The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

"Look, it looks pretty good." Tom proudly waved the squid meat towards Hermione, showing off his achievements.

The fried snail that had been hastily handled by Tom was no longer as disgusting and unacceptable as it had been in life, and the snail meat even looked crystal clear. But Hermione was deeply impressed by the squid, and the ferocious appearance before treatment was still vivid in her mind, so even if it looked like shrimp meat, she couldn't help but take a step back.

"Take it, take it away!" Hermione couldn't help but trembled.

Tom quickly looked at Hagrid's position and found that he was comforting Hannah whose fingers were burned. It can be seen that Hagrid is trying his best to eliminate the adverse effects caused by the Blast-Ended Skrewt. However, one wave did not subside, another wave broke out, and before the tears in the corners of Hannah's eyes were wiped away, Tom's roommate Michael Corner let out another scream.

"It stung me!" A stream of blood appeared on Michael Corner's wrist. It looked like he had been stung by the stinger on the back of the snail. Hagrid walked quickly away from Hannah and came to Michael to wrap up the wound on his finger.

"Don't worry, I'm sure they are non-toxic." Hagrid reassured Michael while patting his chest.

"Non-toxic?" Tom's eyes lit up, this was really good news. You see, there are advantages to squid!

Hagrid's words are quite reasonable. A species that is covered in carapace and can actively cause explosions has no motivation to light up the "Poison" skill branch.

The carapace of an adult snail is strong enough to deflect spells, and it rushes around like a small tank. However, the current fried-tailed snails are still in their juvenile state, and their shells are not even as hard as shrimp shells. Just be careful not to get pricked by the thorns.

"The water is as clear as a spring!" Tom washed the snail meat in his hand. The fried-tailed snail originally smelled like rotten fish and shrimp, but after Tom peeled off the soft shell, washed away the mucus, and removed the internal organs, the smell completely disappeared.

"The flames are blazing!" After cleaning the fried-end snail meat, Tom took a few steps away, lit a fire in the corner, and then placed the processed fried-end snail meat on the fire to slowly roast.

Tom instinctively felt that the smell of the squid shouldn't be too bad. Especially since Hagrid's batch of fried-tailed snails were still newly hatched young snails and had not had time to eat any strange food.

As for appearance? Don't pay too much attention to it, it's just crackling shrimp.

The meat of fried-tailed snails is not very resistant to grilling. After being grilled on the fire for only ten seconds, the snail meat turned into a snow-white color and gave off the aroma of fresh seafood. Tom removed the snail meat from the fire, brought it to his mouth, blew on it twice, and chewed it in one bite. He felt the delicious fragrance explode in his mouth. The lightly grilled snail meat was crispy and fragrant. It was sweet and rich, a unique taste that Tom had never tasted before. Tom chewed a few mouthfuls and swallowed the body of the fried-ended snail in one go.

The trunk of the snail tastes exactly like lobster, but the tail has a completely different texture - like bone marrow, with a crispy shell on the outside and a smooth marrow with an aroma of oil inside.

The fried-ended snail smelled disgusting when it was alive, but the cleaned meat had no peculiar smell, which made Tom's index finger twitch.

"It's a pity that there is no seasoning. If you can make a sauce with soy sauce, vinegar, minced ginger and minced garlic..." Tom looked at the box full of fried-ended snails with unfinished content.

Hermione witnessed the whole process of Tom hunting the squid, and she was stunned.

"Are you okay? Can you eat this kind of thing?" After the shock, Hermione felt a little worried: Don't eat magical animals indiscriminately!

"Don't worry, Hagrid said, the snails are not poisonous." Tom's common sense told him that animals in the ecological niche of the snails are unlikely to be poisonous. Tom was more concerned about the taste of the snails than the illusory poisoning. .

Can this kind of thing be used as sashimi? Will the taste change as an adult? These are all questions to be explored.

"Would you like some?" Tom looked at Hermione and then at the box full of Blast-Ended Skrewts, feeling a little unfinished.

Hermione was hesitant. On the one hand, her reason was dissuading her from trying food of unknown origin, but on the other hand, it was Tom's warm invitation. Looking at Tom's expression just now, he seemed to really enjoy it.

"Okay, I've eaten seafood such as lobster many times, but are you sure that snails can be treated like lobsters? After all, this kind of creature is not mentioned in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", "Magic Potions and Potions" There is no record of the properties of squid meat." Hermione began to recall the books she had read, trying to find records about squid, but she failed.

"There is no record, which means that it has no special potion value, and there is no need to care about it. You know, those poisonous and harmful magical animals have long been discovered and recorded by the predecessors of the magic world." At this point, Tom I couldn't help but feel a sense of awe towards the seniors in the magic world. It's just a pity that the predecessors didn't record the smell of various magical animals.

Tom fished out a snail from the box again. This time, he did not rush to disembowel the snail, but observed this strange creature very carefully. His dragonhide gloves and long-sleeved wizard's robes played an important role in keeping him from being burned by the blaster's tail or punctured by the spikes on his back.

After observing for a moment, Tom had to admit: the mouth and eyes of the Blast-Ended Skrewt are really difficult to find. Then he removed the head and internal organs of the fried-ended snail, and quickly turned it into a trembling mass of snail meat.

"It's still hard for me to accept it!" Hermione still couldn't forget the initial appearance of the Blast-Ended Skrewt. Taking a bite of this stuff was quite a challenging endeavor for her.

"I don't think you dislike the snails in French food." Tom brought the peeled and washed snails to his fire.

Ten seconds later, a bunch of steaming grilled snails came out of the oven.

"I...I'm also afraid of living snails." Hermione defended herself, but after hearing Tom's analogy, her acceptance of bomb-ended snails suddenly became higher.

Looking at Hermione who moved honestly to his side, Tom knew that the time had come and Hermione was just unwilling to take the initiative to ask for food out of face.

"It's baked, come on, open your mouth!"

"Eh? Wait -" Hermione wanted to say something, but Tom's quick eyesight and quick hands stuffed the Blast-Ended Skrewt into Hermione's mouth.

Well!

The grilled snail meat just taken off the fire was a bit hot for Hermione, but... it did have a magical aroma!

She chewed the snail meat quickly and exhaled loudly, as if the snail came to life in her mouth and had a fight with her tongue.