Chapter 27 The Freshman Professor

Wizards can invent new spells, but there are great risks in doing so. The caster is very likely to be backlashed by out-of-control magic power, and wizards die every year because of this.

Even plant magic is the same. Although some plants are not as huge as the Whomping Willow, they are highly poisonous, and even some non-toxic plants become dangerous after being enchanted. attack.

No one had seen the voldebat before 1782, and it was only known after an attack. It looks like a black cloak, maybe half an inch thick, thicker if it has recently killed and digested a victim, and at night it slithers along the ground, attacking when a person is asleep , Sealing the victim's face tightly.

Victims rarely have the opportunity to use magic to deal with it. Dorian Graplan believes that it is not a magical animal that grows naturally, but a man-made product of black magic, because the only way to deal with it is to call God to protect it. In other words, Voldebats are very similar to dementors, and monsters like dementors only attack humans, they will not attack other creatures such as cats and dogs. They look like people, wearing a cloak, the whole body seems to be soaked in water, with scabbed palms, they look like corpses summoned from the grave.

In the tropics, there are often carnivorous plants such as pitcher plants and Venus flytraps. They do not have developed root systems, so they need to prey on insects to supplement their own nutrition. Professor Dorian Graplan believes that Voldebats are a kind of black magic of plants. Its body is a kind of moss. In order to prove his point of view, he plans to capture a Voldebat and study it. He went to Papua New Guinea last summer vacation.

Hufflepuff Code of Conduct fifty-fifth, existence is reasonable, do not refuse to accept.

When there is doubt, Hufflepuff is not busy cursing and criticizing, but going to argue first. Plants don't move, but magical plants have animal characteristics. Voldebats may look harmless like ordinary moss during the day, and only come out to attack other life forms at night, or they only attack Humans, Hufflepuff is an expert in magical animals and plants, just as Gryffindor is good at dueling and Quidditch, Slytherin is good at potions and black magic, and Ravenclaw is good at theory and spells. Different fields of expertise. It’s just that Dorian is too daring to travel alone. After all, he is not going to the city, but the real tropical rainforest, and he is dealing with species that are good at sneak attacks. Maybe he hasn’t come back until now. It’s not because he resisted Dumbledore. The management method, but has been eaten by Voldebat.

Tomorrow's first class is the Art of the Dark Arts class, and Pomona is worried that she will fall asleep in class tomorrow, because they are expected to stay up all night working tonight.

Under normal circumstances, casting magic has practical effects. For example, all petrification will last for a long time, but it will be automatically released when the time is up. If you are stared at by a basilisk, it will really petrify. Mandrakes are needed to remove the effect. Using magic to change the soil quality is temporary, and it will eventually return to its original state. Therefore, the transformation spell cannot be used to improve the soil.

Hufflepuff's seniors had to unleash "Bones to Shatter" on the ground below the Whomping Willow again and again, digging holes like Muggles digging mines. Hagrid had found a gang of minks out of nowhere and was digging at the other end, magical creatures that lived underground and hunted goblins and moles for a living, and their job was to find the vertical roots of the Whomping Willow. The Whomping Willow felt much more comfortable after loosening the soil, and purred like a cat from time to time. It seemed that they had indeed found the crux.

"Why don't you help?" Lupine was sweating profusely, pushing a small cart full of stones, and was very dissatisfied to see Pomona standing by the busy "construction site".

Pomona took out her small bag, and showed him the purple fluorescent liquid inside that glowed in the dark, "If it suddenly goes crazy and hurts people, I will be responsible for it to calm down. Can you ride a broomstick?"

"What are you going to do?"

"Get a pair of scissors and prune it." Pomona said to Lupin, pointing to the Whomping Willow.

The newborn's magic power is not enough, even if Lupine can levitate, he still can't move the stone.

"You really think of it as a potted plant?"

Pomona praised the book "How to Care for the Whomping Willow" in front of Lupin, "Properly cutting off the excess branches will help the plant grow, and it is actually not in good condition now."

"Where did you get this book?" Lupine put down the cart, and it seemed he had listened to Pomona.

"Secret." Pomona smiled mysteriously, "Go ahead."

Lupine grumbled under his breath and walked towards Gryffindor.

The Flying Charm differs from spells such as the Levitating Charm, which use "summoning", while the Levitating Charm is cast with a wand. Outside the school’s courtyard, the house elves are fattening up with cloth covering their faces. They don’t need a wand when they cast spells, and neither do goblins. In addition to the werewolf Lupine, it seems that all magical creatures don’t need a wand to cast spells .

In addition to the wood on the outside, the wand also has a core such as phoenix feathers and unicorn hair. When the wizard picks up the wand and resonates with it, the wizard has the ability to use magic power. When their skills are advanced enough , will no longer need a magic wand to cast spells like magical creatures. Veela's hair is actually no different from phoenix feathers. This is her magic receptor, so she cannot cast spells on her hair to change its shape.

Susan's cat is called Medusa. In Greek mythology, Medusa's hair can turn into a snake. When Veeva loses control, their hair will turn into a bird's head with a sharp mouth and a pair of heads growing out of her shoulders. Wings covered in scales, that's absolutely terrifying, and Pomona doesn't want to be like that.

In fact, when I think about it now, when she helped Mrs. Sprout take care of the plants in the field, she always felt a strange fluctuation. Sometimes she wanted to eat eggs, and sometimes she wanted to eat fruits, and those egg shells and peels would be thrown into the ground. go.

This may be her "talent", she can detect what elements are lacking in plants without a magic wand, and the medium she feels is her hair. Relatively speaking, she is not good at spellcasting by human wizards, just like ordinary freshmen, she doesn't even know the simplest floating spell.

"It seems that even without me, you have done a good job." Wilmina finally came, although she came a bit late, but she still came, and having an adult to rely on made her feel a lot easier.

"Aren't you worried about your father?" Pomona asked. "I read his notes in his office. Although Voldebat seems to be no threat, what should I do if he is attacked in the wild alone?"

"He hasn't been around me much since I was six years old." Wilmina took out her pipe, lit it with her wand, and took a long puff of smoke. "He never worried about me, why should I worry about him?"

Pomona disagreed with her point of view, but did not know how to refute it.

"At first I heard that Dumbledore was going to bring werewolves and veela into Hogwarts and thought he was crazy. Do you know what happens to a man who is infatuated with veela?"

Pomona felt so offended that she couldn't even keep a straight face.

"He will keep circling around her, without eating or drinking, until he dies from exhaustion. Your father is a human, and your mother is a Veela. He has fallen under her enchantment, and all he thinks about is that banshee , so I forgot your existence, just like this, your danger level is no less than that of werewolves, especially boys, stay away from them." Wilmina warned coldly, "Although my main job is the school doctor, but I am also a professor at Hogwarts, I will not allow anyone to hurt my students, if you let me find anything abnormal, I will send you to the Forbidden Forest, remember what I said?"

"Are you threatening me?" Pomona said calmly, suppressing her fear.

"I'm not like some people. I never threaten my colleagues." Wilmina said with a smile, "You don't have to go to the first class tomorrow morning, Professor Martin, I wish you a good night's sleep, good night."

After speaking, she smoked her pipe and walked slowly towards the castle.