Chapter 266 Herbology Class And Theory Of...

Hogwarts rarely suffers from food poisoning. To be precise, with the magical power and the service attitude of the house-elves, mass food poisoning of students before dinner time is close to zero.

As young wizards from England with little inclination towards food and culinary imagination, before Elena's arrival, students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry never considered cooking for themselves.

For this reason, both herbology and potions classes are taught directly from magical plants and potions. As for the rest of the common plant and animal organizations, most are just scientific outreach.

However, after the "Event of the Poisonous Mushroom Picnic" that shook the entire school last week, it directly exposed a particularly fatal weakness of Hogwarts students: in relation to magical knowledge, they know very little about non-magical circles.

If a first-year wizard had mistakenly picked the poisonous mushrooms, it would be understandable, but it would be incredible that all seventh-year students who were about to graduate were poisoned by the mushrooms.

No one recognized the toxicity of the mushrooms, nor did it occur to anyone to perform a simple magical identification of toxins (although this magic is not recorded in the book of curses), most importantly, the last person to send a distress message is from the first-grade witch in the non-magical world...

After going through this incident, the originally stubborn board of directors even rarely appeared to relent, and overwhelmingly agreed that Hogwarts should add the disclosure of some non-magical world knowledge in subsequent courses. Elena will be responsible for the content of this part, collectively referred to as [Natural Sciences].

Pomona Sprout, the herbology teacher, is naturally very happy with the change in this course. Even if in this way, the teaching tasks she needs to undertake will be heavier, it is no problem as long as more children can be exposed to knowledge about plants.

"Identifying the mushroom?"

The eyes of the young wizards focused on the pile of brightly colored mushrooms in Professor Sprout's hands, especially on the familiar red and white mushrooms. Many whispered low tongues, and a trace of fear and embarrassment could be seen on their faces.

"Professor, based on my experience, this cannot be eaten. Well, are there others, I suppose... should the brightly colored mushrooms be eaten?"

Susan Burns raised her hand, pointing to the poisonous mosquito umbrella in Sprout's hands and the rest of the mushrooms, and whispered, saying that the girl unconsciously turned her head towards the trio at the end of the line.

Speaking of this, knowledge about mushrooms also benefits from Hermione's science. Although Granger sometimes has certain inhuman severity and ego, everyone still appreciates and admires this intelligent Gryffindor witch from the bottom of their hearts.

"It seems you have learned a little in the classes, very well."

Sprout nodded in satisfaction, smiling gently, looking around at the youngsters.

"However, it is not entirely correct. So, do other students have other answers... Miss Granger?"

Following Susan Burns's gaze, Professor Sprout looked at the three girls at the end of the crowd, observed Hermione with her raised arm, smiled, and nodded.

"Professor, the second purple mushroom to your left is the small dew mushroom mentioned in "Thousand Kinds of Magical Herbs and Fungi." Its direct consumption can relieve dampness and poison. The light blue fat mushroom is the ice mushroom, also recorded in "Thousand Kinds of Magical Herbs and Fungi," often planted in ancient cellars by ancient wizards to store food, and it is not mentioned as edible."

Hermione blinked, looked at the mushroom in Professor Sprout's hands, and answered with additional confidence.

Since the incident last week, she has read "Thousand Kinds of Magical Herbs and Fungi" in its entirety three times. With her eyes closed, she can recite the content of the book. She is very sure that not even Elena could respond better than her.

"The answer is correct, Gryffindor earns five points."

Professor Sprout nodded satisfactorily and looked at the young wizards with some seriousness, "I'm sorry, even after last week's lessons, it still seems that you do not realize the importance of herbology; in fact, if you had read the textbook carefully, at least distinguishing this light blue ice mushroom should be easy."

"Miss Granger answered correctly, except for the small mushrooms, these are inedible mushrooms."

Upon hearing Professor Sprout's praise, Hermione's successful smile showed a sweet expression on her face as she looked at Hannah and Elena with pride.

Although she couldn't take a potions class with Hufflepuff, Hermione is confident that she can perform as well as Elena in any class; after all, for them, getting the highest score is already the limit.

No matter how good Elena is, she won't be able to break the upper limit to gain more points, they will always be tied.

Is this little ** trying to provoke? What an innocent little Miss Teacher.

Elena looked at Hermione with a victorious posture and shook her head ridiculously. She almost forgot. Hermione in class was a convincing school bully. She still needs to be in class to unlock the good impression. She accepts the challenge head-on.

"Professor Sprout, I think the standard answer in your mouth seems a bit careless."

When Sprout was about to put the mushroom in her hand and was about to open the greenhouse door, Elena abruptly raised her mouth and raised her hand. "In my opinion, the record in "Thousand Kinds of Magical Herbs and Fungi" is only correct, but not complete."

"Okay?"

Professor Sprout raised an eyebrow and looked at Elena with great interest.

Despite being the legendary little witch of her own house, she still admires her overall.

But before that, more attention was paid to Elena's magical talents and her ability to help and lead her classmates. The true reservoir of knowledge of this silver-haired witch is not particularly understood.

After all, the herbal medicine class is a special subject that is different from most courses. If you want to learn it well, you need more love and time accumulation than magical talent or extraordinary eloquence.

"Caslana, do you think there is anything to add to Ms. Granger's identification results?"

"Precisely, it's not an addition, but a correction."

Elena glanced at the brown-haired person who had opened the book and began to compare it carefully. She shook her head slightly; sometimes, the textbook couldn't fix it.

"Danger comes from the unknown and conservative. For example, this fly agaric is actually a relatively common edible fungus in Russia. The toxic substances of the fly agaric are water-soluble. After crushing or cutting it into cubes, and using a large amount of water to boil and filter it many times, when the soup is completely white, you can eat it."

Elena said, pointing to the red and white poisonous umbrella in Professor Sprout's hand, and spoke softly.

In fact, Elena had eaten this extraordinarily common mushroom in Europe more than once when she was struggling to survive in an orphanage.

Although the unique fragrance of the mushroom had almost completely disappeared after repeated filtering with boiling water, it was enough for children who only needed to eat to supplement their basic body energy.

Elena looked at the rest of the mushrooms in Sprout's hands and shrugged.

"In fact, most of the components of mushrooms are substances that can be digested by our stomach."

"This means that, theoretically, they are all edible, some can be eaten directly, and others require a little processing."

Many years ago, the accumulated millennial experience of the great food empire ~ ~ had unified all things in the world.

You can eat many times...

And, you can only eat once.

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