The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Boom!

The small package was placed on the table with a crisp sound. Hermione came over and saw that there were hundreds of chicken feet inside.

Looking at these **** chicken paws, Hermione shivered and felt a little nauseated.

"Good, go over there and do it first," Tom signaled that Hermione could go and sit for the first time, and then watch when he was finished. This time, the House of Requirement has been transformed into an open kitchen, half of the house is the kitchen and the other half is the dining room. The kitchen part has a clean worktop, next to it is a stove and various cooking tools, and there is only a small round table and two chairs in the dining room.

Hermione was sitting on the small round table and could clearly see Tom's operation.

"I will never eat chicken feet!" Hermione glared at Tom and protested to him. She couldn't imagine why someone would collect chicken feet to eat - how disgusting! Even if Hermione had experience with dark cooking as an Englishman, it was hard to accept chicken feet as food.

Tom ignored her. He took out a handful of jade finger bamboo shoots, and the slender and tender bamboo shoots seemed to have dew on them. These ingredients are all from the Hogwarts kitchen, and I don't know how these house-elves do it. Tom just mentioned it tentatively, and they ran off to get him a whole set. The ingredients are fresh as if they were just picked from the field.

In the UK, I am afraid that only Hogwarts can quickly collect these ingredients. Elsewhere, hundreds of chicken feet alone would have to go to a slaughterhouse or Yachao in a big city.

"If you can, I hope you can help me clean these bamboo shoots, wash the outer shell, and hollow out the core of the bamboo shoots."

Hermione stood up from her seat and took out her wand: "Clear water!"

A stream of clear water emerged from the tip of her staff, which cleaned the bamboo shoots. Then she used a "Whirlwind Sweep" to condense a small whirlwind at the tip of the staff, and easily hollowed out the hearts of the bamboo shoots.

At this moment Tom took his wand and said to the leg bones of the chicken paws: "Cut apart!"

Under the action of his spell, the chicken thigh bones were all split into several pieces, revealing the dark red chicken marrow inside. After breaking the bones, Tom needs to scrape the marrow from the chicken bones into a small dish. It might take hours to switch to someone else, but Tom did it with just a wave of his wand.

The marrow stripped out of hundreds of leg bones is only a small plate.

Tom put egg whites and salt in the chicken marrow to make them more plastic, and then took a plastic bag and put them all in one. So far, the two of them have completed the most complicated preparations together in less than five minutes.

When the chicken marrow was ready, Tom took a bowl of ground chicken from the bag that had been seasoned with egg whites, salt and pepper. Now he only needed to pour the minced chicken into the bamboo shoots that Hermione had hollowed out, and then poked it with a small wooden stick to poke a small hole in the middle of the minced meat to fill in the chicken marrow, and he was done.

The finished jade finger shoots are still a bamboo shoot on the outside, but the inside is filled with chicken, which looks quite layered.

At this moment, a bowl of yellow clear liquid with bursts of aroma suddenly appeared on Tom's console.

This is the pure chicken juice he had asked the house-elves to help him make. It's not too complicated, but it's time-consuming: place a bowl on a large plate, surround it with sliced ​​chicken and seasonings, and steam it in a steamer. Due to the difference in air pressure inside and outside, the chicken juice in the chicken nuggets will be sucked into the bowl, and you can get a bowl of concentrated chicken juice without even a drop of water.

This bowl of chicken gravy took a lot of time to make, even with magic.

Tom poured the chicken juice on the jade finger shoots, and he was going to steam the bamboo shoots with the chicken juice. He looked around and saw what looked like an oven. But it doesn't have those buttons on non-magic ovens.

When Tom walked up to the "oven" with a plate, a sound suddenly came from inside the oven.

"I'm an all-purpose cooking box. Do you want to steam~ or bake? I can also freeze and refrigerate your dishes. I can do anything, as long as you put forward conditions—"

Tom was startled and almost knocked over the plate. But since it spoke, it saved Tom the effort to study it.

