A day at Hogwarts

"ah!"

A scream came from the second greenhouse, and Professor Sprout, who was preparing the textbooks for the next class in the nearby third greenhouse, was startled.

Professor Sprout rushed to the second greenhouse and saw Charles standing helplessly in front of the flowerpot, and was so anxious that he was about to cry.

She hurried over and was also frightened when she saw the young shoots in the flowerpot.

In the second greenhouse, from the magic plant propagated by Charles’s cuttings, to the Chinese biting cabbage that has just germinated and grown two leaves, to other teaching materials that Professor Sprout planted himself, all the leaves and tender stems of the plants appeared A "tunnel" eaten by bugs.

"It's the woodfly!" Professor Sprout's voice trembled.

This wood borer is only the size of a needle eye. It lays its eggs on the soil, leaves and branches. After hatching, the larvae will burrow into the roots, leaves and bark to eat the fresh and tender parts, leaving holes, and finally grow into pupae. Adults emerge to reproduce.

They are extremely concealed before the outbreak, and they infect a large area at a time. It is difficult to remove them with medicine, and they are extremely harmful.

Professor Sprout patted Charles on the shoulder, and said to him with some sadness: "Charles, unfortunately, they cannot be cured, they must be burned before the larvae pupate, and the soil, compost and flowers in the greenhouse Pots need to be burned once, otherwise it will spread to other greenhouses."

"These bugs have not been active in the wild this season, and they are likely to be composted with dragon dung."

Charles quietly looked at the flowerpot in front of him. Two half-finger-long buds grew from the branches inserted in the soil, and now the tender green buds were covered with gray "tunnels".

Finally, he nodded.

After obtaining Charles's consent, Professor Sprout temporarily changed the content of the herbal science class in other grades, let the students know about this serious pest, and then asked them to put all the plants in the greenhouse with soil and compost , The flower pot was moved to the open space outside too much.

In the bitter north wind, the flames became higher and higher, twisting their bodies constantly, and gradually weakened after a while, the ashes drifted with the wind, leaving behind a field of charcoal.

Charles watched quietly from the beginning to the end, with no expression on his face, like a wooden man.

Professor Sprout turned off the heating spell in the second greenhouse, opened all the doors and windows, and let in the cold air from the outside. As a result, the temperature suddenly dropped to below freezing point from more than 20 degrees Celsius, and the adult worms hiding in the corner quickly disappeared will freeze to death.

It was getting dark quickly in winter, and the class of herbal medicine was over. It was already dark when Professor Sprout tidied up the second greenhouse and was about to leave. When he was about to go back to the castle for dinner, he found that Charles was still standing like a stake. By the fire.

She sighed helplessly, pulled Charles to the castle, and said as she walked, "It doesn't matter, it will be the same if you plant it again next spring."

Charles didn't answer, and followed the professor back to the castle like a marionette.

As soon as they walked through the gate, a group of Slytherin students happened to be going to the cafeteria for dinner, and they walked past them talking and laughing.

Malfoy saw Charles' lost soul, a bright smile appeared on his face, and he raised his eyebrows provocatively.

But he soon stopped laughing, because when Charles looked over, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and he shuddered subconsciously.

That night, Charles had been in a state of disorientation, eating whatever was in front of him at mealtimes, devouring a plate of baked potatoes, and then stretching his hand a little longer, under the horrified gaze of Dean Thomas. Ate a pot of steak.

Fortunately, Charles left the cafeteria when he was full. Dean breathed a sigh of relief and said to Lavender Brown who was sitting next to him: "I was really scared to death just now. I was afraid that Charles would stretch his hand a little more after eating the steak. Catch me and eat me."

Lavender said suspiciously: "I don't know what's wrong with him, I haven't seen him like this before."

Over there, Harry and Hermione also looked at each other in blank dismay. It was the first time they had seen Charles like this after they had known him for so many years.

In the end, even Voldemort couldn't bear Charles's appearance, so he went over and slapped him on the back of the head: "Isn't it just that a few plants died, so there's no need to be so sad?"

Professor Sprout had talked about the Second Conservatory at dinner, so Voldemort understood what was going on.

"You don't understand," Charles said slowly, "the realm of vigor and vitality is still in front of you. After just one night, it will be wiped out. You don't understand."

Voldemort really wanted to slap him again, so he meowed. If I don't understand this kind of thing, who else can?

How mighty and majestic Lao Tzu was back then, but after a spell, he disappeared, his body turned to ashes, and his soul turned into smoke. Now he is just a piece of scalp, and I have never seen Lao Tzu so depressed.

Voldemort was very angry. Originally, he thought that this kid had a good talent and wanted to train a new generation of subordinates, but he didn't expect his psychological quality to be so poor, and he would fail after a little setback. He really missed his mark.

But the boy could still be saved, so Voldemort gave him another slap on the back of the head and said, "Did you have dragon dung in your skull?"

"Why don't you think about it, every greenhouse has dragon dung compost when you buy it, but there will be pests in the greenhouse where you grow things?"

"Why don't you think about it, if it's not for the composting problem, the lake is so cold now that the lake is frozen, would there be pests entering the greenhouse by themselves?"

As the saying goes, if there are difficulties, you must overcome them, and if there are no difficulties, create difficulties. No matter whether the pests in the second greenhouse are accidental or man-made, create an enemy first, in case you get caught.

Charles frowned and asked him, "You mean, someone put bugs in the second greenhouse?"

Voldemort said angrily: "I don't know, if you want to find out, you can check it yourself."

Charles narrowed his eyes slightly, and said murderously, "If I find out who did it, I'll use his skull as a bowl!"

Now it was Voldemort's turn to twitch his cheeks, and he just wanted to take the opportunity to teach him a Cruciatus Curse to drag him into the water completely, this kid is fine, he is even more ruthless than himself.

After today's confinement ended, Charles left the office and went directly to the laboratory to find Eleanor.

As soon as he entered the door, he smelled a fragrance.

"Are you here?" Eleanor was a little surprised. "The pudding has just been made. I think you're in a bad mood. Here it is."

Charles thought to himself that the equipment used to make potions could also be used to make pudding.

Seeing that he was still looking gloomy, Eleanor went over and pinched his face lightly, pulled him to the back room, and asked at the same time: "What's the matter with you today, what happened to you? Shall I tell you?"

Charles gave a general account of what happened this afternoon, and then asked Eleanor, "Can you give me some Veritaserum?"