Chapter 2852 Hagrid's Holiday (2)

  The pus of Barber's tuber is very harmful to human skin, so you must wear dragon leather gloves when squeezing the pus.

  Forest trolls use it as a source of food, and they don’t eat it directly. They will wash it in water, cook it in a pot, and add some other seasonings to it, but this is where the trouble lies.

   There is a lake in the Forbidden Forest. This lake is a public water source. Animals and horse people in the forest often come here to get water. When the troll washed Babur's tubers here, the centaurs aroused strong dissatisfaction. Later, the troll even stopped the centaurs from getting water from this place. At that time, a young centaur almost fought with the trolls.

  Although it appears to be a problem of water sources, there has been a long-standing grievance accumulated inside. Graplan and Priya Moore from the Centaur Office are dealing with this matter.

  If people on both sides find out that Hogwarts opened a vegetable garden in the Forbidden Forest, it will cause other disputes, so this matter can only be done quietly. After seeing off the students, Hagrid met them by the Black Lake and cast a Concealment Charm on the vegetable garden, so he probably wouldn't have been able to find it himself had it not been marked by the tree monkey frog.

  Fertilizer has the effect of promoting growth, but you can't use too much at one time. Although plants can't make sounds, except for gnawing vines, they will still express their discomfort in other ways, such as yellowing leaves and rotten roots.

If it’s just a little bit more, it’s fine to dilute it with water, but if you add too much, the water dilution effect will not be ideal, and you must replace the new soil. When repotting the Mandrake, the new flowerpot must be ready to adapt to it. For the growing soil, Pomona prefers to use perlite, vermiculite, and dragon dung fertilizer.

  Vermiculite is often produced together with asbestos, but unlike asbestos, which is highly toxic, vermiculite is almost harmless, and it expands under high temperature, resembling a leech. It contains crystal water, and the high temperature will make the crystal water evaporate, and the volume will be several times, even dozens of times.

  Pumpkins have no requirements on the soil, and they don’t need too much light. They are very suitable for planting in the forbidden forest where big trees block out the sun.

   But now it is time to change Grop to a staple food. In the future, Pomona will need to fertilize this place and improve the soil quality, so the roots and vines left after planting pumpkins must be cleaned up.

   "Which job would you choose now? Plowing with us, or separating the flying seahorses from the dragonflies?" Pomona asked Ben Cooper.

  Ben looked sadly at the dragonfly he had just caught in the cage. There were a lot of flying seahorses mixed in here, after all, they lived in the same environment.

   "I'll take this." Ben stepped aside with the cage, and Pomona and Hagrid started cleaning together.

  Severus did not immediately collect soil samples, but wandered around the vegetable garden as if revisiting old places. Hagrid saw that he had no objections, and he was also concerned about whether or not Flobber caterpillars were needed in the improved dragon dung fertilizer.

  Pomona wanted to try to see if the worms could be crushed and mixed into fertilizers. After all, they were all organic matter.

  They cleaned up all afternoon and almost cleared the vegetable garden. Thanks to the magic, otherwise even Hagrid would not be able to finish it even if he was a half-giant.

   "Come to my place." Hagrid said cheerfully, "I've prepared tea and snacks."

   "No, we have other things." Pomona said with a smile.

   "Okay, see you tomorrow." Hagrid waved at them and returned to his hut.

   "For the sake of your teeth, don't eat Hagrid's rockskin biscuits," Pomona said to Ben. "It nearly knocked my teeth out."

   "Maybe he likes that flavor, would you like to try it, Cooper?" Severus smiled sinisterly.

  Ben firmly chose human food, and went with them to their new dwelling.

  According to the school's regulations, students are not allowed to stay in school during the summer vacation, but Pomona is not worried about taking Paul to rent a house off campus, so he arranges for them to live in Graplan's office. After studying in boarding school for almost 7 years, it was the first time for Barnaby to share a dormitory with someone. Like Liz Stewart, he took most of his belongings with him, so that the dormitory he lived in was nothing like that. It's as empty as people.

