Chapter 2742 Firebird Land (Fifty)

It is necessary to degrease when making quills. We often see swans combing their feathers by the water. This is not only because of the elegant shape, but the key is that it can spread a layer of fat all over the feathers, so that the feathers will not be damaged due to Get wet with water and float on water.

Animal fats are easily oxidized and produce a foul smell, even from swans. At the same time, the iron contained in the blood will also promote the deterioration of fat. Even if the fish is refrigerated, it will quickly deteriorate, but butter and lard will not.

Pomona found a compound called plaster in the notes of Cassino, which is a bit like ointment, a thick oily substance, but harder than ointment, which can be made into candles . The candles floating above the Hogwarts Great Hall were once homemade, and if anyone had time to look at the candles, they would find that they were all different lengths and thicknesses.

The atmospheric spell will synchronize with the weather outside the auditorium, making the auditorium's ceiling look like a glass roof, but there will also be rain and snow falling, and if anyone finds that his soup has been icy from the rain while eating, it will be very unappetizing.

These candles will play a protective role, and the rain and snow will disappear when they fall on them. As for how the rain and snow fall, it is not human-controllable. Therefore, in some places, the candles are consumed quickly and need to be replaced with new candles.

Pomona had planned to ask Albus to borrow a feather from his pet phoenix, scrape off some grease, and mix it with the ashes of the kindling bush that had been incinerated by the dragon fire to make plaster.

"You misunderstood." Albus said with a smile, "We don't want the fire bush to be reborn, but they can recognize that the wearer is one of our own, so don't attack."

So her task became this, to preset the "water house" before officially setting up the maze.

By observing the egg hatching process, first of all, the chicken embryo will develop blood vessels and a heart less than one millimeter. Through the continuous operation of the heart, the blood, the carrier of life, will flow through various organs of the body, playing the role of heat preservation and stability. She originally It is hoped that the rain will achieve this purpose.

Pomona looked up at the clouds in the sky. It was arranged by Felix, which was originally a gift.

She didn't know whether the spring water from the cave still had the magic power after evaporation and condensation. She started the water channel from the water chamber and extended it in eight directions. It looked like a bird from the sky. Huge spider.

She didn't use wind power, pumps and other things to power the water chamber, but used the simplest principle - cold and heat exchange, the vortex formed by the two temperatures of water makes the water flow everywhere, although it doesn't beat like a heart , can also reach the outermost edge of the maze.

After all this is done, Pomona has covered the entire stadium with a layer of lawn. This thin layer of soil will float with the kindling bushes growing on it in the future. The current problem is how to get rid of the kindling bushes from "paralysis" .

This is Mrs. Maxim's analogy. It is a bad thing if a person is conscious but unable to move. But she is more concerned about the issue of "defense", which is what Albus said, the maze can identify who is one of its own and not launch an attack.

The Goblet of Fire is usually a gorgeous wooden cup. When it starts to "activate", it will produce blue flames, which are almost the same color as the flames made by Grindelwald in Paris, but because of Nicolas, Paris was not destroyed. .

In other words, Madam Maxim wanted to use this characteristic of the Goblet of Fire to arrange the defensive magic of the maze. The extinguishing spell that Pomona originally thought of was only used as a firefighter when the maze started to burn.

She felt that what she was doing now was like decorating a house, first laying out the water pipes, and then hiding it with floor tiles, after all this was done, it was almost dawn, and she left Quidditch while no one was coming court.

This is a "physical job". Fortunately, with the previous training with the Mountain-Mounting Curse, her endurance has improved, and after returning to the office and taking a nap, she is alive and well again.

She went to the dragon's nest in the afternoon, but Charlie still didn't leave, but this time there was someone more beside him, Bill who came back from Egypt.

With this brother who worked at the dragon sanctuary, it wasn't just the Weasley twins who had a dragonskin fanny pack, Bill had a pair of dragonskin boots, too, which Bill was trying on when Pomona arrived.

He was already good looking, and he looked even better in the boots, and Bill was very pleased with them.

She stood stupidly for a while before she realized what she was going to do. Everyone was beaming. If she still looked sullen, she would be very disappointed, so she also walked over to say hello with a smile.

"Bill, Charlie," Pomona called from afar.

The two brothers heard her voice and waved to her together.

Of the 12 uses Albus discovered for dragon's blood, including "immortality", that's not to say that smearing it would make him as invulnerable as Achilles soaked in the river Styx.

Fire dragons are resistant to many spells, and this resistance causes people who have been smeared with fire dragon blood to be immune to some magic. Some advanced potions can be worn, taken and applied, but this "shield" cannot deflect the Avada Kedavra curse, and the duration is limited.

Madam Maxim wanted to use dragon's blood. Of course, don't expect Beauxbatons to bear the cost. With the current financial situation of Hogwarts, they can't afford Diagon Alley. Who else can she turn to except Charlie?

