As soon as he opened the door to the dormitory, Albert was startled by the sight of a dark shadow running past his feet, and thought that his Tom was about to slip out when the door was open, so he instinctively put his hand into his pocket and was about to take out his wand to summon Tom back, only to find that there was a stuffy mass rubbing his ankle.

"Alright, I'm going to get you lunch. ”

Albert bent down to scoop Tom up and lifted his foot to close the door.

He opened the drawer, which was filled with cat food and canned cat food, reached out and pushed Tom's head away, took a can of cat food from it, opened it and mixed it with cat food and put it in a bowl. Then, with a wave of his wand, he emptied the other bowl of water and replaced it with a new one.

"It seems that we have to ask how other people have cats in school. When Albert had finished eating, he scooped it up and tossed it upside down, as heavy as ever.

"It's time for you to lose weight, let's go, take you to the common room, which will be your space for a long time to come. ”

Once Tom was familiar with the dormitory, Albert would let him move around in the Gryffindor's common room, and then slowly expand the space to familiarize himself with the castle's environment, get in touch with more students, and distinguish between good and evil in others, so as not to suffer losses in the future.

There were not many people in the Gryffindor common room at noon, Albert found an empty seat to sit down, took out his pocket watch from his pocket and looked at the time, ready to let Tom move around the common room under his own surveillance, but he soon noticed that his cat did not seem to plan to wander around, but instead jumped on the table next to Albert and just lay there and took a nap.

"Sleep when you're full, you're really good!"

Albert raised his hand and rubbed Tom's head, and sighed softly, "If you don't exercise, you're going to be fat balls." ”

Someone next to him was covering his mouth and chuckling, looking at the fat cat here curiously, and whispering in a low voice. Albert turned his head to look at two young girls who he didn't recognize.

Well, it should be a freshman in the first and second grades, and the other party noticed that Albert turned his head to look over, and he was also a little embarrassed, so he quickly turned around and walked away.

Albert retracted his gaze and pulled a cat teasing stick out of his pocket, trying to get his cat moving.

After spending nearly an hour in the common room, Albert sends Tom back to the dorm room and uses the time turner to go back to an hour ago.

He went straight to the school library, only to find that Fred, George, and Lee Jordan hadn't arrived yet, so he had replaced himself with a place for the three of them.

Soon after, the three of them entered the library one after another, and they were still surprised that Albert had arrived at the library before them.

On the first day of school, the school library was still full as always, and a bunch of people were rushing to do their holiday homework.

Fred gloated a little over this, completely forgetting that he had been one of them.

In the afternoon, the first session was a class on the protection of magical creatures, which was held in a clearing on the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

The elderly professor has been teaching at the school for many years, and he knows exactly how to arouse students' interest in protecting magical beasts.

With Hagrid's help, Professor Kettleber prepares a campfire and tells them about the pile of salamanders inside, and learning about salamanders is what we are talking about today.

Everyone sat around the campfire, observing the salamanders in the bonfire and listening to Professor Kettleber explain the amazing animal salamander.

The way the class was conducted was very interesting and immediately aroused everyone's interest.

Professor Kettleber pointed to the salamander in the campfire with a twig and told everyone that salamanders were born of flames and feed on them. As long as the bonfire in front of them is not extinguished, they will continue to live.

"What if the flames go out?" asked a Ravenclaw girl with a raised hand.

"After leaving the flames, the salamander will soon die. ”

"Wouldn't they be too pathetic. ”

Sooner or later, the campfire will go out, which means that the salamanders in the campfire will die soon.

Professor Kettleber raised his hand and pressed it, motioning for everyone to be quiet.

"If you regularly feed the salamanders that leave the flames with the right amount of paprika, you can delay their death, but they will only live for up to six hours. He told everyone, "I'll bring back the salamanders here after the campfire is extinguished, and they usually need a wizard to create a special environment to survive." ”

Albert knew it, because the salamander represented the number 6 in the rune alphabet.

"Of course, when you feed paprika to salamanders, you can't feed too much. "Professor Kettleber showed you why you can't feed too much paprika to salamanders.

Salamanders that have eaten a lot of paprika will have brighter skin, and will spit sparks from their mouths, setting Professor Kettleber's white beard on fire.

