The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

v4 Chapter 52: can't fight

Remember [New] in a second! The taste of fried snails is endless aftertaste.

Hermione carefully chewed the snail that Tom stuffed in, and before she knew it, she had eaten a whole snail.

Hermione's eyes were bright after eating the snails. She told Tom excitedly that the taste of the snails was very similar to the fresh lobster her father took her to eat when she was a child.

Hermione wiped her mouth in embarrassment, "Well, I admit that you found something about the snail."

"Would you like another one?" Tom smiled.

"No, this is Hagrid's teaching material after all." Hermione refused of course, but her eyes gave her away.

"What a good boy." Tom rolled his eyes—the vast majority of these Blast-tailed snails would die from cannibalism, and they themselves were just used for waste.

I just don't know what attitude Hagrid will have when he hears about his discovery.

What Hermione dared not do, Tom dared. For the third time, Tom was more courageous. He dealt with four or five snails at once, stringed them up and put them on the fire to roast.

Naturally, it was impossible for such a big deal to escape the eyes of others, and several of Hermione's roommates were attracted to it.

"Yordle, what are you doing?" Padma showed a curious look.

"As you can see, I'm grilling snails, and I just found out they taste really good."

Roommates: ...

After thinking for a while, Padma said to Tom, "May I have a taste?"

Hermione and others: ?

Tom was also a little surprised, but he was relieved after thinking that Padma's hometown is in India-Asians generally have a higher tolerance threshold for various ingredients. He generously passed over a grilled fried-tailed snail.

Padma thanked her, took the fried-tailed snail, blew on it twice, and then began to eat in small bites. Her eyes lit up as soon as the snail meat entered the mouth: "It tastes really good!"

With Padma taking the lead, several other girls also bravely tried fried snails, and then fell in love with this seafood-like ingredient.

Hermione watched her roommates divide up the roasted fried-tailed snails, and felt an inexplicable sense of loss in her heart: She wants to eat it too!

"Here, this is your share." Tom handed Hermione the snail he left behind. Doesn't he know Hermione? Sometimes it's just being honest. If she really didn't keep it, even though she didn't say it, she would still feel very uncomfortable.

Tom could see that this was not going to happen.

Sure enough, Hermione was happy again after getting her own snail.

Next, Tom and the others quietly grilled fried snails in the corner, and Padma generously took out a lot of spices, which added a lot of flavor to the fried snails.

However, although several people have been eating, the fried-tailed snails that they finally ate were not too many. After all, this is a fried-tailed snail, not a crayfish. One person can eat three catties of crayfish, but three of these six-inch fried-tailed snails are almost enough.

Moreover, compared with the distant relatives of shrimp whose blood relationship is not known, fried-tailed snails have almost no "shrimp head", and the entire tail is also an edible part, which is as highly utilized as squid.

So even if a few people feasted on it, in the end they only ate less than 20 sticks—there were more than 100 sticks in a box, and a 20% decrease was not so abrupt.

"Your side seems to be going well?" Hagrid was busy, and finally dealt with all kinds of accidents that happened in other groups, and shifted his energy to this seemingly quiet corner.

"Well, ah, it's very delicious—I mean smooth." Several people stood up in a panic.

Although Tom and the six were acting suspiciously, the thick-skinned Hagrid didn't realize it. He took a look at the snails in the box and found nothing unusual, but felt that the snails in the box seemed more active and aggressive. ?

This is natural. Blast-tailed snails are aggressive by nature, and they are very prone to fighting when they meet each other. If the box is packed like a can of sardines, that's fine. But Tom's box was short of twenty, and a lot of space was freed up, so the snails had a "useful place", and they couldn't wait to fight.

"Are they okay to feed?" Hagrid asked hopelessly. The other groups had no clue at all, and Hagrid could only pin his hopes on this group led by Tom, which seemed to be going well.

"It's delicious...I mean they're not fussy eaters." Tom didn't find what the snails liked, but he found something he liked.

"Okay then, I'll look for other ingredients later - this problem has to be solved." Hagrid sighed and was about to leave, but was stopped by Tom.

"I have an idea that might make these snails more appetizing." In order for the snails to reproduce smoothly, Tom decided to help Hagrid.

"Really?" Hagrid exclaimed in surprise, and he patted Tom on the shoulder. "If it really works, I'll give Ravenclaw ten... no, twenty points!"

As for what to do if you exceed the upper limit... Hagrid said that you can add points in installments.

"Hagrid, why don't you consider giving these little fellows a separate compartment? Separate them all, you see they're easy to fight together."

Tom could understand the aggressiveness of the snails. It is a biological instinct to exclude competitors. Shark cubs will kill all their unborn siblings after breaking their eggs, which is similar to the non-stop internal fighting of snails, all in order to obtain more survival resources for themselves.

Tom pointed to a pair of snails who were fighting and said, "I'm so busy fighting, why would I want to eat?"

Hagrid suddenly realized: "You are right, so it's not that they don't like those foods, but that they don't have time to eat."

"There is no safe eating environment either ~lightnovelpub.net~ Tom added.

"I'll make individual boxes for them after class." Hagrid had plans of his own.

"Yes, only a safe environment can grow better, fried-tailed snails, you should grow up quickly—and you can't fight." Tom looked at the fried-tailed snails in the box, showing a devilish smile, "fight If you're injured, there's nothing you can do."

He took out the blow-tailed snail that he lost in the fight, "This blow-tailed snail was seriously injured in the fight, and it looks like it won't survive..."

Hagrid gave Tom a strange look, not quite understanding what he meant.

"By the way, Hagrid, where's Buckbeak?" Hermione deliberately changed the subject.

"It's been living in my vegetable patch now, listen to me, you don't know..." Sure enough, Hermione drew Hagrid's attention to the hippogriff, and he began to talk about He told the story of Buckbeak guarding the vegetable field for him.

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