"That's no problem, how much do you want to use?" Charlie said generously.

"Fill this jug." Pomona handed Charlie a small crystal jug.

Charlie was about to take over, but was intercepted by Bill.

"Professor, did you cast the Space Expansion Charm on it?" Bill asked.

"Hahaha." Pomona tried to get away with it.

"Is it because of Dumbledore's order?" Charlie asked honestly.

"Yes." Pomona answered bluntly.

"I'll have to ask myself," Bill said.

"You don't believe me?" Pomona asked.

"Even dragons will be weak if they bleed too much, not to mention that they are going back to Romania soon, and the bumpy journey will make them weaker. If they look sick, it will be difficult to lend dragons next time, so I Just ask Dumbledore how much he needs."

Pomona couldn't refuse, so he followed Bill back.

"Is Gringotts doing well?" Pomona asked casually.

"It's not bad. The magic theory of ancient Egypt is far from the modern one. It has broadened my horizons a lot."

Pomona asked, remembering that Patsy was still receiving instructions from Crouch by owl after his death.

"Did someone really come back from the dead?"

"Call his name, and he will live forever. The name is one of the necessary elements for the resurrection of the Egyptians. In fact, people usually only know the 'false name' of others, and only his mother knows the 'real name'. If a person performs curse and witchcraft, he must call his 'real name' to be effective, so the mother will not tell anyone the child's real name." Bill said, "In other words, the mother is the most reliable patron saint, and she will be able to receive the glory. , The blessed 'false name' to the world, and the 'real name' that may be cursed and hurt is kept in one's arms. So in theory, if anyone wants to be resurrected, he needs a mother. There are several legends about mothers who bring their children back to life Yes, but I don't know if it's true."

Pomona also thinks it's absurd that Barty Crouch came back from the dead, she'd prefer someone who drank a Polyjuice Potion containing his hair and died like old Barty Crouch, but the sender didn't Knowing this, the old Barty Crouch's plan to "escape the shell of the golden cicada" was brought to light.

"Meet the right girl in Egypt?" Pomona asked.

Bill shook his head with a smile, "Let's talk about Egyptian magic."

This was before the "substitute teacher" Snape returned to Hogwarts. At that time, it happened to be the peak of the Death Eaters' activities, so that no one dared to apply for that cursed position.

Bill volunteered as a substitute teacher, even though he was a student himself at the time.

Pomona is looking forward to working with Bill, the story he tells is very interesting, if the Defense Against the Dark Arts professorship is really cursed, Moody may not stay until next year, a new teacher will be needed, that's all Bill, who was the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, would be cursed. But since he was a curse-breaker, he might not be afraid of curses anymore.

When they got back to the castle, they met Beauxbaton's students. Although they didn't go to the Hogwarts library for self-study, they still went to the empty classroom for class. Pomona remembered the Eris that had been placed in the empty classroom on the fifth floor magic mirror.

Dumbledore did not move it to the Room of Requirement, but placed it in the Relic Room, together with the Goblet of Fire, where there should have been Queen Maeve's crown, but it was stolen, and the suspect was Patricia.

"Go see the Mirror of Erised later?" Pomona asked.

"What?" Bill asked.

"Want to go?" Pomona asked.

"Why did you suddenly think of this?" Bill asked.

Audrey Dumont was one of the very few Beauxbaton students who shook hands with Harry, and the other was Fleur, because Harry saved her sister.

And Audrey shook hands with Harry because Harry's hands touched the Philosopher's Stone.

"I suspect there is space behind the mirror." Pomona mysteriously told Bill the scene where Harry stood in front of the Mirror of Erised and suddenly found the Philosopher's Stone in his pants pocket, "so it must be hidden. In the mirror."

"This may be your illusion." Bill, who was once blinded by the curse of portrait painting, subconsciously said, "The mirror is just a plane, and there is no space at all."

"That's why I said go and see the Mirror of Erised," Pomona said to Bill. "Don't you dare?"

Bill didn't refuse again, and soon they reached the principal's office.

"Come in," Dumbledore said after Pomona knocked on the door.

The two pushed the door open, and Dumbledore was not surprised by Bill's appearance.

"Long time no see, Bill." Dumbledore said with a smile, "Have you had a good trip?"

"Very good, Principal." Bill said politely, took a small wooden box from his jacket pocket, and put it on the table in front of Albus, "This is for you."

"What's this?" Albus asked, not looking like Egyptian candy from the packaging of the box.

"The cubit used to record the depth of the Nile's flooding," Bill said. "The Egyptians invented a special deep well to record the rise of the river. They represent auspiciousness."

Albus opened the box, and inside was a gold bracelet in the shape of a lotus flower.

It was only then that Pomona noticed that she never seemed to put much effort into pleasing Albus with presents, and even Bill knew how to give presents.

Then she thought of candles... hope Madame Maxime likes candlelight dinners or aromatherapy.