The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

The taste of fried snails is endless.

Hermione carefully chewed the squid that Tom had stuffed in her, and before she knew it, she had eaten the whole squid cleanly.

Hermione's eyes were bright after eating the fried-ended snails. She excitedly told Tom that the taste of fried-ended 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, "Okay, I admit that you have found the advantages of the Blast-Ended Skrewt."

"Would you like another one?" Tom smiled.

"No, this is Hagrid's teaching material after all." Of course Hermione refused, but her eyes betrayed her.

"What a good boy." Tom rolled his eyes - most of these snails would kill each other, and he was just a waste.

I just don’t know what Hagrid’s attitude will be when he hears about his discovery.

What Hermione didn't dare to do, Tom dared to do. The third time he started, Tom became more courageous. He handled four or five squids at once, skewered them and put them on the fire for roasting.

Naturally, it was impossible for such a generous act to escape the eyes of others, so several of Hermione's roommates were attracted.

"Yordle, what are you doing?" Padma looked curious.

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

Roommates:…

After thinking for a moment, Padma said to Tom, "Can I have a taste?"

Hermione and others:?

Tom was also a little surprised, but he was relieved after thinking that Padma's hometown was in India - Asians generally have a higher tolerance threshold for various ingredients. He generously handed over a roasted squid.

Padma thanked her, took the snail, blew on it twice, and started eating it in small bites. When the snail meat entered her mouth, her eyes lit up: "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 carve up the roasted snails, and felt an inexplicable sense of loss in her heart: She wanted to eat it too!

"Here, this is your share." Tom handed the squid he had left to Hermione's hand. Didn't he understand this girl Hermione? Sometimes it's just that the words don't match the integrity of the body. If he really didn't leave it for her, even though she didn't say it, she would still feel very uncomfortable in her heart.

Tom could see that this was not going to happen.

Sure enough, Hermione was happy again after getting her own Explosive-Ended Skrewt.

Next, Tom and the others had been quietly roasting the snails in the corner, and Padma generously took out a lot of spices to add a lot of flavor to the snails.

However, even though several people kept eating, the number of snails eaten in the end was not too much. After all, this is a snail, not a crayfish. One person can eat three kilograms of crayfish, but three of these six-inch-long snails are almost full.

And compared with its distant relatives of shrimp, which are not known to be related by blood, fried-tailed snails have almost no "shrimp head", and the entire tail is an edible part, and its utilization rate is as high as that of squid.

So even if a few people feasted, they ended up eating less than twenty pieces - there were more than a hundred in a box, so a 20% less was not that surprising.

"It seems like things are going well here?" Hagrid was busy, and finally dealt with various accidents that happened in other groups, and transferred his energy to this seemingly quiet corner.

"Well, ah, it's very delicious - I mean it went well." Several people stood up in a panic.

Although the six Toms were acting suspiciously, Hagrid, who was thick-skinned, did not realize it. He took a look at the snails in the box and found nothing unusual. He just vaguely felt that the snails in the box seemed more active and aggressive. ?

This is natural. Blast-tailed snails are aggressive by nature and are prone to fights when similar species meet with similar species. If the box is packed like a sardine can, that's fine. But Tom's box was missing twenty pieces, which left a lot of space. So the snails had a "place to use" and couldn't wait to fight.

"Are they easy to feed?" Hagrid asked without hope. The other groups had no clue at all, and Hagrid could only hope in the group led by Tom, which seemed to be going extremely smoothly.

"It's quite delicious...I mean they're not picky eaters." Tom didn't find what the snails liked, but he found his favorite food.

"Well, I'll go back and look for other ingredients - we have to solve this problem." 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 shouted in surprise, and he patted Tom on the shoulder, "If it really works, I'll give Ravenclaw ten points... no, twenty points!"

As for what to do if the upper limit is exceeded... Hagrid said that points can be added in installments.

"Hagrid, why don't you consider giving these little guys a separate compartment? Separate them all, you see they tend to fight when put together."

Tom could understand the aggressiveness of the Blast-Ended Skrewts. It is a biological instinct to exclude competitors. Shark pups will kill all their unborn brothers and sisters after the eggs are broken, which is similar to the constant internal fighting of bomb-tailed snails, all in order to obtain more survival resources for themselves.

Tom pointed at a pair of blow-tailed snails that were fighting and said, "How can you think about eating when you're just busy fighting?"

Hagrid suddenly realized: "What you said makes sense, so it's not that they don't like the food, it's that they don't have time to eat."

"There is no safe environment to eat," Tom added.

"I'm going to make individual boxes for them after class." Hagrid had his own plan.

"Yes, you can grow better in a safe environment, snails, you have to grow up quickly - and you can't fight." Tom looked at the snails in the box and showed a devilish smile, " If you get injured in a fight, there’s nothing you can do.”

He took out the defeated snail and said, "This snail was seriously injured in the fight. 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 has been living in my vegetable patch now. Listen to me, you don't know..." As expected, Hagrid's attention was drawn to the Hippogriff by Hermione, and he began to talk endlessly. The story started about Buckbeak guarding the vegetable patch for him.

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