Chapter 266: Herbal Medicine Class and the Great Unification Theory (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Food poisoning was rare at Hogwarts, to be precise, with the magical prowess and service attitude of house-elves, there had been zero cases of food poisoning among students at mealtime before that.
As young British wizards who don't have much food appeal and culinary imagination, the students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry had never considered making their own food before Elena arrived.
Because of this, both the herbal medicine class and the potions class start directly from the teaching of potions and magic plants, and for the rest of the ordinary plant and animal organizations, most of them are just a little bit of science popularization.
However, after the [Poisonous Mushroom Picnic Incident] that shocked the whole school last week, it directly exposed a particularly fatal weakness of the Hogwarts students - they knew too little about some ordinary non-magical worlds compared to their knowledge of magic.
If it is forgivable that the first-year wizard mistakenly collected poisonous mushrooms, then it is really incredible that all the seventh-grade students who are about to graduate have fallen on the small mushrooms.
No one recognized the poison of mushrooms, no one thought of performing a simple toxin identification spell (although it was not recorded in the Charms textbook), and, crucially, a first-year witch from the Muggle world who sent a message for help......
After this experience, the originally stubborn board of directors even relented, and overwhelmingly agreed to Hogwarts' subsequent lessons to include the popularization of non-magical parts of the world, which Elena referred to collectively as "natural science".
As a professor of herbal medicine, Pomona Sprout is very happy about this kind of curriculum change, even if it will be more onerous for her to teach, but as long as more children can be exposed to the knowledge of plants, it will not be a problem at all.
"Identifying mushrooms?"
The little wizards' eyes fell on the pile of brightly colored mushrooms in Professor Sprout's hand, especially the familiar red and white mushrooms, and many of them quietly stuck out their tongues, and their faces showed a hint of fear and shame.
"Professor, in my experience, this one can't be eaten. Well, there's a lot of that, I guess...... You can't eat any brightly colored mushrooms, right?"
Susan Bones raised her hand, pointed to the poison fly umbrella in Sprout's hand, and the rest of the mushrooms, and whispered in reply, as she spoke, the girl subconsciously turned her head to look at the trio at the end of the line.
Speaking of which, this knowledge about mushrooms also benefits from Hermione's popular science, although Granger is sometimes a little unkind and stern and self-conscious, but everyone is still very grateful and worships this clever little Gryffindor witch from the bottom of their hearts.
"Looks like you've learned a little bit from the lesson, and that's good. ”
Sprout nodded noncommittally and smiled mildly, looking around at the little ones around him.
Not exactly, though. So, do any other students have other answers...... Miss Granger?"
Following Susan Bones' gaze, Professor Sprout looked at the three girls at the end of the crowd, looked at Hermione with her arms raised, smiled and nodded.
"Professor, the second purple mushroom on the left in your hand is the small puff-mushroom mentioned in "A Thousand Magical Herbs and Mushrooms", and eating it directly can alleviate dampness and poison. The light blue fat mushroom is the ice mushroom recorded in "A Thousand Magical Herbs and Mushrooms", which was often cultivated by ancient wizards in the cellar to store food, and was not written to be edible. ”
Hermione blinked, looked at the fungus in Professor Sprout's hand, and replied with extra confidence.
Since last week's incident, she had read "A Thousand Magical Herbs and Mushrooms" three more times, and she could recite the contents of the book with her eyes closed, and she was confident that even Elena could not answer better than her.
"If you answer correctly, Gryffindor adds five points. ”
Professor Sprout nodded in satisfaction and looked at the young wizards with a slight seriousness, "I'm sorry that even after last week's lesson, you still don't seem to realize the importance of herbalism - in fact, if you read the textbook carefully, you should at least be able to identify this blue ice mushroom easily." ”
Miss Granger was right, these were inedible fungi except for Puff-shrooms. ”
Hearing Professor Sprout's praise, Hermione, who had successfully answered the answer, had a sweet smile on her face, and glanced at Hannah and Elena beside her with a little smugness.
Although she didn't get to take Potions class with Hufflepuff, Hermione was confident that she would be as good as Elena in any class - after all, perfect marks were the limit for them.
No matter how good Elena is, she can't break the ceiling to get more points, and everyone is always tied.
This little beaver seems to be provoking? What a naïve lady of all trades.
Elena glanced at Hermione, who looked like a winner, and shook her head rather amusedly, she almost forgot that Hermione in the class was a competitive student, and she needed to accept challenges in class before she could unlock her friendship.
"Professor Sprout, I think there is something wrong with your standard answer. ”
Just as Sprout was about to put away the mushrooms in his hand and turn around to open the greenhouse door, the corners of Elena's mouth suddenly curled, and she raised her hand and said, "In my opinion, the record of "A Thousand Magical Herbs and Mushrooms" is only correct, but not complete. ”
"Huh?"
Professor Sprout raised an eyebrow and looked at Elena with interest.
For this legendary little witch of her own academy, she still admires it in general.
It's just that before that, he focused more on Elena's magical talent, as well as her ability to help and lead her classmates, and she didn't know much about the real knowledge of this silver-haired little witch.
After all, herbal medicine is a special subject that is different from most courses, and it takes more love and time to learn it well, rather than exceptional magical talent or otherworldly eloquence.
"Kaslana, do you think there's anything else you need to add to Miss Granger's identification?"
"To be precise, not to add, but to correct. ”
Elena glanced at the little brown-haired beaver who had opened the textbook and began to compare it carefully, and shook her head slightly—sometimes, it wasn't the textbook that could make up for it.
"The danger comes from the unknown and the conservatism, for example, this poisonous fly umbrella, as far as I know, is actually a relatively common edible fungus in Russia. The toxic substance of the poison fly umbrella is water-soluble. When finely chopped or chopped into cubes, and after being boiled and filtered several times using a large amount of water, the soup is ready to serve when it is pure white. ”
Elena whispered as she pointed to the red and white poisonous fly umbrella in Professor Sprout's hand.
In fact, when she was struggling to survive in an orphanage, Elena had eaten this mushroom, which was so common in Europe, more than once.
Although the distinctive mushroom smell has almost completely disappeared after many times of boiling water filtration, it is enough for children who only need to eat to replenish basic body energy.
Elena shrugged as she glanced at the rest of the fungi in Sprout's hand.
"In fact, the vast majority of all fungal components are substances that can be digested by our stomach and intestines. ”
"This means that, in theory, they're all edible – but some of them are ready for consumption, while others require a little processing. ”
As early as many years ago, the accumulation of thousands of years of experience from the Great Foodie Empire has made a great unification of everything in the world.
I can eat many times......
As well as being able to eat it only once.
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