective? Even ordinary sound-isolating spells probably won't work. Special and specialized spells are needed.

There may be some inheritance from the Shafiq family, but she can't contact Adair now.

Forget it, it's not a big deal.

If someone really wanted to use mandrake to plot against her, they would have to enter the castle with a potted plant first, and they would know there was a problem at first sight. Besides, mandrake is dangerous to cultivate, has strict fertility requirements, and takes a long time to cultivate. It is an important material used in most antidotes. It is very rare on the market and is in short supply.

There are easier and cheaper ways to kill people, and there are also easier and cheaper ways to fill your stomach.

If such high-level ingredients were used for cooking, not to mention Sprout, Snape and Slughorn would be so angry that they would be bald--the main reason why potions masters are rare, apart from talent, is that they have high-level skills. There is not enough material to allow every student to receive ample practice.

Any kind of potion can only be practiced for free once during class. You are free to practice after class. Hogwarts will also provide some materials, but more expensive and important medicines are sorry, please bring your own... ..or get into Snape's collection room.

The operation of advanced potion materials requires more delicacy and proficiency. It is impossible to do it just once in class. Unless you are appreciated by the professor or your family is rich, the potion courses after O.W.L will greatly widen the gap between students. , also making potions masters rare.

There is really no way around this, because of the reduction in magic power in the world, the lack of ecological maintenance, and the continuous development and destruction by Muggles, nearly half of the magic materials have disappeared. Not to mention Hogwarts, even the Ministry of Magic is having a headache.

Regardless of the effect of artificial cultivation, how many wizards can calm down and play with grass?

That is to say, only by spending a lot of time, occupying excellent magic power lines and having many elven manpower, like Shafiq or other rich and powerful pure-blood families, can they produce magic herbs on a large scale── The elves themselves also have limitations. The more than thirty elves currently hidden in the Shafiq family spent three hundred years secretly breeding them.

Many things are not that wizards do not want to scale like Muggles, but that the magic materials themselves do not allow it.

Of course, if any family develops a secret recipe for large-scale breeding, they will not make it public.

Back to the topic, Elaine was tricked by Mandrake because of her enhanced hearing.

It was rare for such a famous and outstanding student like her to be embarrassed, and it soon became the subject of everyone's gossip.

Not to mention other houses during lunch, even Gryffindors themselves were joking about this matter, which caused Elaine to be in a bad mood. This was not her problem.

Also, we all know that her hearing has improved, will the light pressure and lowering the volume help?

After lunch, they came to wait in front of the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. Hermione was holding Lockhart's novel and chewing on it. Harry and Ron were chatting about Quidditch, and Elaine looked at her with a cold face. Intimidating those students who planned to continue talking about mandrake.

She saw Colin Creevey hiding against the wall and peeking at Harry. When Harry found him, he plucked up the courage to come out and asked Harry with a stammering voice and a red face if he could let him go. He took photos and signed autographs.

Harry was stunned. He looked at Elaine, Hermione and Ron as if asking for help. Ron was also stunned. His face was confused and he didn't know what to do. Hermione was reading the book with great interest with great interest. I blame my colleagues for not paying attention to their surroundings at all.

"Signed Photos Are you sending signed photos, Potter?"

Before Elaine could speak, Draco Malfoy strode up behind Colin, followed as usual by Crabbe and Goyle.

Crabbe glared at Elaine fiercely, his face full of resentment.

"I didn't," Harry said angrily, clenching his fists. "Shut up, Malfoy"

"Everyone, line up," Malfoy shouted deliberately, "Harry Potter is sending out signed photos."

"You're jealous," Colin squeaked.

"Jealous," Malfoy said slowly, squinting his eyes, "What are you jealous of? I don't want to have an ugly scar on my head, thank you. I don't think there's anything special about having my head almost cut open."

"Go and eat shit, Malfoy," Ron cursed angrily. "Elaine is here, you are so brave."

"Oh, hello, Shafiq." Malfoy said pretendingly, as if he had just seen Elaine at this time. "This has nothing to do with her, right? This is a matter between us boys──or, Weasley, you are so timid that you only hide behind girls."

Malfoy's attitude was impeccable, and he didn't make fun of the mandrake matter. He didn't give Elaine any excuse to intervene, and he used words to cover up the excuse. If Elaine really hit him, Ron's reputation would be ruined, at least. A timid reputation can never be lost.

Fortunately, before Elaine could answer, Harry choked back.

"Elaine doesn't need to take action, I can teach you a lesson at any time." Harry said coldly, "The problem is that I'm afraid you'll be like last year, where you booked a duel but didn't dare to come, and you still cowardly ran to fight with Snape Complain."

"Really?" Malfoy's face turned red when Harry said it, "Then come, I'm afraid you won't make it."

Their hands reached into their robes to reach for their wands.

"What's going on, what's going on?" At this moment, Gilderoy Lockhart walked through the crowd and strode towards them. "Who is sending signed photos?"

Seeing him, Elaine knew that this fight would not work out.