"That's it, you need to be fed paprika every 10 minutes. Professor Kettleber slapped out the sparks on his beard and threw the salamander back into the campfire, "By the way, keeping the salamander alive for an hour at room temperature is one of the final exams of the year. ”

Over the next few days, Professor Kettleber asked everyone to go to the edge of the forest to collect firewood leaves to make the fire burn more vigorously and to observe the color change on the salamanders.

The color of the salamander changes with the heat of the flame, if the flame temperature is high, it will tend to be blue, if the flame temperature is low, it will gradually appear bright red, and at room temperature, it will be bright orange.

Watching the salamanders bounce around in the crackling firewood, everyone thought it was a very interesting lesson.

Albert used his wand to fish a salamander out of the campfire, and as soon as it left the flames, its skin immediately turned a vivid orange red, and it was still a little hot in the palm of his hand.

Fred and the others immediately came up to observe the salamander's reaction, and felt like it was burning with flames.

The salamander quickly broke free from Albert's grasp and fell to the ground and tried to run into the campfire, only to be caught by Fred's tail.

The poor salamander escaped with its tail cut off and soon disappeared into the campfire.

Fred looked at the tail of the lizard writhing in his hand, and suddenly didn't know what to say.

"Hey, one of the salamanders has rotten scales, and it's actually lost its tail. Professor Kettleber was surprised when he saw Fred's tail on the ground.

The latter's face was a little embarrassed, and the salamander lost its tail, apparently not related to the rotten scales.

"Salamanders, like fire dragons, can have rotten scales, and once the scales rot, they will drop their tails. If you raise a salamander and you encounter this situation, you just need to smear it with some paprika for treatment. Professor Kettleber said to the students who were laughing and talking, "Why don't you write it down?"

"Is there anything special about salamanders, sir?" Fred said as he threw away the tail and changed the subject, "I mean, why do wizards raise them?" ”

"Salamander blood has a strong healing and healing properties, and can also be used to make a variety of potions. This is one of the reasons why wizards keep salamanders. Professor Kettleber explained.

"How do we get blood from salamanders?" Albert asked, "they don't look like they have a lot of blood on them." ”

"Good, that's supposed to be something you're not going to learn until next year. Of course, if you want to know. Professor Kettleber waved his wand, and a salamander flew out of the fire and landed on his hand.

"As we said earlier, salamanders die soon after they leave the flames, so be quick enough to get blood. Professor Kettleber pulled out a knife and a test tube and showed how to take blood from salamanders.

The method is very simple, it is to cut the salamander's hind foot near the tail, and then stroke it from head to tail like milking a cow.

That's right, it's so simple and crude.

As for hemostasis?

Well, the blood of the salamander has a strong healing power, and it won't take long for the wound to heal automatically.

"Moderate strength, otherwise it will cause the salamander's internal organs to rupture, and although this will not kill them, it will make the salamander very uncomfortable. Professor Kettleber threw the salamander back into the campfire and continued, "It's best to wear gloves when taking blood, otherwise you might get burned. ”

"Of course, if you need salamander blood, you can buy it at the pharmacy, and a small bottle will cost ten sico. ”

"......" George didn't know what he was muttering.

"Salamanders are easy to raise, the only problem is that the process of collecting blood is complicated, and many wizards are reluctant to do this work, but the blood of salamanders needs to be used in many places. Professor Kettleber expressed concern and motioned for everyone to continue to observe the salamanders, preferably how they feed.

Fred and George tried to "rescue" the salamanders from the Conservation of Magical Creatures class, but Albert scoffed at how he didn't know Fred's personality and simply refused to help them make bottles and blue flames that could fit into bottles.

In the end, the twins had no choice but to give up and take the salamander away, and it didn't live long at all.

"We just want to keep a salamander. Fred muttered, "You've got cats, Lee Jordan has spiders, and we don't have pets of our own." ”

"I don't think Snape would want you to take that thing into the Potions classroom. Albert reminded, "Also, what do you want to feed it?"

"We just wanted to see what would happen if we fed the salamanders and pulled out the fireworks. George blinked and said honestly. Fred's words couldn't fool Albert at all.

"That's a good idea. Lee Jordan's eyes lit up and he chimed in, "We can get a salamander next time and try it." ”