Mysterious Journey
Chapter 444: It's Good to be Young
If you count from the beginning of school, Albus Dumbledore has spent nearly a hundred years in Hogwarts Castle, witnessing all kinds of banquets and emergencies in his long life.
However, never has there been one like tonight...like a nightmare, yet full of fun and adventurous spirit.
Everyone seemed a bit flustered. This dinner lasted for nearly three hours, to the extent that the evening class schedule had to be adjusted accordingly.
On this chaotic night, there were simply too many impressive scenes.
Seamus Finnigan accidentally burned off his eyebrows while casting a spell to grill fish, and incidentally ignited the Gryffindor table's tablecloth, triggering a waterfall summoned by dozens of students to put out the fire;
Due to a lack of main course ingredients, the faculty enjoyed a rare seasoning feast, such as garlic fried scallions, crispy ghost peppers, ginger stewed cheese, and grilled leek skewers, greatly enriching the professors' imagination;
Zacharias Smith cooked a pot of "sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and salty" five-flavored fish soup, with a big blue fish that hadn't been gutted or gilled sinking to the bottom of the cauldron, emitting an ominous and eerie fishy smell;
Gryffindor's Percy Weasley was one of the few wizards who completed most of the 【Stargazy Pie】 process. The only regret was that he accidentally mixed up salt and sugar, resulting in a plate of fish pie that was cloyingly sweet;
Inspired by Erina, Slytherin College set up at least four or five bonfires, half for grilling fish and half for grilling durian, filling the entire hall with a terrible smell as if a toilet drain had exploded;
Most of the Ravenclaw girls had tears in their eyes, with the backs of their hands and cheeks covered with marks from being slapped by the big blue fish. Many of the fish stunned by the Stunning Spell woke up in the scalding hot soup, overturning several cauldrons, and the splashing soup made the entire Ravenclaw College a chaotic mess...
Fortunately, after some failures and struggles, both professors and students found a balance.
For the Hogwarts wizards, surrounded by dozens of kinds of dark cuisine, they quickly used the process of elimination to determine the most suitable cooking and filling method - boiling everything in a cauldron of plain water, breaking it open, and dipping it in seasoning.
However, on the other side, the atmosphere at the faculty table was obviously much more relaxed and pleasant.
As long as you crossed the hurdle in your heart, except for the taste and ingredients looking a bit strange, under the double insurance of "Special Chef" Erina and "Potion Master" Snape, it was generally a pretty good dinner.
And more importantly, Erina actually generously shared her birthday cake with everyone at the faculty table - which did exceed the expectations of both Dumbledore and Grindelwald.
According to their original idea, given the white-haired dumpling's gluttonous nature, she would only share it with a few close friends at most.
Dumbledore glanced at the harmonious faculty table, turned his head, and whispered to Grindelwald behind him.
"Erina... is actually willing to share her cake, did you teach her?"
"You know I don't care about these things, and I don't think these are things that can be taught."
Grindelwald shrugged, looked at the white-haired dumpling that switched freely between "fierce" and "well-behaved" with a rather satisfied look, and said with emotion, "Perhaps, this is what you call talent."
While tasting the delicious jam cake and admiring the energetic students below, the small complaints in the hearts of many professors disappeared, and almost everyone's face showed a gentle and kind smile.
Dark cuisine is divided into several types, and not all categories have a strong visual impact similar to 【Stargazy Pie】.
In fact, for beginners, apart from those that are obviously burnt, most of the dark cuisine looks barely acceptable before you try it yourself - especially when the cook is a wizard with magic, they have many ways to make the dishes in front of them look at least not so scary.
This is one of the reasons why the professors are so calm.
In the professors' opinion, apart from not being as exquisite as the dishes cooked by Erina, the food made by the other Hogwarts students themselves actually looks quite decent - at least it's not poisonous.
As for the students' exaggerated expressions... after tasting the Hogwarts kitchen's craftsmanship, it is understandable that there is some picky eating, after all, there is still a certain gap between the two.
Besides, this is also part of the punishment for the students stealing from the vegetable garden.
"It's good to be young."
Professor Sprout picked up a raspberry jam cake from in front of her, which happened to be shaped like the Gryffindor tower, looked around the hall, which was ten times as lively as usual, and said with a smile.
"I suddenly think that teaching children some basic life skills may be more important than simply teaching students knowledge from books - that way, they will at least know how to support themselves."
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The following days of this week were spent in an exceptionally wonderful atmosphere.
Hogwarts seemed to have regained its usual calm, and the peaceful campus life that Dumbledore had hoped for had really returned to this ancient and long-standing magic castle this time.
However, in some subtle places, a little change has taken place in Hogwarts.
The points in the four academy hourglasses have all been cleared, and all the academies have returned to the same starting line again.
Potions class has become the most popular course in the entire school, and the unknown cutting magic created by Professor Snape has now become one of the spells most admired by the Hogwarts wizards.
"This is an extremely dangerous spell. For you idiots who can't even tell the difference between salt and sugar, how to safely and effectively use knives is the focus you should be paying attention to now!"