"95 degrees, steam for thirty minutes." Tom, who had regained his composure, gave the order. The stove turned on itself, and inside was a tray, and it began to heat automatically when Tom put the plate with the bamboo shoots in it.

"I feel that this stove is much more useful than the ovens at home," Hermione leaned a little closer and looked carefully at the multifunctional cooking stove in front of her. "I don't see anything like a power supply, it looks like it's powered by magic."

This small stove has the functions of an oven, a steamer, and a refrigerator at the same time, and it is operated intelligently. No wonder Hermione finds it practical.

"Then I'll find a chance to learn to refine it," Tom thought of the Menes slate in his hand, and felt that it would not be a problem to make such an alchemy creation.

"Refrigerator! I want a refrigerator!" Hermione was suddenly intrigued. Hogwarts is good, but there is one flaw: Muggle technology supplies are ineffective here, and various electronic devices cannot be used here. To use, even the watch must be a mechanical watch.

This resulted in Hermione's three-year student life, never seeing a refrigerator, and only enjoying ice-cold meals when she came home for the holidays.

"It's better to be able to make ice cream and various desserts..." Hermione swallowed, she missed ice cream a little, "I also need to be able to heat it, sometimes it's cold to wake up in winter..."

Tom:  …

So Miss, do you want an alchemy creation that can not only heat and cool, but also make desserts by yourself? In this way, let's discuss, I'll learn a Freezing Charm, and then how about you put me in your dormitory?

It can heat (body temperature), cool (freezing spell), and make desserts.

But Tom's rants are rants. After thinking for a while, he found that it seems that it is really feasible? It's nothing more than moving heat from one place to another, and as for dessert, he could use modular thinking - he decided to go back and try it.

Thirty minutes later, Tom took out the steamed bamboo shoots. Due to the low temperature used, this plate of jade finger bamboo shoots still retains its unique crispy taste.

Tom took the bamboo shoots out of the plate, sliced ​​them into thin slices with a few swipes, placed them on the plate, and finally drizzled chicken juice on top, and this chicken marrow shoots were done.

After steaming, the chicken marrow shoots lost the aroma of chicken juice. They lay quietly on the plate. Instead, they looked like fruits: reddish core, white tender meat and pale yellow skin. Same as fruit.

Some chickens do not eat bones, and some meat do not eat slices and drink soup. This dish is all about sophistication.

Hermione took a piece and chewed it in her mouth. The moment she entered the mouth, she felt the soft and crisp taste of the bamboo shoots. The meat was already fully dipped in the chicken juice, and it exploded directly with the touch of her teeth, letting the umami taste in her mouth. fill up. The innermost chicken marrow is dense to the touch, like eating foie gras.

"Delicious!" Hermione's eyes widened.

She couldn't help but picked up another slice and ate it...

Piece by piece, the chicken marrow shoots on the plate were wiped out by her in one fell swoop. Only then did she notice that Tom hadn't eaten a bite.

Hermione blushed all of a sudden: this is so unladylike, and the food looks so ugly, Tom won't laugh at himself, right? She quietly looked at Tom out of the corner of her eye, and found that Tom didn't take the plate of snacks to heart at all, he was looking at himself with a silly smile.

Staring straight at her made Hermione a little embarrassed.

Hermione really wanted to have a head pop on his forehead, telling him not to look at it, but she was too embarrassed to do it. He could only ask with a slightly embarrassed tone: "What, what's wrong? Is there something on my face?"

Tom pulled the stool a little closer to her. "Have you ever heard a word called xiu shi dian?"

...

After the snack, Tom and Hermione left the Room of Requirement. A meal with ordinary ingredients, but full of ingenuity, made the haze in the hearts of the two dissipated. Tom and Hermione followed their usual route back to Ravenclaw Tower. On this route, they would pass the Gryffindor common room, and in that corridor they would sometimes hear the singing of the portrait of the Fat Lady at the entrance to the Gryffindor lounge.

But today there is no Fat Lady's singing in this corridor, instead there are many whispers of little wizards. The otherwise spacious hallway was crowded with Gryffindor House students.

Hermione looked at the students in this corridor and said to herself curiously, "Why don't they go in? Is the entrance to the lounge blocked?"

