A day at Hogwarts

"This little pony's body is not good!"

Ronan looked at Charles with a look of resentment, and the centaurs beside him nodded in agreement.

Charles didn't bother to pay attention. These centaurs could go without clothes when it snowed, so he didn't dare to imitate them.

The centaurs also have blankets or clothes sewn from fur, but that is only for weak and sick centaurs.

At this time Twilight said to them: "Uncle Ronan, don't bully Charles, he is still a child!"

Charles could only smile, and Twilight thought she was a child, based on her short stature.

Twilight dragged Charles around the tribe.

"Aunt Jinhua!" Twilight came to the door of a family of horsemen, "Charles wants some dragon fruit branches to grow back, can you cut some?"

When the centaur in the house heard that it was Charles who wanted it, she immediately replied: "Yes, it's okay to dig it back. Do you want my help?"

Twilight said: "No, you can continue to take care of the apple blossoms."

Charles stood by the door, didn't look into the room, thanked Aunt Jinhua, and then turned and slipped away.

Jinhua gave birth to a daughter, Apple Blossom, last winter, and is now kneeling on the haystack at home to nurse her daughter.

Apple Blossom was wearing a fiery red fox fur on the back half of her body, and a vest sewn from the skins of several rabbits. She stood at the right height in front of her mother.

Although people don't think there is a problem with their views, it's better for Charles to consciously avoid it.

There is a stone wall outside Jinhua's house, which is two meters high, and dragon fruit, which is older than Charles, has already covered the stone wall.

Charles was picking finger-thick branches to cut back for planting. Twilight walked behind him to look for higher branches, and the airflow when he breathed made his hair a little messy.

The lungs and heart of the centaurs are much larger than those of humans, especially the lungs, which occupy almost the entire upper body. However, although the bridge of the nose of the horsemen is high and straight, the nostrils are not much larger than those of humans, so the airflow speed when breathing is not small.

Twilight said while cutting the branches: "In summer, it is full of fruits, which glow like fire, and the seeds inside are like stars, so beautiful."

"The light is brightest when the fruit is ripe, and you can pick it at that time. The juice is delicious."

Charles marveled at the magic of this fruit, and forgot to ask why it could only be picked when it was ripe.

Then he remembered the purple mushroom that Professor Sprout mentioned, and asked Twilight about it.

Twilight immediately replied: "You mean the kind of purple mushrooms, we have them. In autumn, we picked the mushrooms that started to lose powder, dried them, and ground them. In spring, when it rained, we sprinkled them on the rotten wood that could be pressed to produce water. , it will grow out soon."

"Tell me, if the chicken eats that kind of mushroom, the eggs it lays are also delicious."

The horse people raise chickens mainly to eat eggs, and they are quite experienced in this regard.

Charles thought about whether he should try raising two or three hens at home.

The British also have some history of raising chickens at home. After World War II, when supplies were scarce, many families raised chickens to lay eggs, and many people still do it now.

But he gave up quickly. With the old man's current obsession with games, those chickens probably starved to death.

Charles asked Twilight, "Does anyone have these crushed mushrooms at home now? I'd like to try."

Twilight thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't know, but you can ask the First Elder."

The two of them chatted and cut enough branches, and then came to Ronan's house nearby, and asked Ronan's wife for some seeds of blue light bulbs.

Twilight says that the flower blooms like a hydrangea in large bulbs that glow blue at night. After its seeds are ground, the boiled water will have some aroma, and it can be used to wash the hair and tail more softly.

When Charles heard about it, he suddenly thought of someone. Her hair had been messed up since she was a child, and she could try it if she had a chance.

In the Hogwarts library, Hermione shivered suddenly.

When Charles and Twilight arrived at the residence of the elder centaur, the bearded Bane was leaving in a hurry with several centaurs.

Bane was a little absent-minded, but he pulled himself together and said a few words to Charles, and finally said: "Don't go to the hot cave recently, there are very dangerous things inside."

Charles asked curiously: "What is a hot hole?"

The Forbidden Forest is too big, and he won't be able to know all the places for a while.

Bane explained: "It's a cave far to the west. It may be hot all year round because of the wizard's magic relics."

"Just now we were chasing an acromantula. It ran into the hot hole and was wrapped in a black fur-like thing when it was at the hole."

"The acromantula soon stopped moving, and then there was a noise under the black fur, like eating a nut."

"By the time the black fur returned to the cave, there wasn't even a single leg hair left of the acromantula, and that piece of fur seemed to have thickened a bit."

Charles thought for a while, and was taken aback by the answer, which also frightened the centaur around him.

Bain asked him nervously: "Could it be some terrible monster?"

Charles was trying to learn about Africa recently, and happened to see this magical animal, so he said: "That is probably a Voldebat. They originally grew in very hot places. They fly silently and come out at night. Wrap up sleeping prey and suffocate it, then eat nothing left."

"I think it hides in the hot hole because it's too cold, and it will come out in summer."

The horse people around gasped when they heard that, no one wanted to be eaten while sleeping at night.

Charles thought that an exclamation mark would appear above the head of the elder.

What happened next was beyond his expectation, there was an exclamation point, but this was not a task jointly arranged by the old man and the elder, it was an emergency.

Charles took the task without hesitation. The spell known to be able to deal with Voldebat is the Patronus Charm. He has already mastered it, but he doesn't know how the Patronus of the Ship Girl fights.

That night, Charles still stayed at Twilight's house.

It's just that Twilight was sorting out the plant branches that she had cut in the afternoon looking sullen, and Charles sat beside her and asked, "Why are you unhappy?"

Twilight shook her head first, and then asked him, "Charles, do you think I'm useless?"

Charles asked suspiciously: "No, why do you think so?"

Twilight lowered her head and said, "I want to fight with you too, but I can't use a bow. When I practiced archery a few days ago...it hurts...I can't use a bow anymore."

Charles didn't know what to say for a while, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Why don't you try a javelin?"

The horse people also have the practice of throwing stones, but only children do it, and they use bows and arrows when they grow up.

Twilight shook her head and said, "My hands aren't that strong."

After all, she is not very old, and her hands are still very slender for a centaur.

Charles thought for a moment, then took out a pair of dumbbells that he usually used for exercising from his bag and handed them to her.