Chapter 299: Hufflepuff's Attributes (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Pomona Sprout is Professor of Herbology at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Head of Hufflepuff House.
Compared to other professors, this fat witch with a warm smile on her face and a little dirt stain on her body may be one of the most low-key and reserved professors in the entire school.
Outside of meal time, most of the teachers and students could only see her in the greenhouses and vegetable patches outside the castle.
There is no doubt that, just as the infirmary is Madam Pomfrey's domain, Professor Splett, as an expert in herbology, is also responsible for the management of the Hogwarts vegetable fields, in addition to the greenhouse that exists as a classroom.
For Elena, it's like "stealing vegetables" from someone else's virtual vegetable garden in her previous life, when she suddenly received a pop-up message from the owner of the vegetable garden - the most important thing is that she accidentally said it just now.
"Uh-huh...... Counting the ingredients?" Professor Sprout raised an eyebrow and repeated with interest.
"Uh, that's it......"
Elena blinked, smiled awkwardly but politely, and her brain raced to work as she glanced at the two little wings that had no sense of righteousness, hoping to get some useful off-the-field hints.
Hufflepuff House is recognized as the most easy-going and friendly house, and no one would deny that.
But, on the other hand, Hufflepuff is also the most stubborn house in all of Hogwarts, just like Newt Scamander, Hannah Abbott, and Cedric Diggory, once they recognize something, it is easy to display a stubbornness that borders on despair - silly, but yet the most difficult Hufflepuff spirit.
As the dean of Hufflepuff House, Pomona Sprout undoubtedly inherited the Hufflepuff spirit.
In the original book, when Dumbledore dies unexpectedly and the rest of the professors in the school are hesitant to close Hogwarts, the usually friendly and easy-going witch bursts out with the strongest stance: "As long as one student wants to come to school, the school should continue to open." ”
This meant that it would be a very bad thing to make the seemingly easy-going Hufflepuff Dean feel bad - not that Professor Sprout would do anything to target him, but that with the character of this zealous witch, he would definitely do anything to "help" Elena get rid of her bad habits.
Just a young version of Hannah's little iron girl is enough to give Elena a headache, and she doesn't want to find a way to deal with an upgraded version of the "Iron Lady" in the next study time, so she didn't think about how to deal with Professor Sprout for a while.
But fortunately, it seems that Lady Luck is on her side again today.
Syllable.
Looking at the little silver-haired witch who was a little flustered, Professor Sprout slapped his palm lightly and smiled.
"Today's breakfast was delicious and well done. ”
"Huh?"
Elena, who was about to be cross-examined, blinked, slightly stunned.
"Don't be shy, Professor Dumbledore had already checked with the kitchen for breakfast. ”
Professor Sprout continued with a look of appreciation in his eyes, smiling.
"So professors know that today's hearty and delicious breakfast was made possible by a little guy who slipped into the kitchen at six a.m. – frankly, it was the best breakfast I've ever had at Hogwarts. ”
Hufflepuff House is an existence so mundane that it's easy to ignore, whether it's the dean or the students, who always seems to act as some kind of tepid mediocre backdrop.
Wisdom was crowned on the head of Ravenclaw, courage was placed on Gryffindor, even ambition and nobility were taken away by Slytherin, and Hufflepuff seemed to be more of a shelter, mercifully taking in the little wizards who were not favored by the other three houses - rice buckets, mediocrity, honest people, and iron-hearted...... These are all Hufflepuff labels.
In fact, ever since Elena chose to enter Hufflepuff during the sorting ceremony, there has been a debate among the professors about whether or not the completion of the Sorting Hat should be recognized.
After all, in its entirety, the Sorting Hat, which embodies the ideas of the four founders, doesn't read Elena's heart, and strictly speaking, Elena is not a young wizard who has completed the sorting ceremony - and this is something that begins to gain more and more of an undercurrent as Elena gradually becomes prominent among the students.
As a professor who has been teaching for many years, everyone can easily feel that Elena is different.
Whether it's her affinity for the House in defiance of House barriers among her freshmen in her year, or the near-demonic learning ability and magical talent she's displayed, not to mention Dumbledore's obvious extra attention - if it weren't for the fact that everyone knew that Dumbledore was still unmarried, everyone would have suspected that this was not the Headmaster's illegitimate (grandchild) daughter.
And in this case, Elena, who has a flaw in the ownership of the Sorting House, makes everything start to become more subtle
At least from Professor Sprout's point of view, she can clearly feel that there is not only one college dean who peeps and covets his own "moonlight", but even many old friends have begun to dig into the wall.
Gryffindor House, of course, is the most obvious.
Professor Sprout never expected that since Elena had slept in Gryffindor's dormitory by mistake, Elena would be wearing Gryffindor's uniform the next day.
"Miss Kaslana has Gryffindor qualities, brave and adventurous, and we should try something. ”
Dumbledore, who was born in Gryffindor House, explained it this way, and then agreed to allow Elena to keep the Gryffindor house uniform and enter and exit the Gryffindor common room normally.
Then, at the beginning of the week, just yesterday morning, Severus Snape made a random excuse to change Elena's uniform to the style of Slytherin House, and asked Elena to sit at the Slytherin table.
Crucially, Sprout almost believed Snape's so-called "annoying little guy", "a little lesson", "it will change back before class", and "a student should not have two uniforms".
Outcome...... Hum!
Every afternoon in the Potions class, there was an unprecedented additional teaching assistant, and Snape even took the initiative to add a point to Elena in order to show kindness - Pomona Sprout didn't believe that a little witch in the first year could help in the Potions class in the upper class, which was clearly secretly robbing the students.
What bothered Ssprout the most was that the qualities that Elena displayed during this period, whether it was courage and risk-taking, or almost substantial ambition and cohesion, did not seem to have much to do with the spirit advocated by Hufflepuff.
So much so that sometimes she wondered if this dazzling little witch was a proper Hufflepuff.
But, as of this morning, she could finally be 100% sure that Elena Kaslana was a natural Hufflepuff student, and no house could snatch her away, not even the Sorting Hat would have made such a decision.
Passionate, kind-hearted, hardworking, honest, ...... These may be the world's first impressions of Hufflepuff.
But these traits are not particularly marked and distinguished, in fact, all good students will have these most basic character traits, and there is only one special mark that truly belongs to Hufflepuff.
Delicacies!
The most distinctive feature of Hufflepuff House is a love and talent that far surpasses that of any other wizard in any field of food.
In fact, almost all of the magic spells about food in the entire European wizarding world today were invented by wizards from Hufflepuff Schools, and more than 90% of the authors of magic cookbooks are also from Hufflepuff House wizards.
However, even so, in the long history of Hogwarts, there has never been a wizard who can convince all house-elves of their cooking skills - perhaps Lady Helga Hufflepuff was able to do this, but she was not able to become the "head chef" of the kitchen.
"Miss Caslana, or rather, our lovely little chef Hufflepuff. ”
Professor Sprout walked over, lovingly patted the dirt on Elena's body, tilted his head slightly, looked around the lush vegetable patch, and said in a cheerful tone.
"Maybe we can take care of this vegetable patch together...... I'm a little embarrassed to say that, while growing and serving plants is my forte, it's not my area of expertise when it comes to how to turn them into delicious dishes, or what vegetables are lacking in our Hogwarts kitchens - to be honest, I'm getting a little tired of the decades-old recipes in Hogwarts kitchens, and it's time for some changes. ”
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