Tom didn't answer, and he roughly guessed what was going on. He forced his way out of the crowd and came to the entrance of the lounge. At the entrance, the fat lady who had been staying at the entrance was gone. Her portrait was slashed like crazy, pieces fell to the ground, and a large piece of the canvas disappeared.

The scene at the entrance of the lounge was spread out by the little wizard in the front row, and at the same time, the panic wearing chills spread. As more and more people knew the situation, the scene gradually became out of control.

Hearing the humming in his ears getting louder and louder, along with the echoes in the open corridor, the prototype of the mountain and tsunami gradually took shape. Tom took a deep breath and tried his best to move towards the crowd crowded in the corridor. The little wizards shouted: "Quiet!"

This voice briefly stunned all the students. They stopped talking and looked towards the source of the sound. Although Tom's loud shout took effect, it could only take effect for a moment, and the silence might be broken in the next second.

Tom knew he had to say something at once, but he had Hermione by his side.

Seeing that Tom seemed to want to say something, she pulled out her wand in coordination and pointed at Tom's throat and said, "Sound loud!"

Tom's voice was loud enough to fill the floor at once.

"The door to the common room is blocked..."

The sound was thunderous, and several students who were closer to Tom couldn't help covering their ears. Although it was so loud that Tom himself was not very comfortable, the nearest Hermione even had the illusion of bursting eardrums. But the loud voice successfully entered the ears of every little wizard present, causing them to stop and listen quietly.

"...Professor Dumbledore will be here soon, and the problem will be solved soon. Everyone can go to the auditorium to rest first, there is enough room and enough seats."

Tom first moved out Dumbledore's banner to dispel the anxiety of the little wizards, then told them that the problem was not a big deal, to appease them, and finally put forward a suggestion that seemed to be reliable. Step by step induces students to follow his ideas.

A master of rhythm.

"What's wrong with the lounge door?" a voice broke the silence, and Percy shouted from behind the crowd, "I'm the President of the Boys' Union, let me—"

"Someone tried to break into the Gryffindor common room. It destroyed the Fat Lady's portrait."

The little wizards present were breathless.

"I knew it! It's Sirius! Here he is!" A Gryffindor student who was familiar to Tom but could not name shouted loudly, quickly took out a newspaper from his robe, and waved it. , "It was reported in the newspapers before that someone saw Sirius in Duff Town."

Hearing the name of Duff Town, many people were taken aback, this is a town very close to Hogsmeade. The presence of Sirius there means that he has come to the vicinity of Hogwarts.

Then he appeared here today, although it is a little incredible, it is indeed possible in theory.

"It's okay!" Tom shouted again, shaking everyone's ears, "Sirius is just an ordinary wizard, we have Dumbledore, we have four deans, we have so many reliable professors - even With Professor Newt Scamander who thwarted Grindelwald, Sirius will never be a threat!"

Newt, who had just reached the fourth floor, also heard Tom's words. He smiled shyly at Professor McGonagall who was walking in front of him, a little embarrassed. You know, Tom Yodell just listed a lot of people, and only he and Dumbledore were mentioned by name.

Names blasted in the ears of the little wizards~www.wuxiamtl.com~ Listening to these reassuring names, I suddenly realized that Sirius has nothing to be afraid of! No matter how powerful, can he be more powerful than Professor Dumbledore?

So they calmed down completely and went to the auditorium in a quiet and orderly manner. Hermione also pointed her wand to their throats again, "Whisper."

"Thank you for the amplifying spell." Tom's voice was back to normal, hoarse now that he had just shouted a few words at the top of his voice.

Hermione put out her index finger and pressed it on Tom's lips, "Shh—let your throat rest, and I'll get you a cup of tea later."

At this time, the first few wizards who went downstairs met Professor McGonagall.

Percy took a step forward, but he was about to say something when Professor McGonagall interrupted him.

"Take the students to the auditorium," Professor McGonagall announced with a stern face. At the same time, she looked at a position upstairs, where stood a little wizard named Tom.

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