  Pitts will bring the food from the castle to the "birdcage". He doesn't feel cumbersome and tiring at all, but feels that he has come to a new home.

Pomona officially met Priya Moore for the first time at dinner. She wore a pair of round glasses, looked very young, and her hair was combed into a ball, like a fresh graduate, but Felix remembered She has been out of school for several years.

  She managed to become the Reticent this year, but she lost the master key. In her opinion, unless a miracle happened, she would not be able to return to the Department of Mysteries.

   "How did you lose it?" Severus asked, frowning.

   "I attended a colleague's birthday party at the Leaky Cauldron," Puglia said listlessly.

   "Are you drunk?" Severus asked.

   "No... There were too many people at the time, so I didn't pay attention." Puglia said dejectedly, "I went to the memory clinic, hoping to retrieve that memory, but I forgot it completely and didn't have the slightest impression."

   "Come on, eat a piece of meat." Graplan put a piece of roast lamb on Puglia's plate, "I do the same sometimes, things that I can't find will suddenly appear."

   Puglia's cheeks puff up like an inflated puffer fish.

Barnaby was away at dinner time. He went to Upper Hogsmead to stay with his uncle. He came back after dinner. It happened that it was time for Puglia to go back. He sat down and exchanged the information he had gained. .

Due to Carter's intricate relationship with the upper echelon, he did not have to be sent to Azkaban for using the Unforgivable Curse on Ben, but he also became an unpopular figure and disappeared from public view, but the external statement was that he came to Azkaban. Embark on new adventures abroad.

Barnaby's uncle told him that crimes are measured on many different scales, first by the malice contained in the origin or cause of the crime, second by the impact of the evil, third by the harm of its consequences, and fourth by the time The situation caused by the confluence of conditions such as , place and person.

  If the crime is committed by being strong, rich, or relying on relatives and friends to resist law enforcement, it will be regarded as contempt of the law, and it is considered that one can get away with it for the aforementioned reasons, then this crime is unforgivable. As the victim, he could not have forgiven Carter, but the court has not pursued it, because Carter admitted that he made the mistake on impulse.

  The other is the fortress of the North Ford Swamp. It has been determined to be demolished to prevent werewolves from going in and hiding.

   "That's bullshit," Ben said agitatedly "We both know..."

   "Yes, we all know." Graplan said slowly, smoking a pipe, "Is there any other news?"

   "Fudge arranged a blind date for my uncle, but he wants to be single for a while, and I will talk about it when I am an adult." Barnaby said with a smile, "Do you know anyone who is suitable?"

   "Where's your dog?" Pomona asked, not seeing Dexter.

   "It's at my uncle's, and I don't think it's going to be needed now, is it?" said Barnaby, looking at Pomona.

   Liz Stewart is home for what may be her last summer vacation, but she doesn't like Barnaby's attitude.

   "Ever learned Occlumency?" Severus asked Barnaby.

  Barnaby shook his head, "No one taught me, I always play alone."

   "How about coming to my place for extra lessons?" Severus asked.

   "What am I going to pay for?" asked Barnaby.

   "I'll find out." Severus smiled maliciously at Barnaby.

   "You're going out with me tomorrow," Pomona said to Ben.

   "Are you going to catch dragonflies again?" Ben said boredly.

   "No, this is for kids, and you're not a kid anymore," Pomona said, and got up to clear the dishes.

   "Pitts," Severus said.

  The invisible house-elf appeared.

   "Don't let anyone take your job." After he finished speaking, he also stood up, "Let's go."

  Pomona glanced at the others, she was being watched, and that look embarrassed her.

   "You go first." She whispered, "I'll pack up and go."

   "Let's go along the way, of course we will go together." He said coldly.

   "That's right, the Forbidden Forest is not safe, you go back together." Graplan said, and then stood up "I won't see you off."

  Barnaby pulled Ben, and the two went back to the dormitory together.

  Pitts looked at the two of them while packing the tableware.

   "Okay, let's go together!" Pomona gritted her teeth and said cruelly, took the witch hat, opened the door of the office, and walked into the dark forbidden forest.

  (end of this chapter)