Chapter 146: The Shortcomings of Children in the Wizarding World
Poisonous fly umbrella, also known as Amanita phalloides. The toxicity of this brightly colored mushroom has long been discovered, and it is often mashed and used to poison flies, even rats and other harmful animals.
One of the most typical poisonous mushrooms in the world, it usually has a bright dark red color, a cap surface covered with white spots, and a large white fold that contains hemolytic neurotoxins that are mainly hallucinogenic and psychostimulus.
Although compared with the deadly white poison umbrella, Amanita albicans, C-cap garlic mushrooms and many other poisonous mushroom varieties with a mortality rate of up to 90%, the direct mortality rate of the most brightly colored poisonous fly umbrella is actually not high.
But it can't stand up to the fact that its signature red-on-white façade appears in the public eye a little too often – especially in children's books, picture books, cartoons, garden decorations, encyclopedias, ...... among them.
That's why Hermione Granger, who was only a graduate of elementary school, could tell at a glance that they were poisonous mushrooms even if she couldn't name them correctly - you know, adults were always worried about what active children wouldn't eat, and as a child who grew up in the non-magical world, Hermione had been exposed to stories and pictures of this poisonous mushroom at least ten times.
Unfortunately, children who grew up in wizarding families such as Ron, Draco, and Hannah did not have access to fairy tales written by Muggle authors such as Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, and The Smurfs.
There will be no such interesting and intellectually interesting popular science enlightenment books as "King Solomon's Ring", "The Secret of the Movement of Everything", "Schrödinger's Kitten", and "Mathematics Olympiad in Primary and Secondary Schools".
In fact, in the wizarding world, where the entertainment industry and science industry are relatively scarce, children who are restricted from touching wands and using magic rarely receive some targeted preschool education - one of the reasons for the high scores in Slytherin houses may be that as descendants of pure-blood wizarding families, they know some basic preschool knowledge in advance.
More often than not, however, children of wizarding families spend most of their childhood looking at Quidditch news posters, looking through divination decryptions, playing wizarding chess with their siblings (although most wizarding children don't do that), and listening to the gossip of the wizarding world from adults...... spent in the .
As for the professors of Hogwarts Potions and Herbaries, they did not waste time teaching students to recognize this:
"The toxicity is low, the value of the potion has not been discovered for the time being, it is not a magic plant itself, it can be found everywhere in the wild, and only the most stupid and greedy guys will be poisoned, ordinary small broken mushrooms. ”
- This is the evaluation Hermione received from a Potions professor who was reluctant to reveal his true identity during a Potions class after the start of the school year.
Of course, there is obviously a fee for this long evaluation, for example, one of the most classic lines of the Potions professor, "Gryffindor deducts five points".
And, perhaps because they grow on the edge of the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts, the onset time and hallucinogenic abilities of these mutated poison fly umbrellas under the unknown influence of the Enchanted Forest are significantly higher than those of normal species.
During the time when Hermione wrote a note and asked for a small reserve to fly to Hogwarts Castle for help, the state of the little wizards in the venue who had accidentally eaten the "Hogwarts Poisonous Mushroom Fish Soup" deteriorated rapidly to the naked eye.
According to the difference in the physical fitness of each student and the amount of poisonous mushroom soup consumed, in addition to the group trance, everyone also began to have severe symptoms such as severe nausea, vomiting, sweating, muscle twitching or trismus to varying degrees.
Even Hannah Abbott, who had only drunk a bowl of fish soup, was not much better, the girl's lovely face was seductively red, her bright eyes were misty, and her gaze staggered to rest on Hermione's shoulder, and she let out an uncomfortable moan like a kitten's murmur.
"What to do, what to do? Woo...... Can anyone help me......"
Hermione hugged Hannah's little Lori leaning on her with both hands, feeling the girl's increasingly hot body temperature, looking helplessly from side to side, and her tone unconsciously brought a touch of crying.
There are no surviving little wizards left on the entire grounds. Except for her, who was spared because she was in a daze, all the remaining children had already drunk more than one bowl of fish soup.
By the time some people vaguely began to realize that the fish soup was strange, the strong hallucinogenic toxins contained in the xenomorphic poisonous fly umbrellas that grew on the edge of the Forbidden Forest had already penetrated into the spirits of the young wizards. Even seventh-graders have a hard time concentrating on how to detoxify, let alone cast any spells.
In fact, objectively speaking, the seventh-year students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are only about seventeen or eighteen years old, and in the non-magical world, they are at most a group of children who have just graduated from high school.
Suddenly encountering such a situation, these seventh-grade greenhouse flowers, who were exceptionally well protected by the Hogwarts professors, did not cry with the first-year little wizards, which was already a very mature performance.
As for Mr. Rubeus Hagrid, who was originally regarded as a lifesaver by Hermione, he did not show such a strong physical discomfort, and the giant's strong half-breed gene was particularly evident in his resistance to toxins.
However, Hagrid, who had eaten at least twenty poisonous fly umbrellas alone, was not much better, and was now sitting weakly on the ground, shaking his head vigorously from time to time, like a drunken drunk.
"How can this be, aren't you picnicking with the food in the kitchen, why has everyone become like this?"
With a violent explosion of air, Dumbledore, wearing a blue star wizard's robe, appeared in front of Hermione, and the old man, who had a little anger on his face, glanced at the students who were paralyzed, and his sturdy and tall body couldn't help shaking.
Immediately behind Dumbledore, Madam Pomfrey rushed out of the castle gates with her wizard's robes in a sprint of almost 100 meters, and ran towards the woodyard with an anxious face.
"Perhaps, I should consider asking Professor Sprout to add some extra knowledge to his herbal medicine class, how could you be so stupid......"
Dumbledore glanced at the fish soup Hermione was holding, his eyes condensed on the mushroom with white spots on a red background, and instantly understood what was going on.
Soon, the first year student, who finished second in the school and used magic to ransack the kitchen, broke the news that he had been wiped out by eating poisonous mushrooms growing in the Forbidden Forest.
Not to mention the shock in the hearts of the teachers and students of the remaining five grades after understanding the whole thing, and the careful thoughts that began to surge in the dark tide.
At least at this moment, far away in the luxurious bedroom of Newmengard Castle, away from all strife, Elena was still quite happy lying on the soft and warm bed......