Professor Snape replied coldly after being asked about that spell for the nth time, his eyes seeming to contain murderous intent.
However, since the students tasted the delicious potions and food that Professor Snape occasionally cooked in Potions class, this level of displeasure and coldness has completely failed to repel the wizards. (Although Snape's intention was only to hope that students could accumulate experience in processing and decocting potions in the process of cooking ordinary dishes)
Severus Snape soon discovered that using the dishes cooked by himself and Erina as rewards could inspire students' enthusiasm for learning Potions class even more than using deductions as threats.
Therefore, although he was still a bit awkward in his heart, the dedicated Potions professor would cook a delicious dish every time he taught a class as a reward for the student who performed the best in that class.
And under the suggestion of a certain enthusiastic teaching assistant who didn't want to reveal their name, the student who performed the worst in each class would also receive a special gift - a 【True·Dark Cuisine】 randomly cooked by Erina, or a failed cooking work from another student.
At the same time, with the rule updates of "Hogwarts Happy Farm", planting vegetables has gradually begun to become standardized.
The vegetable gardens of each academy are almost at least three times larger than their original area, and the degree of precision in planting, as well as the patrol shifts at each time of day, have all been assigned to a rotation responsibility system.
Potatoes, as the basic currency, have become a crop that each academy will definitely plant.
According to the latest rules, each academy can purchase the full version of the recipe by paying a certain amount of potato products, according to the recipe list provided by the Hogwarts kitchen, and load it into the three meals supplied in the coming period.
If they are willing to pay an extra amount of potatoes, they can even purchase and add exclusive recipes from other academies. After deducting a certain handling fee, the Hogwarts kitchen will purchase the required crops from the other academies' vegetable gardens through deduction for cooking.
For example, Slytherin's durian pancakes have now become one of Ravenclaw's favorite desserts.
Due to the consequences of the previous "stealing vegetables war", Gryffindor College, which "ceded land and compensated people", had at least a quarter of its labor force and potatoes converted into various desserts and exquisite snacks, disappearing into the bottomless stomachs of the Ravenclaw girls.
On the other hand, cooking and food are things with inertia.
Since that day's self-service cooking activity in the hall, many wizards seemed to have opened a door to a new world, and whenever they had time, they would think about cooking something in a cauldron, or grilling something by the fireplace.
If they are willing to pay potatoes, the Hogwarts kitchen can even provide barbecue guides, free bamboo skewers, seasoning powder, barbecue tools, matching seasonings, and even processing services.
And the most obvious change among these is undoubtedly Slytherin College, which lives by the lake.
According to Erina, the merpeople tribe in Hogwarts Black Lake has protested to Professor Dumbledore several times.
Many Slytherin students like to lie on the outer wall of the common room when they can't sleep at night, looking at the magical creatures swimming in the lake and swallowing their saliva, which makes the merpeople feel very uncomfortable and scared - the hungry eyes gleaming with a faint green light in the middle of the night are really chilling.
If it weren't for the dangers hidden in the mysterious Black Lake, theft might have already occurred on a large scale.
Of course, another reason is that Slytherin College, which has a large number of specialty crops, quickly realized its competitiveness, and with its innate shrewdness and skills, quickly launched a more immature business elite model under the "potato standard system".
Through buying, selling, promotion, and trading, Slytherin College quickly harvested a large number of "Hogwarts Kitchen Deduction Vouchers", and even without personally going to the lake to fish, they could redeem delicious dishes that satisfied most people.
Relatively speaking, Gryffindor College, which is at the bottom of the exploitation, is much simpler and more crude.
From the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch all the way to the blank cordon near the edge of the Forbidden Forest, the Gryffindor lions have cultivated and utilized this vast open space, burying cute potato embryos in every mud plot.
With the help of flying broomsticks, the work of planting, harvesting, and patrolling is not as headache-inducing as imagined.
The active and adventurous Gryffindor lions quickly learned how to release planting magic towards the land below while slowly flying, and the incredibly large potato yield is enough to support their debts and most of their normal three-meal purchase needs.
As for Hufflepuff College, they chose another method...
"From today onwards, we will comprehensively clean and map the first three floors of 【Helga's Dungeon】, and strive to open the first three floors for basic crop planting before Halloween."
Professor Sprout stood in the Hufflepuff common room, glanced at the unfathomable underground botanical garden entrance, and said to Cedric and the other senior students of Hufflepuff College with a serious face.
"In addition to common plants, there are also many magical plants, and even magical insects and magical creatures hidden in the underground botanical garden. Although most of them will not be dangerous, I still hope that everyone can be vigilant."
"The seventh and sixth-year students will follow me to transplant the original plants on the first three floors to the lower floors, and at the same time, we will also plant and cultivate some protective magical plants around the ground vegetable garden."
"By the way, Erina Kaslana... she is not allowed to go to the underground botanical garden area alone - this is what Professor Dumbledore specially instructed, and I hope that all the students can help supervise and remind her."
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Finally, I can fast forward the timeline, so excited~ The next time will be so fast~
Don’t worry, fat chickens, you won’t be able to see the end of the first school year~
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